232, 
former, despoiled of her colonies, 
blocked up in her ports, her com- 
‘merce destroyed, and her discom- 
fited arinies obliged to relinquish 
their Egyptian conquest, had be- 
come the captives of an inferior 
force, and evinced an inferiority to 
the latter in the eyes of all Eu- 
rope. Instead of this brilliant and 
proud statement, we can only find 
the haughty dictation of a superior 
power compelling a conquered 
country to pass under the yoke, aS 
the just punishment of her yolun- 
tary debasement, the sacrifices of 
her character and reputation among 
the nations of Europe,her desertion 
of her allies, her surrender of her 
conquests, and her abandonment of 
the preeminence she had gained 
throughout the world by the wis- 
dom of her statesmen and the valor 
of hersons, Such were the first 
but bitter fruits of the peace of 
Amiens. 
It is not to be doubted, but that 
the first consul, in causing those 
propositions to be made, had esti- 
mated the submission of the peace- 
makers, in a descending ratio, to 
the extravagance of his own de- 
mands; and expected nothing less 
than their complete acquiescence 
thereto. The elevation he had 
attained, by his intrigues with the 
Italian republic; the certainty of 
being equally successful in France, 
and probably the contemplation of 
imperial dignity, superadded to the 
power, in his own person and family, 
at the same time that they gratified 
his ambition, alarmed the habitual 
jealousy of despotism, and led 
him to consider protection ta the 
Bourbons and their adherents, in a 
country where they were yet out 
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of the reach of his power, and the 
freedom of the press, in the hands 
of a still unenslaved people, as im- 
pediments to the consummation of 
his views, which no time should be 
lost in removing, 
‘When the caprice of the emperor 
Paul, established once more the re~ 
lations of amity, between Russia 
and France; in the treaty which 
formed their basis, the subject of the 
emigrant princes, made of course 
no inconsiderable part of the difli- 
culties attending its negociation ; 
it however underwent a species of 
compromise 3 during which the first 
consul himself, acknowledged, that 
to demand from the emperor the 
dismission of the count de Lille ° 
(Louis the XVIII,) and hjs family, 
from his dominions, and the pro- 
tection he had hitherto conspicu- 
ously bestowed upon them, would 
be derogatory to his character, and 
inconsistent with the honor and 
frankness which distinguished that 
potentate.—How differently he esti- 
mates the honor and _ frankness of 
George the iIfd, a monarch, whose 
whole life exhibits but one series of 
benevolence and magnanimity, the 
propositions we have detailed, suf+ 
ficiently evince, 
How far, however, the French 
government is to be justitied, by 
the degree of aquiescence they ex- 
pected, and indeed actually met 
with, our readers will be best able 
to decide, from the specific an- 
swers made to M, Otto’s demands, 
by the secretary of state for foreign 
affairs, on the 28th day of the 
August following, To the requisi- 
tion, that certain emigrants in Jer- 
sey should be sent out of that island, 
lord Hawkesbury replied, that iene 
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