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their armies or their fleets. 
expect at their hands? 
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- they have committed in other coun- 
tries, though, at the thought of 
them, the heart sinks, and the blood 
runs cold, will be mere trifles; to 
what they will commit here, if we 
suffer them to triumph over us. The 
Swiss and the Suabians were never 
objects of their envy ; they were 
never the rivals of Frenchmen, either 
on the land or on thesea; they had 
never disconcerted or checked their 
ambitious projects, never humbled 
their pride, never defeated either 
We 
have been, and we have done all 
this: they have long entertained 
against us a hatred engendered by 
the mixture of envy and of fear ; and 
they are now about to make a great 
and desperate effort to gratify this 
furious, this unquenchable, — this 
deadly hatred. What then, can we 
What but 
torments even surpassing those 
which they have inflicted on other 
nations. ‘They remained but three 
months in Germany; here they 
would remain for ever; there, their 
extortions and their atrocities were, 
for want of time, confined to a part 
of the people; here they would be 
universal ; no sort, no part, no par- 
ticle of property would remain un- 
seized; no man, woman, or child 
would escape violence of some kind 
or other. Such of our manufacto- 
ries as are moveable, they would 
transport to France, together with 
the most ingenious of the manufac- 
turers, whose wives and children 
would be left to starve. Our ships 
would follow the same course, with 
all the commerce and commercial 
means of the kingdom. Having 
stripped us of every thing, even to 
the stoutest of our sons, and the most 
beautiful of our daughters, over all 
that remained they would establish 
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and exercise a tyranny, such as the 
world never before witnessed. All 
the estates, al] the farms, all’ the 
mines, all the land and the houses, 
all the shops and magazines, all the 
remaining manufactories, and alk 
the workshops of every kind and 
description, * from the greatest to 
the smallest ; all these they would 
bring over Frenchmen to possess, 
making us their servants and their 
labourers. ‘To prevent us from 
uniting and rising against them, they 
would crowd every town and village 
with their brutal soldiers, who 
would devour aJl the best part of 
the produce of the earth, leaving 
us not half a suiliciency of bread, 
They would, besides, introduce 
their own bloody laws, with addi- 
tional severities : they would divide 
us into separate classes ; hem us up 
in districts; cut off all communica- 
tion between friends and. relations, 
parents and children: which latter 
they would breed up in their own, 
blasphemous principles ; they would 
affix badges upon us, mark us in the 
cheek, shave our heads, split our ears, 
or clothe us in the habits of slaves !— 
And, shall we submit to misery and 
degradation like this, rather than 
encounter the expences of war: ra- 
ther than meet the honourable dan- 
gers of military combat ; rather than 
make a generous use of the means 
which Providence has so bounteously 
placed in our hands? The sun, in 
his whole course round the globe, 
shines not on a spot so blessed as 
this great, and now united king- 
dom. Gay and produétive fields and 
gardens, lofty and extensive woods, 
innumerable flocks and herds, rich 
and inexhaustible mines, a mild and 
wholesome climate, giving health, 
activity, and vigour to fourteen mil- 
lions of people; and shall we, who 
Qq are 
