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whole of the Netherlands; invaded Germany ; ; got the command of the 
Scheldt and the Rhine; and making the most vigorous exertions, to enter Hol- 
land, properly so called, he boasted that even Britain and the most remote 
parts of Europe fhould be subjected, and that nothing fhould stop the pro~ 
grefs of the French arms, but the total annihilation of royalt very where. 
To give some appearances of reality to these threats, Savoy was invaded, and 
part of its territories annexed to the dominions of France. Switserland» 
Spain, Naples, were threatened an# overawed ; and the pontiff of Rome him- 
self insulted in his own palace. Such succefses intoxicated the people; 
and the national convention seeming to believe that nothing was impofsible 
yor them to accomplifh, made a decree, offering fraternity qnd support to 
those persons of all nations who fhould attempt to overturn royalty, and es- 
tablith republicanism in its stead. 
_ During this paroxysm of republican ardour, they judged it proper, as an ex™ 
ample for all nations, to bring their own king to the-block, after a trial, 
which, from the singularity of the circumstances attending it, not lefsthan the 
xules of jarisprudence there, practically avowed, has no parallel in history. 
By these violent proceedings, Holland, Britain, Spain, Portugal, and Sar- 
dinia, were driven to join the alliance that had been before entered into be- 
tween Austria and Prufsia, to reprefs the power of France. By a vigorous 
and joint exertion, the arms of France received a decisive check at one mo- 
ment, through every point along the utmost extent of their whole conquest 
in the north. In one week they were repulsed in almost every place; and 
with a rapidity still greater than their conquests had been made, they were 
driven from every one of their new conquests, Mentz alone excepted, and 
confined once more to the limits of their own proper territories on that side» 
During the fhort space the French had been in pofsefsion of these new 
' conquests, the people there had had time to. appreciate the vaine of that 
new kind of government they wifhed to establith in place of all others, and 
were in general so much disgusted with it, that they were still more unani- 
mous in concurring with the allies to expel the French from their territories, 
than they had lately been to invite them thither, which greatly facilita- 
ted the operations of the campaign at thisperiod. But when the allies came 
in their turn to invade the territories of France, these considerations no lon- 
ger operated in the same manner;-but in their stead, other considerations be- 
gan to operate on men’s minds, which produced a resistance that retarded 
the rapidity of their conquests in a considerable degree. 
So long as the allies were only re-conquering their own provinces, few so- 
ber minded men, even in France, could view their exertions as iniquitous, 
or entertain a well founded jealousy of their designs; but the moment they 
invaded the tervitories of France, the case was changed. It is well known 
that the amor patrie, iufluences mankind in a very strong degree, so 
that however much individuals may differ in lefser points, they 
