is GENERAL VIEW OF 



reign invaders, and as principals againft each other; 

 Thus, their unhappy fubje&s are involved in a 

 double war; mutual retaliation of injuries lays 

 whole provinces wafte, fparing neither age, 

 fex, nor condition. The lives, the property, and 

 whatever is valuable to mankind, are facrificed to 

 the quarrels of nations who live at the diftance of 

 eight thoufand miles. 



The lives thus cut off, in various parts of the 

 globe, fince the Revolution, cannot be fewer than 

 half a million of Britifh fubjects, and European al- 

 lies, befides the Afiatic lift, amounting to near four 

 millions of induftrious, inoflfenfive inhabitants, kil- 

 led, or ftarved * and, if to thefe accounts we add 

 the lories on the part of France, and her allies, we 

 may fairly eftimate the whole to be from five to fix 

 millions of people, who have fallen facrifices to war 

 and famine, in all their horribk lhapes, and for 

 which thefe rival kingdoms are, in a great meafu re, 

 refponfible -, for, it is a truth, which cannot be re- 

 futed, that to their unbounded thirft of power, do- 

 minion, and commercial eftablifhments, hath been 

 chiefly owing this wafte of the human fpecies, be- 

 fides the calamities fuftained by the furvivors of 

 thofe defolating fcenes, abroad ; while, at home, 

 the train of diftrefTes which war entails upon many 

 individuals, and families, exceeds all conception ; 

 and, were their refpective cafes brought into view, 

 it would fill the moft obdurate heart with horror. 

 Deprived of hufbands, parents, fons, or brothers ; 

 reduced, at the fame time, from eafe and affluence, 

 to indigence, and all the mortifications of depen- 

 dence, is the lot of thoufands ; who, friendlefs, 



* See an account of the famine in Bengal 1769, 70, as pub* 

 lifhed throughout Europe by the Abbe Raynal. See alfo Dodliey's 

 Annual Regifter, vol. XIV. page 205. And, fora general view 

 of the Britifh transactions in Bengal, iince it became a part of our 

 pmpire, iee Burke '$ Speech, Dec. i, 1783, 



unnoticed, 



