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can visit this country, a war with America, may be 

 fortunately prevented. Should the present system be 

 persisted in, I much fear that misfortune is at no great 

 distance, and, when it arrives, no one can doubt how 

 great an addition to our sufferings it will bring with 

 it. There appears to me to be no other mode of pro- 

 ceeding, in order to resist the present ruinous system, 

 than the one I have taken the liberty of recommend- 

 ing. It would be vain to expect any relief from 

 applications to the Prince Eegent, while his Koyal 

 Highness continues to give his confidence to those 

 men whose measures, so obstinately persisted in, have 

 brought the trade of the country into its present state, 

 and who, resolved upon pursuing the same fatal policy, 

 wholly regardless of its consequences, appear to have 

 made up their minds to an American war, as no 

 extravagant price to pay for their favourite system. 

 The approaches to the throne, too, are now beset with 

 unusual difficulties, since his Eoyal Highness has un- 

 happily listened to those who advise him against being 

 freely seen by his people ; and, acting under the in- 

 fluence of such counsels, it should seem that the Prince 

 is no longer so accessible to the distresses and com- 

 plaints of his subjects as his own gracious inclinations 

 might dispose him to be. On the other hand, it would 

 be most calamitous if the people were to suffer those 

 distresses to mislead them into any acts of violence 

 calamitous in every view, but, above all, for this 

 reason, that the inevitable consequence of such illegal 

 conduct must be the giving to the executive Govern- 

 ment that accession of support which alone is wanting 

 to enable the ministers to complete the mischief their 

 measures have been working, and hurry us into a 



