MEMOIR OF THOMAS BP;\VICK. 2OI 



he deserves such a title, and compare it with his 

 actions. Might not the lives of, say, a million of 

 men have been saved r Was it necessary that 

 they should have been sacrificed in such a way ? 

 Could he have avoided it ? With his consummate 

 abilities, I humbly think he could. Would not 

 these men have been sufficient in number to 

 colonize and to civilize immense unoccupied 

 territories ? The money wasted would have 

 accomplished almost anything. The men and 

 the money would have canaled Britain and Ireland 

 from end to end, and intersected them from side 

 to side ; and also made piers, where wanted, at 

 the mouths of the rivers of the two islands ; and, 

 besides, would have converted both countries into 

 gardens. To point out more improvements would 

 be a waste of words. With such means in hand, 

 they might have been almost endless. Then, 

 per contra: What has been done in exchange 

 for the millions of lives and the millions of 

 money thus spent ? They have restored legi- 

 timacy; they have restored "Louis the Desired," 

 and " Ferdinand the Beloved/' and the In- 

 quisition ! Monarchs are still to be called 

 " God's vicegerents here on earth ! " When by 

 their actions they shew themselves deserving of 

 such titles, mankind will not disturb them in 

 these their dreams ; but, till then, they will con- 

 tinue to smile at the conceit, as well as the glitter 

 they keep up to dazzle the sight of their purblind 

 "loving subjects/' All w r ars, except defensive 

 ones, are detestable ; and, if governments admitted 

 morality into their institutions, and were guided 

 by its precepts, war would, in all probability, grow 



into disuse, and cease. But hitherto that treasure 



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