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France ineffe€tual; and recommends to 
them, if they are yet capable of union in 
the common caufe of fovereizns, to fubfti- 
tute fraud in the place of force, and coax 
and wheedle that nation’ into flavery, 
which they were now unable to drive 
into bondage. 
It is not a little remarkable, that this 
publication made a momentary impref- 
fron on the combined courts, and that 
Lord Hood at Toulon, in exprefs oppo- 
fition to the conduct of the commander 
in chief before Dunkirk, foon after de- 
_clared that Great Britain was fighting 
for the reftoration of Louis XVII, and 
the conftitution of 1789. 
“<Pive hundred thoufand valiant foldiers, 
and eighty fail of the line,” exclaims the 
enraged author, ‘although aided and faf- 
tamed by an inteftine war, have not 
hitherto been able to conquer ten leagues 
of territory from this federation of crimes, 
which has entitled itfelf the French Re- 
ublic! The duration of fuch a ftruggle 
egzins to ennoble it—mankind, already 
aftonifhed, appear to forget the enormi- 
ties of the Jacobins, by contemplating 
their refiftance. But a few months more, 
and a generation, already baftardized by 
egotifm,will pafs from furprize to admira- 
tion !” 
On being driven from the Auftrian 
Netherlands, M. du Pan took refuge in 
Holland, and in May 1794, publifhed at 
Leyden his “ Dangers qui menacent 
VHurope.” In this he recommends 
une guerre a mort,’ a wim in which he 
has been fince imitated by Earl Fitz- 
william, who has lately recommended a 
bellum internecinum; and in this tract he 
appears to be alarmed at the encreafing 
enthufiafm of the French, which, allud- 
ing to its effects, he very properly deno- 
minates ‘‘ /a taétique infernale.’ We re- 
commends it to the allies to open the 
campaign of 1794 withthe fiege ot Lifle, 
and it is thus that this vows and reverend 
Chriftian (for M. du Pan is an Abbé) 
withes them to proceed: “Let the batteries 
play unceafingly on the devoted city ; 
let not a fingle. o/d bullet be directed 
againit it; let bombs be however pre- 
ferred to red-hot balls, as being better 
calculated to attain the end propofed ; 
let the number of charges each piece of 
artillery is capable of fuftaining, be in- 
variably afcertained ; and at the precife 
minute fixed upon, let them. open their 
brazen throats, and launch affright, de- 
folation, and.death !” 
As he is apprehenfive that nations may 
at length call their kings to account for 
Anecdotes—M. Peltier. 
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all this wafte of blood and treafure, he 
recommends them to {mite their fubjeéts 
with the zron mace of authority, if they 
ever dare to murmur againft a war in 
behalf of religion, morality, and fubor- 
dination. 
The Abbé was not long permitted to 
remain within the Dutchterrttories, for 
even there he was followed by the much 
dreaded ¢a ira,and the Murfellois march, 
and finding himfelf fafe in no country on 
that fide of the Rhine, he has paffed into 
the heart of Germany, and is now at 
Vienna. 
We fhall take our leave of this extra- 
ordinary man, after tranflating his pre- 
diétion relative to the new Republic ; a 
prediction which time alone can verify 
or refute; ‘¢ Born under the empire of 
liberty, and tutored in her {chool, I have 
been taught one truth, of which I am 
firmly convinced—that France will be 
incapable of fupporting political freedom, 
without thirty years preliminary educa- 
tion !” 
M. PELTIER 
Poffeffes the national chara¢teriftics of his 
countrymen. He is a man of talents, 
and aman of pleafure. Early in the 
revolution he took a decided part in fa- 
vour of pure and unmixed monarchy, and 
was enabled, as he himfelf frankly ac- 
Knowledges, by his Adfes des Apétres, and 
the abonnement for a periodical publica- 
tion, to keep a hotel, a berlin, and a 
miftrefs! It is well known that Louis 
XVI purchafed a newfpaper, called the 
Logographe, out of the civil lift, and M. 
Peltier was accuftomed to fit in the /oge 
belonging to it, and tranfmit minutes of 
the debates tohis Majeity, who employed 
feveral gentlemen for that purpofe, and 
rewarded them liberally. Such was the 
eagernefs of the royal family on extra- 
ordinary occafions, that fps were fent 
out every fifteen minutes from the na- 
tional affembly, inthe fame manner as 
the lifts of blanks and prizes are tranfmit- 
ted from Guildhall to the lottery-offices. 
Louis, who was admirably calculated 
for the mnuiie of bufinefs, accuftomed 
himfelf to read and animadvert on the 
proceedings with much calmnefs; but 
the queen could never hear them with 
patience; andit is perhaps to the trifling 
topographical error of always miftaking 
Paris for Vienna, that Maria Antoinetta 
brought fo many misfortunes on the houfe_ 
of Bourbon, while her mo‘ther, Maria 
Therela, by a different conduét, refcued 
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