other more pressing and more important calls, which demanded an equal share of attention. Among these, may be enumerated, the settling of her internal quiet, recalling to order and industry, (without which commerce cannot prosper) the thousands who had been eating up the sinews of her wealth during her domestic troubles and foreign wars; the establishment of a permapént revenue, equal to the public expenditure; the resettlement of her distracted colonies; in short, the revival, as far as possible, of those moral and social duties, which she had taken such pains to overthrow. I do not enter here into the perpetual jealousies to which the usurpa, tions that form her land boundary, would naturally expose her; nor do I speak of the effects of the loss of her population, which a peace would render; more visible, and which, of itself: would require the uniform tenor of a mild administration, and a peace of an hundred years to repair. Unless the public mind could be directed to honest and useful pursuits, the same means which had contributed to raise the republic to the zenith of her power in war, would be fatal to her prosperity in peace. Upon her success in diverting or seducing her buccaneer population, from projects of plunder and ambi

tion alone depended the extinction of those baneful principles, upon which all her revolutions had been founded, and which had proved the Scourge of Europe for the space of ten years.

That France was liberated from debt, I admit; but she is at the same. time destitute of capital, and without credit abroad. Her situation is certainly novel, and consequently, furnishes scope for a variety of opinions. But when this situation is assigned as an encouraging motive for the emigration of British subjects and artificers, its fallacy becomes self-evident; for the reputed cheapness of provisions in France, which is supposed to result from it, is completely invalidated by the insecurity of property and the fruits of industry in that country. people of Great Britain are justified in reproaching you and your partizans, for inculcating different maxims.*-Such were, no doubt, some of

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* Thus sings Cobbett." She (France) is inculcating the opinion, that such an union (of the Western family) would prevent wars? and, who shall say, that that opinion will not be generally, as it is already partially, adopted. Who shall say, that this motive, at all times so powerful with a rich and enervated people (and particularly so with this nation at this time) co-operating with the indignation and disgust which men must feel at being governed by such people as the Addingtons," (no

the views which influenced His Majesty's ministers when they advised him to sign the late defi

thanks to Mr. Cobbett for this compliment to our sovereign), "will not produce the effect which the rulers of France have in view? With a constant dread and admiration of its enemy, and a constant distrust and contempt of its own government, no nation ever did, or ever can, long maintain its independence, under such circumstances, the votary of wealth sees in the power of the foe, a pledge for his security, while men of other minds feel the consolation, that, in losing their country and its name, they also get rid of its disgrace," Pol. Reg. Jan. 8, 1803. Again he chirps with glee. "The merchants, the 1803.-Again manufacturers, the dealers, the stock-holders and the money holders of every description, have, for some time, been looking to the possibility of becoming the subjects of Bonaparte. They have not, indeed, promulgated the sentiment to the world; they have not probably yet debated on it, in their clubs or committees; they have refrained perhaps, from talking of it in their cups; they may possibly have hidden it from the partners of their bed, and even from the partners of their purse: but, they have in their dreams, kneeled at the feet of the Consul, whom, to their great astonishment, they found to be a mighty good sort of a man; they have, in their waking moments, thought about subjection to him; they have mooted the question in their minds; in a word, they have looked, and they do look, to the power of Buonaparte, as a dernier resort as a last refuge for their wealth." Ibid. Feb, 5.

That there may be no further doubt concerning Mr. Cobbett's public spirit, and the prospects before us, should Messrs Windham & Co. in consequence of any great national calamity, be entrusted with the direction of our affairs, wh le we are at war with the First Consul, I annex the following full chorus of

nitive treaty; and however certain persons may now take pleasure in the recantation of their former opinions, and exult in the breach of that treaty; I feel no hesitation in declaring, that, being strongly impressed with the justice of the principles that I have laid down, I shall for ever consider it as the happiest and most fortunate, though not, perhaps, the brightest moment in the annals of our country.

Immediately on the ratification of the definitive treaty, measures were adopted for keeping up a considerable part of the volunteer

the party. "The Consul has been received at the several places which he visited on his tour, with every demonstration of joy. People may say what they please about the hypocrisy of this joy; we for our parts think it perfectly sincere, and, what is more we see no reason why it should not be so. We have nothing to say against those meek and unambitious persons, who sicken at the sound of military fame and national conquests; but, we must confess, that, for our parts, we should not like a leader the worse, for having extended our sway over une half of Europe, added ten millions to our population, and humbled our rival in the dust.-No, no; such a man may be hated by the Addingtons, and the Hawksburies, and by all those who dread the increase of his power, but not by the people of France, nor by those, the advancement of whose glory (which is inseparable from his own) is the only object of his life." Nov, 20th 1802.

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force, and a very large proportion of the yeomanry cavalry, which were continued during the peace. Improvements were made in the militia system, in consequence of which, government was enabled to call out seventy-two. thousand men in Great Britain alone. At the same time, the public faith was observed towards those regiments of the line, which had enlisted upon condition of being disbanded at the close of the war. From this circumstance, it is evident, that while an adequate force was preserved for the defence of the country, the most extensive provision had been made against any future emergency.

The Income Tax, (a most salutary measure in war) was repealed; and an addition made in consequence to the funded debt, as well as for the service of the year, amounting to ninetyseven millions stock. Although the charge for the interest little exceeded three millions, taxes were imposed which yielded nearly five millions, equal to half the interest of the national debt previous to the last war. Of these, two millions five hundred thousand pounds were proposed by a tax on malt, hops, and beer, which none of Mr. Addington's predecessors had thought proper to attempt, and that too on the eve of a general election; a period at which, ministers