This being, as I conceive, the true state of France, as it exists territorially, and as it exists morally, the question will be, with whom we are to concert our arrangements, and whom we are to use as our instruments in the reduction, in the pacification, and in the settlement of France.  The work to be done must indicate the workmen.  Supposing us to have national objects, we have two principal and one secondary.  The first two are so intimately connected as not to be separated even in thought:  the reestablishment of royalty, and the reestablishment of property.  One would think it requires not a great deal of argument to prove that the most serious endeavors to restore royalty will be made by Royalists.  Property will be most energetically restored by the ancient proprietors of that kingdom.

When I speak of Royalists, I wish to be understood of those who were always such from principle.  Every arm lifted up for royalty from the beginning was the arm of a man so principled.  I do not think there are ten exceptions.

The principled Royalists are certainly not of force to effect these objects by themselves.  If they were, the operations of the present great combination would be wholly unnecessary.  What I contend for is, that they should be consulted with, treated with, and employed; and that no foreigners whatsoever are either in interest so engaged, or in judgment and local knowledge so competent to answer all these purposes, as the natural proprietors of the country.

Their number, for an exiled party, is also considerable.  Almost the whole body of the landed proprietors of France, ecclesiastical and civil, have been steadily devoted to the monarchy.  This body does not amount to less than seventy thousand,—­a very great number in the composition of the respectable classes in any society.  I am sure, that, if half that number of the same description were taken out of this country, it would leave hardly anything that I should call the people of England.  On the faith of the Emperor and the king of Prussia, a body of ten thousand nobility on horseback, with the king’s two brothers at their head, served with the king of Prussia in the campaign of 1792, and equipped themselves with the last shilling of their ruined fortunes and exhausted credit.[34] It is not now the question, how that great force came to be rendered useless and totally dissipated.  I state it now, only to remark that a great part of the same force exists, and would act, if it were enabled.  I am sure everything has shown us that in this war with France one Frenchman is worth twenty foreigners.  La Vendee is a proof of this.