If we wish to make an impression on the minds of any persons in France, or to persuade them to join our standard, it is impossible that they should not be more easily led, and more readily formed and disciplined, (civilly and martially disciplined,) by those who speak their language, who are acquainted with their manners, who are conversant with their usages and habits of thinking, and who have a local knowledge of their country, and some remains of ancient credit and consideration, than with a body congregated from all tongues and tribes.  Where none of the respectable native interests are seen in the transaction, it is impossible that any declarations can convince those that are within, or those that are without, that anything else than some sort of hostility in the style of a conqueror is meant.  At best, it will appear to such wavering persons, (if such there are,) whom we mean to fix with us, a choice whether they are to continue a prey to domestic banditti, or to be fought for as a carrion carcass and picked to the bone by all the crows and vultures of the sky.  They may take protection, (and they would, I doubt not,) but they can have neither alacrity nor zeal in such a cause.  When they see nothing but bands of English, Spaniards, Neapolitans, Sardinians, Prussians, Austrians, Hungarians, Bohemians, Slavonians, Croatians, acting as principals, it is impossible they should think we come with a beneficent design.  Many of those fierce and barbarous people have already given proofs how little they regard any French party whatsoever.  Some of these nations the people of France are jealous of:  such are the English and the Spaniards;—­others they despise:  such are the Italians;—­others they hate and dread:  such are the German and Danubian powers.  At best, such interposition of ancient enemies excites apprehension; but in this case, how can they suppose that we come to maintain their legitimate monarchy in a truly paternal French government, to protect their privileges, their laws, their religion, and their property, when they see us make use of no one person who has any interest in them, any knowledge of them, or any the least zeal for them?  On the contrary, they see that we do not suffer any of those who have shown a zeal in that cause which we seem to make our own to come freely into any place in which the allies obtain any footing.

If we wish to gain upon any people, it is right to see what it is they expect.  We have had a proposal from the Royalists of Poitou.  They are well entitled, after a bloody war maintained for eight months against all the powers of anarchy, to speak the sentiments of the Royalists of France.  Do they desire us to exclude their princes, their clergy, their nobility?  The direct contrary.  They earnestly solicit that men of every one of these descriptions should be sent to them.  They do not call for English, Austrian, or Prussian officers.  They call for French emigrant officers.  They call for the exiled priests.  They have demanded the Comte d’Artois to appear at their head.  These are the demands (quite natural demands) of those who are ready to follow the standard of monarchy.