To administer the only cure for the unheard-of disorders of that undone country, I think it infinitely happy for us that God has given into our hands more effectual remedies than human contrivance could point out.  We have in our bosom, and in the bosom of other civilized states, nearer forty than thirty thousand persons, providentially preserved, not only from the cruelty and violence, but from the contagion of the horrid practices, sentiments, and language of the Jacobins, and even sacredly guarded from the view of such abominable scenes.  If we should obtain, in any considerable district, a footing in France, we possess an immense body of physicians and magistrates of the mind, whom we now know to be the most discreet, gentle, well-tempered, conciliatory, virtuous, and pious persons who in any order probably existed in the world.  You will have a missioner of peace and order in every parish.  Never was a wiser national economy than in the charity of the English and of other countries.  Never was money better expended than in the maintenance of this body of civil troops for reestablishing order in France, and for thus securing its civilization to Europe.  This means, if properly used, is of value inestimable.

Nor is this corps of instruments of civilization confined to the first order of that state,—­I mean the clergy.  The allied powers possess also an exceedingly numerous, well-informed, sensible, ingenious, high-principled, and spirited body of cavaliers in the expatriated landed interest of France, as well qualified, at least, as I (who have been taught by time and experience to moderate my calculation of the expectancy of human abilities) ever expected to see in the body of any landed gentlemen and soldiers by their birth.  France is well winnowed and sifted.  Its virtuous men are, I believe, amongst the most virtuous, as its wicked are amongst the most abandoned upon earth.  Whatever in the territory of France may be found to be in the middle between these must be attracted to the better part.  This will be compassed, when every gentleman, everywhere being restored to his landed estate, each on his patrimonial ground, may join the clergy in reanimating the loyalty, fidelity, and religion of the people,—­that these gentlemen proprietors of land may sort that people according to the trust they severally merit, that they may arm the honest and well-affected, and disarm and disable the factious and ill-disposed.  No foreigner can make this discrimination nor these arrangements.  The ancient corporations of burghers according to their several modes should be restored, and placed (as they ought to be) in the hands of men of gravity and property in the cities or bailliages, according to the proper constitutions of the commons or third estate of France.  They will restrain and regulate the seditious rabble there, as the gentlemen will on their own estates.  In this way, and in this way alone, the country (once broken in upon