This power, to such men, must come from without.  It may be given to you in pity:  for surely no nation ever called so pathetically on the compassion of all its neighbors.  It may be given by those neighbors on motives of safety to themselves.  Never shall I think any country in Europe to be secure, whilst there is established in the very centre of it a state (if so it may be called) founded on principles of anarchy, and which is in reality a college of armed fanatics, for the propagation of the principles of assassination, robbery, rebellion, fraud, faction, oppression, and impiety.  Mahomet, hid, as for a time he was, in the bottom of the sands of Arabia, had his spirit and character been discovered, would have been an object of precaution to provident minds.  What if he had erected his fanatic standard for the destruction of the Christian religion in luce Asiae, in the midst of the then noonday splendor of the then civilized world?  The princes of Europe, in the beginning of this century, did well not to suffer the monarchy of France to swallow up the others.  They ought not now, in my opinion, to suffer all the monarchies and commonwealths to be swallowed up in the gulf of this polluted anarchy.  They may be tolerably safe at present, because the comparative power of France for the present is little.  But times and occasions make dangers.  Intestine troubles may arise in other countries.  There is a power always on the watch, qualified and disposed to profit of every conjuncture, to establish its own principles and modes of mischief, wherever it can hope for success.  What mercy would these usurpers have on other sovereigns, and on other nations, when they treat their own king with such unparalleled indignities, and so cruelly oppress their own countrymen?

The king of Prussia, in concurrence with us, nobly interfered to save Holland from confusion.  The same power, joined with the rescued Holland and with Great Britain, has put the Emperor in the possession of the Netherlands, and secured, under that prince, from all arbitrary innovation, the ancient, hereditary Constitution of those provinces.  The chamber of Wetzlar has restored the Bishop of Liege, unjustly dispossessed by the rebellion of his subjects.  The king of Prussia was bound by no treaty nor alliance of blood, nor had any particular reasons for thinking the Emperor’s government would be more mischievous or more oppressive to human nature than that of the Turk; yet, on mere motives of policy, that prince has interposed, with the threat of all his force, to snatch even the Turk from the pounces of the Imperial eagle.  If this is done in favor of a barbarous nation, with a barbarous neglect of police, fatal to the human race,—­in favor of a nation by principle in eternal enmity with the Christian name, a nation which will not so much as give the salutation of peace (Salam) to any of us, nor make any pact with any Christian nation beyond a truce,—­if