But if these, or matters similar, are not the compensations the Remarker demands, and that on consideration he finds them neither adequate nor certain, who else is to be the chapman, and to furnish the purchase-money, at this market, of all the grand principles of empire, of law, of civilization, of morals, and of religion, where British faith and honor are to be sold by inch of candle?  Who is to be the dedecorum pretiosus emptor?  Is it the navis Hispanae magister?  Is it to be furnished by the Prince of Peace?  Unquestionably.  Spain as yet possesses mines of gold and silver, and may give us in pesos duros an adequate compensation for our honor and our virtue.  When these things are at all to be sold, they are the vilest commodities at market.

It is full as singular as any of the other singularities in this work, that the Remarker, talking so much as he does of cessions and compensations, passes by Spain in his general settlement, as if there were no such country on the globe,—­as if there were no Spain in Europe, no Spain in America.  But this great matter of political deliberation cannot be put out of our thoughts by his silence.  She has furnished compensations,—­not to you, but to France.  The Regicide Republic and the still nominally subsisting monarchy of Spain are united,—­and are united upon a principle of jealousy, if not of bitter enmity, to Great Britain.  The noble writer has here another matter for meditation.  It is not from Dunkirk to Hamburg that the ports are in the hands of France:  they are in the hands of France from Hamburg to Gibraltar.  How long the new dominion will last I cannot tell; but France the Republic has conquered Spain, and the ruling party in that court acts by her orders and exists by her power.

The noble writer, in his views into futurity, has forgotten to look back to the past.  If he chooses it, he may recollect, that, on the prospect of the death of Philip the Fourth, and still more on the event, all Europe was moved to its foundations.  In the treaties of partition that first were entered into, and in the war that afterwards blazed out to prevent those crowns from being actually or virtually united in the House of Bourbon, the predominance of France in Spain, and above all, in the Spanish Indies, was the great object of all these movements in the cabinet and in the field.  The Grand Alliance was formed upon that apprehension.  On that apprehension the mighty war was continued during such a number of years as the degenerate and pusillanimous impatience of our dwindled race can hardly bear to have reckoned:  a war equal, within a few years, in duration, and not, perhaps, inferior in bloodshed, to any of those great contests for empire which in history make the most awful matter of recorded memory.

    Ad confligendum venientibus undique Poenis,
    Omnia cum belli trepido concussa tumultu
    Horrida contremuere sub altis aetheris auris,
    In dubioque fuit sub utrorum regna cadendum
    Omnibus humanis esset terraque marique.—­