this state of things he recommends our junction in that common alliance as a remedy?  It is surely already monstrous enough.  We see every standing principle of policy, every old governing opinion of nations, completely gone, and with it the foundation of all their establishments.  Can Spain keep herself internally where she is, with this connection?  Does he dream that Spain, unchristian, or even uncatholic, can exist as a monarchy?  This author indulges himself in speculations of the division of the French Republic.  I only say, that with much greater reason he might speculate on the republicanism and the subdivision of Spain.

It is not peace with France which secures that feeble government; it is that peace which, if it shall continue, decisively ruins Spain.  Such a peace is not the peace which the remnant of Christianity celebrates at this holy season.  In it there is no glory to God on high, and not the least tincture of good-will to man.  What things we have lived to see!  The King of Spain in a group of Moors, Jews, and Renegadoes; and the clergy taxed to pay for his conversion!  The Catholic King in the strict embraces of the most Unchristian Republic!  I hope we shall never see his Apostolic Majesty, his Faithful Majesty, and the King, Defender of the Faith, added to that unhallowed and impious fraternity.

The noble author has glimpses of the consequences of peace, as well as I. He feels for the colonies of Great Britain, one of the principal resources of our commerce and our naval power, if piratical France shall be established, as he knows she must be, in the West Indies, if we sue for peace on such terms as they may condescend to grant us.  He feels that their very colonial system for the interior is not compatible with the existence of our colonies.  I tell him, and doubt not I shall be able to demonstrate, that, being what she is, if she possesses a rock there, we cannot be safe.  Has this author had in his view the transactions between the Regicide Republic and the yet nominally subsisting monarchy of Spain?

I bring this matter under your Lordship’s consideration, that you may have a more complete view than this author chooses to give of the true France you have to deal with, as to its nature, and to its force and its disposition.  Mark it, my Lord, France, in giving her law to Spain, stipulated for none of her indemnities in Europe, no enlargement whatever of her frontier.  Whilst we are looking for indemnities from France, betraying our own safety in a sacrifice of the independence of Europe, France secures hers by the most important acquisition of territory ever made in the West Indies since their first settlement.  She appears (it is only in appearance) to give up the frontier of Spain; and she is compensated, not in appearance, but in reality, by a territory that makes a dreadful frontier to the colonies of Great Britain.