Such are the plain, inevitable consequences of this arrangement of a system, of analogous interior government.  On the other hand, without it, the author assures us, and in this I heartily agree with him, “that the correspondence and communications between the neighboring colonies will be great, that the disagreements will be incessant, and that causes even of national quarrels will arise from day to day.”  Most true.  But, for the reasons I have given, the case, if possible, will be worse by the proposed remedy, by the triple fraternal interior analogy,—­an analogy itself most fruitful, and more foodful than the old Ephesian statue with the three tier of breasts.  Your Lordship must also observe how infinitely this business must be complicated by our interference in the slow-paced Saturnian movements of Spain and the rapid parabolic flights of France.  But such is the disease,—­such is the cure,—­such is, and must be, the effect of Regicide vicinity.

But what astonishes me is, that the negotiator, who has certainly an exercised understanding, did not see that every person habituated to such meditations must necessarily pursue the train of thought further than he has carried it, and must ask himself whether what he states so truly of the necessity of our arranging an analogous interior government, in consequence of the vicinity of our possessions, in the West Indies, does not as extensively apply, and much more forcibly, to the circumstance of our much nearer vicinity with the parent and author of this mischief.  I defy even his acuteness and ingenuity to show me any one point in which the cases differ, except that it is plainly more necessary in Europe than in America.  Indeed, the further we trace the details of the proposed peace, the more your Lordship will be satisfied that I have not been guilty of any abuse of terms, when I use indiscriminately (as I always do, in speaking of arrangements with Regicide) the words peace and fraternity.  An analogy between our interior governments must be the consequence.  The noble negotiator sees it as well as I do.  I deprecate this Jacobin interior analogy.  But hereafter, perhaps, I may say a good deal more upon this part of the subject.

The noble lord insists on very little more than on the excellence of their Constitution, the hope of their dwindling into little republics, and this close copartnership in government.  I hear of others, indeed, that offer by other arguments to reconcile us to this peace and fraternity.  The Regicides, they say, have renounced the creed of the Rights of Man, and declared equality a chimera.  This is still more strange than all the rest.  They have apostatized from their apostasy.  They are renegadoes from that impious faith for which they subverted the ancient government, murdered their king, and imprisoned, butchered, confiscated, and banished their fellow-subjects, and to which they forced every man to swear at the peril of his life.  And now, to reconcile themselves