But the Anglomen, it seems, have found out a much safer dependence, than all these chances of death or disappointment.  That is, that we should first let England plunder us, as she has been doing for years, for fear Bonaparte should do it; and then ally ourselves with her, and enter into the war.  A conqueror, whose career England could not arrest when aided by Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Spain, and Portugal, she is now to destroy, with all these on his side, by the aid of the United States alone.  This, indeed, is making us a mighty people.  And what is to be our security, that when embarked for her in the war, she will not make a separate peace, and leave us in the lurch?  Her good faith!  The faith of a nation of merchants!  The Punica fides of modern Carthage!  Of the friend and protectress of Copenhagen!  Of the nation who never admitted a chapter of morality into her political code!  And is now boldly avowing, that whatever power can make hers, is hers of right.  Money, and not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.  But, in addition to this, the nature of the English government forbids, of itself, reliance on her engagements; and it is well known she has been the least faithful to her alliances of any nation of Europe, since the period of her history wherein she has been distinguished for her commerce and corruption, that is to say, under the houses of Stuart and Brunswick.  To Portugal alone she has steadily adhered, because, by her Methuin treaty, she had made it a colony, and one of the most valuable to her.  It may be asked, what, in the nature of her government, unfits England for the observation of moral duties?  In the first place, her King is a cipher; his only function being to name the oligarchy which is to govern her.  The parliament is, by corruption, the mere instrument of the will of the administration.  The real power and property in the government is in the great aristocratical families of the nation.  The nest of office being too small for all of them to cuddle into at once, the contest is eternal, which shall crowd the other out.  For this purpose they are divided into two parties, the Ins and the Outs, so equal in weight, that a small matter turns the balance.  To keep themselves in, when they are in, every stratagem must be practised, every artifice used, which may flatter the pride, the passions, or power of the nation.  Justice, honor, faith, must yield to the necessity of keeping themselves in place.  The question, whether a measure is moral, is never asked; but whether it will nourish the avarice of their merchants, or the piratical spirit of their navy, or produce any other effect which may strengthen them in their places.  As to engagements, however positive, entered into by the predecessors of the Ins, why, they were their enemies; they did every thing which was wrong; and to reverse every thing they did, must, therefore, be right.  This is the true character of the English government in practice, however different