to execute all the little inglorious
occupations,--to be the sellers of new and the buyers of old clothes, to
be their brokers and factors, and to be employed in casting up their
debits and credits, whilst the master Republic cultivates the arts of
empire, prescribes the forms of peace to nations, and dictates laws to a
subjected world. But are we quite sure, that, when we have surrendered
half Europe to them in hope of this compensation, the Republic will
confer upon us those privileges of dishonor? Are we quite certain that
she will permit us to farm the guillotine,--to contract for the
provision of her twenty thousand Bastiles,--to furnish transports for
the myriads of her exiles to Guiana,--to become commissioners for her
naval stores,--or to engage for the clothing of those armies which are
to subdue the poor relics of Christian Europe? No! She is bespoke by the
Jew subjects of her own Amsterdam for all these services.

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 Franc