self 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.

It is sufficiently alarming that sh