e is to have the possession of this
great island. But all the Spanish colonies, virtually, are hers. Is
there so puny a whipster in the _petty form_ of the school of politics
who can be at a loss for the fate of the British colonies, when he
combines the French and Spanish consolidation with the known critical
and dubious dispositions of the United States of America, as they are at
present, but which, when a peace is made, when the basis of a Regicide
ascendency in Spain is laid, will no longer be so good as dubious and
critical? But I go a great deal further; and on much consideration of
the condition and circumstances of the West Indies, and of the genius of
this new republic, as it has operated and is likely to operate on them,
I say, that, if a single rock in the West Indies is in the hands of this
_transatlantic Morocco_, we have not an hour's safety there.

The Remarker, though he slips aside from the main consideration, seems
aware that this arrangement, standing as it does, in the West Indies,
leaves us at the mercy of the new coalition, or rather at the mercy of
the sole guiding part of it. He does not, indeed, adopt a supposition
such as I make, who am confident that anything which can give them a
single good port and opportune piratical station there would lead to our
ruin: the author proceeds upon an idea that the Regicides may be an
existing and considerable territorial power in the West Indies, and, of
course, her piratical system more dangerous and as real. However, for
that desperate case he has an easy remedy; but, surely, in his whole
shop there is nothing so extraordinary. It is, that we three, France,
Spain, and England, (there are no other of any moment,) should adopt
some "_analogy_ in the interior systems of government in the several
islands which we may respectively retain after the closing of the war."
This plainly can be done only by a convention between the parties; and I
believe it would be the first war ever made to terminate in an analogy
of the interior government of any country, or any parts of such
countries. Such a partnership in domestic government is, I think,
carrying fraternity as far as it will go.

It will be an affront to your sagacity to pursue this matter into all
its details: suffice it to say, that, if this convention for analogous
domestic government is made, it immediately gives a right for the
residence of a consul (in all likelihood some negro or man of color) in
every o