be upon our guard against the arts
of Carthage.

3. England is the only European state that still possesses an
important province upon our continent. The Indian tribes are all
that stand between us. We know with what art they lately sought
their detested alliance. What they did then was the work of a
day. Hereafter if they act against us, the steps they will
proceed with will be slower and surer. Canada will be their
place of arms. From Canada they will pour down their Indians. A
dispute about the boundaries will always be an easy quarrel. And
if their cunning can inveigle us into a false security, twenty
or thirty years hence we may have neither generals nor soldiers
to stop them."

ARTICLE X.

SPEECH OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, ON A MOTION FOR AN ADDRESS
OF THANKS TO HIS MAJESTY (ON THE 28TH OF NOVEMBER, 1783) FOR HIS
GRACIOUS COMMUNICATION OF A TREATY OF COMMERCE CONCLUDED BETWEEN GEORGE
THE THIRD, KING, &C. AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

We were very apprehensive upon Mr. Burke's coming into administration,
that this circumstance might have proved a bar to any further additions
to the valuable collection of his speeches already in the hands of the
public. If we imagined that our verdict could make any addition to the
very great and deserved reputation in which they are held, we should not
scruple to say that were Cicero our contemporary, and Mr. Burke the
ancient, we are persuaded that there would not be a second opinion upon
the comparative merits of their orations. In the same degree as the
principles of the latter are unquestionably more unsullied, and his
spirit more independent; do we esteem him to excel in originality of
genius, and sublimity of conception.

We will give two extracts; one animadverting upon the preliminaries of
peace concluded by the earl of Shelburne; the other a character of David
Hartley, Esq.

"I know that it has been given out, that by the ability and
industry of their predecessors we found peace and order
established to our hands; and that the present ministers had
nothing to inherit, but emolument and indolence, _otium cum
dignitate._ Sir, I will inform you what kind of peace and
leisure the late ministers had provided. They were indeed
assiduous in their devotion; they erected a temple to the
goddess of peace. But it was so hasty and incorrect a structure,
the foundati