arrels or wars in Europe; but, for the same reason,
there was room to fear that France would embrace a different system;
accordingly, she took no pains to conceal her views, and her envoys
declared publicly that a war upon the continent was inevitable, and
that the king's dominions in Germany would be its principal object." He
afterwards, in the course of his argumentation, adds, "That they must
be very ignorant indeed, who imagine that the forces of England are
not able to resist those of France, unless the latter be hindered from
turning all her efforts to the sea. In case of a war upon the continent,
the two powers must pay subsidies; only with this difference, that
France can employ her own land-forces, and aspire at conquests." Such
were the professed sentiments of the British ministry, founded upon
eternal truth and demonstration, and openly avowed, when the business
was to prove that it was not the interest of Great Britain to maintain
a war upon the continent; but afterwards, when this continental war was
eagerly espoused, fostered, and cherished by the blood and treasure of
the English nation, then the partisans of that very ministry, which had
thus declared that England, without any diversion on the continent
of Europe, was an overmatch for France by sea, which maybe termed the
British element; then their partisans, their champions, declaimers,
and dependents, were taught to rise in rebellion against their former
doctrine, and, in defiance of common sense and reflection, affirm that a
diversion in Germany was absolutely necessary to the successful issue of
England's operations in Asia, Africa, and America. Notwithstanding all
the facts and arguments assembled in this elaborate memorial, to expose
the ingratitude of the empress-queen, and demonstrate the oppressive
measures adopted by the imperial power, it remains to be proved, that
the member of a community is not obliged to yield obedience to the
resolutions taken, and the decrees published, by the majority of
those who compose this community; especially when reinforced with
the authority of the supreme magistrate, and not repugnant to the
fundamental constitution on which that community was established.

DEATH OF POPE BENEDICT.

If the empress-queen was not gratified to the extent of her wishes in
the fortune of the campaign, at least her self-importance was nattered
in another point, which could not fail of being interesting to a
princess famed for