they were the two bravest men in the world! This oil of fool might go down glibly at Erfurth, but would only make an Englishman smile, and relate the following very appropriate anecdote:-When the Earl of Stair was ambassador in Holland, he made frequent entertainments, to which the foreign ministers were invited, not excepting even that of France, though hostilities were then commencing between the two countries. In return, the French resident as constantly invited the English and Austrian ambassadors upon the like occasions. The French minister was a man of considerable wit and vivacity. One day, he proposed a health in these terms: "The Rising Sun," (alluding to the motto of his master, Louis XIV.) which was pledged by the whole company. It then came to the Baron de Riesbach's turn to give a health, and he, in the same humour, gave "The Moon and Fixed Stars," in compliment to the Empress Queen. When it came to the English ambassador's turn, all the eyes of the company were fixed upon him; but he,

no way daunted, drank to his master by the name of "Joshua, the Son of Nun, who made both the Sun and Moon stand still.”– What would French glory say to this? France may bestow the appellation of The Army of England on a division of its forces, which has dared to advance so far as the heights of Boulogne, but has prudently stopped there. She may term a parcel of crazy boats "The Invading Flotilla;" although, wherever they have ventured rashly to the harbour's mouth, they have been driven under their land batteries by a single gunbrig. Yet, whenever she has wanted employment, she has preferred to pick a quarrel with, and fall upon Portugal, Spain, Sweden, or any other little power, and pilfering from them, to a struggle with Britain for the empire of the world; And there rests the chapter on French glory for the present!-We now come to the second point: Can a continuance of warfare be for the interest of France? No; though they might continue for a few years longer, merely to draw their

public expenditure from exhausted Europe, as sturdy paupers glean among the stubbles. French vanity would make France the mistress and emporium of the world; but Britain stands in the way-the only rival, and a successful one. In arms, Britain yields to none, having maintained her sovereignty of the sea, and more than once baffled the power of France, backed by almost all the forces of Europe, America, and of several Asiatic princes. In arts and sciences, particularly in the fine arts, Britain at least divides the palm, but in agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, she leaves all competition far behind: There's the sting.

Britain's wealth is the envy of France; but not being able to cope with her in the legitimate pursuits of it, she affects to despise them as a nation of shopkeepers, and exclaims-" Delenda est Carthago."—It is well known that, after the destruction of Carthage, there were no longer any bounds to the ambition of the Romans, who trampled upon the necks of mankind. If Britain.

were to be humbled, France would play the same game over again, and the world would, too late, deplore its having been, not passive spectators, but active contributors towards its downfall. Let us suppose, for a moment, that France should prevail to the fullest extent, she could never hope to raise so proud a superstructure as that which she would have overthrown, unless she could persuade herself that she could inherit the public spirit, perseverance, enterprise, industry, and good faith of Britons, just as the Tartars absurdly believe, when they kill an enemy, that they possess themselves of all his great qualities. Emulation is a noble, generous passion, which strives to equal or excel by fair competition alone: envy is a blind, grovelling passion, which would foully destroy what it has not merit enough to enter into competition with: to the former, Britain owes her prosperity; to the latter, she may set down the rancorous hatred of France, or rather of her Corsican ruler. Has not the despot avowed to the world that trade and

commerce should be annihilated, rather than the British should engross so large a share of it!-Has he not, in pursuance of this fiendlike project, interdicted the commerce of Europe, and of the United States of North America? Is this for the interest of France, of Europe, or the United States? Let their wants, deprivations, distresses, and wishes for returning peace, speak to the question.When did ever a conqueror benefit society? When did a conqueror appear but as a scourge not only to the state cursed with his sway, but to all the adjacent ones? The instruments of Divine wrath, they are protected until they have effected their mission, and are then abandoned to the horrors which they themselves have occasioned in others. Almost all Homer's heroes perished through treacherous friends, relatives, or adulterous wives. CYRUS united the kingdoms of the Medes and Persians; subdued the Assyrians; took Babylon; overthrew the Lydians, making their king Croesus prisoner; restored the Jews, who were captives in Babylon, to