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“ 4th. From the inveteracy of Buonaparte . Of this invete-racy there are two causes: the hope of becoming popular inFrance by adopting the ancient prejudices, and encouraging theancient rivalry of his nation against us.

“ The fear lest the asylum which we have so honourablyafforded to the royal family of France should ultimately endangerhis usurpation.

“ This sort of fear accompanies all usurpers. Buonaparte ’senmity to us is an exact counterpart of Cromwell’s enmity to theDutch, with whom he would not make peace but upon the ex-press conditions of their abandoning the interests of Charles theSecond, and stipulating to receive no exile from England intotheir dominions. Justice, no doubt, does not oblige us to protectothers to our own ruin, especially as we neither are or ever havebeen connected with them by ancient bonds of amity or by posi-tive alliance ; but honour, and humanity, and Christian commi-seration, do require us to assist the unfortunate princes who, beingrudely driven from all other countries, have sought a refuge in ourown.

“ Peace, a permanent and an advantageous peace, might, I amof opinion, be now made, did we honestly engage to acknowledgehis title, and to give no assistance to the exiled family, eitherby fomenting internal dissensions in France , or forming externalalliances in their favour, and to expel them from the dominionsof the King. Though I wish for peace, my mind is not yet sohumbled by apprehensions, as to wish for it on such terms.

“ We are accused of being disturbers of the Continent. If tooppose the desolating progress of insatiable ambition and unprin-cipled rapacity ; if to preserve ourselves and others, by making