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No. 568.3
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pCE of the objects .ot Mr.. Hammond ;
' rnvfterious million is now alcert ar.ea.
He is at Berlinto i&ittKcmaojifthej
favour of Great-Bihain and the Hoafe of iuf-
trr this mode of fains for peace", 5 well as
in his conduct of the, Yva : W .Pitt has again-
I
ift$ed thaTopinioh 6fhis"capacuy: which not
.:. ourtclvesialone, but'al) ree&ng men, en
1 tftrAmirWnifnomMinced ; verv. fobh. in this:
conteft, and 'ipnHslhjtiei tToui
fituatibn began tpjaffunie tHirpiQrrtoii ,
iiij afpfe y tir ;jf ; there,ould be ohe ftep
jiiore hu'ufliaung, sbjeS ant! unfafethanaiio-v
- ther for thi tbuntry to takeln its pf efent'fita
ation, it js that of end,eaviring to dpen la ne:
r gociatfbn for- pece through te mediation of
th King pf Pruiiia. 4 ' ' - J' '
- fr vKat W the principle of fftfeRidrt ?.
Two Pdwers make war' 'upon, each other, J
J each contends tbbe in the right ; each calls the
blame of aggreffiontipon its adverhry.; and
' each proceeds to maflfacre and plunder the o
:ther h the pame of juttxe, -humanity, and
' rciig'ohi - Thii is the order of the proceedings.
At iengirhj whtn the earth is purged bf fome
hividrdlhyurands' of idle rafcals whd hae
very little buiirieis in V, when a proper qdan
t'uy of towns, villages :nd hamlets are laid hi
" ' athesi a ju il proportion of women and chil'-j'
- oVenrifped Up'airveT" and when pelhlence
- and famine have gleaned thejefue of the
' bayonet and fword. the parties are apt to
1 get fick of war, and to with for .what they
call peace. . In the courle of the difpute,
however, each party rather for the fake pf
impotinwupon its friends than of conviiicing
4 its enemres', has made fuch a clamor ; about
' jil.lice', religlon7"and haraanity, and in .'other
' refpefts ' has fo 'pledged and committed
its own honor upon the event of the cdnteft,
that a regard to' decency, and the reciprocal
fliame of beingthe firft to fpealc, obliges them
to' bok around for fome neutral power, to
whom th"y may hazard a confeflion of their
mutual folly, auiLablurdty. Thus it is thit
regular Govern ventf, as happily tjlabllfied a-
viwgthe nethn's ofEurop' firijt invented the
farce calle'd mediation. The neutral power
rVance by a pSeace whjcfa is ta'ntimooac-ta an ,
alliance. .SecQyVP U ;fjWoth;
.GefnVanTc con&hjtbp,' hich the fEmp-.
rpr is'the chiefs : ,; "- ; " . ..
WitTi reiiard to the 6rflpf thefe poiftis, it
islnatet ial4Watw"e never i wer thartifices
of Mr. Pitt toJraw our attention from the o.
rigingroands1of ; the; confederacy.- Tb$ ;
tfiofivci to war jwere.;
nenTparls of tTiecOTfeeracy fo hoiKle to ach
other, tfte faclions in .j'"ae&riti',6cils' fo
widely afundef m their refpechve views, that
to lceiep together the incongruous roafs, and
dilcipltne in fbme fort -the .; misted nwb that
was to march into . France, it was thought -
necefTary jto colled all the caufes sof difpute
with her into one general fweeping feoteiue,
"and fa call the conteft " a war for the pre,
icrvaticnf dyiocty.', If this defcr'iptioti
of the war was true st anv time, it has bem
true all along. It is true nou-The follow
ers of this doclrine were right' in feeing-.no
"Peutral party for where the4s no medium,
there .can be no neutrality ; and certainly
wnatever may be tne compromues 01 mr. j
Windham and his friends w ith Mr. Pitt, there' ;
tan be no medium between the prefervation
of civil fociety and its deftrucion- The con-'
federacy accordingly fet out with avowing the
principle. No Tentiment .was heard at firll
cJf a lefs vaft and a direfuHniport than u kill
them or. they" will kill you ; he that is not for
me is againit me"-lentiments once written
byurfwordiirLAmcrican blood-and walh
ed out afterwards with our own. "Their pub
li c 1 STSalTerted theabftradprinciple. .Their
miniilers, and td the eternal difgrace of the
Krtifli name, before all others our own, at
tempted to enforce the practical confequences
If their reafoninj? was true. Denmark. Swe
; J r
den, the Swifs republics, Gepoa &c. &c
were jutlly to be cdnfidered in a tlate of hof
tility to the CDnfedcrte,vbe(aQfethey did
not take up arms agaixiff-France, In what
is found1, explanations are given to that pow
er," the'ob)fiA of perliiVmg inhoitilitiesis ft a.
'. J 1 r T I I 1 r .
' tea, rrreai -tnoacrawu aucr ieu, anaaeurc
the figning of tliat peace; tobecorHklejV ' r
ea as an enemy ; a he ctaIy'etAJhTrro .
been created, only that the confederates wcres
iron a 1 declared fpemy therefore, the krn1
of PruiUa; becomes, in 4, the avowed friend;
and ierret ally of jrJieTrench republic Re(
nnngirom nis ititionm the confederacyy he
UsbacJcinta thatttf 3 inemberofihe Qer
manic cOJtiu'iori, . tortg ?'pbedience.:- po'xhdL
eroperpjtf.as his thief and bound to the tie J
tence ot that coriftkutiori. : How he defends : $
it how he mews, his' Wal&'vW te,r.. N
hpw,he panifefts bwattaentto the Ger"-
of 19 many centuriesvlet: his attempt to dratf
other members 'of 'jatcbpttjidii from their-
allegiae:,e '.
his recent fejzure cNpr?mj)efg let the nego
ciations now carry'ing"ipiwitH France about
, K:r,ytnce, ; Frankfort ' and iiamburg let
thefe ads of his truly 'wife' and royal politics.
fpeak for themfelves. '-"'v', :,i -T ' '' V
Cf all thefe acts, the choice of the ingof
Pruiiia, for a mediator cuthe part of Great;
Britain, is a direct confirmatibn and fanaion'
It has alt the ignominy of a retractiop of the
wholQ priticiple of the war, without its utili a
ty.; lt is calling down the honor and the fa'itli
of this proud country, at the feet of that mo
narch in order to engage him 0 caft it iit
"his turn at the feeto the.f regicide' ? direct
tory of France ; it is a fuing for peace, n 66'
only in the true fpirit and affect of fuing, buiS
in it's meancftand moll abject form ;' it is fu
ing for it through the niediuni of a power tct
whom we owe war and punHhmehc, .'rathci
than loVcitation and confidence. , Jt is abafe
tnfling with our national faithf be'caofe this
very monarch whom we are now elevatiner
into the high and powerful office of media
tor, is he that in the outfet of this defolatinnr
cvnteit,. has (hewu his hereditary enmity td
the houfe of Auftria, our allyj and let flip)
ftate would it bejuft to confider that power, I no opportunity bf aggrandizing himfelf at its
itfelf forming the comer itone of the confede
racy, itfelf the provider of the largeft army,
and the belt rceubr general in Europe- to
rry its purpoies into eeci, men runnming-
the firrt kins who let hoftile feet on French
is
exprevfed,' and authority given , that filch
matters may be communicated to theadverfe
parry ..Critically tpinVfilgitethis fort of
frocredin'rf; is npt'oilr bunuefs here Suf
fice it that this is the eftahlHhed mode anions
modern nations ; and jf it be one which,
-. - ft a
any hono'4rabi2 way tn.;y l:avl to peace, th?t
objeft fs'too dcfifab'.e ro admit of one ltating
any unritceffary objections to the adoption or
Tedi3f ion, however, like every thing el fe,
is fubjcfl to laws ot us p .vn. rhere are. prin
ciples of public pohcy, known, abroad, and
determined, which regulate all modes of pro-
c;eding by mediation. As the molt invahia.
hie of l thcrcafnrcs of a nation, namely
its honor, is entruUed w ithout refer ve or li
mit to a mediator, thcjJfopcr choice of per.
fo:i tohll that ohice becomes of the very hizh-
ctt tomiueraiiop anu importance. Jt may
happen, as in the cal- brfore us, that all the
Srcat points of honor and intcreft we have to
ifcufs with our avowed enemy, are invol.
' ved in that choke On thrfe principles the
kbg of Prultia is ih ycry lalf power 'iii En- J
roje wltofc mediation TvTr.-JL'ut fiiould have j
fo kited. ' - , '.
The Unj of PruTi? is to be ccnfnlct4 in
two capacities j and hi neither of ihtm is he
a neutral power. Fir.t, he is an independent '
fovereign, who, after hiving been at war
with France on principles avoucd 6 him in
coumioh' with Great liritaiti, the Limpet or,
and the Empire, is now cotucc'.rd with
expence
We know not how theft tranfactions may
affect thole who two years ago abandoned
their friends, and facrificed,as they Cay j them,
felves in order to infufc ftreanhw andinfpirc
territory, . proclaiming all .its armed inhabit- ability into Mr. Pitt's adminiftratiob. ,.The
ants robbers and rebels, and. threatening to celebrated declaration, of Mr- Windham, ne-
deal with them as fuch ? in what Ibte, we ver will be forgotten. Spesking in the name
repeat, would be jutt to coulider tW power, of the reft, he declared his junction with Mr
. which, after all . fuch dctlaf ation - and acts, Pitt to be, not became he was'jn viarit of a-
fliould Juddenly patch up a feparate and molt ble alhuance Not becaufe he was honeit,
rdvantageous peace wit n France, jull in the but becaufe he ought to hve no' tctrtptation
very crlis of the fate of Europe j -aiid not to be otherwife. But to thole from whom
merely a peace, but a peace which, by us pro. j unanimity at the preicnurius, is fo loudly ri
uion, gave r ranee an ineDeneni 01 an at. 1 4uircu, inciucccis wmui.. nas.aitenuea ivin
liance We will fufpend for a moment all re- j Windham and the duke of Portland;in they
flections on the king of Prullia's myltcnous attempMo.tolltct.up.lhii wretthed and un-
conduct in Champagne his leaving the Ne- fortunate minifterfiibuld fuggeft ananfwer
thctlandsopen tti Duinourier's irruption, the and operate as a warning ; an anfwec drfi
almoll total inaction of his 'troops during the ved from the furcftofall fourccs that of etc
whole period of his holtility to France, not- periencc a warning, drawn from the rcfult
withstanding the i,ioo,booli we fent.hhn of that experience,-hen? they trult the III
and the Bricifli commifTary worth as much (take of the Britilh empire in Uie bands bf
more jwe will pafsoverall thcfecircuoiftan- minuter whocaniicUhcr make war nor peace
ces, creat and important as they are, , to alk and w ho commences what he will, aflect I
this hnji'e qucftion. in what lipht was the I call an honouraUeivrpQcUt3on, ova lien fbo re
coalition, upon their own principles', to cop. difgraccful,moredi&otw
fdcf the king of Prulfia after the peace of jieroustb thc future -fafcry. and. libe. ties of
704? . , Europe,-tlun ever entered into tlit ontem.
Certainly not as a neutral ppwcr for ac plat ton of the moft determined JaVjbHt in any
cordingto them there could be no I ticKthing of the revolutionary focktki, b ether of Ein
at ueutralitv. Certainly not in f6 favourable gland or France.
a Pffntastnuieotner powers, mcn, naving
1 ,r t , 1 . .
t
a
done nothing tp aihit France, tnight be ad
mitted to the benefit of a cnnOructWe ncu
rrality The kins of Pr nlh had done much
more. With twelve hundred thrufand En.
jlilh gumcajln his pocket, ljc Ir.id igrerd with
France upon a I nect demarkaitontobemiin
gained by force of the'r joint arms, againft all
invsJ?r, be they whom they luigjn j a de.
markuHin uhkh fecured to France the pof.
feflioh of the Netherlands, nd greatly, f.d
litatcd ths tonfecjuent redaction of Holland;
In fair truth, then the king of Pruflii, froni
We have the news of the Spaniards dctla.
rinj; war againft us, wtuth Ax are makW e
very prejwrat.cn for.: Thedmntry here U
in the grca.clt fernifntation uhh united 1.
rifhrocn, scd anotW party, called the O
range men, the y are cvnfhmly fwhhzsnd
Mini one another 1 be Dranre party arfl
flrongfof government, an are" backed by
alldcfpoti, who have fwornu extripate all
Cathclks. V e have notliing here but trou.
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