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Tiuo Letters addressed to a Member of the present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace ivith the Regicide Direclory of Prance . By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke . 8 < _ J _ . pages i 83 . Price y . ( yd . Rivingtons . *~ TO attempt a regular Review of the contents of these Letters would be an impossible task , unless our iimits would allow us to make our comments at the same length with the . Letters themselves . The genius of Mr . Burke , which by some has been thought to have long since set , has now blazed
forth with redoubled splendour . Every sentence , in our opinion , is forcible and elegant ; and eveiy paragragh , a paragraph of argument and reason , well deserving the attention of every friend to his country , or the human race . In some of our eloquent Author ' s former productions , we have observed bis sensibility and imagination hurrying him into declamation ill suited to the dignity of the subject he had to discuss ; but here , he appeals only to our reason ; and , though be sometimes does it through the medium ,
of our feelings , it is only to give his arguments increased effect . After these short observations , we shall proceed to give from the first Letter an extract , which contains a brief analysis of its contents . ' Lamenting as I do , that the matter has not had so full and free-a discussion as it requires , I mean to omit none of the points which seem to me necessary for consideration , previous to an arrangement which is for ever tp decide the form and the fate of Europe . In the course , therefore , of what I
shall have the honour , to address to you , I propose the following questions to your serious , thoughts , i . Whether the present system , which stands for a governmenment in France , be such as in peace and war affects the nei ghbouring States in a manner different from the internal government that formerly prevailed in that country ? 2 . Whether that system , supposing its views hostile to other nations , possesses any means of being hurtful to thcrn peculiar to itself ? 3 . Whether there has been latelsuch a change in
y France , as to alter the nature of its system , or its effect upon other Powers ? 4 . Whether any public declarations or engagemements exist , on the part of the allied Powers , which stand in the way of a treaty of peace , which supposes the right , and confirms the power , of the Regicide faction in France ? 5 . What the state of the other Powers of Europe will be with respect to each other , and their colonies , on the conclusion of a Regicide Peace ? 6 . Whether we are driven to the absolute necessity of making that ldncl of
peace ?' In the second Letter , after a variety of comments on the conduct of Ministers during the war , Mr . Burke still further enforces his arguments against a Peace with the Republic of France ; and we think the following extract affords a summary of his reasonings . ' Material resources never have supplied , nor . ever can supply , the want of unity in design and constancy in pursuit . But unity in . design , and perseveranceand boldness in pursuithave never wanted resourcesand never
, , , will . We have not considered as we ought the dreadful energy of a State , in which the property has nothing to do with the Government . Reflect , my dear Sir , reflect again and again on a Government , in which the property is in complete subjection , and where nothing rules but the mind of desperate men . The condition of a commonwealth not governed by its property was a combination of things , which the learned and ingenious speculator Havvingtonwho was tossed about society r . ito all formsnsvar
, , could imagine to be possible ^ We have seen it ; the world has felt it ; and if the world will shut their eyes to this state of things , they Avill feel it more . , The rulers there have found their resources in crimes . The disco - very is dreadful : the mine . exhaustless . ¦ They have every thiry- to gain , and they have nothing to lose . [ TO BE CONCH : VIED IS OUR NEXT . ]
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Review Of New Publications.
Tiuo Letters addressed to a Member of the present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace ivith the Regicide Direclory of Prance . By the Right Honourable Edmund Burke . 8 < _ J _ . pages i 83 . Price y . ( yd . Rivingtons . *~ TO attempt a regular Review of the contents of these Letters would be an impossible task , unless our iimits would allow us to make our comments at the same length with the . Letters themselves . The genius of Mr . Burke , which by some has been thought to have long since set , has now blazed
forth with redoubled splendour . Every sentence , in our opinion , is forcible and elegant ; and eveiy paragragh , a paragraph of argument and reason , well deserving the attention of every friend to his country , or the human race . In some of our eloquent Author ' s former productions , we have observed bis sensibility and imagination hurrying him into declamation ill suited to the dignity of the subject he had to discuss ; but here , he appeals only to our reason ; and , though be sometimes does it through the medium ,
of our feelings , it is only to give his arguments increased effect . After these short observations , we shall proceed to give from the first Letter an extract , which contains a brief analysis of its contents . ' Lamenting as I do , that the matter has not had so full and free-a discussion as it requires , I mean to omit none of the points which seem to me necessary for consideration , previous to an arrangement which is for ever tp decide the form and the fate of Europe . In the course , therefore , of what I
shall have the honour , to address to you , I propose the following questions to your serious , thoughts , i . Whether the present system , which stands for a governmenment in France , be such as in peace and war affects the nei ghbouring States in a manner different from the internal government that formerly prevailed in that country ? 2 . Whether that system , supposing its views hostile to other nations , possesses any means of being hurtful to thcrn peculiar to itself ? 3 . Whether there has been latelsuch a change in
y France , as to alter the nature of its system , or its effect upon other Powers ? 4 . Whether any public declarations or engagemements exist , on the part of the allied Powers , which stand in the way of a treaty of peace , which supposes the right , and confirms the power , of the Regicide faction in France ? 5 . What the state of the other Powers of Europe will be with respect to each other , and their colonies , on the conclusion of a Regicide Peace ? 6 . Whether we are driven to the absolute necessity of making that ldncl of
peace ?' In the second Letter , after a variety of comments on the conduct of Ministers during the war , Mr . Burke still further enforces his arguments against a Peace with the Republic of France ; and we think the following extract affords a summary of his reasonings . ' Material resources never have supplied , nor . ever can supply , the want of unity in design and constancy in pursuit . But unity in . design , and perseveranceand boldness in pursuithave never wanted resourcesand never
, , , will . We have not considered as we ought the dreadful energy of a State , in which the property has nothing to do with the Government . Reflect , my dear Sir , reflect again and again on a Government , in which the property is in complete subjection , and where nothing rules but the mind of desperate men . The condition of a commonwealth not governed by its property was a combination of things , which the learned and ingenious speculator Havvingtonwho was tossed about society r . ito all formsnsvar
, , could imagine to be possible ^ We have seen it ; the world has felt it ; and if the world will shut their eyes to this state of things , they Avill feel it more . , The rulers there have found their resources in crimes . The disco - very is dreadful : the mine . exhaustless . ¦ They have every thiry- to gain , and they have nothing to lose . [ TO BE CONCH : VIED IS OUR NEXT . ]