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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800. Excerpt:... ' ticularly Bonaparte's, who has concentered ' their crimes as well as tfceir powers." But cannot the laft Revolution which the i Government of France has undergone give more j dependence on the maxims of the Republic, and infpire more confidence in the flability of its fyftem? This innovation, Mr. Pitt confidered as nothing more than the inftitution of a military defpotifm openly erected, and of which the enfign was the fword inftead of the fceptre. In feeing an armed ufurpation of.this kind accomplimed by a fingle man feizing the fupreme powers, fuppofing the ufurper a ftranger perfectly unknown, and that he offered his charafter and conduft as a fecurity for a pacific negotiation, mould we lay down our. arms, fhould we fufpend our efforts, without having maturely determined what confidence was due to this ftranger? »!But.5?»/2/rf;'/£isperfe5tyknown. Isithispacific difpofuions towards England, which he propofed to fubjugate after the treaty of Campo-Formio, of whofe fubverfion he fpoke with fuch bluftering and fury, and whofe Gonftitution and exiftence he declared to be incompatible with thofe of the French Republic? is it his fidelity to his adopted country that you will take into your confideration? Recollect that after prefenting to his fellow-citizens the Cpnftitution of the 7 year year 3 at the point of the bayonet, he fwore to be faithful to that Conftitution; that he made his foldiers renew their oath at Milan when he gave them new golourc; that he repeated it on his return from Igypt, and even two days before he violated it. Do his faith towards Foreign Powers and his fincerity as a pacificator reft upon uctter tides? Here Mr. Pitt went warmly through the chronological feries of breaches of faith, and acts of perfidy, of which Lom...