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every thing that nature has done for its fecundity . I am persuaded that sugar-canes , cotton and indigo , would grow extremely well in the district of the Twenty-four Rivers . ' We trust that the liberality and extensive commercial views of the British Government , will second every thing M . Le Vaillant has here suggested 5 and that they will not be so blind to their own interests as the Dutch ' seem to have been . We may then shortly hope to see the Cape and its dependencies
the most wealthy and important of all our Colonies . ' In our next number we shall conclude our account of these volumes . , A Fiew of the Causes and Consequences of tbc Present Vi r ar -jnih France . By the Hon , Thomas Erskine . SOT . Price 2 S . Pages 138 . Debretf . The abilities of this eloquent popular Advocate , jwhich have so long adorned the English barare , in this pamphlet , brought forward to prove
, that an immediate change of Ministry can alone rescue tiiis country from the ruin which impends over it . Pie begins with an enquiry into the Causes of the War , which , he insists , was produced by the misconduct of Ministers , and the ambition of our allies , and not by any aggressions on the part of the French Republic , which might not have been amicably arrranged by negociation . He proceeds to take a general view of the conduit of the war on the part of the Court of London , andafter describing the condition to which
, Great Britain is now reduced by the continuance of the contest , insists , with all the force of eloquence and reason , that peace alone can ensure the safety , and even the very existence , of the country . These positions are maintained by a variety of arguments that appear to us incontrovertible . The motives alledged by Ministers , at different periods
since the beginning of the war , are proved to be either not their real ones , or , if real , to be fallacious ; and the failure of the mission of Lord Malmesbury ( to whose abilities as an Ambassador Mr . E . pays a very just tribute ) , is imputed to a want of sincerity on the p : i ,-1 of the British Government . To make extracts from a performance which must have been so generally read , from the number of editions it has undergone ( we review the twenty-- fourth ) , may appear superfluous ; but we cannot forbear -introducing to such
of our readers , as may not yet have perused tlie pamphlet itself , the following comparison of the state of this country at the present period , with her probable condition , if she had avoided the miseries resulting from the war . Her present state he describes thus : — ' Left almost single as we are upon the theatre of war—asking for peace , but asking for it in vain , upon terms which without war were not only within our reach to obtain . .. but left to us to dictate—asking for peace in France
under the pressure of a necessity created by our own folly—asking it of the regicide Direftory , whose existence ( 1 appeal to Mr . Burke and Lord Fitzwiliiam ) was pronounced to be perpetual war . Silent upon the subject of reli g ion , without any atonement to its violated altars—and seeking by a thousand suoterfuges and aitifices unworthy of a great nation ( and which must and will certainly be unsuccessful ) to restore peace without humbling the pride of the ministers who provoked the war , by consenting to terms which
nothing but their own imbecility could have raised France to the condition of offering , or have reduced England to the mortification of accepting . ' Such is the picture of what we are . With this Mr . E . contrasts what we might have been :. — ' To estimate rightly the extent of this responsibility , let us look at the comparative condition of Great Britain , if even fortitude and patience can bear to look at if , had the present war bt-en avoided by prudent counc ' ils ¦ and . if the one hundredmilllions of money absolutely thrown away upon it
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every thing that nature has done for its fecundity . I am persuaded that sugar-canes , cotton and indigo , would grow extremely well in the district of the Twenty-four Rivers . ' We trust that the liberality and extensive commercial views of the British Government , will second every thing M . Le Vaillant has here suggested 5 and that they will not be so blind to their own interests as the Dutch ' seem to have been . We may then shortly hope to see the Cape and its dependencies
the most wealthy and important of all our Colonies . ' In our next number we shall conclude our account of these volumes . , A Fiew of the Causes and Consequences of tbc Present Vi r ar -jnih France . By the Hon , Thomas Erskine . SOT . Price 2 S . Pages 138 . Debretf . The abilities of this eloquent popular Advocate , jwhich have so long adorned the English barare , in this pamphlet , brought forward to prove
, that an immediate change of Ministry can alone rescue tiiis country from the ruin which impends over it . Pie begins with an enquiry into the Causes of the War , which , he insists , was produced by the misconduct of Ministers , and the ambition of our allies , and not by any aggressions on the part of the French Republic , which might not have been amicably arrranged by negociation . He proceeds to take a general view of the conduit of the war on the part of the Court of London , andafter describing the condition to which
, Great Britain is now reduced by the continuance of the contest , insists , with all the force of eloquence and reason , that peace alone can ensure the safety , and even the very existence , of the country . These positions are maintained by a variety of arguments that appear to us incontrovertible . The motives alledged by Ministers , at different periods
since the beginning of the war , are proved to be either not their real ones , or , if real , to be fallacious ; and the failure of the mission of Lord Malmesbury ( to whose abilities as an Ambassador Mr . E . pays a very just tribute ) , is imputed to a want of sincerity on the p : i ,-1 of the British Government . To make extracts from a performance which must have been so generally read , from the number of editions it has undergone ( we review the twenty-- fourth ) , may appear superfluous ; but we cannot forbear -introducing to such
of our readers , as may not yet have perused tlie pamphlet itself , the following comparison of the state of this country at the present period , with her probable condition , if she had avoided the miseries resulting from the war . Her present state he describes thus : — ' Left almost single as we are upon the theatre of war—asking for peace , but asking for it in vain , upon terms which without war were not only within our reach to obtain . .. but left to us to dictate—asking for peace in France
under the pressure of a necessity created by our own folly—asking it of the regicide Direftory , whose existence ( 1 appeal to Mr . Burke and Lord Fitzwiliiam ) was pronounced to be perpetual war . Silent upon the subject of reli g ion , without any atonement to its violated altars—and seeking by a thousand suoterfuges and aitifices unworthy of a great nation ( and which must and will certainly be unsuccessful ) to restore peace without humbling the pride of the ministers who provoked the war , by consenting to terms which
nothing but their own imbecility could have raised France to the condition of offering , or have reduced England to the mortification of accepting . ' Such is the picture of what we are . With this Mr . E . contrasts what we might have been :. — ' To estimate rightly the extent of this responsibility , let us look at the comparative condition of Great Britain , if even fortitude and patience can bear to look at if , had the present war bt-en avoided by prudent counc ' ils ¦ and . if the one hundredmilllions of money absolutely thrown away upon it