e hands the fate of millions is
deposited reverse the gloomy picture, and restore to a country long
wasted by revolutions, and warfare, and languishing in the midst of the
monuments of her glory, the benign blessings of enduring tranquillity.
But if this hope prove fruitless, if all the countries of continental
Europe are destined to be compressed into one empire, if their devoted
princes are doomed to adorn the triumphs of the chief of that mighty
republic, which now towers above the surrounding nations of the earth,
like the pyramid of the desert, what have we to fear even though the
ocean which divides us should become the _soldiers_ element?

When an enlightened frenchman is asked what he thinks of his government,
his answer is, "We want repose." For this alone, a stranger to the
recent occurrences of the world would think he had toiled, just as
valetudinarians take exercise for the purpose of securing sleep. Even
those who have profited of eleven years of desolation, are ready to
acknowledge that war is not pastime, and that a familiarity with its
horrours does not lessen them. The soldier, drooping under the weight of
booty, pants for the refreshing shades of his native village, and for
the hour which is to restore him to his alienated family.

I am satisfied, that both in France and England, one desire pervades all
classes of people, that two nations, so brave, and so worthy of
reciprocal esteem, may at last grow wise and virtuous enough to abstain
from those ebullitions of furious hostility which have stained so many
centuries with blood.

Peace is the gem with which Europe has embellished her fair but
palpitating bosom; and may disappointment and dishonour be the lot of
that ambitious and impolitic being who endeavours or who wishes to pluck
it from her!

FINIS.

ERRATA.

_Page_ 2, _l._ 21, _for_ Lewis, _read_ Louis.
13, 3, _for_ English, _read_ own.
Ibid. 4, _for_ import, _read_ impost.
17, 25, _for_ bleu, _read_ bleus.
44, 9, _for_ stories, _read_ stones.
53, 17, _for_ entered now, _read_ reentered.
77, 21, _for_ perpetual, _read_ vast.
120, 1, _for_ profession, _read_ will.
151, 18, _for_ the, _read_ his.
164, 19, _for_ France, _read_ the country.
169, 6, _for_ at, _read_ of.
169, 26, _for_ hardworn, _read_ hardwon.
188, Chap. XVIII, for _Commodities_, _read_ _Commodites_.
197, _