ary in Europe than in America. Indeed, the further we trace the
details of the proposed peace, the more your Lordship will be satisfied
that I have not been guilty of any abuse of terms, when I use
indiscriminately (as I always do, in speaking of arrangements with
Regicide) the words peace and fraternity. An analogy between our
interior governments must be the consequence. The noble negotiator sees
it as well as I do. I deprecate this Jacobin interior analogy. But
hereafter, perhaps, I may say a good deal more upon this part of the
subject.

The noble lord insists on very little more than on the excellence of
their Constitution, the hope of their dwindling into little republics,
and this close copartnership in government. I hear of others, indeed,
that offer by other arguments to reconcile us to this peace and
fraternity. The Regicides, they say, have renounced the creed of the
Rights of Man, and declared equality a chimera. This is still more
strange than all the rest. They have apostatized from their apostasy.
They are renegadoes from that impious faith for which they subverted the
ancient government, murdered their king, and imprisoned, butchered,
confiscated, and banished their fellow-subjects, and to which they
forced every man to swear at the peril of his life. And now, to
reconcile themselves to the world, they declare this creed, bought by so
much blood, to be an imposture and a chimera. I have no doubt that they
always thought it to be so, when they were destroying everything at home
and abroad for its establishment. It is no strange thing, to those who
look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a
perfect unbeliever of his own creed. But this is the very first time
that any man or set of men were hardy enough to attempt to lay the
ground of confidence in them by an acknowledgment of their own
falsehood, fraud, hypocrisy, treachery, heterodox doctrine,
persecution, and cruelty. Everything we hear from them is new, and, to
use a phrase of their own, _revolutionary_; everything supposes a total
revolution in all the principles of reason, prudence, and moral feeling.
If possible, this their recantation of the chief parts in the canon of
the Rights of Man is more infamous and causes greater horror than their
originally promulgating and forcing down the throats of mankind that
symbol of all evil. It is raking too much into the dirt and ordure of
human nature to say more of it.

I hear it sa