Foreign Affairs resumed.

You have left the foreign allies of your government time to determine whether they will still, by your aid, endeavour to support their independence, or will not rather resign their fate at once to the good pleasure of the common foe.

You chose, after coming into office, to communicate with that foe, before you would renew the arrangements for continued friendly intercourse with the former allies of your country. The enemy has disappointed you. The allies, though they may deem your assistance useful, must deeply regret, that they should have been left, so many months, without your confidential correspondence.

Begin, then, with issuing such another Grub-street manifesto against them as you before put out against your own country. Pretend that they had abandoned you. Alledge that they were incredibly wavering in

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their counsels, and were hastening who to be the first to conclude an insidious, separate peace, with the common enemy. Upbraid them, as unable, however willing, to make any farther effective resistance to his arms. Boast of the spirit and political wisdom with which you almost took arms on that enemy's side, against that one of your natural allies, whose force was the most unbroken, and whom the enemy was, then, the most ambitious to destroy. Boast, that the enemy had invited you to treat by the offer of the fairest imaginable basis of preliminaries; but beware of pretending it to be in your power, to exhibit any satisfactory written document to that effect. Tell, that you had intended to invite all the surrounding governments and states to be parties and guarantees to your treaty. Insist, that you should, infallibly, have muzzled the great bear. Invent long tales of fluctuations of policy at the courts of the principal allies; though you have not, since your accession to ministerial power, had any such correspondence at those courts

as conld acquaint you with their secret counsels and intrigues. Heap every obloquy even upon those allies, whose aid you must not ultimately forego. Then renew your as sertions, that, had it not been for them, the enemy would not have failed to negotiate upon conditions which would have given an honourable and lasting peace. In the end, as if the enemy had not been tricking and perfidious, had not always opened negotiation merely to get more by it, than he could ac quire by the fate of battle; complain, with bitterness, of his receding from his first preliminaries, and of the disingenuousness with which he detained and amused your wittol Plenipo's, while he was only making their presence at his court, a reason why some of the other allies should anticipate them with the most abject voluntary concessions. Let this pamphlet of manifesto be written, like your former, in a slang of Scottish, French, and English. Let it be a mass of confusion and repetition. Let it renew the abuse of your predecessors in office; and under atrocious

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calumnies against those and the allies, let it hide, if possible, the disgrace of your dishonourable negotiation. Let it speak in that tone of pride and self-complacency which is used in the fable when a ball of horse's dung is made to say to an apple,

see, brother, how we apples swim." Then send it out into the world, not verbally confessing it to be official, yet conspicuously giving it a distinction, which, if not official, it, certainly could not receive. Be sure, that you distribute its copies, in great numbers, in foreign countries; and that you support its visionary statements in your speeches in parliament. The dunce or dunces that executed the mechanical toil of it, may come, in time, to be subalterns in your parliamentary guard.

Renew your Diplomatic Representation and Correspondence at the Courts of the Allies.

You have interrupted that diplomatic intercourse which was between your prede

cessors and the allies abroad.

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disgusted those allies by evincing a disposition to prefer the alliance of the enemy to theirs. You have irritated them by giving to that enemy, a great temporary advantage in treaty and in hostile arrangements, against them. You have gratified the party at home who are averse from the expense of foreign connexions by the most outrageous calumnies against the ability and fidelity of all who lately fought in alliance with you. You have left your diplomatic ministers, for some months without new credit or instructions at the allied courts. You have convinced those courts; that they are not to trust to any thing which passed between them and the previous administration of your government; but must absolutely begin a-new, and come upon an entire private understanding with you and your agents, before you will be persuaded to join them in any new plans of hostility.

Now, then, renew your attention to them. Let the former Ambassadors and Envoys have