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 It has been repeatedly said, that we could not honorably negociate with men so stained with atrocious guilt, so avowedly the enemies of Religion, as the popular Leaders in France. Admire, I pray you, the cautious Delicacy of our Government! that will profess itself the Ally of the Immaculate only—of the Catharine, the  King of Prussia, and that most  Arch-pirate, the Dey of Algiers! It is a more plausible objection, that the French possess no fixed Government; but this the War itself has disproved. The Girondists began it, the Jacobins carried it on, and the Moderate Party are now prosecuting it with increased vigor:—a fact, which while it shews the fickleness of their domestic Politics, demonstrates the uniformity of their measures with regard to foreign Nations.—But the ground of argument has been lately changed, and the dangerous Tendency of French Politics assigned as a sufficient reason for continuing the Contest. It has been asserted, that internal disturbances are the evil to be prevented, even by external distresses—a tenet which depraves the suspicious heart which adopts it, and realizes the event which it affects to prophecy. It was a favorite opinion with the unfortunate Charles,