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 at Pamiers, although those towns are less distant from Catalonia, and more towards the opening of the Pyrenees.

 

During the Peace of Amiens the world was favoured with a new and pleasant description of war, by one of the Wise Men of the North. A Species of pecuniary commutation, he told us, had been contrived, by which it's operations were rendered very harmless; they were performed by 'some hundreds of sailors fighting harmlessly on the barren plains of the ocean, and some thousands of soldiers carrying on a scientific and regular and quiet system of warfare, in countries set apart for the purpose, and resorted to as the arena where the disputes of nations may be determined. The prudent policy had been adopted of purchasing defeat at a distance rather than victory at home: in this manner 