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 we paid our allies for being vanquished; a few useless millions, and a few still more useless lives were sacrificed, and the result was, that we were amply rewarded by safety, increased resources, and real addition of power ,—These opinions were delivered by the Caledonian Oracle during the breathing time which Mr. Addington's experimental truce afforded to Europe. When it is remembered how shortly afterwards that war recommenced, to which no human wisdom can foresee a termination, the sagacity of the writer will be sufficiently apparent;