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 nine millions remaining, are sufficient to cultivate the country, and to destroy Louis XVI. his family, and all other constituted authorities as aristocratical. Let us do this and all Europe in a year, will acknowledge the sovereignty of the French people.

Dumourier began to fulfil their Quixotic crusades. After a successful winter campaign in Belgia he turned his victorious arms towards Holland; and had it not been for the intervention of Britain, that miserable and ungrateful country would two years sooner have supinely submitted to the yoke of the French. Shame and repulse were the consequences of Dumourier's temerity. But as it would fatigue you with going over all the circumstances of the war, I shall now give you some idea of the characters of these men. And first, DUMOURIER began his career as a spy in England in the year 1780, where he pretended to be a persecuted clergyman exiled for having published a book entitled, The folly of France assisting the rebels. Thus he cajoled the British Government, and rendered his country such service that he was made commandant of Cherbourg; at the revolution he worked himself into the favour of the unfortunate king; was raised to the chief command of the army; and when a dispute had arisen betwixt him and some of his associates who thought themselves deprived of a due share of the spoils—to elude the gullotine he escaped to Switzerland. THE DUKE OF ORLEANS, in the earliest part of his life chose the most notorious characters for debauchery and irreligion as his associates. In this glorious course he soon outstripped the most experienced. To lead ingenouus [sic] youth from the paths of virtue into the stream of vice, to triumph in the ruin of innocence, is a refinement in wickedness, which was flattering to the ambition, and delightful to the heart of the Duke of Orleans.

The implacable hatred he has manifested against