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STRAY LEAVES FROM THE UNPUBLISHED HISTORY OF THE IN giving the remainder of the series of these curious documents, we conceive that it will add much both to their political and historical interest to introduce a remarkable passage from Burke which we have accidentally stumbled upon. We make our quotation from an old pamphlet printed in Philadelphia for William Cobbett in 1797, entitled "Two Letters addressed to a Member of the present Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France," by the Right Hon. Edmund Burke. Whether the passage we have italicized may not have reference to these identical papers now first published, we leave the curious to decide. It will be seen that our opinions of the character of the transactions here recorded are fortified by the great name of Burke. "There has not been in this century any foreign peace or war, in its origin the fruit of popular desire, except the war that was made with Spain in 1739. Sir Robert Walpole was forced into the war by the people, who were inflamed to this measure by the most leading politicians, by the first orators, and the greatest poets of the time. For that war Pope sung his dying notes. For that war Johnson, in more energetic strains, employed the voice of his early genius. For that war Glover distinguished himself in the way in which his muse was most the natural and happy. The crowd readily followed the politicians in the VOL. VIII. NO. II. NEW SERIES. cry for a war which threatened little bloodshed, and which promised victories that were attended with Spain was a war of plunder. In the present with something more solid than glory. A war conflict with Regicide, Mr. Pitt has not hitherto had, nor will perhaps for a few days have, many prizes to hold out in the lottery of war to tempt the lower part of our character. He can only maintain it by an appeal to the higher; and to those in whom that higher part is the most predominant he must look the most for his support. Whilst he holds out no inducements to the wise, nor bribes to the avaricious, he may be forced by than the most disastrous war. The weaker he is a vulgar cry into a peace ten times more ruinous in the fund of motives which apply to our avarice, to our laziness, and to our lassitude, if he means to carry the war to any end at all, the stronger he ought to be in his addresses to our maguanimity and to our reason. "In stating that Walpole was driven by a popular clamor into a measure not to be justified, I do not mean wholly to excuse his conduct. My time of observation did not exactly coincide with that event; but I read much of the controversies then carried on. Several years after the contests of parties had ceased, the people were amused, and in a degree warmed with them. The events of that era seemed then of magnitude, which the revolutions of our time have reduced to parochial importance; and the debates which then shook the nation now appear of no higher moment than a discussion in a vestry. When I was very young, a general fashion told me I was to admire some of the writings against that minister: a little more maturity taught me as much to despise them. I 7 |