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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[1],—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;
- ↑ Edinburgh review, No. II, Politique de tous les Cabinets de l'Europe, p. 359 and 348. The reader who may entertain a reasonable doubt whether any man can have been at once foolish enough and brutal enough to have written seriously in such language, is requested to verify the quotation. And if he wishes to see in what manner an impure mind can find food for its obscene imaginations in any subject, he is referred to pp. 452 and 498 of the same number, first edition.
