ject, I believe, for ever. It has given me many anxious moments for the two last years. If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it, the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope, will forward it; and then they, who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate. HEADS FOR CONSIDERATION, &c. &c. HAT France by its mere geographical posi THAT tion, independently of every other circumstance, must affect every state of Europe; some of them immediately, all of them through mediums not very remote. That the standing policy of this kingdom ever has been to watch over the external proceedings of France, (whatever form the interior government of that kingdom might take) and to prevent the extension of its dominion, or its ruling influence, over other states. That there is nothing in the present internal state of things in France, which alters the national policy with regard to the exterior relations of that country. That there are, on the contrary, many things in the internal circumstances of France, (and perhaps of this country too) which tend to fortify the principles |