Guard we but our own Hearts: with constant view To ancient morals, ancient manners true; True to the manlier virtues, such as nerv’d Our fathers’ breasts, and this proud Isle preserv’d For many a rugged age: and scorn the while Each philosophic atheist’s specious guile; The soft seductions, the refinements nice, Of gay Morality, and easy Vice; So shall we brave the storm; our ’stablish’d pow’r Thy refuge, EUROPE, in some happier hour. 461 But, FRENCH _in heart_, though Victory crown our brow, Low at our feet though prostrate Nations bow, Wealth gild our Cities, Commerce crowd our shore, LONDON MAY SHINE, but ENGLAND is NO MORE! [Illustration: _The Republican Rattle-snake fascinating the Bedford Squirrel._ _The Rattle Snake is a Creature of the greatest subtilty; when it is desirous of preying upon any Animal which is in a situation above itself it fixes its Eye upon the unsuspecting object & by the noise of its Rattle fascinates & confounds the unfortunate Victim till losing all Sense & discernment, it falls a prey into the Mouth of the horrid Monster._ Pliny’s Nat. Histr. vol. 365—] FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. In the last Address which We shall have to make to the Public, We would willingly review the whole of what has been advanced by Us under the different Heads of our Paper, and leave behind us a Summary of our Opinions upon the state of each subject as We found it, and as We conceive it to stand at the moment when our labours are concluded. Upon no point, if We are to speak our sincere opinion, is the task more easily to be executed, or in a less compass, than in what relates to Foreign Politics. In other times, the relations of States to each other have been matter of great study, and difficulty; have been embarrassed with a diversity of views, and a complication of interests, which it might require much experience to calculate, and much political sagacity to reconcile. At present, there is but one relation among all the States of Europe:—one, at least, there is so paramount, as to confound and swallow up all inferior considerations. FRANCE IS BENT ON THE CONQUEST AND RUIN OF THEM ALL. To repel this Conquest, to ward off this ruin, various means are tried, according to the power or the prudence of the different Nations. War, Treaty, Supplication, Bribery, timid Neutrality, implicit Submission, and, finally, an Incorporation into the Map of the _Great Republic_, are all at this moment exemplified in the conduct of the Countries which surround us. Our lot, a lot imposed upon us by necessity, but which if it were not so imposed upon us, whoever is not blind, judicially blind to the conduct of _France_ towards us, and every other Country, would claim by choice, is WAR.