things are the price of efforts to crush freedom in France, _lest the example of France should produce a reform in England_. These things are the price of that undertaking; which, however, has not yet been crowned with _success_; for the question is _not yet decided_. They boast of their victory over the French. The Pitt crew boast of their achievements in the war. They boast of the battle of Waterloo. Why! what fools could not get the same, or the like, if they had as much _money_ to get it with? Shooting with a _silver gun_ is a saying amongst game-eaters. That is to say, _purchasing_ the game. A waddling, fat fellow that does not know how to prime and load will, in this way, beat the best shot in the country. And this is the way that our crew "beat" the people of France. They laid out, in the first place, six hundred millions which they borrowed, and for which they mortgaged the revenues of the nation. Then they contracted for a "dead weight" to the amount of one hundred and fifty millions. Then they stripped the labouring classes of the commons, of their kettles, their bedding, their beer-barrels; and, in short, made them all paupers, and thus fixed on the nation a permanent annual charge of about 8 or 9 millions, or a gross debt of 200,000,000_l._ By these means, by these anticipations, our crew did what they thought would keep down the French nation for ages; and what they were sure would, for the present, enable them to keep up the _tithes_ and other things of the same sort in England. But the crew did not reflect on the _consequences_ of the anticipations! Or, at least, the landlords, who gave the crew their power, did not thus reflect. These consequences are now come, and are coming; and that must be a base man indeed who does not see them with pleasure. _Singleton (Sussex), Saturday, 2 Aug._