» the French, to give credit to them, and to dare to congratu-
“ late us on fuch occafions, by affuring us that we fhall be
“ reftored to our poffeffions through Britiih exertions— all
“ thefe fubjefts, the conftant theme of converfation, in which
“ the intention of my hofts always appear to be good, are ftill
“ more painful to me, as prudence requires me to conceal my
« thoughts, for, in avowing them, one would certainly be
« confidered as a fool in the eyes of the very few who might
tt jjot think one a Jacobin, a Roberfpierre; and thus is a man
“ perplexed with himfelf. And yet, it is within me, moft
“ deeply rooted within me, to prefer, through my whole life,
« this ftate of banilhment, of a forlorn outcaft, rather than owe
« my reftoration to my country and my property to the in-
“ fluence of foreign powers, and to Engliih pride. I never
“ hear of a defeat of the French without great diftrefs, nor of
tí their fuccefs without an emotion of felfdove, which I am
“ not always fufficiently careful to conceal.
The fentiments contained in this paflage are fuch as numbers of
the emigrants, by their conduft, have ihewn to be congenial with
their own ; and fuch as ought to convince us how little gratitude
they really feel for the protedion and fupport they have received
from Engliih generofity; and that neither the miferies nor thein-
juftice they have fuffered from their own country can ever make
them forget for a moment their national enmity. To exped
that they ihould for ever abandon their country would be a fen-
timent equally illiberal on the other fide. It would have been
well, indeed, for themfelves, and better for England, that the
whole body of the emigrants had returned to France. As to
thofe
thofe few malignant and unchriftian priefts who have dared,
in their prayers, to invoke the vengeance of Heaven On the
hand that faved them from afiaffinatio, and lifted bread to
their mouths when, otherwile, they muft have been famiihed,
thefe mifcreants have fo far degraded themfelves below the common
level of humanity, that it is not eafy to determine whether
they are more deièrving of pity or contempt.
In all their purfuits abroad the French are indefatigable. In
India they have tranflated the enlightened doctrines of the
Rights of Man into the language of fome of the country
powers ; they converted the late Tippoo Sultaun into a citizen
of the world ; and eftabliihed a Jacobin club in the very centre
of Seringapatam. In Hydrabad they had proceeded to greater
lengths. We find them in the Birman Empire, labouring to
undermine the Britiih character, and to infinuate themfelves
into the favour of the court by their fervices. In Cochin-
China they have been ftill more induftrious. They have tranflated
the Encyclopédie des connaiffances humaines into the language
of the country; they have inftruâed the people to
build fhips of war, and they have trained their foldiers to the
ufe of artillery. So great a favourite was the late titular bifhop
of Adran with the king of Cochin-China that, on his death,
after his brother miffionaries had interred his remains according
to the rites of the Romiih church, he ordered the body to be
taken up and again buried with all the ceremonies and funeral
pomp of the Cochin-Chinefe religion, as the greateft honour he
could beftow on his memory; nor could all the expoftulations,
or the entreaties, of the miffionaries, who were fcandalized at
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