POPOLA-
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Colonies.
.Army.
,*favy.
tjhe formidable ex ten t of 32,od®iQ'©Q^ii^tïall events Fraude is ^ p o lin try
teeming with population, and: quickly refumes her vigour .after ftupen-
dous lofles, as Europe has repeatedly experienced. •
ThmFrench- Goloriies are at prelent ummpbrtahtj»4hhtWjthfta‘ftding the
addition o f the Spanilh part .of St. Domingo. The beft of them have
been convulfed and ruined for a feafon by inteftime commotions, arifing
from the wild theory of the rights o f man being extended to the negroes,
who feel that they have a right to ruin and deftroy, but none to build
and improve." Perhaps the right of hoffes may next be difcuffed; and
our race-horfes be faftened to tire plough, while our coach-horfes dart
for the prize at Newmarket. The. intercourfe with the remaining
colonies is fo much obftruSed by the Englifti dominion OÖhehïea,
fhat’thfey can harftly' be* admitted' into ail eftrmatp ofithe prpfeiit mnüa-
tion ofErance. :
ThW|iSht&aï cönvulfmmH^hich have agitated tlpsUpnappy'doiiptry,
the etrthufiafin, and y é t öiöre the dplhotifip, mr freedom, maTpp|cea-
JiÖ&fly Within th'efe few years fwellèdmè Frênch ^rmfes TO^mefama-
Aihg ‘computation of upwards' df* 'a million. ' But in unay fafely be
■doubted w h e th er,th e rteal amount a ï'a tiy time1 ^xceededf effëÖtivejnen,
th e Trench havingTwelled'me number td ln h m i® e their
-enemies,• and th e latter tb'apoihgïïe'To'r t h é i r de/êal^ tjAdernfflfflBp
-governmdnt the army o f France w£s emm,afed'..at 225,000^o r 'CvhjÉi
•were infantry ryojSbo^ c a v a l r y ^ ,060, Hriillefy
The maritime p dw ë r o f -France '* Was“ ror^cfabfe' '-éven^tslplingkndj
till the battle of L a Hogue, fince which the Britilh flag has reigned
• triumphant oh th e ocean, and the ftruggfes of France, though often
\energetic, 'have encountered the fixed deftiny of i \ i '*"*{., y* ''ffid
frequent, fatal, and decifive, have been the recent humiliations of the
.French navy, that hardly the fembl.ance of a warlike fieet could be
• prefente.d, except by the conftrainéd affiftance of Spain. About twenty
* B y the E ta t'Militaire, a calendar revived, for tbe;:eigfifh year-of the repuElic, 'ïtiappeats
that the ^French armies gghfifted o f n o demi-br.igades,' each o f -three;, batallions, and when ..
. complete of, . 3 n. *. ojE.30 light _dimi-hrigad’es o f like nuiftb'er-,: Artgithents 'o f foot artillery,
each o f 2Ö 'companies^18_of horfe-artillery, each ófA&6 men: 26.r.egimehts'of cavalry,
Snd 20 regiments o f dra§;oóhs, -eachjofT8oó®en| 25 regiments of.chafleurs,'niidt pfffgimciïts
.'of hnfiars o f the hke numbei T h e whole, -without inÈlSÉiig the.,.cngineers, mifetsh&c.' &p.
Airmingja force ol^-i 3,728.1 .
flips of the line conftitute the maritime power of France, being not
above one quarter of its former ex ten t Nor can the lofs be eafify redeemed,
for though feips may be bought or conftrudted, it muft be
the labour o f many years to form a numerous body of. experienced
feaffiwspi:j
, mRuJ,efl' f bouf ,39 o oo,6d^l.
fterling ; from which., after d educing the expen.ee. of collection, and
the payimept of the intereft on .the national debt, there remained clear
about 18,000,006.. The national debt may be regarded as extinguifhed
h tft^ ^ ^U tp ch p t tijb), ptJr^t|.ft^te*-p|' the^^d^enugi m i# b e '
•jA.ccq^dipgi j , y
a i^ u in ^ a lixffis, ,nr. about. 25.,noryffirtlv fterling,
'■ J ■. a t ..
w^ e fb:at;( ^ c f r ||a t, Brit aim has been“ eftiprated at
b-Wfy ^and ttd ^g ^ en a i^y ie with,
the ^Rmha;ii| i|h wealih^udlTuxuryZ, j '
h T ^ ^ |M ® i ) :i??iPfr!,:anpe and relation? o f Wry:e^Qoiitfnpe tp be v a $ ;
fcjjU ',ftate. ey ey fo, completely felt {and
4S'-fiter ,a and a.;5war vyhigh^thre^eped he^.
W h en expe^ed toi;jfafh <an $afy prey, ( fee-fuddeply '.
afo'fe tb ^ p r^ f fT ii;, and t has 'aftomlhed E u r o p eW the rapidity,and
< ^&etr^ya^ry o f ’mWyrce'ntmie’s^etween F ram e !
an^(, id^ (f u u i , mto a petty d i lu t e , whemlc^mpafed with this*
^ghj^ilcunteft, which',wfil* he felt ancl^Seplprecl by ” diftant pofterity.
|||S jS 9 the ]H otcdfjop" o fij^ f-^m ^ -.P ro v id ep c e the Britilh 'Empire *
iofe fiaperior to the ftruggles, and l-emained free from thofe feenes o f
eamage and devaftation, which attended the French progrefs- in to -
other countries and the French navy being reduced; to fo infignificant
a fe1 ce,„Great Britain has lefs to apprehend from France, than at any
foi met period. Yet this invaluable-advantage is lomewhat diminifeed
by the decided prepondei-ance of French power on the continent;
P.aiticularly in Holland, which formed the grand . chain; of our com-
meicial intercourfe. After i all the; continental powers have failed,
« would be vain to fuppofe th a t any.one.of them, fingle and detached^.
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