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Ceux-la nt-ils tant de tort qui croient quil y avait complicity entre Robespierre et le cabinet de Saint James," , "but to believe that the English Ministry ever had it in view to re-establish order in France, or even to endeavour to restore the monarchy, is to fall into a foolish error; it desired the ruin of France that was its whole design.

English money provoked all our first misfortunes.

England might have arrested the out- break of the continental war, she might have saved the life of the king the English Ministry did not; it saw its interest advanced by the sufferings of that prince, it wished to be avenged for the loss of America, to inject disturbance into France, to foment it, to render the crimes more numerous, so that more enemies might be united against her in fine, to dismember her.

That policy is as ill-conceived, as little farseeing, as dangerous to the tranquility of England herself as it is immoral and cruel.

Mr Pitt has protected Frenchmen in whom he believed he found inclination to lend themselves to his schemes of conquest it is for that reason he has helped them, paid them, enrolled them as soldiers and in that he is still under a deception; for, notwithstanding the passion of party spirit, I can hardly believe that many Frenchmen could lend themselves to enriching England with the spoils of France.