OCR Text |
Show [A: B.T.] QQIXNAYM'LPAMPIILET. The Remarker, however, thinks, that our real dcpendance for keeping " France or any other mi" tion true to her engagements, mutt not be in " demanding fecurities which no nation \vhill‘t gth " r'izzf'efwzdwzr can give; but on our own tlren has n that natio --No *."-‘ ance " and our own vigil tarried on a war with difadvantage, and is unable to continue it, can be laid, under fuch circumilances, to be independent; and while either fide thinks itfelf in a condition to demand an indem‘ nitication, there is no man in his fenfes, but will, czcteris paribus, prefer an indemnification that is a cheaper and more effectual fecurity than any Ill/oer he can think of. Nations in this fituation Ofjecurz'tz'e: for peace, &C. I 53 added fomething to the power, either of France or the houfe of Bourbon. Even that of 17 , which the commenced with declarations of 1313; havmg no ambitious views, and which finiihed by a treaty at which the miniflers of France repeatedly declared that {he defired nothing for herlelfr in efi‘ect gained for herLorroz'rz, an indemnification ten times the valueof all herNorth Ameri- can pofTeflions.--In fhort, fecurity and quiet of princes and Rates have ever been deemed fuflicient reafons, when fupported by power, for difpofing of rights; and fuch difpofition has never been looked on as want of moderation. It has always been the foundation of the molt general treaties. demand and cede countries by almolt every treaty --.-The fecurity ofGermany was the argument for of peace that is made-The French part of the yielding confiderable pofieflions there to the Sweden And the fecurity of Europe divided the ifland of St. C/erlojzber: was added to Great Britain in circumflances altogether fimilar to tholi: in which a few mOnths may probably place the country of Canada. Farther fecurity has always been deemed a motive with a conqueror to be lefs moderate: And even the vonquz'flaed infiit upon fecurity as a reafon for demanding what they acknowledge they could not otherwife properly 2111:. The fecurity of the frontier of France on tbe/io'e oftbe Netherlands, was always confidered, in the negotiation that began at Gertruydenburgh, and ended with that war. For the fame reafon they demanded and had Cape Breton. But a war concluded to the advantage of France, has always Spain/7) monoro/oy by the partition treaty, made between powers who had no other right to dill pofe-ofany part of it. There can be no ccflion that 15 not fuppofed at leafl, to increafe the power of the party to whom it is made. It is enouoh that he has a right to all; it, and that he does bit not merely to ferve the pur‘poles of a danrrerous ambition. a Canada in the hands of Britain, will endanger the kingdom of France as little as any other ctflion; and from its fituation and circumttances cannot be hurtful to any ot/Jer fiate.-Rather, if peace be an advantage, this ceiiion may be fuch IQ (1/! Europe. f" Remarks, 1:- 25- The prefent war teaches us, that dd (1 a e dlfputes arifing inAmerica, may be an occafion of cmbroiling |