A Few Remarks on Our Foreign Policy Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3despotism, we shall have nothing to fear. Let Continental nations, say they, fight out their own battles ;—what does it matter to us how they divide Europe ?—what does it matter, whether t... more »he French re-acquire their textit{natural limits, or the Russians bivouac in the streets of Constantinople ? England will always remain the first country in the world. There are others who are equally as desirous of reform as the textit{isolators, but who are, at the same time, fully aware of the necessity of paying some attention to our Foreign Policy : their plan, however, textit{is first to reform all abuses in Church and State, and textit{then to mind what is going forward abroad. Now, if we could effect all these numerous reforms during the next Session, it would, perhaps, be as well to wait; but what chance is there of a tenth part of the motions made by Reformers being converted into laws ? A few will be passed and the rest adjourned until the next Session; and, in the mean time, an incessant agitation will be kept up, and the public mind will be too much occupied with the clashing interests of rival Churches to bestow much attention on the designs of Russia and France. As I, therefore, do not see the least prospect of the real or imaginary abuses in Church and State being reformed for several years to come, I think it high time that the public should attend a little more to our Foreign Policy if they wish to see England still maintain that lofty station which she now holds. They may rest assured, that the only Section 4way to do this, is to textit{meddle a great deal in the affairs of other countries; for, if the present system should continue much longer, they will learn to their sorrow, that neither our free institutions, nor our insular position, will preserve us from the fate which inevitably attends a po...« less