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Occasional Tracts Relative to the War Between Great Britain and France, Written and Published at Different Periods, From the Year 1793,
Occasional Tracts Relative to the War Between Great Britain and France Written and Published at Different Periods From the Year 1793 Author:William Roscoe Title: Occasional Tracts Relative to the War Between Great Britain and France, Written and Published at Different Periods, From the Year 1793, Including Brief Observations on the Address to His Majesty, Proposed by Earl Grey, in the House of Lords, June 13, 1810 ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1810 Original... more » Publisher: Printed by J.M'Creery, for T. Cadell, and W. Davies Subjects: History / Europe / France History / Europe / Great Britain History / Military / General History / Military / Other Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CONSIDERATIONS THE CAUSES OBJECTS And CONSEQENCES OF THE PRESENT WAR, AND ON THE EXPEDIENCY, OR THE DANGER or PEACE WITH FRANCE. By WILLI4M ROSCOE, Esq. mat Published In 1808, BY T. CADEIJL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND, LONDON. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Reader must not expect to find the following pages filled with recriminations against the French people and their ruler. I leave it to the consistency of those who have been uniformly hostile to the cause of rational liberty, and the constitutional rights of the subject in this country, to abuse the despotism of France. It is to my countrymen, and not to our adversaries, that I wish to address myself; to call upon them by every motive that can actuate good men and good subjects, to attend, at this momentous crisis, to their own real interests, to dissipate those exaggerated apprehensions which seem likely to plunge us into the very evila which they dread ; to awaken the people to a just sense of the importance of the great cause of political morality; to remind them that the faults of the government are the faults of the people ; the honour of the nation their honour, and the disgrace of the nat...« less