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French Regicides, to the effrontery at Florence & the cacade
at Genoa inclusive, I question whether at some future
period when facts remain & passions will be evaporated, it will
not be thought that even for the sake of a good cause
we should not have kept such very bad company. Posterity
may think it somewhat extraordinary for England the
first Government in point of liberty in Europe to coalise
with the bigotted Spaniard, the ignorant Austrian, the barbarous
Russian together with the military mechanism
of Prussia in support of Social order & legitimate government,
& that too, at the very time when the two last
Powers commit an act agt an innocent & independent
nation which in point of arrogance & depravity cannot be
equalled in History. I mean the scandalous partition of Poland
an act equally hostile to Social order & Legitimate Government.
If the daily enormities committed in France
tend to excite disgust in respect to popular governments,
the iniquitous conduct of Russia & Prussia with
regard to Poland reconcile again Mens minds to Democracy
The political fiction of considering France as a garrison in
order to starve it & the counterpart of the tale in converting
Toulon into a Country, for the purpose of legalising supplies
not permitted by the custom of Nations to the Towns in a
state of siege are circumstances which further distinguish
the manner of carrying on the present War — Th Idea

Identifier: | JB/541/486/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1794-01-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	486	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	David Gray	Watermarks
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