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 1 attend, at this momentous crisis, to their own real interests, to dissipate those exaggerated apprehensions which seem likely to plunge us into the very evils 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 nation their disgrace; and to induce them to feel, that the conscience of a nation is in the bosom of every ho nest man. Allerton, 8th Jan. 1808. CONSIDERATIONS, &c. SINCE the unsuccessful issue of the negotiations for peace with France in the year 1806, a series of events, equally unexpected and important, has awakened this country to a more lively sense of its situation, and brought on a new crisis of public opinion. The experience of another year of warfare has been added to those which preceded and has shewn not only the futility of all attempts on our part to overturn or diminish the power of France, but the high probability that all such attempts will still continue to produce effects directly the reverse of those intended. In fact, it is only since the rupture of that negotiation, that the operation of the war is be |