he has earned, that of having been the greatest of the destroyers of the human race.  What year of his military life has not consigned a million of human beings to death, to poverty, and wretchedness?  What field in Europe may not raise a monument of the murders, the burnings, the desolations, the famines, and miseries, it has witnessed from him!  And all this to acquire a reputation, which Cartouche attained with less injury to mankind, of being fearless of God or man.

To complete and universalize the desolation of the globe, it has been the will of Providence to raise up, at the same time, a tyrant as unprincipled and as overwhelming, for the ocean.  Not in the poor maniac George, but in his government and nation.  Bonaparte will die, and his tyrannies with him.  But a nation never dies.  The English government and its piratical principles and practices, have no fixed term of duration.  Europe feels, and is writhing under the scorpion whips of Bonaparte.  We are assailed by those of England.  The one continent thus placed under the gripe of England, and the other of Bonaparte, each has to grapple with the enemy immediately pressing on itself.  We must extinguish the fire kindled in our own house, and leave to our friends beyond the water that which is consuming theirs.  It was not till England had taken one thousand of our ships, and impressed into her service more than six thousand of our citizens; till she had declared, by the proclamation of her Prince Regent, that she would not repeal her aggressive orders as to us, until Bonaparte should have repealed his as to all nations; till her minister, in formal conference with ours, declared, that no proposition for protecting our seamen from being impressed, under color of taking their own, was practicable or admissible; that, the door to justice and to all amicable arrangement being closed, and negotiation become both desperate and dishonorable, we concluded that the war she had been for years waging against us, might as well become a war on both sides.  She takes fewer vessels from us since the declaration of war than before, because they venture more cautiously; and we now make full reprisals where before we made none.  England is, in principle, the enemy of all maritime nations, as Bonaparte is of the continental; and I place in the same line of insult to the human understanding, the pretension of conquering the ocean, to establish continental rights, as that of conquering the continent, to restore maritime rights.  No, my dear Madam; the object of England is the permanent dominion of the ocean, and the monopoly of the trade of the world.  To secure this, she must keep a larger fleet than her own resources will maintain.  The resources of other nations, then, must be impressed to supply the deficiency of her own.  This is sufficiently developed and evidenced by her successive strides towards the usurpation of the sea.  Mark them, from her first war after William Pitt, the little, came into her administration.  She first forbade