A Review of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America; In the Years 1827 and 1828 (Paperback)

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 3keretofore accused of cherishing?and without caring in reply to such coarse suggestions, to refer to those sympathies from which the descendauts of Britons cannot readily disengage themselves? the writer may suggest that it is scarcely possible for this mutual hatred to remain long in the system in a dormant state. There are many?very many?points of discussion which will instantly spring up between the two countries in the event of a war in Europe, and a spark struck out from such a collision will never be wanting to kindle whatever it may light on of an inflammable nature. To indulge in the language of menace, on such a subject, to Great Britain, would defeat the writer's purpose, because she would instantly meet it with defiance. Yet it may not be unworthy even of a brave, and very powerful, people to reflecf, that they seem to be approaching, gradually but inevitably, towards a great struggle, which is likely to task all their powers, and to render it at least unwise to multiply, unnecessarily, the number of their enemies. Montesquieu, in his profoundeslw ork, has said of the Turkish Empire, "Siquelque Prince que ce fut textit{mettait cet Empire en peril en poursuivant ses conquetes les trois puissances own;ercantes de 1'Europe connaissent trop leurs affaires pour n'en pas prendre la defense textit{sur le champ.''' True, the course of policy thus marked out has not been exactly followed. The Turk las been prostrated, and, when lifted from the ground by his late fue, will probably rise, according to;he usual course of human passions, with a new and ardent desire for revenge on those whose magnificent phrases of friendship, as he alleges, led him to expect that timely aid which, in his hour of peril, he looked round for in vain. Unless all history and the workings of the Smnau heart be belied, this mu...