ing; and, without the exercising alliance by America, France,

and Russia, will be formed to put an end to the exercise of our right of search; or, at least, so to chip

in war. It is so clearly the interest of France to adopt this line of conduct, that it is madness, or very little short of it, to suppose that she would adopt any other.

of which, it is impossible for her to remain a great Power, and impossible for her to retain her colonies throughout another war of it away as to deprive us of all only seven years. This is pre-real power to annoy our enemies cisely that case, on which I endeavoured to dwell with so much force in my Second Letter to His Majesty. But, observe the close of this passage. Pray, reader, whether you be Irishman or whether you be Englishman, pay at- The very knowledge of the tention to the last sentence of this existence of such an alliance quotation. You see that the Ame-ought to make any man of sense rican Government are not only look upon his money in the Funds preparing a fleet for the next war; as being diminished in value one but they are forming treaties of half. We cannot carry on war resistance beforehand. Proposi- against France or against Ametions, the President tells us, have rica, without the exercise of this been made to England, France, right. We must fight for it, or and Russia. He does not tell us we must sink at once; and it folwhat propositions; but we may lows, of course, that we can have be very well assured that they are no war with France that shall not such as England cannot submit to involve us in a war with America. without a quiet surrender of her Allowing the latter to exaggerate, maritime dominion. The pro- when she is, through her newspositions he tells us, have been papers, stating the amount of her received in a friendly manner, but maritime force. Supposing her that, as yet, no treaty has been to have only twelve or fifteen ships formed with either. No, but that of the line and twenty or thirty treaties will be formed with France frigates. Would the West Indies and Russia there can be very lit- be safe for a moment? Should tle doubt; and we shall, I dare we not be driven instantly from say, be, in due time, regaled with Bermuda, from the Bahamas? a sight of those treaties. In short, Could we have an ounce of sugar my opinion is this: that a tripple from the other islands which

would not cost us its weight in difficulty of the American Gosilver? vernment would be not to find

But Ireland! would Ireland be volunteers for the undertaking, safe? Yes, and we should all be but to reject the services of the safe, and still maintain the mari-thousands upon thousands that time dominion, if we were all would offer.

sound at heart and all united. If, We should want to have upon therefore, there were no other our hands no other war than this. motive to the doing of justice to the Whatever the war might begin people of Ireland, is there not here about, it would immediately bemuch more than motive enough. come a struggle for Ireland. To In all human probability, things re- that Ireland we must direct all our maining as they now are: things attention and all our efforts; and must grow worse and worse, if leave other objects to take their justice to the Irish nation be post-chance. DOCTOR DOYLE has poned; but, supposing things to boldly and honestly declared what remain as they now are, what would be the amount of the force necessary for the defence of Ireland? A hundred thousand men in the field would be required in that island, in case of another war with France and America. The French are at Cadiz and Corunna but my eye would be directed across the Atlantic. They best know how to invade Ireland, and how are we to prevent such invasion, the Irish people being treated as they now are? Five thousand men from America would be sufficient to create confusion not easily to be described; of Ireland? and, fifty thousand, a hundred or part of our strength, and a vast two of thousands of Irishmen are deal more than one-third part of already in America, burning to our warlike resources not to be volunteer in such a service. The converted merely into weakness,

would be the feelings and what the conduct of the Irish people in such a case. But it wants nobody to tell us what would happen in this respect. Common sense, the voice of nature herself tells us what would happen, tells us that we should soon have to put in practice the doctrine of the smutty John Bull newspaper, or to surrender for ever all pretensions to a connexion with Ireland.

And, for what is this tremendous danger to be encountered? Why are we not to be united heart and hand with our fellow-subjects Why is one-third

and we are all one united people in an instant. The very act which should thus unite us would at once. damp the hopes of our enemies. Never would the President of the

but actually to be turned against difficulties and perils. Remove us; actually to be added to the this faction; take its merciless strength and resources of our ene-claws out of the hearts of the Irish, my? Why are we to be exposed, in addition, observe, to the ordinary dangers of war, to such a shock to all credit as would plunge the pecuniary affairs, not only of the Government, but of every in- United States have uttered the dividual, into the utmost confusion: passage which I have quoted from why is this whole kingdom, so his speech, if that which the Cahappily situated by nature; so tholics now pray for had been naturally strong; so full of re-granted them last year. Our sources of all sorts; so capable, if enemies would see no means of united, not only to resist, but to making an attack upon us: they chastise its enemies of every de- would see no hopes of success in scription, though all combined any attempts to pluck from us the together? Why, I ask, is this gems of our power. Nothing de whole people, together with the lights them so much as our obthrone of their Sovereign, to be stinate refusal to do that which exposed to these tremendous pe- would unite us. They have no rils, or, to obtain a respite by hopes, in spite of all their prepaevery species of humiliation that rations and all their resources; the mind of man can suggest? they have no hopes of humbling

The why is this: that a fuction, England except through the sides a faction contemptible in numbers, of Ireland. There they have contemptible in intellect, unknown hopes, and those hopes are wellto fame and to public services of founded. every description; that this faction And, shall we persevere? Shall has got possession of all the ho- we suffer the faction still to prenours, all the emoluments, all the vail? Shall we sacrifice the rebenefits of every kind, to be de-nown and even the safety of rived from the possession and the England herself to the gratificaresources of that fertile country, tion of this contemptible faction? inhabited as it is, by so intelligent, If we do, mankind will exclaim, so brave, and so laborious a peo- with one undivided voice, You deple. This is the why of all our serve your fate!

"JOHN BULL'S

FIRE-SIDE."

and tantalizing than that fire-side without a sufficiency of warmth. The parties assembled round, or, rather before, a fire-place, where the warmth is insufficient, where the skins and faces may be burning, and the feet and backs halffreezing with cold, are as far from

IES; but a fire-side is a poor thing without a fire, and a fire is nothing, and worse than nothing, being happy as parties well can if you get no warmth from it. To be. They must love one another be sure we English people may, exceedingly, if they, under such when we compare our manners with those of our neighbours, justly boast of our habit of drawing the family circle round our fire-sides, instead of the head of the family being almost always, when disengaged from business, spending his time at a rendezvous of gossipers or gamesters. Education means to breed up; hence the French say, education du cheval, du cochon, and so forth; and, it is at home, it is round the fireside, or no where, that children are to be well educated.

Every thing, therefore, that has

circumstances, keep in good humour: they must be something rather more than what people in general are, if they do not wish that a part, at least, of the company were absent, were away, were not there; and, observe, that it is impossible for this wish to recur frequently to the mind without weakening that affection which it is so necessary to keep constantly in full force.

"A very pretty preface," the Fire-shovels will say, " to an ad"vertisement of a new-fashioned "fire-place, which COBBETT has

a tendency to promote this habit" to sell." No, you spiteful and of the fire-side, is worthy of the at- greedy curs, COBBETT has notention even of the moralist; and thing of the sort to sell; but, he it must be clear to every one, that has, for a considerable part of it must be promoted by every thing his life; for twenty-seven years that teaches us how to make the and a half out of the last thirtyfire-side a place of comfort-four, had a real fire-side; and he "JOHN BULL'S fire-side" conveys wishes that other people may. an idea of all that is dear to us; Having, in New Brunswick and but, nothing is more miserable in the United States, spent so