Dangers Which Threaten Europe: Principal Causes of the Want of Success in the Late Campaign

AL L Europe is involved in circumftances hitherto without precedent. It has to combat enemies really formidable by their number, their courage, and refources of all kinds; but ftill more dangerous by their horrid and dark confpiracies; by their criminal indifference about the means of obtaining fuccefs; by their principles of anarchy and diforganization, fo well contrived to delude the multitude; by the correfpondence they have contrived to keep up in all countries, in all claffes, even with fome minifters! . . . Refpect arrefts my pen, and prevents my pointing out, to the aftonifhment of future ages, characters ftill more confpicuous.

It is a war of extermination, as the regicides themfelves have, with great rcafon, named it. The monfter of anarchy muft perifh, or Europe muft expect to fee the downfall of every throne, the diffolution of all the bands of fubordination and fociety, the abolition and contempt of all religion, the fubverfion of all principle, the violent attack of all property, and the maffacre of half its population! ! Such is the only regeneration that one ought and that one can reafonably look for, on the part of thofe parricides, that have imbrued their hands in the blood of the moft juft of kings, and from the union of the deepeft depravity the world has witneffed: for, fince crime has prevailed in France, from the time that the grand machine, flaaken to its foundations, has menaced all with fpeedy deftrudHon, we have Teen the very fcum and outcafts of fociety, collected from all parts, around this centre of corruption; as hungfy hyenas, attradled by the exhalations of dead bodies, unite to fhare the horrid repaft.