Some Account civ
pate of the gloom which now saddens every
virtuous bosom, in consequence of all the
civilized States of Europe being shaken to
their foundations by those " troublers of the
poor world's peace," whom Divine Provi-
dence has been pleased to make the scourge
of human kind. Gloomy as our prospect is,
(on this account alone,59) and great as is the
danger with which we are threatened, (I
mean internally, for as to external violence,
we are fully equal to any force which our
59 I say, on this account alone ; because in all other
respects England is at present in an unparalleled state of
wealth and prosperity, though there is a temporary dis-
tress occasioned by the want of the ordinary circulating
medium of commerce. It appears from authentick and
indisputable documents, that the trade of England from
1784 to the present time, has doubled ; and that our Ex-
ports in the year 1796 amounted to THIRTY MIL-
LIONS; audit is well known that the rate of the pur-
chase of land, contrary to the experience of all for-
mer wars, continues nearly as high as it was in the time
of the most profound peace. These FACTS ought to be
sounded from one end of England to the other, and fur-
nish a complete answer to all the SEDITIOUS DECLAMA-
TIONS that have been, or shall be, made on this subject.