Brought over £.1,162,879,415 reigners in the public funds, one third may be taken in calculation 666,666,667 A great number of large and small American vessels, taken without a which amount in number to more A number of vessels taken from the 1,000,000 other neutral powers together. 4,000,000 [N. B. No reckoning is made as to the losses of Great Britain and Ireland in commercial vessels, as the French have lost more than their amount in ships of war.] Total loss of Europe then, my dear Baron, in money, goods, and Should any one find this calculation over rated, he will please to consider, that all the countries conquered by the French nation were the most rich, populous, industrious, and fruitful parts of the Continent; and that the Republic has at present the best fourth part of Europe * under her command. She has so rounded and fortified herself, that she is enabled to keep all nations in a state of perpetual agitation. At the bottom of the melancholy account we may still draw a dear-bought moral"The picture of fallen states," says an inge nious observer, upon this calculation, "affords a striking lesson at this moment to surrounding nations; but there is something peculiarly striking, and worthy of observation in the fall of Athens." Since this Letter was sent into Germany, and, indeed, since it was at the English Press, the wheel of belligerent Fortune has taken a retrograde motion, whirling more rapidly backwards—even than it had gone forward to the discomfiture of the Colossus-Republic, and the remuneration of Austria; but still proving that the blood and treasure which purchased victory in the first instance, have been yet more exhausted in the second, "In Athens," says Plutarch, "there were men not to be surpassed in the world; but its bad citizens were not to be equalled in impiety, perfidiousness, and cruelty, by any age or country." Plutarch was an historian, not a prophet: he spoke of things that had been, not of men that would be. Athens was renowned for the polish of its manners, and the splendour of its military character. The important battles of Marathon, Salamis, and Platea, had given new lustre to its glory, and new power to its consequence. Its citizens, therefore, aspired to a superiority above the other states of Greece. Proud in their power, and haughty in their success, they grew arrogant in their demands, and claimed supremacy. They hurled the brand of discord and war amongst nations, to light themselves to aggrandizement upon the ruins of their fall, For, notwithstanding their confused democracy within, the success of their arms without had forced the other states of Greece into subjection. It had awed them into a confederacy. These conquerors went on to the borders of Egyyt, having at that moment, according to Aristophanes, a thousand cities under their dominion. But their arrogance abroad, and intemperance at home, sealed the instrument of their fateTHE ABUSED STATES UNITED. The destruction of that people was resolved on, which claimed paramount power over the rest. A single pique was widened into universal war, and the arms of all nations were turned against Athens. After twenty-eight years of bloodshed, it fell into ruin. Thirty tyrants started up to oppress her within, and she groaned under the weight of her own calamities. These monsters, with power in their hands, exhibited but deeds of blood, and designs of horror. All those who had possessed themselves of estates were put to death without form of justice. And, without pique or grudge, those were sacrificed for their riches, who had sacrificed others for the same. Their transports of cruelty and covetousness were so boundless, that they turned even upon themselves, and spared not Theramenes, one of their own number. The analogy, indeed, the counter, |