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Excerpt from A Letter Addressed to Two Great Men, on the Prospect of Peace: And on the Terms Necessary to Be Insisted Upon in the Negociation
Confidcring the prefent dillrefi'ed Condition of France, fallen from its alarming Power, and Urea: nefs, into the lowell State of Diiirefs and impotence; unfortunate in its military Operations in or cry (quar ter of the Globe beaten all Ema/u over by Sea and Land its l'lcets failing, only to be deilroyed; its Ar mies marching, only to run away without Trade no Credit leopping Payments, prottiiing Bills, and to all Intents and Purpofes a Bankrupt Nation; their King, the Princes of the Blood, the Nobility, and the Clergy carrying in all their Plate to be coined, for the prefent extreme Exigency of their Affairs difap pointed and bathed in all their Schemes on the Con tinent, and taught to think no more of [mm/ions, by the Deliruéiion of the only Fleet they had left I fay, confidering all thefe Circumilances, which I have not exaggerated, in the leali, it is not unnatural to imagine, that a Period will foon be put to the T rcu bles of Europe. France, unable to carry on the War, muft foon be reduced to the Necefiity of faing for Peace.
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