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Excerpt from Historical Memoir of a Mission to the Court of Vienna in 1806
IT is observed by Mr. Fox, in his historical work on the reign of James II., that in reading the history of every country, there are certain periods at which the mind naturally pauses to meditate upon and consider them with reference, not only to their immediate effects, but to their remote consequences. Two such periods will occur to him who reads the history of the revolutionary war with France, and the part taken in it by Great Britain. His first pause will be at the peace of Amiens, in 1802; his second, at the general peace and settlement (as it was called) of Europe, in 1815. The period at which it shall be given him to fix his thoughts, and to take into his view the remote consequences of that war, social as well as political, is still at too great a distance to be more than a subject for speculation. At all events, if he pauses now it is all he can do. The Two Principles are still opposed to each other in adverse array.
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