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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
The interests of different nations must ever, according
to their relative positions, be conflicting and opposite;
and war will inevitably ensue, unless aggression be met
with a dignified and timely assertion of right, supported by
an adequate power to enforce remonstrance. But what
is the case at present ? The military establishments of
France, and of the whole of Europe are wisely kept up in
an efficient state, while those of Great Britain are so re-
duced that they cannot even preserve tranquillity at home,
and in the colonies, much less can they meet the diffi-
culties of the times abroad; and this at a moment when
the East Indies are menaced by the power of Russia, and
by the defection of the native princes on the one hand,
and by the aggrandisement of the French on the other;
when, owing to seditious practices both within, and without
the walls of parliament, Canada is probably for ever lost,
and Ireland scarcely acknowledges obedience to the law.
The government in fact under the influence, if not the dic-
tation of a corrupt press, of reformers and dissenters of all
sorts and denominations are no longer free agents, but
temporise, and fluctuate in order to meet the inflamed and
democratic fancies of a senseless, and deluded mob, rather
than to promote by a steady, and consistent policy the
great and permanent interests of the State. History can
scarcely furnish an instance, in which a government in
little more than twenty years has so rapidly lost stability
at home, and consideration abroad.
The prosperity and power of Great Britain consisted
in institutions and principles of government that united in
one common interest the different classes of a well-regu-
lated community ; and a foreign policy consonant to these
monarchical principles maintained the country in security
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEH.
The interests of different nations must ever, according
to their relative positions, be conflicting and opposite;
and war will inevitably ensue, unless aggression be met
with a dignified and timely assertion of right, supported by
an adequate power to enforce remonstrance. But what
is the case at present ? The military establishments of
France, and of the whole of Europe are wisely kept up in
an efficient state, while those of Great Britain are so re-
duced that they cannot even preserve tranquillity at home,
and in the colonies, much less can they meet the diffi-
culties of the times abroad; and this at a moment when
the East Indies are menaced by the power of Russia, and
by the defection of the native princes on the one hand,
and by the aggrandisement of the French on the other;
when, owing to seditious practices both within, and without
the walls of parliament, Canada is probably for ever lost,
and Ireland scarcely acknowledges obedience to the law.
The government in fact under the influence, if not the dic-
tation of a corrupt press, of reformers and dissenters of all
sorts and denominations are no longer free agents, but
temporise, and fluctuate in order to meet the inflamed and
democratic fancies of a senseless, and deluded mob, rather
than to promote by a steady, and consistent policy the
great and permanent interests of the State. History can
scarcely furnish an instance, in which a government in
little more than twenty years has so rapidly lost stability
at home, and consideration abroad.
The prosperity and power of Great Britain consisted
in institutions and principles of government that united in
one common interest the different classes of a well-regu-
lated community ; and a foreign policy consonant to these
monarchical principles maintained the country in security