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to exercise your military virtue, and make you a
warlike people, that you may have more confidence
to embark in schemes of disobedience, and greater
ability to support them. You have tasted, too, the
sweets of TWO OR THREE MILLIONS sterling per
annum spent among you by our fleets and forces,
and you are unwilling to be without a pretence for
kindling up another war, and thereby occasioning a
repetition of the same delightful doses. But, Gentlemen,
 allow us to understand our interest a little
likewise; we shall remove the French from Canada,
that you may live in peace, and we be no more
drained by your quarrels. You shall have land
enough to cultivate, that you may have neither
necessity nor inclination to go into manufactures,
and we will manufacture for you, and govern you.”
A reader of the Remarks may be apt to say: “If
this writer would have us restore Canada on principles
 of moderation, how can we, consistent with
those principles, retain Guadaloupe, which he represents
 of so much greater value?’’ I will endeavour
to explain this; because, by doing it, I shall have an
opportunity of showing the truth and good sense of
the answer to the interested application I have just
supposed. The author, then, is only apparently and
not really inconsistent with himself. If we can obtain
 the credit of moderation by restoring Canada,
it is well; but we should, however, restore it at all
events, because it would not only be of no use to us,
but “the possession of it (in his opinion) may in
its consequences be dangerous.” * As how? Why,
* Remarks, pp. 50, 51.

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