But England laughed all their threats to scorn; and in the whole history of the country, there was not a more brilliant period in her eventful history.

She stood alone against the world in arms.

Even the blusterings of the United States were unheeded, and in no degree disturbed her stern equanimity.

She saw the road to victory, and resolved to pursue it.

But England then had great statesmen, and, of them all, Lord Castlereagh was the greatest, although he served a Prince Regent who cared no more for England or the English people, than the Irish member, who, when reproached for selling his country, thanked God that he had a country to sell.
At length the ill-will of the Americans resolved itself into open warfare, and the United States was numbered with the overt enemies of England.