Any state in modern Europe would be so completely ruined by the contests which Athens and Carthage easily supported, that it would be a matter of total indifference, whether the war was a series of victories or disasters.

The return of Peace to France or England, after half so long a contest as either the Peloponnesian or the Punic wars, _would be cheaply purchased by any conquest or revolution, any change of dynasty or overthrow of Government_.'-- See vol.i.p.

13, of _Colonial Policy_, by H.Brougham.
The above was given to the world when we were at war with Bonaparte; and that part of the English nation, who might read the book or hear of this author's doctrines, was plainly told, that, in _his_ estimation, our Constitutional liberties were not worthy of being defended at the cost of a 14 years' war! But the unsuspecting, humane, and hope-cherishing adherents of the new Candidate will tell you, this does not prove that Mr.B.sets a small price on the Constitution and Laws of England; it only shews his tender-heartedness, and his extreme aversion to the horrors and devastation of war .-- Hear then Mr.B.on these points also.
Let his _serious_ Friends take from his pen this pleasant description, which proves at least that he can be _jocular_ upon a subject that makes most men grave; although they may not think twice seven years' war so great a calamity as _any_ conquest or _Revolution_, any change of dynasty or _overthrow_ of _Government_.--'A species of pecuniary commutation,' he tells us, 'has been contrived, by which the operations of war are rendered very harmless; they are performed by some hundreds of sailors fighting _harmlessly_ on the barren plains of the ocean, and some thousands of soldiers carrying on a scientific, and regular, and _quiet_ system of warfare, in countries _set apart for the purpose_, and resorted to as the arena where the disputes of nations may be determined.

The prudent policy had been adopted of _purchasing defeat_ at a distance rather than victory at home; in this manner we _paid our allies for being vanquished; a few useless millions, and a few more useless lives were sacrificed_; and the result was, that we were amply rewarded by safety, increased resources, and real addition of power.' (_Edinburgh Review_, No.II., and ascertained to be the writing of Mr.
Brougham, by his having incorporated it in his _Colonial Policy_.) The new Candidate challenges the strictest scrutiny into his public life, so that had we gone much farther than the above retrospect, we should only have been fulfilling his own wishes.

Personal enmity towards the Subject, the Writer has none; being, in all that concerns the feelings of private life, friendly to Mr.Brougham, rather than otherwise.