The same general assertions of pacific intentions had proceeded, successively, from all the revolutionary governments of France; and they had all persisted in conduct directly and notoriously the opposite of their language.
Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Germany, Egypt,--what country had been safe from French aggression?
The war must continue until the causes which gave it birth ceased to exist.

The restoration of the exiled royal family would be the easiest means of giving confidence to the other powers of Europe.

The King of England by no means pretended to dictate anything as to the internal polity of France; but he was compelled to say, that he saw nothing in the circumstances under which the new government had been set up, or the principles it professed to act upon, which could tend to make foreign powers regard it as either more stable or more trustworthy than the transitory forms it had supplanted." Such was the tenor of Lord Grenville's famous note.

It gave rise to an animated discussion in both Houses immediately on the meeting of the British Parliament; and, in both, the conduct of the ministry was approved by very great majorities.

When, however, the financial preparations were brought forward, and it turned out that Russia was no longer to be subsidised--or, in other words, had abandoned the league against France--the prospects of the war were generally considered as much less favourable than they had been during this discussion.