I could make myself master of Egypt to-morrow, if I pleased.

_Egypt, indeed, must sooner or later belong to France_; but I have no wish to go to war for such a trivial object.

What could I gain by war?
Invasion would be my only means of annoying you; and invasion you shall have, if war be forced on me--but I confess the chances would be an hundred to one against me in such an attempt.

In ten years I could not hope to have a fleet able to dispute the seas with you: but, on the other hand, the army of France could be recruited in a few weeks to 480,000 men.

United, we might govern the world:--Why can we not understand each other ?" Lord Whitworth could not but observe the meaning of these hints, and answered, as became him, that the King of England had no wish but to preserve his own rights, and scorned the thought of becoming a partner with France in a general scheme of spoliation and oppression.