This country feels now humbled and _desenchante_ with its _soi-disant_ political independence as it pleased the Conference to settle it.

They will take a dislike to a political state which _wounds their vanity_, and will, in consequence of this, _not wish it to continue_.

Two things will happen, therefore, on the very first opportunity, either that this country will be involved in war to better a position which it thinks _too humiliating_, or that it will voluntarily throw up a nominal independence in which it is now hemmed in between France and Holland, which begins on the North Sea, and ends, of all the things in this world, on _the Moselle_! I think old Pirson, who said in the Chamber that if the treaty was carried into execution I was likely to be the first and last King of the country, was not wrong.

Whenever this will happen, it will be _very awkward_ for England, and _deservedly so_.

To see, after eight years of hard work, blooming and thriving political plantations cut and maimed, and that by those who have a real interest to protect them, is very melancholy.