As to the House of Lords, they do not speculate at all
about it, and for reasons that are too obvious to detail.
The question will be concerning the effect of this French fraternity on
the whole mass. Have we anything to apprehend from Jacobin
communication, or have we not? If we have not, is it by our experience
before the war that we are to presume that after the war no dangerous
communion can exist between those who are well affected to the new
Constitution of France and ill affected to the old Constitution here?
In conversation I have not yet found nor heard of any persons, except
those who undertake to instruct the public, so unconscious of the actual
state of things, or so little prescient of the future, who do not
shudder all over and feel a secret horror at the approach of this
communication. I do not except from this observation those who are
willing, more than I find myself disposed, to submit to this fraternity.
Never has it been mentioned in my hearing, or from what I can learn in
my inquiry, without the suggestion of an Alien Bill, or some other
measures of the same nature, as a defence against its manifest mischief.
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