Jenks's Portland Gazette

How obvious has the cloven hoof of Democracy become! The French have taken possession of the Isle of Elba, wearing the chains of France. If European nations are to be saved from chains as the Romans fastened on their ancestors, it must be by the rising up of some great power on the continent, strong enough to resist France, and yet not so strong as to subdue them all. Russia is too distant. her subjects are too barbarous, dispersed and in the exigencies he could do too much in feigned rapidity, and her power is vast and increasing, be wanted and employed at some future day to restrain ambition within bounds. France, therefore, ought not to be broken or made less or weaker than she was formerly, and if she is left as strong as she is now, Europe will have no peace.

Lately, Austria was the brave and potent rival of France. But he is now removed farther off. Her territories are at the extremity of Italy. Britain that France should have no competitor. What Austria was, Prussia might be made. She has been greatly changed. Her positions and interests She has no longer any reason to be afraid of Austria, her old rival, and much reason to be afraid of her old ally. By ceding Hanover and the cities of Hamburg and Lubeck to Prussia and especially by restoring the Stadtholder to the government of Holland is yet very politic that Prussia may be allied and enabled to cope with France. Resentment for old disappointments would not long set in England from such an arrangement. Hanover, though dear to King George, is of little value to that kingdom. It is not our's to parcel out territory, or to say, that the circle of Westphalia might be added to Prussia. But it is obvious that Europe no longer rests on its old foundation of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. New arrangements must be made before its tranquility can be secured with the last prospect of permanency: Unless France should be stripped of her conquests and confined to her old territory.

[Mercury]