Daily National Intelligencer

PUNISHMENT OF FRANCE.
"Example, says the London Sun, is the object of punishment. Yes, France must be an example, not only to herself but to the world. We have now but one enemy, our own magnanimity. The first object is to place France in her pre-revolutionary condition. She must give up some of her original possessions—her triumphal columns and arches must be destroyed; the boastful names by which she commemorated victories must be effaced, and the foreign titles which she gave to her successful leaders must be relinquished. France must yet submit farther:—She must give up her northern fortresses; she must dismantle her frontiers; she must disorganize her soldiery; she must maintain within her territory a sufficient number of the allied troops; she must put down the whole tribe of her Jacobins and Bonapartists; she must divest them of their plunder, and dismiss them from her councils. We desire to punish her, not in retaliation or revenge oh! no; England is too christian for that; but in justice and necessity" See a long editorial essay in the Sun July 20
When the ministerial prints of England use a style so arrogant & dictatorial, in treating of the affairs of one nation, it ought to be interpreted as a solemn warning by all nations. Nothing is wanting but the power to use the United States in the same manner as France: the will is good!—Colum.