But that squelch of fat citizens should be told--to the devil with them! will they ever learn?
short of a second William!--there were eight-and-forty hours when the liberty of this country hung wavering in the balance with those Boulogne boats.

Now look at Ulm and Austerlitz.

Essling, Wagram; put the victors in those little affairs to front our awkward squads.

The French could boast a regimental system, and chiefs who held them as the whist-player his hand of cards.

Had we a better general than the Archduke Charles?
or cavalry and artillery equal to the Hungarian?
or drilled infantry numbering within eighty thousand of the Boulogne-Wimereux camps?
We had nothing but the raw material of courage--pluck, and no science.