(Annual Register (Dodsley's), xxv.

258-267.
September, October, 1782.) And so, with this loud explosion, the noise of War has ceased; an Age of Benevolence may hope, for ever.

Our noble volunteers of Freedom have returned, to be her missionaries.

Lafayette, as the matchless of his time, glitters in the Versailles Oeil-de-Beouf; has his Bust set up in the Paris Hotel-de-Ville.

Democracy stands inexpugnable, immeasurable, in her New World; has even a foot lifted towards the Old;--and our French Finances, little strengthened by such work, are in no healthy way.
What to do with the Finance?
This indeed is the great question: a small but most black weather-symptom, which no radiance of universal hope can cover.