The defects of France and Spain on the sea were not in ships but in men.

The invasion of England was not improbable and then less than a score of years might give France both avenging justice for her recent humiliation and safety for her future.

Britain should lose America, she should lose India, she should pay in a hundred ways for her past triumphs, for the arrogance of Pitt, who had declared that he would so reduce France that she should never again rise.

The future should belong not to Britain but to France.

Thus it was that fervent patriotism argued after the defeat of Burgoyne.