[644]

"Thrice happy Britain, from the kingdoms rent,
To sit the Guardian of the Continent."

Addison.—S.

[645]

——"penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos."

Virgil.—S.

[646] See Annual Register, vol. xliv., p. 608.

[647] Jomini, tom. xv., p. 25; Annual Register, vol. xliv., p. 640.

[648] Annual Register, vol. xliii., p. 273.

[649] "In the conviction, that for a forced and unfortunate marriage, divorce is the only reasonable remedy, and that Helvetia and ourselves cannot recover repose and content, except by the rupture of this forced tie, we are firmly resolved to labour at that separation with all possible activity."