This address alone would damn any Ministry, and must have
driven the Emperor wild. After an eloquent address to French- men, who see " behind them centuries of glory, before them a future which their heroism will render free and powerful," calling on them to conquer or to die, the writer calls on Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Russia to aid France, lest the Baltic should become a Prussian lake ; on England because she dreads the Prussian Navy ; on Holland, already threatened by Count Bismarck ; on Austria, because she would cease to exist ; on Italy, because Prussia would demand Venice as her port. In fact, he sends the hat round Europe asking for allies, and then goes on to affirm that they are coming ; England, because France has guaranteed Belgium ; Sweden, Norway, and Denmark because they "quiver with patriotism ;" Russia, because the Czar likes General Fleury ; and Austria and Italy because they are arming and their Press is favourable, "Our diplomacy will not be less active than our Army." Imagine all that balderdash in an address to Parisians maddened by defeat, shrieking for arms, and crying, "A la frontiere !"
