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58 THE WINTER TKOUBLES. CHAP, to attack thein in Ceylon, attack them in the IV ,_ Banda Islands, or Surinam, or attack them at the Cape of Good Hope ; some yet later reverting to Dutclimen as a people (then called ' Bata- ' vian ') who ought to be invaded at home ; many warranting a French Restoration with only a little help on the seabord ; some, however, in- viting our people to the north, and others to the west, and others, again, to the south coast of France ; then some, again, eager to attack the French fishing - stations in Newfoundland far north ; others savage against the French flag for displaying itself in the tropics, and pointing to the Isle of Goree ; some planning a hunt against Frenchmen in the kingdom of Naples, others seeking to chase them in the States of the Church ; some urging a small expedition for the alluringly mischievous purpose of cutting the dikes in Belgium ; others pressing the invasion of Spanish Galicia and the seizure of Ferrol ; some wanting our troops to be sent away yet further south — to land on the coast of Andalusia, and there lay hold of Cadiz ; others urging that Bonaparte must be stopped in his Eastern adven- ture, and the French troops thrust out of Egypt ; others pressing for an occupation of Swedish Pomerania, or showing that the half - hearted King of Prussia could be trusted to save himself from the fate of being devoured separately by aiding the defence of Germany, and that there- fore, to act alongside him, a strong British force should at once be sent into Hanover ; and all this while, the inciters, whose policy avowedly