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Show t'O.vaiERED FKA.VCK. l'raiijo t'-. ui uuu.ist;iknijy cu:i-'jUcitd. cu:i-'jUcitd. It it minouueed that Gam-be:ta, Gam-be:ta, the lnhiiittr of war of theToun srovf rnnieiit, lies declared lie ban no longer liope of successfully continuing thu f-irne. Arc;y after army in defeated; de-feated; lunrts after f.-trcs full.s be-foi'u be-foi'u the Gemma f'on.e.-, m:d the Estin ' Tumot bo othor than brokeu-tyiritod. The fall of I'arit lniwt follow next, and the lu.-t hope of Frunre be gone. It is not thai the nut'on is without re-Mjuree, re-Mjuree, without armieF, or without iceunn of continuing wzr; but it is without with-out competent leaders. It needs great statesmen and gnentk If ever a eountiy, iu deep emergency, needed a .Teat man, a great toldier. France now doc. But its present leaders iiave not ability equal to their Hmbi-tion Hmbi-tion ; and much as they may have abused Napoleon for his imbecility and the corruptions of his court, they have not proved themselves more competeut, while charges of fraud and trafficking in the nation's rum are already al-ready brought apaintt them. Conquered by Germany, what next ? Evideutly the Empire, with the Napoleonic Na-poleonic dynasty re established, and thus would die another republic id France. |