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l'RAVELS IN EUROPE.How differently things might have succeeded bad a German dynastyoccupied the throne! There is no certainty in the computation. Bûta ~ugacioussceptre can never be swayed to the welfare of the state.The Successioh-war was as unfortunate in its termination for Europe, asits conduet was strange in itself.The ·former was pregnant with eviIsfor this country; for, had the rival family succeeded, the aggrandizementof the nation would have been as much its obj,èct as its interest ; a con..summation it can. never hope for in French hands.literally a local one, no modification can ever obvlate it:.rrhe rivatry being.so deeplyseated as the evil is, it cannot but cause a cutting reflection in the mindof any one who views such noblecapabilities provingahorti\'e.Du'~ing this strange war, which not\Vithstanding aIl mu.stintimately1connect itself \Vith Spain, had the \Vorst thing that ever passed underthe name of system been acted upon, the noble spirit in the hearts ofthe ICatalonians, and the prevalent sympathy towards the Germanfamily, would have brought it to a happy issue. Rach party was,ho,vever,~ in the course of its procedures, left to the due enjoyment andeffect ofits own blunders, and a better speculation could not have beenadopted.It may one day become a prevalent opinion, that the bettermilitary science is understood, the more it will ,benefit mankind atlarge.Nine-tenths of the wars which desolate human nature havetheir origin and protraction in ignorance; aud, \Vere this not itself aplummet over mankind, could never be entered upon and perscveredin as they are. l\for.e just calculations would in the othe1' case belllade, both as to what is to be gained, and what iB to be paid for it ifgained.U nder such consideration, the progress of this science is tobedesired, even by the friend of human nature and true philosophy.But, abstractedly, it 18 Impossible to impute justly, evil, to the disseminationof any knowledge.In regard, however, to the war which fixe