text: _" This is plain speaking; the Government journal of France worthily disdains to practise mystery or attempt deception for its mission is to contend for the interests one-sided exclusive and egoistical as they may be and establish the supremacy of France--_quand meme_; at whatever resulting prejudice to Belgium--at whatever total exclusion of Great Britain from commercial intercourse with and commercial transit through Belgium must inevitably flow from a customs' union the absolute preliminary condition of which is to be that Belgium "shall be ready to do every thing necessary to place our commerce beyond the reach of invasion by foreign products