text:  Arbitrary arrest and the conscription are the two heads of the serpent--either would embitter the existence of the most prosperous state of society; they both at this hour gnaw the vitals of the continental states; they alienate the allegiance and chill the affections; even where they are mitigated by the character of the sovereigns they still remain the especial evils which the noblest patriotism should apply all its efforts to extinguish and the removal of which it would be the most illustrious boon of princes to confer upon their people