text:  Then there is America--have we not rumours of war there? How much depends upon the result of the speech which President Polk shall deliver! _He_ knows well by this time that England is threatened with famine--and will he be fool enough to submit to a compromise when by simple embargo he might enforce his country's claims? So that altogether in the opinion of the French we are like to have the worst of it and may be sheerly starved into any kind of submission