text:  We certainly think that the recollection of the Affghan war the bombardment of Copenhagen of the splendid exploits of Whig policy and Whig non-intervention in Spain might make England a little more modest and a little less inclined to declaim against the wickedness of other nations--and as to France her whole history from the Republic to the present day is nothing but a succession of lessons which might teach _la grande nation_ to abstain from exhibiting herself in the character of a moral instructress to the world