THE AMIENS PEACE TREATY OF 1802 AND ITS ENGLISH CRITICS
The article is devoted to the consideration of the problem of the Amiens Peace Treaty of 1802 and its English critics. Based on the analysis of the statements of a number of prominent British statesmen of the early XIX century, the author made an attempt to find out by what circumstances they expressed a critical attitude towards the peaceful treaty concluded with France, what were their arguments and how significant the segment of public opinion this criticism represented was. The conclusion of the article notes that the critics of the peace agreement with France (both in the variant of the preliminary peace and in the final text of the Amiens Peace Treaty), emphasized that main shortcomings were excessive concession to France, the fragility of the peace obtained so dearly, and in the absence of significant benefits for the U.K. itself.