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rl-sT fOL:TICAL MAP OF Z> thIOPE. LETTER M. Forttma ratem noßris vitiis adbue irteclumis. S!R, SAL I 'IST. Hilt. Fragm. 1. w. S. - :73 till ❑ the memorak .ITHRIDATEi73 the .Rirg of the Parthians, we may perceive the value of that great political axiom, the negleet of which prov-:1 lo fatal to chore ancient fovereiyns of the Fall, and has nearly, fubverted the independence of the mc dem fovercigis of the Weft The profperity of hi; arms has fuhfdled hitherto by our fault, who have not been fo prudent to underltand this common ene my, and to ally ourfelves againft him." This is cx tOly what 1 propofed in my lad letter to demon /Irate. • tble let Ater of We have already leen, that the lots of the fecondary pr,: s, is one of the caufes of the prefent (late of rAiropean intecurity : the next caufc which preterits itfelf to our attention is, the political abandmiment of that jealoufy retpeaing the balance of power, witich .w•as obfervable throughout this country, mediately after the concluflon of the late, war. This an:.'taly in Britifh politics was a jun groUnd 'fur triumph to the Corfican Ufurper ; and, if I be not m;fla . ea in the recovered good feefe of the natian, it a ill he our reproach with poflerity. The fword was no fooner fheathed, than rt. new 1:121e of thinking, accompanied by a moll culpat2e hidiffsrence to the affairs of the Continent, periled the minds of many people. It was affirmed that our former allies were either difpirited at their e.:t.nt‘, or exl.aufted of their means. But, fhould fo far as to admit the validity tg this plea, it ought not to have warranted our departure from that acknowledged found policy, which had alwayseireaed the condua of our forefathers. On the contrary, it mould have induced us to have drawn clofer the links of political connea'ion, by which the un. contlueted Rates of Europe might have been encou raged to prepare for the ultimate nectlty of fpi rited exertion. At ailerons, rhen we bad imbib ed the fallacious and difeouraging opinion, that we bad nothing •to do with the Continent, it would have been decorous as well as politic, to have abftained from promulgating that opinion with fuck compla- Cent :atisfaftion, in the face of all Europe. It would have been :fortgaite, perhaps et kali it would have been more creditable to our political re isute, if this fu'pine infetsatien had. exifted among(( the vulgar only ; for its imprefrton would have been tranfitory, and in the hour of peril, every judicious fiatefman of Europe Irould have clafred it in the inolierof thofe popular prejudices relishing from the fudden erecfition of *people from a ftate of war to a Lae of repofe, bat Upon which, from its fugi. iivena.ture, no ferious dependence ought to be placed. This, however, was not our cafe. We were not contented with enduring the feelings of a fluent for row at the misfortunes of our friends, but in the • graveft affc:nblies, flatefmen and legiflators were heard to draw bitter comparifons between their con. dition and ours ; to compliment each other on our boneft . policy (as if we were the only boned people upon the earth), to triumph in our happy releafe frnrn all Continental concerns. To infult the feelings of a fallen enemy is at all time!, engenerons ; but to wound the honour of our fiends—of there too who had fallen in a P:nraon struggle by our fide, was the excels of de- Frzviv and folly, and if I did not really think that they were the inconfiderate effufions of an unguard ed hour, I would have added, that it was likewife the excels of bafenefs and cowardice. li:c defendants of thofe illuarious gatemen and warriors, who zt the fiat fignal of alarm, took up arms in fuppnrt of the balance of Power, will be brought Tgitli difficulty to believe, that there elated an era in the h;flory of their country, when it was moved in Parliament, whether it was politic in the Englifh na ti.,n to Teti the encrozehments and aggrandifement of the eternal enemy of their name? when is was fe rioutly difentled, whether any continental ennnaions wer: at all ad vantageons to them, and 'whether it was to their interffl to participate in the tranfasllions of the edntinent, and above al!, to fhare in its dangers? By fuel, degenerate fentiments, we gave the Cot" Cean a much higher opinion of his relative importance' than his political fituatiori would otherwfe have jail. fied. He con fidered,our apathy relative to the general affairs of Europe, not as a temporary mania, as was in fad the cafe, but as tefulting from our conviSicar of his irrefitlible power, and hence that confidence which prompted him to overthrow the Independence bf the Swifs Cantons, to affume the government of Italy, and to perpetuate all that execrable deeds of violence, which have made him become the curie and fcourge of Europe. Subfequent events, bow. ever, convinced him that this confidence was pre. mature, and that however the Englias nation might for a fhort time, depart from the good old policy of their aneeflors, the found fenfe of the people was a pledge that it would be but of Ilion continuance.— Dreadful invafions of the integrity of Europe were neverthcicfs tffaled during that interval of lethargy and foibearance ; and when we temonarated againft thefe aggreffions, we were anfwered, that we had nothing to do with the affairs of the Continent, and that we bad excluded °waives from it by the trea ty of Amiens. The retort was fitful but pungent : fur the text bad been unfortunately pronounced in a Britith Parliament, and BONAPAO.I - 3 proved himfelf a molt expert and diligent expofitor of the dottrinel. At length, after he had fown every where, and had planted upon the tontines of his em. pire a number of vend Rates, all of which were fubfervient to his nod, and capable of brea'sing the firlt irruption of any future enemies; after he had nearly facceeded in perfuading Europe, and with our own words ton, that we were no longer to be confidered as apart of it ; he thought the time had arrived, when, to ming . trill every hope of fuccour from this country, he might fafely venture to announce, that England, tingle-handed, could not contend with France. This I affront was beyond endurance, efpecially by a people who had often contefted fingly againa France fop ported by powerful allies, yet had never laid down their arms without acquiring marchlefs glory, and who had never fought with France tingly, but they had always broken her into fubmillion, andfixed their triumphant banners on the.walls even of her capital. The fpell of infatuation being thus broken, we re turned once more, wish energy and enthufiafm, into the paths of our anceflors. We reared to ling lullaby at home, while the common enemy of man kind was gathering whole communities ander his iron yoke, and preparing them for the acceptance of one vall fweep of empire in civilized .Europe, which fhould comprehend none but tyrants and Haves.— Every thing was then teen through a different me dium ; we repented • of our errors, and invoked all Eutope to unite with us in repelling the common danger. Put Europe was fluent at our call. In their turn, the foveteigns of the Continent; feemed indif ferent to the caufe of a people, who boafted of their re jelion of the falutary policy or their 'forefathers ; and as we had pronounced. them , to be too weak,yerfatile, or timid to continue the conzeft, it was not likely that they fhould refnme it at our , pleafare. In cOnfe• quence, they turned a deaf ear to all appeals which we made 'to their honour, their independence, and their common dangers ; and well they might, fince they could not avoid receiving with .11ifirua, the ex potlulations of a government, in behalf of the liber tics of Europe and the balance of Power, the mafs of whole fubjeds had recently breached the humili ating feniiment, that they were no longer interelled in the political GanfaCtions of Europe. S.tch, I fear, were the lamentable caufes that de terred the continental powers from embarking at an earlier period in the prefent war, upon grounds of ge neral fecurity. The peculiar difficulties of their re fpalive fituationa in relation to each other, and the cowsnon enemy, mull, no doubt, be admitted their fell eitent, and they will become the fubjefts of our futUre ionfider4tion. They were great and dißref fing ba it is enough for us to know, and it is a melancholy froth, that our languor and feem. its: difinclination to. reprefl the ambition of France, before the renewal of hotlilities became inevi table, chetiffied, if they did not provoke their ap parent teluaance to confederate once more for the fafety of Europe. Calamitous events (which in the order of PaCTIDENCE may lead to future good) have recently changed the afpeel of affairs., All parties appear now to be confcicus, that they have not con- faked their proper interefts ; that they have borne with injulice too long, and that forbearance ferves only to ftrengthen the power of triumphant villainy. Where all have beer. in the wrong, and have fuffered by it, it would be illiberal to impute blame to any one in particular . ; bat it may be reafonably espeited, that all mould profit by a ruinous experience. In this cafe, *dyer fity itfelf is not without its compenfations. Urea are the del of Adverfity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.. Thi;icountry has been always the foyemoll in every ftruggle, to maintain the federative fyftem of Eu• rope *;,- and I hope we Shall never decline from our ancient charaaer, nor hear it again propounded as the Sentiment of the Engliffi nation, that the balance Of power is an unintelligible jargon, invented to cover every ambitious Scheme ; to furniffi pretexts for national ; to &niftily treachery and caprice; to divert the natural courfe of things, or to effeEt that which would have happened at any rate. On the contrary, evert, man in Europe mull now feel and acknowledge, with grief, that it was the want of a due attention to its advantages, which encouraged BONArARTS to interfere with officious folicitude in the internal affairs of all other Rates ; to prefcribe the appointment of their rulers, and to regulate the forms of their adminiftration ; to take part in every difpute ; to claim the territory of one patty for al lifting him, and Seize the land of the other after beating him ; to obtain allies by force, and provide that no one [hall rob that hirnfelf ; to quarter troops upon his neighbours, and pay them with his neighbours revenues. To fuch egregious alts of cruelty and violence, we oppcfed the mild fpirit of • I requelt that I may not be mifundere 1 upon this molt impor tant Subject. It is very far from my Meaning to circulate the idea that this derelietion of the Continent Was a formal legillative work. Such an interpretation would be unjuft. I allude therefore, to thofe individuals only, who were perpetually has ping on the bleffings of peace and plenty, (good things in themfelves when coupled with fecurity) ai:d reviling there who as firenuotdly plead ed the. neceffity of forming a doter coigne - lion with the continen tal Powers. From this imputation, we mall exclt,h: the members of the Government, as it appears from the official papers relative to the negociations with France after the peace, tb•,t they firmly r, fitted this dalti,!..t of continental etclufion. Events, however, have Ikewn that they went too far in their eonceffions, aed this is admitted by Lord HawkelLury, in his Speech at the openirg of the loft Sedhas of Parliament. " By too great an ext*.nt of concerion," laid hi, Lordffilp, "and by difeovering too great an cagernet, for regocLtion, i fear it was, that we tell into Cue Snare that lid to the pretax war." ca acefflon, nail, from coneeftion, we. ionnai, it necetia ry to employ the language of indignation, and from indignation to come at length to blows. Immediate war was as indifpenfable to the glory as to the fafety - of the State. lea fullatdjpe venis,tuadem fumile animism, tam quilus fat:, quam quibus glories cariffma It, from the reafonings contained in this letter, it be imagined that I with to reproach the conduft of public men, I can fafely anfwer, that nothing is fur ther from my mind. It is not the goverment, but the miaaken infatuation of the people that is the fub- jeft of juts censure ; and I• am well aware, that. al moa every obfervation which I have made is foun ded upon events that were not generally forefeen at the time when this infatuation prevailed. Much be nefit es, notwithaanding, to be derived from this mode of examining public affairs ; becaufe, •inftead of curling irritation, by fretful or ominous forebo dings refpating the future, it calls a gleam of hope upon our profpeas, by warning us againft the recur. rence of a policy, which has occafioned fuel) great misfcrtunes. There is certainly much confolation, even under adverfe circumaances, in the refjeaion that our intentions were good; but this cannot re move The impretlion which fatal events have excited. Events, which do not correfpond with the caufes that were expated to give rife to them, are ex amples from which the moil important inftrudion is to be acquired. If we do not profit by them, they ferve only to foothc our indolence, and to fupply frefh materials for our ruin. It is not, therefore, up on opinions, but upon confequences, that I have raif ed my argument. Of the late peace, and the motives by which h was dielated, I ever have been, and nal remain, a thankful approver ; and although it has been follow. ed by events unfavourable to the general fecurity of Europe, I do not hefitate to make the bold co:npari fon, that it did more fubflantial good to this country than all the fubfequent encroachments of BONAP4RTE have effected for France. Had that man contained his ambition within legitimate bounds ; had he pre fer-led for himfelf no rule of condudt but the love of peace and ] u Rice, he might have crated even with the ruins of a great monarchy, one of the noblea flruc tures in the world ; he might have foftened, and per haps, in procefs of time, extinguifhed the animofities that via between the two countries ; and while he might have thus laid the foundation of an im• mortal name, this generation, in the fruition of tranquillity and beneficence, might have been imper., ceptibly led to exert itfelf in forgetting, as much as pofEble, his tremendous offtnces againhi GOD and man, and to draw a veil over the means by which he attained fupreme power. But his furious and reillefs nature has enabled the whole world to explore his views, and above.all, to contrail the fpirit of the two Governments of France and Great Britain, during the Aron period in which they were allowed to refpire in peace. Never was a contrail more glorious for the one, and more dithonourable to the other. The fpirit of French peace difplayed itfelf in wanton ag greffions upon neutral Rates, in a perpetual motion againft the fecurity of the civilized world, and in rancorous malice and hatred of the power with which its as no longer at war. The fpirit of Britifh peace manifefied itfclf in an carnet defire to conci liate, in a with to forgive and to forget paR injuries, in confining itfelf to the improvement of the moral aad phyfical happinefs of the Bi itifh people, without diflurbing the quiet, or prefuming to intermeddle in the internal affairs of other nations. The one was the peace of an affan ; the other of a brave man. We owe, Sir, the opportunity of making- this con traa to the late Peace, and it will long be remem bered, after the very terms of the treaty of Amiens (hall have been wholly forgotten. Thus, while we (ball be gaining upon the ellimation of mankind, that new fledged Imperial Eagle, which was nurfccl in the bofom of anarchy, which grew up in crime, and which exilts by violence and rapine only,will moll probably expire in agony and blood, the dreadful, but common fate of ufurpation maintained by def potifrn, fraud, and cruelty. WALSINGHAM. Yetlerday there was a large thew of cattle of dif ferent forts at Harlow Both fair, in Effex : the prime Stots of good age fold freely; but the peen North Wales Runts, and Irifh Steers, met with but few porchafers : the hurfe fair was well fupplied, parti cularly with clever cart colts, which were bought up at good prices. _ _ _ Thurfday fe'ennight, as the ferry boat was croffing from Ballyhack to l'affige, with feveral paffengers and two horks, one of the horfes got a little reltive, and the boat being oscrloAcled, as alfo a heavy (well in the river, the fuddenly overfet, and we hear, with much regret, that four of the paffengers and one of the boatmen were unhappily loft. A few evenings ago, a young man, while bathing in the river Trent, near Nottingham, incautionny ♦entured beyond his depth, and was unfortunately drowned. A general mourning is an event which, happily, feldom occurs in this layout ed kingdom; but a ge neral diffufion of gladnefs is by no means a rare cir cuniflance in our annals. An important viEtory fills the whole ifland with joy, and a patriotic ar dour reverberates in every 13titifh bofom: but next to a defeat of the enemy, there is nothing which ex cites fo much general pleaiure and latistaftion as the approach of a State Lottery, and there is one now before the public, t^ be drawn the prefent month, which contains the means of dithibuting the com ings and luxuries of life, among incalculable num bers of the faecal ites of fortune. A IN.; ti : •7:Nrr, =UTICA IN7 EL LIGEgr.E. MAILS THIS DAY.—AVInd Vt. • ARY. DUE. ARR. Et - -:- Dublin t 1 Hamburgh o Waterford s 0 Gottenburgb 0 s Lilbon t o The Walfingham, arrived at Falmouth from LA bon, does not bring any particular news, and has only duplicates of the dirpatclies received by his Ma jelly's (hip Ell/TALUS. On the 2 iff ult. off Cape Finiflerre (on the outward bound palrage), the Wal fingham fell in with •eight large men of war, and two brigs, (landing to the EAftward, which, in all probability, were the Rochefort fquadron rerurnin from their trip to Vigo. They did not chace the packet, but (offered her to go on without moleflati ,, n. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—The remainder of etler Eaft India fleet paired this port this morning. His Majefly's (hip TILIEMRT flood in to fee the Swedifh (hip (which is the Guflavus III.) fafe in, and then went on with the fleet. This (hip pot into Batavia —there were fix fail of the line, ten frigates, and fame (mall 'hips, but they were in a very fickly (late. The Purfer from the Perfeverance latticd her.: with 'his packets. His Majefly's (hip MILPOMEN k, came out of dock this morning, and went out to Spithead immediately.—Sailed the galliot Juffrnw Eva, j. H. Rucwsu.s, fortarthagena ; went out of harbour ) the listtssaaynted (hip..—Arrived the VIPIIR cutter ) from the Channel fleet. •Mr. Webb, late Mader of the BLANCHR frigate; Mr. Fens, irate !qr. Byers, gunner ; and Mr. Da vis, carpenter, who were landed at Torbay from the Marie, of Hamburgh, came t 3 this part on Saturday, in the Daring gun veffel. They were put on board the Marie, from le Department du Landes, one of the corvettes which engaged the Blanche, under necef fity, as the crew of the corvette were on fhort al lowance. Dom, SEPT. g.—Arrived off . here this mo►ning ,the Danifh Eaft India !hip Cron Printzen, Captain OIGIAARD, from China, bound to Copenhagen ; the left St. Helena the 44th June !aft, three days after I our fleet failed. The Swediflt Eat India fhip Gutlavus 111. joined our fleet juft as they were getting undo( way. The Frederica SwedifhlEaft India !hip remained at St. Helena.—Sailed tht fhip Frue von Scholton. Captain FITZPATRICK, of and from St. Thomas, with coffee, fugar, tkc. bound to Amfterdam. Paired by the brig Nyfomked, Captain Tonscuaz, of Co penhagen, from Leghorn, bound to London, with rags. Mat, SEPT. 9.—Arrived the Honourable the Eaft India Company's (hips, Dover Celtic, Cuffnells, Canton, Marquis of Ely, True Briton, Fame, Sove. raign, Monarch, and Sir William Bentley :—they parted with the fleet about two days lince. Arrived the UILAAItz frigate with a fleet of fhips under convoy from Quebec, and failed for the Nore. Arrived t:., Prevoyante [bore Sip from Gibraltar, and failed for the Nore. Arrived the ACUTE gun brig from a cruize. Sailed the Voecarre bomb ; BRUIZER, FEAR. LESS, REDBREAST, and WATCHFUL gun brigs, on a cruize; Polly, Ceres, Walker, Argo, Canceller, and George and Dorothy tranfperts, for the Nore— Arrived the THALIA - from Leith, and failed for Spit head. Arrived the Ringer, naval tranfpurt, from Deptford. ANOTHER LETTER, SAMi Dirs.—Arrived the Mutate frigate with, twelve fail of veffels under con• voy from Quebec ; the reit of the fleet, conflaing of Fifteen fail, went into the eaflern ports. Arrived the Tues.'s frigate from the northward ; Marquis of Ely, Cuffnells, Canton, True Briton, Fame, So vereign, Dover Cattle, and the Sir William Bentley, from the EaR Indies ; the latter velfel has failed for the River ; the others remain in the Downs with the Ihips as per laR. W ind S. W. Su asIOIESS, SEPT. 9 —This day the Rofina, armed Ihip, Captain Roar, failed for the Baltic, with abort twenty vetrels under convoy, fine breeze S. W. The TussEushas arrived at the Nore from the Well Indies. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Gaavestwn, Serr. S.—Parra by the Veynoll, Jones, and the Hannah, Heath, from Cork; Jane, Meredith, from Waterford ; Two Brothers, Baker, from Dantzic ; Fliza!seth, Cornelius, front Chararle ; Sophia Catharina, and the juititi ~ Harris, front Norway; Veronia, Vick, from Paerlburgh ; Jupiter, Come, from Guemlly ; Veital, Melville; Carat-, Fowler; Dale, Tur ner ; Generous Planter, Hamilton; Camden, Hill ; Catharine Green, Steele ; 'Earl St. Vincent, Hutton ; Mentor, Goodwin ; Luna, Andre ws ; Lady Johnftone, F. rhliter Elisabeth, Ir. sing ; Enterprize, Brooch ; Rofe, Plaice.; Starelk, Quir.cty Mermaid, Salbey ; Montego Bay, Di-fecal • Nenus, Brmiban k ; Flora, Thompfon ; Naiad, Douglas ; S'lddans, Smith ; Cents. Gladdale ; and the Slebeek, Hall, from :panics. Sailed the Eliza, Armand ; Adtive, Slater, and Su: refs, Schimmel's, for El doom ; Jemima, Barber, for Dublin ; Argo, Henderfua, and the Betfey, Jenkins, for Cork ; Abraham, Cobden, for Stockholm ; Aid, Hutchinfon, for Riga ; Nautilus, Kew, for Revel; Nelfoti, Peacock; Induftry, Nixon; Progrefs, Dawfon ; and the Oxen hope,Sharp, for P.terfhorgh. AUGUST 9.—Paffed by the Alfred, Roldnfon ; Reward, Gut len; Orpheus, Receaus; Catharine, Sowden ; Maria, Taylor; Exeter, Swale; Flora, Johns; St. Mary, Aston; Wandi-ra., Woodall; Ann, King; Olive Branch, Andrews; PrincA of Wales, Grelgg; George Hibberts, Thor.) peon; Concord, Swaine; Generous Planter, Beattie; Flora, Rofs ; Sir Ed. Hamilton, Den nett ; Alexander, Leift ; Mrs. Lufhington, Kitchen; Com, Wil. limns; Cygnet, Either, Dorfet, Newt..n; Cumberland, Wales; Augufta, Crant; and Atalanta. Brown, from Jamaica. Sailed the Elizabeth, Towalfend, for Halifax ; Hoppett, Bar ker, for Teneriffe; James, Copping, rad Conftantia, Bury, for Stettin; Dolphine, Tyer, for Litho° ; Progras, Nichols, for Pe. terfburgh ; Speculante, Reeves, and the Drie Gebroders, Kleefe, for Tonningen. The Mary, CAMPBELL, from Liverpool, has upfet in the harbour of St. Thomas's. The Rebecca, -, fiem Mogadore for Liver pool, has been captured, re cAptur cc!, and is arrived • at Hoylake. - The Tamer, Hor.r.rms, and the Oeen, from Gibraltar for La )o, woe captured On the tBth ult. off Cape St. Vincent. BESTIFLL, I and burin [Turn over.