Star. — London, England, 1808-09-17 00:00:00

Sind ! between Napoleon tAs suet CArbsiee Emjietor and the Pope ! o.nd all the World knows the recimpense t.,e,e powers obtained for their fidelity to Frances She knows also the close union that subsist.d between France and Spain, and the numberless sacri fices m ide by the latter to render service to Napoleon. Is Spain ignorant ; is France ignorant !—is the world ignorant of the kind and grateful return which Napo leon has made for so many favours? Will Russia ex poi imce beanr treatment, should the French emperor Succeed in his views against Spain and Austria ? Mffuleur.—" She (ZiegLaa) knows that those two great Powers are resolved to unite their forces, and to consider as an enemy every friend of England." England knew this before France had the honesty to avow it. But, after such an avowal, with what front can France talk to Europe of the restless ambi tion, the perfidy and rapacity of England. Does England owe any respect to a power which avows its object to be nothing short of her ruin? Years ago England was offered the same high honour which Alexander hashad tho dishonesty to accept. She-was told that France and England might rule the world ! Maiikar.—.• She (.Easlamfj knows that peace will not be die. tutted in Germany." sat! thecksturhadites an dir Colitis — int out he owing to some baleful influence not that of England —for, by the admission of her enemy, she has nottei there. fly whom are they cached? By whom, if no( by France ?—But we assert that England never al, any period had a more efficient influence than shil has at this moment. It would be just as easy to pops , suade the world that Austria does not now stand in the situation of a respited delinquent, as that Englan& has ceased to have influence on the Continent. What is meant by the assertion, that " Peace will be maintained on the Continent ?" Peace ! and all the armies of France in motion ! Where is peace ? Is it in Portugal, where the Duke of Abrantes has been defeated ? Is it in Spain, where French weak.l nen awl want of courage, (as the French Editor re marks) has been so notorious ? Is it the North, where a petty King has turned home with discomfi ture and disgraCe the Power of the " Potent Emperor of the North" the ally of NAPOLEON the Great ! Moniintr—" In the interview which the Emperor (Napoleon) bad with Francis 11. in Moravia, the latter promised that be would never make war on him more." We dare say it was so, and we doubt not that with many sincere protestations Napoleon made a simiiai promise. But, does the French Editor mean to say, that Napoleon was to be allowed, without any oppo- sition, to execute his own pleasure upon Austria ? to march, for example, forty thousand men to reinforce the Grand French army, already in Germany, with out exciting any movement on the part of Austria! Was this to maintain the peace of the Continent ? —Does the French Government imagine that the Courts of Europe, silly as they are, are so simple as to sit wondering unier the obligation of treaties that they have contracted with Napoleon, while he is driving the French armies to new and more atrocious acts of injustice, by which his legions seem destined to lose the dazzling glory, which for a time prevented their enormities from being seen in their proper co lours ? If this proves true, Francis knows that he owes it Clot to Napoleon, but to the formidable enemy with whom the latter has now to contend beyond the Py renees. Francis knows too, or we are much mistaken, that should the Spaniards be subdued, he is himself the next ♦it:tim marked out for destruction. Minitrisr...—" She knows well, that, before the year has elapsed, there will not be a single village in Spain ht a state of insurrec tion ; nor an Elll4lllllllln in that country." She hopes the Editor of the Motile:Jr predicts truly In his first assertion. She hopes, and that most sin cerely, that, before the above period shall elapse, there will not be a single traitor or rebel left in Spain—that the whole population will have joined the standard of lophy, and trampled the French Eagles in the dust. But in that event we must, in the last clause of the above quotation, for Ensduismsaa read Fratilunam. WLakneas and want of cottage have caused our Wm to suffer sotti.: checks." Afoxiker..." The destiny of ain is 'r ccab'y fixed." This we believe, but not by " the Great Powers of the Continent"—Alexander and Napoleon ; for we cannot include a devoted pc,wer, Austria, in the number. Where?—in Spain; Impossible! for France and Spain are linked together as intimate allies and mu tually pledged to defend each others sovereignty and Independence. In Spain ! Has Spain invaded the Flo6nch territories ? Has ' Spain attempted to dethroi.e Napoleon ? How could the forces of sworn allies came in contact as enemies ? giesides—l4Spain, in her fidelity to her meritorious ally, allowed all her troops to be marched to the North of Europe, to occupy Hanover, that the might have equivalent: 10 give to Eng. kind at 4 general pacification, in return for the solonial eon. pate of Me tyrants of the reat.—Could she, without troops, take advantage of the " weakness and want of courage" of the French armies ? Movtitnir--" The r.'llls of Evil." Who is t'i;s Genius ? 4Venitair-- 41 Peace is the wish of the universe. The event• which have changed the face of the world since the rupture O. the peace of Amiens, arc to be attributed to that rupture." What occasioned this rupture ? Precisely the same kind of conduct that will hurry on a war between Austria and France. Britain could not sit still and permit France, unresisted, to continue her career of acquisitions, as she was then doing, with fully as much effect as if she had purchased them by victo ries in war. We know the various points that have been alledged for the rupture ; but we would just ask, whether, after the peace of Amiens, France sat down and remained satisfied with what was allotted to her, and reduced her war establishment ? But do the French armies want courage? We shall not do them the injustice to suppose it, though their own master has thrown upon them this stigma. The defeat of the French armies' in Spain was not occa- ' sioned by cowardice on their part. Is it possible, after all the triumphs obtained by the French arms, against the old governments, that Napoleon can be Ignorant ef the causes that have contributed to his victories ? We believe he knows them well ; for we are not among the number who consider Napoleon as knowing nothing but the art of war. We hold him to be a much better politician than most of the diplomatists of the old school. History affords no instance of a people determined to be free, and pos sessing a respectable population, ever having been brought under the yoke of an invader. It is other wise where the people take no interest in the cause of their rulers—where the interests of the two are mu tually opposed to each other. What created the! Trench army ? Invasion !—Attempts to force upon them, by foreign interference, a Government to which they were averse. This has long been seen, and deplored by the thinking part of mankind ; and it was foreseen that the torrent thus set in motion, would never be stopped till a similar cause should i operate to check its course. Like closes will ever produce like effects. If the Spaniards be but united, they are invincible. Nay more—it ir in the nature of things, and within the compass of possibilities'', that they may, ere long, carry the war into the ter- s4ortes of the aggressor ; for, though they will have many disadvantages to contend with in the corn mencemen; of their comer, the balance is actually in their favour, ifthoykshalk have virtue enough to persevere. The cauenttlat procksed the French ar• mies has ceased to operate—the machine, from the weight and strength of the materials of which it is composed, may continue to move for some time, and with an effect proportioned to its mats, and to the velocity originally impelled upon it but the main spring is gone—the soul is fled—and, unless the course of nature shall be altered, it must sink in its high claims. Like the now annihilated army of Prussia, it may for a time maintain an imposing as. pect—but against an army created by the same cause, actuated by the same principles which gave itself birth, but which are now extinct in the French army, it cannot ultimately prevail. The Spanish army will daily grow better than it is, but the French tannot: it has passed its zenith. Haiku—" As to Austria, peace will be maintained on th e Continent, because England has there no intleer.ce." What ! Austria again ! Does the Editor of the Airmail's,- expect, by this solicitude, to persuade her that her fat: is not . yet 4 , irrevocably fixed" like that of Spain. England has no influence on the Conti- Monitemr--" The events so unfavourable to England that have occurred sirce the death of Mr. Fox, are to be attributed to his death and the rup:tire of the negociations." What are the events ? It is true that Prussia has been destroyed—or rather the Prussian Government ; that Denmark is in the fraternal embraces of the French army—and her navy in the ports of England ; that the Potent Emperor of the North has been content to be permitted to act like his friend Napoleon ! In what has all this been so unfavourable to Eng. land ?" She has got rid of faithless and useless allies, that only served to lessen the respectability of her cha. racter, and to render her efforts for the good of man kind suspected. What was Prussia ? What is Russia ? What good could the world expect even from Britain, connected with such associates ? She is now, how ever, seen in her ancient and legitimate character— assisting the Spanish and Portuguese people, as she did the Dutch in the time of Philip 11. to repel the attempts of a crafty, cruel, and remorseless tyrant to enslave them. Momiteur--" The changes that have taken place in Europe since the Peace of Tilsit, are to be attributed to the refusal of the me diation of Russia." Changes which England surely cannot regret, however much Napoleon may : and we think the re mark proves that this is the feeling of the French Editor. Who expected such a change ? Not Na poleon, when he made his brother lose the crown of Naples. ifinato.iititeseeeptaneeof the-044.0iiy tomb Would have pietented the pi esent state of Mks tn die Saltk and la Spain." 'rhis means, swe suppose, that the Sparifsh troops tinder the Marquis de Romana would still have been paider the direction of the Prince of Poole Cervo, and that Spain would not have been now punishing the treachery of her ally Napoleon. Where is the loss to Britain in all this ?—Russia, the close ally of Napoleon, mediate for her ! Napoleon did not expect that England would accept such a mediator, and none but Alexander could believe he meant any thing by proposing it. It is very instructive to observe how philoso phically this Imperial Editor connects effects and causes. The rejection of the offered mediation had no more effect on the present state of the Conti nent, than the weather and the water at Madrid had in inducing the Spaniards to reject the yoke ofNapo- Icon ; or the piety of the French Emperor in pro. ducing, in the Royal mind of Joseph, King of [King of what ?] the virtuous resolution to run away with a parcel of images and candlesticks THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Consols, motley, 664—for ace. 661 67-onuilurn 14 dis. Each. Bilk. sq. 6s. prc. An Extraordinary Gazette was published last night, containlng a confirmation of the disgrace and humiliation entailed on Britain, by the most extraor dinary Convention that was ever signed by a British Commander. The sum of the business is this. A British army twice defeats its enemy, and, on the second occasion, with a reserve of several thousand men who had not been in the action, and who ought in stantly to have followed up their victory by a fresh attack upon the defeated foe—this army, joined by large reinforcements, instead of receiving the triumphs to which it was catitled, sees them transferred to the enemy whom they had conquered—and, to sum up t7:e whole, sees the name of the Hero who led them to victory attached to the deed I By this convention it is agreed—that the French irmy at Lisbon 511411 be transported to France at the expence of this country, to assist NAPOLEON in his wad against the Spanish Patriots. That we shall also transport With them, at our ex pence, the plunder and treasure extorted from the Portuguese by acts of oppression an± murder. That we shall become the rescuers of stolen r ods, , by receiving from them, in an account current, and placing to their credit those stogies and previsions, of . which they robbed the Portuguese, and which may be' too bulky to remove ; being more cumbrous than • plate, jewels, and images. That this country shall induce the Spaniards to de liver up to the French all their spies, emissaries aad Other enemies now in their power, but who were taken without arms in their hands. That the crews of nine Russian ships of the line and a frigate shall be sent in British ships to the Bal tic to the assistance of Amtaxusa, to enable him the More effectually to carry on the war in which he is now engaged against our ally, the KING of SWEDEN. Such are the terms, neither more nor less, though covered over with a little French varnish. We shall not dwell upon them—But we have to remind Ministers—to remind Britons—that at this, moment many of our countrymen, who were passing through France or residing there, during peace, were, in violation of an Imperial promise--in violation of the acknowledged law of nations, immured in FrencL pmons—and still remairl, prisoners in France ! ! ! JuNot, a French Commander, could take care of his own countrymen who were prisoners in Spain ! British Commanders have been regardless of their - fel low subjects who are prisoners in France. We add, from one of the Reports of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, (published in the STAR of yesterday) a quotation which may vrve as a text to our Mrusters to extricate the country from the de structive effect of these conventier s—the conquest of Spain is laid down as a sine qua non for the safety of the French Empire—and, says the Minister, " Every thing that leads to this end is legitimate 'III I" 21finittmr—" What may yet happen on the Continent contrary NAVAL ACTION IN THE BALTIC. to the greatness and interest of England, if peace does not take place, will be attributed to that foolish obstinacy, to that blind The Navy of Russia has now r e ce i ve d t h e fi rs t of and furious policy, which, notwithstanding the union of great those checks which it may expect from a continuants Powers, places all its hopes in dreams of an impossible division of hostilities against the British flag. Yesterday after and a renewal of coalitions, which can only exist against herself:, noon a Telegraphic communication was made to the England was certainly so foolish as to league her- Admiralty, from Yarmouth, stating that there had self with imbecility, fraud, and tyranny. She now been an engagement in the Baltic with the Russians, leaves that to France, who will assuredly gain all the and a report was immediately circulated, of a great benefits that can be expected from an alliance with and glorious victory having been obtained. such Powers Powers as Russia, Saxony, Wirtemberg, and the nant THOMPSON, of Admiral Sir SAmtizr. HOOD'S wrecks and remnants of German Principalities. It ship, however, arrived in the course of the e ven i ng , is not a little remarkable that France has adopted the with dispatches, containing an account of the total system for which she reprobated England, and which destruction of a Russian ship of the line. Lieutenant the latter has at last had the good sense to value at THOMPSON was on board the Swedish Admiral's ves its true worth. I eel during the chace of the Russian fleet into the Bay Mewitesr The most political conduct is that which is most where they have taken shelter. The gallantry and conformable to justice." Words have been so revolutionised, in France, that spint of the Swedes cannot be too highly praised ; we are at a loss to understand the French dzfinition and their eagerness to bring their ships to action stamp them as worthy associates of the Heroes of the Nile. of the term judice. The French Editor, we think, The following are the particulars contained in the could easily illustrate, by examples drawn from cent transactions of France, the sense in which he dispatches brought brLienterwit TrromPsox SAM= Hoop c.,13” up with two sail date uses this maxita of Cicero. gat and attacked the Russian Beet, consisting of nine Sail of the line, and after severed mariteuvres, snc• ceeded in cutting nff a Russian rnin of war, which was driven on shore, captured, end burnt; the Rus• sians lost till men in killed and\wounded ; we have curly lost ten men killed, find one ofNcer woun led. The Rus.,ian ship was taken by boarding, after hay ing re-hoisted her colours, which accounts for het Itn inense loss in killed and wounded. It was the C. -mon that succeeded In securing her. When Lieutenant THOMPSON left Sir S. Hoots Sir JAMES SAUMAHNZ, with four sail of the line, the Vic- TORY, CrOLIAH, Amon, and MARS, was in sight. The remainder of the kus.,ian fleet, consisting of eight sail of the line and fifteen frigates, escaped into Port Baltic, a bay in Finland, and the Russians . im. mediately began to erect batteries on an island corn. manding the bay, ftom which it will be necessary to dislodge them before their fleet can be attacked. The combined blockading fleets after the junction of Sir ludas SAUMARET, amount to ten Swedish, and given British sail of the line. Our Readers will find further particulars of the above action in the following letters : " COTTENSURGH, SEPT. S. " The Russian fleet sailed from Hang° Roads on the 25th of August, and were pursued by the Swedish squadron, which had been joined by Sir SAmm, Hooq with the CENTAUR and IMPLACABLE, who, from superiority of sailing, brought the sternmost of the enemy's ships to action, when she soon struck, but was rescued by the whole Russian force standing back to her - assistance ; she was afterwards attacked by the CENTAUR, and carried by boarding, in the most gal lant manner ; but being aground, was obliged, after taking out the prisoners and wounded, to be set on fire : she was called the Lewalod, of 74 guns. The remainder of the Russian fleet took shelter in Roger wick, or Baltic Port. Admiral Sir JAMES SAumAau has also joined the Swedish fleet." " YARMOUTH, SRPT. 16. 4 4 By the arrival of the CALYPSO we learn that there has been an engagement with the van of our ships and the rear of the Russians ; a Russian, of 84 guns, was brought into action by the IMPLACABLE, of 74, to whom she struck, but afterwards- rehoisted her colours. She was boarded by the CENTAUR, who put 500 of her men to the sword for their cowardly conduct. The Russians seeing their fate, fled, and got into a port in the Baltic." " HARWICH, SEPTEMBER to " Arrived this morning, the Lady Nepean packe Captain Liviso, from Gottenburgh, with mails and passengers. HENRY HOLLAND, Esq. agent for the packets at Gottenburgh, came over passenger in the above packet. By her we learn that the Russian fleet came out of Hanga Road, with intention to attack the Swedish fleet, as also the British fleet under Sir SAMUEL HOOD. The CENTAUR and IMPLACABLE (British sh;ps), the only two near them, passed through their line completely; then obs:rving one of the Russians a bad sailer, the Centaur bore down up cn her, and carried her by boarding. The Russian lost 3(X) kilicd ; the CENrAt:it six killed, and 14 wounded Tie captured ship was afterwards de. stroyed. Sir SAMUEL was waiting the junction of Sir JANES SAUMAREZ, who was hourly expected to arrive, when he purposed attacking them in B tlti: Bay, or Roggerwick, to which they had retreate.l. - - " The transports, with the troops for the Da‘v still remain." PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 15'. Came In the CHAMPION, of 24 guns, from Ladiz, wit't patches : we have not heard that she brings any thing of i norm. tatter. Sailed the Qt. , rem, of 98 guns, for Chatham; HINDOSTAN, of 50 guns, for the Westward, to join the fleet off Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 16. Arrived last night his Majesty's ship Btossow, with dispatches from }isbon ; also this morning his Majesty's ships AMELIA and WEYMOUTH, with. a fleet of outward bound vessels, &c. under convoy from the Downs.—Sailed the WARaPITg to the Eastward. —Dropped down to St. Helen's the REVENGE, with the fleet for the East Indies, which will sail to-morrow morning. The Suety cutter is appointed convoy for Guernsey.—Wind Easterly. DEAL, SEPTEMBER 16. Arrived the ROYALIST sloop, from a cruize. Sailed the Are Li* frigate, with a convoy, for Portsmouth; ALERT sloop of war, with a convoy for Falmouth; BE Lc LP OP HON, Rear-Admiral GARDNER, with the VIM , 8888 , HER 0, BOMBAY, LEVIATHA N, and [tutu 'twos, of 74 guns, on a cruize off Flushing. The ST. ALDAN% got under weigh to proceed with them, but was obliged to return again to the Downs, the flood tide being done before she was able to get through the Gulls.—Sailed the PAZ schooner to the Westward.—Wind N. E. fresh breeze. SHEERNESS, SEPTEMBER 16. Sailed this day to the Downs, the Swedish ship Conjanetnref, Captain MooIN, laden with iron, pitch, timber, and duds, Irons Carlsham, in Sweden, bou n d t o Liverpool; and the Gereehtia. kelt, Captain SODEKSURG, with tar and iron, from Stockholm, for Plymouth.—The Baltic convoy are still detained by adverse wind, and waiting the arrival of the ships Minerva and Aurora, bound to the Baltic. We learn from the ships arrived With ear, goes front Quebec, that but for the Amerians, with - the rafts of masts and timber, forcing their passage down the rivers against the embargo, those ships must have returned hence without their cargoes. An order has arrived here to fit a ship as an hospital, on float for the soldiers—th e Surrey Militia, quartered here, have more than 100 men sick in the hospital. YARMOUTH, SEPT. 16. This morning arrived from Gottenburgh the Clam° sloop of war, with the Marquis de la ROMAN/. and suite: the Mar quis, on leaving the CA LT No, was saluted with IS guns, and by Admiral RUSSELL'S flag-ship with seven and was received es shore by Admiral R USSELL an d several Naval Officers, and greeted by the populace with three British cheers. The Marquis breakfasted at Admiral Donn LA a's with Adtniral RUSSELL, Co lonel Yo x, and a large party. The Mayor and Corporation, in their gowns, with the regalia, paid their respects to the Marquis, and congratulated him on his safe arrival in this country The Marquis received them with great politeness. He will leave this place this afternoon, and will be escorted to Lowettoff b party of the Yarmouth C ava l r y. y a The KITE gun-brig, Capt. JA M Es, in an eng.gement with some D an i s h gun.boatt, is almost a wreck, having several Of her crew pilled. The NASSAU and trangsorts arrived at GottenbUrgh on Thursday, the day before the Cats's° sailed. The CaLvt.to on her passage fell in with on Wednesday, off the Dogger Bank, the ABOUcia, MAJESTIC,and MINOTA ILLE, :bell of war, an weft, Ha„lvoc n the - Roads, the Roebuck, Sk y l ar k , Rosamond, Bruiser and • . C