The National Register. — London, England, 1813-09-12 00:00:00

N. 998. P(. (EN ANSI,VEIt P sophistry if t!ed principle should be the innovators h; action, and I melons class complacenc Gradual arc thus actin! baneful jut the very r site dive' swell the gym the look for dished race race eve the mai the 'erti. vernal the pa his ad wresl' and! By 2 r;le vari 42itt pat tis' tic tr Et 17 Ce sli action, and have openly tendered their agsistance to that nu merous class of men, in all nations, who, blinded by self-, complacency, consider their station as below their merit's. Gradual are the shades which tincture the opinions of men thus acting, sometimes even unconsciously, under that baneful influence; but the inorti concussion has been felt in the very recesses of the mind, and feelings the most oppo site diverge from their natural course. to merge in and Swell the revolutionary torrent Thus, demagogues, whom cven the freedom of the Briti. - th Consthoion cannot satisfy, look for support to the revolutionary leader, who has esta lished the most refined tyranny under which the human race ever groaned ; Roman Catholics bail, as their dclive;er, the man who ityarisr6l the .PQ g and dessforml his power; the *Wenn' entbuttaa - t sees in him the founder of the uni versal Famrite which is tee precede the Millenium ; and even the politician, boasting of superior patriotism, blazons forth his achievements and magnifies his resources, in the hope of wresting from his antagonises a power they have constantly and .successfully exerted to repress his itundinate ambition. By all those, the enormities of the revolutionises are more or , less palliated ; conclusions favorable to their cause are in 7 variably elicited from existing circumstances„and the mag iaitude of their crimes seems to give legitimacy to their usur rations: " We must not," said a Noble Lord in the Bri tish Senate, " deprive Fiance of her hard-earned acquisi tions," as if 'the abuse of force, guided by treachery, could transform an usurper into a rightful owner ! Another patty would, after a - faint struggle, have abandoned the nations of Alm Peninsula to their fate, and now that their deliverance is nearly completed; now that the hero of Britain, pursuing his victor ions career, proudly overlooks from the summit of the Pyrenees the fertile valleys of Bearn, we are toll that we :must not think, of invading France ! • This opinion is principally maintained by a writer, who, under the signature of ." V ETUS," fills the columns of the' Times with his ponderous lucubrations. - In. his twenty-se venth letter he had roundly asserted " that the ten i•ary of trance ought to be sacred for us :" as, henvever, some people of more profane dispositions acre startled, and well they might, by this strange assertion, fie has thought proper :to qualify it in a sub'sequent• letter. In this prodtiction Nri..!T us seems so ‘pprehensive.uf being accused :of im s propir Vol. VI. No. CCICITIII. diercy of the measure. llis arguments, however, are nei ther numerous nor solid. They are chiefly, if not solely, '' drawn from the example of France herself, considered both as an invadin; and as an invaded country, and as affording us in both Ways ukeful lessons of caution and . prudenc* But the invaEion of. France by Lord WELLINGTON, should it take place, would be undertaken chieflY„with ' operating a diversion in favour of our Northern :.onsequently, the example of the French, who I inci..ement of that nature t.) invade other client, apply to the case. But it is absurd to assert, time, that France " has not. been. a gainer certain countries, and, making ' . th etwellit Then selecting the only two. CAWS a ; 111 C .,,., Ak , Russia, Vetus triumphantly exclaim; " What:hae :4;?tt, PARTE gained in solid strength by his two great inv43l9ns i!s Why, sureli , nothing, and the question is perfectly idle; but he has wasted in those two ill-concerted, and eroiligate expe ditions part of the enormous resources be bad gathered by subsisting and recruiting leis troops at the expense of the other countries he bad previously invaded, and which even now contri b ute largely to the support of the war. The asi..iq since, however, to be derived frqm the enemy's country for the maintenance of our troops, is fefttgland a seenndar v cort- Sideration only, the advantages ora dill-erslon in forma of eut Allies is the grand aim of the enterpw.e, hut this Vewes has f.... carefully kept out of view. In considering France as an invaded comntry, VET us has enumerated in general terms the OliVaCiCaol - CIWELLINCTON would have to encounter from the " energy of the Govern ment, the resources afforded by a well regulated revenue, .a dense, intelligent, and warlike population, most rapidly con vertible into disciplined and zealous soldiers," not forgetting to hint at the fate of former invasions, fled at the difference in the mode of warfare in an enemy's or is a friendly coun -try. Bat the first of those considerations might equally operate against any Attempt to resist the power of Bt:ONA• PA RTE on the Continent. They might lave were urged with,eq - ual propriety against the the contest in the Peninsula, and yet how suit i As to the " population dense, act VeTus_believe that the powers of repredek hatetible in France; Does he net know thai V .. '': • , . . . r • ' T - • • • . , • i . v ••• si , .. . . 4. - •••• • •• i • .• ~ti, .ti , • : . - s _ . —"-- ---'---"...`-'—'"411.3 see; 3!. i''s 1: • '*!' a , ... • cur Mug, Constitution, atta s -11,atutt.- .' ;itt! ( *t/W SlA'`i : i V Is 4 • ' ,- • • • • .:* • .- - 4i, . = •.• , . arc - PUBLISIIED AT NO. 11, NEWC ASTL E-STIIrET. ' STRAW!). •7 , . ::: '.. -. l t . ' • : - !'t -. 7 . 1 ............: _ _ , 4 -.. * ‘ • ," • • •. •,.. • AO: ',,..298. SUNDAY, SEP T F. 111:RE 1t'49., 1813. • • . • ; Prt rct Pri. , •• . .. . POLITICAL ntS:2IIISITION. tondPrn'ess toivvds the French, that 'be complet ' . 66 out- . ---.0...... herods lieri)d," and talks of " laying xi:iste every vineysFdj ; , • _ INVASION OF FRANCE. " of whilling the consuming . firebrand through tbetr : '[N A Nswr.r. TO VETUS . S TWENTY EIGUTH LETTER.) '' proudest cities," and of dee:mating the manhood of a •E nation of destroyers as a feeble vengeance for the miser ies. . Sophistry is the natural result of an aberration from set- .. whier . tnev have brought upon the would," This parade of :.d .princioles; it is not to be wonde.ed, therefore, that it anger i , , however, perfectly harmless, fgt . while he admits ,ouid be the predominant failing of an age, in which dating the right and the justice of invading France, ‘‘ltic.lt indeed novators have equblished expediency as the sole rule of ! no one could well deny, he attempts to prove the inexpt . -:' , , _ b the view LI .11 Allies, and, • never bad an tries, does. pot''." . in the' Huai:- 4 ' 1 _ b 7 igvadint !V - • ji1 . 1400 and in t : has Bc(MA- bven, a!;(1 they c(,ntitviat ion of brilliant the re- . iye," Sc. does !ction arc at the conserir • • • - • ' 1