The National Register. — London, England, 1808-08-21 00:00:00

,s 0 0" I i V 1 , 1 I-- AUGUST V, _ - 'THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Sep% 19. Thomas Wipe awl Geo. Nevrioaa. prothlon•broicers, at eleven, at the (.lobe verii, Liverpool. Sept. t 6. William ilayter,llkouthmolton, Devon, viutner, at illeveo, at the 019 Loudon ler►, Ev.eter. Sept. 17. Alexander Davis anal Nathan Davis, Little Carter lane, vv :u •rhnusen.eeu, nt ICP, at Guildhall. Sept. 14. Cherie% Unvvei, Iluntingdon, sadler, at eleven, at tie Croivn l ie, litintiinvloo. • Sept. 12. Julia Liverpool, straw-hat-manufacturer, it eleven, nt the George inn, Liverpool. • Sept. 17. John :11•Denno:t, Red Lion-street, Southwark, bop factor, at eleven, at CERT 1 FICATES, Serr..la. J o hn Cleimell, Newcastle npoii Fyne, pin- manufactur•r.— Stephen liuut, Cron:till, (lads, tanner,— W :Biala White, New /Mill-street, Birmingham, taylor. [The Gazette contains a Letter from Capt. nacres, of hic ...111aje,ty's ship (iuerriere, giving an account of hip havin; cup lured the French privateer Pcrary, of IV eighteen porn ler earranades. and 90 rn e n and also it Letter from Capt. Cau!fiAd, f his Majet.ty's ship Rut. , el, stating the capture of the Adele, French privateer, of 1:4,1tt 12-pound carrnnadei, and 1-10 men.) THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 11.010311, SUNDAY, AlJerUsT 21, 1808. • not require much refection to be convince t t 1 , 0 ,, A , PARTE will not be much swayed by these reasons in !Ili te. turc operations with regard to Spain, There :s se.e stroug tra;t in his character, watch has been likewise a vocal:cent feature in that of every other person, wtto raw ••i the same extravagant career of crime and ambiti o n, t„.l w 4 expected difficulties ani disgraces only se r v e t o s i t !ricen his r desires, when yen :eance and the shame cf . iiffamy join, at the sa,ne time, taw puss eclat slime! If we do not mistake his character, it the evaerience of his whole life should have any influence on our rev: A prev : jud o . ju..g• inent, we are convinced that he would make 1 ranee, Spam, and the whole Cpntinent one common scene of destclation, sooner than renounce his designs ands eligealic'e on a coun t ry where fortune first abandoned him, towards which he has been guilty of a degree of perfidy, in comparison of which all his other atrocities are mere ba.catelles, :int) %%here h o obtained no other result than tnat his fleet has btxii lost ; his armies have been routed and destro)ed ; the costarils and traitors who adhered to him, sacrificed to the irritates{ feelings of their Country ; and ,lie himself . branee.l w;tk eternal ignominy. 'the - Ruffian knows tun well, not to be cenvinced, that their appreciation of c NeiltS is generally regulated by success. lie will, therefore, vi hat ever designs he may have against Austria, or ehfileser jealousy and apprehensions he may etstertaiu of her armic ments, never abandon his intention of subjugating punishing that country, We have treated this sahjoct the* largely, because the history of that man, and of 11C15 , ,115 %Ole have acted from similar motives, justifies es to concluils that Spain, or the French departments adjoining that c o w) . try, will continue to be a scene of a;I the horrors of war, as long as Bossrast-rt can raise a sicklier. We must be prepared for this event; otherwise our surprise and grief 'will rise in proportion to our disappointeA folic's. The public now see a prospect of internal peace anti securh for that country ; and when they hear of powerful armies ap proaching its frontiers, and perhaps of partial reveises sus tained by the Patriots, they will, with ail the levity And in- considerateness so peculiar to our age, pronoucice the sacred cause of freedom and independence as desperate; aed the measures adopted for its support, as obstneste aail useless. These suggestions are not made in order to discourage an opinion of Spanish success; we know the Spaniard.* will ho successful; anticipate even the moment when their country will cease to be the scene of their heroism and viciorie, ; %%hen they will rush beyond their frontiers, and encounter the satellites of the Tyrant on their own ground. Ties will be the probable result of the coatest. These rchectioui open a comprehensive field to cheering speculation. The Spaniards are now vi (mod up to that point of exaltation which produces, and has always produced, great e: ruts. The active, the young, and the ambitious have now a the:•:re open to their exertions. The love of their country, of fame and honours, with the boundless hatred they fecl against the Vrench, will excite energies in their hoso.iis, the effect and extent of which, it is not at present easy to calculate. This energy must be directed towards some ob ject. They are thrown into a state of fermentation like that which their efforts and success against the Moors occa. stoned. But there is now no new world for them to conquer. Religion, personal and national feelings, a sense of vengeance, and a desire to distinguish themselves in the eves of . Europe, point out the departments bejond the Pyrenees as a scene worthy of their exertions and courage. BONAPARTE cannot overlook the justice of this observation ; he will, therefore, could he even forget the outrage he has offered them, endeavour to provide against This event, by giving them employment at home. '1 he difil culties which these extraordinary exertions will throw in the way of his operations in any other part of t he Com tinent are insurmountable. We will not here endeavour to appreciate his talents or resources too low; but they have their bounds. The finances of a country , wh ere there is no foreign commerce, and a very cirenniscribed in ternal trade, cannot be very high. lie may still plunder POLITICAL EVENTS OF Tliß The Dutch and Paris Papers, which have been received this week, observe the deepest silence relatise to the dis asters sustained by the French in Spain, or endeavour to prove the absurdity and falsehood of those rumours. How lone - Bev APA HTE Will he able to keep the French and his vas,al Slates ignorant of these events, we cannot precisely :determine but - that the Journals which are under his coa trout, should endeavour to invalidate the reports of Spa ilk:l success, is what may be naturally expected. The Spa nish Journalists arc equally silent as to new successes ob tained by their patriotic countrymen $ from which we can only infer, that the French Corps whichlave as yet escaped the fite of l)vroNT, retreat with so much precipitation to wards the Pyrenetss, that they appear to feel some reluct ance of giving the Spaniards an opportunity of gaining new victories. The quest;on which now intrudes itself on 'our minds, is whether LIORAPARTE will abandon his project of subjugating that country, and endeavour to enter into some triad of compromise with it, in order to he able to employ Gist whble force in some other quarter, where he may hope to elface the stigma his arms have sustained beyond the Pyrenees. This important question appears to divide the public opinion, and certainly engages a considerable part of its attention. The extraordinary inactivity of that am bitious individual, his having sent no adequate reinforce ments to his armies, the flight of his brother from Madrid, the, retreat of his remaining troops towards the French fron tiers, the extraordinary armaments of Austria, and the ap parent policy of the measure, are the basis on which this opinion rests. We must acknowledge, however. that none of These arguments convey that conviction to our minds, as to prevail on us to adopt an idea in such absolute contra diction with the whole tenour of that man's preceding life since the beginning of his political and military career. Were he an ordinary character I were he restrained in the pursuit of his projects by humane feelings or moral ideas ; were his unbounded ambition and inordinate love of fame distracted by softer passions, there would be some plausi bility the foregoing opinion. But it rests on no other foundation than that the persons who argue thus, would probably act in Ova limner, were they in the place of BONA PARTE. " Were I dlesandcr, l would do so." This j 4 generally the key to the speculations of the great majo rity of ma kind, when they appreciate the conduct and designs of that extraordinary individuaL . However, it. does , c I