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N OV. 1 had no bonus to throw in its way ? As to Sweden, I do not pre tend to understand its policy, but from the very flatteriug reception BERNADOTTE gave our Chrowe ; front hie condescending to visit our Admiral on board hi s s hip, i t does not aprear that he ILA any ill-will or distrust to the present Government of this cottorry; acd, consequent! , that the Marqws WELL ES I EYTS ht•iflA out 'lf power has anN thing to do with the measures Sweden chip-es to adopt. rTus mi'ht as well say that the Spaniards' being. backward in eni:sting in our u my, was owing to Lord MOIRA'S not haying the chief command in Spain. Let him not suppose that I mean to compare the last-mentioned Nobleman to Lord W ELL INGI 0 N ; sueb a comparison would not be fah to either. I think most highly of both, but as the former has not been placed in situations uf equal importance as the latter, a doubt must reinain whether he Would have shone avid' as great a lustre as the immortal Conqueror of Sala manca. I only mean to say, that where there are talents of nearly equal preponderancy, the foreign cabinets little care who is our minister, and certainly in talents, (here 1 may, an d will male the comparison), Lord Mon A being equal :rgr , ia W ELL FSI. car, the Courts of St. Petersburgh, ,"o!ora. and - -:weden. tn i ght with as great an appearance of 131fIellt his not being made a Secretary of State. In ppme po.nts I am sure he is superior to the idol of The T„ c s end V rTus, I me :11 in humility, ti ue patriotism, self dcw fo: heal ance. So much fol the Noble Marquis : I shill now make a fe.ty cursory remarks on The Tihres itself, and con clude this letter by animalversions on the general tendency of Cie wiitings of V Lies. I have of!en been in doubt as to the politit al bias of The and wondered whether it was an impartial and independent journal, or a decided, though covert enemy to the executive power; but lately I have had every reason to fear the iatter, and in that , I had rather contend against The and its weekly supporters ; who at least coca e inanf!r!! - i'orward, and at once openly dee!are themselvc , . Does The noon praise any 11:o. - tsure, or any action, ex ceivi,l those of the immortal ‘V!,:r.1.1 NGION, there is al vit.s an it lo ought in, o: some bye'. tow h detracts from the appLuse. Can ri-oy sinister coostruction, or unfaeour alrie conjecture, be formed 'or any subject of exultation, it is sure to be lured in to damp our joy Can any additional suoni;es of an unpleasant nature be superadd‘d to any cause of regr.t, The Times is inclined to give it us? As an instance of the former, when, from K tirusow's dispatch, we are re joiced to he that all the inhabitants of Moscow had been renno . ed fi um its wall'; wevious to the occupation of the city •he Fieoch, 'Pee To:o ; good natures ly conjectures that only means the rie!! inhabitants ; and thus, in the second pi:ice, when we are grieved at the loss of the Guerriete, it insintroes that its commander has not done his duty, and that from his youth and inexperience he was unfitted for the office which he lie!d. such a surmise as this, is both un manly and 'unjust. In such cases, where the honour and reputation of fellow creature are at stAe, we should Only from }:roofs positive; and it' the Editor will give him v.ll the trouble attentively to peruse the American account 01 the engueentent, he will therein perceive that Captain DacttEs resisted as long as' his ship would swim, and that his having been overcome, was owing to his having to omlond with a vessel of superior force, mole numerously Manned, and, who knows, perhaps with sailors who had learnt to Conquer on board a British fleet. These remarks have so grown upon me as I wrote them, that f fear trespassing upon room, which I am certain might be much better occu pied in ycur . solumns.. I shall, therefore, contrary to my 175 intent lout at the commencement ofthis letter, say but a test words more to V ETTA. I will merely ask him to answer without equivc<ation, whether he be - a ►rue lover of his country, and if si‘, whether be thinks that by inflatniflg the public mind any goof.' is likely to ensue? At best. this is a - mere hypothesis, and iu making the expel invent, I would ask him, if be, and all tie veformers. (let him not start at th* appellation, for though he disavows it, he is one), do not incur the peril of o% eon , ning what they cannot restore—our glorious constitution. I trust much, it is title, to the good sense of the n..tion ; vet, as drops of water slowly, but ..'ontinualls repeated, will wear the hardest stone, so the constant clamours against the rulers of the country may so undermine the loyalty of the people, inflame the turbulent, give hopes to the interested, and handles to the inimical, ae• at length to level the fabric, which has stood for many years the pride and boast of every British heart,and the envy and admitation of every surrounding nation. I remain; Sir, Your's, N[CROLA• ALUNF, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPER& PARIS, OCT. 13. COI4SIDERATIONS OF THE WAR WITH RUSSIA: The oh servation Tovtilei° to Louis XI I. has teen often re- To make wet with success, you must first have money ; money ;-3Jly, money .". How much more just and noble the maxim procleimed by Hannitial, :looted by I. ie.ierick, and of which we live so often soen the brilliant application by that hero wholl.ts stl. passed r hein boot :—" Ir Icongs to war to • Lipp no war." Must a nation begin by exhaustive itstof, in ori.er to inflict vengeance oo it< eneoty ?—and shoultl not all the weight of the cent. it be and to fall on those adv-rsaries who have provoked it ? first tousle (17.0 t n, then, the first duty of the head of a great people, is to render s i ancl inv:elaWe the cool try which It inhabit's. Since we have se:ii rea:i,e.l amongst u; the wish which Alexander expressed when. it the joint of death,--si.ice the sceptre'and the sword were placed in the hands of the most worthy, have we felt any alarm for t he safety of our frontiers ? }lave war, 3i1(1 all i!s attendant scourers, deformed the nroected by his powerful arm ?• It was for him to spew himself, in order to drive then hick Qll the teriitcry of the prCstiMpttlOUS enemy who throottencd hint. did that enemy confide in the immensity of distance. This eel was destined to see revived the times of Cyrus and A lexaedzr. Seventy das s have scarcely elapsed since the first French bayonet tered in the eyes of the Russians, and already the eagle of Napoleon flats over tlm antient palace of the Czars. For the fist tittle, the sons of the Seine, of the Loire, and the Rhone, penetrate into test gitns hardly known to their fathers. but the descendants of the t; sills, wh la a Route its ashes, do not exclaim like their ancestors,— , " Woe to the eyiquislied !" Never did civilization obtain a Snot victory over barbarism It is the conquerors who save time van, croon the effects of their own rice. A subject of tfie _Rust Czar dere.' to w•il that Moscow should perish, and the arniy of t French Monate!) snatched that suoerb city from destruction. But kt us Cea:C for a moment to follow the rapid sweep of our victorious legions, and let us calmly contemplate the wise arrangements which prepared their triumph, and secure to-them its advantages. Let:us• view, with new admiration, another example of=—war maintaining .vac. Let us lay open to the envious view of Our rivals, the immense resouri es presented by the conquered country, said of which the enemy, by his very position, is henceforward deprived. As soon as all hope of peace vanished, the armies' deitined support the cause of Europe ag bust the new Allies of England, were put in motion. From tire first day of hostilities, encamped on the enemy's to ritory, they formed an, uninterrupted than from the mouth of the Niemen to 'll ,, sources e)1 thc Bug. On this b'ese Of 1 leagues in extent, tested all the. hoes of ',per:awn which now unite in Moscow, the central point to which they were directed by the soul a this gi end telovement.- Tat corps engaged never ceased to tpaiutain the closest mutual connection. hut, however valuable to the conqueror this vast pOrtinkof the do. mains of his adv...rsary,—however injurious its Las to the vanquished —it was not till the present moment that the latter must nylon to feel all the depth of his wound,,--all the danger of hie Situation. - A. short sketch soill demonstrate this Moscow, which all the elfin. of Peter the Great could not strip of importanee;hor even of the rank and charactertsties of the tree piral of Russia, is situated warty iu the centre of that vast 'empire g SAC Asiatic portion being cxcepted, tiurrouudiog paisatuct3 eta • THE NATIONAL REGISTER.