The National Register. — London, England, 1808-10-02 00:00:00

- `'"3 ' OCT. Q. mut, and in the intrepidity of our soldiers. if we have judgment and courage to employ these means to their full extent ; if we entrust them to men , not chosen on account of their alliance with this or that particular family, but for their merit, loyalty and services, we have it in our power to oppose an insurmountable barrier to the progress of the enemy beyond the Pyrenees. Let this be effected befurcl we form new projects : We can u,osr, in the present humbled state of the Luropean marine, laugh at the iuva sion of our shores, and consequently employ our whole re gular force This is the important and favourable ground to tight on, if we expect a result commensurate to the greaiiiess of our means. We are afraid a very mistaken and ruinous policy may be adopted by sending part of our forces to the western coast of Naples, and another to the Adriatic. If the Italians have courage to shake oft' the yoke of their oppressors, they will do it without our assist ance ; it is then time to fly to their aid ; but let us not use lessly waste an army of 30,000 men in the Mediterranean, to watch their moment of insurrection. Fur that purpose the army under Sir JOHN STUART is more than sufficient. Spain is the ground where we should have, if possible, an a.iuy of 60,000 men before the first of November. This great force will dive an importance to our operations and a respectability to our alliance. It is perfectly indifferent where we beat the French, if we can only do it. The great object of our exertions and our policy is to tear from him a part of his present conquests ; to prove thus to Eu rope the greatness of our resources and the fallacy of his invincibilits. It would be perfectly equal if that can be done in Spain or in Naples, with this material difference, that in the former country we are cerluin of finding a peo ple, who have the will and the courage to co-operate with us. Sincerely do we wish that this were the intention of his Majesty's Ministers. We have been long deceived in our expectations of Austrian, Russian, and Prussian co operations. Let us begin at last to look to ourselves and to reckon upon our own energy. If the former unite in the noble undertaking their assistance will be acceptable ; but we should calculate, as if ss c had as little to expect from them as front the man in the moon. This is the true secret of national, as well as individual greatness. - Good heavens'. when vie take our resources, our opulence, tne tragic effects of our institutions, and the acknow itls,sed bralery of the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland, into consideration, we cannot conceive how pusillanimity could creep into our Councils. if there were a t-taleswan !a this country who could only look beyond the iss eis e month, and use the great lever of the press to ad oantage, he could call forth energies, which would fix our destmv liar centuries. Let no haff-measures be adopted ; let our full strength only be put out ; and a result will piaaluc«t, "hid' it would be considered as extravagance to pretend to at present. Spain, we repeat it once moil!, is the thc - atre on ‘4liich we can display our means to greatest ad ‘antage. The peop:e of that country, animated with the same ardent lose of freedom—and the same abhorrence of the comiron "etny, promise us a greater certainty of active, !oval co operation, than any other people we know of ou the Conti nent ; and if our exertions be proportionate to our re sources, moral and physical ; if our Statesmen have a par ticle of the genius of a t :11ATIIAM, a day will burst upon its, not inferior in splendour to those whea MaßLSOßursa. our Ea walla and Ilrasav planted our triumphant standards en the t"ita . hc, the Loire, and the t'eheltl. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. The last Dutch Papers speak w:t4 confidence of aye ham view between the Emperors ALaxamosa and Naport LEON at Erfurth, in Upper Saxony; and the latter wit daily expected to quit Paris fur that purpose. This rumour, however, but ill coincides with the harangue on the parade; in which the Corsican informs his guards that they must hold themselves in readiness to traverse the Pyrenees. To speculate to any certainty on this matter, would be no easy tusk, when we mitect on the errors and perverse . calculations of the Cabinets of the Continent. If the event, however, takes place, which it is impossible for us to give credit to, ALEXANDER is one of the weakest and most un reflecting mortals that exist. Ilad he the baseness or folly to consent to this degrading step about five mouths ago, he would have never returned to his capital ; but the eveuts in Spain have cooled the impetuosity of the Corsican; and when we reflect on the unpriucipled character of the Grand Duke CONVIANTINE, and what a worthy accomplice he would be of BONAPARTE, we have reason to suspect some treachery in the business. Poor deluded Monarch I How deeply is he fallen ! What an instructive contrast does he atfoid, when set in opposition with the brother-in= law he so scandalously eudeavours to plundet ! The one, with the scanty resources of the poorest Kingdom in Europe, by his perseverance and covrage in defiance of the calculations of the Continent, maintains the independence of his country against the united efforts of Russia, Denmark, and France; whilst the descendant of PETER the Great, and the heir of his immense possessions, is as degraded a 'assal of BONAPARTE as the most insignificant Member of the Confederacy of the Rhine. Perhaps the shock he may re- rive, in consequence of the capture of his two fleets in the Tagus and the Baltic, may open his eyes to the ruinoo9 tendency of the present war. sincerely is the unfortunate Monarch to be pitied, and still inure so the people, whose interests he so unworthily sacrifices to the views of a Foreigu Usurper. INTERESTING DISPATCHES FROM LISBON. Till FRIiv(U NOT PERMITTI:IIO TO CARRY OFF THEIR, Pl.l' N 0 CR. DiSpatchvs were on Thursday receivod by Government, from our Naval and Military Commatelers at Lisbon, dated [he 13th iusituo.„, We understand that t.ne embarkation of the first divis ou of the French troops, coosisling of about 7009 men, had taken place, agree:o,ly to the terms ,t 1 the Con%entioa, and that sonic British regiments then oc c upied the Citadel of Lisbon. Great dispntes had taken place witla respoct to the meauing Of that article of the Conveul ion hich re„,:krus property. General 2nuot. insisted that lift Lad a. right to cam whAte%er had been iu his power while he commanded at Lisbon ; whilst the British General euttendeil, that he Iv as not to carry away any species of plunder whatever. General Beresford and Lord !'ruby, on. the one part, and General Kellermann on the other, had been appointed to superintend the execution of the Con vention ; and a Committee Was at the *ADV.` time appointed for the purpose of ascertaining every particular article of phtuder, and restoring it to the rightfid owners. On the 10th, the Generals appointed to surrintend the- execution of the Convention, in order to satisfy . of the Porte , •uese upon the subject of the property, idled • the folio:ring • PROCLAMATION, • . BY THE OR ITISII A N FRENCH COM M155111Nr.R4, rot Set- INC CA KRIEL) iNto curEcT THE. CONVENTION, AGECED UPON HLTWEEN THE RESPECTIVE COMMANDER* IN CIL II: F • .• " For ibe fulfilment of the stipulations made in the Co 'yen. tion avec(' upon for the evacuation of Portugal by tile French 1 -... PRI 111.Mw f:M qllllll