The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-02 00:00:00

1 ~i~ own good time disposed of the scourge of nations. Austria cannot make peace : she most perish or she must re.list effectually. 1 , or what sort of a peace could be now made without security for its continuance one moment ; a peace which could only give l:reath to a degraded enemy to in crease his strength without lessening bis rancour, the in terval of which would only he employed in making pre parations for more effectl se %var.—This would, indeed, be preferring the greater to the lesser evil.—lt would be suffer ing a wound to heal npon the surface, whilst the real dis order spreads benfath and endangers the very existence of the patient, vviiich the continuance of r seasonable, al though perhaps a painnll remedy might have saved. IF .lustria could at this moment consent to patch tip a peace— between Russia and France, between the Eastern and Western Emperors, she would soon be annihilated. If one pulled out a hair because it was white another would be separated because it was black, and she would soon be left bald and bare to the winds of [leaven. The following is said to be au accurate statement of the etVective strength or the Corps to he employed in the Ex pedition : v A 1.410, - .—King's Cerman Legion, 21 LiTlit Dragoons, 600 ; 3d I,i!st Dragoons, 3 Squadrons, ; 9i Ii Licht Dra goons, 3 Squadroa,, •ISO ; 12th Light Dragoons, 70,1--Total '320. INF A Tft ['not t7tf3nl9, Ist Battalion. 1:120; ditto 34 Battalion, 1100; Flank ('ointlanies, ditto, tilhi ; King's Ger man Legioti, Ist Light Itattolioi, 725 ; ditto 21 ditto. 630; :id, Quest'!, 609 ; 31, or Itoy:IU, 11 I battalion. 10.)0 ; 4th Foot, Ist battalion, 1000 ; <<l ditto, 9‘4.); 501 Foot, I.t battalion, 9110; 6.'81, Ist ditto, S5O; Sits, 2(1 ditto, 400; 901. 1-t ditto, 950; 11th, 2d ditto, 775; 14;h, 2tl ditto, 10110; :->';111 Regiment, 900, 1 23:1, 2d ditto, 400; tstith. 14 ditto, 730; IStli 610 ; 3 ' 2 d, I st ditto, 590 ; 35th, gd ditto, 791; Ist ditto, 7'o; 380, 1:1 ditt to,• 759 ; -12 d, fst ditln , 7eo 4Sid, 2d ditto, (S 7 ; 500 t, Ist ditto, 10;10; 51st fi . to ; 591. 2d bat— talion, 742; 59:h, 2.1 ditto, 7-12 ; 63d, 2:1 ditto, 406; 68th Light Infaotr., 570; 71st, 1-t itAtalion, 1000 ; 7COII Foot, 700; 77th Regiment, 530; 79th, Ist battalion, 1000 ; 81st, - 24 ditto, 73'7 ; 1132 d, 24 ditto, 1000; 84th, 2d ditto 864 ; 85th Regiment, 530; 91st, Ist ditto, 500; 92d, Ist ditto, 750; 95th rig at iotnpanies, 600; Two ditto, 200 'Total ellecti% e rank ;and lite, 34,403. Wbeu the artillery, engineers, dr. are added to , this force, the amount will, as we have already stated, he not iess thau 40,000 men complete. ipon •od ICS 111- it and in liy !i f 'he _ whether t real or imani tars - , of flabby, fat cook-maids, who appear ready to faint under a toad of finery, or almost expiring with the UllllSil3l fatigue of dressing I.;7em selves instead tf the victuals. As little, I aiiprehen,l, the fashiontble world be disposed to figure away ii mai - Ales invented, on purpose, by the fashionable milliners and fanc : - dress makers of Fleet. Markel, the Alinories, or even of 'ravistock-street, and which base never been seen; but. on the giantie females that ornament the Iteposfioi:l;. flow ever tne passiontof the multitude may tolerate, and es en be led to eucourage the indecent (to say nothing Wu rYC) tires h ich disgrace the shop windows of our picture dealers, or which are temptingly exposed to more naidest feinale:4 in a Silll4 corner of the shop, where the port folio is exhibited, cannot help thinking that seven * Pe: inches, 111!e Oilirienso are not much to the taste of the town when rresvcd in fashionable, or rather what is called I astaiomble drapery. 1 am led Mao these observations by the silty superioritl, which the indiscreet feiends of that. publication attribute to the work. 1 say the friends for 1 cannot believe that either the German Editor, or the German publisher of the Repository arc so ignorant of the real supe riority in every department of another work (which I will not name, because 1 will not imitate them) as to be able to conceit it from their own conviction. trust the prilprictors of the work to which I allude will shrew their indisputable superiority by avoiding the s‘ stein ofquackery and puffing Is hich no disgustingly marks ti.-c ,Re posnory. It is notoriously (what your correspondent Crito only suspected) the fact, that ail the observations relating to that work, are manufactured at No. 101 in the Strand, iord advertisements, they arella the o bser v a t , o of Newspaper Editors, or even the gratuitous recommen lions of friends, but arc made up and paid fin-. It wi,old take up too much of your paper to point out the atisr ! ,lify of these puffs, and the mischief which in . many ins; ;;T3 they do to the very work they are intended to reemr ; but cannot help noticing one, which, if the Editor does Hut acknowledge as proceedi ng f rom hi s ignorance, muss l z :,t -trfnuted to a worse motive. 1 mean the advertiseint:i, v , hi el l announced an an original communication by a gentica.el-list arrived front Spain upon the subject of *dep. Sheep ; 1 ask the Editor of that work if he did not know t.JI eoannunication, so pompously and expensiirjly antronrlcecf, had Been published twent3 years go in almost every.r.,-r;e:) pOlication of the day. Thes JULY 2. THE NATIONAL REGLSTER. 42 1 , tensive, the force accordi n g e to report will be very little ' TO Tilt ED4ll'Oll OP FRE SAVONA L REGISTEit t SIIo r t or 40,000 men. We can form an opinion as to its destination only from conjecture, and that is not idle uphn ---ssis.--- the subject. If it.lgl intended to act in the rear of livoN A- SIR,-1 shrewdly suspect that a correspondent who sign '.,:, ...: • PARTE., amid lo operate U . llOll the Elbe, there are neat want- CR ITO , a n d w h ose letter WAS published in ell fr.; INQUISITOI ing those who consider it herhls probable, that so far from of the 10th of June, was in reality quitting-, and-that hi . being treated as enemies the Expedition will be received Strictures upon the noble Art of rutting, an art which he ap with friendship. A similar feeling is said to exist in 1101- peared to recommend, was Ili fact , all ironical satire upoi • /and if that.be the object: If Prussia has really solicited our thst practice. lam afraid his leiter has not been understoo assistsuce in the hour of its need and adversity, we may be as a friendly bolt in the only quarter where it could hay, inclined to forge t Ow miserable politics of the S over e i g n been serviceable ; otherwise some little decency would ha s . no in consideration of his fallen Mole, and we have no reason . been preserved, some little delicacy would have been chew to doubt the willingnoss of that nation to assist every effort towards public opinion. But. there are some faculties s, . to escape from the galling yoke by which it has been vcry obstuse, that nothing short of direct observatio • oppressed.—The Ilanoverians have been too severely will wake an imptession. four correspondent CRITO, h ponisbed for their attachment to a beloved Sovereign bringing into one point of view the several puffs which ha 111 not to join in tile same a t tempt.—l f the Spanish Peninsula been inserted in the Newsrpers..since the commencement t be the ulterior of of our armament, there is nut an the Repository, made the plan and design of them so ver honest man, there is not a real patriot in the kingdom'who obvious, that nobody coots! mistake the plan and principle ..,. '. 0 . w ill not ass;•nt to the propriety of rendering the Spaniards of the quackery winch had hem adopted to push a troll cvery aid i n our power. If we can keep iii cbeck pert' work'into notice. But there is a fund of good sense the assistan ce which iillo% A VARTE mig h t otherwise derive. it not of taste in this country, which will not long subnii • from Rossi:), and these formid•thle preparations are devoi- to be deceived. The general acquaintance with literature sm, mid to that purpose, no body can refuse their approbation which pert odes almost every class of the people, makes r.iiould tli - a ritiamen tbe declined for the Baltic, in which case impossible for them to be lung imiosed upon by sterile an 4 inertia ps the double purpose may be kept ' view . . - la o f ill ic i t • inelegant translations of German literature, hashed up i . . mug Crons!adt, or assts:oll4 the Swedes.—Belt whatever may what. your correspondent 4iroperly calls a mass of monthl be its lkstioation we sincerely wish it success. If the war dulness, as little will those who can allUrd to g ive I'm is to be carried on let it be done with vigour, and carried on shillings a month for a wretched olio, designated TI . ‘ it must be till the ETERNAL Dispog En of Events has in his Repository ig . filiation, be ple:ised with the ait; I .' own good time a . l . SpThied of t h e scourge of na tions . portrait: aons. . . .tostria whether real or imaginary, of flabby, fat cook-Alai& . . t. • I