The National Register. — London, England, 1812-10-25 00:00:00

6g must their hearts, as well as their windows be, while they reflect that in consequence of the Peace they have made, they are admitted to the high honour of being slaughtered in the ranks of Napoleon the Great ? Assuming, however, that peace with BCONAPARTE is very desirable, let us now enquire by what means it can be s oonest attained. Is it likely that pu blic addresses, setting forth the calamities of war, with all the pageantry of woe and the ostentation of distress, and declaring ourselves to be wholly incapable of longer bearing the burdens which are imposed on us, will shorten the duration of the evil ? As well might it he expected, that indications of fear, at the commencement of a battle, would insure success. It should almost seem that those who make these deplorable represen tations, are shallow enough to suppose that they will only be read by the Minister, or l the Assembly whose eye they are intended to meet. It does not appear to occur to them, that they will be seen by the enemy, and that in proportion to our despondency his confidence must in erease. They feel not this. They are not aware that the anxiety they evince to desist, gives him courage to persevere. That the clamours of the manufacturers in a populous dis trict, when thrown out of employ, will be loud, we must expect. They are entitled to our commiseration, and to any assistance we can afford ; and though their voices are raised indiscreetly high, indignation should be checked by pity. It is different when men., who from the rank they hold in life, and from the information they are supposed to possess, ought to stem the torrent of popular clamour, act the s one part, and make themselves the organs of the uninformed multitude. It should be the olliect of such to study the welfare of those they affect to pity, and not to court their applause. Men of sense and of virtue would endeavour to deserve rather than to obtain the praise of these unfortunate people, and disdain to seek popularity by sacrificing the interests of their admirers to their frenzy. Had such been the conduct of some of the members of the late Parliament, we should riot at this day have been at war with America. The Government of that country, however weak and wicked, would not have had the folly to precipitate those whose welfare they had in charge, into a war with England, had they not been made confident, not in their own strength, but in our distress, by the gloomy representations to which we have alluded. That we are at war with America is partly the fruits of the zealous exertions of our Wu EADs and BROUGH A NV. To the ability they displayed irr magnifying the distress of the country, the manufacturers who haw no work to sk, may attribute that war which destroy their node, and which, but for the weight given to their clamours by tlibse who are so popular with them, .could have been threatened, but never carried into effect. To those patriotic senators we owe the glories of Canada. Let them be crowned with laurel, and while the budding wreath adorns their honoured brows, for once they may enjoy the pleasing reflection ef having been the cause of a triumph to old England. General Pura. has reason to weep whenever their names are mentioned. But for them he would never have made himself the laughing stock of the world by his absurd proclamation, but for them be might have sunk to his tomb without disgrace, and but for them he would never hare invaded Canada, to surrender himself and his army without firing a shot! *Whether America or England will ulthrsately have most reason to deplore the effects of those exertions which we de l); ,f human foresight. T , ridate concessions to overnment, can es on 1)141 1:C Alit. INIIIIIMII eason to deplore tne eReC _ IS iir (MUN; Li•J Ire Cate, is at e rej . • •onck,the reach of f ho "k'; iorous for tit appera • . .., • - . • , .0 11 • .**, •• \*** Air 03 • , • THE NATIONAL REGISTER. OCT. 25. That which they most dreaded they have brouOit upi m themselves by their folly, in seeking to avert it by ad vertising the enemy of their alarms. ;N1 r, 111;01:G11A i, CX tilting in the popularity and plate which he has (though, pet liars, his transports are sonte*hat allayed h% the loss of his election) may very serenely tell his his convivial hours, that if the distresses of the country a r e known abroad, lklinisters have themselves to thank lot it ;. but the broken-hearted manufacturer will in time discover,. that this reflection, however consoling to a men& r of that .partv, who, in the discomfiture of the present Adininitrz.ll(..l sec all they want, cannot mitigate his distress. 'That BRO UG uA m should thus over the bottle mock those he had used as a stepping-stone to his ambition, is hardly excused • by the circumstance of the glass having circulated freely, lie may still go en in the same strain, but the ox-roasticg, health-drinking, pkte-voting inhabitants of the gianufactur .ing districts will be likely to hold very different languagf., These, enlightened by dearly bought experience, may be expected; hereafter to teach others, while their hearts ate bursting with angui;h, the consequence of their rot having :been sooner taught themselves, " that firmness and patience under difficulties arc more likely to abridge the rried of their duration, than despondency and clamour ; and th a t t o . avow indisposition and inability to cat ry on a war when no opportunity offers for honourably terminating it, is nit: the way to obtain a permanently advantageous peace." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCA:. FRENCH P_IPEES. TSV ENT Y-SECO I) Rt 1.1. M IN. Moscow, -SF PT. 27. —The Consul General lessips has Keen ap pointed Intendant of the Province of Noscom. 11e has onottlized Municipality and several Commissions, all composed of inhabitants the country. The tires have entirely ceased. We every day discover ma“aaim• of sugar, furs, clothes. Ste. The ettemv's army appear to retire apou Kabl() and Toula. Toula contains the greatest nottunacnoy anus which there is in Russia. Our advanced ettard is upon the Usk ra. The Emptror is lodged in the imperiid Palace 01 the Kremlin. 11 k have found in the Kremlin sevend of the o!nantent , used at the Cu ro. nation of the Emperor, and all the thig. taken from the Turks for up watch , of ome hundred years. The weather is nearly the same as at the end of October at Paris. It rains a little, and we have had sows white frosts. We are ale assured that the Maslova, and the rivers of the co.nirly. 1. do not freeze before the middle of November. The greater pait the army is cantomed at Moscow, where it r,sts from its tatves. PARIS, oc7r. 17.—We love to-day received letters from Moscox, d : .ted the 30th nit. The army is in the best possible situation. Ps , - visions begin to accumulate in the magrhines. Thu cellars of tl.al county are cotpstructed in such a manner as to hr secured against ih and the inhabitants of Moscow kid in thew deposited u!I their proi stow, and most precious objects, so that in a hew days after the lin: abundlnee appeared in the city. The inhabitants are enipto rebuilding , their r--swellings. The country, the numerous harms, am the chase:lux, which arc between St. Peturshlirgh a n d Twer hire re mained unrolls:llrd, so that the minket* are abundantly sapplied sit . * meats of all kindq. I[u Matestys health has not experienced the sliyditest elteratki throughout the who . Ae czonpaign. The Civil Administration of Aluattor rs completely. Organ iZed 1111 : "Cr NOr —B .r •ifiret ‘yeelog otn: town It.ls assivued a mi,re pacific appearance than hes etosore. The liinorrous p i•bitlgS trthps luve diminishad, and cons• (piously the expencet of military [whoop; we 110 W enjc.y the most pionmod peas whilst the fate of Eurere is being decided in the hos•nu of Ru•sia, and wor troops tate prt in the great blows- which are struck thi. re. lie Sides 1114 Ps people are cured of their to eo , y credulity, and ot their predebetain for the itus4ans-, which lute eveniti have epiabled them to , krow. trors, who form at part ot the 10th corps of the 6ra:..d Army, have oeeli reinforced,. and stgaisi ciimpleted to their full extent. hes t t 4444 4 043 ill- Out diAtirtnit imitUrs which. they Ilan.. b a s meet oa 1L l I th_ CPI minder Onr dc , Ow Pro ti:r 1:11!( I r ile I but thii ~ • Ci. . e% , ex ice. 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