The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-24 00:00:00

IVILIT IS' TO COME? OR, 1814. Earti► !shaken beneath them ; anti the plain, Is dreneli'd witl► blood, and hc•ap'd with alaiii!—FEMOWS. • FORTUNE, luck, and chance.' says an acute writer, • are the trinity of fi)ols: were all men wise, they would look higher r —Twenty-four years of revolutiot , ary devasta tion and unsparing war, almost unexampled and altogether hopeless, have not yet instructed the major ity of men, whether as govei ning or governed, to trace (fleets to their causes, and bow, with subjected hearts, to the great DIS POSER of EVENTR! Every where ale otherwise rational men still talking of the fortune of war, hoping that swne lucky draftee will tutu up in then favour, and alter the cha• ratter a those circumstance; which infinte power has evi dently ordained, and of which infinite wisdom can alone te- veal the result. Who among us could foresee (and, even had it been foreseen, who would have believed it?) that an individual of Ho importance at first, emerging horn the despised island of Corsica, was to become an Emperor over Frenchmen ; and. taking the eagle for his enskin rise, like to the eagle which the prophet taw coming up from the sea, overflow and pass over many countries, intermarry with royalty, and erect a new dynasty on the ruins of that throne which had laboured most to oppress and degrade his native land ? Corsica is avenged, however, v . vhile Frimce is enslaved ! She who once oppressed her most, now lies bleeding at her feet. What is, nevertheless, to come ?—W hat is, immediately, at hand? The present times ant be found still trying times. Peace, like the dove sent forth from the ark, finds no rest for her feet. Woe unto us. "Or the tlny p;oct/i . away; JOr sha dolts of the evening are 611 i lehed out ! The ensuing year, assuredly, will develope much. Fiance still boldly preseuts her front. N.,poicari, al:11,110i latterly somewhat thwarted, is yet confideot at heart, and will re double his ardour to complete the work for the execution of which he was originally raised up. and irreversibly destined. lie cannot stop. What his hands find to do, he must do out offhand. Europe, therefote, should not be so: prised to see beg interests betrayed, her sons immolated to war, her coun cils divided, and even her valiant defe n ders committing themselves in imprudent and calamitous exploits. Alen in deed may talk about peace. Congresses will, in all proba bility, be convened, tending to amity, but, amidst such op position of inlet ests, :tun the din of arms, there seems no likelihood of any thing being seriously attempted by way of pacification. This does not fuem the set time for peace. Parliament, of 4:ourse, will be occupied with weighty con cerns, when once it procee(!s to the dispatch of business. 111ussi ions personages must carl:• engross its gravest attention. Great projects ate now braoching out. Elevated characters seem, as they are wont to do, whether male or,/; wale, soon about to force themselves into consideration, and excite. unusual attention Religious intercession should be renewed on behalf of our ted So.:ereign ! While we hear of eminent fcaonanders, both by sea and land, being slain by the edge of the sword, we must be pre pared to see dvainguished Slate ,men meet their cud by the or dinary scythe of time. New men are revited for new la i itr;oti.na loolis to tliuniph in the Peninsula. Spain has to la ware. however, civil tli.• tat's, traiterous inAchina ti,o,s, and ill- id •-scd cute' pi isei. Malpractices are being e‘tly ‘vnere de.ected. Germany and Italy/ may expect to be greatly a4,itated; Russia to find distraction in her councils; and e% etl.lloL'auei to exceed ail her sufferings ! Atreiica—where our kindred still dwell —why has• Ame-• rice, in an evil hour, departed from the paternal admoni tions of her Washington ? What of France ?-I.ler portion of misery is assigned her. A etichristian France has been scourged by infidel France, infid4 by inili!ary, and military Franco %.:t remain; to he .conned in due time by revolutionary. France must drink the vial of wrath to its eery dregs t ller eagles will one day devour her. ENG!. A ND- 4 with all thy faults, I love thee still !'—is Vet " lord of the ascendant." lYserted though she has been, and distressed as she is, England still rises superior to her enemies, and, r ounding in Providence, may defy both their threats and their attacks. Complaining there may be, for s ome time to come, in her streets ; nor is her sister cottony entirely safe from the designs of the foe ; but she stands uu an enviable eminence, alsof from the te:npest, and ought to esteem herself as incomparably happier than any of the states with whom she is connected u Let her devoutly ap preciate her Tot. Affluence worild thus distribute of its 641- siwys those ho need them, kindness be cherished by all classes Aocietn, and handr and hearts be confederated for the pur petuation of our constitution ! .00. 'll, 1813. PROM ETH EUS. •„* Exactly eight years have elapsed, this day, since Ad ' mirai Lord .Nelson was killed in the glorious engagement of Cape Trafalgar. England lost, in him, the hero who bore her name in thunder round the globe; who struck terror into the very hearts of her enemies ; and who, were he now living, ::null hue' made America repent • in dust and ashes; of her subservicncy to the Thuilleries ! The patriotic reader must allow me this observation. compAßATtvn sTATEmENT 01."1111r , PHYSICAL, ECO. NOMICII„ AND MORAL FORCES OF NAPOLEON, IN TliE YEARS itiP2 AND 1313. -- JANUARY, 181'2. - AUGUST, 1811. 1. Napoleon was in alisolnte 1. Napoleon hi lost a part ni possession of the FrNieli Empire, the rivd Mills:11y diyibion, a part the kitit:dom of Italy, Illyria, and of Illyria, :d. :vain, and the ital the not hero par! of tipain. mat lan i.lnuls. I. Ile was indirectly master '2. Prus,ia, Mecklenburg, awl of the states of the Uonfeduration the Grand i)orhty of 11'ar,ior al e of the Rhine, of V ussia, of the now no longer his dependencies ; kingdom of N-iples, and the Pius is and NleeklPunisrg art., on Grand Imehy o f W a rsaw ; he the contrary, in auli against him. had possession of the fortresses on tl,e Oiler, and a limited alli ance with Denmark. 3. Au-tiia dreaded him power ; her military system was reduced ; circumstances rendered her his ;illy ; she consented to give him 1 39,000 men. 4 Russia kept her ports shut ; !the 11 , 811 I 1. 0 .0 0 0 men upon her frontier to defend Iter independ ence : hot she was at war with England, :11Id the Porte, and soon after with Sweden,. S. Austria has an army of up wards of •I1)o,000 men ; she is no longer allied to France, but has acceded Its the new alliance again,t her. 4. Russia has beyond her fi.on tiers ;!()0,000 men ; she ocenpit s the Grand Duchy of Warsaw ; her ports are open, she is united with England, Prussia, Sweden, and Spain ; she is at peace with Tin key, winel. considerably in (leases her moral force, and it has been proved by facts that she cannot he completed. 5. Sweden liming entered into the new %% ar, furnishes more than :.0,000 men, who iirc acting Op the Continent. 5. Ilk latter Power was in a state tir tieutiality with France ; 4iiti Napole9ti 441 . 4 re4l her ,nti,-i -,Ves to induce her to &dare her fur him. TTIT 7 . I\I%.TIONAL REGISTER._ OCT. 2t.