The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-16 00:00:00

J ULY 16. that he has in the face of Europe, represeeted a place to lave capitulated which had not done so, He ;nay hive converted defeats into victories ; thele are akavg two ways of telling a story ; but to invent a fact altogether is something eew indeed—and yet we have what is very like it. Raab is in the centre of Hungary t!I What beographers we are in England nut to understand things etter. The Austrians; do not appear to have knolvn its value, as they left, according to BVONAPARTE's accouist, only one thousand eight hundred men to tlelend it. IL: would have been better pleased. if pursuing the old system, they had divided and subdivided their forces in garrisoning freutter town', and miiiiuts statiots, he might then nave destroyed thein in detail, besides imitating the relic . ) , of INIMP or MaceeoN, he could take any town. ina the fertitcatif.us of which lie had nettle a breach large enough to die+e an teis laden with gold. The A rehdeke is cone-entrvi:ig every thine: against the of conflict, which is 'nevi tabl . orse and worse BUCNAPIRTE'S StlIaL)11 ,(tie ussiahs cannot arrive before the decisive battle :s toueee, and we have soms doubt if they would arrive, even if it were practicable. The Russian Emperor tnav ‘vish to see if fortune be really chained to the person of BIIoNAPART-ii.% The events which have taken place tipna t:ie Left Bank of toe Danube, may stn;.-Fer ben CV 0(1 in Petersburgh. The rebuand of stint) a shack mav be felt at a great distance; and that tray be true in politics wh i ch may notwithstandmg be incapable of shaeoustratione •if the forces of*the Austrians iieSaxonv and Franconia are so very small, what should prevent 11uusAVACTa (ruin extirpating them ? What should keep the King of SAXONY a prisoaer at Fraekfort I A lie bas two edg:. - s, and this cuts both ways. If there are only Taoo in one place, and 8000 in the other, where are all t he French troops that certainly were there ? or what must have been the dispositions of the people who can have submitted • quietly to a force so inconsiderable?--it is this spirit of the people that haunts BUONAPARTF, he has never yet had to contend with it, and if the Austrians pursue the same Spirited intellectual warfare they now practice. they will beat BLIONAPARTE at his own weapons. These ephemeral Bul letins, as he calls them, he cannot bear—they tease him worse than a gad-fly teazes a thineikinned horse in thes dog days ; they do, and they will, excite insurrections against his detestable and detested power. The Austrians are improving the moments of delay in recruiting their force in every quarter. They harrass him every where. if I hey are beaten in the Tyrol, or at Raab, they re-appear . in Itatj, anti their Generals are ahnost. uhiquitisls. CHAS TELLAR perforros wonders; to -day at Venice, to-morrow in Hungary. We do nut like the appearance of an Aus trian Ambassador at the out-posts of the French army. If the Emperor of AusTala makes peace he is conquer ed---Napoeunts can never forgive %%bat has passed ; and will never for a moment cease t prosecute the vast plans which have occupied his insatiable mind. Ambition is made of stones stal—no compunctious feelings wit! pre weril—no treaties will bind, and. nothing but a superior force will compel hint to be quiet. A state of peace %Yeffid be a sentence of obscurity to such a man ; and he till never make it but with a view of retreating from his prey as a tyg,er recedes in order to spring upon it with ac cumulated strength. fellowing is a copy of a letter we have been favour ell with re!ative to the capture of Cuxha‘en UL I CO LA ND, JuLY 6—EC .have received accetuw , . of the landing of our troops at Cuxhaven, which .e wag taken, the Dutch troops having made their e!4.ape Cr' the appearance of our force. The inhabitants immediately plied our troops, nod sigr.i INI a wish to 'nitre!) against Ham hurgh. • We expert every moment some fresh arrival, aril of sours you ',lnv v peel an account of something having taken jklaee in this neighbourhood. The celebrated Thomas Paine is dead ; but of the pre cat Limo or piaus where 1w died ay unaitiou is made. TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. 461 • LASE INDIA HOUSE. Friday a General Courl was held at the East India House, - for tim puriyow of taking into consideration the Report of the Conti of Director.= upon the Resolution of n special General Court, held the 2d too. re-pectins the recall of several Writer; 'nd Cntlets ho:A. atovoinanctits are said to have been obtained 1) . ) improper mean,. sir. S:a,soin rose. and after a speech of considerable length, 'noted, That the Resolution of the Court of Directors, dismis• sing certain Wrlers and Cadets from the company's. Service, should not be carried into execution, N hick ttal seconded by Mr. Lob; talcs, and opposed bb the Chairman, Mr. Jackson, &c. The previous question was then put, and cairried by a great majority. Wednesday evening at seven o'clock the Purser of the ship Sir Stephyn Lushington, arrived with the account of the arrival of the following ships lam Pitt, Hugh Ingl.s. 1..arl St. Vincent, liarriett, Sir William Bensley, Sovereign, Huddart, Lucius, Northumberland, Euphrates, Lord Eldon. TIIE fRIC.AILF. THE FOUNDLING OF THE FOREST. Our forefathers, a race of beings whose ideas in matters of - taste were certainly more limited than those of their descendants, were absolutely in earnest when they asserted that they considered the drama as the speculum of human nature I—A relic of this absurd doctrine has occasionally met our eve over oar modern stages in the veluti in spe culum, and specias, et lu speciabtre which they sometimes exhibit as mottoes. One Shokespear, whose genius never pretended to any thing beyond common nature, whose very character of ('aliban merely exemplifies human pa signs in a state of brutality, and whose spirits and demons are no thing more than our bad and good impulses personified, was the origin of this prejudice. Old prejudices (and this is of two hundred years' standing), arc not easily extir rited. There are still many who admire, or pretecd to admire, the dramas of that writer ; and we htve eves heard sonic modern dramatists, whose productions plainly .demonstrate the polite hypocrisy of their lips, declare their enthusiastic adoration of the very name of this Matt , . spear. But is it possible to suppose that a modern torifee of drainas, whose genius is of a very different degrri,olion, can leave the' light pages of romance to study character and anatomise the human heart And for wl u 2—To be hissed by au enlightened audience who crowd the theatro with the expectation of seeing something strange anti ex travagant, something splendid and noisy, someihing worth paping s-,; , e, and not those sorts of characters and those. sorts of sentiments, which they can see and hear, c% cry hour for nothing, in their common intercourse with._ so• ciets% The new play of The Foundling of ihe Forest, which was• v:i!b greet I_ , .ppllus , !, en I.7oLday at the 11(4-market Theatre, is an excettent sp.:6lll(th of taro lwrfection of the Modern Drama. From many scenes of at we may without hesitation conclude, that if the author ever knevr nature, he has completely lust sight of her in the bewildering mazes of Romance. Vor character, eipres• slot) of sentiment, and display of passion, he has runimaged the German, French, and Atodern British Dracia-manutic torks with great success. Their copies of each others patterns, he has copied again, and his 'theatrical tapestry exhibits the figures of men and woman as unlike any human beings•as any of the monstrous forms in the antique ing's of our ancestors. The principal petsonage oct' the i piece is a being under the nfitieneAt of ines:inguishithle grief. Grief, when entirely unsupported by th e 1,3mv,.1 cif remorse, always yieids to the hand of time, and notch shorter period than eighteen years, sAsides into rAi.gned sorrow and awful recollection . 'l'?;is is particohrlv 1.1 e case - when that grief is entirely hopeless, when nothing, te restial remains to keep the mind twin gliding •,(.,)(/:,, i nto the current of diurnal duties, and (Larne trrti:4,-.ci:l.s.