The National Register. — London, England, 1809-08-20 00:00:00

THE N ITIONAL REGISTER. her troops are to be employed ie the ihsinemberment of that empire. But we cannot cre.lit the nnaccomitable tile, we cannot believe that whilst Russia and France arc united in a systee, which goes to divide Europe piece-meal, that Austria v iii stand like a waiting lackey to serve at the repast, humbly hoping that cromlis may drop to forea her indemnification out of the generill magazine of plunder. This would be descend mg indeed from the Irish ground she has ;vs:tined.. of maintaining the Ist; reninnnt of liberty on the Continen: this would he adding imprudence to ilc:2:radation, for whilst she was sharmg iri the golden fleece, it is more than pro bable that her talons would be entangled in the burthen.— iller army employed in maintaining her conquest over a people el:waled an.! enconraged in an e• Orly antipathy to her power, would last dissolve; hf. , r military discipline would decline, tier po!mlation :IA the ties which connect the governors anti the subj:Tts, being neither dra .so close. or so well .tr ranged as formerly, she would in all probability, at some fut ere and not very clis•,aut period, be taught akin with her plunders, and converted into a coin - woo tf,rev. 'Ent our connexion with the Ottoman Fnp'.re renders the possib]lity of this measure somfything moue than I tilaticY et . reprobation, ()seven or cnriosity. Whilst history ith how munch ease A.da Minor may he over-run v: Len attacked styf2rior vigour, the history of the Crucides has Ociponstrated on the other hand,t hat the w hole of ilurope in vain e:s:ert ac;et together to suiii!sit , it, when tiefendcd with a like vigour. It may, indeed, afforl matter for speeulation, how tar soccexs attending the project of dismembering the Empire of th. .`! . .ultau may be advan tageous to mankird. G re ece in the hands of a great European power, would, in the course of ye7tes, recover in all probability, some 01 its former splendour, hit it would not. perhaps be (tan s-crous. It is too far from France to form an intearal -0 part of that Einpiie ; and if it did not. the connexion. to I , e!mluent, most he with some other powers—that yo..ter, we arc told, is to be Atis:,ria. It is not for the in teri si of the homan mind that the finest portion of the • globe, the Land. every spot of which is pregnant' with re tititi.brances of science and of so;;;, the laud of the sage nod the warrior, should continue to be pressed down by the weWit, of cacti a Government as that of the Turks. Even the mind is shackled in the regimnt of despotism, lihertv is, front its very nature, spontaaconsly pro- f ; to be assured of this, we have °my to compare the enterprises, both of body and mind, formerly exhibited by a few small communities of Greece a:id of Asia, with those which hale been exhibited by the immense domi nions of dequit.sin in which they have been for ages im merse:l. 'Fins emit rast will be found more remarkable in several points of view, as the Ni:ihomeilan i:roprietiirs of these very dominions in the middle age 3 (during which th e y enjoyed a certain portion of freedom, muted with their religious enth:.siaam), were not only memorable for f e at; o f a r ms (which carried terror to the gates of Vienna), but were for some time signalized in science, in agricul ture, and in arts , till the ni g ht of general desi•otivn return to daiken them. The people of the Morca still talk of their ancestors, and they will flock round the first sts i odard • that is displayed ag - ainst a government that produces only slavery and oppression. But the total overthrow of the Turkish power will, we conceive, be a work of no slight difficulty. The physical strength of a country of 16.'1,060 square miles, in which almost every MU is a so'dier, is not easily ewiquered. There is a fund of strength in the country which perhaps clothier, but despair and religious e-Jhosiastn can elicit, but which, Vk hen once put into motion, wilt for a time, like an immense torrent, sweep all before it. A lized nation defeated, only becomes more anxious to pre serve what is left. and capitulates to the conqueror. A barbarous nation sees no alternative bet we ct independence and annihilation, It has no concern about consequences, it adopts ao cautious measures, but collects its.last strength 20. Into one terrible and ',nighty impulse, and tramples down As enemy, or rushes , :!)on his sword. The Turks have sunk as a power, but have not so coin ! pletely de!renerated as a people. Whom by a series ofvil iaioy and destruction the last remains of the Roman Ent eire in the East had died the most eliemiwte of deaths, o the hands of the Mahomedans almost without a struggle, hese same men failing into a similar despotic coarse ac ea me sanguinary to one another, and feeble tow aids their enemies, and have in a great degree forgot the very art which is first learned, and last lost among despots ; namelyt, that of war. The government living as it were on the entrails of the dominions without any . care taken for pos terity, arc kept together more by the intluence of religion than of policy. It may and has been said of them iudvidually, that if others have advanced much, they have retrogaded but little ; that they are still the same bold and savage men who besieged V walla, and filled every kingdom of Europe , vith terror. There is no soldier in the world super;er to the native Turk, the disdain with which he has Veen accustomed to look down upon the surrounding Nations, have given him the revered and lofty spirit. which distiagnisheg a Tyrant lirir.7 among slaves. • The policy of his religion has impressed ad the stronger features of a warrior upon leis character, and the danger of Mahon). iredanisin will bring the people swarming by thousands rotted the staneard of the Prophet from every village id diet immense region which spreads from the Euphrates to the Dz!nohe. The fall of Turkey opens out a prospect which bewilders the rye of the politician. It has been a kind of mental barrier belseeee gurope and the East, an enormous intellec teal (!escrt, which no man could pass without paying trihrie to the savage tril:es who Fore through and make it desolate. Great changes muyt he ;he result of dismembering this reap re and Persia, Indcntan, and even China, may no be heyond the intienace of a spirit :o whose progress iiothin4 hns hitherto oficrei an effectual opposition.—We shall lIUMIC this subject at another opportunity. Paris papers to the 21st, Ilambnrgh to the 11th, Berlin. Frankfort, and other papers to the 4th, have been received in town. They do not Coittail} any fresh Bulletin, nor is there any account of Preliminaries having been signed be tween France and Austria, so late as the 2Sth July. Re ports to this effect prevailed at llsmbnrgh, but the Vienna papers to the 29th do not mention this circumstance. We do not therefore place any reliance upon the reports. BUOM•PARTM is expected at Paris, where, it is said, a Congress of the Princes of the Confederation will be held. Private letter state, that negotiations aro still carrying on, and that hostilities are not likely to re-commence. Just as our Paper was going to Press, we were informed that iutelligence has been received from the Continent, which states, that the Archduke CuAuLEs has been removed from the command of Me Army, and that notice has been given to the French of the termination of the Armistiee. We are very much inclined .to doula the truth of this account ; because, if the latter event has taken place, wVch we devoutly wish may be tuue„ we can see no reason for the removal of the Archduke CIIIIITLES. Prince Joust was never suspected of being a great General, or one likely to retrieve the lost honours of the House of Lorraine ; if he had signed disgraceful an& itr;oininions terms of peace we should not have bee sur prised. We can only say, we rather wish than believe the intelligence to be correct. American Papers to the li Lb ult. have been received. but their contents are of little or no iulportance. At the celebration of the anniversary of Anaevi;:ati independence, which took place throughout thA United State i in the be. ginning of list month, the ureshniinlnce of public opitw.4% was greatly In favour of this country. E