The National Register. — London, England, 1809-06-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 1 F Our bin, con4rtrutton, anb No. 77. SUNDAY, JUNE IS, In)9. Pnzcr 9(1. POLITICAL DISQUISITION. sEVENTY-1 - 11'C. RUSSIAN POLITICS. .sinccre!y hope it. may torn out that the Cmperor of tl £Ol ANv is prepared to resist the tyranny of BuoN4.l..ttsTr, utihont the assistanceor even the nentrkility of Russia. For notwit.'“:.anding; thecmploymcnt of her best tro)i,s ‘iceden, of the army she lb slowly marching towards Gal- and the force she is collcycling on the side of Turk•q, Net if we arc right in our view of the political intention:, of Ill..; two Cmperorc, 11to ist will he forced in the popuhr rhraif., to assist BuoNArAuTE through 0141 anti thin, iaowever coyly or reluctantly she may appear to bring that assistance into action ; and whatever may have been the project , , or hopes of the Emperor of the FRENCH, his NaHty certainly would not permit hint to calculate upon being coopel up in the Island In 7 4ler-14°14mi, only 1.4 Q yards of the Danube, separating him from the Archduke CIE.+ a Lcs, by whom he has been defeated. If such an event had beef thought possible, the Itusian army would have been ; ?o,nallv prOmpt as the Italian army has'been to render 1k as:;i;iance. With respect to the politics of Itussa, and the certainty O BON A P !.T 1: being assisted in his ::roje;•ts upon Germany, Austria seems to tave indulged a sensele,s infatuation, aid to have bce•n obstinately blind to %%hat has been obvious to every tiliakin- man in Elcope since the Treaty of Tilsit. N T E ' S genius do:.'s not evaporate in plans or exploits of a secondary nature, Ills amhition concentrates the power of his ini,;(l, aild their united ell'orts :Are shewn in the deep designs which arc inscrutable to the pigmy intellects of puisnc politicians. Common poiiiicians act %vith so little system that iL becomes dittlienit at. any period to say what will be their net tt,cstsure ; but BONA eae.Te. before he acts, anticipates, and in re:;sonin,.: upou what is prohahle, extends his calculations to what is pos sible. It is not, therefore, in the comparative strength, or imbecility of A LEXAND rit, or the lius.iian Cabinet; bet to the comprehensive mina of BONA f.% ft Tr: WC must look for a solution of the conduct of the Em i ,efoo. licsst.l, Litij it is there we shall find the polar star of Russian politics. it is BoN.trAiure who is the ma;:er of the grand A i'chirnetlitut secret for drawing the world after him, posiss iog for his fulcrum five milliuns of the best soldiers in Europe. Russia, instead of remaining chained in her woods, and barbarous as the beasts which inhabit them; has lately spread herself widely into the politics of Europe as well as Asia, having civilized her military establishment:;, atui created a navy, haying augmented her re , :enne, her terri tory and populAion, she has now extended the circle of her political views.—The politics which governed the Cabinet of Russia for more than half a century, which %Nei,. almost embodied bs the wily CATHEKINE, and to which all the energies of her subtle mind were directed, have not ey rired with their author, but have survived even Lie rough handiins and e•opetirous nursme; of her succeisor.— ALETANDEIt, too feeh!e to R.;.i no to the great line which had been marked oat for him, would stare peaceably sub sided into a neutrAl• elia racier, and have felt sum ciently occupied by the internale cares and pleasures of his royal Eittkatio:l, hut drawn- by the politi , :s of the times into a - war rrauee, tie first res,erses peeved upon mind, and dissolved the phautou of glor, which (in a con test with lioNArAeTe.) he had foolisnly anticipeted. interview with this consommate peliiician, mms mei{ 's hi' to a co:imolai:el of pro:tas. A scheme of plen der, which he eas toeih!e to resist, ‘Vas o. r iC:rei to his greedy acceptanae The minor objects of morally are well enough inaleistood, nod vye are free enough to dla tisc Oleic violation, but the larger hoes of morality which belong to liosernments and to nations are scarcely re cognized ewen by political historians. They look fer events without relation to principles, they Si'c'k to interest rather than to instruct us, and conceiving' that Heroes and Princes are privileged to comioit enormous crimes, their practice is to make thc;e appear brilliant. It is, there fore, that Princes seem more desirous of astonish ing by the splendour even of their vices, than of serv ing mankind by the softer radiance of their virtues. It is under impressions such as these we consider the offer of liosa tere to hiz, , brother Einperor, which led tei the Treaty of Tilsit. An offer to renew the Eastern and Western Empires of Antiquity in favour of these two Sovereigns will afThrd an easy solution of their preseot union in Peace and War. It. is only to sijppose that BONA.- P.tiern has adopted the same maxims of political and mili tary tactics, and every thing is easy.. If the partition of the World into the Foupires of the East and of the West has been planned, all the objects of lesser moment arc suss 'wooed as inconsiderable, whilst the greater points arc de cidedly carrying oa. It folfteNs that AusTRIA and all continental powers iutiO be swallowed up, and all that the power which is able to make the most effectual resistance w ill o btain, i s the honour of being the last mouthful. The Confederacy (4 the Rhine, the smaller States of Cerman}', and the rest of Europe, will be suffered to exist no foil g-er than may be necessary to perfect this scheme. Eat theiai is a depth in the politics of BoNseinTE, not guile ohvi ous to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, as to others who conteie plate the possibility of BONAPARTE deceiving A %elev.. ancient states of Greece mutually assi!.led each, other till the Macedonians became powerful enough to destroy them one after the other; when this was the case, ALEXANDER instantly set about conquering the who'e world ; when Rome afterwards had gained a eertani ascend ancy of power, foreign states thought to gain more by aid ing than by opposing her, till Rome, drawing them, all ono after the other, the world suffered another conquest more exten , ove than that under Aersetsoen. For the preseet, however, these two great powers (possessing between them more than WO millions of subjects) appear to have so far a common understanding, and a common interest too, as to assist their mutual projects; they appear at present in pc[l.,:ci;