The National Register. — London, England, 1809-11-12 00:00:00

51l u,g 7‘22 tO.brioiNtxttfitGisTmt. lslalt, al• JIM • 'the insiintianee of the We, • CaMpaign.'''Vre heard of no nO cowardice, no depittations to compliment the 'titter t but one sonrieetned to animate, aad one heart to Warin, the population of that great empire. 'This unani mity-did not long escape the penetration of the Usurper; arid, after ing arrival at vicuna, he addressed no more proclamations, inviting the Veople to. exchange the tyran *lee yoke of the Muse of Loaa,wi, for his benign and pa itetuar sceptre . , ..1 :4.• •:, . The glorious batite.of Aspern, which soon followed,was a severe blow to his vanity, and lowered•his presumption still more consideimbly. 114 consequent 'success at Wa w b rant or the sacri fi ces he exacted at the signature of the Armistice, were insufficient to renew hii . canfidence; and, - during every stage of the negoiation which folloWed, he was obliged to yield some new point, to restore some, con ' sosered province, to his antagonist. Master of more than; half the Austrian empire; and after havinefultbinated thej most dreadful vengeance against the Priniisi of the* lionise of 1101titAIN after having threatened to ifiekf their inn of its brims, and promised to raise a fornter'44iSsal to a level of equality;—he thought it more expedient to skulk be titled the wiles of diplomacy; and to give back what he 'hid the:lo4 hitt no-t the eOurage, to keep. He gained, hewee'r;lifew scraps of th f e mighty carcass he thought to have appropriated to himself; and fled as a detected brag gart, 'acid a disaPpointed ruffian. This Peace, we are bold to ins - , has been misunderstood, and misestimated, by most of our cotemporaries. It was to be consolidated by the d'egridation of Austria. It was to be rendered pernianent by the impotence she should be reduced to of breaking it. Neither has been executed ; and the Emperor' ria,ccls is more powerful, as well in opinion as in reality, than He was when ke first entered the lists with the *twiny. —He was threatened, and with the most' brutal in solence, with the loss of all his possessions ; and he did not lose a fifth-part of them. His antagonist shelved his Veth, snarled, and set up a dreadful din ; but the cur re t : . ed at last, with only a few scraps, after having let fall the rest of his prey. It is worthy -of peculiar remark, that of all the - Cessions made by Austria, BUONAPARTE obtained, this time, the least considerable. He annexed only the Littorals and part of Croatia to his own dominions, both of which do not contain a population of more than 3or 400,000 souls. - The principal gainers were Saxony and Bavaria. The latter has obtained an addition of territory, amounting to about a million of inhabitants; and the former was rewarded with aai equivalent remuneration. Russia had the baseness to stipulate for her 400,000 souls. It may be objected that the loss is not the less painful, because the ceded provinces are: given into the hands of the s assals of BUONAP(RTE, and not into those of the tyrant himself. For our part, we cannot see the affair in that light; for the time may still arrive, when Saxony, Bavaria, and Russia, which lately co-operated with France, inay make a common cause with Austria. Nobody will suspect NA POLEON BuovArtaTi; of extragavant generosity ; and we arc much mistaken in the man, if, like all great characters, he has not a most trench won' memory, whea the question is about giving the pro- NOV. it aiiseti remuneration tot. services perforn'ied. This is ano ther'. victory achieved by Lustria, during the diplomatic campaign; and she can boast of having cominered in the Cabinet, what she'lost in the field. How different is this peace from thatconcluded four'years ago at Presburg ! FRANCIS then appeared in the garb and ftirm of a supplicant before the victor. Now he would not even condescend to see him. He braved his indignation, am! was ready to throw down the gauntlet, if the other assumed too bullying a tone. How different is this pie- Lure from the humiliating scene at the mill in Md ravia We bear of no stipulations aboUt the disband ment of troops ; no lecturing about the perfidy of Alinibters, and the ruinous 'consequences of war. But BUONIPARTI; off . precipitately, and orders his troops . to follow:hini In the same hurry, as 'soon as the Treaty is signed. Let him find, at present, if he dare, in his' perfidious head, some pretext for violating any one of the 'articles, or detaining his troops beyond the stiptdated • time. }very thing is done with a precision and fidelity, WAiieli would incline us to entertain a better opinia for the future, of the good faith of the Corsican, did dr j e not know that the same armies, which procured an advantage ous Peace, were ready to see the conditions of it faitiifully executed. ---------- The Emperor FRANCIS has rendered inestimable seiviees to Spain. His sanction of JOSEPH'S title is a dead letter, and does not weigh a feather in the opposite scale. This recognition, mere diplomatic etiquette, cannot cancel the obligations the patriots owe to his firmness and courage. lie has diverted for a considerable time, the torrent from their plains ; and given them time to repair the damages it formerly caused. There is not .a single state of the Continent, which does not owe him some obli gation ; because he has considerably diminished the terror, which the French arms, and the name of Buo- NAPARTE, were wont to inspire. Ile has conspired against us, it. may be said, and joined the confederacy against our naval superiority. Ahl we forgive him with all our hearts ; and shall never consider it as an impediment to future rccon• ciliation. He has profound claims to British esteem ; and this nation is always ready to forgive an involuntary re luctant insult, pressed and wrung from the heart of the giver r These observations, we hope, will answer for the modesty with which peace was announced in the French capital. It is confidently reported that Lieutenant-Generat Dee, immediately after his arrival Walcheren, made very strong remonstrances to his MAansTy's Ministers against the .propriety of attempting to retain possession of that island. lie is stated to have delivered his opinion of the imprac ticability of our keeping it for any time, were Government even determined to do so ; adding, that he was willing to s icrifice his life in the defence of the place, should Minis ters persevere in the project of defending it, It is im possible to do adequate justice to the candour which sug gested the remonstrance, or to admire too much the heroic devotion with which it was accompanied. We know General DON to be a meritorious officer, and a man of the strictest honour. But we cannot reconcile his opi nion with that delivered on the same subject by Naval "Offi cers of the highest reputation, thew iitaist upon the prac- IfT .b.! 1 1 1 J 1 1