The National Register. — London, England, 1808-11-06 00:00:00

R 1 f 3 1 ; I I t • • 712 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . Vauban, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1808. fOLITIC.IL EVIL? Ts OP THE WANK. Mr. SHAw, the Messenger, arrived on Friday morning from Paris ; after delivering the answer returned by his MaJEsTv's Ministers to the proposal of negotiation made hy the EMPEROR of ltes•iiA and lioN a e.,tivre l from Erfurth. Mr. SitAw is said to have been received by the French with the Utmost cordiality ; and the people every where ex pressed the most earnest desire of peace. That they un fortunate wretches, leirrassed by Vie most revolting con seriptiou, which 4ars from the arms of the labourer and manufacturer their strugglne; children, should entertain an anxieus wish to Ve their pr.:Aent calainities cease, will be easily credited. 84 how far their desires clash with the ferocious ambition of BoN.,evirE, a very short time will develope. We have already delivered our sentiments clearly on the 'matter ; and %I euld ast,oon expect the possibility of a reconciliation between the famished tiger and the trembling victim 'noting under his paw, :u a sincere desire, on the part of the Tyrant, to sacrifice bib ambition to the repose of Europe. We may be mistaken ; would to flea: en we were. We feel no other animosity to the man, that what his crimes, his remorselcss ereelt!. , his infuriate ambition, and his iirvelenting thicst of yerzeance against the much-injured Spaniards inspire. We are actuated by no party-prejudice; we strongly disclaim so unwarrantable a motive for our • gnimoriity, We detest and reprobate him, because he in , jurei and oppresses every individual, who has the misfor time of writhing under his dekpotie lash. We distrust his professions ; because we arc taught by an experience of the calamities which accrued to those, who trusted most in his honour and probity, that he embraces only to murder.— We can attai:h no confidence in his conversion ; because he made such frequent promises of reformation, which all terminated, as Italy, Switverland, Prussia and Spain can, to their misfortune, too strongly attest, in - an increase of profligacy and amoral depravity. Such ak.e. our motives for feeling an oncommou degree of anxiety and distrust, when ever gosAvARTE 1101(19 out to us his hand, in sign of re conciliation ; we involuntarily fix our e3:es on the other, to see if it be ariess: with a poniard to stab us, should we have the weakness to accept his perfidious embrace. Mr. Sa4w was not (*irked iii Paris—and it is therefore suppo 4 ed that a French Courier will be sent Ivith the reply. This negotiation, and this sending of Couriers, are a most inauspicious circumstance. Our Ministers, we have tea39ll to llope, * tve as convinced of BONAPARTE'S perfidy and insincerity, as we are. \V cannot, therefore, refuse ... • them time justice to suppose, that their relaxation from their former energy ha.; been occasioned in consequence of some insidious (Jcr,tere f9r au exchange of prisoners ; and Willis pe their Motive, whilst we regfct the embarrassing and • . tectrlifying tiitin t tion they nve !Oiled in, ye Cann ot but ap . s elitid every' fe‘Asible caul they my' wake, to extricate oursiffering toiintry men from the horror of their Onfitie -10 . •r • 'bent. If thcy 't..c t 'en thee Iv !it . ticipies t bvsyescr. bopcicsi our pil t .spfct pf success, C Pio 44 inclined lo .tcrihe to them the ep!ighicacd r- ' ~ . • • , • Tilt NATIONAL RWISTER. rcov . G. policy, that they wish to deprive the enemy of every plea for justifying his outrageous aggression against thirteen millions of Spaniards and Portuguese. He will deceive us ; and he has partly succeeded already in doie so ; for he has had the superlative art of embarrash , ing our Ministry in the intricate labyrinth of negocia tion ; the consequences of which can solely and exclusive ly turn to his advantage. He has promised A LEA AND ER to offer us peace; and he has had the ellion tery to tell his obsequious Legislature, that he is willing to make sacrifice's, for the purpose of giving- peace to a hun dred millions of inhabitants which arc under his protectifm ; and whilst the lacerated Continent anxiously waits for this balsam, he hastens from the scene of negociation in order to burn, devastate, and murder, beyond the Pyrenees. Atrocious, unblushing., and remorseless hypocrite! Your dissimulation may last too long for the happiness of null:- kind ; but the time approaches rapidly, si hen the IDaSk shall fall from thy hideous face, and the' world behold tiny as the cruel, designing, artful villain. BoNsrA furs: left Rambouillet on the 30th uli. for Bas - wine ; and, before his departure, pledged himself to tin' Legislative Body, that he was setting out for Spain to put himself at the head of his army ; and, with the help of God, to crown his brother in Madrid, and to plant his eagles tine forts of Lisbon. Impious Ruffian ! to invoke the suc tion and assistance of Heaven for the most unprovoked and atrocious aggression, ever undertaken by the most worth less and unprincipled of tyrants. Ht.manity, justice, reli gion, are employed as mere instruments to advance the projects of an unjust, unfeeling, and irreligious I:surlier. It is this revolting abuse of the most sacred principles, which has nr i ade so many sceptics in religion, and so many villains in society. We start back with horror, as often as we ;died on the effects of this revolting depravity. The worst and most impious men are generally most for ward to appeal to Heaven about the purity of their iuten tions, and the innocence of their designs,. We insect the following Extract,from the Dutch Papers, of BONA rAR E's Message to the Legislative Body: EXTRACT OT. THE 3TE%SAGE OF HIS INITRRIAL MAJEVIV THE LEGISLATIVE BODY, ON THE 2,:oth OiCTOISFIt. " Russia and Denmark, are united with me against Englaud. "America has preferred to renounce Commerce and the Sea:, rather than to recognise slavery. " I set oft' in a fow days to put myself at the head of my army, and, with the !trip of God, to crown in Nlldriti the K'"! - of Spain, and to plant n:v eagles on, the forts of Lislmp. " I cannot do other than congratulate myself mi the s tntima. of the Princes of the Confedei at ion of the Chine. " Switzerland daily feels more and more the beheliti of the Act of Mediati4m. " The people of Italy give me only new subjects of satislar lion. " Th.! Emperor of Russia and myself have had an intersielf at Erfurth. Our first thought has been a thought of re' t • We have even resolved to snake borne sacrifices the stoner obtain, if it be possiblee, for the hundred millions of men ‘s Lion wet represent, the blessings of a tniiitime peace . Nit? are of thz same apd invailabri united birth for peace and Wir." linother letter states, that Napoleon, in his ikthlre,q, all.' giving a cursory view of the date of the French Linpire io it ;pee! to itf ioteruld situation, sp . ealcs of its gxternal rattiow • , f , v 4' K. _.;,~ J. ry iSt 11l 6S• a. c- to in- N ; his ler cs. ur [sit lit od, vi iic ,nd lh- the ?r. I,ny as ty. Dr- en- I. NA: my the. lac ;11.t • r plat 11. C. 4' liii w