The National Register. — London, England, 1809-10-29 00:00:00

•- THE NATIONAL. REGISTER. , . T • e". inesi of his first pretensions. &t appirars that Attitria cedea only a part of Gallicia ; the Littorale; or coast of the Adriatic, including consequently Flame and Trieste ; aud to the Vassal King of Bavaria, the Archbishopric of Saltzburg. This makes a vast differenCe iu the balance of accounts; and, instead of half, Austria do'es not resign a single province, the Littorale excepted, of ihr ancient territory. Gallicia and Saltzburg have been late aqaisi- tions; but the heart, vitals and nobler members of the konarchy have been preserved. No % t only Hungary and Bohemia, whose population alone, after the unfortunate battle of Wagram, presented a front so formidable to tbe, invaders, that they were afraid to renew the content ; but' Upper and LoWer Austria, remain under the SeePtre of the Emreror FRANCIS. If the Mouareby has lust in terri- tory, it. has g-ained a great accession of mond strength. Opinion, the nerve and soul of put teal bodies, is strong ly in its favour ;. alai it may still present a milling point to its harrassed, terrified neighbours. Alene it maintained an obstinate and dubious struggle against the legions of Prance, the whose n.ilitary force of Germany, Italy, and a considerable part of ; and was abagAd to watch the movements of Russia. It now presents a earn pact body, containing a population 'of 18 millions; Thor are more exercised in the art of war than any other people now wasting; there is scarce a mate, arrived at the age of maturity, who is not i cured to the use of arms; and. they have gives unequivocal and immortal proofs of their loyalty, courage, and devotion. If no greater sacrifices have been made, than we have stated, freedom may still rear her head in a considerable part of Europe. We know that these spoeulations wi9 be considered as.over sanguine. ut they will meet with a sympathetic reeeptiOn from every individual, whose mind is not tainted with the frigid, invi gorating doubts of modern scepticism. It operates like leprosy, grachially destroying every gewirous and active Sentiment ; and spreadingovey the moral man a nasty scurf of egotism, indolence, and despondency. The ancient kingdom of Polind, we suppose, will be re established. This conjecture, if it be just, will explain an article in the foreign papery, relative to ' , citing BSAU• HAR Nor% Viceroy of the Kingdom. of Italy. This is whig we seriously apprehend to be the higker destination alluded! to in that article. If true, it brings Itussia MU) Uninediate contact with the Collossal power Of BILIONAPAIITS. We should rejoice iu the circumstance, heartily, on that very account ; if our jQy were got. cheated by the great access limn of power which this new acqu;sition gives a man al ready too formidable. The Poles are warlike, and will ardently en]beacc • a 'project which appears . to Siastate them as a nation. ItiVef deetly wish we: were mis taken ; for this project, Avoid it ,be realised, esta blishes at once the supremacy of the Corsican. Had a we ..not, already too glaring specinieni of irtcuralile ob- ' stiliacy; the hood.whikeJ vanity, and the ‘silly_self-sufficient ignorance of the Bastian Cabinet, we should have no hail- . I tation iii totting that Such a project woild never meet with its concuttence. Farewell to all its greatness, its projects or ambition and conquest, should a young and vigorous dynasty shciot up spat its Sapid, unwieldy truck l instead 699 of uversprending the' shores of the Baltic, the Bosphores, the Ocean, and the Natlt Pacific, with its mighty branches; instead of beholding its scions sprout in Greece, Asia Minor, sad Persia; instead of giving Kings to Po land, and laws to Denmark and Sweden; it will wither tentless and lopped upon its native soil. It is impossible to think of that infatuated and presumptuous government, . without contempt and , indignation. An overweening con frdence in its own importance; as impotence of sight, feel ing', hearing, characterise its conduct, and issarL its helpless. 'defective policy. The Itnuian Nobility are the vainest, the most riejudieed, and, consequently, the most , isosant. in BUrnpe. They ace still the same half-savages they *ere in the tinie'of CZA*Prvest, in every thing that to to real irstollectual improvement, and enlarged:pulley. Their views are equally conflued; their-attachment, to their ens. turns equally obstinate; and the only marked discrimina- . tion between them, and their ancestors, is the difference or hesirn. A man sickens in contemplating such a groupe of beings. Sunk n the rudest pleissures, they fed only that Mind, instinctive, gross attachment for their country,. which is peculiar to the Esquimami, and Laplanders. But they have no st:pie of that high, ennobling , affection, whose oLject. is not the soil, but the honour and glory of the sacred parent. Fran such men nothing Ilan beexpected. unless Providence raises up another Fovea, or aiCATHAVINE: French cooks,' mistresses, botfuons, !idlers, pimps, daecing masters, valets, and actors, ors- so indispensible to the gra tifscation of 's Russian grandee, that he would feel less pain at a decree n hick annexed his country to the empire of BooNAPARTE, than at one which expelled from it these - vermin. No change, founded upon reason, or iuggestekbr 1 policy, can take place in Russia. The sentiments of the Court may vary; but this revolution, should it occur, must be attributed to capriCe, or the !nye of novelty, peculiar t• barbarians, and not to a sense of expediency. We cannot help alluding upon this occasion to the vaunt ed gasconade addressed by BUONAPAUTZ to his Bavarian vassal, at the beginning of the late contest. If we do not forget, he then promised to reduce the territory of the Emperor FRANCte within so small a compass, and to enlarge in a contrary proportion, that of his vassal, that the king dom of Bavariailsotild be able to eope alone with the Aus trian Empire. The tyrant,- it : appears, has not kept this promise; t • • Spain oilers a moat 'afflicting appearance in the preweet crisis.—A sound, vigorous, active body ; with an unsouid bead. The great mans of the people evince . .the .sant• 'pour and subbiui devotiOn.whicktbey displayed eighleen months .ago ; but the Government is crazy, aud its re solves and measures betray the' et4tinessi of the source they emanate from. Me must be lioweveri.h ow we believe every aconnt'which is Miiiired,:a**( qt ,ir Papers, relative_ to that cowitry. Extravagance, pailio lily, and misrepieientatine,*arit ihnOst every article .of .intelligence relatingto the . ,Ntitiulit.!. pat we may admit, though with ionic canti*,Ailitbitie . 'syitiptums 'of an itp. proaehing convulsion hilreillii,ll"iipaiiiiited - in that devoled country. Private rorteapOtaduce'exiitiemes 661y' the 01)4' scrvatiens, or rather. the seutiuseats of w single ledividual. -t •ao many orreapwastiss actetViii. *Ate variates-quair. . $