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... inch immures as are the natural consequenel of these which he is at this moment adopting. Since Bow peitra is so far master of the Conti nent as to forbid the nations that are in want of:Bri tish commodities t reczive them into their Ohs, England has a right to prevent them from receiva ing achy other merchandise than her own ; forlly l obeying the mandates of BONAPARTE, those di tinnis acknowledge themselves his subjeds, and Eng land is at war with Boa A AAAAA What distindion: can be made between the subjeds of the King of the King of HOLLAND. the King of Eseunta, in a word, of all the Primes. who, at the command of /Sou AAAAAA , shut their ports against the commerce of log land—what distindion can Is- made between those Princes, and the Noce' Bensnita, BAC CIOCNI, BERNADOTTE, MURAT, and TALLEVRAND? BON•P A RTE, no longer able to wage war with the English Navy, now makes war upon the Commerce of England. In return, England will make war upon the Commerce of the States governed by Bc. t , under the names of Spain, Holland, Etru ria. Benevento, Picmbino, Ponte Corvo, he. If butt AAAAAA have a right to prevent the Spaniards, the Dtetb, kc. from purchasing English merchan dice, it follows that England has a right to pre vent these:awe Spaniards, Dutch, kc. from selling their commodities to these who come to buy them. Los•e arra has himself acknowledged that Eng land and France existed on the tooting of the most paled equality. TO IR+' EDITOR. St ii—As much illiberal language, and no surer share of itereillive, have been recently vented on the political conchs& of thi; country, on account of Togo' kudos of The Leo of aN . 411Ohit, Ighl honors wislatisas cf Noires! Priesres without the writers seeming to comprehend the esaft meaning of either, I shall beg leave to entreat your indulgence, in giving place to two or three Liters. which may not .sly throw a ray of light on those sobjells. but evince to the world that Britain is not that cujpalde Power which many would wish to make herreppear. For such indulgence, I appeal so that palltteittem don shewn to your Correspondents in general. as well as to your evident desire of appeariog witty impartial, even on subjects so highly interesting. With your leave, then, Sir, I will now trouble you with some remelts on The Law of Nations. Elm, that the public May attain a competent knowledge of the gems, they are trectn: on, I will present them with a cursory survey of the premises ; before I ;newt= to ague on the propriety or impropriety, the policy or inipolicy, of adhering to, or dissenting from, The Law of Nations, I will attempt to define what The Law of Nations et should be. The Law of Nations, Sir, is, or should be, a Code of Regulations, written or implied, tending to the safety and convenience of every Kingdom and State in the civilised world; ordained by ell, and gua ranteed by nIl. It may be compared to a multipli city of .4,./a, concatenated into a regular, uniform, circular c:daut, by the se.:l of the whole. Take one link from the chain, and it is no longer universal : it may still admit of a circular form, indeed, but it then becomes a chain composed of the remaining links, not et the whole. So it is of our Code of Regulations ; let but one tingle state withdraw its san!1:01:, a::ri it is no longer Law of Nations ; (for, by Ihe Law of Nations, we are IS understand, the law of all civilised Nations;) no, Sir. it is then the law of those Nations which still think proper to adhere to it. The chain, I grant, may again be come universal, by forcibly uniting the wiihdrawn link. So may the Code again become The Law of I•:atit , l3, by compelling the Power %%Lich receded, again to yiuld its sanetion. 13ut each Power of our grand political chain, is formed of a whole people; of cools., the instant you attempt to coerce a whelp people to re- , al,:tiort your Code. you place them in It state of jeopardy, and aubjea them to a variety of deprivations ; what then becomes of your Law of Nations, tending equally to the safety and con venience of the whole ? Yen cannot say it tends to she safety and convetdence of every State in the ci vilised werld„ when the people of one State wil lingly endure dangers and deprivation', rather than again elation AC:ode, which, no doubt, for weighty reasons, fluty withdrew their sandlots from. And who so proper to judge what will tend to the safety asd convenience of a particular State, as the people of that Stater Was there ever a Law of Nations, Mr. Editor, tending equally to the safety and convenience of the whole civilised world, ordained by ail, and gua ranteed by .11? I. Sir, as far as my knowledge of natioisel pclicy extends, do not hesitate to say—No. What, then, is implied by the term, The Law ef Nations, as we now read at it in authors who have treated of that subject? There, Sir, I must beg leave to refer you to the authors themselves, who, varying from each other, in a Style mot, arerably cory alms, will leave you lint as much to learn, after perusing them, as you may have to acquire at present. But, in one respell, they are tolerably uniform, I must confess ; for the whets them attempt to define the mow+, by en 4deavGn:ini.; to explain the colour, torm, Input. and beauty, cat the h 0,,. .r that draw it ! I will, however. make at .iurt to debut the term—The Law of Na. tionsaS treated of by Vaticll, and many other as • thors of unwieldy volumes. The Law of Nations, as treated of by those Gee ' tlemen, is neither more, nor less, than a Code of Re. I...sulations, written or implied,adopted from time to • ti*re by the principal Powers of the European Con ainent, and its Islands, and impoi•ed on the minor States; on some by seducive blandishment, and on others by compulsion. But where is the tendency to 't the safety and convenience of the whole ?" Where ? Ala:, ne-where ! Who ever thought of it?? I cannot say that Great-Britain airceys did ; and I hardly dare say that Fraree, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Prussia, or Holland, ever did. The tendency to safety and convenience which they ge nerally sought, was to their own immediate domi nions. Sell was the grand °Neff in view ; and to Serf the Continental Powers, of the intpali,g Order, seldom hesitated long to sacrifice the tendency to " safety and convenience" of the rest. Even that first, chief, essential regulation, which ought to be equally sacred as universal, never to strike a 6lras rued war be . furadal'y declared, has been far less heeded than tile catching a handful of &frilly in the midst of the sea! And thousands of brave men have fallen by the sword, in repeated coefiids, before a declaration of war has been so much as thought of by am of the contesting Powers, or the Statesmen called to the AdministrAtton ii Affairs, who were, by fate, ordained t' craw up papers of such inestimable con sequence to slunk': J ! And yet, whenever it suits their cnovenience, the Ads:sexes and Pari;iaur of either Power can bandy The Law of Nations to and fro, like a c:uttle-cock ; though the objea of their declamation pc of no more conbequence to the civi lised nations of the world in 'general s than tke searching of a end-smack, the capture of an eel boat. the &ruining a rotten ship, or the disturbing of a muscle-bed ! Is such a Lov of !Crams worthy to bled a civi lised world ? Can it be supposed, Sir, that • law which has been as frequently violated by the me pooi,g Powers, as safety and convenience, re dow, rendered it necessary to devote some other Power the viaim of their violation, will ever be ob d longer than mere political exigency may respire ? Can it be endured, that any one Power should be so ruinously fa:Odic:us, as strialy to adhere to such a plastic law, whilst another of those Powers, rang ing over Europe with colossal stride, is cutting it up, root and branch, wherever it presents an im pediment to his career, slight as the teitnre of a cobweb ? Nay, when that very Power is imposing laws of his own diaating, firms the point of his sword, on prostrate states, wbich seem, indeed, as eager to pia the precious worlds from its ;testing blade, as Omuipotence itself could well taped ! WAS it ever known, Mr. Editor. that the viola tion of such Law o: Nations drew down the imma. diate vengeance of every other Power concerned in its observance t and that not a sword wt . .; sheathed until the violating Power had made ample atone ment, and solemnly abjured its error 3 On the contrary, Sir, was there ever a violation of it, how ever tisgrant, in which the eiolatar was not sup rorted by other iNspering Powers, either at the corn mencemetit, or in the course of the contest 1 Can a law t.lncl to the safety and convenience of the whole, when there is not one single State on the Continent, but can inform us, from sad experience, that it has often become the unhappp intim cif its violation t Cuuld such a law, if formed with all the solemn ceremonies of sacramental observance, ,•exist one ltear—one isintite—aftcr three of those m pg:iv Powers were suffixed to enter an independent kingdom, in peace with All the world—to abrogate its laws—to cut up its Constitution—to dethrone its Monarch, and dismiss its Legislature—to Cave the goodly patty into princely slices--to place them, at their pleasure, on their already overcharged imperial phut. es, and not one State dare wield the sword of vengeance o'er the royal robbers tor their impious perpetration of so dire a deed 1 Away, then, Mr. Editor, with all tinsel parade, all hireling clamour, about a law, versatile as the I minds Jr those who imposed it ; which can have no siability, because it cannot be legally enforced. A law which has proved conducive only to the safety and convenience of the blood-stained Tyrant, by lulling the States of a whole Cuatinent into thought. less and delusive apathy ! Let every Power in future adopt the law of conscious reaitude—" Lo nt it Inosilli de /efts lade. " Then shall we have a Law et NAIIOOS indeed, which, mutiny equally to the safety and convenience of the whole, will by the whole be inviolably observed : no other can be deemed such. It it be necessary to adopt some other mode, requi site and adequate to bind contra: ling Powers to a • specific olijra, in God's name, give it a term suit able and applicable to its salutary purpose, but let it not br called rue LAW OF N• 7 Whs. 11408. fjord LlAc-hogs,. FIDESSISIICS. Get. ‘2g. 1307. P. s—l will, in a day or two, trouble you on the suttjed of Neutral Powers. THE BRITISH PITESS. LONDON, SATURDAY, Novemen 7. IVe yesterday haaarded an opinion, that the se cret eritedition fitting out at Plymouth, will be upon a much larger scale than report first represented it. It Is now said, that Admiral Lord GA Motu will have the chief commani, and that Sir HOME Poe- HAM will be Captain of the deer. The latter will leave town this day for Plymouth. In our Paper of Thursday last, we gave an extra& from an Advertisement in an Irish Paper, in which Mr. RICH HO ItOiSITCR, Of flew 11.e.si, in the county of Wexford, offers for sale the premises which be occupies in that town, in consequence of the landlord, Mr. CIL% SLCS TOTTENHAM, having refused to accept payment of his rent in Bank of Ireland paper, or in any other manner whatever but in Gos o. Some of the London papers have stated, that " this is only one part of a vindiEtive system aeled upon by a certain party in the county of Wex ford, against all within the reach of their power, who voted at the last Wexford El:Ctioa for Mr. Cot - CLOUGH and Mr. SHERIDAN." This statement is not correCt. The oppression complained of by Mr. ROSSITE a is part of a system of longstanding. This system did not grow out of the late Elation.— On the contrary, it was for a youth spent in noble and generous exertions, to put it dawn, aad assert the liberties of his countr y, that the late lamented Mr. COLCLOUGH was sacrificed by its supporters. It is the system which could so far pervert the judgment and nature of even a good man, As to induce CoLlt Am, seriously and without a blush, to request leave from the High Sheriff of Wex ford, to transfer his majority of recorded votes to Mr. A t.coc R, as he would a flock of his sheep, or an herd of his oxen. The man who had virtue, spirit, and peaerosity, to stem this oppression, having been put out of the way, the system, freed from his controal, operates, no doubt s with increased ener gy; and Mr. Torraiissam being one of the ELY family and party, the late EleCtion may have inflamed Mr. Rossirait's particular case ; but it is a very narrow and false view of the subjeft, to attribute these wrongs of the Wexford tenantry, solely to their attactanent to Mr. CoLccoucia. They were the cause and not the effed of Mr. Co t.- CLOUGH'S well-merited popularity, and his hard and deeply-lamented fate. Dispatches were sent off last night for the Medi• ter ranea n. Dispatches will be sent or ;n a few dap to the East Indies. There is no trolls in the retort which stated that the Brest fleet had put to sea. We never gave it any credit. The Danish Minister is expeßed to quit this coun try abort Monday next. His Excellency will take his passage in the Auckland packet, Capt. Bruno', and proposes to be landed at Gluckstadt, under a fag of truce. The packet would have sailed sooner, but Capt. Barnum wished first to be secured against capture. The Mary, Goat, from Stockholm, for London, is lost near Londonderry. . We are happy to csntradii the report in some of the Papers, that the transport containing the Staff of the 241 Light Battalion of German In fantry had foundered, and all on board perished. This is not true, an 01E= of the 'all battalion. now .it Ramsgate, yesterday received a letter from a brother Officer, informing him that the transport o ith slid staff had arrived safe at Yarmouth ; and that the Paymaster, Capt. 'erotism, and •thirs, mentioned to have been drowned, were all well. A very extraordinary report was in circulation at Lisbon when the la.t accounts came away. It was rumoured that the King of SPAIN had died by poison. that the Prince of Air UItIAS was imprisoned. and that the Prince of PIACI was placed at the head of the provisional Government which had been formed. It has been long suspelted that 800 AAAAA a would not suffer a branch of the Bowsaw, family to reign in Spain. and he could not have chosen a snore favourable moment far the es ecution of the plans which he may have formed against the reigning family in Spaiu,than the present. The greater part of the Spanish Army has been drawn out of that country, and marched to the North of Europe, while a formidable French Army has been collefted on the Ppani.h lroutiers, for the avowed purpose of invading Portugal. The French army had not left Bayonne when the last accounts came away, but orders had been issued by the Spa nish Government to afford them every accommo. dation in their march through Spain. If there have been ary disturbances in Spain. or if the repose to which we have alluded be true, the French army, instead of invading Portugal, will be probably em ployed in preserving peace and good order in Spain. Letters from Gibraltar of the Nth state, that a re port had reached that place, that the French army had entered Spain, in consequence of which all communication between the garrison and the coun try was interdiaed. The Tenth Number of The Ramp!! of Vireo ser,er was published on the Qd instant, price Sr. 6J. It contains critical accounts of 14 new patents ; of 19 papers concerning Natural Philosophy, Arts and Manutaittures ; of 23 cn Chemistry and Minera logy ; and of 24 on Agricultural topics ; forming an Epitome of every thing that has been published during the preceding three months, relating to Arts and Sciences, with remarks, pointing out the me tits or defeds. • 4,9 dr 1-910.1 • • o--• THEATRE., 6 , cotrev-t.stre. Last night. Comcaavt's Comedy of Lees no Love was performed, and Mi s. JORDAN appeared in the part of Afire Prise. She was rec,iaed with reiterated plandits, and appeared in hi g h spirits, but looked delicate. The part of 31i, i Prue is in itself nothing. It is the archness, playfulness, and indescribable beauties bei.towcd on it by this incomparable adresti, that soaks it attradive. Her d.* u ce about the st.t4e, whrt the nurse is ordered to Ink her up, her Line' when she arta:dies Tattit's ham, kerchief, r e , ceired the most utibout!ed applause. Mr. R ufo mt., as the mere subst , tiite for llr. BAN MINTER, i not a fair subjeft for criticism. Truth, h -, wever requires us to say, he svas any thing but .t sailor. H, best performance was i the scene with Joanatt and even there he w.e greatl s dericielit. Mr. is.. ListoN received much a pplause in V a l en thre. Miss Duiscam looked extremely well, and played Asp lira with vivacity and spirit. Miss Pon, always excellent, did every justice to the part of Mrs. Frau Mr. Dowrom and Mr. MATTHEWS did amp justice to Sir Senoras Legend and Foptrig4t. Th farce of lb* Maws went off with great spirit. chewed Mr.JOHNLTONE to great advantage.and c 'timed the audience that grimace is not necessary make them laugh. He was admirably supported Mrs. SP♦at:r. Mrs. BL•NO. and Mr. Psstee, • the parts of Rieke and law, displayed great h moor, and received the most unbounded apples —This Farce was written as a satire on the fre, quency of Dacorus, and consequently has last tnuc of its point, but still retains sufficient to produc mirth and good humour. The house was very full ; all the private hoses were filled, and all the' Nubility in town were present. Yesterday morning His MAJIIISTT, Princesses AUGVSTA and Asittss, acc•swpanicd by the Hon. Miss EorkTOS, General Fri - zany, Cunt MLsssnSl and Colonel TA Y Loa, rode on hrrseback in Witid ' sor Park, and returned to the Castle etyma twelv o'clock. Her MAJESTY and Princess ELIZA UT walked from the Castle to Her MAJLIT Y'S house a Frugmore, and remained there during the morning the weather being remarkably fine, they amuse themselves with walking in those delightful Gar dens. The Princess Seri's is much better, but not wel enough to leave the Palace. The Duks of Sussex is on a ♦isit to the Duke a' Oricsmas, at Hampton Court. Carta;n E.t.a.'s left tow' yesterday for Tar.bri.iga Wells. The Countess Dowager of Savoy was fit: better last night. The Earl and Countess of Gower*, left Kitk. ham's Hotel, yesterday, for Arundel Castle, and will proceed to Tunbridge Wells. The Duke of Datoesurea arrived, on Wednes• day, at Devonshire House, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Ceram', at Castle Howard. We ale sort 1, to state, that his ace, since his arrival is town, has been attack* to a fit of the gout. The Earl and Count s• of Daily *reseed, Wednesday afternoon, at their seat, at the Oaks from Lancashire. His Lardship turned out a deer yesterday, for the first time this season, which great sport to a number of gentlemen who assem on the occasion. Mrs. Berme+ and family, who are lately arrive from Ramsgate, left KIRL/1•11 . 3 Hotel, yesterday. to take possession of their elegant new house in Charles-street. Berkeley-square His Royal Highness the Prince of Wet's', Hera monic Society, at Bath, give the ladies their first concert, ball, and supper s on the eth of Jauuary.— A fresh supply of embroidered plumes is es• peded down from the Prince of W whs.'s ask& deter. "The DuLlin Theatre was to open, last Monday s with Ibe Castle Zytaiffre, and hale and lenire. Mr. Joan, we unuerstand, has a very good Pan in Mr. Dreoro's forthcoming opera, at Covent* Garden Theatre. At the last quarterly board of the Governors.' the general hospital, at Birmingham, it was respired that a silver cup, value thirty guineas, be presented to Wictrara M•C v, Esq. Manager el theThsa tre, as a token of gratitude for the many alb of libe ral and generous condird displayed by him towards the interests of the charity. RAMIS/WS concerts at Bath commence the end of the month. The tickets will not be transferable, and the vocal performers engaged are, Mies Faits, Mies SII•111., Mrs. %Nowa, and Asst; Mr. MADIL•TN, Mr. 151/411/LTT, Mr. Voircs, and Signor N•LDI, (trona the Opera-House,) for one night only. Signora STOKACS, and Mr. ti •IIAM, well also pet form once in the course of the conceits. Baanvortn. Esq. agent to the late and present Marquis of Lai:wawa, died, last week, in the Queen's county, Irelaad, He had accumulated 100,0001. and was remarkable for his peauriuus way of living. He used to come to London every year. and his first visit in town was to the Marchioness of Damao* c. Mr. 13a.soroass was very remarkable for his simplicity of dress, which was like a couotry farmer. He was in his Slit year. There is to be a benefit play, at Brighton, for the Widow H• 1111•11 and her Family. 1r is to Ise per formed by Amateurs of the town. Mr. Mecum most generously offered his assistance, but it was declined. Last night, as the Misses Gact.ttir, daughters of the late Sir Joists G•Lcrtsr, were going out in the!r carriage, they had not proceeded tar from their house in Hanover-square. when one of the horses became restive, from some deed in the harness, at which the ladies became so alarmed ,tile they begged of a gentleman, who was passing by at the time, to render them assistance ; he opened the carriage door, and took the first lady out in his arms ; toe other attempted to jump out as the carriages" going off. and the same gentleman saved her hots being thrown wader the wheel, by cataiihil hie IS his arms. ~_ _✓ C: gassodl e ? c a ptain [VISIT" 4. Sri t oth , Lite GPU" I the WIW awe a " ki ed ow bi Hi imam 1 Ten tile " 0 4 of h 1 16 left i nee mord AO mortal Oh! when ' fresh leers Thinking nef bitter tl ChaSell 1"i silent N 4, fatal,/ ti ,outd in That happi Tie Moira NTHmle 10. Ul f the credit ikbe i, w hore d w ad of El y e d is the net goring, at du fa Home Pop i ra n, and of 60 , 46 e vnd, pries, aad bur eh it ant co sad commerci te n be protet atetce Verat lok.afil'. nia ; Ergiiifido IS 1 at tier feet ; a go d ordtrae6 060 of Jay Tharsd I DIA e ar k -re i bensighbot ;nibble to This swap pine-Hoax, IX this eomm • 11,t$ be Our theatt emur. , twes t tY rubric to burl the n• &Alt, spot _ . Tte had with the 100 tlitit house, sion, tr.:l Iraq rat took pl. fin* ma 11 aty, and al duagiag a find, and . Oa Sates ers! , arked lur Wiabita it is a lir this time to than tI3 p the bilk of Loadem Vi nue in Lill dreadful of able to tb lion for du Number of Hospital, the town. lance and ,try of V in the co nations ha Smail-Poz Pant, Ma Some me to remove and whirl lower old Mr. V) Common king for