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CONT F.NTAt COALITION. • to our diplomat'c circles, there exists but one opi nion a , to the probability of a third coalition against revolutionary France ; but many doubt the possibi lity of its success. All the former causes that con curred in accelerating the ruin of Europe, may be justly reduced to a single fundamental one—" the disunion of the opposing, and the union of the as sailing force." Were it th-ice as e%tensive, tich, and posseaful, withoi:t being closely liii!..ed, still would the Continent yield to an aggressor, superior in means of every kin.1..0 each of the parts, which form the Enropean Republic, takca separately. It was upon tliis principle that the i'‘'. icedonians made themselves masters of Greece, tb' ( :au's, and Asia 'finor; that England founded :10 empire in I. lin dostan ; and that the Barbarians iiivad..l the West er:: Erni ire, without rousing Constantinople more than Europe was roused, at the arrivul of MA :10:41; T TI. upon the Bosphorus. The same weakness or wickedness must always produce the same events. During the former coalition, bad .only Germany and England together been direilled by one impulse, by the same Government, with one army, one po licy, and a common purse, we shoold tusw hear no more of the Freacts R...Tublir, than of its tyrant BOMAPARIL. What is strange, is, that ir.. - .derr, France hes attainer: 01.: unity of s7rcngth, Li -;.stem, and of end, by t! e very causes whie sever it, by the viols ore and the confusiop of all public sentiments. After raising the private passions, the revolution roused the national ones, then opposed them one to the other oa finding their repugnance, atd concluded by bend ing them to its yoke, to train them like slams to the execution of its will Its Government, concentrated in proportion as its ex - erior power extenderl, attaches both is adversaries and its instruments to its de signs; its adversaries, by 'the terror and experience of its enormities ; its instruments, by the dread of the return of rrder and of public vengeance. Every crime it causes to be committed ensures to it the agents; every insurrection, every rebellion, every revolution it effe--tc. secures to it all their accomplices. Such are its s":elds against repentance and hatred, rich its pledges ag rinst the treachery of villains. such the band with which it binds and unites in its interests those hordes of furies plunged in crimes, which they sweep in their train in France. Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Ireland. Bos a e %RI'S and his predecessors have reduced men to two conditions, the oppressor and the oppressed. To present them the alternative of doing cre of suf fering evil, is to dies... the choice: secure is the number of recruits, whiets fear, immorality, and self-interest, will provide. He who at first is made the servant of the Revolution by compulsion be comes its defender from necessity, the first crime he commits in its service. In this sr annr is com posed and supported that association, united by a common responsibility, by an uniform wish (or rapid wealth and dominion. and who r safe:7, bring inseparable Irons that of the Government, :.cures the implicit o'Dedience of its member:. whenever called upon to seize a prey, or to ward i IT a clanger. The remedy against a conspiracy of this kind, when formed arming private men, is the officers of jus tice and the gallows ; but when it has usurped an Imperial supremacy of fifty millions of men, enslaved by its arms or by its editas, by its threats nr by its intrigues, it requires all the political, moral, and military power of human and civilised society to resist it. It is easily accounted for why, during the last war, each state suffered itself to be drawn into the public defence, rather than fly eagerly to it ; and why two partial and unsystematical confederations were dispersed, without appearing to suspedt the frightful consequences of their dispersion. But now, wheal the most ignorant of politicians, as well as Roe A? ARTS and CAL LE VIRAND, must be convinced, that the continuance of the present political anarchy upon the Continent will, unavoidably, in some few years, organise its bondage for ages, or that it will fall to shatters by resistance without support, should the division among the Continental states not cease to assume that charaCter of obstinacy and selfishness which it has exhibited ever since Pru,sia, in April, 1795, signed an impolitic peace with the French rebels ; now we say that it is to be hoped their own danger will teach them their true interest, of uniting all their forces, all their means of resistance with Great Britain, against an outrageous revolutionary Republic, that threatens to destroy them all, and from which Great Britain alone has hitherto pre served them. Unfortunately we have reason to douist that the generality of men, and of Govern. anents, of the present day, ate snsceptible of that in tense refine.nent which blend , interest by an equal and impassioned feeling, which unites Lcveral na tions into one, by a , nmiti.,n participation of jealous opinions, and which, stifling jealousies, annihilates le all difference; of climates, customs, laws, lan guages, and even of interees. The principle of great emotions in the human heart has been weak tied by knowledge, reas.uning, ccromerce, and manners : in polities, as in private affairs, every thing has been narrowed, every thing concentrated by selfsinterest. The,Se who confound enthusiasm with the spit it of plunder and of power, have often proposed to combat the Jacobins with their own weapons, and to oppose them by similar crimes and passtors. To create villains in order to de stroy ocher villains ; and to begin, by the disolu tion of civil society, the work of defending it, is an invention to which no lawful Govern ment will tc tempted to have recourse. Means of that kind ale well adapted to spread devasta tion over the world, but not at all to save it. Frean want of enthusiasm of opinion, become al most unknown among modern Europeans ; from want of patriotic zeal, confined to England, on which liberty banows public spirit, it should seem that the calamities : - .nd the dangers of the present era ought to have power to coalesce all the passions which tend to the preservation both of public and private interest ; but the disunion of Governments has produced that of nations, and neutralised their sentiments. What should have appalled with horror has been only regarded with vexation; all fervour has been repressed and is extinguish ed ; uncertainty. and dissention have prevaileds which have left doubts on the minds of men as to there being any danger, or as to the certainty of overcoming it; and crosbed the principle of all energetic resiqauce, namely, the 'conviftion of an. approachi,ig evil, joined to the hope of averting it by an effort .fcenvage. Division it the grand ally, the best army in the service of the French republic. It has resisted ex tn.ple, reason, counsel, aid ; it resists yet all the sins of Dona ',tar e, his treachery, his audacious .asotence, his outrageous ambition, his atrocious crueltisis, and his endless invasions. If we survey'the courts of the continent, the councils, the various insists of society, their direaors of cabinets, and their leaders of armies, we still meet the same spirit of enntroversy, of division, and of discord. In prosperity, they have dispute¢ upon the means of preserving it; now, in adversity, they dispute upon the means of escaping from it. They take different parties, accuse each other, and form a distinct spe cies. Mankind might be called a club or 'ca. the elea of which should be distinguished by a peculiar mark. Here peace is the cry, thereerar is invoked ; and the debates are less upon the nature and effeas of one and the other. Every individnal has his spe cific, and reprobates that which is proposed by iris neighbour as a poison. If agreed upon the prin ciple, they differ upon the objeft, and still nose upon the employment of the resources ; recrimina tion, eensuse, and complaint, are inexhaustible. It is at the foot of this Tower of Babel that the revo lution advances its standard, and organises its tyranny. To the other scourges with which it has indulged the world, we must add the spirit of dis pute, which renders every thing uncertain, and nourishes the anarchy of opinion. Its rarane-. in crease, in proportion as dangers approach, and as governments waver in irresolution. A stale of war has these advantages that it settles the undecided, rallies the wishes of men, silences the cowardly and the doubtful, restrains suspicious persons, encou rages goof citizens, and regulates the conduCt of affair. A peace, not disturbed by intriguers, or by the conspiracies of a revolutionary power, would partly have the same consequences ; but to waver between l ieace and war, and never to resolve but when lot ced, is to divulge too openly the secret of weakness, and to place the public in a situation to anticipate a defeat. In the present crisis, how should nations or individuals be united, when their govern ments are not so ? How are they to suppose the revolution to be so pernicious, when they see Mo narchy court the alliances of its ferocious ruler ? This is the principal cause why upon the Continent all public opinion, all national spit it, all unity of mind, all aftive will, have vanished. We sincerely hope that the league about to be formed will not be a timid one, and that self-preservation will banish self-interest. It is trite, the Continental Sovereigns arc yet wavering instead of arming, negotiating in stead of combating; but this constant wavering de monstrates at the same time that they are convinced of the dangers that hang over them ; that they are anxious about the choice of measures of safety ; and that they have not agreed upon the basis and the precise obje& of a general union. This then is. perhaps, the most critical moment of our lives.— Our destinies are in the balance; and it is only from our experience of evils that we can hope it will turn in our favour.—The common danger has always bes•n great, but we never had so clear a view of it. .1t least we did not took it so fully in the face. The continental states seemed to think that they had only to shut their eyes ; and if they did not see it, they flattered themselves it would not see them. Happen what may, England has proved that her power, her independence, and her glory, are able to surmount her enemies and the deletion of Eu rope. Her piers stand unhurt against the waves of the deluge; and, if ever it break through them, it will be on tug :o the want of union in their defentr. ERRATUM.-4U an Advertisement in the Thin' Column o! owl:runt Ycstertlgy 'linear:lu( "An liktruduction to a General lllstory, &c.^—it should have been "An introduc tion to, and a General I li.tury of Ireland, kc." 'l l I-1 14.: Et 11 ITISII P Jt.ESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30. The'reports which prevailed, a shott time ago, of an intention to separate the offices of LORD CHANCELLOR, and Keeper of the Great Seal, were revived yesterday, with considerable confidence, and Mr. ADDINGTON, it was said, is to have the cus tody of the Seal; as also the appointment of Speaker of the House of Lords. If this be intended, we apprehend an AB of Parliament will be absolutely necessary. By an old Statute, passed in the reign of HE Nu Y 111, and which has never been repealed, it is expressly declared, that if, on any occasion, the KING shall take away the Seal from the CM A %fel. Loa, that any aft sealed with it, until it be returned to the custody of the CHANCELLOR, shall be absolutely null and void ; and that those offices shall always be vested in one. In the r/th year of Queen Ettr.auLro, when Sir NICHOLAS BACON was appointed Lord Keeper, another ael was pass ed, by which also these offices were united—and which, as well as the at of Hunts , 111. it µ•ill be necessary to repeal, before such an arrangement can , be carried into execution. We believe the motion for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is fixed for this clay. Should it come on, we understand it will be carried, as the West- India Merchants, who have hitherto so strenuously opposed it, have changed their opinion upon that subjea, in consequence of the recent change in St. Domingo, and the probable effat of the success of the Negroes in that Island. Oa Monday morni . ng, His MAJESTY accom p anied by the Dukes of YORK, CRAINEALAND, K*NT, and CAMIRIDDE, took an airing on horseback, in Windsor Green Park. Her MAJESTY and the Paiscessts took an airing in two coaches and four to Cumberland Lodge, where they were met bs His MAJESTY and the Royal Dukes. The Royal Party remained there a considerable time, and par took of some refreshment, and after wards returned to the gt• Ex's Lodge to dinner. In the evening the Roy: Family walked to Frngmore. Yesterday, about half past two o'clock, Her IVI. jni v and the PiiiticassEs arrived at the Queen's House firms Windsor. His M.sirsa r and the Duke of CsmusIDGIL arrived about four. His MAJESTY, previous to his leaving Windsor, took an, airing on horsebacks. BREAD.--Yesterday the LORD MAYOR ordered the price of Bread to continue at Bid. the quartern loaf Wheaten, and 7d. Household. Capt. Bt a 7, of the (it st, is appointed Aid-de. Camp to Lieutenant General Sir H. D4LRYMPI C. The Wall's-lily Riflemen, 'under the command of Capt. BADLS:, are placed on permanent pay, and arc now taking their share of the public duty cf the garrison of Tynmouth, for which purpose they are attached to the Hon. Brigadier General GRAY'S brigade. l'he Fisworth Legion. under the command of Lieutenant Colonel W ans. are placed on permanent pay and duty in the town of Chester-le-Street, and are attached to Major General Lc' Krotes brigade. The formation of flank hr;gades has already taken place in some of the Northern Districts. Major Dor i.e, of the Gist, has been appointed to the cum. mand of a light battalion in the neighbourhood of W hitbourne. Twelve sail of copper-hottomed transports. under the command of Captain W Arson, have sailed from Portsmouth for the River, to be fitted and armed for immediate offensive service. The Lieutenants who were appointed by the late Admiralty Board to command the Revenue Cutters, have been rem?ved by the new Board, and the Mas ters of these vessels restored to their command. Two frigates, and as many sloops, are ordered to be built immediately in each of the King's yards, and every private yard also capable of laying them down. Government have not only taken up a number of vessels calculated to ad as gan boats, but they have bought a number of larger vessels, particularly a number of country-built Iniliamen. Various opi nions are entertained as to the objeft Government have in v:rw. Some say, that it is only a prosecu tion of Mr. l'er is idras respeding adding to the number of smai:.•r vessels in the narrow seas. Others believe that AO CVellitiOSl I i to be fitted out against the Cve. Lord Mer.v it,t.v has given clireißions for four of the frigates which have been stationed as block ships at the entrance of the River 'I hames, to proceed t- Woolwich to be fitted for aCtual service in - :media:di, with their full complement of men and gnus. In the conference held at Soissons, in the year 1593, between the Duke of Al ...exact, chief of the lips, (league) against Horiav IV. and the Duke of Friuli, Minister of Spain—the latter having pro posed the abolition of the Salique Law, to have the Infanta of SPAIN declared Queen of Fa ANC E., the Duke of MAYtNCE answered to the proposal, a that the yoke of a foreign domination was a very hard bit for a French stomach, and wanted a good deal of seasoning to make it digestible."—See the I lis tory of F ranee, by Daniel, vol. VI. quarto edition, p. 484. The lapse of two centuries must have produced a remarkable change in the French sto machs, if they find now more palatable and fit for their digestion, the most tyrannical domino:ion which ever existed, vested in the bands of a man, who is not only a foreigner, but ■ Corsican—unt only a Corsican, but the offspring of a petty Attor ney of Ajaccio ; and, besides, the son, the brother, and the husband, of as many acknowledgxd prosti tutes. Where would be found a worthier head for an Imperial Crown, a more illustrious beginner of a new dynasty, to succeed tLe Bova Dos family? FEMALE FASHIONS FOR JUNE. The present stile of dress is the most graceful that'can be conceived. The veil, suspended front the head, and covering the whole figure, is a happy device of modasty blended w o k tame, et a time when, from the shortness of the sleeves, and the openness of the robe upon the bosom, delicacy seems to require some protection from the vulgar gaze. The light sjlphid firms are entirely exploded ; nothing is considered so ware as a slender waist, while the en bon point to almost Dutch. like ponderosity is the he phis Ora of feminine proportlo nc . The lived Dresses are formed in an infinite variety, difficult to describe ender one general view. Some are composed in Goa with simple flowers, and same with feathers; they are inter. mixed with diainonil, bronze, &c. but all terminate with a sus perlamil of various kinds, tire gold arid silver tissue of which is of an extremely light construction, ke. The most elegaie that has appeared for some time, it similar to the Po icstes. It is composed of a large Gossamer veil, with a rich Etruscau border, end is, according to fashionable report, the invention of Mite PAINS. This, and herbeautiful Naves cap, seem to pans induced all our Elegant:3 to take the Vail ; but a veil whose beauty iiiilleates no wish to renounce the world and all its ei . joytnents. The Bacchante Head Dress is simple and pretty. The hair is dressed with great taste ; the front of the head is bound with grapes, and the back part covered with a veil. Gossamer, crape sod silk lull-dues Hat% with featheekto match, are universal, as are chips and straws for undress. The Cloak* are of light ?;,s teed or spotted Lorimis, narrow and amed with colours to match the hat or honnet. The new Mamie of Gore sanier, bound all round with coloured ribbon, divided behind, ■nd pendent before front each sbouldtr, has a light and pietas rr-que effect. The Morning Drcs:m have not long trains, but are made with long sleeves, high collar, and fastened with an antique to the throat. The bottom of the dress is trimmed in raomefterrs. White satin and sarmet dress.•; reach woes Its the bear monde, as also crapes and thin mishits of all kinds and colours, male very plain and simple, and worn over white oaths "rani:net slips. White Shoes are worn in full dress. In undress, they are of the colour of the ribbons, or of the robe. Short Pelisee of sprigged Lenous, faced or lined with colour, are worn in open carriage:, with large muslin bonnets to match. French grey riding dresses, and black beaver hats, quite plain, are coming into fashion. A white crape Savoyard jacket, trimmed all round with silver, over a crape dress, and open before, is an el cant full dress fir young ladies. RECENT kILIIVALS. AT CRELTENHAY SPA. Lord Mount Sandford, Lady and the MIA Peyton*, Lady Crawford, Lady Ford, Admiral and MN. Manly, Colone( Beaumont, Colonel and Mrs. Roberts Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Blashford, Major Knott, Major Coffin, Capt O'Brien, Rev. P. L. Storey, Mr. and Mrs. Powys, Mr. and Mrs. Mb. ton, Mr. and Mrs. Tyndall, &e. AT TUE ROYAL TOIIIL HOTEL, CLITTOIt. - - Earl Dighv, Lord Borringion, Sir M. 1111,ternian, Sir 3. Allen John.% Sir Francis Ruler, Sir F4wartt Blunt, Den. Johnson, Cot. rAeknell„ Col. Colin, Major Menet, Major Matthews Mrs. General Morri.ott, Mr, Ross, Mn. Crew pi.,,oty, Mn. Trotter, Mr. Dale, Mr. Hume, &c. ♦T TNt enovcasite-Nerrisa f , eicerwat.s.s. Dean and Mrs. Walsh, Rev. F. Stowed family, Mr. Adaley and tinnily, Mrs. Faulkner sad family, Mr. Nicholls. Mr. Church, Mr. bush, Res. Dr. LAI,. Mr. Bur Me_ Shepherd, M sr !Saran, Captain 511Ixek, Lady Mary Wean. 11. m. Mrs. 111..tzet.r, /cc. I;is Royal Highness the Prince of WILL El is es. petcd at Brighton in a few days. The piety of that little marine resort, Rout dean, is becoming every day more eminent. Earl of Ca AYES has taken a house for the season. After so much money and rime spent upon 6 , Classi c al r," it appears from the late pro ceedings at the University of Oxford, that its atristy is still " a question." Great preparations are making at Camberwell for the djeams of Mrs. CRESPION r, which will shortly commence. The Author of Guilty Or not Guilty? was again honourably acquitted last night by a Fashionable Jury before they left the box. The Vandyke style of dress is exploded, and yet the Dutch style of beauty is all the rage ; so little has beauty to do with dress, verifying the opinion of the poet, who says " Beauty, when unadorned, i adorn'd the molt." Time spent in pleasure passes quickly. Ler& and Lady Vit. tills have exhausted a honey noon in tea days. A man advertises for a wife expert in paying of *hi dads. Mr. PITT had better marry her, to confirm his claim to the title of the " tint financier in the world." A match of cricket was played on 'Monday at Lords Ground. at which TILaNCY was bowled out. Mr. T....L1-, we t:tuught, was Caroled oat in the CeweeNs. Woodcete Lode, the seat of Mr. DutaNt. was on Monday the scene of Tort sad festivity. At one o'clock a Badge:, of uncommon powers, WAS put into a hope , and atter several unsue‘essfid :ittempts by other dogs, was it length most gallantly drawn by Mr. ll..aA::rs's d•.g Bidliy. Bomar/iv ry's I sto!.at ion has greatly pelletal tbe q: d.l rm rr. It would be us rev matter to nuke while the Bear, the Scorpion, att. ale .11the Zodiac. WILLIAM TAN AMT, Esq. will, on Friday next. lead the Hon. Mks PALMAM, daughter of Lord VA n BOitOUGU, to the Hymet,eal Altar. _ The Eail of' CA LEno;i is expelled this day, at his house is Arlington-stseet, from Ireland. Sir WILLIAM and Lady Ct ayTon let town yes. trrday for Itamsgare ; and Col. and Mil. Nowakp iur their sc.tt in Cumberland • The tickets were yesterday issued at Foley-Hon* for the Masquerade intended to take place there this night. One thousand seas the number originally irocnded, Lint from the variety of pressing applies. tions, Mrs.Tii Lst:ssum has been induced to issue at additional hundred. 'lle lady who is to make her first appearance ear the Stage, on Saturday evening next, at Drury... lane Theatre. in the charafter of Etvira in the play 'of Pvarr,i, is. we understand, likely to prove a star or the thst magnitude and lustre. tier name ie MAKIN ; and it a say superior time, fine Waite* aad ex.:l-mire face, b: requisires for the arduous profesa-n of an aar , ..s. these she possesses is a, very high cli-gree.an.! gives u r prrnise of Wei as: carnartun: to the st We state vet LietwasTom, tits b e f o re with a p 1 think at the time purariei such e ver since ticki One paper cane s wallow it, and dies t any thin, Being the origir o urselves we nu out incurring th neighbours. minions of part hapitalitn, whe disiter. Forme garrets, and im the most peris bare been cacti plight, case, an< from their chop ready to subscr s essforrottea," then, they atta given by Mr. f raw it is not bent and mutt Some persons nothing but su diso:ders. T, therefore, prof Mr. ',MINCE French insults Ltrimcsrou, fora bit of / seers, this is would tear o give a man 1. Great Britain sufficient. L apprehend, t LIVINGS TON of England. stores plate, man Empire a proposal fn Despot. Ni emblem of the bottle is partiality foi fraternise wi the whole F What will Lear of this French philt fraer-toppei English no Editors will at Mr. Fox' at the Ten of pother I Jar juices 4erf at his bac vLile one ling Mr. I lashi..; the charged st I LYIAMID.II Mr. I.cri: P:ris, be c the Brush His Rol a grand di Dake of karts of ( Loots—Yi Cliffo.d. DJ Co:o1;61s Sirs—L. 1 /11.1banke .3