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POLICY OF EO:4AI'A:ITE.. When BON 411 A art had &throned his benefaelon of the Direaory, in a Proclamation of the 12th November, 1799, addressed to the French Nation, he solenr.iy declared, 4 , that the form of Govern ment he intended to establish, was one, founded on the Sovereignty of the Polde, on Lahetty, end on Fgun• jay." Even the insolent letter he had the auda city immediately afterwards to write to our beloved Sovereign, began with these very words. The Con- stitution which he swore to preserve and rcsneft, was founded on the same basis. Such w?re his public and official acts—his underhand doingc, and seem transactions, were, however, totally opposite.— From the instant that he was proclaimed a Fitter Cossut., he evinced clearly that he would neither suffer an equal, nor a superior —and, notwithstand ing what his slavish Senators, or base Tribunes, have lately announced, that the safety of France demanded an hereditary Emperor, and that this in novation was required by circumstances, and not premeditated—every step of BONAPARTE since his usurpation has proved, that in 1799, when he swore to respeet liberty and equality, an Imperial Throne, crushing them both, was then as much his objea and desire, as in 1804. To the pacified Royalists and Chousns, he then promised the return of Mo narchy, which was one of the causes of their easy pacification. And, to skew them how little be in tended to regard the Republican Consular Constitu tion, be recalled the exiled Priests, and the pro scti'led Emigrants, excluded by the same Constitu tionfoe ever from rettirsing to France. The ur.con- sti:utional anti-Republican institution of a Council of State, evinced, that like otbm hereditary Sore regns, he would leave to his disposal an interns,- cli.ue body of experienced men, between bim and tl Cor. , ervai;ve Senators, the elective Legislators, a.id the Constituticnal Tribunes. No Ruler over a Repub!ic, before him, except the King of POLAND, ever bad such an aristocratic Council of State, dic tating equally to the Senate, to the Legislative Corps, and to the Tribunate) determining equally all political, military, civil, or financial acts or per formances. The successes of the ..tmpaign of 1000 farther discovered his outrageous ambition; and those C.houans, whom he had duped into a pacification, no longer doubted that he would destroy the repub lic, and create a monarchy ; but they were at the same time convinced, that he would not desert his duty, or betray his old accomplices, to eleitate any man bat himself. The pamphlet which Fon., Ames wrote, and Looms B aas igned as a minister of the interior, in 011ober that year, in which a pa rallel Was drawn between C SSA R. CROMWELL, and &MAP A RTE, and the latter ridiculously extolled above the two former, w.:s an impolitic prods Rion, which prematurely etposed the intents of the . Usurper, and caused the double plot of the Royal ists, and of the Saeobius, who, IQ the following winter, bran infvriial machine, attempted his life. The pace with Austria, its February 1101, the esticordat with the Port in &co:ember, the pacifi cation with England on the first of alober, and soon after the peace with Turkey and Russia, were all efts, sheaving, in the Fs e4r Comet, who nego ci ttcd as as equal with these Sovereigns, the pre tender to an hereditary throne, that would really place him ice that situation. This pretension is par. titularly remarkable in his treaties with the two Emperors. In that concluded with ALEXANDER, " the respeaiot audjaiis of Rasna and F►aeer are es 'rawly oweatoortd ;" and m that with Fs ANCIi 11. a Grand Duchy is swindled to make a revolutionary king; and when an outrageously ambitious Usurper has the power to bestow kingdom, and to force lawful Princes to acknowledge this power, one must be imbecile politician indeed, not to foresee, that 11 take for himself an imperial crown. _ 1802, the peace of Amiens was signed, the concordat published, and a consulate for life pro claimed, many expelled then, that BONAPARTE would have seised on the imperial dignity. But the facility with «high he hitherto had advanced to wards supremacy, made him hope, that he should meet with little obstacle from the legal heirs to that throne, upon which successful clime had seated him ; and his reign would have been more quiet, and his rank more respelled, could he, with the commanded voice of an enslaved nation, have mired the assent and claims of its hereditary Sovereign. By the kingdom which he had sold to Bova sou, he had told all the others, _ could do for them ; and by ti,e humiliating allociation with Louis XVIII. which the King of testa undertook for the Corsican, in lebruar )3 . be told the other Donations what he expelled return. It is to be remembered, :hat when this id impolitic transaaion took place, France a profound peace with all the world, neither nor external plots disturbed the usurped au 'itY of Boa , who, in tyrannising over Ince, Italy, Switzerland, and Holland, oppress and Pm:gal, humiliated Attsv'a, insulted Engiami, and cajoled Russia, that he might, under its cloak, as a guarantee of the German Constitu tion, unopposed, govern and plunder the German Empire ; and this ambitions and audacious attempt could therefore not be said to be provoked by any necessity, but was a barefaced avow?tl of h:s preten sion to hereditary sovereignty over the French Re public. An attentive observer must then, as well as since, have seen, in every regulation or decree of the Usurper, by the etiquette which he regulated in his palaces, as well as by the laws of precedency, which he gave in favour of his military and civil funaionaries, by his Legion of Honour, by his Car dinals, by his Senatories, &c. that he intended them as revolutionary supports to his revolutionary throne, which he had determined to make hereditary, as, since the Consulate for life was conferred on him, he was certain never to cease to reign, before he ceased to live. We have stated these particulars, only to convince our readers of the falsity of the de claration made by the French Senators and Tri bunes, that this change of Government and dynasty was necessary, and determined on only in conse quence of the late pretended conspiracy ; whilst the fael is, that the degradation or death of Yic tuner and Moatsu was necessary to silence or terrify other military rivals, before the Senate and Tribunate dared to create thi, foreign adventurer the heredi tary tyrant of the French ; a place to which he has never ct- iseci to aspire, ever since the 9th November, 1799, the day that he usurped the throne of the BuLattoss. " the resprilior prrraly aerator! a Cran3 Duch king ; and whe has the powe lawful Princes be an imbecile he soon will When. in IS the concordat j eaimed, mar would have sei facility with e wards suprem meet with lift] throne, upon him ; and his and his rank commanded tinned the ; Sovereign. I one degraded what he could Legcciation a Pavan A wide 190 3, he told IL return. It 4ent and is loved a prcN tern a l nor e witty of B, "Wet Italy • Spain and I RU)SIAN COMMERCE. Whilst France and England are combating for their reciprocal manufaflories, and commercial in dustry, and exhausting their strength, and diminish ing their population, for distant and unhealthy colo nies, Russia, without any pretension to internal commerce, or external colonies, grows rich in pro portion as its population augments ; mid twenty years uninterrupted peace will make that extensive empire the most flourishing and powerful in the universe. Vergennes said, " that the fetters of tha world were forging in the north ;" what would have been this Minister's opinion, had he lived to see the official report of the Russian Minister of Count de Romanzow ? This report, so interesting, though sn alarming, to the freedom of the world, contains twenty-one articles, in which is published the general state of the Russian trade with foreign nations, or rather the trade of f ,reign nations with Russia. The 1 lth and l!tth articles are very curious, and ought to be distinguished, as they give an era& account of the benefit Russia ob tains from the commerce of transit between Europe and Asia. These articles are again divided into five parts, containing the particulars, concerning 1, the Commerce on the Baltic ; '2, on the White Sea ; 3, on ehe Black Sea I 4,13 n the - Caspian Sea ; and 5, on the Internal Commerce. During the year 1802, the importations from the Baltic alone amounted to 32,964,418 roubles ; and the exporta tion amounted to 46,917,131 roubles. The clear profit was, therefore, 13.! , 33,716 roubles, to whisil is to be added the sum of t,,ur millious of roubles in gold or silver, imported either in money or in bul lion ; in a manner that the commerce of the Baltic pr. cures to Russia. ar.nu.illy, a clear gain of near eighteen millions of roubles for raw prodtiftions alone. During tie same year, al - ,e importations to Archangel, and to other ports in the White Seas amount only to 5410,734 roubles ; whilst the expor tations amount to 4,796,017 roubles, or a benefit enormous, considering the importations, of the great sum of 4a46,1;15 roubles. l be profits of Russia on the Black Sea, and on the Caspian Sea, are equally great, in proportion to its trade on those seas. Do not these fads clearly prove the immense resources of use Russian empire, and that they are as real as the danger, all other c..untries have to appre hend from them, should the sovereign.of that empire know his true interest, and continue only for the fourth of a century In peace with all the world ? During that time, the trade of Russia must necessa rily improve and increase; yes, that ptriod is suf ficiently long . to coiled all the treasures of the uni verse in Russia, and to reduce 'England to a state of penury and beggary, which, it is to be wished, for the welfare of mankind, that it had never left. The resources of Russia are real, those of England artifi cial: let the English Government cease to pay its creditors ; let the artificial credit of the End rr it e Blnk lose a too long possessed confidence; Britain is ruined without resource, while all the failures or stoppages in the world, the blowing up of the banks of London and Amsterdam, or those of Vienna and Madrid, will not make more impression upon the political, in litany, and financial tituation of Ratio, than the Games of Vesuviiss, or the hur ricanes on the coast of India. Next to Russia, France certainly possesses within herself the most real inter nal resources ; but luxury, the conseqnence of the height of civilisation, to which she exelatioely is ar rived, makes her external and artincial wants great er than those of Russia, yet only half cu- bud. %Vere not this the case, the Lnglish shopkeepers. in the midst of their magazine', crowded with the most elegant productions of India, would be starving. The time, however, when this will be the case, can not he distant. Our riovernment has already sounded the alarm, shewn all nations their in terest, and most ports in Europe are Arcady shut against those tyrants of the seas ; who support their extravagant', and unnatural pretensions only by the want of spirit, honour, and patriotism, in other na tions. (be ifemeriti Anti arstaaniques, by Barrete. The Monibior of the 2d contains the following article, datcd Paris, Ist June:—" Mr. Deane went to Dresden, where he bad a long conference with hi. lfT.'oi rya mins. The Ei.ccr on caused it to be signified to him, that his principles.did not permit him in receive in his territories a man ordered to quit Munich, for having dishonoured the first and most sacred of charaders. Mr. DILAKZ was to leave Dresden, and embark in Denmark for England." LAW NTELLIGENCIP.. COURT OF PSG's SENC”, WESTMINSTER, ./ums 13. DUELLING. THE RANO C. WATHIM ANO OTHERS. In the course of last term, Mr. ERSKIN.: obta'ned a Rule in this case, Os a criminal informatiou %aunt the Defend.uns, for sending a challenge to Mr. &sr- Jon, a private in the Severn Volunteer Riflemen ; he this day applied to nta)ce, the Rule absolute. The particulars of the.original motion we have ..;given in a former paper.. . , • Mr. Gaaaow showed cause against the Rule, and contended that. the information should nut be per mitted to go against the Dofendants. The first, Mr. Nathaniel - Pierce Wathen, was a Captain in the Stanley Corps of Volunteer Sharp-shooters, and the other two Gentlemen were Members of the same Corps ; the circumstances from which the matter originated were nearly as follow : It was'agreed upon that ten privates" of each cozps should meet fur a trial of skill in firing at a targit. It happened, that the Severn Corps gained the day, and the viElors and vanquished retired together, i.s the utmost harmony and good.humour, to partake of an excellent dinner which had been prepared for them, and which, 11 agreement, was to beet the expence of the conquer ed party. After the bottle had taken a few rounds, and the party were growing merry, Captain Samuel Wathen, of the Stanley Corps, proposed the fol lowing toast : • " May tie Gallic Cock newer roost ors British oak—hut, should he land, may the Severn Corp. do their duty, while the Stanley Corps remains in the rear and looks on." This was drunk with hilarity and great pleasantry, and was considered a good natured kind of blundering compliment to the one corps, without moaning the slightest offence to the other. Some time after this, the party broke up in the utmost harmony and good hunwir with each other; and fortunate would it have been, the learned Counsel observed, had all the company been as harmless in their thoughts, as the toast-master; but this was not the ease; Mr. Bitrdon, who was a drawing-roaster at Gloucester, was there ; and he could not resist the temptation of drawing a pimnre with his caricature pencil ; th s sketch of the shooting-match, the dinner, and the toast, he nest day presented to the Editor of Tsc Glosseister Journal; but not before it received a few finishing touches from Captain Samuel Wathen ; it then appeared in public print, not according to the original, but so represented, as to degrade the one corps, and raise the other. It was proposed that Burdon should corre'l his misrepresentation by an explanatory advertisement. This he refused, and some words passed, intimating a challenge from Mr. Lewis ; the answer to this was, who is Mr. Lewis ?" Why he is a tradesman ; Mr. Burdon is an artist, and therefore above him, but, in point of manners and education, he, Mr. Bunion, was on a footing with Mr. Nathaniel Pierce Wathen ; and if he would take it up, he would give him any an swer lie might require," intimating, that he had no objenion to fight, if he met a man whom he con sidered his equal; however, the Defendant's, with a true spirit of conoliption, previous to any appli cation to the Court, erased 1 paragraph to be in serted in the Newspstpieh which they hoped would at once put an end to the dispute, and reconcile all parties to each tither. On these grounds, he hoped the Court would not think it a case, upon which their Lordships would grant an information. Mr. Wiocav followed on the same side. Mr. ERSKI mt supported the rule: he said he al ways entertained a disposition to keep up hairs ony among persons in this most honourable service, and from the recent fatal catastrophes which have oc curred in duelling; and considering that there are now 350,000 men in arms, he trusted their Lord ships would interfere to prevent such matters in fu ture; after the paragraph had been published, and that Mr. Burdon found it was likely to create some unpleasaat business, be wrote a most gentlemanly and honourable letter to Captain Samuel Wathen, which was a most liberal, handsome, and complete apology; but, notwithstanding, this, one challenge followed another, and at last be was told there were 20 men now ready to fight him, and that one of them, Lewis, would meet him the next morning, and fight him with swords, pistols, or rides. Upon the whole, there was such a perseverance towards a breath of the peace as loudly called for their Lord ships interference. The Rule was made absolute. Mr. GARKUW moved for an attachment to be made absolute against Captain John Temple,. the Royal Navy, for having rescued himself out of the custody of the Sheriff's Officer. Capt. Temple attended in Conrt, for the purpose of surrendering himself : he is a Captain of one of His Majesty's ships of war, stationed at the mouth of the Thames; and, as it appeared, that he bad used no violence whatever at the time cf the rescue, the Court discharged him, upon his paying into Conn the debt and all die costs. COMMON PLEAS. GRAYMAN e. KINNET. Mr. Serjeant BRST moved the Court for a Role to chew cause why the Defendant should not be dis charged nut of the custody of the Sherif cf Surrey. By several a ffi davits it appeared, that the Defend ant, who is a gun-carriage maker, related to Mr.ten net, of Bond sheet, had been arrested for a debt of 431. by Long, an officer, and carried to a loelsity. house, wherelis Attorney, named Limb, procured. bail t and the officer, happening to overlook another writ then lodged against the Defendant, suffered him to go at large. Immediately after which, the officer, under an apprehension that he should 4e compelled to pay the debt, advised with Mr. Lamb, and represented to the bail, that the Defendant was likely to desert them ; in consequence of which they agreed to surrender him. A letter was accord ing). sent by Mr. Lamb, requesting his attendance on business, not mentioning of what description, in Westminster-Hall ; the Defendant complied, and while walking in the Hall, was again taken into custody, after being informed his bail 'had given him up. No notice having been sent of the day the bail was to be justified, or of their intention to sue tender the defendant, the learned Counsel contend ed, a made of proceeding had been adopted con trary to law, and the Court could not Limo:Lion the Defendant's present imprisonment. Oa the part of the Sheriff, Mr. Serjeant Suer- sr. en argued, that the officer had always performed his duty with honesty, and that in the present_in stance lie was warranted in what he had done. a fter haring negligently suffered the Defendant to escape the second writ upon which he ought to have been :ir:,•:!e.t. 'Th., affidavits of Mr. 11.-..mb, and Linng - the officer, were reed; 'stating that the Defendant had received doe notice to attend the swearing in of I bail. Sm. . • • ' The t'onrt were of opinion the Defendant had been confined in an urnottel way of proceeding. and made the ink absolute for his discharge, on condition of finding good bail. • -'--__ ---___Leo.- `, - "..:.„,„." sr DUBLIN, Just B. ; ' ' - • W ':'"""'' . --.........-_ .' , 4401 wrote- On Sunday last. a Charity Sermon Was pilitched by the Rev. Mr. Dunn, in aid of the' Lying-in-Hos pital; and, the eloquence of the preacher and the importance of the ohjoet considered, it is matter cif wonder and regret, that the collenion amounte , s has; to little more titan 1111.0 L The Earl of Hardwicke was present. The post-boy conveying the mail froth Caele- Blakeney to Tuam, -was stopped on ‘Vedneselay evening by two men arnietrwith sticks. who tiobtte'l him the mail, containing the bag - . of letters for the folio post towns, viz. liallina; Ballinrobe. Rat li lyvary, tastlebar, Dunmore, Deel Castle, Fn.:ford, Hollymount, Killala, Newport-Prim, Swinford, Tuam, and Westport. l'eesday se'rmight; sevefal carpenter/ wet, tried in the City Court, Limerick, before George Smyth, , Esq. Recorder, and a respeCtable Jury, &raged 'I with combining to obtain advance of wages. The trial took up above five hours, when. upon the clearest evidence, they woe all conyiaed. ' Tfie Recorder pronounced the following sentence t ' , That they be each fined 101.—confined sit nranths iti prison—and that they, nor any, or either of thetas 6t ever admitted to ma4e aTo cbarge to any Cori (Or Record, or admitted to gi,c ale evtilmen+." Gen. Campbell having left Clonmell, the com mand of the distriet devolves on the Right Hou. Brig. Gen. Earl Conyngham. The Earl of Erne, and the Bishop of Kilts% have been appointed to he of His Majesty',' Most Hun. Privy Council of Ireland - —.-. ST, ALBAN'''. The Kjng's Birth.day.was this year kept at. St, Alb.sn's in a more peculiar manner than it has been for a long time before. The morning was ushered in as usual by the ringing of the bells, and about twelve o'clock, two companies of the .St. Alban's Volunteers Sere placed op the top of the Abbey Church, while the Hon. Captain Lamb's. Center troop of Cavalry formed a line behind, in she Abbey orchard. The two bands were. placed on scaffolds near. At the sound of the bugle horn, Captain Basherfield, front the roof of the Abbey, gave the word for afro: C- we to carnmeuce. The mere then fired in their high station, from right to left. oil the upper lead.; then the same tank place eat the !owe: leads (the men standing between the bauliansems) I from hence the four companies of (.4e..11 y.,fired. by divisiens, and then finished with the music payiz Gad saf# the Leg Tbeeeferings was this re cs three rimes, and concluded with three hearty bathes, repeated by a numerens company of speaatera. When the Volunteers came down, .they formed a line for the Cavalry to pass, anstsalsy.ed ; this Cap. tain Lamb returned at. the top of tha town, when•ene general volley was fired. About twoo'clock, . the Mayorof the town, being Captain, gave a hospitable dinn-r at the Town Hall, to upwurds . of two ban: dred Officers, Gentlemen, and Volunteers; andeerith plenty of good liquor. loyal toasts and sengs, Aisle ? versed the festive board till a little after Aye, seen, by a signal, all retired, and the rooms were cleave* for a ball, which he gave to en elegant asaanshlaip of beauty and fashion. About one bandied old thirty of the Nobility and Gentry attended, an{ leespl up the dance till past three in the morning, whop 01l retired, much pleased with the entertainment of,tbo day. Captain Lamb's troop being on pet duty in the town at the time, added greatly= spirit of loyalty which prevailed through the jiii ~i —.....de • •.: :: 7 :-..„) The brigade of Cavalry, which was to has/Mamba place in Hyde Park last Thursday,. but whiefeisee put off on account of Ascot-heath ffiases,. is- Ilea for this day. . We are concerned to state the sudden dub cif hfr. ROZZRT Garnets, eldest son of Mr. Gamiest of St. James's-street. He retired to r it in Soar day, in the highest health, and was found yesterday morning lifeless in his bed. On the morning of Saturday se'unight. Sawa Martiii and irdliaa. Des, who had been senteeeed at the la;t Sessions to twelve months sobtary confine. ment in Bridewell, Norwich. for defrauding a per ten of a 11. note, efiedied their escape ;rem that prison. It appears that they form.' tie et locks, a• il entered the cell of ea/ea, a fellow pi isoner, wh-sns they endeavou-eil to prevail upoh to accomkany them m their flight• bat he refused to go. They were seen with another man near Barton Mills on Saturday eeeri.eg. The Captaat of ' an Engliish sh:p. wto lately took ten fishing vessels, sent the crew; tack wiih The fel dewing note, says an article from the Hague of the atith nit f— t' Two battene• an the Neer Goreelorine f zed 011 511 bits I ve.lc Marra*, to catch 1410eMia, I find ia , wit' ,itaka the Clio arv.:Aule no.:e.sity UT C. 441111141 an the L'utce. f...nii.g vesaia4 Gil in with In future no Dutch fistniu; reareJs will iso piss Ir. tr•d to fish without the limits of a port, creeps mach aii art wholly open, and not Ranee eight t me burtrwn, and Wl,otd crew: are fewer than neon men. Given under my * hanel, Al board the Al".acail.Ntbe 4241 of May. 150/. ' (Swat! ) " I MANST, celeste." Forty•one Aigeriaes. captured by the Tuscan military near Pietra :inta, where they had de. harked to pillage, and to make priseners, have ar rived at Leghorn. where the EMPE/tair ~f the French has sent orders ta • release thes, netsuke ! standing the inpremottatmas of the Qcros Reticle of Etniria. Mitwithstam,iing the cornalairt of the English Minister at Madrid, and the dimmtfed answer of she PRI ace of Ps•cs..conceraili d g the note .n the Nu ;Weer, exposing the indiscrett et ot the E M.- nister there; they write trr m Mi hid. that- no ap pt thension is entertained of any rup:ure with Fog. land. On the centrists., the ishinet ot St—lame.'s sw epees this as well as man: ether Eurniliatioin. without d.trat to rescut Praicist,./ I