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I I~ , • , • , „es of Lower Stiria; bat tees protApt;,Vnll)!3Z yieDst of the Armistice of Znabti, be shortly given upitsli t the French troops. it imewitially contribute". :111 the present moment, by ittiflo . tAity. to the sufwilirY of Lower Austria, and partMaiily of yienai..isith provisions. Gratz, the capital. is one of he most important towns belonging to the Austrian Mo tiarchy. Marshal Nlacdonuld's corps has beck ordered to take up cantonments in the province. MUTiIcH, JULY 22. Although the Austrian Major 'Veinier, who coin to,iiitlis the insurgents of the Tyrol, was informed of the armistice of &mini, he had, on the 17th, t se audacity to make a general attack upon the positions of the Bavarian General Count d'Areo. I gained and kept possession fur an hour of the of Monism but was at length defeated, and •,1 into he mountains with considerable loss. MADRID, JULY VI. ; Majesty's lost labours have been dedi rotted to a consideration of the condition of per t' Is employed by the State, and the adoptiou of ail equitable system for reform, and the granting of peusious to those olio retire friou office. The old Goveruinent had vainly attempted to correct the abuses existing in that part of the tailiniiiis tration. The reward due to services als ay; fell to the share of intrigue. Employments and pen sions were multiplied in proportion to the number of persons intended to be served ; and places were subjected to an isteessant mutation, dif f icult to be conceived. Ignorance and etfroutery obtained the pugs claimed us vain by talent and instruetimi, oral discouragement sprang from such tin ill-contrived orgauitarion. The numerous taxes, torn from the labours of many unhappy beings. were scarcely oufficieut to pay all the penalties a Hach have been to local/Ornately lavished away. The decree issued by tits Majesty, which insures , pensions of retreat to Mims who are employed in his service, secures at once their zeal anti gristitode. and will prove one of the greatest bessefits.eonferred upon his people. STAVE - OF HOLLAND. -• sarranoest, JULY 25. : T , , One Court Casette of this day colorise observe den as the public Taman, of the.fidloiring im porter/a tenor :--- "Tbernare truths, it is said, which must not be stowed. Moments however arrive, when the con celebrant of these truths may be attended by the weer consequences. Holland is in • difficult sho etree ; it enjoy.. as well as other countries may, the advantage of pOOKNIoine • prudent Government; but brit many disadvantages are there to be put in the *rite balance! "A rt, free, nod solid Government. is the first honorer. the Art advantage of every society. These p ries re, however, indispensably necessary in a century ,as Rutland. as it cadnot subsiat if Any one of them be winding. The situation of rraars, Germany, or Italy, is different. They eau support • period of misfortnsie, and withstand the evils of en noir*, negligent. or improvident Government. These rinntwes may be said to be capable of subsisting without trade. If their ter- Mary remain, their existence never eon depend upon the extenidon of their commerce. and the ex ertion of all the mercantile activity of which they tree capable. But re, myths ceotrery. have no thing but the fishery, used the inheritance of that *diffidence and credit "rich the. Patch of former • t.iines have vi, cell nsentetli • - " Our chief interests ore dealitteps r free and etell-conaolidatrid Gerrenatannt. tier" tAttfrivltiolt of our political existence, inel the -useintetianee of iler credit awl reputation abroad. Hew naturally , arises the questisreb-Wirst saes the crass bf the an- tient prosperity of Holland ? It depended, irrin eiPolll— I.on the great number., the wealth, ilia in dustry. and the virtues, of themiddle deer* of the. PoNlit• al 46 2. On the time situation of Europe. in which the great Powers always endeavoured to render their forces, Muth by land and sea, nearly terpoil, and to menden§ a Isolative with respect to rani: ether—in which marine aritizimetits were far f bawl; reached their present degree of strength and perfection—in will4:11 we ailvancril at on equal pace with thin* P r uwers--anil in which the interests awl the inclinationa of all the ilitTeretit Powers enii earred in supporting IV,: independence in ' our country. " But what is at pre , eut our wile situation After the slineto sad rein! it of the last taesity years. we slill grontid, whit greater Powers li rte per :t1441 d:;,rna!,(1011 111 the 1}4411114.V.11 , 1ve 311431 y IsriecAt li:!. nit Eu rupean Power to the verge .•f I'e...sr ruin C.a. These evils occasioned that terrible cosivalsinii which sprrici death, pa owning, over the ti nest rr the world, iiiei ivally lirought iu vicir trine taut t!reatent of ...I , !Orttincs—a state of . Our crests 3.1 , 1 repiii.t!cei remain, however, iiatiiiielveri. t in its, Who° It,tl- 1 1., tilto)rucr and cor riiiiteiii in the Vilciness !owe tel another, soil lot t.. , nowt . ' fel cation, lii c cr. eveistrinneil and sestets, the eini.vipc sices of which eilanut ieileetea oa without h e : 11 . e, how ever, nave ti,! Mond lortinie to Will otirsi-1v..1 in a ritinition, -one% though diflicult, is still ii. the path of im priorlitrisl. Iho.e ilephinthle perirele of convulsion and war, y-I.;iee n.,41 else goveniairtit of the laws have been rli.regardi.d, but we have +till the liappusess rf 1.,111 4 nosier 140 r .;11111 M,.. WE tail, not lad to snlaitit the eaptien of an erbitisrlbternatrot. s, or rive t. , , ii.rhen° tinder the &Ms. ri! ansolence •11101114. -. 61,ir few Milii.ol7ll:Cs4 1114Ye'li41t become the twine 01 w.rr, (tar far leapt, lies not. es in other tion.itriei. been tOTII4 O IIII es: . WV.l,lre, per the only . ..41ropt-iin . people, 4ter *horn 'wither the cou.sti option nOf time twitietess islainwit. Whet ;nor.' beuents do we then 4nek for? In the dreadful - r nest which has so long kept Europe in a .tote of fercietitatioli, we must be involved. But we hare -e 4.0:1 to thank Prot/nicety that the crisis hes ap ,44444.114,1. at the hoed untairounible period. and for alucted MS to Monarchy. and having, throng:, it, created to we a real state, or at leers 'yid right of iiioelieadesce sad political s o . j wilt Ise.;_ezvoniiirmonesion Of a iill at -rite prijeipal trials at Os tate Neewiel Amiens. Two al lbws aispearei ia tla eisseliOr ibis weak ; Pa &Wei . this day. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, FRIDAY, Auam 11. It appears from the French Papers, that Amen BONAPARTE remained at Mikhail on the 20th last. He was busily employed in courting popularity, and endeavouring to attach the Spaniards to his Government, by the suppression of abuses, and the introduction of salutary and useful laws and tutions. Ile would, however, be soon obliged to resign the pen for the sword, and exchange the cabinet for the camp, if not determined to act again the part of the fugitive. The combined British and Spanish armies, to the amount of up wards of 100,000 men, were advancing to his ca pital iu three divisions ; the centre or main body, under CVCSTA, along the Tagus; the left, un der Sir Aa2uva WSLLESI.LY, ou the north ; and the right, under VENrGAS. on the south of that ri ver.—The French. army, under VICTOR and SUU TIANI, had reached Toledo in their retreat, and was not supposed to amount to more than one-hull of the pursuers. It is probable, therefore, that it would not abide the fate of a battle at Toledo, but fall still farther back npou the capital. The acces sion which it would there acquire, by a junction with the garrison, and other troops which Josoveu might be tilde to call in, would, we fear, swell it to a very formidable force. Several vessels, principally tiatisports. sailed on Wednesday. to join„ the Expedition, but no ac counts have been roceised from it since Sunday last, although the wind his been at times favour able. We may, therefore, presume, that up to Wednesday, Flushing still held out, and that no decisive progress was made to its redaction. If this little place, although closely invested by sea and land, and cut off from all chine* of succour, has been able to occupy so long the attention of 50,000 men, and 100 sad of men of war, we fear, if the Expedition has far to go, that it will not soon arrive at its journey's end. We have received Dutch papers to the 46th, and Paris to the 3 1 t 1114. The latter contain the 49th Bulletin of the French army iu Germany, dated Vienna, the Sid, at which time Bouarsave remained at or near that capital, and the armistice of Znairn had not been carried into complete effect ; the fortress of Gratz, in Styria, which was to have been evacuated on the itith, not having been, at the date of the Bulletin, iu the hands of the French. A hope, however, is expresso!, that NIACDONALD, one of the new-made French Marshals. would be in possession of the place about that time, having marched with a corps for that purpose. The armistice, it will be recollected, was only for it montli.„Eith a stipulation for a fott night's notice, iw elate of the renewal of hostilities. Unless, theu,sodseefficient progress has been made towards a final accommodation, or the term has been prolonged; ilia' notice will be given to.mor role. • Thu a negotiation is in train at Vienne. on .der list; manag,erneut of Prince Joao of LICIITEN. atssM and the French Minister, eItAItIPAIIItY. the former of whom received his instructions from the Emperor of AUSTKIA at Buds, and the latter front Loa APAKTE at Schuenbrunn, is more than sug gested 111 the linden'. How far it wits advanced on the 2.10 d. we have no means of judging ; but we do know that ktior4ArAKTF. is not of a diameter to I all ,iv ticgo , iations to languish at any time; and lea,t of tio, at so critical a moment as the one in whi.•ll we stand. Conscious as hit . must be. that, 'tryout' the Pyreitees, Vl'vt.i.astEr anti CtiLiTA are marching towards Madrid, after driving Sou vir out of Portugal, and cliaipellisig Victua to retreat trout the frvaliers of Andalusia to the province of New Csti'c, saute that our forces, military and naval, are o ••rtipied in reducing the islands which command the hay of Naples; he will doubtless hart been auplisetle by the the 7th or ith of the prase: t tnot:th, that the British fleet sad arniy have Vatted :Ilan:ling in Zealand, and are proceed. ink to attack, or to take. possession of the principal islande, fortsesses, anti harbours of that exposed ma ritime portico of Dolland. His navy, so long con. strocting and equippitig is the Scheldt ; the dock ards and arsenals, in which was preparing that formidable fleet, which, at some propitious too agent, heslestitied to invade the thorr4 of &igloo(' ; ltis lioittnir, 'and tile, reputation of his invincible arm, on ,Which foundations repose his tenure of the SOWS ealpite . Atat he has usurped or con rpiere(l-4111 these ..considerations will stimulate hint to accelerate the termination of war a the Danube, in order : to transfer his presence and his energies to the other side of Europe. thaqiies tiousbly, if peace were not to follow between Ranee and Austria, Boa aIPAIITIOI positive would be most pe►ilous. Nor does it appear possible that he can, without manifest inconveniences mit, std danger, prolong his stay fur any considerable time on the Donube, or advance into lioWeinia, while Holland, the Netherlands, Spann, and Naples, de mand his assistance. On the other hand, if be were saof taforat the Emperor of Acesau to ee• rept a &Witt e treJily, to whom could he delegate the o:prier command in Moravia ? To But- Titteit i or to letatioorra ? tie "MALI he select I BESSEMER, or MAI:MONT, Of LITERVRE ? Could any of these Commanders have repaired the ca lamity Si Aspern, have reconstructed the bridges demolished by the river, have recrossed it, and, finally, have obtained the advantage gained over the Aaciociz at Wagrana ? We do not believe it. —Every week, and every day, tends to impress, with a stronger conviction, that the energies of the revolutionary despotism which now crushes, de spoils, and ravages the earth, reside, and are con mired, in BONAPARTE. With 111111 they have risen; with him, if he were withdrawn, or if he were fettered and overpowered by circumstances of any kind, would relapse into debility, this awful and destruct;ve tyranny, which only his genius can coatroul and direct. It is. therefore, against him, personally, not against Jose iii BONAPARTE, or JOACNIII MURAT, that we ought to have aimed all our blows. Can any WWI &QM, that the ar mies now righting in Castile, or in Naples, would have been more beneficially employed in Carniola, and in the Tyrol ? ‘Vhat effort-. adequate to the expulsion of 40,001' Ittitish forces, landed at Trieste, sod at Pitnile, in June, could NAPOLEON have made, while the ARCHDUKE maintained his position on the Northern bank of the Danube?— We see that it required all liis.assend.led force, led on by himself in person, on the 4th, sth, and Oh of July, to carry the Austrian entrenchments. But Ins not the Corsican himself stigmatised us as une Nation bola/v.4re e" He is right. We merit the reproach; or rather our Ministers de serve it.. Would any man, except of the narrowest and meatiest views, have preferred raring Oporto and Lisbon, to rescuing Remus? Will they say that they had not vessels in the Tagus, to trans port WELLEsLev's army to Trieste? They dare not ; because it is matter of public notoriety, that, during April, and early is May, we were apprehen sive of Struve and Vicroa's junction, which had Necessitated us to retain all the transports, for the purpose of • re-embarking our troops, and evacuat ing Portugal. While, however, we hold up the Administration to the censure of the country, we by no means despair, even under such incapable conductors. The superior skill of the British Navy, in all opera tions or enterprises where it can be employed, as in the present Expedition ; sustained by the ar dour and firmness of our soldiery, may tear •Zeo land from the Corsican's gripe. It is a breach at which Great Britain may once more enter the Con tinent, from which we have been so long excluded. He will feel it to be so ; and he will fly to the suc cour of the Low Countries, the first instant that he can conclude a peace with Austria. His position, we repeat, is delicate; and requires all his pars mount abilities to enable him to retain Europe under his feet. The exposition given In our public prints of the shamelvis and indecent falsification made by the Corsican Emperor, of the most prominent paiieuges in Ilia Ilritaonic NIAJILSTY'II Speech to Parliament. on the late I'rurogation, sufficiently proves to every iiidependent man, the vile arts of deloisiou, impos ture, aud contempt of truth, by which he prop* and su►tains his despotism. Bat, of what practical utility can it be, to convince the terrified and van quished States of 'Europe, or the enslaved and con scribed inhabitants of France, that the Italian ruf- tian, who governs, and who coerces them, is desti. title of honour, cud insensible to shrine? Ilia power, thoti4li supported by •very flagitious in vention that can mislead or deceive, reposes on surer and stronger foundations. Victories and force constitute the principal pillars of the edifice. By the former he has subdued FREIARIC LIAM. ALEXASDPR. and FRANCIS. By the latter, lie represses domestic sedition. and has crushed or extinguished the restless spirit of republican jaco binisin. Many access:lmi, however, contribute to strengthen and to perpetuate his tyranny; admire ' tion is necemstily excited by his watt success. This prescription of near ten years, which have already nearly elapsed, since. as First Consul, he misled oo the raw of Government, lie, familiarised the pro• sent race of inhabitants in Paris, as well as in the provinces, with his doininatioa. lastly, a sew aristocracy, moulded by, end originating from this subtle usurpers partly military, partly feudal, and the principal members of which revolotiesary no bility are decorated with dignities, ornaments, and donations of lands or offices, all einanatiag from the same polluted hands; this moral ma chinery, cosatructed with Machiaveliao art, ede ntate a prodigies* number of individuals, distil• geishad for energy and ability, is upholding the fabric of their comesoe treatise**. Such balite*" ws fear, are net now to be bettered in breach, net to be carried Uy arm, The supreme despot of the present day, like Cilia% and CaoirmeLL, is not aeaseabla to any eometimise of Oyer sod Ter miner. What art wee areas. though she has hem celled the queen of the earth, any longer do' to dethrone BOX/MAIMS What mu the press it self, which makes ether tyrents tremble, effect on the Continent, in its present fallen state T Who will ,print, who will raster, to peruse; who will dare to disseminate, truths ahosatioas td N Aeol.llolll It is test she ra that is 1119 eau liberate the Car tineut. Its maladies, exhatlsture, and extinction, leave no ratioual hope of its being electrified by a Germ a Petates, or a D'ltrenNota, while the fabricator of its elliltP4 IlUrVl.Vellf, to rivet and to cement them. As little eonlidWie• cats we repose in the Counsels, or in the arms, or those Govern ments arid States. which still continue, tionsinally at least, to resist the power of Bus APART& Aus tria, Spain, and England, are not only separated by seas and immense tracts of territory ; they want unity of &rig'', means of mutual comnienication, enlarged views, and rapid earcureen. What cow. mon end or object can be coucerted.or carried into effect by the Cabiuett of Olinutz, of Seville, an d of St. James's; ? Du we even kiwi" With any cer tainty the actual state. intentions, or politico means. left to the Emperor of Aesrata ? Clair 1 yesterday, were we quite sure of the place wh.ire he is in person. or do wr now k v win re Isis army is encamped? Do we know with more accuracy. up to the present tiine, from Ulm:- tectible official authority, the articles of the late catlawltme. defeat, or anniatice ? We can only aim our blows at retirlool, in the cl irk, while the con. gum'''. stantlin4 on an eminence iii the centre of Europe, deals Iris offensive operations iii the light, and either conceals or dividers, either .uppr, ues, or exaggerates, or &tulles, every event, as best snits his interest or his !tulle,. It may, perhaps. be said, that such language is that of despair. But, great as the imprdiaarats are to practiced co-operation with the Continental Powers, and particularly with A. 114611, an adetinis. trntion gifted with energy, arid capante of decisive as well as rapid movement, would not have al lowed the invaluable occasion to be lost, which bits elapsed since April inst. With what petience calm we read of Sir ARTHUR WRLI.EaI.IT'S mar is Irons Castelbranco to Placentia, when we reflect that he might, and Omit he ought to have bevel marching from Trieste to Clagettfurth, or to Gratz? Ca. we derive any comfort from the acquisition of Ischia, or from the occupation of Procida, we Salerno, when we know that Sir J. STU ART'S army might hays been on the Drove, or in the Tyrol. or in Bavaria, at this time ? Is it sufficient that we pow appear in Holland, to take possession of Waleheesn and of Flushing, when the contest on the Danube is at an end ? Cun any acquisitions or conquests, in Spain, is Naples, or even in the Low Countries, extricate Austria and save Europe ? Is it not NA 'meson, and he alone. with saran we emd malt kind are at war ? Should we be any Deicer to the attainment of honourable peace, if losers Boma- PARTE, JOALIIIM MecA?, and King Luau, at - all three prisoners in the Tower of Loudon ? Would not the Corsican, if he can keep his foot upon the necks of Germany and of Russia, sub stitute other Kings, or other Generals, in the place of those whoa) we had captured ? Does he regard either men or means, presided that he accomplishes his object ? NVill the Ministerial advocaats dis pute these principles, ur deny the couclusions re sulting from them? They tuust employ more elo quent and elite casuists than Mr. Ceti stmo or Lord CAITLRRAOH, if they .hope when Pirlutinent meets (as, we are assured, it is certainly to du in I November) to persuade the country that there were no means of transporting to Trieste, the armies acting in Portugal and its Sicily. BOHAPARTI dreaded nothing except Beat attack ; and we may rest assured, that whatever terms of peace he shall grant to Austria, be will .never subject to future contingencies, the possible extrication of that power, by means of her ports in the Adriatic. Trieste, Fiume, sad all the maritime tract, de nominated the " Littorale," running along the head of the Gulf of Venice, will be for ei r united to his Dalmatian and Italian domi nions. It is the seal and, consummation of his conquests. Austria, driven inland, will then fall to the level of Saxony, or of Bavaria. And do the present Ministers expect that these salters aill neither excite inquiry, nor awaken punishhrit? If they do, they count tots confidently on the ignor ance, the tauseaess, or the indifference, of the Eug fish people. , The Sarah . 'kristimmaesou. arrived of Madeirath h th e I July, wit e Sir Witham Put -41411 gamy, cIDIASTO tea ; Lady Lurking:as, ICl estes,Ls ; and Wean Pitt, Cnownaa ; parted conspauy with His Maiesty's ship Lars , and the Windeens.Sweereall; (Am'ffeetsMostreoca ; Link 1. GAILLARD; sod Nektheinprsa, SARDINIA, proceed iog to that Island. • - His bla.tisrr's stoop Helena, of IR guns. Calie. Wont% sailed so the Ist inst. from Cork, with a fleet of trams p ,wts, having sin hoard horse utak:rya ordnance aM camp stores, Air Liebee. SIT SIIIIIIIT SHIM arrived on Wednesday at Pimientos* from the Brasile, in the Dials date, alter a passage of eleven weeks. The Austrian Alicia usenet of the battle af Warms has at length mod* its appearance; sod is stated in articles frees Dresden, to be cedar"' able, in the most essential points, with the /nisch Sallotiee. We are owl to find that the Artie dike CannonMe PAO** him of Liehteamia were both wounded. It canktuties thas u The Amnion army . ler sustained a vast holm It is derived, by the death of Omni Plow ° ti, d ea moose of the w the et mo d' a mid Galarra l l bare me Wahine* ler reeeemy el VICSAR. d'Asrait, and VVIAMIOTIca. Aus°4 t Growth less dangerously wounded am, the Prime. or pa H a zoowilossoo and his im a t o paia . Gooo nig or nm sti t icirzt i r k: Csalme• when, with the Prince of Lisirreasrst i received musket weanda, which will net, however be attended with any setions ressegoencee Lest tertieuini firer. fi revived per whir Jaen, sweated The forr with gre tic were tent in t cewifnl i in the The Me Acts, au followed ton. A swot vser Sturm: Paula/ Mr. 4.4 this Thi Op ern u usui4 went nfl applaus Vest Avousi Mt; RY A the flu i n WI! Princw attetala walked Lord seat, 11l tibia UM a cony We the in' Wettnt Avows „Royal GILDS seat wl of A It M 096 r Ladies the ba to a an with t Sponw Afar ntence fhoivii on the enth y to be I condo Tlit lar, Bev. U Kelt!, Wakes white. Thi Mr. Col me (tau gili Evx•n, SI cock Wetzel :Pal ,i't ri ieg Bill on Ds hes feu aid at 1 to am the hit