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INNommimm FIUSSIA AND THE CONTINENT. rot- I '• )17. In letters from Vienna, St. P tsa •burgh, and Stnekhol - n, th? impolitic conduit of Prussia is cen sur•. I, sad regarded as the princi? al cause GI the pre eat unsettle I and o?presse I st re of Europe It as' ,s. on 1 tul,t, ia hopes of escaping the genci:ll wr- ':, that Prussia abandoned her allies to it, in 17)5, ai i signed at Basle a treaty of neutrality. which was to put an end to h anxieties, expenses, and dangers; but, situated as affairs now are, to remove A dell eaky is not to overcome it; on the contrary, it is to increase it. The Emperor has not lost a h ittle, which did not rebound on the throne of Prussia ; Bonaparte has not distributed an iii de.naity, obtained a conquest, or extorted a con cession, that did not shake the pillars of all lawful Sovereignty. The neutrality of Prussia has con spired to extend the progress of revolutionary con quests and subversions. It has augmeated the a•t dacity, sitaported the a:nbition, and organised the usurpation of B.,siparte, and with it the slavery and misery of the Continent. To what does Prussia owe her transient calm ? Ti, the indifference with which she views the ravages of a political tempest, which is rapidly advancing towards herself. Bona p irte, busy in destroying Europe, by piecemeal, does not disturb the precious slumber of an intimi dated King. while 'le is pulling down monarchies and republics, gland duchies and eleaorates. But soon armed from their spoils, with their population and their riches, he will uadouite.lly crusts the isolated power who sh dt have coolly looked on, while her bulwarks were destroyed. Me Cabinet of Berlin, as well as all well-in formed polo:l64as. foresee this catastrldae It would be to suppose the Prussian Ministers destitute of u idsitah ling, to believe them still under the do tm• on of illusioa; but tile torment of this foresight is the necessary efts& of their peace with Prance, and their connetlions with Bonaparte. We will venture to say more ; it is their chastisement. The King of Prussia's three hundred thousand soldiers, his ten millions of subjeds; the allegiance of use one, ant the valour of the other; the abi!ities of his Generals, and the sagacity of his Ministers, would have th•own a decisive weight into a confe deracy of ,:u's!ic safety ; but thee will not aid that of a grain of tins', on the day when Prussia shall behold Boel. , aste, the French Republic and the aas ...icing a-breast, against her tardy resistance. dad repels her natural allies, seems to blush at her uniaa with the oppressor of nations and of Kings a dares wither fight against him, nor accept his assistance; traces the line of demarka. lion ageless the Colossus, that lsewi,les the Cont: went; loses herself in chimerical fears; shuts he eyes to the nearness of her danger : cannot sattsf, Bonaparte. but by joining in his mormi:ies, an.t will fall a trinirn to her irresolution. if the Powers, whims she refuses to assist, be immoveable as herself " tys Mnntesquieu," " m tile a con scant tralric of fie fear of the Romans." If w were ta compute what cow 'niece has cost the con tinent io contributions, plunder, emetions. requisitions, gratuities, indemnities, pccuniary re• demptions, and useless expenses, to preserve or ob tain peace, vet:should find funds adequate to twenty campaigns. When to the notes presented at Ra tisbon, we join a million of Austrian, Russian, and Prussian soldiers under arms, we very well see, that they are not the French who ire suVigating Ger many, and who hare eisslaved Italy, Holland, and Switzerland, who, in the Sotto' of Europe, snake Splits and Portugal tributary, and who, in the Ni,:th, ruin Hanover, and pillage the Hanseatic cities. And what have these largevses of fear pro duced ? these irrational and ridiculous calculations, by which so many powers keep Bonaparte in pay by the means of their subjeCtion ? Many of them are already sutsverted with the money laid down to purchase their safety. The same fate awaits them el. Has one of them recovered any degree of se curity ? Where is the basis they hoped to acquire by treatios ? Do we ever negotiate with conflagra tions, or enter into agreements with earthquakes? Has any advantage com:sensated for the disgrace and ruin attendi..g tho,e intrigues and negotiations for a continuance of peace ? Is it by raising the contempt of an enemy, that we are enabled to resist him ? Is it with diplomatic tatters we repel a revolution, a. i.sed with principles, backed by incen diaties, sedut. rs, and cannon ? We must reveal the secret of the Continent. The higher classes of society, dignit.iti.:l„ opulent proprietors, prelates, generals, ministers, and even more than one Sore re:gni join in i_:..eading republican tyranny and plunder, less that the risk of resisting 'hem. They leave them to an irresistible f ; a:-.41 effeminacy and inattivity coni.srm to a dogma, which dispenses ith every effort. - lacy are the Greeks isZ ' lVhen Mah:::net I:. approached their wall:. th-, ' , toted their Fanpet refined him succours frog• ~,'t weaTi, kept tre.attres for the Ottomans, with vil,ch they might Lee paid armies of de- fenders, and quarrelled among themselves about the two religions. It is to this continental fatality. this extraordin fry lethargy must be ascribed. Weary of their irresolution, the Sybarites give themselves up. Each feeds a hope of individual safety amidst the general destruetion. Some of them even coolly compute the tributes. losses, and disgraces, to whis:h they expect to be condemned. But this stoicism is still succeeded by anguis'i and alarm. To the tor ment of doubt is added a moral depression, which extinzuiches even the will to be delivered from it. Illusion and terror succeed each other in the same day. As without moving, so without pain, do they see empires dissolved in the crucible of the revolu tion, religion. thrones, senates, dignities, morals, society, and property overthrown. They do not allow themselves to breathe a complaint, lest it should be beard on the other side of the Rhine. Pru*nee enjoins the potting up with humiliations, outrages, and the moat disgusting enormities. All energy consists in hiding their heads like the os trich, and in escaping the revolution by turning their backs upon it. Insults, such as the invasion of Baden,. the occupation of Hanover, and others which, in former times, would have mal^ courts and nation; fly to arms, are tolerated, glossed over, and sometimes even assented to. Has any quiet, or at least any security, any hope, been the reward of this turpitude ? No ; they purchase courage to-day only to tremble to-morrow. Is an unjust at over looked. it gives birth to others still more iniqttiv-us ; because the measure of tyranny ever exceeds that of cowardice. Neither governments nor individu als are sure of their fate for a month together. They are loaded with the shame of affronts without having the consolation of finding that they lessen their dangers. Uneasiness, therefore, appears upon their cnuntenances ; dread annoys the enjoyments of frivolity, and chastises them for their system of self ishness. All sentiment is painful, and the ex'res sion of it restrained. Such is the deplorable state into which they are thrown, that, amidst a hundred public papers, and thousands of daily paniphl As, devoted to excuse the crimes of Bow irte, to ap plaud his plans, to vaunt his power, to insult his enemies, to contribute to the success of the philoso phical fooleries of modern rep thlicanism, not a pen dares to write in defence t.f social order. Every mouth is gaTged. and every truth sealed up by the awe of the unplaints. In reading this faithful detail oft unfortunate situation of the Continent, how justly proud have not Britons to be, not only of their spirit aid unanimity, which prevent the feroci ous Corsican U carper from heMg an universal ty rant ; 'spit of the prospen, that the;r endeavours in the cause of honour and virtue, w;11 fin illy be crowned with succe,s ; and that the brave defend ers of their own rights w:11 become the generous deuverers of enslaved Europe. CANADIAN R EGIM ENT. A mutinous disposition hat manifested itself in Canadian Regiment, quartered at Glasgow.— The Poll .wing i- an evraet from the Proclamation 9nblistied upon the neca.ion by the Magistrates of that City, and Sheriff-Depute of the County of Lanark Whores there is remon to believe, t h e some evil dit:wird e erie 14 have f r some time - b endisirmirins to Call erre and Sent,et many of the PetvAin Setois as of Ili. Ni,r erre. CANA wen Rao iva•T, at dr arta volleyed .11 this tnty, and about to mob .rk kr Catiade. the ; lace of thcir cf.:se:nation, in America; iimiressins their minds with C.- una gym:Ali:4 fears and apot diens ma that it .4 the i-iten Min of Government t., 5.:114 them t s.nna t;, r .r t of i t M inert% tlOni.nion than Iv tal ally heA oat to them the period of their enlistment, a d .hat it is also soiloadel not to 11161 certain other engagements, in which that .'ore. Into re drip; and ag, in protetetitien of this ilnidous plain ' these seditious and evil di4;.....lliier,ains have no only sought open the mind. of them holdies secretly, hut have, for game ti.ys st, upon ticagion of the public parade of that Corp., be hared in a :mist riotous, dis•oricrly, anti un:ieto aaa it Is manner." The Scotch Papers received yesterday state, that of this very fine body of Highlanders, very few understand the English language, and hence they have may been more easily made the dup:s of de iigning men, who woald practise upon their igno rance, and misrepresent the intentions of Government A Letter from a Gentleman at St. Helena, says : —" The hand of Providence seems to have been strongly manifested in our favour, in resped to India affairs. Had the rupture with the Mahrattas taken place a few weeks later, and the war in Europe been much longer delayed, our Indian enemies would have been assisted by the professional know ledge and personal services of about two hundred of the first Officers from France. It was also by the merest chance in the world (the long passage of a vessel from Table Bay to False Bay), that the Cape of Good Hope was not completely in possession of, and garrisoned by the French ; instead of which it is now only secured by a disaffeded and weak body of Dutch and German mercenaries, and will prove an ca.iy conquest to the English, if attempted before the French throw in troops. ' A letter r,ceired at Greenock from Captain Ar r Lee's, of the ship Lord Forbes, which sailed from Cork the Ist of July, with the West India fleet, dated 11th of July, in lat. 43. long. 12. men tions all well. Our Correspondent at Dever says Already have the elfeas of the blockade begun to operate here : the Learradeon•oi, of and from Lisbon, bound to Dieppe, laden with sugar. cotton, kc. has been sent in by the At Ipo wow frigate ; the Fridenka D2rabed Welhelmere, of and from Nurthkoping, for Bnurdeaux, laden with iron, steel. and deals ; also the roar Sister., of New York, bound to Fecamp, laden with oil, cotton, and sugar, sent by the Zara." DUBLIN, Av.; IS. Sir F.van Nepean arrived here at four o'clock yes terday morning. A Meeting of the Corporation of the City of Dub lin took place yesterday- in William -street, to con sider the report of the Pipe Wazer Committee upon the negotiation latel, held with the Grand Canal Company, when the demands of the Company appeared to he of a nature so extravagant and exJrhinint, that the Assembly fully agreed with ti.e Committee in rejeaing theta —and me is ores were adopted for securing to the city of Dublin to ample supply of water, without the necessity of ally con neCtion with the Grand Canal. Monday, the Sheriff of the county of Limerick received a free pardon for Tobias Dolmage, found guilty of killing Mr. Enright in a duel On Tuesday last, while a great concourse of people had proceeded to the funeral of a Mrs. Vaughan, in the county of Clare, a young fellow named Scanlan, assisted by four or five others, rushed into the house of Mr. Hogan. of helkelly (no person being at home b ut Mrs. Hogan and Miss Vaughan, the niece of the deceased) ; they seised the young lady, and in spite of her cries, and the efforts of Mrs. Hogan, carried her off, forced her into a boat, and conveyed her to an old castle which stands in the river Shannon, accessible only by a boat, and is only to be entered by means of a ladder, there being from six to ten feet water clo s e to the walls, and the door being ten feet above the water. They were pursued by those who had at tended the funeral, but without effeet ; they were deaf to the entreaties of the friends without and the cries of the lady within—to the expostulations and commands of the magistrates they were equally inexorable—and it was therefore determined to blockade diem. All the boats in the neighbourhood were colleted and brought on shore by Major Purdon, to cut off the means to retreat—and at day break on the morning of Wednesday, all Major Purdon's, Capt. Brady's, and Capt. Martin's corps of yeomanry, proceeded to the shore to effeit the rescue of the young lady—hut in the middle of the night Capt. Brady had prevailed upon Scanlan and his followers to release the lady, who was handed out on the ladder to her friends. l'he party, how ever, semi ned in the castle closely watched until five in the evening, when, hopeless of escape, and destitute of either food or ammunition, they sur rendered, and are now in custody. The pro.tiptne,s of the Magistrates and Yeomanry has thus rescued the young lady from faiiing a prey to lawless out at;e. LYNDHURST RACES, On Friday last, afforded their usual abundance of forest sports. Several races of ponies, and half bred hi-rses, were run ; and also a match between two horses belonging to Officers of the German Legion. which was sharply contested. But the crack diversion of the day was the race by li.unp shire Bullacks (with the tips of their horns gilt), in which three stetted to run heats round the Two mile Course. 'I he first mile they trotted nimbly, and h last they galloped dexterously, to the astonishment of the speaators; but just as the two first were coming up to the stand neck and neck, the leading bullock bolted through the rope, and the second fol lowing him down into a marshy bottom of the course, they both kicked up, and dismounted their respeftive riders, to the high diversion of the whole ground ; and, in consequence, the third bullock, that was nearly distanced, won the heat. On start ing again, the superiority of Mr. Rose's celebrated racing ox. which won last year, was shewn by dis tancing his competitors. The Duchess of 801.. TON'S, Mr. Ross's, Mr. CULIALN SMITII'S, and most of the other families of the neighbourhood, were in carriages upon the ground. President Baron Hoy al is the youngest of five brothers, and salt of Baron Hov ta, late Minister of State to the "hike of Baosswicx, and is considered one of the first jurisconstilts in Germany. His sister, an amiable and Accomp ;shed lady, is married to an English gentleman, Mr. Damar, who Ludy held a place in - India. By the deaths of the Earls of LIIIT RI NI and DE• SA RT, two vacancies occur in the Irish Represen tative Peerage. The mode of (sleeting Peers to supply tliese vacancies, as prescribed by the Aft of Ifni' n, is as follows : The Clerk of the Crown in Ireland forwards to etch Temporal Peer of that part of the United Kingdom, entitled to vote, a writ, with a blank left for the name of the ► Peer, which, in fifty two days from the lesfo of the writ, is to be returned into the Crown Office, in Ire , land, with the blank filled up. Only oat eledion 1 has hit serto taken place, that on the death of the late Lord ROSSIICRIC ; the candidates were Viscounts CII•11 LEV ILIA and Du .Loa. The former Peer was eleded by a very great majority of votes. The French privateer, Bonaparte., has, after an engagement of tour hours, captured the English ship Koltesill, from Liverpool, of 570 tons, 22 nine pounders, and 36 men. The English captain was killed in the engagement. The Colonels of the two Regiments of London Militia some time since presented a Memorial to the Seca aaaaa at WAR, in which they claim the privilege, in common with every other Militia Colonel in the kingdom, of having the exclusive diieftion of the receiving and issuing of all monies conneded with the cloathing of their respective regiments. Ibis day the 3d Regiment will be inspeded by the same General, for a similar purpose, in the Bird Cage Walk, St. James's Park; and to-morrow the First Regiment will be inspeded in Knightshridge Barracks for a like purpose, by the same General. Yesterday morning the Battalion of the Cold stream Regiment of Guards doing duty in London, were inspe&ed in Portman Barracks by General Boat ten, on marching orders. and they are to hold themselves in readiness to march at a few hours notice. On Saturday morning the Guards, according to annual custom, will exchange their quarters in Lon d Early on Tuesday morning a detachment of the Guards, under the command of Sir WILLIAM SHICIDAN, marched from Loudon to Windsor, to do duty there during tie asgence of the Staffordshire 'vtilitia, who are gone to do duty at Weymouth during the stay of the Royal Family. CRIV. CON. -...:.....3 The parties in the Crim. Con. we yesterday tinder the "head of Wi.i.thester. _ Mr. C. an eminent apothecary And kurgeon in the town of Southampton, an.l .Vir. H. an eminent attorney, and a Ringwn-1 v.iittrireer. ith•uut, lar years since, Mr. C. became en: monied with the lady. now his wife, and some Arti;st; OW the part of her friends, he carried her iie' to Jersey,. where they were married. :Cie was the. 018 years of age. Mr. C. has been the f•ndest and most indulgent husband : they have twu beaa.i children. Mr. H. was in habit.; of intimacy wi•h Mr. and Mr , . C. but no •rt‘eicion had ever at- , tached to the parties. He: it a widower, And has three children. Some time since, the IA l pretended to b 4 ill ; change of air was recommendc A, and the fund husband had a house taken for her between South ampton and Winchester, to which she removed, accomp 'flied by her children. Mr. C icupiel by his professional duties, remained at Siuutivarnoton; " but went on stated days, three timzs each wesk. to see her. Upon a day nut of the uoial course, Find* . ing himself unoccupied, he mounted his horse, Ai• ticipating the pleasure his tineso.li , d visit would give his wife. When arrived, he anxiously enq'tlred for her, and was answered, that she had gone to Winchester with a gentleman, three hnnrs before. He instantly pursued, and having traced the fug'. tives an inn, learned that they had been in bed about an hour. On bursting open Cie chamber door, Mr. . H. jumped out of bed, when the enraged husband knocked him down : he recovered himself instantly, and beat the husband in return most soundly, so as tt, to render him unable to return home. Mrs. COs r` vr beautiful little woman just twenty. r LIVERPOuI., Auc. 19. • Yesterday evening, as the Manchester coach, fA of passengers, was turning round Cable-stret, the coachman fell from his box, ar.d the whee's going over his body, he s to bruised, that his hie is de :paired of. last night the Packet boat to Chester, returninE with people from the mark, ts, got entanried with a • ship's cable in the river, atilt ovrrse. by w tick .% means a nun and woma • •t•ere drowned. The wind blowing fresh f r om t h e N. W. an d a Km* 7 flood•tide, no assistance could be ie. Captain Bonsai. emp iyed tat Grav:rrit, Docks, repairing It's shlp. hv the • aff 1 r F it.; ing way, was untiirtionistely ki:1:11. lie is ouch vetted by a ita:nber of acquaintances. BREAD.--YCSlttd/T. the LostD MAYOR <waved • the price to be raised two assizes And a Ira or Five pence in the Peek Loaf, to cdmmence to-Imo - row ; t to price of the Quartern Lnaf Wheaten will then be Is. and Household 1011. •1 he crops of IVheat are almost universally :scree. ed this year with mildew, !King a stri.s/1 fur -or bltck plant which fines its on the strew, d i tetcepts the non ishment J :Ig 0 ,, A. I • ripening the grain, which will , i.: a p very thin ant lean; this i.e.. e f whi•Ar. .:o seems nuhto II IV! iilCred4••:6l of late i• • An encampniert e.ol infa?dia ely he soi rAe.l n , the neighbourh od o: n lc. by Mak) -• Oen r Eva a Coots:, K. B. of t r tamps un I r • mind in the S W. Dutra. ' • • IV cons,. following regiments : Two .q• '• its of 18th Light Dragmons, under chi. and -.1 I -u- tmoult•ColonelJosss ; 1 Light L rof Avoll- I ; the 21 And sth Light Banal of Mal ti e 31, 15th, Ist and 2d battalions oft e 28-h g 4St' and "i-. 11 Regiments of the Line; the Jueeit a Gtr mans ; the South Mayo, Tipperaty, A..d queen's County Regink •As of Militia. MANSION H.O.:St —Yesterday. MOM Abrah.r , was again •-rought before the Alderma and w•o presided for the Lord Mayor, charged vrios keepi..g a disorderly house in Church-row, A lets street ; several of the irbAbit.onos irt the ntig .or• hood appeared, and said, that Alt: ah4M's house was in general filled with sai!ors, who cooduae.l the a selves so very indecently, Viat their vovzs a. ! daughters could trot appe or at the cwinclow.; u. y were bound over to prosecute at toe next S-ssion.s. The sailors found in the house were seat .o oi the Tender. GUILDHALL.-7410? nk r , was e , ar g ed Ise.ore Sir WI t. I.ti s irA Miss tW sitti'lg r, an, wita stealing a ham. The prisoner .. k ow.v.wd nis guilt, and pl. aded the most a & ; a'so that he had a wife and chooren, aid . ,Fed t rte passed to his parish. S , r aA My W t 410 lik4Ell him:unity, pardoned the off 2ncr, ant seas ht.si zo firidewell till he can b • pa.sel i, parish. Yesterday morning early, the hou se • 4 . Mrs. D. vs rut., in Host -n, WA, open, and tokbea of plate and other articles, to WC tano :511 of upwards of 401. by thieves, at present unknow On Monday afternte.n. Mr. B. : ft *nis hoine in' Downing street, and went to Wilke stairs, id • after enquiring of the Watermen be deinu sit water, instantly jumped in o the Rorer. Br tim •.v assistanc.- of the W.ttermen and a Notslenkm o w , happened to be on the spot, he was g• • n. hr .ug t to himself and conveyed home. J aluu.y is as signed as the cause of this extranrdin try conduct. On Monday night, a woman of vei f el ;ant d 1 0.• pearance was dete.fted in the a& of piciiag tae pocket of a young man, near the Golden Lion, at Camberwell, of his watch. A constakle her , into custody, and lodged her in the watch-haute. The errand boy of a gentleman in Paternoster row was charged with robbinit his master, who chastised him for his faults, when he charged s• vend persons with being concerned with him; and 0.1 enquiry, it appeared that he Was the tnny culprit, that he had sold the goods to Jews, and gambled the money away at houses at tir. Martil's Le Grand. The Alderman ordered him to be sent on board um tender. A gentleman, the other day, at the west end of the town, being closely purriPrd by the hwitifs. made his escape into an empty home, is '... lie strongly barricaded, vetting hes pursuer, At lnce, who guarded the place night and Jay to aAm:k.l him to surrender at discresio ~ through famine. The people in an adjoining house, l e.ring sit the case, made a bre.iso through their own nouse, ansl wipplied the imprisoned gentleman with nourish. 4ent ; they at length brought him into Oben house, and assisted him is his escape. :i.e. r. 114 Res ' rr 4 Az: