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THE COIITINENT. Divided between a lorced peace and a necessary war, the Continent patticipates the t , gers of both, without enjoying the usual advantages of the for- titer, or the chances which might result from the latter. What kind of peace is that which excludes the principle on which our independence and tran quillity are founded ? After the thirty years con vulsion in the seventeenth century, which was le:- valuated by the peace of Westphalia, the public rights of Europe were at least settled by stipulations, in consequence of a long arbitration of powers, more Of lesrproportionate to each other, and gua named by the balance which that solemn transac tion preserved among them. At present all balance is overthrown ; and every treaty made with Bona parte Confirms that overthrow ; for the consequences of them are new usurpations, new spoils, either by arms, or by revolutionary influence; yet, the cry for peace is every where heard. Such is the force a wards and of habits, that many princes, many ministers, and many individuals, still imagine, that they are where they were in 1638, or 1713 ; expea from edpalations with Bonaparte, the result of those of Munster or of Utrecht ; and conceive that all disputes between France and them will vanish the lament honest Talieyrand shall sign the asFurance - of it. The distress into which most Nations and Governments are plunged by the uncertainty of their situation, is as object worthy of attentton. Never did the miseries of war appear with so hideous an aspic ; never were the dangers of peace more mani fest. No State, in negotiating or purchasing its reconciliation with Revolutionary France, can de. arraine whether it be aging foolishly or prudently, whether there be less risk in braving the hatred or kiting the friendship of the Revolutionary ror. The effeas of the latter are ntl longer teal. Every one now knows what it costs to enter into terms with an Usurper, who oppresses full as mach by his treaties as by his arms, and who never grants place, but with a view of falling spun his enemies the moment he has disarmed and • disorganised them. What have the pacific Powers, or those that have been made pacific, Brined by their desertion of the general cause If there be one that merited any consideration, it was the King of Sardinia. By de hvering up-his fortresses, his country, his security, he delivered up Italy. He surrendered at diszrelEal, one himself. his throne, and his family, under the proteCtion of the honour of the conqueror, and trust ed in the faith of a treaty, signed upon the ruin of ramparts, by which his sovereignty was strirped of all means of def..nce. In return he is a wander er, without a home, and without a subje3 upon the !y had the Pope bought peac , 7 at the pricJ of his treasures, his chqrs d'art'," of the art., anJ the third of his territory, when a con cordat was pat into requisition to execute the same revolutionary innovations in the Church as had al wady taken place in • he 3 ate; anJ, to give the death blow to the Re-man religion, its visible chief i. forced to add blasp' emy to degradation, in perform ing the vilest and most impolitic of all ads, the • 41111ftediaill qf ae .attain and *sorer ea an Eneperor of roe eithe seed peplos, natio:" in Err," ! ! ! The Grand Duke of Tuscany, the Duke of Parma, the republics of Venice, Helvetia, Genoa, sod Lucca, not.vitlistaang the successive contri• Unions, to which they so repeatedly submitted, and their numberless humiliations, by which they par chased the suspension of their ruin, exist no more, • or only as departments of France. Has the King • of Naples gained more tranquillity or safety by 3 peace, than he would have preserved by continuin is war ? S.1:1 is that enemy in his kingdom, whom be believed he should have removed from it. Na longer is there any connexion between his States and the rest of Italy, democratised, enslaved, and under the subjedliun of some insatiable French bandktis, while the sums which peace has cost him wou'J hare maintained numerous armies. Madrid and Lisbon present the same melanclicly pitture : Thrones siispenled between a revolution daily pre paring, and the btudens of the most nhniriefol tri butes. It is in this deceitful position, it is in the arms of the assassin of his family, that the King of Bpeia drags on his eltisteacc, a prey to the per turbation of his mini, the dissentious of his ministry, the complaints and suffering; °Ellis subje:ls, to antic • ty for the present, and to terror for the future. Slumbering beneath suspended poniards, this Mr. march, bound by the ties of an unnatural alliance, can neither break them, nor suffer them to remain un broken without d.toger ; c.sn neither continue in peace, nor support war. Revulutionary France is 126 scourge, and Engl..ni his pi oteanT he would . craw to be a Kind, were the FailiSh to cease to concricr. If from the Soto!i we turn our eyes to the North, we sec a disgraceful multitude of German Princes and S:atn cxhalav:ing the question on the means netessAry to ahri.lzo their existence. It is difficult ~. to conceive a situation more deplorable than that to which the Empire has reductd itself by Its disunion, by the selfishness that has prevailed in i:, by its useless meannesses, by its persevering endeavours for peace, and by that parade of eternal negociations in which it has betrayed its weakness. The time was when Germany fought thirty years to establish its political equilibrium, and the left bank of the Rhine was defended against Louis XIV. for forty years. In our wretched days, that possession hat been relinquished by a dash of the pen ; and Bona parte now invades the Right Bank with imyunity. or disposes of it with impudence! Deserted by his co-estates, the Emperor of Germany has been ob liged to shelter himself unler the sane red cap which decorates the Emperor of the French ; an impolitic palliation, which, in suspending immediate ruin, had made ultimate destrunion almost inevita ble. Prussia, vertird Prussia, dors it ei,j .y any thing but an armed truce ? Her camps in granden burgh, Pomerania, Silesia, and Westphalia, a.lsiver this question. Her ttansient calm she owes only to her cruel indifference at the ravages of a tempest rapidly ads arising towards her, and which, in a few years, must sweep her artificial power into the same gulph that has swallowed the German Empire, Italy, Holland. and Switzerland. Denmatk and Swede's have armies on foot. The former was threatened and insulted in the Menitrar last year, as the latter has been this summer ; and both are in debted for their precarious safety to their distance. and to the farces of Russia and England. What has Russia obtained from its condescensions, from its guaranties, and from its treaties ? Insults, inva sions, usurpations, and infraCtions ; s:nd as long as throne of France is occupied by an Usurper, Russia, it common with all other nations, has no thing else to expea. It is to avoid open war theft, and to perpetusfe a disastrous breach of connexion, that the continent suffers such an accumulation of Insolence IA con. tempt, habituates subjeas no longer to fear, no longer to respen lawful authority, and .dlows the edifice of public safety, property, and justice, to be demolished. Lest they should perish at once by resistance, they perish piecemeal, without resisting. In a similar crisis, the Roman; would have armed with the resolution of vidory or death. The first Christians would have sung hymns to Pro wislences and flown to martyrdom. Their successors neither die, nor fight; but consent to wait their last hour, and calendar the days of their esistence, like wretches os whom sentence of execution has been! passed. This dying convulsion, with which the con• tinent is attacked, canuot be of long duration.— F.ither the principal powers must resume their arms, or it will sink gradually under successive invasions, for which revolutionary pioneers and hollow paci6• cators will clear the way. While it is deciding. overy day increases the danger, multiplies obsta. cles, and diminishes resources. All property, all establishments, all situations, all ranks, all dynasties,. are in a state of uncertainty. Industry. trade, the Arts, all decay, and civilised society returns to bar barism. Anxiety takes possession of every f.stnily ; ruin is at their 4loors ; and consternation in their hearts. But let the observer, saddened by the g oom of the interdiaed continent, and scared by its stupor, irresolution, and degradation. cross the ore. n, and come and contemplate England. It Is not the sea only that separates her from the rest of Europe, but also a contrast worthy of admiration. All the fury of Bonaparte, all his efforts, accom plices, yiSims, battalions, flotillas, and robberies, are direfled against this point of the globe. He pursues it with the united forces of the revolutionary wir, and the military resources, which he acquires by continued public tyranny, esaaion, depopulation, and plunder. He has proscribed Great Britain as he proscribes the Bourbons, and would willingly set both hemispheres on fire, could he but destroy his enemy in the conflagration. And this island has supported, and still with glory supports, the dreadful cunfli!t. Her dignity is unsullied as her army. ller fleets press on every side of this Colossus of infamy and corruption, who tramples order his enringuined feet, all who pay, fear. verve, or caress *him. It is amidst an annihilated commerce, blocked up ports, deserted roads, ships destroyed or flying, that dare no longer visit the ocean but by stealth, that the Sultan of the Great Nation vents his rage in knavery and imprecations. While other naticns basely assail him with groans, with prayers, with tributes, with conferences, and diplomatic flattery ; this island despises him, com bats him, surmounts danger, prospers, and regards no sacrifice that is necessary for its honour or its ind!pender.ee. Those gloomy dreams of irresolu tion, that lethargic depression, that perplexity, which torture the continent, are here unknown; be cause our liberty, property, security, repose, and hope, are not founded upon the faith of trestles with a barbarous Usurper ; but upon our own re s•wrces, our own valour, our own patriotism, and , our own loyalty 1 TI- i BRITISH PRESS• _~ LON DON, SATURDAY, Octoatit 15. A.letter from Paris of the 26th ult. r.tatqs, " that the Deputation from that capital to meet and com pliment the Pore on the French frontiers, was t set out on the 2.1 of October. There have been great intrigues both in the Senate, in the Council of State, and in the Tribunate, among the Generals and Bishops, to be seleaed for this mission. After long and violent discussions, each corps fixed upon a cer tain number of its Members, who made preparations accordingly for the journey, when Gen. CAFFACELLI arrived from Cologne with another list from BON a r ART!, excluding all those previously chosen. It is supposed, that Bos A ARIL found himself offended with the constituted anthorities for nominating these deputies without his previcis permission and or ders. THis has ceased much laughter upon one side, and discontent on the other, and is another proof of the precarious liberty enjoyed by even Do say •a s'sfavouriteplacemen. CA vr ARLLL a, as well as General Molter, are still at Paris, and wait for another courier from BON P ART& before they puts lish his ofAcial list, as they have presumed to pro pose some alterations, particularly, as Senator Far- GUIs, appointed by BON AiTA UTZ to be of the depu tation, died suddenly." Letters have been received from Jersey, with the information, that the French gun-boats blociaded at St. Mader had escaped to Cherbourg during the dark rights LW week, and that about thirty more armed vends had arrived at St. Mad) from the westward, wechiog, no doubt, an opportune; to, join the others. Our cruisers have looked into the everal harbours on that part of the French coast, an 1 as far as they have been able to ascertain, at Cherbourg a•e b••tween 50 and GO armed vessels, be longing to the Grand Arinala, With 5G transports and 1. air stout ft ;gates. At Granville were counted IG stout gun-boats, the same number of smaller craft. and twelve transports; and, at St. Malo, about thirty gun-boats, prawns; and eat-bottottO hosts, with forty-two transports. According to re ports from France, though son of the troops pp psrit: Jersey and Guernsey have =ltched for the interior, and for La Vendee, the expedition against these islands is not laid aside, as fresh troops are duly ex peSted to arrive from the camp near ' 4104 to replace them. • • The gallant Admiral CORNWALLIS weighed whir s!-.ipi under his command flom Totbay on T.:o%day evening, to proceed fur his station ofr Brest ; but the wind haviig changed, the squadron returned to Torbay on Wednesday. A ,Larnal Jr Prnrit, of the 26th, was received Yesterday. It cont tins a new Libel upon the King of SWED EX I is the shape of a Letter, supposed to have been transmitted from Hesse Cassel. We h the inserted it as a specimen of Corsican malevo lence and scurrility. Jamaica Papen to the ..2.1 September have been reeeireJ by the .144.1ihas p..cket. lhat bland a in lyric& health. risterdoy. at one o'clock, a Cahinet Council WAS held at bird Fla aeowav's Offices it was at tended by Lords HARROW, MCIVILLE, CASTLE REAGH, Mr. PITT, And a full Board of Cabinet Council. After the Council was over, Mr. Coma vossi ca. the messenger, was dispatched to His Mai Y, at Weymouth. The Duke of YoitK had an interview, on Thins day. with Lord G. L. Cows a, previous to his Lord ship's setting out for Russia. A Conn of lliienors was yesterday held at the East-kd a House, when the remainder of the im• portant dispatches received from India were read. We do no, however, learn, that these dispatches contain any thing further of a public nature, than what has already been before the public, through pvate channeis. The Court adjourned at 6 cf clock, till Wednesday next. We understand the Direßon of the East India Company have allowed the same gratuities to the officers and men belonging to the navy who were passengers on boar I t) Bombay Castle and Eet/ Camden, as they so liheraily bestowed upon person; of a similar rank on board the Company's ships, for their condua in the engagement with Li vols. The nretannia, LISAKILY, from I Over pool, art ived at Jamaica, on the 17th of August ; on the .sth, off Antigua. she tell in with, and road an engag,-ment with, a French brig privateer of 16 gnus and "2.5 men, which sae nearly dismasted and beat off. Capt. L►• A az v, and six men were wounded, and a passen ger The Orange, Warsag, from Rhode Island, and the Ad,entiree, Pena Ale, from Newhaven, for Ja maica, are captured of that i►laud by a French privateer. ' The Windsor Castle, 93 guns ; Hera, 74 guns; and ajcstac•, 74 guns. sailed on IVednesday to join the Channel Fleet off Brest ; but, on finding that Admiral Coe nwAI. u s had bore up for Torbay, they. proceeded to join him there. A Dutch Paper, which brings the n'wsdown two days later than the accounts by the last Hamlint,:h iitates, 'hat the Emperor of the Fah:wen, &via.; areanwitiehid the nljerfol hit visit to Menrz, had quitted that city, as had 41. n all the great ill bwitir ..%ireacr• who had atternieJ him there. ROYAL Ella .....-....--, .. _ , w EY maul. mg The absence of the ov I. • . A*i ty felt here. This morning, the Rosr•L F left hSbos Abbey on a visit to the Fad of %asinine, at 1 1 ,, seat at Stow &Lige, which the Noble Earl has ti , it inhabited for a number of years. The Rov e FAMI I. v, after inspe&ing this ancient 'lace, am} pArtakin 4 of some' reayslintent, returned to Mift, s , Abliey to dinner. _ '.ll. s ., :vutelf On'Tharsday, the ROYAL FAMILY dine with herd Rivles. On Friday and Saturday the Roy At. FAMII, wiU honour Mr. I)AUEI2 with a visit at n-.- Dorchester. Yebur:lay Earl Ro>scvn ant Family lgt Wei mouth. CURIGUS DISCOVERY. Captain nese At:, of Leesom-row, near Fp'. !ram, and his family, arc on a visit t o th e xorc Tine Captai n lately wrote to a getirlenw i neighbourhood, to order the roof of his sill., • repaired previous to his return. The gentlema ..• - plied to a neighbouring, bricklayer, who, attendant, proceeded to ma ip off the old E d o ,, w h s .,. to their great surprise, they round a large silver cu l l. c-ratairaing 700 guineas, the coinage of Grottos el, First, a great number of antique sins and raltrabl trinke:s. The honest tradesman and lk compa nion immediately informed their employer, wh.s took possession of the treasure, until the property l* Ascertained. INTENDED DUEL. On Tuesday Ins!, in Cas:le-mreet, words were ezchan:Ted b.:tween Col. B-- and Major B—, whose name occurred in Mr. liras. t. Inses unfortunate The rest& was, the Wont I sent a challeupe to the Major, to meet him on Wedncsday morning, behind Mount Pleasint. Colonel, and hial,ionteria4t-Colonel, as his secomi waited nearly two hours upon the ground, but 6 Major did bot make his appearance. It is sup- Pied that the Major's intended second, upon con ...is4erAti9n, declined to attend him is the deist of Ignrs. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS IN TOWN. Nit Roy.ll I lighntst the of W.tl.e, the /lotus of Cl - • Colin% .1.: it lit, (tam P. ...zitn The Duke of Mootruee. from Budrannou, St.rii..guk.re, t 1...r1y Mutt Wymllattai, from Latntoton II dl, to Mr. !rani an I F.4milc, from America, to Eaker.ftrrot. . . LA!, Sher.rany! .ect Fam:!e if , 6 , 11 btarr'aurstz obit r 4, her I.4,ly.ki,i's mother, Mn Cake, I lauote:-.NI . e• Gener4llf.x.ia, from Cux:leatli, t.) his hone ta St resat. Sr J A MU CR AWleliO is expeAed in town Nit!, front Weymouth, where he went to wait on MAJESTY, after his arrival in England. The Duke of CLAiiNcs, accompanied by Mt MEL L IS:4 attended the parade of the South Ghat r e ter on Wednesday morning at Brighton. His Rte. A .hness afterwards took an airing in-a bamuche. The Duke of PoirrLA•D, arm in arm with Ertl Teuriarroa, notwithstanding the humidity of th:. wz..ttlier, was on the Steyne :or some time Mole dinner on Wednesday, Mr STEP:: LIC KESIBLC closed his imgagement a: the Bri.tol theatre last high!. in the character ct ./ Mrakerrs, in %Ir. Col.'s A Teli Comedy of Jricq !!1 1 . The Yotteg R.,oriais was tn play row; IVJrg, 41! the Liverpool Theatre, on Wednesday latt.--EveT seat was taken, and an unusual interest excited by his expected performance The inurior of the Royal Academy at Somer,et Hnu.e, is at present undergoing a thort.ugh repo;: and decoration. t, The Mayor of Garret is become sti saucy slat his assumption of the title of En f rcror,bsttot upon occupying a Pi , Root Mrs. 30 M.DA rigiaalie. and Mr. ELLISTOc'S Den Frkx, are expected to produce an overflow night, at 1): are-lane. The eV matrix still linger upon the coast, notwi:! , - standing the falling leaf, in hopes of au is:avian. The Summer 'l'heatre in Bedlow-street, Ne- - York, opened on the 13th of August List. The .:- vertisement announces, Amongst a variety of e!..:-r• tainment., scenes from Mr. OH. At AN'S Comedy nia, the song of li.no-w.ra. a 5.419•'• lb'', • .-11 c ranfier'J Feast. &v., and toncluiles in the Ail! • • iog manner:—Mr. CaouwELL requests no gin:l: man will smoke sega.v during the pc:foray:me-. On the same evenhig the Cutter of the 0 ,, • Indians were to petfutm a new dance at the rican Vauxhall. A curious Egyptian Ram, an animal Kingly r. mat kahle for the beauty of its form and the :t:t: • of its fleece, was ) eiter.bly purchased bi :1r BItOOKAS of the Menagerie, Piccadilly. from Y! SToCAING, of Wal:tam Green, for One flue .:. GUIWAS. A few h ` , l A after, Mr. fe-el ViCty 1.o• hts haigair, which he tined. At ten ...clock, vestr,rdav 1 lowing I - Al.:ter Corps, the ‘Vc,tn.i.. Doke of Gloucester'., th. Royal York baanc, the ClerkensvA, the ramstatt t ' George's and St. Atilrcw's, Holborn, Y 1 .• Gray's Inn Rifle Corp:, m.a:ta.J from • . tivc parad-; to I-Iyd: Part:, whcre tiicy - goded. 'L'fwy Alan vittisis procec.'ed to the 1 • Pack, ne.tr Bayswater, where tit y were revi , by the Karl of 1-Isaarsoloti. Ili; I,orJs!ip, '••• attend2sl by Central Bu R ARO and C010n..1 •• s t u A ILK lE. The steadiness with which th. Leuvred, and the rapidity and precision or t • " evolutions, would have done honaur to a vet:-. corps. A mo;:tirocat is now eshlbitA, is the Czeich-.11 of St. Paid, to the memory of that virtuous m a "' an 4 accomp:i.:ied scholar, Sir ‘‘11.1.1 It v.as erczted by the order, and at the expreci., af the East-India Company, as a proof of it2.l respect and ,gia:itude, for the integiity and tit r. ith which he discharged the impiotant tuaaio • of the high judicial office be tille.l in the ir set,. • It was executed by the late Mr. Ii sr• :l• all.: is a Tel y ine piece of sculpture.. i - the have have the e 1 every liag-' p.isW card Of to Mu ter 1 1 a gn •olt all: ce's tabl w•ivi cow car to Fla the Ns tw thc hu