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REFLECTIONS ON Ttile PilANt STATE OF GERMANT. F. tiLISTZ. • Fronk what quartet shall see new look for aid? lreessitionents and the public 'opinion beer jointly Ideated us into ear present creel titiation. The forth& have eased eithel to hear or to understand L.; and what is still more dejeaing, they are no longer capable of heating us, becalm the excessive oppression and danger have tobSed Herd of their freedom and their frankness ; to attempt to operate upon the litter, appears Mildest, be an* the possibility of success, pre-supposes the sr/titmice of that which has vanished without the hope of return—l mean the desire of a happier state. the disposition that abhors titters, Ansilthe courage that 'endeavours to cast them off. coo brilliant prospea still remains, and this, to our • fallititprellible consolation, no tricks ef fate ate able t4N obscure. Men of strong, pure. and virtuous hinds, Mortar small their number s thou fouls a bolid and indistoltble union, must atteiltately in rya,, and encourage, and animate and inspire each other the* eovenant is the only power, the only quished coalition which eau now defy the force NI arms, which is now capable of giving liberty to the nations, and peace to the world. 7 his covenant, this slued covenant, may likewise be based in - single contests; bit all that it cph lose is the field Di bottle; a eotiont retreat is still open t 6 it. When all around is involved in general mist, it cntrenelies itself on an inaccessible height, shuts up with itself, beyond the reach of the conqueror. the most precis oos treasures of humanity, and preserves them fat a wore fortunate generation. on who, surrounded; amid the wreck or time, with death and devastation; have preserved the Ent aid the most valuable of , blessinps, a coespndses! sive and independent mind, a warm and upri heart, a feeling for the sacred rights .f humanit the courage to sacrifice every thing for their sak and the confident tzpeeation of a tome auspici futurity—Yost genuine heron of the age, inviuci amidst the eeneral calamity, wen} sr' • and in truth, wronged by the multitudes haps fortunately despised or hated by the has disturbers of the world, who are honoured as d ties by the people ; but, above all, you high-mind Germane, who are worthy of your name, you so Lary ornaments of your country, whom no snisfbr tune can subdue—be not weary, and sink not into despair ? He whe created you to reconcile teaty with the present generation, prepared yon obstinate confliets and tremendous wherever you go your eyes, you are su with images of annihilation, and invitations to bpandeocy. Your country is humblest, tramp upon, dismembered, and prophesied. Part of winces publicly and professedly wear the yoke of a foreign master ; more than one, allured by empty titles. or unreal aggrandizement, eo-operated in the universal ruin, in which he was himself involved, even in the very hour of his political apostacy, in ,the moment of imaginary enjoyment, and before be had gathered and secured the fruit of his perfidy. Of those that still seem to subsist, around who, still hover the name of power and the shadows of indi pendence—roost are ripe for destrudion by selfish or dastardly policy, by voluntary and shame ful capitulations, by measures which deprived of the gape& of the world and the confidence of their *lees. they deserved the fate that awaits them. lrbe few who cherished a noble, uptight, and truly German spirit—such still there are, 0 Germans ! sad you know them—are so weakened, so power so paralysed by fresh-infiined wbunds, by the ative smallness of their dominions, or by a ousand circumstances and restraints, that scarcely any thing but their good-will is left us. The energies of our great nation are dissipated, di ' sided, and condn.fted ow every side into sluggish - brooks, or putrid swamps, or faithless char.nels, • and lost to every real national purpose. All the barriers of our country are overthrown; our Iron :tiers —if we still have frontiers, when the enemy already in our midst—are stripped of every mean I Of defence ; our mast floarishing cities and provinces • n. are parcelled o, sold, exchat,.•, , d again and again, and given to natives and to foreigners ; riches, ho . nourAly acquired, disappear ; manufactures elle and d..cay ; ports and markets are shut up Eat not only is the body of the Empire mutilated, snal-treated, and abused ; the soul has likewise Ineceived a mortal wound. In vain would you work among the mass of your people, in vain 'mold Tau look in Courts, and among the great lathe land, for that exalted sensibility, that manly grief, that energetic, that hop:ful sorrow, which an nounces a resolution to save. Your complaints are • ntt , tesi to the - winds—your descriptions of the gee ' al desttation are treated as mere pastime, as terary curiosities; there, w'iere you are still per ' mined m disturb the yuhlic in its slumiser, you are highly favoured, if you are tolerated as troublesome • ' E L .. \ Meads *ad *en *mini ibmintilasts ; *boa listen to you 114th displeasure, and Oen the better divined with inkier; and the mornent is evidently approach ing, *hen a long melancholy silence will be the law of your existing* and the severe, but imperious condition of your personal liberty. All this and more than this—for who can fit the &nits Of the evil I—you will endure; not merely with fortitude and equanimity, but with the proud. the animating consciousness of invincible superiority, if you are great and strong enough never to be un true to yourselves. Your immediate infisence may be obstrufted, the sphere of your Operations may be circumscribed within narrow limits, your hands may be fettered, and your mouths closed by power; but these are only the out-works of your strength ; your immoveable resolution; your unalterable principles; your invariable, silent protestation against every thing that overbearing violence at tempts to execute or to justify ; the lively convic tion produced alike in friend and foe, that the war between injustice and you will not terminate in false negnciations, will not be interrupted by hol low armistices, or end in faithless treaties; the worthy, bold, ever-upright, and ever-prepared atti tude in which yeti will appear to your contempo raries—these are your unperishable wearns. Your mere isolated existence strikes constant terror into the oppressor, and it is to the oppressed a source of inexhaustible cossolatfon. Never forget, that the spot en which you are placed, is the centre of all those enterprises, by which, sooner or later, Europe must be released from slavery; the code of despotism must be de &toyed ; the proud aerial structure of perishable power must be overturned, and a new, immortal cowman, met be formed between freedom, order, obi pm. feet more Nippy posterity. Nor Eng le/4mm Mali, can effect this ; both are desirable as eeofederatas ; both are invaluable as counter poises or allies; bet the aetual work of deliverance must prosper on German soil. Hence must re generation proceed; as here the work of devastation and ruin was accomplished. Earepe fell through Orman., ; through Germany ale nest rite. It war not the energy or the arts of France—it was not the wild convulsive power which issued from the horrible abyss of the revolution—it was not the preponderance, or ability of a creature of that revolution, which has lifted the world from its asis—but the voluntary defencelessness of Germany. Our baneful intestine divisions, the mutual jealousy of Our Princes, the reciprocal antipathy of their sub jells, the extinction of every genuine sentiment for else general interest of the nation, the relaxation of patriotic spirit ; these are the conquerors, the 41111elsyten of our liberty; these have been our mor tal estasies, and the enemies of Europe. Could we have united—could we have forgotten our family feuds—could we, in the hour of danger, in the hour of general need, have resolved to be Germans, we might have defied every storm; not one foot of German soil had then become the prey of a haughty foreigner; not one single member, no, not even the weakest of the well. construtted body politic of Europe had fallen off. Nay more. we should have enjoyed the glory of restoring France —sick, deeply dis trailed France, to real health—for who can con found her present state, her unnatural, bloated cor pulence, with genuine health I—to a peaceable, harmonious existence, to a reconciliation with her self : a deed which, if accomplished in a proper sense, and with instruments judiciously seleOed, would, at the same time, have strengthened and perfeieei the social system of Europe, both in the whole and in part, for many centuries. This, brethren, we might have effefted, and this opportunity we have wantonly renounced. But if any thing is capable of rescuing us from this abyss of weakness, in which we are now expiating our faults, it is that tame resolution, by which, at an earlier period, we should have been preserved from the commission of them. Separated, we were overthrown, united only can we rise again. It is impossible that a nation like ours, however it may have been humbled and insulted, deserted and betrayed ; however it may have for a time for g uten itself. daeslest by infernal artifices, nr discou raged by calamity and defeat, should not at length recover from the most shameful and the most cruel degradation : it is impossible that so much men..al energy, so much personal superiority, and such a profusion of natural talents, such penetration :.nd ad vantages of various kinds, as we comprise in our bosom, should not sooner or later collet into one fo cus, thence animate the whole, and break through all ineireftual barriers; it is impossible that, from this venerable st, ck of such nlxnilold excellence. from this mother country of European monarchy. fro It so many families, bound by the renown of their great Ito elathers, to transmit a sacred inheritance to their posterity, out of so many princely races, still surrounded in this evening of all greatness aids the beams of ancient splendor, a perfeft hero, a deliverer, and an avcngcr, should act at length arise, to wipe the teal's front writ, eye, to replace us in sour ever lasting rights► to 're-edify Germa;4 and &trope. Td prepare for this guardian angel, let him appear when he will, resolute and useful instruments, subjells hos tile to illegitimate sovereigns, avowed enemies to ty rants,a people obedient to lawful authority; to provide for the altars of social order, and of a virtuous love of liberty, ictelligent and worthy priests, and for posterity a nursery of energetic minds and valiant champions, to prevent any similar calamity from again overtaking mankind--thir it your important duty. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, MONDAY, Scprcatesit I. A paper of yesterday announced the arrival of a Messenger on Saturday from France.—lt was pro bably led into this mistake by the arrival of a Mes senger from Vienna with the la:: Hamburgh mail. We had not learned, at a late hoar last night. that any Messenger bad arrived from France. Much importance is attached to the next dispatches from Lord LAUOLILDALI. It is thought that they will be decisive, but public expeCtation does not incline to the favourable side. Letters were received on Saturday from Ham burgh, which mention, that hostilities bad actually commenced between Prussia and France. General RUCHE', a very old General in the Prussian ser vice, is said to have been killed. It is added, that the French had crossed over to Embden, where the aorgentent is reported to have taken place. Wh 410 tot know what degree of credit is du* to this I NPR The air of Chiswick agrees very well with Mr. Fox, and he is better since his removal to that charming place from town. He is, however, filling again with water, but that is the natural Progress of his disease, and his Physicians propose to tap him again before the large vessels have had time to fill. The operation of course will soon take place. We have already stated, that the Physicians have as certained, that the internal parts are all sound, and indulge a confident hope, that he will be able to repel the disorder. An overland packet, from India, was received at the India House on Saturday. The letters from Bombay are dated December 16. The following Peneral orders by the Commander in-Chief Lord LAKt confirm the !intelligence of the Bombay Division of the Army hiving been or dered to proceed for Guzirat, by his Lordship, with out delay:— Head-querten, Camp at Rsiponr Ghaut, on the left Bank of the Hyphasis, Member, 18, 1506. The senintat the divisios of the Army ,from the Presi. *ale of Ileshey, under the commast of Major-General Asp, *leg se hanger ossuary in its present situation, 144esGeneral team will be Owed to cosiness, his march towards Gusset without delay. The was happy on a former occasion of Use - to express his particular approbation . I appear soca and good order of the troops composing that division M the army; and his Lordship with pleasure embraces the preecnt occasion of returning his best thanks to Major-General Jones, the Oldbers, and men of His Majeity's and the He. 41tedratile Company's troops under the Major-General's cons. *sand, fur the important services rendered by them during Ilse war. Since the period at which the Commander-in Chief en raged the satisfaction he derived on inspecting the troops ender Majr. Germ! Jones's command ; he Lordship has been proud to witnesses eyes, occasiee on which they have been employed, the oesdy conduct and gallantry in action of all the troops cornposir g that division; and his Lordship will not fail to make known to the Government of Bombay, the high sense he entertains of the meritorious services rentm ed by Major-Geseral Jones and the troops under his com mand. The David Scat and Cornevillit Indiamen had arrived at Bengal from China, and the Castlereagh had arrived at China from Bengal. We have received Dutch Papers to the 26th, con taining the Paris news to the 2td. A letter from Cassel, dated Aug. 14, says : " The Northern Powers are extremely aaive re speaing the new Confederation. As aeon as the Russian Envoy at Berlin shall have received the necessary instruitions from St. Petersburgh, the changes intended will probably take place. The Counsellor of State, M. has taken a rude sketch of this Constitution with him to St. Peters. burgh, a copy of which has been hit at Berlin.— Hamburgh, it if. said, is to be the seat of this Con federation. Several of the principal cities of the Empire will of course lose their Sovereignty. The Duke of Brunswick is named as the Prince Primate of the Northern Confederation. Our Ehtlnr is not expelled to return from Berlin, till these affairs are in a great m .asute settled, and the answer of the Court of St. Petersburgli is received ; this is es peeted about the 24th instant." Another letter, dated Paris, 7 tOth Aug. states : " The intercourse between Paris and London still corrinues. it is also remarked, that Lords mouth and Lauderdale made a visit two days az M. M. Champagny and Clarke, which the la returned a few holds after, and that the day he yesterday these two Lords dined with the Mini of the Interior." An Austrian Journal, of the ta instant, r tions, " that Goriaa and Gradisca, in Aitsi Friuli, were occupied by the French on the of July. They took possession in the nam the King of Italy, and required the Public cers to take the oaths of fidelity to that Snveri [hose refusing to do so were dismissed Isom employments, and several of them were impr ed. The French Commissary immediately pointed others in their place. The new oases lion was elfeered in a few drys. We, neve:lSi suppose, that this unexpelted nomination is o provisional and temporal) , measure, particu as we learn this day, that the reports of mil preparations in the Austrian Monarchy, are wil foundation, and that the Archduke Charles, to any appearance of the kind, has given °rein's, there shall not be a single camp formed this according to the annual praelice." Both the Calabrias have been declared in a of revolt, and the ferocious MASSCN A has sent, by the mild and merciful King JOSE! an army of 2.3,000, and fall powers to reduce to subjeßion. The British troops are r rs in possession of Amantea, and Saint Euph upon the western coast of the Peninstil I, i latter of which, they are said to be s.rongl trenched. It is now near two months since tachment of our army landed in Calabria, at official accounts have as yet reached this cc of its proceedings. The &rens, Rosati., irom New Provide captured by the Veit/ IX French man of War. The Mary, Matso:ape, from Ma ' A Ott, fo Yrrk, is detained and seat into Madeira. The drdaiser Maria. and • Frirodolift, Ind for Bombay, were at Penang on the Ist of under convoy of the Rattler sloop of war. The for Madras, was also at Penang. Letters from Madeira, dated the tOth of state that the outward-bound Indianan, %Varian ; TotteraUae. Joon; and ibuldart sari; with the Teignasork cruiser, were I from thence on the following day. Lord Hot LAND has lent the CriaNcitttoi •Excistouza Little Holland House, as a tem; sidence ; the CH A NCII. Loa comes to town evo to tninsat business at the Treasury. %%hen the Prince of Hesse Philipnhal t his wound, at Gaeta, he was carried at fin owe house ; but, as the French direded then particularly against that house, the Nate s board an English frigate. When be warir of the capitulation of the place, he declared the Officers who signed it deserved death. The late Decal Palace, in St. Mark's-pli nice, is new furnishing, as it is expeded Emperor NA mouton will go thither in the c the present year, and remain some weeks. The Prussian Envoy, recalled from J Baron Von Jacobi Kloest, arrived. with hit at Altona, on the Itith. and the taut okay pt OA his journey to Berlin. The French Envoy, M. Li Rocheferucau disposed at the Baths of Baden. The Confederation of the Rhine puts ei lions of Germans under the protedion of Ti lidienne.a forty-four gun frigate, was at St. Malves, on St. Napoleon's day. The namburgb Correll:widener', of the I contains the Emperor of Germany's mist the Imperial Dignity in Germany; as also of his titles, and the alterations in the rev! leaving out every thing relative to the Imperial (dignity. The Russian army. by the addition of levies, is now increased to 500,000 men appears to be some foundation for the re Northern Confederation, under the prot that power. It was reported on Saturday, we know what authority, that the Int, of 50 gu Admiral Sir E. Gowen, had been capital enemy. We deem it premature. As the Friendship West Indiamen. Cap from Jamaica, was, with two or three oth ing into the West India Dock, Blackws turday, she ran upon a shoal, and fell side. The cargo, convicting of . eager, much damaged. By the ezertions of the lightermen, who cut away her masts, righted with the tide yesterday. and br. the Dock, where she now rides in sattty. Sir T. Louis's Squadron, consisting of of the line, a frigate, and sloop. sailed at fi p. ay. on Thursday, for the purpose of ii JZRONZ Bon AAAAAA 's Squadron. Not ing the confident and numerous account tern of the Veteran alone, we should prised, if it shall tura out, that the rest .Iron was net far distant. The Osiv.une. the Quebec fleet, with part of the tith R board, has arrived at Cork, and states, tha she fell in with the Veteran. another ssil gvished to leeward, bearing S. by E. also the appearance of a man of war ant report prevailed, at Plymouth, on that the whole squadron was left of ( On the 4 22 d a Une of battle ship was se with a press of sail E. S. E.—She is sup the Veteran, and there is much reason she has escaped. The Loyal Southwark Volenteer Re! Sharp Shooters attached, under the Lizut.-Colonel A Lcoca, are ordered day, on Monday, the Bth September. merit was the first in the London dish believe in England), that signed t h e se: v: under the New Regulations of tide .i►ters.