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FRENCH PAPERS.. CONMERATIONS DN THE WAR WlTiltiltUS3ll. PARIS, OCT: 18,—The observdtioti cio to Louis XII. haS been Often repeated " To make war with suceess, yowl - bustfirst .haVe money ;-2dly, money ;.-7-3dly, nininey."- HOw much more just and noble is the maxim proclaim ed by Hannibal, adopted by Frederick, and of 'which we 'have so often seen the brilliant appli cation by that . .heio who has surpassed them u. bath :---" It belongs to war to support war." Must a nation begin by exhausting itself, in order ,to inflict vengeance . on ; its enemy should not. all_ the weight of the contest be made to fall on those adversaries. Who have provoked it ? The firsteonsideration, then,' the first duty of the head Of a great people, is to render sacred and invio lable the country which it inkabits. Since We have seen realised amongst us the Wish which Alexander expressed when at the point of death, — since the sceptre and the sword were-placed in the • hands of the most worthy, have we felt any alarM for the safety of our frontiers; . Have war, and all its attendant, scourges, 'deforthed 'the - soil polected by his powerful arm ?, It was enough 'for him to sbew himself, : in order to drive them back on the territory of the presumptuous enemy who threat envd them. 14 vain did that enemy confide in the immensity of distance. This age was destined to see revived the times of Cyrus and of Alexander. Seventy days have - 'scarcely elapsed since the first FrenCh bayonet glittered in the eyes of the Russians, and already the eagle of Napoleon floats over the an cient palace of the Czars. FOr the first time, the sans of .the Seine, of the Loire, 'and the Rhone, penetrate' in o "regions hardly known to their fa thers. But the descendants of the Gauls,who laid Rome in ashes, do not exclaim like their ances tors,--Woe to the vanquished! Never did civiliza tion obtain a:finer victory over barbarism. It is the IConquerors who save the vanquishcd from the effects of . th e i r own rage . A su bj ec t of the ussian Czar dared to' will that MOscow bould perish,, and the army of the French Monarch . snatched that superb city from destruction. But let us cease for a moment to . follow the rapid sweep of our victorious: legions,- and let us calmly con template the wise arrangements which prepared their triumph, and secure to them its advantages. Let. us view,, with' DCW- admiration, another exam plc of war maintaining war. - Let us lay'open to the envious. view of our rivals the immense re sources presented by the conquered country, and . of . which the enemy, by his very position, is henceforward deprived. . tls soon as all hope of peace vanished, the ar mies destined to support• the cause of Europe against the new Allies of 'England, Were put in 'notion.. From the first day. of -hOstilit-ieS., en ..., canyed - on the enemy's:territorY,. tltey Tdruied an uninterrtipted, chain from the mouth'Of Nie men to the Sources'of the Bug. On thii•Vdse of 1 . 50 leagues in extent, rested all the i;t opera- . Lion which now unite in Moscow, the central point to:Whicli they were directed by the soul of this grand. movement, The corps engaged never ceased ti) maintain the closest mutual connection. But, however valuable to the conqueror this . vast portiOn of thedomains of his adversary , however injurious its loss. to the vangnished,--it'Ava's not till the present moment that the latter must begin to fee. a;i the depth of his wounds,—all the dan ger of his situation. A short sketch will demon strate this : Mo.seow, which all the efforts of P-eter the Great could not strip of its importance, .noe even of the .Tank and characteristics of the true capital of Rus iS situated nearly in the - centre of that . Vast :empire ; the Asiati c portio n b e i ng excepted.±lts *surrounding provinces are incomparkibly th,e ost fertile of, any id those clinies.• The more iipilherly districts consist almost onifornily of Vast marshes, impenetrable forests, and sandy plains. The du ration and excessive rigour, of the winters con ,demn this portion of the Russian Stat es - t o nearly' absolute sterility. In the more southern pro vinces, on the other hand, we find steppes or boundless deserts, whose gravelly soil is impreg nated with salt, anti totally destitute of Nvood and water. The . :province of . Moscow . andits agjoin ingGovernments, situated between these extremes„ produce in: such abundance all the necessaries of life ; that from that large city, as a sort of general entrepot, they were spread over the whole surface of the empirel A single glance at the map s be sufficie-A to spew; that from Moscow iAtte'all the great roads of Russia. We may distinguish nine principal ones,-diverging in all dircc,tions.;:.and their numerous ramifications establish an.-ettayAn tereourse between this central point =tithe *.ic treinitics,. which hence received nearly all their subsistence, and the ninteriAls for their industry, in - exebning for the'partial supplies with which ihey furnished'iL f • o.St..Petershuigh, above every'other city: is . a constant co . tnninuication with - the aneient pittil'nec'essal-y for the supply of its incessantly re turning wants, Let •us again' cast our eye upon the map,- and we•shall - see that only four great roads is sue from the city of Peter the .First. 'l' %o • . . of theta. ascend towards the north namely,. to w'ardS. Cie mirsheS Of Finland, or the sterile and frozen , Governments Of Olonetz and Archangel...!— A third. road leads hy s iliga to , Prussia-and Po land itis-interceptedy a French corps; +There. TemainS a i'6iirth, the only medium of conttnanb.:: cation between the ti,to capital; and it is in manner cut oft . by the Grand Army itsela. What: means, then, are left to St. Petershurgh3Ol-174. nerving .its supplies of Provisions', -insu , lated as it now is from Moscow, it has lost all its connections with the Provinces which supplied it with subsistence? By sea ? But is not the Baltic shut by the ice for eight months site the .year The first of these rigorous Inonths has commenced. That proud city, - which still re-echoes with empty menaces against •our armies, and the cbaunting of imaginary victories, must, at once, experience a failure'of all her resources. She' , will awake to a terrible certainty ; her frightened inhabitants will doubt less calculate, that the banks of the Neva are 60 leagues nearer the bead-quarters of. the Conqueror than the banks of the Niemen from Moscow*. From Moscow to. St. Petersburgh there aret;,. post sta.!, tions, of which the principal are Kiln, Tver, Todos4l,Noro-,:. gorod, &c. The total distance is 698-versts, or 21t2, leagues, ) Counting- 25 to a degree. 3ut i 3 2t Russia alonL,i6t :the ieplor?ble frnitS or her. Amy ? Will nOt.the inSt dious ally whO seheed her; also suffer. from. the, errors wiliCh that Pow`6r haS Ceenthitied ?, Russia is thus struck to the `e6re.,', we cann , t . doubt that the shock must be felt in L0nd6n,....17he Englishman Will suffer in what is deareSi 't(; him; • his mereintilet speculations and his gold. . . But the Russians, in a i m i ng so crue l a bl ow at themselves, in destroying the_very'focus of their commerce, and throwing back, for more than - a century, the still imperfect work of their eiviliia tion;—have they not done us sonic mischief that may.balance their own enormous los . ses ? Have. • they acted like, the wounded soldier, who COU- Ogepuslylsacrifices a valuablelimhto save the rest of the body? Have they prepared our certain ruin, and purchaSed at the expellee of their an cient capital the safety and the honour of their empire ? No,: they have uselessly ruined one of the finest cities in the world"; they have, without any advantage to their cause, treated their own Country more barbarity than Attila ever dis 7 played against an enemy whO had provoked his fury. While inflicting a mortal. Wound on their country ; they have done us little or no harm,----A few observations will be sufficient to prove this double truth. Three fourths of Moscow are in ashes. Doubt less we must deplore this frightful' calamity, the effect of barbarism Without example but this mis fortune, falls entirely upon our enemies, and can notendancrer.the existence of our legions, as some persons, adopting an -opinion totally destitute of foundatio'n, might fora moment believe. Suppose Paris _burnt, could the army which occupied the Beauce, the Orleanais, and Picardy, in short, the provinces from ;which it 'derives Subsistence,—could. this army want' provision ?—Certainly not. Very well, our position is exact:y siinilay.to the case we have now . put. But there is one essential re-. mark, which modifies. the comparison to , our ad yantage:: althost all parts of France are rich and well peopled, consequently two hostile armies could there find abundant resources. The same, cannot be . said of Russia. The central territory of that vast empire alone presents the advantages of,fertility ; the, remainder is- comparfiti,Vely a de-, fert, as uaproductive of men as of - the means of . subsistence. Our entrmnce into Moscow and the position of the enemy, driven from all his internal proVinces, sufficiently, tell how little we have ,to fear frobi the threatS, contained in' h,i's ridiculous proclamations, of reducing. : us to the most severe:: privations. Far from being ourselves exposed to them, we are. even like;y to famish St. Peter „ burgh this winter; and. our army,, nterposed be:.; .tween the enemy and his two capitals, already closes the channel ,of all those supplies which are. indispensably necessary for its support. But while, _amidst resources ,of every kind, Our soldiers enjoy repose from their fatigues in Moscow, partially saved by their courage,, the Russians, thaaks to the .4ilful manoeuvres of their. General, will want every thing in their own country. The , enemy is . flyingto Casan, 500 leagues from St. Petersburgh, , mid 300 from Moscow : the latter city should have been the bulwark of the empire, the rampart of, his army, the depot of his stores, the centre of his communications, and the:granary of his-sub sistence ; andin it our army, :naster of all its move meats, is. deriVing new strength to finish on the confides of Asia the reduction of those barbarians whom it has marched to combat f,-oin the extre= mines of Europe..t. One great inanll of the 18th rentury blamed another for employing his pen in writing the his tory of Russia. The same reproach will not ap ply to him who shall contunie it to that period when it becomes a chapter in our annals. It must always be with the most lively curiosity that the philosopher will 'inquire. what the Muscovites were, what they wished to be, and what they are become. English companies and English warehouses were esta blished in Moscow• for the commerce of the Caspian, which is , extremely various and productive. . The hemp, - f ox, . cloth, &c. which England obtained frog Russia, were brought froM the central. provinces, now in the possession of our army • .t. - Neyer before was the .flag of Franee carried to szich a distance. In surveying the - theatrc of the exploits of the Grand Army, we must be - astonished to see it at. a smaller distance froM Bagdad than from Paris, and as near the shores Of the Persian guiph as the banks of the Seine. ." Tell me, I beg you, what you propose to yourself by writing the history of the wolves and bears of Siberia ? What can you say - Of the Czar that is not to be found in the Lifc.of Charles XII. ? I will nerer'quote the history of these bar barians would : rather. wish I could forget that - they in habit-our bernisphere."—(Letterfrour Frederick of Prussia to. Mr. CURRAN, with all the alleged popularity of his talents in- Ireland, was unable to obtain a seat in Parliament. • • Sir TuogAs TtIRToN must have been lamentably deficient in matter, when h.e could find nothing to entertain the Surrey Electors, upon the conclusion of the poll; but personal attacks upon Lord. CRAW LEY'S carriages, and Mr. SUMWER's haiwches of ye atiti jOze trucks iii the stable. What respect could,the.Baronet have for the understanding of the good .people of Surrey, - if he could suppose that they .would be gratified by such gloss and. pointless ridicule. Yet the B ar on e t appeared, to be somucirdelighted with his own humour upon these elevated subjects, that he dvielt on them for some time with eyident self-compla ce n c y. W e -need not, indeed, ask what respect be could have for the understanding of the Electors, nor can there be any doubt of what they .must think of him on hearing'such dull and vtdgarhostility. Mr. SOANE'S new front in Lincoln's Inn-fields• has, we know, received the approbation of the' first Architects in town, and is really to be classed • among the most elegant embellishments of the metropolis it is painful, therefore, to find that it is the subject of a continued hostility, which seems to indicate envious, persecution-rather than public spirit. This is not the way to encourage a liberal zeal in those who are 4isrsed to cultivate the Arts, and have the means to display their taste and science for the improvement of genius and the advantage - of the public. What would Lord Bint- LINGTON have said to such a pitiful . opposition A Cou4-Martial is to be held at Portsmo u th, on board the Gladiator, for the trial of 4. Gibson, a seaman belonging to the Loire frigate; on a charge of having stabbed Lieut. R. CROKER, of that ship, ivith a knife, during the voyage from St. Helena. COMMON COUNCIL. A proposition was then moved; that a Color:lit tee be appointed to present the same, upon which a conversation of some length but of little in ., tetest, except to those COnnected with the Court, took'phtce, upon the 'qtieStion, whether the boa should be presented by a deputation front the Court; or in the City Chaniberlain'S BOOM: Se• veral instances were quoted, in Which the former course was pursued, but the Town. Clerk informed the Court; that.the latter was the more 'regular mode. Mr. Waithnian gave it as his opinion, that the Common , Council ought to adhere to the Old •Lnd regular practice. The question was ultimately decided that . the box be presented with the free dom by a Committee, to be appointed on his Lordship's return to England. The Watch Act for the year ensuing vas passed. was referred to the Improvement Committee, to inquire if it is practicable to open ,a thoroughfare from Warwick-lane to the Old Bailey. Another was made, that it be referred to the Committee for General Purposes, to consider of a better anode for admitting Liverymen on Common flall s days ; but was negatived by a great majority. It was like Wise referred to the. Improvement CoMmittee, to consider what is Most fit and pro per to be done; with a view to the ithprovement of Smithfield Marl et 1 and to report their opinion • s+ thereon. Mr:'HEARIVE moved,sthat tio Member, who may have been a Candidate,' and have, by bitus~lt; his agents, or friendi, solicited subscriptions to sup port an election, should hereafter be appointed upon any Committee of that,Court. Sonie conversation, desultory in its nature and irregular in its character, took place upon this proposition. NO decision, however,, was come to, as it was incompetent to any Member to bring such a'quescion to a vote, without due notice.— The Gentleman was left at liberty, nevertheless, • to convert his motion into a notice of brin s ing fors art the proposition at some future Court. ST. PANCHAS, 77 -1t has been erroneously stated, thatlbe Vicai and the Board of Directors of this parish were united. • The' Board of Directors, it . seems, and the parishiouers in 'vestry, with the :opulent inhabitants at large, together with the landed interest, are strenuously adverse to -the ob jects which have be en p ro p ose d by th e Vi car .-- The, latter contends that his residence is not suit able, thattbechurch is not large enough, nor his vicarial tithes and Easter offerings, though his Counnittee admit the population to amount to near fifty , thbusand. The- Reverend ' Gentleman has therefore given notice' in the Gazette of his inten tion to apply to. Parliament for power to build a new church, and another house for his residence, with out-offices, particularly' as the poor are ex cluded from the present church, because there are not a suaieient number of open seats for their ac commodation. Tbe intended application is also for the power of purchasing land for the aforesaid reside#e - and out-offices; for appropriating the church lands, and for 'Other purposes that May be thought expedient, as, well as for rebuilding the chapel at Kentish-town ; and to accomplish all - these intentions by raising money On the inhabi-. tants.. We-forbear to give any opinion on the subject, because it will, in due time, be submit ted to the wisdom of Parlianient, and the ques tion of 'courSe.will then be decided-upon proper grounds. SMALL-PDX.-A correspondent assures us, that the loss occasioned by th e p r e va l e n ce o f t hi s dread 'fill disorder amounts to, not fewer than one hun7 di'ed and eleven persons who have fallen victims to it within the short space of the last fourteen days; as reported by the Bills of „Mortality ! They were mostly the children of the poor. Vaccine Inocu-: Wiwi being alMost universally adopted by the rich and middling classes of society, protects them from its ravages.• How much, adds he, it is to be lamented that the poor, by having imbibed un founded prejudices against Vaccination, cannot be. persu4ed to protect their offspring agAinst that loathsome ; and mortal xlisease, the Small-pox ; especially' as such laudable .exertions have 'been made 'by the Vaccine Institution, that it is .now offered-in every,neighbourliobd of this great me tropolis and its environs, to their acceptance free of expense. . The Committee of Al;Thacrement. of Drury-lane Theatre are,, it seems, proceeding ,upon . a " Re- Win altogether:;" but as the members, have, in ' general, very little experienee in the conduct of such a complicated concern, their theorief have 7 beim foand'vexatiOns, if .neat. disgusting, in the pi.detil!e. 17rOm ail acr.ounts, it would be wise in ,those ..Gentlemen to leave the regulations to. Messrs. ARNOLD and 1iny4.91.7b, who have now 'had a Considerable degrce2 of experience in the management of the Lyceum ~and under whom the 'performers were denied no re4, - -onable privileges, while order was etfecCiully secured. The Com initiee will have enough ‘ on their hands in super intending the pecuniary concerns of- the theatre, and therefore ought not to try their unfledged wings in too great an expanse of action. AMong other new, regulations at Druryi-lane Theatre is the abolition of tile. freedom of:admis sion respecting, all authors whose dramatic works,: though represented with success at the old .thea tre, are not on what is called. tilt stock list of act ing plays'. As atithors are genus irritabite,- we may expect that this abolition will : be the , source of much discontent:and consequent warfare., Mrs. SIDDONS, we understand, finds the air of Southampton so lime agree with her; that she re sumes her cottage at.Paddington. KEmßLE.was expected in town last night, and though he and his partners, according to report, have not been upim the most 'cordial footing, for some time, yet it is supposed that he will, be in duced to give the strength of his talents to the Theatre in the course of the present season. • • . Yesterday aCourt of Common Council was held at" Guildhall, at NVliicli the Lord Mayor; six Aidertheri, aid a great number of Con imoneFs aitintded. A liitAoOti Made by Mr. Deputy Box, that the la•cmioth voted on. the 9th of May, 1811, to. Lord WellingotOii, be presented to his Lordship in a soil . bok, of two h un d re d gu i nea S va l ue , • to gether evith a sword then voted. NEW PARLIAMENT. MEMBERS RETURNED Berwick (Cow:ty).—GL orgz Baillie, Es'q. Forfar (County).—Hoi! Wm. Matile. Edinburgh (Cortnty).—S,ir George Cierk, Bart. Stinfing (County) W.—Sir C. Edmonstone, Bart. 4rrnagh ,an. Do: Colonel Bitini!eq. Waterford, DJ.-Sir John Ne . • por, Bart. For the College.—W. Piupket, Afonaghan (Courty).-z:C. P. Leslie, R. T Daw son; Esq. -Longford, Do.—Sir T. Fetherstone, l3ar•t. Vis count Forbes. Queen's W. Pole, Esq. Sir H. Par- Bart. Coitnty Tyrone.—Right Mon. Sir J. St. art, Bart. Thas. Knox, Es.q. 1)o. Cavan.—Hop. Col. Barry, N. Sneyd, Esq. po. Doion.-=Lord Castlereagh, Col - Meade. Do. 40/0..-- - -ehttrlei O'Hara, Edw. S. Cooper, ESqrs...(r ' Do. Arttriiii.--Hon. John OgNiel, Lord Yar month. . f - Do. Kildare.:-'- . -LOrd H. Fitzgerald, Robe:t La touche, Esq. Do. Kerry:---C6l. James CrOsbie; Right• Hon. M. Fitzgerald: Do: zirinagh.---Wzn. Richardson; Wm. Brown low, Esqrs. 1)o. Kilkenny.:-.:llpri. James Butler; Hon. F. Ponsonby. Do. Weitnieath.--Guitai , ui Rochford; ESq. Col. Pakenham. Du. Waterford.—Sir Wrin. Carr Beresford, Bal•t. RieliErd Power, Esq. Drogheda (County and .Town) .--henry M. Ogle, Esq. Kinsale (Tozon).—Henry Martin, Esq. Ennis, Do.—Right [Ton. James FitzgerFild. Ne-th Ross.—Charles Leigh, Esc!: Dottegni (CountO.Sir Jams Stuart, Bart. Hon. Gene,r4l G. V. Hart. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. Di7M.FRILS.—Ocr. 25. Sir H. 13.-HArailtun 56 Gen. Motitgomerie '5l TIPPERARY (CntrsrY).—OcT. 24. Colonel 8e.g. , -ell• 18:313 I M. Prittie 1394 General Mather • 1769 CORK (CITY(.--OCT. 94. Longfield Hon. C. H. Hutchinson 252 Sir N. Colthurst 271 I SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET THIRD OCTOBER ;- OR; HOUGHTON AIEETING, 1812. . •. TIM" OCTonEft 29. • Mr. Ladbruke's ine, Est. 41b. heat Ld Sa<;.kelile's Pan, Sst:i)ib'. 0 7t04 on Whalebc.ef..l -- . :Major Spnto.,,s, 3 vrs beat Ld C. H. Soinefset's Ang e l o , 4 yrs. old, Bst. 711. D. I. 150. b. h. ft. 5t04 on -Spotless. ...' • . . Major Wilson's Erebus, Set. beat Mr. Shakespear's Jolter, Bst. 5113. .T. Y. C. sOgs.. '5 to Von Erebus. • A SubScription Handicap Plate of 501. for 3-yr olds and' up 'W.rds. D. I. Ld.- G. H. Cavendish's Florival, 6 yrs Bst 'rib 141. Lowther's Dimity, 5 yrs Bst. 51 1 . J Ld Foley's - Bodkin,. 3 yrs 6st. 1 ilb. 7 to 4 agst Floriyal—ri to 1 agstDimity- 7 -5 to 1 agst Bodkin. .. 1 THE MURDERERS OF MR. HORSFALL. HUDDERSFIELD, OCT. 24.---A very important event happened here on Tnursday ast:—A man has been taken up and examined before that inL defatigable .IYdagistrate. Joseph Radcliffe, Esq. and has at length received the offer of his Ma- Jesty'S pardei, and given, the most complete and satisfactory. evidende: o f the horrible murder of Horsfail. consequence of this, the - whole of theLivretebeS concerned in that dreadful transactiOn haVe been taken and committed to York- Castle,:to take their trial at the ensuing Commission of Assize.—He was with the party . (four in number) when Mr. II was shot. They were furnisked with loaqed pistols by -7—, who ordered them to take their stand in the plantation on Crossland Moor. Two others soon after joined .them, and took their ,station about twenty yards below them. When the unfortunate gentleman came up, two fired.— They then all fled across . the fields, and ---;- 7 ; damned them' al! the way for not firing their pieces. Two ran forwards,`,to Hoeley„ four miles off, and two more ;3`tOpfied. at a place called Dungeon Wood, and hid at —'s house there, in some flockieft their great coats, and ran im mediately in 'th.eir. jackets to Huddersfield, where the news of the - iniarder bad but just arrived. The next morning they all four met at the work-shop of their employer (a cropper) and produced a Bible, and made them all swear not to betray each other. SMITHFIELD MARKET, OCTOBEI 30. . This day's Market 'lra's tolerably well supplied with the different kinds of Cattle ; I.:ork is cheaper; Beef is dearer ; Mutton and Veal sold at last prices, and the trade for the most part. was rather fiat. The sales in the. Hay-market were-but in different; Ftly and Straw obtained last price; Clover has fallen in price. • Tq sink the Offal, per Stone of sib. Beef, 4s. Od. to 55. Qd. Mutton, 4s. Sd. to .ss. Sd. Veal, Od. tols. Od. Lamb, Os. to . Os. tad. Pork, Cs. Od. to is. Od. Beasts, 940. Sheep, 7.300. Calves, 110. Pigs, ZIG. SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET. Hay, 41. es. 'to 51. 10s. Straw, 21. Os. to 21. 10s. Clover, 01. es. to 71. 53. CORN-EXCIZANO47; OCT. 33.--There were few kinds of Grain -but what might be considered on the advance to-day,' and though,, in some, higher prices •..ve..re mit:realized, most - articles were ex pected to be dearer ori'Monday ; prime samples of Wheat were Worth full 2s. More than last market.. day ; there being a considerable quantity of Oats left on hand from Wednesday, and buyers not nu therOus, the same prices may be quoted ; Beam are .much in demand, and 2s. higher ; the stock of Malt on hand being very small; the, season having so far advanced for malting, and the supplies of Barley being scanty, the, last-mentioned article may be considered 2s. dearer, and higher prices anticipated. _ _ _ New Wheat Fine ditto Rye 92.. 102.. 127.. 1375. G2s. 63q Batley - - - - 554. 6-1. New Ditto - - - Os. Malt - - - -35.101 A. Fine ditto - - - Wnite Pease (boil.) I 14;. 120 q. New ditto - -130 s. Grey ditto - - 76's. 80s. Nel , ditto - - - Tick Beans - - . 755. 78s, Old ditto - - 1003, 5:,,t11 ditto - - 935. 102 s. Feed Oats - -48 s. 535. Fine ditto - - 555. Poland ditto . -50 s. 545. Fine ditto r _ 574 Potatoe ditto - • -60 s. Rape Seed - 701. Fine Flour - - I I Ios. Seconds - - - lU5s. 1 i