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XVc fkall be always happy to give our
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liar pleasure we insert the following!
CHARACTER
Os tbe Emperor Paul, from Hunters " Short I
Virtu of the Political Situation of the Northern
Prtuerj, founded on t^tfiri^ti.a, made during ,
a Tour through Ruffin, Sweden and Denmark,
in the lullfeven month: of the year I8OQ."
Iwas now on the foot, where I could sf-I
certain what had long been an objed of curi
osity, the character of a man, who, by his in
contiftencies, has challenged the attention of
Europe, as much as Robespierre by his barbar
ities, or Bonaparte by Kis success. I heard it
from many, drawn; indeed, with intended
caution, but with that kind of caution which
betrays the sentiments of the heart. It was
pourtrayed by different hands with such a si
militude that left me no room to doubt of its
identity. I found him despised as a forereigu,
dreaded as a despot, and detefled as a man.
With all the weakness, with foanyof the
vices of human nature, these imperfections are
not counterbalanced by any of those mafeuline,
and imposing virtues, which, without rendering
defeats venial, glufs them speedily over, and
fercen them, if not from the notice, at least
from the reprobation of mankind.
His aAs of favor and bounty are those of a
man who has much to bellow, but who be
stows without diferimination : his ads of cru
elty, injustice, and tyranny, are those of a man
who has an indefinite, unconfrouled power,
Which he is resolved to exercise; his ads of
caprice are the offspring of a mind, at times, ;
completely deranged ; of feeling irritable to an'
excels ; of an unmanly, cowardly, fafpicious'
heart. The promotion of an enemy, or the
ruin of a friend! the punishment of innocence,
or the acquittal of guilt; the exaltation of a
peasant, or the banifhtnmt of a noble ; are e
vents which depend, not on the merits or de
merits of the parties, but on the momentous
prejudices ofa whimfieal and infatuated despot.
At Petersburg, where every thing is, in a
manner, under his own immediate ihfpeaioti,
the rigours of bis government arc inconceivea
bie ; and they are exercised in away the mod
vexatious and revolting In mixed societies,
people dare neither aft nor speak ;- -to think ,
is scarcely fafc.
Politics and the Emperor never become
fubjeds of difeuffion; for spies, and inform
ers, and public officers, are at every man's el
bow. Every one fufpe&s his neighbour, and
is fearful to hazard an expression which might
be interpreted to his disadvantage. The Em
peror's laws pervade and regulate every branch
of domestic economy—nothing can be done
without feeling his power. Even drgfs is one
of the objeds of his regulation; and the shape
of a man's coat, or the manner in which he
puts on his hat, are made matters of impor
tance.* A government which defeends to
such trifling articles may be dreaded, but can
not be refpedled, When the Emperor is in
town, if you pass by his palace, which is a long
range cf buildings, you mrift keep off your hat,
and, what is dill more ridiculous and humiliat
ing, if you walk in a garden belonging to him,
which adjoins to the palace, you mull remain
uncovered the whole time.. If in a carriage,
and he happen to be coming, the moment his
equipage appears, however great may be the
distance, your coachmen mull indantly flop,
and you must defeend, perhaps into the mud,
and Continue in this degrading posture till he is
out of fight.| No person whatever, even on
foot, is Suffered at any hour, either of the da,
or night, to pass the gates of the town without
a permission. You are flopped; and obliged to
Ihew a printed paper filled up and signed by the
governor, Specifying who you are, and what is
your business. These various proceedings are
frequently aggravated by the most Wanton a^s
of cruelty; and whilst I was in the country,
a Dinovian Clergyman received the knout, for
having in his possession a prohibited book, and
Kotzebue was sent half way to Siberia, for be
ing the supposed author of a satire which he
had never seen. I have only mentioned these
few anecdotes to prove how irreconcileable to
the common feelings of nature any thing but a
version can be to a man who has the privilege
to do what he pleases, and who employs that
privilege in enforcing only what is Unrea
sonable and unjust.
—A bitter enemy, a treacherous friend; 1
pretended hero; with ambition, but without
courage; the tyrant of his empire and his
family; a being, endowed with a certain acute
ness of diferiminatfon, and readiness of a&ion ;
sanguine in his hopes, but wavering in his per
severance; irrafcible, vain, foolifh and dignified
by turns; with a generosity bordering on prodi
gality , and a meanness which only consults his
Own gratification ; a platonnic lover, [ a fenti-
* Every man mus wear a ceded bat, heckles in
btsfboes, c dre/s coat and icaifceat ; and a young
Englishman, lately arrived, and solo vac not yet ac
quainted with all the prevalent absurdities, was turn
ed out of the Opera house by the police, besaufe bis
bair was combat over bis forehead.
, Police officer' are '" confant attendance for tbe
mfrußion and difeip line of strangers.
$ Ibis ceremony is so mueb dreaded, that, when
tbe Emperor is in tbe metropolis, tbofe who ean afford
it, depute a part of tbeir servants to procure intelli
gence where be is likely to be met with, that be may
be avoided
fl Madame Chevalier, the Freneb aßref of Pe
tefburg, is not, as it is generally imagined, tbe mis
tress of tbe Emperor, but of Kutaizoff, a renegado
Turk wbo was formerly bis barber, but is nolo one
of bis principal advisers, and bis confidential friend.
Wonderful revolutions in politics bale frequently
been brought about by women : bow far tbe predo
minance of tbe Freneb inters is to be afribed to the
exertions of this lady, IJball not pretend to fay. Tbe
Emperor's favorite is tbe Princes Gagarims, but it
ii fald to be merely a plutonic ptfen. foul isfn-
Fol. XL
BIOGRAPHICAL.
No. 40
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T COPENHACER, APRIL If
HE officers, seamen, and foldicri,who were
made prifoaers in the battle of April 2, are re
turned to Copenhagen. They praise in the
highest terms the humanity of the Chiefs of
the British fleet, who treated them with refped
due to their valour. They returned the offi
cers.their swords, while they were on board the
fleet, faying it was impossible to refute them to
men so brave.
mental despot, a metaphyseal legislator; this fe
the man who has been defined by his ioconfif
tenciefr, his abfaYdities and hjs iojuftice, to re
kindle the flame of general war ; to irritate
the subsiding animosities of riffi nations, and to
revive those tragical feenes which have so long
desolated the faireft portions of the globe.
That such a man should be pokered of such in
fluence, is a most lamentable instance of the ca
price of fortune, who has raised co the most ex
alted Situation, the person, in this empire, the
Icaft worthy of such a diftindion.
Yesterday we received a declaration from
Alexander I. officially communicated by the
Ruffian Minister, in which hit Imperial Ma,
jetty expresses a hope that harmony aed good
understanding will soon be restored between
Great Britain and the Northern Powers; in
which expectation he has charged his Minister
to notify to the Admirals Parker and Nelson,
that he will hold them refponfiblc for all ads of
hostility against said powers. This declaration
was immediately sent to Admiral Parker.
April tj.
Workmen are employed to put the batteries
6n the waft in the best flat# of defence, and the
Prince Royal has written to the Magistrates
the following letter :
“ As it is indifoenfable chat the works which
defend the road mould be repaired and carried
to perfcaion, it cannot be done without land
earriages, and I cannot doubt that the worth,
inhabitants of Copenhagen will lend their as
sistance, when I azure, them that nothing is
more neseffary for the defence of the city.
"I know that the intrepid citizens of the cap.
tal, who arc entirely devoted to the Xing, m,
father, are desirous of feteing every occasion to
jellify their zeal,t d co-operate in all that may
be needTary to the good of the date. I invite,
in confcquence, all the inhabitants of the city;
who have harfes and carta, to make them bring,
during the period of fix weeks or two months,
from 40 to 60 loads of earth per da,, to the
places where the erection of batteries ft neceft
fary. The drivers shall be paid for their trou
ble. Workmen at trades must traafport earth
in boats 2nd on rafts, and if the, want assistance
they must apply to the Officer of the Marine.
(Signed) ''FREDERICK,
April 26. "Prince Royal."
PZTXkSBURO, Aral: 5.
ft is not true, as some have pretended, that
the new Emperor Alexander 1. has suppressed
the order of Malta: he has on the contrary, is
sued an Ukase, whereby he takes that order un
der his immediate protection, until the incite rc
inftatcmetit of the order in their rights and pos
sessions, and until then they have a chosen new
Grand Mailer.
THE BALTIC FLEET.
LONDON, MAT 2%.
Lord Neirdn has not yet failed far Revel.—
On the 12th his fleet was lying between Moen
and Fallttf. {Twa IJland^ near Copenhagen^ —
Admiral Kitty with five fail of the line, nail
joined Lord Nelson near Copenhagen. The
whole fleet was making preparations to return.
Entraa of a letter from an officer in Admiral Par
ser's Fleet, dated Kioge Bay (entrance of tbe Bal
tic) April 24.
“We are returned to this Ration,
after a fortnight's cruise in the Baltic.
Our passage through the narrow chan
nel, between the Iliand of Arnag, and
that of Saltholm, called the Grounds;
was attended with feme difficulty ; —
most of our ships touched, and two or
three got aground : but we all at length
got fafely through, to the great afton
iihment of the Danes, Swedes, Ruffians;
and Prussians, who could scarcely be
lieve the evidence of their senses at
feeing such a fleet as our's—filch a
fleet as was never before seen in those
seas—attempt and succeed in entering
the Baltic by such a route.
FURTHER
European News.
gNy decent arrivals from Great Britain and
" After cur success at Copenhagen;
our next immediate ohjeft was the Ruf
fian fleet at Revel. However, hear
ing that a Swedish squadron was at sea,
supposed to be intended to form a junc
tion with the Ruffian fleet, We Ihaped
our cruize towards the northern ex
tremity of the island of Bornholm,
where we were led to exped a meeting
with the Swedish squadron. In fa&,
the Swedish ships were actually there ;
but not relishing our mode of compli
menting, they had crowded all the fail
they could carry, and got fafe behind
their forts, which are fittiated on small
illands that command all the entrances
into the harbor of Carlfcrona (the Ply
mouth of Sweden.)
* Oh Sunday, the 19th, the whole
fleet (great and W) was in full
Events in the North of Europe.
Frame.
APRIL it.
According to accounts from Paris,
Count Copenzel is very frequently
with the Chief Consul at Malmaifon,
and makes every exertion to medi
ate, if possible, a peace between En
gland and France.
lon 3oft MAT 20.
tn the capture of the Danish iflinlsin the
Weft-Indies our commanders ptid the mofrfo
cred regard to the rights of neutrals, particular
ly to the citizens of the United States of Ame
rica. In the capitulation of all the islands ft
was provided, that“ the fubj^s of the United
States of America mould enjoy the full ft secu
rity for their persons and property, as well as
the free exercise of their religion," In the cor
respondence with the Governor of St. Barcho
lomew, was the fbbfeqnent letters
HAMiUROX, may 16.
We have here many private letters
from Paris, which state that Bona
parte lives in the greatest apprehen
sions for his life, and he takes all the
precautions of a man who addall,
fears. He has caused large ditches to
be dug round his feat of Malmai
fon, and a guard is mounted both be
fore and behind, and the greatest for
malities are observed, when he arrives.
It is generally believed at Paris, that
he will eaufe himfelf to be proclaimed
Supreme Chief of the State.—-that he will
suppress all the authorities that appear
to be at variance w'th him—that he
will name a First Minister, who will be
Joseph Bonaparte, and unite the two
Ministers of Police and the interior in
to one ; and it is apparently on the 14th
of July that these changes will take
place.
tinned to cruise for three days longer
between Bornholm and Carlfcrona,and
just as we were preparing to bear away
tor the Gulph of Finland, a lugger ar
rived in the fleet under a press of fail,
front Copenhagen She brought dis
patches from the Ruffian AmbalTador
at that city to our Admiral. They
contained dvertures from the Emperor
Alexander, of a conciliatory and ami
cable nature, and which have for the
present, and until we receive orders
from England, put an end to all our
operations."
" Hi s Majeftfsfbip Leviathan,?
"Sift, March 20, 180t.J
" His Majefty'sfriendly difpofitibn toward
tbe intercity of the United States of America,
and their inhabitants, corteforiding so perfe&,
ly with their own—We, in order the more cer^
tainly to prevent any cause of misunderstand?
ing on the present occasion, haVe taken p hb %
portunity to eXprefs oar just expedition, that
the fubjeds of America, at prefect residing in
the Island of St. Bartholomew, will not lend
themfelvei to any collusive tranra&ions, with a
view of preventing fed l pram, from coming
STOCKHOLM, MAY J.
Though hoftiltties are suspended by
the English fleet, yet the measures of
precaution for the defence of our ports
and coasts are continued ^ ithout any
change, and oar navigation to foreign
parts is still inconsiderable. The King
is not yet returned from the Southern
Provinces. Admiral Count Wacht
meireft, who has tefigned the Chief
Command at Carlfcroua, arrived here
to-day, to be present at the legal inves
tigation of the tallies which retarded
the failing of tile fleet from Carlfcrona.
chart Nothing in nature could ? y
conceived to form a more- beautiful
and sublime assemblage of obje&s ; a
sea of the purest azure, transparent to
the bottom,Skirted by a romantic coast,
and dotted with islands, on which float
ed eighteen fail of the line, in two lines,
in all their gallant trim, with a train
of upwards of thirty men of war, of
every form arid description.
“ About noon, we plainly descried
the Swedish men of war, nine large Ships,
moored at the entrance of the harbor.
To me they appeared to be nine 2-deck
ers ; but, they fay, there were only fir •
line of battle Ships and three large fri
gates, which lay out of fight behind a
headland. We fully intended to have
attacked this position; but Admiral
Parker firft determined to dispatch the
Dart sloop of war, with a flag of -ruce,
to the Swedish Adm ; ral The Dart
returned in about three hours, with an
answer, by which we were inforneJ,
that, although his Swedish Majesty was
resolved to adhere to the Northern
Confederacy, he wa^ Aeverthclefs wil
ling to listen to any equitable proposals
that might be made by England for
the adjustment of the present differen
ces. We presently hauled our wind,
and the signal for the general chace
was annulled. We, however, con-
sTßAstna, mat z.
Geri. Moreau is expected here daily.
Splendid preparations are making to
receive him.
HAGUE, MAY 12.