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" It indicated to the natiad an ohjc& towards
which it has since never ceased to advance with fury
and perseverance. &gland, thus thrown into a sys.
tern of universal de-potism, has never been able to
mimic it but through violence and injustice. Ob-
stacles have only inflamed her lust of power ; they
hate destroyed twenty nations in Asia ; they have
carried five and devastation Into the ancient cradle of
the family of men ; they have Attacked nations in the
;midst of the most profound peace; invaded their
property ; forced them into their own ranks, cor-
rupted and seddced governments, and involved them
in fatal wits; all these excesses are the calamitous
Jets of its system of usurpation. And how could
, the feeble net, woven by simple reason, resist these
tireafie invasions of the law of nations? France,
idled upon by its rink, its power, and its dearest
ilitereste, has checked the scourge that threatened
Etat* ; but confining itself to inefficient obstacles,
the Government imprudently suffered the nation to
be Ilumbled. in placing it in a position which in-
jured its noble drsposition ; and thus it fed and ani-
Mated the spirit of discontent, the murmurs and
agitation, which led to the revolution, and the fall
of the Monarchy.
" England, favoured by unheard-of events, pur-
sued its designs with rapidity. London at this day
would probably have been• the metropolis of the
universe, if heaven hall not given birth to an extra-
ordinary man ; if heaven Mid not charged him with
the re establishment of the law of n.tions, in en-
dowing him with prucLnice, and every necessary
meant for accomplishing hi i destiny with success.
" His genius has laid thole storms, incessantly ex-
Cited by our implacable enemy; his powerful hand
his paralyzed his efforts; but at the same time he
constriteted a vast system, the only one which could
remedy the evils of Europe.
" New combinations are upon the point of fixing
the future, and consolidating our hopes, sooner oe
later. for the return of a lasting peace. He has •
formed a power in the centre of Europe, sufficiently
strong to break the force of every attack it has re-
ceived, as well as those that may yet be prepared
against it.
" England, abusing her situation and her immense '
maritime forces, has herself indicated the points from
whence she may be resisted with success. To the
efforts that she makes Ny sea, it may he necessary
to oppose greater effo-ts upon land, and since she
pretends to isolate and cut otf other nations. by
laying the ocean under an interdict. just reprisals
call upon us to isolate her, and to shut her out of
the greatest extent of the Continent that may be
possible. •
" To such a mass of oppression, it will be neceo
eery to oppose such a confederacy as can defend the
liberties of Europe wohout alarming them. This
shall be put in execution France sees allies rally-
ing round her, who will invariably attach them-
selves to her politics, by their common interest,. by
their neighbourhood, and the ties of blood."
Monsieur Cretel then proceeds to inveigh against
the maritime rights claimed and exercised by bug-
laid. and concludes thus:
" Respeetiog the present war, the duration of
Which is uncertain, it will be necessary to institute
a general system, ce-ordinate with the various eon-
' tribudwns which form the immoveable charnel-, of
the resource% of the State We shall be preserved
hereafter, from the establishing of new ones. This
is a &trader which we call unchangeable ; because
it will be proper to admit of the diminutions which
will be claimed by the state of peace, and the sag.
asentations which may be demanded by the impe-
rious necessities in a state of war.
Suck, Gentlemen, is, in effect, the system of
contributinns contained in the law, upon which you
will have to deliberate."
FROM THE DUTCH ?AYERS.

♦IEMMA, APRIL 9.
The Court Gazette of this day salmons an Order
of the Day from the Archduke Charles, signed
March 2d, expressing a general pardon to all de-
serters, who may return to their colours, between
the tst of May next and the 31st of December.
CAPTJA. 111141 Cit

The gallant Commandant of Gaeta has lately re-
ceived a considerable supply of provisions from
Sicily. He has made a sortie against the enemy,
but unfortunately was compelled to retreat with the
loss of SOO prisoners, and among them the famous
Ira' Diavolo, Brother Devil.
♦!slC[, arms 6.
Several transports from Dalmatia have arrived
here. We learn from them, that the Russians con-
tinued last'weelc in poriession of Csttaro and Ragusa,
and that they were endeavouring to inetesse their
force by Albanian recruits. The French were in con-
siderable numbers in Dalmatia. and were advancing
rapidly toward. Cuero. The roads between Trieste
and Fiume were filled with French troops, the Court
of Vienna having given them permission to pass
through Cariertbia and Anstrian Dalmatia.

NAVAL lATELLIGENCE.
PORTIIIIOUTR, APRIL 26.
Arrived the ARt schooner from a cruise, and three
Indiamen from the Dowas.—Wind N. E.
DIAL, APRIL ?G.
Arrived the Serieirritarn and Akentaire from the
South Seas.—Wind N. E.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL t 4.
Arrived the Spri7hgv, Lieut. Gordon; Cockatrice,
Capt. Green ; and Confidant sloop of war, Lieut.
Yeo, from a cruise, with the Nottatielans,—, from
Ipswich, for Liverpool, which the has retaken ;
ItALMOVTII, APRIL 23.
Arrived the ship William, Capt. Sinclair, from
London. bound to the West Indies.
Sailed the Gibraltar, on cruise ; and the Mho of
Montrose packet, Captain Darnley, with a Mail, for
the Leeward Islands.—Wind

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