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of 22,n" including 7006 valry ; and PALA
Ejx, at the head of 18,000, was advancing
towards Fontarabia, to cut off the retreat of the
enemy by Iron. It thus appears, that the Spit-
hod got in the rear of the French, and
that the latter were nearly surrounded. So far back
as the 30th last, it appears that the French found
their retreat cut off at Bilboa. An account of the
loss of the French in the battles that preceded the
Convention of Chant is given in our extracts. It
was between 6 and 7000 iii killed, wounded, and
prisoners.

The armistice enischnied between the Swedish
and 16441.1j11 armies in Finland, if we consider it
as coanected with the causes that produced it, and
the effects that may result from it, is an event by
no means of inconsiderable importance. In order
justly to estimate, anil folly to appreciate it, we
mist regard it as a measure ainanating, either
directly or indirectly, from that great source of
continental action, the Despot of Frame. ALES-
anora, however ostensibly its author, moves oily
by the wires, and is iic;ielled by the machinery of
his Corsican Ally. Tjr reverses and disgraces
experienced by NAPoutow iu S;rairs ;the atroi ity of
'the proceeding, snnrs.ly considered, in thus impri-
soning an Allied Prince, add devoting to rapine and
extermination, an ullied people; together with the
improbability of NV.Y effecting that object in Octo-
ber, uhich Duroatr, and Lirk•Tite, and Nies-
csi, and Busaitacs, have been unable to uccom-
ph in several months of oTensive operations--
these facts, impossible in their own nature to be
either concealed, or palliated, unquestionably pro-
duced the interview at Edam BowAPARTIL is too
acute, and reasons too justly, not to perceive that he
is declined in power, and in estimation, since his
attempt on Spai.i. He is well aware that Austria
and Prussia, however terrified and stilxiutd, only
wait for the nininviit to rise against their oppressor.
And he knows, that, notwithstanding the vigilance
of Ceuuscouivr, the ductile mind of ALEZ,
ANDEII might be iminilled to embrace more ho-
nourable, as well u, salutary principles of policy.
Even the local situation of Vienna and of Kouigsb-rg.
which enables the Austrian and Prussian Cabinets

tocarnionnicaewitiiPetersburgh more apeedily than
it is potsilile to do irons Paris, awakens the appre-
litiiiitin Of NAPOLEON. In order, therefore, :to
efface, or to counteract, any impressions which
might have bccn made to his disadrantir, tied at
the same time to bind the Emperor of RUSK A. by
new ties of every description, personal as will as
political, the Tyrant of France, thong's premed in
iliscay. Navarre, and Catalonia, sets out for Er-
furt, to meet r.moleEk. lt is probable that in
luring recourse to this expedient, he has adopted
the measure best suited to his own circumstance,,

mud moot calculated to ruistain his prevent eleva-
tion, as well as to preserve that of his Muscovite
Ally, which is not a little precarious.
Iu order to explain the latter purl of the pre-
ceding sentence, it is requisite to say a few words
relative to the actual State of the Russian Mo-
such, Capital, and Empire. The subject is a de-
Leine one, and we have been able to attaiu infor-
mation relative to each of these three points, which
we should not be justified in communicating at
presort to the public. It is beyond a question,
that universal diseatirfaction pervade. Rns►ia, ut
the unprincipled, degrading, and ruinous compli-
ance of ALEXANDIR with ISONAPAILIeII projects
ai conquest and rapacity beyond the Pyrenees.---.
?ior has their sense of snorel right and wrong been
less painfully. wounded by the conduct of their
Sovereign towards his wife and wither the former
of whom, it is eouruseady believed, may not impro-
bably be repodiated, or even divorced. Such an
event might make way fur a Princess of the Im-
perial Family" to ascend the Russian Throne
*tiler wards, might &celibate the introduction of
Mademoiselle LA Pelican into the bed of ALAX.
VIDAZ : thus forming a new comiectioa between
the dynasty of Ajaecio, and the reigning tiosir at
Petersburgli. We ahould not beim:palled at this
august alliance of :kludaine BON•PAATC'S relative
with the Emperor of the North, forming one of the
weer and contingent articles of the conferences at
Erfurt. We kuiw that it is considered in Russia
• - - -•-usnlated with just abhorrence,

oo less than indignation.
At Erfurt, we must recollect, ALMLINDCZ is
much more in BONAPARTE'S power, than FBADI•
NAND was at &you'll% Erfurt stands in the mu-
tre of Germany, above 700 miles from Moscow
flr Petersimr;th ; whereas, from Bayonne, the un-
fortunate FLIUMMAND might have reached the
frontiers of lair own devninions in the space of
three hour.. The Itus.ians themselves consider
their Sovereign in fact a prisoner, unable to op-
plus ally resistance to the maodaies of his Corsi-
can Ally. The star with Sweden has been most
uopopnlar and odious ; nor has its success in Fin-
land hitherto equalled the national expectations.—
Winter impends, when hunger and cold will be-
"'wile the most intolerable foes or. the Banks of the
(ha of Bothnia. Under these circumstances, en
armistice winch suspends military operations, *ldle
it secures to the invaders the undisturbed posses-
sino of Finland, up to the sixty-third or sixty-fourth
degree of Northern latitude, men he, in every point
of vies, flue of the most grateful and popular acts
or measures to be conceived. lu fact, notwith-