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4,,,* The Asthor of as Essay upon Parratery, addressed
to Mr. PiRCILY•L, 1. illitirlllllld, that tbere le too 1111eciafre
la big etnapositioa for the *abject.
Tlte bearitifal little Poe., tatitled-.0 77i• Placenl;" alias
f! re. i•ibe ef ay Mut," dedicated to Lord Et.non, by.•
asettlealaa, oboe. writing is midi hire, sad who sights to
become a Practitromer at the Old Maley, bas bees received.
tba Eros= epos Mts. CLaaara Garters, subscribed
.but that Lady to Calmat WARDLIt, and reeouneseaded ma a
rye for a aerials purpose, has too sharp a sting is its tii
oaaolideriag the wive rendered by that Cioatisasaa to 16
asestry.

M The Ssigging lieu," sr " Patriotism Rewarded," ems*,
lapetted, fur a wmiir reseme.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, JaNCALY 4.

It is raid that the repents relative to Italia be-
e/ease ever day retort alariniug. The measures of
aeon eiliatian hithito lied been nuritecessful, *bd.
the invulaorslination of the troops iv said to bevel
broken lust into sets of great violence.. We trust,
'believer, that there is no funadatiou for that part
ter the report which states that Su. G. BARLOW had
Seen 'melted by the troops and put to death, and that
Lord !Witty:, was kept in close ceufinerucut.

, His Ifs'Env's Levee was very thinly attended,
yestrnlay. Neither the Eel of IYILIT3IO tto
tosetho Earl of CAMDEN was present ; and the re-
port gains ground, that they are both to resign iiii-
usediataly.—Are lately mentioned, that the spirit of
jealousy and disenioa •survirm the removal of Mr.
Caesium and Loki C 4STLSIIt Sail, and that Mr.
PSI/4;1,1f AL and Marquis WILLS/LEY hive already
tilled a little..—This stateasest. the Treasury Jour-
nals have ventured to contradict ; bat it is not
therefore the less true. They will contradict every
thing unfavourable to their employers. They
pledged themselves, that the most perfect harmony
prevailed its the bete Cabinet. They asserted stiffly
stud stoutly, and spins estAority, that the reports of
the eaisteoce of its feuds and jealousies were totally
groundless. np to the very moment when they were
prechsioned upon Pitney Heath, at the mouth of
the pistol, by the two Secretaries of State.

Ise our peepers of yesterday and Toml iy, we gave
pert of the correspondence hedgers Mr. JACKSON
and Mr. SMITH. We this day give the correspond-
Face with Mr. Easels' which preceded it, and is ma-
terra' to • complete view of the subject. The conclu-
sion of the Correspondence between Mr.J scaso* and
Mr. &INTL we beiieve, has not been yet received.
We will defer oar observations at length upon it un-
til the whole is before oar readers. From the
papers published, it appears that Mr. J ACKSO/4
went to America without instructions to temili:r any
precise terms fur the general arrai.gcinent of
differences.

We are not surprised at the deep and eager in-
treed which this country, sod own of all parties,
appear to take in the discussions now pending, or,
rather, we regret to say, suspended, beyond the
Atlatitici. They are, a we reflect nit the Pi:ll:dim
of Spain, of Holland, and of the whale Enropesis
Continest, of vital import:ince. If N.41'4140,1
could, or can involve us in a ritiiture with the
American States. he will str.ke a ,evrrer blow at
nor commercial prosperity, than by all his edicts
a id coati...cation% Nor would the calamity end
there. Are we aware of the defenceless state in
which the peewit' imbecile and infatuated Cabinet
has left Canada ? Do we know of what number of
troops the garrisons of Quebec and of Montreal
moist ? Those important possessions bang by
blender thread. and may, we fear, have been lost
at Talaveiia avid at Waleheren. Mr. Maoist)*
knows .101 their rtspei:tive strength, though we

men to-be ifiaorant or it. Is tlie siege of Cikebcc. '
by Colonel Mos roomier. iu 1777, already obli-
terated (rein the recollection of our Ministers ?
Or does their retrospective information not carry
them so fur back iu the present reign ? We have
already lost the OCCIISiOII, which mmy never return,
of militia/log the Island of Guadaloupe, in come-.
(pence of our most thlwise ditc,irences with the
American Government. For, in the present deli-
cate, and, indeed, almost desperate state of our ne-
gociat ions at Washington, our Comusander-in-Chief
at Halifax dares not spare, or withdraw, any part of
the military force in that quarter. The fact is,
that neither Canada, nor Nova Scotia, nor New
Brunswick, are secure for an instant, after war
commences with America. They would not, in all
probability, remain subject three years to the Bri-
tish sceptre. Our Ministers, in addition to their
duels, expeditions, intrigues, and suisfortuues, will
find their culpability not a little aggravated, if they
Minx war to the banks of the St. Lawrence.

The pro.ligious length of the Correspondence,
and other documents, which have already appeared
in the course of the short communicatious between
our Minister and the American Secretary, as well
as the degree of uncertainty or obscurity that per-
vades certain parts of Mr. ERMINE'S instructions
or explanations, while charged with the negocis-
lion, render it impossible to pass any decided opi-
nion on the question, in a comprehensive sense.
—That there exists, in the American Execu-
tive Government, a spirit by no means placable
or amicable towards Great Britain, cannot, as
we fear, be denied. Without entering into the
causes and reasons of that fact, or examining how
far it was natural, and, perhaps. in some measure,
venial or excusable ; the knowledge of such a cir-
cumstance ought to have led a prudent Ministry to
have been peculiarly careful not to fan the spark
into a flame. They were warned to be on their
guard, in the selection of the person whom they
should send out to America. Nay more, we can as-
sert, that it was plainly hinted to Mr. Caxistea,
that Mr. Jamul( would not be acceptable; as
his well-kuowu conduct, during his mission to the
Prince Regent of Monastic, had made an unfa-
vourable impression beyond the Atlantic. The
same persons who gave to His Msatorr's servants
this wholesome advice, pointed oat to the Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, the, Member of the
Corps Diploetatique who would have been most
agreeable to the PRESIDENT and Members of the
Congress; we mean Mr. Lstrros. That Gentle.
man was, indeed, recommended for. the service, by
common seism. and by every possible considera-
tion. Farther advanced in life than Mr. Jecnsolt,
calin, temperate, phlegmatic, caul:toms, silent, he
possessed, from constitution and natural formation
of mind, the leading requisites for a negotiation so
liable to rupture. But, in additionsto all these, lie
joined local knowledge and information, obtained
by a lung diplomatic residence on the Delaware.
It warp thought sufficient here to reply, that is Mr.
JAMIoN 'tinting upon the list for foreign employ-
ment." Thus! our Ministers act. And can we
wonder at the consequences ? We shall have too
many occasions to resume this subject, with more
ample information. It undoubtedly is not, or was
not, usual, in the European Courts, es they ex-
isted previous to the French Revolution, to sus-
pend, or to termivate, a treaty, because the person,
or expressions. eitf the Envoy, bad given umbrage,
or offence, to the Government. Yet we may recol-
lect, thist CATHERINI the lids for a personal act of
our Envoy. Lord MACARTS LT, at which she was
hurt, insisted ou his recall from Petersburgh. Lord
NORTR menaced the Prussian Minister, Count
MALTzAti.'with breaking oft* all communication
with the Court of Berlin, if he were not, in like
manner, recalled. Even the prejudices of the
American Government, President, and Public
Functioueries, should have been respected. On the
style, composition, and respective arguments of
Mr. JAclitlON and Mr.SKITH. in their correspond.
enre, we shall reserve ourselves to give an opinion
wken more completely in possession of the mate-
rials on which it ought to be formed. The letters
of our Minister are marked by sound, close, and se-
vere animadversion. Conciliation don not charac-
terise them. Yet eon they Dot be accused of as-
perity, or of a wish to widen the breach. In con-
eisenes, amid compression they seem to us to be very
tirfteieut. Mr. SMI'M has there all the advantage
and the auperioritj.

It has always been the policy of Bell APARTS,
whatever might be his conduct to other states, and
whatever hi, disregard of the opinion of the world,
to conciliate the favour of his own subjects. The
action- to o liosh he has been driven, iii the pursuit
ai 1111 inordinate ambition, have rendered it impos-
sible for loin to ecocral his character from the world
at I al ge, or even from the thinking part of his own
station ; tout the great body of the French people
have acipites-e.l in his conduct, because its bad
parts lwre hitherto been displayed towards foreign
powers, and every good ingredient appropriated to
the lane navel neptien. If he thought proper to
plunder Rolland. It was easy enough to paint out a
justafic.ition to those who were sure to benefit by
that pkiler. If the fall of Austria, or Prussia. or
Spun, was necessary to his views, it was not diffi-
cult to reconcile his own sal,iects to that necessity ;
even if the &post ion of the Pore himself was
thought expcdtrut, ihi. dl consequences of his tea-

poral poirer upon his spititual character, pr•aented
such a reason is was irresistible to Chose who did
not care aOg fur his tidiness. But, in all 1.1)04.
instances, the people of France were speeu4o4
upon distant objects, which did not very iota k.
concern themselves; and which, perhaps, as far a.
they did concern themselves, promised too •
immediate benefit to, the Exchequer, to permit the •
cool abstract of right and wrong to occupy much of
their consideration. In his divorce from the Em-
press Juserati NE, BUNAPA:ITE seems to hare for-
gotten his former policy. Its error was mint in ne-
glecting to assign some reason for it, founded upon
the good of the state ; but in forgetting that it was
too much of a domestic question, too much within
the country, within its feelings and prejudices, to
be hazarded at all. •The violation of a great moral
principle abroad, may pass over, without reproach
or notice, while the disregar.l of a poiut cot etiquette
at home, is punished with exemplary indignation.
—How dangerous, then, for a man in Bona-
PAMITh'S situation, to introduce a question, not of
etiquette, but of feeling,—a question upon which
the understanding of every individual in the coun-
try must be exercised, and from which the reason,
mill, what is worse, the passions of all, will be occu-
pied in drawing inferences. Certainly, if there was any
thing amiable in this man's character, it was his sup-
posed attuchment to the &tram; that, we are per-
suaded, went further to recommend him to the affec-
tions of his subjccts than any other circumstance.
A people may be dazzled by spleadid talents and
important victories, but it is the couternplatian of
private domestic virtues which engenders that af-
fectionate respect for the great, which partakes
something of the nature of friendship. Boma-
PARTE has done wrong to open the eyes of the peo-
ple to this delusion. It may be said, that it was
not without the consent of the EIIPIIIISS and her
family, lie came to the determination. True, it
appears so; Jostrutan has made a fine harangue
about great sacrifices and public good ; but who
com Posed, who dictated that harangue who but
her " august Consort" himself? Why did Jo.
mentos deliver it ? because she dare not do othkr.
wise. It is extremely improbable indeed, that she
concurred willingly in such a measure. lothepeadeat
of that reluctance with which a asperiar sittuitios
is always relinquished, whatever trouble, inconve-
nience, or danger, may be attached to in she bad
to struggle against those conjugal affections which
many years cohabitation must bare strengthened.
It is easy to talk of magnanimity; bat if try
there was an act ascribed to magnanimity, of
which it became us to be suspicious, it is sure•
ly when a wife surrenders up 'her husband
on a skikt-hausting speculation. B4llllArAitti has
power enough to account for the acquiescence
of Josseutsx, without ascribing it to any su-
pernatural effort of patriotism. But, if it may
be permitted us to question the magnanimity
of the asinine herself, how much more should we
hesitate to ascribe it to her relatives, who have
taken a part, to all appearance, as public-spirited
and disinterested ? Can any one suppose that they,
submitted willingly to the displacing of their great
advocate with the FItENC/1 Estrzaoa, from a 1.1,•
tootles) which gave her such power, amtthem.such
interest, importatice, and consideration ? Sup.
posing, then. that JOSEPAINI was induced by
magnanimity, was it from the same priaciple that
all her family agreed? No; it requite tho
powerful assistant, fear, to effect such a co.ciparaie
tion. Magnanimity, as a motive of human eons.
duct, has not such a catching commnaicati►e im-
pulse; it acts too rarely and too distinctly to be
ascribed commonly and universally to mankind.—
The family and adherents of the EMPRKIIII must be
hostile to such an arrangement—and they are no
insignificant party. But what will be its effect
upon the people in general ? Will they not see it
in its true light—as the vicious whim, or wicked
policy, of a Monarch, intoxicated by success ? And,
beholding his chief, his only claim to morality,
thrown aside, will they not relax in their attach-
ment ? It is not always in the power of specious
pretences to deceive and cajole a nation ; and though
the French may be inferior in thought to others, it
would be too bad to conclude that they are inferior
in feeling also.

Yestenlay a Court of Directors we. held at the
East lo,li t House, when the ship. Sir Stepdea
Lieskingturs, Captain Jaws liar, was stationed
for Boiabay and Madras, instead of Bombay di-
rect. The following Captains were sworn into the
cam:nand of their respective ships, yin.
Capt. Starrork, Prestos ; and Capt. Ritasoka, nook ;
for Madras sod Board.
Captass Joha Locke, jan. David Scott; for Madras
and Colo".

Thr Court adjourned at seven o'clock till to-
morrow.

Lord 111'AT:trims gets the First Dragoon
Guards. and Lord WILLIAM BLNTINCI succeeds
Lord II ATxFtsl D, us the _oth Light DrigOOtiv.
Governor SONTAG. Earl Ustuousta. General
RAY (Royals). Gen. Moscattrrs, Cul. WALKER.
Stith. and Col. STEwast. all from Waldman, have
arrived in town.

The 79th, or Cameronian Highlanders, marched
into Portsmouth, on Frid:y and Saturday Igst..for
embarkation for Portugal. Captain Lirojvka's
troop of Horse Artillery, destined for. the same ser-
vice. still remains at Canterbury•, mid it is tspceted
will not march till such tune as the infantry are
embarked at Portsmouth. We geed hardly add,
that the destination of these troops mill probably
be changed, iii consequence of the events which
have recently happened in ludia.