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SAIZAZIII.

Paris, iris FroctiAor,
vAls Sept ; 1797-
I wri e to yoa is hallo, ap dr.': idx Az.7. w ac

rlaaiut you that a new royal.eonspiniey was ail the •
point of toruking out, had it not b en itiseo.Ver,
by the niejority of the Difteturyi atter erre tear
being uitirdur. d. Ficitegru, Villa, t
Jo)euse, Rorere, are under erred. All is going
on well. The Directory lies proeberniril the pu-
wshinent of (bath to any our who shall cry, Lam;
lire the Ring; or, The Contftintive if V.. This
proves the wisdom and justice of the mediates
used. All the people cry, Long. lire the Repahiic!
and so do 1. Your Friend,

(Signed) BERR toortit.
vimm, the ;oh Vemme,
ItarcL) 1795.
MY DEAR SARRAIIII-1 hare helm expt•chug to
hear from you, fur a long tiMe. Von know what
we agreed on ; you inns: give me tlift•Frot notions
on your arrival at Paris. 1 sin sorry you itilesiel
upon the embassy. Heal ft
(Stollen) nytwantrere.
161ACDOK ALI), GENERAL. IN CIIIEF OF ¶ID arsuar.4.l
SALMIS. TO GENERA). t.t• !MG
the
(MI lUly, 179 e.
It is with regret, my dear General, :hot I je.iceise
the array mu,' be deur; ve I of t our services for !cute
time. Never did the stood its te.ire Heed
of good officers vrit'o its armies, aril you &IP a:ve Of
the most di•tioguisilen amortoit their. hasten then
the cure of that honourable now! w hick yu:l re.
ceived the 10. h Praire4l.and tosett,...to your tri.md.„
who esteem you as much as taisite your mili-
tary talents. Salut et autitie.
(Signed) I M AC1)401110.0.
WAR DRFARTMINT—sECRETANICS orrtrt.
Paria, the loth Frartidoe,
(7M Aug.) 179*.
The Minister of War deputes the Genera/ of
Briptle, Ssrrazin, to take upon him the office of
superintending the motions of this department.
(-rigned) BERN ADI,TTR.
LIEUTENANVOCIIIMAL JO tcHim ssuare. CON.
ANDING•III-CIIIIF THE CAMP OF GRRNAINIARO,
TO GENERAL of BotIGADE SARRAIMIL.
Head-quarters at Paris, Moo loth Frortidoc.
(sth Sept.) MK,
11=re reerivei, my dear General, your letter of
the 16th inst. :f,.d base communicated it to the
Chief Consul. He, :".3 well as mrielf, it perfectly
satisfied with your zeal in the iucipiiue iii the Fol.
diem. I recommend to you pattint in public or.
dem, shit I am well pinned wit* the foal order
that prevails in the camp, and I shall soon hay- tl-,e
pleasure of oonfirming the same by word ni mouth.
Salut MERAT.
Tag MINISTER OF WAR TO GENERAL CLIMAZig
Pan., 11,e 28th rewash e,
toils Dee.) ieee.
A:though. my dear General. it is consistent with
my nffie to blame your method of getting shoe'.
so neor.sary for your men. I approve of the mea-
sure, ! should have done the sjille io youP
I am only sorry that it is necessary to justify your
conduct.

1 ow sensible, as is tie First Consul. how well
you deserve praise for, and confitleoce in. the ter-
% ices you are performing.
Receive the assurance of my real attachment.
(Sired) ALEIANDIM BIItTIIIIL I.
Till CONIEVIDER-TN-CMOSI TO GIL lARRAZIN.
Head quartets at Yart.au•Prisee, ihe IgHa
Gerambal, (I Apr6l) 10• J.
I have the honour of oaken* a .eply to 3 ~ur ri-
quest of leave to return to Frsoce, to which. though
will sot oppose it. I c.r•inot consent witbout re-
gret. The situation of tl.e colony, is which you
serve with so lunch credit, during this pail/rut sud

difficult oar, is a motive for my eishesto keel, )ou
with the Army of St. Domingo.
I nave the honour to be.
(Signed) ROLX/111121Fall.
FARADS. CHIEF OF THE •DIIINISTILATIIIIII,
LOME IL FILLFBCT. TO GINIII4I.II,AILILISIIII.
Port-as-Prinee, tLe Wit Tberssidoc,
tit August)
It is with regret, Citizen tenor-al. that I see you
are on the point of leasin this colony. Your bc-
nevulent regulations in favour of the iahabitaists.

and the pains I have observed you take to alleviate
the weight of their suffennn, 'reciter create yao
their seknowledzineuts. On my pert, accept the
homage due to that devotion, ant the sentimeuta
of esteem and respectful considers' ion. which cou
have inspired me a ith. I hate the honour to sa-
lute you with respect. (Sign d) PARA De.
. •L If•IIDANVIR TO ',MISSAL saite•zia.
HcadAsartars at Beekovis, sloth
Nurerber, lour.
A letter from bit Excellency the Mtn:stet of
War informs me this Jay, that you ate surerseded
in the eirousaod of the o:partiactit of 1.7. a. This
intelligence gives me f.7.tat reticent, as it (tisenver•
that the intriguer and ri irk (lentos of pier sall•.
Mire unite in pradmi)q dispaidrials. [
re4bt to repeat to you, that I look NI on Ille Isle e
Ceaseurd as appal f retie isopwrl evict.
I beg you thea. earue.tly, out to b- ca-t .3o•
by ikon oireduataater. hooreser .ug y

may be to you. I hope rem 'rill instantly Loin the
Stith Division. l'on will there find me ready to
give you proofs of the sincere attachment I have
ever professed to you.
The Gene' al commanding in Chief the camp
at Boulogne, and the 16th Military Di-
vision. (Signed) VAN OANINI 6.
licad•Qtrartars st Ilei.lentseint,
Tbe Mb April, 1509.
I have long waited for an answer to the letter I
• wrote to you. It has at length arrive'', hut too
hoe. I might, whilst I was at Paris, have asked
his Imp'erial and Royal Majesty to have you at the
head of any staff, and I regret not having known'
your determination sooner, as it wonld have been
very agreeahle to me to have you shout me.
I expect you to visit Admiral Iscrosse often.
Ile is one of my goad friends, and I o'ol learn
with pleasure that you are ou good tens► with him.
The General commanding in chief the troops of
his Majesty the King of %Vurtcmberg.
(Siguei) VAN DAMIIt6,
WIER II OF DITIAION. SAINT stmrtro. COUNT
OF THE tMFIRE, COLONEL o► DRAOOOIII or
Tilt INIFIIIIAL °Ulla°. TO ORNERAL SAM.
RAM.

Par* t6tl, inn 19 to.
I have received. General, the letter you did me
the honour to write. lam very sorry to fi.nl you
are unemployed, contrary to your alolities and in-
clinatious. You must hope for•bettrr times in fu-
ture; fir' certainly his Majesty, who his always
shriwo his r.lartl for brave soldiers. will at last do
you justice. Hive patience. General, arid shove
all, a little philosophy : in this world we have much
need of both.
Accent, General, the a•sitrance, &c.
Your Conirrtie, (Signed) SAINT SULTICIL.

STATE Oh EUROPE.

Nu. r.
It is 'cutely [invisible that the pirtieolor part of
Our ola-ervativas on the State of Europe, which ap-
plies to Spaitt, could have conic antler notice at a
inure rlifffut:t roe neat then the present, when,
perhaps, the fate of that country rests on • battle,
of which we may eape:t intelligence every day.—
Bat to such of the Readers of %As Press who may
have given these Emits an attentive perusal, it will
have appeared that the view •we hove taken of tail
imports:it .übject has by no means been directed to
the mere matters which wwim 0:1 the sorfAce. or
to such a stole of things u can be alumattly mate-
rially affected by the resale of one battle. or one
I 11.11pA;g1t. We have drawn front deeper sowers;
and from general argument,, -nil a view, not of the
ash* of see couhtry, but of the relative situation
of all letaraf4.lll GeTa rumen's, have come to those
conclusions to which, in our judgment, it appeared
we might fairly come. Vet there cannot be a
doubt but that the event of a general battle be-
tween Lord Welliugtoe anti Mosseua. will have
very important effect item' the destioies of Spain.
at.d. through Spain, on the foe of Europe. Should
the British army he decidedly victorious, the conse-
quent loss of the see ny on the Peninsula will be
prodigious ; a new energy will be infused into the
whole maaarof the Spanish people, and risiiigs in
every quarter will displry in arms against thosr•
tovrolcc., thousands now barely awed by superior
force into au unwilhog submission. On the con-
trary. should the British Army be compelled to
alsandon Portugal. though the resistance of the
Patriots might be somewhat protracted by other
means, end a desultory warfare be carried on by
mountain bands ; yet every intelligent person st
look at the struggle as only the dying efforts of a
conquered peolde. Spain will then be sub-
jected to the dy nswe or Bonaparte. But.
how Spain ?—!Cet a well-populated country—
eat a country rich iu the productions of
nature—nut a country from w' i, h armies may he
drawn—net a country with a fleet for the owe of
its costqu.ror—not a country possessing trade or
manufactures—not a country receiving supplies
from golden colonies--not a ro.intry,which,thottich
subjugated, rn.ty easily be incorporated with the
State to who e force it has been compelled to sub-
mit. Spain may be laid at the Get of Bonaparte,
but with none of these advantages as a dowry.
—wow amitorobly different is the picture ! Look
at the Sprint which Bonaparte might, but for his
nod anthition, hare cuitral:rd at pleasure, have

turned to his piirp-ises, and wielded as his politics
directed ; Day, which he did so cinpluy--aml look N
at the S,iain which his utmost success can now
olgoiss Ow ita re *awl. The country ravaged.
waste, aad nneul,irated--the people esterruinot.
01, or hostil.--trrile (nevor germ! aitogetl-.er ne-
gl,cteil—comenercesooilbtlatetl—colonies separated
—a -et§ nudes' the power of enemies. and every
▪ of remiswee utterly eNst 'lists.., Such is the
eunntry that the victor mils arms of Bonaparte may
ocirtire ! of loe-log producei4e to the con-
(Foveae, Spain must. for trues, he a ;mat licrtliim
twon his hands. After the ,ear thst Oa existed, it
is nut poe-ilble that the people, I.y terror. ea...lute'.
TlWnt. are, or fume. Call be turned :it 011 Ce r. 14513 the
esterase ill hate t., lacy, fr., a the most determined
✓t.:Mauer to it will el-glare •
powerful Army to retavi a raity,..l country. The
opiiretsmos which moist Le re.orted to for Cue pies
pose or ...id • • •K this farce. wilt prose so "'l-
ima source to tas Spaniards at nsw straggles for

the indepentistrre they het. Ina ; tact We ttley ex•
pest, that the country acquired by blood said crime,
must be held by the same tenure, till it pleases
Providence to give another turn to the deplorable
state of prostrate kingdoms.
If then, (as we have before shewn, in Nos. 11. and
Ill.) the Coufederation of the 'thine, Holland,
and other States, must entertain a hostile disposition
tossords Bonaparte; how flinch more must Spain
(Including Portugal, for their cause against France
is our and the same) feel for years to come the
6traegeat degree of hatred and detestation towards
this scourge of her race. The acquisition of the
country, mid the kingly nam,c of Joseph, is no sea_
quisition of strength to France : so far the reverie;
that no man of common understanding will main-
laid the position, that, even under the most fa-
vourable cirzunistances„ it is possible for Bona-
parte to render that country, in Ilse years, so effici-
ent or useful to him, as it was when he committed
the unprincipled act of inveigling her Princes to
Bayonne, and broke throo4h every honest tie, by
invading the tetritory of all unsuspecting friend
and ally.
We shall not dwell on the further injury he did
to his grand objects, by this equally atrocious and
imprudent measure. (inc glsnce is suffirient—that
by creating itellviwistkait nations (rue their extent
merits that titk) across the Atlaiitii., he at once
destroyed his oats purpose for the &et ritiment of
colonies and commerce, and opened new sources of
increase to the mercantile greatness of England,
which he wished to overthrow.

The truth is, that Bonaparte, to whose talents we
are ever ready to give the ',rinse they deserve, com-
pletely overslept the bounds of wise policy iu his
attack on Spain. He newer calculated on the re-
sistance of the people, but (oinoling his expectations
on the lethargy in which fur a century rod • half
they had lain, he looked fur an easy acquiescence in
all l.is treachery and arnb.:ious usurpations. Brat
the. spirit of the Spanish nation, trough so long lost
in the gloom of superstition, in the languor of idle-
ness, and in the voluptuousness of plenty, was not
dead : a convulsion like this was perhaps the only
thing that had sufficient power to arouse it: end, to
the astonishment of Europe, it has been shewn that
the Spani,h character, even after so total an eclipse,
wag not extingiiislied. It was a singular pheno-
menon, on which future historians will dwell as one
of the inost remarkable appearances in the annals
of nations, or the moral history of man. The cause
was great, and the effect not leas extraoraivary; ant
can we Sail a parallel aiiion4 all the events of forme
times, which have thus suddenly willed forth the
united energies of a people.
But, according to the !Ilan we have pursued in
these Essays, it is more proper for us to look to the
ftrure erect', the in.! Aims of Spain may have no
the State of Ellrolle, 1111111 to dwell on the wonders
of the 'mast. We inive ateitady added her to the list
of those to whom the increasing domination of the
family of Bonaparte must lie ino.t hateful; bet her
limtility will sheet the powes ef her euriny in a dif-
ferent manner from any of the other inimical States.
Feuer/It/tying it will scarcely be possible
that ever she should enter into any combined plan
of operations, or take part in any coalition th:a may
arise against Bonaparte.—:Be it observcd, that we
are arguing on the 11100 unfavourable state of the
supposition, that she should be conquered in her
present struggl.).—But her part sill not therefore
be the less injoriou: or dangerous to the usurper.
Site will be • thorn in his side, awl a drain on his
resources, more fatal and exhausting than she could
be were she to lo lug an army of 100,000 men into
the &It far the invasion of France. Not only will
this be the effect of the conquest of Spain, during
the wars in which Bonaparte may hereafter be en-
gaged, but its gnawing and prejudicial Pmdency
will be felt by him, even should lie have no other
enemy to contend eosins?. It is a running sore
which will continue aninterroptedly to distress and
weaken the villainous hand which inflicted the
wound ; and well nay Bonaparte exclaim with our
immortal Swan of A VC.11.-•••

Thum evcii-limiuled Justice
f..nsincuil. ILr liossuis'il ilialoce 1• ilmt lips
Of I ell mei niur.

Spain, then. au far from being a rateable acqui-
sition to Bonaparte, appears In be, if we may use
the varmints'', an accession of weak tits,. It puts
no strength into his hands to be wielded against
otter's ; bet, on the contrary,restaires, and must con-
tinue to demand, a waste of the strength he before
pommel. to keep it in obedience to his usurped
sway. In war, it will be his enemy ; and, if com-
pelled to the semblance of friendship in peace, a
hollow and instcure friend. When we add to this.
that the unprincipled manner in which the liberties
acid im;epeadence of Spain were invaded, 009 90
gross and atrocious, that no sophistry amid give it
a colour. nor art forge an excuse fur it ; that it
stands recorded as the sole effect of lawless foicc
unrestrained amlatiop ; we must believe that
tne eyes of the most blind are thereby opened to
the real character and destgas o Napoleon ; and
thane.' the immensity of his power may for a time
keep the Vaud iu awe, yet that its effect on the
inotal wadi is greetl and will ultimately produce
• strong efforts against his t)ran.sy. Not even vil-
lains love %Waists; they we the objects of ma-
, trust and fear even to one isant'oer ; and from fear
and oristruot, the final' of violence, rioarrels sail
MU Are sure to spring.

It is io Lis power taw that NApoleou Ludo le.

tntrity. With the etreptiiin.orMs own cresttires,it
is not in human nature that any man should
him well. Can he look fur friends in Spain, which
be has depopulated ?—in Holland, which he has in-
sulted and betrayed ?—in Russia, which he has hu-
.
titillated, and is engaged in circumventing?—ill
Austria, which lie has ieduced and wasted ?—in the
Tyrol, which he has manured with the blood of its
people I—in Switzerland, tali di he has robbed of its
thirling liberty I—in Italy, which he has usurped,
pillaged, and debased ?—iu Turkey, which he has
shorn of power and territory ?—ia Sweden, which lie
has been iiistrumental in reducing:—o. in the Con-
fed ration of the It!iine, whose iiiierests, though
subservient to his own, he has by a late act aban-
doned ? In short, it is in Denmark alone that we
believe Bonaparte has a sincere adherent in the mo-
narch of that country, who is as much devoted to
his cause as hi. own Josephs or Jerotnes.
The man whose security rests solely no his power,
is never secttre—etrry breath shakes it, every 31e•
vident tends to its overthrow ; and if once the title
of fortune turns, the descent mu.t be even more
gulden than the rise. No political sagacity, no
art, no management, can guard against every com-
bination of circumstances ; and one false step often
destroys the fniiric must fortunately raised, and
most cunningly aupp:irted. That the volume of
fate may contain some chapter of this kind in store
for Bonaparte, every Briton must wish.—lii our
foregoing Essays we have shewn all that it seemed
post•ible for us to hope. In our nest, cud last, we
shall hike an oppovtunity of drawing some general
contliwions Irmo the whole premises laid down ; us
well Its of making one or two further remarks on the
state of France itself; and of England, on winch
we have hitherto refrained from entering:

(To be trostimectl.)

F3REIGN FELLIUENCE.