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hold the reins which Pitt could hardly manage ;
you will Bad hint fire snore in Ida proper place,
not at the Privy Council Board, but at the desk of
the_Anti•Jacobie, writing, pe ips. an aiditional
canto to The Loves of the fraangks. You may
assure him that his mission is fulfilled ; and 1111 t
though his artillery failed of its effect on his ene-
mies, it answered, under your direction, at least the
purpose of driving off his few remaining
While Mr. Smith's share of the transaction was
managed with calmness and perspicuity, you,
in the full spirit of your instructions, were su-
perb, contemptuous, confused, insulting, and bel-
ligerent. The blunder you committed with re-
spect to the oral communications, and the pe-
tulance you gave Into, when you complained
of the newspapers, and demanded your passports,
were, to be sure, departures from the lofty line of
your orders. But tlrey may be pardoned in con-
sideration of your excellence upon the whole. You
certainly effected your rejection in a shorter time
than almost any other diplomat could have attain-
ed that primary object. But you must tell that
sophomore ip politics, to whom you owe the honours
of your embassy, that dictation, however it may be-
come his haughty pen, is not adapted to conciliate
a free and intelligent people, who had the hardi-
hood to send you home in disgrace for faithfully
executing your commission. GANGANELLI.
(Philadelphia Casette, Dec. 9.)

STATE OF EUROPE,
AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE YEAR ism

(Continued kern oar Paper of Tuesday.)

The more deeply we revolve in our minds the
events of iBO3, and the state of Europe, in Janu-
ary 1810, the more forcibly are we impressed with
a conviction, that if the complete subversion of the
ancient order of things am yet be prevented ; in
other words. if the revolutionary sceptre of Napo-
leon cam ever be broken from without, the deed
must be 'effected from the resistance made in the
South-West. We have twice beheld Austria bum-
bled and reduced to ask. or to accept, peace. in
four Months ; Prussia Was overturned, to its foun-
dations, in abont,eight mouths. though contending
under the same banner with Russia ; while 8008..
pane, standing on a raft,. in the midst of the
Niemen, intimidated the successor of Peter the
Great, and the Grandson of Catherine the Second,
to such a degree, as to have, ever since, directed
and governed the Russian Councils with as much
despotism as he does those of Switzerland. On the
contrary, beyond the Pyrenees, at the end of a year
and a half, he has not subjected one-third of the
Peninsula. There is. then, it would be vain to de-
ny, 4 ',Witold! will existing among the inhabitants
of that country, ea wave priaciple of detestation
to their invader, which, though it cannot supply
the want of arms, finances, tactics, and a regul:r
Government, can yet raise and recruit successive
armies, defend, with desperate valour, their towns,
and. at least. retard the conquest of their 'native
soil. Here we witnessed any thiug similar in Bran-
denburgh, in Bohemia, in Hungary ; any where,
except among the Tyrolese, whom ilirir Sovereign
has abandoned to the rage of their opPreasor• ?
Where else can we look for any oppasitios to the
edicts of the Ruler of the Continent

If there was any European State or Nation, from
whom it might have been expected, Holland was
peculiarly that country. Every sentiment, every
habit, every recollection, ev -ry prejudice, and every
motive, most, or ought to have led them to dread,
and to resist, the r.volu:ia.sary yoke of France. To
fall under the iron mace of a fierce. Italian usurper.
sprung from the ashes of Robespierre, and of
his accomplices; to be lost, swallowed up, and *ex-
tinguished as a people, by an order of this tyrant,
coldly fulminated from hia Cabinet ; to be told that
theircountry ought to form a portion of the French
empire, ►ecause Holland is formed, like the Delta
of the Nile, as cut alludes, by the rivers Manley
Waal, cud Rhine:" How came it, that at the first
sound of sa outrageous and unprovoked an act of
territorial confiscation, every sweet, and every
knife, throughout the seven United Provinces, was
not drawn, or unsheathed ? The reason is simple.—
There exists among the Dutch no mind—We
mean, no love of freedom, no contempt of death,
no attachment to their native soil, no indignation
against their spoliators and tyrants. The soil is
'fide. They have already submitted to the base
Government of a Corsican delegate, which, though
mildly administered in his person, was not the less
ignominious, and even precarious. Thry now no.
dergo, with prostrate apathy, the hart transforma-
tion. or rather annihilation. Ninseguen,
Due, Arnheirn, Breda, Bergeo-op-Zoom, Wil-
liaroshurg—all these might have shut their gates
against the French, with far better means of de-
fence, than Valentia„ or Saragossa, or Gerona, pos-
sessed. Englund could, by her Beets and arnsies,
have instantly co-operated with the insurgents.—
Bonaparte might Lave been furnished with other
occupatioa, than divorcing one wife and taking
another. But, the hope is vain—Ti:ere are no
Data..

This most degroding submis•ion of a whole peo-
ple is the more wonderful, when we consider the
sublime spectacle which the Dutch exhibited to
the %vial.' in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Ceti-
tunes. At no period of time, indetd, have the prui.