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London, England, 1815-08-05 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PA PERIL

BRUSSELS, .11:.LY 30.

One of the howitzers of the artillery, taken hot*
the French army, and ekposed outside our walls
to the view of those who doubted this eximordium y
capture, furnishes a manifest proof of the open
effrontery with which the conspiracy in favour or
Bonaparte was:carried on. This howitzer, cast at
Strasburg on the sth of January, bears the medal.
lion, and cipher of Napoleon.

We leave to or readers the reflections to wli;elt
this fact may :lead, observing merely that Lr. al.
parte was at Elba on the sth of January, mid this
is the manner in -which the too good Louis XYIII.
was served by those whom he had been irleneted to
leave at the head of the different branches of the
Government.

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The Princeof Hesse. Homburg buying received
considerable reinforcements, has driven hail; into
Metz the troops which had left it ; that town is now
closely observed, and its communications nearly
cut off. - •

Thionville is blockaded, there is no getting near
enough to bombard it except on one side, the et:-
virons being inundated by.meuns of the waters of
the Moselle. The fortress of Longwy is attacked
with vigour at this moment, and there is every rea-
-14011 to suppose that it will shortly. be forced to
capitulate.

FRANKFORT, JULY 25.

His Excellency, Baron Bulow, Minister of State
and the Finances, has passed ihrongli. here on his
way to Paris.
A letter from Spires, of the 24th, announces that
Landau has surrendered, and that the allied troops
are to enter it on the 256.

GENOA, Jemy 12:

The fortress of Gaeta, in the kingdom of Naples,
still holds out. The Governor is a French Gem-
ral •namtwi Montigny. His garrison is composed of
adventurers of all nations, 'French, Conically,
Poles, and 'timidl nuniber of Italians, not etc-od-
lug four hundred men. ...Those soldiers .ore
greedy of plunder; every -thing induces a be-
lief that 'they would willingly try to emblirk
with the riches Murat bad deposited at Gaeta,
as a place of security ; bnt• the port is so
closely blockaded by the Englifkli squadron that it
is difficult for the smallest boat to elude their vigi-
lance. The Sicilian troops blockade the phase by
land. According to the statements of deserters,
there are provisions in it for six mouths.

SWITZERbA\D, JOLT
The' Duke of.lieltitein-Eutin, 'formerly Kitig of
Sweden, is.gone to
Ge*erul Kosciusko, who has been at Soleure
ever since the yth of J n!y, I.roposes to makes tour
in the Alps, and to remain in Switxerkind till the
time %%hen eironinigances may make it agreeable to
him to reside in Poland.
ATX4L-A-CITAPGLLIS, Mite VI.

The Casette& France, after referring to Ow emu-
mew:einem of the act of the Caiwess of vieno,
%there it is suld.that the •Powers Lay,: armed uti,"

.f.

LON DON,

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1815.

have received Paris Parra of the IA itsst.
no. ..... !owlet' by the Gazette °fiddle of the same

dare. The former mention, with it tune of emiti-

deuce, the opening of a new•Congiess in that Cit.
pita!, wlwre the deliberations, we presume, will be
confined to the state of France only ; and'the lat.
ter contains a circular letter from the Prefecture of
the Police, signed by FOCCRE, and addressed to
the departmental Prefects, in which the necessity
of a close and intimate union of all ranks anti
parties with the KING is warmly inculcated, as
the only means possessed by France to ward off the
daogee with which it is insinuated she is now
threatened from the ulterior designs of the Allied
elm The latter observes, that in the pre.
relit imminent crisis every feeling of triumph oq
the one side, and of animosity on the other, Rheum
be wieiliy suppressed, as all parties art alike in-
in the same insecurity ; that France is
hunilile:l beneath the weight of her enemies, on
vrlime ieriolution her independence exists ; anti that
it 1s iinpos,,lde for lierto expect favour from the Con.
querns, if internal unanimity, and the termination
of domestic dissentious, do not afford a guarantee
of her own repose, and the general tranquillity of
Europe. Such is the purport of this declaration,
which, in so many words, announces the feelings
of jealousy with which we long supposed the Ca-
binet of the Thnilleries to be actuatfd towards the
Allied Monarchs, countenancing, in the strongest
snootier, the apprehensions of aggression and dis-
memberment which universally pervade the
iuhahi-
tautsofFrance. The terms in which it is couched,
whether 'from policy or sincerity, are extremely
humiliatiog to the stational vanity, and are eini-
betitly calculated to excite a strong feeling of
hostility against the Foreign Powers ; and, by
an easy consequence, a certain undefined sentiment
of loyalty to the existing Coveriniit. The policy
of such conduct is manifest; but it it proceed from
a sincere apprehension of future injury, it solves
the mystery which seemed to envelop the opera-
tions of the Cabinet—renders consistent the reser-
vntion of the French army under its present chiefs
and justifies the organisation of another corps,
formed of similar inaterials. Who can woi.tler at
the pertinacious obstinacy with which the different
corps of the army resisted the Allies, while they
professed to acknowledge the royal authority ? It LY
itOlds Valenciennes with a degree of desperate va-
lour, yet asserts his willingness to surrender to
hire defends Strasburg, and concludes
an armistice to receive orders from the Court, and
this invidious distinction is universally adopted.
The hostile sentiment may therefore he reciprocal,
and the Allies would act wisely in dispersing a
force iuui,ued with such pernicious feelings, and
%holt (WI he serviceable to the King of FRANCE
only, wiser directed against themselves. The mo-
deration of conminucd Europe has proved to the
world liv little France requires an ituposiug mili.
tar) attitude to defend her territories against foreign
aggrtssi.in; l.ut if she assume it, who will [lmmo-
tee Europe from her proverbial anibition ? It will
be incuitilmot ,et every state to support au equal

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