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Ti i E BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON.
MONDAY, hive to.
We hove received efflie De& ul Frielbli pa-
per.; lint none of a later date than those eland,
Before the public. The latter coataia au article
dated Autt.erp, tl,e sd instant, from which it sp.
preres there is no foundation for the report received
iii ski. country from America, that the French De-
cre s would Ise relaxed in favour of the Uuited
State..

It is indisputable that the arts of BON A P ARTE
have coot, and do still contribute, to ea firtu
hi. supremacy over the Continent, and to rivi•t its
cnsins, um less thou his arms and tactics lint: ef.
it* subjugation. Nev..r, at any
proud of timeolid Nature unite iti one luau au
:0.1113 fliorteri. L014:013t4..1 to übta,a
NMI too peroetitice ills dominion over the g10be...-
While Lis victorious armies, us in ISO s, amid ti...
three a iecesdieg yeent, overran, rt ith comosrath e
fae;lity, all the countries that he attacked or
vd,1,•,1, the necematy for circa's:venting,
and deceiving those whom he had previously
subjected, was not so urgent. Hi, sword, like
that of BIIEN NOS, in antiquity, at once turned the
scale. sod dispensed in some measure with any
other effort or weapon. But the case is nuneriallp
altered in iseo. This awful and rapid coutteror,
hitherto irresi..tible iu person, has been enema-
fully opposed. From lieisig programme, be is b.
conic stationery, The Danube lots done that
which no other river of Germany. of Italy, of Po-
land, or Soule. could effect ; while the Austrian
:mines hare manifested, that in courage, conduct,
fir els. and even in tactics, they C.OU meet, and
even repel, the troops of Naeoteops, led cm by
himself. A cannon-ball has at length carried qff
owe of his Dukes and Mars/eels, hitherto mum gible
in tae held. This ruffian, who made and unmade
kings, by his sole nod or fiat, and whose iniseci-
billy seemed to be acknowledged at least by every
continental power,liss been soddenly cimicked--ske
instead of dictating his insolent mandates (rein
palace of MARIA TREIVIA, he. coodesceode to
occupy himself in the island of IrseletsLobso. or at
Ebersibirff, ohile his troops ere employed is drising
piles, or iu constructing floats, bridges, and teteehr
poets, to subject the rela Alines river to ots COW-
trout, as [tenon° rus tells us, Newts!' attempted
to do by the Hellespont.
It is 'material to carry in our recollection this
change of position and of fortune, if we would ap-
preciate justly the Bulletins, Proclamation,, and
oilier moral weapons of lowermost*, by Thick .Ise
may be said to stupify or to intimidate eke human
underatiindiag. As his diflicubies augment, so do
his artifices, seductioas, and delusions. It is only .
by coolly atialyziog and comparing his own admis-
sions, that we eau detect-arid espose the fallacies
with like an Euchanter, he imposes on cre-
dulous and prostrate nations. Conscious that Eu-
rope must perceive he has been chained dgwel since
the loth of May, alien he entered Vienna, up to
the let of June ; a space which to him is of incal-
culable length—and aware that Prussia, Saxony,
Hay Russia, may begin to entertain holies of his
carrier being stopped, he redoubles his vociferatioas,
and multiplies his protestations. His position jua-
tines, nay demands, the adoption of every anal-
hairy aiol ; for it is become obviosaly 'critical, if
not perilous. Hence his whining complaints again*
the people of Vienna, who, as we find by his own
rellact.nt confeaaion, are greatly and moat disagree-
ably changed towards him, since 18O& Hence his
rage against the Archduke MAlatalalAAlt, who it-
fended the capital against him for three days.--
Hems:, ton, originate his coarse iavectivea against
the Archduke JOHN, who, as he unwillingly ems-
lessee, tus brought beck by army from the Piave
sod the. Tagliamento. to the vicihity of the Danube
and of Vienna. Hence his loud outcries against
the jecskinises and terrorisin of the Princes of the
II louses of lo Rita I , Who, he exclailes. a.th horror
and indignation, are becoming Saar Orlattes, and
are usiog his own revolutionary art* to delimit*
tele., the only ecwrcer of anarchy, and the sublime
dispenser of felicity over the earth. Hence his
parental admonitions to the inhabitants of Vienna,
whom he affects to love and to cherish. not dining
to nissuiere. or to oppress them, at the present mo-
scut. All these symptoms prove his difficulties,
and the awful nature of the situation into which be
Imo iiliauged himself.
In fact, Ilk.: A LIMAN PLR before Tyre, Napo-
LION 110 eager advances, but has commenced a
sort of His operations seem to have even as-
sumed rathor a defensive, than an offensive cheese-
tun. For whet is his Me-dm-post, constructing
by LUZIWSKII, but a regular fortress, meant as
much, at least, to protect his own army. es to an-
noy the enemy ? It embraces neer an English mule
and three quarters in extent, by his own account,
and is surroulirlerl by a trench full of running wa-
ter." liow could he better describe a fortification
than iu these words?--foe Deriul,e is still hostile
tc,ar irri;:sAsTazay his bridges ; but he hie
hum fl
as he has seut fur lnlietnr ttooctuurrret4
hiil '
friend Lass 11,4 ; rod, as little porous,.
But it seems that, oil the the bridge/

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