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nuld. leave him inferl4 to tai i -A !fliduke tilAk I it,
NIA this they have not dour. If the 15,000 teen
ire have in the Mediterranean should establish a
footing in Italy—if the 30.090 we have in Spein
should drive the French acre.* the Pyrenees,
and the 40,000, now iii the DOWIIS, should
take possession of the of WRIChrTCII,
AEI. T116.11E CUNQUES TS, VS I. REPEAT, MIS OP ?:rt
VALUE. They are all uteri. eorollartes to the gram}
ptopusitiou of the defeat of the grand French ui my
iu Germany. That army lieiieg 11(1e:dell, all these
things would follow of course. That army lie-
iug victorious, they cannot, ;litho' won, be retained.
As Mr. Sileitinax raid of the Quibeton expedition,
" Yon are gnawing with your teeth at the rocks of
Noirmoutier—you are wasting your strength." •
While two ol.jects of such primary and prepon-
derating me :flitted', u the event of the campaign
upon the Danube; and the result of the Crawl Ex.:
perlitiOn. lI4JW 11110Ot to OtOI. nor 'A.m.., r ..really
occupy umd till the human mind ; flee% of
Very Cuusiderable, though unquertiouslily of minor
interest, demised attention in other purls of Europe.
Nor is Asia tianting iii stihjects of vital importauce,
if our tune and limits allowed us, at .urh a moment
as the present, to solicit the regards of our readers
towards them. The rupture Iretweeo the East Ise.
Jar Company, and the 11.1.1 AN or Kt rt G of TRA-
VANCORE ; the successful, but wavere awn k of Ida
hues ar Atatuhotly ; the unfortunate dispute in.
[Worn the govermiteut of Madre*. red the Curer.
niaiider-i n-Chief of the t rents., General M• Dow A LI.:
which may he prodortive of the most 111j111.10O. COW'
atquences in the East ; the state of our discerdurit
negociatiwas in Persia. where the ,Coetatroa-Cr-
VERA,. of Bengal, unit the Ambassador, Sir HAL.
VOEU JONES, have taken different Inns of policy
thew, and many other points, on which we are 11l
possession of authentic information, might, in ordi-
nary 'wreathe diallenge thscussiou, and merit in-
quiry. But., it requires a degree of calmness, hin-
dering oil apathy, to subtract our annuls from the
more domestic scenes and transactions passing tin-
der our view. We shall nevertheless endeavour, to-
day, while NAPOI.EON is cositending for the (...tor
%inch lie has usurped or tooferrril ; and whie tit,
greatest armament which this conittry. as we to -
lieve, has titer egitipperi, to -.11 :or
the coasts of Germaity; Or of Mal ail and Flu nits 1- ;
to the instaiii, in which i.e fore ot I •
awful events intrude, as they shindy ..,• to 4.4
a hasty glance vier saline othepordinni of the Col.-
tinent.
Hus-tri, Sweden, and Prue* present little to
the view ; a thick tell apparently coocealing the
intentions of Ar.examork. and of Faeueatc Wll.-
Lieu, relative to the great stake depending in Aus-,
tda, till more decisive good, or ill success shall im.
pe4 the Courts of Petershurgh, and of
berg, to adopt affirmative ans.:tames. It is however
lily probable that the arrival, and, still move. the
operations of intr Expedition, should they he for-
tunate and judicious, allay 011 ti will accelerate the
resolutions of one, or of those Cabinets.
Caitat.aa the 13th enters, indeed, scarcely into
any caleirlations on the destiny of Europe. Ehe•
must he considered us 'the slave of Russia, while
Finland and Aland are held by that power; not
less than FREDERIC the Gth is the vassal of NAPO
ILON. so bug as the Corsieati retains, or can,
pleasure, resume, the post .lion of Jutland,- Sli s-
wick, turd Holstein. It is to Westpulia, to Naples,
and to Spain, that our attention is summoned by a
variety of events, involving -1u a greater, ear a less
degree, the fate of those countries.
While JOSEPH BONAPARTE, under pretence of
admiring toward. yonsiiegra and the South. is
probably preparing to tetire a second time into Old
Castile, or behind the Ebro ; and while lotus Ho-
N Aea UTE, at a tune that his coasts are menaced by
England, I:a. authdrawu, somewhat smaccouutably,
to Lao, use Gueldeelarel ; JEROMF, more mettlel ai.4
active, has put himself iti mntimi at the head of his
min). We are concerned to see that lot first one-
rutions hose beßli successful. Not only has he
marched through Thuringia to Leirae, driving
before-him the Anarian General Kik:l'43lAV La, a.
well us the Duke of BRUNSWICK ; Ise appears,
moreover, to have entered Dresden ; thus re-sub-
jecting Saxony to the obedience of her fugitive So-
vereign, who has taken refuge in an inn at Frank-
fort. These occurrences are of uo mean import-
ance in themselves ; as, from its vicinity to Bohe-
mia, Dresden may enable Jamas to make incur-
sions into the northern circles of that kingdom, and
even to approach or to attack Prague. Noreen et 101
wholly without some degree of apprehension for the
Austriiin corps in Franconia, and at Bareith, where
Juno.: and KELLERMAN are assembling, in the viw
cinity of Flanau mud of Aschaffenberg, a body of
Franck Wittenberg, and Bavarian troops : Under
these circumstances, a powerful divereien might be
made in the centre of Germany, which would great-
Sly aid BON•PARTE'II efforts on the Danube.
The stupendous &brick enacted by Nesntolv.
whose foundations were laid on/the batiks of the
Tagus and the Manitanarea, not lees than in West-
phalia and in Naples, is, however, rudely smiled
on every side. England, while she sends one ar-
my through Portugal to attack JOSEFR ; and,
while a second Expedition is now proceeding egoista
Louts ; has, it appears, sleuthed' third navel and
military armament, to invade the ilourinious of
JOACHIM Myna% 'Though we ardently, as Bri-

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