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.d itself with as much iiiccrss bravery, and un
• part of tse convoy was cut Mt lu the prcsence of
the flotillas, Copt. St. Ca:lraiii farmed his lute of
defence. when a very heavy tire commenced, which
was kept up for ten hours, without the enemy being
able, notwithstanding blew very great superiority,
to take possession of a single boat.
A corvette and two brigs joiuMl their flotilla, and
he had tifty boars full of troops. One of their gun-
boats was sunk ; and the two brigs were so roughly
handled, that eightxeu boats were employed to low
them of.
A single Neapolitan bark. which separated from
the convoy, was taken; live tutu were killed, and
ttn or twelve wounded.

Thi+ tit attempt, in which the English endea-
voured vi avail theassrlves of the advantage of the
wind, and to take us by sorpries, was in its rrsult
neither more glorious for them, 110 e encouraging to
the Sicilians, than those that preceded it.
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JULY. 1810.
In our last &say we eudeavoured to poiot nut

some of the cusses which must operate • rooted
aversion spinet Bonaparte, is the Wrests of the
. Princes and people of Germiny, or rather of that
portion of Germany aisceunectest with the House
of Attar's, which roust for the present (0 wouder-
ful cimuge I.) be considered as attached to the in.
teresta of her greatest scourge. But. independently
of the reasons already assigned for indulging in
this opinion, there remains to be iidvaisced another
proem' still more conclusive in its favour—a
grossed ebbe!, not ouly forLibly applies to the Ger-
man States, but to every Government in Europe.
mid to none more than to France itself—this is,
the glittered motive of use mars in which Banaparte
is engaged, and must hereafter be employed in
waging.

_
At the commencement of Irs coffer, the battles
lie fought were m defence of France, and to pre.
verve her it/tastily agsinst the attempts of powerful
alliances. The French people acknowledged that
the cause was their own, and they contended with
all the spirit of men struggling to maintain their
dearest rights, their liberty, and independence.
Victory was then glorious; Mid the conqueror, from
every success. retaroird to the capital mind the ac-
clamations, and crowned with the gratitude of the
prop e his. skill had an snitch contributed to pre.
serve from foreign thraldom. Iles soldiers were ci.
•;reins, and every triumph to them a delirerance.-
14..0 !.1.• different are the conflicts iiila he
is nu.' I 1... • . I ! They e out of defence, but
of conquest—.cut for preservation, but to gratify

insatiable aunlotion—not for France, but for the
fr 4 her Ruler—not against enemies, but to
•tto) In, nid hi. army is not of citizel. , hut
of coolwripia.

While the human mind rettiins thome feelings,
which, since the human mind was for:ued, have
ever actuated it—if we are not dereived by the
coup lu,ions we draw from the hi.tory of every
country, from the earliest of times to the present
sera—if nature is tbrr same now as it was its the days
of our fathers—it is impossible but that this system
pursuing by Bonaparte must speedily terminate in
one terrible ruin. In ittelf it teems with destruc-
tion. and owls:rig hut the terror iuspired from the
cast strength wielded by the baud of 044 e man
could fur an 11.11 r retard its catastrophe.
For, suoseg all the sons of Europe, who can be
favourable to the suceopsful prosecution of so wild
and hateful, so selfish mad so bloody a scheme of
ambition, as that of au upstart Tyrant aiming at
universal empire.—Not Frenchmen ; for, flattered
as their national and characteristic vanity may he,
by splendid victories, by triumphal fetes, and by
gorgeons spectacles; them can never counterbal once

the pangs occasioned by the drains of cruel ronscrip-
tione,the internal despotism under which they groan.
cud the idea (which must ever recur) that for them,
or their interests, all these victories, fetes, and spec-
tacles, are rain and barren.—Not (Wiens; for the
the glory of forming a part of the French empire
can never solace a country for the misery of having
her population wasted in distant sod unproductise
wars, whose sole object is to plate • Brother of
their Chief on an usurped throne.—Nut Cermans ;
1 fat they can have no common interest to serve, no
• mhj.et to attain, for which they tie to shed their
-beet blood in the subjugation of a gallant people
resisting the tyranny of a faithless Atty.—Not
Rnitsians; for to them every inbilitMo to the already
predotnivating power of Bonaparte must be hateful,
as • step up that ladder, at the top of which being
placed, their independence is destroyed, land they
become as touch his slaves as the Dutch now are.—
Not Spaniards or Portuguese; for they writhe
smiler the lash, and even at this moment rnsititain a
giurious struggle spinet the perfidious introduc-
tion of Gallic domination.

How ilien is it pos,itile, if the detestation of this
tnsti'sainbitimai pursuits and crooked politic* is so
universal—how is it possible that suffering nations do
nut rise instantly and simultaneously to restrain or
destroy him ?—The answer Is not difficult. and in
history we often find that. eves against the
general sense of mankind. tyrants have for pro.
longed periods bees suffered to reign and to
afflict the earth.—Bonaparte, like all other men
elevated from obscurity to supreme authority. is
surrounded 11 persons who, as we have before
*tater,, have essen and mn.t fall with his fortunes :
lin are misty of them possessed of surert•ng te-