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son to &esti that the virulence *Adis fever will in,
crease.

Murat has abandoned fur the present his enter-
prize against this island ; but his troops remain
posted, to the number of forty thousand men, on
the opposite coast. They are supplied by convoys
from Napes, which are frequently interrupted by

our navy; but the enemy hes obtained considerable
..dexterity in keeping them close in shore.
By an arrival the day before yesterday, we learn,
914` that on the 18th, seventeen vessels belonging to
Ring Joachim's navy were destroyed ; but they are
worth nothing. A-We likewise took two gun-boats,
with 80meo. 1
FRENCH I‘FANT MARINE.

As Bonaparte has at last begun to think seriously
of beating us at sea, the subject, on our part, is
surely not unworthy of serious consideration.
The following Decree, contained in the last
French papers, must excite alarm in British breasts,
and cause our fearful politicians to dart an anxious
glance into the terrible futurity that shall see so
promising a plan fully matured. It reads thus :
" Frustaiti6leet, Sept. 27. We, Napoleon. Emperor
of the French. King of Italy, Protector of the
Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss
Confederation, &c. Ste. &e. &e. &c. hare decreed,
and do decree as follows :

" Art. T. Them shall be formed, in each of our Ports of
Brest mad Tousles, aapecial School of Marine.
• " Art. II These schools shall be under the orders of the
Maritime Prefects.

" Art. 111. No oor shalt he admitted to these schoolsinit
II a decree; he must not be und,r the age of in, nor above
15, of a good constitution, and withfiut,balily deformity.
"Art. IV. The aoraber of jar& at each port is fixed at
SOO, sad eac► s►all pay sa annual pension of Soo francs."
These who are inclined to superstition. will re-

mark that there is something prophetic u well as
remarkable in the name of the place whence is
issued this awful Decree—"Fontainbleau," or Blue
Water, is very curiously adapted to the pro-

inulgstion of Marine Edicts, and seems to pre.
destinate, either that the water shall really
be blue, or that these new naval heroes will be
made to look blue on the water by our brave Blue
Jackets!—Proceeding to analyze this Deciee, the
ssme Bigots will please to observe, that Napoleon
does not presume to style himself Emperor, &c.
" by tie grace of God;" and this, though a modest
abstinence, truly 'hewing that he can have no such
pretensions, must be a further consolation to the
devout and holy.—ln the further wording of it,
another anticipation of its nature and description
is implied by the IstArticle, when it is said, " There•
shall be formed, at each of our ports of Brest and
. Toulon, a special School of Marine." Lord kuoma
they will indeed, as we shall endeavour to sot*, he
special Sehoefs! fur in this way must the poor lads
be taught—First, on entering, their masters will
explain to them, thatthey come tlie►e to instruct-
ed io the heat and newest muds of drubbing the
English nt sea,which spectre of knowledge is of course
the most syatematically and readily to be acquired
its port, or on skore.,---Health being necessary for the
pursuit of all learning, It is nut to be supposed
that sending boys to sea to make them sick, is at all a
fit way of preparing them for the actsuisition of the
very iltfficult science of navigation; and neither
• can it be imagined that to debilitate them by disease
is a process calculated to brine them to thrash the
hardy Tars of Old England.—lt is not clearly
stated in the Deciee who are to be appointed in-
structors of the youths; only that the Maritime
Prefects are to he the supreme pedagogues. In
addit' to these, we iie,t suppose that a few of the
best Admirals and Captains of the French Navy,
as they have now nothing else to do, will lie select-
ed as ushers end assistants. Their experience,
united to the tteury of the landsmen, will consi.-
quently complete the eilinireble system of educa-
tion, far superior to Lancaster's, though in disci-
pline end regularity formed upon that model. In
teaching victoriousness, then• are two moth a of ha-
liting tn•tnu•.:an to the ,uholar—rither by alien-
nig him how be ru,y conquer his oppmelit; or,
how he may avoid being tuininereti hr his oppo-
nent. About Ibc hir•t of these modes, it cannot be
expected that the ushers, &c. of the Yew School
eau give their pupils any infnrinn•ioo ; for how can
a person impart a knowledge which he lies never
iu his life barn able to acquire. In the• scrond, how-
ever, they may more successfully exert themselves
ne the

Delloll6ll to mar flee tenure flu-might,
" Ana tea, h thr ”Azitg FRENCH SAILOR '••rio
They may tell how well they vs. aped on the Ist
of June—rim the Battle of Camperdown—in the
Battle of the Nile--iu the Battle of Trafalgar—off
cape St. Vincent, and a dozen or to other ace.
itiorattk o^easious, when they (the haply few !) baf-
fled the British thunder, anti got into I'E•rt. They
may prove lh•ir superiority in the art of tailing,
by the frequent sallfrs made from Brest and Toulon,
and their safe return. King Murat's Neapolitan
!Bulletins, being the latest and most approved pro-
ductions for Ihr use of schools, will afford a fine
source of study, and examples of heroic achieve-
went, in deft...sting the British! Should any acute
boy he teigip!rd to ask, wherefore, since vic•ory
over these islanders iv so easy, such a number of
vessels as he daily sees should rwuaiu in the har-
bour ? lie must be flogged fur prating of timings far
above his comprehension. even should he have
reached the first form ; for an understanding of