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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM TILE lIAMBURGII
M.\IL.

H•MIURGIII, NOr. 27.

For several months the newspapers and journals,
without number, which inundate France, Germa-
ny, and even England, have been filled with obser-
vations, notes, and declamations on the Rmsian em-
pire. Every editor gives free scone ,o his pen : he
bewilders himself in conjedures and reasonings nn
the affairs of Europe. Several of them seem to
have made it their study, to ende :your to alarm tl-.-

other powers, on account of the .ttenet, the in.
Nuence, and political tendency, of the cabinet ot Pe-

tersborg. Sons, of diem hay. •yen iauorlied out into
dissertations, wh• to•ie and spirit renew the recol-
leetion of the well-known language of ti.e Montag-
nerds of ti..e Revolutiiiii. This, Sir, has ezci•"d my

indignation as well as y,urs ; and, I must acknow•
ledge, teat, for some time.. I have not bee able tO 4C.
count for sile,, '/I RUSSIA. " Patience," sat

to myself, " has its limit,, and the public opinion
min!, some time or ~thee, be ,et right." `37,1s it
w...nt of zzal, or exce, .r pri :e, Of .oich the minis-

tens of that sqwer ini ed the stiyici,.ll by such
evrerrie indiXere:.(7e? Li ikty, it was nether;
we most candidly cotik,s to4t we were both
wrong to cnmpLih H t si.t hai spoken ou. ; but
she spy. ie with a retard for di ilmsi.t lc forms, with
4:1 the diguity of a power perwtrat.,.ii with a serse of
its grcatnnss, of the pu-ity of its principle's, of the
integrity of its motives, and the magnanimity of its
condut9.

The Emperor Alexander, indefatigably employed
in promoting the improvement and the happiness of
his people, has not watched with the less zeal over
the fate of the Continent. Unbiassed by any ode .r
interest than that of humanity, by any other motive
than that of securing to his Empire the advantages
that are inseparable from the general welfare, he
was desirous of restoring peace to the world This
Monarch has equipped, both by sea and land, a
mighty force, which soddenly appeared on the Bal-
tic, and on the lonian Sea, on the Banks of the Inn,
and the shores of the Vistula. By these movements,
equally surprising for their event and their rapidity,
Russia has, indeed, spoken out, but only to an-
nounce to all Europe, that her sole arra is, to pro-
mote the speedy restoration of the tranquillity of
the world, by giving effedive support to pacific ne.
gociations.
This, gir, is the most complete answer to the
calumnies, the falsehood% aad insinuations of su
many contemptible scribblcrf. This situation has
something solemn, something grand, and imparts
to her contempt, a eh:trader of sublimity. She ap-
pears to me, like Minerva, the exquisite master-
piece of a Phidias, who, majestically seated in her
Temple, receives the wishes of Greece, and obtains
universal adiniratkm, the envious endeavour
to find fault, an f slanderers drag the persecuted ar-
tist before the tribunal. It must, however, be ad-
mitted, that, for a imo:bor/oresie nation, as certain
journals have been pleased to denominate the Rus-
sian empire, this part is equally honourable and im-
posing. I know a certain chief of one of the most
civilized monarchies of the earth, whose censorious
and intolerant spirit fatig•:es a hundred pens with
answering the most obscure scribblers ; lie would
not hesijate to make the suporess:on at a news-
paper he did not-like, an -artier a treaty of peace.
The contrast is tiuly su.king. arid, in thii instance,
the advantage is entirely on the •side of Russia.—
That power likewise possesses other advantages,
which history u cot fail to record, when the pc-

THE•BRITISH PRESS.

LON'DON,
THURSDAY. DEccsista 5.

We this day resume our extraas from the Ham-
burgh Mail (-1. the 27th. Among them is an account
of the proceedings of the German Legion, and En-
glish troops upon the Continent. The head-quar-
ters of Generals PAGET and FINCH were at Bremer-
worde, on the 23.1. The head-quarters of Generals
Dom and Totcrov were to be removed, on the
24th, from Luneburgh to Walsrode. General Poor
had requested leave on the 23d, to march a corps
of 400 English cavalry through Bremen ; but the re-
quest being refused, the English forced the barriers
on the 24th, and marched through on their route to
Oldenburgh.
An article upon the state of the press is particu-
larly worthy of attention. It is translated Irons the
Hnonhurgb Correspondenten, in which it appears in the
form of a letter to the Editor, but without name
or address. Those who remember the libels npan
the King of Ear-.t n, and other legitimate
Sovereigns of Europe, forced into that respcsia'ale
paper, by the terror of BON at Aar Cs bayonets, will
be as much surprised as rejoiced, to find in it an
article extolling the Emperor of Russia, and treat-
ing with becoming indignation, the avowed enemy
of the liberties of mankind, and of course of the
liberty of the press, the Corsican Ch)iel, whom it
justly describes as a man " who would not hesitate
to make the suppression of a newspaper which i.e
did not like, an article of a treaty of peace."—
When the editor of a newspaper at Hamburg!, dares
to insert such an article, the language of which is
his own, by adoption, his dread of French tyranny
must have sub;ided, and his heart have been cheered
with the hope of the speedy return of liberty to Eu-
rope. Regarding thisartiele as a touchstone, by which
to try the tapper and spirit of the public mind at
Hamburgh, we consider it, in that view, not destitute
of interest. But the eircumstancesof themoment have

,tied much. to its importance. Ovr readers, proba•
reMember a lALe aecopot of a mi.inight visit of
the King of Num.. and the Emperor of Rum A, to
the tomb of Estoteici: the 0111lATI OM Willa