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FR.4IICE AND AdirßlA.

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All those who are accustomed ,to reflect on the
elehtiely of minims, and to comiider the apparently
minute causer, by which the teed, hapertaut pests
are often produced, will find, in the' Present state of
Europe, end particularly of Certainty. ample ebb-
ject for speculatien. The machinery of Bee APART[,
however admirably framed, has evidently failed in
producing all the results to have been expected
hum it. After an Armistice of two months, it is
übviuus, that he can neither dictate peace, on his owe
tense. to the Horse of Austria; our has lie yet
thought proper to have recourse again to urine.
flow are we to account for this pause on his part ?
No man will doubt his 1111Y101.6 desire to termlivate
the war ea the Danube, end to transfer his arms to
the west of Europe ; still less can it be questioned,
that he would act, iu lea% at Altenburg. as lie did
itslBos, at Freeburg, mid in 1807. at 'Tilsit ; if he
possessed the same means of iutiusidetion es he
thee had acquired. Can it be *imposed, eves by
those who regard the power of Austria as utterly
unequal to mainaim the Mutest, that if her resoueces
were so exhausted, N APOLLO'S would not long since
have resumed offensive operations ? Dues Hoy per-
son believe that his moderation impels him to pre-
fer negotiation to wet ? Nu! however apparently
victorious, Ins position is nevertheless delicate, criti-
cal, and liable ..o reverses. He doubtless stands ill
en imposing attitude, master of a great purtinii of
the Austrian Monarchy ; of its only ports, Trioite
awl Fiume ; of the course of the Hatiubt, from
Passau to Raab, in Ilungstry ; and of Vienna. But
vast means of resistance, as we have always es,erted,
still remain to FRANCIS ; nor can the Corsican quit
ienne, in order to penetrate into Bohemia, with-
out exposing himselfto accidents, and eveo to at-
tacks. It is indisputable, that if our incipuble Se.
eretstriee of State—for, cm man coieaders the other
ostensible aseusbers of the British Cabinet, as having'
any participatioa or active interference iu the coo-,
duct of foreigu concerns; it is beyond dispute, et
present, that if Lord CAIIILSREAGRI and Mr. CAN.
NING, instead of building castles in Spain and
Maples., had choern to direct the unities of Creat
Britain agaiiist srsaec in Oerinauy, he must,
long ago, have brew compelled to abandon Schoeu-
brown, and, probably, to evacuate all Ins conquests
eu the Danube. If, without any interference or
exertion, except the unfortunate expedition to
‘Valcheren, we find that FRANCIS 11. still continues
to negotiate with arms in his hands ; if, notwith-
standing our virtual abandonment of Austria, Bo-
NAPARTS has not hitherto dared to proceed to the
last extremities against her t what might not have '
been achieved, if, while one British army landed at
Trieste, another, loured of being sent to reduce
Walcheren, had entered the Elbe, or the Weser,
is July? Can greater and more palpable proofs of
ittellkeieetty and incapacity be exhibited, than that,
with the prodigious navel and military means pos-
sessed to Our Ministers, we have piued nothimg
in Spain, is Holland, or in Italy. except the calaini-
hees empsisitian of a grave for the interment of our
soldiers With what sentiments of contempt must
the House of Austria regard such allies, and how
lite, future assisteaee or ereasperation eau she ex-
pect from es Admiuiitration so constituted,',which
has allowed the most favourable opporturaes of
liberating Germany to escape ?
But that aide which might, and ought, under
wise sod vigorous counsels, to have Iseeu extended
by this country to FRANCIS IL in hi* present dis-
tress, sevens to have, must ussexpectedly, arisen
from a quarter where it might, apparently, have
been least expected. Every succeeding 1.121:01111i,
even those Which are fabricated in places must sub-
jected to the contronl of the Corsican! Despot and
his agents—from Frankfort, frion Stutganl, Noel
from Passau, where his power is wiliinited—all
combine in proving that the insurrection in the
Ty nil, which at first appeared only to be the gene-
rous, but ineffectual struggle of a few mountaineers,
against a tyraut *rifled with irresistible force,
1181. mistimed a most serious i.apect. Through the
faint attempts to conceal the extent 6f their de-
feats, we can plainly perceive, that the French
have beets completely driven, with immense loss,
mid equal disgrace, out of every part of die Tyrol.
into Bavaria, Saltiliiirgh, reel Suabia. We see
that La FIERVAE, oith the Prince Royal of BAY A.
ILIA. had been summoned to Vienna; no doubt
to comma ors the means of re-attacking and re-
ducing those formidable insurgents. The king of
W'satsuasac seems to hays: manifested come uu-
willinguess . or reluctance to send fresh troops
against them : for his fiesperfed Master was obliged
to transmit to him reiterated requests, before he
chose to comply. Not a French or a Savories) WI..
dier appears to halm remained un the territory of
Tyrol, in the last 4).. of August. They kept a
wary diatoms, is consequence of their recent =is-
fortuities and defeats. A cieensastatme still more
extraordinary. which proves that the insurrections
is well organised. end • has struck deep roots, is,
that one of the Chiefs resides in the Palace at In.
Spruelt, and is surrounded with asilitary Officers,
Adjutants, Ike. The French denominate him the
Wil6e Till of the Tyrolese." An allusion which
may justly excite some surprise, to he found in a
paper priuted wider BONAPARTIeS controul. It
easy not be very ouuvenieut, or practicable, to de-
tach 20,0014 or Jthooo fresh troops splint the Ty-

,eolow, *kilo OA nosoeiatiottoiuojtoios tat► 4 Al-
tenboirigh, Nor can the eikrot .of a we eetotta un
latioutpt on the poet of theme unuosquenibie mom.
talweere, fait to be felt by the respective Moister*
of NApoirom, end of FRANCIS. In Saxony, ton,
it is evident that strong precautions are taking by
the Corsican, to secure, we might probably say,
to occupy permanently, and to appropriate to hint-
self, Dresden. Troops are nierehed into that capi-
tal of hies ally, as if it already belonged to France ;
cannon are mounted on the ramparts ; Junior is
sent to co tttttt and there; and the King of SAXON',
now nu longer necessary, is ordered to repair to
Warsaw. It is thus that be treats, deposes, and
removes, the wretched Princes who prefer submis-
sion to resistance. Our next advice. from the
Banks of the Danube, and of the Inn, will by no
means be destitute of importance.

THE BillTiSH PRESS,

LONDON.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

A report of u rpeetly dwaillition of I'drlintneot,
Was in gcneral circulation, last at the west
raid of tile tuwo.

We have seen letters from Lislasu of the 3,1 inst.
which state, tint the main hotly of Viscount W
t.txcros's anus• WAS then at ida, in the Spanish
pi mince of Estremsdura, la:•t ,oine of the pa..ers
assert, that dispatches have liet-n rivetveil fi mu Ii a
Lorilship io the :Ali inst. btel.ig, that he hail then
moved from Elves to Ilad ;and his army was
so suctioned as to be enabled to conct.t and art on
the shortest notice. Provision, al began to lie
supplied to proportion to the wants of the troops.—
General CUCSTA'S army had been re,!uer,l to nearly
Munn men. it origlically amounted to betwe:m
37 and 38,000 men. He lost about Ram iu battle;
the rest, it is said, tied front their ranks, 411fInuni-
tiers have been decimated, or snot for cowardice—
officers as weU as men. Ainoirg the instances of
the waist of cordial co-opera:Cm on the part of
some of the Spanish with the British army, it has
bees observed, that although Andalusia might fur-
nish 13,000 mules, which they never use for tbeir
own cavalry, tint one u•as furnished to Lord W ea-
t.' eI:TON, to remount his cavalry.
Pour CEESTA ! ! and poor Spaniards!! Viscurnst
WELLINGTON and you, accortliii4 to the report of
the Ministerial Papers, agree no better than if you
were all Secretaries of State„ •rod Members of the
same Cabinet. We have nut, however, heard that
Lord W Ll.l ItiGTON and Cu►:sra have been at
Putney-beach to tight a duel. There Isar berm
blood enough spilled at Talavera.

Oat of the Treasury J.tirmils, of yesterday, as-
serted, that the duel fonglit by two of
Nis t\lA~rs-
TY's Secretaries of State, was nothing more than
au "tinplcasont affair" between two private indi-
viduals, totally unconnected with official or public
business►, and growing eutirely out of matter of a
private and personal nature. We do nut wish to
make any harsh remarks stroll such a bald amid
barefaced falsehood, loving that the regret of the
writer, if he possess any feeling, wail prove a sof-
ticient punishment and corrective, for so gross a vio-
lation of truth, and 'inch u disgusting outrage upon
the credulity of his readers. Although, as we stated
yesterday, the immediate spark that set fire is the
train, long laid between the two Hight Honourable
Secretaries, may not have been distii.ctly aseertaiii-
ed ; it is well known in the political circles, and
even adisiatted by the confidential friends of the
parties, that the spark was rttcited iii the collision
of jarring interests, proiliiinal by the retirement of
the Duke of PORTLAND front offiet., combined with
the necessity of offering some sacrifice to appease
the public indignation so strongly ei.riteil by our
late wifintiniate Expeditions, in whirls Lord CAS-
TLlias..inll, I his oHicial situation, was
neatly and conspicuously the most responsible of
all his brethren in the Cobbler. The following are
generally believed to he the two plans proposer, .to
till op the vacancies to be produced by the meditat-
ed resignations :