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vr4niclt can only tender their r.tuation

!motion Poper,, W e ought to runtish
lair. of Napoleon with all the money and
stores they may wants" The Milaiteur—,,
laud knaves the awe niiion a hick exists
Frauce and 11111," b!ie knows that those
great powers are r..emived to unite their &weft,
to consider as MI enemy every friend se r
She knows that peace will nut be disturbed is
many, and she can have 110 ho,-
final success, but by foinentiw; the tmu'd,,
disorders in Soein. She knows that the ,
there shed, and the victims sacrificed,
useless; bat Inch incense is pleasing to
the convulsions of the Continent
light. Yet she knows vo
year has etapsed, there will not
in Spain in a state of insiii•reeti
man in that country. But
England, she Is unucyuainted
worse. Her armies will re-embark,
the dupes ; she will treat
treated the King of Sweden
the hands ofthat Sovereign,
powerful succours. Tweutl
to aid him against Denmark,
General Moore and 3,000 men
mauled two months ataischor
den, while Finland wm conw
were driven out of Norway.
we were considering how England
pour, extricate herself from thu
the North. Should she laud ,
that savoy will be made prisoners
ter. We could not have expected,
opinion we might eutertaiu of
Britain, that that perfidious
Sweden to her unhappy fate,
• new proof of what the Allies ,
right to expect Gem her-4nsachery
The Spaiiidi Insurgents-will
trsyed is die like wanner, vil
shall cover Spike with her 'pi
want of courage, have twaused
mine checks—they will soon .
then the Eiistieli will precipitate
their ships, they will abandon
Quiberon, will fire on the
they have left en the bench.
will be maintained on the Continent,
land has there tio influence. The
hatred which she inspires, are e-
powere—all have been lux victims.
driven from Vienna on the day
returned from Leiden. The ,
by England. under the American
corted English frigates to Triest,
proscribed by a late edict
understanding between Austria
never bees interrupted.

The obscure agents which England pays,
who conceal themselves among the crowd of in
who are pursued by the Police of all the
menu in Europe, have reported ut Vicuna, .
France was oboist to make war upon Austria—ad
at Paris, that Austria was raising new armies to at.
tack F since. Idle persons, eager fur news. sad
with strong emotions, have been enabled, by these
dark rumours, to imagine marches and counter
marches, and form plans of a campaign, equally
frivolous; but the two Cabinets have sever ceased
to maintain with each other the most friendly re-
lations.

In the interview which the Emperor Napoless
had with the Emperor Er:elicits 11. in Moravia, die
Emperor Errincisproniised Erin that he would atm
make war on him more. This Poles has peered
that ie will keep his word. It is envious to see tint
while the Cabinet of Austria assumes and declares
that it has a good understanding with Frascr, and
while France publishes the sanfe assurances; it it
curious, we say, to see that this intliguing factioas
which lives by stock-jobbing, calumnies, and b.
bela, casitisues to disseminate ilieprietude autos;
peaceable !people. Tlie ',Oil* of Spain are iron
vele-lafik fixed. They are ti..i.artvi!ediLed by tin
great Powers on the Continent. If we have bees
deceived in the hope of mediating that people to'
better order of thiags, without disturbsiakes withe 4
disorder. without wee, it is a victory which the r
nius of evil hat gained °tee the spirit of good. It
will, however, in the end be fatal only to England
and her partizans. These truths arc evident, god
there is not a man of sense in London but what ii
convinced of than. What can we think of the pc-
hey and reason of a cabinet, which, having excited
Sweden against Russia, expected to support her by
an expedition of 5,000 men 2 Whilst it shall be
only required to catunimate, to seduce, to sulto'n.
England will have the advantage; but when tile
Leopard shall see the Eagle pursue him in
view, he will fuel the land fly from under hi,
sod filod oo refuge bat on the war,* and m ele
clement of tempests. Peace is the wish of the
universe. The sweats which have changed the,
face of the world, since the rupture of the Peace rt
Amiens, are to he attrihated to the rupture of that
peace. The events, so unfavourable to Engle!si.
that have occurred since the death of Fox, sr, to
ntiributed to his death ;
be and the rupture of the
negociations, the changes that have takes, ',hire lit
Europe, since the peice of Tilsit, are to attribut..l
to the refusal of the mediation of Russia. It hat
may y.rt happen nu the Continent. contiar to the

rt. their *.tuation wont
ught to runtish the",
the tactoey and warkl,
The dhaiteur—..,
which exist', beta s~
knows that thaw is,
o unite their Gaeta, a,
very friend of Bogle 1.
not be disturbed
uo reasonal.!.! hoe.
entiti-r the trnubhe
khows twit
'knolls sacrificed,
eiitioreilit itre her
ts 'ihg•
to
1'.7
Con 0;
well, that helm., th,
I not he a single vilfc,
rection, nor au
what signifies that to
nted with shaft! out.
.e-embark, and stand%
t the insurgents se all
len ; she put anus i
n, and fluttered him i
iity or 30,000 Ines st
irk, and against Rnim,
ales did arrive, and ~,
hor on the coast of Ses
nquered, and the Sweat
. But a few weeks sin
England could, with
this foolish struggle,/
laud an army, stud wq
risoners during the
expected, whatever her
of the good faith of Gres
as power would absialsi
and could thus sari
Bic. of England haves
treachery and desertia,
ll be abandoned and
when the French eagle
wings. Weakness, soli
used our arras to sulfa
soon be replied ; sad
eeipitate their flight a
lon their allies ; and.a, at
unhappy wretches whs.
i. As to Austria, peace
Coatiessat, because Bog.
ce. The contempt awl
are commas to all great
victims. Mr. Matrix
day M. De Stahremberg
The armaments visas
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retest, were iepulsed sa
tof Francis 11. Aged
I ustria and Franca tit
rich England pays, ad
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greatness snit interest or England, if peace dies
not take place, will be to be attributed to that
foolish obstinacy, to that blind sad furious policy,
which, notwithstanding the union of great powers,
places all its hopes in dreams of an impossible divi-
%ion, and a renewal of coalitions which can only
exist against herself. We may here justly apply
the maxim of Cicero, that the most political
conduct is that which is most conformable to jus-
tice. The continuation -of the pence of Amiens
would have left Europe in the state in which it
was. The peace which Fox wished, would have
prevented the ruin of Prussia, and the occupation
of the cities of the North. The acceptance of the
mediation offered by Russia would have prevented
the present state of affairs in the Baltic and in
Main ; and if peace is nit made within the year,
who can foretel the events, contrary to the interests
of England, which may occur before the year
elapses.,•

Lando* Paper.—" A letter from Amsterdam, of
the date 29th July, announces the arrival at Vienna
of an English Minister, who is supposed to be Mr.
Adair. It is said that he has received a flattering
reception from Count Stadion, and that he has had
several cosfetences with that Minister, and with
the Russian Minister, Prince Kurakin." Illoni-
tear—" What absurdity !—there is no English
Ambassador on the Continent, and if there were
one, he would not be with Prince Kurakin, who
dews not receive the enemies of his master."

On a paragraph in the same paper, containing
intelligence from the East lndi s, the Monitcur
ism in a note—g, We aro informed by accounts
received overland from India, that the afairs of the
English go on very badly, and that the Nast Eu-
ropean division would cause a complete insurrec-
tion."

THE BRITISH PRESS.

It is said that Government received dispatches
from Sir Aninne, WstAxst.xx on Saturday night,
containing an account of a battle subsequent to
that of the gist, in which the British arms were
again victorious over Juror. This success, it is
said, was followed by a capitulation, in which it
is stipulated that the French shall evacuate
Portugal within a given time, and the port of
Lisbon is now open, in consequence, to the
English. If such intelligence has been received in
an authentic shape by Government, it is strange
that it has not been made public. An attempt,
however, has been made to remove this objec-
tion, by stating, that a misunderstanding has
taken place hewn.* the Portuguese and linglish
troops, which Ministers do not wish to dlr.-
close. This explanation dors not appear to ns
satisfactory ; but still we believe that important in-
telli4ence has been received from Portugal. The
house of his Excellency the Porroautss Alums-
SADOR. in South Audley-street, was yesterday be-
set with ctawds of Portuguese and Spanish mer-
chants, inquiring the news. His Excellency, who
was iuvited to dine with Lord HOLLAND, did not
wait dinner, but returned, after a morning visit to
his Lordship ; and Lord Carr LCRILAOII, contrary to
his usual custom, remained in town on Saturday
and yesterday..

We have received Paris Papers to the 30th 64,
and Dutch to the 6th instant. It is no longer ne.
ressary. as Miiiisters !trammed, to send balloons
with London newspapers to France, to ap-
prise the people of 'hat country of BoaArAirra's
defeats and disgraces in Spain. The fatal secret
can no longer lie concealed from thy slaves of Bo-
ArAim. The Moffitt-air, oldie 21th last, contains
an article, in the shape of a comnieut upon the
London news, in which the recent reverses sustain-
ed by the French arms in Spain are admitted.—
•s Weakness and want of courage," it says " have
Putted the Freud' arms to suffer some checks ;"
anti TheArps, following the example of the No-
witeur. says, that " some detached corps of the
French have sustained a check; but that as soon as
Fronee shell attack the inaurgenta with her whole
military strength. Ai! will bear down all app...
sitiou." Here is a plain confession that BON A-
rARTE mesas to poor his whole force into Spain,
and that the opposition of that country is suf-
ficiently formidable to require it. A report
prevailed oe Saturday that he was at Bayonne, at
the head of itio,ooo men, anal it:thetigh the Paris
news in the Dutch palavers represents him hunting.
on the Sath hist, in the vicinity of Pnris, we do not
thiuk tt improbable. The force, ploy be exagger-
ated, and yet the Mo:i.iivur admits that sa,ooo
troops of the Inns- have 'parched on that service.
The greatness, the life of MINA eAsTE, depend
upon the issue of the contest in Spain and Portia-
Ktil• He has every thing now at stake, and it
would be idle to suppose that the crisis will
not call forth all his euergies and resources.—
Of the magnitude of the prepurations, the confident
tone of the Afoxitenr siffoi..lB an idea. It assert%
that " before the aid of the year there will not be a
village in. Spain in a state afinsurvrection, nor an
Engliahmini its that country." After this boast in
the ALostitelir, we may la.:,s u red that BoICAPARTE
Sacrists to put Anti) all Lis strength in the

Spanish war. the laxly of the man miry pos-
sibly Le hunting at Saint Germain. near Pa..
ris, btit the mind and spirit of the man are
fixed in Spain. The sentiments of the Menititior;
when it is allowed to speak out, for then welipnw
it is •the voice of the French Ruler, if epAneal
solely to Spain, would be of great interest pad im-
portance. But the article in the Martiteur is not
confined to Spain ; it is, in feet, but in a new
.shape
and name, an Erposi, or state of the foreigirela-
firms of France, which the French Official Paper
has been accustomed to publish. Speuking if
Austria, it treats all idea of rupture with that
power as absurd and ricliculoas ; but the pains
which it takes to falsify the rumour only be-
tray the reality of its fears, and the bolinem of
its assertion is badly borne out by the evidence.—
The only proof adduced is, that the Emperor of
Avant*, in his interview with BON APARTE at the
windmill in Moravia, promised that he never would
make war against him ; but if Box APARTE judges of
the promises of FRANCIS by the good faith with
which be has observed his awn, he surely cannot
consider this a conclusive argument of eternal
peace and fraternity with Austria. The article in
the ithaiteetr next takes a view of the relations be-
tween Sweden and England, and last comes the im-
portant word " "What may yet happen on
the Continent," it says, " contrary to the greatness
and interest of England, if peace Woes mot take
place, will be to be attributed to that foolish obsti-
nacy, to that blind and furious policy, which, not-
withstanding the union of great powers, places all
its hopes in dreams of an impossible division, and a
renewal of coalitions which can only exist against
herself."

This passage, rightly construed, means, that
BONAPAILTE is beaten and defeated, and that he
would gladly endeavour to extricate himself from
his difficulties by a negociation for peace with Eng-
land. Such language could only be thrown out in
the Moniteor to feel tla pulse of our Ministers.
A few days will stew how they mean to receive it.
At length we have received intelligenre. from
Spain and Portugal. A Gijon Mail artided on
Saturday, with Letters and Papers to the 2d instant
it was brought to Falmouth, with dispatches also
for Government. by the Albicore sloop, of 18 guns,
Capt. Bonn, after a passage of six days.
The inforniatioa recently received from Gijon
and from Corunna, though by no means calculated
to inspire any apprehensions respecting the final
result of the contest carrying ou in Spain, yet is
not, in some particulars, of that exhilirating nature
which has characterised the late dispatches from
that country. Bilboa, which, it was conceived,
had only been attacked by the enemy, in order to
pnnish the Biscayana bre their loyalty to Flaw.
NAND VII. or with a view to pillage, seems to be
permanently occupied by the French. This cir-
cumstance, connected with others, indicates no in-
tention of withdrawing their forces from the pro-
vinces that lie between OW Castile and Bayonne.
B6IiSISREO, who had been rapidly retreating to-
' wards the frontiers, encouraged by the Galli-
cies' army remaining stationary at the other ex-
' tremity of the kingdom of Leon, when he ex-
pected that they would have pursued him into
Alava, has again re-occupied Burgos. His
forces are even admitted to have exceeded
60,000 men, towards the close of last month.—
These
events, serious in themselves, are rendered
still more so by the inexplicable delay on 'the part
of General BLASI:, who remained at Actorga, ap-
parently inactive; nor do the rumours of conspi-
racies at Madrid, with which the Oviedo Gazettes
are filled ; conspiracies formed in favour of the
French Usurper, tend to dissipate the concern is-
spired by the preceding facts. It is evident that
YAPor.aox, amidst the amusements and festivities
of Paris, has his eye constantly and invariably fixed
on Madrid. Troops are pouring into Catalonia,
by way of Perpignan, and all appearances seem to
combine in proving, that he hopes to retain under
his own, or his brother's dominion, the passes of
the Pyrenees, as well as the frontier provinces. Of
CASTANOS, or of his eatry into Madrid, we hear
nothing. Patarox alone, while a temporary
cloud seems to overhang Old Castile and &icily,
still renders Arragon a scene of triumph. That
extraordinary end illustrioiss Patriot, whose name
will rank in distant ages with these of Petanivs
and of Holmium x Da Sivatt, the liberators of their
em.intry ; not content with six times repulsing the
French from before Saragossa, has pursued them
along the Bank of the Ebro, and compelled them
to take refuge in the town of Alagon. If we may
venture to believe the Spanish accounts, their es-
cape. or retreat, is even impracticable. It must
be confessed that the Arregonese, from the com-
mencement of the present contest, have manifested
the most heroic and unconquerable spirit If the
Corsican had met with such oppowents at Mantua,
eat Dantiir, or at Magdeburgb, his conquests
would not have extended far beyond the frontiers
of France. Uidess, however, more vigorous exer-
tions are speedily made on the part of the ether
Spanish provinces, we cannot reasonably expect the
expnbion of the French from the territory of Spain,
before the commencement of the approaching win-
ter. Though Bilbao, or Burgos, or Vittoria, May
be untenableigainat a superior army yet Pam-
pelune, and Atootifit, and Figueras, will de-

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mod reg.llar sieges, etiginaerli and eanaidengtk
liras, hefore they can be recovered out of the
hands of BONAPARTE.

A profound silence is of served by the Conti-
nental Gazettes, relative: to all the movements, or
supposed inteutions of the Austrian Cabinet. They
are probably still, if not undeeldild, yet ambiguous
and undeveloped. That the Emperor FRASCIS
could be prevailed un to accept the vast interior
and barbarous pro►inces of 31oldavia, Wallachia,
and Besserabia, in exchange fur the small, but pre-
cious tract of coast, which lie still continues to re-
tain on the Adriatic, whatever The Altona Met-
eery; or the otherenulaved newspapers of Germany
may assert, appears.to us most improbable. He
better knows his interests, and those of his subject%
than voluntarily to cede Trieste and Fiume, the
only maritime places which he possesses, to receive
froth Huss& or from Turkey such places :15 13u-
cha;est or Jassy. By rendering the Corsican
despot completely sovereign of every portion of the
Gulf of Veuice, from Istria down to Corfa. Austria
would moreover be for ever precluded from receiv-
ing iii future either succours or communications,
except at the pleasure of NAPOf.EON, and by his
express permission. Even though Austria were to
have the months of the Danube, and a slender por-
tion of the shore of the Black Sea included in this
arrangement, it could form no compensation for her
losses in the Mediterranean, which possessions alone
enable her to maintain any iutercourse with Great
Britain, Spain, and the west of Europe. Nor does
the present appear to be a moment favourable for
compelling the Court of Vienna to renounce its last
medium of connexion, and its sole channel of ne-
gnciution with that power which still holds NAPO-
LION in check.
.We must see stronger proofs, be-
fore we can give credit to such assertions.
lu what abject and complete subjection every
member of the Rhenialt confederation" is held
by their ferocious Chief ; and to what degrading
renunciations or compliances every unfortunate
Prince, composing that revolutionary association,
is reduced, even in his own capital, we may see in
the example of the Etecroa of Sa.xoev. He is
not allowed to suppress a jaoohinical journal, set up
for the most dangerous political purposes, by
France, in the city of Dresden. A paper, whose
very denomination, The Fireirand, sufficiently
testifies its nature, character, and object. If Finn,'
DORIC AUGOSTUi, impelled by any sentinseqt of
dignatiun or of independence, were hi retist thla
mandate of his Tyrant, he might not. haptobabli
be transferred to sonic pris4n in the intetiOt., of
France, there to expiate in captivity his criminal
disobedience. The Electors of WIII7EIIIIEIO, BA-
VARIA, and BA Des, will, of course, take care not
to jeer such a puma:ammo*. Germany may, in-
deed, be said to exhibit, at this time, the most af-
fecting picture of spoliation, poverty, and oppres-
sion, which it has ever undergone at any period of
its annals.
The naval as well as the military hostilities carry-
ing on among the reeks of the Gulf of Bothnia, or
along the desolated shores of Finland, are too inde-
cisive, and too remote, to affect the destiny of Eu-
rope ; that will be decided in Portugal, Spain, and
Italy; if not finally, at least in the first instance.
It is impossible not to look with considerable solici-
tude to the two former of those countries. Every
thing is at stake on the Tagus, and on the Ebro.
Our next accounts from both will be most interest-
ing. •

A fleet, of near one hundred sail, arrived at Got-
teuburgh on the 118th ult. from the Baltic, and rc
maiued there GO the sOlth.
The Peruyiosoie, THouss, from London, for the
' Baltic is taken and carried into Copenhagen.
TheVenae, PIIILIP3, frotn St. Kitt's, aiern,
Lassie, from Demerara, are arrived at Bristol;
parted the fleet on the '2Bth ult. in consequence of
a sudden shift of the wind in the night.
The LorAlsloop of war arrived at Portsmouth,
on Friday, from the West Indies, with dispatches
from Admiral RewLev. and also from the Gover-
nor of Curacoa. We understand they state, that
the latter took the earliest opportunity of commu-
nicating to the Governor of theCaraccas the intelli-
gence which he had received from England, respect-
ing the important events which had occurred its
Spain. The Governor of the Cameras immediately
expressed his determination to support the rights
of his lawful Sovereign, FiRDIN•11111 theirlith, and
to Hitt in concert with the loyal Patriots in Spain,
and with the British. He also issued orders for
the arrest of all the Frenchmen within his Govern-
recut. • The Governor of Mamcaybo has also de-
clared a similar determination, and there is no doubt
but that their exainple will be followed in every
part of Spanish South America.
Private letters from Biscay, brought by the
Albicore, contain afflicting detail* of the excesses
committed by the French since they entered
Baby*. These :tre attributed. is some measure,
to thedetermilied opposition which they met within
half a league of the town, and the very great loos
they sustained ou that occasion. We lament to
state, that out of the 2000 brave fellows who en-
deavoured to arrest the progress of the French co-
lumn, there was hardly one who ass not killed or
wounded.

Letters from Gijon mention, that the gallant Pl•
Laroa, at the head of the Arragonew wits 6. swurs-
ing at the heel" his old antagonist Larcavac, and
that he had strong hopes of being able to cut hint
off from Paint*lune, wider the walls of which he
was endearonring to shelter the remnant of his
jaded and beateu columns.
This day the Quarter Sessions for the city com-
mence at Guildhall, and for the e tv at Hicks's
Hall—The Old Bailey Sessious begin on Wed-
nesday.

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