The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-01-16 00:00:00

ST.I re OP EVPDPE,
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♦T THE CONHIIINCENIENT OF THAI YEAR ill*

(Confirmed from snrPapa of Trictil)

In conternelating the actual State of the Conti-
nent, if it is therefore apparent that no immediate
hopes of its resmositatiou can be entertained from
the efforts of the Saies.; aod that no prospect, pre-
sent or remote, opeps to us on the ride of Holland,
where all the generous energies of human nature
seems to be absorbed iu pecunidry cues; we must
of necessity direct our view eastward. Among the
fragments and ruins of that political ftic, once di-
Dominated " the German Empire ; new omis•
gniehed, and hell re•organiseol, or re-modelled.)
der revolutiomuy names cad new territorial divi-
sions, there .till exist two nominal monarchies of
thesucielot order of things. We allude to Austria
and Prussia. Let us examine both in turn. After
four wars, one mom unfortunate than the other, the
former of those powers, within the space of seven-
teen years, from 1793 to 'soy, has fallen front a
State of, the first rank, whom ramifications might be
said to extend to the German ocean, to the Me-
diterratern. and to the Adriatic; into a condition
equally, in our judgment, incapable of inspiring her
enemies with fear, os awakening hope in the bosom
of her former allies. A vast and powerful Mo-
narchy might. indeed, be formed out of the defal-
catious and losses that Austria has sustained, by
the two treaties of Leolor is, and of-Comp° Form io, in
1797. She gave up the Aetherlandt. together with
the Milanese and the ,Uoatems ; thin- Boning
atptice the future protection of Hollcod, and of the
north of Italy. By the ; esee of Luneville, which
followed the fatal battles of Marengo and of Ho.
lieuliuden ; she :cst all the l',Ftetaui territory, and
the ..-elebrated city of t !:cone, which Fran-
en has ronsented to 7. • •-,01111 :the polluted
hands of France, and •i thoolparte ; thus *auction-
ins by his acceptan,.. terntory of a fetrudly,
or of a neutralsac,.n. the most •9 s, or
wanton outragerof tit,- cowmen spoliator. She re-
flounced, likewiie, all those detached anti <catteeed
port:nii, of urn do aitz.ant, situated in Sealota, on
the Lake of Coostance, and along the Eastern
bauk of the Hiner, denominated I.'.4ntrielte As-
ter-it:ire:" sod which still give her little influ-
ence in that pail of Germany. Toe short, dna..
nous. and moot iil-conducted canapainn of ISO 6--
for it cannot be termed a ear—cost her still more
cruel sacrifices.. First, the Tyrol; a country not
to be fetionateet by its extant, fertility. or revenue;
but by its position betwerou Bavaria mid Lem-
,bardy ; by its mountainous and almost inacce,eilde
oature; but. above all, by the moral qualities of
Its inhabitants ; simple, brave, loyal, and attached,
I,y* the wannest 'affection, to their
.ancient Soya-
reigns of the Austrian line. Glear, however, as
was this reauneiatam. it fell sloor&of the calamity
inflicted by Floosie on hmapelf. on his [louse, 'on
his dignity as • crowned head, the Chief of the
Germanic Empire. atid.ou his independence ss a
Prince. when he cousented to inert the Corsican
usurper. face to. far, in a *Delwin, and there to
soma, tei arranee, the articles of o definitive
treaty. With coosummste utility, Boosparte,
after taking pooseosion of his capital, and of his
palaces. %ought, by the terms of peace concluded
at Preshurgh. rather to dishonour and to derriale,
than to d4spoil lila enemy. Forrbet reams, amid no
doubt with that natation. while he affected to re-
store to Francis, Teems. Lints, and all his recent
ao quisitions along the Danube, and while he eve!
ps,r lasio teal the Archbiehopric of Salt•leargh. a most
important t. rritory.' W be added to the Austrian
frontier, a. MOM compeusatiou for the lobe of the
Tyrol ; be infl.ctedrae deepest and most incurable
woofed on that unfortunate Nloniarch.

Of all the dignities vested and united in the per
of Francia the Second, that of Eetiterur of
Germany, however undefined in its fauctious, suss
productive in a financial point of view, and eves
curet/err, eat hereditary, in its essence ; yet eras It,
perhap-, the most resplendent, venerable, and that
wl.wh ettiniently raised him above all other Eu-
ropean Sovereigns. In that eapecity he stood alum,
and represented the nijesty of the Courts and of
the Western Empire, revived by Clearlemague.—
Neither the Curs of Muscovy, nor the Sakai.i of
the Turks, were denominated Emperors, except by
• sort of liCente, or abuse of the term. EOM,.
acknowledged Francis as sole Emperor, in diplu-
attic language, shoo to the clo.e of the last cm n-
buy. Piot. though all the Princes of the two
Houses of Austria and of Lorrain acre successively
fleeted. sot thou, to that elevation, had the lupe-
nal title ever gone out of their august line, ii, the
lapse of three minutes sad • half, escept for
shoot four years, front 1741 to 1745, when Chalks
the Seventh, Elector of Bavaria. was raised to the
imperial dignity. by the areas of Lola* the Fits
wrath. Frances the Steam( had lineally succeeded
his father Leopold. his uncle Jooeirh. and his grAted-
father Friar., the First. To precipitate Inc.
therefore. from such a throu.hoorver ideal, rather
than elithi, WAS Bonaparte% a; straiette v.-solution.
Francis sas*ordered to by Dank the quality of
Baa-
per•r of I:el-many. lle sul 'mated : but hi. aequiz
catente u, te,e l'onquetor'e will was reliaiJ by the
wasious pefilse••lo6l to aavoine another imperial
tide, that of. Austria- 'Pie ine.isitiess of thus chugs
sa4 to a name. olive 114 skli..titate was extinct. is
tral) eactedsil by its Coq} and tuspulecy. We all