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London, England, 1809-02-27 00:00:00

ST.ITt E(.W)PE.

A nong the advanta..e • enjoyed by 110 NA PAATE,
1.) cur' I .6g on hosrilitees against this country,
which creme not pinwes•eil by any Sovereign of
Frannr, at any former period of time, end the ef-
fects resulting from* which are incalculable, is his
tompl.le posset.ion of the skorcs of a vast portion
ul. the Continent. From the Nene, which forms,
with the Seam, the Entrance of the battle, down to
Vigo, not a 'creek, nor a harbour, nor a river, nor a
neutral spot of ground rendaiiis : .411 is France.
though not strictly denominated by that appella-
tine. to consequence of this subjection of the ma-
ritime powers and territory to one ruler, it becomes
not only dill cult, but almost impossible, for Aus-
tria, riussia., sir Saxony. however disposed they
1114:p be, to can. nnn 111C4iI! 111 any shape with the Go-
verionent of this country. Priissi I, though nomi-
nally an existing state, and io possession of various
polls on the Baltic, )et du-es not either trade, or
evil' hold any intercourse with Great
Austria is nearly iii a similar predi,:ninent ; for
though Triest is still open us a place of commerce,
and consequently as a medium for the transmission
of lute lligence ; yet if we consider its local
poi-
tio.i ut the head of the Adriatic, and the circuitous,
as well as precarious nature of a voyage from
thence to any part of Spain or of Portugal, num-
capita by the French, it amounts, in *soint of
fact, almost to a total preclusion of all confidential
communication. Turkey labours under the same
isoida4e, nod under equal impediments. It is
therefore almost impossible for these powers to
coalesce. nr to ccuicert any siianltuneous effort fur
their emu: non extrication from their ',result lametit-
able subjection to the oke of Fraiiee.
Netw.,Mtaiitling, however, these multiplied
~ which NAPOLEON'S tyraiiiiical dlspotisam
lias mflleted or impos,sl on the slaves who are ed-
iniiterl still to assume the royal or imperial title ;
and notwithstemlittg the probable de structiou which
must immediately foilow ally attempt on their part
to esnaucipate themselves ; it is certain that such
inteutions or plans are already matured, and even
ready to Inc disclosed. The jouri.eyof FRLDERIC
WILLIAM and his QuErst to St. Petemburgh. the
isoginentiii; ferineunition in the Russian dome-
'nous, which has broken out into acts of violence, or
of ilisaffectioO ; the 10:•eisation of unigazilies, the
purchases of grand, and the inlitary preparutions
or. levies actively coutianed throughout the Aus-
trian States; all these symptomS announce the
up/would% storm. Germany will probably ex-
hibit speedily u scene of war, and other battles will
be fought on the leriiks of the Rhine, the Dansilv,
and the %labile, beforr IiJNAPARTI: eau place env
of his r..letions or generals on the thrones 1101,
occu-
picd by their uicient sovereigns. The silent Lut
rapid return of the tyrant, from Oil Castile to
Paris; his sudden and unexpected appearance in
that cart ai ; his prompt reititivA from thence, after
scarc..l ,hewing !Mime:int the opera. to time fro:a-
. tier of Germany; the andpensian of military opera.

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tions in Spain, and the announced arrival, in a short I
time, of the imperial guard from that country, at a
moment wheu their presence end exertions are most
wanted beyond the Pyrenees ; these events eh-
quently pourtruy the agitations and apprehensions
of BONAPARTE.
Those fear. are by no means either groundlt'AS or
imaginary. Desperate and lost as the condition of
Europe seems, yet there are principles of resusil-
tatioa in the mass, which emit sparks, an•l which
may kindle into flame. Revoli4ion, and despot-
and conscription, have all their limits, which,
once attained, things return in a contrary direction.
NAPOLEON seems nearly to have reached that point.
Many plaunomena announce it, though nut per-
ceptible by every observer. If he has not been
completely foiled in Spain, he has been opp,o.
and in many places repelled or vasiquieted. Not
one hal of that peninsula is subjected to him, at
the present hour; mid his presence, which iirought
ictory with it, is now withdrawn. The Castilian
pertinacity will nut be subhued by his representa-
tive ; we shall prolialily soon hear °fir:lit:PH reinov-
. ing a second him! to Burgos. 'Fliroughout Italy, but
partiiadarly South of Naples, Jou:tines new'
snhjects have rig n against him. But the circum-
stance which, more thou all, threatens the duration
of NAPOLEON'S usurpation, is, the desertion among
hisforeigu, and the a eariness among his French sol-
diery: Ills throne stands upon one principle us its
ba-i.; that military despotism, and the government
of one tyrant, is preferable to anarchy, revolution,
and the guillotine. It is so, we must own; and
the French have gratefully recognized this priaci-
ple, in the person of a Corsican soldier of fortune.
But, if his insatiable ambition, or his guilty terrors,
condemn the French, and Europe, and mankind,
to perpetual war; if nothing short of complete
revolution, from Portugal to Sweden, can allay the
tempest in his ratted, or give repose to the earth,
the evil will redress itself. We believe that the
term approaches, though the mode and time of its
accomidisliment remain AB yet concealed.,

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