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Po ppoeetho have ligeflUded the Sehehit as high ing the civilised earth into a vast Lltaniel house,
as Aittserrp::is still sari this rifle of Fort Lilt.. li4"e ; merely to glut, the itnmt astaralde appetite of a
pect to he rant tinatedialvly aktiOst A:ittverep..ltiorsican Adventurer? Is the attachment to Übe
We shall he cooveyed by the tr.cl,4;oorts Ili!, oar i person, the office., and the functions of the Supreme
the brandies of the Scheldt, end it is said that a Head of the Catholic Faith, so completely e xti ei,
ford lias been iliscoit-Nal at the eamcinit) of South i as not to Is. awaked, or to he „fleeted, by the aci-
fieeelantl, .there, at low water, 5t or tin men can ewe, the depositiod, and the imi risomitetit of a
et-setts breast. PoNtirc, who placed the logo fial crow., tio the
" The whole of this Island tf Walcheren is a I head, and put the sceptre of Cli.taLim tatet.: Imo
garden. ft is finely etiltinitt d. 'Monne?, the Fnatch y the hands of this re:elate:as and etilit le roman ?—t)o
Gust:now of Flushing, tried to counteract our ope- we conceive that the violent,' upprnl of Pins VII.
rations by art insulation, but this silieme hail little I from an earthly tyrant to the Sapreine reeitig,
effect, and sciwce any injury has been done by the t excites no emotion 41'11,11001a Italy, and even in
attempt. France? Can we ourselves, divested as we have
" It is the opinion of the best informed meta beea for a4es of any superstitious veneration
here, that the island can lie, maintained ag"itist for the Holy See, Or for the nomish
any force the l'reuch may employ to retake aithont "ooecrit and abhorrence, the
have played the men of war in situationli where Protest of the sueces,or of St. l'eava, against
the oldest men in the island Relieved there rai the violence of Ho st.tra ? Cats we tesceetaiii the
scarce water enough for a brig. Is fact, the whole operaticai, or the einisc.tat ores, of the exemn;tioni-
tleet has been navigated tbrotig:t the narrow eatioa, if geffninr and real, botched at lion from
nets that septirette the islamk of Zettlatid, in a man- the f Melt Puri:, now conveying us a priwater from
err which astonishes the most expert potelt pilots. 0 the Vatican to Avignon, or to any other place of
The transport* are stowed here in tiers, us crowded security, where it lase be thought proper to confine
;Ai nil reitantmen in the river Thames" I him ? Are we aide to follow the e's!'ects of this out-

F..xtr Kt of a:sotherletter front au (I.icer of tlti NTarkes
be-
luttliut; to the Exise4itiuu, datt.ul Calais Isefore
August tti, tetl:
I weinst time to ititerin you, that yesterday,
at three o'clock in the morni/e4., Flushing surrere•
tlerve4, sifter 36 hours' bourt.arditrent.with upwards
o;Lit)4 guns anti SO mortine.—We have Inst more
than 400 men killed, and rytto ',omitted, 101.0 of
whom Insve witlergotie amoutatinii.—Stveral ntti.
4.ers hove awl we have not hall our (Air heti
off for frit day", ton silt exchange of titien.—The
have lust 4200 n men, audi I ant sorry
to s 4 y, we were 044(11 to bitro the greatest rut
of the toartt before they would surrender, which
!airied move Oa of 700 the o I/111.11. tool children,
isrlottgifts to Fludring. Dreadful to relate, lint
fbr after Ye were iii the to eimiti hear
•,tiatieetty the int sutierers ernautno tinder the
Mo.l g ruins '.•"

rageons, earl, as it 111»y appear to many imlividuals,
slerilegious, or int tliollll act of ustn•ptation,
against u Priest, whom every Catholic, from the
Tagus to the regards as sacred ?
The coma-go-tiers, beenitse they :tie slow, or les
lent, may oat lee the less felt, or the leis I.r-
-riotts; although it (-Hulot le^ expected that
they will !wove as etrn ient, and operative, IN in
the darker ages, r:lieti the prover and itithem e
ofe fhe Popr. 14.4e.a, no botinds. Is not, however.
NAPOLE4J m i.chreetly weakening, if not muter.
mining and subverting, the throne of the Moil Ca-
tholic his maw brother, itssEvit
by thus outraging, in the peason of Plus VII. the
Catholic Religion itself? Cinitfaestionality he is.
But it may he replie.i, that he relies *filet, on the
,weird, ou Iris tr.-asures, and his isst ability. to tna-
lirca the tyranny that he Itas established over En-
rape. That he counts on the jealousy, the ri-
rality, or the terrors of Inc vet mieutiallied nations
of thesContinear, to cement his power. And, above
all, that he calico ti'sni on the narrow views, the igno-
rance, presnin ptio.., end ye-ciliation of then:lly CslA-
met where h:s arils or his bribes cannot penetrate,
to direct the British forces against points, or coun-
tries, in whilst preservation Bott,tr.iirra is not
tally interested. These are, in, fact, 01 beA sup-
ports of his greatness, mid the most powerful coun-
teractions to his own errors, si:detrec and crimes.
If the councils of this country beef I)ceti
weighed, and entrinited to skilful, active, nod vi-
gorous hands, the Corsican would flat now hr at
Vientia. Josrett iniglit, indeed, Ireve played the
Scveveign at Nludi id, and Sue hear plii••••
&red Lisbon of all that JuNiEr had lefts Lchiuu;
while JoAt UPI IVVleMeti his troops on the Chia; I at
Naples, or fulminated threats against the Eagliih
in Sicily. limit the extrication of (km:my vise,il.l
bees been prosecuted in Austria, th- Empire
id NAPO Li.ON NUtTI:I have been attacked in its very
essenee. We do not, however, dettrair, howeter
inueli we only regret or condemn. Our next
counts from the Danube will probably throw li; ht
on the Pretax passing at Storolonitu, at Coulon',
and at Prague.

THE ARMISTICE oF

Notwothstoteliootz the gio.s and wily:dile errors
comin:tte l rlurin4 the prewors of the present cam-
ptegn, since April last, by Ilis MAJESTY'd MIOIS-
-47.,, in :sending two armies to Nladrod end to Na-
pier, which, by Iwiti lati.ied at 'Trieste, might have
.lii.ti i; yet can it not hr.. &mind, boot the
pver.clit situatiiiii of :LIN lIPAITE IS Crliit:td. petilou
runl widely different from the awful eosoirottioce that
he had reached two years to4or, after the ream of
Til.it. Thal he is mot able to dictate terms to
Fit.toßts, thoti-.0 he may have defeated !lit army at
'Wagtails, is mit:Tarot:ally prom' tipv the time Ciat
ha• already classed, since the 11:6 of 'IPA mouth.
whets the armistice was si4ne I with A ustiia.—
Every motive impelled N.krol,F.o X to precipitate
the .m 1.111.4.181, of a treaty : The insurrectionary
;pint manifested thron4'itoilt all lie:many ; the
011sotialued exertion. of Ow Tpole-e ; the march
cif WEI.I.7.ILEV, alter ilecertrarog or expelling
SJULT horn Portugal, to sards 'Cataile ; the,
lova-aim of Naples by See ART lastly, the ex-
pedition sent by Great lie itaiis too7ealacirl, nod
into the Scheldt. Nor can we 112.!1 over the non-
appearance of the Itois.iaits nit the theatre of war,
thongli iced as imminent, in Jane. A defi-
nitive treaty with Austria would have enabled Ilion
to transfer Ins presence, sool the euergiet that tics
cony:coy biro, fram the to the 1..0N Couto-
traWS. We should long since have found him,
with the same rapidity that carried him four
mouths ago I. son Paris to Itos,bou, returning,
loke the eagle, from ‘'ienitio to Antwerp. Fortu-
nate has it berm for Lord Cii truta, that be
is atoll chained *lowa, at the distance of six hun-
dred mites from the scene of operation's in the Low
countries! It it not the aupenraioce of I.tmis
BUS 'PARTE. at the head of au army, wirier the
CLI•111,111 of (lergeoi-op-Zoona ; nor even the tilents
and efforts of litaN Al) orir., that can supply the
chasm left open by NAPithrtatet abaeill'e. To that
tircumr,t.ttle.•• we may prima:rally attrilnate the mis-
file:oils COlLlnamcculent of our catapaigut in Wal•
c'icren, awl the .Itrrettiler of Hushing.. To the
ha ne cause, may we owe the further toto.ectotion
and completion of oar attadit against the fleet in
tic Scheldt.

Eorope, so long des...Witted, plundered, and sub-
verted, by the insatiable uubihnn, the victorious
arms, and the profound policy of RoNawsact,
evidently approaches a point nt which all further
opo,itiiiii to the power and will of 'ts compieroir
must cease; or from which utfairs will revert in n
contrary direction. We hare frequently olkserred,
sod we venture confidently to ripest, Out the
Corsican Emperor if lie had inissessed true
to time checked and suspended his own
career, in inn; or 1 SOS, after vanquishing A.:stril,
Prussia. and But. 111.' aliired, and he still
means, first to destroy, and then to regenetate, ;in
new principles, and in new hands. the whole poli-
tical (shin, of the Continent. Will nor the mitnins
whom he has subdued, hut to oh 3ill SUl.ti Ott 10(1
doer not bring either tranquillity, plenty, Com-
m/tee. pence, or felicity; alio only inter-
minable wars, and unremitting culseription, re-
eninvanied by poverty, privatioss, and staansition
of iiirlustrv, as thie recompense or their solontssion;
will they not at lendth grow weary of thus COllVtrt.