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its own purpose. And what i*tbit purpose ? - There
:,rt. mind; so.deformr.l, that everylhing beautiful and
c xcellent in nature siekens and disgusts them. There
are hearts so malicious, as to feel gratification in
injuries, and men ready to avail themselves of the
vices' of others to fill their coffers. Hence, the
moment Yonne Rao-ins appeared, it was not dif-
ficult to anticipate from what quarter the first il-
liberal attack would come. It was easy to foresee
that the Print which calumniated Mr. Fox and the
Duchess of DEVONSIIIKE, Mr. PITT and Mr. AD.
oisoraie, all in their turn, and seemed at war
with cs cry thing good and excellent, world
not spare the luumpi Romeo. The pleasure which
a low and vulgarsmind must feel in the degradation
of merit, is a sufficient incentive. A vain and little
mind is also flattered by setting itself in opposition
to public opinion. This course may also answer
mean and sordid cravings. It atttaas notoriety and
observation. The mud thrown up upon a brilliant
equipage, in the brilliant rapidity of its career, is
more seen than that which lays quiescent in the
streets. There is another circumstance which may
have had an elFea upon the candid critic. The
Young Reuther has, we understand, excited great
jealousy in the profession. One great aaor, it is
said, has pretended to read him a leattre ; and one
great aaress is said to have refused to play with
him. These reports may have encouraged some
paltry parasite to write the ribaldry of which we
complain. We hope that they are not true; but,
if they be true, we also hope that the Yuang Retches
will proscribe that aaor and caress in his turn.
He may be assured, that the public will nut see him
wronged, and that C.:ere are freedom and candour
enough in the press to vindicate his right.
But it may be said, this censure is preposterous.
'lle observations in The Courier should be tairly tried
before they are thus positively condemned. It would
be an insult to the public to waste an argument upon
them. Can any candht man believe, that the Young.
almetus has neither toelii.g nor genius ? that he is
only an ordinary boy? and that all he atchieves is the
etfra of schooling? that he is a mere parrot ? If he
be all art and imitation, where is the woman who
taught him ? why does she mu appear, and eclipse
all our aaresses ? Where is the man who instrtried
him ? why does he nut appear, and throw all our
great aaors into the shade? The he, or the she,
must, indeed, be perrea. 1. at must be a brilliant
sun, of wilco so much excellence is only the reflec-
tion. We have said, that so gross an attack must
have proceeded from a mean, a sordid, or a mali-
cious mini. In charity, we will suppose one more
possible case. We will suppose that same media-
etc or tradesman of the'theatre was vain enough
to fancy himself possessed of critical acumen, and
had interest to have his miserable produc-
tion inserted in a newspaper. The following anec-
dote spews the thing is not impossible :—The great
and good King Hen x v IV. of France, conde-
scended very otten to converse familiarly with his
tailot, who, like other upstarts, fancied himself a
man of great abilities and importance. Amon;
the many liberties which he took, in consequence,
with his Sovereign, he one day presented a plan for
new-modelling the Government of France. The
KING had scarcely time to look at it, when his fa-
vourite Minister, the Duke de eiitered the
apartment—to whom the KI NC: turned with a smile,
sod said, Come, Su LI. Y, take measure of mu for
went, as my Tailor is become a Politician and
Minister." The Tailor was confounded and
'withdrew.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A CI n!e D phmin f • shall certainly appear nn Monday.

THE BRITISH P MSS.

LO N D:ri.
SATURDAY, DLCE‘BER B.

The Dime packet, for the safety of which so
much fear was enter•ained, arrived on Tuesday
evening at 17.11:no.::11, itt:r a tedious passage of
twenty-four days. NI:. S or sr, the Ktxo's Mes-
senger, came home iu her, accompanied by a Span-
ish Messenger, with dispatches from the Drury of
Madrid. Mr. Swing arrived yesterday morning
at the Secretary of State's Office, where he de-
liv:red his dispatches from the Eighth Minister at
Lisbon. The Diens sailed from Lisbon on the
lOtts last, and encountered, during the greater
part of her voyage, very boisterous weather.
Upon the 11th day she found herself off the western
coast of Ireland, where the Captain sought to laud;
but, finding that impraft:cable, he bore away for
England, and reached Fa:month in safety. During
three days of the 'it/rm., the storm and danger
were so great, the passengers remained below under
the hatches. When the D.-evra s.tiled, it was er-
pe,led that Mr. Facet would leave Madrid upon
the 14th ; but letters from Lisbon, of the nth, are
silent upon the subject. We have no reason to pre.
sume, that the Diana has brought home any news
of importance, as the Prtnee of Wafer packet sailed
from Lisbon ten days laser, and arrived before her.

A ktter front an Officer on board a vessel in the
Dlwas, dated on Tuesday, says---" A Lieutenant
et the - gun-brig was on board here last
night, who informed me, that on Saturday. at tw•o
o'clock, p. m. be was dispatched from Boulogne,
with advices to the Commodore at Dungeness, t hat
forty-four luggers, twenty-nine brigs, one rraam,
and one bomb Coop, were getting out of that har-
bour, and that all the other veuels, bot:t in Boa.
logne and Ambleteuse, bad their saris Lose, ap-
parently ready for making a push ; he says that
they observed, the greatest cart of hut week,
un-
common movements amovgst the trcors on the
French coast t that they have been Sting all day.

and the night was seeming:y occupied in moving
them from one pl.tce to another ; by the great lights
they could constantly see passing and repassing
froin dark uiril day-light, they judged that to be
the case. This brig had orders not to stay longer
than be could possibly help in ♦ictualling, so I corn-
pleted him, and set him off again last night ; a
delay of only three or four hours. There were only
the imm&rtahle frigate, liar ui sloop, and an armed
ship, on the Boulogne station when he came aw.ty.
A frigate riding here has now a signal flying, for
the whole squadron under her command, to get
under way immediately, which consist of g m brig;
and bomb vessels. They are all upon the move."

A letter from Lisbon, of the '2lst ult. informs us
of another cause for the anger and disappoint-
ment of the Corsican Lburper, on account of the
capture of the Spanish treasure ships. Besides the
regular and quarterly tributes in ready money,
which he extorted from the Court of Madrid, TAL.
LEVRAND was negotiating with the Spanish Am-
bassador at Paris, Admiral Gaavls t, the sale by
France, and purchase by Spain, of the Duchies of
Parma and Plaisance for the King of E rat.: ata,
with which money the Revolutionary Emperor in-
tended to augment the splendour of his sham Court
at his mock Coronation, and which, probably, the
King of Spar would hare been forced to submit to
and to pay, had not the all-powerful Veto of British
cannon interfered.

The financial swindlings of revolutionary French
rulers, and its endurance by legitimate Princes, will
as much surprise our posterity, as the degrading in.
difference with which they have viewed the political
tyranny of every revolutionary Upstart in power.
Could any man, fifteen years ago, have thougl•t it
possible that Europe could have lost so much of its
dignity and civilisation, as to regard merely as a
common event the barefaced plunder, not of an in-
dividual, but of a whole community ; not of some
trifling estates, but of whole kingdoms, principali-
ties, and provinces ? Could any man have imagined,
in 1789, that Austria, Russia, and Prussia, would
have subscribed to the sale of kingdoms, seized and
sold by a despicable adventurer, who never pos-
sessed an acre of land, or the least pretension to
honour or honesty ? For their improvidence or
negligence, they, as well as other countries, are
now sufferers. Hal they, in 1900, resisted and op-
posed the disgraceful sale of Tuscany by Bort 5-
se are, this audacious brigand would not, in
13.13. have sold Louisiana to America ; and,
in 1801, offered Parma and Plaisance to Spain.
When eve.), regicide or rebel, backed by for-
tune, bayonets, dungeons, and gibbets, can
with the same ease sell to the highest bidder foreign
thrones, sceptres, and diadems, as the pillaged emi-
grant property at home, what security can hereditary
Monarchs possess, that these guilty men, or their
guilty successors, do not dispose in their turn of
every state in Europe, to enrich themselves and their
beggarly relatives, or to pay infamous accomplices ?
Bat, by tearing out this chapter of the law of ci-
vilised people, •Bos sr aarr not only invades the
right and prerogatives of Sovereigns, but threatens
to involve in the same ruin, the liberty and pro •
perty of subjects. The tyrant who sells, or the
slave who purchases, the supreme tank belonging
to Princes, will undoubtedly not respell what be
longs to their inferiors. It is, therefore, the com-
mon interest of all good men, if ever so elevated, or
ever so low, to regard Box APAR rz as the common
enemy of mankind ; to crush his usurpation, or to
perish with glory in the attempt. The pantheon of
history will preserve those honourable and loyal
names who have delivered the universe of its
scourge. and saved the civilised wot id from its
destruaion.

Yesterday a Court of Direaor. was held at the
East India llou.e, when I'M L P NO AS* Esq. was
appointed Governor of Prince of Wales's Island
Captain JOHN CHRISTOPHER LOCH NER WAS
swum into the command of the ship Corissambrn,
cancigned to Madeira, Mailias, and Bengal. At
six o'cL cc the Court adjourned till Tuesday neat.
The Dispatch sloop war has captured, and af-
terwards destroyed. two French pinnaces, the
crews and stores of which she carried into Ply.
mouth on Wednesday.
The Rational% maa of war, of GI guns, Captain
B• TU N. has returned to port to refit, after a seven
months cruise off the Fexel.

It was reported, when the Prince qj Inks left
Lisbon, that Sir Joint Onat.'s squadron had cap-
tured a Spanish frigate from South America. The
sinadron was seen by the packet cruising of Cape
Finisterre.

The Archbishop of Paris has ordared public
prayers in his I)iocese, on the occasion d the Con-
secration of the Emperor. The form of prayer
prescribed, concludes with the fallowing passage:

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" Prov.d!ace of our 6 4 Illay thy hatid d.rect an Ens-
perurs Owe atm shield huts; render abortive the de.isteit of
,bia itneaf.a, and frustrate thtir efforts to taw., 1 .... • C4l-
104stkel. astonished, affeeted by the fidelity mid an...atm.-id
which we swear t.s him, mar they bat Ilse themselves If, flight,
and all:s0d-1n their vain projeas; May thy merry and truth a...
camper., Jul li.s PLOW SIOUOL.E. !Otm by sea as well as by
land: may the Obo!aciell cbeptserd t.. ho 411,11 e Of ;once Vol .11
WIC ini4k 111 aught v?ouse tan ever 11•11
the delight of all eruuml her, .not the r.sfure of it. unLittu
fates Puy poster ty his sane gWhties, add the'.
subjects Log arc; piano: thy 11..17