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Austria; and seems disposed, after having eon-
qiiered Europe, to engraft 'his Corsienn blood out
imam one of the vauquished stocks, and to devolv...,
his .usurpations to a lineal posaerity. This tacit
homage to the old crowned heads of the continent ;
this sort. of silent and indirect recogn tion, that.
though he may revolutionise the world, devastate,
and spoliate it, yet that lie must reconstruct it
with the original materials, is inv du ible to the
prostrate dyniuittes of Germany. Russia, and Italy.
It is the first act of opproximotion in this conqueror
towards those whom he has humbled, or dethroned,
or imprisoned, or trampled under his feet. As such.
(if the result justify the conjecture). whether he
order a Saxon, or a Sardinian. a Muscovite, ne an
Austrian Princess, to be sent him, in order to suc-
ceed the late Josephiiie flestioarnois in his throne
aiiif bed, it matters little to the point in qiiestion.
It is plain that, in such case, he does not mein to
perpotuate and continue his line, with the same
materials of which nature constructed it. Other-
wise, he would send to order the moat beautiful girl
of Ajaccio. of Bastin, or of St. Fiorenzo, to be sent
him from his native island. For, such should be the
wife of Charles Bonapartv's son. He has then ek-
Doted himself by his victories, his talents, and his
crimes, to a level with those whom he has subdued
in the field. We congratulate Europe on the event;
if, after all, it prove to lie well 'founded. There are
then hope. that the 0.-lariat of our times, will mu It
himself down in his own rueirimobial crucible; that
he will becOme an drpistots; and that he will
finally protect, sustair, and preserve, some at least
of the ancient royal lion.es still remaining. Tho'
Spain, Pei tic_ol, Sardinia, Naples, Rome, Tuacanys
Venice, Genoa, Rolland, Flanders, and the North-
West of Germany, are, or should be overturned,
yet it would be something to preserve, nominally at
least, Austria, Prussia, Denmark, Sweden, Russia,
Saxony, Bavaria, Wirternberg, Switzerland, mid the
,Ottoman Empire in Europe. Sicily exists, mind may
e xiat for ages, independent of him, if the island be
well administered. Great Britain not only defies,
. but enchains, invests, surrounds, and frequently in-
flicts the deepest wounds on this remorseless tyrant,
at whose name the continent trembles. Lastly,
America, whether by that name we mean British or
Spanish America, is territoriany intangible by him,
and can only be commercially affected, through the
medium of his conlisrations and prohibitions. In
this attitude, and in this posture, stands Napoleon,
in January, 1510.
We admit, that Spain seems to be rapidly sink-
ing under her own internal exhausture, dissensions,
defeats, and the calamitous results of a pusillani-
mous government. The temerity of our Com-
mander, and the incapacity of our ignorant, and most
imbecile Ministers, have completed mod accelerated
the destruction of Spain. While. however, any
principle of life remains, while the French armies
do nut approach Carthagenn, Seville, and Ca•i z,
while any semblance of a Junta or of a Cortes is
maintained, while Lisbon and Gibraltar are not oc-
cupied by Napoleon's troops, while the Tagus, the
Douro, the Guadiana, and the Guadalquivir,
are yet free, while the nation is not subjugeted,
while Valentia, Murcia, Grenada, Andalusia, Estre-
madura. and the La Mancha, continue in Inoue-
rection, so lung as these things are, it is not be-
yond the scope of possibility that the Peninsula
may be saved. Is there, we would ask, any other
part or portion of Europe, that can be salted ? We
mean by arms, and by resistance. For, that Bo-
naparte, if lie take, as Attila. or Alaric did, the
daughter of the degenerate Closer of their times,
and associate her to hi. Imperial usurped dignity ;
may, from policy. from pity. or from contempt,
allow the father or the brother of his consort,to retain
his title, his guards, and his opera, is not the ques-
tion before us. We mean to ask, whether, if Joseph
Bonaparte, or any other adventurer, selected by
Napoleno, were once quietly and universally recog-
nized as the Sovereign of Spnin; and if Portugal
were, in like manner, redoced into the form and
shape of a French province, there would survive
any rational hope or expectation that the die-
organized mass, extending East from the Rhine
and the Elbe, to the Bosphorus, and to Siberia,
eon be resuscitated We fear, we believe, and
we think, that it cannot. But, this assertion we
do not expect, or even desire, should be credited,
without proof. And what proof can be adduced.
except a delineation of the actual state of the Con-
tinental powers. sti I existing in name ? On those
data we reason. From them, we can alone expect
that the public will form their opinions. Let us then
endeavour to take • survey of the ruined lionarchies
yet subsisting, and let its begin with !Holland; for
even that country, in this age of revolution, is be.
conic Monarchical. The subject is full of infor-
mation, nod may enable us to judge for ourselves,
on the present, and on the future condition of the
globe.

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