The National Register.
London, England, 1808-12-11 00:00:00

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referring to the former communications of the goveinment
of the l'huttleries on similar subjects, has been synonimous
litut4l insolence, perfidious hypocrisy, and extrovn-
gant exaggeration. On perusing these Bulletins, our read-
crs well perceive they have lost none of these characteristic
marks ; they are, on the contrary, more prominent than
ever, blended with a base mixture of irreligion, contempt
ut social obligations, acrimonious irritation, and savors Ili
attic result of this unprovoked aggression. In reading
the isulle,tins, we arc at a loss, through the frippery anew ,
titles, to discover thenaines of the principle actors. There
is nut a horde, or a subdivision of one that is not con-
ducted by sonic mushroom Duke or Count of the new Em-
pile. In mania; over these titles, our imagination hurries
sis hack through a series of ages, and fixes us in that
dreadful period of history, when ATTILA, at the head of a
bionled oarbarous tribes, which emigrated in search of
plunder from the immense forests of Germany, Poland,
Russia and Tartary, overturned the remains of Roman
legislation and policy, and distributed the titles possessions,
and persons, of the long-established and civilised settlers,
among his barbarous followers. Ile rushed, with the de-
vastation of the whirlwind, over the fairest provinces of
Lurope; and the modern ATT/LAI more savage, more unre-
lenting, and inure rapacious, has joined to the vices of the
barbarian, all the refinement of modern villainy. Bow
often did our imagination start back with horror -from the
picture which historians left us of that direful period ; and
we arc condemned, in an age which Idauutcd its philanthro-
pic institutions, to see all its horrors and atrocities acted
o- eraain. The same oppn .sign of innocence, the same
-violation of property, the same insults offered to conjugal
and virginal purity, tlyi same moral confusion, and
the subs.itution of force and violence for the mild re-
strictions ut lab:s and morals. This is only a faint and
ill-
s'ketcc,cd picture of the deplorable consequences that will
ensue, slineid ilosArAitTE sucveed in his system of plunder.
But what other comin—iities have suffered, or may still
sustain, is no more than pare'-tal chastisement, com-
pared with the outrages the vindictive bosom of that
c•ilious monster has in reserve for this country.
't'ue st.cond Bulletin is perfectly in the strain of the first.
The rul:Lio indulges in a little pleasantry in this report,
acid azl,..opis Lo animate the sombre tints of bs horrid pie-
te-e. b.) so sportive allusions to what was found in the
the !iipansh Officers his ambition had murdered.
-I..!;irated ancient, in observing the progress of a dis-
tinguished adversary, exclaimed, " The wonderful man !"
NV e ttos i,iaividual indulging in sarcasm and plea-
over the mutilated remains of his murdered victims,
w, in attempting to find an epithet to mark
his cat;,l • iininfec:.:ice.
the third and fourth Bulletins, whidi are likewise
Burgos, and describe the occurrence.: down to
surva,,s any thing we have ever read from the
ii,iarlers of lioNAr.t wrr, for impiety, want of moral
feeii•n4 Atia h1)111,11;ity, or f..r perversion of social obliga-
tions. But we are disgusted at making the nauseous reca•
pitnliumii; and %vitt notice only that part of the fourth,
which :Lis rei.crence to our own army. It says: " The day
" s e fail in with them will be a day of festivity to the
" leeneh army. May they moisten with their blood
" that continent which they have desolated by their in-
-' tr:;_fue, Melr pnonopoly and their selfishness." The ruffian !
•.v!;,, is de.i.,!.iting Spain in this moment ; and covering it
the carcasses of its inhabitants ?—tie then proceeds :
,log they, instead of 20,000, be 80, or 100,000 strong,"
&r. Would to Heaven they were !

The Russian and French Aleisengers, who arrived in
tov.::: on Tuesday la a, returned to France on Friday ;
but he object which BOVA PARTE has in view, whatever
mad he the intentions of the l'lmaictioa of 11tissiA, in keep-
ing iip this farce of negotiation, is unquestionably the in-
ttesr_t of giving the oypuaeuts of Ministers some

DEC. D.

new weapons fora parliamentary attack at the approach-
idg :.esssion. This may induce the wary intriguing 't} rant
to assume a tone of moderation in his overtures; but his.
inveterate iinstility to this Country and its conunercial
prosperity, is too well known for such arts to excitt• any
persuasion of Li; s..,icerity. It is superfluous to add any
thing' further on •;::fijett, for the lowest, as %el as the
highest individual ih country, must now Inc tonvinced
that no concessions vi 4, • appease his animus:ly ; anti it
,would be madness to to sincere reconciliation on his
part.

A. mail arrived yesterday I.l.,rning from Gottenburgh.
We' received by this convey a report of Gm.sill
KLEns Est to the King of SWEDEN, detailing several
actions in Finland. We are sorry to add, that the Sirecies,
on account of the superiority of the enemy in paint of
number, and from want of forage, 'together with the.
inclemency of the sea,-,a, have b2ea obliged to fall
back eonsidet ably. Whai, object A LE% AN R. can propwie
to hiinsi in the continua! ion of this nefarious and impo-
litic aggression, we ar• at a loss to discover. Wuilst France
is hastening with gigantic strides to universa: moans:le,
this weak Sovereign is wasting his force and hai :•epufation,
in squabbling with his brother in law, about the possession
of Finland.