The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-12 00:00:00

lslalt, al• JIM •

'the insiintianee of the We, •CaMpaign.'''Vre heard of no-
nO cowardice, no depittations to compliment the
'titter t but one sonrieetned to animate, aad one heart to
Warin, the population of that great empire. 'This unani-
mity-did not long escape the penetration of the Usurper;
arid, after ing arrival at vicuna, he addressed no more
proclamations, inviting the Veople to. exchange the tyran-
*lee yoke of the Muse of Loaa,wi, for his benign and pa-
itetuar sceptre . , ..1 :4.• •:,
.
The glorious batite.of Aspern, which soon followed,was
a severe blow to his vanity, and lowered•his presumption
still more consideimbly. 114 consequent 'success at Wa-
w brant or the sacrifices he exacted at the signature of the
Armistice, were insufficient to renew hii.canfidence; and,
-during every stage of the negoiation which folloWed, he
was obliged to yield some new point, to restore some, con-
'
sosered province, to his antagonist. Master of more than;
half the Austrian empire; and after havinefultbinated thej
most dreadful vengeance against the Priniisi of the* lionise
of 1101titAIN after having threatened to ifiekf their inn of
its brims, and promised to raise a fornter'44iSsal to a level
of equality;—he thought it more expedient to skulk be-
titled the wiles of diplomacy; and to give back what he
'hid the:lo4 hitt no-t the eOurage, to keep. He gained,
hewee'r;lifew scraps of thfe mighty carcass he thought to
have appropriated to himself; and fled as a detected brag-
gart, 'acid a disaPpointed ruffian. This Peace, we are bold
to ins-, has been misunderstood, and misestimated, by most
of our cotemporaries. It was to be consolidated by the
d'egridation of Austria. It was to be rendered pernianent
by the impotence she should be reduced to of breaking it.
Neither has been executed ; and the Emperor' ria,ccls
is more powerful, as well in opinion as in reality, than
He was when ke first entered the lists with the *twiny.
—He was threatened, and with the most' brutal in-
solence, with the loss of all his possessions ; and he did
not lose a fifth-part of them. His antagonist shelved his
Veth, snarled, and set up a dreadful din ; but the cur re-
t :.ed at last, with only a few scraps, after having let fall
the rest of his prey.

It is worthy -of peculiar remark, that of all the-Cessions
made by Austria, BUONAPARTE obtained, this time, the
least considerable. He annexed only the Littorals and part
of Croatia to his own dominions, both of which do not
contain a population of more than 3or 400,000 souls. -The
principal gainers were Saxony and Bavaria. The latter has
obtained an addition of territory, amounting to about a
million of inhabitants; and the former was rewarded with

aai equivalent remuneration. Russia had the baseness to
stipulate for her 400,000 souls. It may be objected that
the loss is not the less painful, because the ceded provinces
are: given into the hands of the s assals of BUONAP(RTE,
and not into those of the tyrant himself. For our part,

we cannot see the affair in that light; for the time may
still arrive, when Saxony, Bavaria, and Russia, which
lately co-operated with France, inay make a common cause
with Austria. Nobody will suspect NA POLEON BuovArtaTi;
of extragavant generosity ; and we arc much mistaken in the
man, if, like all great characters, he has not a most trench-
won' memory, whea the question is about giving the pro-