The National Register.
London, England, 1809-06-18 00:00:00

rough handiins and e•opetirous nursme; of her succeisor.—
ALETANDEIt, too feeh!e to R.;.i no to the great line which
had been marked oat for him, would stare peaceably sub-
sided into a neutrAl• elia racier, and have felt sum-
ciently occupied by the internale cares and pleasures of his
royal Eittkatio:l, hut drawn- by the politi,:s of the times
into a-war rrauee, tie first res,erses peeved upon
mind, and dissolved the phautou of glor, which (in a con-
test with lioNArAeTe.) he had foolisnly anticipeted.
interview with this consommate peliiician, mms mei{ 's
hi' to a co:imolai:el of pro:tas. A scheme of plen-
der, which he eas toeih!e to resist, ‘Vas o.riC:rei to his
greedy acceptanae The minor objects of morally are
well enough inaleistood, nod vye are free enough to dla-
tisc Oleic violation, but the larger hoes of morality which
belong to liosernments and to nations are scarcely re-
cognized ewen by political historians. They look fer
events without relation to principles, they Si'c'k to interest
rather than to instruct us, and conceiving' that Heroes and
Princes are privileged to comioit enormous crimes, their
practice is to make thc;e appear brilliant. It is, there-
fore, that Princes seem more desirous of astonish-
ing by the splendour even of their vices, than of serv-
ing mankind by the softer radiance of their virtues.
It is under impressions such as these we consider the
offer of liosa tere to hiz,, brother Einperor, which led tei
the Treaty of Tilsit. An offer to renew the Eastern and
Western Empires of Antiquity in favour of these two
Sovereigns will afThrd an easy solution of their preseot
union in Peace and War. It. is only to sijppose that BONA.-
P.tiern has adopted the same maxims of political and mili-
tary tactics, and every thing is easy.. If the partition of
the World into the Foupires of the East and of the West
has been planned, all the objects of lesser moment arc suss
'wooed as inconsiderable, whilst the greater points arc de-
cidedly carrying oa. It folfteNs that AusTRIA and all
continental powers iutiO be swallowed up, and all that the
power which is able to make the most effectual resistance
will obtain, is the honour of being the last mouthful. The
Confederacy (4 the Rhine, the smaller States of Cerman}',
and the rest of Europe, will be suffered to exist no foil-
g-er than may be necessary to perfect this scheme. Eat theiai
is a depth in the politics of BoNseinTE, not guile ohvi-
ous to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, as to others who conteie-
plate the possibility of BONAPARTE deceiving A %elev..
ancient states of Greece mutually assi!.led each,
other till the Macedonians became powerful enough to
destroy them one after the other; when this was the case,
ALEXANDER instantly set about conquering the who'e
world ; when Rome afterwards had gained a eertani ascend-
ancy of power, foreign states thought to gain more by aid-
ing than by opposing her, till Rome, drawing them, all ono
after the other, the world suffered another conquest more
exten,ove than that under Aersetsoen. For the preseet,
however, these two great powers (possessing between them
more than WO millions of subjects) appear to have so far a
common understanding, and a common interest too, as to
assist their mutual projects; they appear at present in pc[l.,:ci;