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London, England, 1813-07-11 00:00:00

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SUNDAY, JULY 11, 1813.

his summer prosperity again so far asto expetteit to another'
overthrow. lie had. at 'last felt the instahilitv of fortune,
and in order to obtain a general acknoWledgement of his
title.and dynasty, might be expected to make considerable
sacrifices. These were grounds on which we
.maintain..
ed the possibility of restoring peace to the world. Rut
the premises given by NATOLEost and our con!empokarie9, •
with all the pride and pomp of authenticity, being in a: great •
measure Use, our conclusions must be necessarily '
Far from considering the A rmi,tiee as Melv to lead to c peae,
. , • •
-we arc now told by the KING of PRUSSI A himself in a Pro- .
clamation to his people, that the Allies accepted it only as
giving them the means of increasing their force. And how
does this assertion tally with the fact ? The landing of
15,000 Russians to join BERN ADOTTE, the arrival of near
40,000 men on the Oder in Silesia, the raising of C..?0,0c0
more in East Prussia, and the continued organization of the
landwehr, strews that the Allies have not turned the Armis-
tice to less account than they boast of. That time of ex-
pected rest and negotiation has been spent in tenfold activity
and warlike preparation.. Hostilities have been suspended,
only to be renewed with greater and more decisive effects
and a more tremendous conflict seems on the eve cf re om•
mencing than any that has yet wasted the population of th-e.
• earth. NAroz.r.ost,
.ssti!st h_e endeayo,ured to secure by
negotiation and intrigue the restoration and consolidation of
his power,- did not fail to provide other means to enfOrcelds
pretensions. •Not .:ti,-.Cted with hip new levies and the troops
collected from every part of his dominions, he dreW a fresh
supply of veterans from. Spain. BEAL:HAI:NOB, was sent to
overawe Austria by forming an army in Italy,'but, relying o:t
the indecision of the Court of Vienna, rorwarded the: fir,.t,
' 2,000 men be had -assembled to- the• Elbe. Gained by Isis
roznises iiicetved at the Treaty concluded by the Al-
lies to dept ive her of Norway,Demnark ordered 15,0.10- of
her soldiers to swell.the hosts of NA Por.East. The Princes
,of the Confederation of the. Rhine, apprehensive lest the
triumph of the just cause.shOnld skiyay their Crowns,
filled up their contingents; -andelastiy; Austria, unwilling
to lose the momentary importance svit:, lishe has acquired
by taking a decided part.whicli must reduce her tci the rank
of a-follower in the train of •another and yet ton pu-
sillanimous to maintain a sy-tettt complete neutrality,
opened a way through her territOriets for,:)iince Poi A TOW-
SKY'S corps, and thus enabled 1f5,000. Poles to join the
French army. .
On comparinc, the efforts made bv 121 th parties, ct would
..ppcar at this distance frout the scene Cf action, and with
the lrmited means of information we ecs,ess, for much ex.
ageration prey ails every where, that the accession of strenth
hitherto acquired by the Alles and the Viench during,the
Armistice, is very near on a level, and may be computed 04