The National Register.
London, England, 1809-05-14 00:00:00

ciliates opinion, and eludes that general outcry and indig-
Lion, which might equally indispose his own people, and
create a defensive union amongst foreign nations.
The second error is hi charging Austria with ingratitude.
When there was nothing conferree, there could assuredly
be nothing due On the score of obligation. Austria would
have been ungrateful, if France, in affected modera-
tion, had consulted Austrian interests. But when France
consulted not the of Austria, but her own situation
with respect to Russia, Austria had a just vi3ht to regard.
the Treaty of Tilsit as any thing. hut a cot` cession. Tt.e real
disposition of France is seen in the inaaner in which the
French EMPEROR has conducted himself towards the Prus-
sian Monarch. Where nothing intervened to require mo-
deration as a measure of policy, the conduct of France has
been that of a tiger, who having given its prey a deadly
blow—or at least, having cot ()Iran possibility of escape,
at seeming libetty, and plays with it with a ferocious
levity.

The Report next proceeds to charge Austria with insin- '
cerity and•dubious intentions during the war which termi-
nated in the annihilation of the Prussian Monarchy. There
cannot, we think, be any reasonable doubt, but that Aus-
tria, menaced as she was by the fate of Prussia, and by the
near approach of the French armies into the very heart of
her country, felt a very natural alarm, and this alarm
would doubtless lead to defensive precautions. But were
not these precautions a necessary consequence of the rela-
tive situation of France and Austria ? and was it reason-
ably to be expected of Austria, that as a consequence of
peace, she should put lwrself into a situation which would
leave her at the mercy of France? Is it reasonably to be
objected to Austria, that, surrounded as she was by armed
powers, she should refuse to divest herself of arms; and
should he content to remain in that state of nakedness
and imbecility, in a season of active warfare, which none
but the weakest nation would exhibit even in a period .of
perfect peace ? This state of things, says the Report, that
is to say, the groundless suspicion on one side, and the ge-
nerous confidence on the other, continued till the year
1807, when the Emperor NA poixoN granted to Austria the
Treaty of Fontainbleau, which decided all matters in dis-
pute by fresh concessions to Austria, and rendered the two
powers in perfect amity with each other.
The report then procee{l4 very singularly. .FEnut si ND the
7th, as is known to all Europe, is the Monarch at present
acknowledged by the Spanish Patriots. The Report,
therefore, with the most insitlioiis desi4as, endeavoors to
brand the character of FEP DINA NU with something of the
guilt of parricide. kin; CuaaLcs is said to have been
driven from his throne by Priuce FERDINA ND, his Son,
urged on by the Councils of the Duke del INFANTA DO.
The best answer to this part of the Report is in the able
Memoir published by i3,►. 'NUM° C !ITALIA% We do not
intend to give any opinion as to the personal trcrits of this
reputed Patriot,—he certainly is a very snspitieus, wea-
thercock character; hat there are parts of his Memoir,
wbicb, by their innate coherence, must be believed iu de-