The National Register.
London, England, 1808-09-26 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 26.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1808.

POLITIC.iL EVENTS OF TRH WEEK.

The intelligence received during the course of the week,
from several parts of the Continent, has been by no means
SJ important as we had reason to expect. The reports
made Us the Ministers of War and Foreign Affairs to the
l'enate, and the letter of ISONAPARTIS to the same corps,
spoke so decidedly of the vast preparations, and of the un-
abated will, to place a BONAPARTK on the Spanish throne ;
they contained, at the same time, so many insinuations
relative to Austria, evinced so much aancour, jealousy,
and dissatisfaction at the independence, energy, and mili-
tary preparations of that powerr—that there was reason to
suppose that the next mails from Holland would have
brought us some account of actual hostilities having broke
4:tit in the :outh of Germany. However, no such event
has occurred ; and all this bluster and bullying have
been no more, as we insinuated in our last, than mere
Puling, in order to impose on the Parisians, delude and
orrify the vassal states, and excite apprehensions and dis-
satisfaction in the. Austrian provinces.
His present conduct is so diametrically opposite to that
daring and flagitious policy, which marked his former ca-
reer, that some great and insurmountable difficulties must
have started up, to occasion such a deviation from his
usual activity and decision. What can account for this
relaxation in his measures, and this uncertainty in his
councils ? A declaration, similar to that lately made to the
teuate, was formerly the immediate harbinger of war and
',story. Why does he then renounce a system, which was
attended with uniform success ? A man of his characteristic
pc netration would not so easily relax, for the purpose of
exveriment, from that decided and energetic policy, which
gave him so tnuch advantage over the wavering, irresolute
c‘crilcilq of his enemies. We cannot extricate ourselves
out of the difficulty and embarrassment, by imputing this
spiritless, vacillating conduct of the Tyrant to the absence
or disgrace of TALLEYRAND ; for he enjoys the full benefit
of Lae experience, resources, and genius of that vaunted
statesman. Ile is with hirn in Paris ; possesses his confi-
dence; and exercises his usual influence. We cannot,
therefore, employ TALLEYRAYD as a Deus ex inathina, to
salve our doubt. • Nor can we, with "water propriety or

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