The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-15 00:00:00

POLITIOAL DISQUISITIVN.

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No. 180,
RETROSPECT or EVENTS,

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• Events have slackened their course. the public
r7e so long bent with wonder and anxiety on tl,e
revolmions of Continental States : deeply en.
gaged in contemplating the fall of independent
kingdoms, and the creation of monarchies enslaved
at their birth, now looks in vain for the usual food

.of its curiosity. Hitherto a continual series of im-
portant occurrences had awakened uninterrupted
attention. Ever since the first burst of the French
Revolution, Europe had either at 'nee, or alter
nately in every part presented a scene of unfold

activity. Even peace, though concluded between
France and every other Continental Power, and'

• subsequently with this country, had laid but a
feeble,che.ck on the birth and progress of events.
The French Ruler availed himself of that season of
general tranquillity to occuprthe territory:of up-'
defended States, and enlarge hit denainions,- until
the tztent of hit aggressions struck us with a. salu-
tary alarm, and induced us to renew the contest.
Then daily threats of invasion called almost all our
male population to arms, and attracted the eyes of
every nation in the univetse. When the realization

of the enemy's boastful threats was incessantly de-
layed without any other apparent cause than that
of apprehension on his part ; the Austrian and Rus.
s:.111 Governments awoke from the temporary stu-
pifaction in which his former successes, and the
magnified statement of his means, now proved
insufficient to effect any enterprise against this
empire, had plunged them. Hurried on by her
own atdour, and perhaps by tEe secret per-
Edy of her corrupt Counsellors, Austria took
\ed beiore her Ally could
assistance. Attacked al-
Issian Autocrat Was corn-
:Trace of returning to his
marches settled by Ms cone
br policy ; viewing, at the
.e of exultation, the power
Prussia began to perceive
the coalition, that she had
most dangerous game....
held in cheek by 1/3►

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sources of the Austrian empires and careless of the
diettint enmity of Russia, the ambitions conquer)!
would no lougef tespect her integrity a 4 independ.
ence. She 'Soon Sit* that his tone was changed, and
swelling with pride at tie •remembrance of her lati
greatness, fancied the genius of her 'titLon= still
presided over her Council, and her armies, boldly
rushed, unsupported like Austria, into the contest,
and in d lark was laid irremediably prostrate at the
foot of the French Esteeatm. Thus sunk with the
brittleness of glass, the lofty tabrk raised by
crowned atheism and immorality. and thus are the
sins °faille fathers visited in due time by Heaven en
their descendants. The tardy arrival of the Rus•
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sians allowed the conqueror to occupy, with scarcely
any opposition after the first battle, almost the
whole of Prussia Proper, all Silesia, and the greater
part of Poland, 'and compelled the advancing force
rather to fight in defence f its own frontiers than in
support of its Ally. Defeated with an immense lose
at Frizdland, the Russian Autocrat fell into the
arms of NA/loom:a; and bemire his most obsequious
slave. Wielding the pen as rapidly as the sword,
the victor dictated the teems he thought proper,
and pe:ke was continued almost before the war.
riors, lying on the field of Fliedl;ind, could have
been laid in their graves. The pacification of the
North proved a signal of war in the West. In-
vaded under the mask of friendship, robbed of her
Kings, her arms, magazines, and fortresses, Spain,
without Chiefs and without mearis, t•xcept those
torn from the grasp of her toes, dared to resent her
injuries. Her pati4.ots first conquered, and then
fled. The reinforcements poured in from France
tore the advantages they had gained from their
hands, and they were, to all human probability,
sinking beneath the yoke, when the British bayonet,
after clearing Portugal of its invaders, suddenly
glittered in their plains.
Conquering and retreating for the want of a propet
intelligence with, and a proper support from, men
to whom the first elements of war were unknown,
and who possessed but few of its weapons, the cam.
paign was carried on by us, until kindled by our
successes, and trusting in our powerful divers;an,
and secret but strong longing after general emanci-
pation which the struggles of the Spaniards h
created among all the vassals of Fr trice, Austria
149r* challenged ha 19 the 644. Le ardrucr

the field, and was ruine
yichl her any powerful
most singly, then the Rut
gelled to submit to the di,
own territory by regular r
queror. Wavering in hei
roar of battle, with an ey
of Austria brought low ;
after the dissolution of th
played an impolitic and
.fille felt, th.►t no longer
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