The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-02 00:00:00

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own good time disposed of the scourge of nations. Austria
cannot make peace : she most perish or she must re.list
effectually. 1, or what sort of a peace could be now made
without security for its continuance one moment ; a peace
which could only give l:reath to a degraded enemy to in-
crease his strength without lessening bis rancour, the in-
terval of which would only he employed in making pre-
parations for more effectl se %var.—This would, indeed, be
preferring the greater to the lesser evil.—lt would be suffer-
ing a wound to heal npon the surface, whilst the real dis-
order spreads benfath and endangers the very existence of
the patient, vviiich the continuance of r seasonable, al-
though perhaps a painnll remedy might have saved. IF
.lustria could at this moment consent to patch tip a peace—
between Russia and France, between the Eastern and
Western Emperors, she would soon be annihilated. If one
pulled out a hair because it was white another would be
separated because it was black, and she would soon be left
bald and bare to the winds of [leaven.

The following is said to be au accurate statement of the
etVective strength or the Corps to he employed in the Ex-
pedition :

v A 1.410,-.—King's Cerman Legion, 21 LiTlit Dragoons,
600 ; 3d I,i!st Dragoons, 3 Squadrons, ; 9i Ii Licht Dra-
goons, 3 Squadroa,, •ISO ; 12th Light Dragoons, 70,1--Total
'320.

INF A Tft ['not t7tf3nl9, Ist Battalion. 1:120; ditto 34
Battalion, 1100; Flank ('ointlanies, ditto, tilhi ; King's Ger-
man Legioti, Ist Light Itattolioi, 725 ; ditto 21 ditto. 630; :id,
Quest'!, 609 ; 31, or Itoy:IU, 11 I battalion. 10.)0 ; 4th Foot, Ist
battalion, 1000 ; <<l ditto, 9‘4.); 501 Foot, I.t battalion, 9110;
6.'81, Ist ditto, S5O; Sits, 2(1 ditto, 400; 901. 1-t ditto, 950;
11th, 2d ditto, 775; 14;h, 2tl ditto, 10110; :->';111 Regiment,
900,1 23:1, 2d ditto, 400; tstith. 14 ditto, 730; IStli
610 ; 3'2d, Ist ditto, 590 ; 35th, gd ditto, 791; Ist ditto,
7'o; 380, 1:1 ditt to,• 759 ; -12 d, fst ditln, 7eo 4Sid, 2d ditto,
(S 7 ; 500 t, Ist ditto, 10;10; 51st fi.to ; 591. 2d bat—
talion, 742; 59:h, 2.1 ditto, 7-12 ; 63d, 2:1 ditto, 406; 68th
Light Infaotr., 570; 71st, 1-t itAtalion, 1000 ; 7COII Foot, 700;
77th Regiment, 530; 79th, Ist battalion, 1000 ; 81st, -24 ditto,
73'7 ; 1132 d, 24 ditto, 1000; 84th, 2d ditto 864 ; 85th Regiment,
530; 91st, Ist ditto, 500; 92d, Ist ditto, 750; 95th rig at
iotnpanies, 600; Two ditto, 200 'Total ellecti% e rank ;and
lite, 34,403.

Wbeu the artillery, engineers, dr. are added to, this
force, the amount will, as we have already stated, he not
iess thau 40,000 men complete.

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whether t real or imani tars-, of flabby, fat cook-maids,
who appear ready to faint under a toad of finery, or
almost expiring with the UllllSil3l fatigue of dressing I.;7em-
selves instead tf the victuals. As little, I aiiprehen,l,
the fashiontble world be disposed to figure away ii mai-Ales
invented, on purpose, by the fashionable milliners and fanc:-
dress makers of Fleet. Markel, the Alinories, or even of
'ravistock-street, and which base never been seen; but. on
the giantie females that ornament the Iteposfioi:l;. flow-
ever tne passiontof the multitude may tolerate, and es en
be led to eucourage the indecent (to say nothing Wu rYC) tires
h ich disgrace the shop windows of our picture dealers, or
which are temptingly exposed to more naidest feinale:4 in a
Silll4 corner of the shop, where the port folio is exhibited,
cannot help thinking that seven
*Pe: inches, 111!e
Oilirienso are not much to the taste of the town when rresvcd
in fashionable, or rather what is called I astaiomble drapery.
1 am led Mao these observations by the silty superioritl,
which the indiscreet feiends of that. publication attribute
to the work. 1 say the friends for 1 cannot believe
that either the German Editor, or the German publisher
of the Repository arc so ignorant of the real supe-
riority in every department of another work (which I will
not name, because 1 will not imitate them) as to be able
to conceit it from their own conviction.
trust the prilprictors of the work to which I allude will
shrew their indisputable superiority by avoiding the s‘ stein
ofquackery and puffing Is hich no disgustingly marks ti.-c ,Re-
posnory. It is notoriously (what your correspondent Crito
only suspected) the fact, that ail the observations relating to
that work, are manufactured at No. 101 in the Strand, iord
advertisements, they arella the o bser v a t,o
of Newspaper Editors, or even the gratuitous recommen
lions of friends, but arc made up and paid fin-. It wi,old
take up too much of your paper to point out the atisr!,lify
of these puffs, and the mischief which in . many ins; ;;T3
they do to the very work they are intended to reemr ;
but cannot help noticing one, which, if the Editor does Hut
acknowledge as proceeding from his ignorance, muss lz :,t-
-trfnuted to a worse motive. 1 mean the advertiseint:i, v, hi ell
announced an an original communication by a gentica.el-list
arrived front Spain upon the subject of *dep. Sheep ;
1 ask the Editor of that work if he did not know t.JI
eoannunication, so pompously and expensiirjly antronrlcecf,
had Been published twent3 years go in almost every.r.,-r;e:)
pOlication of the day. Thes

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tensive, the force according e to report will be very little
' TO Tilt ED4ll'Oll OP FRE SAVONA L REGISTEit t
SIIo r t or 40,000 men. We can form an opinion as to its
destination only from conjecture, and that is not idle uphn ---ssis.---
the subject. If it.lgl intended to act in the rear of livoN A- SIR,-1 shrewdly suspect that a correspondent who sign
'.,:, ...: • PARTE., amid lo operate U.llOll the Elbe, there are neat want- CRITO, and whose letter WAS published in ell fr.; INQUISITOI
ing those who consider it herhls probable, that so far from of the 10th of June, was in reality quitting-, and-that hi
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being treated as enemies the Expedition will be received Strictures upon the noble Art of rutting, an art which he ap
with friendship. A similar feeling is said to exist in 1101- peared to recommend, was Ili fact, all ironical satire upoi
• /and if that.be the object: If Prussia has really solicited our thst practice. lam afraid his leiter has not been understoo
assistsuce in the hour of its need and adversity, we may be as a friendly bolt in the only quarter where it could hay,
inclined to forget Ow miserable politics of the Sovereign been serviceable ; otherwise some little decency would has.
no in consideration of his fallen Mole, and we have no reason . been preserved, some little delicacy would have been chew
to doubt the willingnoss of that nation to assist every effort towards public opinion. But. there are some faculties s,
. to escape from the galling yoke by which it has been vcry obstuse, that nothing short of direct observatio
• oppressed.—The Ilanoverians have been too severely will wake an imptession. four correspondent CRITO, h
ponisbed for their attachment to a beloved Sovereign bringing into one point of view the several puffs which ha
111 not to join in tile same a t tempt.—l f the Spanish Peninsula been inserted in the Newsrpers..since the commencement t
be the ulterior of of our armament, there is nut an the Repository, made the plan and design of them so ver
honest man, there is not a real patriot in the kingdom'who obvious, that nobody coots! mistake the plan and principle
..,. '. 0 . w ill not ass;•nt to the propriety of rendering the Spaniards of the quackery winch had hem adopted to push a troll
cvery aid in our power. If we can keep iii cbeck pert' work'into notice. But there is a fund of good sense
the assistance which iillo% A VARTE might otherwise derive. it not of taste in this country, which will not long subnii
• from Rossi:), and these formid•thle preparations are devoi- to be deceived. The general acquaintance with literature
sm,
mid to that purpose, no body can refuse their approbation which pert odes almost every class of the people, makes
r.iiould tli- a ritiamen tbe declined for the Baltic, in which case impossible for them to be lung imiosed upon by sterile an
4 inertia ps the double purpose may be kept '
view . . -
la of illicit• inelegant translations of German literature, hashed up i
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mug Crons!adt, or assts:oll4 the Swedes.—Belt whatever may what. your correspondent 4iroperly calls a mass of monthl
be its lkstioation we sincerely wish it success. If the war dulness, as little will those who can allUrd to give I'm
is to be carried on let it be done with vigour, and carried on shillings a month for a wretched olio, designated TI
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it must be till the ETERNAL Dispog En of Events has in his Repository ig. filiation, be ple:ised with theait;
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own good time a.
l.SpThied of the scourge of nations.
portrait:
aons.
. . .tostria whether real or imaginary, of flabby, fat cook-Alai&
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