The National Register.
London, England, 1809-08-20 00:00:00

Into one terrible and ',nighty impulse, and tramples down
As enemy, or rushes ,:!)on his sword.
The Turks have sunk as a power, but have not so coin-
! pletely de!renerated as a people. Whom by a series ofvil-
iaioy and destruction the last remains of the Roman Ent-
eire in the East had died the most eliemiwte of deaths,
o the hands of the Mahomedans almost without a struggle,
hese same men failing into a similar despotic coarse ac-
ea me sanguinary to one another, and feeble tow aids their
enemies, and have in a great degree forgot the very art
which is first learned, and last lost among despots ; namelyt,
that of war. The government living as it were on the
entrails of the dominions without any. care taken for pos-
terity, arc kept together more by the intluence of religion
than of policy.
It may and has been said of them iudvidually, that if
others have advanced much, they have retrogaded but
little ; that they are still the same bold and savage men
who besieged V walla, and filled every kingdom of Europe
,vith terror. There is no soldier in the world super;er
to the native Turk, the disdain with which he has
Veen accustomed to look down upon the surrounding
Nations, have given him the revered and lofty spirit.
which distiagnisheg a Tyrant lirir.7 among slaves. • The
policy of his religion has impressed ad the stronger features
of a warrior upon leis character, and the danger of Mahon).
iredanisin will bring the people swarming by thousands
rotted the staneard of the Prophet from every village
id
diet immense region which spreads from the Euphrates to
the Dz!nohe.
The fall of Turkey opens out a prospect which bewilders
the rye of the politician. It has been a kind of mental
barrier belseeee gurope and the East, an enormous intellec-
teal (!escrt, which no man could pass without paying
trihrie to the savage tril:es who Fore through and make it
desolate. Great changes muyt he ;he result of dismembering
this reap re and Persia, Indcntan, and even China, may
no be heyond the intienace of a spirit :o whose progress
iiothin4 hns hitherto oficrei an effectual opposition.—We
shall lIUMIC this subject at another opportunity.
Paris papers to the 21st, Ilambnrgh to the 11th, Berlin.
Frankfort, and other papers to the 4th, have been received
in town. They do not Coittail} any fresh Bulletin, nor is
there any account of Preliminaries having been signed be-
tween France and Austria, so late as the 2Sth July. Re-
ports to this effect prevailed at llsmbnrgh, but the Vienna
papers to the 29th do not mention this circumstance. We
do not therefore place any reliance upon the reports.
BUOM•PARTM is expected at Paris, where, it is said, a
Congress of the Princes of the Confederation will be held.
Private letter state, that negotiations aro still carrying
on, and that hostilities are not likely to re-commence.

Just as our Paper was going to Press, we were informed
that iutelligence has been received from the Continent,
which states, that the Archduke CuAuLEs has been removed
from the command of Me Army, and that notice has
been given to the French of the termination of the
Armistiee. We are very much inclined .to doula the
truth of this account ; because, if the latter event
has taken place, wVch we devoutly wish may be tuue„
we can see no reason for the removal of the Archduke
CIIIIITLES. Prince Joust was never suspected of being a
great General, or one likely to retrieve the lost honours of
the House of Lorraine ; if he had signed disgraceful an&
itr;oininions terms of peace we should not have bee sur-
prised. We can only say, we rather wish than believe the
intelligence to be correct.

American Papers to the li Lb ult. have been received.
but their contents are of little or no iulportance. At the
celebration of the anniversary of Anaevi;:ati independence,
which took place throughout thA United State i in the be.
ginning of list month, the ureshniinlnce of public opitw.4%
was greatly In favour of this country.