The National Register.
London, England, 1809-08-27 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER;

AUG. 27.

which is necessary and essential to the eilectual deliverance
of their country from the machinations of the Usurper. A
gleam of hope seems to shoot along the dark prospects of
the Continent; dark indeed if the Tyrant is able to create
such a state of things as to make it either the policy or the
interest of the powers that he to sink into a universal
subserviency, and rather to court a disgraceful vassallage,
than bury themselves under the ruin of their independence.
What must be the result of such a state is obvious to the
meanest capacity. Europe will become one great prison.
The same fatal darkness will again pervade the Conti-
nent which has and always must attend universal des-
potism.---But darkness is not only the lot of man deprived
of liberty and living under the controul of Tyranny ;
but Tyrants who reign in solitude create an sail!,
cial darkness, for with them education, knowledge,
activity, social intercourse, love of one's country, and all
the principle moral virtues, are considered in the odious
light of resisting principles, and are therefore. proscribed
and extinguished, and as to commerce and agriculture,
which depend upon capital as their primum mobill, the
Despot seizes upon that capital as fast as it appears, and
thus " cuts down the tree of which he wishes to gather the
fruit." The several great monarchies or rather tyrannies
of the world, have proved great experiments upon the. hue.
man character, both as to the Princes and the people.—
Their power has been built upon the possession of some
species of talents, which power has soon absorbed or ex,
tinguished, and the master has then beconie the most de-,
prayed of mankind, and the subjects the most degenerate.
They have each beea rendered worse by the other. Those
who possess power, which implies the possession of force,
are soon led to believe that it supersedes every othet re-
quisite of government, whether for foreign objects, or
those which are nearer home. The principle or the con-
sequences of this persuasion soon spread from the Sovereign
to the landed proprietor, and to every order of men.—
None are instructed, or will humble themselves to receive
instruction, and the passions of the human breast, which it
is the business of education to suppress, redoubles all their
fury. The evil Own acts reciprocally upon itself, and
Princes and subjects debase one another in turn, till one uni.
versa! depravity, one universal deluge of misery, ignor-
ance, and confusion, overwhelms the whole earth, and no.
where is an olive branch to be met with, upon which the
spirit of peace and religion may find a resting place, and
no where is an ark to be found in which may be saved a
remnant of mankind.

The report which has obtained for some days of the
rupture of the Armistice, seems to gain more of confidence
than we had considered it entitled to. It will be fortunate
for this country and we hope for Europe in general, if the
Emperor FRANCIS will emancipate himself from the insi-
dious and corrupted Councils by which his security is
menaced. The report to which we allude is repeated in
stronger terms than before, and it is conveyed to us in the.
following broad expressions: "That the Emperor ofAurrnis
had determined not to seal his ruin by acceding to BUONA•
TA I`. I E.% oilers of Peace, that he had ordered notice to be.
given to the French of the termination of the Armistice,
and that the Archduke CHARLES had been replaced in the
conimand of the army by Prince JOHN of Lichtenstein.'
Lord WsLeour, who arrived from the Continent on Sim-
day last, is said to confirm this report, and likewise that the
discontent in the Austrian army at the result of the battle.
of Esling is excessive, it being the universal belief that if
the success of the right win:; bad been followed up, the%
French army would have been completely defeated ; that
their ammunition was exhausted, and that but for the timid.
Councils to which the Archduke CHARLES unfortunately
listened, and the credit he gave to the weak representation
made to him, they must have be. n cut to pieces, and their
communic;:tion with Vienna intercepted. Prince JOHN is.
said to have offered with thirty thousand men to has e
crossed the Danube fOr this purpose, but. his plat) *as re-
jected%