The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-29 00:00:00

POLITIC,4I. DIS2UISITION.

PRESENT S FATE OF EU POPE.

SUNDAY, AUGUST V9l 181 g.

PRICE )d.

on our mind. But vie can trust to the recollection of .all
Europe, while we assert that there is not a single instance
in which BUONAP MITE deviated from the line traced out
to him by his predecessors in the !peat work of the regene-
ration of mankind. 1n the early sines of the. French
revolution, confiscations formed a fund Which the rapacity
of the buyers of national property rendered available fOrthe
support of the immense armies. Those resources were
shortly exhausted, and even then it was generally 'acknow-
ledged that France, deprived of commerce and harried
by internal commotions, could not support
.the armies
necessary to maintain and to spread the. new doctrines.—
The weak States bordering on France .were in consequence
invaded, erected into Republics, and tite riChes.fhey Ita‘dac-
comulated during a long interval of peace, fed for sometime

the Republican armies by which they were 'oppressed. When
BUONAPARTE assumed the imperial purple in France, ra-
pacity had also drained that source of revenue: on the other
hand, larger armies were necessary To sift-Tort his new power
and give his lofty title a dignity it could not have received
from his person. It became therefore necessary to give a
new direction to the revolutionary spirit, and to widen the
circle of its baneful influence; in short, it became necessary
to acct throughout Europe' the same scenes which bad been
exhibited in France and in a few of the neighbouring States.
The first leailers of the Revolution had sold the es'fates of
the nobles and clergy, BUO,I4*P ARTA sold provinces and
' kingdoms, and the Princes of the Continent sought those
spoils of their neighbours with the same avidity which had
disgraced part of the French nation. The some effect too
was produced, for it sowed among them the seeds of aniistrust
and of malignity, and they were overpowered one after the
other. Republican France had been surrounded by kindred
Republics, the Empire was encircled by Kings, tributary
vassals to the EMPEKOO. The Republic bad. declared war
to all Kings as essentially enemies to her institutions, sllr 0-
NA,P A Try E declared war to all legitimate Sovereigns, because
the very legitimacy of their tiVe is, in his mind. and in the
eyes of his pretended subjects, a standing reproof of his
usurpation and of his abject origin. ••
Prom what we have stated, as far as our limits toOld
it becomes evident that the Revolutionary power of France,
no matter by whom exercised, can be maintained only by
the same' means by which. it has been subversive of all
received opinions, of all former iiihtitutions, and the work is
incomplete so long as there remains theleagftraces to remind
the French people of the state into. which they are fallen.
To these considerations -drawn from the -rinture' of the
power itself, .wetave to arid. those which sprinsgf om the
peculiar situation of the .man and' from his. kttvrwn
• character.
.hut this part of the subject won'tl fir•exteed
our usual limiti, notwithstanding all our efforts' to comeress
it, and we are therefore reluctantly compelled to postpone
• until our. next ,umber.—(To be eo,ntioued