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

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id Ldit. Bvo. chap. ix. sec. xix. and xxi. 32:3-324.
" None but the Sovereign can make Alliances and Trca-
ties, either by himself or by his MiI:ISECES. Treaties con-
cluded by Ministers oblige the Sovereign and the State only
when the Ministers have been duly authorised to make
Ova and have done nothing contrary to their orders and
instruction*; and here it may be observed that among
the Romans the word fedus, a public compact, or solemn
agreement, signified a Trealy made by order of the Sove-
reign Power, or that bad been afterwards ratified ; but
liken Public Persons, or Ministers of State, had promised
something relating to the Sovereign Power, without ad-
vice and command from it, this was called sponsio, or a
simple promise and engagement.
" When a Sovereign is informed of a Treaty made by
ame of his Ministers without his orders, his silence alone
does not imply a ratification, unless it will be accompanied
with some act, or other circuinAance, which cannot well
bear another explication : and much more if life agreement
:were made von condition of its beine- ratified by the Sove-
reign, it is of no force till he has ratified it in a formal
23 caner."

It appears from the Extraordinary Gazette, which eon-
, tains two letters from the Commander in Chief of the Ex-
peilition„ that the garrison of Flushing was more consider-
able than had been first
.mentioned. We believe the ac-
count given in this paper sometime since will prove to be
perfectly correct. We stated that owing to the oversight
of not securing- Cadsand, MONNETT had increased his garri-
son to 8 or 9000 men ; this proves to have been the fact,
at accounts in some measure for an error we had supposed
him guilty of in wasting what. was supposed to have been
a very small garrison in sanguinary and ineffectual sorties,
It
have
from the dispatches that the other islands we
have taken will supply our troops with cattle, provisions,
and spirits, and there does not appear to be any thing war-
ranting a doubt of carrying the ulterior objects of the
Expedition into effect ; at the same time we cannot but
observe, that this must be attributed in a great measure to
the rupture of the Armistice in Moldavia. If NAPOLEON had
settled the business with Austria, there can be no doubt of
his having sent a detachment of 40 or 30,000 men to join
the meeting near Antwerp, but we fancy he will find suffi-
cient employment for all the forces he can muster in Ger-
many. The foolish and fictitious statement of the compa-
rative strength of the German and French forces which
appoared in the last Bulletin, is now accounted for. Alai
as we have before noticed, the object of this gasconade was
certainly to accelerate the negotiations by intimidating the
Austrian Emperor. Although we have no official account
ci the armistice having been hroken off; yet it appears
that in Holland, so long. since ai the 16th lust. it was con-
sidered iia a known and admitted fact ; and letters of that
mention, that in consequence of this ciecurastance
eulOni ht proda,:e had risen.
' it cannot !nerefore be doubted :hat our care:thin will
operate a must formidable, and we trust favourable diver_
kiwi fur the Austrians; it will at any rate occupy a con-
sidereble force, which ought to have been marched to the
Danube. It will certainly encourage, and perhaps be the
me.ins of organising the insurrections, which we trust will
he general, in Hesse, Westphalia, and the eastern parts of
tiolJand. if our hopes and wishes as to this circumstance
should be realised, we have no doubt the nations in his rear
will find him employment in that quarter. In the mean
time, the Spaniards may and ought to take advantage of
the respite which these favourable changes atTord to
them ; nothing but an impression upon the minds of
that people, that they are fighting for their own' libertieh,
and not for the privileges of particular orders, nothing bet
• consciousness that their freedom and security is become
ideetified with the Government they are called upon to de-
(cud, or capable of witiag that degree of cut:iusi,lsal