The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-16 00:00:00

J ULY 16.

that he has in the face of Europe, represeeted a place to
lave capitulated which had not done so, He ;nay hive
converted defeats into victories ; thele are akavg two
ways of telling a story ; but to invent a fact altogether is
something eew indeed—and yet we have what is very like
it. Raab is in the centre of Hungary t!I What
beographers we are in England nut to understand things
etter. The Austrians; do not appear to have knolvn
its value, as they left, according to BVONAPARTE's
accouist, only one thousand eight hundred men to tlelend
it. IL: would have been better pleased. if pursuing the
old system, they had divided and subdivided their forces in
garrisoning freutter town', and miiiiuts statiots, he
might then nave destroyed thein in detail, besides imitating
the relic.), of INIMP or MaceeoN, he could take any town.
ina the fertitcatif.us of which lie had nettle a breach large
enough to die+e an teis laden with gold. The A rehdeke is
cone-entrvi:ig every thine: against the of conflict, which
is 'nevi tabl . orse and worse BUCNAPIRTE'S
StlIaL)11
,(tie ussiahs cannot arrive before the decisive
battle :s toueee, and we have soms doubt if they would
arrive, even if it were practicable. The Russian Emperor
tnav ‘vish to see if fortune be really chained to the person
of BIIoNAPART-ii.% The events which have taken place
tipna t:ie Left Bank of toe Danube, may stn;.-Fer
ben CV 0(1 in Petersburgh. The rebuand of stint) a
shack mav be felt at a great distance; and that tray be
true in politics which may notwithstandmg be incapable of
shaeoustratione •if the forces of*the Austrians iieSaxonv
and Franconia are so very small, what should prevent
11uusAVACTa (ruin extirpating them ? What should keep
the King of SAXONY a prisoaer at Fraekfort I A lie bas
two edg:.-s, and this cuts both ways. If there are only Taoo
in one place, and 8000 in the other, where are all the French
troops that certainly were there ? or what must have been
the dispositions of the people who can have submitted
• quietly to a force so inconsiderable?--it is this spirit of the
people that haunts BUONAPARTF, he has never yet had to
contend with it, and if the Austrians pursue the same
Spirited intellectual warfare they now practice. they will beat
BLIONAPARTE at his own weapons. These ephemeral Bul-
letins, as he calls them, he cannot bear—they tease him
worse than a gad-fly teazes a thineikinned horse in thes
dog days ; they do, and they will, excite insurrections
against his detestable and detested power. The Austrians
are improving the moments of delay in recruiting their
force in every quarter. They harrass him every where.
if I hey are beaten in the Tyrol, or at Raab, they re-appear.
in Itatj, anti their Generals are ahnost. uhiquitisls. CHAS-
TELLAR perforros wonders; to-day at Venice, to-morrow
in Hungary. We do nut like the appearance of an Aus-
trian Ambassador at the out-posts of the French army.
If the Emperor of AusTala makes peace he is conquer-
ed---Napoeunts can never forgive %%bat has passed ; and
will never for a moment cease t prosecute the vast plans
which have occupied his insatiable mind. Ambition is
made of stones stal—no compunctious feelings wit! pre-
weril—no treaties will bind, and. nothing but a superior
force will compel hint to be quiet. A state of peace
%Yeffid be a sentence of obscurity to such a man ; and he
till never make it but with a view of retreating from his
prey as a tyg,er recedes in order to spring upon it with ac-
cumulated strength.

fellowing is a copy of a letter we have been favour-
ell with re!ative to the capture of Cuxha‘en

UL I CO LA ND, JuLY 6—EC .have received
accetuw,. of the landing of our troops at Cuxhaven, which
.e wag taken, the Dutch troops having made their e!4.ape
Cr' the appearance of our force. The inhabitants immediately
plied our troops, nod sigr.i INI a wish to 'nitre!) against Ham-
hurgh. • We expert every moment some fresh arrival, aril of
sours you ',lnv v peel an account of something having taken
jklaee in this neighbourhood.
The celebrated Thomas Paine is dead ; but of the pre-
cat Limo or piaus where 1w died ay unaitiou is made.