The National Register.
London, England, 1808-10-02 00:00:00

OCT. Q.

mut, and in the intrepidity of our soldiers. if we have
judgment and courage to employ these means to their full
extent ; if we entrust them to men, not chosen on account
of their alliance with this or that particular family, but
for their merit, loyalty and services, we have it in our
power to oppose an insurmountable barrier to the progress
of the enemy beyond the Pyrenees. Let this be effected
befurcl we form new projects : We can u,osr, in the present
humbled state of the Luropean marine, laugh at the iuva-
sion of our shores, and consequently employ our whole re-
gular force This is the important and favourable
ground to tight on, if we expect a result commensurate to
the greaiiiess of our means. We are afraid a very mistaken
and ruinous policy may be adopted by sending part of our
forces to the western coast of Naples, and another to the
Adriatic. If the Italians have courage to shake oft' the
yoke of their oppressors, they will do it without our assist-
ance ; it is then time to fly to their aid ; but let us not use-
lessly waste an army of 30,000 men in the Mediterranean,
to watch their moment of insurrection. Fur that purpose
the army under Sir JOHN STUART is more than sufficient.
Spain is the ground where we should have, if possible, an
a.iuy of 60,000 men before the first of November. This
great force will dive an importance to our operations and a
respectability to our alliance. It is perfectly indifferent
where we beat the French, if we can only do it. The
great object of our exertions and our policy is to tear from
him a part of his present conquests ; to prove thus to Eu-
rope the greatness of our resources and the fallacy of his
invincibilits. It would be perfectly equal if that can be
done in Spain or in Naples, with this material difference,
that in the former country we are cerluin of finding a peo-
ple, who have the will and the courage to co-operate with
us. Sincerely do we wish that this were the intention of
his Majesty's Ministers. We have been long deceived in
our expectations of Austrian, Russian, and Prussian co-
operations. Let us begin at last to look to ourselves and
to reckon upon our own energy. If the former unite in
the noble undertaking their assistance will be acceptable ;
but we should calculate, as if ss c had as little to expect
from them as front the man in the moon. This is the true
secret of national, as well as individual greatness. - Good
heavens'. when vie take our resources, our opulence, tne
tragic effects of our institutions, and the acknow itls,sed
bralery of the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland,
into consideration, we cannot conceive how pusillanimity
could creep into our Councils. if there were a t-taleswan
!a this country who could only look beyond the iss eis e-
month, and use the great lever of the press to ad oantage,
he could call forth energies, which would fix our destmv
liar centuries. Let no haff-measures be adopted ; let our
full strength only be put out ; and a result will piaaluc«t,
"hid' it would be considered as extravagance to pretend to
at present. Spain, we repeat it once moil!, is the thc-atre
on ‘4liich we can display our means to greatest ad ‘antage.
The peop:e of that country, animated with the same ardent
lose of freedom—and the same abhorrence of the comiron
"etny, promise us a greater certainty of active, !oval co-
operation, than any other people we know of ou the Conti-
nent ; and if our exertions be proportionate to our re-
sources, moral and physical ; if our Statesmen have a par-
ticle of the genius of a t
:11ATIIAM, a day will burst upon its,
not inferior in splendour to those whea MaßLSOßursa. our
Ea walla and Ilrasav planted our triumphant standards en
the t"ita.hc, the Loire, and the t'eheltl.