The National Register.
London, England, 1808-07-31 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

was an absolute ruse de guerre. He is too much afraid of
entrusting. arms to the people at the present crisis, when
their detestation and the ruinous war be carries on
in Spain, may induce the inhabitants to turn these
arms against himself. The commanders of our squa-
drons should also receive orders to circulate all
along the coast from the Elbe to Trieste, papers in
in the French, German, Italian, and Dutch languages,
containing the Spanish Proclamations, and a faithful nar-
rative of the events in that peninsula. This could be very
easily effected; and did they produce no other effect than
to keep alive his jealousy and apprehension, as he knows,
and as every tyrant believes, that the people have a ri,ght
to abhor him, he will be compelled to keep a cousiderable
force in the interior and along, the coast. No means of
annoyance should be neglect:xi—one blow should succeed
another. The present crisis is decisive of his fate and that
of Europe. This favourable moment may never more re-
lora ; and if we neglect, we deserve to lose the advantages
it otters. Every means of attack we can employ against
him are lawful. lie is a bandit, an outlaw, who has
trampled on laws, institutions, and customs. The war is
between him and civilized society; and it would be inhu-
manity towards the millions who inhabit Europe, to re-
commend that our attack against that lawless villain should
be conducted on the principles of the laws of nations. In
particular, we should turn our attention to Brabant and
Holland. We have- traversed the two countries in every
direction, in the beginniug of the Austrian and Prussian
wars; and their abhorrence of BoNarAwrc at that time
was so great, that had the late or preceding Ministry
effected a landing of thirty thousand men, they would have
• been joined by the greater part of the male population
of the two countries. We recur again to the necessity
of suggesting, as we did in our last number, the expediency
of collecting our whole disposeable force remaining in
Great Britain, opposite the coast of Flanders. Austria is
at the same time on the alert. We received subsequent
information to the letter we exclusively communicated on
Sunday last, from our correspondent in Haniburgh, which
puts it beyond every doubt, that if Austria hos not already
declared war against France, a war is unavoidable. It is
true our subsequent information shews that our corres-
pondent was premature in his account of the departure of
Arsearossv, but it confirms the other circumstances men-
tioned in that letter. We have also received, through the
same channel, the positive account, that the troops station-
ed in Callicia and Hungary were to form two camps, one,
near Schoenbrun, and the other at Egra, to which the
regiments in Bohemia were likewise to be joined. The
last French accounts set the authenticity of this id-
formation beyond a doubt. Their forming a camp near
Berlin, and collecting so large a force in Silesia, prove it
irrefragably. That our Government has foreseen this event,
may be concluded from the commission of Mr.
who, we entertain no doubt, goes to Vienna, and not
to Constantinople, as is generally stated. The accounts
from the North of Germany confirm this opinion, as it was
confidently reported there, that he had already arrived
at Trieste.
Denmark begins at last to feel the disastrrous effects of
her alliance with the common tyrant. The marks of her
sovereignty have been torn down in every part of Holstein,
and those of her perfidious ally substituted in their place.
We congratulate the Danes on account of this signal per-
fidy. If Hid.flagrant experience of the
.past could not
instruct them, it is to be supposed that this insult will rouse
them to a sense of their danger. Very little entreaty, very
little diplomatic skill will be now necessary to make them
recoil with horror from the gulph in which they were
going to ; and we expect that our Ministers will
neglect nothin:, in order to save that deluded goverpluent
and people. 10 important news have been receiv
Sweden m the course of the week, which renifer it, "117.,,,,'
than probable that Finland will soon cease to be tbekliea
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