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had no bonus to throw in its way ? As to Sweden, I do not pre-
tend to understand its policy, but from the very flatteriug
reception BERNADOTTE gave our Chrowe ; front
hie condescending to visit our Admiral on board his ship, it
does not aprear that he ILA any ill-will or distrust to the
present Government of this cottorry; acd, consequent!,
that the Marqws WELL ES I EYTS ht•iflA out 'lf power has anN
thing to do with the measures Sweden chip-es to adopt.
rTus mi'ht as well say that the Spaniards' being. backward
in eni:sting in our u my, was owing to Lord MOIRA'S not
haying the chief command in Spain. Let him not suppose
that I mean to compare the last-mentioned Nobleman to
Lord W ELL INGI 0 N ; sueb a comparison would not be fah
to either. I think most highly of both, but as the former
has not been placed in situations uf equal importance as
the latter, a doubt must reinain whether he Would have shone
avid' as great a lustre as the immortal Conqueror of Sala-
manca. I only mean to say, that where there are talents of
nearly equal preponderancy, the foreign cabinets little care
who is our minister, and certainly in talents, (here 1 may,
and will male the comparison), Lord Mon A being equal
:rgr,ia W ELL FSI. car, the Courts of St. Petersburgh,
,"o!ora. and --:weden. tnight with as great an appearance of
131fIellt his not being made a Secretary of State. In
ppme po.nts I am sure he is superior to the idol of The
T„ cs end V rTus, I me :11 in humility, ti ue patriotism, self-
dcw fo: heal ance.

So much fol the Noble Marquis : I shill now make
a fe.ty cursory remarks on The Tihres itself, and con-
clude this letter by animalversions on the general tendency
of Cie wiitings of V Lies. I have of!en been in doubt as
to the politit al bias of The and wondered whether
it was an impartial and independent journal, or a decided,
though covert enemy to the executive power; but lately I
have had every reason to fear the iatter, and in that , I
had rather contend against The and its
weekly supporters ; who at least coca e inanf!r!!- i'orward, and
at once openly dee!are themselvc,.
Does The noon praise any 11:o.-tsure, or any action, ex-
ceivi,l those of the immortal ‘V!,:r.1.1 NGION, there is al-
vit.s an it lo ought in, o: some bye'. tow h detracts from
the appLuse. Can ri-oy sinister coostruction, or unfaeour-
alrie conjecture, be formed 'or any subject of exultation, it is
sure to be lured in to damp our joy Can any additional
suoni;es of an unpleasant nature be superadd‘d to any cause
of regr.t, The Times is inclined to give it us? As an instance
of the former, when, from K tirusow's dispatch, we are re-
joiced to he that all the inhabitants of Moscow had been
renno.ed fi um its wall'; wevious to the occupation of the city
•he Fieoch, 'Pee To:o ; good natures ly conjectures that
only means the rie!! inhabitants ; and thus, in the second
pi:ice, when we are grieved at the loss of the Guerriete, it
insintroes that its commander has not done his duty, and
that from his youth and inexperience he was unfitted for the
office which he lie!d. such a surmise as this, is both un-
manly and 'unjust. In such cases, where the honour and
reputation of fellow creature are at stAe, we should Only
from }:roofs positive; and it' the Editor will give him-
v.ll the trouble attentively to peruse the American account
01 the engueentent, he will therein perceive that Captain
DacttEs resisted as long as' his ship would swim, and
that his having been overcome, was owing to his having to
omlond with a vessel of superior force, mole numerously
Manned, and, who knows, perhaps with sailors who had learnt
to Conquer on board a British fleet. These remarks have
so grown upon me as I wrote them, that f fear trespassing
upon room, which I am certain might be much better occu-
pied in ycur.solumns.. I shall, therefore, contrary to my

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intent lout at the commencement ofthis letter, say but a test
words more to V ETTA. I will merely ask him to answer
without equivc<ation, whether he be -a ►rue lover of his
country, and if si‘, whether be thinks that by inflatniflg the
public mind any goof.' is likely to ensue? At best. this is a -

mere hypothesis, and iu making the expel invent, I would
ask him, if be, and all tie veformers. (let him not start at th*
appellation, for though he disavows it, he is one), do not
incur the peril of o% eon, ning what they cannot restore—our
glorious constitution. I trust much, it is title, to the good
sense of the n..tion ; vet, as drops of water slowly,
but ..'ontinualls repeated, will wear the hardest stone, so the
constant clamours against the rulers of the country may so
undermine the loyalty of the people, inflame the turbulent,
give hopes to the interested, and handles to the inimical, ae•
at length to level the fabric, which has stood for many
years the pride and boast of every British heart,and the envy
and admitation of every surrounding nation.

I remain; Sir, Your's,
N[CROLA• ALUNF,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPER&

PARIS, OCT. 13.
COI4SIDERATIONS OF THE WAR WITH RUSSIA:

The oh servation Tovtilei° to Louis XI I. has teen often re-
To make wet with success, you must first have money ;
money ;-3Jly, money .". How much more just and noble
the maxim procleimed by Hannitial, :looted by I. ie.ierick, and of
which we live so often soen the brilliant application by that hero
wholl.ts stl. passed r hein boot :—" Ir Icongs to war to • Lipp no war."
Must a nation begin by exhaustive itstof, in ori.er to inflict vengeance
oo it< eneoty ?—and shoultl not all the weight of the cent. it be and
to fall on those adv-rsaries who have provoked it ? first tousle
(17.0 t n, then, the first duty of the head of a great people, is to render
s i ancl inv:elaWe the cool try which It inhabit's. Since we have
se:ii rea:i,e.l amongst u; the wish which Alexander expressed when.
it the joint of death,--si.ice the sceptre'and the sword were placed in
the hands of the most worthy, have we felt any alarm for the safety of
our frontiers ? }lave war, 3i1(1 all i!s attendant scourers, deformed the
nroected by his powerful arm ?• It was for him to spew himself,
in order to drive then hick Qll the teriitcry of the prCstiMpttlOUS
enemy who throottencd hint.
did that enemy confide in the immensity of distance. This
eel was destined to see revived the times of Cyrus and A lexaedzr.
Seventy das s have scarcely elapsed since the first French bayonet
tered in the eyes of the Russians, and already the eagle of Napoleon
flats over tlm antient palace of the Czars. For the fist tittle, the
sons of the Seine, of the Loire, and the Rhone, penetrate into test
gitns hardly known to their fathers. but the descendants of the
t; sills, wh la a Route its ashes, do not exclaim like their ancestors,—,
" Woe to the eyiquislied !" Never did civilization obtain a Snot
victory over barbarism It is the conquerors who save time van,
croon the effects of their own rice. A subject of tfie
_Rust
Czar dere.' to w•il that Moscow should perish, and the arniy of t
French Monate!) snatched that suoerb city from destruction. But
kt us Cea:C for a moment to follow the rapid sweep of our victorious
legions, and let us calmly contemplate the wise arrangements which
prepared their triumph, and secure to-them its advantages. Let:us•
view, with new admiration, another example of=—war maintaining
.vac. Let us lay open to the envious view of Our rivals, the immense
resouri es presented by the conquered country, said of which the enemy,
by his very position, is henceforward deprived.
As soon as all hope of peace vanished, the armies' deitined
support the cause of Europe ag bust the new Allies of England, were
put in motion. From tire first day of hostilities, encamped on the
enemy's to ritory, they formed an, uninterrupted than from the
mouth of the Niemen to 'll,, sources e)1 thc Bug. On this b'ese Of 1
leagues in extent, tested all the. hoes of ',per:awn which now unite in
Moscow, the central point to which they were directed by the soul a
this gi end telovement.- Tat corps engaged never ceased to tpaiutain the
closest mutual connection.
hut, however valuable to the conqueror this vast pOrtinkof the do.
mains of his adv...rsary,—however injurious its Las to the vanquished
—it was not till the present moment that the latter must nylon to
feel all the depth of his wound,,--all the danger of hie Situation. -A.
short sketch soill demonstrate this
Moscow, which all the elfin. of Peter the Great could not strip of
importanee;hor even of the rank and charactertsties of the tree
piral of Russia, is situated warty iu the centre of that vast 'empire g
SAC Asiatic portion being cxcepted, tiurrouudiog paisatuct3 eta

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