The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-17 00:00:00

—This Day was .publishccl,
In Why°. price Bs. in board's,
A Statistical and Historical INQUIRY into the
LIL Progress arid. present Magnitude of the POPULA-
TION of IRELAND.
By TH.OMAS NEW Esq,
Author of several Political 'Pratt relative to Ireland.
London: Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, of New Bridge-
street. - ,
la. thj4 Inquiry Mr. Newenham takes a view of the Causes
which appear to have operated in augmenting the Population.
of Ireland during the last Century • of the Considerations
• which warrant a .preStription that. ttie Population of Ireland
doubles.in 46 years; of.. the Ntunerical Proportion at the Ro.-
man CatholiCs to the P rQtstanti of Ireland; and of the cons -
petenci of 1 relatul • to ,support a much greater Population
than-it now comains.

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FRIDAY, • J ANCTARY 17, 1806.

No further intelligence, froth the Continent has
reached us to-day. The details which we yesterday
communicated to our readers wbuld doubtless be read
with considerable interest-not merely. as a narrative
Of what has 'already' been done, but as furnishing,
in some degree, although imperfealy„ the means of
judging as to what will yet be attempted. The terms
granted- to Austria, hard and ;grinding. as they ap-
pear; are, it is said, considered on the Continent as
more moderate than there was reason to expeol.—
Those who haVe.ever made the slightest estimate of
the character of` BONAPARTE, will scarcely be in-
clined-to give him credit for moderation or generosi-
ty. We must look to Other causes for any abatement
of the hard conditions which he originally intended
to exaa from Austria. These are, however, at present
involved inconsiderable obscurity, from our not being
acquainted with the real nature of the Negotia-
tions between the Prussian Court and BONAPARTE,
or with the .extent Or, weight of the propOsitions
made'to the latter by the Prussian Minister. We
ennillnt LLAu5e Who thinK tad,.
PARTE, in- the commanding situation in which, he
was placed by the viaory he had achieved; would pay-
no attention to the propositions of the Court of Berlin.
Whatever he might chose to say in his Bulletins,
or however his mind •might be swayed, by head-
strong passion, the more crafty 'policy a. TAILEY-
,RAND would teach him that Prussia is a 'Power too
formidable, to be treated with contempt, and that
he would gain more by acceding to the propositions
of the Court of Berlin, or at least meeting them
half way, than by haughtily rcjecaing them, and
• thereby perhaps driving Prussia into 'aecual hos-
tility. We say this, because we can in' no other
way so rationally account for the recent condua
of BONAPARTE, than by supposing 'that 'he received
a sort of counter-Check from the policy of the Court of
Berlin. The halt of the French Troops which were
'marching towards Hanover, and the ektension of
*the Armistice to that' Eleaorate; can at any rate
be only 'accounted for by supposing those events- to
be the consequence of the interference'of the Court
of Berlin,, unless we are to adopt the wild conjec7
ture; that Boic4PARTE has adopted some new prin.
ciple'of aEtioni in contradielion to all his 'former
condua-.

It' is evident, hdwever,' that the influence of the
Court of Berlin must be much diminished by the
recentviaories of BONAPARTE, and by the humilia-
tion of Austria. This, however, may probably pro-
d= ,an .effea from which beneficial Consequences
.may hereafter result. The friendly ties which not
long since existed between Prussia 'and France will
perhaps never be renewed. Prussia has no longer'
any thing to fear. from the power of the House of
Austria, and rntlst now turn her whole attention to
parry and fence with the vast power of France.—
The Court of Berlin must see' the necessity of seek-
ing out for checks and counterpoises against the
enormous acquisitions of France, hedged in, as the
latter Power soon • will be, by formidable depen-
dent
14.-Mgdorris 4id the .pursuit of this °b-
in& will naturally' link Prussia with Russia and
England, Sweden, and, Denmark. The old system
of the Balance of PoWer coMPletely at an. end, and
, .
,a new one must be sought put and established. The
career of the Master of the South of koroPe can
Of); now be chec*ed by an union of the Powers of
the North. We In,ric no doubt that vast schemes.

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