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befor6 Constantinople ; and who are continually
creating.commotions in the Mores.. This new atti-
tude of the Porte has produced much uneasiness at
St. PeterSburgh ; and if the Porte shall be rouzed to
of energy against Russia,, there will not be
found between those two 'PoWers the .-great diffe-
rence that may be supposed. The Mussulmat is
heave ; and were he but direaed and assisted,
.be
would triumph over, the Muscovite It is
not p,robable that the Porte will wish to go to War.;
but, she has a right fo preserve her independence,.and
to, wish for prote&ion against the imallts of M. Ita-;
linsky, every proceeding of whom, when he com-
municates with the Divan, is only calculated to -ex-
cite'hatred and indignation. . • ~
" We, intend to collea in this way, every month,.
inforination of .what is passing; and to throw-some
light into•the' labyrinth of false yepOrts, by‘ which
the.lawful speculations of fair-and honest Merchants
may be injured.":

PARIS APRIL 17.—We learn from Rome that the,
Garrison of Gaeta made an inetiecaual Sortie, towards
the latter end•of March, in which the French took
300 prisoners. - •.
The Court is establish.eA at St. Cloud, where it
will continue during the summer : it will occasionally-
come to Paris. •

LEGISLATIVE BODY, APRrz. 16.

PRESIDENCE OF Mi,FONTANES

CONTINUATION Of Till SITEINGOP.:THE 141"11,,

M. Cretet, Counsellor of State, in presenting- the
projea of finances, has explained the motive of them
i.vith much perspicuity. The Orator's refleaions
upon each part of this immense work have.been heard
with the liveliest interest. Our limits will not permit
us to give them literally, but we shall other that part
to our Readers which has the -most 'intimate con-
nexion' with the political' situation 'of Europe, 'and
particularly that of France and England. -
" A trifling increase of the publicdebt, balanced by
a redemption - executed or prepared; resources .de-
rived 'from the remains of the national domains ;..fo-
reign succours, the fruits of viaory, and.a wise policy;
these, added, to the ordinary public contributions,
Cretet observed, might perpetuate to the latest.
term of glory, a" vast empire, but lately • almost oyer-
helinectlinder the wreck of a terrible revolution: -

" It haS-been said, and unhappily it. is but too
true, that Europeseenzsas.if she could no longer reckon
upon the benefits o, Peace which have been promised
her by unfaithful Treaties ; she :does not even enjoy
the benefit, of a truce; which is a necessary interval
previouS to there-commencement of hostilities. If
we.examine hoW it is that, in the midst of civiliza-
tion, the-people still feel all the etTeEts of barbarism,
we must be convinced that some extraordinary cause
must have concurred to throw Europe into a state
the most opposite to the repose and the interest of the
surrounding nations. '
The-abrogation Of the Right. of Nations was pre-
pared, at the commencement of thelaSt age; by the
Contempt of an ambitious. Nation, which Was dis-
posing itself for the attainment of t niversal domi-
nion'; and it was crushed beyond reniedy, *hen one'
of the Ministers of the Nation-, lifting upithe'voice
of audacity, dared to. proclaim, .‘" That a single
.non-shat should not he fired in Europe without • the
p6rmision of his. Government; •- .
Eurdpe remained mute, and indifferent to this
insulting declaration. She,seemed as if She wished
to. conceal the faa, that this signal of dominion was
the loss of her independence; and that, as this na-
tion had assumed the command, obedience was ab-
solutely necessary.—lmprudent slumber, which has'
since produced such melancholy consequences

• " The assertion made by the Minister Chatham,
flattered the pride and ambition of his nation. . •
England; favoured by unheard-of eyents, pur-
sued its designs with rapidity. London at this day'
would probably have been the metropolis of the unit-
'verse if Heaven had not giver. )iriElt to an extraordi-
nary man ; if heaven had not charged:him -with the
re-establishment of the lawi of. n:Yziowt, in'enctowing
him-with prudence, and every necessary means for
accomplishing hiS destiny with success.
His. genius has laid those storms incessantly
excited by our implacable enemy `his poWerful hand
has..paralized her efforts--but 'at. the same time he
construtied a vast system, the only one whichcOuld
remedy the evils of Europe.
" The struggle which subsisted between France
and Englapd appeared at first a's though it.could not
.be terminated but by reason or, by foree. The el-
feas of reason will always vanish in proportion as Our.
Enemies pretend to the dominion of the universe
through that of the seas_; and as long as its Councils
resound with those savage cries for a war of exter-
mination, the means- of force Must be prepared
against this Nation ; but nature opposes obstacles
to their execution, the duration of which 'we are
unable to ascertain.

New combinations 'are.upon the point of fit-
ing the future, and consolitb.ting our
,hopes, sooner
or later, for the return , -of alTlasting,peaee.: He
has formed a power in the centre of Europe;suffi-
ciently strong to hreak the.force of every, attack it •
has received, as well. as those that may yet be pre-,
pared against it.
" England, abusing its situation and its immense
maritime forceS, has itself indicated the. pOints froth
whence shp may b; resisted
.with snceess.. To the
efforts that: shp make 4 by sea, it may
rbe neceskiry
to oppose .greaL:reffOrts upon land and ' since • she.
pretends to isolate and cut off 1 other,Natious, by
laying the ocean under an intetdica: just reprisals
call upon us to isolate her, and to shut her out of,
the-Continent to the greatest extent-that may be
possible. • -
" Thus till England Shall- c—onsole the weeping
commerce of • Nations, ; and" fenouneing.an univer-
sal monopoly,:. shall r6-tore':l-thein "their.. natu
ral rights, and no longer pretend .to• 'dispute
with them; except in respell' of the advantages of
its soil, and the perfe&ioli of its arts, her Vessels,
loaded with unprodutitive. riches, shall spew them-'
selveS in vain upon those extensive.•Coasts' which
shall repulse then). t England- will at last be tired
of this' rigorous divorce ;. it shall restore. to En-;
rope the Empire Of. Reason, and with it a pei'ma-
'lent- Peace: ,

. .
" Such are the oii,Aaclea that oppose a Peace:so
desiriihle.; we aught to render ourselves, worthy of
it, by putting oursclyes ip sltuiAtlon to obtait it, by
eoPT16)1"
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