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I"iniailt in LA. *ere it so, the alternative to
tithe? ,:%,ayvolita 1-,e. dreadful. 11. Te have felt what
It was aa have the 'Continent con pilsotily coin-
biued I,gainst us, and :though our sangale
Was gh!nious, our 'sufferings were
the voluntary leaaate of Europe, :igainatalrala
te:ailon:s that migii't be deemed arrogant,
would
PrI:SS Still more s'e'ecrely upon our commerce,
finaucei and resources of every kind ; too
'everelt, we fear to allow us, under inch dr-,
cutnstances, to' oppose aurselvei individually to
the general will. • Let us always be.tinderstOod,.
lu'wever, to be Only sapposing this. case as the
only . Possible one which would indute us to the
latanuillious and fatal step presented on the other
lutl—we are far from admitting that midi' a dis-
t'Nition among our Allies prevails, or that it js
likely to arise out of the existing state of alfaivia
bid it occur, which God forbid it should, our
choice would be the choice of necessity, and we
to avoid what we reckoned the greater'
tv'i, acknowledge the sovereignty of the Tyrant
lq aaanea, restore him his prisoners, a Dart of, or
41.1 hip t°(°"ie3, and, in short, makepeace with
What then could we expect Repose, Se-
amity,
a Peace Establishment, and a Peace Expen-
aitare ? Could ae disband our Soldiers and disman-
te our Iklavy ? \Via) is there so mad among us as
t° answur
iii the affirmative to any one of these
laterrogatores ? We have little benefit, then, to
anticipate from peace with BUONAPARTE, with a
larger territory than every King °t
France
en-
°:tdg
11"ven kaoVvs, our Ancestors had just
l.l°La„-h of
toil to resist the aggressions of the
integrity of Eng- •,
-.l°-:B°'•qs to preserve the
anti 'maintain the balance of Europe
"tiilst the power they possessed. Is there
" thing in the character of the Corsican,
'1("e. of France, rendered altogether a
r."'Pire, to be wielded with
and e promptitude
aini)ition prompts , which
all sonergy Whenever
stretmousl: hivite us to repose our con&
e
(kite i •
„F Run, t ~blished in a greater plenitude
"wer, aaa with greater means, as well as in-
clitn'ti°a
Las ,to ruin us Happily for Britain she
13.11vrieaced little injury from him, because
she has little trusted : but surely, the ex-
. "'Plc of other Hati„„s ought not to be lost upon
: * Prussia once trusted 'him, and was reduced to
Byte Austria once trusted-him, and, though
aa:h, fort
inted an intimate natural connection with.
despoiled and reduced to a second-rate
Russia once trusted him, and because
miet "aid not sacrifice her independence to his
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was invaded and desolated. Need we
the C"aingue ) Need we name Spain, the
livll.7s e niteenrlrtitZe 'Of. all his acts of treachery,
parch imprisOvas seized, and whose Mo-
was'led in the midst of peace
her4gal Pillt)ged aitil insulted in the person of
-0::11-11.3!sati°r, co nsigned to a dungeon at Paris,
-mist of peace— Venice, Genoa, Rome,
Naples
T
eOl, useauY—all the Italian States in turn
(I -red
%Pith, and treated as. conquered countries,
micist rol}/Paralleled rapine and massacre, in the
le re
g
peace which they
had bou
is no ht from France ?
point of the glol)e w
herethe
van turn our
,eyes,-sahich floes not present us
with pregnant proofs of the miseries and horrors
accruing from alliances with the Tyrant. We
alone have hitherto escaped these afilictions,
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eakase we 'alone h?ve hitherto steadily and un-
luntedly warred against Corsican usurpation
directing Revolutionary prineiples.—Th blackest
day that eve]. Britons saw, will be that on which this
System shall be changed. Boosrararera loathes
lis• We have been the very serpent in his way to
rtniversal Empire, and we may rest assured that in
'war main peace the object dearest to his heart is
and will be our destruction.

--lttntenant,Colonel PlEcx.E, one of the'Corn-
Tllanding Officers of the (ierinan troop's which de-
tll'i Santa', has reached town. We believe he
riived in the same vessel which brought Lord
'LLl=`;GToti's Dispatches.
1")ev it for a certain fact, that in one of
t on the banks of the Adour, when
a v'IPNII evoiment charged a French one through
in! the British were actually cheered by the
; nor is the sentiment Nritich regards
its deliverers rare in that part of the
onntry„tcltegTitnes,
T.lle latest letters from all the Presidenci,!s in
,"' . eePresent tlie state of the markets for all
,o°,."s, °I. European articles as unusually low few
t,tne iavestineuts cart ied out last season by the
t( 'inlanders and Officers of the Company's ships
itiutwitlistanding they are subject neither to
"r
--1 ‘l.;etley) have produced prime cost, and
a,"Y have been sold at a large discount.
he Marquis of - WQRCESTER has been elected
ember for the borough of Monmouth, in the
tO9III 01 Lo, CHARLES SonttsET, appointed Go-
vernor of the Cape.
lt gives
us pleasure to understtnd, that that
118eftil religious imstittitio:, the Gaelic Chapel,
,„"tis lately received the iatti,!..•,..nt support of the
41::ight lion. Mr. VAN ,ITTA Br, the Chancellor of
Exchequer, J. Si-tAw, and Cti"L"
i'()XI3ES, Esq. M.P..
~The guns biiiiburgh Castle we..;
41ew Year's nicornia,;, in hcouciur
over SCAM?. ui

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