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DEAL, 7AN. i4'.---Cani'e clown from flie Rivei
Ibis ilaiesty's shit', Zealous, and ailed for Oorts-
-. . •
mouth. Arrived the Benjamin Shaw and Navi-
gai"Or transports, under convoy of ilie Pigmy Cut-
ter, from Hohalal. ,

PORTSMOUTH; JAN. 14.--Arrived his Majesty's
ships Zealous and Cadmus, wi>h a salt convoy.
from -the Downs: 'Put back the 'Cordelia, briund
to the Eastivard. The c.rnvoys are as before,
vit. Glonceiter for the AV-est Indies j Blenheim
for Cadiz and the Mediterranean ; ariii tlie Rod-
ney for Curunna, Oporto, and Liskon. No others
appointed.
HAawtcH, JAN. 14.—;--Arrived the Aticttland
packet, with a mail and passengers, from Hol-
land.

GRAVESEND, JAN. ILL—Arrived about a dozen
ships-the John and Mary from Rio Janeiro, and
the rest from Hollaifd. Several vessels are here,
which are prevented getting up the River on ac-
count of the ice.

„Private 'letters from Paris, one,day later in date
than the last Papers, it is reported, state, that a
very great alarm prevailed in-that capital, in con-
sequence ot the advanct of the Allied Armies, which
wasmnderstood to be 4>,f -a far More rapid and for-
midable nature than the statements permitted to
appear in the public prints had given reason to ;.p-
-prebend. There had been for.some days a great
run on the Bank, and not_ less than tour millions
and a half, it is said, had been drawn out. Most
persons had taken measures to conceal all valupble
property capable of being secreted. The letters
add, that BUONAPARTE bad nit been idle since the
'arrival of the Allied Armies on the llbine. He
haS, it is asserted, .availed himself of !he time
which has elapsed to collect and organite a con-
siderable force ; but his troops are lefirient in
training; and neither in point of numbers or equip-
ments capable of king so distributed as to,pre-
seAa an,effectual obstruction to thd various large
and well-disciplimed .masses which are now re-
netnaina, in different diref-Cons, into the interior
of F:

It is reported that a great commotion prevailed
at Graveiines, in c lietpi_nce of a rumour that
the first division of the Mlle(' Army was near PA-
ris, and that other divisions, amounting together
,to 400,000 men, were closely following.
The Duke of YORK and a select party dined
with the PRINCE REGENT on Thursday, at Carl-
ton-House.

Yesterday several Members of the Committee
of the Newfoundland Trade waited on the Minis-
ter at Fife [louse, by appoin•ment, to 'represent
to his Lordship the deep interest ‘virieh the coun-
try must feel in the preservation of the trade to
that Island, it being one of the best nurseries tor
our seamen, and a source of wealth and importance
to,London, and many other parts of the' kingdom.
Under these circumstances, they represe.nted to
his Lordship the importance •of including this
fishery in any negociati'on of a political or com-
mercial character that
.might be entered into on
the re-establishment of peace, and particularly
that the Governments of. FranCe and of the United
States should not be permitted to employ their
subjects and citizens in an injurious competition
with the British ship-owners and merchants. The
Earl of LIVERPOOL replied to this application ge-
tiera,lt y, that he was sensible of the extent of the
Concern; that he concurred with the Gentlemen
.v.”.y lunch in the magnitude of the subject, and
that rush a degree of attention should he paid
in any arrangements that might be adopted,
which a matter of -this high consideration de-
served.

An account, we understand, has been received
from _France, of the death of Lord BARRINGTON,
in that country. His 'Lordship is succeeded in
his title ant) estates by his only brother the Rev.
Mr. BA.RRINGTONT.

Lady LUCAS is seriously indisposed at her house
in St. James's-place.
"The Bulletiny writer of Government, in his
zeal for 'the Allies, has thought proper to state
that Blamont is near Luneville. It so happens
that the BlaAlont alluded to is. on the borders of
Burgundy, forming, with Basle and Soletire,
nearly a triangle."—The Morning Chronicle, and—
false. --One Newspaper -fell into the very natural
miFtake. alluded to, But the Bidlefin of Govern-
ment did not even mention the site of Blamont !

Last night the Oxford Bides, at present sta-
tioned•at Knightsbridge, received their route for
embarkation, to join Lord Wsw NGTAN.
A great number of the London Militia have,
within the last,few days, tnken the oaths 'of alle-
giance before the Loan MA.yoa, on their volun-
teering for general service.
On Wednesday '2OO of the Royal West Middle-
sex Militia marched into Stamford'from Notting-
ham., on their route to Danbury Barracks, and
150 more will follow them ; they have volunteer-
ed under the new Act, and are in expectation of
proce*hilling' to Holland:
The masses of ice and., snow had accumulated
in such quantities at London Bridge, on the up-
per side, 'yesterday, that it is nearly impossible for
b3rges or boats to pass up.
MF,LANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—The infant child of
Mr. STEPTOE, of Tottenham-court-road, having
been left in the care of a nurserymaid on Tuesday
last, while its parents went to a party, the servant
imprudently left her charge playing on the hearth-
rug, in'the drawing-room, while she went down
stairs on some trifling occasion. During her ab-
sence, the child contrived to seize the handle of
the poker, which had been left in the tire, and
drawing it forth, that part which was hot fell on
its faCe, and from thence to its clothes, which
were iirunediately in flames. The servant' hearing
the serekurs of the poor little creature, rushed to
its assistance, and by wrapping it in the, green
floth frimn the table, extinguished the flames.
Ps however, was so dreadfully burnt,
that it expired itt four and twenty hours.

I•Thermonteter. I . ' Weather.
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•, 71 g F 2 -1 .22' .' -", 4
c, Ic, .4 3c, f.,c: • . .4
Jan., '-' ° -, ° Inches
6 26 29 31 74 29.74 , Fair Fair ,
9 26 24 130 12 , .7S Fog .;
A Og
10 18 25 26. 82 493 Snov Cloudy
11 24 24 25 22 .98 Cloudy Do.
12 23 25 27 22 .65 Fair " Do:•
13 24 24 30 22 30.°5 Do. Fair
14 73 20 26 16 .10 Do. Cloudy*
• Cold East Wind, the Thermometer at 18 at Seven o'clock,
rose in the Night to 23. .

BATH, J. 13.—After much discussion, and
long debates, between the Proprietor's' of the
higher and those2of the lower Assembly Rooms
of this city, wt(9 contended for the talents of
Mulme CATALANI; the 'former have at 13St' ob-
tained victory. Madame CATALANI &ling at their
two last Concerts, and the Room was crowded
to an extreme two hours before tile performances
begun. We understand that Madame CATALANI
leaves our city the latter end of this month for
London, to prepare for her Concerts, which will
begin in March, and for which she has, obtained
a very numerous and a most high .patronage.,
Mr. Paul Syinine, Who was commissioned by
his Majesty the. Emperor of Russia, to accompany
General Moreau to. Europe, has completed a
Work, entitled, '° Details concerning General Mo-
reau and leis last moments, followed by a• port
graphical Memoir ," which is published this day.
by Messrs:. Longman and Cu. The Woi k con-
tains many facts hitherto unknoyen to the Public,
which are the more ititcrestiag, from being nar-
rated by. an eye witness, who' was' honoured with
the confidence of Cieneril Moreau, and who dcver
quitted him.. from the moment "uf his entharl‘ing
from America 'to his death. The same WWI:, is
published in French.
On 'Wednesday morning, as a Ind was clearing
away the- snow. from off the top of a house in St.
James's-pkice,.ha was preoipitated off the parapet,
and fell into the street, by which he broite his
legs and arms in two places. 'He now lies in a
dangerous state in Sc. George's Hospital.

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Attire Uinpet, given„ h,y, the i;lector3 Liver-r
ppotto their distingßished, leprey.entative; which
we sliprtly Jioticed , yesterday,. Mr. ~4N
hii,J-ke.ajth
,keingdrp!!it Wit,u enthtisiasti
addressed the nyting iii,n,nirrrt e:ogne,nt.spcepl‘,.
Atter Ouelkipg 'Ton seTer,l. local t went
pn in thg, following bappr,tr..lip pf;h:onySo. cxr
pose swipe of the prognosticated ihroi2liesics of the
second-sighted 'talents.

We. cannot forget, Gentle;Pell, 'the:
.appall-
ing omens, andthetovfni predictions under. which
I separated from von
_at thHt ti ne. I remember;
that l was, taught to believe, that when; returned
tci renew rpc acquaintance, witb,,my constituents,
grass find-the rasS growing it' your streets.
Probably yon, must recollect that, the penalty de-.7
nounced upon Von for your election of me was
famine to. the poor; and lifficnitieS":othe ,
lta spite ot that ,t,artiing you 'did. tne, the honour
to elect me; ,in spite 'of. the ether warning,
venture,to meetyou here again, I do not perceive
that mV election, as
:was intimated, at the time,
hassarrested the bounty of Providence; and turned
back the course of the seasons, „On the other
•band, it is fair to 'admit that this is' notthe season
.ot the year at which it wouldhe pOssible for !tie,
to estimate correctly the amount of 'superfluous '
and unprofitable vegetation With which your
streeti-maphe teeming. 'But without presuming
to limit the energy of productive nature, of this
at least one may rest.satisfied, that the fields have
not been starved to clothe'. yOur quays with ver-
dure ; that it is not by economizing in the scan-
tiness of the harvest that nature•hus reserved her
vigour for the pastures, of your Exchange.
But, Gentlemen, 1 am sure you feel With me
that these are topics which I treat with levity,
only because they are not, •nor were at the time
when they were seriously urged, capable of a se-
rious argument : they did not furnish grounds on
which any man would rest his appeal to your fa-
vour, or on which your choice ot any man could
be justified. if I haVe condescended to revert to
them at all, it is because I would leave none of
those recollections untouched which the compa-
rison of our last meeting With the present I know
suggests to. your minds as 'well as to my ovti ; and
because I Would, as -far as in me lies, endeavour
to banish from all future. use by exposing their
absurdity, topics which are calculated only to
mislead and to inflame. That the seasons would
have course, that the sun would have shone, and
the showers have fallen as favourably, if you had
not chosen rue for your representative, is an ad-.
mission which I make Without much Apprehen,
sion of the consequences. Nor do I wish you to
believe that yO'tcr choice of .any other dant me
would !rave delayed the return of your-prosperity,.
prevented U:revival of your commerce:
I make theSe adinissions, Gentlemen, without
fear, so far as 'Concerns the choice between
inili-
virlt}:as. 'But I do not equally admit the sane.
'indifferenee as to the principles upon.e,hieb- that
election turned. Ido not admit that if the prin-
ciples which it was then recommended to you "to
Countenance had unfortimately.prevaited itt-PaTitt!,-
meta, and 'through the authority of Parliament
• had been introduced into the counsels of the Coins-
, try, they would not , have interfered with fatal
operation, not indeed to check the course of na-
tore, and blast the fertility of the earth, but to
stop that ef*rrent of political events, which taken
at the flood, has placed England at the head of
the world !—(Applause.)
" Gentlemen, if I had met you here again in the
same doubtful state of public affairs in which we ;
took leave of each other, if the forces of confe-
derated nations had still been, arrayed in' nearly
equal division, and the balance of Europe still
trembling in the scale, I should not hesitate
now, as I did not hesitate then, to state my diss
tinct and unalterable opinion, that perseverance
• under whatever difficulties, under whatever privt-c-
-ikons, afforded the only chance of prosperity to
you, because the only chance of deliverance to
Europe.—f,Applause.) Gentlemen, 1 should be
ashamed to address you now in, the tone of exalt-
ation if I had, not addressed you then in that of
encouragement under distress. I should beasbamed
to appear before' you shouting in the train of suc-
cess,- if I had not looked you in the face-, and ex.-,
horted you to patience under difficulties.—(Ap-
'plause.) It is becauSe my aCquaintance with you
comMenced in times of danger and embarrassment,
;Ind b'ecause I then neither flattered nor deceived
you,. that I now not only offer to you my con-
gratulations,,but put in"my claim,to yours on the
cessation, of that danger, on the te:.nination of
that einbanwstnent, and on the glorious issue to
which exertion and endurance have brought that
'great struggle in' which our honour and our hap-
piness ‘vere involved.—(Great applause.)
" Gentlemen, during the course of a political
life nearly coeval with the comruenceinent ot this
war, I have never uttered one 'sentiment, I have
never given one vote, that had not fey its object
the consummation which is nOw• happily Within
our view.- '•

I am not ashamed, and'it is'not unpleasing
or unprofitable, to look back upon the peril's
which we have passed, and to compare them with
the result before us. And, Gentlemen, what is
that result'? We sec a country inferior in popular
.tion 'to most 9f her Continental neighbours, but
multiplying hde energies and resources by her own
activity, enterprize, and intelligence„ by the
gour of her constitution,
.and by the
,good sense
of her 'people, we see her standing up against a
formidable foe, throughout ,a contests in gthe
course of which every one of her allies, and at
times 'all of theta together, have fliinted and
failed-:---nay, have trtren drive-41 to combine with
her enemy against lie-C--Lwe see her :it this
mentrallying thentious to One r )int;
and leading them to decisive victory.-,--,4l{2pturous
applause.)
if-this picture were merely in the cOnternpla-
tion of speculative philosophY4 frit Were .presented
to us in the page of the history of aticieut times,
it would warm the heart.—But. Gentlemen, this
Country is. our oWn ; and what must be the feel.
ings by hick arise on such 01.-fccasion in the bo-
som of•everY son of-that covoti' y ? What must he
the feelings of a community, ,uch as I am now
addre,ssing, which constituttn, no insignifi,.!ant part
of the strength of the nation' so described I' What

,of one

e permitted to dri')
'110.!c,; to represent that comm , .
in that station at the InOment-
It.Caust. he discountenar ed despaii•
ant of deSpondenC??
men, in the view ofasnhject so mighty
..ncent as oiis. T ,should disdain to be
.ide to rittrtipl or individual considerations.
howecer,- not to say something
because our tlimnphs would be in-'
and its blessings 'might be transitory,
be led astray by any sophistry, -or
,76 (sent in a sort of Comproillise or,contunon
t*,e..u-,et, or to mis-state the causes by which
:ii-mph has been produced. 4111 of. onc,,
trnst and believe_ we are, in exulting ate'
t'. country ; all-of one mind, I trust
thron,hout this land, in determining_
tb; persevere, if need 12e, in strenuous exertion to
co,inpicte, and. I hope to perfect the great work
so- haxpily in progress. But we know that there
are some of those who share most heartily.in'the
Irczbiic exuhation, who yet intendernessfor disap-
pointed prophecies, endeavour to disconnect of
feet and cat; ;e in a ,manner which I humbly think
erroneous—and it is an error which I also think

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might be dantferon, if unwarily, adopted, and ge-

nerally received_ We have beard, for instance,
that the-war has atlength been successful, he
cause the principles on which the .war was under-
taken had heeU ;hanged ; that we are at length
blessed with victory because we have thrown away
the. banner under which tnc commenced the con-
test ; that the contest was commenced with one
set of principles, that the issue has been happily
brought about by the adoption of another.—
Gentlemen, I know of no, such change. if we
have succeeded, it has not been by the abandons
ment, but by the prosecution of our principles,
if we have succeeded, it not been by adopt-
ing new maxims of policy, but by upholding,
under all varieties of ditliculty and- dispourage-
ment—old established, inviolable principles of
conduct. - We are told now, forsooth,„ that this
war has became a.war of the people , and that
therefore, by the operation of that -Orange
the power of imperial France haS- been baffled
and overcome. Nations, it is-said, have at length
joined their Sovereigns a contest, which here-
tofore had" been a contest of Sovereigns Anly.—
Gentlemen,- the fact of the change might bead-
mitted, without therefo.e. admitting the argument.
It does not folloW ti:at rile people Were not at all
times equally interes:ed in.the tear, (as those who
think as I do, have always contended that they
were,) becadse it may be and auast be admitted,
that the ,People is many countries were for
a time deluded. Our antagonists say that jar-
ring interests have been reconciled. We say
that gross delusions have been remover!; We
both admit the fact that sovereigns and their peo7
pie are identified. But they who say that this
ha€ been effected by change of principles, let them
Specify the change.. What change has taken place
amorg the nations of Europe ? We are the best
jadges.of ourselves : what-change
.has taken place.
here. Is th.l constitution other than it was When
we were told, as we often were in the bad times,
that it was a doubt if it.werr worth defending
Is the constitution other than it was when it was
supposed that peace on any terms must: be made
as the only hope of saving. it from popular indig-
nation and popular reform ?
Gentlemen, there is another .rikestion to be
asked—By what power, in What part of tile world
has that final blow been struck which has smitten

the Tyrant to the ground ? I suppose by some en-
lightened republic,; 1 suppose by some nation
which, in the excess of popular freedom, con-
siders even a representative system as detective,
unless each individual interferes directly in the
government of the national concerns. I suppose
. by -some nation of enlightened patriots, every
man of whom is a politician in the coffee-house as
well as in the senate. I suppose it is from some
such government as this that the conqueror of
despots, the enemy of monarchical England, has
met his doom. I look through the European
world, Gentlemen, in vain ; I find there no such
government ; but in another hemisphere I do find
such a one, which no doubt must be the political
David by whom the Goliab of- Europe has bbcn
brought, down. What.is the name of that glorious
republic to which the gratitude of Europe is
eternally due; 'which front its hatred to tyranny,
has so perseveringly -exerted itself to liberate the
irdrld, and at last has successfully closed the con-
test ? Alas ! Gentlemen, such a republic I'd° in-
deed find, but I find it enlisted, and, God be
thanked, enlisted alone, under the banner.of the"
despot.—(Applause.) But where was the blow
struck ? Where ? Alas, for theory ! The blow
was given in the wilds of despotic Russia. It was
followed up on the plains of Leipzig-7)y Russian,
Prussian, and Amstrian arms. But let me not be
mistokea. Do I therefore argue,—do I therefore
give to our antagonists the advantage of arguing',
that an absolute monarchy is better than a free
government ? God forbid! What I mean is this,
that in appreciating the comparative excellence
of political institutions it is. idle—it is mere pe-
dantry—to overlook the feelings of nature.
" The order of 'nature could not subsist among
mankind, if there were not an instinctive patri7-
otism ; a love of national independence, I do not
say unconnected with, but prior and paramount to
the desire of 'political amelioratiok may he'
'yery wrong that this should be so. I cannot help
it. Our business is with the fact. And surely it
is not to-be Tegretted that tyrants and conquerors
chunk' have learned from experience that the first
consideration suggested to the inhabitants of any
country by a foreign invasion, is not whether the
political constitution of the state is perfect, but
whether the altar at Which he has, worshipped,
and the home in 'which he has dwelt froni.his in-
fancy, whether his. wife and
,his whe-
ther the tombs of his forefathers, Iviiether the pa-
.tace, of the sovereign under whoni lie was born,
tend to whom he.may.owe, or fancy that he owes
allegiance,—should be abandoned to violence, and
profanation
That in' the infancy of the French Revolution
'.many nations in Ey;ope were unfortunately led,
, believe and to ao",,niwn a different persuasion,
is undoubtedly trti .-,that whole countries were
over-run by reforminyconquerors, and flattered
themselves with being proselytes till they found
themselvcs victims. Even in this couutry, as- I

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4VE , there VC OCCII 4F!!-PCs Wrier!
IVeIIdVC been culled upon to whether
there something at borne..wlrielt riattst-b
mended before:wt.! could 'hope to. repel a- fiyreign
invader With Juccess.

`-`- Gentlemen, it is .happy for the world that
this. sort of question shOuld have .I)cen tried, if
may so say, to a disadvantage ;. that it shotild
have been tried in countries where no man in his
senses will say that the frame of political society
is such, as according to the. most moderate prin-
ciples regulated freedotn it ought to he, where
I will venture to say, without hazarding fheim-
putation of •being myself a visionary reformer,
political -society is not such, .as after th'e success
of this war, and from the happy contagion of the
example of Great ltritaia it is sure gradually to
become. ks- happy for the world that this ques-
.tion as to—ere value of national independence
shopld thus
,have been tried on
_its own metits ;
that after twenty years of_controveriy we should
be authorised by Undoubted results to revert to
truth and nature, and to disentangle the genuine
feelings of thelleart from obstructioUS which
a generalizing. philosophy had wound around
them

" One of. the most delightful poets of this
country, in describing the differences of soil and
tlimate, and -the various. Proportions of natural
blessings and advantages dispensed by Providence
to the various nations of Europe; turns from the
beautiful vallies and cloiniless sides of Italy to
the rugged mountains of Stvitzerlane, and in-
quires whether there "alo in. these SeVel'e and un-
kindly regions, the patriot passion. is found cqualy
to prevail, he decides the question 'truly in thq
affirmative, and he says of the inhabitants of
those hard climes—,
4, Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms,
ALddear that hill which liftslim to the storms ;
And as a child, when searing sounds`rnolest;
Clings eloseand closer to the mother's breast,
No the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar .
134 hind hint,:to his native 'mountains more?

" What. Goldsmith has thus beautifully applied
to the physical varieties and disadvantages of a
cow:try has been found to be not less true with
respect to political institutions. The sober desire
of improvement, the rational endeavour to redress
wrong or correct imperfection in the political
frame of a goternment arc not only natural but
laudable-1n man : but 'it "is well that it should
have been shown by irrerragable proof that these
sentiments where they exist, sitpersei not that
devotion to native sOil which is the foundation of
national indepeinicimee.-; And it is right that it
should be understood and reMembertid.that this
sentiment of national ind',Tendence alone--arous-
ed where it had slumbered—enlightened where it
had been deluded-zind kindled into enthusiasm
-by the insults and provocations of the enemy, has
been found Sufficient, withoth internal changes, or
compromises of Sovereigns and Governments
with their people, , without.relaxations'of allegi-
ance-or abjurations of authority, to connect the
,nations of the Continent in *one common cause,
to lead them against their tyrant, and to shake
(aril may we not hope to overthrow) the liahel
of his power ? -
• Gerrie:nen, so much for the sophistry by
which it was for twenty years attempted to per-
suade mankind, hat it might in some cases be a
queStion, whether to acquiesce under the
inflic-
tion of foreign dominion -might not bepreferable
to the vindicating imperfect institutions against
it. 'That sophistry,' .1--'truSt, is laid at rest for
oar time. Another topic ,more peculiar to our
own country has at tinfes been interposed to dis-
Conine the prosecution of the war, and draws
the more attention, as many well-meaning per-
sons have been occasionally ranked among its sup-
porters. That this country alone was sufficient to
its own defence—sufficient to its own•happiness—
sufficient to its own independence; and that the
complicated combinations of continental policy
were always hazardous 'to our interests, as well
as burtheusome to our means, has been at seve-
ral periods of this war a favourite doctrine not
only with those who for other reasons wished to
obstruct the conduct of the war, and to embarrass
the measures of the Government, but with men
of the most enlightened mind's, of the most bene-
volent views, and the most unsuspected devotion
to the interests and constitution of their country.
" Can ally titan now look back upon the trial which
we have gone through, and point out any period
during the last 20 years in which the plan of insu-
lated policy could have been adopted without, in the
event, at this day having -primstrated England at
time foot of, a conqueror ? Great, indeed, has
been the call upon our exertions—great, indeed,
has been the drain upon our treastsres—long mid
wearisome has the struggle been, and late is the
moment at -Which peace is brought within our
reach ; but even, though the difficulties may have
been enaanced,.and its duration protracted by it,
yet is there any than who seriously doubt whe-
ther the 'having associated our destinies with the
destinies of 4,t *r nations, or not, that Which,
wilder the blessing of-; Providence; :has e'ventually
secured the *,taltty of,all ? It is at the moment
when such a trial has come to its issue that it 'iS
lair to ask of those 'who: have suffered under' the
pressure of proti'acted:exertion (and of whom, ra,
ther than of those whom I now acklress=for by
whom have those privafions been felt mote sen-
sibly ?) it is now, I say, the time to ask,- Whe-
ther, upon a review of the whole contest, any
man can Toint Oat the period at which such a
peace could have been made, as should at once
have guarded the national interests, and , corre-
sponded with the national character ? lam 114-
dressing myself now to those, and to those only,
who think the character of a nation at essential
part of its strength, and ,consequently of its

" Is it when the Continent was at peace ; when
looking upon the map of Europe you saw but one
mighty and connecteksystem, one great luminary
withA number of attendant satellites circulating
around him,—was it at that period that England
could have made peace, and hare remained at
peace for a twelvemonth ? What, is the answer ?
—Why, that the experiment was tried. The re-
sult was the renewal of the war. Was it at a
later period, when the Continental System bad
been established ? when two-thirds of the ports
of the Continent were shut against you ; when
but one-link, as it ,were, was wanting to bind
that Conguent in a circling chain of iron, which.

.SPOUICI exeiutte yon "Ifolll IIII.CFCoui-u W 1.11,
other nations of Europe. ,At that moment peace
was moist earnestly r:cornmended to'.yon, -At, that
monient,Gentlemen,l first came .amorrg you.Attliat
moment I ventured to 'recommend to you perse-
verance, passive perseverance : and to express
hope, that by the Mere strain of an unnatural ef-
fort, tile massive bonds forged for ynur restraint
'might at no.distant period, burSt asunder. I was
'heard., Gentlemen, by you with indulgence ; I
know not whttlier with conviction. But: is it
now to be regretted that we did..not, at that mo-
ment', yield to the pressure of our wants, or of
our fears ? What 'has been the iSsnei• The Conti-
nental System was completed, with the sole ex-
ception of Russia,
,in the .year 1812. In that
year the pressure Upon this country was undoubt-
edly painful. Had we yielded,
.the system would
Loire been immortal : we persevered, and before
the conclusion of that year the system was at an
end ; at an end as all schemes of violence are sure
to terminate, not by a mild and gradtal decay,
such as waits upon a regular and well spent life,
but by sodden dissolution. At an end—like the
breaking up of a winter's froit.. But yesterday
the whole, Continent was bound up, as it were,
in chains of ice,- and presented to the view one
drear expanse of barren unifoormity 3—to -d ay the
breath of Heaven unbinds the soil, the streams
begin to flow again, and Duman intercourse re
.4 •

" Can we regret that we did not lie down and
die under the sufferings of the inclement season
or did we not more wisely to bear up, and to wait
the change'!"
•.The remaining parts of this brilliant Address
not being of so much general interest, we have
clos'd an Extract which we are sure will be most
acceptable, not only to all admirers of genius, but
to all sound-minded Politicians and real Patriots.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.