Star.
London, England, 1808-09-17 00:00:00

Sind ! between Napoleon tAs suet CArbsiee
Emjietor and the Pope ! o.nd all the World knows the
recimpense t.,e,e powers obtained for their fidelity to
Frances She knows also the close union that subsist.d
between France and Spain, and the numberless sacri-
fices m ide by the latter to render service to Napoleon.
Is Spain ignorant ; is France ignorant !—is the world
ignorant of the kind and grateful return which Napo-
leon has made for so many favours? Will Russia ex-
poi imce beanr treatment, should the French emperor
Succeed in his views against Spain and Austria ?
Mffuleur.—" She (ZiegLaa) knows that those two great Powers
are resolved to unite their forces, and to consider as an enemy
every friend of England."
England knew this before France had the honesty
to avow it. But, after such an avowal, with what
front can France talk to Europe of the restless ambi-
tion, the perfidy and rapacity of England. Does
England owe any respect to a power which avows
its object to be nothing short of her ruin? Years ago
England was offered the same high honour which
Alexander hashad tho dishonesty to accept. She-was
told that France and England might rule the world !
Maiikar.—.• She (.Easlamfj knows that peace will not be die.
tutted in Germany."

sat! thecksturhadites an dir Colitis—int out he
owing to some baleful influence not that of England
—for, by the admission of her enemy, she has nottei
there. fly whom are they cached? By whom, if no(
by France ?—But we assert that England never al,
any period had a more efficient influence than shil
has at this moment. It would be just as easy to pops,
suade the world that Austria does not now stand in the
situation of a respited delinquent, as that Englan&
has ceased to have influence on the Continent.
What is meant by the assertion, that " Peace
will be maintained on the Continent ?" Peace ! and
all the armies of France in motion ! Where is peace ?
Is it in Portugal, where the Duke of Abrantes has
been defeated ? Is it in Spain, where French weak.l
nen awl want of courage, (as the French Editor re-
marks) has been so notorious ? Is it the North,
where a petty King has turned home with discomfi-
ture and disgraCe the Power of the " Potent Emperor
of the North" the ally of NAPOLEON the Great !

Moniintr—" In the interview which the Emperor (Napoleon)
bad with Francis 11. in Moravia, the latter promised that be
would never make war on him more."

We dare say it was so, and we doubt not that with
many sincere protestations Napoleon made a simiiai
promise. But, does the French Editor mean to say,
that Napoleon was to be allowed, without any oppo-
sition, to execute his own pleasure upon Austria ? to
march, for example, forty thousand men to reinforce
the Grand French army, already in Germany, with-
out exciting any movement on the part of Austria!
Was this to maintain the peace of the Continent ?
—Does the French Government imagine that the
Courts of Europe, silly as they are, are so simple as
to sit wondering unier the obligation of treaties that
they have contracted with Napoleon, while he is
driving the French armies to new and more atrocious
acts of injustice, by which his legions seem destined
to lose the dazzling glory, which for a time prevented
their enormities from being seen in their proper co-
lours ?

If this proves true, Francis knows that he owes it
Clot to Napoleon, but to the formidable enemy with
whom the latter has now to contend beyond the Py-
renees. Francis knows too, or we are much mistaken,
that should the Spaniards be subdued, he is himself
the next ♦it:tim marked out for destruction.

Minitrisr...—" She knows well, that, before the year has elapsed,
there will not be a single village in Spain ht a state of insurrec-
tion ; nor an Elll4lllllllln in that country."

She hopes the Editor of the Motile:Jr predicts truly
In his first assertion. She hopes, and that most sin-
cerely, that, before the above period shall elapse, there
will not be a single traitor or rebel left in Spain—that
the whole population will have joined the standard of
lophy, and trampled the French Eagles in the dust.
But in that event we must, in the last clause of the
above quotation, for Ensduismsaa read Fratilunam.

WLakneas and want of cottage have caused our
Wm to suffer sotti.: checks."

Afoxiker..." The destiny of ain is 'r ccab'y fixed."
This we believe, but not by " the Great Powers
of the Continent"—Alexander and Napoleon ; for
we cannot include a devoted pc,wer, Austria, in the
number.

Where?—in Spain; Impossible! for France and
Spain are linked together as intimate allies and mu-
tually pledged to defend each others sovereignty and
Independence. In Spain ! Has Spain invaded the
Flo6nch territories ? Has 'Spain attempted to dethroi.e
Napoleon ? How could the forces of sworn allies
came in contact as enemies ? giesides—l4Spain, in her
fidelity to her meritorious ally, allowed all her troops
to be marched to the North of Europe, to occupy
Hanover, that the might have equivalent: 10 give to Eng.
kind at 4 general pacification, in return for the solonial eon.
pate of Me tyrants of the reat.—Could she, without
troops, take advantage of the " weakness and want of
courage" of the French armies ?

Movtitnir--" The r.'llls of Evil."
Who is t'i;s Genius ?
4Venitair--41 Peace is the wish of the universe. The event•
which have changed the face of the world since the rupture O.
the peace of Amiens, arc to be attributed to that rupture."

What occasioned this rupture ? Precisely the same
kind of conduct that will hurry on a war between
Austria and France. Britain could not sit still and
permit France, unresisted, to continue her career of
acquisitions, as she was then doing, with fully as
much effect as if she had purchased them by victo-
ries in war. We know the various points that have
been alledged for the rupture ; but we would just
ask, whether, after the peace of Amiens, France sat
down and remained satisfied with what was allotted
to her, and reduced her war establishment ?

But do the French armies want courage? We shall
not do them the injustice to suppose it, though their
own master has thrown upon them this stigma. The
defeat of the French armies' in Spain was not occa- '
sioned by cowardice on their part. Is it possible,
after all the triumphs obtained by the French arms,
against the old governments, that Napoleon can be
Ignorant ef the causes that have contributed to his
victories ? We believe he knows them well ; for we
are not among the number who consider Napoleon
as knowing nothing but the art of war. We hold
him to be a much better politician than most of the
diplomatists of the old school. History affords no
instance of a people determined to be free, and pos-
sessing a respectable population, ever having been
brought under the yoke of an invader. It is other-
wise where the people take no interest in the cause of
their rulers—where the interests of the two are mu-
tually opposed to each other. What created the!
Trench army ? Invasion !—Attempts to force upon
them, by foreign interference, a Government to
which they were averse. This has long been seen,
and deplored by the thinking part of mankind ; and
it was foreseen that the torrent thus set in motion,
would never be stopped till a similar cause should i
operate to check its course. Like closes will ever
produce like effects. If the Spaniards be but united,
they are invincible. Nay more—it ir in the nature
of things, and within the compass of possibilities'',
that they may, ere long, carry the war into the ter-
s4ortes of the aggressor ; for, though they will have
many disadvantages to contend with in the corn-
mencemen; of their comer, the balance is actually
in their favour, ifthoykshalk have virtue enough to
persevere. The cauenttlat procksed the French ar•
mies has ceased to operate—the machine, from the
weight and strength of the materials of which it is
composed, may continue to move for some time,
and with an effect proportioned to its mats, and to
the velocity originally impelled upon it but the
main spring is gone—the soul is fled—and, unless
the course of nature shall be altered, it must sink in
its high claims. Like the now annihilated army of
Prussia, it may for a time maintain an imposing as.
pect—but against an army created by the same
cause, actuated by the same principles which gave
itself birth, but which are now extinct in the French
army, it cannot ultimately prevail. The Spanish
army will daily grow better than it is, but the French
tannot: it has passed its zenith.
Haiku—" As to Austria, peace will be maintained on the
Continent, because England has there no intleer.ce."
What ! Austria again ! Does the Editor of the
Airmail's,- expect, by this solicitude, to persuade her
that her fat: is not
.yet 4, irrevocably fixed" like that
of Spain. England has no influence on the Conti-

Monitemr--" The events so unfavourable to England that have
occurred sirce the death of Mr. Fox, are to be attributed to his
death and the rup:tire of the negociations."

What are the events ? It is true that Prussia has
been destroyed—or rather the Prussian Government ;
that Denmark is in the fraternal embraces of the
French army—and her navy in the ports of England ;
that the Potent Emperor of the North has been content
to be permitted to act like his friend Napoleon ! In
what has all this been so unfavourable to Eng.
land ?" She has got rid of faithless and useless allies,
that only served to lessen the respectability of her cha.
racter, and to render her efforts for the good of man-
kind suspected. What was Prussia ? What is Russia ?
What good could the world expect even from Britain,
connected with such associates ? She is now, how-
ever, seen in her ancient and legitimate character—
assisting the Spanish and Portuguese people, as she
did the Dutch in the time of Philip 11. to repel the
attempts of a crafty, cruel, and remorseless tyrant to
enslave them.
Momiteur--" The changes that have taken place in Europe since
the Peace of Tilsit, are to be attributed to the refusal of the me-
diation of Russia."

Changes which England surely cannot regret,
however much Napoleon may : and we think the re-
mark proves that this is the feeling of the French
Editor. Who expected such a change ? Not Na-
poleon, when he made his brother lose the crown of
Naples.

ifinato.iititeseeeptaneeof the-044.0iiy tomb
Would have pietented the pi esent state of Mks tn die Saltk and
la Spain."
'rhis means, swe suppose, that the Sparifsh troops
tinder the Marquis de Romana would still have been
paider the direction of the Prince of Poole Cervo,
and that Spain would not have been now punishing
the treachery of her ally Napoleon. Where is the
loss to Britain in all this ?—Russia, the close ally of
Napoleon, mediate for her ! Napoleon did not expect
that England would accept such a mediator, and none
but Alexander could believe he meant any thing by
proposing it.
It is very instructive to observe how philoso-
phically this Imperial Editor connects effects and
causes. The rejection of the offered mediation had
no more effect on the present state of the Conti-
nent, than the weather and the water at Madrid had
in inducing the Spaniards to reject the yoke ofNapo-
Icon ; or the piety of the French Emperor in pro.
ducing, in the Royal mind of Joseph, King of
[King of what ?] the virtuous resolution to run away
with a parcel of images and candlesticks

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

•
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols, motley, 664—for ace. 661 67-onuilurn 14 dis.
Each. Bilk. sq. 6s. prc.

An Extraordinary Gazette was published last
night, containlng a confirmation of the disgrace and
humiliation entailed on Britain, by the most extraor-
dinary Convention that was ever signed by a British
Commander.

The sum of the business is this. A British
army twice defeats its enemy, and, on the second
occasion, with a reserve of several thousand men
who had not been in the action, and who ought in-
stantly to have followed up their victory by a fresh
attack upon the defeated foe—this army, joined by
large reinforcements, instead of receiving the triumphs
to which it was catitled, sees them transferred to the
enemy whom they had conquered—and, to sum up
t7:e whole, sees the name of the Hero who led them
to victory attached to the deed I

By this convention it is agreed—that the French
irmy at Lisbon 511411 be transported to France at the
expence of this country, to assist NAPOLEON in his
wad against the Spanish Patriots.
That we shall also transport With them, at our ex-
pence, the plunder and treasure extorted from the
Portuguese by acts of oppression an± murder.

That we shall become the rescuers of stolen r ods,,
by receiving from them, in an account current, and
placing to their credit those stogies and previsions, of.
which they robbed the Portuguese, and which may be'
too bulky to remove ; being more cumbrous than •
plate, jewels, and images.

That this country shall induce the Spaniards to de-
liver up to the French all their spies, emissaries aad
Other enemies now in their power, but who were taken
without arms in their hands.

That the crews of nine Russian ships of the line
and a frigate shall be sent in British ships to the Bal-
tic to the assistance of Amtaxusa, to enable him the
More effectually to carry on the war in which he is
now engaged against our ally, the KING of SWEDEN.
Such are the terms, neither more nor less, though
covered over with a little French varnish.

We shall not dwell upon them—But we have to
remind Ministers—to remind Britons—that at this,
moment many of our countrymen, who were passing
through France or residing there, during peace, were,
in violation of an Imperial promise--in violation of
the acknowledged law of nations, immured in FrencL
pmons—and still remairl, prisoners in France ! ! !

JuNot, a French Commander, could take care of
his own countrymen who were prisoners in Spain !
British Commanders have been regardless of their- fel-
low subjects who are prisoners in France.
We add, from one of the Reports of the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs, (published in the STAR
of yesterday) a quotation which may vrve as a text to
our Mrusters to extricate the country from the de-
structive effect of these conventier s—the conquest of
Spain is laid down as a sine qua non for the safety of
the French Empire—and, says the Minister, " Every
thing that leads to this end is legitimate 'III I"

21finittmr—" What may yet happen on the Continent contrary
NAVAL ACTION IN THE BALTIC.
to the greatness and interest of England, if peace does not take
place, will be attributed to that foolish obstinacy, to that blind The Navy of Russia has now received the first of
and furious policy, which, notwithstanding the union of great those checks which it may expect from a continuants
Powers, places all its hopes in dreams of an impossible division of hostilities against the British flag. Yesterday after-
and a renewal of coalitions, which can only exist against herself:, noon a Telegraphic communication was made to the
England was certainly so foolish as to league her- Admiralty, from Yarmouth, stating that there had
self with imbecility, fraud, and tyranny. She now
been an engagement in the Baltic with the Russians,
leaves that to France, who will assuredly gain all the
and a report was immediately circulated, of a great
benefits that can be expected from an alliance with and glorious victory having been obtained.
such Powers Powers as Russia, Saxony, Wirtemberg, and the nant THOMPSON, of Admiral Sir SAmtizr. HOOD'S
wrecks and remnants of German Principalities. It ship, however, arrived in the course of the evening,
is not a little remarkable that France has adopted the with dispatches, containing an account of the total
system for which she reprobated England, and which destruction of a Russian ship of the line. Lieutenant
the latter has at last had the good sense to value at
THOMPSON was on board the Swedish Admiral's ves-
its true worth. I eel during the chace of the Russian fleet into the Bay
Mewitesr The most political conduct is that which is most
where they have taken shelter. The gallantry and
conformable to justice."
Words have been so revolutionised, in France, that spint of the Swedes cannot be too highly praised ;
we are at a loss to understand the French dzfinition and their eagerness to bring their ships to action stamp
them as worthy associates of the Heroes of the Nile.
of the term judice. The French Editor, we think,
The following are the particulars contained in the
could easily illustrate, by examples drawn from
cent transactions of France, the sense in which he dispatches brought brLienterwit TrromPsox
SAM= Hoop c.,13” up with two sail date
uses this maxita of Cicero.