Star.
London, England, 1809-07-28 00:00:00

PIERRE.

It is ndw high time to recur to common sense—to
look at the business that. comes home to our own
bosoms—to listen to the dictates of Nature—to con-
template the system of PROVIDENCE, and to turn with
disgust from the effluvia of those detestable fungi
which sprung from the moral and political rotten.
ness of France and the Bourbons. .
In the name of common sense, of what use can it
be to the British people. to deprive themselves 4 their
protectors for the purpose of attempting to protect a
set of strangers, whiten .Pnovinocr, by complerion,
by country, by language, by religion, by physical
aoil b). moral distinctions of every kind, has declared.
to b:; no way related to us ?—To protect them,, did
we say ! If it were to preserve from destruction
'lugs endued with rational life, and furthering even
t:.,c;r own common interests, the term might be used
--and an apology might he found for magnanimous
I ; but such is not the object of this protection—
N-1, it is to preserve fr.t dulent impositions, that our
fazhers shed their blood to banish-from our own soil.'
I;,lpo'.itions connected with so enormous a system of
criminality, that for only respecting, in a remote and,
modified di give, the religionwhich.seeks such aids, mil-
lions of our own countrymen are dehirTed from many
of tltcirti'. it privileges. For a moment think to what you
extend your .protection,-to saints and martyrs, and
to—, but let us call them by the names which cont.
Li.m sense applies—to images, bones, rags, hair, bits
f wood, nails, and rotten teeth ! things which instead-
oi rncr;tieg a waste of British blood and treasure to
Fotect,' you Would yourselves rather put into the
fire than deprive your dog of a single bone.t7 But to
hide this absurdity from your own eyes, you call it,
in a moderate mood, a maintaining venerable insti-
tutior.s"—bitt after dinner, you call it 4i helPing the
brave Spaniards"-0 coining forward to assist the
Fr:or Austrians",-" duty to our old and faithful
Ally, Portugal" " emancipating the Dutch"-
4. countenancihg the loyal Hanoverians" 44 pre-
venting the overthrow of the. Turkish Eihpirie",—
a defending the King of the 7wo Sicilies"-to say
reithing of your con missesation of •the Rorer—far
IPss, of your glorious declaratient hbotit tht
delive-
r:ce of Europe ! !—lf the bottle were not ; at: yoUti
•)ow, and the wine in your head, what **tad you
ty of such ravings !—The brave Spaniards ! More
slum a year has elapsed since " the universal Spanish
alien," as we all wished to believe; was arm?,
trod as braggingly bold as the most intoxicated among
ourselves. Comparisons are odious, or we-.would
remind you that, in the lucid interval with which Bri-
tain was blessed, when she broke the deceitful peace
of Amiens, a million of yourselves were really awned
(and you must be armed again) in the short spaceof
few months. What has Spain done ? Atthis hour,
•,.i. will venture to say, that there is not actually as
Any Spaniards in the field, or ready for the field, as
..e have now in Sicily, Spain, and on board ships
ready to go,--nobody knows where. Tut to
-itir,elves then this question, What is the use of at-
..ror i:ing to force the Spaniards to be free?
the poor Austrians!—poor indeed. They had
110:: —an array superior to the French in number; nor
1.144: to fight; In what did they stand in need of our
? Could we put yigonr into the hen-heaTt


of her Government ?—But let us spare the memory
of the dead !.
But to review in detail the follies to which you sa-
crifice the blood of your youth, and the comforts of
your own families—not for the inhabitants of other
countries, but for all that is oppressive, worthless, su-
perstitious, obsolete, and morally and politically des-
picable—would be endless.
Abandon, befoie it be too late, that false philoso.
phy that leads you not only to attempt impossibili.
ties, but e-en draws you on to the commission of
patricide. The blood and treasure wasted, without
recornp.-nce, on so many distant countries, will be
wanted when the period arrives, and it is fast ap.
proaching, in which you must defend yourselves
against the very people whom you now call friends.
To whom will you then make supplication, or who
will relieve you ? For the millions you have sent to
Austria, what will she then send you ? Is there a
Stock Exchange at Vienna, by which the British Go.
vernment will be able to fleece the Austrians, as you
have been fleeced ? Is there a nation upon earth that
would add one penny to its taxes for you ? Is there
a nation upon earth whose envy of your industry does
not amount to perfect hatred ?--who does not reckon
I upon a share of the spoil to be derived from your
ruin ? Fulfil the duties pointed out by PROVIDENCE)
as due to yourselves, to your families, to sum up all,
to You country ! Beyond these, you have no duties
to perform—all other alledged obligations are contriv-
ances of interested or blind individuals.

We have received Hamburgh and other Gentian
papers to the 23d instant. They state that through
the whole af•tlte North of Germany, the spirit if in-
surrection was becoming daily more formidable. The
late dastardly Armistice entered into by the Au-
strians has, of course, baffled all attempts, on the part
of the brave.and patriotic inhabitinti, to shake off the
yOke of their oppreisors. Private letters from Bre.
men and Haaburgh describe the inhabitants of the
former place as having risen, in a tumultuous man-
ner, and prevented the French from carrying off some
waggon loads cif -money which had been wrung from
the merchants by the Douanierr, or Custom House
Officers.

In Louisboargh and Margolsheim, in Westphalia,
there have been• repeated insurrections of the popu-
lace. The latter place is described in the German
journals, under French controul, as the focus of re-
bellion.

By letters from Petersbnrgh of the 6th inst. we are
informed that, at that date, a British squadron of seven
sail of the line, with transports, was off Cronstadt.
The Russians were in consequence under great appre-'
hensions, and there cannot be a doubt that if the Aus-
trian titled commanders had performed the duty they
cried to their country, such a diversion might have
been produced in the North as would have tended not
a little to paralyse the operations of Russia.
The Exchange at St. Peterabegh bad fallen a trifle
in consequence. - •

We understand that Archangel has been le& by
the British squadron which was lately in that quasar.

THE GRAND -EXPEDITION.

The men of war and transports which formed that
part of the expedition embarked at Portsmouth, have
arrived safely in the Downs.. They passed Dover
yesterday afternoon, with a fine breeze at S. W. and
were expected to sail with the ebb tide last night
round the South Sand Head, for their destination.

The wind has been uncommonly fair since the fleet
began to sail ; and, when the Mail came away from
Deal yesterday afternoon, a signal was made for the
whole of the squadron to.proceed to sea. Our most
cordial wishes for success attend it I fot: never were
military operations commenced by us upon the Con-
tinent at a more critical moment.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 27.

4g Arrived his Majesty's ship Gosnawx.—Sailed
his Majesty's ships. DIdFENDER with three transports
for the Downs, and SARPIDON with a convoy to the
Westward.—Wind W."

" DOVER, JULY 27.

4, The fleet from Pottsmonth passed here this after-
noon, with a fine breeze at S. W. It is said they
will sail on'the ebb tide this evening round the South
Sand Head, for their destination."