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London, England, 1805-09-10 00:00:00

rl-sT fOL:TICAL MAP OF Z> thIOPE.

LETTER M.

Forttma ratem noßris vitiis adbue irteclumis.

S!R,

SAL I 'IST. Hilt. Fragm. 1. w. S.
- :73 till

❑ the memorak .ITHRIDATEi73 the
.Rirg of the Parthians, we may perceive the value of
that great political axiom, the negleet of which
prov-:1 lo fatal to chore ancient fovereiyns of the Fall,
and has nearly, fubverted the independence of the
mc dem fovercigis of the Weft The profperity of
hi; arms has fuhfdled hitherto by our fault, who have
not been fo prudent to underltand this common ene-
my, and to ally ourfelves againft him." This is
cx tOly what 1 propofed in my lad letter to demon-
/Irate. •

tble let

Ater of

We have already leen, that the lots of the fecondary
pr,: s, is one of the caufes of the prefent (late of
rAiropean intecurity : the next caufc which preterits
itfelf to our attention is, the political abandmiment
of that jealoufy retpeaing the balance of power,
witich .w•as obfervable throughout this country,
mediately after the concluflon of the late, war. This
an:.'taly in Britifh politics was a jun groUnd 'fur
triumph to the Corfican Ufurper ; and, if I be not
m;fla. ea in the recovered good feefe of the natian,
it a ill he our reproach with poflerity.
The fword was no fooner fheathed, than rt. new
1:121e of thinking, accompanied by a moll culpat2e
hidiffsrence to the affairs of the Continent, periled
the minds of many people. It was affirmed that
our former allies were either difpirited at their
e.:t.nt‘, or exl.aufted of their means. But, fhould
fo far as to admit the validity tg this plea, it
ought not to have warranted our departure from that
acknowledged found policy, which had alwayseireaed
the condua of our forefathers. On the contrary,
it mould have induced us to have drawn clofer
the links of political connea'ion, by which the un.
contlueted Rates of Europe might have been encou-
raged to prepare for the ultimate nectlty of fpi-
rited exertion. At ailerons, rhen we bad imbib-
ed the fallacious and difeouraging opinion, that we
bad nothing •to do with the Continent, it would have
been decorous as well as politic, to have abftained
from promulgating that opinion with fuck compla-
Cent :atisfaftion, in the face of all Europe.
It would have been :fortgaite, perhaps et kali it
would have been more creditable to our political re-
isute, if this fu'pine infetsatien had. exifted among((
the vulgar only ; for its imprefrton would have been
tranfitory, and in the hour of peril, every judicious
fiatefman of Europe Irould have clafred it in the
inolierof thofe popular prejudices relishing from
the fudden erecfition of *people from a ftate of war
to a Lae of repofe, bat Upon which, from its fugi.
iivena.ture, no ferious dependence ought to be placed.
This, however, was not our cafe. We were not
contented with enduring the feelings of a fluent for-
row at the misfortunes of our friends, but in the
• graveft affc:nblies, flatefmen and legiflators were

heard to draw bitter comparifons between their con.
dition and ours ; to compliment each other on our
boneft.policy (as if we were the only boned people
upon the earth), to triumph in our happy releafe frnrn
all Continental concerns.

To infult the feelings of a fallen enemy is at all
time!, engenerons ; but to wound the honour of our
fiends—of there too who had fallen in a

P:nraon struggle by our fide, was the excels of de-
Frzviv and folly, and if I did not really think that
they were the inconfiderate effufions of an unguard-
ed hour, I would have added, that it was likewife
the excels of bafenefs and cowardice.
li:c defendants of thofe illuarious gatemen and
warriors, who zt the fiat fignal of alarm, took up arms
in fuppnrt of the balance of Power, will be brought
Tgitli difficulty to believe, that there elated an era in
the h;flory of their country, when it was moved in
Parliament, whether it was politic in the Englifh na-
ti.,n to Teti the encrozehments and aggrandifement
of the eternal enemy of their name? when is was fe-
rioutly difentled, whether any continental ennnaions
wer: at all ad vantageons to them, and 'whether it was
to their interffl to participate in the tranfasllions of
the edntinent, and above al!, to fhare in its dangers?
By fuel, degenerate fentiments, we gave the Cot"
Cean a much higher opinion of his relative importance'
than his political fituatiori would otherwfe have jail.
fied. He con fidered,our apathy relative to the general
affairs of Europe, not as a temporary mania, as was
in fad the cafe, but as tefulting from our conviSicar
of his irrefitlible power, and hence that confidence
which prompted him to overthrow the Independence
bf the Swifs Cantons, to affume the government of
Italy, and to perpetuate all that execrable deeds
of violence, which have made him become the curie
and fcourge of Europe. Subfequent events, bow.
ever, convinced him that this confidence was pre.
mature, and that however the Englias nation might
for a fhort time, depart from the good old policy of
their aneeflors, the found fenfe of the people was a
pledge that it would be but of Ilion continuance.—
Dreadful invafions of the integrity of Europe were
neverthcicfs tffaled during that interval of lethargy
and foibearance ; and when we temonarated againft
thefe aggreffions, we were anfwered, that we had
nothing to do with the affairs of the Continent, and
that we bad excluded °waives from it by the trea-
ty of Amiens. The retort was fitful but pungent :
fur the text bad been unfortunately pronounced in a

Britith Parliament, and BONAPAO.I-3 proved himfelf
a molt expert and diligent expofitor of the dottrinel.

At length, after he had fown every
where, and had planted upon the tontines of his em.
pire a number of vend Rates, all of which were
fubfervient to his nod, and capable of brea'sing the
firlt irruption of any future enemies; after he had
nearly facceeded in perfuading Europe, and with our
own words ton, that we were no longer to be confidered
as apart of it ; he thought the time had arrived, when,
to ming. trill every hope of fuccour from this country,
he might fafely venture to announce, that England,
tingle-handed, could not contend with France. This
I affront was beyond endurance, efpecially by a people
who had often contefted fingly againa France fop-
ported by powerful allies, yet had never laid down
their arms without acquiring marchlefs glory, and
who had never fought with France tingly, but they
had always broken her into fubmillion, andfixed their
triumphant banners on the.walls even of her capital.

The fpell of infatuation being thus broken, we re-
turned once more, wish energy and enthufiafm,
into the paths of our anceflors. We reared to ling
lullaby at home, while the common enemy of man-
kind was gathering whole communities ander his iron
yoke, and preparing them for the acceptance of one
vall fweep of empire in civilized .Europe, which
fhould comprehend none but tyrants and Haves.—
Every thing was then teen through a different me-
dium ; we repented• of our errors, and invoked all
Eutope to unite with us in repelling the common
danger. Put Europe was fluent at our call. In their
turn, the foveteigns of the Continent; feemed indif-
ferent to the caufe of a people, who boafted of their re-
jelion of the falutary policy or their 'forefathers ; and
as we had pronounced. them, to be too weak,yerfatile,
or timid to continue the conzeft, it was not likely that
they fhould refnme it at our, pleafare. In cOnfe•
quence, they turned a deaf ear to all appeals which
we made 'to their honour, their independence, and
their common dangers ; and well they might, fince
they could not avoid receiving with .11ifirua, the ex-
potlulations of a government, in behalf of the liber
tics of Europe and the balance of Power, the mafs
of whole fubjeds had recently breached the humili-
ating feniiment, that they were no longer interelled
in the political GanfaCtions of Europe.

S.tch, I fear, were the lamentable caufes that de-
terred the continental powers from embarking at an
earlier period in the prefent war, upon grounds of ge-
neral fecurity. The peculiar difficulties of their re-
fpalive fituationa in relation to each other, and the
cowsnon enemy, mull, no doubt, be admitted their

fell eitent, and they will become the fubjefts of our
futUre ionfider4tion. They were great and dißref-
fing ba it is enough for us to know, and it
is a melancholy froth, that our languor and feem.
its: difinclination to. reprefl the ambition of France,
before the renewal of hotlilities became inevi-
table, chetiffied, if they did not provoke their ap-
parent teluaance to confederate once more for the

fafety of Europe. Calamitous events (which in the
order of PaCTIDENCE may lead to future good) have
recently changed the afpeel of affairs., All parties
appear now to be confcicus, that they have not con-

faked their proper interefts ; that they have borne
with injulice too long, and that forbearance ferves
only to ftrengthen the power of triumphant villainy.
Where all have beer. in the wrong, and have fuffered
by it, it would be illiberal to impute blame to any one
in particular.; bat it may be reafonably espeited, that
all mould profit by a ruinous experience. In this
cafe, *dyer fity itfelf is not without its compenfations.
Urea are the del of Adverfity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head..
Thi;icountry has been always the foyemoll in every
ftruggle, to maintain the federative fyftem of Eu•
rope *;,- and I hope we Shall never decline from our
ancient charaaer, nor hear it again propounded as
the Sentiment of the Engliffi nation, that the balance
Of power is an unintelligible jargon, invented to
cover every ambitious Scheme ; to furniffi pretexts for
national ; to &niftily treachery and caprice;
to divert the natural courfe of things, or to effeEt
that which would have happened at any rate. On
the contrary, evert, man in Europe mull now feel
and acknowledge, with grief, that it was the want of
a due attention to its advantages, which encouraged
BONArARTS to interfere with officious folicitude in
the internal affairs of all other Rates ; to prefcribe
the appointment of their rulers, and to regulate the
forms of their adminiftration ; to take part in every
difpute ; to claim the territory of one patty for al-
lifting him, and Seize the land of the other after
beating him ; to obtain allies by force, and provide
that no one [hall rob that hirnfelf ; to quarter
troops upon his neighbours, and pay them with
his neighbours revenues. To fuch egregious alts of
cruelty and violence, we oppcfed the mild fpirit of
• I requelt that I may not be mifundere 1 upon this molt impor-
tant Subject. It is very far from my Meaning to circulate the idea
that this derelietion of the Continent Was a formal legillative
work. Such an interpretation would be unjuft. I allude therefore,
to thofe individuals only, who were perpetually has ping on the
bleffings of peace and plenty, (good things in themfelves when
coupled with fecurity) ai:d reviling there who as firenuotdly plead-
ed the. neceffity of forming a doter coigne-lion with the continen-
tal Powers. From this imputation, we mall exclt,h: the members
of the Government, as it appears from the official papers relative
to the negociations with France after the peace, tb•,t they firmly
r, fitted this dalti,!..t of continental etclufion. Events, however,
have Ikewn that they went too far in their eonceffions, aed this is
admitted by Lord HawkelLury, in his Speech at the openirg of the
loft Sedhas of Parliament. " By too great an ext*.nt of concerion,"
laid hi, Lordffilp, "and by difeovering too great an cagernet, for
regocLtion, i fear it was, that we tell into Cue Snare that lid to
the pretax war."

ca acefflon, nail, from coneeftion, we. ionnai, it necetia-
ry to employ the language of indignation, and from
indignation to come at length to blows. Immediate
war was as indifpenfable to the glory as to the fafety -
of the State. lea fullatdjpe venis,tuadem fumile animism,
tam quilus fat:, quam quibus glories cariffma
It, from the reafonings contained in this letter, it
be imagined that I with to reproach the conduft of
public men, I can fafely anfwer, that nothing is fur-
ther from my mind. It is not the goverment, but
the miaaken infatuation of the people that is the fub-
jeft of juts censure ; and I• am well aware, that. al-
moa every obfervation which I have made is foun-
ded upon events that were not generally forefeen at
the time when this infatuation prevailed. Much be-
nefit es, notwithaanding, to be derived from this
mode of examining public affairs ; becaufe, •inftead
of curling irritation, by fretful or ominous forebo
dings refpating the future, it calls a gleam of hope
upon our profpeas, by warning us againft the recur.
rence of a policy, which has occafioned fuel) great
misfcrtunes. There is certainly much confolation,
even under adverfe circumaances, in the refjeaion
that our intentions were good; but this cannot re-
move The impretlion which fatal events have excited.
Events, which do not correfpond with the caufes
that were expated to give rife to them, are ex-
amples from which the moil important inftrudion is
to be acquired. If we do not profit by them, they
ferve only to foothc our indolence, and to fupply
frefh materials for our ruin. It is not, therefore, up-
on opinions, but upon confequences, that I have raif-
ed my argument.
Of the late peace, and the motives by which h
was dielated, I ever have been, and nal remain, a
thankful approver ; and although it has been follow.
ed by events unfavourable to the general fecurity of
Europe, I do not hefitate to make the bold co:npari
fon, that it did more fubflantial good to this country
than all the fubfequent encroachments of BONAP4RTE
have effected for France. Had that man contained
his ambition within legitimate bounds ; had he pre-
fer-led for himfelf no rule of condudt but the love of
peace and ] u Rice, he might have crated even with the
ruins of a great monarchy, one of the noblea flruc-
tures in the world ; he might have foftened, and per-
haps, in procefs of time, extinguifhed the animofities
that via between the two countries ; and while he
might have thus laid the foundation of an im•
mortal name, this generation, in the fruition of
tranquillity and beneficence, might have been imper.,
ceptibly led to exert itfelf in forgetting, as much as
pofEble, his tremendous offtnces againhi GOD and
man, and to draw a veil over the means by which he
attained fupreme power. But his furious and reillefs
nature has enabled the whole world to explore his
views, and above.all, to contrail the fpirit of the two
Governments of France and Great Britain, during
the Aron period in which they were allowed to refpire
in peace. Never was a contrail more glorious for
the one, and more dithonourable to the other. The
fpirit of French peace difplayed itfelf in wanton ag
greffions upon neutral Rates, in a perpetual motion
againft the fecurity of the civilized world, and in

rancorous malice and hatred of the power with
which its as no longer at war. The fpirit of Britifh
peace manifefied itfclf in an carnet defire to conci-
liate, in a with to forgive and to forget paR injuries,
in confining itfelf to the improvement of the moral
aad phyfical happinefs of the Bi itifh people, without
diflurbing the quiet, or prefuming to intermeddle in
the internal affairs of other nations. The one was
the peace of an affan ; the other of a brave man.

We owe, Sir, the opportunity of making- this con-
traa to the late Peace, and it will long be remem-
bered, after the very terms of the treaty of Amiens
(hall have been wholly forgotten. Thus, while we
(ball be gaining upon the ellimation of mankind,
that new fledged Imperial Eagle, which was nurfccl
in the bofom of anarchy, which grew up in crime,
and which exilts by violence and rapine only,will moll
probably expire in agony and blood, the dreadful,
but common fate of ufurpation maintained by def-
potifrn, fraud, and cruelty. WALSINGHAM.

Yetlerday there was a large thew of cattle of dif-
ferent forts at Harlow Both fair, in Effex : the prime
Stots of good age fold freely; but the peen North
Wales Runts, and Irifh Steers, met with but few
porchafers : the hurfe fair was well fupplied, parti-
cularly with clever cart colts, which were bought up
at good prices.
_ _ _

Thurfday fe'ennight, as the ferry boat was croffing
from Ballyhack to l'affige, with feveral paffengers
and two horks, one of the horfes got a little reltive,
and the boat being oscrloAcled, as alfo a heavy (well
in the river, the fuddenly overfet, and we hear, with
much regret, that four of the paffengers and one of
the boatmen were unhappily loft.

A few evenings ago, a young man, while bathing
in the river Trent, near Nottingham, incautionny
♦entured beyond his depth, and was unfortunately
drowned.

A general mourning is an event which, happily,
feldom occurs in this layout ed kingdom; but a ge-
neral diffufion of gladnefs is by no means a rare cir-
cuniflance in our annals. An important viEtory
fills the whole ifland with joy, and a patriotic ar-
dour reverberates in every 13titifh bofom: but next
to a defeat of the enemy, there is nothing which ex
cites fo much general pleaiure and latistaftion as the
approach of a State Lottery, and there is one now
before the public, t^ be drawn the prefent month,
which contains the means of dithibuting the com-
ings and luxuries of life, among incalculable num-
bers of the faecal ites of fortune.

A IN.; ti:•7:Nrr,
=UTICA IN7 EL LIGEgr.E.

MAILS THIS DAY.—AVInd Vt. •
ARY. DUE. ARR. Et--:-
Dublin t 1 Hamburgh o
Waterford s 0 Gottenburgb 0 s
Lilbon t o

The Walfingham, arrived at Falmouth from LA
bon, does not bring any particular news, and has
only duplicates of the dirpatclies received by his Ma-
jelly's (hip Ell/TALUS. On the 2 iff ult. off Cape
Finiflerre (on the outward bound palrage), the Wal-
fingham fell in with •eight large men of war, and
two brigs, (landing to the EAftward, which, in all
probability, were the Rochefort fquadron rerurnin
from their trip to Vigo. They did not chace the
packet, but (offered her to go on without moleflati,,n.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—The remainder of etler
Eaft India fleet paired this port this morning. His
Majefly's (hip TILIEMRT flood in to fee the Swedifh
(hip (which is the Guflavus III.) fafe in, and then
went on with the fleet. This (hip pot into Batavia
—there were fix fail of the line, ten frigates, and
fame (mall 'hips, but they were in a very fickly (late.
The Purfer from the Perfeverance latticd her.: with
'his packets. His Majefly's (hip MILPOMEN k, came
out of dock this morning, and went out to Spithead
immediately.—Sailed the galliot Juffrnw Eva, j. H.
Rucwsu.s, fortarthagena ; went out of harbour)
the listtssaaynted (hip..—Arrived the VIPIIR cutter)
from the Channel fleet.

•Mr. Webb, late Mader of the BLANCHR frigate;
Mr. Fens, irate !qr. Byers, gunner ; and Mr. Da-
vis, carpenter, who were landed at Torbay from the
Marie, of Hamburgh, came t 3 this part on Saturday,
in the Daring gun veffel. They were put on board
the Marie, from le Department du Landes, one of the
corvettes which engaged the Blanche, under necef-
fity, as the crew of the corvette were on fhort al-
lowance.

Dom, SEPT. g.—Arrived off. here this mo►ning
,the Danifh Eaft India !hip Cron Printzen, Captain
OIGIAARD, from China, bound to Copenhagen ; the
left St. Helena the 44th June !aft, three days after
I our fleet failed. The Swediflt Eat India fhip Gutlavus
111. joined our fleet juft as they were getting undo(
way. The Frederica SwedifhlEaft India !hip remained
at St. Helena.—Sailed tht fhip Frue von Scholton.
Captain FITZPATRICK, of and from St. Thomas,
with coffee, fugar, tkc. bound to Amfterdam. Paired
by the brig Nyfomked, Captain Tonscuaz, of Co-
penhagen, from Leghorn, bound to London, with
rags.

Mat, SEPT. 9.—Arrived the Honourable the Eaft
India Company's (hips, Dover Celtic, Cuffnells,
Canton, Marquis of Ely, True Briton, Fame, Sove.
raign, Monarch, and Sir William Bentley :—they
parted with the fleet about two days lince. Arrived
the UILAAItz frigate with a fleet of fhips under convoy
from Quebec, and failed for the Nore. Arrived t:.,
Prevoyante [bore Sip from Gibraltar, and failed for
the Nore. Arrived the ACUTE gun brig from a
cruize. Sailed the Voecarre bomb ; BRUIZER, FEAR.
LESS, REDBREAST, and WATCHFUL gun brigs, on a
cruize; Polly, Ceres, Walker, Argo, Canceller, and
George and Dorothy tranfperts, for the Nore—
Arrived the THALIA- from Leith, and failed for Spit-
head. Arrived the Ringer, naval tranfpurt, from
Deptford.
ANOTHER LETTER, SAMi Dirs.—Arrived the
Mutate frigate with, twelve fail of veffels under con•
voy from Quebec ; the reit of the fleet, conflaing of
Fifteen fail, went into the eaflern ports. Arrived the
Tues.'s frigate from the northward ; Marquis of
Ely, Cuffnells, Canton, True Briton, Fame, So-
vereign, Dover Cattle, and the Sir William Bentley,

from the EaR Indies ; the latter velfel has failed for
the River ; the others remain in the Downs with
the Ihips as per laR. W ind S. W.
Su asIOIESS, SEPT. 9 —This day the Rofina, armed
Ihip, Captain Roar, failed for the Baltic, with abort
twenty vetrels under convoy, fine breeze S. W. The
TussEushas arrived at the Nore from the Well Indies.