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eight years; and three oklt Jesuits; of that college,
where he charitably; though With so little Profit, had
received his education.
We shall now take lute of this mirthless chattc-
ter in the forcible language of a biographer who knew
him well. We recommend it to the serious perusal
of all --RoNAPARTE'S friends and foes :
t, The proverb, Qui non cognoreitur ex re, cove:direr
ex torus, is truly applicable to BONAPARTE. With
very few, if any exceptions, all persons having his
confidence, serving his usurpation, transacting as his
Ministers, or acting as his military or political tools,
re, with Amman, equally notorious for crimes, and
.Angerons from their want of all moral and religious
lotions."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, DECENtER 18, 1813.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLO CK
itedu. 60H—Cons. shat—‘for acc. 6244—1g0ds 2a. dis.
4 per Ct.l6o—Nivy shut—Long Anns. 14* is-WWI
Now Onus. hi f—Ohl, 121—Exch. Bills 4s. Gs. pr.

" Europe," gals VATrEL (book iii. chap. 3, sec.
41')—" forms a body, Where the whole is connected
by the relations and different interests of nations in:
habiting this part of the world. It is not, as anciently,
a confused heap of detached pieces, each of which
thought itself very little concerned in the fate of others,
and seldom regarded things Which did immediately
relate to it."
Europe." he continues, " is a kind or republic,
the members of trlrich, ihottgh independent, unite,
through the ties of common interest, for the mainte-
nance of order and liberty. Hence aro* that famous
:theme of the political equilibrium or BALANCE or
yawn; by which is understood such a disposition of
things as ne Poi-er is able absolutely to predominate,
tb prescribe Ltivs to others."
It is to rises:AT this balante—to place its fotindation
once noire upon an imrnotiable basis—to 41 re-estt-
blish anew the political state of Europe," that the
Allies are at war. Frinet, as a part of the Great
tepublit, which Viami describes; must also 1*
"re-established anew," 'ere Die Allies can lay down
theit aids:. We confess that there are so* passages
in the rianifort Dielatation which are at variance
with the enlightened maims keatich guided the Allied 1
Powell *hen they first took the field against Bora.
WWI. We we With for instance, in the Austrian
Manifesto, that BottAlPArrit 44 refused even to make.-
n nominal sacrifice for the repose of Europe."
the Bavarian Declaration bargains for a al &Aso
to Europe...the Wurtemburgh and Baden
Princes coMpliiti lotidly in their Acclamations that
the Vicinity of their respective territories to Prance
tendieed it ablidutely necessary that they shoOld so
tripple that Power, at to preclude all possibility of
future violation. These docuniehti ate upon record
4--they are the pledges *hich the Sovereigns have
given to their subjects of their sincerity., and they
are, in Cacti the terms of enrolment tiposi which their
population hate taken arms. We leave out of the
question the Declaration; official and demi-official,
of the CROWN remit of SWEDEN. His Royal High-
ness may be regarded as having personal antipathies•
to revenge, when he talks of putting BONAPARTE
hot: de la loi, and visiting him with the curse of CAM)
the first murderer. He is, however; backed in his
zealous wishes for the welfare of Europe by at 4east
nine-tenths of its population ! •
With all these public records before our eyes.—to
say nothing of the subordinate Mutterings of revenge
. indulged in by the Cossacks for the conflagration of
Moscow—of the vivid recollections of BLUCHER and
his countrymen of the wanton massacres in the streets
of Lubeck—of the solemn oaths of vengeance which
the natives of Germany have secretly sworn—or of
the "Iliad of woes" inflicted by BONAPARTE and his
Government on the inhabitants of Spain and Portu-
gal—all these we would regard as nothing at any
other period in the history of mankind—but, unhap-
pily for the Allied Sovereigns, if they make peace
with BONAPARTE and his Government, they cannot
promise that they will sit securely on their thrones
for twenty-four hours afterwards. Was not this the
language of the Austrian Manifesto ? 44 The bright
fire of independence is bursting out on all sides—it
threatens to consume even those legitimate Sovereigns
who refuse to add fuel to the flame."
Surely all these recollections were fully before the
minds of the framers of the Declaration of the Allied
Powers. In so far, therefore,
-as it breathes a spirit
of moderation, we regard it as another of those chefs
d'auvre in diplomacy which distinguished the Austrian
Diplomatist, Prince METTERNICH) during his nego-
ciations at Prague, and which, to the honour of his
tdents, and the glory of his country, outwitted the
chicanery of NARBONNE and CAULAINCOURT.
the document in question is most admirably
•Ifeb •
'-ct all its purposes, we seek no better
calculated to en,
' our own party writers afford
evidence than that taco .
us : duped by the laudable rust rerret of the allies I
• in professing to respect the style and tide of titslir
Hero, 6' the Emperor NAPOLEON;.—they go no fur-
ther than the threshold of the Declaration--they tell
us that 66 every man of solid sense and of truly Chris-
tian principles, will read with satisfaction the Mani-
festo of the Allied NWETS) put forth at Frankfork on
the Ist of this month."
The friends of order and
humanity will perceive in it the practicable toad
Nmourable and pc:manta reavb " it is ate

style tot /Yte.iiiittOd tatre lot+g and
anxiously looked." 'that i t to. etrif-4i is COW
sistedi with the el solid fend and 'fair principles"
of the Allied Sgfreleigiii of tiiiiape; that France
should ha secured in possession, of si Veitit6tY enter
in extent than. France snider het kings ever knew.
—But these Gentlemen confound BONAPARTE with
France—;they cannot beat to lose their auguitt Uwe-
ror se toon—it goil against the grain with them to
tee 11104, or his adheients, singled odt at the enemies of
civilized Europe. Now we tan tell them that these
is no Loch happy tOnsummation of their wishes im-
plied in. any part of the (imbibition. It does, indekik
denounce the gi haughty preitmdefance exercited by
the Emperor NAPOLEON beyond the limits df his Ens.
pire, as the misfortune of Europe and of France," and
signifies,' that an offer of Peace has been Made to him,
as 44 Emperor of the French," and rejettei
Here, then, the acknowlEdgernent Of the Em-
peror Narottos" ends : the Allies then .proceed to
settle the balance of Europe without any farther ails
peal to him or his creatures—they tell the people
France, that they desire that France should be greet,
powerful, and happy—that commerce and the art*,
should revive, and that the blessingt of peace should
again Rourish : and be it constantly had in lemem-
brance, that they will not lay down their arms,
until they have attained this reit and beneficial
result I"

No such result can be obtained. It is the unmited
essence of absurdity to eipeet it, chile France has
such a turbulent ruler as BONAPARTE, and such a
mischievous Government as that which he has framed.

The simoom of the desart is not more fatal tb vege•
tation than his parching Administration is to the
country. The following passage, from a late writer
on the genius and disposition of the French Govern.
anent, is not more eloquent in point of style, than
true in point of fact It was the boast of the Hon
ATTILA, that no gram ever grew Where his foot owe
trod. It is the passion of the ferocious tyrant of the
istetent day, that no generous or independent feeling
shall flourish within the glare of this sceptre. The
frdits of industry constitdp his natural prey, as well
as the riches of nature, and the most venerable fabrics
of human policy: _

alon•qms..... lumen& toksas
laribtis petit, &audit avid.
Euibus, aut seen whits, aut 4:craw hares."
MIII•11.40.1•••

Another supply of Dutch Paws reached us this'
morning t they are filled, as might be expected, with
a =cession ff animating details. Danteic and
duttrin ate said to have fallen, The Cossacks have
made their appearance before Antwerp, and the main

bodies of the Allied troops are immediately in their
rears The approaches to this place, from the land-
side, have been greatly facilitated by roads and
bridges, Constructed for the speedy conveyance of
troops, in the evens of an attack on the side of the
Scheldt. The 4s foreseeing Genius" of the Emperor
NAPOLEON., never foresaw a Ditch insurrection ?
His own weapons are now waled against himself.—
Antwerp must fall in a few days. It will be invested
by a Ravel and land force at the same moMent %

ZWOLL, bICEMBRA

We have just received the important intelligence
that, according to 'official intelligence, Danteic an,:
Custrin have surrendered to tht Allies, and theta.-

ders had been sent to Berlin, to have in readiness)
more forage, provisions, &c. for the troops, which. in'
consequence of this success, will proceed ohWards to
their further destination."
" BAMBEItO, NOVEMBER 17.

A Russian army, of between 30 and $0,004
men, is shortly expected to march through this city."
AMSTERDAM, DECEMBER 11.
de We have this day received information that
Schowen and Duiveland, have declared for the
Prince's side. In the course of Tuesday the boors
and peasantry, appeared en-wane, before the gates of
Ziericksee, demanding that the place should imme.
diately be evacuated by the Fiench. In the night
between Tuesday and Wednesday the French Com-
mandant departed with all the military and French
Authorliies ; and on Wednesday 250 English Ma
rine: arrived in that town.
" These soldiers assure us, that a fleet, with land-
troops on board, were on the coast, add intended to
land at Walcheren.
" The Commissioners for repairing the damages
at Woerden, having thereto been authorised by the
Provisional Government- o 6 the City of Amsterdam
are to canse a general collection to be made by
Messrs. F. A.VonWycli, C. Lasouder, J. R. Scolten
and W. E. Matties, whO have been requested to ma•
nage this business for the unfortunate inhabitants o
Woerden, who were sufferers by the murders ane
plunder committed by the French on the 24th, 25th
i and 26th of November. • •
" By an intercepted letter from flushing, of th•
2d instant, written by an Officer there in the Freud
service to a comrade at Naarden, we learn, that thi
National Guard at Middleburgh had refused t
ouch to Flushing, in contempt of orders given b'
,'toe Governor. The latter then sent three comps
ales of pioneers thither, under the command of M
Roy, tp oblige them to surrender their arms and uni
forum but which attempt was defeated. Anotht
National Guard haskinea forms& of the inhabitant
of Flushing, where every means for resistance ha
been taken, which sufficiently proves the difficultie
tussles which they are."