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It is now some weeks since we announced that a
proposal for a negotiation for Peace had been made
NaeoLisow, through the medium of Austria. This
intelligence is confirmed. On Saturday, in part of
our impression, we gave an abstract from a Moniker'
of the 24th, announcing the consent of BoNAPARTE
n a Congress at Prague, to be attended by Ministers
m all the Belligerents. From ;Ile statement in the
Moniteur (given in another column), it is evident that
the business had been some time in train, and its an•
nuncement at this time is a proof that some progress
has already been made in the arrangements.
The rumours which we noticed on Saturday, of an
Pannstice having been concluded, must have origi-
nated from something that / ad transpiredd respecting
t 11: projected Congress ; but NAPOLEON only agrees
that the moment when the Congress shall be formed,
an Arrni.tice shall put a stop to the effusion of hu-
t:ma blood.

In the proposal that has thus been given to the
world, the great, the constant, the unremitting en-
ty hostility of NAPOLEAN to this coantry is
pr,,trii'.er,t in his recurrence to the obsolete treaty of
Utrcel—That is, what France and all Europe have
not been able to wrest from us by force, he proposes
to wriggle and extort from us by the chicane of ne-
pc;ation. The scheme is a deep one:—it is intended
13 produce, in its effects, a substitute for what he
leaned :he Continental System. All the Powers of Eu
rcp are to be pitted, on this question, against the
ininests of England ; and all will be told that they
are individually insulted and abused by the maritime
predominance of Britain. England must, by the pro-
jzcti_d treaty, dismantle a LizT,e portion of her navy,
ani be permitted to keep units a certain number of
41var in commission.

13y the Treaty of Utrecht, cocluded in 1713, Bri-
tin was tinder the humiliating necessity of admitting
17`..e hrttorns to make free go,ids.. At this period
FrAnv, Spain, Holland, Denmark, and Sweden, had
po,v(rfill Navies, more numerous and betterappointed,
l'lnt;gh never better officered than that of Great
trit:un.

In every subsequent war England added to her
riatitime superiority ; and by every treaty since the
ire'my of Utrecht to the Peace of Amiens, her rights
in this respect have been acknowledged by other
Psaers—not always openly, it is true, but tacitly, by
that did not even refer to the Treaty of
I:recht. In 1739 war was declared against Spain
cipre!,iy for the maintenance of our maritime great-
ness : in the Peace of Aix la Chapelle, in 1750,
after a war of ten years, nothing is said respect.
Ing the right of search, though the war was com-
menced to deprive us of that right. The war of
1756, which terminated in 1763, left our rights unim-
paired; and the last grand struggle by the Armed
Neutrality, of which Russia was the head, produced
the acknowledgment of our Rights by that Power.
For what have we fought, bled, and conquered ?
nor rights ruing out of our insular situation, founded
nu our own p,)l.‘ er, aild necessary, not merely to our
cii4Lity and gie.ttnees, but to our exigence ab a free
31!ti imlipendent people ; for the latter must cease
'Ahen the .- :trier is sacrificed. NAPOLEON may re.
iti:7(--a::d be may so far blind the Continental
3 Ners as to make it appear reasonable to them that