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London, England, 1812-08-29 00:00:00

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• SATURDAY, AUGUST 14.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLO CZ.
3 per Ct. Red. .s—Coos. 39 Siii—for opg. 39 f }
4•pfr Ct. 764 1-3 per Ct. NH—Bank Stock
Own. si pm—Bonds 6+. 7s. dis.—Long Anns. I 3 I smile
Exch. Bills. MI) 14. dis. par.-. Do. (a4d.) gs. 33. pre.

Yesterday afternoon a letter was received from
Captain MALC6M, of the Rum, dated the 14th inst.
off the Spanish coast, which concludes with the fol.
lowing postscript :—« More glories,: new: from Lord
WitcliNGrox."-a-That the postscript rested on some
rumour that had reached Captain MALcOM cannot
be doubted, but we think it relates to the same report
which came a few days ago from Jersey. Indeed,
the date forbids our giving it Any credit.

Dispatches of great importance were this day sent
off from Lord CASTLEREAGH'S Office for America.
They will he conveyed frem Falmouth in the Swiftsure
packet, which is fitted up as a flag of truce, her guns
and ammunition having been landed.
We have reason to believe that the Swiftsure will
carry out a calm, dispassionate, and yet dignified re-
monstrance• to the American Government, on the
subject of the line of policy which has guided their
Councils for these several years, in defiance of all the
principles by which upright Governments ought to
be regulated in the present awful circumstances of the
' world. America must dissolve her connexion with
France, 'and make common cause with the high-spi,
sited nations who are daily pouring forth their blood I
and treasure for the common interest of the world !
—These are not times for tolerating neutrality—Ps-
kith Carthago ! France must be laid prostrate, or there
will be no peace for the world ; nor ought those
Statesmen who hold the destinies of mankind at their
beck to be scrupulous in their choke of the weapons
with which her downfall is to be accomplished, We
are for carrying the war into the very bowels of the
land, We should rejoice to see the whole Coast of
France lined with flying expeditions from England,.
which should strike a perpetual terror into the breasts
of the caitiffs who submit to the monstrous system
which BONAPARTE has established. We know that
there are men, aye and good men too, who will tell
us that the peaceable and uneffending inhabitants of
France would chits suffer for the iniquities of theirrulee.
But we are bold enough to deny that there can be such
persons as m peaceable and unoffending inhabitants,".
while they submit to the sway of such an atrocious
despot : for it is by their sufferance that the miscreant it
enabled to lead his devastating legions into the vitals of
other countries. Look at Holland, Switzerland,
Italy, Germany, Prussia, Sweden, Russia l But why
should we enumerate the dismal catalogue ; loot at
the whole world, ye men of feeling, who thus with.
hold the uplifted arm of div:ne vengeance.—Who art
the chief instruments employed by the tyrant in this
work of misery and desolation ? FRENCHMEN!
Can we then regard them as peaceable and unoffend-
ing men ?—No ; they are morally answerable
to the rest of mankind, for all the evils produced.
either by their apathy, or by lending their direct as-
sistance to the furtherance of NAPOLEON'S views of
universal dominion. We disclaim the drivelling
rality which makes individual virtue consist in merely
abstaining from the perpetration of crimes, instead of
the positive exercise of imperious duties. Can he who
sees an assassin, with the knife in his hand, without
attempting to strike it from his grasp, be guiltless of
the blood of his victim ! 'No more can we hold the
men of France (or the Citizens of America who abet
their crimes) as innocent and unoffending members
of the community of nations ; or, to use the Frencls
jargon, 44 the great family of Europe," of which NA*
rerun,: is the unfeeling ',eft-father.
The system we are recommending is not chimerical:
The immortal NELSON (the soundness of whose judg.
ment was never questioned) formed a high estimate,
of the consequences which might be expected to flow
from its adoption. Sic HoME POPHAM, another very
gallant and distinguished Officer, now actively em-,
ployed in Spain, on something like the service now
pointed out, we know to be a warm advocate for 4
perseverance in the same vigorous system.
Tt was a favonrite idea with these great men, awt
repeatedly suggested to Ministers, that not a singlet
inhabitant of the French coast, of any age pr sex,
should be permitted to enjoy an hour's repose, by
night or by day, if a gun could be brought to bear
upon their towns and villages. This, to little minas,
may appear a barbarous mode of carrying on war&
but a jlifferent view will be taken of it by enlightened
men-L Hor are the crimes of nations to be punished—
but 6y the infliction of vengeance by other nations ?
—those who have the means to inflict such punish.
ment, become accessariee to the enormities if they
neglect to cmp?by the weapons with which they have
been armed by she Great Ruler of the universe for
their own defence, for the protection of the innocent
and unoffending, and for the maintenance and en!
forcement of natural and immutable justice among
the nations of the earth I

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It is with singular satisfaction we /earn, that it is
the intention or the nuns EGENT to confer the first
vacant Blue Ribbon and Geortge, upon thb illustrious
NisrpSLLIN9TON. Never was this high military'bonour
more richly descrwAl,

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