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London, England, 1806-10-01 00:00:00

FRdNCE.

From the Irvanctsr of Fe/gentler Isl.
EXTRACT OF • LIiTTIR FROM 11411111IMOK.
When the King of Sweden makes IVlanifeftoes or
preparations for war againfl France, Europe is quiet,
not a town looks upon itfelf as menaced. The people
may murmur at Stockholm; but they dread rather
the expences and the ridicule. than the fatal conic-
queues of a war which affords no field of battle.—
When a more awful power, a graver Court, and
which has acquired to itfelf, at the expence of
glory and good faith, the renown of an extreme cir-
cumfpedion ; when Pruffia arms and appears to
defy France, one is allonifhed, one is a pprebenfivi of
the form which the draws upon the North of Ger-
many. Pruffia arms—What are her grievances ?
What are her hopes ? It is eafier to find the grie-
vances which the Ft ench Government has had'agamft
' that power and the wrongs it has pardoned.
After the death of Mr. Pitt, the Minillers who had
been his colleague; read to the Parliament of Eng-
land the papers and treaties upon which were foun-
ded a great coalition, which three months fufficed to
defray. The King of Pruffia figured in all thefe ne-
gociations ; he (poke, or was made to fpeak, in them
as a declared enemy of France ; he made promifes in
them which the allied Courts confidered as pofitive
engagements. " Stop (cried many Members of Par-
liament, who were provoked at hearing there papers
read) flop, it is great indifcretion." No, there was
no indifcretion in it; they did not reveal to the north
of Germany. nor to France, nor, above all, to the
Emperor of the French, a tingle fad unknown or
even ohfeure to them. Several French Generals had
hopes of finding a Pruffian army to vanquifh at Au
fterlitz. I have teen feveral of the letters I. which
they gave an account of the victory, and which con-
cluded with there, or the like words : " The whole
regret of the army is, that the Proffians were not in
this atoll." Of the two Emperors who were jut 1
vanquifhed, the one, by the generofity of the tongue-
rots, took back with him to his fates the feeble wreck
of an army which had no longer either chiefs or ar-
tillery, or, above all, any glory s and the other, by
a genernfity fill mare memorable, returned into a
capital which the conqueror had Iludied to preferve,
to him, fubmitlive and even affectionate. What mull
the King of Pruffia not have feared at that time ?--
' His grand uncle, Frederic 11. had not been provoked
In much as the Emperor Napoleon, when, in lower-
ing the power of Saxony, he Paid—'s I {ball find in
the Elector's Palace the treaty which binds him
ageing me ;" and in fad he did find it there. Na.
poleon did not condefeend to go and examine the ar-
chives of Berlin ; yet, by undertaking an expodition,
then, and even at this day, fo eafy, be would have
certified rise deep refentment of the two powers whom
he had vanquifhed, as much as the warlike wifipts of
hie runty, and as that fentiment which governs heroes,
indignation againfl perfidy. The Emperor Napo-
leon laved the fates and even the honour of the
King of Pruhia ; he was unwilling to fee in him any
perfidy, he complained only of a Minifter, and Pruffia
did not expiate the criminal and mercenary policy of
Baron Hardenberg.
See what Pruffia now is : (he hes acquired a pro-
vince, the object of her ambition ; the has ceded forge
countries, which are very far from making an clad
compenfation for what the obtains. The Emperor
of the French has, however, not Pet ton high a price
upon his alliance, and has had no occafton to lay
fitares for his ambition. He grants no premium to
the Machiavelifm of Courts, in reforming the policy
in which Europe has been for a long time engaged.
and the deteflible pi inciples of which the Englifh Go-
vernment has endeavoured to preferve and extend ;
he keeps rewards in fore for frankaefs and fidelity.
To thefe titles the Court cf Profile has, indeed, no
igreat claims. Hence probably arife the grievances
the has againfl France. She may fay to Ituffio, and
even to Sweden—'. I do not think nayfelf fufficiently
paid for having excited, or at leaf encouraged. you
to a difaftrous war by falfe promifcs. It belongs to
you to revenge me and make me obtain, at the ex.
pence of the tranquillity and the flrength of your
fates, the full reward that is due to me." I hear
this approximation made in every cunve, fation. But
it is only the French who can make it with gaiety.—
Here the utmoll apprehenfion is entertained. We
tremble for the North of Germany. The only hope
we have is in the known wifdom of fome Sovereigns.
We often conclude by laying, that the evidence of
the dangers which Pruala runs will ftrike a Monarch
who has hitherto (hewn great love for his people.—
I will explain to you in another letter how people
reafon here on the chances of this war. -

From dm. journal de L'Ements of Set tember 22.
The Publityie of the ist-th loft, inferted an article,
which contains fiveral hazardous affertionr.
The author of this article afferts that Prof& wall
concerned in the lalt coalition, and he quotes on this
bead the papers which were publifhed by the Engliih
Minii*ry. We have alfo read 'bele State Papers,
but have not feen a word in them which. concerns
Pt WEL To pretend to argue from this lance of
the Cabinet of London, that nuffia was concerned in
the third coalition, is to hazard to reafon in a num-
ner that will certainly perfuade nobody. The Eng-
lifh had at that time no motive to (pare Prutrta, nei-
ther have they had any fince.
We fee, as well as the Palfeille, that feveral mili-
tary movements are now going on at Pads. We
I have remarked like isimfelf, that for this month pelt,
many have been carried on at Berlin, but we alto
know that the Emperor never draws his (word, with.
out having made the nation acquainted with his mu.
Lives, and that no doubt he will not deviate from this
cullom, which be has conftantly adopted, and which
is to conformable to his dignity, and the rights of the
French people. Now nothing has taught us that he
has mauifeticd this isitention.

No one, indeed, is ignorant that pritirroletTis areri
ordered, and it is weft known that the Emperor is
not in the humour to fpend two or three millions
without reafnn.
On the other hand, we behold- Mr. Knobelfdorff
arrive at Paris, where he has been well received—we
alfo know that at the time thefe armaments were
going forward at Berlin, Matfhal Mollendurff, and
4veral of the King of Pr uffia's Minifiers, Loaned the
Emperor's health, at a dinner given by Mr. Laforet.
Nothing official from the Cabinet of Berlin, nor
from that of the Thnilleries, nor from any other part,
can induce us to think that Pruffia is refulyed on
fighting ; and, perhaps, the Publicyle, before (peaking
with fo little eircumfoo-Dion of a power, who, it is
true, Marched againtt us at the beginning of the war
of the revolution, but who has (ince laid down her
arms, and neither participated in the fecond nor third
coalition, ought to have refrained, and waited till the
queftion was flirted.
Perhaps he will fay that Pr uffian news writers, and
more efpecially the Gazetteer of Bareuth, write and
declaim against France with the greaten animofiry ;
but it is well known that the Bareuth Gazette, which
appears to be, the repertory of all the follies in circu-
lation Notion the French nation, has carried on this
trade for a twelvemonth pall, and has to much fallen
into diftredit and contempt, that it i very probable
the King of Pruffia is ignorant of its ezillence. The
extravagancier of an obfeure Jottenalilt, who makes
a bottle in a town almon unknown, cannot kalify the
errors of a paper fo juftly efteemed as the Fritter.
Whence, then proceed thefe armaments of Pruffia ?
Againtt whom are they direted 1 We known. more
than the Poildicilk; but more eircumfpeCt, we oblerve,
attend, and wait.
The author of the article of Hamburgh, will per-
haps alfo bring forward in his defence a warlike long
which was, it is Paid, ordered to be Tung on the Ber-
lin theatre, and printed in the official Gazette. He has
teen in this fait a provocation againft France. This,
we confefs, becomes graver—we even think-that it is
in confideration of this deviation which the inhabi-
tants of Berlin publicly witnetred, that the Adrnini-
ftration here with to remain ignorant of the articles of
the Public-0e againft Pruffia. 4
But, after all, what does this circumftance prove,
however remarkable it may be ? That the fame men
who canted Count Hangwitz's windows to be broken
when he forefaw the greaten misfortunes for hit
Prince and Country, who have frequently drawn on
themfelves the difpleafure of their King by the ha.
teed they bore to France, are conllant in their deli-
rium and fury, and that they (educed and deceived in
order to obtain a triumph of Gazettes. What had
the French Journalins to do ? At molt anfwer a long
by longs. The Berlin poet compared France to a
norm which held thunder, and be Paid that Pruffia
would burn this Nom by cannon balls. A French
fortgfter might have replied, that it would be caller
to avoid the norm, than to draw the thunder on
one's head.
We know, moreover, who is the author of this bul-
lying—we know alfo that the General, who corn
mands at Munfter, has written againft France a moil
ranking proclamation—but more accustomed to get
inebriated like a twilit than to write politics, he is
hot probably of the nullifier of thole men whom the
Court of Berlin calls to its Councils. &fides, were
it neceffary to collet all the obfervntions of the Offi-
cers, the meafure would be eqqplon both fides—for
if !event Prutlians do not like the French, there are
alto Frenchmen who do not like the Pruffians. Be-
Gdes, what fignify all thefe difpates, which certainly
form no part in the combination-of Powers and Ch-
binets ? What is pnfitive in all this is, that Pruffia',
has been arming for a month pan, and Franca early
for thee eight days. This fad mull Mks everL
one—the red is only obrcuriq : time alsioc can
lighten us.
It is betides a good manner to perfuade Europe
that the Cabinet of the Thuillerier is in the right in
the difpute, if it be true that it has a dilute with
that of Berlin, to leek for the motives of it in paft
events. Whether Praia concluded cr not on the 3d
of November laft year a Convention, by which the
engaged to make war againft France—that fince
toao France has been leveret times betrayed by her,
that every power has been fo by turns. Thefe recol-
ledions are only good to excite hatred ; but no fen-
tibia man can draw from them the coufequence of an
ezilling difpute.
Is there a difpute between the two Governments ?
This fire quellion is not refolved. If there be one in
fad, does Praia arm becaufe France has demanded
of her conceffions that the cannot make i—Site would
then be in the right. Does the arm in order to con-
Main France to fandion an ufurpation which would
be contrary to the policy of Europe ? She would
then be in the wrong. Thefe different conjedures
are void of foundation, becaufe every thing which
114 S palled between France and Prullia for thefe four
years pall is Rill buried in the myflery of the Cabinet.
We witneffed, a year finer, the Grand Martha' of
the Palace, Dome, arrive at Berlin, and Pruffia
arm againft Ruffia—we witneffed, at the fame time,
Count Haugwitz going to Vienna, and returning
fatisfied to Berlin. We witneffed his going tome rime
afterwards to Brunn and Schoenbrun to the Em•
peror of the French, and returning fatisfied to Berlin.
A month after had not elapfed, and we taw him at
Paris, every thing at that trmt proving that the belt
underlianding ft:Willed between the two powers.—
, We now fee in this capital M. De Knobelfdorf, and
the 'Marquis De Lucchefini returned to Berlin. The
motives of their goin,,a and comings, of their arma-
ments for and :Taira, having never been well un-
derf 'nod, inflead of amufir ~,irfelves with conjec-
turing in darknefs, it i, much mute Itiitahle to wait
—in order to form our judgment, to have before us
the .16611 documents of the different trdnfattions
which may have been the refult of all their ftep,—
A reafonalile man will not make utc of what he is
ignorant of in order to infult a Paster, who, pet-
haps, is the bell friend of France, arid who, were
Use her enemy, would bt unable to injure her.
If there are Governments which can ailn joo,oco
trim France can arm the doubleo-and without exp., l-
ing ourfelves to be.taxed with vapotoing, like certain
Pruffian Officers, who, no better informed than Our-
Caves on the fubjed of the armaments nnw going for-
ward at Berlin, already hope to celebrate in the plains
I of Champagne the anniverfary of a famous ezpedi-
tion ; it may arleall be allowed us to fay,that a French-
! man for wit and courage, is well worth a Pruffian.
gay misfortune attend tbofe who call aloud for

war; but let us lament the fate of the honeff Prince
who, abandoned to fo many intrigues, and a vi )im
to craft and want of refkaion, does as his enemies
would with. Thanks to HILIVINg our nation is ex-
ifenpted from thole calamities which fuch a fituation
prefages.
There is, doublers, fornething extraordinary In
every thing which paffes, Gnee fo many troops are
I now eroding France, to repair to the Banks of the
Rhine ; and it aloft alfo be allowed, that the move-
d mist -of the linpetial Guards, haßeniog to the array
with all their accoutrements, does not allow us to
believe that his blajelly is merely going on sifourney.
No great dexterity is neceffary to form there obrerva•
lions, nnr is there more requifite to avoid falling
into vain •conjeaures and to comprehend, that U.
the Cabinexor the Thuilleties is filent, ithas reafons
for not (peaking. It is fufficient for us to know, that
a priOng will not be burnt, before the motives of
.tbe war be laid before the nation and all Daum
land without their having acquired a publicity, fo 1114
Hiftory may tranfmit them to future ages.
From the .hoer of the 2.341 September.
As the importance of the political news has fuf-
pended the attention that is paid.in Paris to literary
j difputes, people pernfe with interell the ankle pub-
bed yetterday in the'yo•irma/ de r Empire, a tranfla-
tion of which, we give in our fubfequent colthans.—
We are glad to behold in it a more favourable inter-
pretation of the political difporstions, pO, prefect.
and future, of the PrufGan Cabinet. In this diverray
of opinion, it is confoling to think that we shall foot'
i be no longer under the neeeffity of licking the truth
in private (peculation,. That Cabinet is in a fitua•
tion to reveal itfeif in a few days the ferret of its con-
duit : until the folution of this problem, writers may
be allowed to differ in opinion on the fpirit of %power,
whore cooperation in the lall campaign was loudly
proclaimed by the other coalefced States, whiltt Franca
perfifted in believing in her neutrality. ./
The Englifli Journals took the flan of the French;
papers in this difcuflion ; but nothing obliges the
world to take their opinion for the thought of Cabi-
nets. What is moll probable is that in cafe of no ex-
planation on the part of PrulLa, France, who, Wilkes
for peace, and who was endeavouring to reader it
failing, will have no Wadi 0 coma} the reafons for.
war.

THE VEN6FaIiA ' .

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Mr. Cows°, a Spaniß► Meffenger, is arrived is
the Walfingham packet, charged with difpatelles to
our Government.
The following men of war were lying in the Tagus
when the packet failed :—..HiBIIIIIA, -liarrrusux,
ILLUSISAIOUS, COLOSSUS, Dow stmt.,- and KENT, of
the line, and PYLADES fldop of war.
We this day lay before our Readers fornalarther
extrafts from the French Jiapers, on the Tubjeet. of
the difpute between France and Proffitt. It it curious
to fee the naves of the murderer of PALM, the Book-
feller, eliciting to ezercife the Liberty of the Prefa
in dircuffing this queftion. The Public illt attacks Nut.
fia in an article pretended to be written at Hamburgh
—the yorrnal de ?Empire replies, and 'lmes, the con.
duet of that Court In a lefs unfavourable point of
eview—and the A►gu, offers.* few remarks on the ar-
guments of the latter. The Argos, however, it is to
be obferv*, in the paper of the eoth, &Wicked the
Profile Government ih terms no lets fevere than the
Public/e; and that the article in the Gazette de P Em-
pire. afterwards noticA by the Argus, appeared two
or three days before Bon AAAAAA left Paris for the
Army.

GOTTENBUAGH MAIL.
A Mail from Cottenburgh artived this morning.
It announces what we were prepared to expee, that
Peace is eaually concluded between Sweden and
Pru,llia, though the event has not yet been sated of-
ficially.

a GOTTENEUR.GH, SEPT. IT.

" By letters received from Stralfund yeßerday we
learn, that Peace is concluded between this country
and, Pruffia, but as it has not been officially an-
nounced, the Pruffian prize (hip lying in this har-
bour (the only one brought in here during hoßilities)
has not yet obtained her releafe."