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London, England, 1815-08-24 00:00:00

FROM ?RE RNENNISII MERCUR r.

THE SITUATION OF THE WORLD IN THE REGIW
NING OF AUGUR r.
When the measure of folly had become full, and
the wisdom of men in the councils of the mighty had
been miserably brought to shame, a higher power it
its anger took up the sword, and soon repaired whet
the others had been long in destroying. They at e
witnesses of the wonderful things which have Lee,.
done; but we have heard, and we have read, time
they
.asciibe all to their own wisdom, and divir.!;
among themselves the fame which does not belieiz
to them.
The fury of the Sovereign Judge has again
poured out against the French. With us vices ceive
on the earth like worms ; but with them Iniquity
!mightily holds up her head, and, grinding tlee
teeth like tigers, were they struck in pieces by'h.
first bolt of his wrath. Their measure has been dealt
scut to them ours is written in the book. The good
natured resignation of the people, the truth and fain.
which are yet alive within them, and which foe:
now again shown themselves in so affecting a rne .
ncr, have alone served to avert the judgment. Tie
leng wavering of the scales, however, clearly provel
how much the sin was divided, and the judgme
doubtful.
N'ipoleon has come to a miserable end. Like re;;
woe in the pit, he has tamely, and without oppfmi
lion, allowed the rope to be fasecned mind his ire::
A wounded vanity wished to preserve seniethinglikt
:tignity for him, by having him treated like a Sere
reign at sea : hut even this was net cd : he was
again hurnieied in the dust, after havieg c.o-riesl the
Irrce to nearly its former height.
His assaciates have shared the same fate., ::10 the
French, who were possessed by the same vita, her(
met with a like humiliatioe. They began their i;p:.
p irations with cunning end prudent activity ; the)
fought with determinetion and valour; hut as thee
onset was baffled by the film and cool valour of dee
enemies, then- whole eruktuie fell a; one blow to tL.
ground.
It we: to be wished and hoped that the Prince:
who before entered Paris with their armies to iiere
duce Louis XVIII. from a feeling of dignity, wind,:
net have a second time trod that sinful tit), the tourcc.
and beginning ot all mischief. It would have teen
-berterrgarbwineired they. sommerteed—rht Ohre.
judgment in Germany, and have acted as judges an.:
niadirfOls---isitivien Louis and the Fienefepeople ;
they ought never to have allowed him to step in
mediator between themselves and that nation.
The Princes, however, have not been pleased to
act in this manner, and it does not belong to as t:
examine into the grounds by which they ate 4:lter
mined. It is not, however, to he concealed, that diei
coaduct has given rise to much mischief. As in tle
proceedings at Frankfort, all the pretended right: anti
the order of things established by Napoleon in Ger-
many were acknowledged, the possibility of a con
tution and unity in this country were irrecovcralili.
lost. In like manner, its claims on France ate in
great meesuregiven up, as Louis XVIII. has been
second time introduced by force, and they hive nc.
begun to negcsciate with him till after restoring r.
him the possession of his Throne. We shall Ice lett
in the lurch as we were before et Paris, and af te: xard;
in Vienna.
In the first place, the capital has by thi; meat
again escaped castigation. In it all the treast:res
the world are hid, in it sat all the Marshals and oche:
sinners guarding the millions which they yeeezei
from other nations, and which, distrestful of a cadge
of fortune, they chiefly kept in ready money. It A4s
not thundred millions, nor even five hundred, whic
ought to have been demanded ;—the punislatere
should have borne some proportion to the mischief.
The open country, generally poor and needy, is, ei
the mean time, severely oppressed, tee
robbers see all their treasures safe, and one or two r:
most in foreign countries by toe ostentation of ar4iti,
teach a lesson to the people, that no trade is held i:
such honour, or treated with such leniency, as stn•
cersf it robbery.
The French have now recovered from the
nishment, and have well and quickly betnoupe
themselves of their salvation—the work of tr. .r ;
beration has already been successfully begun. nee
are no longer intent on establishing this or tha: -
tical principle, or obtaining this or that Con i steatite
their great concern is to get quit of the fureign anni:
with which diay are over-run. On this point al
ties are agrcee, their rage will soon restore to the'
the courage of which their misfortunes have depr,ve
them ; and their natural vanity (of this our Rule;
may rest assured) will replace them in a threatenir. •
attitude..
They recalled Napoleon, in their reliance on i 1
talents of generalship; but it was soon discoverc
that there was an incurable division in the nation
which broke its force, and to which they ascrioe:
their overthrowe—eAfter his misfortune, they aga'
expelled him ; and Louis XVIII. became a welcose
head to the wiser part of the.nation,u
in his stead.
brought the Royalists in a mass along with him ; An,
as he, by way of securing the Revolutionary Part,
threwhimielf into the arms of #ouche, that poi,
have gained in him a much more flecible instituter
than the old self-willed Tyrant—and all their emir'
yours are now directed to explain this to the sober.
and the whole of the remaining party, who flee: ca•
into the wildest rage on learning it, that all diesior'
May be forgotten in the great plan of
France.
Such is 'the present perplexed game. The Ein'
hardly pressed between naked swords drawn for has
and against him, his capital surrounded with center
that at once announce his power and his impoteeci
To party rage an abomination. the hatred ot
tf
people, a welcome instrument in the hands of craft`
wickedness, he cannot take. root in a 'Wien Or:.
has forgotten his family, and he vacillates an elet`
of compassion between friends who are his elector
and enemies who affect to be his friends ; howl
the part of the grateful ally and the ungrateful Frei
Prince, backwards and forwards without any 01hi
security than that, which he derives from the tdre'g
armies which are destroying his country, and mu
_o
necessarily strengthen the hatred of his pope's. towal,,
him. This people, grown up in licentiouseess,w.n"
the oppreseiun of tyranny has made even more obif
nate, and of which the head has been turned by tr,
sudden revolutions which it has of late witaesodt T
mains like an unruly beast stamping and rearing 4"