Star.
London, England, 1813-12-09 00:00:00

GRAVENSHAGE, DEC. S.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange has re.
quested that it may be published in the newspapers,
that two brave countrymen, one named Albertus Van
Dykshoom, living in Portugal, and Bastian Wey,
dwell,ng in Spy kenisse, notwithstanding they had suf-
fered greatly by losses and oppressions caused them
by the French Government, yet wished to give con-
vincing proof of their love for their country, and for
the person of his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange
as Sovereign of this country ; these brave men have
made present of a well equipped horse, to which they
have furnished a rider, whom they have undertaken
m pay for three months, and likewise to support his
wife and children.

The Commissary General for the interior Affttirs
expressed himself highly gratified with this pleasing
intelligence, wishing and expecting that this eiample
may be followed by many others.

THE EVENING STAR.'

LONDON.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1513.

PRICE OF S LOCKS THIS DAY AT TWEI sre..Ling.
Reduced 600—Cotiv. shut—fur see. 64fi •
4 per Ct. 7-si 76—Navy shut—Long Anus. 10 1116ths
New 0nt0.93 i pr.-446.13111b so. ss. pr.—Bends Ss. ss. dis.

Peace be to France—if France will Peace permit...
U not, bleed France ! and Peace ascend to HsAvatt
Vagle we, GoD's wrathful Ministers, shall denounce
Thobe who beat back Hz' Peace to Ha:AVilt

PEACE WITH FILANCIff.—WAR WITH BONAPAETE !.
We are not yet ashamed of our colours—we want a
gi secure Peace."-.-"• We must not only, recollect with
whom we contend, but with whom we have to nevi-
ciate"—So said Lord CASTLEHEAGII-....50 say we. Bur
hat us proceed with mathematical precision—let us
support our positions not by sophisms or diplomatic
chicane, but by the ruks of " logic and sight reason."
.;—Historical facts, not hypothetical inductions shall
be the materials for our main syllogism.
In the first place, then, we deny that the "Nies are
at at with the French a: a Natioa—the
.great mass,
of the inlialoitaos: of trance are mild, generous, Mk.
inane and considerate--they know nothing of any
.national antipathies against England or any other
country—they treat their prisoners of war with kind.
Hess—the peasantry cheerfully supply Lord WEL-
LINGTON'S army with provisions ; and it is but re-
cently...that the citizens of Calais or Boulogne gene-
rously released from captivity the crew and passen-
gers of an English Indiaman (the Elizabeth) which
was wrecked on their shores. This was an example
of Castilian honour and Spartan virtue ! It was
the act, however, of the people of France, and not
of BONAPARTE'S Government.
Our second position is not less capable of demon-
stration— We deny that Bosset.sers is the Sovereign of
his French People, either by election or conquest. There I
arose from the exhausted volcano of the French Re-
volution a pyramid of burning lava, with a scorching
meteor at its apex t—this meteor was NAPOLEON Bo-
NAPARTE HIS Marshals and Generals, his Prefects
and ll,uaniers, were the scoriae under which he
buried the architectural gratvieer of All countries
around him An earthquakelas again exposed the
Corinthian capit* of human socieLy to view,—the
columns are still erect and 'antire, because the fOun-
II were constructed sny ow Naggers with a pro.

vident regard to the persoasersee of their institutions,
and to the security of possetitp wing -the scourge
of univerail delpotism.

If these owr premises ared9o6llol6 it seill-dollorar as I
a necessary consesueneeohat in all their Manifestoes
and Proclamations..-is all their diplomatic inter-
course, sultrquestrothrwratrity favaß/sOtr, die Allies
must anxiously .otiuguieb •bemetta .the harmless,
pennyless, and -ehildless,inhatritauts Of France, and
the Tyrant who has assumed she+basloasous office of
Chief Minister of Vengeance to do clestenying Angel
—they must tear astusdoe, sfisisoutessuple, the false
• membrane by which this ferocious Moloch would ,
connect himself with the womb of every mother in
France, to claim her male offipring far his bloody
.itar— the cat araetwith which his cunning, his crimes,
ti,l his false glory have obscured the visionary organs
-..t. the French people, mast be removed by the hu-
mane process of absorption, and not by the cruel
caustic or the biting knife. He seeks to identity him-
self with the French nation—let that charm be dis-
solved—bet that gordian knot be laid under the axe,
and Europe will enjoy a long repose.
The Allies must level their musketry sod artillery
againift 'him only, and the Satellites who continue,
like the Dutch Renegado VEKH!UIL, to adhere to his
falling fortunes—the thunders of a well-con'itructed
battery---the hailstones of a well-directed miirailteds,
Ought AO constitute the whole of their arguments gut-

.

Ai him sad tbeco. These thO only arkeiodses
to whosulbey will listen—theronly *par' *WI
they comprehend. The roaring of cannon-4 chill-
ing of swords—the tines of the yrounded—tbc.".
rut-
ting of dead_ inen's bonoo-411 these, and =any
other frightful sounds, bate been the daily music of
NAPOLIIOII BONAPARTi and.his redoubted Captains.—
Why should these birds of prey and passage—these
blaci swans of human'society--,be deprived of the
mortuary privilege of howling their last curse:3.lloo*
mankind amid the accompaniments of their favourite
orchestra ?

But for the People of France, we have symphonies
of celestial origin in store. We cannot joie in the
Epithalamitun of the verbose, but not inelegant
writer in a Morning Paper : we cannot consign the
French nation, " for better for worse, to the infernal
paradise of BONAPARTa'S embraces." These able
masters, GENTZ, STznr, Komstrs, and SCHLEGEL,
still form " the body guard of the Came PRINCE of
Swaosts :" they are still the leaders of the band, the
Maettri di Czyttllo, to the Allied Sovereigns: they are
destined, we trust, to be the Composers of the grand
chorus and finale (as they were certainly of the over-
ture) to the magnificent spectacle of EUROPE DELI.. I.
'FUSED. They surely will not teU us, in the cold and
selfish ling angs of a Bengalee-Englishman—that
calculator of far distant chances, from the cockpit of
a Malayan Rajah" that France must be ruined, in
order that England may be saved." Has this writer
forgotten, that it was the converse of this dogma (for
it is of Corsican origin) which brought France to her
present state of humiliation ? Has the Hindoo-college
of Fort William taught him to forget the honest
principles of an English draymanl Does not a con-
queror assume the most formidable, because the most
magnanimous attitude, when he stands over the bedy
of his prostrate enemy, dictating, not to him, but to
his party and adherents, the terms upon which he
will check the career of his just vengeance, and retire
to his own family ? These terms must be security for
the future. Here all parties are agreed : perhaps, cir-
cumstances may require that they should involve in-
demnity for the past ; but is there a man who breathes
the air of England, who will insist that the widow
shall mount the funeral pile, and that the children
of the dead enemy shall be sacrificed to the rnal.,es of
his victims, or retained as hostages that he shall not
rise from the grave ?
Precisely upon these grounds we deny that it is
now (viz. in December 1813), the question whether
France or England shall destroy each ether ? France,
that is to say the Terra Naplecnie, has been long since
rent asunder by an earthquake—the death-watch of
its existence was first heard in the Peninsula—when
it tapped at -the burning gates of the Kremlin of
Moscow, the noise was sufficient to awaken the most
obstinate of the admirers of their favourite dynasty.
France is in fact crippled to all mischievous intents
and purposes. It will require half a century of
peace, under a benevolent Monarch, to enable her to
resume even a third rate' rank among the European
nations. We are not for a profuse liberality ; but,
if we treat with BONAPARTE, the restoration of
TIIREE HUNDRED THOUSAND PRISONERS OF WAR,

which must be a rine qua non in any Negotiation,
will be precisely that kind of capital with which he
ought, the last of all men, to .be entrusted. We
may take his provinces, his fortified places, his women
and children, as hostages--yet if we give him a new
army, he is once more the Great Captain who made
Europe tremble!
Again we exclaim—PEACE WITH FRANCE, WAR
WITH BONAPAIIIR I If we are allowed a vote, the
terms shall neither be abject nor unprofitable. As
public writers we shall fight vigorously—it is for
others to negotiate wisely : if they do not, we can
only say, in the good old English phraseology, " the
more shame to them !"
We shall take up the subject again to-morrow.

We have received Pat is papers to the 6th inst.
They are, as usual, filled with falsehoods from the seat
of war. The new Conscriptions go on swimmingly,
if we are to believe the French Journalists. BONA-
IAILTE is, of course, exerting himself to procure a
new army.

The last Dutch papers are filled with-details of
fresh triumphs—Helvoetsluys and Goree are now
restored to the old owners.

TIM ROYAL FAMlLY.—Yesterday at half-past 12
o'clock, her MADSTY, the Princesses AUGUSTA and
ELIZABETH arrived at the Queen's Palace from Wind.
sor Castle, in a travelling carriage, escorted by a
party of Light Horse. They were received by the
Pages and other attendants in waiting. In the course
of the day they were visited by the Dukes of YORK
and Sussex, Lady Meivitta, and a select arty of
the Nobility. At half-past six they left the ueen's
Palace for Carlton House. to dine with the *ince.
They went in sedan-chairs ; her Majesty went in a
new-built chair for the first time, having for its prin-
cipal object lightness. Its outside is red morocco
leather, and that only in the pannels, except where
the ornaments are. A very splendid crown is at the
top, in the centre, and small crowns at each corner.
There are various devices of olive-branches and lau-
rels, also C. R. The inside, is lined with crimson
satin, most tastefully displayed with trimming, tas-
.sels, &c. The windows of di; best plate glass. At
the bottom of the front cornet* are a lion and uni-
corn, elegantly gilt. The poles are red, with appro-
priate ornaments and devices.
The PILINCR REGENT givies a grand dress party
this evening to meet the Quarts.
The Duice of YORK 'transacted military fussiness
yesterday with the FIUME Rum?.