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EETERSBURGH, JUNE 20.
All the accounts received from Dantzic agree in
stating, that in that town, after the most afflicting spec-
tacle, the garrison is reduced to eight thousand men
capable of beating arms. The mortality is very great
upon the citizens. Several physicians have fallen
victims—corn is their only provision. Fresh meat is
so scarce, that the lower classes are obliged to eat
that of cats and dogs, for horse flesh costs about 18
dutchen the pound.
Every thing is in the greatest activity in the Prus-
sian utonarchy. The landships of Eastern and Wes-
tern Prussia already amount to more than 40,000
men. The national regiment of cavalry is proceeding
by forced marches towards Silesia.

THSt FOLLOWING•AEFLECTIONS ON THE IDEA OF A CON-

GREss FOR A PLACE, ARE INARTED IN 66 THE PETERS-
/(]KG' GAZETTE," OF THE 17Th (29TH) OP JUNE,
FROM 66 THE KONISsBERGH GAZETTE."
g 4 Now,• when all the Powers of Europe which re-
tain their independance, unite together to set bounds
to the immoderation of France—now, that it is de.

termised that the subjugation of the Continent of
Europe shall cease, since the nations are awakened ;
now, when France cannot, without rendering herself
ridiculous, -repeat to England that she is Sovereign
of the Continent, and therefore may quietly wait the
termination of the British maritime power—now,
when the nullity of a separate peace is apparent, and
the obstinacy with which one war after another has
been waged, is exhausted, the voice of peace is heard,
and the French Emperor proposing a general Con-
gress for peace, concludes an Armistice to put an
end to the effusion of human blood ; and while he
speaks the sensibility seems desirous to have it be-
lieved that he has had no part in producing the mi-
sery which, during the last ten years, has afflicted
Europe.
" Few believe in the sincerity of such a proposal,
they cannot suprose that any thing else is intended
but to gain time. For our own part we must confess
that we differ in opinion. France is now obliged to
carry on the war from her own resources alone, and
has no longer the power to continue it ; and Napoleon,
as the founder of a new dynasty, must heap sacrifices
on sacrifices.

66 The theatre of the war extends from the Tagus
to the Ncva, and from the Danube to the Frozen
Ocean.

•0 Spain has for five years past been changed into
a desert, and only an open grave for the French ar-
mies. The piles are yet smoaking on which, in the
plains of Russia, the bodies of more than 300,000
French warriors, the flower of Western Europe, were
consumed to prevent the pestilence.
,g All the colonies of France are in the hands of
England, and no means remain of recovering them
by force. Spanish America has detached herself
from the mother country, and will reserve her re-
sources for her own use, regardless of the warning of•
the French Minister to beware how she yields herself
exclusively to England. The whole European world
is in commotion, and refuses to lend itself to an in-

fluenee which has caused all its unhappiness. Under
such circumstances the wish for peace is natural, even
in those who have to thank the war for every thing.
gg But how shall this wish be gratified ? A Con-
gress for a general Peace shall be assembled at
Prague, at which shall appear, on the one part, the
Plenipotentiaries of France, those of the United States

of America, Denma:k, the King of Spain, and all
the Allied Princes (unquestionably of Italy and Ger.
many) ; on the other part, the Plenipotentiaries of
England, Russia, Prussia, the Spanish Insurgents,
and the other Allies of these Belligerent Powers,
among which, doubtless, Sweden is to be reckoned.
It is added, that these principles accord with the
views of Austria.
66 It consists with the nature of things, that if Eu-
rope should ever enjoy a peace, of some length in its
duration, it can only be the work of a Congress, and
cannot be produced by such negociations as those of
Presburg, Tilsit, and-Vienna. This, however, must'
be the first question, Who shall be admitted to this
Congress ?
66 If the French Emperor can procure an admission
to it for the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of
America, it is difficult to say why the Turkish Em-
peror, the King of Persia, and the Republic of Spa-
nish America, should not be admitted ?
46 The policy of the United States is essentially
different from that of the European States; and if
they are for the moment involved in the war, which
France carries on against England, their interests,
therefore, can only be the general interests of trade ;
and they can have nothing to do with a Congress for
peace, held at Prague, but merely to perplex and
protract the negociations.
66 It is still more remarkable, that the Plenipoten-
tiaries of the Spanish Insurgents shall be admitted,
together with those of King Joseph. How ! have
the two then any thing in common ? Is there any
capitulation between the Insurgents and the King of
Spain ? Must not the former insist, that Joseph Na-
poleon shall evacuate Spain, and the latter that there
shall be no insurgents in Spain ?
66 And what should the Allies of France do at a
Congress for peace, if among them we are to reckon
the Princes of Germany and Italy ? How long have
they interests to espouse or defend? Hitherto, their
greatest virtue has consisted in slavish obedience.—
They were the vassals of France, in the worst sense
of the word; and as such, in negociations for a gene-
ral peace, they can only be the objects of them, not
partakers in them.
#6 The on:), real Plenipotentiaries, therefore, that
will remain, are those of England, France, Russia,
Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark. The ob-
jects which they have to discuss are of sufficient mag-
nitude, and sufficiently perplexed, to engage them for
a long time, and to set in motion every passion.
66 The French Emperor before his departure from
Faris in April last, said to the Deputies 9f the Legis-
lative Dody, that the integrity of the French had
never been endangered, nor never should be.
6, If he continues to adhere to this declaration, the
Congress for Peace at Prague is superfluous. Not
only must there be no question of what Prance has
usurped from Germany (the Rhine being considered
as the boundary between France and that country),
but if the abolition of the Confederation of the Rhine,

and even the Kingiorn of Italy itself, as Also of what
has- been noosed to France in the Sopth of Ger.

many, or the independence of Germany can ne►ct
be established.

" France must return to original principles, and
open the Congress with declaring that she is willing
to retire within her natural -boundaries. This decla-
ration alone, worthy of a great Power, will reconcile
all the Powers of the Continent; and though it con-
tains the confession of past faults, it is the only indi-
cative of a future peace with England.
64 France must now feel that she has only weal
kened herself by her acquisitions she has now in
opportunity to repair that error. In shoet, either
France understands the art, at the approaching Con-
gress for peace, wherever it may take place, to recon-
cile to herself the Powers of Europe, and then she
will obtain more than she could have expected, or
she does not understand that art; and then is the re-
volution of the 18th Brumaire not the last that she
may expect.
44 Able physicians, in desperate cases, haye often
recourse to opposite remedies. There is now only
one means to regain the confidence of Europe, which
must be, before the Congress commences, to recall
the French armies from Germany and Spain ; for a
negotiation for peace, in the neighbourhood of three
hundred thousand French troops, will not be carried
on in the best spirit. If Napoleon cannot prevail on
himself to remove them, he in vain boasts of commi-
seration for the shedding of human blood. The war
must still continue ; and as he has already found a
Marlborough in Spain, he 'may find a Prince Eugene
in Germany."