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think that, in the mida of the exaggerations of hie
anger, and notwithfkanding the conviction which the,
Cabinet of Berlin had of its importance, its 'OW,
policy could have got the better of that injutliee.,
which it thought it could not swath away bdt in reifeti
of French blood ? At the moment when it was
thought he was marching to the field Of havtlek,Ri!
e'er!, rays the Manifefto, so Ax coaljied to k the Arew
of Peace. But from the habit of a cnntlant contracitc-
tion between what he does, and what he declares, he
fecretly fubfcribes, on the 3d November,. an engage-
ment to units his forces to thufe of the Ruaanoncl,
Außrians.
This engagement was certainly a great political
I error; but there are circumllances in which even
errors themfelves announce courage, and in which;
like certain reverfes, they are not without honour.
No doubt, had this engagement been faithfully per-
formed,
had PrulTia immediately marched her army ,
forward, France might-have complained of fn great
a lightnefs in her engagements, of Co quick and an.
founded an irritation, and of fo bidden a change ;
but at leaß it way a frank war, and courage would
have decided it. However, the King of Prtillia was
circtunfpeCt. The dangers which he Dill law in the
execution of his vengeance, moderated his impatience.,
The grand viaorious army marched againft Vienna,'
but another French army then menaced Franconia,.
and whatever weight PrtitGa may with to attach to.
the refolution which Ate might have taken, the fate
of France did not, at that time, depend on her policy, .
'I has her ufual pfndence got the better. Thet'a
again appeared this time in the midll •of the Belligel
rent Phwers,only an Ambafador intlead of an army},
and this Ambaffador, the 4viitnefs of a decitive vic-
tory, arrived there only to fign an alliance, and
nets the Treaty of Pretburgh.
Hitherto PeutiNa had• nothing petfonal to all*,
againft France, but the paffage over the territory of
Anfpach. She made beefelf rn word, the champion
of thole who atked of her thions ; the prefented her-
fell upon the Rage when there were no more actors.
She willed to effect an overawing part ; but the met
with the mortification of being difavowed by all the
Powers in a part which did not fait her. It ill be-
came her indeed to attempt to dilate laws when the
would not fight, and to plead for thole whom the re.
fufed to defend.

" After this wavering conduft, (he, however,
reaped great advantage from a quarrel into which
the had not ecteted, and from a peace decided only
by vidory. She offered and exchanged three (mall
provinces of her dominions against a permiffion to
take Hanover, long fince the object of her deGree,
and which lay fo convenient to her hand. She dares
not avow it at this day I the infix lightly. as over
live cinders, over this conceLiGon which the winced for
and folicited,and upon which France never tlipulatecL
any thing further than a /41, fairy (let hu do it.)
However, Pruffia directly got the country adminif.
tercil in her name ; the every where let up her arms ;
the railed taxes an exercifed all the privileges of fit-
voreignty. By this fad alone the was at war with
England, as by her pretentions upon Swedills Pome-
rania, the had armed against Sweden. From the
friend of France, Prullia was become her ally, and
had promifed to fupport her interefs. She was to
begin by fuming hew ports againit the eternal ene-
mies of France. But at the moment when every
thing commanded her to have at length a frank and
deciftve policy, Pruffia allowed, to the great allonith-
I meat of Europe, a fill more equivocal and hypocri-
tical attitude. Her ports were blockaded, armies
were drawn up in the pretence of each other, and did
not yet know whether they were at war.
After eaercUing for feveral numbs the rights of
fovereigmy in Hanover, the King of Pratte began
to tefify to the King of England that he regretted
his being forced to keep his pattimony. At preterit
he feems to will; only for a temporary My" and WO
fkall loon fee that the moil violent of his grievances
is, that England prnpofed peace to France upon the
hafts of this very reflitution which the King of PruOia
appears fo much to &fire. Never was any enigma
more difficult to be refolved.

The Cabinet of Perlin complains that the treaty
of Freiburg was entered into in favour of France.—
This, indeed, is a very iltange reproach 1 Is not the
ufual effect l of vitlory to fecure advantages to the
conqueror ? Was France. upon coming out of a
ttruggle in which her ruin had been cnnfpired. to
;,,
ve her enemies the means of renewing the Gave
and bringing back the fame calamities ?
owever. thefe enemies recovered almofkall they
bad 14. France contented hetfelf with what was
toylike to guarantee her glitzy and their tranquil.
lily, whereas the leagued Kings [hared among them.
(elves her (polls even before they took the field.—
The mcafires then taken by the Emperor Napoleon
had for their object only a fad peacr, and even an
honourable one to the vatquilhed. Other conque-
rors keep their conquefis ; he made the aicendant of
his arms terve only for the good of his allies and the
fafcty of other potentates. The treaty of Freiburg
contained the elements of a political organifation
mute analogous to the intcrefis of the rcfpeelive
States of Germany. Their free will laid the bails
of it. The arrangements made fubfequcnt to the
treaty of Freiburg, were poly combinations judged
neceliary to fecure their execution, and as it were
the fruits of the willies and meditations of a great part
of Germany ; theft arrangements required a degree
of legitimacy and folentnity ftill greater than if
they had been only fnatched by viftory. The Elec-
tors detached themfelves from the Germanic body,
and the Emperor of Aufiria had a tight to abdicate
a title which, for half a century pall, has been only
a fource of con'ratieties and occafion of wars for his
Houfe. This affair was quite foreign to Priaai who
had often given the example of dcfceion, and of e
permanent rebellion against her paramount head.—
Nothing can be more pleafant than to hear the King
of Prutfia fo kindly pitying the defiration of a dig-
nity which he Cu long laboured to render a mete
mockery, the prerogatives of which he continually

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oppoted. and the humiliations and difallers of which :
Inahad,feetetly encouraged. Auaria may yet an..
, late homilies of this infulting pity with-,
r.,Jaime ewe. to the Aid of Isger4tx !
i,I Abet Toy of Pruitt eras admitted to the ne. ,
Beetigia
Itotildisll,'Phith followed that battle,* will doubt- ,
lef4iit,bestappored,.notwithltanding the bravado of.
theananifefto, that it was from the terror the infplred, .
lte French army was ready to return to France hr
the way ,of Berlin. But France then thotightto tar;
the ifoundation of a !affix% peace, and the wifhed ...
trA,Agic the inteeelt of Praia. The full and en...
firetaccution of the, treaty was to he followed by
the evacnation of Germany by the French army—
the Emperor of tharench had a right to coca it.
However, the KinfPfPruirta lunks upon the forced .
Ray of the French troops as a grievance ; but he dif.
fembles—" the King determined to continue the part
be had hitherto aired,, foe_ fome time longer. Ha
waked to preferve hie force, now more than ever
necelfiry to Europe.''-a(Ber the MonlYilia. pate 9 )
Thus the Treaty of Freiburg was no roamer Noted
than they forefaw the period when they were to re.
kiodle the war. They. waited only for a favourable,
moment ; they withed to catch the lion afleep ; thus
France could only rely on herfelf; they jot (VW be..
forehand every thing they would have done for her
fatuity. However, nothing of all that the might have
done did the do. The protection which the a year
alley had given to the Confederacy of the Rhine, was
a Mcrifice to the common fafety. This pad, freely
contented to, did not concern Prutria : it took noshing
from het; it encroached neither upon her rights nor '-
upon her territory, which the found to be it:created
without her having drawn her (word. The sectary
igtievances which the feta forth bead* the great We-
eaf! of Europe, are trifles which betray the weaknefs
lit her radians. The pecuniary indemnity which (be
Ititlicited for the Prince of Orange' was only a private
asegotiation ; the loft of the three Abbeys might have
been compenfated; ,the union of Wefel to the French
'Empire was a free cellion in which PrufGa had no
:right to meddle. Betides, the had Jolt complained.
that the confederate Princes were only valfals of
France ; in het-reafoning, the union of Wefel made
no alteration in the (late of thing,.
Moreover, his Majelty the King of Pruffla pees
fo lightly over thole grievances, that they are not de-
(ming of a ferious refutation. He expatiates more
at large upon the reflitution of Hanover, and upon
the obdacles thrown in she way of a Confederacy of
the North. He feels the futility of the reit ;he wil-
lingly abandons all foreign entered ; but thefe two
grievances are inftipportable. Ire are drawing sear tits
• moment cutieb determined bit Maki,.
We have already ken the King of Pruffia, after
'..takiog poffeMoo of Hanover as its Sovereign. mea-
guriog beck his Reps, and looking upon it only as a
temporary property. He cow got himfelf intreated
'to keep it definitively. He wilted to have the air of
paying homage with it to the Cabinet of St. James's,
with which he was already engaged in the negotia-
tion. Upon this well known difpnfition. the Cabinet
of St. Cloud might have made the fame overtore.—
It was (till but a limple proonfoiaa, a matter to be
difcuffed ; the only quenion was to find a compertfa-
tion. Hitherto nothing wounded the honour of Prof-
fia. She had (hewn, or, to (peak more truly, affeded
fo much repugnance to a definitive polfeffion. that
'one Ruff have thought it rendering her a great fer.
vice to difembarrafs her of this temporary load. '
Again, nothing can be more ft range than to fee
alledged as the principal motive of a war, evidently
excited by England, a reitinttion which one wifhed
to make to his Britannic Majerly. Suppoling that
the King of Proffitt hoped to hold this province from
the generality of its former poireffors, titre would fens
to. prove what ficrifices the Englith G rvernment is
capable of making, when it is in contemplation to
`(read conflagration throughout the continent.
•Aa to the projed of the Confederacy of the North,
it fo much flattered the pride of the King of Profile.
that it for a long time concealed from him theslanger
of the Confederacy of the Rhine. Upon viewing the
fovereien pro•edion which he witted to eau cife over
his equals as a new dignity, one might wonder at the
pride of this pretention. and alk by what exploits it
I had bees infpired, upon what rights it was founded ?
The Rhinith Confederacy had appeared occelrary to
Put an end to the inteiline diffentions, of which Ger-
many had been the theatre for nearly two centuries,
to tegulate interens till then irreconcileable, and to
put the Princes who compote it under the potation
to which they had always been forced to recur. But
Pruilia had nothing plaufible to allctige for extending
her influence over Independent States; they were
not menaced; the had never drawn her (word foe
their defence ; her domination was MA oecefary
to their Glary. If her aim was to oppofe a rival
Confederacy to that of the Rhine, it was preparing
eternal wars, and removing Europe from the pacific
end which had been the objed of the one formed
under the protedion of the French Empire.
The Hanfe Towns, which have fn long been the
envy of Prutlia, are indebted to France for their in.
dependence. They are the emporiums of the trade
of Europe; but until trade become the cr /Imola
property of 411 nations, it is important that it be un-
der the protedion and immediate obfervatioo of the
Power charged to dedroy commercial defpotilin ...
Such then were the real grievances of Pruda.—
Her claims were fo long veiled under friendly forms,
that the Emperor Napoleon mull have mittaken
them. But at length the masagemeat the affected to-
wards the Cabinet of St, James's, the negotiations
which fhe refumed with RufGa, the fecret intrigues
which were naively carried on among the courtiers
of both fens fold to the intereas of England. the
putting the PrulEan army upon an extraordinary
footing of war, and above all the obßinacy With
which the King of PrufGa infiGed upon the (vacua.
flan of Germany before the complete execution of
the Treat y of Preiburg—all this raved to open the
eyes of Prance.
The Ethehroe of the French refolved on vanquiat-

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inrc • before he anfwered the Hanifeflo of the King of'
Ptuffia. But now France may ark Pruffia, which of
the two na,iturs has had molt teafon to be &fished
with the other ? Which has been ambitious, fairer
and perfidious? Which has had exaggerated preten•
fions, and has excited unjua wars? France had
figured for a thoufand years amongft the firfi Powers
of the world, when the Hargraves of Brandenbtmgh
were not yet in the rank of crowned heads. The Prof.
fun Monarch, raifed fo fuddenly, and by fuch evil.
vocal acquilittons at the beginning of the eighteenth
century. was in want of the proteßion of France,
and made effeAnal oft of it in its pretenflons againn
the Emperors of Germany. However, fcarcely was
it able to trail by itfelf, when it thought of under-
mining, perhaps even of defiroying, the Power who
had defended it. The French Revolution broke oat ;
Pruffia was the firfi to found the alarm, to call the
Rings to the Congrefs of Prinks, and to figs the Treaty
by which France was to be (hared among them ! But
as foon. as the law that the diviflon of this nation was
more difficult to be realifed than that of Poland, the
abandoned the projee as quickly as the had conceived
it, and finee that time, the has never reefed proteft-
ing the mud (*lid friendfhip townies her, whole ruin
the had fwarn. It was always the fame fyfiem.—
Fridge, aggrandized by aequifitions wrened by the
timely importance which the knew how to give her-
fell, thought that Germany and France were going
to make war for her benefit, and the lira campaigns
proved in reality the jullice of her conjeetures, But
at length bee dark policy tired out the other Powers,
and as form as the attempted to quit her neutrality,
the bit all her advantages. She thought the might
eafily triumph over France: the already difpofed of
the gashes of her victories ; (he fubdued Saxony, led
He& to deceive French generolity, and formed an
immenfe empire, nfurped without having fought.—
What now remains to her of f 2 many prefumptions,
projefts, awl treefons ? Seven days of a frefh war
have oegetartisel the work of a hundred years of art.
fel policy. .> •
Par be itlrewn to to adni to make the errors or
crimes of -Cabinets Fall upon their nations. Mon of
civic, who have brought- fo many calamities upon
People, have atoned for the errors of their life by an
honourable death. Their courage was deferving of
a jolter tattle. They have let a fine example, and
their fishnets have not yielded without 'glory to
French valour ; but the morality of that Cabinet wall
a [candid and a fcourge to all Europe, and others as
well as the conqueror may congratulate themfelves
• on its &wail.. It is time that the relations of So.
swinges &fluid take a more noble and loyal turn ;
France wifhes to give a lung peace to the Continent;
the danger. which fhe has met with in her way, Dave'
not napped her; the enemies Ose has remaining can
,Ito longer frighten her.
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THIRTY•SECOND BULLETIN 411 P THE GRAND ARMY.
- eerttn. Nara:Mier 16.
" The campaign againn Profits was entirely fi.'
!opp,
writhed by the capture of Magdeborg, and the affair
at Lribee.
Tire following was the fituation of the Proffan
army at the beginning of the campaign :
" The corps of General Ruche), called the army
of Wellphalia, confuted of 53 battalions of infantry,
four companies of chaffars, as fqu'adrons of cavalry,
a batialiow-of artillery, and tevenlatteriee, exclufive
of the artillery of the regiment.
" The corps of Prince Hohenloe conned of 2+,
Prtiffian battalions, a 5 Saxon battalions, 4yFruffian,
and 36 Sam fejeadrons ; two battalions of artillery,
sight Praffials, and eight Saxon batteries,
A. The slimy commanded by the King in perfon
was compofed of an advanced guard often battalion[
sad fifteen lquadrons, commanded by the Duke of
,Weinter, and of three &Anon,. The litft,comman-
. , deal by the Prince of Orange, confined of t I bat-
%idiom end to fqoadrons. The fecond divition, cont.
' mantled by G I Wartentleben, confined of eleven
battalions and 15 squadrons.
4' Tire third diviner's, commanded by General
Schmettau, confided of to battalion. and 15 fipia.
drool. 'nit refer./ of this army, commanded by Ge-
neral Kalkreuth. confined of two divifims, each of
, ten battalions of guards and to fqoadrons.
' " The referee, commanded by Prince Eugene of'
, Wirtemberg,confitted of it battalions, and zo fqoa-
dr ons
o Thus the whole of the Pruffian army amounted
to ,6o battalions, and 236 fquadrons, with so bat-
teries of artillery, making a total of men under arms,
1' y.OOO infantry, 30,000 cavalry, and Soo pieces of
Ittille,y, including the battalion pun,.
" the whole of this army was engaged in the '
'node of the iarh, except the corps of the Duke of
IVrimar. a hien was at the time at Eifenach, and the
referee, under the Prince of Wirtemhetg, making
the total of the Pruffian army in she bottle 545,000
Men •
" Of thefe 545.000 not a man has &aped. Of
she corps of the Duke of Weimar not a man has
etaped. Of the eorpa nf the Duke of Wirtemberg,
v-rich was defeated at Halle, not a man has efcaped.
" Thus theft 145,000 men have been either taken,
killed, or wounded. All their eoloursand flandards,
their cannon, baggage, Generals, hive been taken,
andinnthiag has pared the Oder. ' The King, the
'Zito, General Kalkreuth.-and ten or twelve officers
• Mote. are all that have &aped. The King of Prof-
- 11l has at parent one regiment at Gros Glogau,
where it is befieged, one at &Ann. one at Brieg,
-,two at Warfaw, and tome regiments at Koningffierg ;
in the whole about ss,croo infantry, and three or
•four thoufand emir!. Some of his troops are lhut
up or f •rtteffes. The King cannot bring together
at Korringfberg, where be has taken refuge, more
,than 8000 men.
qdre Either'. of Seemly made a preen' of his
,pith. re to General Lew eerie, the Governor of Wit-
. .temheig, who, being at Torgau. relieved order in a
lisnufe of correction, among 800 robbers, who bad
armed for the purport at piondering the town.
" Lieutenant Lebnen prefemed yefterday tots the
Emperor, (our Standards belonging to four Proffian
ftwastron.. commanded by General Reler, whith
, ..p;,.,;4ted t.. General Dims, near Lauenbufgh.—
They had efcaped tram General Blather's corps.
.. Major Arno I, at the head of a fquadron of the
triit eh:Actin. who was fent by Martha! Stroh along
wen fili.r, to frizz whatever might have e`eipadfrotn
.Aluclieos corps, took tOOO pi glowers, of wihelgs.6o
%v. e Hisao% and a great quantity of bestir.
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" The following is the volition of the French sr•
ski: the diviiionsof the Cuiraffieredf General !hue
poult, the dirrilion of dragoons of Geserals Gebeeby,
and Sahue, the Light Cavalry of General L.afalle,
making part of the Cavalry of Refine which the
Grand Duke of Berg had at Lubec, me on their
march to Berlin. __ i

" The head of the divifion of Martha! Ney. to
which Magdeburgh furreodered, arrived this day at
Berlin.
" The corps of Prince Ponte Corvo and Marfbal
Sault are on their march for Berlin. The corps of
Mar(hal Sunk will arrive on Ole Both ; that of Prince
Pante Cerro tome days after.
" Marlbal Monier, with the eighth corps of the
army. has arrived at Hualsurgh, to (hut the Elbe
and the Wefcr.

General &wary, pith the Dutch divifien, is
=milled with the blockade of Hameln.
The corps of Maahal Lafnes is at Thorn.
a The corps of Martha! Augei esu is at Bromberg,
oppofhe Graudentz.
" The corps of Martha! Davouil marches from
Pofen upon %Vadat., whither the Grand Duke of
lierg, with the remainder of the cavalry of referee,
confiding of the divifions of dragoons of Generals
Beaumont, Klein, and /leiter I of himsfoult's divifion
of Cuiradiers, and of the light cavalry of General
Milhaud. .
" Prince Jernme, with the allied carpi. ',triages
Gros Glogaii. Hi. battering train was taken from
Cuflrin. One of his divifions hived. Breltu HC
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takes poffedion of Silefia.
" Our troops occupy the fort of Lenczye half VW
between Pufen and War Caw. Some Rores and artil
Merl were found there. The Poles are well inclined,
but to the Vidula the country is difficult and very
Candy. The Vidula, for the firft time, beholdi the
Gallic Eagle, ,„ . •
"The Einpeziatlkee.eadered that the Wog of Hot.
land fhould returpr,te kingdom. falte to its de-
fence is Ikeda's. „ills,. King of Hollited has taken
pofreffion of Hesesee;r,taith the corps of Monier.—
The Pruffian Eagles and the Ele&oral Arms have
been both erafed."

THIRTY•THIRD BULLETIN OF THEE GRAND ARMY,
Bu r, Nov. T 7.

" The following fufpenfion of arms was figned
yeflerday at Charinttenborgh. The feafon being ad.
vanced, this fufpenfion eflablifkes the quarters of the.
army. Part of Prufflan Poland' is thus occupied by'
the French army, and part of it is neuter.
4. His Majefly the Emperor of the French and
King of Italy, and his Majofly the King of Pruffia,
in confequence of the negociations that have been on
foot fince the 23d of Oftober 141, for the re•ellablifh-
ment of that peace between them whicji has been fo
unhappily dillurbed, have judged it neceffery to
agree to a fufpenfion of arms, and for Ibis purpolk'
they have appointed the following Plenipotentiaries :
His Majefty the Emperor of the French and King of,
Italy has appointed the General of Divilion, Michael
Dumc, Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour,
Knight of the Orders of the Black Eagle and of the
Red Eagle of Pruffia, and of the Order of Fidelity
of Baden, and Grand Marfhal of the Imperial Pa-
lace ; and his Majefty the King of Puffin has ap-
pointed the Marquis de Lucchefini, his Miniftet of
State, Chamberlain and Knight of he Orders of the
Black Eagle and Red Eagle of Pruffia, and General
Frederic William de Zallrow, Chief of the Regiment,
and Infpeetor General of Infantry, and Knight of
the Orders of the Red Eagle and of Merit, who, after
having exchanged their full powers, have agreed
upon the following articles :
Aar. I. The troops of his Majefty the King of Peseta*, who
are at pr Pent upon the right bank of the Virus, than affcmbk
at Koniagtherg, sad let Royal Pruffia, from the right bank of the
il.The troops of his Mayfly the Emperor of the French and King
of Italy, bail occupy the part of Southern Profits which. I. on
the right bank of the Ville* as far as the mouth of the Bug.
Thorn, the fortnis and town of Graudente, the tows and citadel
of Datzlz, the towns of Colburg and lenczyc, which Gall be
delivered to than for (thorny ; and in Sheila the towns of (Notate
and breath, with the partial of that province which la se the
right bask of the Oda, and the part of that Snored utson Om left
bank of the fame river, which will has for •limit a line border.
Mg upon that river, five leagues shove Stellate, paring through
Othau, Tobfen, three leagues behind Schwednits. and without
cs g It, and from thence to Pemba', Landtbut, sod join.
begTergenia, to Lichee.
111. Tile other part. of Pattern Pru !lie or new Pattern Prof-
Oa, ball not he occapied by either of the armies, either Prench,
Pruffsan, or Ruffian. sod If the Ruffian troops are there, kit Ma-
jetty the King of Profile engages to nuke them fall back to their
own kerritory ; as atfu not to receive any troops of that power into
his S during the time of the fufpe Mien of arm.
IV. The fortreffes of Hameln and Nienburg, as well as thee
mentioned in Article If. (hall be delivered up to the French troops
with their arms and Rams, of which an Inventory SA be made
eta within a week skier the e aciange of the ratifications of the pro-
fane fulpenGon of arms. Tice 'mitten. of theft fortreffes auu
not be made patens of war ; they than be allowed to laurel to
Koniotr:2l, and they than be allowed the necelfary facilities for
that pa' .

V. The negotiations (hall be continued at Charfottenborg. and
&amid pence not fallow, the two high eontratting partie. engage
sot to refuse/ hottiNcies, until biter having reciprocally given no-
tice to each other ten days bc(oecband.

v►. The prelim fufpcorion of arum Stall be ratified by the
two bigh contracting parties. and the exchange of ratifications
&all take place at Graudcota at (albeit by the alit of the relent
mouth.

In faith of which the underegoed Plenipotentiaries have fig?ed
the prelim, and have fct to it their refpedlive feels.
Given at Chatiottenhurg, N 00.16, 'hod.
(Sliplcd) DIMOC. ZAITIOW.