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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1813.
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1 We stated yesterday, that certain foreign Officers
were immediately to be employed on the Continent,
under the auspices of Government, in raising the
Standard of Revolt against the abominable despotism
of France. We believe we can now state with con-
fidence. that since our publication of yesterday,. mill.
tary appointments have been given to three foreign
Officers of high consideration among their respective
cnontrymen. It would be dangerous perhaps to their
personal safety to mention their names or particular
destinations at present. We are at liberty to state,
• owevcr, that an Austrian, a Prussian, and a Dutch
General--all voluntary exiles since the subjugation
of their native countries, will instantly be employed
in the great work of emancipating Europe.—That
the whole of the Inhabitants of Europe, who have
so many years groaned under the iron rod of oppres-
ion, are ready to assert their national independence,
. ow that the circumstances of the times admit of their
taking the field against the common Tyrant, cannot
now be doubted. Indeed, there are at this moment
unequivocal proofs of this disposition, in the shape of
diplomatic documents, in the possession of Ministers.
It is scarcely possible to foresee, in any complicated
conjuncture, the part that will be acted by a private
individual. Individuals are guided in their conduct
.y a thousand circumstances peculiar to their own
situation. They are under the influence of many
ieeret prejudices and passions. The case is not
Sweetly so with poblic bodies of man, and least of all
with Sovereign States. Even arbitrary monarchs
ore for the most part swayed by a regard to their po-
litical interests. Political considerations prevail over
all others in the breasts of men whose royal state is
object peculiarly their own ; it
,is identified with
themselves ; it elevates them above the sympathies
that govern men in inferior stations. In great
and ancient dynasties, ambition, and the pride of in-
pendent po.• er, triumphs over the tenderest affec-
tions. Invincible necessity may compel them to tem-
orize, but the predominant passion, the pride, and
e lust of power, breaks out sooner or later.
A Persian Prince having set out in the night at
03e head of his army, on a certain expedition, offered
reward to any one who should first announce the
*sing of the Sun—an object of worship to the Per-
'ans. Every eye was turned to the east. But one
f the officers looked in a contrary direction, towards
e summits of a range of mountains, by which the
ays of the Sun were reflected some minutes before
e ascent of any part of his body above the horizon.
e obtained the proferred reward.
In order to be guided in our our anticipations of
e future, therefore; we should turn our eyes back to
hat is past. Genuine history is an expansion, an
lustration, a picture .f human nature placed in va-
ious situations. It is the great guide of life, and
s
pecially of the political enquirer and statesman—
. What has been is that which shall be ; and there
s nothing new under the Sun !" Let us enquire,
herefore, what have been the results of analogous
ircumstances in former times :
In the beginning of the last century, the Continent
.
if Europe trembled and crouched under the over-
ithelming aggressions of LEWIS XIV. Few of his
neighbours dared even to murmur complaint, and
ewer still to start into a posture of self-defence and
esistance. Europe found a Saviour in our immortal
VILLIAM 111. Prince of Orange. Beth the Engtish
nd the Dutch Nations had been trained to arms,
nd enured to war, under the auspices of that Hero,
then their united force was directed against France'
y the singular int-epidity and military genius of the
enowned Duke of MARLISONOUGII. A system of de-
ence, on which the Princes of Orange had hitherto
cted, was turned into a system of attack. The
;rand Monarch was found neither to be invincible
tor invulnerable. All Europe, v.ith the exception
sf the Duke of BAvAitia, and the King of SWEDEN,
tho was neutral, was drawn by degrees into 4 corn-
lination akiit)st the French King.
The Allies, under the command of MARIASOROUGH
MCI the illustrious Prince EUGENE of Savoy, after the
eduction of Lisle, Tournay. Ypres, Menin, Conde,
daubeuge, Douay, Aine, and other places, were ad-
:ancing still with their faces towards Paris. The
taughty Litvrts was reduced to the necessity of re-
:.111..g Ulb troops from Spain, for the defence of his