Star.
London, England, 1801-07-18 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PAWS, JULY sr.
A Membetof the Britith Parliament, formerly
a Minifler, has made us acquainted, in few words,
with the Policy of the old Englifh Adminiftration.
It fought to make peace with France, and yet to
preferve all the Colonies taken by the Englifh
Troops while the Allies were occupied with the
Continental War, and torn by the different Revo-
lutions which have fueceeded in their Government.
—lf that of France had reafoned in the fame man.
ner as this old Adminiftration, the whole of the
Venetian territory, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola,
Dalmatia, Eke. would have been united to
the French territory at the time of figning the pre-
liminaries of Leoben. Half of Germany and the

Kingdom of Naples would have undergone the
fame fate when the treaty of Luneville was lived.
Nadia, the Cifalpine republic, and Switzerland,
conquered by the -French Armies, would long ago
have formed French Departments, and Portugal
would now be a Spanish Province. Molt affurealy
if the principle of keeping all that has been taken,
wire to be henceforth affurned as the diplomatic
bars, England would gain nothing by it, and its
Empire would not be of long duration.
Of all its conqueßs, on the contrary, France has
• prtferved but a very (mall part. All bus been eva-
cuated,' and the equilibrium of Escape re-cßab-
lifted, becauk the French people have no defire
but to live in tranquillity at home, and to hirer
thole Nations to remain at peace who allow them
W do the fame..
Let the Englifli Adminißration imitate thix con.;
dna, and Peace will loon be made.
Batavia, Helvetia, and the afalpine are inde-
pendent. Naples and Portugal are Rill in the
number of Powers. France has not received an ac-
ceffion of more than Five Millions of inhabitants;
it has rellored Countries peopled with more than
Thirty Millions of iababitanta Thefe Five Mil-
lions of inhabitants do not more than compenfate
the Four Millions of people, which Aultria has ac-
quired by the partition of Poland.
The Ex-Miniller to whom we allude does not
appear to underßand Politics better than he does
war, and it would not be extraordinary if he hid
fo little difcerament, as not to fee that the Situation
of England at prefent, is precifely that of an army
rating againit an enemy, when two or three armies
whole efforts have been united to their own, have
been defeated t but there is this Rill farther to be
confidered, that while the Allies of England were
defeated on the Continent, and were joining the
Republic, new Powers were coalefeing egainft the
Britith Government.
Ruff*, Sweden, Denmark, and Pruffia, have
heath sad Rill are ip a il.raz hi:utility with Eng•
land. Had it not been for the death of the Ens-
perm Pant, the Rattle of Cepenhagen would have
bees attended with erinfequeirces very different
from lbalsopes of ;hare who bad ordered it: but

if the embarraffinents of a new-n•ignifritiha-ga.
serous defire of the Emperor Axtranasa to a.
lultrate the commencement of it by a general pa-
cification, have led him ioNtes part of the lora ism
which his Predclor had adopted, be it sot dr Ilea-
fibk of this obligation, under which the poster of tui-
tion be governs kty.r bin:: and Lord Sr. HILINS, fo
well calculated by his perfonal charailer to fut.
teed in all Diplomatic Millions entrufted to him, it
far f coon fading at Peterjbough thefe dittoftionc with
which the Englifh Adnanifiration flattered
A numerous Englifli fleet is fill in the Baltic.
Prullia fill occupies Hanover, and, in the fyllem
of the old Britiffi Adminifration, that every thing
is to be kept of which polfeflion has been once at-
tained, Pruffia will prtferve Hanover. This Elee.
tome is within no cafe of the Treaty of Lame-
ville ; it belongs neither to an Ecclefiaffical nor
a Secular Prince. It is a Country in the Empire
of Germany, under the dominion of his BUTAN.
sic Majestv,..and now, when the Kum of Eno-
LAND is himfelf an Emperor, he can no longer be
confidered as a Member of the Germanic Empire.
It is true, that-. England is fufficiently indemnified
for the occupation of Hanover, and for the Mil-
lion which the Kam Of Pau s sIA has drawn from
it, by the Magazines found in the Daniffi colonies.
What is to be concluded from all this ? Firil,
that if Europe was governed by meo of the cha-
railer of that Ex-Wtiller, War might be carried
on for a great length of time, unlels indeed there
Should be Powers by whom War is carried on, in
his way, for• then they would faun be Subdued. •
Idly, That the new Britifli Adminifration can
only ffiew its pacific difpofitions by propoflag a
fyflem of equilibrium, which conciliates tht great-
eft pollible number of interefts. . • 1
gdly, That in the prefeat fituation of Nations,
no one is more interefted than England in abjur-
ing the principle, that at a Peace every thing
ought to be retained which was gained when in
arms.
4thly,. That when there exiSts in a Nation men
to violent and fo hoftile to humanity as to defire
Perpetual war, and war of extermination, it Should
be matter of cart not to admit them into Council,
but Should fend them u* fpend a few years remote
from their family and their country in cutters,
blocking up roads, avoid the tempefs of winter; or
Should place them in the defarts of Arabia, or on
the field of battle. If every (park of humanity
be not mine, they would no doubt abjure thefe
atrocious priaciples.—lt has ever been Peen that
the men who cry out mof loudly for war everlafl-
ing in the Afrembly, are men who have never left
the refinements of cafe; the brave man makes war
for the honour, the glory, and the profperity of his
country,. and employs his lucubrations and his
fpeethes to bring luck Nations to fentiments of
fraternal reconciliation and juftice.—(Messilear.)

JOLT I2..AFFILIRS OF IGYPT.
The news from Egypt by the brig Lodi are of
May 19. Thenews which the Englifh have pub-
hilted relpitting it are prior to the Bth June* ; fo
that we are better acquainted thin they with the
nate of things.
General Allmon with 6000 men, occupied the
entrenched camp before Alexandria. He kept a
detachment of 5500 men, Infantry and Cavalry,
foraging in Bahireth to procure provifions. The
Lake Mareotis extends to within three leagues
beyond the town of the Arabs. It forms the Ilk
of Manont, which is fortified, armed, and has a
French garrifon. The lands belonging to Lake
%riots were occupied by the French army. A
veffel had arrived there from Ancona. Lefbeh
and the pafres of Orm Farrego were occupied by
the French army. Generals BILLIARD and La-
csaatiog were at Cairo with ten thoufand men
under their command. This corps fet off on
the t7th May to attack the Gwen VIZIIt at Bel-
beis. The battle was to take place on the tpdt of
May. If the GRAND Via sea was obliged to repels
the defart with eonfiderable lofs, that corps would
defcend to join General Mswov, fo that the French
would thus obtain a great fuperiority over the
enemy. MOURAD Bey and three of his principal
Kachtefs are dead. The Mamelucks are difperf.
ed. A party kept polreffion of Upper Egypt, un-
der the authority of the French. All the news
from Conftantinople' fontrary to the above, arc
falfe. Had it not been for the divifion of the
French Generals, the battle of the sift of March
would have entirely deftroyed the Engliih army.
Had it not been for the divlfions of the French
Generals, the Englifli tierce would have had any
fuceefs ; for the foldiers, full of courage and de-
votion to the glory of the nation, confider their
lives as nothing. There are no faerifices or efforts
which they are not ready to make, to deferve the
laurels of victory.
When communication is Te-eftablithed between
France and the Army of the Eafloand when Go-1
vernrnent Stall be enabled to judge with certainty
of the condo& of the different officers, all of-
fences againft military difcipline Stall be treated
with that feverity which their importance demands.
—Frees the Atwitter.
The letters from Conflantinople, of the 'rsth of
May, could not announce the refult of the battle
which was to take place between the Giatto Vi-
rile and General Betttaan, fence that battle
could not be known before the 18th of May. The
news could not be known at•Conftentinople before
*sitor Sub
N • Officers of the Garrifon of
Aboukir have prefented an addrefs to the FIRST
COMIUL, in which then lay, that the Fortrefs
Aboukir was fiirrendered while in a tenable con.
ditionl enrnplain thaitheir courage . fhould have
been, on account of that furrender, impeached in
Frances' and requeft the Fiaar Collins, as the
Father of the Soldier, to prated their honour.—
Tbis Addrefs was (sped by 57 ferjeants, corpo•
rals, and roldiers of artillery of the 6s ft, &c.
The FIIIT CONSUL replied Soldiers, I have
read your Letter. I have inquired into your Con-
dit& I own you worthy of the 61 11. Your arms
are reflored. I Stall not fail to give you an early
opportunity of avenging your honour. You (Lail
n... die without being conquerors. aomsralirs."

I The Editor of time Afeairesir forms in biter
ailtebt. esl put June fur nit.