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London, England, 1817-07-22 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS

THE OPPREF.UVE POI.!CY Of EN ;LAND,
(FROM THE GHENT .1q1.111:TAL: .7!;1.Y h)..
Europe is under the yoke of England ; ih.: 11 one
of those truths .thick, in the eycb ca. Al men
make use of their intellecto4 I;tfulti,:s, has an t!ie
characters of tnAthernatical dernot:ErrAtinn.

This yoke is more real than that of I%Lipn!e-w,
thnogh invested with less humilia:ing hums.
land has escaped its ruin only to revenge itca upon
the independence of all nations. 1t flag, which e'.
plores the world, forms now-a-days the great p"-wer;
and unhappily this potter is stronger and more inAc-
cessible than that of armies.

One cannot but admire the art with which it has
manufactured the net which it has thrown over the
globe. The first mesh, as a celebrated publicist has
observed, is fixed to l-!;:ligoland, and the second to
Jersey. krona there it commands all the issues of
Germany, wr.tches over the Sound, intimidates Stye.
chm and ll..nmark, and presses on the coasts of Hol-
land and France. In the centre of this line rises the
Metropolis, between the So!:th and the Noah of
Europe. Its eccentric position renders its mantime
power the tyrant of the Enropean Seas. Gibraltar
And Malta secure to it the entrance and the centre of
the Mediterranean. From the lonian Islands, it sii-
printends the Adriatic and Greece. The Cape of
Good Hope 'pens to it the mute to India. By means
of Malabar, C. yl..u. Ste. it compresses A 51.4 .and
New llolland, nod renders it mistress of the Sout'i.
At 'Trinidad it has one foot on the Spanish Continent.
At St. Lucie. .1 tniaica, &e. it watches the HAV.I3..
nah and tile Antilles. The occupation of Canada
and Newfoundland cc.mpletet this immense chain,
which seems to bind together the twu worlds.
The prepor.d-r.ince, as ignominious as it is con-
trary to the rights of nations, i. the object of univer-
i sal hatred ; end it mar be asserted, that nineteen-
twentieths of the hdr:lntants of Europe would rejoice
at the fall of this teiriht: Colo:sus.

last volume r)I the Sitirit £&e lortrm.r.'t con.
tains a cur;ous Laer on this sunieinacy of England.
The author introduces a speak,r who has the !Imp&
city to believe that England will succour its Al
the Spaniards sod Portuguese. An English Navy
Officer contradicts hint with much warmth. and obt
serves, that England hu IRA signed the Treaty of
the Sacred Alliance.

The speech put into the mouth of this supposed
English °dicer is a direct avowal of the truth of ail
the charges brought by the Cmiinental pamplileteeas
against England fur the last tssen,y years--'e That
England went to war to enrich lierstlt with the spoils
of other countries, whose colonies she seized. Tnat
the Continental system would have ruined hers, and
that she lavished her gold to find employment at
home for those who supported that system ; thit she
has abolished the Slave Trade, to ruin the colonies
of all other nations, and reduce them to military sta-
tions ; that the battle of Waterloo, the glory of which
may be contended with her, but of which she has
reaped the whole profits, makes her mis,ress of the
universe; that she possesses in every sea impregnable
ports, and able by her fleets to blockade all the
narrow s,•as, as the Baltic, the Sound, the Adriatic,
the ti:,daitelies, acc.; that she commands in ::rance,
:n ; that the inatmiactories of the Cominent
gradually golf) ; that she has inheri•eJ the
suength and the projPcts of Napoleon, and :wee,/ her
own despotism to his tyranny, and has now no Lr;er
Any or.ca.on to di-,sertilile," ac. &c.