Star.
London, England, 1803-01-06 00:00:00

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CONSIDERATIONS
RESPT..O IN FOREIGN POWERS.

Th.- unfettled State of Europe is likely, for Come
time v. come, to he produ.iive of Events highly
cute ti;in to thole With contemplate the Circum.
fiance. and Situations of other Nations, with a re-
ference to our ,•ven. Warlike appearances on the
pal r ,:f other Powers, direned tdwards us, may,
is al! p: obability, be difcovered ; hut thole ap•
pc atances may often prefent themfelves, without
leading to actual Hoftility. Aloft of the Nations
of Eut ope are tired of War, and fume of them do
slat poffefs the Means, even if they had the In
clinatiun, to prafecate it. Under all eircum-
fiances, ;hei,fore, talLhough we are not fanguine
enough to expo.., after what we have witneffed,
that we Ihall enjoy profound and fecure Peace, free
from apprehenlion and nlarm, yet we do not an-
ticipate the Ipeedy renewal of War, if we hold that
firm, decided, yet conciliatory language, which is
to well calculated to avert it.
For the pr.ftitt, the QL:eaion rcfpeling the
RiBhts of Neutral Powers with reference to other
Nations at War, is at red. If the principle con-
tended for on the part of Neutrals, has nut been
unequivocally abandoned and renounced, at kali
the attempt to enforce it has been relinquilhed,
and there does not appear any danger of difpute
arifing upon tins point—With relpeet, therefore,
to Ruffia, Sweden, and Denmark, we feel ro
ground of anxiety or uneafinefs. As to the for-
mer of thole Powers, recent circnmftances give us
the ilronga reafon expect its friendfltip and af-
lifiance.—The tali change in the Councils and
Government of ltufita is very favourable to Britifh
intereas ; and the return of Count Woaoxzow to
this Court is the firungefi fymptom of favourable
intentions. We are fure every endeavour will be
ofed, on the part of cur Minificrs, to give us the
heft chance of the continuance of Peace ;—Ruflia,
more than any other Power, may be inftrumental
in the accomplifhmentof thisobjeEt. In truth,events
within the Idt la ears have placed Rola in a high
and commanding fituation. Removed from the
infdlion of the principles of the French Revolution,
The has rifen in the relative reale of European
Powers, by the weakening efforts of other Nations.
That Revolution has alto changed the policy of
this country towards Ruffia.—There is little jea.
loufy remaining as to the increafe of her dominion ;
and it is perhaps a defirabie thing to fee her power
extended to the Mediterranean. The only impor-
tant guarantee on the part of Great Britain, for
the fulfilment of the Treaty of Amiens refpcd-
ing the ifland of Malta, is Ruffia.—lf (what we
hope will not ultimately happen) fhe refute to be-
come that guarantee, forne new and effectual
relpeding that Hand will become neceffary.
By fecuring really the independence of that ifland,
Ruffia will do much towards confolidating the
Peace of Europe—will do that which we know to
be defirable to the Britifh Miniftry, inafmuch as it
will enable them to carry into effect tht Treaty
of Amiens; and which ought, as it will molt eafily
adjull the queff ion refpeeting Malta, to be equally
delirable to the Firft Conful of France.

Of the other European Powers, Pruffia and
Atifiria are thole only of which it is necelfary to
fay any thing. The motto of the Court of Ber-
lin is " Neutral)." LUCHESINI is Paid to have
declared, that it would be very difficult indeed to
drive him from his fyllem ; and certainly the
aggrandizement of France, to any extent, will not
difturb it. We believe it would be equally difficult
to induce the Court of Berlin to take an aelive
part in fupport of that aggrandizement.
The Court of Vienna will be peaceful, or rather
paffive, for fome time at !call. But a peace of
neceffity, the terms of which are difadvantageous,
will only be fubmitted to, while neceffity demands
it. It is impoffible to fuppofe that there can exill
any feeling of harmony in the Houfe of Auaria
towards the Government of France. The events
of the war, and the difpofition which has been fince
evinced by France to humiliate that Power, mull
have left very different fenfations in the brealls of
thole who dired the Councils of Vienna. The
want of means for carrying on war may be more
inftrumental in prefcrving tranquillity than pacific
difpofition ; but the peace, for a time, will not be I
difturbed by Auftria.
Some difcullion has taken place in the courfe of
the Salon of Parliament upon the cubic& of Con-
tinental Alliances, and more will probably be here-
after raid upon the fame fubjed. Thofe who con-
tend for the impoliey of fuch connations on the
part of the Britifb Empire, tell us that we arc " too
honell"for fuch bargains—that our Alliances have
frequently led us into war—that our Allies are
faithlefs, and that Britifh gold is by tilde Treaties '
transferred to the Continent. But if our Foreign
Alliances have a tendency to carry us into war,
3nly they not alfo be the means of enabling us to
avoid it ? And do they not, in the event of war,
furnifh us the means of meeting the enemy with
more effeCt ? &fides, it is of no trifling impor-
tance that the war in which we are engaged
Should be profecuted on the Continent, rather
than upon our own fhores. Wheln the perfidy of
our Allies is mentioned, we have heard the con-
duet of Aullria in the lift war cited as an inflance.
Now this we never can admit. We cannot juf-
tify the mode of condutling the war on the part
of Auflria—to the fyflern of that Court, and to
the jealonfies of the army, the French are more
in Jebted fia their conquelts than to the prowcfs of
their oars arms. But Attalla filmed, in feveral
inflances in the COMIC of the war, the moll fcrupu.
lous regar'd to her engagements, and did not
tnately make a feparate peace till the was compelled
to it by dafe.o. It i. true that Foreign Alliances
will, in time cf War, early money out of the
Coun,t y. but they may alit lave a cotifidcraide
elpet.dittire in del, rkl:ng ourfelves at home ; and
we know tot what can be a better foundation for
as /Chia:lce, than that we 011:411.1 fill,ply, in eat::
of War, Shat 1)1 •bably we can tell afro' d—No
~ey ; and that 4 ur Ally Ihould, upr n the fame
prtr.ciple, imp ti :ea. ; itAc gi catch cam ion,
it is I.A:cl, lilt) 4 to ;Preattes
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are very far from thinking that they may not be,
and have not been beneficial to this Country, yet
on the other hand, we are ready to admit that they'.
have, upon come (~ceafions, led us into Wars on
gaeltions is oliich no Britith Interefis were in-
volved. We are not prepared to fay, whether, at
this moment, it would be politic for us to enter
into an Offenrtve and Defenfive Alliance with any
Power on the Continent ; hut if such a Treaty
were to be entered into, we fhoald confider Ruffia,
under all the prefent circurrniances, as the molt
advantageous Ally.
We have feen much in the conduct of France
fince the fignatore of the Treaty of Amiens, to
excits our 'pall apprehenfions, and to put us on our
guird—but we have not leen that, which we think
would have ls•cen fit ground of war on our part.
Minitlets will furnifh no cattle of jealousy or com-
plaint to other Powers. They will not only de. I
fend tin:mit:ices from every attack, but they will
watch every Ilep which may lead to it. if the li
CHIEF CHNit; L thinks that he may proceed from
one encroachment to another, affecting the intereas
of this Country—that conceffion is of courfe to
he made to him, he miltakes thole with whom lie
has to deal—they will not subject themfelves to
the reproach of not fulfilling the Itipulatiuns of a
Treaty which they have made ; but they will as
little ilila.jedt themlOves to the reproach cf fuffering
aggrellions to. be made which are detrimental to
the interells of the country, and remnant to the 1
spirit of that Treaty itfclf.
It is confident with the plan and fyfiem of Mr.
Fox, that he should on the Nation to take a low
tone upon all rt.:cal-ions. He never fails to repre.
fent the late War as diftill ruts in the extreme—he
oppofed it, and he inuit make the moll of his cafe.
Every fubmitlion, on our part, he confiders as a
proof of the corrednefs of his opinion ; his advice,
therefore, is always " to fabmit."—but thole who
thought the War jolt and necellary ; who know
we were foreed into it ay.ainft our inclination; wh3
are fenfible that in this'dylairout War, our Arms
achieved greater exploits that in any War preced-
ing—who have not forgotten the victories of the
Fi,jl of June, of Campertiown, of St. Vincent, of
Abodir, of Cvenbagen, and the Conquell of I,,,upt—
fucla men will not agree with Mr. Fox in thinking
that Subrniffion is to be the prevailing fentiment
in the Councils of the 13ritilh Empire.
The Britifh Nation never can exprefs fufficient
gratitude to thole who protested them in the moll
perilous critis the Country ever beheld. It is to
their wifdom that we are indebted for the preferva-
tion of Law, of Order, and of all we enjoy under
the Britifh Conflitution. Their firmnefs has left
us at liberty to contemplate the eff Its • the form
we have fo happily cfcaped. Wh it the effects of
that form may ultimately be, see Hull not antici
pare.—The fituation of France is new, and its
fyllem is yet a fyllem of Experiment. We mull
wait to be convinced that an catenfion of territery,
by whatever means obtained, is an estenfinn of
Power and rf Greatnefs—but in every point of
view, the only fecurity for our Independance, in
the prelim (fate of things, is to be prepared, and
preparation has been accord'ngly recommended
be his Majefly's Councils, and sanctioned by the
voice of Parliament.—True Briton.

LONDON.

CANDIDVS Mall ham a place to-morrow, if poffiblo

THURDAY, JANUARY 6.

Ementir.--Holiday at all the Public Office*.
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY:

Bank Stock 1864 tB7i
3PerCent.Red.7t 5f
4 per Cent. Conf .36f
5 per C.Ann. lot I los}
Long Ann. so 7.16

India Stock 2 Is
trap. 3 per Cent. 7014
Omnium 31} 4 31 dlr.
Englim Tickets 171. tts.
ConL for the op. 73 73H1

Our Readers will learn by the following letter
from Gibraltar, that the Prrtuguefe fquadron,
which it was expcaed would have followed the
example of France with the Algerine pirates, has
put into Carthagena without effeaing any thing.
We apprehend it will turn out that this Power,
like come others, who certainly are under no fuck
necetlity, has purchafcd the forbearance of the
Mgerines by coaly prefents !

GIBRALTAR, DECEMBER w 3.

" On the loth the WEAZEL floop of war, Capt.
Duasatt,arrivcdhere in five daysfrom Carthagena.
Two firil rates were then lying there in Commit.-
fion, one of uhich was to carry back the Kitqc of
ETRURIA, and another (hip of the line ; but the
Spaniards were making no preparations whatever
for win

" The Portuguefe fquadron, that had been eruiz-
ing before Algiers, had put into Carthagena, with-
out doing any thing, as was expected. The Por-
tugucle Commodore had her forematt and how.
fprit carried away by lightning, when he imme-
diately bore away for Carthagena to refit, follow-
ed by all his fleet.
" By the WI Just. we learn, that our fquadron
of nine fail of the line, was cruising off Sardinia,
about five weeks ago."
Two letters from Paris coincide in flitting, that
a refolution has, after a long and animated difcuf.
(ion, paffed the Council of State, conferring a
title of Royalty on BONAPARTE. They differ, how-
o'er, in the appellation—the one affects, that he is
henceforth to be called Emperor of the Gaul: ; and
the other Rates, with ct.nfislence, that he is to he
Riled, in all the official alts of Government, his
Confm'ar ,Ilajfity. To the latter we are inclined to
attach more credit.
The Refolution is to be fubmitted to the coal-
&ration of the other Conflitutcd Authorities,
whole far. Lion is rcquifite to carry it into a law.
We arc happy to ()Grave with 'bat contempt

the French °IL:a lcurtility is treated in this eoun-I
try. Even at the Stock Exchange, where force
have the addrefs to take advantage of zvery
thing, and individuals may generally be found cre-
dulous enough to attach importance to the moll
abfurd effulions of political fcribblers, erpecially
when they come with any thing like an official
Ramp, the philippic which we yefterday laid be-
fore our Readers produced no effe.t. Indeed the
'Funds were rather better yefterday than on the
preceding day. It is unneceffitry again to Rate,
that the attack is againft Miniaers, though it af-
feels to be levelled againfl the GRENVILLE s. The
GRENVILLES did not fend Mr. Moons to the Con-
tinent. Our Minitiers, it feems, mull not fpeak in
Parliament, without receiving the ?fficial rebuke
of BONAPARTE! of this humane and jun Corfican,
who is now fo much {hocked at the fcourges
of war, when war. as he lays, is fought by
Great Britain. Famine, drought, penitence, 1,
&c. how he Ihudders at the thoughts of thefe !
he who flied no blood in Egypt, and who @cad j
neither famine or penitence : he who never
was concerned in•any maffacre, robbery, or public
calamity ! he naturally freezes with horror at the
very thought of fuch fcenes ! We perceive that be
invites Praia:to feize Hanover, for the double
purpofe of intimidating our own Sovereign, and
railing the ambitious hopes of the Court of Tier
lin. In the event of fuch a reizure, he points out
what is to be his compenfation. He charges Bri•
Lain with fabricating plots to dinurb the Papal
and Neapolitan dominions. Hence,we conclude,
that he himfelf, the Cu 'sr CONSUL, intends thefe
countries (hall be the next viClims of his lull of
dominion. Before he feizes any country, he uni•
formly charges it with allowing plots againfl
France to be fabricated in its bofom. This is his
pretence for uniting it to France by way of fafety.
Me charge was made again(' Switzerland, and
that country was lubjugated. The charge is made
againll Rome and Naples i they will no doubt fall

Nations, though influenced by motives of poli-
cy, of intereft, or of neceffity, to a temporary ac-
quiescence, cannot always continue quiet and un.
concerned fpedators, and objects of the infults and
encroachments of an afpiring neighbour. The
time will come, when the Powers of Europe,
awakened to a fenfe of common danger,will unite
for common fecurity againft the common invader ;
and perhaps their liberties and independence have no
more (*.Aid pledge of exiftence, than the univerfal
fenfe of peril and difguft which the undifguifedand
unqualified ambitious defigns of France have ex-
cited. Already has Europe been laid at ber feet,
and the valt projects conceived by Louis le
GRAND, in all the plenitude of his power and am-
bition, fully and fatally realifed in this quarter of
the globe. With Auftria proftrate, Italy fuhju.
gated, Switzerland new modelled, Spain and Hol-
land at her difpolal, the Northern Powers conci-
liated, the Southern intimidated, with her enemies
humbled, and her friends aggrandifed, with a bar-
rier impregnable, to !secure her from attack, and
a tremendous military establishment, to enable her
to avail herfelf, with effect, of every opportunity of
lexternal aggreffion ; what objeft does Europe at
prefent afford, either interesting to her ambition
or worth her purfuit ? That balance has been weak-
ened, which alone could operate as a check upon
her enormous means, and the whole weight of
which was at all times neceffary to keep her within
reasonable bounds. In deftroying the equilibrium,
the has taken the molt decifive method; what the
removed from the leak againft her, the has applied
to augment her own preponderance; fo that, as
by the diminution of the countcrpoife the would
be formidable, her own means remaining unaltered,
by the accumulation of ltrength the has become, in
a far higher degree, dangerous. Yet Europe Rill
pollen-es refourcts for the relloration of this ba-
lance. There are Bill powers fufficient, by a cor-
dial co-operation, to arreft the progrefs of the great
Nation. When the fenfe of common danger than
have Rifled the narrow fuggeftions of a paltry and
mercenary policy, when it thall have merged every
other confideration in the great question of common
fecurity, then that' this mighty people be made
fenfible how little the vaunted pre-eminence of any
(however great) community can avail againft the
claims of juftice, and the determined refolution of
nations, united for the maintenance of their right 4,
and the prefervation of their independence. The
mif-thapen mafs of snow, agitated on the Alpine
summit, defcends at firft harmlefi and unheeded ;
but accumulating, and accelerating in its progrefs,
it is mar ked in its track by ruin and desolation. There
is a limit, however, beyond which it cannot pro-
ceed. The fame law that hurried it from its ele-
vated fituation, accompanies it through all the
Rages of its courfe, and condufts it, with unerring
fidelity, to the fpot where its impelling force is to'
be exhaufted, and it is itfelf to vanith before a
milder temperature.
We have given an Article from the True Bri-
ton, on the prefint (late of affairs. If it speaks the
fenfe of Minitlers in expreffing a with that Malta
may be guaranteed by Rullia, and gircu up