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the general cause of human liberty, than any acqui-
sition of territory, however vast or advantageous.
Notwithstanding this unexpected collision in the
Floridas, we trust that the relations of amity between
the two nations will be prialerved dor can we aban-
don the hope, • that theirs' differences may yet be
settled on fair and liououralsk conditions. We may
even indulge the hope, that the incidents which have
grown out of the Sesnioole war, however adverse
their tendency may have appeared to be, may con-
tribute essentially to produce that happy result.
Spain must see, and has practically confessed her
incompetency to maintain.her authority in the Flo-
ridas, against, the Seminoles and foreign adventu-
rers ; and we hope we shall see that it shall be much
wiser for her to cede those provinces at once, than
to attempt to hold them on the impossible condition
of fulfilling her treaty with us; or on the condition,
I now brought home to her by experience, of subject-
ing herself to perpetual collisions and eventful losses,
which she may now avoid with ease and honour to
herself.

• DUTCH MAIL.

AUGSBUS.GH, AUGUST 25.

An article, dated Brandenburg, August 10, says
a Things are in the same state among us as in the
rest of Germany. There lire' no active parties who
attempt to make any political system prevail ; but
there are people who spend many words in defence
of this or that opinion, both in companies and in pam-
phlets. Those who attach any importance to conver-
sations and ephemeral writings, and who consider ate
capital as the representative of the kingdom, might
believe that the Prussians were on the point of divi-
ding themselves.into two hostile people—one of which
wish to keep the ancient constitution, or rather the
rights consecrated by time, while the other insists on
a change, which may prevent the return of the past
evils, which they attribute to the ancient institutions.
'While people are defending in public sometimes the
one, sometimes the other, of these two opinions, ra-
ther from caprice or interest than on principle, the
Government calmly pursues its course, and, without
troubling itself about the contradictions of parties,
leaves it to time to decide which of them is in the
right. This dignified attitude does not satisfy the
restless spirits, who fancy that it is absolutely neces-
sary to embrace one of the two systems. In conse-
quence, they spread all manner of reports to prove
that the Government has at length adopted one side.
Sometimes it is said that a plan of constitution which
comprehends the whole monarchy has been laid be-
fore the Council of State—sometimes, that it has been

resolved to retain the old one. One relates, that the
reports of the Ministers who have been sem into the
provinces to examine into what relates to the Provin-
cial States are so contradictory. that the result of the
merely historical inquiries cannot give rise to an or-
ganization which shall be applicable to all the pro-
vinces; another affirms, that a new prospect of the
aggrandisement of the monarchy has caused a sud-
den suspension of the discussions already begun in
the Council respecting. the Representative Constitu-
tion; but there is no truth in all this. In the last of
the meetings of the Council, which take place every
six months, there was no discussion upon the Consti-
tution or any thing of the kind; and the reports of
the Ministers toad not be contradictory, because
though the Minister of State, Beyme, has made his
report,- Altenstein and Klewitz have not yet made
theirs If some politicians are dissatisfied at this de-1
lay, others, on the contrary, regard it as a wise mea- I
sure, by which time is gained till the vertigo of con- I
stitutinns is over, and things may be in a manner ar-
ranged of themselves. It is the same with regard to
the delays about the University of Bonn; the funds,
&c. for the establishment are already assigned, but
the organization is not yet regulated."

BERLIN, AUGUST it
On the 18th the Synod of the two Evangelical
Convcgations for this tear was opened by Divine
Service in the Cathedral Church. _ _

An expression of M. Ribbentrop, Intendant General
of the Prussian army, is considered as very remark-
able. This Gentleman, who has daily before his eyes
the effects of standing armies upon the nation ; eco-
nomy both on a large and a small scale ; who likes
the military admini.tration in the vocation of his life,
and is known to the Armies, to their Generals, and
Sovereigns, by his distinguis'aed services, has, in his
Essay on the " Economy of the European Armies,"
the following words, which, from the mouth of such
a man, are highly important :—" That every reduc-
tion of the Army has always a favourable ,nfluenee
on the internal relations of the country; that these re-
lations, the professions, the property, and the spirit
of the citizens, must be spared and maintained as
much as possible in time of peace, that they may be
employed with more energy in time of war."