The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-07-07 00:00:00

PROPOSITI TENAZ.

LONDON:
FRIDAY, JULY 7.

A GOTTENIVROU Mail Arrived this morning,
which brings oo intelligence, but a report, of a
revolution In Petersborgh, qualified by a
cau-
lion not to give credit to the rumour of an
event, which is, however, announced by the
writer to be probable. That dissatisfaction may
czist in Petersburgh, we do not doubt ; but it did
not require this caution of the Triter to induce us
to withhold our belief of an event aunounced on
such vague authority. There are many other re-
ports in town, all originating, as we imagine, in
the conjectures of their authors) of what is pro.
bablc.

PAPERS and letters from the coast of LloHand
are said to have just arrived, in which another
fracas between the Dutch and French is men-
tioned. To this is added a report of the public
expression in Paris of dissatisfaction at the con-
duct of NAroutort.---We mention these as the
Reports of thu day, which, coming in an unsu-
theuticated shape, are unworthy of contradiction.

In the German Papers we find an article, ex.
ceeding in interest eren those Bulletins *kith re.
cord the increase in height of the waters of the
Dauube. The article to which we allude will be
found in the First Page of this Paper, and pur-
ports to be the " Order of the Day," issued to
the French Army at Vienna, on the 18th of
Juoe.—lf this Paper be authentic,' we venture to
pronounce it the most interesting document that has
ever been published by NAroLtoe...." The Em.
44 parse sees with grief the disorders which
" take place in the rear of the Army, and
" which multiply so fast that they occupy the
whole of his attention."
This is the first public acknowledgment, on
record, of the French Emperor, of the dis-
orders of his army—and they not only exist,
bat multiply so fast as to occupy the whole of his
attention. The movements then of the Austrians
are bat secondary objects—and the fluctuations
of the Danube are absorbed in the superior im.
portance of suppressing the disorders in the rear
of the French army !—This is one of the im-
portant effects of the paralysis produced by the
meninrable Rattle of Estfso.

When we compare this " Order of the Day"
with the antecedent addresses of NAPOLEON to the
French army...the alteration in the tone, temper,
aid spirit of the man is so striking, that it is im.
possible to refrain from attributing to such a pub..
lication of " disgrace," a necessity more imperious
than that which meats the eye. It h a degree of
vituperation folly equal to the memorable ♦ddress
of Sir RALPH AIDERCROIME to the British Army
in Ireland. What must be the dreadful situation
of the Inhabitants in the rear of the army, when
Narot.Eos himself complains of disorders! Com.
pare with this effusion of his grief, the cool sar-
castic answer which he gave the Italian Deputies,
who laid before him the complaints of the people,
of the horrible excesses committed on the first ir.
roption of the French into Italy.—At that time be
imputed the disorders as muck to the people as to
his brave sans-eulottet.—This paper cannot fail
to be read with extraordinary interest—and clearly
evinces, whatever may be the result of the impor.
tent conflict, that the effects of the battle of Es-
ling, like those communicated by the touch of the
torpedo, have certainly produced a parallels of
the vigour of the French grand army. Whether it
be only temporary, or finally destructive of the
rystem, tape aloes can discover...