The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-10-30 00:00:00

ment, and come over to us to help us to limit his am-
bition. had the case been otherwise; . and hagtim_,
served us as thcheaterved Frinee, no tilinii-OT ilife-,
diction would have ..beee considered too bitter to be
poured *at against her.
Well, strife was resumed, sunk trim that hour to
-thls every arrival from the Continent has brought in-
telligence of new triumph& to. the. Allies., new infs.
•-• tortoni., to the French--yet none that premise au
' tierly termination of the newest, by reducing the
••• Vppressor of nations to reason, or humbling him to
wAection. His former rival aLlionve, Moreau, after
quietly seinnitti‘ fro.' sereyit years to the sentence
of banishment which had. ,been*seed -.ow hini, when
11"6100'ivilliahl4VirilifinitiCitt deithsfdr-what '
wasseeted trees-on, •o4eiPectellly iervpested in the,
Anisetb; efid• in flve;"raptere of the- irtitstice repaired
. • to the head-quartet* of the Mlles, where he Was
halted Ilf •the deliverer of Eirogie... But while the
eyes Of alleadleiliViee' fixed urn him, hs was re-
ye till
avetrby it tividden4atastropir his glory wil
:for ever t ere tea 'iroirt change' r s.° ogigpse by any re-
iterse•of fertusivi,'in a itruggiivilitelesperate and pte-
erious, as Ito Mint' tiaie reit Oft approaching steep 1
gle.with his former Chief, BkresParte, would be.--1.1
'Moreeiefell•ln the happiest 'lament of a hero's life;
. what, .having 'pertornied 'great thiegs, greater are
• expected of hits,' avid he :Is cut off in the flrd love
'of hieAkteiirers, Will the merit of all that he did,'
• ;and of altlhat be did not, accompanying him to the
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:►-... ' Trliiiiilliii 0 elik,Atiott notwitlispunget
.this eti::
l'. "ihniitY 7 :Y.• iSilitki. jig to, proxpe4 and thole of :OW.
' prevtu.iii. dattie, VinCe Wis. deatik;—for not bit one
.... Ann hutwoeifigribitt, tout tivilgorthow.ever little,'
depends the sa'tvatiou of
.am 4dtinint,—:the people,
Ow ilealgliahme can 14iii its-4.;J if the spirit that
Jo..ied •the torpid,':#l.mhentyiif Russia, during the
ioad of Bortaparte, to such tinkkviryp.erni iuvisicible
e.iergy of.putriolism, could be infitaed into the hue
mah enimuls that' stock- the soil • o'...aerniauy and
Pressia, theconflict m%ht no longer be doubtful ; the
*tnotnerahle armies of the tyrant night speedily fall
by as horrible a mortality at Aljat- ethic* left timid-
pest the only one alive to tell thiretery.Of hictiltame
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,apt his discomfiture in his I' ei 'tion". It is !rue,
that helms not now the ti f" at ''' te'! of Russia
.to contend with; sihicb More t n ilite. re of Moscow,
and the sword of -the Cossack' harassed and ceusum-
' 'Obi Dec ran legions- ;--litet it mitt be remembered
also that Ms pliesent legicssiare not veteran; they are
'notcOmposird of Men in the fullness of their strength,
'Anted with holourable scars, fearlesi of pain, fa-.
*War with danger, and' hardened in the sun and;
wind ;—no; they are chiefly composed of conscripts,
yet in their growth, who have never seen their own
blood, felt a gunshot, faced a bayonet, or slept on a
• field of battle, swung the dying and the.dead, grader.
'a storm of suow Mr it deluge of rain. Thi& difference
'of his soldiers wit! at least counterbalance the dif-
ference of climate between tossia ind Germany, and
were the flame of patriotism eettillY:leindled among
the population, these taw tickeitsi might be as. easy a'
prey to the avengers of an invaded country as were-
the paralized veterans of Boftspaiy to the entlio••
siaric hordes of Kutiesow.-0 ciiiiir that the French
Emperor reads fay iotenfoi re psi; he was wont,.
since tie can no io!*eiiiirOdaee tt4:oitioe eifects; in-
the same countryt"enthlielott the' same. eugenics, as
'formerly.

rumbled in proj'etspepd reduced in his means.
a: Me him, he il...eq.stOpieesi.:..he.is scarcely dis.
.114 from/be post toys, isrmoilanisiedi du ri itg the
arm tit,e, and. hejitili hulds. all Enrope st bay and
defiance. To base.driven him from offensive to de-
Arrive wacfnre,`ll,, however, tits have • done more
often could have been reasonably hoped for 12
months ;to brh him from this attitude to lay
'down his aims witinutha line of his own usurped
'dominions (for we have nothing to do with his ,
;usurpations at home), will be a much greater and
'better work, in the 12 nvotitts to come. Can this be
reasonably hoped for now.? We see no reason why it
should not, if the Allies would condescend in theday of
suree*s to use words as well as blows ,".cite force of ar-
gumetic" s= the argament Of force" with him.
Let th,:ln propose terms of reconciliation; it is to
tae disgrace ofalT former continental alliances, that
thee' wive twit forthed for the sale purpose of carry-
isle on hostilities, and fike all leagues for ambitious
roo,rag, they have dome tai cohfosion and rupture;
'and the present alliance gill`
_aunts to the
isine mistfrable issue, if Oeice be _Aut. the object of
ibei! exert-ens, and war with' its maelfeld :pile 'only
Tie. inevitable means. by which that .141.tintatons,may
lie Obtained; in the Andre of ever,
..otber. The
comparative feehlesiesssir Bonaparte,,' a( present, is
cPsittl,sees), by Otis -call, Triton his peopie to rise in a
Ihasa for the defence of iheientitive land ; at the same
time it is impossible to believe that he has any. fear
of ah.jmintion of France by the Alliet. He evident-
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if rants sa raise such an overwhelming force, as
stall "giUatio him. to• waintaiu his owu invasion of

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Germany. Though like a moult* eagle be was
itNit,itqtk. of his plumage. arid *hia iu -his.
.liasssiai wrotOrlifi growing again,
kjelient lens become as terrible
as ereVititnSt4 his opponent's, if they lose any of
"adrantigiii,"*hich his unexpected disasters hare
even tisisin; ;!idler for' belligerence if there be no
other altersilitire, or for uegociation if negociation
be praiddipre,

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1 Whin Wpi.ceantryteen, first landed in Portugal, it.
was the contemptuous,—and we wilt add, the con.
temptilile;=4,maudate ,of Bonaparte to his Generals
'l6 to dritrwthe Buglish into the sea." -Our Country-
men Inive..pitssed the Pyaleuees; whet impossibility
• Will •he command his Generals to perform uow:—'
Vheie 47. a spot, in Old France itself .n which an
Xstgiiihliilny is encamped. This is assailing him in
the tulik. • While with the jrritation of restless and
jealous ainiAtiou he must feel as if his animal seesibi.
.lity were diffused through every limb of his enormous
empire. France is the apple of his eye ; and the
litatui that touches it inflicts intolerable anguish. Of
all men living Bonaparte is the least enviable, and
h. who of "all others has possessed the most of his'
heart's dein is thereby the most exposed to But..
Isriug• -

fieas; Lieutenant-General Sir Gsortoz Busi;
WtTll, Commander of the forces in the West Instil
'will shortly retire to &Wands after an absence
several rare.

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