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THE STKIIMAN.
To exhibit exactly the situation of stab% -_. i _ . . *.,
mark the commencement of the *pooh compedliedid
ad its: • itnitc.u& Ivritatirit .
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• •-mthitrd, footfall, perMitted by the post desper j
lof the continental govermstesti; end he lc
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in this sketch, it becomes necessary to ottogere, Lad Bilesberesgh lots lag beee'distinguillsed l Ikesser, who prevents the publication of obnoxious
The Moniktsr, of the 31st of December, contains-•
shore tile oho tosofilartm -4( Gs Saw, hy the dal- works, is sooty creel god ungracious than that
the following notes on an article which appeared in events which immediately p it.
of Warsaw, deprived, hat the - Idea et idessets," vied the elehemme a 14,1 e
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llt 1111 Atterney•General, who of his own mere
an English paper, stating, that the French were going `The Duchy
. ' /14i.,shat to Ode MO" the! swots ,lesdess say aided the mat loyal and harmless
to evacuate Spain, and be confined to France, and . of Ida, =P-br dier_ini ilk Cowie „dim than to penes& it istimidete, esker to expence and from whom the
that Lord Walpole had arrived at Vienna. ' o.wintt for the P or its arrneeli 4 r 9 unconscious •
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~. free:wetly realm 4helinst Intimation of his
(1.) Far from evacuating Spain, fresh troops are,
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4s, ambwetlifand
ardestistieseehemsoitifeiNesuquief the,
dad,rotimotis far as
Ithesegoblefoivicellieso
marching thither. Our armies have rendered all ybur rate material' for ummetacte MIII DUI sawn
le inceuautl indulges ' - , more .becomleg the te!ere.s., W Lord tilenberough does not Mess that t
shorts vain ; and your country and your treasure are don not produce, was obliged to stria
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exhausted in this contest, disproportionate to your afleleat pressing wants, by swears Iltallaa4
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establishments in which increased in -proportion to the diminution of mime as anj • • . , he unites a routed
population, sea the e" a spur d nil had - - attachment to 1 particular order of opinions, al i _
_I the sillily Cod sate tar realm is worthy of
Asia and America. Spain belongs to the French private fortunes a" PI c g•
dynasty: no human effort can prerenelt. ' The extraordinary drought of the 110111118 r before which be aleasem, with all cite violence of the meta.. ; if heaps iiit nein Get a titel'on the
(I.) " Even Helfand, Rome, Tuscany, Piedmont, last, which ruined the harvest, put the last heed to inentary oritor, and all the decision of elusestelied : 01111Witrecias 18188,8811 to le squally criminal with a
this, the arbiter of the lives and properties of the community, ' essillgnant attack lewd* las of virtue; then be
Belgium, the county of Nice," That would be so many calamities. Bat notwithstanding must
while. ja ries forget their duty in admiring the fervour btenderateed to leslaineo Got there is a manner
line ! But why so much moderation ? Why stop bt' year, which elapsed between the Ist of June, 18114
not take advantage of the 1 and the 31st of May, NI% was not lees distinguish. of his eloquence, and guide their sentence by a timid e( 'peep% the tto li
al whit* the, vengeance of
so fine a career ? Why
moment, and divide France 3-Believe me,
_. that.; ed by the efforts made by the Deasy of Warsaw to subservience to his dictates. . i the law may * ; a made of pelliatiou or
It is not oar intention to ascribe the peculiarities disguise, thatammnpte the libeiter from ti •
Mould you even collect, in a Corps cis Nation, , augment the armed force, and execute such measure 4 ie penalties
these twenty or twenty-five millions of men who
shem : I The army was increased by new depot companies, who arelas prudence did not permit to neglect. of his Lordship's judicial deportment to any princi- of aim; ma sables bin to speak- with the
so near you, you wiltran danger. Separat
pie or feeling inconsistent with the purest motives of bitterest asperity of the possessors of political and
again make a Duke ofliergundy, a Duke of Aqui- . and by companies of artillery attached to each regi- justice or of duty. The -sentiments that he warmly hereditary hoiseers, without alarming the sensibi-
table, a Dike of Normandy, a Duke of Britanny ; ' meat of inTantry ; by the formation of a new batta- feels, he warmtrexpresses; and his long retention lity of the Attorney-General, or ezcitiug the (Us.
then only you will have intensity ! ! De you remem.. lion of artillery, one of sapper, and one of the train :lof a dignity which elevates him above the animadver. pleasure of the Bench. The individual, for in.
her the fine times of Charles le Temeraire, and those i the horse-artillery and the company of artificers were :don or opposition of his professional friends or stance, wbo would be punished *kb severity, for
it the House of Montfort ? That would be vey : also reinforced. The sunt of all these reinforcements rivals, has had a powerful but gradual tendency to calling a in *llia " a violator of his word,"
be, or old it not? Bat whilst you dream of these : amounted to 4,623me0, and 4,580 horses. flatter into expansion his latent feelings of conscious may y charge him With forgefeslost of his Pro-
wonders, ',eland separates herself from you ; your I The levy of 33,784 conscripts raised the army to superiorky, his proneness to dictation, and his im- mites ,• and he who beneath theappellatioar of a fool'
estuary is revolutionized ; the Continent I. already , its highest degree 'of completeness. At the con- patience of dispute or contradiction. His errors as would find redress in the marts of less may have no
without depenaenCe upon your Administratiou ; I sentiment edge war, it amounted to 74,722 men, a Judge, are to be ascribed to his peculiarities of appeal against the satitistorkedsidse him u a harm.
dm %mitt at present so dear, will not have your 1 sad 12,286 horses, of which the countryfied tarnish- temper, increased oed -exasperated by indulges:oh , lees aid inoffensive cheractem: ikeidting, therefore,
snattufactdred mercheodise. ed 10,876, by way of cootribution. la the above and not to the destitution of amiable feelings, or the open aid manly =mesh. oe British sentiment
(3.) Fortunately for the Continent, France and number lof men are not included the conscriPts de. just and honourable principles. As a political with the" utiteet severity of punishment, the i 4 hi.
Austria are inseparable; it was the alliance of 1756 stined to complete the legion of the Vistula, nor those character, indeed, Ms retention of a place in the mineries of thelaw" give birth to all the varieties of
which created the marine that delivered America.- furnished by _ the`Dachy of Warsaw for the train-bat. I Cabinet, notwithstanding the repeated expression insidious sophistry's they compel the political writers
Lord Walpole is no longer at Vienna : he was not , tations at Warsaw and Dantzic, formed at the ex. of popular indignation, excited in the bosoms of of the age, to gsbelitute the howl for the dagger;
listened to. No Continental Power will separate pence of the French administration. his friends some . unpleasant suspicions of his wis- and sentiments freer which in their naked expression
. . itself from France; all will be deaf to your intrigues. I It has also furnished in Ali 345 waggons of every I dom and his honesty; and the late discussions the minds of the young and the loyal, would
'f Besides, forty millions of Frenchmen fear nothing. I kind, with the requisite teams, for ammunition, for ' respecting the fees of the Marshal of the Bench may , have shrank with abhorrence, are imbibed without
Woe to you if any weak Cabinet hearkens to your field forgesonovesble hospitals, the train of artillery, i have taught the public, as they have taught his Lord. ; suspicion in the disguise of amusing fiction, or
Co •ncils! You will still be the cause of increasing and held batteries. The medicine chests for the army ship, that no character is invulnerable : but um- , unimpassioned philosophy. Instead, therefore, of
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the force of France; four hundred thousand men and the fortresses were supplied with all the neces- pared with the Ardens and the Castlereaghs, Lord 1 hazarding his persesal safety, by asserting in lan.
are actually on foot in the interior of France, with- , sary stores. 1 Ellenborough is a wise and disinterested personage; guar that would shock the loyal and deter the
out reckoning the armies in Spain, and the Grand 1 The purchase of arms and tools for the tappers ; and when the projector of the Walcheren expedition ! young, the kingly government -is destructive of na.
the construction and maintenance of numerous bridges ' shall hare been i for its failure or the : i
Army. No fresh assistance of men or money is tee- pee shed are, bro- t onal happiness, the disciple of Condorcet instils
a. cessary to France; but if they were-if the desti- on the 'Vistula; various extraordinary war-expenses, ther of Mr. Percent shall resign his sinecure, the i into the mind of his unsuspecting reader the most •
1 know thatl which it would be tedious to detail at length, have political foibles of Lord Ellenborough may become dangerous principles ofpolitical 2insubordination •
airs of the Empire were menaced,
300,0(X) men, and 300 millions, are every year
forthcoming. It will neither cost the nation men'
i cost the.public Treasury considerable sums. the prominent objects of public indignation. the same malignant influence extends to every topic,'
The Duchy besides furnished the French military The speech of his Lordship on the trial of Messrs. I and every department of literature ; and while th 'l,
t nor money to support its consideration, and the ge.
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' bend safety of the Empire, of Italy, and the Con. waggons, and 1200 two-horse carriages. instance of those peculiarities that we have remarked I ment. the artful, wary, and insidious Gibbon pur-
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. federation of the Rhine. The important fortress of Modlin has been In a in his Lordship's judicial character. It is in truth' sues his slow, but inevitable triumph, over the uu.
(4.) Look at the state of your affairs • they ex-1 manner entirely rebuilt ; entrenchments have keen the speech of an advocate, deeply interested in the , derstandings of the simple and the ignorant.
claim to you-moderation, moderation, moderation ! . made at Thorn, Zamosc, and Frage. The rapidly cause that he has undertaken to support, enforcing With respect, indeed, to the publication of dan.
executed works of these fortresses, as well as the his opinions with all the energy of which he is sus- gerous opinions on speculative subjects, it may be
Pans, Jam. 1.-. To-day, his Majesty the Em. magazines of ammunition and provisions with which ceptible, and dismissing from his view the most dis- plausibly urged that there is no alternative between
peror, after having as usual received the felicitations they have been supplied, have placed them in a li tent allusion to the reasonings by which his favour- the prompt and immediate punishment of their au.
of the Imperial Family, returned to the grand hall i tuation to make the most vigorous defence. , ite positions might be opposed or refuted. In his thors or publishers, and an unlimited toleration of
of the throne ; the Princes, Grand Dignitaries, dm The national troops which have been incessantly judicial capacity he assumes the language of a pro- i licentiousness. But in the case of personal noire, if
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having presented their homage ; the Grand Master collected on the Vistula, and in the vicinity of War- : secutor, and while he descants with exuberant , any apology can be found for the Ministers of Jus.
of the Ceremonies having taken his Majesty's orders, saw, were provided with victuals ; and when marched ' warmth on the iniquity of the defendants, the pleas ' tine, no other sentiments can be excited than stir-
I . introduced all the officers of his Majesty's house-
hold. I off, leaf biscuit, meal, forage, brandy, and fresh 'of their advocate are only noticed in terms of pointed prise and abhorrence at the cruelty and impolicy of
Imeat, for 20 days' consumption. All the allied and passionate reprehension, the law. In questions of personal libel the truth can
[Here follows a long list of the different persons
: troops which traversed the duchy of Warsaw were i There is one tribunal, however, to which even always be determined, and by the troth pr falsehood
presented.] I also supplied with provisions. The 7th and Bth IJudges themselves are amenable, and over which the of his charges should the innocence or *guilt of an
;., FRANKFORT, Dec. 26.-The Generals Fabre and icorps of the Grand Army, which remained there for I dictatorial port and the majectic wig display no ter. author be decided. The privileges of virtue should no
Lambert have passed through this city from the army.l two months., on their setting off, carried with them rove: to the tribunal of public opinion must every longer be possessed by the drunkard or the adulterer,
On the same day two couriers did the same, one of provisions for 30 days. individual submit, so long es the liberty of the press nor the warmth of behest indignation be -visited
whom was going to the army, and the other proceed- 4 shall escape the encroachments of law ; and when with the punishment that is dee * sefirinoipled um.
, log from it to Paris. THE LATE Mn. MOODY.-The late Mr. Motley, the comments of the English people, on the conduct lignity.
CARLIROUZ, Dec. 28.-Twelve thousand infantry the Comedian, did not die at his residence at i and character of their Magistrates is forbidden, am- His Lordship laments, in f' goal set terms," the
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and a train of artillery, set out this morning for the ,shepherd's Bush, as stated, but t.t a lodging in :p e vengeance for the interdiction will be taken by wofut condition of public men, "condemned to via.
Grand Army, where they are going to reinforce the Leicester-square, which he had recently taken, A few ; posterity. dints themselves against anonymous libels, arising
contingent of the Grand Duchy. weeks ago it was his intention to have spent the win- I It is before this tribunal, of which the authority has perhaps, from somellitagination, or cpined from the
PARIS, Dec. 30.-Lord Paget, General Comman- ter at Both, and he actually got to Reading on his , been acknowledged by men, before whom even Lord overflowing mipd of slander ; ' bet Ms lordship
dant of the Ist division of the English Army in Spain,l way to that city ; but finding himself much indispes- , Ellenborough might vainly contend for the palm of forgets that the very question which ouglit to be
1 on the 17th of December, passed through Mont de -ed he returned to town: He departed this life sit- wisdom or of vKrtne, that we wish the merits of his before the Court is, whether they be the creation of
Margin. ling in his chair, without even a sigh, at the age of 85.1 Lordship's speech to be candidly examined. Impressed ingenious malice ? 66 if such (he continues) were to
WARS%Vii Dec. 19.-The Duke of Bassano left On Saturday his remains were removed in a hearse as we are, with the conviction, that the principles it be the case, and we were compelled to resign the
f ilds place this morning to proceed to Berlin ;. he and four to Barnes, where he was interred in a vault 1 contains are hestile to every description of civil and protect:on of the law for the exculpation of their dia-
l. with the Ministers at Prince Poniatowski's house.- according to his desire, by three particular friends, passed fire days here, and had several conferences he had erected for his first wife. He was attended religions religions liberty, inconsistent with the spirit and the ratter; what man, who has any sensibility in his m•
practice of the English Constitution, and according tare, will accept office or rank In the country to
only with the feelings and the views of
runt advecates T
ilts this we would reply, let the truth of a Idyl tea
I They were not wholly occupied with the recruiting Mr. Mict.te(his nominal executor) of Bedford-street, I
1 of the army ; the bag; herd already been fixed, and Mr. Hoerr, and Mr. Minim, who by his demise has of political tyranny and religious peion, we justification, and the consciously profligate will
30,000 men arrived within our walls; it has been the nominal title of Father of the Stage, being the" should ill discharge our duty to our readers, were alone decline the possession of e4ce, The India'.
decreed to call to the defence of the country all the oldest surviving actor of Garrick's School. He was Iweto be restrained from the strenuous fulfilment of duils whose characters are susceptible of legal pre-
nobility, which will furnish more than 20,000 good engaged with him in the year 1757, when Mr. MOODY, its obligations, by any apprehension of offending a ; tection, will become, according to his Lordship's
cavalry. Mr, FLfETWOODE, Mr. O'BRIEN, Miss Pots, Mrs. powerful end dangerous enemy. If indeed to discuss 1 reasoning, the sole possessors of the courtly and
Count Lauristoo patted some days• he h A
just set off. _RINGYON then Miss BARTIN an with freedom the recorded opinions of a Judge, be I ministerial offices and a H--... 0-. will no 1 in.
phere , as ( ), d Mrs. )(RATES, t onger
made their entre.
BERLIN, DEC. 18.-Count Narbonne, Aid-de- Deutast, JAN. 1.-The Census, or Account of ,to assault his personal character, and an assault on stilt the public, or contaminate the palace of his so.
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personal character be in every instance a libel, fare- , vertigo. 66 entlemen (he proceeds), the perftweit
1 Camp to the Emperor of the French, has had the he- the Population of Ireland, commences on the Ist of well to the liberties of Englishmen ! A future Jef.iance of many of our duties, and the mat important
I ferias may arise to pervert the laws to the purposes 1 of them, depends upon the opinieu weentertain of the
neer of dining with his Majesty the King. He has May and is returnable the 28th of June : the
1,0 next, , , of revenge and murder : and who shall dare to LI person who is the object of them : messy of the Mort
had several conferences with the Grand Chancellor, returns to be transmitted to the office of his M ' ajesty s t accuse him of injustice or cruelty ? !important duties centre in obedience to the person
Count its rden herz. Chief Secretary ; and abstracts to be laid before Par- His Lordship commences his declamation, by an on whom the sovereign authority in the government
NUREMBERG, DEC. 26.-The General of Division, liament. There have been several accounts taken at ' ' forthe rine " enumeration of the dangers that arise from the pre- t I cast -and therefore a 149e1 on a
Count Gretsier arrived here the day before yesterday
, various periods of the population of Dublin : theivalence of libels ; but as he has forgotten to remind Prince or a Chief Magistrate, whatever may be the
with his dead-quarters. earliest of which w e possess any record is that taken in I
I the jurors of thegreater dangers to which we are sub- , truth of the . accusations it contains, is deserving of
• FRANKFORT, Dec. 28.-Yesterday• there
here a great number of Officers of his Majesty's
passed 1614, when the total population is statea to have been ;awed by
8,159, of which 4,700 were women; but the density jetted restric restricting •
t, the Liberty of the Press, ! ettremplary punishment. Is other words, whatever
and punishing truth with more severity than false- has a tendency to weaken the popular attachment to
• Household, and persons belonging to Duke of Bas- of population in the old city alqne meat then have hood; we take the liberty of stating the evils that i the Government, whether it he true or false-who.
11 sane, coming from the army, and proceeding to been much greater, for, in 1672, hut 38 years after, be
are to apprehended from the general admission of i they it relate to the private or public toeduct of the
I, Paris. His Excellency is momentarily expected. there were,, according to an account published by his Lordship'; doctrines. Let it once be granted I_Monarch and his Ministers-whether it be directed
[The Muniteur, of the 31st of December, contains Mr. BINDON, a Revenue Commissioner in 1734, not two no ity obtrusive or enormous, I against an Antoninus or a Caligula-against a Lewis
letter; to the Emperor from the asthma sad **Meese -less than 1180 licensed ale-houses in Dublin, which is the legitimatia'
object of literary castigation ;,or a I Robeapieree-a • gaunt a George the Third or a
of the sth, 69th, and 70th cohorts, requesting per- !Quid not average, according to the statement o 1
ti that vice -
may run its career of shamdess iniquity, in; Napoleon, is in the highest degree offensive to 011
mission to join the Grand Army.) , ;644, above four men for the annual support Of '
, triumph and in security,oevades the .
so I ng as it
each ale-house. In 1672, there were in Dublin
steewameesessenemems aunciaticms of the law ; and that the open expres- 1 the linty of the people of Eaglend to refrain from
5,500 houses; ip 1730, the number of houses is
. Won of popular discontent is liable, under every I any assertion or opinion that may be unpleasut Of
GERM4.V Rolm. stated to have been 11 280. In -1695, the entire po-
. 9 provocation, to be visited with the severest inflictions ! inconvenient to their Rulers; and he who opus
-ateme.-- potation of Ireland is stated to hevebeen 1,034,102;
if
WARSAW, Pu. 1. in 1730, 1,600,00 q, The number of inhabitants in of legal vengeance : if all this be once admitted in tine truth of this position, must be tortured Into
Suva' ADDRISSzO To TES surto (dy 11.110117)117 Dublin in 1777, is said to have been 127 20/1• in
• • theOry, and established in practice, the liberty of Conviction within the walls of Newgate.
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Englishmen is but the shadow of a name ; the free. ....ium.—_—_t_,
alas COUNCIL OF lIINIVTRa.. 1798, to have been 172,000.
..„1 • . " • dom of the press implies only the privilege of. writ. Last night BAsenue's meta:cake was give, is
5 as,-On the epproach of events wineh were to As Lord SIDIIOUTII intends, it is said;* to bring • •
to mg with the feartome -G eral before
the Greeu-room of
of 'the At y eoear ,- &ardente Theatre ; and after
have a decisiye influence on the fate of your Palish a Bill to *mead the Police Act, we hopithat be will eyes ; and the rights of political discussion extend as I the Farce the performertedrew for King and Queen.
subjects, your Majesty, considering in your wisdom not forget in its provisions to •bestow due attenti pn•
„further than is copsistent with the views of the' The amusement was rapt up one's late hour, and
the lave. tance of so great an epoch, deigned to give on the light-fingered fraternity. • , Court, or the Minister. We lament the degraded aVorded much merriment. .‘
to the operations of the Government of the Grand SournAmerow.-On the evening of Chtistmesstate of the continemitul A Bill has been - hued, St rell, against the mar.
Duchy of Warsaw that celerity of execution of days when the horses were broughtout to b.' pat - pa to sure, or personal ridicule, subject its author to the deal of Mr. lintalreill. Thy VOW to be tried OA
which i demonstrated the' '•
F rcutpltanceeftessty. Rogers's London night each, they took filht at , 44:nen of Abet, in what respect are the asilauthorsWatutilda/.
Your Majeety jaded it expedient to giro enesuel the gambols of the mem •
nrrs, which were • biting and politicidtts of the continent,' more restrained or i Os Money ileeker, • yeeng IMMO ' 8 beet sigh-
extension to tip power of the Council of Ministers. in the street, They ran with the greatist 'faience degraded,
than those .0( Engle:eV Almost every teas et
a respectable tradesman in the
Five Months lam elapsed, Sire, during which, the drops the- High-street, but, at the hOttele, Sere subject Of moment inyelem she . I character of Bo IP a ikk fit hmanity, aid in the absence of
Council of Iflinimprshas exercised that authority heeded and tuned. One of the., however, a- an exalted individual: the NfitNs in Ilehsed can, her , lfinow hats U from the window of
with which you 'attested them. it 'Wishes, hew. aped, and soft p pitateditself over thee* lota the not become the of without some her'apartment, *lsted em the second floor; god
ever, to fulfil thst duty which Joao ilejesty's con- water. Owl's to the darkness of the night IS Said'
allusion to a Camdep pr a ; esti thehie. Intl le wed ligelleekp the fell, Get her life is de-
edeaft harem, by presenting tq you ir 'hetet': not be fonsils Sad was ilia. for up lost; bet iikthe for yof the Wh A may /NOW is.. 'Paired of. ' ".. !..t
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