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ORIGINAL REMARKS
ON TINE
PRESENT POLITiCS>or EUROPE.
ANNEX ATIoNlor Genoa 70 FRANCE
Psron Bells Weekly Messenger.

ANNEX ATION1oF GENOA TO FRANCE T;
A REVIEW OF Tie CON TINENTAL
POWERS.
Our readers will 6nd, under oar Foreign
head, some particulars of the progress
which Bonaparte is making in Italy, not
by arms, bat BY the cheaper methods of
asti6c= and intrigue. It was plain from the
sssfirss, that the sweeping tide of king of Isa-
~ was not assumed for aothing; add the
name continues every day to be less emp
.ty Sardinia is eEtiact; Genoa IS incor-
porated and Tuscany and Naples, push
cd upo5 their frontiers. can only hope to
evist during the pleasure Of the emperor.
x he pope, in his ecclesiastical domains, is
prisoner out upon bail, and must surren-
der himself and his territories upon the
mandate of his master; whilst BY the pos.
session of Switzerland, and the great ave-
nues Of Italy, Austria is eHectually cut off
from ali access TO Venice.
The plea of the Genoese for incorporate
Jog themselves with France, is somewhat
plausible, 6 Blockaded in our ports by the
, tyranny Of the English, though neuirals.
we are punished as enemies, and can no
longer subsist on that commerce, which IS
the only means of our support. When the
strong Cypress the weak, their only refuge
is in the protection OF tine stronger. Ex-
Guided from the seas, we arc DESTROYS of
. >ka1 IN
ourselves with France, we Shall be secure
as members of her empire. and partake OF
It's elories and IFS destinies."
A national poll is then set on foot; and
by a vote of the population, Genoa sur
READERS herself TO France. Without any
nice examination of these arguments, Boz
naparte accepts the surrender; senate is
convened, speeches and compliments are
banded on both sides, constitution is
sorted out from his travelling portfolio, the
guns ere, the emperor is proclaimed, and
the most commercial province of Italy,
with the most impregnabEe city, and the
population of million, is assigned and
delivered up to France in half an hour.
What impression is this likely to make
upon the continent? Russia has never dis.
sembie1; she has sufficiently expressed
her resentment upon the old score, and
now that Bonaparte has chalked on, it is
not likely 10 subside. The case of Aus
mia, as we have observed, IS not improv.
ed by this event. In adding to his measure
of insult and encroachment, Bonaparte is
certainly adding to his security; in case
of a rupture he is saved the trouble Of
Conquering Genoa; it is only to be feared
that he'may proceed so farm this pre- sress
of peaceable acquisition, that there will
not be room TO make stand in Italy or
any where else.
In The event of continental war, which
IS as certain as any thing of speculation
can be, 1t naturally suggests to Us here to
take some review Of the several powers.
The situation of the court of Vienna is
strangely equivocal; its politics for this
some time past have been mysterious with
the appearance of aversion to the British
cause, il IS said, by rice observers, to be
on the eve OF coalition, aed with the
shew OF friendship for France, it is be-
lieved that the sword is about to. be drawn.
The suspicious conduct of Austria has an
excuse from her situation; the slightest
movement of hostility brings an army upoa
her, the first onset of which she is unequal
TO resist Unable, but ,bv open and tedi.
Gus solicitation, TO rouse the German
states, she despairs of their assistance till
too late, and surrounded by powers, who,
though involved in a common interest 20
resist the encroachments of France, are
yet willing to truckle to despotism to length
en- the span of their existence, or Jealous
of any confederacy by which Austria may
profit, she hesitates even to negoclate for
fear OF detection. and is unripe fer any
independent or open action. That incom.
parabIe BODY of troons. which az the he.