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hee rsla,ioos with Prussia, Sweden viii es.

RJISSI A-seems not to have yet aeoEe-
=, Ia. t;rm and eonsis,aat policy, by which
har future relations arc To be fegusassd.
According TO one account from q. petsfs-
burgh OF January 20, she was rssnralt5 .
the state in which sue existed nslofS tiS
war: her armies retreasing ffem TGSsmaay
and approaching the Russian frontiers, 70
,eccupy their former garrlsons. bat a tn.
s,ker acceuns represents sAlexanasr as fssl,-
nrebensiye that an attack may be made even
UPON his ownterrltory ~Redou0ss are cast
ing up at Warsaw, ana other arrangements :
ordered TO guard against any attempt OF
this kind, Cue thing, however, seems 10
DO ;nd;spusably true; thas Rus.ia mas q. noS
VET made peace with France, nor made
any exa lana,ion about the late violation OF
her neutrality. Another ;hiag seema 20 DC
nrobable. thar Russia viii decllne fourth
coalition; that she viii not mix again lntne
wars of Europe, until Austria or ffanse
shall make an invasion upon Turkey, and
cali her OUT 10 the defence OF her ally.
GREAT. BRlTAIN--had not yetcon
r}1u1.g7 a peace with France, though It was
rumored tina, she had sept forward with
some propositions for negoclaslon. An
article from Amsterdam OF February IL,
particularly states thar there was . RI.
NOR {,here) that flag Of truce had been
sent from Engl.nd TO France, 60 de-
.naad passports from the French govern
men, fer negocia,ors for general peace.
Even from Paris. we have had letters ex.
pressing. tina, since the death OF Air. PH',
new hopes have been indulged Upon that
qrounI.'' Should Bopzparte declare war,
agaias, Prussia, he will, then probably. DC
rauch more anxious To conclude treaty
with Great Britain. The converse OF the
proposition is perhaps not less true: that
should be meet with insuperabse dlheus1ies
in the way OF an advantageous accommo.
datien with Great Brita,n, he will be glad
of an opportunity Of attacking Prussia, as
a pre,ex. for declining the dangerous en-
terprise OF an invasion of England. a
war with Prussia will therefore smooth The
way for peace with England: but whe.
Their there is peace or war with England,
"a war with Prussia is almost equally prooa'
Bile. meanwhile tits proper TO netice, that
ia consideration of the embarrassed state
of the foreign relations of Great bf,taln'
the Roman Catholics Of Dublin, and the,
friends of Parliamentary Reform IN Lon
don, have determined to suspend their ap
plicatien TO government for the redress OF
their local grievances. a schism can no
longer arise in the ministry, on these ma
porIant questions Of internal policy. The
English ministry will. therefore, still pro-.
fl, by the services Of Mr.. Fox in the cabi.
net; and Mr.. Fox may at the same time
preserve his principles and his place.
PRUSSlA-the second strongest pow.
err in the west Of Europe; that power,
which had lately iniss hands the fate OF the.
third coalition, aas which might have put
a stop 70 the arxsof France, is, however,
the crca, nation, TO which the late inssli
gsnce from Eurepe principally relates
Will there be war between France and
Prussia I've months ago this was the
great question at issue between The states.
men of Europe :abefors this, j, has proba;-
bIv been determined by experience itself
bu. we are nozv in the same degree of OBJ
security in whiet the statesmen OF Europe
were then. Those who advocated the
probability Of a war, and we think they
reasoned with the creates; force, declared,
that &c Notwithstanding the encomiums
which Bonaparte had bee please to lavish
ia his bullstins upon the policy Of Prussia,
the demonstrations made by that power AZ
the time he had pushed into Marasia . &c e
well ealcula ed To excite both his suspicious
AND his fears !; that were i, not tor rhe bat.
tie of Ansterhts and the extraordinary e.
events which followed in the armstice, and
the peace of .Piesburg. there is every
ground for sapsosibg that Prussia would
have at that time declared yar against
France that IL was he unexpected termi.
! G. L.. [ L