The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1813-08-19

FROM coBBETT's LONDON WEEKLY PoLI-I-
CAL REGISTER, OF MAY 22Q, 1918.
NO RTIERN IEfR


NORTHERN W.dR.
BATTLE OF LUrzEN.-This battle is he
mosf fatal that has taken place since the lc-
ginning of this twenty years war. 1t has lot
been the most bloody il has not ended in
the most signal triumph of the French iii
las not spread so much havoc and SO mu:h
disgrace amongst the enemy; but, still it is
the most fatal because the result was hss
eThected then defeat ever was, upon any
former occasion.-I have been, for ncaily
tour months, most mortified spectator of
the delusion practised upon this " most thint-
ing nation" who have been made TO believe,
as firmly as they believe in their existence,
that the Emperor Napoleon was dovn Jor eu-
er; that il was impossible for him again to
collect an army in sufficient force to dare 10
face the allies in the North that, in short,
he was about TO experience the fate OF a rebel
and an usurpcr and that, in few months,
we might expect 10 hear of his having suffer.
cd an ignominIous death.-l endeavored to
put the public on their guard against being
the dupe of these delusions but, l must
confess, that, even amongst persons usually
rational in their way of calculating, | found
very few indeed to coincide with me in opin-
ion.--It was manifest, l thought, that the
whole question turned upon the success that
Napoleon would meet With in raising an army
in France. That he appears to have done
aud, having again an army of Frenchmcn, al.
other things he will obtain. l do not sec
what is now to arrest his progress, unless,
indeed, the heojaie Of Germany Can &c reused
against him {; and, must, from what has
passed, greatly doubt of that. There are
nov the same motives TO opposing him that
there were before, and cannot see why they
should now be more cfficacious than they for
n,erly were. II heohie, and only heohle,
can, in my opinion, effectually resist his pow
er; and until see heohte hearty in the
cause, shall continue to believe, that he will
ultimately succeed. And now what do those
persons think, who have been running about
after THE COSSACK," and after his
spear ; that identical spear, fourteen feet
long, with which ne killed thirty Frcnchmen
in an hour, and which, as we were told, the
Cossack brought up from Yarmouth or Har-
wich, sticking out Of the window of the post
ctaise And the "DON COSSACK," too
Where is he Oh! what a wise, what a
thinking nation ."--These destroyers of
our enemy may now hasten back again for
there appears TO be business enough for them
tO pcIsOEiu. huu, nOW u1lOftundtc t0dt tDc
Duke Of Cumberland did not set off little
sooner . lf he had been present at the battle
Of Lutzcn, the result might have been differ
ent. However, ho is on his way, and, in all
probability, we shall soon hear Of the effect
of his presence with the armies Of the allies.
One thing must stipula,c for beforehand
with my readers, ard that is, tina, if His Roy
al Highacss does rot beat Bonapas,e, he shall
not, for all that, be supposed to be inferior to
him either 10 skill or courage but, then,
am afraid, that we shall have 10 allow, that
there is superiority in the French troops;
for, unless we allow this, do not see how
we shall be able to deny, in case Of Bona
parties beating the allies with the Duke along
with them, that the Duke is not inferior TO
him either in skill or in courage. The
Morning Chronicle, whose business il is to
work the Ministers out Of their places, and
TO put IN its own party, takes, this occasion Of
bi1ming the Ministers, though it is not very
essy to perceive what they can have done TO
cause the Russians and Prussisns to be beaten