Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-02-14
&orC9t1S:
Monday, February IA, 1914.

MOlluay, ISoi udiy IF, loif'
By arrivals from France and England we
~ favored with Paris dates to the l5'h,
Linden to the 25th and Liverpool to the
9Th Dec.
The emancipation of Holland is the mos;
;nnortsn, article of news which these srri-
,.ls announce The Stakeholder is placed at
The head of affairs with the tile OF Sover-
.;gn Prince of the United Netherlands.
The news by the Alexander, which was
40 mysteriously concealed a. Boston for two
DAYS, appears 10 be nothing more than spec
u,a,ion of London ne wspaper editors on the
prospect Of general peace. Overtufes
we're made by the allies, and Bonafarte an
,oaoced TO bis Senate that he had accepted
,be proposiiion, and was ready to treat at
Mannheim; but that unexpected and unsc-
sun,sble delays had prevented the meeting
Of. Congress for that purpose.
TIE dissolution OF the Confederation oil
ne Rhine has been officially declared at
veana Austria was recruiting her armies
sud marching reintorcemenls from their in.
,erior. Lord Wellington hsd completely
beaten Soult near Bsyonne, after a series of
mngunsry engagements for four days, on
The ll,h, 18Th, Is h and 18th Dec. He had
shosgn such position as would render
sodlps retrest to Bordeaux very difficult
REPORTS say he had left q ie,aohmen, to
blockade Bayonne and had proceeded to
Bordeaux.
TIE important fortress OF Dsntzick had
stipulated Dayoust had retrested into
Denmark. aud WAS followed by the army of
tie Crown Prince
The last ne ~ fom The Continent. indi-
citing pacific gumours on the psri of the AL.
lies and Bonsparte, has excited great spec.
sIs'igu in England and this Country, The
British stocks, those political thermometers,
Of he same authority as street talk, were
iudlenl, -fected b. airs fromlhe Comment,
and rose and tel with every off The sll,e $
we 10 the full tide of success. In such a
,e.sop it WIS magnsnmous 70 make The of.
fer they have made. They have not smbi.
Nous motives ike Bonspsr,e. They are fight.
Ing be cause of the oppressed agains the
tyrant of nations, and when he Is sufficient
y humbled, they are doubtless snxious 10
restore Pesce 10 bleeding Europe Their
offers to Buonspar,e are such IS they are
wiling to grant, whenever adversely shall
reduce blm 10 a willingness to accept. Spain,
Italy, Holland, and the Netherlands, with
The khenish Confederation, Topped off from
BIS Empire, exhibits a reverse which he
proud spirit Of Bonspsrte will not easily sub
mato. Hs negotiation should take place in
ageneral Congress, peace is not probable
result. The prodg,ous eopquests of Great
Britain from the French and Dui CHI, togeth.
or with the Frerc possessions in the Meth.
eriands, will make long account not east
y balanced among the negotiating powers,
The independence of Holisnd will not be
recognized BY Bonsparte with any sincerity.
The emancipation OF Holland, country
once so much resembling our own in COM
merclal prosperity and habits of industry and
en'erpr'ze. must afford matter of congrstu.
'isn'o every honest American. Another
republic we may hope soon to see added to
''e only one now existing. We hope,
@' 'ha. shsckles of oppression. recently
a'ken off by the nations Of Europe, will diff.
use Esprit of resistance TO every future at
sm to reduce them. and diffuse q love of
"eedom with commercial activity and en-
snerprizs.