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attempting to corrupt, the Spaniards. 
The aggregate of these is greater than 
France,—considering the broken state 
of her spirit, the exhaustion of her 
treasury, and the imbecility of her go- 
vernment,—can bear; and she may 
depend upon it, that not oneof the nor- 
thern despots will give one skilling or 
one copec to assist her, The French 
government, amid all. their dulness 
and all their doting, seem to be aware 
of this; and this consciousness, more 
than any thing else, seems to have 
been the cause of the Duke d’Angon- 
leme’s departure (flight, shall we call 
it?) from Madrid. Finding the per- 
sons whom, in his own inconsiderate 
folly, he had appointed members of the 
Madrid regency, had private enmity 
to gratify,.into which he could not 
enter,—finding that they were con- 
trolled by some power, as we say in 
this country, “farther north” than 
himself,—and finding that their suspi- 
cion of him was fast taking the shape 
of hatred, and would, in all proba~- 
bility, have ended in hostility,—he 
very naturally, and, in our opinion, 
very wisely, took his departure. Upon 
every view of the case, indeed, the 
French are in sorry plight. They have 
no plea of justification,— they are mere 
tools in the hands of Russia,—they 
are wasting their strength for an 
ebject which they are not very likely 
to obtain, and, which obtained, would 
bring them nothing but disgrace. 
Suppose that by fighting, or, by 
what appears a more successful and 
more congenial mode of proceeding, 
by bribery, they were to win all the 
strong places, and purchase all’ the 
commanders in Spain, what would 
they have gained? Every mountain 
in Spain is a fortalice, and every 
mountaineer is a soldier: foreign domi- 
nation, though long a favourite at court, 
is most hateful to the Spanish people ; 
and they are jealous even of foreign 
aid. Under such circumstances, we 
need not wonder that the French are 
becoming tired of the matter; and this 
is to the friends of liberty one ground 
of hope. 
As to the existing state of Spain, 
there are no data by which it can‘be 
even fairly guessed at. Of Cadiz and 
Corunna we can know something ; but 
of the state of the interior we ‘have 
_ only French accounts, and of these’ so 
great and varying a portion has proved 
- to be false, that they are unworthy of 
Topics of the Month. 
[Sept. 1, 
record in any thing more permanent 
than the columns of the daily prints,— 
those ministers to the idle curiosity of. 
the public, which yawn for their quan- 
tity like one of Agar’s daughters of the 
horseleech, and which, like her, are not 
particular as to the quality. 
‘The defections of the Spanish leaders, 
Morillo, Ballasteros, and such men, 
are matters of very small moment. 
When the .liberty of a nation is at 
stake, men that can be corrupted are 
dangerous; and, if Spain is to bea 
free state, it will be only years of 
struggling that will clear her of 
Arnolds and Dumouriers, and call 
forth Washingtons and Carnots, upon 
whom she can with safety rest her 
cause. 
There is another consolation to the 
fricnds of liberty: if there had been 
no struggle in Spain, it is probable 
that, ere now, the vulture of the Neva 
would have had his claws upon the 
Greeks; but, while he is working at 
second-hand, and very wisely as he 
thinks, no doubt, upon Spain, the 
Greeks are quietly raising up those 
altars of freedom, which, to the dis- 
grace of Europe, have so. long lain in 
the dust; and’ the probability is, that 
during the time that the tyrants of 
Europe are occupied in extinguishing 
the volcano of France by the fuel of 
Spain, the Greeks shall have so far 
established themselves, as to be able 
to hold both Turk and Tartar at bay. 
So long as, through the medium of 
the press, knowledge continues. to 
circulate as the life-blood of the 
world, tyrants may in turn damp, and 
be burned by, the fire of freedom; 
but they never can extinguish it, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ANALYSIS of the JOURNAL of @ VOYAGE 
round the WORLD, in the YEARS 1816- 
1819, by M. DE ROQUEFEUIL, LIEUTB- 
NANT in the FRENCH NAVY.* 
R. Bateueriz, jun. formed a 
plan to send a vessel to :the 
North-west Coast of America, for the 
purpose of procuring sea-otter, skins, 
which it was to sell in China; and, by 
this means, import into France. Chi- 
nese productions, obtained by ex- 
change, and without the exportation 
of ready money. He offered the com- 
> * A translation of this work a) ypears in 
the recent Number of the Journal of Voy- 
ages and Travels. r 
mand: 
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