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deftroyed—-and with that fyftem all the 
numerous abufes which centuries had ac- 
cumulated upon your heads. You cele- 
brated that epoch in 1790, with an union 
of the fame principles, the fame (enti- 
ments, and the fame wifhes.—Y ou cele- 
brate it, this day under the happiett 
aufpices.”” It concludes with, ‘‘ Enjoy, 
Frenchnen, your fituation, your glory, 
and the hopes of the future ;—be ever 
faithful to thofe principles and thofe in- 
ftitutions which have conftituted your 
fuccefles, and which will accomplith the 
greatnefs and the happinefs of your 
children.” 
The Official Journal of Paris, of the 
“asth of July, fpeaks of a peace with 
England in the following terms: ‘ A 
- Member of the Englith Parliament, lately 
a Minifter, informs us, in a few words, 
of the policy of the late. Adminiftration. 
He wifhes to make peace with France, and 
to-keep all the colonies taken by the Eng- 
ith, while all the allies were engaged in 
the continental war. By this mode of 
reafoning,; all the Venetian territories, 
Styria, Carinthia, Dalmatia, &c. fhould 
have been united to the French Republic, 
by the preliminaries of Leoben; half of 
Germany, and the kingdom of Naples, 
fhould have fhared the fame fate by the 
treaty of Luneville. Batavia, the Cifal- 
owe and Switzerland, would have formed, 
ong ago, French departments, and Por- 
tugal a Spanifh provinee. On the con- 
trary, of all thefe conquefts France keeps 
only afimall part. Let the Englith Mi- 
nifter imitate this conduét, and peace 
will {peedily be made. Batavia, Helvetia, 
and the Cifalpine, are independent. Na- 
ples and Portugal are in the number of 
powers, France has only acquired an en- 
creafe of five millions of people, which 
is only an equivalent for the four millions 
of population acquired by Auftria by the 
partition of Poland. 
‘*Ruffia, Sweden, Denmark, and Pruf- 
fia, have been, and ftill are, in a hoftile 
ftate againft England, Were it not for 
the death of Paul the Firft, the battle of 
Copenhagen would have had very different 
confequences ; but, if the embarrafiments 
ef a new reign, and a generous with for 
general peace, have induced the Emperor 
Alexander to foften the meafures of his 
predeceffor, he does not feel the lefs the 
obligations which the-nation, at the head 
of which he is placed, impofes upon him ; 
and Lord St. Helen’s, however well qua- 
lified, is very far from finding at Peterf- 
burg the difpofition with which the Eng- 
lifh Adminiftration flattered. icfelf,” 
State of Public Affairs in Fuly, 1801. 
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GERMANY. 
The Cabinets of Germany are till agi- 
tated, it appears, by the grand affair of 
indemnities, the difmemberments neceflary 
to be effected in the empire, the fhares to 
be adjudged to the principal powers of 
Germany, to the Grand Duke of Tuf- 
cany, and to the Stadtholder. 
Thole cited, and thofe whofe lands are 
ftill undivided, redouble their aétivity and 
their courage in attempts to fecure their 
exiftence; and providing againft future 
contingencies, endeavour to make provi- 
fion for that great crifis which changes 
the forms of ftates. Here there is the 
Counfellor of an Ecclefiaitical Prince, who 
fearing, with fome reafon, for the politi- 
cal fafety of his mafter, feeks to attach 
him to another fovereign, and to divine 
what will be the power he may poflefs 5 
what may be his means—his projects— 
his political fyftem, when he fhall have 
{ubmittéed to the new modifications. Nor 
is it merely principalities, nor confined to 
the fimple inhabitants of hamlets, that 
conjectures are formed as to thar future 
dettiny. The Imperial cities feem fecure, 
but itis extremely poffiblethat even among 
thefe cities, thofe which are of flefs im- 
portance may be incorporated with the 
ftates in whofe vicinity they are placed, 
and that thofe only wili be preferved whofe 
opulence and commerce give them rank 
in the empire. 
PORTUGAL. 
Portugal has found ‘herfelf under the 
neceffity of concluding a peace with the 
hoftile army by which fhe was invaded ; 
and we have fince learned, by difpatches 
from the Britifh Minifter at Lifbon, that 
Bonaparte has refufed to accede to the 
terms which have -been ratified by the 
Spanifh Court; and it fhould feem, that 
the articles of capitulation are ftill a fe- 
cret, in confequence of fuch refufal. The 
Spaniards, indeed, appear to have been 
precipitate ; and yet the caufe of fo hafty 
a pacification is obvious. The Court of 
Madrid has uniformly manifefted a reluc- 
tance to hoftilities with Portugal. Spain 
had no effective army of her own, or 
rather, perhaps, chofe to have none; and 
fhe might have contemplated the. fall of 
Portugal as the prologue to her own ruin. 
Something of the Court intrigues, there- 
fore, that are ftill playing off in the North 
of Europe, has been alfo exhibited in the 
South; and France appears, hitherto, to 
have been the dupe of the game. From 
‘the whole profpeét of the difpute, there 
can be no doubt that the Courts of Spain 
and Portugal have maintained a fecret un- 
deritanding 
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