350 State of Public Affairs. 
however, wholly deftitute of merit. The 
fenfe of the words is juftly, if not forcibly, 
conveyed ; and the paflages are {mooth and 
connected. 
6¢ The Humble thatch’d Cottage, in the Village 
of Love.” Sung by Mrs. Bland. Compofed 
by F. Sanderfon. 1s. 
A pleafingnefs of melody, recommend- 
ed by characteriftic exprefiion, forms the 
leading feature of this ballad, and proves 
Mr. Sancerfon’s adroitne{s in the produc- 
tion of agreeable trifles. 
The lovers of fine and genuine cathe- 
dral compofition will be glad co hear that 
Mr. John Afhley propofes to publifh, by 
fubfcription, the late Dr. Boyce’s two 
juftly celebrated Anthems, ‘4 Lord thou 
| Nov. ly 
haft been ourRefuge,”’ and “* Bleffed is he 
that confidereth the Poor,’ to which will 
be added ‘* Here fhall foftCharity,”” being 
partof an Ode compofed by the fame great 
matter for the Leicefter Infirmary. The 
whole to be dedicated to the Stewards of 
the Sons of the Clergy, tor whofe annual 
performances, at St. Pauls, the above two 
anthems were originally compofed. 
We are forry to have to announce to 
our Mufical Readers the decenfe of the late 
ingenious, f{cientific and juitly efteemed 
Mefician, Arnold, who died on the 23d of 
O&toter, at. his houfe in Duke fireet, 
Weliminfier, after an illnefs of confidera+ 
Je Jenoth, which he bore with a manly 
patience and Chriftian fortitude. 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
In Odober, 1802. 
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FRANCE. 
UR Readers will recolie& that the 
principal powers of Europe were 
lately engaged in a war, the motive and 
ebject of which was, that a people (the 
French nation), have not aright to choofe 
a government for themfelves, but muft ac- 
uiefce in that which had been previoufly 
eftablifhed, or in what the neighbouring 
powers might think proper toimpofe upon 
them. There is now fome probability, 
that the converfe of this propofition will 
be contended for by the fame powers, 
and that we fhal] fee them in arms to af- 
fert the right of the Swifs nation to choofe 
their own government. 
We would rot with, however, to be re- 
garded as the apologifts of the French 
Government, nor as attempting to juftify 
an interference, which muft ever be ad- 
verfe to the independent feelings of Eng- 
lifhmen. We have lamented—and we 
continue to deplore—in this inftance, as 
well, as in many others, the blindnefs of 
Bonaparte to his real interefis—to his laft- 
ing reputation. Never was a nobler ca- 
reer opened to one of Fortune's moft fa- 
voured children than to thisman. It was 
in his power to have built up a reputation. 
of the moft folid materials, as magnificent 
as lafting ; to have conciliated the efteem 
of the prefent generation, and the admira- 
tion of poferity. It is yet in his power 
to tread back moft of his.erroneous iteps ; 
and, from the foundnefs of his. under- 
ftanding, and the,extent of his talents, we 
are not yet deftitute of hope. It is from 
the publications of this country alone, 
that this great man can become acquaint- 
ed with the voice of truth, and, unlcfs. we 
are greatly mifinformed, he is not inatten- 
tive tothem. To flatter, in fuch inftances, 
is to deceive. We cordially wifh him 
well—we with him belt, when we defire 
him to aét well; and, when we animad- — 
vert moft upon his conduét, we prove our- 
fclves as much his friends, as we are the 
friends of liberty. 
Leaving his conduét, in the affairs of 
Switzerland, to be difcuffed under its pro- 
per head, we fhall advert, at prefent, to his 
internal government, and take up the fub- 
ject at the point where we laft terminated 
our periodical tafk. It was under. the 
aufpices, at leaft, under the name, of li- 
berty, that Bonaparte was known to the 
world, Under thefe aufpices he conquer- 
ed ; for the energy derived from the caufe 
Jed the foldiers of France to fupport with 
effeét the plans which the genius of their 
commander deviled. He fhould, therefere, 
have been doubly cautious not to defert 
this ftandard. Defpotilm is fupporied 
upon principles very different from thofe | 
which have favoured the French Revolu- 
tion—upon ancient prejudice, upon long 
eftablifhed power: itis a fabrick general- 
ly ereéted ** line upon Jine.” An attempt 
to eftablifh it upon revelutionary princi- 
ples may be fuccefsful for a fhort time, 
but its duration cannot be permanent. Un- 
lefs the goverament of Bonaparte be ef- 
fentially different from that which exifted 
under the Houle of Bourbon, he wiil not 
be a reformer, but an ulurper: and the 
people will not forget, that, if arbitrary 
Sikes power | 
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