any thing like an answer. There is, at this moment, the greatest danger to be apprehended from the people being buoyed up by false hopes; for, never was there a time when greater exertion was likely to be wanted, and we know, that to chill exertion, nothing is so efficacious as disappointment; á nation is never so likely to give itself up to despair, as at the moment when its sanguine hopes have been blasted. For this reason it is, that I am anxious to put my readers upon their guard against publications like the following, taken from the SUN and the ORACLE of the 25th instant : By accounts from "Vienna dated the 4th instant, we learn, "that the enthusiasm of the Austrian armies "in favour of their Sovereign has never been "so high since the memorable days of "Maria Theresa as it is at this moment. "An universal zeal seems to animate the troops to avenge the insults and outrages "which their Trince has received from the "Tyrant of France. The States of Bohemia had, within the proceeding four weeks, offered forty thousand volunteers, and the States of Upper and Lower "Austria forty-four thousand, all to be "clothed and equipped at their own ex pense. It is supposed that Hungary will "send into the field a still greater num"ber of men, as we have, indeed, already "stated. In the ci-devant Venetian States "four regiments of three thousand men "each have been raised in six weeks, and such is the detestation of Buonaparte's government in that country, that the in"Babitants have demanded arms to rise en"masse in case of an invasion by the "Usurper's banditti. Several insurrec tions in Piedmont and in Lombardy "have occurred since Buonaparte's troops in those quarters were marched to"wards the Adige, and these disturbances "began to wear so serious an aspect that "General Menou was obliged to write for new troops from France, and the whole garrison of Lyons, except six hundred men, were expected in Piedmont to rein"force the garrison of Turin, and to scour "the country.. In Spain, the discon ...... tent of the people is universal, and is "openly expressed. They know that they "have been forced into a war in direct op position to their interests, merely to gratify the ambition of a foreigner, by whom "they are insulted and plundered. But as long as the Prince of Peace retains his power, so long the power and resontees of Spain will be at the command of France. That Upstart Minion knows that be he's his situation in opposition to an "the wishes of the great body of the nobili "ty, and a great majority of the people of Spain, but it is upon the influence and the power of France that he relies for support; his abject submission, therefore, "to the mandates of Buonaparte, cannot be a subject of surprise."Really! It may be so; but, though the Prince of Peace be upstart minion," it was not, methinks, for the Sun newspaper to reproach him with it. And, I would like to ask almost any of the persons, who now possess the powers and emoluments of government, in this country; I would like to ask Old George Rose, Mr. Canning, Mr. Huskisson, or any of the Dundases, for instance, whether they think that the circumstance of the Prince of Peace being an Upstart Minion, is likely to excite, in Spain, discontent of that sort that usually leads to insurrection. But, "he holds his "place," it seems, " in opposition to the "wishes of the great body of the nobility, and a great majority of the people." Indeed! Why, then, may he, and with all convenient speed, feel the vegeance of that nobility and of that people! May he be made to feel, that, though, by base intri-. gues, he is able to hold his place; such insolence, such contempt for a nation's will; such a disregard for the public weal; such a flagrant preference of his own interests to those of his country; may he be made to feel, that these are not for ever to meet with impunity. Nothing, indeed, is better calculated to irritate a people, to make them hate their government, and make them careless about their country; nothing can be better calculated 'to produce such feelings, than to see the powers of the state possessed, to see its honours dispensed, and its treasures squandered, by a man, in whom neither the nobility nor the people have any confidence; but who, by the means of base servility on the one hand, and of corruption on the other, still holds his place; still hangs on, with an apparent determination to sink his country rather than quit his grasp. But, while I allow, that such conduct in the Prince of Peace may, possibly, produce discontents in Spain; while I allow, that the people who silently suffer themselves to be ruled, to be laid under contribution, to be continually harrassed, by that minister and his "Upstart Minions," deserve very little compassion; while I allow that the Prince of Peace cannot lend them more heavily, nor whip them harder, than they deserve; still I must hesitate before I agree with the SUN in expecting, from such a cause, at least, an insurrection in Spain.As to the account of the loyalty and zeal of the Hungarians was a boxing match between DENNIS DILLON and another man, which gave rise to the several articles, which have recently appeared in the Register upon this subject. The case of DILLON was stated pretty fully in page 193 of the present Volume; and, I am persuaded, that my readers will partake in the satisfaction which I feel in informing them; that, notwithstanding the very alarm ing verdict of the Coroner's Jury, Dillon was acquitted, at the Old Bailey, where, on the 24th instant, he was tried before MR. Jus TICE HEATH. This result, it will be re and Bohemians, it is to be hoped, that it is not altogether ideal, but, the ORACLE will find it very difficult to persuade any man, who is not within a hair's breadth of idiocy, that there is any great quantity of courage to be found amongst the people of the Venetian States; and, if they have actually demanded arms, I beg my readers to mark the result, being very much mistaken if the demand will not be refused. The "several " insurrections in Piedmont," which have induced Gen. MENOU to write to France for troops wherewith to scour the country," would, with me, have more the air of proba-membered, our confidence in the uprightbility, had I forgotten the statement, in this same newspaper, published in the month of November last, relative to the discontents amongst the French people, and even amongst the troops, of Napoleon. "The "enemies of oppression," said this supporter of the Pitts and Melvilles! "The enemies "of oppression will be glad to hear, that "the French nation itself, doomed for 64 some time past to vent its complaints in unavailing murmurs, has, at last, courage to remonstrate aloud against the usurpa"tion of Buonaparte, whose pride and in"solence are intolerable. Talleyrand and Now, after such accounts as this, and after the proof, the repeated proof, which we have had of their falsehood, their absolute, their intentional, falsehood, ought we not to be upon our guard? The truth is, that accounts, such as I have above inserted, are mere fabrications, published for the purpose of what is called, keeping up the spirit of "the nation;" and, as they, with some little, variation, are, by the means of money, admitted into most of the newspapers, they have a pretty general effect, amongst the vulgar, great as well as little. They serve to lead the people along from stage to stage in the decline of their country; they tend to make them see their country fall without ; regret; but, never was that spirit, by which alone a country can be effectually defended, supported, for one moment, by such means. BOXING.It will be recollected, that it ness and wisdom of the Judges led us to an ticipate; and, it will hardly be thought improper, if we express a hope that the deci sion may have its due weight with the inferior magistrates. Botley, Thursday, 7 ABBÉ DE LA MARRE. T 38 A curious and interesting correspondence has taken place between one of the agents of Louis XVIII. and the party of emigrants in this country. Much valuable matter has been disclosed to our ministers by this seasonable fracas, and thereby our government, at the commencement of this new war, will see how the funds of England have been squandered, and how its precious machinations against the power of Buonaparté have been conducted by the click whom they kept in pay. The indiscretion of one of the most polished courtiers of ancient France has given rise to the explosion. The Comte de Vaudreuil happened, at the table of an English gentleman, to accuse the Abbé de la Marre," of being a very dangerous person; an agent of Buonaparté near the King; a "vile debauchee, who, in all his missions through Germany, was accompanied by "his prostitute; and who, in short, was a the man totally lost in reputation." This charge was faithfully reported to the Abbé, and it has drawn from him a most masterly detail of the whole conduct of the emigrant party in England, the authors, advisers, and executors of those plots, which have cost the British government such a waste of reputation, as well as money."Yes," says Abbé de la Marre," I own, that to this party I am a dangerous person, for I am acquainted with every one of their practices; I know all their perfidies; all their intrigues; and am even acquainted with the terms of their schemes, and the distribution of the booty. At every journey which I made into England on the service of my Royal Master, I witnessed the agitation which my presence occasioned them, as if they appre obliged to conceal from the King all "knowledge of projects, the most useful, because he has no confidence in the Bri"tish minister." The wretches!-while they wrote to the King, "that the ministry the confidence of Monsieur, "without pre- here were jealous of his agents, and would "not permit them to communicate to him "their designs." I would prove, that in only two instances in one week I saw the government robbed of 7,5001. sterling.If ever I shall be called on to speak to the public, I shall prove that the King, always a Frenchman, constantly disapproved of the plan of desolation, invented by the avarice. of these inuiguers; and, I shall add, that in the autumn of 1803, his Majesty, without effect, issued his orders for the return of the unhappy Georges from France; because," said he, "Il n'y a plus rien à remuer dans son pays que des cendres." There was nothing now left in his country to stir but its asics. If the time were come, I should publish the seven political letters which I addressed in 1803, to the Comte d'Escars; and it will be seen that the virulence of the party of the French Noblesse in England against me, takes its date precisely from the epoch when I discovered the brigandage of the men who so scandalously made a traffic of the confidence of their Princes; and when Iin vain endeavoured to recommend an honourable and useful plan, in the room of projects, base, humiliating, and disastrous." part of the funds granted by England, "from the 1st of February, 1798, to the 7. 9th of May, 1801, had been paid to him;' he then gave in his resignation. "Which " of you all, Messieurs," says he, "can produce such a certificate?" The Abbé concludes with a declaration, that if justice is not done to his injured character, he will forthwith publish all the details of the infamous manner in which the money issued for the cause of the French King, has been intercepted, distributed, and misapplied.This disclosure has made a great impression on the ministry. The Align Office has sent to the Abbé de la Marre, and demanded from him a detail of all the facts to which be alludes, respecting M. Du Thé, and ot' ers, which he no doubt will render with the same freedom and independence of spirit, that characterises his letter. PUBLIC PAPERS. he Abbé goes on to say, that these wretched projects have had the effect which he anticipated, of rallying round the new government of France, all the interests, all the amour-propre, the ambition of the French Under the present circumstances of afpeople; and because he predicted all this, fairs, when the movements of the House of they call him the agent of Buonaparte. The Austria menace the Continent with a new history of his political services will give the war, his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of lie to the charge. He dares the whole click the French, King of Italy, judges it necesto shew, that a single servant or agent of sary to make known, in a frank and solemn the choice of his Majesty has been faithless; declaration, the sentiments by which he is but he pledges himself to name ten traitors animated, in order to enable his cotempora who have surprized, and actually betrayed,ries and posterity to judge with a true know his forces in the camps upon the borders of the ocean, far distant from the Austrian frontiers; he has employed all the resources of his empire to construct fleets, to form his marine, to improve his ports; and, it is at the same moment when he reposes with cptire confidence upon the execution of treaties which have re-established the peace of the Continent, that Austria rises from her state of repose, organizes her forces upon the war establishment, sends an army into the states of Italy, establishes another equally consider able in the fyrol; it is at this moment that she makes new levics of cavalry, that she forms magazines, that she strengthens her fortifications, that she terrifies by her preparations the people of Bavaria, of Suabla, and of Switzerland, and discovers an evident intention of making a diversion so obviously favourable to England, and more injuriously hostile towards France than would be a direct campaign, and an open declaration of war. In these grave circumstances, the Emperor of the French has deemed it his duty to invite the Court of Vienna to return to a proper sense of its true interests. All the expedients which an ardent love of peace could suggest have been resorted to with avi ledge of the case, in the event of the war taking place, who has been the aggressor.It is with this view, that the undersigned, Chargé d'Affaires of his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of the French, to the German Diet, has received orders to present a faithful exposition of the principles by which his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor, has been uniformly actuated in his conduct towards Austria. Every thing which that power has done contrary to the spirit and letter of treaties, the Emperor has hitherto permitted. He has not complained of the immediate extension of territory on the right side of the Pave, against the acquisition of Lindau, against all the other acquisitions made by him in Stabia, and which, subsequently to the treaty of Luneville, have materially altered the relative situation of the neighbouring states in the interior of Germany; against those, in fine, which continue at the present moment the subject of negotiation with different princes, to the perfect knowledge of all Germany; he has not complained of the debt of Venice not having been discharged, contrary to the spirit and the letter of the treaties of Campo Formio, and of Luneville; he has not complained of the denial of justice experienced at Vienna by his subjects ofdity, and several times renewed. The Court Milan and Mantua, none of whom, notwithstanding the formal stipulations, have been paid their demands; neither has, he complained of the partiality with which Austria has recognised the right of blockade, which Engrand so monstrously arrogates to herself; and when the neutrality of the Austrian flag Avas so often violated to the injury of France, he was not provoked by this conduct of the Court of Vienna to make any complaint, thus making a sacrifice to his love of peace, in preserving silence upon the subject.The Emperor has evacuated Switzerland, rendered tranquil and happy by his act of mediation; he has not kept in Italy a greater number of troops than is indispensibly necessary to maintain the positions which they occupy to the extremity of the Peninsula, in order to protect the commerce of the Levant, and to insure himself an object of compensation which may determiné England to evacuate Malta, and Russia to evacuate Corfu; he has pot upon the Rhine, and interior of his empire, any more troops than are indispensibly necessary to garrison the different places-Engaged entirely in the operations of a war which he has not provoked, which he sustains as much for the interests of Europe as for his own, and in which his -principal end is the re-establishment of the equilibrium of commerce and the equal right pall flags upon the sea, Lo has united all of Vienna has made high professions of its respect for the treaties which exist between it and France; but, its military preparations have developed her intentions, at the same time that her declarations have become more and more pacific, Austria has declared that she has to hostile intention against the states of his Majesty the Emperor of the French. Against whom, then, are her preparations directed? Are they against the Swiss? Are they against Bavaria? Will they, in the end, be directed against the German empire itself?His Majesty the Emperor of the French has charged the undersigned to make known, that he will consider, as a formal declaration of war directed against himself, all aggressions which may be attempted against the German Body, and especially against Bavaria.His Majesty the Emperor of the French will never separate the interests of his empire from those of the prin ces of Germany who are attached to him. Any injury which they may sustain, any dangers by which they may be menaced, can never be indifferent to him, or foreign from his lively solicitude. Persuaded that the princes and states of the Gorman empire are penetrated with the same sentiments, the undersigned, in the name of the Emperor of the French, invites the Diet to unite with him in pressing, by every consideration of justice and reason, the Emperor of Austria not to expose for any longer period the present generation to incalculable calamities, to spare the blood of a multitude of men doomed to perish the victims of a war the object of which is foreign to Germany, which, at the moment of its breaking out is every where the subject of inquiry and doubt, and whose real motives cannot be avowed-The alarms of the Continent will not be allayed, until the Emperor of Austria, yielding to the just and pressing representations of Germany, shall cease his hostile preparations, shall not keep in Suabia and in the Tyrol more troops than are necessary for garrisoning the places, and shall replace his army on the peace establishment. Was it not understood, since the conventions entered into in consequence of the treaty of Luneville, that the Austrian armies could not pass the territories of Upper Austria, without committing actual hostility? Was not Austria sensible at that period, that France being then engaged in a foreign war, having withdrawn her troops from Suabia, and having put a stop to the movements which it could make by means of the corps of troops she had in Switzerland, it was not just to oppose to such marks of confidence precautions truly aggressive? The circumstances being the same at present on the part of France, why are the measures of Austria so different? Why does she keep sixty battalions in the Tyrol and Suabia, whilst the forces of France are collected at a distance for an expedition against England?- There exists no difference at this moment between the Swiss republic and the German empire; no difference between Bavaria and Austria; and, if any credit is to be given to the declarations of the Court of Vienna, there exists none between it and France. For what unknown objects then has the Court of Vienna assembled so many troopsIt can have but one plausible object, that is, to keep France in a state of indecision, to place her in a state of inactivity; and, in a word, to arrest her progress on the eve of a decisive effort, But this objeet can only be attained for a time. France has been deceived; she is no longer so. She has been obliged to defer her enterprizes; she still defers them; she waits the effect of these reinoustrances; she waits the effect of the representations of the Germanic Diet. But when every effort shall be fruitlessly made to bring Austria to the adoption either of a sincere peace, or of an undisguised and open hostility, his Majesty the Emperor of the French will fulfil all the duties imposed on him by his dignity and his power: he will direct his efforts to every quarter in which France shall be menaced. Providence has bestowed on him sufficient strength to contend against England with one hand, and with the other to defend the honour of his standards and the rights of his allies.-Should the Diet adopt the course which the undersigned has orders to point out to it; should > it succeed in representing to the view of the Emperor of Austria the real situation, in which these movements, made perhaps without reflection, ordered perhaps without any hostile intention, and solely in conse quence of foreign influence, have placed the Continent; should it succeed in persuading this Sovereign, individually humane and just, that he has no enemies, that his frontiers are. not threatened, that France has twice had it in her power to deprive him for ever of one half of his hereditary states, if she had extended her wishes beyond what had been established at Campo Formio and Luneville; that, by his dispositions, which even before they are fully developed, affect France even in the centre of her action, he interferes, without advantage to his states, and without honour to his policy, in a quarrel which is foreign to him, the diet will have deserved well of Germany, of Switzerland, of Italy, of France, of all Europe, with the exception of a single nation, the enemy of the general tranquillity, and which has founded its prosperity on the hope and the design, ardently and perseveringly maintained, of perpetuating the discord, the troubles, and the divi sions of the Continent. The undersigned, &c. (Signed) BACHER. AUSTRIAN ANSWER TO THE FRENCH NOTE. -Rescript delivered by the Austrian Imperial Minister to the Imperial and Royal Legations at Ratisbon, dated Vienna, September 9, 1805. The declaration which the French Chargé d'Affaires was ordered to communicate to the Diet at Ratisbon, has been laid before his Roman and Austrian Imperial Majesty.-According to this declaration the states of the German Empire might be induced to imagine that the armaments and acts of violence of the French Emperor in Italy, have given Austria no cause for a counter-arming; that France, not Austria, wishes the restoration of a general peace, to attain which restoration, was the object of the intended invasion of England, which Austria now endeavours to interrupt, to prevent the attainment of this object.-With this declaration is connected the threat of an attack on the German Empire, if Austria does not immediately disarm at the order of the French Emperor.-Called upon by such a declaration made to the German Diet, his |