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    marching from the south of Spain , and something decisive is daily expected . However the Spaniards wifl be too prudent to rifek a general engagement . We have landed on the shores ' -of Biscay , the troop * which we rescued from I > enmark , and these , joined with a great body of trt > ops in the province , will be

    capable of repelling the French from that quarter . Every one views with astonishment the conduct of England , during this important crisis . H-ad they sent their whole army into Biscay , it must have secured the independence of the province , and created such a

    diversion on the rear of the enemy as to have very thuch disconcerted all his measures ; and if a judicious attack had been made from Catalonia on the other side , and the southern troops in the front , the French might have been compelled to cross the Pyrennees before they could have received reinforcements . In this

    way much blood might have been saved . JEvery thing now wears the appearance of a terrible conflict * The English , army has been lying" inactive in Portugal . Its commander-inchief is come to England , and his arrival was preceded some time by that of Sir Arthur Wellesley , the negociator of that strange convention , -which has astonished all mankind . The

    extraordinary part of that convention is , that the French army in Portugal , which could not co-operate at all with the forces of Buonaparte in Spain , has been conveyed to France , and rendered useful to him , whilst the English troops in Portugal are cooped up in a ptace , where they cannot act at all for the common

    cause . But many melancholy circumstances have attended this business , which must have given great disgust to our allies . We profess to deliver them from French tyranny , and the French have been sent out of Portugal : but the proclamations of our English generals savour more those of a conqueror

    in the midst of a conquered country , than of friendly troops that have rescued their allies from tyranny . To what this cause , this strange conduct is to be attributed , will dovthdess be matter of future inquiry : but the whole business bears at present a very strange aspect , and stands in great need of explanation .

    Portugal is rescued from the French . It seems that fey secret articles between the Fr ^ jjich emperor and the late king of

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    Spain , this country was to haVe b ^ crt partitioned out by them in a manner agreeable to their respective interests * The world has witnessed the partition of Poland by three great monarchs : tnis intended partition rested upon a similar foundation of equal injustice ; but it is melancholy to see , that Buonaparte

    has a precedent for his conduct in the actions of regular governments , and that no difficulty was made by the cabinet of Spain , when the plunder of its neighbour was to be the fruit of a coaln tion with a mighty conqueror . When will the nations of the earth learn justice !

    Whilst Spaniards and Portuguese are in the utmost agitatidn for their independence , the enaperor of France , who might have been expected to head his troops in an attack on Spain , is on a

    sudden known to be in the heart of Germany . There a rendezvous has taken place between him and the emperor of Russia . Kings and princes , and nobles of Russia , Germany * and France are witnesses of this interview : and

    when the mighty men of the earth are assembled together in this manner , some gigantic effort , some Titanian project is likeJy to be the consequence . What has been the subject of the imperial conferences , time must discover . As Russia sent its barbarous hordes into tire

    heart of Europe under the cruel Suwarrow , the plan now may be , to destroy by its ignorant slaves the rising hopes of liberty in Spain . Or an old project may be revived , and Austria may enter

    into the plan of driving the Turks out of Europe . The sovereigns , who are forming their projects , are iieads of destroying armies . The one is mighty in wars and force is his argument : the other was born to rule over slaves , and boast

    of his will being the law in an extensive empire . What good can be expected for mankind from the councils of two such men . But there is a God , who ruleth the earth , and who can bring their councils to nought , or make them tend to useful purposes , which it was not in their imaginations to conceive , or in their hearts to desire .

    The war continues between Sweden and Russia , but is confined on land to Finland : and on the sea the Russian fleet is shut up in the port Baltic , in which it had taken refuge , and where the combined fleets of Sweden and England arc unable to annoy it . No

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    568 State of Public Affairs *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 568, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/44/