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    Btti the miserable sovereign had no "victorious news to communicate ; to their slavish effusions he could answer only in broken hints , dark allusions , forced language . His twenty-ninth bulletin painted , in sufficiently strong colours the losses of France . It was necessary for him to appear in public ; but the silence that accompanied his steps , proclaimed that Buonaparte was no longer the invincible sovereign , and that the staff of his power was bro . ken .

    France has been declared to be blotted out of the map of Europe . The wild declaimer , whose ravings had such an effect on this country , little thought that in a few years she would exalt her head , and bring all Europe under her controuL She has suffered another

    reverse ; the flower of her troops is destroyed , her mighty army annihilated , Still let us beware of saying that she is blotted out of the map of Europe . She possesses within herself great resources , and an energy which may still

    make her formidable , or at any rate prevent her from being an object of contempt . Buonaparte has already astonished Europe by the conceptions of his great mind . At this moment they have not forsaken him . Cast down he is not

    in despair : he prepares himself for another conflict : he calls boldly on his empire for support : and if his people stand by him , his affairs are far from being irretrievable . His legislative body has been assembled , and hi 9 plan , as

    soon as developed , was adopted . It is great , and if capable of being carried into execution , will effectually preserve France from any irruption by the Russians . A new array is to be raised by means of conscriptions from former years , and this is to amount to three hundred and

    thirty thousand men . These are to be immediately embodied , and to be prepared for action by the spring . What a call is this upon an empire in which every family has to deplore the loss of a

    father , a husband , a brother or a son ! If it obeys the call , if the men thus summoned march to their depots , Buonaparle may defy the combined arms of Europe against him , and preserve , inviolate the boundaries of his vast dominions .

    An army thus formed in an instant must be a subject of great astonishment in this kingdom , where , if a quarter of the number were raised , they could not

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    be organised and disciplined in tea times the time . But in France commissions are not bought and sold : and there is no parliamentary influence to secure preferment . If the men will go , the army is made : for so skilfully 19 every thing- military arranged in France , that every man will be in his right post

    in a very short time after his arrival in the depot . It is to be observed also , that of the men now to be raised , a very great proportion have been employed in the national guard , and are inured to military exercises . When they appear at i ? he depots 9 corporals , Serjeants ,

    and officers will soon be found to a certain degree , and the higher officers will be sent to them from those who have escaped the catastrophe in Russia . An army will be established , if the people have not lose their spirits , and the conflict between the contending emperors may still be terrible .

    This is now the time for peace ; and perhaps at this moment thoughts of it are entertained . As the emperor or " Russia has advanced into Prussia , he will there meet an agent from our court , and if Austria could be persuaded to join them , terms might be laid dowiX , in which Buonaparte might acquiesce * A

    striking thing in his reverse is , tbat he has uot called his troops from Spain ^ and he seems to depend upon the country for sufficient supplies . If his people stand by him he will not be browbeaten , and much prudence is required on the opposite side to take advantage of the present circumstances , and not by carrying things with too high a hand , to

    involve Europe in a still bloodier war . Surely the kings of the earth have learned wisdom by late experience , and peaceable arrangements might be naade by very small concessions on either side ; but time must prove their spirits , and if the sword continues unsheathed * mankind must rue the folly and wickedness of an age , -which boasts of being enlightened .

    The affairs of the rest of JEurope arc swallowed up in the magnitude of the conflict between Russia and France . The king of Prussia is in a strange situation . His troops have quitted the

    post assigned to them * and have declared themselves neutral , their general being thus guilty of treason , and declared so by his sovereign , -who is at heajt , most probably , pleased with the acu Austria and the dependant sovereigns of Ger-

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    State ef Public Affairs . 77

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1813, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2424/page/77/