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wh j c h coiTult* the happiness of Man
» faicl the Great Lord Bacon
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LITERARY ASSOCIATION
I Natos pater, nova bel’a moventes
[ Ad pornaut pulchra pro liberate vocabit,
Infelix ; utcuaque ferent ea facta minores
Viturt amor fatrim, laudumque immenfa iu
pido.
The love of country is the most
I pleasing and strongest passion that
agitates the human mind. The
exile, tho’ banished his native land
for crimes perhaps ho never com
mitted, still sighs whenever he
calls it to his recollection, & wishes
Ito return. He cannot entirely for
j get the spot where he first drew
i the breath of life, nor those scenes
of his youth which were the hap
I piest, because devoid of care ; and
j although prosperity attend him in
a foreign land, be cannot feel him.
self perfectly happy, Historv gives
us many instances of meu sacrific
ing to this passion everything most
dear to them. The patriotic Bru
tus executed his own children for
conspiring against thsir country,
and endeavoring to place the ex_
pe!led Earquin upon the throne.
Hi 6 paterual feelings did not ies
train him hour performing an act
of public justice. The happiness
and welfare of his country was hi*
first and only confederation.
This pallion, lo itrongly im
planted in the heart, h#s been
great utility to man Kind in all
ages of the world. Had it not
been for this, Rome would have
been enslaved. And, would
thole men who gained our inde.
pendence have Dorn the many
pi ivations and hardiiiips they
did—would they have expoled
themlelves to dangers and pe
nls innumerable to prelerve
and give liberty to a country
lor which they had no ejection ?
Were u not for this pallion,
how many countries would be
uninhabited ? No man voiunta
rily seeks as his rehdence anv
country whose climate is unheal
thy and foil Iterile. The love
of money might induce him
to remain there for forne time ;
but he never, unlels boro in it,
would make it a permanent re
hdence. The native, on the
other hand, has ail Ins hopes
centered in it—he thinks it iu,
perior to any other. It may
be prejudice, but it is amiable.
The poet Goidlmith has beauti
fully descrioed this love of one’s
country.
" Dear i$ that flied to which his foul con
forms
“ And dear that hill which lifi* him to the
fiornis;
“ And, as a child, when fearing founds mo
lest,
“ Clings close and dofer to the mother’s
bread,
; “So the loud torrent and the whirlwind’s
roar
“ But bind him to his native mountains
more.”
This love of country, wh'ch
is correfctly called pauiotilrn,
like religion, however, has been
but 100 often made a veil under
which the foulelt deeds have
been performed. We hear in.
fiances of men in free Itaces de
i ceivtng the people and depriv
ing them of the beared rights,
by this plausible pretext. Fraud
i however, cannot easny be con
-1 ceaieda If we firtctly obletve
' the condutt of these men, we
; may detect them. Their con
vet fations always consilts of pa.
, trioticexpression*-.they pretend
; great love for the people--they
; make it a point to attend ail
public meetings. If any one
S should express fentttnents dif_
ferent from their own, he is im
mediately denounced as an ene
my to his country; lor, by at
“ HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE.”— ShakcipCOrC.
taching suspicion on others,
they avoid it themselves- There
are the men whom Hamlet, in
the play, fays “ can smile, and
smile, and still be villains ;”and
thele are the men whose conduct j
fliould be carefully oblervcd. I
It is impossible to give a true
definition of patriottlm. It is, j
“ Like wit-much talked of, not to be de
fil’d :
He that pretend* to moll too has least
ill are in it.”
From a late Edinburgh Review.
FRENCH GENERALS.
Mod of the Generals of Di
vision, Marshals of the Kmpirg,
others who hold the prin -
cipal commands, fufliciently
prove that war is an expert
mental science, and that inili
ta»y itnovvn is not. the preroga
live of birth, but the harvell of
toil, or the bounty of fortune.
Bejfnres, originally a coin
mon loidic-r, became, in 1 796,
a capt. of infantry in the aimv
of Italy. y
Brune a printer at the com
mencement of the revolution,
a member of the Club of Cor.
deliers, commenced his military
career in 1792.
Angerceu, a private in the
Neapolitan service in 1787,
became loon after a fencing
mailer at Naples ; in 1792 en
tered as a volunteer in the ar
my of Italy ; and in 1794 was
a general of brigade in the ar
my of the Pyreneens.
Bcmadoite at the commence
ment of the revolution, was fer_
jeant in the regiment of royal
maiines; in 1794 a general of
divilion.
Jourdan enlifled in 1778 but
left the lervice 1784 • was a
thop_keeper at the commence
ment of the revolution.
Kellerman began his career as
a fun pie huiiar in the regiment
of Conflans
Zasnes, originally a common
loidtei became m 1798 adju
tant of division in the national
guards of Palis.
Massena, a fubaitern in the
Sardinian iei vice at the begin
ning of the revolution in 1793,
became a general of bngadc,
M orticr, a captain ot a vo
lunteer company in his native
piovice, at the lame time.
Ary, a buliar, and adjutant
genetal in 1795, alter palling
through all the inferior gtadse.
Lejebvrc , son ot a miller of
Allace, became a sergeant in
the regiment of French guards
before the revolution.
Pcrigon, after ading as a
jultice of the peace of Mon
tcach, engaged in the army,
and pafied rapidly thro’ all the
(übalietn grades, and in 1794
commanded the army of the
Eaitern Pyrenees.
Boult was a fubaitern be
fore the revolution, in a regi 1
ment ot infantry, 6c an adjutant
(general in 1795.
M urat, (ervedoriginally in the!
conttiiuuonal guard of Louis !
XVI. became afterwards an j
officer in the 12th regiment of
chaffeurs a cheval 6cc.
Junoty began his, career in
179a, as a grenadier in one of
me volunteer battalions com
manded by Gen. Dille; and, in
1796, was one of the aids.de
camp of lionaparte-
1 From the Centincl of freedom.
nfwakk, (n. j.)
Confederation of the Rhine. —
! f his confederation has been re.
j cently foimrd by several Ger.
man Oates—and as it has now
' become very important in the
! (cale of affairs on the continent,
i an d will probably become more
j so from the large acqutlition ot
i Arengih it will receive in the
prelent war, we lay a short ac.
count of it before our readers.
Several German flaies. situate
between the Rhine & the Mayne
I leparated themftlves from the
i Germanic body, and ado-
I ciated as confederate ItaWis of
j the Rhine, under the protection
i of the French empire, in the
year 1806* The lnftrument of
confederation was signed at Pa
ris, on the nth July, the fame
year. The contracting par
ties were the emperor of the
! t tench on the one part, and
1 on the other the kings of Bava
J ria and Wineinberg, (made
kings by Bonaparte, the year
before) the archduke of RatiL
bon, as prince pinnate, the
grand dukes of Baden, Berg,
Hefle, Darmfiadt, Nassau Wetl
bourgh, and Nalfau-Ufingen,
the princes of ’ Hobenzolicrn,
Hichingen and Seigmaringen,
Salm balm, Salrn Kyrburg, I
lenburg, Birdetn and Lichten
fiein, the duke of Ahremberg,
and the prince of Levn, They
declared that they would admit
other German princes and Rates
in all cases where their union
with the confederation might
bc found confident with the
general interelt; and thus virtu
ally annihilated the inconfider.
able pan that was left of the
German empire. This indu
ced Francis 11. last emperor of
Germany, and I. of Auflria,
formally to abdicate the Ger
man empire, by his proclama
tion of the6th of Augult igo6.
It was then expeded that a lim.
liar confederation would be for
med north of the Mayne, un
der the protection of either
Pru flia or Huffia ; but the king
of Pruflia having declared war
agamlt France in Oft. 1806,
and having been (truck nerve,
lets at the battle of Jena, 14th
of the lame month, leveral oth
er German Uates flattened to
join the confederation of the
Rhine, as Lippe Uutmold,
Schaumburg, Bukeburg, Saxe-
Weimar, Saxe-Goiha, Saxe-
Cobourg, and the newly crea
ted kingdom of Saxony, du„
chy of Wariaw, and iotue oth
er acquiliuons) the king of
which is the late elector of Sax
ony. By Ihe peace of Tillit, J
in 1807, which erects the Piul
itan provinces on the right
bank of the Elbe and the pof
leflions of Hefle-Caffel, Or
ange-Fulda, and other petty
Geiman dates into a new king.
i dom, called Weltphaha, (over
which is placed Jerome Bona
-1 pare)“*the confederation of the
j Rhine is extended to the Bank
of the Elbe ; and Pruflia has
; since (in 1808) joined the con-"
i federation. By this federal
j coinpaCt an union of several
: dates has taken place, embra
-1 cing a population double that !
of the U. Slates of America,
forming a complete barrier to
France on the German fide,
| and ripping up completely the
MONDAY, September n, 1309.
Germanic empire leaving Fran
cis nothing but the hereditary
dates. It is a Uupcndous fabric
erefled by the mighty genius
of Napoleon, and will do more
to fublerve his purposes in
subjugating Europe, than an
alliance with the molt powerful
kingdom on the continent.
11 may be said wish certainty,
to this confederation «he houle
of Aultria owes i-s downfall.
In a little t'me Francis will be
dethroned and driven from his
hereditary polfdfions; every
thing which will be left to hmi
he will hold by the precarious
tenure of Napoleon’s bounty;
and willing would he then ac.
cept of a hie eltate in the small
poirefliona which the house of
Hapsburg once poffefTed in the
canton of Berne, But the fa
tal decree has betn proclaimed;
Napoleon has laid he fhoula
ceale to reign, and with his reign
ends a rctiiog place for him on
the continent.
foreign Intelligence ,
BOSTON August 16.
Extraft of a letter from Hali .
Jax, Augujl 8.
<c By the arrival of the frigate
Jamaica, and the ship Bee ho n En
gland, we have received Loudon
papers to July 5.
“ The French army near Vien
na still continued inactive. The
Russian force which is said to be
approaching consists of only 40‘-
000. The Russians will strengthen
Austria to this amount, if it is true
thry have declared war against
France.
“ The Austrians occupy the
bank of the Danube, opposite to
I'resburg, and above and below
Vienna—and frequently annoy the
enemy.
“ There are some hints of over*
tures for peace between the em*-
perort of Austria & French. Baron
Von Vincent is said to be gone
to Vienna ; and Bonaparte has
sent counts Bergen and Zenger
dotf to Walveusdotf, where the
emperor of Austria resides. The
Monitor says, “this circumstance
has given rise to reports of peace.”
“ Bavaria and Wirtemberg are
over-run by insurgents & Switzer
land is said ‘o be tu commotion.”
Extrult of another letter , Au
• gujl 8.
“Isent letters the day before
yesterday by lieutenant By n ,, 0 f
the armed schoonei Jjfean. b ’
“ Admiral Cochrane is coming
here trout ihe West-Indie s , Wlt b
his squadron. It is said Je will
be expected in about a fortnight ”
August 9.—“ The Lady Pellew
has just arrived lrom Falmouth 29
days. 1 have yet only seen a Lon
don paper of Jul> 6, th c £ n| , lish
Chronicle. Ii says, “We stop the
press to state that intelligence to
tl»e 30th ult. irom Corunna, an
nounces the entire evacuation of
Gallicia, by the armies under Nev
and buult, whose united forces
have been reduced to 12,000
They, earned with them 6(X)0 sick
and wounded. Thus the port of
f errol is again delivered from the
enemy.”
Au S mt 9, „t night.-" Sine.,
writing this morning, i have seen a
London paper, the Evening Mail of
July T ihe “ postcript” says,
“ setters from Heligoland of tho
2d in»l. were received yesterday.
It was reported, and believed,
there, at that date, that a further
uaitie had taken place between the
two grand armies near the Danube
in wnich the French were defeated
with great loss.
“ The new expedition preparing
in England was expected to sail (or
to be reauy to sail) about the l>th
or 16<h uit. It it stated to c*n»i»t
of near 33,000 men. __
[No. 48.]