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VOL. VI. AUGUSIA printed BY DANIEL STARNES 6? Co. west end ©f broad-street. SATURDAY Night, March 19, 1814. Pr*m Cobbctt’, Weekly Political Remitter of December i 1, 181$. Conquering France. From one step we proceed to another. For many years part we have been told, that the war was carried on for our independence - y and that, if we did not go on with it, wc should become the real liases of Bonaparte. Self-preser vation was then the cause in which the nation was called upon to filed its blood and expend its money. Our views extended as Napoleon retreated. He was to be driven into the undent boun Janes of France. But novo he is to be beheaded , accord ing to the Times newspaper; and according to the Cou rier newspaper, the people of \ France are to be punished , i unless they abandon him, &; " obey, at once, a Bourbon in his (lead. Thus, in the space of four months, the war, from a war of self-defence , a war lor our own existence, is become a war for imp-ding a government upon theFrcnch people. In fhorr, we have returned to the notions and the feenes of 1792 & 1793. The Allies arc eroding the Rhine, and, as we are told by these writers, proclama tions are to be i/Tued, similar to that of the DukeofSrunf wick, in which the people of France were threatened with dreadfu 1 punishments , unless they submitted to the dictates of the Allies with regard to the arrangement of their government. The articles to which I allude here, I willinfert; not only bccaulc I wilh to place them upon record, but because the reader should be convinced that I do not misrepresent the writers, and because it will be ulelul for the public to fee dearly what the views of thele writers and of their abettors really are. The fol lowing article is from the Times of the 4th inflant: When, or under what cir cumftanccs, the great com mander may think fit to carry his forces again ll the large military or commercial fthc fouth of France, we go not pretend to form conje&ures. We are confi dent, that as nothing will diliurb the calm and medi tative prudence of his plans, to nothing will arrest the rapidity of their execution. We trufl alike ia hi* c. ution and in his refolutitn ; but, •'Cihaps, there may be in icre for him a higher dedi cation than the capture of a own cr the reduction of a MIRROR OF THE TIMES. province. What if the army opposed to him ihould rc lolvc to avenge the cause of humanity, and to exchange the bloody & brutal tyranny of a Bonaparte for the mild and paternal sway of a Bour bon? Could a popular French General open to himfelf a more glorious career at the pielent moment, than that which Providence seemed to have dellined to the virtuous Moreau ? Or, is it poliiblc that any power now exiting in France could flop such a General and such an army, lupported by the unconquer ed Wellington and his for* midable legions, if they were to refolvc boldly to march to Paris, and bring the Usurp er to the block ! Every difpo labie loldier in France is on the Adour or on the Rhine. In the cale we are supposing, there would be no enemy to encounter, unless the north ern irontier were at once denuded of troops, and the road to Paris on that fide laid open to the Allies. This is no question of the attach ment of the French nation to one dynasty or to another : it is a queilion of military enterprize, in the minds of military adventurers. The simple poflibility, not to fay the high moral probability, that in a moment of general dcfc&ion, an army which has so much in its hands may run with the stream of popu lar feeling throughout Eu rope, is enough to make the tyrant tremble on his throne. Lord Wellington is doubt lels prepared to take advan tage of lo deirable an oc currence, in case it should happen without his previous interference ; but we wish him to interfere ; we wish that he were authorized plainly & openly to offer his mighty ' co-operation to any body of men who would fhakc off the tyrant's yoke in France, as has been done in Italy, in Germany, and in Holland !” Let it be observed, that it is here expressly recommended to make war for the purpefe of putting Napoleon to death. ! He has been acknowledged as lawful ruler of France by all the powers at war with him. Fie has had almotl every one of the hoflile so. / vereigns absolutely in his power. He has spared not only their lives but their throne*; ard now an Eng hlh journalill recommends to thole lame fevereigns to make war upon him lor the express purpole ot putting him to death. Nothing can be HOLD the mirror up to nature — Shakespeare . clearer than that he owes his present dangers wholly to his having spared thole, who arc now his molt formidable enemies. If he had extin guished the Aultrian power, he would never have been in danger. The sottish de'- lire to royalize his family, ] and the hope of being abis 1 j rule die people of France l as the old families loled: thele have led to his prelent I A?fe of peril, and, it the people of France turn againfl him, will, in all probability, coll him hf* life; but, at j any rate, that life ought not to be lought by those whom he his spared. More ol this another time. Let 11s now hear the Courier; that vile trumpet of cvcrLfting war : “ We expe<sl that the next difpatciies from the Allies will announce their having crossed the Rhine. Lord Cathcart, we understand, in his lafl difpatciies, Bated that it was ihc intention of the Prince of Schwartzen burg to pass the Rhine in a fortnight from that date.— We are glad to hear jJiia— j for not a moment fturiid be 1 loft —no time given to Bo naparte to reancmble a large army, and recruit his means. By palling the Rhine and entering the Netherlands at once, they will immediately i deprive him of the refourccs ■ in men & neccfTiries which he might derive from that country, disable him from carrying on the conscription in that quarter, and thus! Holland and the Netherlands I being cut off, he mull be reduced to depend upon old Fiance alone, which, having thus an increased pressure | upon her, mu ft feel more 6c more difaffeefted to his gov ernment and person. Lord j * Wellington, we tliould fop. pose, will advance from the I touth, vvhilft the allies march ; | into France trom the eaftj The aggregate force of all ! the armies againil Bonaparte, including the relcrvcs, is es timated at eight hundred thousand men. The passage of the Rhine by the Prince of Schwartzenburg will be j accompanied by a proclama tion in the name ot all the' Sovereign*, allied againfl Bo f naparte, Hating their objects and views. This important document we have not yet teen ; but we should be eiad to nnd it buttoned upon 1 this princ.ple, that the Al lies, convinced by experience j that no lecure peace could be made with Bonaparte, who had uniformly shewn himk.i an enemy to the re pole and independence of j the world, and whom no * treaties and no principles of j justice and good faith could bind, would not make peace with hint as the ruler of j France ; that it remained for j France to determine whether \ the preferred incurring all the miseries in which adherence \ to him must involve her , or 1 i restoring herlelf at once to real peace, fecurity,and inde- \ pendence , by throwing off his | tyranny, and rein Bating her ancient family ? Bonaparte and war ! The Bourbons and peace ! This should be their 1 device, and a Bout bon thouid accompany the Allied Ar jmies'.”—Whether this and such like writings be intend ed to feel the public pulse, I do not know; but I really do fear that the notions here pro mulgated are not very rare. The projeft is here openly avowed ; the project com pelling France to adopt that \ sort of government which we approve of, and which, or couric, is moit likely, in the j opinion of these writers, to 1 keco France in a low and 1 • feeble Rate. At any rate, , , here is the project openly 1 j avowed of punching the 1 French nation, if they refufe to obey the orders of us and of those who arc subsidized |by us. Here ace we, the ! inhabitants of these inlands, 1 at the end of twenty years of war and taxation, to defend l ourfdves againfl France, let ting our fclves up, in the lan guage of this writer, as the I dictators of a government to j a country like France ! Let j this be borne in mind.—To jhear our newspaper people talk, who would not ima | gine, that France wasacoun ' trv of the lize of the jfle of' 1 * > 1 Wight, and that her inha- j bicants were like those of j Java or India ? It is molt prefumptuouK, moil impu- j (dent language? and who will make a bet, that it is language of which we shall j not 010 ft sorely repent. — If any thing can exceed its im- i pudencc, it is its folly . Do i these foolifh and malig nant men imagine, that the French people will like Bon aparte lets at their retom j mendation, or at the recom mendation of the sillies? If the French people arc really attached to him, can it be fuppoled that a proclama tion, threatening them with punishment, uniefk they turn against him, is the way to make them turn against him ? T here is, a* as 1 can fee, » l no (ign of difjfte&ion to j waids !iim in France. Difaf -1 fcdtion may exili j hut there ; is, as yet, no iign of it.—An English army has in j France for some time ; but jit is not pretended that the people of that country has hailed its arrival with juy. On the contrary, we fee that lit does not advance into i France. Yet, if the people really lighed for a return of ! the old government, Here is a motl fair opportunity for them to (how their difpoli tion. This project of dictat ing a government to France is, perhaps, the very thing that Napoleon wilhes. Let the Bourbons once march with the Allies, and then all France is up in arms ior or again tt Napoleon. The queilion will be brought to ifluc without delay, it is much easier to talk about ciofling the Rhine than to crols it; and, suppose it eroded, how far Will the al lies be able to go, it the peo ple of France are cordial on the /ide of their n!ler?~ All depend* upon the difpt fitiou of the people of France ! ! But, who .vill give us fccu i uty that the Emperor $f /lus i trut will not make peace with < Napoleon? The latter has ample means in his hands of gratifying his father in-law. If Francis be reinttated in all his oid titles, Emperor of Germany , fitc. &c. ; if all the little Sovereigns who have bten enriched at his expense be (tripped of the r new territories ; ifthehoule I of Auftriagain largely on the ’ fide of Italy, and be made matter of the house of Bran denburg ; if this cake piace, what is to pievent Napo leon and Francis from again becoming allies? And, if they do become allies, what (hill we have gained by the retreat of Napoleon l Os one thing we may be quite sure ; that i«, that each power will do that which it (hall deem molt conducive to its own particular inter ett ; and if is very clear, that the intrretts of the ieveral Allied Powers are diretttly oppo/ed to each other.— j There leems ulrciuy to be a strange lagging in the war; r l he feverai armies lenn to have come to a itand.— There is no reason why Ruf iia should wifli to fee Aufiria aggrandized, while the Ti mer gains nothing at all, to / fay nothing of the part whic h / Austria took in ihe war, f during which Moscow burnt. The allied Cabin# No. 283.