the operations of finance and the demands of luxury: all thefe have been overthrown in the conquered countries, and the mafs of the people with indifference, at leaft, often with fatisfaction, have witneffed their fall. And who are they that have fucceeded them? Perfons whofe exiftence is in the hands of the republic, and who have every intereft in the continuance of it's protection! Hence it is, that we hear of no popular commotions in Flanders, in the provinces of the Rhine, in Switzerland, or Italy. In feudal and religious times, in times of greater purity of manners, this would not have been the cafe: a chilling felfifhnefs pervades, in the prefent time, all ranks, from the court to the cottage! A plan of ambition fo deeply founded in principles, as that of France, is not to be refifted but by another fyftem founded as deeply in principles. As felfishness is the great caufe of the prefent evils, fo let us have récourse to selfishness also, or rather to a reasonable felf-love, for the cure! Our bane and antidote are both before us!" By maintaining the caufe of private property, public credit, and the rights of nations, let us turn the artillery of the anarchifts on themfelves, and fight them with their own weapons. We have used our best exertions to illustrate and recommend the only bafis, on which an union might be formed to disconcert the plans of the Directory. We are led to believe, from what we read daily in the fpeeches of fome of the members of the council of five hundred, that a party is forming on that bafis in the heart of France: a party of moderate, prudent, and juft men, whofe aim it is to connect the liberty and property of the people, with a fyftem of legal taxation, and the independence of their reprefentatives. We fee with pleafure the patriotic meetings of AMERICA efpoufing the caufe of nations, and making that cause the fubject of their public toafts. We would fain indulge a hope; that our own government will fee the advantage and glory of making that caufe, and not acquifition and monopoly, the declared object and end of the prefent war. This hope is not founded on any wisdom in our prefent adminiftration, who feem to have no other system than that of fighting at all adventures, as long as they are able to squeeze the other million out of the people, as don Sangrado found a specific for all difeafes in letting blood; but in a neceffity that must foon become palpable to the whole nation. If our prefent rulers, whatever happen, muft always be minifters, they will, however, yield to the bent of public opinion and public fpirit. SPAIN has had leisure to reflect, and wants only to fee the adoption of a proper concert among the independent powers, to act a proper part for it's own and the general fecurity. Holland is not unfimilarly fituated. ITALY hangs in fufpenfe on the events of war in the Mediterranean. GERMAN EMPIRE. The great rival ftates which compofe this empire, as well as the inferiour and dependent branches, have exhibited,in their negotiations at at Raftadt, all the fymptoms of an incapacity to refift the power and artifice of a republic fuch as that we have juft delineated. Their beft fecurity is the temporary convenience of the Rhine as a boundary to the new republic, while fhe is carrying on her projects against Italy, India, and, in due time, though the may judge it politic to temporize for a while and make fair pretences and profeffions, against the fublime Porte*. In this fecurity the northern states of Germany will feek the fafety of the day. And unless proper addrefs be used to form a general union, on a ground from which no fovereign or minifter would venture publicly to withhold his fupport and contingent, the french agents at Raftadt, by working on reciprocal interefts and jealoufies, will fap the foundation of every state in the empire. There is not a minifter in Germany, however timid, or improperly influenced, who would publicly dare to advise his court to withhold his participation or contingent from the general defence of the common caufe of property, and the conftitutional rights of nations. Were it therefore poffible for a conclufum to be drawn up and efpoufed in this fpirit, the envoys of the revolutionary republic would fuddenly difcover the inefficacy of their intrigues. The directory would foon be forced, either to throw off the mask of republicanifm, or to revert to a fyftem of moderation, and of proper dependence on their conftituents; who, in return, would be obliged to yield to the real wishes of the great majority of the french nation, who figh for an honourable and general peace. On the adoption of fuch a plan, the ftates of the german empire would only have to make their appeal to the juftice of the french nation; and, to reprefent, that, failing of that juflice, they had concerted their common fecurity with the other independent states of both Europe and America: all of whom had entered into a general confederacy for the protection of property and the rights of nations; and who unanimously wifhed the french nation to realize the fecurity of their own property and national independence within the best and moft convenient limits. Auftria has now to regret, in the difficulties which Pruffia oppofes to a proper union for the general defence, the fatal policy of Catharine the great, which raifed every obftacle against the original union eftablished for great and wife purposes by Leopold with the court of Berlin. Pruffia, in certain events, may become the dupe of her own caution. The real hatred and defigns of the directory are pointed against England, and to the feparation of the british government from it's intercourfe with the north of Germany. The french have fortified Duffeldorf, and are in force towards the north, where they may be fupported by the co-operation of Holland. Troubles will be created to Pruffia in her polish acquifitions, and it will not always be convenient for her to keep a very large army on her western frontier. The habits, which produced the treaty of Campo Formio, may revert to other arrangements, and moments may be feized when the direc It is probable, that the french have promised homage to the Porte, and a coercion of the beys in Egypt. tory would find it their more immediate intereft to ftrike at the north of Germany, and truft to the labours of Sieyes with the profeffors of Brandenburg. Silefia, in fuch an event, might again be left as a temptation, like Venice, to fome imperial politician. In fuch a mixture of poffible events, a wife court would feek it's own in the general interefts and fecurity of nations. NORTHERN POWERS. RUSSIA appears to be perfectly awake to the rapid progrefs of the revolutionary fyftem, and will, no doubt, efpoufe with vigour any general and folid plan for oppofing it. An able minister on the part of England, at Conftantinople, would, no doubt, avail himself of the invafion of Egypt, the rebellion of Paffowan Oglou, and the revolutionary fpirit excited in the Morea, to fhow to the Porte, as well as to Ruffia, the neceffity of an alliance under the reciprocal guarantee of the emperour of Germany and Great Britain. Ruffia and Sweden might, perhaps, be brought to accede. And the combined fleets of England, Rufiia, and the Porte, might give countenance and fupport to the oppreffed ftates of Italy. But fuch combinations are not to be produced but by fome animating foul of the frit order of human beings, unfortunately not to be found at prefent, for aught that yet appears, on any of the thrones, or in any of the cabinets of Europe! while the great talents, produced by fuch a republic as France, raife from their concentrated councils a new and ftupendous fabric on the ruins of the old governments. GREAT-BRITAIN AND IRELAND Have now before them, in the confufions of the latter, a complete mirrour of the folly of ariftocratical and legiflative party fpirit. The season is over when this fpirit might range, as heretofore, in difputes about the loaves and fishes. Thofe parties have effectually fucceeded in Ireland, in leffening the refpect which fhould be always maintained among the people for their rulers. But it is to be hoped, from the vigour and temper, which have been lately difplayed in the adminiftration of irish affairs, that the enemy will discover a mifcalculation in his plans, and that while he is difturbing his neighbours, he will find caufe to reflect on the re-action of his proceedings against his own domeftic tyranny. The menaces of the directory have. armed the people. Every purfe is open, and every arm ftretched out for the national fecurity. 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