From the man who has been constantly harping upon economy; from the man who gave up Malta, the Cape, Porto Ferrajo, and one half of the West India colonies; from the man who left the French in possession of Belgium, who consented to the opening of the Scheldt, who winked at the cession of Louisiana; from the man who abandoned the allies of England, and who gare up the honours of her flag; from the man who left the royalists of La Vendee to the knives of their pursuers, while he sent Napper Tandy in triumph to France; from the man who has done all these things under the pretext of economy, under the pretext of "husbanding our resources," from such a man one might have expected a different disposition of the clerk ship of the pells. The sang-froid, with ich he must have calculated on this occasion, would have done honour to the dest Rabbi of the Synagogue. He would have taken the place to himself, but the doctrine of chances had taught him that his son's life would sell for more than his own; be, therefore, boldly sets decency at defiance, and bestows £3,000 a year for life up a boy only TWELVE years of age!

he had taken priest's orders, for the purpose of succeeding to the Bishoprick of Durham. It is possible, indeed, that Mr. Hiley might not be quite learned enough for a dignity of this sort; but the Premier would hardly be discouraged by this circumstance, when he is told, (which we assure him is a fact), that Buonaparté has lately put his uncle to school, in order to qualify him for the archbishoprick of Lyons. It has, doubtless, escaped this "tender father," that in loading his infant son with public money, he is also loading him with public odium; and that the three-score years, on which he so fondly counts, will be three-score years of reproach and contempt. Some high-minded romantic fathers would have taken this into consideration; but Mr. Addington remembers the promise: "Blessed are the meek, "for they shall inherit the earth." Give him security that his son, shall never want mo ney, and he'll engage that he shall never dispute with you for any thing else. In making the modest calculation of sixty years salary for his son, it never occurred to him, perhaps, that the placeman might out-live the place. This is, however, possible; and if the affairs of the nation continue to be conducted by such men as himself, it is very ex-probable too. As a sort of palliation of this odious instance of rapacity, it is given out from the treasury, that the Clerkship. of the Pells was offered to Mr. Pit. What! The man on whose life the destiny of the world was once thought to hang, has, then, been offered a place which is now filled by a child, who is daily seen playing at marbles under the cloyster of Westminster Abbey ! Tell it not in Gath! Publish it not in the streets of Askelon!

The history of this country, from Edgar to George the Third, does not (with the ception of Mr. Dundas) furnish an instance ofa minister, who, in so short a space of tine, has ever seized on so much of the public wealth as Mr. Addington. He was hardly nominated to the ministry before he contrived to obtain both house and land in the Royal Park of Richmond, a thing totally unprecedented. It was what a man of a noble family might, indeed, have asked; but, considering the origin and progress of Mr. Addington, one is really confounded at the bardihood of his covetousness. His brotherin-law, Mr. Bragge, he found in a place of £1200 a year; this was immediately chang ed for one worth £6000. His brother, Mr. Hiley Addington, filled a place of £1600; this was immediately changed for one of £4000. This last-mentioned change is strikingly characteristic of the Addingtons: it was from a Lord to a Secretary of the Treasary. Other men seek honours; these nothing but money. Mr. Hiley has, indeed, lately cast off the Secretary, and re-assumed the Lord; but it is pretty well understood, that this counter-revolution has not been produced by any want of attention to interest. What good thing is in reserve for Mr. Hiley Addington we know not; but we should not be at all surprised to hear that

On the subject of Foreign Politics little can be said with certainty. Some of the daily papers have questioned the veracity of our statements respecting the proceeding of the Levant inerchants; but, as we never advance any thing as fact, without the very best authority, we trust it is unnecessary for us to repeat what we stated on this head, in the Register, p. 116, on the truth of which the reader may place perfect reli.. ance. We have never given into the notion of an immediate overthrow of the Turkish Empire: from the best information that we possess (and perhaps we have as good as any body), it appears that it is rapidly declining; and, in such a case, a total dissolution is often the work of a few months; but we are well aware, that it is not to be destroyed in an hour, nor should we be at all sur

prised, if it were to out-live many of those monarchies, which are generally thought to be in no sort of danger.

sheet. There is also an address of the representatives of the Italian Republic to their President, Buonaparté, who has made them a very affectionate and fatherly reply, but in which he has said nothing that any human being can understand. Mere sounding words to amuse the world in general and his slaves in particular. The Consul Cambaceres has notified to the Legislative Body, that he is about to lay before them the result of the appeal to the people, relative to the Consulship for life. The solemn mummery of the Consuls and Legislators,

to madness. At Paris they are obliged to stifle, and even to disguise all appearance of, their rage; but, in London, they indulge in it to excess. The violence of it is, however, beginning to abate, and has, in some instances, already settled down into a sober pathetic melancholy, that vents itself in strains like the following, which, for the amusement of our readers, we copy from the Morning Chronicle of yesterday: "It will be seen from the letter of our "correspondent, that the system of surveil lance is kept up in Paris in a manner " utterly repugnant to all the maxims and habits of a free people. It is a system, "destructive not merely of rational liberty, but of the security of private life-of all "the charities of domestic enjoyinent. No man can ever mention the present go"vernment of France without regret; for "after a struggle of ten years, in which the " eyes of mankind were fixed on them, it " is surely a most humiliating consideration "that no one grand object has been effect"ed, and that the contest for liberty is yet

The letter from Stockholm, (Register, p. 129), will excite no more than a contemptuous smile from the Edens, the Beekes, and the rest of that face of politicians, who look to our inland navigation as the "only legitimate means of defence;" but, we would beg these gentlemen, before they absolutely laugh at these gigantic projects, to reflect a little on what they have really seen come to pass in the course of the last ten years. Had they been told, ten years ago, that, be-on this topic, has driven the Jacobins almost fore the month of May, 1802, Gustavus would be assassinated, Leopold poisoned, the Stadtholder ejected, the Pope dethroned and carried into exile, Paul I. eased of his life, the King of Sardinia dethroned, the Dukes of Tuscany, Modena, and Parma, driven from their dominions; had they been told what would befall Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Geneva, Germany, Venice, Lombardy, Piedmont, Genoa, Malta, Spain, and Portugal; had they been told, only six years ago, that France would attack Egypt with an army of 40,000 men, conveyed in 368 transports, 13 ships of the line, and 6 frigates; had these things been predicted" ten years ago, would not the gentlemen of the inland-navigation have smiled? Nay," have they not, from the first dawn of the French Revolution to the present hour, treated with contempt (real or affected) all the apprehensions which have been entertained respecting the successive projects of France? With these inland-navigation gentlemen experience is useless. What the French have done is, with them, no proof of what they are able or willing to do. We" to be renewed; the struggle of the French do, indeed, by no means assert, that the vast and astonishing projects, mentioned by our correspondent, are really entertained; and, if they are, we are still less positive as to their practicability; but we are decidedly of opinion, that there is a general inclination in the powers of the continent, to combine against this country. They envy us our wealth; and the contempt which they necessarily entertain for our administration, encourages them to form schemes for diminishing that wealth. These schemes may sometimes be wild; but, as far as we can pretend to judge, the invasion of Egypt and Syria, by France alone, while at war with half Europe, was not an undertaking of less difficulty than the invasion of Hindostan would, with the aid of Russia, be at this time.,

There are several French decrees, which we have not been able to insert in this

"for liberty was, at one time, interesting "to the world; its importance has now "disappeared, and we have nothing left "but the disgusting picture of a debased "and prostrate people."-Such, then, is the result of the French revolution! Such is the final consequence of the constitution, which that great and far-seeing statesmap, Mr. CHARLES Fox, declared to be "the "most stupendous monument of human "wisdom." He is now gone to view, with the naked eye, the happy effects of his favourite doctrine of cashiering kings. He will, however, return just as wise and as loyal as he went.

Our intelligence from America (see p. 147) is very interesting, and may be relied on as perfectly correct. When we look round the world, and see the tremendous storms which are, in every quarter,

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1571 gathering against this country, and when, to meet all these dangers, we behold nothing but the selfish, low-minded, feeble, and inexperienced Mr. Addington, we cannot help regarding it as doomed to destraction. We are aware that the charge of despondency will be brought against us; that we shall be accused of borrowing the of sentiments entertained by the opponents every former peace, since the reign of Queen Anne, which sentiments have uniformly proved to be erroneous. We beg leave to deny this latter position; for, though Sir Frederick Eden has triumphed at what he is pleased to term the failure of Lord Shelburne's prediction, that when America was given up, the sun of Britain would set for ever," we think that the present relative situation of America goes very far to confirm that prediction. But, if it were true, that the opponents of every preceding peace have been mistaken in their opinions, does it necessarily follow that those who have opposed the present peace are also mistaken? To maintain this, with the slightest degree of plausibility, it must first be proved, that the situation of England, considered in relation with her principal enemy, is not very different from what it was at any former peace. Till this position be established; 'till it be made appear, that the actual possession of Belgium and great part of Italy, with Holland, Switzerland, and Spain, as provinces, together with the command of the Amazons and the Mississippi; 'till it be proved, that these numerous acquisitions to France are not at all dangerous to GreatBritain, though America is, at the same time, rivalling her in point of merchant shipping and seamen; until it be fully and fairly proved, that this distribution of national power is nothing extraordinary in the history of England, every argument grounded upon the failure of former predictions must be totally inapplicable to the question. Let those, therefore, who would dissipate our fears for our country, lay aside this evasive mode of reply, and show us how we shall be able to resist our gigantic enemy, when she has got firm hold of all her possessions; when she has over-awed America, and established a regular intercourse with the mines of Spain.

We should have published the Supplement to Vol. I. thi day; but, having just received materials for bringing down the American History to the month of May, and wishing not to oinit so interesting ana valuable an article, we have delayed the publication for a few days longer.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1802.

ARMY PROMOTIONS.

War-Office, July 31, 1902.

28th Reg. of Light Dragoons, Cornet Geo. H. Wal, ters, from the 8th Light Drag. to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Lang, promoted in the 7th WestIndia Regiment.

York Hussars, Ensign John Lowther Johnstone, from the Coldst, Foot Guards, to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Pelt, who retires.

-Inglis, from
6th Reg. of Foot, Assistant-Surgeon
the Half-pay of the 624 Foot, to be Assistant-Sur-
geon, vice Waters, who exchanges.
29th Ditto, Lieut. Geo. Saville Burdett to be Capt.
by purchase, vice Lord Ch. Bentinck, promoted in
the 3d West-India Reg.

30th Ditto, Lieut. Peter Taylor, from the 84th Foot, to
be Capt. by purchase, vice Laniff, who retires.
38th Ditto, Lieut. Colonel Rob. Pringle, from the
51st Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Nightingall,
who exchanges.

42d Ditto, Capt. David Stewart, from the 90th Foot,
to be Capt. of a Company, vice Muter, promoted
in the 6th Foot.
43d Ditto, Lieut. Francis Glass, from Half-pay of

the 9th Foot. to be Lieut. vice Du Moulin, who
exchanges.

51st Ditto, Lieut-Colonel Miles Nightingall, fron the 38th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Pringle, who exchanges.

77th Ditto, Brevet Lieut-Colonel Alex. Wright, from
the 67th Foot, to be Capt. vice Grant, promoted.
Royal Waggon Train, W. Pettigrew, Esq. from Half-
pay of Capt. to be Paymaster.

Cities of London and Westminster Light
Horse Volunteers.

Cornet Josias Stracy to be Lieutenant, vice Cornwall,

deceased.

Geo. Jenner, Gent, to be Cornet, vice Stracy,
Wm. Rowlett, Gent. to be Corner, vice Beachcroft,
who resigns.
Memorandum.-Lieut."

Gell, of the 52d Foot, is
superseded, being absent without leave.
Ensign John Dodsworth, of the 52d Foot, is super-
seded, having never joined the Regiment.

Whitehall, August 3.-The King has been pleased to order a Congé d'Elire to pass the Great Seal, em4, powering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Rochester, to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the Translation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel, late Bishop thereof, to the See of St. Asaph; and his Majesty has also been pleased by his Royal Sign, Manual to recom mend to the said Dean and Chapter the Reverend Thomas Dampier, Doctor in Diving to be by them elected Bishop of the said See of Rochester.

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CONTENTS.-Let. from the Pope, 161. Dec. absolu. 161. D. of Kent, 162. Mr. Beloe, Mr. Coutts, Ita. Rep. 164.
N. Fr. Constitu. 165. Infamous Art. from the Moniteur. 179. Switzerland, 180. Jamaica Legislature, 182.
Mr. Addington's Sinecure, 183. Bp. Lond. 184. Barbary States, 166. Louisiana, 187. Gen. Bowles, 188.