measures that were about to be taken by Go wernment," and then recommended him to withdraw his motion.

After a short discussion, including an excellent speech from Mr. Whitbread, charging the Commissioners with gross prevarication in their evidence before the Committee, and endeavouring to withhold from the public the real state of their criminal conduct, the previous question was put and carried, and another motion passed of a more gentle nature, in which, although the conduct of the Commissioners was censured, the Adminis tration, which had so long winked at that conduct, was simply charged with having omitted to notice it! $

In this debate, as it appeared that Mr. Rose being suspected by Mr. Whitbread as having a leaning towards Mr. John Bowles, and a partiality for his writings, the assured the Hon. Gentleman, that he had never read any of his thirty pamphlets, though he would allow that they were regularly laid on his table.

The war between France and Austria, which was supposed would operate so much to the relief of Spain, and had been pre

dicted so long before hand by the ministerial writers, actually broke out in the spring of 1809.

In the pompous Manifesto published on this occasion by the Emperor of Austria, he complained of the manner in which the Ar ticles of the Treaty of Presburg were car. ried into execution; of a passage demanded by France for her troops from the Venetian States to the Provinces on the east coast of the Adriatic; of the insults offered to the Sacred Head of the Church; &c. But the true secret of the Emperor's complaints certainly transpired in the avowal expressed in the same document, "that the security of the Austrian empire could not be sought in an insulated state." His majesty then invites all surrounding states to assist him, and endeavours to animate them by assurances. "A happier lot," he says," awaits you: the liberty of Europe has taken refuge under our banners; and your brothers in Germany, yet in the ranks of the enemy, long for their deliverance. Our assistance is your last effort to be saved. Our cause is that of Germany. United with Austria, Germany was independent and happy; it is

only through the assistance of Austria that Germany can receive happiness and independence."

From these indications and corresponding circumstances it was evident, that the Austrian war of 1809 had for its basis the principle of all the coalitions, which have been formed for these twenty years past. In fact, the emperor's ministers acknowledged, that he very unwillingly, and only as an act of necessity, signed each of his different treaties of amity with France.

The official documents published by France, like those of the Emperor of Austria, contain a variety of complaints mingled with a number of truths. "The horrible expedition against Copenhagen," and the "British Orders in Council," for instance, were reprobated in very strong terms. But the manner in which the Emperor of Austria commenced the war, afforded the best proof of his regard for the principles of justice, and the independence of States.-The King of Saxony and King of Bavaria had reason to complain, that without a declaration of war, and without any previous explanation, their territory was invaded. In fact, the lat

ter was compelled to leave his capital, which was for a time in the hands of the Austrians.

The Emperor of France, in one of his bulletins, recommending to the Bavarians to give minute and faithful accounts of the acts. of wanton cruelty committed by the Aus trians, the invaders of their country, added the extreme probability, that it would be the last insult Austria would be able to offer to the allies of France. Scarcely a week had elapsed after the arrival of Napoleon at the head of his army, when brilliant and repeated victories had routed nearly one half of the Austrian forces, and made 40 or 50,000 prisoners. The victor triumphantly addressing his soldiers, told them, that before the expiration of a month they should be at Vienna. This promise was made on the 24th of April. In little more than a fortnight, viz. on the 12th of May, it was realized the Emperor with his victorious army took possession of the Austrian capital.

After a series of victories and good fortune almost unprecedented, the victorious. career of the French Emperor was for a short time arrested, owing, as the French

bulletins stated, to an accidental breaking down of their bridges by the swelling of the Danube. The Austrians, on this account, were represented in England, as having obtained a brilliant victory; and nothing but congratulations was heard of among the advocates for the war, on the supposed charm of the French Emperor's invincibility being broken. On this account, a sudden frenzy seemed to have seized upon all the journalists under ministerial influence, as well as some of their opponents.

An interval of some weeks in the operations of war was so new to the French, that many persons began to think some negoci-. ation was on foot between the contending parties; still the delusion that had seized on all the public writers, with few exceptions, continued till the arrival of a fresh bulletin, which announced, that the reparation of the bridges and the preparations of the French were nearly completed; but when the battles of Enzendorf and Wagram were announced, then "How unstable is the ground of all human hopes! how impotent the grasp of all human expectation! It is with heartfelt grief, &c." were some of