;~ POLITIOAL DISQUISITIVN. - :, r No. 180, RETROSPECT or EVENTS, . . • Events have slackened their course. the public r7e so long bent with wonder and anxiety on tl,e revolmions of Continental S tates : deeply en. gaged in contemplating the fall of independent kingdoms, and the creation of monarchies enslaved at their birth, now looks in vain for the usual food .of its curiosity. Hitherto a continual series of im portant occurrences had awakened uninterrupted attention. Ever since the first burst of the French Revolution, Europe had either at 'nee, or alter nately in every part presented a scene of unfold activity. Even peace, though concluded between France and every other Continental Power, and' • subsequently with this country, had laid but a feeble,che.ck on the birth and progress of events. The French Ruler availed himself of that season of general tranquillity to occuprthe territory:of up-' defended States, and enlarge hit denainions, - until the tztent of hit aggressions struck us with a. salu tary alarm, and induced us to renew the contest. Then daily threats of invasion called almost all our male population to arms, and attracted the eyes of every nation in the univetse. When the realization of the enemy's boastful threats was incessantly de layed without any other apparent cause than that of apprehension on his part ; the Austrian and Rus. s:.111 Governments awoke from the temporary stu pifaction in which his former successes, and the magnified statement of his means, now proved insufficient to effect any enterprise against this empire, had plunged them. Hurried on by her own atdour, and perhaps by tEe secret per- Edy of her corrupt Counsellors, Austria took \ed beiore her Ally could assistance. Attacked al- Issian Autocrat Was corn :Trace of returning to his marches settled by Ms cone br policy ; viewing, at the .e of exultation, the power Prussia began to perceive the coalition, that she had most dangerous game.... held in cheek by 1/3 ► ;~la (iS s li -. 40's+ 1 .4 ,'' • • i . . .1! ? . '`. tt . ,, 1 4 t• • • 1 t!' -3' IN S ' ' A ,:7 f' ' ' '', 4 , * r" • s, t -.1- . " I - ••• j i , (# '.' 7:-.. -'; • -:_'• 0.) **- sources of the Austrian empire s and careless of the diettint enmity of Russia, the ambitions conquer)! would no lougef tespect her integrity a 4 independ. ence. She 'Soon Sit* that his tone was changed, and swelling with pride at tie •remembrance of her lati greatness, fancied the genius of her 'titLon= still presided over her Council, and her armies, boldly rushed, unsupported like Austria, into the contest, and in d lark was laid irremediably prostrate at the foot of the French Esteeatm. Thus sunk with the brittleness of glass, the lofty tabrk raised by crowned atheism and immorality. and thus are the sins °f a ille fathers visited in due time by Heaven en their descendants. The tardy arrival of the Rus• . sians allowed the conqueror to occupy, with scarcely any opposition after the first battle, almost the whole of Prussia Proper, all Silesia, and the greater part of Poland, 'and compelled the advancing force rather to fight in defence f its own frontiers than in support of its Ally. Defeated with an immense lose at Frizdland, the Russian Autocrat fell into the arms of NA/loom:a; and bemire his most obsequious slave. Wielding the pen as rapidly as the sword, the victor dictated the teems he thought proper, and pe:ke was continued almost before the war. riors, lying on the field of Fliedl;ind, could have been laid in their graves. The pacification of the North proved a signal of war in the West. In vaded under the mask of friendship, robbed of her Kings, her arms, magazines, and fortresses, Spain, without Chiefs and without mearis, t•xcept those torn from the grasp of her toes, dared to resent her injuries. Her pati 4 .ots first conquered, and then fled. The reinforcements poured in from France tore the advantages they had gained from their hands, and they were, to all human probability, sinking beneath the yoke, when the British bayonet, after clearing Portugal of its invaders, suddenly glittered in their plains. Conquering and retreating for the want of a propet intelligence with, and a proper support from, men to whom the first elements of war were unknown, and who possessed but few of its weapons, the cam. paign was carried on by us, until kindled by our successes, and trusting in our powerful divers;an, and secret but strong longing after general emanci pation which the struggles of the Spaniards h created among all the vassals of Fr trice, Austria 149r* challenged ha 19 the 644. Le ardrucr the field, and was ruine yichl her any powerful most singly, then the Rut gelled to submit to the di , own territory by regular r queror. Wavering in hei roar of battle, with an ey of Austria brought low ; after the dissolution of th played an impolitic and .fille felt, th.►t no longer Yol. iv. cdtc...rn 4, - THE NATIONAL.RE . GISTErt . • , . PRINTED AND4l,lll.3llllktii AT NO. 5, PlCKitt-Siattti 0/tANili RICAN TEMPL, jiA L !V) 13,x. SUNDAY,, SY ,TE ,t5,.1811, PR 9t I . I I °