make crow's-meat of half Holland. Picked "the United Provinces had been drawn out from amongst their fellows, distin-" off from its population; and that no guished, even amongst lawyers, for their known animal is so phlegmatic as an sycophancy, their turpitude, their cold-" aged Dutchman, we thought it improblooded cruelty, as I dare say these Judges" bable that any movement against opwere, they are fit objects of most severe "pression should take place there; but punishment, if severe punishment were we understand that authentic information fitting for the occasion. But, let the venal" has been received by Ministers of the say of me what they will; let them ać-" important fact; and that it amounts to cuse me as long as they please of lenity" a serious insurrection. Yesterday afterand tenderness for these Judges, I must" noon, we hear, intelligence upon v which still recommend to the people of Holland" they can rely, came to hand. The seato let the old hardened scoundrels drag "men on board the fleet at Antwerp had mu out their lives to a natural close; for," tinied, and that it was by their demoncertain I am, that nothing could be so se- "stration that the flame spread. We have vere a punishment to them as to see the" heard no particulars; and indeed the people free and happy.--Far be it from "Merchants connected with Holland very me, however, to wish to see the Dutch" generally disbelieved the reports, or at confine their resumption of property to least distrusted the rumour that the disthese men. I should be glad to see them" content had assumed any formidable make all their robbers of every description" shape of hostility to the French. They disgorge; and, if they were to do this, I "consider them as totally subdued and dare say, that there would want no other" broken in heart; but at the same time if means of compensating the poor widows" the Norwegian and Danish seamen have and orphans, who have lost their all, or deserted, so as to arouse the dormant who are in a fair way of losing their all," spirit of the Dutch, they say, that they in the obliteration of the National Debt." are as stubborn when up as they are difficult --The Dutch, I see, disarmed the soldiers" to stir. WE TRUST, therefore, that the at the out-set. That was the way to come at the robbers au nom de la loi, or, as we would call them in English, legal robbers, or, rather, literally, robbers in the name of the law. These gentry were, I'll be sworn, nothing without the soldiers at their back. They could not have perpetrated their villainies without the aid of the bayonet, and that they knew well; for, though the soldiers might not, perhaps, have actually assisted at their sittings, still they were at hand, they were hard by; and this was well known to all the parties concerned; so that the obedience that the poor devils of Dutchmen have apparently been yielding to the law, they have, in fact, been yielding to the bayonet.--This was a state of things that could not endure long; and, is there, upon earth, any man, except a public robber, who could wish any people to live in such astate?—The MORNING CHRONICLE, who had at first, entertained doubts as to the authenticity of this intelligence, has had these doubts removed by subsequent advices, and is now happy to find that an insurrection amongst the Dutch has really taken place. The words are these, and I insert them because they serve to show the unanimity that prevails upon this subject." We hesitated in giving belief "to the rumour of disturbances in Hol"land. Knowing that all the youth of

"accounts received from Harwich yes"terday afternoon, WILL TURN OUT "TO BE TRUE.". That is to say, Mr. Perry trusts; not only hopes, but trusts, that a serious insurrection has taken place in Holland and in Flanders. This is very well; but, as I before observed, great care should be taken, upon these occasions, so to express ourselves as not to be understood as regarding insurrection in ge, neral as a good thing; because, unless this be done, we may chance to stab our own government through the sides of the enemy. To erult at an insurrection and a mutiny in a fleet; to express our pleasure at such things, without fully stating the grounds of our exultation, and showing that it is not the thing itself that we like, but the use of it in a particular application; without doing this, we do, in fact, inculcate insurrection and mutiny in every part of the world, which, I take it, is more than either the COURIER or the CHRONICLE wishes to do.

It is not enough to say, that Napoleon is our enemy. That alone is not suf ficient to justify us in applauding those of his subjects who revolt and those of his sailors who mutiny; for, if it were, then are insurrection and mutiny matters of mere expediency; and, as it is so desirable that they should take place in one coun try, why should it not be equally desira.

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enable their several governments to hire out the youth of the country to fight for other nations, and in some cases, to fight against each other for foreign hire.In the mean while, France herself, duly prepared by the oppressions exercised on the people, will, in all human probability, be ready to receive Lord Viscount Talavera, who, having first delivered Spain and Portugal, will next become the deliverer of France, and, having restored to her that regular government, of which she has been so long deprived, will, of course, return to England by the way of Calais and Dover, and will enter London crowned with laurels, and march to melodious music along roads strewed with branches and with flowers.-The gun-firing, the illuminations, the bell-ringing, the turtle eating, the toasting and singing, the paragraph and poetry grinding that will follow I shall not attempt to describe. I shall leave these to the imagination of the reader; and, I shall also leave him to guess, if he can, at the end of Buonaparte.These events having taken place, commerce, of course, will be restored to its usual channels; all the blessings of regular government will be insured to us for our natural lives; or, at least, there will be nothing wanting but to lower the price of the Dollar.

ble for them to take place in another
Country?I trust, therefore, that Mr.
Perry, when he again expresses his delight
at these insurrections and mutinies in Hol-
land, Flanders, and France (for to the
latter country they are, it seems, already
extended), he will fully state the grounds
of his joy, as I have endeavoured to do in
the foregoing pages of this article.
The intelligence being now derived from
this authentic source, there can be no doubt
of us truth; and, therefore, I shall, contrary
to my usual practice, indulge in a few con
jectures as to the probable consequences,
-The sailors having mutinied at Ant-
werp, the inhabitants will, doubtless, fol-
low their example; because the complete
success, with which the mutiny has been
attended, implies the want either of
power or of will in the soldiers to put
a stop to it. The inhabitants of Antwerp
will, then, we must suppose, join with the
sailors; and, one of the first steps will be, of
course, to carry the ships down the Scheldt
and surrender them to our Admiral, who
will take them and the seamen into our ser-
vice, and employ both in the deliverance
of Europe. The people of Flushing having
caught the "
flame," as the Morning Chro-
nicle calls it, Walcheren, dear Walcheren!
will, of course, be put into our hands with-
out firing a gun. All Holland will follow
the example. The French will be chasse'd
out, as the correspondents in Portugal call
it; the friends of the old government will
assume power, and, in a few months, the
Stadtholder will be reinstated. Travelling
northward, the insurrection will, oust the
French from the Hans Towns; will eject
them from Denmark; will kick Berna-
dotte out of Sweden, where the king,
whose departure from England is now ac-
counted for, will remount the throne.
Taking next a sweep athwart Germany,"
the insurrection will drive Jerome Buona-
parté from his territories, and especially
from dear Hanover. The Confederation of
the Rhine will be dissolved; the Emperor
and Electors of the Holy Roman Empire"
will resume their ranks, offices, functions,
privileges and emoluments; Roine will
once more be the seat of St. Peter's Suc-
cessor; Naples will again see its ainiable
king and queen; the Dukes will resume
their sway in Tuscany and Modena, the
Doge at Genoa; Piedmont will receive
back her legitimate sovereign; all Italy

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be delivered, and the SWISS CANTONS will once more be restored to that happy state, which, for want of wars of their own,

It is quite surprizing to see how Napoleon employs, or, rather, amuses himself amidst all this--The CoURTER tells us, that his time is divided between the cradle and the nursery.- "Paris papers," says the COURIER of the 25th instant," arrived "last night to the 20th instant.

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his Marshals are flying before the Bri"tish legions, defeated in every encounter. Whilst his armies are suffering every privation, ill fed, ill clothed, and worse paid, what occupies the attention of Buonaparté? The cradle and the nursery! "Couriers are passing from Paris to Vienna, on the important errand of carrying Bulletins of the boy's health, "and invitations to the Emperor of Austria to stand Godfather to him. Buona"parté and his MISTRESS are to go to "Notre Dame on the 2d of June, the day "of Pentecost, when the fruit of their "ADULTERY is to be christened. And "these are the chief contents of the Paris "Papers! There is as little intelligence "from the armies in the Peninsula, as if "no war existed there to drain the blood "and the resources of the French nation.”

How angry this man seems at the French nation' " for not seeming to care

guese people are not
twelve month ago.

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about the drain upon its blood and rewhere they were a Their olive groves sources! Base dogs! What, will they not have been cut down. They are beggared. stir? Will they suffer their blood and resources to be drained away for the pur-They are delivered of their eatables and poses of entailing accursed slavery upon their clothes and their lodgings. It is the people in the South of Europe? De- stated in our news-papers, by some of the generate wretches! Will they thus sub- writers from the army, that Portugal has mit to work like horses and asses and to been thrown back for thirty years. It has, have their earnings taken from them by then, been a prosperous campaign for tame cheaters, for the purpose, in reality, Portugal! One of these writers, as quoted of preventing the people of Spain and Por- in my last Number, exclaims, "Oh ! tugal from becoming free; aye, for the pur- "happy England! You are safe from such pose of preventing these oppressed people" scenes!"This is pretty comfort for from recovering their natural rights; and the people of Portugal. But, we are thereby setting a dangerous example. They subscribing for their relief. Yes, 11,135. must be base dogs indeed to suffer this; 15s. was subscribed for them the other but, at any rate, they are not base enough day, at a Grand Meeting in the city, comto applaud the wisdom of those measures, posed of Merchants and Bankers; and, it of that train of iniquitous schemes, by must be a great consolation to that begwhich they are thus robbed and made to gared and half-murdered people to hear, that there is subscribed for their relief, a' work for the means of insuring their own slavery. They are not base enough for sum amounting to more than five farthings, this. They hold their tongues about it, at and, indeed, to almost three half-pence, any rate. They sing and dance and fiddle. head!—Let me hear of 20 millions of They seem to endeavour to forget their pounds being subscribed, and then I shall disgrace. They are not so heinously base begin to think, that the poor creatures® as to affect to be happy under it. They will get something like relief. That sum know that they are, in fact, under the sway would make them 107. each (in paperof the bayonet, and they are not so shame- money), and surely that is no great matter. What, then, are five farthings? lessly base as to brag about their freedom. matter. They know, that, in fact, they dare not speak explicitly upon public matters, except they speak in praise of those who oppress them. This they know well; but, I must say this much for them, that they are not so far lost to all sense of truth and decency as to pretend to look upon themselves as enjoying political liberty. They are base enough as it is; but, they would be much more base if they used this hypocrisy as an excuse, or rather a disguise, for their cowardice.

-To return to the Dispatch of Lord' Talavera, I do not see any details of priz soners and cannon taken, and hardly any waggons do I see in the account of captures. There are killings and woundings in abundance, but very few prisoners. This is a pretty strong proof that we have not gained much in this pursuit; and that the retreat has been very ably conducted.At any rate, the two armies are only where they were a year ago; except that the French bave Rodrigo open to them now, which they had not then; and, all that' the Portuguese have suffered is the fruit of the campaign. The protection of Portugal against the French was the object' then, and so it is now.It will be said, indeed, that things are totally changed; that now there is an insurrection in France, and that Massena will be obliged to hasten home to assist his master. Very true; but, who have we to thank for that? Not my Lord Talavera. He has had nothing to do with the insurrections in Flanders and Holland and France. It may, indeed, be said, that our ministers have had something to do in causing these insurrections, which have arisen, in all human probability, out of the galling taxation which their vigor But, the Portuous war has rendered necessary to Napo

· PORTUGAL. THE WAR. -The war in Portugal is become of more interest than ever now that there is a prospect of a revolution in France, and of the speedy deliverance of all Europe.Lord Talavera will, I suppose, pursue Massena into France, unless, indeed, the French army under that general should disperse, or come over to us in a body. -Lord Ta-lavera's last Dispatch will be found in another part of this Number. It appears, that Massena had crossed the Portuguese frontier, and had merely left a garrison in Almeida, which was expected soon to fall. In short, the two armies appear from this Dispatch, to be precisely where they were just about a twelve month ago. But, the Portu

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leon. This is possible; but Lord Talavera has had no hand in the glorious work, and I, therefore, should certainly not be disposed to thank him for it.He is, as was said before, just where he was last year; but then the country behind him was untouched; now it is devastated, ravaged, ruined, the very germe of its wants being, to a great extent, destroyed. For what, then, is he to be thanked?

"ment, and fine at the discretion of the Court. The defendant was admitted to "bail,". -This is precisely such another case as that of DE YONGE. But, what enables this news-writer to say, that this act was against the Statute of the 3d of Ed. III. There is not a word of truth in it. The statement is wholly false. It is an attempt to frighten people; and, is, in fact, like the tricks that they had recourse to in France to deter people from giving gold and silver a preference to paper. -But, that which is most to be dwelt upon is the folly of all this, while, at the same time, it can, I dare say, be proved, that coin is bought with paper at a premium, or, in other words, that paper is bought with coin at a discount, in every street in London, and in every town in the country.. -However, such things will be. There never yet has been a depreciated paper-money unattended with such symptoms. They belong to it. They make part of its appurtenances; and, as the paper goes down, they will increase in number as well as in force.--There is one puff, which, out of many, I shall select for insertion on account of its great curiosity. It will make the sensible reader laugh; but, he will also perceive, that it may serve to dupe some few of those who are enabled to hoard. The object of it is to persuade the public, that great masses of gold and silver may shortly be expected from China and India.-A SINGULAR CHANGE is about to take place in our commercial relations

JUBILEE DOLLARS.- -Since my last Number, two fresh puffs have appeared, in order to persuade the public, that Silver will shortly become more abundant, and that, of course, it is not worth their while to hoard. On the 25th the following para< graph was circulated :-"The Bullion "Brokers to the Bank have, it is said, for "mally declared, that Silver has within a "few days fullen in value in such propor❝tion, as to reduce the intrinsic value of "a dollar to five shillings one penny and a "fraction." -Whence this puff comes is very evident; but, will the Bank let out their dollars at this price? They know better; and I must actually see the thing, before I will believe, that they will let out any dollars at 5s. 6d. If they do, these dollars will not remain long in circulation, in spite of all the prosecutions that may be commenced against the dealers in coin, -In my last I mentioned the case of the dealer, taken up for selling Bank Notes. Since that, it has been published more circumstantially, as follows. -"Mansion-House, Tuesday, April 23. "JAMES KING, Guard of the Yarmouth" with the East, and especially with "Mail Coach, was brought up for examination, upon a charge of purchasing eight guineas, the coin of this realm, at a price considerably beyond their current value. "The charge was brought by Mr. Nalder, "the Under-Marshal of the city of Lon"don; who, in consequence of informa"tion received from the Treasury, that eyes of the Chinese to the folly of re"there were persons about town employed "taining within their own empire, through "as agents to purchase guineas for exporta- "motives of jealousy, a commodity which "tion, made different enquiry, and having" derives its chief value from its being con"found out the defendant, he marked eight "sidered as the only general instrument of "guineas, and went with Sayer, the Bow- "commerce. The countries contiguous to "street officer, who sold those guineas to the "China begin now to experience the be"prisoner, and received for each 11. 5s. 6d. "neficial consequences of the change. Con"Mr. Nalder shortly afterwards took the "siderable supplies of specie have already "prisoner into custody, found the marked "reached various parts of India from "guineas upon him, and brought him be- "China; and in Bengal, silver has recent "fore the Lord Mayor; the transaction "ly been most abundant. Indeed; it is "being against the Statute of the third of "so plentiful at Calcutta, that the rate of "Edward III. which subjects offenders to interest, which in India has usually been "the penalty of twelve months imprison-extremely high, has fallen almost as low

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"China. For AGES, the precious metals "exported to the latter have been in a "state of accumulation; a large portion of "them will probably, in a short time, re"turn to this quarter of the globe. An ab"solute want of raw materials of various "descriptions has at length opened the