of Providence is every where visible. Even at this moment it is performing the promised work of papal extirpation. Persevere then, Britons, in the mighty task before you. To recede from it were ruin. Be firm, and you triumph-fear, and you fall."

It is evident that the British government were aware of their high destinies, and of the great workof political redemption for the world, which they had to perform, when through their minister for foreign affairs, they issued their spirited and lofty declaration to Russia, at an hour when the whole of Continental Europe, with the exception only of Sweden, was combined against England, under the auspices and direction of Buonaparte. From this declaration, dated Westminster, 18th December, 1807, are extracted the following pointed and powerful paragraphs, which display a dignity and an energy of character, well-becoming a great and a magnanimous people. "The requisition of his imperial majesty of Russia for the immediate conclusion, by his Britannic majesty, of a peace with France, is as extraordinary in the substance as it is offensive in the manner. His majesty has at no time declined to treat with France, when France has professed a willingness to treat on an admissible basis; and the Emperor of Russia cannot fail to remember that the last negotiation between Great-Britain and France was broken off, upon points immediately affecting, not his Majesty's own interests, but those of his Imperial ally. But his Majesty neither understands, nor will he admit the pretension of the Emperor of Russia to dictate the time or mode of his Majesty's pacific negotiations with other powers. It never will be endured by his Majesty that any government shall indemnify itself for the humiliation of serviency to France, by the adoption of an insulting and peremptory tone towards Great-Britain. His Majesty proclaims anew those principles of maritime law, against which the

armed neutrality, under the auspices of the Empress Catharine, was originally directed, and against which the present hostilities of Russia are denounced. Those principles have been recognised and acted upon in the best periods of the history of Europe; and acted upon by no power with more strictness and severity than by Russia, in the reign of the Empress Catharine. Those principles, it is the right and the duty of his Majesty to maintain; and against every confederacy his Majesty is determined, under the blessing of Divine Providence, to maintain them. They have at all times contributed essentially to the support of the maritime power of Great-Britain; but they are become incalculably more valuable and important, at a period when the maritime power of Great-Britain constitutes the sole remaining bulwark against the overwhelming usurpations of France; the only refuge to which other nations may yet resort, in happier times, for assistance and protection."

May the Almighty God, in his infinite mercy, impart to the rulers of Britain, of whatever denomination, whether they adhere to the name and to the policy of the late illustrious William Pitt, or of his great rival Mr. Fox, the wisdom and the courage to fulfil most scrupulously the very spirit and letter of this lofty declaration. May HE, by whose permission kings reign and princes hold dominion, enable the rulers of Britain, now and for ever, to direct with a daring and a steady hand the boundless resources of that mighty empire, against the common enemy of the human race; with the guardianship of presiding genius to aid the weak, to restrain the encroachments of the strong; to assist the people of Continental Europe in their patriotic efforts, at once to beat down the domestic despotism of their own worn out and corrupted dynasties, and to trample beneath their feet the foreign domination of an invading foe; to make the star of Napoleon fade into a dim tinct; to put to

gether the glittering fragments of disjointed Europe; to clothe with warm flesh the dead bones of the valley; to awake to liberty, to life, to light, and joy, the slumbering millions of a prostrate world!

It is rumored here, that the FATHER of his people is gone unto his rest. If it be so, peace to his spirit! The memory of his virtues will for ever live. Through a long succession of years, in the tide of eventful times, His firmness and integrity maintained the honor of his Crown unimpaired; promoted and extended the happiness of his people; upheld the character of the nation in all its attributes of renown. If the Sun of England be set, no night hath followed; no night can follow. If the Sun of England be set, it is set only to rise on the morrow's dawn, with renewed and increasing lustre. While the Sovereign governs under the benignant influence of the laws; while the people are free; while religion, morals, intelligence, learning, science, industry, enterprise, and valor, continue to make that land their favored abode, the Sun of England's glory can never set; but will burn with brighter and still brighter light, until all the ages of time shall be lost in the profound of Eternity.

FINIS.