There are those who will ...
There are those who will recollect to this day, thte part ,which we took in the attack upon the Danish fleet at Co- xT-nhagen; how we applauded that act, as a wondrous (is- ply of British energy and courage, and hov we maintained the propriety of the enterprise, upon the acknowledged principles of the law of nations. A tarly, but irrefraga- ble proof that our opinionis were right, and the conduct of our Gov,crment just and politic, appears in the Me- moirs of FouctiE. We are aware that some doubts lia'ee been excited as to the authenticity of the work. The doubt, howvrer, our readerg slould be informed, is,whether all that Fouc)iE wrote has been published; and in that doubt we have nio slight reasons for participating: but every sensible *nan must perceive fromn internal evidence, .hat vhatever is published is by the hand of the reputed author. We have no reason for flattering the public that the ensuing part of the work will not be subjected to the same censorship. In the following manner, then, FouciiE writes of the eszteprise to which we allude:- *4 About this time it was that we learnrd the success of *'-the attack upon Copenlhagen by tlhe English, whicli was the first derangement of the secret stipulations of Tilyit, ' ,/ virtue of which the DanishflZeet was to be placed at the "rdisposal of France! Since the death of PAUJLI., I never 55W6a NAPOLEON giVe himself up to such vielent trans- *''ports of passion. That which astounded him most in " that vigorous stroke (vigoureux coup de main) was the "promptitude with which the English Ministry took their "resolution. He began to suspect some new treachery in " the 'Cabinet, and gave' me orders to ascertain if it had "nothinrg to do with the ill-will created by a late re- Cc moval,--thatof TALLEYBANID from the office of Foreign Seeretary. The publication of such a document as the preceding is unilucky for those who have uwritten histories, in which that action is comprised, desc-fbing it as "base, unprovoked, cruel," and we know not what. As to other sapiences, who oaly made speeches on the occasion, present effect was probably all they aimed -at : we humbly act upon more durable principles. The justice of the Copenhagen expedi- tion is now, we presume, finally settled.