The Recorder

FROM THE PALLADIUM.

BY all the late accounts from Europe it appears, that war is regarded as not far distant, but as to the present points of dispute, whether they will bring it on immediately or not, few are willing to hazard an opinion.

The conversation between Bonaparte and Lord Whitworth, published in our last, seems to have been generally credited by the London editors, down to the 23d of March. They state that the substance of the conversation has been confirmed by a number of letters from Paris. Bell's Weekly Messenger, of March 20, however, declares it to be a fabrication; but when it is considered that this paper is the only one which is well received in France, our readers will judge, whether this contradiction does not corroborate the account.

No certain conclusion can be drawn from this, as to the present policy of the first Consul, but it shews his inveterate hostility towards England. Even Mr. Fox must admit, that such insolent and arrogant language is hardly consistent with professions of being the "pacificator of Europe." It will tend to rouse the spirit of the nation, to unite them as one man, and teach them that even war, with so ambitious an enemy, may be safer than a delusive and treacherous peace.

Upon these topics of peace and war the Chronicle, with its usual truth and consistency, remarks, that this whole transaction,(the retention of Malta and the Cape of Good Hope) is a mystery not easily resolved or explained by the ablest politicians. After a short paragraph, upon the "foolish and nonsensical stories" of English and American newspapers, it goes on to inform us, that the "whole of the difficulty originated in Switzerland, where the British Minister intended to produce a civil war, by an insurrection of the aristocratic cantons against the established Government!!"