The National Intelligencer And Washington Advertiser

WASHINGTON CITY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1801.

The details of foreign news, which we continue to present to our readers, as well from files of London prints which we have just received, as from contemporaneous papers, are so deeply interesting, that we have been obliged to defer the appearance of much original matter ; which will, however, not be ultimately neglected.

The surprise of our readers will, we are convinced, be great at the unbounded enthusiasm with which peace, and whatever is incidental to peace, has been hailed by the people of London. In their estimation the First Consul appears to be a God" the Saviour of the universe;" and whatever emanates from him is deemed sacred. Vive la Republique, and long live Bonaparte, resound through the metropolis ; while the King of England, and all subordinate authorities, are either forgotten, or remembered only to be condemned.

It is natural that peace should bring joy to the feelings of every people; as every people are permanently attached to peace, and would never voluntarily abandon it but to protect invaded rights.

But in Britain we behold not only enthusiasm at the establishment of peace; but we behold this enthusiasm, mingled we presume with a love of liberty, triumphing over the liveliest national antipathies that perhaps ever existed. View the admiration, the distinction, the affection, with which the French Envoy was received, and say if you do not discern symptoms of a spirit, that may ere long give an entire new political character to England. That her political character may be changed, and that from being the friend of, war and devastation, she may become the guardian of peace and prosperity, must be the first desire of every enlightened philanthropist; his second, that this mighty effect may be produced by reason instead of the sword.