Jenks' Portland Gazette

More about the Invasion.

LONDON, JULY 4,

THE following is given in a morning paper as an extract of a private letter from Paris, dated June 18: "Bonaparte intends next week to set out for the coast; and as he is to return before the 14th of July, the common belief here is, that, should wind and circumstances permit, something will be undertaken before that period."

"The day before yesterday, extra-Couriers left this city for Holland, Boulogne, and Brest, with orders for our naval commanders to seize the first opportunity of putting to sea, and coute qui coute, land in England, as many troops as possible, so that, before the coronation ceremony, an invasion and victory may be announced."

"Our Brest fleet is nearly as numerous, and the Texel fleet not much inferior, to the English blockading fleets.—But, both in our fleets and flotillas, are some chosen ships, containing picked and desperate crews, called enfans perdus, who, as an advanced guard, are to try to create confusion among their enemies, by boarding &c.; and, by it, permit the remainder of their fleets and transports to escape, and to land their troops in England. Every man of these crews, who survives, is to be created a member of the legion of honor, and to receive a pension."

"On board these ships are, besides, combustible matters, of a new composition, which are said to be inextinguishable."

"According to what I have heard in conversation with the French naval and military officers, the Brest is intended to invade the West: the Texel-Fleet the East: and the Boulogne flotilla the south of England. As to Ireland, they said, it would fall by itself, if they were victorious in Great Britain."

"These particulars are no secrets here, but talked of in our best and best informed societies."
That Bonaparte soon will, and must, attempt an invasion, fools only cannot foresee, and traitors dare to deny.—He has pledged himself to France and to the world—at prepared as he now is, his troops will regard a longer delay, as a defeat If we are upon our guard, and not lose the spirit—and patriot ism which we evinced last year, the sooner we have tried our strength with our, irreconcileable foe the better; because we are convinced it will strike to his throne, and; perhaps. make the third year of his empire the last. With all his powerful means, the real grand relative situation of this extraordinary man, is as desperate as in any former part of his. career. A defeat will inevitably be followed, not only by loss of rank and authority. but that: of. life itself ; for he owes every thing to an uninterrupted ac- cess and, favored as his soldiers have been, with an easy and certain conquest, misfortunes will soon annihilate the golden image, which pros- perity alone has set up . Pichegru and Moreau will be remembered, and the universe revenged.

Besides, detested and feared as Bonaparte is every where upon the continent, a defeat would be now, as after the battle of Aboukir. a signal for a new confederacy ; and while disunion, disaffection, and perhaps civil wars, raged at home, France would experience an invasion from abroad. and the discontented, enslaved. and op- pressed with Batavians, and Italians, seize the first opportunity to throw off. a yoke which notwithstanding commanded addresses and deputations, they wear with so much di s gust.