Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

The rapid and glowing sketch of affairs in Europe, which we have taken from a German letter, is worth perusal. The writer served in the unfortunate Campaigns of the Austrian and German armies, and afterwards in the insurrection in Westphalia.

Balt. Fed. Rep.

Extract of a letter dated Cadiz, August 3d, 1810, from a German Field Officer in the British service, to his friend in Baltimore.

Happy are you that you do not see the wounds of your country. Remain in America until the sun of freedom shall enlighten with new day the desolated fields of Germany.--Bonaparte is endeavouring to outstrip time and to annihilate every thing under the iron weight of his crushing despotism-- Wherever he strikes his foot there is nothing but confusion, and wherever his hands are laid there prevails the annihilation of all human laws, and man himself sinks to a slavish brute, or if he possesses too much native energy to fall so low he becomes a bandit and robber. Rage away, Tyrant! Though you strive to crush the spirit of the age, it will freely pursue its course, and after your death if not before, will fire your structures with its never-extinguished torch.

But whilst the wretched king of Prussia left the brave Schill and us in the lurch, Bonaparte in order to reward him, caused the Marks and Silesia to be occupied, and dethroned his majesty of Prussia, who may now, with his majesty of Holland, purchase a farm for himself wherever he pleases.

Would to God Bonaparte had treated the Germans as he did the Spaniards, and taken away all the princes! then we should now be Germans, and certainly more mighty adversaries of France than the Spaniards, whose courage and spirit have been depressed under so many miserable governments following one after the other. It is expected here, that nevertheless the Cortes will finally produce a salutary revolution.

The brave Tyrolese are again in arms, and who knows what consequences their great example may produce at the present period?

The Austrian Emperor is now entirely lost, as he is beset on all sides by his Brother Charles, who is one of the principal causes of the downfall of Europe, and by prince Liechtenstein.-- Would to God, that he followed his own head or his brother John, and all would be well.~But it appears as if Napoleon was really the rod of God's anger against our degenerate Princes, and I therefore wish he was done with them, that he might cease to plague the people.

In Sweden a formal breach is near taking place between the nobility, citizens, and farmers, an event which has long been desirable for Sweden, as the nobility always made revolutions for themselves, and were opposed to every popular king. The old and shameless uncle of the unfortunate Gustavus, sent the English Ambassador home again, because England naturally espoused the cause of the people,

Respecting Russia I am silent. For what a wretched adversary is such an Alexander! The fall of Prince Kurakin the Russian minister at Paris, from the stairs of Schwartzenberg's Burning Dancing Hall, is perhaps a type and forewarning of what is to happen.

Such is Europe.