The New Hampshire Gazette

Portsmouth.

Tuesday, October 21; 1806.

The advices from Europe do not yet afford any countenance to the expectation of a speedy peace: the state of the belligerent nations in their internal affairs, is the only circumstance which can give the remotest hope of any such event being likely to occur in the course of the present year.

The imperious and irresistible power of France on the European continent is demonstrated by the cessation of the title of emperor of Germany, and of course of the electoral colleges of the Germanic federation. The gordian knot which bound that body together for four centuries, was cut at Austerlitz by the modern Alexander.

England, Sweden, and wretched Sicily, stand singly against the arbiter of Europe--and maintain in the paradoxical language of Windham--a war like a peace;--for it is reduced to a war of parades and placarts.

There is very strong ground for believing that the partition of Spain--and the annihilation of the Portuguese monarchy, by a transfer to Spain, will be consummated very speedily.

The formation of a maritime code is said to be one of the objects of the French government; and the Russian emperor is said to have in charge the declaration of the principles of the armed neutrality of 1780, to the northern powers, who are to send delegates to Hamburgh to ratify the compact, after which it is to be formally received and recognized by the southern federative states connected with France; .

and the ships of every nation which refuses to accept it, are to be interdicted from access to the ports of all and every of the nations parties to the new maritime compact--the basis of this compact is to be free ships make free goods, which was the ancient law of nations.

Aurora.

The Paris Argus of the 30th August says: "We do not share the opinion of the journalists of London, upon the effect which some fresh triumphs of their navy would produce.

It is not upon any point of the ocean that the grand contest subsisting between France and England can be henceforth decided. The question hitherto was, whether Great' Britain should preserve the dominion of her influence upon the continent: this first and principal point has been irrevocably determined in the plains of Austerlitz. The second question which remains to be resolved, and which is an inevitable consequence of the former, is, how long the nations of the continent shall remain excluded from the common domain of the sea, and subjected to the yoke which England imposes upon their commerce and their industry. This second conquest is, it is true, not yet performed; but all nations are interested in it as well as the French, and all Europe is ready to undertake it."

Who would have thought that the subject of a Union with England would have been mentioned by those who appeared alarmed at every danger, and who, in the strongest language, have represented the dangers from France? At a time when England was dissolving every alliance, is this the time to defy the power, with which we might be bold to contend, if it should invade our country?

(Salem Register.)