Gazette Of The United States

NORFOLK, March 2.

Intelligence has lately been received from London, that Great-Britain has acceded to the combination, formed to arrest the progress of the Jacobin career. The principal motives stated in the British manifesto, are-

"A firm determination on the part of the contracting powers to support the European stations in the enjoyment of that right, which ought to be common to all; an entire and unqualified liberty of maintaining whatever political establishments they may think most conducive to their own happiness and security. That it is time enough for one nation to assist another, when such assistance shall have been required by a majority, at least, of the nation which may become dissatisfied with its existing government. That to succour the distressed and support other nations, in a generous determination to be free, well becomes the dignity and liberty of a great and enlightened people: But it is no less unjustifiable than it is disrespectful, for any people to permit themselves to be fascinated into a wanton and violent intrusion upon the political arrangements of others--however foreign they may be thought from the favorite standard or imaginary excellence of their own. That the impulse of self-preservation, no less than the necessary independence of other nations, demands the immediate and effective interference of the British arms. Nor can the frantic excess of a power, at once so licentious and destructive, any longer be permitted to outrage the voluntary establishments of neighbouring nations; or by an insulting imposition of pretended benefits, proceed in its designs of coercive and unbounded augmentations. That while the operations of that n power were directed to such objects, as might be fairly esteemed conducive to the support and defence of such arrangements as might have proceeded from the free expression of the national will, it would not have been consistent with the dignity or inclination of Great. Britain to have interfered. But however unequivocally the traces may appear among Some of the neighbouring nations, of a decided attachment to the late combination against France, it cannot be reasonably expected, on the part of that power, that the effects even of its just resentment can be permitted to extend to the entire subversion of the political independence of those nations. The rights and relative duties of all nations, sufficiently inculcate the propriety of remaining satisfied with a deprivation of the power of an enemy to injure or invade the public security. The principles of self-preservation, combined with those of a just and magnanimous policy, have wisely forbidden national hostilities to exceed those bounds. With these views, the British nation feels itself constrained to announce to the existing powers of France, and to all Europe, its firm determination to prevent, by every mean in its power, any accession of territory whatever, to the known and established boundaries of France, as they may have been designated by the treaties made with other nations; nor can it be expected that the operations of the British arms should cease, until France shall have evinced a disposition, on her part, to renounce the ascendancy which she may have acquired, by violence, over those nations or cities, which may have been subjected by her power.'"