The New Hampshire Gazette

LONDON, May 6.

At length the important intelligence is confirmed, and it is known that the republic of France has reduced all her enemies to submission, except the kingdom of Great-Britain. Mr. Best yesterday arrived with dispatches from sir Morton Eden announcing the fact. He embarked on board the Martin sloop of war at Cuxhaven on Saturday afternoon, and was landed at Scarborough. He met Mr. Hammond within four posts of Vienna.

The preliminaries of peace were signed on the 18th ult. by Buonaparte, in the name of the French republic, and by the Neapolitan minister on the part of the Emperor. In regard to the basis of the separate peace between those powers, the matter is conclusive. All the leading features of the pacification are agreed on, but in regard to the ecclesiastic electorates, and every thing which relates to the new arrangement of the territories on the Rhine, which heretofore made a part of the Germanic Empire, those the house of Austria could not of itself surrender; and upon these points it is agreed, that there shall be held a Congress at Basle. To this congress it is also stipulated that the court of London may send a minister with full powers to treat for a general pacification.

Such is the report of this grand event which as it stops the effusion of human blood must give sincere satisfaction to every liberal heart.

Would to God we could also rationally encourage the hope, that the pause in slaughter, might afford time for generous reflection to make tranquility complete. But we dare not flatter ourselves under the miserable auspices to which we are condemned by obstinacy on one side, and torpor on the other, for any such happy event. It turns the whole power of France to one direction; And it is the misfortune of Great-Britain to be so governed, that not one power upon the continent will lament to see this illustrious island, added to the number of their victims. That our readers may see the feelings of the French people towards the English government, on the receipt of the news of the separate peace with the Emperor of Germany, we think it seasonable to translate a paragraph from the Grandeur, of the 28th ult. one of the most moderate of the Journals of Paris, and which is attached to the Directory.

"England alone now remains to us to combat. He who shall subdue that power, will do more for us than even the conqueror of Italy and Austria. We must not dissemble that the fall of Great-Britain is the most wish of government; that if we have forborne to revolutionize the continent, it is that we may crush the maritime powers. This design is so strongly pronounced-it is so profoundly engraven on the hearts of the state, that it would be ridiculous to contest it. If the house of Austria, and the Italian states, are not extinguished, it is to the ulterior intentions of our government that they are indebted for their political existence."

"Let us thank God that the rage of the French people is now to be altogether turned against a power odious to all parties! Never did a war obtain the national assent so perfectly as that which we have yet to terminate.--We have pitied all the other nations over whom we have triumphed: we have wept over the ruins of Italy, of Belgium, and of Germany; but we address with all our hearts, to England, the invocation which was addressed to Rome by the indignant sister of the Horatii."

Notwithstanding the repeated assertions of the friends of ministry, that the French refuse to make peace with their enemies, every regular government in Europe knows they have used force to promote that measure, a proceeding not easily reconcilable to their pretended reluctance. The French Republic is now capable of maintaining the relations of peace and amity. Powder and ball are considered as indifferent arguments by logicians; but after the effect they have produced upon the Emperor of Germany and Mr. Pitt, who will deny that they have a wonderful effect in enlightening the understanding?

The progress of Mr. Pitt in levying contributions on the public is perfectly in character. First he seizes on the cash in the bank; then, as his courage and necessities increase, he takes to the highway, and tells John Bull to STAND and DELIVER.

Peace is at length so far restored to the Continent of Europe, that hostilities between the respective armies are put an end to. France has gained her point in establishing the Rhine as her boundary, and has obtained the accession of Belgium with consent, that Lombardy shall become an independent republic. The Emperor defended his territories as long as it was possible, but was at length forced to yield to that all powerful negociator the Sword.