The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-09 00:00:00

'nu; NATIoNAL aunserrAt. • 4 a 4 the Duke de GItAMMONT and heir to t'le title of . that fa. silly, originally coming from Bern. This young nobleman has been in the town of Guiche, and some others in Bern, previims.to his coming to.this country,• which, probably; in dorsed LORI WELLINGTON to make him the healer of his dispatch, to apprise our Minis:cis of the dispo , ition-of the inh.thitants of that part of France where our army now is. The Duke dc GR A twMONT was Captain of the Lie (CarileS du Cops) of LEwis the XVI th, and hohis now the same situation in the service of LEWIS the XVVIth. NV:IS4ION O 1 FRANCE. N ar oleon's & N ow; of universal empire have not only va nished, hot the lea! power which he so long possessed is quickly departing from his gia , p. The Crown of Old Vrance itself sits toosc!v on his brow, and at the moment when her provinces are imaded, the alternately desponding, threaten ing, and encouraging Avrirings of his A g. , nts, pro e that all patr.otic spirit has been crushed by the weight of his despot ism, :rod that if disaffection to his person does not already display itself, general apathy at least pievails. Let s..ver address to the people, as well as his answer to the •".e -ita,te,. and the sin ech of the Ptesident, Fontanes, he read, 4 , % en in the most eursory wanner, and the real dis position of the French will be cleat iv ascertained. "le hopes of mankind arc filiftiled, and the hour of venge , o , ce st; k. Two hundred thousand Allies have crossed the i'ppt'rnhime, and whilst cro•sing Switzerland to invade the let tit()) l• s ► f the common enemy, have rus!ond lc that coon try het lights, her lihe:ty, and her ancient constitution. conduct on their part, cannot fail to pro•luce some effect on the minds of Napo,eili's sl.tves It will prove .their ass rricin that their .object is not ((inquest but to zeinsi ate tint ions in their ancient possesions. Th e cue pl)'s chief t e,-oiqrce,. is now to endeavour to pUrsWide ltiy peoole that the dismemberment of Fr anee is the !oily cod of the present contest but the French believe thr, when they sue that in Spain, in (,;rt man v, and, in Jithal d, the A!lies hove only tuconqucti:d the country to . givv it back to •its legitimate Sovereigns. It the king of .Fax tiv has ly cn ditreiently treated, it is bec:oise the (keep ,t;on of which he had cnce been guilty towards the coalesced rowels, had rendered him unwci thy of being entrusted with the means of a-si ;tit% the enemy. The e klveter of the two advocates whom Napoleon •hss seleved to defend his usurpation, may exci:e some • surpi ise. Count Laeepede is 'a man of science and in formation, belonging to that class which the revolu tion proscribed. lie has committed no crime and belonged 'to no faction. It is on that account that Napoleon made him President of the Senate, in erder that on occasions when he *should demand heavy sacrifices, and iequire a passive 'beilicilce to the most tyrannical measures, the name of the Orator of the Senate should give additional weight and au thority to his applicatien—Fontanes is what is generally t erm ed a mat) of letters. lie is one of the best poets and litterati of modern Fiance. I. ike his colleague he enjoys the reputation of never having. committed any crimes. Until Buonaparte's usurpation he ra!ber leaned to the ituti-revolutionary& party. But be is an egotist, and ifery fond of mimey. In the first years of the Revolution, he was one of the editors of the Journal Monarchique. Dur ing Roberspierre's government he only tried to cause himelf to be firgotteni and only re-entered the scene when the two Councils opposed} the Directory. lie was then joint editor pith Mr. De la Ilarpe and Abbe de Vauscelles of a paper in - JAN. -9. the interest of the Couricils. lie was consequently pro- scribed on the Isar of Fructidor, left France and came .to England, where he was well received by the agents of the Bourbon Princes. By the - direction of • the Count d'Artois he received three or four hundred pounds. From London he applied to be allowed to return • to France, which he obtained leave secretly to do, by the interest of the Director Rewbell, and of the Deputy. Before he quitted Eng!and he transmitted proposals to Lord Grenville, then Secretary of State, in which he offered to give secret information respecting the state of the national treasury, and of the navy, .in France. Lord Gren7ille be ing at Dropmore, these proposals were sent round to Mr. Wickham, but nothing was done, as Mr. pentanes could not defer his departure until the Minister had formed determination. The speech of this Gentleman is consistent with his character. If it he attentively examined. it will appear that of a man who foresees the possibility of the re storation of the Bourbons, an 4 is willing, in that ca%e, to secure some employment' for himself under their Govern. Two mails from Bremen and one from Heligoland arrived on Wednesday night, by the former of which we have an account published he Fran/fin-1 Gazette, of an insurrec. lion in Tvrol agaiin.t the Bavaiian authorities. Inspruck had been tAen by storm by the insurgents.—A Proclama tion to the Tuvolese, issued by Baron Von' Lichetifeld, dated Inspruck, 12th Dec. states, that the object of the Insur gents in the Tyrol was to withdraw from Bavaria, and place themselves under Austria.—The Heligoland maihstates, that Gluckstadt is cannonaded by the Crown Prince : its fall cannot be long delayed and it appears by what folli4S, that the ulterior operations will carry the Crown Prince to the South.—General Winzingerode is said to have been ()Meted to march to Dusseldorf; and part of I.ntzeirs corps has like wise taken the same direction, in order to collect materials for the passage of the Rhine by the whole of the Prince Royal's army.—The must sevete measures of police have been adopted . at Ilamburgh. A meeting of more than six Fe rsons in the day-time, in the streets, is declared an unlawful assem bly. The moment a is filed, every person in the streets " must run into the neat'est house, and the patrole ate cm powered to disperse even the smal!vst meetings. The Crown Prince of Sweden has issued a Proclamation, addiesscd to the inhabitants of Holstein, in which it is an nounced, that the treaties between the Allies having stipulated the jun( time of Norway to the Kingdom of Sweden, (certain Compnsatioos being fixed for Denmark) he occupies Huh. stein as a pledge for the due cession of Norway to the Swe ll dish Crown. The Allies are said to have offered to Buonaparte, previ ous to the revolution in Holland, that the Rhine should be the boundary of France ; that the United States of Holland should be erected into an independent kingdom, of which Louis Buonaparte should be Sovereign ; that-Murat should give up Naples, and be indemnified - by a Government com posed of the ancient Bishopricks on the Rhine ; that Italy should be portioned out into various districts for Eugene Beauharnoi;, the Archduke Francis, &c. atsd that the Pope and the King of Naples should be reinstated—Spain to be restored to Ferdinand—and Joseph to have an indemnity,.&C. Thursday dispatches were received from tho . Rhine, Holland, and the South of France. The two former confirm the intelligence of the passage of the Rhine by the Allies, with the important .addition of the accession of Switzerland to the great cause of Europe. The Eat' of Ym.mtiutli•arrived yesterday morning from the Russian head-quarters on the Waal.. f 6 ~.„