The National Register. — London, England, 1813-01-17 00:00:00

JAN. 17. to take e place in E.isteril t'rus':ia, which by the retreat of the I. reach army, is in the power of th( a7nly. 1i c Prussian tr , ..lps will form a neutral corps, ani will nJt submit oostiities against either party. Subsequent events, the consequence of tiegockitions, which are to take place between the BAligerent powers, will decide their future five. •‘i hasten to inf , ..rin your Excellency of a proceeding to which 1 have tern to.ce,i by weivlitv cn• infistatices. Whatcyti be the judg ment that the world may 1 .1-s upon in conduct, I shall be very in different to it. Duty towards my troops, and the most mature deli beration dictated it. The most mit . nyftiv,:.., whatever 3: peararces slay be, ;‘ .li led file. It: mah g t his declaration to von. Mons...igneur, I a.:quit my:::Vot obln-ation to you, and beg of you to accept the assurances of the mots: ;)r found rispe,:t, with I inn, (Signed) D'YORK. A true Copy, (Si,-,neJ) ' • the Marshal D uke of "rarente, NIACDONALD." This correspondence was laid before the Senate, and a report was ni7dt.: by the k•er for Foreign proposing.— • " 1. To s.nd to the active arn.y the lOU collolts of national guards. " '2. To make a cal of 100,010 men fr;;nt the conscrjptions of 1809, 1810, 1811, and 181'2.. " s. To raise 150,000 nv..”c. f the conscriptcn for 1811." Then follow motives of t Senatus Consultutn for putting 350,000 men at the disposal of the Minister at War. Here we have a laboured tir. , cle against England, imputing every thing that has occtirred on the Continent, frem the first continental wars down to the detection of General D'Y . The proceedings of the Senate on the 1 Itlt inst. are then given, when the above pi posals of the Minister w:te passel into a Senatus Cousultum, in the follow ing form— A rt. 1. 350,000 men arc placed at the disposal of the Minister at War, to wit : " Ist, 100,000 men, forming the 100 cohorts of the first ban of th'2. gu " 2d, 100,000 men of the conscription of 1,909, 1810, 1811, md 1812, taken front among those %elm have not been called upon to make a part attic active army. " 3.1, 150,000 men of conscription of 1811." Art. 11. In the cxeLution of the preceding article, the hundred co horts of the first ban shall cease to form a part of the national guard, and shall form a part of the activs army. " Such men as have married betove the publication of this present S•natits Conultum, cannot be designated to make a pact of the levies taken on the conscriptions for the years 1809, 1810, 1811, and 1912. " The 150,003 men of the conscription of 1811, shall be levied in the course of the ) ear, and to such time as shall be designated by the Mi. Mister at War." Art. I 1 I. This present Senatus Consultum shall he transmitted by a Message to his Majesty the Emperor and King. The President and Secretaries, (Signed) CAM IiACERES. The Count DE BEAT' NIONT. The Count DE LA PPA Seen and sealed. The Chancellor of the senate. (Sioed) Count LAPLACE. PARTS, JAN 9.—The Prirce of Neufchatel, Major-Ce! oral, writes from Kuuigsbergh, under date of 31st December, makes known the positions of the army. Marshal the Duke of Tarentum, with the 10th corps, occupies Td sit ant the b Inks of the Niemen ; he has taken several Russian bat talions and several pieces of cannon. H uedeiet's division occupies Lahraw, Wulau, and Insterbourg; the herd gin,rters of the 31st division and the guard, are at Konigsberg. The Ist c. res is at Thorn, the 2d at Mattenbourg, Mattenwerder, the It!, at Nlauenbourg, the lid occupies libing, the 9th Dantzie, the clth Pluk, the Austrian corps on the Itinbstock covers the Duchy or Warsaw, the it h corps between Presang and the Vistula, is in front of Warsaw ; the 3th corps is at Warsaw. N TIONAI REGISTER; nEitAnKs OF THE MONFIEUR. The MONITEUR of the 7th contains the following not* upon ob sel vations iii an Ett . lisli newspaper : Esc:List' N EWSP AP ER,—" 1 he Ant , ...lope, of .50 g!ms, !ailed from n•nttit on Saturday morning, having 100,000 of gu!d in b:trs on board, to pay the troops in the Peninsula," • Note I.—" Fur seven months your army of Portugal was not paid; this 100,0001. will not be sufficient ite the arrears." ENGLISH NEWSPAI'F......." - Utley writ , : from Copenhagen, that the Danish Governme.:t has it in contemplation to make peace with Egglarl, &c." Not.: 2, in the lloxyrEurt.—" Denmark will make pence with you ; the outrage you ;.:}:nirtitted upon her by burning let - 1 . 411 pe , ce, and taking her fleet, is not one of those outrages which can be eft:iced by money." ENGLISH PA.PR1t......." If Soult makes a retrograde movement, the Marquis of Welliagton will certainly emb..rk for England, Sic." 35 Note 3, in Cie IltoN flog --" Nut only NV'Il Lot the Duke of Dal inati%'s artily make a tent grade movement towards Fiance, but fresh troops arc tri th.ir march to reintotce it. Ihe efti:ctive force of the French ai.yrie: Itt Spien amounted to .:3, 1 0,,1ti0 men, of whom D,(lt)0 were cay.....)„ and :'„),.) pie, es or hor r...e artillery. Those at present under arms bwing rertuLeil to 270,0(10, have, or will this rininth, an. that ot Febrr:arv, match to cr Inr•dete it up to 3J0,00;) men. Andalusia he re,occtiped ; and it the English army is in Om least weaker.e 1, Portirgil will lie a•rickcd." F.Nctr , :.4 l'Aei.a.—" We are infinitely INIels:!1 at learning', that the Board of Trade has deterroluel to put an en:l to the comnionica• 1:. , n Fiaoce b% Oce." Note 1, iii the Ntoi. rtcit.--." t 1 license has been delivered sinee the arrival of the Fineror. It is very doubtful whether c ry will be isstiod. More th 5;9 En; lisp licemes being in the possession of commercial nt.m, it is A VAI 11 bra': :1(10 you make. as you hive already delivered a soffici.lit cprirlity to nourF.h cornmiercr! fcr two years. It would he rnare advantigeons to France, :Lai the Continent, that there should he no co%urnunication With )(Ai. Every license which the French Government grants is a favour done ; it is a drop of oil that it pours intq vow lamp, which has creat need of it. Notwithstand ing your cruizers, the .‘ttvric:ini at rive in crowds in ottr pets ; in the month of Delientlwr alone, we can reckon more than fifty richly laden." The Mos:if-Tx it, of the 4th inst. contains the following notes on a private hitt r, stated to have been rectived from Pat is, which appealed in an English haler : ENGI.Isn P .—" T he Emperor continues to he indisposed : but has not, on that account, ceased to employ himself in State affairs." Note Fit. in the MON TFUR.-•-• 41 Neither with hunting three times a week ; mart. hing tluee leaves on fent, amidst frost and snow : but there is no person at Paris who does not know that the Emperor enjoys very good health. It is evident that this was manufactured in Londfm." _ _ . - ..... J. Isn PAPERS.—" H is conferences with his ministers. but par• tirularly with the Austrian ,Ainbassactor, are very frequent." Note 2 —" Observe, there is not at Paris either an Austrian 'Am. bassador or Nl;nister." _ _ _ EINI4; I. I Sit PA PE R.- 41 There is much speculltion here respecting negociat'ons for a general peace." Note 3.—" I f you wish to know the condition of it,—read the Duke of 130-,sano's letter to Lord Cast!erzagh." PIOCLAMATION fROM THE,CENERAL CONFEDERATION 07 THE KINGDOM OF POLAND. Poles !—Lately we demanded sacrifices froth you, which would have appeared impossible to any other than you. At the same time, however preat—however painful they might he, they were only cal cllated upon the constant surcess of the victorious arnis of our lib:. rotor ; and they are now insufficient. But you o, ho have sworn to die, or to recover a kingdom which force . and tyranny alone have torn from you—you feel as we do; that so look; ss a sicgie drop of Polish blood shall run in our veins, we have not done fir the county, all we ought to do. Unexpected events, the comcquences el the west:l3 war, demand from us this last sacrifice. The danger of the count: y, the 'Miami honour, duty, our cononon oaths, imperiously demand ir. To arms, Citizens ! It is the country which calls you ; every thing which is mast dear to us is concerned ; viz. this coomtry , of Much it is sought to deptive us, our present existence, and the late of our pos terity. it is now that this bravery so natural to you should become the rampart of our frontier, menaced by an ioiquhous aggressor.— Come fir a toolooot to join your valet!' to that ot out brave soldiers, - and let ynue constaro:y enable them to wait the epoch in which the Liberator ot Poland will re-appear among you, to recover, at she head of a rex victorious army, the. advantages of which the rigour of the season-has just. deprived flint. Tu arms, Citizens ! This . civ cannot be a strang , :r to you; coo - fercloloos have often heard it. Often have they sacrificed for the country their fortune, their bkod, awl their ; it is according to the most ant tent usages, the moat re spectable constitutions, the most holy 1.0.v5, that you have tortned this sacred tie w hien binds us all. Now is the moment to pay that debt which the law has made you coi.tract. You, brave de..codauts of so Ir. 111 V heroes, thew yourselves worthy of your aocestors ; ,prove to the. universe that in icriting from them th.o.edistioctions, sv hien . th iy so well merited, you hive acquired a right to them, by services equally evident. Rke, generous descer oh ints of Czarni:ckc, and act so that the bond 'ye have just formed for the cc fence of our rei'giun, nu; monarch, at.d the national rights, become as that of WRi formerly, the salvation of Poland. Rise, heroes ~f I. aoc.lieruoe and Czeostectoo: ; retrace those tirrics, when, in the abscoce of chosen solshers—disciplined troops— the oilitiog of simple io.A.tlemeno itdlaind by pairiotini, suppli-d the knowledge of the in;litary art, by a severe and unceasing maroxuvres, by a prudent cur ctio:specti ; tactics, hya brivery proof ;*iiiost every thing: thosis timcs in which chit warlike nobility, armed for the first time, deliver ed so malty battles—battles frequently successful against that very er.my which menaces ow frontiers. We give you tot col:ow:163ot Ptinez Poniatowsk., Gncial Lnief of the aimed too.e; that warrior, whose sole iiarr.e awakens in our hearts all those senti ments which the remembrance of the heroes who have dune the greatest honour to Poland ! . e always insp:reel us .with, rest all