The National Register. — London, England, 1813-12-26 00:00:00

Itl4 • Tuesday, and extraordinary and geneeal meeting of the Foreign Andeassadots and Ministers resident in this country, took place at Lord Castlereagh's house in St. James's-square. There were present the Russian, - Turkish, Spanish, Por tuguese, and Mr. It Fagel, who acts as the Dutch Arlib AF. satior, together w;th all the Foreign Mini;ters. They :essembled at eleven o'clock, and continue] in &liberation tin two. After the breakile up of this august assembly, the teisian Ambassador and Viscoent Castlereagh had audiences of his Royal I lighness the Prince Regent, at ('at hen house. Lord Castlereagh scut the result of the deliberations of the Cabin( t Council. held on Thursday, to the Prince Re 7 gent, at Windsor. Their importance required the Pt inces rresence in London. His Royal Highness accot dinghy ar rived at Cat )ton-llouse On Friday afternoon. Friday. at three o'clock, another Cabinet Council as sembled at the Foreign office: they continued iu delibC:ra- Con till about five. Lord Castlereagh is expected to leave England on Mon day, and to be accompanied by Mr. F. Robinson. Mess's. Ruff and Williams, King's Messene . ers, are ordered to be in readiness to attend his Lordship. The news of linonapat•te's acceptance of the basis of the Preliminaries of the Allies, produced, as might be expect ed, a great effect upon the Fundy... New °lithium rose on Thursday from IQ to ti, and even to 18. His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence neti suite, intend lcavirrg town on Saturdev, the Ist of .lantta for flollaud; his 'Royal Flightless "%sill proceed from Hol!and to Hanover, and from thence to Wirtembure, • A mail from Holland was received on ‘Veduesday ; it tarentels with reports of success, in part exaggerated, and in part premature ; but leaving, upon the -.vhokla decided lin pression of the progressive advancement of the goed:cau , e. :Ttlirny of he fortresees were said to have fallen : among which were named Bois-le-duc, Crevecreur, Bornmel, Corcum, Bet gen-op-Zoom, and A n twerp It se lf ; but t h e n t most that can he said of any of them is, that they are block aded. Gorcum in under cannonade. The same is lick eyed of Naartlen. The Texel fleet appears not to have been•sur rendered ; but, it is said, that Verhuel has given up the command of it to a Frenchman, named Votteaukl, an d h as scut himself up in the fortiess of La Salle, threatning to burn the fleet unless he is permitted to retire in safety to France. All that is positively known of Antwerp is, that the Bri , ish an&Ailied troops are advancing aeniest it the way of \Vilhiamstadt and Gel nydenberg, ate' that the town is in great confusion, with not more than a garri,on of 5000 men. Brussels is also said to be agitated; and theme is little doubt but that all the seventeeit Provinces of ancent Bel gium begin to reel the revival of a national spirit. Gs n. Graham arrived on 016 17th at Staviees, in the island of Tholan, ar.a was to proceed without delay to take the COM inalid of the Brit'eli ta cops then collecting at Will anistadt. The French, it is reported, mean to bu r n the shipping at ,Antwerp, should they be compelled to Jranden that city; the Russiens were within a tulle and a half of it. • We learn that more troops are ordered out ferthwith to join the force I:1 . 11,0111 A, under Sir T. Graham. The 7811% regimeet, from Scotland, and the 30th and 81st. from the Channel islands, are perticolarly s;ecified. The Scotch Greys anti a Celle battalion, now forming by means! vo --c from the militia regiments quartered on the coast, Inderstood, destined for the same service • - - .te is said to have issued a decree, conti , cating;the ,perry in the French funds, in consequence of the. in Eloltaxd. Vindeers frc are, it is ut lic.napar Dutch pr..) , • tee elution TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. Another Bulletin of the Crown. Prince of Sweden was re ceived on Thursday. It is dated on the 6th instant, at- Lu beck, which city the victorious Swedish army had taken by capitulation on the preceding day, after having on the ed, sd, and 4th, completely dislodged . Davoust's army from its formidable situation behind the Stegnitz. A Gottenbourg mail arrived on Wednesday, the accounts he which state very confidently that Denmark was about to join the Allies against' France, T and the evacuation of his strong eosition on the Steiknitz by Davoust, and his aban donment of Ratzebourg. Molleu and Lubeck (which p:aces . are in the possession of the Allies) is attributed to the circum- • stances of the Danish troops living left him, and retired into Holsteito—lt was supposed that Davoust would make an obstinaee defence in Ilawburgh. Private accounts by . the Mail state, that on the Ist of December a capitulation . . was enter: d into for Dantzic, after twenty days of open tren ches, and a bombardment. The terms for the gal risen were, . that they shoirld lay. down their arms, and be con•idered prisoners of war, until regularly exchanged. The forts of Weihselmunde and the llohn, were to be given up on the tth Of this mouth, and the entire'to be surrendered, on the Ist of Jauoary, to the Russians under Prince Alexander of Wirtemberge—Torgau and Zinna were bombarded violent ly on the night of the 51 acrd 4th of December. Torean was set on fire in several places, and a magazine bur tied.-- Tbei e was an ex relition of its speedy capture, as the Go vernor hal :Meade p:oposed terms: Thursday mortrog, soon after eleven o'clock, a Dutch Messeueer ariiyed, with dispatches from the Loll of Clan (arts'. Within a few minute,: of twelve,_ Mr. Mils and E' overs arti‘..ed at the •I'weign Office, in ircleiise and four, with dispatches froth Sir Cherles .Stewart, dated Fraakfoi t , the fUrand 7th instant. The disoatches•that these Hessen gees brought. arc thought of so much impotiance, that LOl4 Castlereagh lust no tune in lavine their content.; before the Prince Regent, at Carlton *noose. The Noble Viscount also ,summoned a Cabinet Council, to meet at halt' past two o'clock, which met :recce (tingly at the Foreign Office, and continued sitting till about five. Sir Philip Broke is to be honoured with a gold medal to be worn with his foil uniform, for the capture of the Chesa, peake frigate. The Exchange at Paris (on London) has risen within a week, between 7 and ti per cent. showing a prodigious demand for BP Is on this market. We are sorry to state, that on the 4th of July, his Majesty's frigate, Dtedalus, was lost on a shoal in the neigh bourhood of the Isle of Ceylon ; the crew was saved. The Belerophon, and other ships, which arrived on Mon day, at Portsmouth, from Ntmfoundland, briug information of the loss of the Tweed, 18, Captain Mather,"on some roc 00 that coast ; Capt. Mather and Officers, with the exception of the Purser and Smgeon, were saved ; but 65 of the crew it is said, unhappily perished. A large convoy sailed iI company with the Bellerophon from Newfoutsdiaml. but separated from her in a gale of wind ; one of the convoy ! arrived on Monday afte: noon at Portsmouth, and brines intelligence of seven of the shies that composed part of the convoy having fallen into the hinds of two French frigates which have committed other depredations on our commerce to a very cowiderable extent. Letters - from Petersburg, dated the 2td . November A state that the second attempt of mediation by llucsia, having, failed of its purpose, Messrs. Gallatin and Bayard were pre, paring to take their departure, and were to mum' by fl(ict.openiltgen. ; ‘ DEC. 26.