The National Register. — London, England, 1814-02-13 00:00:00

FEB. c.-terday, from Calais, in a flag of truce, shown that not vegociations weie on foot, but that they must have ta ken a f'avourable turn. Since Napoleon had allowed a Bri tall <<<° -enter to pass through his territories with d•spatches f rom I d Castlereagh, in ortlei. that theieplY of our Co (!: , onent should Le the sooner obtained. 'This art iv; oe casiencd the most inconsistent rumours to be circulated dur ins; !he last two days through thls metropolis. At one time it was asserted that Paris had been occupied by the Cossacks ; at another, that it was surrounded by the Allies, and that the Senate had •ent a deputation to Prince Schwartzenberg to re otte..t th e c i.y should he spared, and that it would be surrender ed. Other account , stated that a suspension of arms had taken I la( e, and that Bo ona parte lent expressed his intention, should th e negocia, ions be broken 0t1,,t0 leave Paris to its fate, and j,j o ing Soult with his at my, to make a clash at Lord Wel lington, and alter beating him, march with his whole force through the south' of name, by Geneva and Switzerland, jo t ( ) the rear of the Allies. Private letters, said to have been r e c eived to the 9th inst. from the French metropolis, were irpresented to announce that Napoleon lid rejected the ecw overtures made to him at Chatillon, but this was con tiadicted by his having granted a passpott to Mr. Silvester and cycle lac :titles to travel, which would not have been the ca , e hadl.e &env d the proposals of the Allies inadmissible, a1. , 1 at once put an end to the negotiations. Opposite state ments went so far as to assert, that the preliminaries of peace Kal been signed at Chatillon the Gth inst. the day Mr. Sil vcster left that place ; and last night it was confidently re potted, that an armistice of ei:ht days had been granted to Napoleon to settle the preliminaries. We rather incline to this belief, as even Cutter al Blocher, the 'nest violent enemy of Buottapatte, in direct contradiction to his former h l guage, had in a mild Proclamation to the French, which he i-sued on the 21st ult. assored them that the Allies quickly expeett d an Armistice for the atraneement of preliminariel:." It is prohable Celt this change of language was adopted in consevence of the passive obedience which the French continued to pay to Napoleon, even at the hour of his weakness, when he no longer poiser•sed the means of controuling their will. By pene•rating so far into the lteart of France, the Coalsced Princes fancy they have iven the people a fair opportunity of throwing off the oke of their despot if they pleased and recalling the ba nishrd !louse. As no voice has ct been taiscd, or any in vtrtection taken place in behalf of the Boarlelts, they think theteselyes justified in treating with Napot on, especially as theme is no doubt he will now gladly accept :'.r terms which they may impose upon him, to render his atebition harmless hy disarming it of its power. Shttuld this prove to be the I;ne of policy they have achlned, nothing hut madness could induce us to secede from them, and, after having shared the dangers of the contest, suffer them to reap its fruits alone, and doom ourselves to bear the . bordens of an interminable war. Although the antagonists of peace at home pretend that the intelligence of the arrival of a Flag et . Truce from France, was received with general disgust, Itt. contrary is sufficiently proved by the state of the fu.ted , ', New Otnnium having risen in consequence to Q 9 and the I.er Cent. to 711. 'Jr. ‘Vi.liiams, the Nlessenger, arrived in Downing•street yesterday, with dispatches from Lord Castlereagh, but he ft Chatillon upon the 4th, and therefore does not bring any iLtelligence more recent than that which has been received by Mr. Silvester. Mr. Wi!liains cam- through litilland, TWO elicr Genflemen were dispatched at the same time by dif ft4ent routes, but they have not yet arrived.. VIE NATIONAL REGISTER. 107 According to the accounts [nought by Mr. Silvester another dreadful battle was expected to take place on Wed ncsdat• last. The firing on the French Coast on Friday night may.. therefore, be connected with this expected event. Stil!, we apprehend that in Bonaparte's present situation, his gaining a' victory is entirely out of the question. Nogent on the Seine, were the_French attny was last seen by Silo ester the messenger, is only (19 1 - ...'nglish miles from Paris ; whilst, it would seem, the Aliies, on a different road. had reached Sens, 73 miles fiom Paris, aid had pushed on their light troops to Melon, only 30 miles from that capital. Besides Lord Castlereagh, there were at Chatillion-sur seine, when Mr. S%lvester left that place, Sir Charles Stew art, our Minister to Prussia, Lod Viscount Cathcart. our Anmba•sador Extraordinary to the Emperor of Russia ; ard Mr. Thornton, our Envoy Extraordinary to the Crown' Prince of tiwcden. A n►os.t trernc►►►tous firing was heard upon the French coast on Friday ►sight. It uesembled the usual discharges made on the occasion of a public rejoici►Lg, an express was sent MY to Government with the information It is now said th. , t Lord Castlereagh and Caulaincourt only have exchanged authorities. The force whicl► BuonJparte has under his comma id is about F 20,000 men. A Cai td is arrived at Liverpool from New York, which she left on the 2.3 d January. Mtssrs. Clay and Russell have het n appointed to proceed to Gottei►huPgh as negociators on the part of America. They were to sail in a few days, Near Palls they are busily employed in digging COI OR :112 roads leading to it, in older to check the advance of the Allies. Madrid Parers have been received, containintz an account of the opening of the first session of the Ordinary Corte, and ako an ecount of that extraordinary ealy into which I3aionaparte invei;;led Ferdinand VII. A most remarkable circumstance is the return of the celebrated Palafox, the de fender of Saragossa, who has arrived at Bich. under a French e.eort. The Spanish papers suppose that he has been sent by Buonaparte on the same errand as the Didse of San Carlos.— The following extract from the Cuirciso Spanish paper leads Lis to hope that the Spaniard; will nut be duped by the arti. tice thus laid to entiap them : " There is nut a good Spaniard who does not desire the return of this unfortimate Ferdinand ; but be wishes it for the good of his coutorys :Ln:i not t ,, expwe it to greater evils th n those it has already suffered. Ferdinand .nu-t retuto in the way in w Spaniards wish it, a:A not as Bnonaparte means i. Ile must come to make us happy, and nut to be the cause (though the innocent one) of new caland.irs. Happy will be the day, on which Ferdinand, restored to his loyal tuhjeets, may be thus addiessed :---• I - kre is your throne, preserved by the y ally of your subjects ; here is your crown, ransomed by the blood of Spaniards ; here is ynur sceptre, which Spanish constancy replaces in your luu,ds ; here is your royal rube, tinged with the blood of 'thousands of victims who have fallen that you might preserve it : read your his tury—infornk yourself of all that Spaniatds have (tone fur you—and never forget that to the Spanish people you owe every thing I Never fo rge t that you are cultic to be the (Net of a nation, the Monarch of subjects who have stbotished the vestiges of despotism.' ''• • Tur..A.Tnic u.Q.—The Olympic Theatre has for the last fortnight b.en uncommonly successful. The Elephant, and Mr. and Miss S tuNnunA, are exceedingly attractive. The docility of thi , : ttipenduous creature, is indeed amaz ing ; and the SA uxnrns' Im the rope and wire, are at ,41co agile, fearless, and graceful. Of the Earls V' Halimer smith, an exceedingly well written burlesque, more ueed not be said, than that it nightly is received with immode rate peals of laug,hte: and applause. <,~ w- 4 -14 1 f osi 7 CD CO • 1 . I