The National Register. — London, England, 1808-10-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Rear-Admiral ler, with his Fleet, and seven Russian Ea the Line, arrived at Portsmouth on Friday from the 'logos. It is stated iu a letter from Portsmouth, which we have seen, that the Russian Ships, upon euteiing the har bour hoisted their colours ; hut our Portsmouth Corre spondent does not meation the circumstance. The next intelligence from the North cannot fail of being highly important. Little doubt can be entertained that propositions have been made for the surrender of either tne whole or a part of the Russian fleet, at Poi t Raltic—a circumstance which obviously betray . ' a con sciousness of danger on the part cf the Admiral com manding it. The fact also of both Count Tchichukoff, the Busman giaister of Marine,. and Mr. Thornton, the British larvoy at the Court of Stockholm, having repaired to Ho gerswick„ gives considerable support to the rumour of a pending negociation. Nothing short of the evacuation of Vinland, and the conclusion of an immediate peace with Sweden, ought to be listened to on our part, as the terms On which we will agree to a cessation of hostilities ; per haps also we ought to insist upon the dissolution of the connect on with France, and a renewal of the ties of *amity with th . s Country, as an indispensable condition of our spariug and restoring more than one half of the Russian navy, which we trust is now in our power. aume intelligence, through a circuitouj channel, has been received from America. The inhabitants of the UntLed states appear to differ totally from the Government, with respect to the efficacy of the embargo. They begin to discover that a measure, which they were taught to be lieve would in the course of a few months compel England to retrh.:t her Orders in Council, and France to rescind her prohibitory Decrees, has not had the smallest effect upon either; that they respectively adhere to the principles they at first adopted, and that there is little chance the " self-denying ordinance" of the American Government will be attended with the effixt expected. The people are sick of the embargo. It has ruined the shipping and com mercial interests, and the agriculturist has the produce of his labours rotting upon his hands. The notable expe dient of converting the American sailors into husbandinen is found not to answer. The farmer will not be at the expense of growing an article for which he is not yet sure of a market and the people are consequently thrown out of employment. It is natural, thererore, that the various classes of Americans, who arc the victims of Mr. Jefferson's speculations, should he loud in their clamours against his hazardous and iniitalohi policy. We accordingly find that the merchants of Boston have agreed to petition the Executive Goverument, praying for the immediate suspen sion, and the repeal as soon as possible, of the Embargo. A circnlar letter, containing an account of their proceed ings, and recommending similar exertions, was sent to the other commercial cities and towns in the Union. A Charlgo:: Paper, dated August 2►7, was received yes terday. It states, that the general discontent against the Embargo was increased so much, that it was supposed that a separation between the Northern and the Eastern States not unlikely to be the result. Dutch Papers to the Ist instant have reached town : they arc uncommonly barren of intelligence. Bonaparte was at Mentz on the 24th, and intended to set out the next day for Franckfort : but no account whatever is given of the journey of the emperor of Russia. According to advises received lately from holland, the emperor of the French has adopted a new expedient for increasing his militliry force. He is said to have con cluded subsidiary Treaties with most of the Princes of the Confederation of the Rhine, by which they are to furnistr a given number of men for the French Army at a specific price. The number of these mercenaries ►s to be propor tionate to the confederate contingent of the State; but in the cases of the Grand Duke of Baden and the Prince Pri mate, it exceeds that amount. The troops levied to com plete the confederate quotas are to be transferred to the r reach service, and the deficiencies thus occasioned are to OCT. 9. be made up by fresh conscriptions. These troops are wear the French uniform, and to be armed, exercised, ; ta d paid in the same manner as French soldier%. It hashem sti pulated, however, that they are not to serve out of Europe, and are for the present to be employed in the interior of France. The Baden Regiments have already undertaken rra rison duty at. Strasburgh. It is calculated that he %ill add 100,000 men to his army by the measure. A Moniteur is said to have been I.( ! with Juno's. official account of the battle of Vimier.: he says, he a t. tacked the English, who were strongly entrenched, but h;., advanced corps drove them back : he lost 150 men. Lot judging afterwards how much more useful. in the presen t circumstances of Spain, his army would be in that cotimr it occurred to him to propose terms, for evacuating Poi tugal to the English, which, upon consideration, he frost ! his Majesty will think are as honourable as they arc ad vantageous. It appears by the Barbadoes Papers, that the Fren c l. Islands in the West Indies are not so badly supplied provisions as it has been supposed. They have obtained considerable supplies by the capture of British vessel., Three vessels are announced in these Papers to hale been taken on the sth of August, and carried into Martinique. one of which, a three-masted ship from Halifax, had on board seven hundred barrels 01 flour. in addition to this, two French brigs arrived there on the 6th from France, laden with 1400 barrels of flour. Another French also reached Guadaloupe, with 900 barrels of fl our. Tv, u letter of marque brigs laden with coffee, sailed from the latter island on the Bth for France, and three privateers were to sail from thence on the 10th on a cruize. It is a remarkabte circumstance in the Roman hiitory that when they met with reverses, the fault was almost always in the commanders, and seldom or never is the lirmy. When the citizens of Numantia fled before the Romans, whom they had so often beaten, their ans%ier to tho4o who reproached them was, " that the Romans were the same sheep, but that they had got a different shepherd:. THE COURT. Wednesday, about twelve o'clock, his Majesty arrived u town from Windsor, and was received at the QuePn's lace, by their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Kcht, Cambridge, and Cumberland. At twelve o'clock, his Ma jesty held a private Levee, when Captain Thompson bad the honour of being presented to his Majesty, on his promotion. His Majesty afterwards held t Privy Council, which wac attended by the Duke of Portland, and be rest of 11:c Cabinet Ministers ; and a little before five o'clock his Ma jesty left town for Windsor. CITY AFFAIRS. CONVENTION IN PORTUGAL A Special Court of Common Council of the City of Lon,io: was held in their Council Room, at Guildhall, on ; Tuesda. consider of the propriety of a Petition and Address to his P' l4- jesty on the subject of the late disgraceful Convention in Portugal. The Requisition, in consequence of which the Court Mai called, being read, Mr. Waithman rose. He had often on former occa , .ions found it necessary, in submitting propositions to the cousiiicra tion of that Court, to introduce his subject with such argumenti as-might seem most likely to recommend it to their attention anA apprqval. On the present occasion, however. he was sati:ted that nossuch arguments could be requisiteon his part. it would be unneeessary even for him to read over the articles of that Convention, or to repeat what bad been already so much bt tier said elsewhere on the subject of them. Previous to the arri,.;,.l of the Commander In Chief of our Armies in Portugal, powed that the exertions of our brave troops there, bad tterc !awned with signal success, is two several ervtgement, I P