The National Register. — London, England, 1814-04-10 00:00:00

THE NATION AT, REGISTER. sie will untameable, but without discernment. All f.is disaster'--all the disgraces with which he has been overwhelmcde-heve sprung In in the same causes which produced his triumphs. Neither the most unpre cedented favours of fortune, nor the most terrible lessons . of. alisttps pointtettitter the confidence of a nation, which , having beets tor- r imented by a hideous anarchy, had hoped to find in hint repose—nor the councils of enlightened men, who would have directed him to the path of true glory--nor the devoted attachment of valiant warriors-- ! nothing was able to soften the character, to correct the false jutgnien!, Of to elevate the corrunted soul of this Corsican sohrier. .i 'one ss confounded at his oh-is.. icy its caieltee so many men to perish, ouc i s !I lint less so at his olissitaley in cool:ming to exist. 11' Ira's gheWl) Its what selfishness is in the human heert : never has he been able to na turalise himself amoestst Frenchmen. 'Was lie o Frenchman, he %%Ito, placed-on a throne which had .been embellished by the goodness, the prace, And the gallant manners of our kisses, wits always Iw:silt:lig in his conduct towards females, and eat n tellied them in a rude and sm . feeling manner on the decline of their Leauty ? Was he a Frenchmen who never made a present but with the hope of a return ? -.vim mode a base abuse of his power, in order to address in the midst of his Coma degrading ex pressions to sin amiable nsinister--to a respectable judge — •or to an honourable watri•ir ? Nay, even in his camp does he heap insults on our warriors, admired as they are by ::11 the rest of Europe. What torrents of invectives in his bulletins I' When he has hitusilf committed a military blunder, he pitches on the name of any . general. at hazard, to Beelike him of it. He invents fables that no ore can be lieve: if we would listen to them, it was the ienwauce of a cirpersl, which by blowing up a bridge, oceesioncd the greute“ disasters that , France has ever experienced. He knows net where to place his te'st Generals, but in positi , ns where they most be sect ifieed. lie makes the choicest of his troops, and even the whole mass of his army,. march and counter-march with an unfeeling rapidity, Oil-Duels impracticable roads, and in the most inclement - season. Meanwhile two or three Cenerals remain charged to defend important poSts againit forces Ire -incuriously, dispropottionate. lie occasions the performance of the most heroic acts of bravery, in order to cover his checks ; and pct it is often Iron the enemy that we first learn their performaece. What a savage character is there in his pretended greatness! %Villa a resti .eity,in his muenificence ! What a centrist with the !whit. atld touch ing picture presented to us in cite two Sovere:ens, who love become in c . i:e day the sillies of the French people ! Buoirtourte ‘6,tted to tr. stde in u:! the palaces of Europe: ttlese Monarchs ab-gain even item entering the palace of the ate;ent king of France. A simple apartment suffices for them. Since the I tense ofTOrraille has given the exaeiple of that simplicity which so well becomes the Throne, the co:mecum) Itetween Kings awl their p?ople has been rendered toore.in'imato. We now know why these are loved. We 10.,g to see t11:4 booperf.r of Austria who hoe so tally cencnrred in the': geerfoui views ; and to soften, it possible, the pain which our deliverance has vest' hislicarf. NS hy should we not speak to these Monarchs, the friends dour ownein shut fanenaen of love, of which the y rant had mad; us lose the !It log habit ? This is the day of re union to the Great retells: - of Eerope. By whet benefits has not the inexhaustible mlegnenimity of the Emoe- Tor Alexander signalised itself on this day ? Two her dred thousan d . of c'nr countrymen are about to be restored to our embraces; never did a Sovereign make to a King, his friend, so magnificent a present. The sane compact which is about to give us renme, 1611 else) brine hack to us that liberty of which we had so imprudently l passed the Ih and of which the most treacherous of tyrants had no longer left tt trace in any of our institutions. No g uarantees would have been ettfnuient with one who mocked at al! ' treaties and in. premises ; but the spirit of ct,r,vorrl has dictated real guarantees which a ill coefound all piirlieS in one common sentiment ; anti we mny once retire behold public Eberly newish under the sacred shade of Movarehical power. (STgned) C. LACRETELLE. ACTS OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. A PRI!, 10. prestior end out's. you he deaf to the voice of the country which summons and entreats you? It addresses yota by its Senate, by its capital, and above all, by its misfortunes; you are its noblest children, and.. cannot belong to bins who leas ravaged it, who h as delivered it iv' without eras, without (Terence; who wished to render your name odious to aft nations, and who would hare rom. promigeci vonrglOrY, if man, silo is -not e% ell a Frenehm:in, could have weaiened the glory of our arinl, end. the generosity of our soldiers. - Yon are no !muter the .roltller. of Napoleon ; the Senate and all Monee absolve van i'tiau your oaths. . (Signed) - Prince Bhs EVENT'), V a mcCOTS MONTFS GCIOU, DALLEIIG, Je 1 , COURT. (OYERNMENT OF PARIS. The public is it:formed, that the arrilience* of Luis Excel!envy the General in Chief, Military .Grovernor of Pa . i4, Baron Saclei?, %%ill henceforth take place mi:y betweeu 9 and i 1.•. IYROVISIONAC GOVERNMENT. The Provisional Government decree, that The filoniieur is the only offieil journal. • - April 3. DOUX LA BORIE, Secretary-GcneraL TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. ADMIRILTf-OFFICE, APCIT 5, 1814. Lieutenant Collins, Ilau-Lieutcliant to Rear4Adtniral Penrose, ar rived here this morning,. with a truer front Admiril Lord Keith, to t J o hn V.11,0n Ctoher, l'sq. transmitting one to his !tear-Admital, dated its the Gironde, Point of Taltrintit, E. S. E. r.h.. ti t three wiles, the !7th of 'March, ti. ing an tccont.t of his Ittiv'tt:. l ;hat day enteret! the river, and proceeded up to tivit ~i tie!torituse Majesty's ship Eumont, the Andretulche and B 1 Pt•tde frigates, and some smart., ve,selF, alwr teceiving the fire ot - forts batteries at the month of the river; but aithciut sustaitting any loss from it. O n appronel)7... - ;! Po:.nt Cluldre, thv eneo;ys of sLip w:Ch Ci7er br . voc w::r. no() some e!la,se marees; di.covore,l prcparini: to oft IlAy •11. 'l'he siprar!lon rove &oils, to vessels sho.tl of T.Wwnit, where tilt. O R; pas3ed thiuovrh ti,e vev narrow eh.lim.l 1 0. th,.• a;): „. 1 . rentlybuoyrd for thu uu(!er 11t , ,t(17;.0. , 1 01 Coe h it . teriei on each side of Ow I:ay of Tako.):,t auti.:he squadron inv-hortql outs;de 012 Shop!. ltelr•Aduilial (.0 , 611164 . 1.i this f' rtims of Ow 01 7 3.. c-s under his ordcr - 4, in sticec , ,ll:l l ,iy risAng through the o:ye's this navi g ation. rh i, ero•.ing. f!!{.. Aitickc of C;;:Titiii•ltion, r..t' ( ter ~n Captiin Iluste's letter, which appearel iu the titiZCLIC Of the ( .!ii 111Sti1111.] ADDRESS TO TIIE FRENCH ARMIE9. Paris, April 2, tritt. Sotpirus,—Franee has just broken the yoke under which the has groaned with you for so many years. You have never fought but fur the country ; yeti can no longer *tight, unless against it, mder the colours of the matt wha leads you. Behold all that you have suffered from his tyranay ; you had Wyly a ti.i;liou of awn ; Learly have pet fished ; they wt re deliver ed op to the sword of the enrely, without tbod, without hospitals; they were condemned to peris!k of mi•cry aud imu4cr. ,it is full time to end the ealantitteq of the country peace is in your hands. Will you refuse it to desolated France ? 'Vour euen.ies themselves demand it of you; they regret to ravage t .ttse fioo countries, aud wish ouly to take anus )our op- BANKRUPN: T. Lovell, Portsmouth, tor. , -tutik!.br, to stvreivicr April 2?, at two. 23, at eleven, and May 17, at one, at the Star ltrn, Gobi). rt. Ailor neY. Mr. Thomas Essex-strct t, S raid. S Watson, Ilkeston, Derby, cbsindler, April 1.1, 16, and May 17, at et eleven, at the Plying Nottingham. Attornieb, Messrs. All sopp and Wells, Nottingham. %V. Smedlc . , liurtmi-upon-Trent, grocer, April .26, at five, 27, at ten, and May 17, at uric, at the Milk. liart lttn, Burton-upon-Tient . . Att-rnies, Mr. Cooke: y, Castle-street, ilulborn ; and Mr. o , 3oine ) thirton-upon-Treut. J. Gainson, Cdiuden-town, victualler, April 16..23 and May 17. at tee, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Aldridge and Smith, Lincoln's 111c, New-square. It. 1-1.,we11, Nottingham, tailor, April 15, 16, and May 17, at eleven, at the Flying Horse, Noginglia in. A ttornie., Messrs. A 1 Isopts and Wells, Nottingham ; and Mr. it. S. Taylor, Field.court, Gray's 113 i, London. J. ‘Vard, Ranhttry, Oxford, grocer, A;nil 16. 19, aid !It.iy 17, at one, at Guildhall. lintdon. Attorney, Air. Tilbury, Falcon-drier, Aldevigate-street, London. _ _ J. Brown, Batik-top, Westoe, Durham, inn-lceper, April 312 1 and May 17, at .eleven, at the house Jane A'kiuson, the Georo lun, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Attornies, Messrs. 13e:1 and Brodrick, Bow church-yard, Loudon. J. !bison, Cock-hill, Nee-street, Bisitopsgatf!, bricklayer, April 9, :It one, 23, at twelve, and M..v 17, at one, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Edell, Castle-street, llotinasditch. 1). Barnett, Rortsea. sac -reel, May 2, at one, 3, at eleven, and 17. at niue, at the George inn, Portsmouth. Attoroits, Mr. E. Inacs, Duly. street, at. Mary-Ase, Londun; and Mr. Ulundi:ling, Portstat .!Re.i..