The National Register. — London, England, 1811-10-27 00:00:00

,TIONAL AMERICA. American Papers were received on Friday to the 21st ult. They do not supply any intelligence of a decisive character, with respect to the matters at issue between the Government of this country and of the United States. Mr. PROUDMAN, the Mes senger, also arrived at the Foreign Office, with dispatches from Mr. FosrEn. Marquis WELL ES. LEY waited on the PRINCE REGENT immediately at York House, to communicate to his Royal High. ness the contents of the dispatches. Nothing, that we can learn, has yet transpired, of the contents of the dispatches ; nor is it likely that in the present feverish state of the discussion and of public feeling on both sides, that much will be suffered to get abroad upon the subject, until the measnres to be taken will serve to throw a light upon the purport of the dispatches. It is not probable that any thing definitive could yet have been communicated by our Minister in America, as, until after the meeting of Congress, the American Government will not, in all probability, form its final eterination. There can be no d ou bt, however, th d at Mr. m FOSTER may have been able to form a pretty accu rate estimate of the prospect of being able to bring the negotiation with which he has been intrusted to a favourable issue. He must have learned, as well from the apparent temper of the persons in authority in America, as from the spirit and character of their communications to him, whether an amicable accommodation is to be expected, or his mission be likely to prove abortive. The result of his experience and observation he has no doubt transmitted home. Government, therefore, will be able to decide upon the subject from the • contents of the dispatches ; and, if a rupture be likely to ensue, will not lose a moment in preparing for the emergency. Whether any part of the con tents of the communication from Mr. FOSTER then be allowed to transpire or not, the Public will be able to judge of the probable issue of the nego tiation from the actual measures that shall be taken. If no squadron nor any reinforcements be immedi ately put ifkto • preparation for the Trans-Atlantic service, we may fairly conclude that a pacific ar rangement is not hopeless ; if, on the contrary, such measures of seasonable precaution should be resorted to, we may easily foresee the probable issue of the negotiation. The American Journal ists have concluded from the arrival cf . reinforce ment; to the regiments in British America, that the British Government is determined on bullying the United States. With more justice may we infer from the detachment of any more regiments to that quarter, that it is the opinion of our Go vernment that no accommodation is to be ex pected. We are sorry to be obliged so often to remark upon the coarse and intemperate virulence with which some of the American Journalists speak of every thing British. Even the indications of hostility on the part of the Indians are, with more asperity, we are sure, than s tice, ascribed to the intrigues and in fl uence of British agents. Upon this point, however, the Americans may set their minds at. ease. If we are to have war with them, we shall be able to maintain it without the co-opera tion of a few Leeble tribes of Savages. The accounts _ , represent that Power as in a state of perfect tranquillity, after having accommodated those differences with France which threatened to reinvolve it in all the calamities and dangers of a new war, whilst it was still smarting under the effects of the late disastrous contest in which it had been engaged against France. Whe ther these differences be or be not composed, it is knpossible for us to decide. If they be adjusted viithout any modification of the demands which led to them by BUONAPARTE, we could not desire a stronger proof of his comparative weakness and want of means to prosecute an extensive and expen sive war. This is a positive benefit, not so much from the evidence of inability on the part of the French Government, as because every moment that the great trial is deferred, must add to the resources of those Powers with whom it would be com mitted in any new war, and aggravate those diffi culties under which alone it has thus been obliged to lower its pretensions and recede from its de. mands. War cannot be carried on without money, emphatically called its sinews ; and, if neither the prospect of fresh spoliations in countries already drained to the last coin, nor the possession of funds previously amassed, nor the resources of a revenue productive and easily improvable to any extent of public exigency, can be made the foundation of mi. litary enterprises, it would be imprudent as impoli tic to precipitate hostilities. The French Armies in Spain have not been paid for many months, and though the produce of that country may be suffi cient for their bare support, the notorious want a funds to pay them not only operates to prev ent their being reinforced to the full amount necessary to give them any chance of success, but interferes with their adequate or effectual equipment. When we observe an object of such interest and moment to BUONAPA UTE, as the final reduction of Spain, impeded by the defect of pecuniary resources, we can easily discover a sufficient reason for his forbear ance in the North. Had he possessed the means, we have no doubt that he would . have undertaken another expedition and another winter campaign against Prussia, rather than have conceded a tittle of what he had once preferred as a demand. To his temporary deficiency of means then, and not to his lenity or justice, has Prussia been indebted for the present respite. If she should not augment her means during the interval in the same proportion in which he shall accumulate funds for her subjec tion, the return of Spring will, in all probability, see him again in Berlin dictating laws to the Prussian States. The Duke of Sussex, we are happy to state, is fast recovering from his late relapse ; his Royal Highness is enabled to have recourse to his bed, and enjoys some natural rest, and takes an airing in his carriage daily. The young Prince of Orange of whose military debut in one of the late actions, Lord Wellington makes such honourable mention, and who it ap pears by last Tuesday's Gazette has been appointed a Colonel in the British Army, is supposed to be the destined husband of the Princess Charlotte of Wales. REGISTER. PRUSSIA. The accounts from Prussia re, ...., r-~°~ i .