The National Register. — London, England, 1813-06-20 00:00:00

TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. express his reluctance at our being invited to the Congress, and his hope that we may reject the invitation. What could pleate him better th.:n to sec the scat of England vacant in the assembly of nations ?- Fic would attribute this desertion of our post, to our consciousness of wrong, and the credu lity of Pt ine,es might believe him. To assert and establish the justice of our cau•se, let us be forethost in the discus sions for peace, as we have hitherto been in the fields of war. The chief objection against entering into the negociations now opening on the Continent, is, that the terms proposed will be found inadmi!,sible. If so, tlity must and will be re,jected-. The uosvitted hotioor of England must not be stained ; her pre--minence in power, liberty and glory must not be endangered, even to purc? , ase the blessings of peace. She must remain, at the conclusion of hostilities what she has been whilst they raged--a monument of ancient freedom founded by wisdom, supported by courage, unshaken amidst the revolutions of the earth, and towering in pristine and unimpaired majesty, amidst humbled and less fortunate ea tions. he must retain the strength that fixed her in her present elevated situation, and should, notwithst,nding her efforts, the intrigues of NAPOLEON prevail, and the Conti nent resume, yvith its fetters, its hostility apinst her ; she must once more rise in arms, confident in her tried re sources, in the skill, spirit and patriotism of her sons, to en counter and defeat the attempts of a misled world. lint it is both harsh and premature to suppose, that in a Congress, one half of whose members consist of our Allies, Powers assisted on all occasions with our treasure, and - frequeutly with our blood, no conditions should be framed but sucu as it would be degrading for us to discuss, and ruinous to accept. Our great Ql,?-nent himself, it must not be lot gotten, comes to this assLnibly with diminished influence and curtailed .pre- . tensions. Ile no longer dictates his will to obedient .vassals.. They have felt their own stiength, and, though disposed by 4 partial change of fortune towards peace, are still willaig exert it in the vigorous prosecution of war, if war be made unavoidable by his unr elenting ambition. - They will therefore. out of mere policy, if not out of gratitude, provided they sees~ themselves not deserted by us in this Congress, consider our interests as their own, and only make peace on terms admis sible by all parties. inferior in the Geld, they will regain-by our co-opvratiou on this occasion, as much importance as they have lost by the battles of Lutzen and Wurtchen and their retreat. With England on their side, they would be still on an equality with France, even were Austria to throw all her weight in the balance against them. England, then, instead of moving in their train, and, as some have pre tended, sinking into a, secondary rank, still fills the first and must be treated with as such. Would France, at any time, allow some of her Allies to negociate a Peace without being Included herself as a principal in the Treaty ? No; she would consider such Powers as her enemies,, and instantly declare war against them. And thould England act dif ferently? Instead of refusing to send an Ambassador to the general Congress, should she not resent it as a base deser tion of her iilterests if she were not invited to it by her Allies? And when thus invited, would it not be betraying an impolitic, if not an unjust, distrust of those Allies, to refuse their invitation under the plea that it was degrading and injurious After having thus demonstrated the propriety of acceding to the General Congress, and rejecting the terms which may line proposed, if improper, only qficr we know what they are, _ with a statement of the BUON A F A RT E begins to -e many impottapt con n it. JUNE . FOREIGN INTaLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, &MRS.—Letters of the ?d, announce the arrival of tl►e Prince Chri*tian, in Norway. His journey had been kept so se. cret, that the official journal stated Holstein to be his thstina!ion. We hear that since his arrival the arn►y and the country. have been placed ►wider his immediate orders. PARIS, JUNE 9.—licr Muje •ty the Empress Queen and rtegez.t hag received .the following intelligence respecting the situation of the ar►mes on the tel of• June : tilde head-quarters of the Emperor were still at Neumarkt ; of the Prince. of sfuskwa at Lisa. The Duke of Tar, tittun and Count Bertrand were between Jailer and Striegan ; the I)itke Ragusa at the village of Eisemturf; the .3!1 corps at the viliav • of 'fetersdorf; the Duke of ltellouro between Glogau and Leibitz. Count !Whoa had arrived at Leigni4, amid had had eunlet oozes with the Duke of General Latiriston entered Breslau at Aix o'clock in the morning of the Ist of June. A Prussian corps ttorn Gto 7000 men, whirl; covered that town by defending the pa.sage of the Lobe, were thi yen to the village of Nettkirchen. 'lke Burgomistt r and tour Deputies from the town of Breslau, were presented to the Emperor at Nenwat kt. tue ift of June, at two o'clock in the afternoon. His Majesty told them, that they might assure the inhabitants lie partlosied every thing !hey might have done, to second the spirit of anarchy which the Steins mid tote Schartiliorsts wished to excite. The town is perfectry tranquil, and all the inhabitants remained in it. Breslau offers very great re.ourees. The l)nke of 'Vicenza, and the Bussian and Prussian Plenipo tentiaries, Count SClloklllalar and General Kleist, exeliategel their full powers, and neutralized the village of Peieherwitz. Forty in fantry, .and 'AO cavalry, furnished by the French army, and the dense number of men &noshed by the Allied Army, revectively occupy the two entrances of the village. Ott the td, its the morning, the Plenipotentiaries had a confer. Nice - to fix the line, which, during the Armistice, %book' tietermitie the position of the two . armies. In the mewl time, orders Wye been given front both head•quarters, that no hostiiittes should take place. Thus, since the Ist of June, at two in the afternoon, thorc have been no hostilities committed on either side. PAscrt, Jrri lo.—Her MakNty the Empress and Queen hai received the following intelligence respecting the bituation of the armies on the 3d June : • The suspension of arms still continues. The respective Plenipo tentiaries continue the►r negociations for the Arm►stice. General Lauri ton has . seized, upon the Oder, more than 60 vessel•, laden with meal, wine, and warlike ammunition, destined tOr the Army which besieged Glogau; all these provisions have been forwarded iv that fort rm. Our advanced posts are half way to &leg. Gensral Hogcndorf has been nau►ed Governor of Bretlati. The greatest order reigns is that tour►:. The inhabitant% appear very much discontented, and even indignant, at the cli,position , u►ade relative to the Laudstrun►; they attribute these dispOsitiutis to Gen. Schaliiltaist, who passes for an anarclualjacobin. He was wounded at the battle of !Adzes'. The Prussian Piincegsea, who hastily withdrew from Berlin, to take refuge at Breslau, have left the Litter town to seek shelter still farther. The Duke ofilassano has gone to Di cute:), wl'erc lie will reeeir• Couut de Kass, Milister from Denmark. [A letter from Vandamme to finvotist, dated Hat burg, May 13, contains an account of his operations for several days :Jame Haat burgh. He mentions, that in the unsuccessful atteini t made by the Hantburgkers to retake the isle uf Willteltusburg, " many Danci were found among the killedl The Empress Queen and Regent has received the following in tcligence of the situation of the army on the evening of the 4th : The Armistice was signed on the 4th, at two in the afternoon : the following are the Articles : His Majesty the Emperor set out on the sth, at break of day, to proceed to Leignitz. 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