The National Register. — London, England, 1808-01-17 00:00:00

'Mr NATIONAL OW, sve OCIICVI", n.,s ever lUURVU Up vu uppu. of the Prussian King to Fr:n►ce as any other than an act of the most outrageous premin►ption and madness: and no one examined the details of the campaign in which Bonaparte N% as checked, tit considered the character of Alexander, hut was convinced that the weather and not the Rwsians were the conqueror's, and that, on any reverse of fortune, the feeble .Alexander would throst• himself upon the mercy of the enemy. The landing of twenty or thirty thousand British troops, to co-operate With allies, who had no cordial feelim:s towards ns, and to combat the vastly su perior armaments of Bonaparte, could only have added to the miserable Catningur of disastets which our continental ex pedli h:tve hr►n ; ;ht upon this Itatien. But our highest and most wianswerable reply to Alexander, Ponaparte, and The Montirse I-, that Britain Ivas waking greater and more efficacious efroTtl a,gannt the ecnimon enemy, than all her allies together. Britain lvas, at the time alluded to, putting forth all her strength, besieging and harra•sing France with R naval armament of immense expcnce, carrying on hoard at least a hundred and fifty thousand men ; she had de prived the enemy of his large foreign posAessions; she had al most entirely annihilated his Commerce ; and land driven his navy from the seas; she had cut off front him the tnost krtile snurces of revenue; and had thwarted Bonaparte ir► the most favourite objects of his ambition--..ships, commerce, and colo nies. What proportion do the efforts of Prussia or Russia bear to these amazing exertions, either in expellee, in magbitudr, or in efficacy ? And Britain is reproached for not co-operating with her allies ! What will The Morning Post say to these facts, which place its unpatriotic statements in the basest light ? Emsltßi SAN. •I'7, through Constantinople and tgypt to liengal.—T.etters front Hanover inform us, that the Kingdom of Westphalia is to be divided into the following Departments: Ist. The Department of Fuida, including Lower Hesse and Paddethurm t.'d. The Department Of the Weser, containing Minden, Ravenshcrg, &c. 3d. The Departinent of the N'erre, comprising Upper lltsse, slth, The Department of the Seine ; intluding Gottingen, &t. sth. ThO llorg-Departinent, composed of the Principnlity of GI übenha:!en awl the Upper Harz. 6th. The Upper Departnu•nt, containiog ze, Schoningen, Goslas i and several otit6- towns and districts, Welt formerly belonged to the Duchy of litunsuick. 7th. The Saulda Department, including the Principalities of Hal li:•rstodt and Illackeliburg, fie. ; and Sib, The Department of Lichstield, entitaining the of Eitasieldi &ca dc. Lowß. SAXONY. nEr. IS.--The following etr , hges irt the Mi., nistry and Corps Diplomatic of liolland, were atirlottiteed in JO Ropir anzelle of the 19th December . _ Mr. liddgendotp leaves the IVar Derartment, end is appoint: ed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Vienna.—Mr : .anssens, President of the War Sectitin, surstreds as War Mi nister. Mr. Veehtiel: quits the{Minis:tisv y of the Marine, for the place dr Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Estraordinar% to the Court of Petersburgh, He is replaced by Mr: Vander K(<- s er, wh o r e a s os to he Minister of the Colonies. and Coninterre s lie is succeeded in that Department by Mr: Catnhier, late Mi. niter of Jiistiee, who in that capacity is succeeded by Mr: Van Nl:laneti: Mr. De Caulincourt, Crawl Ecuyer of the King, is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Exttantdineiy td the Colin of Naples. AM Eltl(:.1. CONGRESS.-HOUSE OF REPORSIrNT.ITII'M NON IitPORTAIION Act. W mit ft mil nr.c. re Newton said, it would he re collected by the lloeq., that on Monday next, the 11th, t law prohibiting the importatirm of Certain goods, ivare4 ; and merchandize ; would go into operation t and it was aloft known, that this law+ in its present stale, was extremely fedi vc. For the purpose of preventing the perplexities it hi , il arise from these defeas t he offered the forn.wing Ile solution t-- Resolved ; That the Committee of Comreeree and Manuf;:e tures be in:Muted to inquire whether an and it' nth, w Imf alterations are necessary to he made in the Act ; bearine. date the pith day of April, 180 i I prohibiting the impottlt ion of certain goods, wares, and merehandize ; With the potter to report tr Bill or otherwie;s. lie said, it was the duty of all Oivernmenis to prevent litigation ; ttitd to amend any of filch' bows is MO were found to give rise to it. The itrsolution was agreed to—Ayes, Si. Di-c. 11.—The &hate nn the passage of the DM from the Senate; appropriating a sent (Ii money for provldits..; an ad ditional number of gun-boats. Iva.% resumed and eonlinoPil until neat three o'clock. Theque:ltion no its passage was then taken, and eartied. A3et& l 11/—N oes, lg. WEST IN DI ESi Jamaica, Kingston; Nor. 11. Irot•sr. r .4§,tmnLy. Nov. 4. rOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. rRANCE, PARIS, nr.C. 2G.—the grand decorations of the Legion of Honour, destined for the Emperor Francis I. for the Archduke Charles, the Archduke John s and Count erboa ) wilted at \let= on the 7th ultimo. 6F,10 - 1 - ANY, VI EN A, 0 r:c. `L. —Our Court Gazette contains the following article front Turkey :—The tranquillity which prevailed on the frontiers of Bosnia, has again beed . disturbed. About the end of Septrtnber the cordon of Turkish tencips, formed On tile batiks of the Dwina and Buzaw a, was reinforced with 0000 men, bt which means its strength was iucreased to •16,000 men. The Servians were no sooner informed of this circumstance than the% crossed the ilazawa. mid gave battle to the Turks on the Itth October, in ts hich the latter were completely Muted. Sn far from the itussians making the least preparations for evacuating Moldavia and Wallachia, pursuant to the armistice, another Russian corps is on its march thither from Nlohilow, under the command of' hlajor-General Prince A.praxin, who is alreads arrived in Bitcharest, time head-quarters of the General in Chief, Prince Prosorowskv. The Russian advanced posts hate been lately considerably reinforced, and all correspondence and commercial intercourse w ith Turkey, are strictly prohibited. itaistits oP TUE MAINE, 1) r.c. s:—Some public Journals Albite, that the report has been generally circulated for some .s past, that a part of the Conscription of 1800 will be im mediately raised lly anticipation. We ate assured that Similar to' last year, a Senates Cunsultum will be issued, by whi c h He 00 youths, of this class, ts ill be placed at the disposal of 1 Coinnintnent ; namely, a part for the present army, and a part or the reserve. Although peace is established on the Continent, nevertheless, the great extent of countr) , occupied by the French armies, requires a reinforcement of fresh troops.-s -41:41;sille du Nord. —rierb-- __ . DENMARK. COPENUAGgNs ntc. 26,- 7 4etters from Cronstadt state, that 16 sail of the line, and 14 gua-boais, are lying in the port of that city. The Frcirtt army in nalmfttla oems dtitinecl tor very im portant ope i op. Sot," are of opinion. that it is to occupy the TLA • I ,i' accordies to 0111,11 1 11 is to march 4 4 , 1 4 tft _ ... Y ~~ ti tontatittee on the gate of the Islnnd the folios ins Re;ei lutious were agreed to 1. That, on a constitutional application to his Honour thc Lieutenant-(;a.ernor, this nouse did, in the last Session, grant bounty on the importation of fish from the British Colonic: in North America, in British veisclss fively and voluntatily, tli evince our ansit•ty to proninte the nattgation Of the Empire, and give a decided preference in our niarkets to those commodities which could Ise futnished by any part of hitb Nlajei t ty'sdotninions. That the attempt of his Majesty'S Ministers to compel this House to grant a bounty on fish of certain description., by pro hibiting the importation of fish in chips of vessels belonging to the subjects of any State in amity With his Majesty, whilst the oecessity ;signets an intercourse is reeognlzed, is oppressive and unconstitutional ; and nothing but this necessity, with the pro tection and care which we owe to our slaves, *hose comforts and lives are ss nutonly hazarded by 614 regulittiuni Could induce the [louse to (notion, the hotinty 4 which WU chatted!) , granted when applied for In a cotatitatiotal atandet• p*i z .. ` r