The National Register. — London, England, 1813-02-21 00:00:00

"-f V •,•4 • I t V NA effusion of party spirit, unsanctioned by true wisdom or sin • cere patriotism. The American Government, disappointed by the disas trous result of their land operations, were equally surprised at the advantages which their Commanders obtained at sea. Where they had anticipated triumphs. they had met with disgrace and defeat 5 where ruin, with success, The latter destroyed at once the fair equipoise of their judgment. Too blind to perceive, in our forbearance, the real cause of their momentary successes, or too proud to attribute them to any thing, save their own growing superiority in skill and courage, they immediately aimed at the empire of the waves. They re-echoed NA.s.oLLost's declamations respset ing the freedom of the seas, resolved to maintain the inviola bility of their flag, under every circumstance, and to make the abandonment of onr right of sovereignty over our own subjects, the only condition on which they would ccnde scend to treat with defeated England ! Their acts, however, proved that their confidence in themselves was but assumed. Whilst they exulted in their triumphs, as shedding the brightest rays of glory over the American arms, they had "secretly recourse to dishonourable practices, which proved 'that they were conscious Of their own national incapacity, and that to conquer England, whom they affected to despise, they were obliged to seduce her sailors into their service.— They marshalled Britons•against Britons, and then gave the. palm of victory to America. Nay, it is to this conviction of the inferiority of their men, of the impossibility of their en countering our cruisers with any chsuce of success, and of the necessity of employing English seamcn to enable them to carry on a naval war, that may be atti ibuted the impor tance they have attached to our suTending our right of search. They wish us to leave in their hands the 16,000 Britons, whom it has been stated in Parliament, they have se duced and naturalised. They want us, by such a concession,, to openly encourage treason . against ourselves. On the oath of an old woman, knowingly obtained by the low bribery of half a crown, they turn Englishmen into Americans, and then make it- a ground for war, that we do not ac knowledge their transmuting power, and claim and impress our rightful subjects. Impunity has made them bold: but the hour of forbearance is past. It is no longer our interest to spare. They have cncrcased the storm that will untimate ly burst upon them, instead of removing it ; and the blockade of New York and their chief rivers, has already taught them to expect the full, tremendous, and decisive discharge of the British thunder. A Leeward Island Mail arrived on Wednesday, by which the following information was received:—" The Paul Jones American privateer, of New York, was cruizing on the sth of January, in sight of St. Michael's, and had taken twelve vessels. The Gloire, French frigate of 4 tguns, was at the' me time in that station, and hld captured reveral Brazil ships some of them American vessels bound to the Peninsula with grain. This frigate had sunk a large American from St. Übes. Two of the ships 'she had taken were afterwards ran somed•.. The Iris, CASTANOS, from Havannah to Cadiz, was plundered of 9.4,000 dollars and a large quantity of gold and silver by the Revenge American privateer, near the Ba hamas, on the 253 th of November." R. FOREIGN IA TELLIGENCE. LISBON FEB. 8. 13. , EXTRACT OF AN OFFICIAL DISPATCH PROM THE MARQUIS OF WEL LINGTON VI HIS EXCELLENCY MIGVEL FEREIKA FORJAZ, DATEF) HEAD QUARTERS, TEEN .DA B JAN. 27. " I returned hither on the 27th instant. " It appears that the enemy has nut made any essential alteration in the position of -the armies during my absence. • The three armies of Portugal, the Centre, and the South, are united in Castile, under King Joseph, whose head quarters are now in Madrid. The army of Portugal is uAler the command of General R who Litcly came from the army of the NOlth, and has his head-quar ters in Valladolid. " The army of the Centre is uneer the orders of Conde D'F.rlon, who was. formed! , -r.lployed in the army of the South, and com manded for a short time the army of Portugal, atter the allies retired from the Tonnes. His head-quarters are in the vicinity of Msalrid and the army cif the South is under Marshal Souk's orders, ivhosc head-quarters are in Toledo. " The army of the South was lately drawn towards the neiAhhour hood of the Tagus, having moved towards Toledo the divisions of that army which were in the province of Avila, and having them re placed in Avila by the first division of the army oll'ortuga.l. 66 I have not receives idea of the state of aft rears to be activd) s well as General L destroyed 600 men, al the enemy on the ;30t 44 My. last accout. cember, at which tim , ted from Sicily had ar was expected. " The allied Engii tonments in which t " The Spanish troo) CAN!, Tan. 2°.—' that thorc had betin rival of a great convoy, . and Sicilians ; that on the 15th, the enemy entered Yecla, and took prisoners :3O infantry and 12 horses ; and that Whittingham's division was corning towards Granada. MANftv.S A ' Dec. 31.—They talk of a glorious action of General Mina's near Barhastro. ALIcAs r, Jan. 16.—Suchet, in order to prevent the news \N hiCh lately arrived from France from being knor.n, ordered the mail to be burned in Valencia, ‘vi:hout allowing the Ic!tcrs to be delivered to either Frenchmen or Spaniards, after having read the official dispatches addressed to him. _ _ The French in Madr;►l say that Soult has been called to France IN ith 30,01 U men, of whom 15,000 are to remain in France, and 15,00 U pro ceed to Italy. Soult with his staff; was still in Toledo on the `'24th of Jamiaty, with 10,000 infantry, 8,000 having anteriorly marched for Cuenca. _ . There appears no doubt of many French families having taken re fuge in Navarre, to, avoid the persecution of Buonaparte, ai well many youths, to avoid the conscrirtion. General Mina, to whoin these unfortunate victims of Corsican tyranny presented thcm..elvt.s, is said to have applied to the Spanish Government for instructions hers to act. Si,.vit.LE,, Jan. 29.—Yet - tcrday, at three o'clock in the afternoon, ar r ived here the of the Andalnsian army of reserve ; commanded by his Excellency the Conde de Bibbed: iveci any recent accounts by which I can form an flair!: in the North of Spain. General RSina app- employed against the enemy in • and, he Longa, have caused him grg . ••-•*.#•-• ;latter • • -‘440) . I . k and n;ok two pi: - . • • ~. • 'WWI th of N:)v - • ints fro '•.• • ... of title pa •.•t • • . ,••• ; •; 4 Were ex .•;. tit feral..Si Loni . Wm-.' Bonnie • A - • - t ' • AW:4)-;, . . lish a > xiltttevoccupy the (lame can- . - they 11; 1 . ~t TOr .. e . •• pops . ; • ton • • ";.• • . Yft -They write •. ; repeated salvos in a ,on a • • o the ar. with a reinforcement of more than .500:) Engl;sh AM.E.RIIiAN PAPERS. Extract from Mr. Cliy's Breech on the Temporary Army Bill : « Mr. Clay seconded the motion of Mr. Macon'to ;ti ike out one ye:,r and insert five as the term of enlistment. He said an army ought to be seasoned before it was carried into the field. We have heard much sa:d, observed he, about sickness in your army : much of the sickness some time ago at New Orleans, and much lamely of tl - 4.: sickness at Plattchurgh. Have you ever heard of an army on earth that was carried into :he field before it had been seasoned in the camp' It must, to be good for any thing, be first disciplined is camp. ;old become inured to the mode of living and the tare of soldiers. You; seamen are brave and successful because they know what they go to sea for. 'rake a landsman on board a ship, and what sort of a seiliir will he make ? Such as the French have on board their vessels. We take no man into the navy but who understands his business and the purpose fOr N , rhich he goes there ; and Ave see the effects of it. Ido not wish it unt!erstood, Sir, if 1 vote against the Ltll, that I-am op. po:;ed to the %var. No, Sir, it is a righteous war, into which Igo with hand and heart. We may diffl.r about the mode; but that is al I.cu us raise a sufficient army to skive during the war, be it lohe o she;:. I: is absurd to suppose we thali net succeed in our euterpris ... i ~.