The National Register. — London, England, 1815-01-22 00:00:00

_.,.~ TUE NATIONAL .REGMT .IkN. Qt. - - - fen d to opi me them by war. This Memorial," in-the opi nion of the American Commissioners, " opensa field for ne gotiation lunch widei than had been anticipated, does not prPmise an aspect of immediate tranquility to the Continent, rtat ly disconcert the measures taken by Great Britain, with regard tO the future destination of Belgium." The American Editor, in reviewing such of the documents as have been published in The National Intells ! zencer, asks, Wiar bjection exists to the immediate signature of a Treat f Peace." The new Tax Bills were in their progress through Congress. The Bill for establishing a National Bank has been lost, on the question fin its being read a third time, by a majority of 104 to 40. It is supposed, h►►wever, that the measure will * be revived. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Dallas, has notifie , l to the Commissioners of Loans for this State (says the Boston Pape.), that in consequence of the depressed state of public credit, lie has been unable to provide for•the payment of the interest of the public debt in specie, but propo►es to the creditors-0 1. 't . ;lat they .ah.crih•• the amonnt of their respective claims at p .o the loaii of six millions, opened 1)) the late Si eretary of tilt Treasury, oil the terin• of that loan. Y. Or, that they are pt in payment of their respective claims, drifts on those bsinks (principally seated to the sont4 sint west of in which there are deposits of public money. Mr Monroe's military plan seems to have been deemed to , ) strong a measure, and another Las been brought into the Senase by Mr. Giles. It differs from the Secretary's scheme in several respects. It proposes a service limited to two years time, whilst Mr. Monroe% army was to serve during the war, :c id might be triarchni into any foreign territory. The per !on on whom the ballot may fall is not to be :liable to be r.c;,ied and delivered over to the recruiting °Ricer, as Mr. ..'‘:onroe proposed, but is to be subject to a flue in case of .faluie or disobedience. This plan. modified as it is, does not seem to be at all re liihed, and the public mind, according to this Boston Paper, remains gloomy and dissatisfied. The Vice-President or the United States ) Mr. Gery is dead Mr. Gaillard is to be his successor. There is no news from the South ; of course there is no f.undation for a letter from Pointe a la ['ache, relative to _Admirals Cochrane and Cockburn. Gen. Jackson has called upon the free coloured inhabitants of Louisiana to volunteer in the service of the United States. We are pleased to beat that Ministers, at last, alive to the importance of our commerce with South America, have af folded a very flattering reception to a Deputation of entle nn.:l recently an ived f..):n New Granada. PROSPECTS OF EUROPE. 57 At length the bubble seems on the point of bursting. The Congress of the Sovereigns that were to meet at Vienna, for the purpose of settling a new balance of power, has broken up; and, dreadful as have been the inconveniences that have resulted from the events of the past twenty years. Europe is left in a state to threaten fresh contests, and offer herself a subject for new scenes of spoliation, war, and conquest. We are wrong, perhaps, in saying that the Congress has broken up; for the fact is, that it never has obtained so much consist ency, as to commence its deliberations in regular form. This has arisen from the jarring interests, which it was impossible to consult, the ridiculous prejudices which it was impractica ble to remove, and the lust of power and dominion which no measure sanctioned by the assembled Sovereigns (so much were their opinions divided) could possibly gratify. But, although the lust of power and dominion could not be gratified with common consent, Russia and Prussia appear to have conti ived to be placed in such a situation as to have secured to themselves no small share of booty; for it seems the former i 3 to obtain the most valuable part of Po land, and with it, if we arc not much mistaken, a full posses• sion of the hearts of its people. They are now represented to be ripe for the government of a monarch who will give them the means of assuming the rank to wbelt they aspire. and acting the part of which they think themselves capable. It was Mirabeau, we believe, who pronounced the erection of Poland into a really independent kingdom, and, of coarse• with adequate means of political is fl uence in Europe, as "the raising a very devil in its centre." The Empress Cathe rine appeared aware of the inflammability of their character, and thus was anxious to paralize their efforts by exercising the diciele rt imprra. Hence, Poland was nivided • and Ca therine directed the march of her legions towards Constanti nople. Owing, however, to the interference of Pi ussia, Great thitain, and Sweden, her troops were arrested in their pro gress. lier successor appears to have well recollected the cir cumstance of the impediments thus ()filed to his illustrious grandmother; and very judiciously to have determined to secure both Poland and Prussia, as instruments in hits vast designs on the dominions of the Crescent. Prussia has, it appears, willingly united in the scheme, but not without a clear understanding that she is to be ag grandized in proportion to her means of forwarding the views of Russia. She, it seems, does secure Saxony; and, although so much pains were taken by Ministers to disa vow any sanction to the proclamation of Prinre Repnin, it is evident that it was as authentic as the offers of /heir Imperiag and Ponal itNcsties to Buonaparte it: the month of November, ISIS, a fact which will be well recollected, but of which 'Ministers had no notice till after they had been made. ft thus appears, that so early as the I 1 th of November, Plussis and Russia liwteJ in an act, setting the will c►f the Congress at open defiance. In a little month" the same gat. e was played at Warsaw by Alexander that had been so success , fully won by Frederic• William at Dresden. It, however. suited these Gentlemen to. receive British money a little lorger—atliey waited anothci month, and then ordered their IPWO a ...I'.