The National Register. — London, England, 1809-11-26 00:00:00

7"› Germany. There is some plausibility in this conjecture, though we must acknowledge we impute more pageantry and ostentation to this visit, than attribute it to political motives. The Grand Duke of WURTZBURG is to receive a compensation for his oh%equioustiess to the new Dynasty of the BUONAPARTES, and his abandonment of his own family—the Princes of the House of Lorraine. He is,. in all probability, the Prince alluded to, whose fidelity is to be re larded 'with Hanover. He will receive a further remuneration in the hand of the rich heiress of Saxony, as he, some years age, made overtures to that effect. The King of SAxoNv is a good, well-meaning, but limited man, and completely conducted by a favourite called Count MARCOLINI I an Italian adventurer, who has acquit - . ed an immense fortune in his service. In consequence of popular detestation, which is the lot of every favourite, this MAncomNi thought fit, some years ago, to secure the greatu part of his property by purchases in the Kingdom of Italy, of which he is a native; and since that time, may • be considered as a ready and devoted instrument of BUONA• PARTE.' He probably takes care to conceal from his roas ter, who is a very religious and very moral man, the darker Ithades in the character of his new patron; and to represent the accounts of his atrocities as the inventions of malevo lence and enmity. In this he can easily succeed, because the habits of the Elector, his devotional exerc►ses, his pas sion for botany, and the Spanish etiquette introduced at the Court of Presden, besides his ardent attachment to this intriguer, seclude him from every intercourse with his sub jects. -He is. therefore, completely the dupe of the intrigues of his servant, and of the professions of BUQNAPARTE, whom, were his mind unshackled, he would abhorr as an un principled, flag-itious, and hypocritical tyrant. As for the new King of WURTEMBERG, he is one of the worst men and the worst regents in Europe, and has intrusively shewn himself the submissive, mean, and crouching vassal of the tyrant. A slave is always a tyrant towards his family and dependants ; and h 3 is generally represented as a ty rannic father, husband, and prince. His attachment to BUONAPARTE proceeds from the meanest motives, fear and interest ; asid he woold be the first to desert, if his present fortune abandoned his patron. The King of BAVARIA pos sesses all the faults, virtues, avid extravagance of an in temperate reformer. His late political conduct has been influence:l by an old family hate and personal grudge to the House of Austria. This sentiment, together with an ar dent desire to reform a ni!mber of abuses, civil and ecoles- elailical, to which pi jeet lif3apprehended some opposition from the Austrian government, encouraging the discon tents mid bigotry of his subjects, induccd him to ►hrow him self into the arms of BUONAPARTE. Whether he will always continue, vhen his ambition and kared are grafi fed, the same zealous partisan of France, he has been for some time, is extremely doubtful. He possesses a num ber of ,014nable qualities; but has been led into po litical 4xceSses and errors by the opposition be for merly encountered from the house of Austria, and from a desire to correct the profligate bigotry of his Ca tholic subjects. It would not be hazardiug too much to buve that he may still contribute to re-establish a system THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ' NOV. 26. he so largely served to destroy. His son and heir is repre sented as a young man of considerable talents and strong ambition ; and may find ample room for both in opposing what he is now obliged to support. Such are • the personages, who are expected to grace BUONAPA RTE'S triumphant entry:into his Capital. They are his principal vassals, and move within the orbit, which forms the new French Empire. Denmark, though not ac tually forming a part of this system, seems to receive her present light and impulse from the grand luminary, and may be considered as a kind of irregular comet, which strayed from her own into this new system. The pre sent King is actuated by the most inveterate hostility to this country; and will support solely from that sen timent, every plan of aggression, however ultimately dangerous to himself and the independence of Europe, which tends to injure the interest of this country. He will co-operate cordially in every plan, which has that ob ject in view; and as he plumes. himself upon his good faith, no time, scarcely any concession on our part, will erase from his memory, the conflagration of his capital, and the capture of his , .fleet. That unfortunate affair is now over; and we wish it were in our power to consign it to eternal oblivion; but the present generation of Danes must pass away, before we are able to effect a hearty re conciliation with that Government and Country. The character of the present King was, unfortunately, misun derstood by our Government ; for his present rancorous enmity is a strong presumption of the firmness, and, per haps, integrity of his principles. Had he pledged his word not to deliver his fleet into the hands of the common enemy; he would have sooner consented to bury himself under the ruins of his throne and country, before he would have violated it. The Africaine frigate. Captain Haggett, arrived on Fri. day at Portsivouth, from the Chesapeake, in 26 days. The Hon. Mr. Erskine, his Lady, and four children, came home in her. The Africaine lay two mouths in Hampton roads, after she landed Mr. Jackson. Soon after she ar rived, several of the crew deserted in one of her boats; the men were claimed by , Capt. Hamett, but the American mob seemed to be the judges in the case, for, though there appear d every disposition in the GoVernment to restore the men, they were never given up, and 'it was attributed - to the influence of the mob. The officers of the Africaine had very little communication, with the shore, in consequence of this disgraceful transaction. Capt. Haggett did not go on shore all the tiino the Afri caine was m America.—The general opinion when the Afrif:aine sailed was, that the differences oith.this country would be adjusted. • A vessel is arrived at filyni.mth from B:lboa, wh;ch states that she fell in on the 15th, and was boarded by the • Renommee, one of a squadron of tour French frigates and. a corvette, from the Loire, bound to Gnat:loupe. They left her and then steered a Westerly course. The Dreadnought, ,98, Rear-Admiral Sotheby, also fell in with, and chased the above squadron a whole day, but uufortunately they escaped in consequence of the Dread nought's haviug carried away her fore-topgallant-mast, The bailing of these frigates for Guadaloupe was expected by our Admiral on the Barbadoes station, and a flying squadron of frigates had been sent on the look out for them. We trust, therefore, that they . have,escaped our naval force. in Europe only to fall into the hands of our naval force in the West Indies. 1 •