The National Register. — London, England, 1809-08-06 00:00:00

TTTI; NATIONAL REGISTER. AUG. 6. TO OUR. SUBSCRIBIAN AND THE PUULIC. On Snnday last we gave to the Purchasers of The Yational Begistcr, a Portrait 9f the DuK Eof Volt K. it ha, been ob jetted to us as a great inconsistency of conduct, to have (loopy this whe.t we were among the number ( and still contimr- , to be among the number) who bfilieueil Mrs. Clarke's evi dence at the Bar of the House of C'emmons. Surely it is not ill- . consistent to believe ner evidence, aml at the same time exceral.. the means by which that evidence was obi:tilled, and the pur.. poses fair which it wag brought font:ad. But to rt 'lawyer ill consistency our conduct may invol ‘e, Nb e hat rather ple:,;! guilty than tay ourselves open to a charge of ditiionesty : ltav• iug 'promised to give our subset ibers, a se, tef Portraits of tip,. whole lio at Family,—this promise ;se sb:11! certainly perfortn. The statue of the late Duke of iletnra was finally completed, and the scaffolding; removcd on Friday last. The critique w hien we propose to give concerning it, will, we hope, be found cor rectly discriosinai.ve, aim formed on the most classical deduc tions. Such a critique must thereft..re be divested of those ei rors in jtriginent which the first impression of every work of art 1, to produce : to contemplate the subject with that accuracy o aid) it demand', we defer our animadversions until 'text Sunda). A Letter from " 6 AN tNGLISII ARTIST" Caine too late for 7'llE NA 'ZONAL REGISTER, IL oW3oli, SUNDAY, AUGITST 6, 1809. it, station on Tuesday morning last, at w hich time the C.'ar.'! :in bad n view of the Expedition, hich was extended in a line from Flushiu to Campvere. The Phoenix did nut ;.ppruach near enough to permit any :It-curate observation of tquit was going on : but on Sunday :light the batch wens Aserved to have lighted alarm tires along the coast. A. ;.navy tiring was kept up the w hole of Monday, and towards evening shells were throtvn from various points. Captain Walker, not deeming it prudent to approach the fleet, left ,le SCCIIIS of action early on the following morning, *llhuht • learning any further particulars. An account, says the Kentish Gazette, brought by some per: sons who left the Dutch coast on Tuesday last, and were landed on Wednesday afternoon near Whitstable, states that our troops were in possession of the Island of Schowen, and that a part of the Expedition was anchored in the Roomp,ot, stretching fro* thence to Zierichzee, the capital of the island, by which they would commit:A the eastern branch of the Scheldt. After Walcheren is reduced and the French squadron de stroyed, we should nut he surprised to hear that part or our armament pays a visit to Copenhagen—lt will at least find employment for the Danishtontingences near home. We understud that a Telegraphic Li:spatch was receival at the Admiralty at a late hour last night, announcing Ili* arrival of a Messenger in the Downs, with the official au count of the surrender of Flushing. From the Foreign Papers which arrived yesterday moka ing we extract the following intelligence. Tile MAINE, Ju g. r O.—The Emperor of Austria is stfll at Olatutz. The head quarters of the Arciidake Charles at eat Eylati. On the 17th fresh cavalry entered Nuremberg. Ot den have been issued in Hanover to arreA all Aastrian deserierti, and particularly all military persons and taker foreigners wko have no passports. POLITIC4L EVENTS OP 7HE WEEK. In.the absence of real news we are always pestered with $ variety of reports, respecting the truth of which we have often no other authority than what is to be deduced from their probability or improbability. Whets they are favour able we are inclined to believe them, froint their accordance with our wishes; when they are otherwise our belief is re luctanly wrung from us, and we are unwilling to be the first in detailing them. The reports which relate to the Expedition, we present to our Readers, but none of them come up to the sanguir.e wishes and hopes which are entertained by every Briton.— These rumours state, that Flushing - , and the - whole of the Island of Walcheren, have been taken by the English. We insert a Letter which is said to have been received in town yesterday. IL% a w icm, Avc. 4.—lntelligence has just been brought from the Expedition, by a foreign vessel which left the Dutch coast on Wednesday night. She had been with the Expedition since Saturday last—and that day, about one (p.m.) she was in the midst of our Expedition, which was then about two miles dissant from Flushing. They were then at anchor. Three gnus having been fired at the I:ritish Admiral's ship, the whole of the fleet K eighed and stood closer in. The foreign vessel then ICI sail for another port of the Dutch coast more to the north ward, where she remained until Wednesday night, when she received a short note by a fishing vessel, directing her to return with all haste to England, and adding, that " FLUSHING HAD BEEN TAKrN BY THE ENGLISH "-By Flushing, the Master of the foreign vessel means the surrender of ON whole island of Walcheren. The above intelligence mules from a source that may be relied on. The above is the latest intelligence that has been received.— Other accounts have been received ; but they do not bring down the intelligence later than last Tuesday. The Phoenix, Captain Walker, arrived yesterday at Barlstng, (rem the vicinity of the island of Walchuesi. This vessel q fitted Axodinca LETTER SAME DATE. A Congress for Peace i. spoken of to he held in Moravia or akt V irtina.—llumhuegli Corre4pondcuLn. Tate Emperor Francis, according to some accounts, h gone from Oltntitz to Hungary. With respect to the bt t eau cut in Ow Strasburgh Gazette, that the Archduke Charles had hituselfgano to the head-quarters of the Emperor Napoleon, we hear no far• they of it. MORAVIA, JULY 11.—Prince Rosenberg was the cause of the loss of the battle of the Gth, as he al:or,ed hints•clf to he suf . - rottned.—Aaron; the wounded Austrian Generals are Mayer, Lederer, Rosenberg. Prince Cobr►urg, and Bentheita.—The Archduke Charles had a shut in the knee. The town of Ztsitias was burst. . We present our readers with the following reports, which are WO important to be entirely unnoticed 1);; us; at the same time we do by no means pledge ourstives for the truth of either of them : An Austrian Messenger is arrived in town with dis., patches, which are said to bring assuranon, that the Atli. trian Government, unable to submit to t hard t erms o f Peace with NAPOLEON wished to dictate, had resolved to try the fortune of war, once more.—We know not what reliance is to be placed on this staterapiit ; but if Austria retains the means or the spirit to try, the fortune of war again, the presence of our Expedition on the ftemy'S corast, is Rot unlikely to call it forth.. HALL, the Dutch broker, received yesterday a letter from Holland, which states, that the Archdtke Ca i zy after refusing to ratify the Armistice, evagedilitEr a i s k r routed their Emu. and Nob eO,OO. prisoners... I Ay Ay