The National Register. — London, England, 1813-12-12 00:00:00

N %DEC. 12. - GLNERAL INT ENCE OF w EEK. Nth rapers to the Sd inst. reached town en Monday ; they contain the Decree for postponing the meeting of the Legislative Body till the 19th, an account of the non-arrival of the Members. The military intelligence continues to de scribe the defensive positions of the French stoops, holding out the persuasion of safety, and telling the people that a vi- Forous resistance will he made if the Allies attempt to cross the Rhine. A variety of paragraphs are also put forth to in duce a belief of dissentious among the Allies, and of disease and wancamoug their moors. A great part of the contents of these papers have this character of delusion; and tiretnost amongst *them is an article, stating that Lord Wellington's . Only is in a deplorable state fur want of provisions, prefaced by an announcement, that an entrenched camp has been formed before Bayonne, guarded by ion pieces of cannot, Wessel and Jobe's ate said to be provisiiited for n;ne months, and Macdonald was to set out from Cclogne for another destination. Denmark is stated to be staunch in the cause of France, and making the greatest exertions. It is rematkable, that nothing has yet been permitted to he salt' respecting the revolution in Holland. The Conscripts, we are told, march cheerfully to their depots. The Gazette ofl Cassel, of the 17th November, is cited as stating that nego ciations are on foot which interest all Europe. Whether there be any foundation fur it or not, must be left for time to - develope. Additional Paris Journals to the 6th instant arrived on Wednesday. So late as the latter end of last month, no of fensive operations appear to have been undertaken las the Allied Armies in the neighbourhood of the Rhine, and the enemy continue to speak of the remarkable state of tran fluidity in which they find themselves in that direction. From the Lower Elbe there is very little intelligence; and of Davonst, we arc merely told, that his corps still continued to occupy Ratzburg and Ilambutgle Om-scripts continue to be matched towards the Rhine ; and " those lively and do cile youths," as. the Monitenr terms them, are exercised for several hours daily, the public walks being for t'oeir reception f' transformed into Champs de Marc'- . .- Meta, on the Mo selle, within the territory of Old Fiance, is the grand depot and rendezvous of all the troops marching from die Intel ior, for the defence of the frontier, on the side of the Rhine. The Pt cfect of the Department of the Seine has issued an arret calling upon the conscripts of the classes of the years Igt 1, 12, 13, 1.1, 1806, 1807, and the classes following them, des tined to furnish the contingsnt fu- the Department of the Seine to the levy of three hundted• thousand men. The persons for this levy may be takeit Eton all the departments of the Empire, at the height qf jimr feet nine inches, (French measure, or five feet one inch and three-quarters English) and to the age of thirty-eirht years. if they have tint already 'served, and to the age of fotty-two, if they has e been before in the military : On the side of Italy,. Buonaparte seems determined to make a strenuous etlot t. Masena, once more called into action, is said to be norching in the direction of Getio, at the head of twenty o; twenty two thousand men, for Piedinont ; wltilu Murat with his 31111 V front Naples,. advances upon the Po. Buonaparte re mained at Park actively employed in supplying the wants of the army. There are accounts flout 11:o onne of the 29:11 tilt. They express little more than the security which is felt at that place from the formidable entrenched camp that has been completed before it. It is asserted that a misun derstanding prevails between the Spa lila , ds and English, from the former having refuted to advance. One article of ia_these Papers we arc afraid is tno true. It is P 3 . . stated from Bourdeaux of the 26th tilt . that an Ameticatryes sel had art ived there in twenty days flout Boston, bringing an account that the British Army in Upper Canada, under CeMeral Procter, bad been made prisoners; the General himself and 50 men only escaping. ,Sir James Yeo is also said to have been defeated by Commodore Chauncey, but this rumour, we trust will prove unfounded. • . Accounts from the French coast state that the enemy • are making evely exertion to send troops against Holland. " Every person," •says one of those accounts, " capable of bearing arms, is compelled to march, and where any oppo sitiou is attempted, force and violence of the most compul sive nature at to. A great number of gun-boats are also conveying from Du&drk, &c. through the Nether lands, by the canals, to the Scheldt, intended, it is said, for the defence of that river and Antwerp." Three mails from Heligoland arrived on Wednesday. At the same tune Mr. Myers, the Messenger, accompanied by a • foreign Nobleman, arrived with dispatches from Lord Aber deen, at the head-quarters of the Allied Army at Frankfort. from which we have papers to the 26th. In the course of the day, Mr. Williams, the Messeeger, also arrived front the coast of Holland ; and at night Dutch Papers were re ceived to the 7th instant. Adviccs from Frankfort, dated the 2slth ult. state, that Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr had re fused to return to Dresden, and to have , his corps replaied in the situation in which it capitulated to Count Mellott, upon which Prince Sewartzenbcrg gave orders that the corps should be made prisoners of war, •and marched into Bohemia. It consists of ahout 30 Generals, 1900 Officers, 28,00 . 0 men. besides 6000 sick. Buonaparte has offered to treat for Abe with:lrawing of all his troops from the fortresses on the Vis tula, Oder, and Elbe ; but his proposals have been rejected. Most of these fortresses most shortly fall into the hands of the Allies. Wallin and Stettin are said to have already sur rendered. Were it possible for hiin to march the whsle of • the garrisons into France, he would at once possess an army of veterans, which, when filled up with the new conscripts, would become truly formidable. I u Dantzic alone there is a large company .d'elle, consisting wholly of officers, who sought refuge . there in the flight from Russia. The Vienna Gazelle contains a ' formal notification, that the Confederation of the Rhine had ceased to exist,4ll theSones belonging to it having either voluntarily joined the Allies, or beeu occupied by their arms. Most of the Kings and Princes have attended in person at Frank fott, to offer their alliance to the'Empetors of Austria and Russia, and the King of Prussia. In that city have been the Kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg; the Grand Dukes of Baden, Ilesse Darmstadt, and Wurtzburg,•atal almost all the minor Pt hires, even in cluding the Prince of issemburg, late an Oflicer in the.ser v ice of France, and of whose fidelity to Buonaparte the French papers loudly boasted. The Frankfurt Gazettes contain several of the treaties which these Rhenish Sove -11 reigns have concluded with the Allies. The Gland Duke L of Baden, in an address to his subjects, declares, that he had requested of Buonaparte permission to remain 'ten on!, which he refused. The fate of Davousl, and of the RI: r; of Denmark, seems to be drawing. to a el iris The latter, it is said, sent two Ambassadors to the Crown Prince to treat for peace ; but they were dismissed with the answer, that the Plitice would treat with them only on Danish 'ground. We learn from Elensburgh, under date of the '.6th of November, that Count Bernstorff had sent off to Frankfort ; and the Austrian Ambassador, who was on the point of leavittg Copenhagen, has been requested to postpone his departure. Meanwhile, the Crown Prince, disregarding all these pacific °vet tures, was to..pass the Elbe on the 4,01