The National Register. — London, England, 1812-04-19 00:00:00

= IMlElpliim 24R it was therefcre suppsed they meant to offer to surrender,wed to proposing; as a condition,. that they should be allowed carry away this property. The general conviction, how ever, is, that the place must soon fall,. if not by capitula tion, by assault. A letter from an Office that the trenches, dated the 2d inst. we understand, states, the parallels had been pushed by te esiegingen received of any army a lmost to thmove e co 7. vered way. No acco the bcsieging army almost to th co-. vered way. No accountS have be ment on the part of A'L • COMMON COUNCIL. . The Common Council met on Friday, to take into con sideration the pretended necessity . of addressingf the the PRINCE Ruccsr, and recommending -the removal o present Ministers. The discussion was a little more tern pertte than the former, as the motion was made by Mr. OliN, instead of Ir. WAITIINIAN, who reserved all his fury to bring up the tear. The Address contained an as. , snrance of loyalty to the PRINCE REGENT, and " depre cated the severities the people endured from the present o ppressive mode of collecting .the taxes, the nut.iber of foreign mercenaries introduced unto the kingdom, the re stricthins upon the liberty of the press and lot eign com merce. It stated the hardships which the people in all parts cf the country endured from our foreign and do niestic policy, and concluded by beseeching the PRINCE REGENT to dismiss from his Councils men, who, by their conduct, had proved themselves unworthy of the confi dence of the c ountry, and to call to his Royal Highness's Councils men of known talents and tried integrity, who would support a Reform in Parliament." The most sensible speech was that of Mr. BitowN, and as it expresses the opinion of every man who has not thrown off the yoke of reason and modesty, though tri umphantly displays the impropriety of that conduct in politicians, which only tends to excite, instead of quelling, popular discontents. We shall give a few extracts from its contents which cannot fail to prove useful, and which cannot be too strongly impressed on the misguided dis turbers of the public peace. Mr. BROWN said, 66 it was quite impossible for any man possessing feelings of humanity, not to c ommisserate , the distressed situation of the working classes of people but, in the midst of the war in. which we were engaged, s t r uggling for our very existence, it was lamentable to j see men throw the blame of 'all our evils upon Goverii ment.—(Hear, hear ! ) He thou g ht they might employ their time much better in calling the attention of the un informed to the advantages we still enjoyed over other nations. He thought it the height of folly to talk of a Reform in Parliament, in the present situation of the . country ; it was no better than a man whose house was surrounded by robbers, burying himself in the concerns of his family. He respected some men who were friends to Reform, because their own public and private conduct was praiseworthy ; but he was sorry to soy, he knei.v many Reformists whose public and private conduct but ill corresponded. Some took delight in damping the spirit of the people, multiplying our disasters, and ptais ing the conduct of the Lord nemy WELLI ; and NGTON, a certa and in R did not eformer co mpared SUCIIET to omit to give the former the preference." The Address, however, was carried by a small majo rity of six, and ordered to be presented to the PRINCE REGENT by the whole Court, so as to insure its beingness re ceived on the Throne, and to compel his Royal High to hear it read aloud, and to return an answer. Such is the " conciliating" and 46 respectful" conduct which the Ciy Politicians adopt at this moment of increased diffi culties, as an example to the whole nation. APRIL 19 The continuation of the easterly and northerly winds, prevents vessels at sea from getting into por t. Th e Committee at Lloyds, conceiving that many merchant ships may be beating about the chops of the Channel, short of provisions, have made application to the Lords of the Admiralty, to render vessels. circumstanced, the necessary assistance. The following is the reply from the Admiralty : " Admiralty Office, AprillB. it St it—ln return to your letter of yesterday's date, I have it in cotn mand, from my Ltuds Commissioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you, for the information of the ComMittee for NlatlagitiB the Affairs of Lloyd's, that Admiral Lord Kr.' and Sir Roarit r CALDER, have been directed to use their best exertions to push out any cruisers that may. be within their reach, with supplies of water and provisions f .r the merchant vessels that may be beating a bout M the chops of the Channel, and in want the reat. " I am, &c J. W. C . &c. ROKETt." 64 Mr. J. Bvimett, Jun. (Signed) " Intelligence 'vas rece ived last Thursday by later s from Falmouthi.brought by a vessel from Jamaica, of the cap ture of the Amethyst, a remarkable large frigate, off the Island of San Dqmimzo : She carried 40 guns, and hid on board a clew of 400 men, and 300 troops. The South ampton, 32 guns, commanded by Captain Sir J. 1,. 0, hailed her, requestirg to know to what natiim she be longed ; but getting no satisfactory answer, the Southarup. ton fired a shot, which was returned immediately. Au action of two hours continuance ensued, at the conclusion of which the Amethyst struck, with the loss of all her m ist s, and three huridietl - - and fi!ty men killed and v oulked, of whom the greater portion were blacks. The Cornmai.der of the Amethyst was a Frenchman, who fell in the action. The Southampton's loss was twelve men killed and wound ed. Most letters state that the . former belonged to CIInISTOPIIE, and was going against PLTION. Captain Ygo landed the crew and troops at St. Domingo, and proceeded to Jamaica with his prize. sAn account of the capture of the ilivoti, of 80 guns, ;n her passage from Venice to Corfu. has been received from Vienna. It was mentioned in two successive posts from Venice to Vienna, and there is little or no doubt of its be ing cortect. She was laden with gores, provisions, and . troops, for Corfu, and was artnee en flute. One of our frigates, whose name we have not yet heard, laid her on board in the most gallant style. The action was long and severe. She had most of her masts carried away, and 400 :nen either killed or wounded. French Papers to the II th instant came to hand on Wed nesday. They remain completely silent respecting the o p er ations in the Peninsula ; but inform us of t he con tinued march of French, Bavarian, Wirtembergh, and Saxon troops towards Poland, while several Austrian corps have taken the route of Gallicia, for the purpose probably of acting against Russia on that side. BoNA PARTE had not left Paris for the army so late as the 10th instant. Marshal OUDINOT, at the head of a numerous body of French troops, entered the Prussian capital on the 28th ult. It appears that a perfect understanding subsists between France and Prussia, if the complete military occupation of the latter by the troops of the former can be so considered. The French troops were, soon after their arrival, reviewed by his Prussian Majenstyh e ; they were ordered to be pl aced at f ree q uarters upo t inhabitants, and grand dinners were given to their officers. The Journal de Paris contains a long article, in which tbe military force of France is enumerated. The nu mber of troops now on their march to Poland .is swelled to er not less than five hundred thousand ; and the same exagg tions appear with respect to the naval preparations in .the different ports, which, though certainly begun, are for the greater pat t by no mea ns in the forward state repre tented. THE NATIONAL REGISTER.