The National Register. — London, England, 1814-12-18 00:00:00

DEC. IS. FRANCE Uniformly pursuing one system, that of aggrandi7ement, and this system admirably seconded by the immoral stee of her pa. pulation, she is casting aside tile pruning hook for the spear, and preparing to assert those claims whit+ she says have a lawful founilation—clahns which in the moment of distress she was compelled to waive. tier armies are collecting, and, notwithstanding the losses sustained by her in her Ru•sian campaign, there is little reason to doubt,, but that she will be able to take the field with 400,000 men. This, compared to that which will be opposed to her, is a tremendous num ber. The depraved state of her morals, furnishes a sti mulus- to her attempts to regain her Rhenish boundary, and then act according to dicumstances. Various are the rumours contained in private letters on the subject of the disposition of the people towards the Bourbons; but, various as they are, we regret to see they excite a pretty general apprehension in the by-standers of approaching con vu!sion. Pr ivate advices from Paris assert that a plot was formed to involve the King and Royal Family in destruction on Thurs day sennight, when returning from the Theatre to his car riage. The conspiracy was disclosed to his Majesty by Mar shal Mamma, a quarter of an hour before he left the Thuil le; ies. The intention of the conspirators, it 's said, was to surround the King before he reached his carriage—to hail him w ith kind acclamatious of Vire lc Roi, and to s'// him and the other Members of the Royal Family amidst their Irv pociitical applause. Every necessary precaution was used, by lining the streets with soldiers'through which -his Majesty and the Members of the Royal Family passed, besides hav ing an additional guard, and they returned in safety to the Palace. It is added, that a great number of arrests have taken place, and that 80,000 troops have been Assembled in time environs of Paris. The private letters received from Paris continue to repre sent that the popular feeling leans towards Bunnaparte, and that alarms are almost daily 'excited of conspiracies against the Bourbons. The following are two communications of this description : Extract of a Letter. from a Gentleman, dated Pwcy, near Paris, Dec. 8 :-" Some disturbance is dreaded here : troops of soldiers arc placed in every village round Park ; about 21 (cavalry) came to this house to-day to and every bourgeois in Passy is obliged to keep a proportionate number. About twenty conscripts were imprisoned •at Versailles, yes terday, fur crying " Vice l'Emperemr r and such like. The Place Vendome and Rue de la Paix were quite full of men to day crying the same things." Another letter from Paris, dated 9•11 November, restates the meditated attack on the King in the following terms :, ,‘ The day that the King was to go to the Odeon the alarm of Government was greater than is imagined. The garrison of Paris was reinforced with three regiment", which were or dered into the city from the environs. Three Marshals, and especially Marshal Marmont, strongly urged the King net to attend the spectacle. All the agents of the police :were abroad to siateh over the public safety. But the King ht - ved every reprirt, and every alarm. He went to the specta cle and nailing occurred. There . were the same alarms la , t Sunday. They produced no more results than the precedi ing ones. We are lost in conjectures upon all these circum, stances. A regiment of light infantry, which was at St. pepya, having received orders to set off for nuother destiny THE NATIONAL RF.CISTEIt. lion, began to exclaim, " rice lluonaparte !" and it wag with much difficulty that they were reduced to order. The conscripts which are ordered hack to their colours,, display the greatest discontent. They say that the conscription be.. lug abolished they can no longer be compelled to serve I they are treated with the greatest caution and management, in order not to augment the number of malcontents, which is already too large." UNITED STATEt The situation of the Government and people of this coun try seems " approaching with rapidity to that period of con vulsion which inevitably arises from weakness and imbecility in the Governors, and ill requited confidence on the part of the governed." A reasonable mind would hue thought that Mr. Madison, learning experience in the school of adversity, would have embraced the opportunity offered him by one attack on the territort'of the United States, to unite its inhabitants in its defence ; it would also have appeared necessary to every one but himself to conciliate that part of the country against whose interests he, and his ft lend Jefferson, had been waging a most destructive war. Nor would it have escaped the recol lection of any one, who had read of the American Revolts lion, much more of one who had been engaged in it, how trivial were the causes that led to the separation of Great Bri tain and her Colonies, compared to those furnished by the Republican party since its accession to power. Mr. Madis'on. who came into public life in 1778, ought to have recollected this, and to have reflected that, in all probability, the same causes would have produced the same effects. For if the subject be accurately examined, it will be found that in their effect the measures of Mr. Madison have been similar to those of Lords Bute and North. The same peddling fond ness for prerogative—the same absurd war on the industry of the country—the same incessant attack on the feelings of in dividuals. have been pursued in both instances. Great Bri tain denied the Colonies representation.—Mr. Madison's party contrived so to paralyze the actual representation, as to deprive Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York, of any voice in the National Councils—we mean the property and talent which were exclusively represeeted t:',e Federal party. This party never had more than, generally not so much as, one half the votes—the Republican po.;.3ess, ed a small majority which always voted with the uniform Republican representation of the Middle and Southern States •—then was tbe property of New England not denied a re presentation,but its representation was effectually paralyzed. As to the war on the resources of the country, that of Lot d North was merely a trivial error compared tu that system of aggres,ion which has fur fourteen years been uniformly pursued by Mr, Jefferson and Mr. Madison As to the attacks on -the feelings of individuals, it has been worse than those made by Lord North. For Mr. Jef ferson and Mr. Madison have not only declined appointing men of consequence in New England to office, but have had recourse to the employclient of otLers whcse reputation has been below contempt. Witness the men :i:cy have at tempted. to place upon the Bench, and others they have