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ftEPT. 10. to send Ilia Minister for Foreign Affairs to Diesden. the result et' this mission was a Convention concluded natm the 30th of June, ae cepting the mediation of his Imperial Majesty in the negociation of a general, and if that could not be effected, ef a preliminary con tinental peace. The city of Prague was fixed upon for the meet ila of the Congress, and the sth of July ter the day of its °penile:. In order to obtain a sufficient time for the negociation, it was de• termined by the same Convention that the Eilperor Napoleon should not give notice of the rupture of the Armistice n hick nos to terminate on the aOth of July, at that time existing between himself and Russia, till the 10th of Aleanst ; and his Majesty the Emperor took upon himself to obtain a similar Declaratten from the Russian and Ptessian Courts. The points which had been dete=rmined in Dresden, were here npon imparted to the two Courts. Although the continuation of the Armistice was attended with many objections, and with much serioas ieconveeience to them, the desire of giving to his Imperial Majesty another proof of their confidence, and at the same time to aatiafy the world that they would not irjeet any prospect of peace, trowever confined it might be, that they would not refitse any at tempt which might prepare the way to it, overcame every consi deration. The only alteration made in the Convention of the 30th Jelly, was, that the term of the opeahie the Congt c.a., since the final regnlations conkd not so soon be determined, should be deferred until the 12th cf July. In the mean time his Majesty, who wonld not as yet abandon all hopes of completely termitiatiug by a general peace, the snfferine sof mankind, and the convulsions of the political world, had alms re salved upon a new attempt with the British Goverement. The Emperor Napoleon not only received the proposal with apparent approbstion, but even voluntarily offered to expedite the husine by allowing the persons to be dispatalied for that purpose to Eng land, a passage throinth France. When it was to he earlier] into etfeet unexpected difficulties arose, the passports were delayed from time to time, under trifling pretexts, and at length entirely re. fused. This proceeding afforded a fresh and important ground for entertaining just doubts as to the sincerity of the assurances which -the Emperor Napoleon had more than once publicly expressed of his disposition to peace, although PeVeral of Ilia expressions at that particular period, afinrded just reason to believe that a maritime peace was the object of his most anxituts solicitude. During that interval their Majesties the Emperor of Russia and the King of Pruesia had nevrritrated their Plenipotentiaries to the Congress, and had furnished them with very decisive instructions. On the lath July they both arrived at Prague, as well as his Ma jesty's Minister, charged with the concerns of the Mediation, The negociations were not to he protracted beyond the 10th of Atteest, except in the event of their assuming rur a l a character as to induce a confident hispe ot'a favonrable result. To that day the Armistice had been extended through the mediation of Austria tl;e political and military situation of time Allied Sovereigns, the condition of the countries tiny occupied, and their anxious wi-h to terminate an irksome period of uncertainty, prevented any few tiler extension of it. With all these circumstance , : the Empca or Natmleon was acquainted; he well knew that the period of the oe gueiations was necessarily defined by that of the and be could not moreover conceal from himself how 'molt his own de terminations would influence the happy abridgment and successful re alt of the pending negociations. It was therefore with real sorrrow that his Majesty soon perceived tea only that no serious step was taken by France to accelerate this great work, but, on the contrary, it appeared as if a prom asti 'ration of the negociations; and evasien ot'a favourable issue had been decide'lty intended. There was, indeed, a French Minister at the place of Congress, hut without any erders to proceed to business, until the appearance of the first Plenipotentiary. The arrival of that Plenipotentiary v 9 in vain expected from die to day. Nor was it until the 21st Jitiy that it was ascertained, that a demur which took place on settling the renewal of the Armistice between the French and Russian and Prussian Corn missiouera, an obstruction of very subordinate importauce, having no influence whatever upon the * Congress, anti which nfight have been very ea, ily and speedily removed by the illieffrrenve of Austria Nlas made use of as the justification of this extraordnery delay. And when ibis last pretext was 'vow% rai, it w..s not moil the '9,11i July, sixteen days after that voluted tier the opening of the Congress, that the first French Plenipotentiary alai. ed. Even in the very first days after this arrival, ne doubt Ti mainel us to the late of the Congress. The torm in ehiell tw powers were to he delivered, and the mutual iltilsoutions should he conducted, a point which had alreany been treated ba all pieties, 1w caw the object of a discussion rendered all the rouLavaurs .....,. _ :nine; of the dertook the sacred task of wriiing the 1:1e, miracles, and eeath ut Christ, wlioni he had not only persona:lv known, but also had the Ito- doobt re uuunr iu entertaining in his own hocae. His Gospel is the on!y one sup- ch Ow lull poged to have been written in Hebrew. Having preached the Cluistiats should he • faith in Ethiopia, he was there most cru...lly put to death. He is gene- pat ties, be rally represented ill paintings with a yoimg man on his side, in 1,110 , i0n &ay.:ors of to his describing Clizist, in the brat chapter or . Lir relation, accurtlin THE NATIONAL REGISTER. the mediating Power uhortive. The apparent insufficiency of tho Powers intrusted to the French Negotiator, occasioned a silence of se veral do , s. Nor suss it until the tith Aegust that this Minister gave in a new Deciatatien, by which the difficulties with respect to forms were by no means removed, nor the Negociatlon by one step brought nearer to its object. After the useless exchange of Notes upon every preimitinry cptestion, the Will August arrived. The Prussian and Itt,ssian Negociatms could nut pieced this term ; the Congress was at end ; the arrangements which Austria hail to form was previously deli rosined. by the proems of this Negoci,tion—by the actual con viction of the impos.ihility of peace—by the no longer doubtful point of view in which his Majesty examined the gicat question in dispute— by the principles and iutelitions of the Allies, %%herein the Emperor recogniz-d his own—and finally, by the fuuner positive declaretions, which left no room for misconception. Net without sincere affliction, and alone consoled by the certainty .that every means to avoid the war had been exhausted, dues the Em peror now find himself compelled to action. For three years has his Majesty laboured with une% using pl.rseverance to effect, by mild and conciliatory measures, real and durable peixe for Austtia and for Eu rope. All his endeavours have ; there is now no remedy, no recourse to he bad hat to arms. The. Emperor takes them up without any personal enimosity, from a paiidul necessity, from an irresitable duty, upon eruunds hich any faithful citizen of his realm, which tho world, which the imperor Nardeon himself, in a moment of tran quidity and reason, wilt acknowledge and jtistity The necessity of this war is enemy( n iu thf.! he. it et %very .Austrian, of every Euro ' petite under whosesover dominion he may live, in such legible charac k-rg, Thar no art is necessary to distinguish them. The nation and the arias , will cto their ditty. An union established by our comnain neces sity, and by the mutual interest of every Pulver that is in arms for its independence, will give due weight to our exertions, and the re su lt, with 1.1,e os-ieimee of I teavett, Mill be such es must fulfil the just ex peccutibus ul ecery friend of older and peace. THE .11EB DO AI .4 DARE 4 ‘ SIT FNIIIER. 19. Fourtecutli Sunday ( L ib... Trinity. Epistle Gal. v. 15 Gospel St. Luke, xviii. 1 I.—Fst..lallnin ills mid his companions. Ile was Bishop of Beneventunt iu Laly, in the time of Diuclesiali, and being con demned t' the wild beasts in the iimphitheat re, It is repotted, that, for- Aeiting their natural Icriic;ty, they laid themselves down with miracu lous tameness at the lei:t of the saint, and that the pivot., presiding at the aumes, being incensed at this, ordered him to be beheaded in stantly. The 1.-dy and head were hrtught to Naples, where they have been for many centuries an object of veneration tor the religious, of entiosity for the traveller, and of ridicule for those who cannot easily belie% e, that the blood of the saint, kept congealed in a phial, being brought into the presence of, and, nearly in contact with, the head, - melts and liquefies in a most astonishing manner. without the help of external heat, and that the quickness nf the operation is a sure prog. no-tic of a plentiful harvest for the year. The late Sir Wm. Hamilton bits given us a lively d..scription of this animal prodigy, and the reader will find it in the " Voyage de Naples et de Sicile, par !'Abbe de St. Non. The Son rises at .1 h. VI mitt, sets at ti h. 1S min. High water morn. 9 It. 31. tuiu. ahem. at 10 h. a min. 20. Menday.—This day has liven from the earliest times of Chtia tiaoitv, consecrated -to the memory of St. Eustachius and his com panions. Ile was a tioble 11fflualt, anti held a conspicuous station in the armies of Vespasian, Titus, and Irvin), soccessi%ely, having beet' constantly entrusted with a principal share in the command; but his bravery, bis goodiwas of heat?, mid the sanctity of his life could nut save him ft um the fury of his enemies, and being enclosed in a brazen boll, made in imit.:tion of Plialari4, be expired in the greatest agonies in the year I`lo.--1808. Covent-garden Theatre was burnt down.- 1643. Battle of Newbery, between Charles 1. and the parliamentary army. The Sun rises at 5 h. 50 loin. sins at 6 h. 10 water mornine. at 10 h. 4.1 min. afternoon at 11 h. 19 . min. 21, Mo l loy—St Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist, lie was erilled from the receipts of en•toors, when sitting at the toll desk, Srdentem in Tfleniu. lie appears to have fact? one of the first who un dertook the sacred task of wriling the 1:1r% miracles, and eeath of f; Ni he had not only persotUdly known, but also had the ho-