The National Register. — London, England, 1811-04-07 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . Tiber and the Elbe should fiaw under the same laws." . . .11150 , ..:APAJITE's reply seems addressed rather to us than to men, whose hypocrisy he must have felt and inwardly despised. Under the pretence of explaining to them the reasons that induced him to finite their respective towns to his empire, he takes an opportunity, of letting us know that he has not entirely lost sight of his Lvourite plan of invasi•m. He does not pretend that the wish of encreasing their happiness, led him to adopt that step towards them, but with an unusual degree of'-candour owns that he condescended to become their master merely because he wanted their 46 seamen, and the materials conveyed to the mouths of their rivers." After having thus vented the contempt in which be, holds them, he relapses into his usual style of boasting and declamation. At the moment he consummates the deprivation of their rights, he un blushingly tells their deputies • that g , the rights of nations, the liberty of the seas, and a general peace must be reconquered at one and the same time :" thus making the destruction of our naval supre macy the price at which he will grant us peace, or in other words proclaiming the principle of eternal war, with which he has so often reproached us ! As a substitute for the loss of their independence, be holds out to them the flattering prospect of a re vival of their trade, when his naval power shall be restored'. But when shall that power be restored? When he shall have 100 Sail of the line : for 44 then in in a few campaigns he will subjugate Eng land !" just aseffectually as Spain or Portugal whence his veteran legions, although far out-numbering ottrs, are at this moment compelled to fly defeated and dishonoured. But how is he to obtain one hundred sail of the line ? By building twenty-live in a .year 46 without the slightest delay or obstruc tion from the existence of a maritime war !" NA pO - forgets that the war has already laste.d eight years, and that according to his own calculation lie ought to have already constructed two hundred men of war, whilst he has not now above fifty, if so T. - any fit for sea. He will say that we have taken the rest : but he must expect that exercise has not impaired our captu r in g faculties, and that the . 4 ac tivity of our sailors will keep pace with that of his builders. As to invading our country, let him glance at the Peninsula, and pause before he once more dares to meet the British lion on the field. COI\ IMERCIAL DISCOUNT. Every circumstance in the remotest degree con nected with the question of our Commercial credit must at this time be discussed with delicacy, if not with difficulty ; and to this feeling we attribute the rejection of Mr.HusKissoN's motion, Friday night in -the House of Commons. There is, however, a falla cious sort of delicacy, which revolts from what it r 5 , .?(-2, precisely at the period when danger stares it full in the. face, and when, to be effectually re • sisted, it ought to he resolutely met Were it only to refute the calumnies of BUONA PARTE, and, by doing so, to conciliate the confidence which we want, it• seems desirable to investigate the state of our resources, which are yet sound, and ascertain exactly the means that we possess for prosecuting din great ends to which those means must shortly be directed. An Anholt Mail arrived yesterday morning, bringing intelligence from that island to the 30th ulf. 'By this conveyance a variety of Swedish and German Papers have been received. Accounts from the Swedish coast state, that rigorous measures arc about to be adopted by the Government of that country for putting the marine in a state fit for ser. • vice, and the garrisons on the coast are to be rein forced. The reason for these measures is stated to •be the apprehension of a war with Denmark. By an article from Berlin, it appears that the King of Pitussta has issued a new Decree against British produce and colonial goods, by which vessels bringing such commodities are made liable to con fiscation. A regulation, similar in spirit to the above, is to be adopted in regard to the fishermen of the Elbe, the Weser,. and the Jande, who have re cently had the happiness to be united to the " Great Nation." They are not to pursue their occupation without passports, and under certain restrictions, which must daily afford them proofs of their good fortune, in living under the bcni protection of the " hero of the age." The accounts from Turkey speak of the determi nation of the Porte to continue the v, ar with Russia. The Essex American frigate set sail for France on Tuesday. She is to make the port of Cher bourg, where she is to wait for dispatches from the American Charge d' 4ffilires at Paris, and on re. ceiv ing which Ale is to return to the Isle of - Wight, whither Mr. PINCKNEY will proceed on or about the Bth or 10th instant. The following is an extract of a letter from Vi. enna :--" Our Emperor's brother, the Archduke Fit ANC's, who embarked at Salonica, for England, with about three millions of money, besides jewels,' has probably ere this arrived with you.• His ab sconding causes some bustle in our Cabinet, and nothing transpires about his destination." Three cartels arrived at Plymouth, on Sunday, from Morlaix. One of them has brought home two Ladies and their female attendants, who had been eight years detained in France. The letters received by these vessels aunounce, that henceforth the port of Morlaix is to be the only point of com munication from this country. The news which had reached Cadiz from the co lonies was of an unpleasant nature : it stated that Lima had withdrawn its allegiance from the piother country, and declared its independence. We are authorised to state, that the paragraphs which have lately appeared in the public papers, mentioning tg that plates of several notes had been stolen horn the Bank," are witbout• any fougda. tion. 1W: s ~~ N