The National Register. — London, England, 1813-02-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. *liken Bishof)ricks in France and Italy, aril of receiving mbassqdors from foreign Powers. By the latter concession, which is entirely of a political nature, it is dear that he in tends to torn his Holiness into a political engine to influence either Courts. The svme Papers contain the following article from Vi enna :—" A prisoner of State ha. , arrived at great Waradin in Hungary, where he is treated with the higheo respect, and attended by numerous domestics. Most people think he is a foreign Prince, and the head of the secret Society of Free-mshons, known by the name of—Union of all the Virtues. it is added, that he was arrested at the request of a fnreign Court. lie endeavour; to remain unknown, and affects to speak only French • and Latin." It has since been asserted, that this prisoner was the King of PaessiA, who had filled in the attempt at escaping, which ho is re ported to have made. But is it likely that NAPOLEON would have entrusted his keeping to the care of Austria, of whose fidelity he cannot deem himself completely secure? FEB. 43 The (biker; is indisposed, and is confined in the Castle. It is thought HER MAJESTY will not be able to bold a Draw ing room I week, as *as expected. • It is mentioned that Count DE LA rum.; AG E, a French gentleman, who has IR•vn uniformly attached to the Bow bons, is to proceed iinnlediate:y from the head of that family, on a confideptial mission of itnio tance• to, The LORD MAYOR of London has invited the LORD MAYOR of Dublin to a grand diener. It seems the deter mination of our civic worthies to " teach Ms Lordship to drink deep e'er h e d e p a rt s ." It is said a treaty, offensive and defensive, has been con cluded between the Danes, the Swedes, and the •ssians„ under which the Crown Prince, B FItN A DOT TE, w..i in per son to command an army of 40.000 Swedes and Danes, with whom be is to take the field agaiest France early in the en suing swing. A great number of transports continue in the ports of Sweden, which are regularly paid eery month, to be in constant readieess for the conveyance of the troops, It is added, that it has been stipulated in the treaty, by the Emperor ALEXANDER, to restore Finland to Sweden. o,her reports state, that a negotiation is certainly tarrying on in CopenhaAim, between Ru-sia, Denmark, England, and Sw-den ; an accredited pro son from each Court bring pre sent fur that purpose. Among other things, Swedish Pome rania is, it is mentioned, to be given to Denmark, in ex change for Norway. The Empe.or of AUSTRIA, it is now said, has declared his intension of maintaining his neutrality with an army of 800,000 men. A letter received from St. Pcte-sburgh states, that consi derable apprehension prevails throughout 11.usia of some serious disorder being prodeccd, by the thousands of dead bodies between Moscow a"d At present the frost may prevent any bad consegences, but previous to a thaw, as there is no possibility of interring them, it has been de termined to build kilns to consume them, to prevent their occasioning any pestilential disease. ANT !QUIT! ES.—Some labourers digg'ng on the demesne of Black Castle, in the county of Meath, a short distance from the round Tower of Donoughrnore turned up two urns, formed of clay, rudely carved the top, containing burned ashes And bones.' They were found carefully secured with large stones placed round them, and only a few feet under ground. Several others have been found, at different times, near where those were discovei•;:.d. Extract of a letter from Berlin, dated Feb. 1, 18 1 3.--" In the night, between the 17th and 18th of last month, at one o'clock, a troop of French Bens d'armes attempted to seize the person of the King by possesiing themselves of the Palace of Charlottenburg, where his Majesty had been on that day. The attempt, however, miscall icd, the King having been in formed of the plot thrcugh Prince I' FAD N Al 4 D, early enough to save himself by flight, with t , o Adjutants, and ten of his own gees d'armes, to Potsdam, Tkere, when be arrived, he ordered the drums to be beat, as a pursuit was apprehended. His Majesty, in consequcnee of this event, set out on the road to Selesia, with 6000 troops of his guards, after having de clared the Crown Pri:ice of age, and given him his benedic tion. The rage of the people is arrived at its highest pitch, and some bloody scenes are expected. The Russians advance in great force—they are distant from this place only from 25 to 30 leagues." The Funds fell on Thursday one 'half per cent. owing to an expectation of l 4 millions of Exchequer Bills being sent into the market to he funded. The retirement of Lord GitENVILLt frog► public life is said to be rendered necessary, by the return of the indisposi tion with which he was afflicted about three ).ears age. SW MR! DOCUMENTS. The long expected rut ture between Sweden and France is evidently now on the eve of taking place. The hosti!e report of M D'ENG F RSTROM, of which we vve the sub stance, has been followed b 3 the pub'ication of the corre spondeme which p►eceded the expulsion of the French Charge d'Affaires, and of a mist remarkable speech of an kour and a quarter, made by BUONAP ART E, in 1810, to the Swedish Minister, in one of his paroxysms of rage against Sweden for secretly tolerating our trade. This speech, however, did not prove unavailing, as it was fol lowed by the compliance of the Swedish Government at the time, who instantly declared War against us. These interest ing documents will be found in another part of our Paper. Mr. COCHRANE JOHNSTONE'S motion respecting the PRINCESS of WAL ES, which ,s post;.oneel to Thursda next, Las L!'en stated to consist of the folkwing resolution : " That informations, amounting, to a charge of flub Treason, Jinve been sworn before competent Jurisdictions, 'tamely, Jristic..s of the reare aild Privy Councillors, and tb?t the discharge, B, , rinutal, or disbelief, has been pronounced by an incompetent jurisdirtion, un known to the British C-noitution, however respectable iit itself ; namely, by a Committee of Ptivy. Cutmcillors, secretly u)cotbled by Abe Knifes cotnmand." There was a report current yesterday, that a treaty for an el :change of prisoners between this country and France was j ai ? state of forwardness. We trust, however, that Mi nisters not recede one tittle from the terms which they I before pro pcsed : those were favourable enough to the enemy and his p r e st nt want of men should not abate our puncti liousness as to tbe conditions on which we give them up. American papers have reached town to the 9.Bth learn from them that the United states army is in a most deplorable state; the deaths amongst the troops under Gen. DEA RBORN, were 130. daily, and in a stilkgreater proportion in other situations. Even in the barracks, the troops, from being - crowded together, had not escaped the infection. JEXTRACT OP AN HFFICIAI DISPATCH FROM TIIE MARQUIS OP WET,- LIN{':TON, V 3 HIS EXCEI.I.ENVY SENOR D. MICCFE. PEREIRA FOR- JAR, DAT?D IILAD-QUARTERP, PEB. Sp 1 8 13. " have rcceived no information of any illtet ation in front of this army. since I addressed to your Excellency my official dispatch of the ‘47th and the Allied Armies II preserve the same pi , i;' o " The enemy in the North , •blipeu Gen. Mendixabel to retire front rilboa, and the blockade of Saloon , : was raised. " I know, by an intercepted toter, th.tt General Longa took, nn the 101) January, the enemy's garrison in Salitins de Arraoa, but I have suet yet received an official ( cmmunication this fact. My last Accomas flout Alic.titr are of the 3d of January, at which time the recaturcements expected from Sicily had artived." 642 . . • • • , • . I . • :,..: • •.. Ii . • : . „ Y. is —. • t - zt .. kt+ .4\