The National Register. — London, England, 1812-12-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. T' cur Titing, eau ti tutio it, ttD T,attlz. PUBLISHED AT NO. 11, I.:MC ASTLE-STBLET, STRAND. No oro._. ST:NDAY, DECEMBEit 10, ISIo. Pr.rcr POLITICiaL SUCCESSES IN THE NORTH, AND PAIILIANIENTARY CRAM TO THE St:M:ENG RUSSiANS. All e: es have long been anxiously turned towards the North, and the glorious intelligence received in tie come uf the week has warmed all heats, and cheered those who most desponded. Instead of the usual croakings about gteomvj)rospects and alarming apprehensions, loud congra tulations burst on the ear from every quarter, and all is exulnaeion and hope. But one feeling is known, or at least avowed, a feeling of unbounded, undivided admiration of the uccessful exertions of that gallant people, whose over whelming masses are now, for the first time, fairly opposed t the lesions of France. Even Ve Morninz Chroricie kts read it: recantation in form, and now feels, very properly. ashamed of itself. Roused to approve and to rejoice, it no t;er shocks its readers by a display of levity, like that which disgraced its columns when Moscow fell, and which rit had Len witty, would have deserved reprobation, as a brutal mockery .of calamity, hut which, as it 'was-, excited cotitein:)t fur its dullness, and abhorrence b the want ef . feeling which it proclaimed. All seem to be united, and indeed all must be, if we except one—that writer whose impudence and scurrility, are only equalled by his vanity arid folly—he who thinks himself a personage of such vast inmortance, that every newsoaper squib must of riece , sity be dictated by the Government of the country. against him— he who, ever aping JUNIUS, is constantly telling the public who V ETus is pot, with as much pomp and grave formality, as if any erre cared who VET CS is—he alone may feel &s -at pointed and dejectel at the fate of his fine predictions. lle may have reason to mourn, since our Ally is saved and France defeated, th.lugh the Marquis of WEE e ESL EV is nei. tlier Prime Minister of England, nor Emperor of Russia. At this moment, when the tide of war rolls back its deso Lting horrors on , those who caused it to flow, the awfully interesting picture which we are called upon to contemplate: cannot be surveyed by men of common feeling without emotion. Humanity must weep the sufferings of the fallen thousands, whose blood pollutes the snow which covers the plains over which they have been marcLud: but even Pi.v must exult in her tears, to sec the calao:itics which guilt and ambition have e , i)sed, retorted on their criminal author. The once invincible BuoN AP ART E, iS TIDW flying with, (or more probably from the miserable remnant of his vanquish ed army, and our hopes ate no longer bounded by the pro ;peet of his failing in that war which he has madly' engag , d in, and rashly conducted ; they now aspire• to the capture or de,trucion of the Tyrant himself; our fears no longer point to the annihilation of Itusj.a, but to the escape of Vtd. V. !so CCLX, .....--• moo lera BIM AP RT C. This is a situation of thtngs .vll eh may well console E"glatid and Russia for the saci.:fi( es they have :wale, and encourage them to prosecute the contest with vigour commensurate 'with its magnitude. The eves of the whole world arc now fixed on England, to see - what exertion she w;11 make in the great cause. The subjugated states of Germane, look with trembling anxiety to the part this country may take, in the hope that the hour is nearly arrived, when they may venture to spurn the yoke of France, and avenge the wrongs they have sus tained, aed the enormities of which they have been the bleeding witnesses. At such a period, the conduct of Mi nisters in proposing a grant of 200,0001. in ; - ,id of the suf fering Ru:sians is, we think, founded Ili sound policy, and we are satisfied that this will he the opinion of almost every well informed man in the. empire. But Mr. \ViiiTEREaO, when the subject was broached, thought, that instead of alleviating the sorrows of our allies, we ought to assist those - who arc suffer ing at home. From this, it should seem, he compares the distresses , (,f our ma nefacturers, who are out of employ, with tlnAe to which a large portion of the subjects of Russia have been exposed. That many of our countrymen are obliged to submit to se vere privations, is a melancholy fact, which we are con strained to rahnit and to deplore, but aro their sufferings to be compared to those which must be endured by that ill-fated people, who are exposed to the barbarities ef a ferocious in vader ? Are the sorrows cf the unfortunate English, who want employment two or three days in the week, to he put by the Ode of those which must be endured by the Russiati people, who see their hatable dwellings destroyed to blast the hopes of the enemy, and find themselves left r posed to the rigours of winter (a Russian winter), alike destitute of shelter and of sustenance? e the evils of which our ma nufacturing classes complain, while compelled with their child' en to submit to severe labour to earn a scanty pittance, barely sufficient to support life, to be compared with tluise to which the poor Russian must submit, while he has the aillicteon to remember, only to bewail, those most dear to hiin, who were slaughtered before his eves—inuideied by the ereiny in cold blood, for acting under the orders of these they were bound to obey ? To such afflictions out country men ate happily straegers, but that they will continue Fee, may' possilily be in some measure the consequence of the heroism of those whom it is now proposed to succour. Taught l:y the dreed ul le son which the gallant resistance of the Russian population cannot fail to inculcate, France, if her power is not cruAted by their vengeance, will lose her ardour for foreign conquest, and from what she leis r - perienred in Russia, tremble to encounter the peoree England. Under such circumstances, is it for a nation like sa;:.