The National Register. — London, England, 1808-06-27 00:00:00

JUNE 27. well-being of Spain requires a speedy stop to be put to the pro visional Government; we have resolved to proclaim', need we do by these presents proclaim our well r heloved brother Josreit .N APO LEO N, the present Ki.ag of Naples and Sicily, to be King of Spain and India. We guarantee to the King of Spain the independence and in tegrity of his States in Europe, as well as in Africa, Asia, and America; charging the Lieutenant-General of ihf• kingdom, the Ministers, and the Council of Castile, to cause Gk. Proclama tion to be expedited, mid publicly aimoanced, according to the usual custom, that none may plead ii;norauce beicof. 4iiecn at our Imperial Palace at Ba . t.onne, the GM of June, iegi. N 4 :.0 LE() N. I?. iil.inEr, ilini4ter of State. The two Cottenburgh - Mails that were ene arrived last eight. So late as the 20th inst. our Expedition still re mained at Gottenburgh, waiting the return ot . General Sir J. ;gooier , . from steckholin, whither he had repaired to arrange a, plan of co-operation with his Svvcdish Majesty. in the mean time, a formidable Swedish army, supposed to be not less than 20,000 men, was assembling in Scuola, and it was reported that a joint attack was intended lobe made on the Island of Zealand. Nothing important has recently occurred either Finland or in Norway ;it is merely re ported, that a detachment of 600 Swedes was lately sur rounded by the Norwegians, and made prisoners. The Swedish fleet sailed from Carlscrona on the 3d inst. and eontinues to cruize in the Baltic. The Danish gun-boats are at present very numerous, and will require an increased activity on the part of our cruizers. They have captured twenty-two vessels belonging to a convoy bound from Malmo to the Baltic, of which fourteen were Swedes, be sides an English gun-brig, which, after an obstinate mist alive, was compelled to yield to superior force. Five of the captured merchantmen have been destroyed. A letter from Vienna, dated June 8, says, 44 that the ex change of Couriers with the first Courts of Europe is very frequent. Ou the 14111 a great conference NVZIS to he held, at which the Archdukes are to preside, and all the Gover nors of the Hereditary dominions are to be present. On the 7th the Archduke - Joe departed from Vienna unex pectedly ; it is supposed he is gone to the Emperor. The late events in Spain apd the Papa! Dominions have caused a strong censation, and rite : occasion to many/ secret con ferences among the Ministers of the different Courts resid ing at Vienna." 1::•oin the events that have occurred we may expect shortly; to hear that Bonaparte's secret em;it:es am in motiou to effect some revolution in the Austrian dominions. Two Foreign Journals, tliT3 r. - Ate de Tranre and the Joarnal de l'Em pi re of the 1 fllt inst. havp been received ; they contain the important information of MU RAT having ordered that the ships belonging to the United States of America, which were detained ns the Ports of Spain, on the ground o f th e i r h av i ng b een v i s it e d by th e English, should he set free. This information is extremely interest ing to commerce, for the recent arrival of American ships from France and Holland, render it probable that the mea sure is not confined to Spain, but applies generally to all the enemy's Ports. Ikiai's from New York and Halifax arrived on Friday by the Princess Mary Packet. She left the latter place oe the Ist instant, at which time his 'Majesty's sh p observa teur had arrived with the intelligence of six sail of Irem.:: - men of war having reached St. Augustin (Florida), and landed 4500 men. The ships of war are not stated to he of the line, and cannot therefore lie the Rochefort Squad ron. The whole may prove a misinformation, a ship hav ing arrived at Londonderry, which sailed from New York on the 28th of May, bringing letters, none of which Men• t ion the event alluded to, but merely state that the embargo continued to be rigidly enforced. St. Augustin, of which the french are reported to have taken povivssien, a s:a• THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 413 port town of East Florida, situate in a bay of the Atlantic on the eastern coast. It is a place of sonic strength, and if the enemy have actually acquired it, the .circumstauce may produce considerable eficct upon the wavering Coun cils of Ow United States. The Letters and Papers brought by the New York Packet, are from that city to tl.e Ilith of May, and frcm lia:ifax to the 80th. In the neighlourbood of Lake Champlain the people are in a state of insur rection against the law, and the President has issued a Pro clamation acknowledging the fact, and calliug on the Civil and Military Authorities to put it down' by force. An Act has i.iso been passed, supplementary to the Embargo, re quiring, under a penalty of 5630 dollars, that no semi shall clear out oi'any port of the United itates without de positing with the Collector an inveut,,ry of its cargo and destination, and also produce to the same Collector, within two months, a certificate of the landau .: of the said cargo, signed by the Collector of the place of dtination. It mast be inferred from this circumstance, that every attempt has been made to elude the Embargo Act. On the ‘2sth a resolution was moved in the House of Rep resenti; tnat the Members should appear at the next meeting of Con gress, all dressed in the manufacture of their country, when a Member observed that he could obtain nothing of the kind but a hat. The resolution was yvithdrawn. Private letters from Halifax state, that the troops under General PnEvosT were to march on the 2d inst. on an ex pedition, for the purpose of exploring the whole of the province of 7,t;ova Scotia. This may be the ostensible ob ject, but the real one is probably to avail ourselves of the disposition shewn by the - Natives on the American frontier. It will be perceived by the :oregoing summary, that the question of war with America is as uncertain as ever. Yet troin the discontent universally expressed at the Linbargo, it seems probable that the point must quickly be decided. It is not unlikely, if the intelligence of . the landing of the French in Florida be authentic, that something may arise out of that fact, of a nature to oblige .America to adopt • absolute measures. The Duke of ABRANTEs has communicated to the Por tuguese, the reception of their Deputies at Bayonne, by making public an extract from a letter written from thence dated the 27th of April, in N% Bich they inform their emu; trymen of the gracious deportwent of NAPOLEON ; who ob served, that the great distance which separates Portugal from the seat of Government in France, does not permit his watching over the concerns of that kingdom, with the same care ❑ntl solicitude as over the interests of his othcr subjects : that their future independance rested upon their own conduct, but that he would endure no English Colony . en the Continent; and finally, that it depended on tho security with which they should embrace the general cause that would entitle them to have a Prince to govern them, and to a rank among the Powers of Europe. We cannot avoid partial:ally referring our Readers to the Speech made by the Councillor of Sta te 12 ...EC/VAULT llf. ST. JEMI D ' AUGELY, as 111 C grounds of theSenatus Consul turn, for uniting Tuscany to France. Prol.ably this is the most important document to I?,ngland which trance has published during the war. The whole coast of the Medi terranean Sea, it appears, must form a part of the French territory—and as it was continually necessary to viols* the neutrality of Tuscany, because oC her partiality for England, it was requisite to remedy the evil, by taking pos session of her altogether. We learn from undoubted authority, that Government is about to establish an Ordnance Dept at Wecdon, in Northamptonshire, of extraordinary magnitude and im portance. As also barracks and accommodation for seve ral brigades of artillery. The ceatral situation of Wecdqa is the cause of its being selected for this purpose, the rno3- sure being connected with other plans for tile internal dos fence of the country. PT ire 4t. 64'4 ..00ti. ■ ■ , r ~4 ,~ 4 I :••••^", •