The National Register. — London, England, 1808-01-24 00:00:00

.• 1 111R- AN. N. THE NATIO: (epithets so coarse and violent, that few would venture, for or own credit, to employ them ; stud a determined and mini. run reprobation of all the measures of our Government. Such pies and such a sty le are very apt to become popular among the immon people, to whose habits rudeness and discontent are mcenial ; but it is evident th::: iu proportion as they do be rme popular, they contribute to interrupt civilization, and sap to foutila t ions of our public prosperity. The uniformity with which The Independent Whig rails at ;T ry measure of ourown Covermaent, and extols every measure the enemy is truly curious, if it were not trul cri 110 . Very ARICA economist knows that however great us a conqueror, Ito iparte has talked and acted more w with regard to commerce lan any other Prince who has sat on a ehrone. lie imagined lan, by his simple mandate, he could cover the seas w ith tmis rchaatnteo and ships of war ; and yi hen he found this could St be done, he resol7ed to destroy our commerce forsooth, by nspletely ruining that of his own subjects, and of every nal kr, could overawe. Yet all these trier.vures appeared to The 'Ng the consummation of II is ism 1 is Idle esery retaliating , der of our Minister; was considered as Ow height of folly and surditv. When the Russian Declaration made its appearance, was panewised ai unanswerable, - as manly, explicit and rgetie it was found to have nu weak side; Alexander's mplaiuts, that we had deserted him. were declared to be 11-founded ; and his word was at once taken for the numerous ievances which he said his commerce had sustained. %%lien r counter-Declaration appeared, it was flatly stigmatised as maining " nothing bet vague and iltra.y rettionin asgertimai un-alpported by. proof, declamatory invective sob - mantra cot uzical deduction, substantiating scarcely any thing but the impotency of our Ministers !" But the remarks on our De ration, which lately appeared in The Nowiteur, met s ith ditTernt fate. " This able and eloqnsat production," says Whig, " which, in our opinion, ennipletely exposes the hsurdity and refutes the falsehoods of our Ministers, itt their nswer to the ilavaian Declaration, certainly merits the se boos and deliberate attention of every rational and re tlecting A discussion follows in which The Monitetie is found, rue!, instance l , to be. perfectly unanswerable. Such is the nt,vr in which The Irhig uniformly proceeds, rendering the plc discontented, by traducing our aka Government, and thing every measure of our enemies. 'he manner in which The Isedepeielent Whig courts popu itv, b. converting to its use all the prejudices of the common pie, is art less scandalous than its perpetual declamations avour of our enemies. We shall not select a political in ice, where some might doubt what is prejudice anti what is : we soon only advert to a recent instance, in which it has avoured to gain credit with all the weak women and gossip nurses in the kingdom, by calumniating . the greatest blessiog f.Tred on society in our days—the discovery of the cow-pox. does not scruple to announce the complete failure of remedy, the horrid spectacle* it has produced : and pro -, a still more thundering essay on the subject, when we e uu doubt that there w ill be introduced the cosss' horns tail', with all the other stories which .Drs. Moody and iirrel, aml numerous other old women, have sedulously cir tted. What heart muot the man have who, from selti,h lives, can thus , alarm the• fears and prejudices of the• common ,pie, ana prevent them frOin enjoying the protection Of that ;‘ . ,uar.l from death and deTortnity, which heaven has scut in rey to their families ? the Independent Whig has at present two heroes—the Em r Napoleon, mu! Sir Francis Burdett. Of the former it ks in the loftiest terms : of its style on this solsiect, the fol ing extract from In of its late numbers will afford a speci :—" The Emperor Napo!elm has set out on his journey to aly. Like the sun. be appears to hold 00 a perpetual untie iating course; and, like that glorious luminary, travels over r wide extent of his vast dominions, to vivify and invigorate ens by bit presence ! Extraordinary man Wherever he ives, the earth appears to tremble at his frown; and Kings d Emperorseroutb beaeatb his feet !" Such are the panegyrics which Napoleon is incessantly loaded, while no expression fitted to make our Government appear oppressive, feeble, cuntemptibll. It is fur the Editor of The ;Vhig to explain t other eireet these panegyrics and reproaches can have, circulated among the most ignorant classes of the people, to render them enemies to the British Government, and to exchange it fur the domination of th e m agn ifi cen t Na ti ! 41. IGENCE. FOREIGN IN —wow— FRANCE. PA tett, JA v . 6.—The four sail of the line and four frigates, which the French army found at Lisbon, are fitting out for sea. fhe /louse of Braganza has lost Portugal, and shares the fate of all the Princes who place confidence in England. To have deprived the English of the excellent ports of Lisbon and Oporto, is an important advantage obtained by France. Ano ther part of the ancient Continent is thus rescued from English ntinenee. If the Indepeudence of the United States hai pfht•ed u~ri'ul to FtallisC i the new establishment of the House of Bra g:lima in another part of the new Continent prep:fres fresh ad vantages for her.--The relations of the Court of Brazils Frith Portugal, and the commercial cornet - lions which it %rill he ne ressitat..-1 to form nith Europe, cannot but prove beneficial to France and her allies. [ l'his article is of considerable length in the original, but the. above is the bAstance. The remainder is totally uninteresting. GERMAN Y. VIEVQ . A, DEe. 93.—Ths Coal f;azeilet of this day contains the following article front Turkey :-- " Field-Marshal Prince Prosorowski left Becharest the 23 of Decemer, with Generals Tzizere. naming, Kiuchnikow, and General Aprat in. The See' ian insurgents, is no were in cluded in the armistice of Slobosia. continued, notwithstanding, to act in a hostile manner againti. the Turks. Several ehgage ments have lately taken place between them and the Ottoman troops. The Porte addressed, in the last day of November, a Firman to all the Dachas in the European and Asiatic provinces, stating, that as all the conditions of the armistice h:,ve not yet been fultilled,•they must immediately put themselves iu march with their troops, to reinfotce the (hand Vizier's army in can tonments, bet wee() Si hania and Adrianople, the strength of which has considerably decreased. • The Dardanelle-;, as well as the whole coast, as far as Alex andria, are again closely blockaded by the English. According to the last letters front Trieste, that port is put in the most re spectable state of defence.—Monileur, .tans . In consequence of the conception. concluded the 10th of Octo ber, at Funtainbleau, between the Courts of Austria and France, • the town and fortress of Braunau was delisered up, on the 10th of this month, by M. Otto, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, from the Emperor of the French to the King of Bavaria, into the hands of Commissioners appointed for that purpose. The Sallie day, at eight in the morning, the French garrison, under the orders of the General of Division, Merle, set out from. Brattuau, and took the road to Militia'. DENMARK. F.t.st NEun. DEc. 17.—Two Masters of ships, M. M. Petersent and 11 ichnutan, front Altona, who have arriNed at Got tenburgh, report. that, nt their departure, intelligence had been received that above fifty vessels, making part of the last English convoy, had been fumed, by scream of it eathrr, to take refuge in the ports of Norway, where they had heeldeclared legal prizes.— Muttileir, Jaw. 2. II A HOMAN I). 51 . Ast ST ray Aw, nrc.2S.—Extracts are circulated here of the Official Note by which England has given an answer to the oiler of mediation, which was made by Russia. That note, signed .Canning, contains in substance— •` Tat His Britannic Majesty would have accepted, with pleasure, the mediation of Russia, if he had received informa tion respecting the cases upim which the Mediator honed to have re-established the general peace. But his Majesty the Emperor of .Russia, after having repeatedly promised to his Britannic Nlajesty nut to conclude any peace with France, without having assumed the independence of the German Provinces, had, not withstanding, by the Treaty of Tilsit. whicla far from containia4 any stipulations on that head, greased to submit the whole of Germauy to the wishes of France. Now His Britaunie alajesty cannot cuter into any negociation with France' unless the com plete restitution of the Electorate of Hanover he admitted as a preliminary bask. By an unconditional acceptance of the Rus sian mediation, His Britannic Majesty would have reason to fear lest his German States should become a French Province. Therefore, his Britannic Majesty places his confidence in the edirts of his people, in order to force his implacable enemy ict4 more conciliatory measures," &cc Arva. 'AL REGISTER,. ./.1,