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

TtIE NATIONAL REGISTER . runt the ostensible communication by the . way of Gottenburg until still la'er, and what was the Milk of It ? that the con ., spond euce renuet.ed the battle. neither more nor less active. Pub ! the question tot a communication h? , this way, or by that ; is regu lar ;f• is very considers Y ou i ble. ,aveveseels• the ports ot 1a..-'. Sant truly !---Do you get salt in the Thames? The English tea. ing vessels besiege Got tecibtvg—a fine proof that they do not enter there! I . hey exchan:e their merchandise in the open sea, or near to the ccia-os. Your little islands se r ve a s magazines in the winter sea son Your vessels openly . carry Colonial produce into Germany I have caused half a scor e ot them to be seized at Rostock.—ls it pos sible that ore can affect thus to he mistaken on the first princiele ot the Continental System ?—Very well. " Yon do net approve of this in yeur note; it is not Of that I com plain. it is of the f ict. I have not slept a single hour in the night, on accomo Dt your affairs : you might suffer me onrepose in peace, I have need I it.—Again, is this restitution s cf the English prisoners a proper thing ; those who had so imprudently atterowed the dignity of the ug.and violated his territory. Restored without any satisfaction ! Vas it no so, Monsieur (le Cadore ?—(The Alinister, all in tremula lion, did nut omit replying affirmatively to this, as well as to some other similar questiote.)—Another violation of territorial light, is the ca, tute of a French privateer in the interior of the pert of Stralsund; bitt. v., me, n' account tos been rend' red 4 .—lt is not to one's Ili. toot that one shows these little attentions !--Very well, remain with t. Se Eneli h !--If one mete to judge from the evil which you save dote v•ar. you never could hat e 10-en better Mends to the Ens leas than at this moment.—Oh, Oh ! it is you that tell me so ! It is you who assure me that Sweden wishes rather tn remain on my side ; but pto •Is. I say, wive inc proofs !—Vcey well ! your state, at the end (if en nuforiutiate war respired some circumspect' , n and precaution.- 11 I have bed thein to toy ioss. You - hive cejoled me, yes you ; you, vourself.---Yau have had tie address to gain the bad season ; you have tia,e to settle yreii intercats with England ; is it just, that if any tug - e'er toes exist cents- ry to faith, that lam to bear the burden ? You have had time to put yourselves in a state of defence: you have . still ,he winter before Snit. , What, then, hate you to risk ?—Yes, the expo rt trade ;- that is the battle-horse: what then is become of the neu tral fl r . ?—There are no loner any nctstral: England acknowledges Hone, tea can I acknoeledee them any !weer.-- Salt, aye, Salt ! one: can fold Means to obtain what is necessary. I Low t! . ..1 you do in 1801, when you were in open r pture with England ?—Stiffet ! Do you not believe that I subs o ? i hat Fiance, that B o ards %tooth ,t Holland, that Ge, mail stiffer ? But Iles is precisely %hat er end must be put to. A maritime peace at any piece !—[Here the Emeeror was viole n tly agitated ] Yes, Sweden is the sole cause of the t ri:is I experience. Sweden has done mac mote harm than five coale lens together. Rut now. restore eitto her commoeications with the rest of Europe, she has taken ad vantay,e of it to carry on the comrade:- of England.—Ah ! Sir, tim• , always time : I - ? ~ve lost too much time.—lt was necessary, you said, tit enter into the new SVStelll, Wil 'tout making too mans sacri - fit es : tt was also r sasry for 11;C, you added, to do some gond tor S ev: den. H sal me : when you macie choice of the Priece of Porte Co: vo, did I ri..k nr ;Ore in pea matting him to accept the act ? Was I not on the ;ionic of embroiling myself with Russia ? Was it not hciieved—is flat, eettaps, still believed, that you, on your side, i rid the hax r< - awl roles on the ether, supported by me, would aarn to reculiquer their lest provinces ? Were not men's nlithus tie it mit agtwed in Poartid ? 'What did Ido then ?.1 caused such thing- to be said, - such reports to he circulated, as meek detach Rto• train my sv'-:em. It is only now that, more anti more unde ceived t respect to Swedish politica, 1 have taken a decisive step, NN I 1 dl 1 will nor conceal from you. I have sent back' M. de Czerni • cOetf to lettsaia ; I have informed him of the declaration which 1 have niatle to aott to day. 1 have strongly 'pressed the Emperor :Alexander to take the Ante step on his part —Choose ! Cannon must be tired on the Eoelish which approach your coasts ; and their mer chaodize must in Sweden be cuntiscated, or you must have war with France. I cannot do you any goat harm : I occupy Pomerania, and you do not much care ahoto it : but I can cause you to be attack ed the It ussians and by the Danes ; and I can confi-icate all your vessels on the Continent ; aan I will do it, il.within fifteen tins you ore lee at war with. Englanci.—Yes, you are right ; the time for the going and rrurning of time courier must be reckoned, and some thug mar a Eva, M. de Catinte, I order you to send offa courier immediately ; mind you, *Sir, will do the same. - If within five day s after the whew! act 01 M. A !quiet the King has not resolved to ha at • war vs ith England, M A !quiet' shall sea out immediately, and Sweden shall have war with trance and all her allies.—Yes, it is just : l have not positively demanded the. state of wato.beltire this moment ; but I sorts now forced to it by allimaginable means,—Save - deo has already fount that she cannot remain in a miXed state with England, w:theut dosing great injury to the Continent.- At 'length, !Miles have taken a general developement, which requires a perfect ef measures, or a state Of open hostilities. This was what Olt other powers :lave th9uat rilght to be tione.—Russio tlontgh ICON; -7 wall the test, has only obtairiedrace vvitit me, co: the 0.141- , . FEI3. IS dition o declaring war egret's t England. Austria, a power of the first order, if }ranee did not exist, has ftatikly taken her resolution I have been a. long time the dupe of Prussia, and of you. She at length came to find, by the catostrephe of Holland, that it was necessary to come to a determination, and she frankly adopted a state of war. Den‘ mark has done so long ago; but with %bat title can 1 exact front that country, what I cannot obtain front Sweden? I often say to myself. who knows whether I shall ads.ays be on a good footing with Russia ? %Vim can read the chapter of events? May it nut one day be of the neatest interest to me, to have a friendly Power in the North, 'iron; in its own resources, as well as by my alleince ? But co.ild it, mean. a hile, be believed in Sweden, that I would relax any thing in my invariable principles in favour of the new Prince Royal. On the con trary, the political crisis into which I have brought myself in her favour, gives me a stronger title. Aleanwhile, Sweden owes a great obligation to the.person of the Prince Royal ; for without thatochoiee (by no. means mfloenced by me), 1 should two months ago have taken the step which I now find myself forced to do. I nevertheless repent of th s delay, which, on account of the season, has been so beneficial to you ; not because I regret whstever good you may have detived from it, hnt becuuse yon have ased me too ill—For a long time past, the office winch was intended f o r you, was ready in the bureau of Monsieur the Duke de Cadore (an affirmative reverence from the Mieister), but waited for the arrevai of the Prince Royal, who is instructed in my way of thiekine f, • " I have tea been able to do it; I have fold you, thin I was on the point of embrodieg myself with Rossia ; I nave all Europe notice, that at this decisil'e moment, try spit m might be caletbie of modifica tion. Besides this, new complaints iigainst Sweden, reached nee fr stn all sides. Ah ! 1 know what 3on have to say to ine : l have read all that you have wrote.—Well, 1w it so, there may have been ',owe exalt. geratiun in the complaints, but there still remains a sufficient quantity f treth.---1 wish that you had a better cau'c to deknd. ()It no! Cie situation of the Prince Royal will not be so ditli.adt ; all comes lima. hence; there is nothing embarrassing in the choice.—But yr!, could the ) believe in :sweat, that they might serve in the cause 'of England, withont resentment on my part, because I lave and esteem the Prince Roy ? 1 likewise love and esteem the sing of ;he is my Brother, and yet 1 have broke with him ; I have silenced the voice of .nature, to give ear to that of the eo neral interest." * The Trade of Stralsund, by the King's orders, paid the value of this privateer, which was taken merely to consequence of her own imprudence. + The Emperor had premised the Prince Royal not to exact any thing from Sweden, before the month of May, 1811 ; and the Prince Royal assured him, that after that term, Sweden would extend her system of policy, and be openly for or against the Continental System, according as her interest might tequire. (To be continued.) FRENCH PAPERS. MEETING OF THE LEGISLA LIVE BODY—SPEECH OF LI.:0- N A PART E—CON CO Itl) AT, &c. Paris Journals bave beet: received to the 18th in stant. On the 14th of February, BUONAPARTE went in State from the Palace of the Thuilleries to the Pa lace of the Legislative Body, and evene4 the Sitting with the following Speech : "Gentleintn, Deputies front the Departments to the Legislative Body. " The war again nglited in the North of Europe offered a Livourable opporn;nity to the projects of the English upon the Peninsula. They have made great ehOrts. All their hopes haw been deceived. Their army was wrecked before the citadel of Burgos, and obliged, after having'suffeied great losses, to evacuate the Spanish territory. "I myself entered Russia. The French arms were constantly totious in the fields of Ost rowno, Polotsk, Mohilow, Smplon-k, Mos cow, Malairaslovi:z. The Russian armies could not stand before out armieN, Moscow fell into our power. " Whilst the Mailers of Russia were forced, and the impotency of her arms acknoWledted, a swarm of tartars turned their paracidal hands against the finest provinces of the vast Empire which they had been called todefend. They, in a few weeks, notwithstanding the tears and despair of the unfortunate Muscovites, burned more that% ;000 of the finest villages; more than 10 of their finest towns, thus glatifyrig their ancient hatted under the pretext of retarding our Match, by surrounding us with a desert—We triumphed over all Oleic obstacles. Even the fire of Moscow, by which, in four days,. they annihilated the fruits of labours and cares of four generations, changed, in no respect, the prosperous state of my athirs. " But the excessive and premature rigour of the winter, brought down a heavy calamity upon My army—lna law, nights I saw every cxpeticiwed great. lesseir—Thcy would have lqrckru. r . ,