The National Register. — London, England, 1814-05-01 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. MAV 1. is now deed. The following correspondence between Cau laincourt and the Emperor Alexander is given : L ~i~ feelings of melancholy we may contemplate an unneceFsary sacrifice of blood, it is consoling to know, that the war in Eu rope has been closed with a victory, thri which one more splendid has seldom rewarded Blitisli valour, hi illiant arkt illustriiius as its course has been. The clear and copious ac countsgiven of both these in the Gaziettes, relieve us from the necessity of offering any comments on them. A report is in circulation, that the Keeper of a Prison in Prance has declared he has' a prisoner in his keeping whore discover) , will surprise the world. Thii statement, in itself. probably altogether false, has given rise to a variety of travagant 'rumonrs. Among other things it has been sailt e the Dauphin (Louis XVII.) is alive, and has been kept thus long in captivity. This Is not worth refuting, as every one knows Buonaparte bad a great veneration for the atiage which teaches that " Dead men tell no tales."—lfe w ul4 not have endur•A so long " a rival near the throne." The Hereditary Prince of Orange landed on Friday at Harwich'. His Highnesi was expected in. town yestet day. We are glad to learn from good author'ity, that the King of France intends to comment:, speedily after his cotton• ation, a tour into the provinces', witl be continued at intervals, as his Majesty's health and Irniness will permit, till he ha- visited every principal town in his kingdom,—Such are the effects of the manners and the visible character of Louis XVIII. upon the hearts of all who approach him; that few measures could tend more than this to the confir mation of his paternal authority. The Emperors of Russia and Austria, and the King of Prussia. all visit England immediately. The whorl:- of tlir large hotel in Hanover-square, is engaged for the Emperor of Austria. The Emperor of Russia proposes being with his sister, the Duchess of Oldenburg, to whom he is affection ately attached, at the Pulteney hotel in Piccadilly ; and for the King of Prussia the residence is not yet fixed, hot he intends being at an hotel with his suite. Thus will all the combined Powers, who have contributed to the <alvation of Europe, be assembled at thC same time in London. We are happy to announce, that a part of Lord Welling ton's army is already: under oidcrs for America ; so that w•e Tilly bone very shortly to bear of exemplary cl:aAisemcnt being inflicted on our unnatural and perfidious Tians:A tic Foe. Our Illustrious hero, Lord ‘Vellington, is about to return to Spain, to pay his respects to the King of Spain ; and, in course of the ensuing summer, we shall have the happineb of thus addlessino. our own admirin , nation : Ste the conquering H ; er•o conic• rt When the Duke de Berri entered Paris, Bet trier made an address to his Royal Highness in the name of all the Matihals of France. Their is an interesting anecdote of the Mar: shals. When they first waited upon Monsieur, they sent in, by the Master of the Ceremonies, their request to be per mitted to pay their respects to his Royal Highness. Mon sieur immediately came -into the anti-chamber, and hoped the Marshals of Fiance would never think it necessary to ask permission to be intrOdueed to Win.; they had all the nati onal cockade in their hats but Monsieur addressed each of them i•n so kind, affable, and frank a manner, that with one accord they tore out the national, and mounted the white cockade. To-Morrow is expected to he a bustling dav in the City, as the drawing of the Lottery b eg i l i s on Tocsday. The Scheme has created aii . uncointilon degree of interest. being the first instance in which the purchase of a Ticket or Sh in 9ne • Lotterv, has had a chance of the PI iZCS i n the Lill ihz Lottery, lare, TO THE EMPEROR OF ALL TIM RUSSIAS. gg StnE—The documents which your Majesty has received from the banks of the Rhine have justified me from the odious calumity which has pressed upon me for three years. There are details which vour Majesty cannot be informed of. I owe it to the confidence you conde , cend to honour me with to lay them before you. They will convince you how much a stranger I was to,the arrest of the Duke d'Emzhien. " Sent by the First Consul to Strasburg!) almost at the same time with General Ordener, the public confounded our mission. That General was ordered to repair to Ettenheim, to carry off the Duke D'Enzhein. The order and the papers I submit th your Majest) will prove that my mission was different from his, and that conse quently I had no concern in this unhappy affair.—l am, Sire, your Imperial Majesty's, &c. (Signed) bAULAINCOURT." REPLY OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. " General, I know from my Ministers in Germany how much a stranger you were to the horrible affair in question. The papers you have commimicated to me could not add to that conviction. I take• pleasure in a,suring you of the esteem I bear you. " Peterlitirg,h, April 4, 1306" " ALEXANDER." The statement made by Caulaincourt, however successful he might be in imposing on the Emperor of . Russia in the Tear 1808, we have no hesitation in saying we believe to be wholly unfounded in truth. In our paper of the 17th of the month we have just closed, we gave some particulars of this melancholy story, which were not generally known. That in formation we have the strongest reason to believe is perfectly correct. The servants of the Duke D'Enghein, who came to England after the death of their master, positively declare they saw Caulaincourt, whose person they knew very well, at Ettenheim ; and as positively do they assert that he it was who arrested the unfortunate Prince. They were nest likely to be mistaken with respect to his person, as be was well known in the family of the Prince of Conde, where he had been brought up as a page. We can further state, that the celebrated Mehee, with whom Caulaincourt, in tl►e instructions given by Buonaparte, was directed to commut:icate with at Strasburgh, was at that time in Paris. This appears from tl►e book which he (Mehee) himself published in 1804. The instrument, therefore, which Caulaincourt ha; published, purporting to be " instructions,'' proves nothing.—lt is " all a lie," and en titled to no more consideration or respect tl.an the despicable fabrication which (produced in May, 1812) it was pretended had been issued to repeal the Berlin and Milan Decrees in April, 1611. THE I'OPE. An Evening Paper of yesterday put forth a second.cdition, containing the following iniportant•statement : 4 . 6 We have just herd trom unquestionable authority, that the first act of the Pope. on his re-establishment at Rome, was to pass, in 1:11 Consistory, wits a!1 the Cardinals unanimously agreeing, •an arn:lye mem, giving to the British Crown the desired security, respecting the nomination of the Cabo! c Bishops. We are assit I, that special in structions to this effect have been dispatched by his Holiness to all the Catholic Prelates of the Bt itish Empire." THE BATTLES BEFORE TOLOUSE AND BAYONNE. We nre happy to find from the accounts published in the extraordinary Gazettes which we this day lay before our readers, that no treachery is chargeable to the French officers concerned in the affairs at• Bayonne and' Tolouse: - Whe thfnr any wilful delay, in transmitting the dispatches of the Novi,lott,al Government, can be proved against any of the functiQnaties whose duty it was to forward them with all ex pedition, remains yet-to be ascertained.: The details of the battles will be found bighly interesting; and with•ttbatlitr ~~-.