The National Register. — London, England, 1812-05-24 00:00:00

~` THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 316 ristration, with whom they did not mate' ially differ, most efficient by their union. Joined with men, whose political sentiments are, on so many highly important points di rectly at variance with their own, we fear that they will form a neutralized body, both inert and useless. MAi r 21 American Papers to the 18th ult. arrived on Wednesday. The Government of the United States appear to have as. sumed a tone somewhat pacific towards this country. Private letters say, that Commissioners are now on their way to England to adjust the existing differences. There is every probability of the Non-Importation Act being repealed ; and the American Executive is said to have formally disavowed the procedure of taking possession of Amelia Island. The Corunna Journals contain a dispatch from the gal lant MINA to General MENDIZABEL, informing him that on the 9th ult. at a short distance from Victoria, he de feated a body of the enemy, consistin of 2000 infantry, and 150 horse, with the loss of 500 killed, and 150 pri soners. A convoy which this corps was escorting fell into his hands, and he had the further satisfaction of releasing 400 Spanish prisoners. MINA took 120 loaded waggons, and among the spoils were '250,000 crowns in specie, and Gen. DORSINNE'S baggage. Several private letters, received by the Anholt state, that negociations between France and Russia are, in the midst of all the preparations for war, carried on with the greatest activity. It is certain that MARAT, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and DARU, the Secretary of State, both accompany BUONAPARTE on his journey to the Vistuht. With such a suite, it seems, that he still ex pects to accomplish his purpose by diplomacy rather than by the sword. We learn from Cambridge, that the Bishop of BRISTOL having prepared an Address to the REGENT, condoling with him on Mr. PERCEVALIS death, Dr. BROWN, the Vice-Chancellor, objected to three or four words, wl - ich he thought contained an approbation of - Mr. PERCEVAL'S public measures, and requested that they might Le ex punged ; to this the Bishop refused to accede, and lir. BROWN, in consequence, threw the Address out of the Caput. This circumstance produced considerable cla mour, which was, however, in some degree appeased by the Vice-Chancellor's producing an Address which he had himself prepared, and which appeared, or. the wllole, to be considered preferable to the Bishop's ; yet the fer mer having been rejected, the latter, on being ',reposed, was likewise cast out by the law of retaliatien; and ihe Bishop's Address is now left for individual signature.s at Trinity Lodge. Tuesday being her MAJESTY'S Birth.day, who entered into the sixty ninth year of her age, most of the Royal Dukes dined with the Queen and Princesses at Windsor. ROYAL LIVERY OF LON uoN,The meeting of that put of the Livery Who have assumed this denomination took place at the City of London Tavern on Friday, to dine together, and to call into action those principles which were the original cause of their association. Alderman C. SMITH presided, and the meeting was both numerous and respoctab!e. The number amounted to nearly 400, and the we:ire:a order, decorum, and convi viality were observed through the whole course of the evening. The healthy of the KING, PRINCE REGENT, QUEEN and ROYAL FAMILY, were drank with a degree of enthusiasm, highly honourable to the feelings of tile meeting. Appropriate loyal and national songs w,?re given in the best style by Messrs. DIGNUNI, PYNE, and others; and to some of the teats temperate sentiments of constitutional loyalty were annexed. Government has granted protections to all the RivLr Fencibles lately disbanded, which are to remain in Iwo . until next Seszion of. Parliament. OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH. A most tremendous conflict is on the eve of breaking (Int in the North. BuoNapAnTE at last quitted Paris on the 9th inst. to review his Grand Army on the Vistula, viltilst ALE:CAN DER had also left his capital, to put him self at the head of his army. Seldom have greater pre parations been made on the part of the French. NAPO 180N has collected the whole of his disposable force from the most distant points, and called his most active and ex perienced Marshals to serve under him. He marches to battle surrounded with vassal Kings,..and armed with their power. The King of PRUsSI Ais become one of his Lientenarkts : the Kings of WCSTPHALIA, (JEROME) and pf NAPLES, (MURAT) are on their way with all the mili— tary force they can spare, to hold subordinate commands. A large Austrian army, headed by the Archduke CHARLES, is in readiness to co-operate with him ; and the French troops have already entered Memel, and advanced to the very borders of Russia. On the other hand the Rus sian army is said to be numerous, and full of confidence. It cannot, however, be equal to the collected force of the in vaders, mad we cannot but own that we now view the ap prnacning campaign with more anxiety than hope. NA i is attended by his EMPRESS as far as Dresden, Nehes.! they were to be met by the Heads of the House of Austria. The .KING of ROME was to remain in France, at the Palace of Meudon, about six miles from Paris. In another part of our paper will be found a French Decree, now produced for the first time, though dated Aril 11, 1811, announcing the repeal of the Berlin and Milan Decrees as they regarded America. This docu ment. which had been hitherto denied, because it did not exist, has, no doubt, been lately issued and ante-dated, in order to be made to a?ply to our late Declaration. BUOIN APA TIT F, it appears, has meditated the same atm. antis conduct towards the Emperor of Russr.t and h;s fa. that he carried into effect so perfidiously against the Roy al family of Spain. The conspiracy lately discovered at St. Peiersburgh, was designed to carry off the Imperial Family to France, and was discovered by the Swedish General A RMFELDT, who, in consequence, has been ap pointed Governor of Finland, in the Russian service. BUON APARTE, on the day previous to his departure for the North, issued a new decree for regulating the high prices of grain. This decree states, that the former de cree promulgated on the same subject has failed in pro ducing the hoped-fer salutary effects, and that the price of provisions had ari s en above the ability of same classes of the community to purchase ; it then declares, that the high prices are caused by exaggerated alarm, and the speculations of avarice, and not from a real scarcity ; on these grounds BUONA PA RTE. has fixed a maximum for the six central departments of the French Empire, that no grain shall be sold beyond a fixed price. His object, doubtless, is to allay, if possible, the popular discontents which might, during his absence, break out in a manner dangerous to his power. A Morning Paper states, , 4 that some discoveries have recently been made. which have rendered the departure of LUCIEN BUON APA RTE from this country, a measure of iAispensable necessity." a i r