The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-23 00:00:00

.JAN. 23. dominions. am.: perhaps neutral (Lit ing the rest of the con test, would assume such an attitude, and have time to opTa nise the energies of the nation in slid] a manner, as tt.. bald- every future attack of fraud or force. Whatever be the mo tives which may have induced Napoleun thus to sanction the dethronement of his brother Joseph, and replace th. l apish Crown on the brow of its rightful owner, it i% R po sitive good to the Continent at large. That it shou!ci cause divi-ions between us and Spain, c.t. between Spain and our • Allies, is, we trust, a chimerical !'ear. Unless the ticatment which he haS experienced shoulsl !rave endeared Napoleon to Lim, and extinguished in his breast every. feeling of gratitcule and can Frldinand VI,. ever forget the services which we have rendeted him. or (-out , ibute to support the forttwes of the Despot, who iu the plenitude of hi. power robbed him cf his crown? No; let him but once be terited on the throne of Spain, by whomsoever it may. and be will prove as ntdent in the cause of European independ clu7e as any of the Allied. Monarchs who now inundate France with 'hell ttoops; or shonid he vacillate in his po licy and bet'ay a disposition to serve the purposes of his late oppressor, the Spanish nation which has displayed such a constant and invincible opposition to French tyranny, would nut allow him. After this attempt on the part of Napoleon to make re tribution before he is entirely forced to do it, we should not he astonished to hear that he had sent hack the Pope to Risme to fill once more the chair of St. Peter. TTTr NATIONAT, nrcisTrit. had been tranqrsit;.!d to Its by our Nliniste:s at the Head quarters of the Allies or the Mouiteurs. The right corps or lit.ucm ra's army, un•ler General St. PRIEST, issaid to have surcessi vel y occupied Bonn, Coblentz, and kenlen, and Wesel is rep vegetated as being entirely surrounded by the Allies. On the Upper Rhine Prince SCHWARTZENBritG has arrived at Montbelliard, taken Ve oul, and pushed on his light troops in the dir ection of Dijon. Report farther state., that Lyons had been entered by Count Bu On the side of Italy, the rumour is, that Verona bad been. oc:.tpied by the Austrians, that 10,000 Neapolitan troops had joined the Allied force under General Nunetst, and that Venice had been evacuated by the Flench. TheMoni • tour boasts on the contrary that the Neapolitan troops have joined the French to actagaiast General N - nc ENT. From the North it appears that afer another ineffectual effort to prolong its üb'tinate resistance, the D:znish Cabinet has at len L th reduced its tetni.er to the due and proper tour. An Envoy, with full powers, bad met the CROWN PRINCE on the frontiers of Jutland on the o , h. An account front Bremen confirms our statement ea f peace having been ac tually concluded, adding, that the peace was signed on the 1 1 th. Of the precise terms we are uninformed; but Nor way of course is to be separated from the Danish Crown, and added to Sweden. The Danish army will alsoco-operate with the Allies, and be immediately employed against ilam•• burgh. ~., : ~ ~ DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH AT TIRr.DA., 'Dutch Pipers to the 21st inct. arrived Lot nigt, but we do not hear that any dispatches were received by ,overnment. There are some further details of the late action near Breda, but a!though they are given as official in the S'aatc Courant cf the 16th, they do not thriw much light upon the battle. MI that appears evident is, that after Laying. advanced as far as An'wel p and thrown some shells - into that town on the 12th, the Allied troops retired on the 13th. to Breda. The following., is considered as the Dutch official account. Breda, Jamtiry 14 - Early in the morning of the Ilk General Von iinlosw advanced towards Brascaat, and, with the column of General Tube:), drove back the enemy's advanced posts, which were intrenciled in the vinare of Niemen, npi'n the Isiu.h road to Antwerp. At the s.lne time the Cos.aeks drove the enemy from 'Turnhout ; General Von Bootell marched on St. Anthony ; General Oppen on St. Job, and the English (Naps Kopclie. " On the 13th, all tile columns broke up to approach Antwerp. General Tuhen, tivinned hy a frpturtiv7e of the English on his right flank, carried th- intrenclunenti and the village itself, in which 'hr Fi curls had peened 3%0 men, and in which tile hotly cf their Grencrpi Avis ' who was killed in the aetinn, %vas found. Gimer.ol Upper had also on his side some fighting, doting which fo.tr howitrers pt Eyed upon the town, and actlL:ily set tire to a elose to which were seen the masts of ships of war. The worioi nee in a rood pate, at the strength of the garrison is, by rho, acts ani tic inkabitants, increased to 1t?,000. It =ay he stated. as a double advantage arising.from this exit( di. tion, that the French cn henceforth no Tonga/ distill It the positions of the allied troops, awl that the movements of 04.11' left svin;; nu Tarnhont, Lire, lice. marvel] into the lie4rt of Brabant. have spread is rror which must be highly detrimeatal to the enemy's plan of de. ft nee. '!'be have, therefore, reNlved orders to rr tnrn, bringing Iti t CO9 pri.o;mrs and rue piece of emnon, taken. The lied& ett e- , ere, well were lestertlay at West Wezel, are now again here. Dutch titlif:ers wl n accompanied this expedition, cannot stitli eic,3:y prai •e the courage with wide% the Prte.:sians, at every oppor tunity, t sew themselves on the 'nem.% and r.ustaincd the fAtiguts of foreel noirelies it. the ni.tst sevet "Parker The intelligence from Germany and Italy contained in the , e Pa ,, Prc is not tni;ch to be trusted, especially the latter. The former does not come down to a later date than what DEPARTURE Of.' TIIE BOURBONS. Saturday, the 15th inst the Doke d'Angouleme left - town, for the head-quarters of Marquis I.Vellington; on the 20. h, his brother, Duke 0 1 . e Berri, departed for Guernsey; and their father, Monsieur, was to set off, yesterday morning, for Swit zerlaud. SAILING OP A FRENCH SQUADIMN. PLVMOUTII, JAN. 10 —The Eurntas haft just at !ivcd ; she bring 4 intelligence of the L'Orient squadron hay ing sailed from that port, and that our squadron Was g(;hI in pursuit. The followinq statement of the circumstances which in duced EUONAPARTE to accept the proposals of the Allies. and to assume a pacific tone is his arld. - esses to the people, was given yesterday by The Morning Ckron;ek, with an in. thuation that Ministers had ieceived it limn perons actually arrived from Paris. There is, ht.wever, a fact, which has been overlooked both by the framer of tit.; account and by The Chronicle, and which weakens the probability' of the story. BUONAPARTE is made to he ei<asperated at the 11(!'- oort of the Legisbeive Body, laid before him on .'4c (26.‘h Dcermher, becwse it advised him to comply with the pr o posa!s of peace made by the A!lit's. displeasure is giver; as the cause of the subsequent tempwavy diss,:b!tion of ti:at Body, although he followed their advice. But all this is overthrown by the . fact, that in his Speech, both to ths nate and the Ipgislative Body, made on the 1.9!1t Deem NAPOLEON informed them that he had ace: , iied the _proposed by the Coalesced Powers. hle cou!d, therefore ; perience neither digappointment nor anger at finding, s. days afterwards, that the Legislative Body had issued a port coinciding exactly with the views w i he had so licly expressed. The following is Ihe A vning Chro statement : " Ou the 19th Of. 13110 NA PA :ITV male a specc i a to t Ile Si and Legi-lative Hotly; which our reattert. havt• seci., :tad on lift there was a . Dccrcc directiq the Lvizilatil;e Body to npp le Se - -17/hr. , basis CA" • a Re- pu b- onielr ;4.mte !nut 4 ; I I II