The National Register. — London, England, 1808-06-27 00:00:00

JUNE 27. a fortnight or three weeks after they set foot on English ground, they must be our prisoners, or our masters. No aid therefbre can he of any value, that Is not given with instantaneous rea diness ; and that promptitude cannot possibly be expected without previous arrangement and organization. •It has been very judiciously remarked that in the peculiar state of society which prevails in England, we have no class of men correspond ing to the peasantry of some of the less commercial countries on the Coutinent, men, who from the variety of their occu patious, and their habits of life, are capable of acting as irregular troops a lmost without instruction, or direction. Our people are all so much confined, tach to his own particular employment, that they cannot be capable of judging for themselves with respect to any military object. They must be superintended and directed in every operation : and their services, of whatever nature, will be of little use, unless, through various gradations of aut!arity resularly organized, the whole mass can receive its impu lse front CiOs &aliment. A separate plan is proposed for Ireland ; and this plan is n levy of a body of Feta - it:les, to serve for three year only, in any part of the United Kingdom. to the appoint 111. nt of utilisers, it is scrim:mended that commands be given to persons of popular cha racter and local influence. A Chaplain of the established church is proposed for each regimeta ; but in case one-third of the men be of any communion of dissenters, Lord Selkirk advises that eat's- be attended by a clergyman of their own persuasion, at the es pence of Government. He proposes also, that in the Roman Catholic districts a proportion of the officers always be of that persuasion. In this plan torn - eland we do not see much to ad mire, except the provision for the appointment of officers and clergymen ; hut the confused state of Ireland renders it necessary to do something, and we think it probable hat Lord. Selkirk's plan may be the most rational that circumstances will admit, however far it may fall short of the kiial of equality which all moderate men, and Lord Selkirk among them, desire to see es tablished between the constitution of Ensland and that of Ireland. The present plan is little else than a militia, passing b: : mother name, and provided with somewhat better regulations. His Lordship then eaters upon an investigation of the merits of the militia that now subsists among us, and completely proves the inefficacy and inconvenience of Such a body. lie proves that the militia regiments arc as expensive to the country as reguld: troops, without being so useful. He proves that the ex pence of nttintaining the whole body of 400,000 men, which his plan Is calculated to raise, is awex pence no greater than that of the es- • taldishment of about 50,000 men on the present system of militia, and it is obvious that the 400,00010 cal militia-men must be worth more than the 50,000 ordinary militia-men. He proves further, that the system of militia-ballot, and the premiums that neces sarily attend it s attract as substitutes many men who would others wise enter the liue, and that thus the regular army is weakened too by the present ordination of affairs. He then refutes the vulgar idea that the militia is the only constitutional force, by showing that the militia has now • lost its original principles. • T he last section , requires no comments from us. It is chiefly a summary anti enforcement of the arguments that have preceded it, with an estimate of the expenses of the plan proposed. Whiles° massy other noblemen and gentlemen of high rank and talents, arc employing their time in hunting for votes or eavilliag at speeches, it Is matter of peculiar praise to. Lord Sel kirk, that he is burying himself with forming solid and substan tial remedies for her sufferings; that he has judged it better to serve his country,than to spew how of hers have failed to serve her. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PI.0:11 THE IPEEItiCH, DUTCH, GIIRM.IN, HAMBURGH, AND AILTONA PAPEUS. t FRANCE. PA RH, Jtiit 9.—The Prince Arch-Chancellor of the Empire having yesterday gone to the Palace of her Majesty the Queen of Holland, there declared, that the will of , his lajest . y the Emperor and King w as , that the Prince horn to their M aj estic tire King and Q u e en o f olland, on the 20th of April last, should re'reive the name of Chhrtes-Lonis Napoleon; of which a formal deed WAS drawn up, in presence of the Emperor's mother, the Queen of Holland, the Grand Ducheis of Berg, &e. 'dux e 14.—Letters from Bayonne, of the 10th inst. eontlisi the following partieularst—" King Joseph Napoleon arrives! on the 10th inst. in this town. Ills Majesty wav received with all the honours due to a Sovereign. The Spanish Deputies, with the civil and military unthotities, had the Imam t 6 be presented to him." • THE NATIONAL REGISTER. HOLLAND. .; . . . • ANSWER OF THE GOVERNOR OF CADTz, ro AMUR/IL PURVIS, S;c,, ROTTERDAM, Jute 10.—The Mordl nt. of the 4th cootaiot articles to the following (street : The troops forming the garrison of Swenbnrg, who have been made prisoners of warby the 11.u.siatis, aintitint to 6000 men, asni in the several actions in Finlaikl the Swedes have had aliout 4000 killed and made prisoners. Thus the lois of the dwedes may 1).! altogether estimated at 11,CCO men. They win receive :min England no aid corresponding to this lois. Where are the armies and fleets of El:gland, while Sweden is thus sneering for her sake—they are before Cadiz. Allured by the state of af fairs in Spain, they have sent about 10,000 men to Gibraltar, and they have paraded 4000 before the port of Cadiz. A ship of 74 guns approached the harbour of Cadiz as a fiat of truce, but she was received with cannon halls. At last, a hhat came feem her with a message,-and she was sent back with Cie following answer by the Captain-General : " We do not want yOor interference. If we have any dispute " with the French, that is nothing to you. Whatever diter " ences may be between us are only fam►ly affairs; you wish to " destroy ti►e barracks, and to capturta, the Spanish mid French fleets; that would indeed be a tine catch for you, and you " would doubtless be grievouily offended if you thought that we " were not ready for you—we have 15,000 men in the camp of " St. Roche, and an equal number here. General Salami is on " his way to us with his division, and the French General Du " pont enters Seville with 30,000 men. Meanwhile the English are always intriguing with . the Moors; '►nt the Emperor has demanded a positive ;limner from the King Of Morocco, and that Prince will nut be imprudent enough to draw upon hi►nsetf the united enmity of France and Spain. De will long regret the first gun he fires against Ceuta. N - 4 VAL PROJECTS or rite FRENCH GOVERN - MENA On• the tlth May, the Prince Arch-Citaneellor, presiding fn the Sitting of the Senate, appointed the State-Counsellor, iteg :l::ult de St. Jean d'Angely, Minister of State, to lay before them the grounds of a S.•rtatus Consntrom, for uniting Tuscany .with the French Empire ; and M. Semonville spoke in the name of the Commission of the Senate, which unanimously voted for this incorporation. The follow ins is a summary of the assigned grounds ; —••• 4 4 The whole coast of the Mediterranean Sea must form a part of the French territory of the great Empire. The regions, the coasts adjoining to the Adriatic, are united with the kingdom of Italy; all those which lie along the Mediterranean, which are adjacent to our territory, must be united with the empire of France. From Leghorn to Toulon, to Genoa, to the depart ment of Corsica, is not farther than from Leghorn Milan. The commerce of the Mediterranean, whatever maybe the op position of the Tyrant of the Scas, shall he necessarily under the influence of France. The very same first principles, in consequence of which Genoa was incorporated with France rather than w ith the kingdom of Italy, also require that Leg horn be made a part of that empire. The kingdom of Naples, which lies both up the Mediterranean and the Adriatic, consti tutes a distinct kingdotn, subject, however, to the same federa tive systt in, and to the same state policy. " The pert of Leghorn has given constant reasons of complaint to France. That port, appertaining to a territory, governed by a weak Prince, had fallen under the intittemv of England, and was heroine one of t:te principal inlets for her commerce. In different instances, without wLhing to violate the neutrality of the Sovereign of Tuscany, it became necessary for divisions of French tranpi to enter Leghorn, to enWiscate tit' Etigii4l mrr chandize there. These ‘inlaticns of territory, however neces sary, are always disagreeable; and since Leghorn cannot be under the influence of France and Etv,!and at the same titre, it must be come a part of France. I;e3ides, Leghorn and the Tuscan ter ritory produces sailors for the extrusion of our marine ; Colon; h its whole extent ship-bu;ldintr• is carried tin, and in the &tine proportion must :he toe.to. he increased of prodding seamen fot manning . t nem. If, rs of late, a *quairou 'eV crei.ted at Toa- Fm, as if by a miracle; and if, c"n r.,ry to the ilea of all theme who are acquainted the sea service, we found to-ans to equi p a suite e was squadron, which Admiral. :Tau ine cliumanded ith Si) mach ability, and for which :te obtained so much renown,. by the skiliul manoeuvre* by -which he frustrated the plans of the enemy--which having supplied vslto men, pro. vitivete, and warlike cum, t;orin, ice) of Atitubtor, ~•:k ■ `.4 I t N ' t-