The National Register. — London, England, 1812-03-15 00:00:00

111ARCIA tuents, who have property in England. and in the islands; but they are ( Jen:nod from the discharge of their duty in passing it, by the nume roug, scandalous and threatening letters which the Members daily re ceive from interested and hot-headed partizans, in opposition to the reported Bill. It has been ascertained that many of those letters have been written by men who are at thii motttent making fortunes by smug gling from Canada, Havanna, and elsewhere ; that others are penned by spec ulators in losing manufac turing concerns ; and others by hot-headed war-hawks and applicants for commissions in the Standing Army. These letters have a most astObishing ibfiuence, even on fair minds; and are not counter-balaneed by scarcely a solitary line from the mer cantile and shipping interests, or the friends of peace c be assured, that all political party distinctions are here despised, and are nearly defunct ; and I am confident that the mlajority of Congress are true Americans, who have no undue predeliction for France or England ; and who only desire to know what can be best done for the good of their country, to do it. A majority, I knew, ate Opposed to war, if it can possib:y be avoided.—But there is an interest An Congress deadly hostile to com merce, and to the commercial part of the c, mmunity, particularly to New England. It arises partly from ignoraree, partly from undue pre judice, and partly because thty are led to believe that the restrictive anti-commercial system has the sanction of the New England people! and the remark, that there has not been a single remonstance on the subject laid on the table daring the Session. This is nearly true. What the cause of this apathy and remissnesi can be, I am not crmpe tent to tell; hut am convinced, from frequent conversation on the sub ject with influential Members of the majority, that if the people of .New England would respectfully memorialize Congress on the subject a the embarrassments on their commerce, and remonstrate against a star, until their property could be drawn out of En g l a nd, th a t th e y Would be gratified. Let every town originate and send one or two more—let them be signed by the friends of commerce, the mechanic and agricultural interests intimately connected with commerce, regard less of any paltry distinctions of party politics, or more paltry elec. t:onetring considcrations, and I am satisfied the restrictive system will he abandoned—the alarm of war will subside—and the merchants and mariners of the United Stares be allowed 4 to manage their own con tent in their ows way."' " Bos . ros, Fa& 14.—They talk in Washington of a recess of Con. gressin March. " Mr. Moßum, the late Engli , h Charge-it' Alitires, has embarked from New York for Brazil." HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, rr.8.4. " MILITIA BILL.—The passage of this Bill was again opposed as un eonstititti,mal and expensive ; but on the (last ion, Shall thii Bill pass ? he votes were—Ayes 62—Noes 50. So the Bill passed the " A 13.11 for rai,iNg a corps of Flying Artillery was read twice." EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATFD, NEW-YORK, FFR. 6. " Business of all kind is almost at a stand in this city ; and the com mercial restrictions between Great Britain and this country are ruining all. Property of every kind is diminishing in* value. Nurnerotn; haukruptcies have taken place. Upwards of 2500 have taken the hcnetit of the insolvent Act in this State, in the course of Lott year; :Ind many that were in affluent circumstances are now reduced to poverty." An Address to the Irish settlers in America has been published in a NeW York paper. It is an insinuating appeal to all those powerful passions which govern the heart—it reminds them of the wrongs which they con ceived they had suffered—it proceeds to tell them the day of revenge is at hand, and it stimulates them to en.hu si4sm, by recalling to their recolketion the glory obtained by their countrymen in the revolutionary war. Though a production of considerable talent, in the present state of affairs it is not fit for the public press. The following, which is the concluding parag• a ph, may sern as a' specimen of the style On, then, my countrymm—let your word for battle be illontgonierz / mid the captured walls of Quebec furnish matter for the first line on EMMETT'S tomb !" DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND. Dublin Papers of Wednesday reached us yesterday ; the . . Corresp on d en t states, t h at i t i s g i ven out t h at th e Ministry intend to tesert to the Suspension of the Habeas Corp us Act. the following private let - er from Dublin, dated on Wednesday last, We received yesterday DufstaN, MANcif II —Attempts have been indus triously m a d e to persuade the people that the necessaries Of life will experience ail immediate and large increase of TiIV, NATIONAL REGISTER• Ito price, on account of the great exportation of grain and pota•ws. These attempts have had some effect at Leix lip, Maynonth, Edenderry, and along the line of the Royal and Grand Canals. The yeomanry there are un der arms. I hear that the rioters have carded to death one of those who was buying up provisions for exporta tion. They have cut the canal in two places with a view to intercept provisions to the capital." One of the Dublin Papers contains also intelligence to the above effect, accompanying it with inflammatory obsei vations, IrrttNCH PAPERS. French Papers to the 7th instant, received last Thurs. day, contain an article, dated Madrid, February 15th, which communicates the very unpleasant intelligence of the destruction of the EMPECINADON force at Siguenza, by the corps of the Marquis Rio MILANO. The party of the ENIPECINADO is said to have consisted of 3500 men, of whom 1152 were made prisoners, and the remainder either killed or wotfnded, with the exception of the EXIPECI. • N ADO himself, and a few other Chiefs, who escaped across the mountains. It is probable that this active and enter pr icing partisan may have sustained some loss ; but we cannot bring ourselves to credit the account of so total and irretrievable an overthrow as the French Papers represent. BCONAPARTE had not left Paris at the date of these Journals, nor was any thing known or suspected in that city as to his intentions: neither does any thing appear to confirm an extraordinary report received from Heligoland of the ill-treatment and dismissal of the Empress MARIA I.CUISA. All the accounts from Semlin, Bucharest, and Vienna concur in representing the renewal of the war be tween Russia and the Porte as probable, if not certain, and truth, it is not easy to withhold belief from such repeat ed ;Ind concurrent testimony to that fact. Whatt:ver im p-di:news have arisen to the conclusion of the projected must have been raised by French influence cod in trigue ; and if they should lead to the renewal of the war, mint materially influence the issue of any operations which may take place in Poland. Tnese Papers also contain the surrender of Peniscola, an event as extraordinary as unexpected, intelligence of which has been derived from the last accounts from the Pe. iiin•nla, hut as derived from the French Papers, stands upon a r different grounds. This fortress, situated upon an iso /(ited rock in the sea, and connected with the Continent only by a narrow neck of sand thirty toises broad and sixty in length, presented to the besiegers such difficulties, and promised to the defenders such protection, as would ihave lvArranted the most unbounded confidence in drib ohs kacy, if not the efficacy of a vigorous defence. The event, however, has unfortunately baffled all calcub latio , , and the treachery which gave tap this irnpoitant post to the enemy does not rest upon inference from de. feet of r!Kertion, but is openly Lianifest upon the face of the ins - riumnts by which the infamous traitor who wat Govern:a• surrendered it to the enemy : the merit he cl,iims for having given up an impregnable fortress, well supplied for a vigorous and protracted resistance, to the cnemles of his country, is an adequate measure of the atrocity of his treason, and of' the d:testable extent of his paf.ricidal guilt ; if the place were even so invested as to shin Gut any reasonable prospect of' supply, there might, perh:ips, he some excuse for precipitate submission ; but, acc , adintr to tip.: French General's :account, it was not pos sible '' to blocklde it on account of its natural positii n ;" and " five English vessels were crrising off the ,place and I