The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-16 00:00:00

THE NATIONII+ *MISTER. mask the rank which his precedence of .exertion and success al /owed him to take in the coalition ? No ; he sacrificed every consideration of priority and pride, and resigned to Austria the task and the honour of leading the world in this war of independence with despotism. &wally unfounded are. the remarks made on the conduct of other states, and the re proaches cast upon them for reproving .acts in which they participa'ed themselves, when the weight of his power and the dread of his vengeful disposition deprived them of free agency! It is amusing enough, however, to see him resign the honour, or rather disgrace, of those measures, formerly described as the most noble fruits " of his sublime genius," to those very Potentates who but unwillingly adopted them, and at last 'educed him to his . went situation in order to put an cud to their operation. Thus Russia is now made the author of the Continental System, and the late French pre rooderance i , said to have been created by the vain attempts of %orronnding States to destroy it before it existed ! Fear, it appears, is but a bad logician. The effect of the Continental System, intended to reduce our maritime pre pun& ranee is, however, pretty fairly described as having turned it into " a meal oniniiiwtnee on all the seas of the • gli be," which shows tie folly of tote man who so pertina ciously adhered to a measure at once ineffective and ruinoug. Netwithstanding his entitle' al cry for peace, and the ge neral al athy of his people, N APO L EON seems resolved to make a last appeal to the sword. Ile has reached a poikt at which it is as dangerous: to shr:uk as to dare, and where g i e sperate meatut es can only relieve him from his desperate - situation. By n Decree of the Bth, ehich apptars in The Min Pear! ti e 9th instant, issued 1: um the Thu Wei s, the Nat lona' Guard of Paris l as ken called out, and, in the French phrase, " placed activity." BON AP ART E himself i sto 4 (Mlnland it in Chief. Ills Staff is to consist of one Major- 1 Ceneral ssim is to he second in command—of four Assistant Majors-General—four Adjutant•Ccmmatdants, and eight Assistant Olptains. No person is to Le all( scd to find a substitute for the servce of the National Giard, except a fa ith-I- by his son ; a father in-law by his son-in-law ; the uncle by the nephew, and a brother by his brother. Every' arrondissement is to furnish a legion consisting of 12,620 men, and as Palls is divided into numerous arroudis. seiner ts, (we believe 50) -the .force thus raised would amount to alrnit 150,000, or all the male population of the capital able to bear arms. Is not such an army, totally undisei- Oincd and unable to meet regular troops with any chance of soccer“, nun e likely to take the field against its own Com wander, and by his deposition to secure the capital from inva sion more effectually than by its ill-organized-resistance? This is the peril which NA not r.ovr occurs in ordering this levy, and if tither he or his dynasty survi% e it, it will be vain in futsire to talk of his n npopu:arity. Paris Papers to the 9th inst. arrived on Tuesd.w, They -announce ',tie important fact, namely, the emancipation of Geneva from the yoke of France. The account of this trans r.ction, as c( stained in the Monittur of the 6th n of January, ' is somewhat ludicrous. " CeneralJordy (it is said) who corn • inanded in the place, bad rut it in a state of defence : h e ba,i 14 pieces of cannon. The garrison cmisisted of i,!-",o0 men ; 1.8(Y) men from Grenoble were . coming to reinforce them, • which was sufficient to secure it from a c oup-le-rnai4. 11 . 4 a acirt of . fatality, General Jordy was attacked by a lit of poplt x v on the 77/4-ning of the day when the enemy appeared. The Officer who commanded under him suffeied hims=elf to be prevailed upon by the citizens, and t4re garrison kft• the e , tv. The Prefect had forsaken it, so that for threc (Anl paa • • the , citiheits. lakid constituted theinsehts into a body, aid JAN. 16. • • . had atiumed•the authority. The garrison bad parched out, the citizens opentd the gales !"—'here can be no dflubt from the alove statement that neon the approach of the Allied troops they rose upon the French a uthorities, and admitted the advancing arthy as their deliverers. in fact it is so stated in the Dutch papers.—The extraordinary i'otratissioners sent by Buona; ante into the defartments of France, have commenced their labours. Ceunt de Sugar has issued a proclamation from Troyes, to the inhabitants of the depart ment of the Aube. Ile says, that his Emperor has sent him to tell them important truths, znd speak to them about their deafest interests! - Ile endeavours. to rouse their indi',cmti , :n against the Allies, and assures them that Bonaparte hzs renounced all views of aggrandisement, and looks only to peace. This is a convincing proof of the weakness cf the French Government, and the indisposition of the people to make any further switiees. Ile says, it is the intention of Buonaparte to put himself at the head of hiS army, but it is i not said where that army is to be found.----" The Prefect in the department of the Upper Rhine (says the Moniletn-; has just received orders to raise the inhabitants en wasse.- —" A large corps is going to march to the Lower shire;' —" Every thing spews that a considerable force will be assembled in Alsace."—"ll is sold, that in a f&w ciao s formidable army rill be assembled at Longues,—" They expect immediately 30,-000 of the Imporial Guards."—The other details ih these papers consist chiefly of similaiSsertions respecting the state of preparation for defence of the different fortresses, and the means of re , isting the invading at mies but there is no fact stated which in any degree tends to spew that there is any considerable a' my in France to oppose the advance of the Allies.—Bonaparte remained at Paris ; on the 6th, lie revreviewt d 18,000 troops of the line autteou , scripts:—The French funds continue to fall. .Advices were received on Wednesday from flantzic to : the. 21st, and from Berlin to the 9.hth ult it whs still unknown at the former place t h the eapitula'ion bad not been sanc tioned at 11(A-quarters. The garrison consisted of 9000 men, including 1400 office:s, many of whom did not ori ginally belong to it, but had sought refuge in the- fortress dining the retreat from Nlcscuw in the last campaign. The citizens had been reduced to 15,000 persons, and to these. since the ncgociation for the surrender, the Duke of Wirtemburg, who commands the besieging atmv, bad ad mitted provisions to be supplied. Ilis free is computed at 30,000 wen.—The Berlin letters mention, that intelligence had arrived, of the determination not to sanction the terms of the surrender, and it was therefore supposed that bautzic would hold out for some time longer. The following extract of a letter from Attona, dated Dec. 28, describes the distressed state of the city of flaw burgh 1 hare juit t treeted my escape from liin.bargh, and hasten to -give you some description of the horrible battalion ut that city. l want north), ho Ever, to represent the tai•eries which theinhabit ants 'endure, and obich arc au great that death itself i• ferable to living under viteli intolerable slaver,: Picture to yourself thousands of nicit, women, and chihiren, den's) Out of the city. Isitlx the wretched remains tI their property ; and whit ? —Hint tl)' hecause they cannot purchase, at their own co t, provisions for six itiooth‘, which, from the high price of grain mod ne.it, it is scarcely posNihle even t , .)r the atlho.tit to do. It is said, that not more than Irons to 1:5,000 inhabitant, will remiiits in the city. yes! rt la y, 0,000 peopl• ware driven out of the ci'v. God intlY i.ttows `` . lint will 6t'4)*A"" of them. All the suburbs taut: been burned.- Ditisbietel, and Schutter b1..11 are in ashes, and their unfortunate inhabitants ate How a prey to'hunger anti w•oli. At the moment l w.itv, ad the 11,1,..u,,,r -go.lierg is in times the r.iiikt of it fill* uns with heitur i sod mikes so) bkud iya.46o.ltL"