The National Register. — London, England, 1811-01-27 00:00:00

No new arms, for tively Mac principally solely depended emancipation of Spain from the yoke of France, appears to have sunk very low ; and nnqualified submission is too generally recommended and con aidered as the only means of averting the evils which press on that devoted country. The lower classes and the lower clergy are still faithful to their hatred against their unprincipled invaders, but even among them the Cortez, from which alone national unanimity would have been expected, have lost all their influence and all their credit. But the higher :classes, who throughout Europe have prepared and effected the ruin of Empires, hasten, by their wishes and by their secret services, the happiness which they expect under.. # BUONAPARTE'S Government. The example of the Dutch, of the Germans, and of the Italians is lost upon them, because, through *a frivolous attempt at a fashionable but false libe rality of sentiments, they have sacrificed their na tional• character, and abandoned their national Manners, to become .the unthinking echoes of French principles, the servile and dissolute imitators of French tharineri. How many Hidalgoes of that description Wetould find in that country ! to ~~: ~ r~ TURKEY. • . •' `From the.proclamation of the GRAND SEIGNIOR, Aonuected vtgh, , the official communication from St. Petersburghp ..,which immediately follows in our Taper, it appears that peace will be concluded before 'long, between the Turks and the Russians, on terms less disadvantageous to the Sublime Porte, than was generally apprehended. Russia demanded Moldavia, Wallachia, and the independence of Servia ; the Turks would consent only to the cession of. the former.provinces ; and the GRAND SEIGNIOR, in his proclamation of the 4th of December, an nounces.to the faithful, that orders had been given . to resume the offensive, in consequence of the terms he had proferred having been rejected. But M. Romitrigow, in his . official communication of the 15th of the same month, after alluding to for mer negotiations, expresses a hope that peace may now. be, won, obtained, as General KAMENSKY had received orders to promote conciliation. Pro . bably, the negociators will have adopted the middle course, of sacrificing the Servians, as weak allies I x are always treated, ,and of .transferrin .both Wal lachia and Moldavia to the Emperqr ? EXANDER. Indeed BuoNAPARTE, in his Exe9g . 9,,,. ; 10Q9, has formally given him leave to seize on these two provinces, which, • appeared, even then, the only share in the spoils of Turkey he was willing to allow him. We have always expressed, as our decided opinion, that • the final partition of Turkey would not take place, until BUONAPARTE., having terminated the Spanish war, . should be able to carve the prey, and allot the shares himself. t .:. `_'~,.~ IiaLLAND. The Dutch Papers contain a new Decree is sued by NAPOLEON on the 20th ultimo, and re dacing the late Ictlldom of Holland into a inati- ar e fax from weaiiag a prornising aspect. olisfortunes have befallen the Spanish r the..Frencli armies have been compara- activi ;. but public spirit, on which we ly and _indeed solely depended for the REGISTER. •r • •••••• -•••,..4•=••••••,,- • - • • ^ L , time arrondissement of franc*, OT4d9r the name of the Maritime Prefecture of Holland. Amsterdam, formerly the capital of the kingdom. is to, maintainits pre-eminen c e, a n d t o b ecome th e c hief place -of that Prefecture, which is to be composed of two divisions—the first . comprising Amsterdam iinti all the ports hitherto known as belonging to the Department of the North—the second consisting er Rotterdam and all the ports, of the former Depart ment of the South, and forming a Sub-arrondisse ment, the chief town of which is Rotterdam. At the head of each division a Military Chief is placed; residing, in the one, at Amsterdam,and in the other at Rotterdam. These two Officers are not only to direct all the military operations and labours which may be required in their respective divisions; their jurisdiction extends over the signals,light-houses and buoys along the coasts. They are each to have under their orders two Naval Lieutenants and an Officer of the park of artillery. A Director of equipments ; a Builder-general, with a sufficient number •of builders and assistants are attached to each divi sion ; as well as a Commisiioner for reviews, hospitals and provisions ; a Corthtlissioner for arma ments, prizes, and maritime inscriptions ; a Com missioner of responsibility ; and a Treasurer for invalids, prizes and funds belonging to sea-faring men. An Inspector of Marine is placed over the'whole Arrondissement, and sub•inspectors are stationed at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, each of which is supplied with a Council of Administration ; con sisting of—The Maritime Prefect, Pre:,ident ; the Military Chief ; the Director of Equipraems .;lie principal Builder, and the Commissioner of Respon sibility. The other provisions of this Decree are of a more general nature. The Dutch nation will probably deem the support of such an establishment, divided into two powerful branches, fully as expen sive as that of a Monarch and his Court. The Courant of the 15th contains a decree relative to the manufacture and sale of tobacco, by which it is asserted, that without adding to the burthens of the people, an increase a eighty millions of francs may be obtained to the revenue. The Courant of the 17th also contains a long decree, regulating the imposts on meal, bread, and biscuit, and several other articles. By a decree of the 10th of January, the Empe ror has appointed the Baron de Com DICK D I OUTHIC now Prefect of the Department of the Mouths of the Scheldt, to be Prefect of the Department of the Mouths of the Elbe. The Baron PYLKE MAInE, of Guit, to be Prefect of the Department of the Mouths of the Scheldt, to-the Governor-General of the Dutch - depastinents, and M. DASSEVAIM to be Archivist. z; .; WIV Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East•lndia House, when Captain T. JONES was sworn into the command of the ship Wakharnstpw, destined to Ceylon and Benda). The Duke of 13.riussuitet Is perfectly recovered from his late indispoSitiOrn ; his Highness's illhess proceeded from the measles ; fortunately his chil dren have not caught the malady, they being sepa rated from his Highness during his illness.