The National Register. — London, England, 1813-08-29 00:00:00

AUGUST 2. VIE NATIONAL qua ter.—BUON AP A RTE has made a strong fortified line to the Bohemian frontier, beginning at Wittcnburgh, and, pas-ing through Torgau and Dresden, now made very strong, to Konigsteiu, and the intrenched - camp at Pirna—a fine milit'ary line, no doubt, with a view to the opposing an army , advancing against him from 'the Silesian frontier, but of comparativelylittle value supposing the Austria?' army and the Cnowt; PRINCE to take him en rerers. Between this line and the Silesian frontier his main army is stationed; in Upper and Lower Lusatia, Iklowr IER wi.h 70,000 men including a large force of cava!ry at Luckau; and NEV with about the same numbers, at Bautzen. The Saxons are at Goerlitz ; but we ate unacquainted with their force, though we are perfectly sure of their utter indisposition to his cause. On the Mein, though now perhaps nearer the. Bavarian frontier, there is an army of reserve under AUGE• REA tY; and there is an army of Bavarians about 23,000 sti ong near Munich. Such are the disposition of the enemy's fot cc. On the part of the Allies, we have already taken a view of the CaowN PRICES force. The Russian army passed the Silesian frontiers in great force immediately after the Armistice was deno'jnced : the head-quarters had been removed from Reithenbach to Prague, where the three Allied Monarchs were when Syr, vEsrLa took his departure. The amount of this Russian force has been rated as high as '200,000. IVe . believe this is an exagge rated account ; but it certainly exceeds 100.000. The di rection this army has taken is understood to be, not to wards the front of BUONA PA RT position an the Elbe, but into Bohemia to join the Austrian army, with the seem ing intention of removing the theatre of war (tom the Elbe to the Bavarian frontier. And some private letters have been received, which state, that a large part of the Austrian army, .00,000 strong, has entered the Bavarian territories. The, advantage of this, plan, supposing we are correct in our statement, would be to release the whole of the North of Germany, Prussia, and Silesia, from all apprehensions of at tack, to give them time to collect and organize fresh means of resistance, and to furnish more men and supplies for the armies contending in the South of Germany. In Italy we have very imperfect information of what •is passing. We know that BE AUH ARNOIS has been sent long since to collect a farce upon the Adrge, and we suppose that Austria has not beer less active in her preparations on that side. In a late account from Heligoland, which we have given, there is a report that MURAT had declared in favour of the Allies. It will be recollected, that some time ago there was a rumour to the same effect, and the conditions he was said to have proposed, were that the kingdom of Naples should be guaranteed to him. On the other hand, his arrivkl in Cermany, and even the different stages of his journey, have been so minutely mentioned in the French papers, that the report is not intitled to any credit. The following is an extract of a letter:— " HELIGOLAND, AUG. (43.—A es t: of truce has just arrived wills ass officer 4.1 s board, from mhom we hove collected the subsequt ni partiroiarg . . 4 "fhe Austrians have joined the Allies with 160,000 men, and their first movement has been in the direction of Bavaria, the terri• tories of whirl' are now occupied by a portion of their troopq. This fief was announced in the altona Mercury, but the disclosure being mode known to the Dani,li Government, ail the copies of the paper were destroyed, with the exception of a few which found their way into that city before the order for the suppression coulu be folly executed. _ _ _ " Mines, it iK said, have engazed to provide BUONAPARTE with 1t,c;00 horse:; to augment his cavalry. They have assigned it corps of `4oooo . incu- to support the French, but the Dauish sot- they _igagoi to the Attie.. anti " The Swedes and the Prossiatts are in the possession of Lubeck. --NrunsT had joined she Allies. and all the ports of the Kingdom of ble.ples are opened to their shipping. It is even said that he has sacred to resign his kingdom to its lawful Sovereign, leavinf the compensation lu is to receive for the surrender to the generosity of the Allies. The Freiseli are to pay a monthly subsidy of 100,000 marks to the Court of Cupenhag,en." • 4%. 411 REGIST . 35 - dier4 refuse( e teenrsefrep. French colours : the Prince of HESSK, ^ ve this difficulty, has been appointed to com- mand them. lig indication of their dislike of the service in which they svcre ctigaged was nut sufficient, and 1000 of them went over DISPATCHES FROM LORD WELLINGTON. The Dispatches received from Lord WELLINGTON.,- . , • week are dated the Ith inst. at which period no mov of itnpo►tance had taken place in either army. The Sp corps continued to act with activity in other quarters, and MINA had reduced the Castle of Saragossa, in which lie took 500 French prisoners, 47 pieces of cannon, and a great quan tity of ammunition and clothing, so that the speedy liberation of Arragon from the enemy, may now be confidently antici pated. In Catalonia his Lordship had learnt that the allied army under Lord W ILLIAM BEN LUCK was approaching Tat ragona. FRENCH PAPEVS. Path Papers reache4l town on Friday night to the 25th instant, and vet, although communicating intelligence from Dresden of the uithotot a syllable does BUONAPARTE venture to impart to the French people of the real situation of affairs. Although thus, within two days of the actual commencement of hostilities, and five days after Austria had actually declared war against Frauce, not the most distant allusion is male to any such events; but, on the contrary, the deception is kept up of correspondence and the passage of co ursers between Prague and Dresden, and the usual style of the Emperor being at Dresden, and in good health, as if nothing whatever out of the ordinary course had occurred. It is imposqUe to impute this studied concealment to any other cause than to actual dread of public opinion in France, and it is, we think, a symptom more ominous to BUONAPARTE than any that as occurred.—The Empress MARIA LOUISA was to set out on the 23d for Cherbourg. The Queen of SICILY is to reside at Buda. Some uneasiness was excited on Friday, by the intel ligence of rejoicings having taken place on board the Scheldt fleet on the 95th inst.—it was feared that they might he for some victory.—Fortunately we are able to dissipate this uneasiness. The dressing of the ships, and the salute, are now known to have been in honour of BUONAPARTE'S wife's birthday. We have extracted from one of the German Papers, In ought by the Gottenburg Mail, a ridiculous. French ,ao count of the operations in Spain, to , the 27th (not mention ing a word of the subsequent.. battles) in which it is menti oned that SOU LT was arpechd to be in Vittoria on the 91st ult. or on the Ist instant It is d'reeted by Ministers, that a Packet shall in future sail from hence to the Port of Pa•ages, in the Bay of Bi-- cay. We :11C sorry to learn, that notwithstanding the vigi: lant attention of our navy in that neighboui li)od, it is itn possible wholly to prevent the supply of troops and provi sions to St. Sebastian, which are forwarded in small craft during the night, that proceed close in shore. The following British reginwots of infantry are now _Stralsund or in its neiAbourhood the .54th tegiment, 4tl, battalion Royal Scots, Qd battalion :25th regiment, 2d battalion 73d ditto, 2d battallion 91st ditto► r Y mA at :h !d