The National Register. — London, England, 1813-01-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. .Of destruction for the most strongly secured throne." This event, it will he seen by the French Papers, took place on the 30th ult. on the right bank of the Niemen, where Gen. D'Youx, who commanded the Prussian contingent joined to the corps under MACDON AI" finding himself sepa•ated from that Marshal, who had already crossed the Niemen with his French and Polish troops, and several divisions of Prussians ender Isieutenaot-General MASS NB sic it, entered into a convention with the Russian MajoisGen. Duets - sets, by which the whole Prussian corps was to become neutral, and to occupy the part of Eastern Prussia, !eft uncoveedbs the retreat of the French. Should, however, the Prussia', XING not ratify this convention, his troops were to have liberty to march wherever he might call them, but if ordered to rejoin the French imperial army, they engaged not to figi:t against the Russians-during the space of two mouths The KING of PRUSSIA, who is in fact a prisoner in his capi tal, occupied as well as the rest of Prussia. Proper by AUG E REAU'S army of reserve, expressed the utmost indignation on being informed of this surrender. He refused to ratify the convention, ordered General D'Yortie to be arrested and tried, appointed General KLEIST in his stead, and placed the whole corps at the disposal of the KING of NAPLES. • He immediately dispatched .Prince DE HA TZF ELI) to Paris, to vindicate his innocence in the eves of N APOLEON, and assure him of his entire devotion to his cause. ThatßuoN AP A ItTE considers the defection of the Prussians in the same light that we do, is aeparent from the measures which it has led him to adopt. lie had told his peop!e that he should want no fresh levy of men, and no new taxes, but " unforeseen conjunctures req ire unexpected sacrifices," and he has applied to the Senate fur an addition to his mili tary means, and has obtained it. Three hundred and fifty thousand men, besides the list conscription of 1(30,000, have been ordered to be put at his disposal. One hundred thou sand (If these, composing 100 cohorts of the national. gust ds, were raised before the war with ltu;sia commenced, and have now been about a year in training. The next 100,000 are to be taken out of the unmarried conscripts of the years 1909-10-11, and 12, who were not called into action ; and the last 150,000 to be raised out of the conscription for 1 S 14 These immense levies, which he wily find more difficulty to carry into effect than to o r der, arc made, because " the de velopcments of the force of France" will Secure " the useful eo-operation of her aliies"—in other words, beeanse NAPO LEON expects that at the first sign of weakness France be trays, all her present allies will turn against her. It is clear that he has lost all confidence in their troops, and that in future he will net employ them without having an overawing French force at hand to insure their fidelity. This will produce a total change in his war• system, which he has lately carried on chiefly through the medium of foreign soldiers pressed into his service, and by compelling him to draw the great bulk of his armies from the population of France, will exhaust her means, and, we trust. at last, the patience of the people. From a statement, published as official some time ago in a Morning Paper, • be seems to have led no less than 250,000 allied troops against Russia. The defection of the Prussians, and the formation of Antigsdlican Societies, both equally attributed by the maddened- EmPeaots nod his Ministers, to our gold and intrigues, render it a matter of " impel ious necessity" that he should no longer trust to his allies, but that he should have recourse " to the means which he will find in the power of his empire, and the love of his sio4frefs." Thus are his efficient means of hoqiiity already reduced by the peblie acknowledgment of his Minister, to the limits of his own territory. • .TAN. 17 As we are the cause of all his disasters, the usual denuncia tion is renewed, that " there u ill be no repose for Europe, till England shall have been, urccii to conclude a peace." The Monileur states the various corps of the Grand Army, their skeletons rather, to have reached their winter quarters, between the Niemen anti the Vistula, fully 200 miles in the rear c;f the Russian frontiers ! The Polish Diet, inad with !error, have called on the people t, rise to d , ..feAd their frontiers, in the language of despair. Po NI AT OWS'i is at War , aw, and MURAT with the French Guards at Koni4.4s her;,,!; WtCDON A t.D, it appear, still maintains hiti elf at 'Tilsit, where the Prussians soak 111111. Cadiz and Lisbon Mails were yesterday received. 'Their contents are quite unimportant. I \V i.L LINGT (IN Lad a! rived at Cadiz, and had been received with great ho- !torus. An American prize has arrived •:t Plymouth, ont nine teen (lays from Philadelphia. Infirmation ha:: been re ceived by her, that Mr. MADIsoN has been re-elected Pre sident of the United States. The news from the North has given accelerated motion to the spinning wheels—has furnished employment for ever► loom—and thousands, lately trembling from the fear of want, arc now furnished with the means of earning the sweet bread of industry; for trade again puts on a smiling face, and animates our merchants to renewed exertiow. Thursday, a Court of Common Council was held at ( oi!d hall, when a motion was made, and canied that the sum of 20001. be subscribed by the City of :on don, in aid of the Fund for the re;iel of the-suffering Rus sian People.—Mr. PEA itc E, after a few observations on the great objects of the British and Foreign Bible Society, aud ad verting to the grant of the Court of ion'. in aid of its funds. which, he contended, was beneath the importance of the Court to have given, moved, "'That a further sum of 2151. should be given to the Biitish and Foreign Bible So ciety."—The motion was negatived by n 5 aglinst 23. At a Meeting of Ship-owners and 'others, interested in. the East India and China Shipping, at the City of London Tavern, C. H. TURNER in the chair, certain Resolutions were come to in favour of the renewal of the East India Company's Charter, when subscriptions were entered into to defray the expenses of petitioning Parliament on the subject. EAST INDIA CHARTER.—At a Court of Common Coune cil, on Friday, Mr. Quit; proposed certain Resolutions, in fa vour of the renewal of the East India Company's Charter. Mr.TADDY seconded them. Mr. S. DIXON wished the con sideration of the subject adjourned. Mr. NV AITIINI AN moved an amendment to that effect, and the discussion Wa6 adjourned to Monday selmight. LUDDITIS —Extract home private letter, dated the 12th inst. On Sunday night the house of Mr. Byewater, frante work-knitter in this town, was entered by a body amen with firearms, and after putting the family into great alarm. destroyed the frames in the house : these people were disguised with black crapes over their faces. It appear:: that Mr. Byewater made some resistance, when one of these horrid wretches snapped his pistal at his head, which fortunately missed fire. The allies went undiscovered, and no tidings have been heard of them since. " The frame-breAers are still carrying on their lawless work at Nottingham. On the evening of the above-mentioned day (Sunday), five men in di-guise, and well armed, entered the house of Mr. Edward Lowe, in Crossland-street, when the only person in the house was Mr. Lowe's son, a youth about sixteen, whom they compelled to light a candle, and show them the way into the workshop, where, in about fi :e minutes, they demolished the sinkers, needles , and machines of three silk knotted frames, and twisted off te presser-bars, or broke them in two. A footing frame shared the same fate. They belong to Mr. Parker, hosier, and had nit been wotked for some time, nec'nse Mr. Lowe would not take work P ut at less than the curtont pri , :e.—:!loston paper.) 44 fr" rz • 1 .4 . I , I f .R