The National Register. — London, England, 1813-02-07 00:00:00

WO THE NATIONAL REGISTER. disturbance might be allayed by very simple means. All the mi , fortnnes of the Grand Army aye said to have been stated in the 29th Bulletin, white only noticed the loss of PAartivioi's division, con s isting of 2.300 men. This bring the state of the case, if BUoN AP MITE were to direct all hi s m en to write to their friends, it do more ►owards tranquillising the good citizens, than his tpsertion that the retersbergh Reports are "faise, eery false !" The alarm excited by the news from the North has been an peat, that it has actually been found necessary to call upon the French Officers to give a contradiction to the Rus sian accounts, and letters have accordingly been written to this effect by BEACH ARNO iS, D A VOU!:T. and NEY. BEAC- H ARNO is says, " 1 know that the Russian statements are quite false." This is very satisfactory, but he will tell his mother, the repudiated JOSEPHINE, another story. DA.- VOCST has read the Peter burgh papers with astonishment, and, far from having been beaten, asserts that be never met the enemy but he defeated him ;. and NEY, giving a formal contradiction to the Russian accounts, boasts of having take❑ an Officer prisoner, who was sent to him with n fag, of truce. " All the Russian repot is are romance::," and in spring he says the Russians ' will evert• where find the men of Auster , litz, of Eylau, of Friedland, of Witcpsk, of Smelensko, of the IVloskwa, and of the Bereina." el'his tcue. They wilt every where find th, ,n, when the return of spring dissolves the veil of snow which now hides their rotting carcases. If the conviction of .tl►is can give*coinfort to the good, though somewhat disturbed, citi:.eus of France and Germany, let them enjoy it. RECONCILIA LION BEM TAY ON APARTE AND THE POPE. The annexation of Romc and the Papal States to France, during the campaign lso9, extended the territories whilst it really diminished the influence of NAPO L BON. Till then he had been anxious to appear as the restorer of religion. On becoming posse se(l of the Consular power, he had closed the temples of the T hcop I i lan th I opes and other philosophi cal sec t s , had r ecalled the banished priests, and opened the churches to the w( , p,hip of the Christian God. When he assumed the Imperial Crown, he had recourse to the same artifice to s‘nclion his usurpation, and it was only after he thought his throne firmly established by the victories of 1805, 6, and. 7, that he dropped the mask, openly discarded his pretended reseect for the Head of the Roman Church, deprived him of his temporal sovereignty, and reduced him to the condition of a prisoner of state. This conduct eradi rated from the mind of the Catholics, who, in the destroyer of temporal Papacy, immediately thought they recognised -ANTicii ars r, all sentiment of dutiful obedience. Hypo crisy revealed, grows too hideous to be tolerated. Hence NAPOLEON created additional enemies among his own sub jects, and afforded fresh grounds for hostile opposition, to the Catholic population of other countries. In vain were 'the French clergy bribed ; the refusal of the Pope to ratify `the Imperial divorce and the new alliance with the daughter of the House of AUSTRIA, as well as the bull of.excommunica lion generally believed to have been issued against NA PO .II, EON, although disarmed, by the dread of his power, of their full effect, yet undermined his influence, and spread dissatis faction so far, that loud murmurs • broke out against his apostacy, and secret plots were formed in every quarter to - overturn his authority. To give a different vent to this turbulent spirit, after two yeari of fear and indeciSion, he Undertook the Russian campaign,' relying on a new series of triumphs and conquests to restore the tottering stability of ed Ir' hopes, by the de FEB. 7 , his allies, and compelled to call upon his discontented sub jects for fresh levies, he felt at last the impolicy of his conduct towards the Pope. This Pontiff, who had been led from Italy to Fontainbleau, to be placed beyond the reach of rescue, was unexpectedly visited by NAPOLEON and MARIA Louisa. The proud Emperor is said to have humbled him self to obtain forgiveness, and the sanction of the Pope to his marriage. lie probably urged that the unequalled dangers behad lately run, the sudden annihilation of a most powerful army ' which made him exclaim in his address to the Senate, "De struction comes in a moment ?" and the disappointment of all his plans, since his injurious treatment of the head of the Roman Church, had removed his blindness and struck him with repentance. Ile, no doubt, lavished professions and promises, and the aged Pontiff, assailed by the entreaties of the EMPRESS, and the supplicatiGns of a host of Car dinals and Archbishops collected for that purpose, yielded after six days' resistance, and signed a new Concordat, the terms of which at e not yet publicly known, but in which he probably revokes his sentence of excommunication, sane , tions IleosiaP attTe's divorce and marriage, and consents to crown his son Emoeror of France and King of Italy, a measure which NAPOLEON has been preparing ever since his return, and which seems indicative of his intention to rene.- the campaign in person, and of his apprehension that it siti:l prove decisive of his fate. In return for these con • cessions, the POPE will perhaps be allowed 'to hold the for mer seat of his sovereignty as a fief depeodent on the infant King of ROME, and to resume some part of the temporal I s:alc of which had been 'deprived. It is possible , too , that 1 he may have been cajoled into an appeal to Catholic Princes and subjects, to rise against the Russians as enemies of their faith, and that BUONAP Al re despairing of support other wise, may attempt to procure it., by causing a crusade to be preached against the " Barba ri a ns of the North, their sa vage costume, long beards and ridiculous customs t" Advices from Copenhagen observe, that a friendly inter course will be immediately re-established between Great Bri tain and Denmark. Count SANTI has proceeded from Stockholm to Copenhavn ; and his mission is supposed to relate to measures of very important consequence. Even between the Courtc of Berlin and Hesse Darmstadt there is an interchange of Ambassadors Extraordinary. The Elec tor of llEsse was stripped by BUONAPARTE of the greatest part of his dominions, for adhering to Prussia in the last war which she sa unfortunately waged against France, and this renewal of intercourse between the two PRINCES, is an evi dent proof that they-set the future enmity of BUONAPARTE at defiance. Letters from Berlin advert in the most confident terms to the revival of trade, and particularly to an extensive com merce to Silesia and Germany. Colonial produce was in very great demand throughout the whole of the adjacent country. Two mails arrived from Gottcnburgh on Tuesday, but no official advices have been received from Lord CATHCART. The accounts brought from St. Petersburgh by the mails are not of so late a date as those previously rcei received from hi s s Lordship. Government have , however, ved dispatch from Stockholm to the 20th ult. The surrender of General glom( was but imperfectly known in that city, and it was reported there, probably without foundation, that 6000 of MACDONA LD'S corps had laid down their arms at Inter burgh, and that the King of Naples (Mutt AT), having col lected about 7000 or 8000 of the fugitives from Konigs burgh, ordered them to proceed and assist the retreat of ed Al di' -,ed his power. Totally disappointed in his hopes, by the oe. uzucacia struction of bis grand army, apprehending the defection o MAcDONALD, but they refused, tuutinied, and dispersed. t!~' t o P k ;