The National Register. — London, England, 1814-04-24 00:00:00

ea 3 TATNATIONAL REGISTER. 4 Majesty embarked yesterday, and sleeps this night at C-dais or lioniniAne ;on Monday night at Amiens; -on 'rues at Itainhotullet; on Wednesday . or: Thursday ht wake his public entrance into Paris. --...airs/.... DEFEAT OF souur AND CAPTURE OF THOUT.,OUSE. The friends of humanity had hoped, (the reign of Trace taving commenced) that no more human blood would be tiled, at least in Europe. Unhappily, this expectation . has heti) d:•appointed, a new battle has been fought, and we have to mourn tha► our gallant countrymen in arms, still victo rious, have fought and have conquered in vain. On the loth, the army of Cord Wellington, engaged that under Soldt, and defeated it. The result of this was, the Frcach commander was compelled to evacuate 'Toulouse Under other circumstances, we should have hailed such a •triumph with raptute, but in the present instance, when no new wreath of gloty was wanting, to make British valour famed throughout the universe, it is a subject of melancholy reflection, that many of the brave fellows whose valour had contributed la7gely to produce the present happy stale. of affairs, should have lived till the termination of the awful conflict, to fall in the moment which ought to have restored them to the sweets of domestic Peace. It cannot but. excite surprise, that up to the 10th, Souk should have received no intelligence of the counterrevolution. In such a case, it is natural for suspicion to he on the alert, and it is proper that strict and immediate enquiry should he made into all the circumstances of the case. We ought how. ever to bear in mind, that where such mighty events, h.tve taken place, great contusion must pervade many departments, and the unfortunate delay may be fairly accounted for in a, variety of ways. It' is hinted iu one of the Paris papers, that this catastrophe has been causer' by orders from Buona• paste, hut really we cannot think this at all probable. Ile is .not such a lover of justice, as to commit an act in his present :circumstances which must inevitably doom him to the sal lows be deserves. Ilad orders been issued by him, subse quent to his abdication, it is not probable that they would itave reached Soul: before the dispatches of the Provisional Coverntnent, and. only in this case would 'he have dared to act upon them. The fact must immediately be known. ..Should it appear that Buonaparte has caused this effusion of blood, by any act subsequent to his abdication, for such treason he ‘vill of course he brought to trial, and sentenced :to make some fai-it expiation by terminating his wretched ex istence on a scaffidd. The conduct of Soult must also be in -y:stig:ded, and if a participation in the crime be proved, of fended justice requires that he should share the fate of his Late master. , APRIL et sion on the Speech made by the Speaker, at,the close of the 'last Session of Parliament. In that paper we:could never see anything unconstitutional, or any thing which was unbecom ing the Speaker to utter on such an occasion. If, in stating to his Sovereign,_ what bad been done in the course of the Ses. sions with respect to the Catholics, he had given a designation to them which they did nol deserve, his conduct would have merited repr'hension. It was not pretended that he had done this, and it was therefore ridiculous to prefer any charge against him. The motion of Lord Morpeth, which went to censure the conduct of the Speaker by implication, was ne gatived by a majority of 168.—A direet tote of censure moved as an amendment by Mr. Whitbread, was negatived without a division. The Debate was uncommonly tedious, notwithstanding Mr. %V hitbread, the Speaker, Mr. Catrning and Mr. Plunkett. took .part in it. The Duchess of Olden- burgh was present. She is really a very extraordinary wo man, for she kept awake all the time Lot d Morpeth was speaking, and did not seem much terrified by Mr. Whitbread, though he roared loud eneugh to be beard in Palace Yard. !she bad fortitude enough to remain till Mr. Williams Wynn get up— " The torce of patienic could no further go." AMERICA. The Swiftsure - Packet has arrived with a mail from Hali fax, •at St. Ives, in Cornwall. She has brought Halifax pa pers to the 29th ult.' and Boston to the 18th. Debate , run high in Congress on the subject - of Peace, and the. majority of Mr. President Madison begins to diminish. On a motion made by Mr. Wright, on the 2d of March, for considering the propriety of suspending the embargo, the resolution was carried by only a majority of three. Commodore, Rodgers has returned unhurt from another cruise, after being absent 75 days. He returned to Sandy Hook on . the 19th of Fe-.. bruary. It appears, from his own statement, that h t e was much terrified by the approach of two ships, which he con ceived to he enemies; one of which, we learn, was his Ma jesty's frigate Orpheus, Cant. Pigott, of 36 guns ! The remaining intelligence in these papers consists of the usual occurrences in the history of American Warfare.. Armies retreating, boats and stores burnt, numbers reduced, soldiery insubordinate, generals arrested, and officers of go vernment criminated. General Wilkinson, in the early part of February, burnt his boats on the Salmon river; he' then set fire to his barracks at French Mills; and marched his troops, reduced to 3000 in number, part to. Sackett's 1 harbour, and part to Plattsburg. The British followed him to French Mills and Malon, and cart ied off the stores at the Ilatter place. In consequence of this 411c1 the former failures, the Secretary at War insisted on Wilkinson's arrest, and at length this point was conceded by Madison, by whose per- Isonal wish Wilkinson had been appointed. On the other baud, W i!kinson's friends charge his failures to the incom petency and contradictory orders of the Secretary at War. General Hampton is permitted to retire from the service; and Granger, the Postmaster-General, is turned ont of of fice. Even the armies which were sent, " not only to, chas tise the savages into present peace, but to make an impres sion on their future fears," seem to have been defeated. The Creek Indians have proved more than a match for General Jackson and General Floyd. The latter writes, that partly from the insubordination of his troops, and partly from the deficiency of his supplies, lie fears he shall be com pelled to retreat; more especially as the Creeks have seized au American post, very appropriately named Camp Defi ance, from which they threaten to attack him. A detach ment of American dragoon; havin t ; ve, utured, on the 16th SURPRISE OF OUR ARMY AT BAYONNE. • The news from Bayonne is not less afflicting than that f .om Thoutouse. It wears our army, under Sir John I-lope, -had sent the garrison information of the changes which had taken place at Paris. Waiting for an answer, in the suppo liition that, tiff that had peen given, hostilities would not be resumed, a Fatly was made, which cost us a loss of be rtweeri five and 600 men. Sir John hope is taken prisoner, a Id Geliel al Flay and Colonel Sullivan are said to have been offici4 sad.viCes on this subject have not yet come to hand. 4isto be hoped the calamity has been greatly exag• .grated. The observations we have made on the events which Dave occurred afTlioulOtlie, our readers will feel ap 7 • ply equally to what has taken place before Bayonne. . . • SPEAKER'S SPEECH. . In Parliament nothinz of interest has occurred in•the pre via week. The only-thing of any importance, was aw discus- •