The National Register. — London, England, 1811-08-25 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL It . BUONAPARTE, by a late decree, has imposed a tax of a mtime per sheet, whatever may be the forst of the 'volume, on all publications, the copy. right in - which, belonging 0 - the author of his heirs, bas expired. We have received Moniteurs, and other Paris Papers to the 14th. They contain another series of Military Reports from the Spanish Provinces ; is which is stated the melancholy and discouraging fact of Suchot having obtained possession of Mont serat, a district so strong by art and nature, that we could have expected it to rival Saragossa in the valour of its defence. A panic, however, seems to have been struck by the sanguinary business of Tarragona, and many disasters may be looked for in Catalonia, before the Patriots recover sufficient spirit and strength of mind boldly to face their op presssors, and, as heretofore, conquer or die in arms defending their liberties. The quantity of ammunition, provision, &c. taken by the enemy, is described to be immense. With respect to the Army of the South, and the Army of the Centre, the intelligence is more scanty, and the chief part of the former is composed of an intercepted let ter of very dubious character, which imputes an titter disagreement to have taken place between Lord Wellington and General Blake, owing to the rgfusal of the former' to fight a general battle on the advance of the French to relieve Badajoz.— There has no doubt been some disagreement be. tween them, but from what cause it is imposssible at present to say. According to the official returns, which have been intercepted, the French armies in Spain amounted, on the Ist of. June, 1810, to 230,400 Inen.. On the Ist of June, 1811, they were only 140,000. Total, loss in 12 months, 90,400. It is to . be observed, in addition, that no troops returned to France during that period, excepting the Officers and Staff of some skeleton regiments. Indeed the demand for troops in Spain has been so urgent, that Eironet's corps, which came to reinforce Massena, was composed of the fifth battaliOns of different re giments, which are usually en depdt, and which scarcely ever before had been sent out of France. A vessel arrived, on Monday, from the French coast, which she left so recently as the 17th. It was then reported that BUONAPARTE was on the eve of a distant journey, but whether to Spain or Poland was uncertain. • A letter has been received, dated Toulon, the lit!' ult. It contains an account of a very gallant action between his Majesty's ship Guadaloupe, Cap. twin TIVILKY, and a French corvette of 22 guns, with a xebec, which both effected their escape. The action took place off Cape Creuse. Captain TET LEY intrepidly ran his brig along-side the corvette, and silenced him, •In• twenty minutes. The enemy being hard pressed, made all possible sail, and got off Cruok, a strong breeze blowing in-shore. Her consort, the :xebec, during this time, laid on the . quarter of the Guadaloupe, pouring in a galling • Ere, which her attention to the corvette rendered it impossible to return. They both shamefully ran away, aid succeeded in getting under the protec tion of the batteries on shore, or they would have been inevitably taken. The First Lieutenant (WHITE) and nine rntn were severely wounded, S"TER. four of them dangerously, one man was killed, and the hull and sails of the Guadaloupe have suffered much damage. Letters received from Gottenburgh, by the An. holt Mail, all agree in stating, that Russia and France are on the eve of a war. Buonaparte has either by promiies or threats secured the support of Prussia in case of a rupture between him and the Emperor Alexander. Twenty thousand french troops quitted Dantzic suddenly midi all their artil. lery and ammunition, and took their route towards the Rhine. Before they left the place they com mitted the grossest outrages indiscriminately against the subjects of all nations. Every seaman, whether American, Dane, or Swede, was impressed and sent off under a military escort to Antwerp to serve on board the fleet. From a quarter of respectable authority we learn that the point immediately under discussion between France and Russia is the possession of the ports of Riga and Revel. BUONAPARTE is stated to have de manded them precisely on the same plea on which he seized Stettin, Colberg, and the other Prussian ports, as being necessary to the completion of the "Continental System ;" and without which England could never be compelled to accept a maritime peace, so necessary to the repose of the world. BuoNA PARTEPS application to the Russian Emperor on this head was accompanied and enforced by a statement of what he himself had accomplished :—that he had shut out the English from the ports of the Adria tic—from the Elbe and the Weser. -- --- English commerce was entirely excluded from all the ports of his own dominions, and those of his con federates, in a certain degree, to the temporary detri ment of his own subjects : and it now only remained for tile Emperor ALEXANDER to affix his seal to this vast plan, by closing his ports in the Baltic, the only inlets, he regretted to say, which were at present open to the English. All this, General LAURISTON was instructed to press upon the attention of the Court of St. Peters burgh ; and also to say, that his Master by no means doubted the good will of the Emperor, but rather the ability of his Government, which was too weak to carry into execution the full intentions of his Ma jesty. On this ground it was that the French Go. vernment sought the possess ion of the two ports in question, and also as a guarantee that the system of exclusion should be followed up to its utmost extent. There was an advance on Friday in the prices of most of the Public Funds. Omniuin, which left off at discount, was in the early part of the day at only t discount. An interesting document has been received from the Caraccas. It is the abdication by the Provisional Junta of the powers and authorities with which they have been invested, and the resignation of them into the hands of the first General Cortes elected and convened in South America. Twenty distinct cities and territories have appointed their represen tatives- to this illustrious Assembly, which has re ceived the appellation of the General Congress of Venezuela. • The Adventure packet arrived at Barbadoes on the 13th June, with the loss of maintop -mast.