The National Register. — London, England, 1811-01-06 00:00:00

THE NA • •••'9 •. cMINV , A*. UNITED STATES. .0 • Mr. MADiSON'S Message has at last been made public. It contains the usual account of the rela tions existing between the United States and European Powers; and although it alludes to the promise made by France of rescinding the Milan and Berlin. Decrees, and to the refusal of our Go vernment to repeal our Orders in Council, unless the operation of the French Decrees should have first entirely ceased, it does not breathe any sprit of hostility against either party, but maintains a strict neutrality which the PRESIDENT may think dignified, but which will, generally, be deemed the offspring of timidity. The state of the coun try is represented as most nourishing, notwithstand ing the unjust spoliation of its trade, and the re venue as far exceeding the expences of the year. The attention paid to military objects, however, betrays an expectation of approaching hosti lities : and as improvements in the arming, organization, and discipline of the Militia, are pointedly particularised, it is natural to suppose that the American Government contemplate a land campaign with a Power which still possesses territo ries in the vicinity of the United States, as by no means impossible or improbable. Private letters state, that a negociation had been carried on at Paris between the French Govern ment and Gen. ARMSTRONG, before the Duke of CADORRIS letter had been transmitted to the Presi dent, and that the Proclamation issued by the latter was founded on the informationhe had then received, and which announced that the Rambouillet Decree should be repealed ; all American vessels freely ad mitted into French ports, and all confiscated property restored, as soon as Congress should have revoked the Act which imposes a penalty on the contravention of the Non-Intercourse Laws. All American goods were also to be received in ex change for the produce of the French soil and in duiltry. Dispatches were received from Lord Wellington, on Sunday, dated the 17th ult. which appears in Tuesday's Gazette. There have been some trifling affairs of advanced posts, but nothing particular has lately occurred at head-quarters, and the main hostile armies retain the same positions which they respectively occupied at the date of the former of ficial, apices, . The Lisbon Papers state, that in a late attack upon the Isle of Leon, near Cadiz, the enemy were defeated, with immense loss, but the particulars of this important affair are not yet known. - ' French Papers to the 27th ult. arrived on Wed nesday. Those of the 23d contain a long and un interesting detail of the operations of the French armies in Spain, during the latter end' of October and the whole of November ; but they dO not gp pear to have been followed by any important con sequences. .The - ltioniteur holds out the hope of `the speedy.ledtittion of Cadiz ; but we have the itatisfactiou FOicnow that the measures of defence t are fully commensurate with the most active efforts of the enemy. The annual Expose of the state of the French Empire was Lid before the Conservative &flaw, on ..G 'ER. A 4. •••••... ONAL the 10th, accompanied with a message from Buon aparte. The message announces the gigantic ag grandizement of the French Empire, and proposes to unite, by means of an inland navigation, the ri ver Seine with the Baltic sea—a measure rendered necessary by the maritime system now acted upon by Great Britain.—The Expose goes over 'the his tory of the coalitions against France, and the nego tiations for peace ; states that an offer was made to us, that the independence of Holland should be pre served, if we would repeal our Orders in Council, which was refused ; and declares that France will persevere in her Decrees so long as England per sists in her Orders in Council. With respect to Spain and Portugal, 'wither the Message nor the Expose takes any notice of them—a circumstance which, of course, augurs not unfavourably to the cause of those countries. A fresh levy of 120,000 men, of the conscription of the year 1811, is to be placed at the disposal of the War Minister. A Maritime conscription is likewise to be established among the maritime can tons of 30 departments, which are to be released from the Military Conscription. We have seen letters from the French coast, dated as late as Sunday, and some from Amsterdam, of the (28th ult. The latter state, that NAPOLEON h ad, at length, felt, that his burning Decrees, instead of impairing our commercial prosperity, tended, by the consummation of our merchandize, which is ge nerally, if not always, paid for before it reaches the Continent, to increase its demand ; as the pro fits on its sale, although secret, are so great, that every danger is braved, in order to procure it. Finding that his Decrees failed to produce the in tended effect, BUONAPARTE is now said to have sus pended them for the present. It is also stated, that the remonstrances made by the distressed merchants of the Continent, and the frequent failures in Hol land and at Par is had had some weight on his mind, and several houses in Amsterdam have received assurances from Paris that they would soon be re lieved from their embal rdssments. In consequence of these communications, which are described its official, many houses, which had suspended their payments, were expected to resume them. The letters from Paris are dated the 28th ult: They inform us, that the French Government had received advices from the Isle of France, to the 10th October, by which it had been ascertained, " that the Isle de Passe had been retaken by the French forces, and that the British frigate IphigeNia had also fallen into their hands. It is further stated, that a French squadron of six frigates immediately afterwards put to sea, viz.—the Astrea, Manche, Minerva, Belloua, Iphigenia, and Nereide." It also appears, that during the last ten days, the French privateers carried into Calais seven vessels, amongst which was an American ship called the General Eaton, Capt. SEWARD, bound from Lon don to Charleston, in ballast. There are no fewer than 26 Members of the two Houses of Parliament who have places In the Royal Household. The four great Officers of the Household have places under them to the amount of near 10,000/. a-year ; and the expenditure of which they have the direction is . abure 400 1 0001. a-year. ...,.