The National Register. — London, England, 1813-01-03 00:00:00

TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. which were tOund upon its route, and then has reason to tax the French with cruelties and bnbarities; but this is not the language you hold in this Message (Lord Liviitroot.) .; you say it Avas the Russians themselves who set tire to Moscow, acid the villAgos upon the mute, what greater cruelty did there remain li)r the French to commit Did not the sacred cdiftes constitute a part of the cities and vi!lages which you say the Russians have burnt ? The injury which Russia haski,ine iper:.(.l4 . may be estimated at tine:: million's, and Eng. laud gives her 5.000,000 !" The Moniteur of the 25th i 3 entirely filled with a detail of ilte events and the examinations which took place in con sequence of the conspiracy which was suppressed at Paris on thre morning of the 23d October, The Moniteur of the 25th mentions that the EMPEROI: and EMPitt5S %rem at the Opera the preceding morning: the house was full. Their Mr.usrlEs were received with the most lively acclamations. PARIS, DLC. 2:4.-011 the lit of jimuity, their MAJESTIES will, according to cits•ont, receive the l.image and corgtatulations of tip; Princes, Ministers, &c, on which clay the mourning will be WS voided. His MAJESTY, this day, held two Councils of interior Admitth tla t ion . JAN 3, of the failure of the attacks on Canada, and c•s ~ ential to the reduction of that province by the American arms. CAPTURE OF THE MACEDONVIN. Unlike those party writers who make an ostentatious dis play of despair at the capture of another British frigate by the Americans, we record that unfortunate occurrence with feelings of regret, but not of despondency. Our loss is one of men and vessels, not of national honour. 'That British blood should be shed in vain is certainly lamentable ; but that British heroism should remain untarnished in defeat it self, is a cause for exultation. Those who imagine that our " sea-spell" is dissolved, and already view, by anticipation, the American flag waving lord of the ocean, (probably be cause Marquis W' ELLESLEY is not at the head of the Admi ralty), forget that, two years ago, they expressed no such terrors, when five or six of our frigates had been taken or de stroyed, in various engagements, by the French at the Isle of France. Yet, it Must be owned, that the occasion would have afforded greater justification for such pusillanimous fears than the present. Our " sea-spell" was then " broken" fry a Power, which, according to a list lately published in this country possesses, nearly ready for service, 9i sail of the line, and 87 frigates. But the bravery Of our commanders, in less than two months, wove it again, and placed the whole force of the enemy at the Mauritius, with our captured ti gates, in our hands. In that instance, the first successes gained by the French might have been supported and im proved by an existing powerful navy : in the present, the Ameticans have to create one. Ten frigates, one sloop, since we have taken the Wasp) three brigs, three schooners, and four bombs, arc not dangerous, even in victory. They may, from their superior size and weight of metal, capture a few vessels, but when our naval arm is extended in its strength, they must inevitably fall., because they have no force whatever in reserve to supppot t them. The two actions that have been fought, although ter minating in defeat on our part, have brought at least as much honour to the conquered as to the conquerors. When skill is exerted, and 'courage contends, to the utmost, the triumph cif sups!, for force, is only a momentary advan thge gained on one side, and no credit lost on the other. That the strength of the American vessels opposed to ours was such :s to insure victory ; the following table of their dimensions compared with ours will show. It will be seep, that what in the navy of the United States is called a . i';:af', exceeds in length our threc-i/Lckers, or 110 gun ships, far surpasses our fifties and sixty-fours, and equals our seventy ' fours in tonnage. AMERICAN FRIGATES-. Length Breadth Mounting. on thin-deck. for Tonnage. Ton.. Vt. In. Fr. by. 53 180 4) 43 10 1630 BRITISH VESSELS. 38 141 01 59 01 918 :7)3 131 0 41 o 1114 64 160 13 44 9 1413 74 171 3 47 7 16(.8 93 177 6 30 2 1933 110 163 0 5 , 2 0 1 2 2091 The American frigates carry long 24-pounders on the main -deck, when even the largest first-rates in our service carry on the main-deck only long eighteens. Their quarter. deck and forecastle guns are 44-pound carronades; and no vessel of any desc:iption in our navy carry on either of these decks, a heavier gun than a 32. To all these advantages, is to be added the consideration of the numiper of their crew. The complement of an Dig- Rated. Guns. 44 EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE. Dispatches from Lord CATHCART, accompanied by oflit ial reports from the armies to the 29th November. have put us in . possession of the Russian account of the operations 'detailed in the ,!9th French Bulletin. As we anticipated, the rear-guard (4 Vg:rort's corps, which surrendered with its commander PARTONNEAUx, wns far more numerous than it was represented.. instead of 2,006 it consisted of near 8,000 men. It will be seen that our computation of the force of the French army, after it had effected the passage of the Becesina, coincides very nearly with that given •by the Russians. Wr mentioned that it might amount, with the corps of Vic - roR and Ounngoz to 69,000 men, and TcHicit ',Govt. states it in his icport at 70,000. Mac- DO'S ALD's corps has retired from the vicinity of Riga and taken a Wong position at Eckau, probably preparatory to its falling back uponVV ilna.R EGNlraand Sc w AItTZENBURGII, seem also to have shaped their course towards that city, to which AUGEREAU was watching from Niemen. We re joice, however, to see that the Russians intend to prosecute the campaign with unabated vigour, so as to allow no rest to the enemy, who acknowledged in their 29th bulletin that it was absolutely wanted to i estore the discipline and efficiency of their army. Continued hostilities will render the re-union of the French divided corps impossible, and compel them to pursue their calamitous flight to the banks of the Vistula. FIUG VIES GONE. AMERICA. Advices glom Cork inform us, that the Spy storeship from Halifax has been taken by the French frigate La Glaire, five days font Havre-de-grace. La Wain , detained the people of the Spy till next morning, and then put them on board their own ship. The clew of the Spy consisted of 36 men, besides 60 invalids, - who were given up On condition that an equal number of French prisoners should be released and sent to France. It has been ascertained, that besides the Gloire, two other frigates have escaped front Havre, and two from l'Orient, in a recent gale of wind, which drot e our blockading squadron from its stations They are thought to be destined for America with a supply of engineers and artillery men, for whom the American Government has for some time been making the most pressing instances to BUONAPARTE; the want of per sons sufficiently skilled in these branches of the military art being very sensibly felt in the American army; and being supposed by the American Government to be the chief cause INI