The National Register. — London, England, 1809-11-19 00:00:00

THE. NATIONAL REGISTER. The.Penduig Negociation between this Country and the United States, has not only the difficulties of adjustment, but those of transatlantic etiquette, to contend with, in the way of an amicable termination. Mr. JACKSON had not been introduced to the PRESIDENT, nor could the confer ences commence until the meeting of Congress; if we are to believe the last accounts from that country. The French Ruler is not inattentive to these impediments, and is said to have made, lately, some very favourable overtures to General ARMSTRONG, the American Ambassador at Paris; whom he admitted to his presence immediately after his arrival at Fontainbleau, and treated with unusual marks of distinction. The French Journalists already anti cipate as certain, the entrance of America, into the Mari time Confederacy against Great Britain. We should not feel the least surprise, were an advertise plea to appear shortly, offering a very considerable reward to any one, who can give information, where the British army, which was lately in Portugal, is at present, 'end what it is doing. It is most unaccountable that the Public are But favoured with a single communication relative to the object and the movements of our troops in the Peninsula. To keep them in Portugal, under the pretence of defending it, is a matchless absurdity; and harmonises, in abominable unison with the whole plan of British interf3rence in the Peninsula. If we will secure that Kingdom from an inva sion, it is not by keeping our troops there, that they can perform that service; but sending them into the heart of Spain to assist the Patriots in opposing the invaders. If they are discomfitted, dispirited, and broken to the will of the tyrant; a handful of British soldiers, however brave, will not prevent the enemy from seizing likewise Portugal. There has been something superlatively wrong and studi ously blundering in the plan and conductof our co-oper ation. We did, in every instz:ice, the reverse of what we ought to have domi; and seemed, as at bEliards, to have agreed at the commencement to play the losing game. BUONAPARTE still remains concealed within the awful nimbus of majesty at Fontainbleau. This seclusion has revived the reports of his mental derangement ; and per sons arriving from the French coasts, are mentioned by the daily prints, p corroborating the account of his dan gerous indisposition. Even a Regency is already spoken of, at the head of which JOSEPH BUONAPARTE is to be placed; and the tyrant is become raving mad at last ! I Such are the sapient observations of the public prints; and such are the chimeras to which they give circulation. That tic may be indisposed or very much exhausted from the fatigues of the late campaign, it is very natural to ima gine ; but bad he been in the state he is represented ; and tie circumstance should remain unknown to ours, and the other governments in Europe, it would be one of the most flagrant proofs of the incompetency and inutility of our Foreign Department, that could be produced. 800- NA PARTE, whose least movement strikes a terror into his puny competitors; whose nod seems to regulate the desti nies of Europe, has been insane for these three months; and our Government should be totally iguoraut of the ex- NOY. 19: isteace of .his disease 2 Indifferent as our opinion is of the intellects, or vigilanc4 or activity of that body we do not entertain so very couttunptible an opinion of them, as to think them guilty of such 'gross negligence. • • For our part, we invariably discredited the report of his madoess ; and we certainly do not believer it now. It is most .astonishing, that Count - BeoNA; or the Prince of LICHTENSTEIN, should not have remarked wine extraor dinaly pranks, or some alarming vagaries of his, during the conferences they were admitted to at Schoenbrunn.— Or, is there method in his tuaduessi In that awful state, does lie retain so much command over himself as to coun terfeit sense and decorum 3 Oh ! our sapient Editors ! They want a little of the brains they have deprived him of. Is'it, at the same time, probable that the King of SAXONY should be invited to leave his capital, in order to visit the Corsican at liontainbleau, if there were any foundation for this absurd tale? Or, should the other Kings Ivid Princes of the Rhenish Confederacy receive a similar invitation The story is of so miserable •a texture, that it is not con ceivable, how men, pretending to sense, should for a mo ment believe it. Bo oNA fun:, like every tyrant and usurper, withdraws himself more and . more from public ken and curiosity.— Majesty [MIS:. be surrounded with a cloud, lest the intrud ing eye of the vulgar might discover, a wretched, helpless, afflicted mortal, like the rest of men. We have reason to suspect that 13uoiv Artam is not altogether satisfied with his good city of Paris! and that his agents have transmitted him accounis to Schoenbruun, which contained no flatter ing proofs of the affection of the Parisians for his person, or scep t re. Our Readers must know that the report of BuowArARTE'S madness had prevailed in Paris for a consi derable time. It is very probable that her talkative inhabi tants (lid not display lhe circumspection and respect in their comments, which the tyrant thought himself entitled to. lie never entertained much esteem or affection for the Parisians; and their murmers about the new Conscription, their petulant remarks on the injustice of the Spanish war, their sarcasms upon his madness,. and, above all, a reviving dnglontania, in the first and fashionable circles, have con verted, what was before contempt, into hatred, blended with that bensation. Exclusive of the Princes, the great Church Dignitaries of the French Empire, are to assemble at Paris. • It is a tk"refore, concluded, that the present Pope • is to be tie posed, and Cardinal Fuse►!, half-brother to lIVON APA RTC'S mother, is to be raised to the Holy See. This circumstance is very possible, and that some iunovations in the rites of the Catholic Church, are in contemplation, we likewise find no difficulty in believing. But we reject, as absurd, the proposed marriage between BUONAFAUTE and the Princess of SAXONY. if this alliance were intended, .ka rillNE would net be allowed to visit Fontainbleau; somo decent pretext might have sent her to the hot baths at Aix-la-Chapelle, or even to Heaven; but she would not have catered Fontainbleau, had it been the iutention of her lord and master to repudiate her. _ _ _ We have not. heard that any official notification has been given of the Usurper's ideation to thrcct iu person the oiler- I