The National Register. — London, England, 1813-12-19 00:00:00

TITE NATIONAL REGISTER. '. 'l9. ; arrived of the Parisians having displayed thn. white cockade, and tltut their cry was for the recall of toe flovaßows. 1 had this from Prinre NA U ISI KIN , ttte ltuNsian General in Holland.— Rotterdam, Dec. 18, at n: l ett.---( ( sari I'. ) 66 A most respectable individual, in business in London, a fin reicner. owl well-koawn, from the articles in which be deals to hold a continued intereourse IFraree. this day received a letter from Ilia Son in Paris, which MENTIONS NOT ON 1.1 THE PREVALENCE OF OP N lON IN 1 SLAT CAPITAL HmTILE TO Tilt mitnPEst, BUT THAT THE WHITE COCKADE HAS ACTUALLY KEEN HOISTED AND ISORN."--(S1171%) ' ~ j _ 1 •~_ ~~''p- ~ _ ,~; obstinacy, instead of merely declaring that the Allied Powers would not lay them down until the peace were concluded. The private letters from Frankton continue to matt that negotiations are secretly carried on. It has even bees asserted that CAVLAINCOWIT bad been sent tnthat city with BUONAPARTE'S counter-proposals, and the arrival of th* Russian General Pozzo DI BURGO from Frankfort, coupled with these circumstinces, and his introduction, to Lord CASTLEREAGH, with %%horn he had an interview of three hours, seems to favour the supposition, that NAPOLEON'S ollstinacy and pride have sunk with his fortunes, and that contrary to every expectation, he has accepted the .basic laid down by the Allies for negotiating a peace. This de termination will appear less incredible, on considering the difficulties which he evidently encounters in his attempt to raise the last oidered 350,000 conscripts. These difficulties are forcibly deliicted in the Circular issued by the Grand Judge _ of France, to all the Judges and tribunals in that country, call ing upon them in the most earnest manner to exert their in iluence over the people, in order to complete the levy. Such au address, on such an occasion, is a new feature in BVOt4 A- P A RT Cs policy, and shows at once the extent of his dangers and that of his fears, for when did he before condescend to cow t the support of his people, or when did he find it ne cessary to issue more than the word of command to obtain whole armies ? GENERAL INTELLIGENCE OF THE WEEK. Thursday, Government received a bulletin of the Crows Prince of Sweden, dated Buitzenburg, on the 30th ultimo, in which he states, that the Swedish at my, together with the corps of Lutiow, has passed the l'alhe. It enumerates a succestihn of triumphs at Doesburg, Zutphen, Zoltcamp. Campen, Groningen, Carlsberg, Blexen, Stade, and llorneburg, all of which places were taken. flarbourg was closely sutrounded. Stettin bad capitulated, and Holstein was about to be cleared of the enemy. Government are said to have received dispatches of a more recent date than this bulletin. Davo i stst, it is asserted, was dislodged from the Steignitz, and had fallen back upon Hamburgh, the Crowa Prince was advancing to Lubeck. The Swedish bulktin gives an intimation that it was still open to the King of Denmark to accept the tarms offered by the Allies, and thus prevent his people from being exposed to that hostility in which 'his connection with France would otherwise involve !bent. Whether new terms have been offered to the Danish Court is not stated. There are also some passages of import ance in the bulletin with reference to the desire of the Allies for Peace. The answer of Buonaparte to his Senate is con sidered as evidence that he does not wish for peace, and an opportunity is thus taken, in expressions studiously general. but yet :he object of which cannot be mistaken, to separate him from the French nation. and to call upon the latter to assist the Allies in carrying into efflct their wish for peace. 'a The Emperor Napoleon (says the bulletin) does not wish for peace : Europe does : and she must therefore obtain it by force of arms. Let us hope Mat the zoishs of Me Frenck will unite with those of Pstropr. The continuance of the war is thus officially, by the Clown Prince, ascribed to the per sonal act of liuonaparte. on Thursday, Paris Papers to the 12th ioqt. arrived, but their contents are unimportant. Whilst some article , state that the A flied Armies are. at a considerab:e distance front the Rhine, others admit that they ale so cicsc as to have as sailed the fort of Kehl, opposite Strashurgh ; aod that !he Austrian Hussars and Cossacks were on the frooti..rs. We may therefore very shortly expect to hc.ir vf most lin _portant operations in that quarter. (in the 2ai iu4t a cor J DECLARATION OP THE AWED POWERS. This important document, issued at Frankfort on the Ist inn in reply to the appeal made by the french Senate in be half of peace, on passing the last conscription law, will be round in another part of our columns. It displays, on the part of the Allied Powers, a degree of moderation, which cannot fail to counteract the efforts of NAPOLEON to per :mask his subieets that their national existence is threatened. .• Had the manifesto of the first coalition been similar to this, the spirit of the French people would never have risen to such a height, as to over flow the boundaries of France, and to spread 3 lavoy and desolation over the whole European con tinent. Taught by twenty )ears of reverses and calamities, of bitter and hopeless anguish, no sooner does the dawn of liberty once more break on a reviving world, than the Allies awaken to wisdom as well as to exertion. Their former im prudence roused a lion, by whose rage their power, their greatness, and their independence were devoured. They now see the policy of lulling him asleep by gentle demeanour, instead ofexci t log his vengeance by loud menaces, conscious Thai. their triumph will be the more certain. Hence the liberal and advantageous overtures made by them, not oily to France, as a nation, but to NAPOLEON as an Emperor. Hence their new recognition of his title, and the offer of confirm ing to him an extent of ten itory, " which, under her kings, France never knew." They relied too firmly on his un bending pride and insatiable ambition, not to expect that the most favourable terms they might propose would be re jected as degrading, and that he would accept of no peace but that which should lay Europe . in chains at his feet. Hence they thought it not only safe, but politic. to proffer conditions of unequalled generosity and magnanimity. They would answer two ends. They would plainly show to the French nation, that if. she were invaded, it was because her oppressor would not make a most honourable and advanta geous peace, and that the spirit of resistance ought to he di rected against him, who alone subjected her to the evils of invasion, and not against the Allies, by whom they were re luctantly inflicted. They would also tend to deceive NA POLEON Wins( if into a false estimation of his perils, which, by reviving his bold hopes, would lead him most effectually to his own ruin. Astonished at the liberality of the All ies,he would consider it as a proof of their weakness, and the more conciliatory their disposition would seem, the less wails' he be inclined to accept of their concessions. It is on these grounds, and with these views alone. we are convinced, that the Allies have issued a declaration which holds out offers of aggrandise ment to France at the hour of her disastett,otherwise totally in explicable on principles 'of soond policy. We have, there- fore, no doubt that nothing could more seriously disappoint their hopes than to find that NA POl EON'S spirit had so far been humbled by his reverses, as to agree to make peace on time terms proposed. At the same time, we have yet no sufficient authority, to announce his rejection of these con ditions, though mentioned by some of the daily papers. It cannot certainly be inferred from this Declaration, which would have stated such an important fact, and made it the ground of a fifth aypoai to arms ; to punish - NA POL EON'S