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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. JAN. 3. TRAVELLING DIALOGUE BETWEEN BUONA PARTE FRO MAN D CAI) LAA. 1 NCOURT, ON THE ROAD RUSSI Tv?. Peer CAUL A INCOVT, I hate thi snow, Blethinks we move confounded slow, Li truth my worthy friend, The Russian blaq, so Watt% each hope, I've half a mind to take a rope, And all my troubles end. CAULAINCO I 7IIT. Great Emprnon, sure you've lost your brains, Pfwere useless quite to take such pains, To shame you've lung been callous; Disgrace . in hanging some may trace, But surely Dotive enough disgrace, To do without the gallows. • BONET. Thu' ne'er too late to louk for hell, Tu hang, I thin)., would be as well, As to pursue my flight ; For, zqunds! the trust so cuts my nose, And cramps my arms, hands, lingers, toes, 'Twill send me there ere night. CAVLAINCOUItr. Nay, talk not thus, but as we fly, Prepare a le_artieing—thund'rittu lie, Before yuu to advance ; Make out, great sire, a glorious tale. AO boast, the sky was fore'd to hail, Your gram' return to France. BONI V. But what the devil C2lll i say ? VOUSI ' s dime up, and so is N ' T Y—••• A I.! It R 4013. God knows ‘there; r “ITONXE AUX tOO, and Ay u , Willi all their Istell. are gone, you know, To glad the Itus , ihu Bear. C 1 V I.A I Nein! TIT. 'Tis true you're forc'd to fly with shone, But heed n- t that, for 5611 your name WirtronsAn Will eulogize, Applaud it bold Sir IttAmers will, And Hui INSON s.nd TA ItILLION Still Exalt it to the skies. p(INF.Y. Alt ! no, my CAULAINcounr, 'ti! o'er, They cannot, dare not, laud me more, Disgric'd mid overcome ; No, tho' they praised me day and night While intirdatiug D I llt in, l'At.3l, and WRICINT, At last they must Lc dumb. CAULAINCOURT. You wong them much by this complaint, Cheer up.—you seem about to faint — /0d mark with me the sequel, They'll prove, S:r, malgre your disgrace Still p r aising with aubiteihing face, u any thing they're equal. E PIGR _4 MS. [From the Satirist cf the present Month.] OW KR. W/lITIIREAD . B MOTION Ton OFFERING PEACE, AgtO lIIE PORT ur RUONAPARTLPS DEATH. The tune's mostft, urg'd SAM, that war may cease, And we with NAP and his brave memak e e peace, Thus, truth, for once, sprung from Brwer's head—. —" Fur British valour wars tint with the dead l" RE- ON THE DEFEAT OF EEAUHFPNO:3, AY GENERAL PLATOSYs ON TO& RIVER BONE. .'hen PEATOW• BF.AUTIERNOTS aitack'd on the pone s That river, though t•cßrce worth the mention, Mute importance obtaio'd than it ever had known, As it tlin WAS the Bette WJ CW:tChtio/1. BLASPIIENY OF BUONAPAIITE. 13 • Preparatory to his invasion of Russia, Boon:pa to reviewed his f uTe, amounting to th? immense number of 300,000 infantry, and .;0,000 cavalry, and the contemplation of his power filled hint Htth sup .r-liuman pride. At this pei iod, a Russian officer arrived at his head-quarters with a flag of truce, upon some errand of minor im poltance, and was ordered into the presence of the tyrant.—" Tell your master," said the latter, arroaantl . ‘,.to him " that he has provoked my wrath, and I have hurled him from his throne !" The officer bowed, and modestly replied, in the words of the common axiom, " Amine propose, Inc., Dien dispose" Ulan proposes, but God disposes).—upon Napuleun biting Lis lip, and starting up in a paroxysm of rage, blasphemously exclaimed, " Mais a moi persohne propose, et c'cst mot tall I inSPOSE"—bilt to me no mail p• oposes, and it it [ will) , Dispose uF EvEN ! The heavy hand of Providence, which has overtaken him in awfull retribution, must have shown the wretched boaster, that there is a Goo superior to in the direction of lcuaan affairs --.. [Sauttisi.] FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. We have had but little novelty to announce for the present montb• The be g in!, o, be in high estimation. It is simply a pil gran's cloak, made of very dark brown fine cloth or kerseyniere, and owes its on we klieve, to the severity of the season. ft is. in ge neral, thrown over a pelisse ; and, if not a very elegant addition to the dress or our fair pedestrians, must yet be allowed to be a very comfort able o ne.—Cloaks, pelisses, mantles. and mantlets, still continue to be worn for the promenade. Plain high dresses, made in lustre and been hazeen, are worn. These dresses arc made tight to the shape ; and the front. which is called a corset bosom, is very becoming to time shape ; is let .n, in su n gores, in the same manner in which corsets are gene rally made, and shows the natural shape to great advantage; the back :s very bloat!, the dress b.uttons up behind, and a deep collar falls aVero found the edge of which is sometime seen a rich floss bilk trimming, but in general it is plain; lon,g sleeve, with a small cuff, of the same mate rials as the dress.—For dinner dresses, velvets are the wow: prevalent ; next to 11 , eux is India muslin, let in and trimmed richly with lace ; white and colt areal satins, melte() cloth, kersey were, twilled sarsnet. and tissue chile are worn. The last article is exceedingly elegant, anti pqr* reedy novel; it has all the richness of those silks which were worn good old times, withaut their heaviness, it is, indeed, particularly ap propriate for the time of year, and we have no doubt will become cerc general --Frocks still c Aniline to be worn ; but gowns, with denvanina. are more general ; shoulder straps are almost entirely exploded ; and the bosom, slotilders, and hock of the neck are as much as possible ex pased. We have observed a smell -cottage bonnet of white bearer. with a lung white feather, which.falls over, much in request with our fair promenaders. Peasant's cap of worked muslin, has entaady super seded the Spanish cups ; and lace half-handkerehiels, put on ill the fano of a cur ban, the most general for morning. RENEWED DISTURBANCES. NOVI' DF.c. 30.--A recerrence of tumuiti and disnrdcr 1.11 taken place itt this town and vicinity, and to au extent that glees* frightful picture of the same kind of unhappy events which disturb:4 the peace and happiness of individuals this time last year. Nu lets than eight violent outrages have been committed at bec,,toti, New Rad. fold, Wateak, Arnold, and Mansfield, and in some villages on -the south aide of the Trent. The object of [Less attacks have been the do• struction of frames ; at each place the outrages have been put into exe cution by numbers of disguised men, armed with pistols and swords, using personal violence on the individuals of their revenge, threstenin their lives it they opened the it lips ; and, after placing guards over these unfortunate people, destroyed their frames, and then escaped un discovered. In the town of Mansfield, a poor woman, in denying a frame de. rounded by this lawless banditti, was stabbed in several places, atter• wards knocked down, and left for dead. Several of the depredsors who committed the outrage at Waned( have been taken and comari , ted to the gaol in this town. A Isrge meeting of the Magistrates of th e county hes taken place, and the stronge , t measures resorted t o to p ro . % irk. ageing these d isorders. The Watch and Ward Bill is t be p n t into force imawdiateiy. The military have been again called on, tile sam e 85 epon formkir ,ceasions, to guard ovt . r the property of bitants, and every other precantior, as patroles, Inc. Attwood, a strolling preacher, has been committed Wokcficiti House of Correction tor one ear, ai a !ewd and cliiordai: woman, having been delivered of a ba:;tard child. s log ~,;,,