The National Register. — London, England, 1808-09-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. to scale the Pyrenees---where are they ? Will he withdraw his whole army from Germany ? but he acknowledges himself the impossibility, under existing circumstances, of weakening the corps he has there. This is a tacit acknow ledgment of the apprehensions be entertains of insurroc tious breaking out in other countries. He has ordered the whole Contingency of the Rhine to march into t ranee, if we can give any credit to the German and French Papers. He dares not employ them in Spain, for he must be con vinced the greater part would desert to the Allies. He employs them, therefore, to suppress the effects of popular discontent iu Brabant, Holland, Switzerland and France ; or, more probably, to keep them as hostages to answer for the submission of the Princes of Germany. He also affects to boast of t!ic friendship subsisting between him and Russia. We arc strongly inclined to believe the contrary ; and we really conclude, from this very publicity, that he entertains very strong doubts of the sentiments of that Court. It would be madness to suppose that Austria would assume her present inenacing attitude, were she not secure of the acquiescence of Russia. The armies of the latter are in motion in Poland. The most active correspondence exists between the Cabinets of Vienna and Petersburgh ; and why should we not draw a conclusion, supported by policy and feeling, that if Russia takes any part in the contest, sic will opt that which is so congenial to her honour and real interest ? Last night we received Paris papers to the oth, and Dutch to the 13th. Hamburgh papers to the 10th were likewise received. They all tend to corroborate the impoit.int in tellgence, that a war between Ausiria and France is un avoidable. Divisions of French troops are hastening in forced marches from every part of Germany towards the Rhine. They seem to concentrate themselves on the right bank of that river. A detachment of the Imperial guard is arrived at Strasburg , and Bonaparte is said to have departed from Paris, from which circum stance, and the arrival of his guard on the banks of the Rhine, it is presumed he intends to command the army destined against Germany. The Russians, according to the Presburg Gazette, are forming pleasure camps in Poland. According to the French Papers an interview is to take place between the Emperor Alexander and Bonaparte, at Weimar. The truth of this intelligence we are stron'ly in clined to doubt. Marshal Lasnes, it is reported, will have the command in chief of the army in Spain. At two o'clock this morning we received a third packet of Dutch Papers to the 17th inst. The following is the principal article of intelligence which they contain : 66 PARIS, SEPT. 11. " A treaty signed on the Sth inst. between 111. Champagny, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and his Royal Ili A iiness Prince William of Prussia. has put nu end to ail the differences which exiited between France and Prus s ia." A Packet has arrived from New York. The latest intel ligence from thence is of the date of the 6th ult. The em bargo, at that perod, was 6z:idly enforced, and it c. as un derstood, that it v.as the determination of the Goverment not to remove it as long as the causes which occasioned it should exist. This, however, is a measure which does not entirely depend on the disposition of Mr. Jefferson and his friends. The other branches of the Legislature have for tunately some weight in the decision of a question of such immense importance to their country and themselves. A Row-Boat has arrived at Guernsey from St. Maloes, with four American seamen, who state, that Bonaparte has arrested all the Americans in France. This account, which has been received by a Gentleman in the city, was read at Batson's Coffee-bous►• yesterday morning. BRILLIANT ACTION OF Sift SAMUEL HOOD IN THE BALTIC. We have the happiness to announce, that in the Baltic we have co►nmenced our nava! campaign against Russia with great brilliancy.—Lieuteeaut Thompgou arrived on Satur- SEPTEMBER M. day at the Admiralty with dispatches, statin, t , Mal Samuel Hood had attackeu the Russian Fleet of Nine Sail of the Line, with only Two sail of British ships, and after a very severe action, succeeded in cutting oil* one Flip, which was driven ashore, captured, and burnt. The Russians lost 221 men killed and wounded ; we have oily lost ten men killed, and one officer wounded. The Centaur is said to have captured the enemy's ship by . boardin g . The Russian ship was so much shattered, that had our peo ple succeeded in getting her off the shore, it w.is she must have sunk; it was therefore determined to destroy her. The Centaur also got a-ground in the acti on . Th e Swedish fleet, being very much to leeward, had no oppor tunity of sharing in the action. The Russian fleet took shelter in Port Baltic, in the Gulph of Finland, where the are now blockaded. When the officer left Sir S. flood, Sir J. Saumerez, with four sail of the line, the Victors, Goliah, Africa, and Mars, was in sight. It was hoped that we should be able to force the Russians to quit their shel- ter, or compel them to surrender. As sooh, howeser, as the Russian Admiral got into the port, he began to erect works upon an island commanding the entrance into the harbour, and which it would be necessary to occupy before any attack could be made upon his squadron. Lieutenant Thompson has been received with great distinction by his Swedish Majesty, to whose head-quarters he had been dispatched previous to ills atting out with the dispatchei of which he was the bearer. """ :'-'~-v• THE COURT. Wednesday his Majesty arrived iu town from Windsor, and was received at the Queen's Palace by their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York. Cambridge, and Kynt. At twelve o'clock his Majesty held a private Levee. at following had the honour of being presented to his Ma jesty : General Sir William Meadows, on his being appointed Go vernor of Holl. Mr. Thomas De Gray, on being appointed his Majestes Chaplain. EAST INDIA AFFAIRS. Thursday the dispatches were finally closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the under-mentioned Devayoes, Capt. Normand—Bombay direct.—Ocean, Capt. M' l'aggart ; Sir Stephen Lushington. Capt. J. Hay—Madeira, Madras, and Bengal.—Union, Capt. Simpson; General Stua:t, Captain JalliCb011; Tottenham, Capt. ll ugaes ; Asia, Captain Tremenheere ; Walthamstow, Capt. Joacs—Madras and Thursday a Court of Directors was also held, when Captina Larkins was sworn into the command of the ship Warren Hast ings, consigned to Bengal and China. POPULAR PREACHERS. No. VI. " It was the fashion in Enghand, for every one, who would he thought religious, to throw as much sanctity as possible ioto his face, mid, in particular, to abstain from all appearances of mirth and pleasantry, which were looked upon as the [narks uf a carnal wind." SrEttrAros. REV. HUGH WORTHINGTON, miNisrEn OP SALTERS' HALL. EVERY one is obnoxious to partiality. The present writer does not ostentatiously claim exemption from SD general an imputation : he also is partial—to talents, to integrity, and to exertion. If, while estimating the elm cal c haracter of INGII WORTHINGTON, I should rank him high in the scale of pulpit excellence, let this opinion be attributed to its legitimate source, not to undue predilec• tion in favour of au individual. know, indeed, little of the private history of this GEC tleman ; except that he was regularly trained, under the inspection of his father, who was an eminent Dissenting Minister, for the exalted profession in which he has tang distinguished himself. Mr. Worthington has been married, ~~~ sE