The National Register. — London, England, 1811-10-13 00:00:00

TIIE NATION • ANHOLT MAILS. Two Anholt Mails were received on Thursday, brouelit to Yarmouth by the Lady Frances packet. intellizene by this conveyance, whilst it adds to the interest. is by no means calculated to diminish -th • anxiety IA hi. h belongs to the present state of affairs upon the Continent. The letters received by the mails come down to the I , t inst. from Sweden, and to the 13th tilt from St. Petersburgh. Their contents, whatever importance may be attached to • communications from a seat of expected political changes, are most unaccountably-deficient of inte res i g inform mon. The same rumours which have been so long reiterated from the regi - )ns of the North, respecting the probability and prospect of an el pproachihg rupture between Russia and France, are revived, and repeated with as much confidence as they were circulated at any previous period.— Though the Russian Government has felt it necessary in a spirit o: temporising policy to reject the supplies grimed, or piolfered by the British Administration, it is still thou ht, that it is attached by no tics of cordial friendship, or consentaneous policy to the views f the Ruler of France. The relative situa tion and repective strength of these too Powers very naturally fix the attention of every practical • politician to the circumqances and probable issue of any rupture which may take place between them. Every Continental Power in Europe but Russia, has been compelled to submit to the su perior ascendancy and conquering arms of Trance. The terms of peace and accommoda tion have been, in all instances, dictated by the victor. Moderation may have sometimes appeared to modify the conditions, which in the rigour of triumphal exaction might have been insisted upon by a conquering enemy. Every Power of the Continent that has made peace with NAPOLEON enjoys, in the terms of its pacification, the indisputable proofs 6f the forbearance of the FRENCH EMPEROR. They have successively lost much by previous hostility, but they have inva riably regained a great deal by the co nc l us i on o f peace. Russia alone has not only lost nothing in substantial territory in its wars against France and her Revolutionary Governments, but has actually derived benefit from military disasters, and acquired an extension of geographical limits from a repeti tion of calamitous operations. The treaty of Tilsit gave France an accession of influence, but put Rus sia in possession of a considerable augmentation of territory. France gained what might be lost by the revolutions of public opinion—Russia acquired what must necessarily aggment the vigour of na tional energies ; but whilst both were ostensibly gainers, each was insensibly deteriorated, though the substantial nature of the Russian acquisition served in some measure to counterbalance the con sequences of the extreme injustice of the iniquitous proceeding, by which its aggrandisement was ac quired. The following is a copy of a Letter, dated Ports. m.)uth, Oct. 8 The ship London Packet, Capt. THOMPSON, is arrived at the Motherbank, in thirty. six days from Havanna. Capt. 'l'. reports the loss of ,the ship Rigby, from Jamaica, off the Island of Cuba, about the 24 Auzuct.. Captain TROMP Ann, FOI : IIERINGHANI, from Honduras to Glasgow, put into Havannah w i t h l oss o f b owspr i t ., - She had been plundered by a French privateer in the Gulph of Florida, and had been on shore on the Tortagus Banks. Several vessels had been taken and plun dered by the numerous privateers which have, of late, infested the Gulplis of Florida and Mexico." The following summary statement of the strength of the armies on the frontiers of Spain and Portu gal, is derived from a private source, but is supposed to be pretty correct : British troops, including about 2000 sick, and all the late reinforcements, 47,000. Poituguese troops, comprehending 3000 sick, at present with Lord WELLtNnTos, 17,000. With Marshal Bx- Itt:sronn, in the neighbourhood of Cintra, about 1.5,000. Under MAruuosT and D'ORSESNE, nearly 70,000; but the accounts upon this subject were not at all precise or satisfactory. It is stated further, that General ABADIA has ' not more than a detachment f 5000 Galicians in the neighbourhood of Astorga. The rest, com posing a force altogether of about 20,000 men, are at Benavente, and other situations in the northern district of Leon. • Under these circumstances, the people of Lis. bon consider themselves to be in a competent state of security, whether Lord WELLINGTON shall continue to occupy the banks of the Coa and the Agueda, or shall fall back to the lines of Torres Vedras, and those which have been formed between the southern banks of the Tagus and St. Übes. Considerable exertions have been lately made to render the latter as impregnable as the former. W regret to find, that the depredations by French privateers are likely to be renewed with the same activity as during last winter. The commence ment of the long and dark nights has brought out several of them holm the lurking places in which they have been skulking throughout .the whole of the summer. In the distress to Which the whole Commercial Body has been reduced, there can be no question, that every effort will be made to pro. tect their floating property in the narrow seas from the risk of capture by the enemy. We have heard that it is in contemplation to employ a number of fast sailing brigs and sloops of war along the whole line of the coast, which has hitherto been most ex. posed to the visits of the enemy's privateers, and we are sure that very considerable benefit• must re sult to the Mercantile Body from such an arrange. ment. The Letters from the coast announce that the privateers are already on the alert. A corn. mnnication received yesterday from Dover, and dated on Monday, contains the following particu lars : " Three French privateers endeavoured last night, at nine o'clock, to capture, with small arms, a large ship, called the Santerwtshire, Captain HALT, hound from Jamaica to London, they were gallantly repulsed by our brave tars, who opened a very heavy and destructive lire on the enemy, assisted by thd batteries at this place. The Frenchmen being to the Lastward, they strained every effort to boa-d the ship. which being pro• vided with a•Dover boatman, who well understood the caitiff we was brought as close to the harbour as the depth of water would admit, and the enemy obliged to abandon his wishod tor •rise;" AL REGISTER. , f34o .......... . _ SON also reports that two or three vessels bv, le on shore on the Florida Keys. The h'z