The National Register. — London, England, 1809-12-03 00:00:00

DF 3. meat inaght with at i uantity of arms on boaq; o Vie as,istau c e of the insurgents. It is now known, Gentlemen, that tea thousand men, sent from this country, would have raise the whole of the North of Germany; saved the un fortunate Scrum.; decided, perhapS, the fortune of the war; and so convinced was Colonel Scaiu. of the co-operation of a British army, that when a body of Danes, who are, in like manner clothed in red uuiformS, were detached against him, he considered them the long expected auxiliaries ; op .nc:l to them the gates .of Sp.alsnnil, and was mas sacred with all his followers ! This we, the first evil cousequeuce of our never-ceasing preparations;--the delay deprived freedoio of one` of most ardent vo taries, and the world of one of its greatest men! The preparations were announced. at last, as completed ; but during the preceding bustle, the Cabinet forgot to nominate a Geheral. The 'disputes upon this portant subject consumed two weeks more; and though tl?e Public strongly objected to the wisdom of the Choice, nevertheless, from their impatience to see thin 'armament sail, they were unwilling to cavil even about this nomina tion. But some invidious power seemed tolkwart all the projects of our hopeful Ministers; and, when the diflieulty of the appointment was, at lasi got over ; our troops Were em barked, and every thin°. was in'a state of readiness ; in that • • - moment, so ardently and impatiently wished for, the wind became suddenly unfavourable, which had been propitious for a considerable time before, and continued, with the most perverse obstinancy., to hlOw inthat direction. In the interval, the petrifying account of the Battle of Virag s raM and of the Armistice arrived ; and the Public were dreadfully . • awakened from their dream of glory and conquest to the rfilicUteOf their own' situation, and to theiniorrigible stu pidity of a Junto of trifling, restless, dilatory and impro vident blockheads. To complete this mid farce, the expedi tion, when it could render no service in the North of Europe, in the way of diversion, or conquest, sailed from our shores. And whither -to Spain utidoubtecHY. • Niai but mark, Gen tlemen, the inconceivable ignorance of the Cabinet—it was ordereil to proceed to Zealand ; where, in the event of tie greOest success, it could not answer aotirPple, worth t►►© equipment of the fifth part of the f wee that was em ployed. The consequences were worthy , of the plan, and the plan worthy the heaflti O 4 T,4 which it emanated. (JO si gn h 3 s,l kcc il OfftrO.yo I our name 40414; and, for this immense sacrifice of lives, . money and honour, what havO•we o.4ned, or what tiave we perforniect ? I blush 'to qAinp it,re have piped and' _pOrfortneci nothing I am as little inclined, dentktnen, to gloomy anticipa tions, and haye as little superstitious terror about me,. as . any man breathing ; but 'whenever I look to oiir history fur bp last eighteen menkhs, I feel an unutterable anxiety about the future. -There is no fatality in human affai.e. -They prosper, when directed by Wisdom "; and are *blasted by folly, irresolution, and iporance. OUrs h'ave been in variably ill conducted for years ; and. the cause 1 have ready accounted for.. you are going, Gentlemen, to pass some resolutions relative to the greatest and most. ignoini pious of all our disasters. Fix your eyes as you enter the Hall, on the statues onion,' Cia.inam and Mr. B r.ca Fenn sind let the memory of -their tivc virtues,` and deserved immortality, stimulate your abhorrence of a system of irefligacy, they so successfully Combated and exposed ; and to Which I have no hesitation ih imputing the disgrace -911 issue of our meat //expeditious. . - tOtteb-h•-iNTELLIckArts. FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. As this paper (the Rotterdam Courant) was golog to press, we received Paris Journals aird letters of the 17th instant. They are chiefly tilted with accounts of the ad dresses presented to the Emperor, by numerous Deputa tions, and his answers th ereto. is answer to an address from a Deputation of Romans, was to tile following effect "MESSIEURS,EICPUTIES OF TIIE DEPARTMFNTS Of Rohr;! --My mitt(' is filled with remembrances of your ancestors. The first time that I pass tne Alps, 1. will itta!‘e same ,tai in your city. The French Lmperors, my prrtieressors, had sepvrated you . from territory of the Empire, and iosigned your collo; y as tieft to your Bishops. But the welfare of in people lax ion• ,:,er admits of any Ili baNilM hatever. France anti Italy oeul.t be completely united under the some system Besides, you had need of a powerful hand. I feel a particular satisfaction' in be ing your heat:factor. But it k n o t my inteulimi that there shall he any the least chauile made in the rctigiuu of our fa; hers. I, the eldest sun of the Church, will not depart from ner bosom. Jesus Christ did out deem it necessary to invest :7.dint Pewr a secular bupresuacy. Your See, the first of Christendom; shall remain such. Your Bishop is the spiritual head of the Churct„ io like ma n ner as tam its Caesar. 1 give to God that which ig God's, to {;tear that which is Caesar's. liUuA, OCT. 26.—The o ffi cial report of the battle of %Vagrant, and lite events which led to the armistice, is at present 'in the pre ii. it states the lois Sustained by Cie Austrian army betneen the sth And 12th of July, at f ur elenerals, I.At inferiOr Officers,' 0601' priraies,'intid 2 j 35 horses, t 1$ Generals,' 4320 inferior; 11,940 prirstes, acid f 912 horses, wounded; and 1 t i officers, 7 414 psi • rtes and 253 horses, missing. - 3lurrion, osr. 10.--On the 4th inst. General the Count of 'Edon, Drouet, issued 'a Proclamation at lasi ..uck, stating; that Andrew duffer had sent in his suhmiss im in writing, inforniing him at the same time, of his hAting given orders to the misted inhabitants of the Tyrol to re. ,iirtit&tbeir bottles, tO lay doWit their twins; and to con fide in the promise given them by Napoleon of proeuring 'atunesty f them. The Proelitimittoit then goes oa to -state, that as all pretence for perievering in reiist ance is thus talsta away, every one of inhabAsals found in arms, after the lapse of 24 hours, shall be put to deAth as a highwayman : and all Officers civil a..d initaary, are strietly'eivjoined to see this order carried into executi , ..ni. Intelligence having been . received that one Zeggerlea had assumed Iltdtitle conthiiinder, and *as again gtir rill* up the" inhabitants of the Zillerthali and the Pinzitgan. to insurrection, orders were forwarilek: to Major-General Count Minticci to proceed • to [tie with his bri gade Cpst had come from Salkbi;rg. i!e ads: wed on the otit. 'At the distance of a iitiai-ter of a league Iruiii .!itl. the troops . cable insight Of the insurgt.iits, uho tie rce post. eddii both Sidts Of' the valley, from hid) they ;Ait tip a litea*e,? Are to prevent the colnina From tuarchili t ;; along dm Which was blocked tip in various parts. Tito 3.1 regiment . of infantry of Doke Charles, carried their en_ tittichment with their usual' g,allantry, made invinse.is • toasters of khe heights on both s.des, rani took I.ossotiNioi, of Zill. insurgents, ;hough 4000 strohg, tie!' with eonsidprable loss to the e ,, viroits cis alityrlma. Our loss eonsil'ed of 4 killed and 19 1 7; 11 1 111(1es% • Major-Gcueral Cowl Yost B(ker's procectilt in the di-. rection of Steinarh, on the 7th, with the 7th regiment of infantry. Fra Roche's battalion of intantry, a squadron of casal;•v, awl hall* a hatters of attlilletv. Just as he approlched Matrey, he was attacked in ;4'<itii, and int . both his flanks, by the insurgents, who kept up a heavy fire upon the column. The troops, hot , ever, gairied pos session of the heights of Matrey, aild prfbcoedell ;flung them as far as Steinach ; anti the lvsJrgeuts, who .weAt latent 1600 strung, rclvcatt They, neverthclots, seemed TII NTIONAL REGISTER.