The National Register. — London, England, 1814-10-30 00:00:00

I • F. . -1 d' tee+ !e•t on he aThanee of power with moderation and jus ti e. 1' s lwr wish to re Lecome the prop of the %teak t:nd Alef tile! of the oppressed —!!rance, in this disproportion, w,lt -.mien! . in the a , ra , lve e ,ts tendiisg to consolidate a ge neral peace, and Ow. e So:ereigns wl o have so nobly pro clahned the c-tre principle s will const elate with her this (linable c mpact, wh.tlt is to ensure the rei o,e of the n 1.1." Further Drench I' ters were receis ed on T(n sday. They notice partieto,-tiv the Memorial fom the lit ench Govern inPnt, eresentet; Tallev!and on the 4th instant to the Mi niste,s Renipotet ti 4ies of the other great Powers assembled At Talk: viand, it is said, has strotTaly remonstrated main t rl a system of aggrpndizement of the Allied Powers ; if the I/ persist im extending their• f entiers beyond those of )7c) . 2, " Fiance ,', , aNs he. will not op"osc it in an active man• Tier, a -, d will tA•• no steps calcuhited.to disturb the peace so lvip• ii re est , bli-hed between the Princes of Europe, but she would be ebli t yrd to dccl ne acknowledging those changes, rind to elccl,are Vert ti,e staters :pro of li 92 iq the only regular one is r ey• s.'"Phe melting of this threat appears to imply !hat Fiance, when a «Invenient oeportunitv offer , , mat . e such an acratit.y...tmlit a ground of fict: e quarrel. lt is Also stair(' in tine slow artier . .., that one. of :he most itn portant ; , bjects di appears to occupy the Plenipotentiaries of tl , e gnat Powers, is the estlldi , liinent of certain general In Inc 1 of nations, which are henceforth to be adop ed recogni;:ed be all the states of the great Euro pe-, f m and that it is said thit the principles of France an: 11 , sia nearly arprexinnte on the trust delicate points. !This i great object ; the Fen(l.l Government, jealous of our ma i into sup2riorite, wishes to rahe a new clamour a Xlll5 Ur nraitime tights, and hopes to obt::in the co-ope ration o' Russia in some phesible scheme for establishing vhat is call;:d the Ithertv of the s as. Accot ding to a para g app from U.one, a new I'lenipotentianv was. proceeding to the Congre, in the person ef General Remand, who had iu,t rut ivt d to malie his peace e th the Pope, and was then gt)ipg en to Vienna, of cottr.A. as the representative of Buo- Ira pat te. I,c'tte's from rat is state, that the Spanisb (Thief, Mina, vho was iirres ed there, has been since liberated by order of tire French Nlinisrer i f Pi)lice. ';'i►e C: own P 1 kce, in the name of tl►e King of 7 4 weden, has accei►ttd the N , irwegian Constitution dee; eed at Eides walde, arA e,rautell nam vcstv. Prince Christian left Tons be! gvn the :,th for CoFenli3gen. The l'rerch Chamber of Deputies has been engaged in the consideration of the affairs of St. Domingo, and on the res toration of :he property of the Emigrants. On the former 5 hi cct, M. the Prcsidynt, has wade a report, in which he anticirates that the will readily teturn under the dominion of France; but from the necessity of obtaining more accurate information of the st.:te of the Island they can not venture to .ecommend any measure; the Chamber has Itelerred the whole matter to the d 7 .seretion of the Govern me :pt.—The Deputies appears very nnwElin,. to proceed fur ther in restoring the property of the Emigrants. • It seems decided in France, that the re-po: , :ession of St. Domingo is to he attempted ; w.ln.‘ther by negoeiation, or by force of arols, eireumstan , :es are in future to determine. A foreign journal, called the brussels Oracle., repea's the tel-ott of an indisposition among the Sovereigns at Vienna to receive Berwldo!te there ; an:l states that the Empress of Russia and her two sisters. the Queen of Bavaria and (queen Frederica of Sweden, form, with the two Grand Duchesses of it , !ssia, a powerful party is favour of yomng Prince Gus tav us. r,,r_ r < NATION.M.IIF,GT§I'EII OCT. 30. Tht accounts received this. week from Canada ate in no degree calculated to diminish the unfavourable impression produced by tie first information of the disastrous 'occur re: ces on Lake Champlain, and before Plartsburg. it is said that Sir G. Prevost had, in the expedition against Platts burgh, 14,000 men under his command, that he had opened batteries on the works ,when [the defeat of our flotilla ren dered, in his opinion, the retreat of the land forces neces sary. The private communications throw much censure on this resolution, and assert, that General' Power begged the. order might be recalled, as General Brisbane wou!d carry the fort in a few minutes by storm, but that Sir George Prevost would not change his mind, declaring that his orders must he obeyed. The general retreat took place immediately. They a'so report, that the loss of our fleet was ascribable to the fort's not being stormed, and that such division of opinion ensued, that General Robinson had been put under arrest ; and that Generals Brisbane and Power had tendered their swords to Sir Geor ge Prevost, who, it was said, was going again to Kingston, with a view to an atria on Sackett's Harbour. (.)n the authority ~ f the Ame rican Lieutenant Crew, on parole at Quebec, the garrison of I'latt.burth was only 1400 men, under Genera! MiComh ; that officer e..; stated to have informed Captain Piing, of tlto Linnet, that eve: v thing was prepared at Fort Moreau, to surrender, at the time of George Prevost's retreat. Tlr.! American papers contain a correspondence between Ad!Hiral Cochrane and Mr. Secretary Monroe, in which the former briefly declares his determination to destroy and lay waste such towns and districts upon the American coast as may he found assailable, in retaliation for the wanton de struction committed by the A metican army in Upper Ca-, nada : but regrets being °bilged to resort to such severities, which he acknowledges are contrary to the usages of civil warfare ; and the Admiral expresses, "that he will be equal:y gratified if the Unita(' States will audio, ise his staying such proceedityy, by making reparation to the suffering inhabit ants of Upper Canada." Mr. Monroe, in reply, says, " that no sooner were the United States compelled to resort to war against Great Bri tain, d'art they resolved to wage it in a wanner most con sonant !o the principles. of humanity, and to those ft iendly relations •ahich it was desirable to preserve between the two nations, after the restoration of peace. They perceived, however, with the deepest regret, that a spirit alike just and humane %vas neither cherished nor acted on by your Govern ment. Without dwelling on the deplorable cruelties com mitted by the savages in the British ranks, and in British pay, on American prisoners at the river Raisin, which to this day have never been disavowed of atoned, I refer as more imme diately connected with the subject of your letter to IL vic dc-Clace. and at George Town, early in the spring 1813. These villages were but lit and ravaged by the naval forces of Great Britain, to the ruin of their unarmed inhabitants, who saw with astonishment that they derived no protection to their pioperty from the laws of war. During the same sea son, scenes of invasion and pillage were witnessed all along the waters of the Chesapeake, to an extent inflicting the • most setious private distress. The late destruction of the houses of Government in the City of Washington, is another act which comes necessarily into view. In the wars of modern Europe, no example of the kind, even among nations most hostile to each other, can be traced. Although these acts of desolation invited, if they did not impose on the Govern- . went, the necessity of retaliation, vet in no instance has it been authorised. The binning of the village of Newa:k, in Upper Canada. posterior to the early outrages above enti inciated, was clot executed ou that principle, but was justi-.