The National Register. — London, England, 1812-05-10 00:00:00

I TIIF NATIONAL REGISTER. 4 iii.••••••••••••••• — Art, V. This ex,-hange shall take place immediately, as soon as the pisoners shal/ arrive at Messina and Reggio. Catuna, Feb. 10, 1810. (Signed) JOHN PINE COFFIN, Lietit.-Col. Dep.-Quarter- M aster-General. J. L. GALDENI.NR. (Ratified) W. C. BENTINCK. AIANHES. We have the satisfaction to announce the capture, on 1 the 13th of February, off Cape Corso, of a French ship ot war by his Nl;ilesty's frigate Apollo , Captain TAYLOR. She pryves to be the Merino store-ship, pierced for 28 rlns, but carrying only 20. 'The Apollo also chaced another ship, which it appeared was the Mohawk, for merly an English sloop of war ; but it falling a calm, aLd she being assisted by barks from the shore, they towed her under the protection of the batteries of the Island of Guauglia and Cape Carro. • AMERICA. The communications made by Captain HENRY to the ritEsinENT, continue to form the chief topic of discussion thronghout the Swim. They have proved a powerful wea pon in the hands of the Government, and have enabled it, -we are informed by the New York papers to the 18th of , March, to carry all the war taxes through the House of Representatives,even those which had been rejected at first. Sonic of the papers consider the whole as an electioneer- iug nick, and assert that although the tax bills may be passed, they will not be executed. They tell us, at the same time, that Captain HENRY was paid by Mr. MAI:it :SON to produce the correspondence which has been laid be fore Congress. The bribe which he is stated to have re ceived, is said to have consisted of 48,000 dollars, with pit of *hit h he purchased an estate in France of COUNT DE CHILLON) now in America. The conveyance of the properly was even witnessed, and authenticated, it is as-1 serted, by Mr. MUNROE, and the French Minister, SERRU RIER. It was also settled, that the disclosure should not be made public until he should be without the reach of pur suit he was, in consegnence, allowed to embark in the I'Vesi for France ; and when the Committee of Foreign Rel,“ions wished to have examined him personally, it was toun,l that he had already set sail. Although these pa pers ..liscountenance the idea of war with this country, phi tltte letters met:tion, as the first step decidedly hostile, 7iisc a gener.ll ernhatgo was expected in a few days.— The official print, The National Intelligencor, also speaks the true sentiments of Government, in language calculated to rouse all the national prejudices, and all the passions .cif the heart against us.—" This whole affair," it says, ," is one on which comment would be superfluous. It speaks in a voice of thunder which the very deaf shall hear. Instead of applying it as a stimulus to party fer. your, let it become a bond of union against the cominon foe, who, whilst she was making lavish professions of irindship through our Minister in England, and her Minis ter in this city, was perfidiously- stirring up rebellion, and compassing disunion in this land, by secret agencies ; at the moment she was pretending to hold out one hands in fellewship, with the other she was feeling for the vitals of the Republic, to which she might in the dead of the night .direct her poisoned dagger." " Whatever may be thought of t he past," it proceed', " the .public will not fail properly to appreciate the views of him who shall, after this aiscVsere, trumpet forth the justice, clemency, and forbeinance of Great Britain to the United States. If such z one shall be found, let him be marked as the foe to freedom, as the parricidal enemy of his coun try r Sitch is the temperate language of the American tear.. It is worthy of NAPOLEON, and it is easy to her- MAY ceivc that Mr. NI IDISONIS style has acquired a depth and richness of abuse and bombast, which he did not possess before hi, connexion with France had grown so intimate Two mails from Anholt, and a Swedish courier from Stockholm are arrivod, and have brought some intell;, fence. The statement given in the following letter the pretended strength of the Russian army, is, however, evidently erroneous. At the time her means are un divided, Russia would not be able to bring such a fore to the field. c;oIiTENSUROII, MAY 2.—The French armies are in motion; lnk the latest accounts from St. Petersburgh say, it is generally suppo,e3 they will not venture to attack the Russians, who are represented as 400,000 strong, and in the most perfect state of discipline, all i)ossible pains having been taken to render them so ever since the Treaty oi Tilsit. The Emperor in person commands the army, and has plellvi himsLlf to the Senate, to have no interview with Buonaparte but in the field at the head of his troops.--Sir James Saumarez has just arrived," The disposition of the Russian Government firmly tr. resist IitIoNAPARTE may be known from the measure lately adopted, a new levy of 100,000 men. Copies of the Ukase for this object have reached us. It is dated March 23, and orders the enrolment in the proportion 6: two recruits for each 500 of the population. The Ham. burgh CoreFpondenent contains some particulars respect ing the c' rrespondence between Michel, who was lately executed at Paris, and Russian agents. It appears, thit his first communications were made to Mr. DOUBRIL: mid that he afterwards gave information to the succeeding Rtes. sian Minister, respecting the teal strength of the French army in Gei many. It is reported, that the present correspondence between. the British and French Government relates to a propoal made by BUONIAPARTE) that a large depot of nil:at, now in Prussia, shall be imported into England and France, equal proportions. To this proposition, it is added, ore Government have intimated their intention to accede, un condition, that the vessels in which such corn may be inn ported, shall deliver one half of their cargo in a British port, and there taking on board Colonial Produce ancim.- litifactures, shall then be permitted to proceed to France. Paris papers, to the 4th iii tam have been received; the 7 conain no intelligence of importance. A person cf,ti,e e of 1,114.11 En was executed in the place LI! Greve, at Paris, on the Ist ins".ant, for having (as the Jou• nals state it) sold the State Secrets to the Agents of Foreign Power ;" supposed to be Russia. The Freud: Journals are wholly silent on the fall of Badajoz. Information has been received in this country, throngl. France, that Barcelona has been again relieved Wit): vo• visions, after having been reduced to the last extremity.—. Such was the distress of the place about the latter end c: March, th-'t the Frenelyhad actually begun to 1 u ndernini , the works, with an intent to bl ow them u p prior to, th,e' evitcnatittiz them, when the arrival of a fle et front otal: relieved their wants. rf• Jamaica Papers to the 18 th of Mar ch, have been ..- • ceived.-----They are full of complaints on the subject of depredations committed in the West Indies by French 1 vateers, which are n3w more nume rous than when 1!! West India Islands beloriged to France. These priva!:\:: arc armed, fitted and refitted in American harbours , they also carry and dispose of th eir ca p tures, an:. it is serted that they belong to American owners. The French General LEFEBVRE has escaped fron!b.l., parole. Information has been sent to all the sea-peci stop him, but without effect. ■ ,• Wow"