The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-01 00:00:00

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• • FRENCH PAPERS.
Friday Paris Journals were received to the QGth instant.
A dispatch from BUON-APARTE states, that the Armistice in •
the North has been prolonged to the middle of August, and '
CAULINCOURT, Duke of -Vicenza, and Count de NAR-
BONNE, have been appointed Plenipotentiaries from France-
to the Congress at Prague, which has probably ere this com-
menced its deliberations. The other Ministers appointid
are—Count IYANST ELL, from the Emperor of Russia, and
Baron HUMBOLDT from Prussia, as Count IVIETT ERNICH
and Prime KAUNITZ are both at Prague, it is probable
they will assist on the part of Austria. An Engli::11 Am-
bassador, appointed to the Congress, is stated to have passed
through Neuss on the 7th.
.oti his way to the seat of Nego-
ciwn
ion, accompanied by a umerOus.suite and a French C 3.
curt of honour ; but who this person is we are uninformed. •
BCONAPARTE wa3 at Leipsic 011 the 14th. By the 25th,
he was expected to be at Mayence, there to meet his Eat-
press, who set out from Paris on the 22d for that purpose,
and was not expected to retut n till the beginuing of Au-
gust. BEAUII A RNOIS was at Castel Franco on the 13th.
el'he hatt!e of Vittoria is still passed over in perfect silutcc..
nor is there a syllable flora the Peninsula.

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
The London Ga:ette Extraordtnary of Sunday last adds to
the many proofs already recorded, that Britons are the sanie
in every part of the world where their native bravery is
called into action. We see in North America a handful of
our countrymen scattered over an immense line of frontlet,
successfully repelling all the efforts of an enemy five times
more numerous, under all the disadvantages of a defensive
warfare in which the points of Mock are necessarily uncer-
tain. We see Colonels acting as Generals, Ensigns as Field-
Officers, all giving, although on a smaller scale, proofs cf
that military genius which characterises the W ELLIN CTON .
school. In that remote corner of the world every Briton
seems to feel, that he can trust only to the transc.::ndant glory
of his own achievements to emerge from the obscurity in
which the scene of his exploits is involved.
We observe, however, with regret, that those unparalleled
efforts are not always crowned with the success they so emi-
pently deserve. It appears by the Quebecyapers, that pie-
vious to the gloriott: ..itack on the American camp on the
6th of June,. the enemy had obtained possession of the forts
on the Niagara frontier, and advanced forty miles into the in-
terior of the country. We are happy to find, that these advan-
tages were obtained previous to the arrival of those poweifel
reinforcements, which Sir G. PREVOST mentions in his pro Cir
mat ion as being on their march from every gwarter fur the
Niagara frontier ; anti also that Sir J. YEn, subsequent to
that action, was in undistro bed p4';session of tht .1.4 e. But
we might ask, what adcqume motive there can be to eon,
tinue so long a defensive system, by whiA, notwithstandiug
the gallantry of our troops and the skill of our onicets, the
provinces of Canada have three times suffered from the in-
vasion of the enemy ? Surely it will not be contendslt, that
the American soil ought to be considered by us "ns F act- ed ,"
a ITLINint maintained, in respect to the territory of France, by
the old woman who writes the long letters, signed
in The' Times ; and considering the '
our troops posses•. over the Americaw
to expect, that Government might spa,
ments, which would soon Make those
feet the just retaliation their wanton a;;-,

REGISTER.. 459
P. 8. I omitted to mention, that Major-General H;ty mentions.'
his =eat obligations to Captain Taylor, of the 48th regiment, his

ifflinense sti••erierity
it is not too niuelv„
ire a few more regi-,4
doughty Repulalkans,..*
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