The National Register.
London, England, 1813-01-10 00:00:00

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prise,_ as Austria already had an accredited • Minister at the
Pat i•ian Court.
" Nl,jesty.the Emperor of AUSTRIA, upon healing
that his Majesty the Emperor NAPOLEON had, on the 14th
instant, arrived at Drcqlen, and after having remained there
some time, proceeded for Paris, determined upon sending
to the latter capital Field-Marshal Count DE BUDIN A, to re-
side there in a diplomatic character."
If it is cmipled, however, with tl e declaration contained
in the Paris Journals received at nit earlier part of the week,
that Austria is indissolubly joined to France, and that Lord
NV AL POLES M ission to V lenna liiidproved unsuccessful, it
would seem that Count BUBINA was charged by the Austrian
EMPEROR to assure NAPOLEON, that his sentiments had not
been changed by the unexpected issue of the campaign.
It is, however, believed, that Count Bulllti A's Mission re-
lates to an offer made by Austria to mediate a general peace.
It is even supposed that BUONAr ART es assertion that. Spain
should never be torn flow hi, brother, reveals one of the
conditions on which he is willing to treat. A daily Morning
Paper has hinted, that it had been proposed by us " to ac-
Inowledge NAPOLEON'S right to, and acquiesce in his posses-
sion of, the whole sea coast of Europe (Spain and Portugal
excepted) from I lamburgh to Ragusa ;• nay, to yield him part
of Spain itself, or to purchase that country from him by the
cession of islands which we have conquered in fair and open
was fare." We can assure the Paper ia question, that, although
Marquis W ELI. ESL EY is not our Prime Minister, and VE-
T US'S predictions have proved utterly false, such an offer
has neither been made nor thought of.

STATE OF THE ARMIES IN ME PENINSTI.A.
Public attention has ktely been totally engrossed by the
unexpected bla7e et triumph that has illumined the close of
the Russian campaign. Thealisastrous flight of a conqueror,
hitherto deemed invincible, the ruin of his army, the uncer-
tainty of his personal escape, and the suddenness of his ap-
pearance in JIIS capital, in all the pomp and pride of empire,
when he was thought to be still struggling with the northern
snows, and shrinking at the vengeful hourra of surrounding
Cossacks, were events too gigantic, and too important, not
to captivate in their rapid progress every attentive faculty of
the mind. The concerns of the Peninsula, but a few months
since the chief object it; our thoughts, lost for awhile their
r.-onted interest ; and, whilst bulletins from Gottenhurgh
were greedily expected, the small number of arrivals from
Li.l-.bon and Cadiz was not even noticed. As the encreasing
severity of the winter has rendered the communication with
Russia more difficult, and perhaps put a period to active hos-
tilities in the North, the West begins to resume its import-
ance. The Lisbon Mail, which arrived last Thursday,
ena!mles us to ascertain the position and movements of the
armies. Our brave Commander, after having effected his
retreat safely before two poweifol hosts, each grplal to his
own, and both, whc3n united, forming a miss of miiitiny Gnu:
too superior to be encountered on time field, ha! left a strong'
corps on the frontiers of Pot tugal, and dispersed the rest of
his troops between the Douro and the Tagus, as far a:: Oporto
and Coiinbca, in order to procure them comfoitable winter
quarters. Learning that, whilst Soul! ANJ with 45,000 men
had taken up its cantonments at Salamanca, and its vicinity,
Sot; t.T had marched with 2.1,000 men to Talavera, and oc-
cupied Toledo and .Arcebispo on the Tagus, and Jos MI,
Madrid, 1117