The National Register.
London, England, 1814-08-28 00:00:00

J: 62.

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Dutch tote's. Sntelfigence from B wise!, to the isth
instant, when, the Doke of Wthington remained in that city..
piot!acte'd stay i• vavihuglY accounted for. Ilk Grace
zconini anied the 'Hereditary Piince 4,lo:an4e.oli'a visit to
,o;ove the, were received with every demonstration
tifjoy. They rein,tinel Iwo days examining the plate which
%volt Ch trleroi, Nlons,.Tournav, and tither cities,
greatly s-tengthe;ied, a',d, it ;s added, at the eipence-of
land. The Vinoci cf drily( dat St. Petersliagh on
the i?.5111 vit. when.. he ;was Let eived cyitn.enehos,7rseic joy.
The city way dririn,ti three successive nights.
Commi•sione,s a' (di; nt continue their confesenres,
but n, iliin hits traintiN•d respect:ll;4 the sate of the Dego;
h r. cxhe..tvd to be a ricotracted one.
The Bely.rdera arrived on Wc.lnesday at Portsmouth from
nitida, which she left on the 24th tilt. Admiral Malcolm.
n irk a convoy of fi•teen con • isting of line-of-lrittle
ships, frigates, and troop...ship', with troops on kaid, from.
Bontale tux. an iced in the intoning of that day. Sir Alex-
ander (.soclirane, •who was at Bermuda waiting for this !emit
forcement, it was exile' ted would sail on the following day
for Noith A;uerlea. The f te aoived at Berintida is va-
ximisly estimated at from II) to i. 5,000 men.

Niontie.d Papeis to a late date -were on Thursday received-
in town. • Tly.v.( )I:tain some further inf •rmation respecting
it mditai v f crati,ais in Canada, which, we ate sorry to
ohserve, is ra her uhfay..ui able complexion. It is
st.,ted, that .tter the till of Foit ie and the action on the
..Ni. Lora, the 13, ills!, for( e rrtir ed to Fort George, and that
the eliel/IV I,A advanced to St. David's, abut seven or eight
miles flow the foi n'a( e. In the General Older published
at on the 18 h of July by General Banes, it is
~taut! that F.,ti whic h was Owed noder the command
uf 1:11( k, of the stli te.,,,iment, capitulated without
makißg an a‘lequate d.'len‘.e. The American loss in the
ha-tle v ith Cletteral 16.111 was very con•iderable, as the
Briti h artillery was wot bed in a most able and effective

E‘tiact of a letter from Liverpool, Aug.. ••••••41 The
is,Aort, Brown, arrived here from Burin, Newfoundland,
sail: (1 flow thence the .51st July. Capt. Crown informs,
that a vessel had arrived funii Halifax the day before he
,:ailed, in lour days, the Master of which reported, that the
boats belonging to the ships under Admiral Cochrane, had
forint the town of Portland and the shirt.ing in that poit.
(*ant. Brown further says, that the account was fully credited
at Burin."

The ravage: committed on our commerce by the Ameri
cau ci nize, continue unchecked. A representation made
ort this silk:Jed to the Ad,uiralty on the 17th inst. by the
London and Royal Emit:lnge i‘ssurance Companies, with
tie view to ohtain an adequate protective force for the sta•
tiuns infested, was answered by Mr. Croker, the secretary, on
the !Oa): he states, that there was a force adequate to the
purpose of protecting the trade, both in St. Geore's Channel
and the North Sea, at the time refs: red to."—This answer
ID:ty be soffit ient to throw the blame of the captures from one
esponsib.e pai ty to another; but it is of little consequence
to the merchants, or their- insurers, whether the insufficiency
r►f the force, or the inadequate management of that fin cc, be
t:.e cause of losses from which an ample and vigilant roue-
Omn should secure them. •

The Zealous, of 74 gnus, is fittirg out at Portsmouth, to
be s•aioned at Quener, as a p of naval communication
hCIWC.2II that port and the Lakes of Canada.
Preliminary meas.), es are, it is said in process at Rome, by
otdei of .the Pope, far canou4in& Louis XVI.