The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGLSTEII.

Lo. d Cochrane is returned for Westminster, without op-
position, and, as the pillory is considered too severe by all
classes of persons, we hope the acqui'tal which he has re-
ceived from his constituents will induce the remission of
that part of his punishment that seems to have met with the
approbation of no one.

Paris Papers to the Ilth state, that there was a grand re-
v!ew on the io'h, at which all the infantry and cavalry in
and about Paris were present. The New Federtil Compact
of the Nineteen Sovereign Cantons of Switzerland was agreed
to by the Grand Council assembled at Lausanne on the sth
instant. According to this compact, every Swiss is a soldier,
and no class of citizens is excluded from political rights.—
The separate Cantons furnish to the public stock their re-
spective contingents in men and money, according to a scale
subject to a periodical revision ; and the common force of the
union is wielded by the gcneral l)ict, or, when that is not
assembled, by the Directorial Canton, which at present is
that of Zurich.—A considerable misunderstanding has broken
out between the Vire and Murat : the Commander of the
tro,ps belonging to the latter, occupying Ancona, baying
ordered certain persons to be tried before a Special Commis-
sion, for circulating seditious and malignant rumours, the
Pope ►as pi ote:ted against it : he declares the Marche of
A cona to belotig to bun, and that those who disturb these
pr'ivint is by foreign armies, and commit ravars, or exec.
Cie an ..legitimate authority therein, are the real seditious
aod malignant persons-. Louis Buonaparte has published in
the Gaze to of Arau, a letter of the 18th ult. in whb h he
foripatly renounces fur himself and his family all right to the
wore. assignee' to him by the convention of last April, at
Font sinh'eau, as well as an estate given him in 1810, as an
indemnity for ti e Crown of Holland.
A Hatnbuigh Mail at-lived on Thursday. An expectation
is pu' tot th that Norway will be ceded to Sweden without
an appeal to the sword. In the mean time, it is said that the
Swedes have been repulsed with considerable loss in pd-
antlers, in an attemi.t of invasion. The Emperor Francis is
now termed Francis 11. which was the usual title ho assumed
when be was Emperor of Germany ; as Emperor of Austria
be bole tie title of Francis I. The late Empress of France is
going to take the baths of Aix, in Savoy. It is repotted she
means to go to her husband at Elba. The Prince of Parma,
her son, remains at Schoeobien.
PrivAe letters from Paris. mention, that several meetings
have later been discovered in that city, the object of which
vas the 'estimation of Buonaparte. Au active correspon-
dence is also said to have been kept up fur some time be-
tweet' Joseph Buonaparte and some persons at Paris.
The Journal de Paris con'ains the following paragraph,
under the head of Porto-Ferrajo, June 10 :—•• Napoleon
has taken possession of several inhabited Isles, dependencies of
ours, and has concluded treaties of commerce with other
Isles in the neighbourhood, and with the Barbary powers.
The new money put in circulation bears on one side the head
of Buonaparte, and on the other the following inscription,
which appears ridiculous :—Napoleon 1. bnperator atcuc
vbicumgue
.feliz Isola d'Elba, 1814."
Buonaparte has made Captain Usher a present of a beau-
tiful snuff-box, and some very curious wine, as an acknow-
ledgment of his attentions on the voyage to Elba.
The Spanish C;overnment, it is said, has resolved to de-
mand from the King of France restitution of all the monu-
ments of the arts and natural history, carried away during
the reign of Joseph Buotiapatte.

CAPTURE OF THE REINDEER BRIG BY THE WASP.

On the morning of the 28th ult. in latitude 48 deg.
longitude 11 deg. the Reindeer, Captain Manners, perceiving
an enemy to the leeward, instantly gave chase, whep the two
ships were yard-arm and yard-arm. An action commenced.
and was kept up with the most determined spirit for 25
minutes, when the Reindeer having had her gallant Captain,
Mr.-Barton, the Purser and 27 men killed, and 40 wounded,
amongst whom were all her officers, except the second Lieut.
and a Midshipman, who were absent, aed having been
repulsed also in two attempts to board, was under the painful
necessity of toweling the British colours to the Wasp Amer I.
can ship, sloop of war, commanded by Captain Blakely.
The disproportion between the two ships, in size, weight of
metal, and number of meg, was very considerable. The
Wasp is 509 American tons (nearly 6oci, English measure-
ment). 118 feet long, and 361 beam, mounting twenty 32-
pounder carronades, besides two long 12-pounders, and
carried 175 men while the Reindeer was little more
than 380 tons, mounted only sixteen 24-pounders car-
ronades, with two long sixes, and had no more than 9g
men, and 20 boys. Captain Manners lost his life in at.
tempting to board, after receiving. 14 wounds Born the
Wasp's tops, where 26 marines were stationed for the pur-
pose of picking oil the officers. Mr. Barton, the put ser, fell
early in the action. The Wasp was excessively cut up in
her huh and rigging, besides receiving a 24-pound shot in
her foremap, about five feet above the deck, which greatly
endangered it, and is supposed to have sustained a loss in
killed and wounded vital to that in the Reindeer. The
Wasp's how is composed of solid oak, which proved impene-
trable to the Reindeer's shot; but she had two guns dis-
mounted. On the following day it became necessary to
destroy the Reindeer. Forty-eight hours after the action the
Wasp meta Portuguese brig, the Corea de-Lisbon, on board
which she placed Lieut. ChaMbers, Mr. Johns, master, Mr.
Mitchell, master's mate, Mr. Hardeman, midshipman, and
Mr. I..egge, boatswain, and 18 men, all of them badly wound-
ed (who arrived at Plymouth on Thursday evening, and base
been sent to the Royal Hospital), with the Reindeer's surgeon
to attend them. Captain Blakely behaved handsomely to
the British ; but it is much to be lamented that he. should
have degraded himself by firing langridge, swan shot, and
other unfair species of missile instrumentsr---The Way) has
taken six vessels, the last of which was the Orange Bove'.
worth 30,0001. She has in all probability proceeded for
America, were she was launched only seven mouths since, at
Portsmouth, in New Hampshire. The Pheasant sloop of war,
Captain Palmer, sailed in quest of her on Ft iday. The
Scylla brig sloop of war has also sailed on the same errand..

The Charybdis, l s, Capt. Clephane, arrived at Portsmouth
on Friday, from Halifax, whence she • sailed on the 6th of
June, with three vessels under convoy. Sir A. Cochrane had
gone from Bermuda to the Chesapeake, where a large force
was assembling. He was determined upon the most vigorous
and decisive conduct, in all the varied operations which he
was preparing to carry on. On the passage, the Charybdis- fell
in with the Ajax and Warspite (about half passage ovet),
with fifty-fire sail of transports, which had 6000 troops on
board from Bordeaux, bound to the Chesapeake. The
Rifleman had captured the Diomede privateer, and the Tielvi-
dera South Sea Ship, prize to the Essex, having im board the
valuable cargoes of several other whalers which some time
since fell into the Essex's hands.
The Pike American privateer has taken and destroyed
about twenty ships engaged in the Newfoundland fishery.