The National Register.
London, England, 1815-05-14 00:00:00

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It is stared in letters from Rouen, that the 88th Regimen t
which set out for Tails 800 strong, was reduced by desertion
to 400 before it reached there. Only the Mayor and. one
person signed in favour of the new Constitution, while
twelve persons enrolled their names against it. Conscripts
had refused to march, and caused a riot, when the National
Guards torl part with the malcontents.
Ir has been ascertained that in Brest hothouse the French
have thirty-one large ships of war, and in all about fifty-four
sail,

A (Irf adfu I contest took place lately at Havre de Grace:
at the c10,,e of the service and leaving chit' eh, some of the
military ied nut, .‘ rive CEmpereur !" while others of the
tcwi's-neople answered by a cry of ‘• Vire le Roi I" the result
was fifteen lives were lost, and the military were beaten
and dtsi,ersed.

The eror of Russia is reported to fiave assumed the
ticp of Czar of Poland, and the King of Prussia '4',.at of
Grand 'Juke of Poland.

Bonaparte, it is said, has established a Regency, con-
sistinz (if his Ministers and the Presidents of the Sections of
the CotiociN of State. lin that case his absence from Paris
will not be a temporary one.

The French as well as the Brussells Papers, concur in say-
ing, that the wife cf Berthier has been arrested in Germany.
She was emleavowing to return into France, whither pro-
bably her hi.sband was to follow her.

A gentleman arrived in town, Monday, who left Ostend
on Sunday morning. lie states, that on Saturday the Gth
instant, an order arrived at that pface to lay the country
round Ostend under water, as a measure of precaution
against the enemy.

The King of NVurtemberg, in a message to his Stater-
Gencrai, dated the IGth of April, announces that he has
engaged to raise and maintain 20,000 troops for the approach-
ing war ; and while he calls upon them for extraordinary
supplies, he at the same time states, " that he has taken
every necessary step to obtain a share in the subsidies which
may be granted for the general cause of all the poweis of
Eurere !"

A Lisbon Mail brings accounts, that the Portuguese
Government has of late manifested a wish to levy contri-
butions upon the British residents, in violation of the pri-
vileges which they have uniformly enjoyed. A memorial
and remonstrance, however, produced a suspension of the
order of payment.
The Portuguese army is under orders to embark at Lisbon,
to proceed forthwith to Belgium, to join the forces under the'
Duk of Wellington. Some of the British Officers attached
to the Portuguese reziments arc already in London, having
ken allowed to precede their corps thus fir; and to visit their
country previous to the junction for the campaign, which can
be effected immediately on their arrival at Ostend.
It is with considerable regret we state the capture of the
Levant. 21, llon. Capt. G. Douglas, and the Cyane, 24,
(apt. Falcon, by the American frigate Constitution. They
Were captured together early in February, on the coast of
Africa, after a very sharp action. Sir John Collyer's squa-
dron, after the above captures, went in pursuit of the Con-
stitution, and was so close with the latter, that the New-
castle, Lord George Stuart, re-captured the Levant, and
might also have re-taken the Cyane, but unfortunately in
the ardour of pursuit, Lord George supposed that she was a
Braziltnau.