The National Register.
London, England, 1814-02-13 00:00:00

FEB.

c.-terday, from Calais, in a flag of truce, shown that not
vegociations weie on foot, but that they must have
taken a f'avourable turn. Since Napoleon had allowed a Bri
tall <<<° -enter to pass through his territories with d•spatches
from I d Castlereagh, in ortlei. that theieplY of our Co-
(!: ,onent should Le the sooner obtained. 'This art iv; oe-
casiencd the most inconsistent rumours to be circulated dur
ins; !he last two days through thls metropolis. At one time
it was asserted that Paris had been occupied by the Cossacks ;
at another, that it was surrounded by the Allies, and that the
Senate had •ent a deputation to Prince Schwartzenberg to re-
otte..t the ci.y should he spared, and that it would be surrender-
ed. Other account, stated that a suspension of arms had taken
I la( e, and that Bo ona parte lent expressed his intention, should
the negocia, ions be broken 0t1,,t0 leave Paris to its fate, and
j,joing Soult with his at my, to make a clash at Lord Wel-
lington, and alter beating him, march with his whole force
through the south' of name, by Geneva and Switzerland,
jot() the rear of the Allies. Private letters, said to have been
received to the 9th inst. from the French metropolis, were
irpresented to announce that Napoleon lid rejected the
ecw overtures made to him at Chatillon, but this was con-
tiadicted by his having granted a passpott to Mr. Silvester
and cycle lac :titles to travel, which would not have been the
ca,e hadl.e &env d the proposals of the Allies inadmissible,
a1.,1 at once put an end to the negotiations. Opposite state-
ments went so far as to assert, that the preliminaries of peace
Kal been signed at Chatillon the Gth inst. the day Mr. Sil-
vcster left that place ; and last night it was confidently re-
potted, that an armistice of ei:ht days had been granted to
Napoleon to settle the preliminaries. We rather incline to
this belief, as even Cutter al Blocher, the 'nest violent
enemy of Buottapatte, in direct contradiction to his former
hlguage, had in a mild Proclamation to the French, which
he i-sued on the 21st ult. assored them that the Allies
quickly expeett d an Armistice for the atraneement of
preliminariel:." It is prohable Celt this change of language
was adopted in consevence of the passive obedience which
the French continued to pay to Napoleon, even at the hour
of his weakness, when he no longer poiser•sed the means of
controuling their will. By pene•rating so far into the
lteart of France, the Coalsced Princes fancy they have
iven the people a fair opportunity of throwing off the
oke of their despot if they pleased and recalling the ba-
nishrd !louse. As no voice has ct been taiscd, or any in-
vtrtection taken place in behalf of the Boarlelts, they think
theteselyes justified in treating with Napot on, especially as
theme is no doubt he will now gladly accept :'.r terms which
they may impose upon him, to render his atebition harmless
hy disarming it of its power. Shttuld this prove to be the
I;ne of policy they have achlned, nothing hut madness
could induce us to secede from them, and, after having
shared the dangers of the contest, suffer them to reap its
fruits alone, and doom ourselves to bear the
.bordens of an
interminable war. Although the antagonists of peace at
home pretend that the intelligence of the arrival of a Flag
et. Truce from France, was received with general disgust,
Itt. contrary is sufficiently proved by the state of the fu.ted,',
New Otnnium having risen in consequence to Q 9 and the
I.er Cent. to 711.

'Jr. ‘Vi.liiams, the Nlessenger, arrived in Downing•street
yesterday, with dispatches from Lord Castlereagh, but he
ft Chatillon upon the 4th, and therefore does not bring any
iLtelligence more recent than that which has been received by
Mr. Silvester. Mr. Wi!liains cam- through litilland, TWO
elicr Genflemen were dispatched at the same time by dif-
ft4ent routes, but they have not yet arrived..