The National Register.
London, England, 1811-10-06 00:00:00

TUE STAT'ONAL

can 3tways present a formidable front
to the enemy, and
slog
.per .Ate, by their presence alone
puwertul diversion in favour of the Allied
Army,

GUERNSEY AND JERSEY.
The preparations of the enemy, on the opposite
coast, linve at length ass,inned a more determi-
nate ch iracttr as to their ostensible object than they
have hitherto appeared to wear. Whilst the Public
ha, been amused with die mock demonstrations at
B utngne and in the neighbont ing ports, and even
at the time when the visit of BUONAPARTE him-

self to that (limner seemed to give colour at least
to the idea that renewal of the menace of invasion,
more serious and sincere equipment have been
proceeding v, ith silent and unobserved progress
at Cherb,urg for an attack upon the islands of
Guer s y, Jeisey, Alderney, and Sarke. The force
assernlikd in the neighbourhood of Cherbourg for
this purpose is estimated at 30,000 men ; and the
pet io,i, at which the attempris expected to be made,
ss -ui posed to be that advanced part of the season
when the length and the darkness of the nights shall
afford the enemy's small craft a favourable oppor-
tunity for a start, and a fair prospect of arriving,
without any formidable interruption, at their in-
tended destination. The intelligence of this medi-
tated enterprise of the enemy was first received at
the Office of the War Secretary of State (Earl of
LIVERPOOL), and by him communicated to the
Governors of the Islands menaced respectively.—
The important communication was, immediately
upon its arrival, followed by the adoption of every
measure which the formidable nature of the me-
raced attack, and the requisite attention to the
means of effectual defence, rendered necessary. It
will be seen by the Proclamation of General DOYLE,
at Guernsey, that the most active and vigilant
precautions are adopted, to insure the earliest intel-
ligence of the approach of the enemy ; to provide
for the most expeditious repulse of their attempt ;
and to insure the most complete eventual security of
the Islands.
No attempt will certainly be made whilst
British vessels can remain at the points of me-
ditated attack ; and when we consider the means
taken to prevent the enemy from deriving any
subsistence from the Islands—the small supply
of provisions they can possibly bring with them—
the difficulties to be encountered in an attempt to
make an impression upon strong positions occupied
and defended by British troops—and above all,
the circumstance, that from the moment of
their landing, if? they should succeed in reach-
ing the shores of any of the Islands, the
enemy's force would be completely cut off
from all communication with their resources in
France, we will confess that the attempt does ap-
pear to us too hopeless on their part to be set iously
apprehended on out s, and too de,perate in its na-
ture, as well as too destructive in its consequences,
if it should. not succeed, to be really undertaken by
BIJON
In addition to the force which ibroke up from
Ashbourne for Jersey, we understand that the
7th, r Royal Fuzileers, have also received &me-
m ns •ri proceed thither—They marched on Tues.
day and Wednesday from Maidstone to the Coast.

A M
The accr.iints from America, though in gem.r.tl
of a warlike comi,lexion, fluctuate hetmeen
probable peace and expt.ctid hostility. The Go.
vernment of that country has a very d,fficult task to
perform, to regulate its conduct so as not to em-
broil itself with either party—with the war faction
by not being peremptory enough—with the other
party by being too partial to France and too in-
imical to this country. We have received the fol-
lowing extract from a Boston Gazette, of Sept. 2,
by a vessel which sailed from that port, on the 4th
ult

" The last Baltimore Federal I?epublican has
the following article The PRESIDENT having, at
the demand of the British Minister, disavowed any
orders as having occasioned the chase anti
battle with the Little Belt, and agreed to call a
Naval Court upon the conduct of Captain
RODGERS, as we intimated some time ago upon the
authority of accurate Letters from Washington, the
apprehensions cf war' excited in England by that
conflict, and the sailing of Sir JOSEPH YOR KfeS
•squadron, with a reinforcement for the Halifax fleet
in consequence, do not indicate the approach of hos-
tilities ! "A

We understand letters have been received in
town, by the same conveyance, and of dates subse-
quent to the above, which tend to corroborate the
statement in the Federal Republican.
The United :hates frigate Constitution ha. arrived
in the Downs from the Texel, whiilicr she proceeded
a short time since with 24.0,000 d liars in specie, to
pay the interest due in Holland up,,n !hr• Dutch
Loan to America. We understand, she pr.-0( eeds
next to Cherbourg, to brig over r. JONATHAN
RUSSELL, as American Charge des Affair's in Lon-
don, in the room of Mr. SMITH, who at present
holds that station.—The American ship Prince
Madoc, Capt. BALCH, has arrived in a British port
from NorfOlk, in Virginia. The Master states, that
in the Channel he was b arded by a French priva.
teer, the Commancer of which, having lea: r t from
whence he came, and whither hound, and having
examined all his papers, allowed him to proceed—
adiing, that he had no orders to tak any American
vessels.—This intelligence would really be of some
importance, in the present state of the discussions
pending with America, if the fact were tree, as
stated, and the conduct of the Commander of the
French privateer had resulted from the general or-
ders of his Governm.,nt. But the information de.
rived from American Captains is not PROVERMALLY
TRUE; and we must coi,fess that we feel a strong
inclination to withhold credit frrrn this statement.
Unquestionably. until we have some more satisfac-
tory and conclus;ee evidence of the fact of the total
revocatispi of the French Decrees, as affecting Ame-
rican Commr.,ce, than the . simple and uncorrobo.
rated averment of an American Captain, we must
consider the Berlin and Milan Decrees, in the lan.
gunge of Bth'NAPARTE him Self, as fundamental laws
of his Empire.

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