The National Register.
London, England, 1808-11-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

thing like pedantry in attempting to refute the vague and:'
inconsistent reasoning we daily hear qn this very subject.
We are sometimes inclined to think that people talk iu this
manner, for the pleasure of saying an absurdity ; and af-
terwards laughing at their own incongruity ; for there is
so other mean: of accounting for the extravagant opinions
we are condemned to listen to, or to read, on the political
combinations of the Austrian Councils.
We are sorry to have to announce the escape of the

Russian Fleet from Port Baltic. They lost, however, a
frigate, which stranded in coming out of the harbour. Thti
boisterous seas in that northern lat►tude, the inclemency of
the season, and the approach of winter, rendered it imprac•
ticable for our gallant seamen to coutinue the blockade.
The Officers who command our Fleet, preclude the suspi-
cion of negligence on their part; and we are fully per-
suaded, that Sir J. SALMARIZ and Sir S. HOOD, have
neglected nothing which professional skill. or persevering
courage suggested as expedient. The public have been
once more disappointed in their expectations. But on
this occasion they have been frustrated, because they ex-
pected impossibilities.

Two Gottenburgh Mails arrived last night, but bring no
intelligence. A report of Marshal KLINGSPOR contains a
circumstantial account of the retrogade movement of the
Sv:edish Army in Finland, but it is now perfectly uninterest-
ing. It serves only to prove, what was universally known,
that the Swedes and their gallant Sovereign, could courage
ensure them success against the vast superiority of the

Russians in point of number, displa%ed during the whole
of the campaign, whose issue was so unexpected, a degree
t 2 patriotism, patience, and intrepidity, worthy of their
ancient military reputatirra. It was mentioned at Cotten-
. burgh, that Sir -1 MUS ALI 31.4. It EZ arrived there in the Vic-
tory, to render his Swedish Majesty an account of the cam-
hip in the Baltic. The Emperor A —LEX A NDFIt was ex-
pected at Riga, the Ioth of last month, on his return to
retcrsburgh.

Tar COURT OP INQUIRV.—The Warrant for summoning
et Court of Inquiry on the Armistice and Convention, has
been sinned by his Maksty ; and the Court, consisting of
General Sir David Dundas, President ; Gen. Earl Moira,
Gen. Peter Craig, hieut.-Gen. Earl of Pembroke, Lieut.-
Gen. Lord Heat Licut.-Gen. Oliver Nicolls, and
Geu. Sir George Nug-ent, Bart. will be assembled as
s:ion as possible, after the Warrant shall be countersigned
by the Secretary at War, who is now in Scotland. Then
Inquiry will be public s and the Warrant directs, " That an
Inquiry shall be made into the conditions of the Armistic
and Convention, and into all the causes and circumstances,
whether arising from the previous operations of the British
Army, or otherwise, which led to them ; and into the con-
duct, behaviour, and proceedings of Sir Hew Dalrymple,
and of any other Commander or Commanders, or of any
ether person or persons, as far as the same were connected
with the Armistice and Convention."
It is said that the Duke of Northumberland has made a
magnificent present to Mr. Kemble, on the occasion of the
late fire. Tie wrote him a polite note, reminding him of
an early service his Grace had received from him, by in-
structing Earl Percy in the art of speaking, and saying
that the present was a fit moment to acquit the obliga-
tion.—The letter contained a draft for Ten Thousand
Pounds.

In crocling the new Theatre in Covent-Garden, the
Piazza► is to he carried through into Bow-street, under the

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