The National Register.
London, England, 1813-01-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

.Of destruction for the most strongly secured throne." This
event, it will he seen by the French Papers, took place on
the 30th ult. on the right bank of the Niemen, where Gen.
D'Youx, who commanded the Prussian contingent joined to
the corps under MACDON AI" finding himself sepa•ated
from that Marshal, who had already crossed the Niemen
with his French and Polish troops, and several divisions of
Prussians ender Isieutenaot-General MASS NB sic it, entered
into a convention with the Russian MajoisGen. Duets-sets,
by which the whole Prussian corps was to become neutral,
and to occupy the part of Eastern Prussia, !eft uncoveedbs
the retreat of the French. Should, however, the Prussia',
XING not ratify this convention, his troops were to have
liberty to march wherever he might call them, but if ordered
to rejoin the French imperial army, they engaged not to
figi:t against the Russians-during the space of two mouths
The KING of PRUSSIA, who is in fact a prisoner in his capi-
tal, occupied as well as the rest of Prussia. Proper by AUG E-
REAU'S army of reserve, expressed the utmost indignation on
being informed of this surrender. He refused to ratify the
convention, ordered General D'Yortie to be arrested and
tried, appointed General KLEIST in his stead, and placed the
whole corps at the disposal of the KING of NAPLES. •
He immediately dispatched .Prince DE HA TZF ELI) to
Paris, to vindicate his innocence in the eves of N APOLEON,
and assure him of his entire devotion to his cause.
ThatßuoN AP A ItTE considers the defection of the Prussians
in the same light that we do, is aeparent from the measures
which it has led him to adopt. lie had told his peop!e that he
should want no fresh levy of men, and no new taxes, but
" unforeseen conjunctures req ire unexpected sacrifices,"
and he has applied to the Senate fur an addition to his mili-
tary means, and has obtained it. Three hundred and fifty
thousand men, besides the list conscription of 1(30,000, have
been ordered to be put at his disposal. One hundred thou-
sand (If these, composing 100 cohorts of the national. gust ds,
were raised before the war with ltu;sia commenced, and have
now been about a year in training. The next 100,000 are
to be taken out of the unmarried conscripts of the years
1909-10-11, and 12, who were not called into action ; and
the last 150,000 to be raised out of the conscription for 1 S 14
These immense levies, which he wily find more difficulty to
carry into effect than to order, arc made, because " the de-
velopcments of the force of France" will Secure " the useful
eo-operation of her aliies"—in other words, beeanse NAPO-
LEON expects that at the first sign of weakness France be-
trays, all her present allies will turn against her. It is
clear that he has lost all confidence in their troops, and
that in future he will net employ them without having
an overawing French force at hand to insure their
fidelity. This will produce a total change in his war•
system, which he has lately carried on chiefly through the
medium of foreign soldiers pressed into his service, and by
compelling him to draw the great bulk of his armies from the
population of France, will exhaust her means, and, we trust.
at last, the patience of the people. From a statement,
published as official some time ago in a Morning Paper, •
be seems to have led no less than 250,000 allied troops
against Russia. The defection of the Prussians, and the
formation of Antigsdlican Societies, both equally attributed
by the maddened- EmPeaots nod his Ministers, to our gold
and intrigues, render it a matter of " impel ious necessity"
that he should no longer trust to his allies, but that he
should have recourse " to the means which he will find
in the power of his empire, and the love of his sio4frefs." Thus
are his efficient means of hoqiiity already reduced by the
peblie acknowledgment of his Minister, to the limits of his
own territory.
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As we are the cause of all his disasters, the usual denuncia-
tion is renewed, that " there u ill be no repose for Europe,
till England shall have been, urccii to conclude a peace."
The Monileur states the various corps of the Grand Army,
their skeletons rather, to have reached their winter quarters,
between the Niemen anti the Vistula, fully 200 miles in the
rear c;f the Russian frontiers ! The Polish Diet, inad with
!error, have called on the people t, rise to d,..feAd their
frontiers, in the language of despair. Po NI AT OWS'i is at
War,aw, and MURAT with the French Guards at Koni4.4s-
her;,,!; WtCDON A t.D, it appear, still maintains hiti elf at
'Tilsit, where the Prussians soak 111111.

Cadiz and Lisbon Mails were yesterday received. 'Their
contents are quite unimportant. I \V i.L LINGT (IN Lad
a! rived at Cadiz, and had been received with great ho-

!torus.
An American prize has arrived •:t Plymouth, ont nine-
teen (lays from Philadelphia. Infirmation ha:: been re-
ceived by her, that Mr. MADIsoN has been re-elected Pre-
sident of the United States.
The news from the North has given accelerated motion
to the spinning wheels—has furnished employment for ever►
loom—and thousands, lately trembling from the fear of
want, arc now furnished with the means of earning the
sweet bread of industry; for trade again puts on a smiling
face, and animates our merchants to renewed exertiow.
Thursday, a Court of Common Council was held at ( oi!d-
hall, when a motion was made, and canied
that the sum of 20001. be subscribed by the City of :on-
don, in aid of the Fund for the re;iel of the-suffering Rus-
sian People.—Mr. PEA itc E, after a few observations on the
great objects of the British and Foreign Bible Society, aud ad-
verting to the grant of the Court of ion'. in aid of its funds.
which, he contended, was beneath the importance of the
Court to have given, moved, "'That a further sum of
2151. should be given to the Biitish and Foreign Bible So-
ciety."—The motion was negatived by n 5 aglinst 23.
At a Meeting of Ship-owners and 'others, interested in.
the East India and China Shipping, at the City of London
Tavern, C. H. TURNER in the chair, certain Resolutions
were come to in favour of the renewal of the East India
Company's Charter, when subscriptions were entered into
to defray the expenses of petitioning Parliament on the
subject.
EAST INDIA CHARTER.—At a Court of Common Coune
cil, on Friday, Mr. Quit; proposed certain Resolutions, in fa-
vour of the renewal of the East India Company's Charter.
Mr.TADDY seconded them. Mr. S. DIXON wished the con-
sideration of the subject adjourned. Mr. NV AITIINI AN
moved an amendment to that effect, and the discussion Wa6
adjourned to Monday selmight.

LUDDITIS —Extract home private letter, dated the 12th inst.
On Sunday night the house of Mr. Byewater, frante work-knitter
in this town, was entered by a body amen with firearms, and after
putting the family into great alarm. destroyed the frames in the house :
these people were disguised with black crapes over their faces. It
appear:: that Mr. Byewater made some resistance, when one of these
horrid wretches snapped his pistal at his head, which fortunately
missed fire. The allies went undiscovered, and no tidings have
been heard of them since.
" The frame-breAers are still carrying on their lawless work at
Nottingham. On the evening of the above-mentioned day (Sunday),
five men in di-guise, and well armed, entered the house of Mr. Edward
Lowe, in Crossland-street, when the only person in the house was
Mr. Lowe's son, a youth about sixteen, whom they compelled to
light a candle, and show them the way into the workshop, where, in
about fi :e minutes, they demolished the sinkers, needles, and
machines of three silk knotted frames, and twisted off te presser-bars,
or broke them in two. A footing frame shared the same fate. They
belong to Mr. Parker, hosier, and had nit been wotked for some time,
nec'nse Mr. Lowe would not take work Put at less than the curtont
pri,:e.—:!loston paper.)