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

VIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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According to the accounts [nought by Mr. Silvester
another dreadful battle was expected to take place on Wed-
ncsdat• last. The firing on the French Coast on Friday night
may.. therefore, be connected with this expected event.
Stil!, we apprehend that in Bonaparte's present situation, his
gaining a' victory is entirely out of the question.
Nogent on the Seine, were the_French attny was last seen
by Silo ester the messenger, is only (19 1-...'nglish miles from
Paris ; whilst, it would seem, the Aliies, on a different road.
had reached Sens, 73 miles fiom Paris, aid had pushed on
their light troops to Melon, only 30 miles from that
capital.
Besides Lord Castlereagh, there were at Chatillion-sur-
seine, when Mr. S%lvester left that place, Sir Charles Stew-
art, our Minister to Prussia, Lod Viscount Cathcart. our
Anmba•sador Extraordinary to the Emperor of Russia ; ard
Mr. Thornton, our Envoy Extraordinary to the Crown'
Prince of tiwcden.

A n►os.t trernc►►►tous firing was heard upon the French
coast on Friday ►sight. It uesembled the usual discharges
made on the occasion of a public rejoici►Lg, an express was
sent MY to Government with the information

It is now said th.,t Lord Castlereagh and Caulaincourt
only have exchanged authorities.
The force whicl► BuonJparte has under his comma id is
about F 20,000 men.

A Cai td is arrived at Liverpool from New York, which
she left on the 2.3 d January. Mtssrs. Clay and Russell have
het n appointed to proceed to Gottei►huPgh as negociators on
the part of America. They were to sail in a few days,
Near Palls they are busily employed in digging COI OR
:112 roads leading to it, in older to check the advance of
the Allies.

Madrid Parers have been received, containintz an account
of the opening of the first session of the Ordinary Corte,
and ako an ecount of that extraordinary ealy into which
I3aionaparte invei;;led Ferdinand VII. A most remarkable
circumstance is the return of the celebrated Palafox, the de-
fender of Saragossa, who has arrived at Bich. under a French
e.eort. The Spanish papers suppose that he has been sent by
Buonaparte on the same errand as the Didse of San Carlos.—
The following extract from the Cuirciso Spanish paper leads
Lis to hope that the Spaniard; will nut be duped by the arti.
tice thus laid to entiap them :
" There is nut a good Spaniard who does not desire the return of this
unfortimate Ferdinand ; but be wishes it for the good of his coutorys
:Ln:i not t,, expwe it to greater evils th n those it has already suffered.
Ferdinand .nu-t retuto in the way in w Spaniards wish it, a:A not
as Bnonaparte means i. Ile must come to make us happy, and nut to
be the cause (though the innocent one) of new caland.irs. Happy
will be the day, on which Ferdinand, restored to his loyal tuhjeets,
may be thus addiessed :---• I-kre is your throne, preserved by the
y ally of your subjects ; here is your crown, ransomed by the blood of
Spaniards ; here is ynur sceptre, which Spanish constancy replaces in
your luu,ds ; here is your royal rube, tinged with the blood of 'thousands
of victims who have fallen that you might preserve it : read your his-
tury—infornk yourself of all that Spaniatds have (tone fur you—and
never forget that to the Spanish people you owe every thing I Never
forget that you are cultic to be the (Net of a nation, the Monarch of
subjects who have stbotished the vestiges of despotism.' ''• •

Tur..A.Tnic u.Q.—The Olympic Theatre has for the last
fortnight b.en uncommonly successful. The Elephant,
and Mr. and Miss S tuNnunA, are exceedingly attractive.
The docility of thi,: ttipenduous creature, is indeed amaz-
ing ; and the SA uxnrns' Im the rope and wire, are at ,41co
agile, fearless, and graceful. Of the Earls V' Halimer-
smith, an exceedingly well written burlesque, more ueed
not be said, than that it nightly is received with immode-
rate peals of laug,hte: and applause.

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