The National Register.
London, England, 1811-10-13 00:00:00

TIIE NATION

• ANHOLT MAILS.
Two Anholt Mails were received on Thursday,
brouelit to Yarmouth by the Lady Frances packet.
intellizene by this conveyance, whilst it adds
to the interest. is by no means calculated to diminish
-th • anxiety IA hi. h belongs to the present state of
affairs upon the Continent. The letters received by
the mails come down to the I,t inst. from Sweden,
and to the 13th tilt from St. Petersburgh. Their
contents, whatever importance may be attached to
• communications from a seat of expected political
changes, are most unaccountably-deficient of inte-
res i g inform mon. The same rumours which
have been so long reiterated from the regi-)ns of the
North, respecting the probability and prospect of
an el pproachihg rupture between Russia and France,
are revived, and repeated with as much confidence
as they were circulated at any previous period.—
Though the Russian Government has felt it necessary
in a spirit o: temporising policy to reject the supplies
grimed, or piolfered by the British Administration,
it is still thou ht, that it is attached by no tics of
cordial friendship, or consentaneous policy to the
views f the Ruler of France. The relative situa-
tion and repective strength of these too Powers
very naturally fix the attention of every practical
• politician to the circumqances and probable issue
of any rupture which may take place between
them. Every Continental Power in Europe but
Russia, has been compelled to submit to the su-
perior ascendancy and conquering arms of
Trance. The terms of peace and accommoda-
tion have been, in all instances, dictated by
the victor. Moderation may have sometimes
appeared to modify the conditions, which in
the rigour of triumphal exaction might have
been insisted upon by a conquering enemy. Every
Power of the Continent that has made peace with
NAPOLEON enjoys, in the terms of its pacification,
the indisputable proofs 6f the forbearance of the
FRENCH EMPEROR. They have successively lost
much by previous hostility, but they have inva-
riably regained a great deal by the conclusion of
peace. Russia alone has not only lost nothing in
substantial territory in its wars against France and
her Revolutionary Governments, but has actually
derived benefit from military disasters, and acquired
an extension of geographical limits from a repeti-
tion of calamitous operations. The treaty of Tilsit
gave France an accession of influence, but put Rus-
sia in possession of a considerable augmentation of
territory. France gained what might be lost by
the revolutions of public opinion—Russia acquired
what must necessarily aggment the vigour of na-
tional energies ; but whilst both were ostensibly
gainers, each was insensibly deteriorated, though
the substantial nature of the Russian acquisition
served in some measure to counterbalance the con-
sequences of the extreme injustice of the iniquitous
proceeding, by which its aggrandisement was ac-
quired.

The following is a copy of a Letter, dated Ports.
m.)uth, Oct. 8 The ship London Packet, Capt.
THOMPSON, is arrived at the Motherbank, in thirty.
six days from Havanna. Capt. 'l'. reports the loss
of ,the ship Rigby, from Jamaica, off the Island
of Cuba, about the 24 Auzuct.. Captain TROMP

Ann, FOI:IIERINGHANI, from Honduras to Glasgow,
put into Havannah with loss of bowsprit., - She had
been plundered by a French privateer in the Gulph
of Florida, and had been on shore on the Tortagus
Banks. Several vessels had been taken and plun-
dered by the numerous privateers which have, of
late, infested the Gulplis of Florida and Mexico."
The following summary statement of the strength
of the armies on the frontiers of Spain and Portu-
gal, is derived from a private source, but is supposed
to be pretty correct :
British troops, including about 2000 sick, and
all the late reinforcements, 47,000. Poituguese
troops, comprehending 3000 sick, at present with
Lord WELLtNnTos, 17,000. With Marshal Bx-
Itt:sronn, in the neighbourhood of Cintra, about
1.5,000.

Under MAruuosT and D'ORSESNE, nearly 70,000;
but the accounts upon this subject were not at all
precise or satisfactory.
It is stated further, that General ABADIA has '
not more than a detachment f 5000 Galicians in
the neighbourhood of Astorga. The rest, com-
posing a force altogether of about 20,000 men, are
at Benavente, and other situations in the northern
district of Leon. •

Under these circumstances, the people of Lis.
bon consider themselves to be in a competent
state of security, whether Lord WELLINGTON shall
continue to occupy the banks of the Coa and
the Agueda, or shall fall back to the lines of
Torres Vedras, and those which have been formed
between the southern banks of the Tagus and St.
Übes. Considerable exertions have been lately
made to render the latter as impregnable as the
former.

W regret to find, that the depredations by
French privateers are likely to be renewed with the
same activity as during last winter. The commence-
ment of the long and dark nights has brought out
several of them holm the lurking places in which
they have been skulking throughout .the whole of
the summer. In the distress to Which the whole
Commercial Body has been reduced, there can be
no question, that every effort will be made to pro.
tect their floating property in the narrow seas from
the risk of capture by the enemy. We have heard
that it is in contemplation to employ a number of
fast sailing brigs and sloops of war along the whole
line of the coast, which has hitherto been most ex.
posed to the visits of the enemy's privateers, and
we are sure that very considerable benefit• must re-
sult to the Mercantile Body from such an arrange.
ment. The Letters from the coast announce that
the privateers are already on the alert. A corn.
mnnication received yesterday from Dover, and
dated on Monday, contains the following particu-
lars :

" Three French privateers endeavoured last night, at nine
o'clock, to capture, with small arms, a large ship, called the
Santerwtshire, Captain HALT, hound from Jamaica to London,
they were gallantly repulsed by our brave tars, who opened a
very heavy and destructive lire on the enemy, assisted by thd
batteries at this place. The Frenchmen being to the Lastward,
they strained every effort to boa-d the ship. which being pro•
vided with a•Dover boatman, who well understood the caitiff
we was brought as close to the harbour as the depth of water
would admit, and the enemy obliged to abandon his wishod tor
•rise;"

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SON also reports that two or three vessels bv, le
on shore on the Florida Keys. The h'z

NATIONAI

In one of the foreign Papers, General SucliET i 6
said to have arrived at Burgos, on his way to join
MAnNtoNT, wirh 10,000 men, and Generals Jovit.
DAN and OebiNo'r are said to be on their way to
'Spain, the former to take the command the
Army of the Centre, the latter of the Army of the
North.
By a letter received yesterday from an Officer in
Sir RICHARD STRACIIAN'S squadron, off Flushing,
we are informed, that the fleet WaS to return to the
Downs in the end of the present month. No other
reason is assigned, than that Sir Ricumtn, on his ar-
rival-in England, was to be married.
Thursday a Supreme Board of General Officers
assembled at the Commander in Chief's Office, on
the business of the Military College at Marlow,
which was attended by their Royal Higlmesscs the
Dnkes of KENT, CUMBERLAND, and CAMBRIDGE,
Generals Hoer, CALVERT, &c. All of them ap-
peared in the new General's uniform, except Gen.
CA LVERT.

Advises from Petersburgh to the 14M, from Ber-
lin to the 22d, and from Konigsberg to the 24th
ult. have been received. The following is an im-
portant letter from the latter
Konigsberg, Sept. 25.
" The rumours of hostilities between FrAnce,
Russia, and Prussia have now assumed somewhat of
a tangible shape, and we are told that war will
break cut almost hnmediately. This seems con-
firmed by the constant bustle and activity in which
the troops of this kingdom, Poland, ard Russia
have been kept for some time. 'We are all anxiety,
as we understand that the Emperor of the FRENCH
will direct his progress towards us, which is said to
be the signal for the -commencement of war.—Our
public Papers allude to this event in open terms, and
to its cc•nsequences, which makes us the more certain.
The following has been shown as an estimate of the
amount of Polish, Prussian, and Russian troops in
this part of the Continent
.At Warsaw and its neiglsbourhood
Crac ow

Poles 30,000
14,000

.

Konigsberg • • . . . Prussians 17,000
Berlin • • . . . Ditto 20,000
Colherg . . . • . 1 2 000
• •
Russians in Old Galicia and Russian Poland . 60,000
Scattered Forces in vanuus places . 20,000
. .

173,040

" The frequent movtitnents that have taken place
among these troops have rendered the statement
less accurate than I could wish. The F:ench have
at I)antzic wally 30-,OGO, and at Stettin about
16,000. Alt her their force cannot be estimated
at less than 150,000. This number includes a con-
tingent which, it is said, the Emperor of AUST:UA
has entered into a Secret Treaty t contribute. On
the whole view, we may lock with some degree of
certainty to a war, and that pet haps at a short dis-
tance. Some persons assert Lila.. it cannot begin
before s n
"It is to he the intention of BUONAPARTE to
erect Poland inzo .1 distinct kingdom for NluttAT,
veho will give up Naples."
The Swe !ish Government, it is still maintained,
i 6 determined to remain neutral in the event f t a war
lA-raking ut m tie North. A nradc of its Ricific
&-rsit:on is .t.,ted ttl:ave been indicated, by the
suppression of a which lately appeared,

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(INISTER.

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recommending a war with Russia, and an attack
on Finland. The CROWN PRINCE was the first. to
noice the work, and to stigmatize the author as an
incendiary. .
The following Letter contains' some particulars
of the gallant action betweea the 'Fly, and a cloud
of Danish gun•boats
WINGo, SLIT. 9.—His Majesty's brig Fly has
arrived at Wingo, near Gottenburgh, after an ac.
tion of two hours, with the enemy's gun-boats, off
Langela;.‘l,.-on the 30th of August, consisting of 17
gun-boats, each carrying one long 36-pounder, and
two smaller ones, and 70 men, together with 22
sn-taller boats, making in all 39, which were sup.
.ported with field-pieces, and a battery on shore,
whliin musket-shot. The enemy sustained great
lass ; the Fly lost her upper masts, &c. but had not
one man Lilled.

Letteas have been received from Alicant, which
state, that the Governor of that city was using
every exertion to put it into the best pos,,ible state (if
defence. Mortars and cannon were placed on the
different ramparts, the workmen were busily em-
ployed in completing the different works, and not
the least 'apprehension was entertained for the safety
of the town, should the enemy again make their
appearance, of which, however, there was not the
slightest appeal ance.
American Papers to the 2d ult. received at Wa-
terford, by the Argonaut, Capt. Buss, are stated
in l'he Water fbrd Nirror, to have brought an ac-
count, that the PurstnEsT of the United States
had broken his leg by a fall from his horse. Mc
Baltimore Federal Republican of the 2d ult. is said
said to contain a report to that effect.
The very unsettled, and indeed alarming state to
which the i;ingdrm. of Sicily has been reduced by
the policy of. the ruling party, has, it is understood,
excited the earnest attention of the usurper cf Na-
ples. Prcpirations for the invasion of that island
are said to have been again renewed, in the hope of
snc'ess, during the disturbed and distracted state-of
affiirs within its bosom.

A letter, dated Messina, .Tilly 22, says—Last
night a boat coming from- Calabria Vas stopped by
our guard-boats, in which was fbnnd a priest, dis-
guised ;IF, a con,mon sailor. He had in lis pr sses-
sion some hundreds of dollars. His Reverence was
taken to the citadel, and on examination was sup-
posed to he a spy ; but « out c f his own mouth" he
would not he condemned ; fcr not a word would he
answer t l he had received 50 lashes, and was pro-
mised 200 mere the next morning ; then, to get the
punished reduced, he made a confessi,,n, in NA hich
he implicated otht rs as well as himself. He ac-
knowled.,:ed that the d liars he had received from
the French to convey to Seignior C—, in office
here. Another Mr. C. fearful that something
might transpire respecting him, has absconded to
Palermo. The perqm last alluded to, has told
Mr. T. that he is the 's agent for all' matters
of interest. I have just heard, that the firq named
C. is mi,*g, and is either gone to Calabria, or

The following notice was on Wednesday plsted
at Lloyd's The next and last convoy this year
for t' e Baltic, will positively sail from the Nore Ott
the 15th ins:, wind and weather permitting."