The National Register.
London, England, 1809-05-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ALE:. AN o Th.: peasants of the district of Orebro have
e‘tu 011.,!ced to rise en nvtsse, against their conqueror. The
Puke of SIT lIEli &tNI.%, it is said, has written to them, pro-
bably to urge them to sub&uissioa, since resistance would be
59 utterly in vain.

BuoNAeARTL, it is said, 112 S announced to the Duke of
Fiuocnn.%NTA, that he NVill permit Sweden to continue her
commercial in!ercourse with Englaud. Doubts, however,
tre reasonably entertained as to the reality of this iutiina-
.
tion, as well as to the dependence which must be placed
Upon it if actually made. It is for the interest of Swede!'
clot to declare herself precipitate

Danish Papers have arriNel to the sth. We insert be
low the only article v worth nt ice. The aft:iir of Colonel
great activity and
horvictts in Pomerania last war.

11En 1.1 v, A Pit N. most sinzular circurn‘tunce has oc-
curred here. Toe well-koown (701. !Acitit,t. has brol.en up with
his c.,zinivnt without order, nod without :laving given previous
notice, and ta!;en the route o.er Port zdum to the hordet.: of the
.Elhe. As it was customary for the re, 0111e111. to exercise with-
out the town every eveniva, its departure did not eNcite much
ottsvrvaii,m. our ;0% ernt:r (4111'111 1. .14 not yet return-
nod only this afternoon did we learn the route he had taken.
We are very auNious to know the Colonel's object.

NI 1.3 t: nu it t;, en I I. '29.-0 rders have been received from
form a national guard of I,:itiO men for our taws
otiv-r places in proportion ; eery thing is to he upon the war
&rating. Numbers of vained people have shown Ihem.,elves at
the =mall ton n of .Nehrr; every one is busied w ith our fortifica-
tions; the work is prosecuted even on Sunda)F.

Tramburgh Papers to the P2lll arrived last night. The
foll,,witig are its contents. battle was expected to be
fonglit immediately :

" VG!, GU, M A s.—.Aceordintr, to official reports the
tmperor t rot.r:os :Jail his head quarters, the day before
yesit•rd3v, , at Lintz—and Gen. Wit 1:01.:,
at Lambach. The combined army is advancing by forced
marebes arr.

'' V I N\ A 11 t v 3.--The necessary measures are taking In
case of a lii •tiledemoostra'ioo against Vienna—The corps of
Con. li; believed to be strong enough to present the ad-
vance atilt. enen —The Reserve and the 11ilitia of Lower Aus-
tria are al-o called out, and the A rehduke Charlci %% ill co-ope-
rate on his side—The Moravian Militia are on their march, and
I.;e Him:aria!) Insurrection organizing will; groat ;idly. ity—
The Army of the Archduke Jon N A% iI I either prinAteote its career,
or turn to.the support of the other Army Corps."

A letter, date' Gottenbur,h, May 9, was on Friday re-
ceivcd by a respectable mercantile house in the city.
Thoug'i we cannot %ouch for the authenticity of its con-
tcnts, we give the following extract, which is founded up-
on a report confidently belie et!, and which we hope will
be contirmod by the next arrivals from the North of
Carope. " lly private letters received from Konigsberg:,
dated May 2, we learn, that a great battle has been fonzlit
behveen the French and Austrian armies near Passau, in
which MAssr.v.t (Duke of lItyou) was ccmpleiely defeated,
with the loss of 60,000 men ; that the Saxons and Bava-
rians had gone over to the Austrian side—that the Arch-
duke JOHN had fallen, and that the Emperor 1 ‘pot,Eov
bad been present at the battle—that 50,00;) _Austrians
were in march to take Dantzic, and that the Prussians had
risen en masso against the French.

The loth, 1 lth, and Nth, and subsequently the 13th
and 1 Ith Austrian Bulktins have arrivcd,--the three for-
mer we h:INT given. tin, tyro latter contain nothing but the
positions of the Austrian army, which are Overtiberg,
and A ltheim. The prior Bulletins would only
needless!y occupy our coli:v as their sulhtanee has been
repcated in every Foreign Paper which ha:: 4:rived within
1;!st weok.

MAY 41.

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The Court of Vienna has
.published a heavy pamphlet is
the Shape of a Altunamsto against France, too tong for in-
section m a Nellspaper. It contains a long enumer:dion of
i-rievances from the peace of Presbur, down to the period
of the present rupture, the heads of which we shall con-
tent ourselves will, mentioning. : It is compiniued, Ist, That
the articles of the Treaty of Presburg in favour of Austria,
were either not carried into effect at all, or only after ar-
bitrary and ckadvantageous alterations, while all the con-
ditions favourable to France were executed to the full ex•
tent within the time prescribed. 2d, That fresh contribu-
tions were levied after all the arrears of military requisi-
tions were paid, and eliects belonging to the Emperor seized,
to the value of 24,000,000 florins, without making the sti-
pulated compensation. 3d, That a passage was peremp-
torily demanded by France, for her troops from the Vene,
thin Slates to the Province: on the East Coast of the Adri.
atic, through the Austrian territory. 4th, That the A us-
tt an :e ritory on the right bank of the lzonga, was re.
fused to be evacuated, amid the fortress of Bram:ail to be
evacuated, on the frivolous pretence of the prvcrasi bunted
surrender of Catarro, for which the French Plenipoten-
tiaries were alone to blame. 51h, That the Gerwan Con-
stitution was violently overthrown, and the Emperor un-
justly spoiled of his dignity. The paper then proceeds lo
state the strict neutrality observed by :Austria, in the war
between France and Prussia, and Ins acquiescence in the
peace of Tilsit, though several of the acticies, and the
whole tenor of the Treaty, v, as manifestly prejudicial to
her interests.

Bonaparte has committed a radical, and perhaps, it may
eventually prove, a fatal error, by placing his brothers and
leis relatives on the thrones of so many kingdoms or coun-
tries. It is by no means impossible, that iu the progres4 of
the. present war, he may have to repent of this predilection
for the two families of Bonaparte and Beanharnois. Of' all
to Icings, Murat is the only one who possesses any military
talents, or who may be esteemed personally fit for defend-
ing the crowu conferred ou him. The others have no
merit except that of being brothers to Napoleon, or sons
of h s wife, Joseph, by the universal consent of all man-
kind, is a mild, quiet, unambitious, donnr;tie man, lov
his vas; sad his bottle, fit for a diplomatic or a ministerial
office ; but utterly destitute of talents to maintain himself
On a revolutionary elevation, surrounded with dangers. It
is, indeed, probable, that the Government of Barataria vva
not more irksome to Sancho, than that of ~'pain and the
Indies is to Dos Napoleon Joseph the First !--Louis, King'
of Holland, is cast by nature in the gentlest mould. Deli,
cient in ability for commanding armies, or iu inclination Air
arms ; and a w::re that an hour ofcalamity and reverse may
arrive, he has souL;ht ery possib!e means to coneiha to
the nff.etiolis of his iind to tu”llify the tyranny of
his brother. He may peiliaps owe his sakty and his life to
this judicious and amiable line of conduct. For, even in
ease of a popular insurrection of the Dutch, we believe
that Louis's person would be sale from the fury of the peo-
ple. Jerome, though he has screed on both elements, has
been distinguished on neither, N a poleon, by compellin:.;
the Mike of Wirtemberg to give his daughter in marriage
to this amphibious monarch. may subject him to a trial for
bigamy, if in the mutability of human events, his West-
phalian Majesty should ever bo driven from Cassel to
l'hiladelphia, as Dionysius was from Syracuse to Corinth.
Such a transition is not impossible; for Jerome has neither.
merit, nor resources, nor character. The Prince rieerv,
otherwise Eugene Benuhornois, seems to be the worst and
weakest of all Napoleon's rulers. lie, too, has married
the daughter of one of the Corsican Kings; but his Step.
father may perhaps repent of having entrusted the protec-
tion of his 46 Kingdom of Italy?" and bis Iron Crown, to
this sou of Madame Bonaparte. He appears to be utterly
unfit for so arduous and perilous a station, if we may judg6
from his late defeat on the banks of the Tagliamento. It •
is curious to consider, in this enumeration of Revolutionary .
l'riuces, that the only individual of the Bonapartcs, dis;

MAY 2i.

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tiw4iii.,he,l for capacity ainl vigour, namely Lucien, has
periinariously refiLiect to accept of any crolA oriceptre
from apolcora—as if !le f:ivesliw that those ttonation %%ere
nVitner secure nor doral6%.

We have ..w p.easure to announce to out readers the al-
most unprecedented e:.,:anip!e of perseverasitic and ;,fortune
of his NiajesTs frigate the F lla, !lon. C:ipstain Rodney,
liose arrival at llarbadoi-4, vcith the remainder of the
West India lieet that Sailed from Cork On the .'22d Ja7
unar), ,:tier beiii several tines dispersed in a snecession of
violent. „ales. tier tonsort, the Phipps, returned tlismastcd
in a fe,v day after the', sailed from Cork. All encomiums
must fall short of Captain It odne3's exertions for so signal
u service. lit. is lw youngest son of the late noble and
gatiant Lord i.ipaney. No doubt his arrival, at the pre-
Kit moment, in iii ' West Indies, must Le greeted mith un.
boundett salistaction.

The reniains.ot Dr, PonTEus, Etta Bishop of London,
are to be inlcrred in a Natal at a Chapel at :4tinbridge, in
.1.ez..1, built bi himself' liir that turpose. Ile has, N‘e
ders;aml, littittent bed tii‘2l. a year to the Minister who is
to he npinonted by the bishop of London lor the time be-
iog. 'I lie Bishop preached Ws first sermon ;n it. Fe was
particular!) pailial;to O.:t place, it. being the first living
lie was appointed to. Ile built a small house there, and
al v. a Vent part of the summer here,
The following arrangements in the Church, arc about to
tape place, it, is generai,;% re por:ed. in consequence of the
death or tl/e 1;;shon tit imuslon :—Dr. Randolph, the
Bi-
shop of-Bangor, to tie tronstated to I.o.tdon ; Dr. Majendie,
the rishop of Chester, to be translated to Bangor ; Dr.
the iiean of Brisiol, who was tutor to the Duke of
littOand, to be the tiew Bishop of Chesier.

TICE NATIONAL UEGISTER.

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ascertained. f.,sich a writer as Cobbett wilt neve& insLruct
or amend the public; the utmost tie Call dO io give all
impetus to. qteir: proceedings. lie is exclusively alive to
the impressiou yf the moment ; and the itoiporary ques-
tion,—wilethet itiPe the propriety of substiit.iting ;:ii;;ac
Corn in our Dilltilleries, or of annihilatting the lommerce
of the Kin;;dosn—whet her it be the characier of an Ame-
rican President, or the necessity of re organizing the
British Constitution,—is ever bloated by him into all
portance paramount and unprecedented. llis optics are
only calculated to. obsersc what is within six inches of his
nose ; enlarged viers, and remote consequences are beyond
his keit.—This person. we 'are cons iuced, is, under the pe-
t uliar circumstaeces of the period, calculated to ;semi)].
plish a degree of national mischief, scarcely to be credited
by those who forget that in the dregs of society are usu-
ally deposited Vie seeds of its destruction. impelled,
therefore, by motives widely d,stinguished from those of
personal hostility, me now set about exposing those quaii-
Mies in the man which airect the reputation, and aro caip
ciliated to lessen the influence of the %A-1.11. '.

The inconsistencies of Mr. Cobbett have been already
noticed by us ; and have been powerfully chastised lit
others ; we only recur to the subject for the sake of in
forcing. on the admirers of the shrewd and conclusive rea-
sonill
which now appears in the Political hegisler, that
equally vehement, equally ingenious, and doubtless, eglual-
lti in the opinion of its writer, has it preci.
nod/ been, in direct contradiction of its present tenets,
aiiti in severe reprehension of its present tasourites.--This
..arcumstance at least proves the necessity of mccepting its
doctrines with some grams of allowance. Mr. ( obbett's
business is to write; to please his readers he nuis• write
with nerve ; he has riot alto av s, how ever, opportu-
nity or leisure to make up his mind on the j;.stice of his
strictures previous to their going to pros; 1,,.at
!'urther information, and mote matured thought, i:3 e;
established the truth or falsehood of what has published,
Ile recants or persists accordingly. This may be uthiably
ingenuous ; wimht it not be more fair both to the pur-
chasers of the Rep:islet., and to the objects of its severity,
if some little hiains were taken to ascertain the correctness
of an opinion heft)! setting it adrift on the world, to Mikis
once the conduc t and bias the
.judgment of Onstispeci ing per-
sons? What reparation, for instance, does Mr.Counicres pre-
sent enthusiastic admiration of Sir F. Bu RP sivr afford to
that worthy Baronet tor such aspersions as the to:lowing :
_4, While we DETEST and loath tier • Francis IhOatCit, {slide
we would TU AMPLE UPONHI n for his folse, hose, and inso-
lent insinuation!: :tad assertions respecting his and our :'ore-
reig.n, we are, it' C. It is to be snre subsequently asset ted
in rite sonic work, that the man niio iiould liken the dia.
ractier of tat Gies to that of the rirlions and patriotic
Sir Francis, also deserved to 11C d upon. thit then
the I:Merit:id for years been branded as a person to be de-
tested and loathed ; as a false, base, and insolent reviler of
his Soverviv,n. Strout:: reposse:sr.ns most accordingly
have been formed aganist hied ; and the probability is that
the antidote %timid WI into the hands of hut few of those
who had originalk swallow ert the poUion.
It is to the inordinate seq:sl!tres,. of Mr. Cobbell, that we
would at present chiefly wish to direct the attention of our
reat'els ; for it P 4 tt.at no selfish man can he a
patriot ; pat riot ism implying a disregard of private advan-
tage for the sake of the general good. The object of these
remarks, however, most intrepidly prefers an ('A c:uxite
claim to pubhe ; he arrogantly assumes a superiority
in honesty and dis;nterestedness over nil his con-tempo-
rarity; while it would be no very difficult task to shen that
his actions are, with undeviating consistency, directed tit
the attainment of pecuniary profit: that wealth is the cen-
tre of his system, round which he moves is nu sere PlTCP-
tric °Att. `So mall, perhaps, has, at this moment, 59
happy a knack at attracting public attention to his pro-
jecls, or at securing. patronage without seeming to seek it.
It Abstrnetedlv o.ls ' !