The National Register.
London, England, 1813-04-11 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. .

enemy still continued in possession of the new. It was
thought, however, that they must soon be dislodged. Some
disturbances have taken place at Dresden, in consequence
of precautionary measures adopted by the French, in mining
the bridge which connects the two towns. Large reinforce-
ments of troops were marching to join the Russian Grand
Army. No less than 55,000 infantry and 42,000 cavalry,
had arrived on the Vistula on the 6th of March.

Various reports circulated towards the latter end of the
week have disappointed our hopes. The first stated the
capture of Dantzic by storm, the second an insurrection
among the sailors at Antwerp, by whom the fleet had
been surrendered to our cruisers. Both rumours were un-
founded.

A Cadiz Mail arrived yesterday, but contained nothing
of importance.
Dispatches were on Friday received from the Marquis of
LL LINGToN, the substance of which was in the course of
the afternoon communicated in the following official
Bulletin:—

DFPATtTIITrNT, April 9, Irl3.

" Dispatches received from the Marquis of WELt.txctorr, dated
Frenada, the 24th March, and from Colonel 800 ED dated Corunna,
April 1.
'' Lord N 070 N reports, that nePrly all the French troops Imvo
been withdrawn from La Mancha, and the Army of the South is
concentrated betwten Talavera, Madrid, and Toledo.
• "The Army of the C.ntre has moved towards the Diotro, and
Lord %V ELT., rots believes that JOSLPII BUUNA PA Rn.: quitted
Aladrid on the 17th Maid'.
Colonel BotracE repurttt, that the second division of the Ariay of
Portugal. composed of the 25th, '''7lll. 50th, and 59,11. regi,oents.
-fish had w•senibled hastily at Valladolid, have marched for Burps,
accompanied by the 640, and the skeletons of uther regiments bum
Toledo.
" The enemy's garrison at Leon is diminished. and in Zamora tlicy
are seiling the grain stoic-. The French ate threatening kiilboa, and
threaten to attack Gistro."
Mut sday arrived a mail from Heligoland, bringing Ham-
burg Correspondent ens, and letters from Hamburgb, to the
SSth tilt. ; papers from Berlin to the 24th ult. shortly after'
the latter came to the hands t f Government, the following
Bulletin was issued:—

" WA It DEPARTMENT ATM it 8, 1813.
"A dispatch has been reefivei trout the Lieutenant Governor of
Beligoland, dated the Soth f March.
• "It appears that of the detachment of Veterans Fent by Colonel
NA3111.70 N .to Cuxhaven, a party, consisting ot one Lieutenant, three
seatjeants, and ‘,!5 mein, had marched to Breinerlee to occupy the
battery at that olace, and afford some support to theinsurgent pea-
santry. The enemy appears to have collected a force efb or 6,000
nen at Bremen ; and on the ltlt a detachment of about 700
earthed with rapidity upon Brernerlee, dispersed the peasants, and
fired the bridr, which was bravely defended by a part of the Bth
Veteran Battalion, under Lieutenant BAUMIESTER. This officer
*with nor 14 of his men, were killed. The enemy then attacked
the battery where the rest of the Veterans, and a body of peasants,
were stationed. These people capitulated, in the hope of saving
their lives.. The French spared six or seven of the British veteran,,
but ma.sacred every one of the peasants. They then pillaged the
town, and returned hastily to Bremer,.
The French sustained some loss in forcing the bridge, 24 of the
Veterans, and about as many ot the peasants, where lost in this
affair.

Ti►e Russians appear to have pn'hctl some Cow,lcks towards
Bremerlee, and it was reported that Count WITTGENSTIEN had
crossed the Elbe in force. "

The following Bulletin was shewn on Sunday at St. James's
Palace :—" Windsor Castle, April 3. —His Majesty has
been almost uniformly under a slight degree of excitement
since the last monthly report."
Earl MoiRA has left town for the Isle of Wight, where he
will embark immediately for the fast

'APRIL 1?.

The French Papers contain a report mul, by the Duke of
BAQSANO to the Conservative Senate, on the Ist iustant re-
lative to the defection of Prussia. The tune of docu-
ment marks the excessive irritation of 13u0t% AP A RTE in the
strongest manner. It begins by asserting am, he would
have dethroned the King of Pausst A in 1807, but for the
urgent entreaties of the Emperor ALEX AN DER; and that he
only spared him on condition that Ru-sia sin 'd go to war
with England " It then goes on, lndicrntt rnongh, to
speak of the favours heaped on the be•d of that catch;
details the events which have recent' y taken pl.,ce; c,)m;,lains
of ingr:.titude, and concludes in the following manner.:—

" At length, on the tat Nla.en, the Prq•.l4l Gr.strnmeta
consummated by a Treaty with Riiss:a what C•enerai i).Yotk had
commenced. It was on the 17th of Marc:, Weslaw, arid !Le
(27th at Pa:is, that the Ministers of the uf Prussia officiAv
announced their Master's having made common cause with the
enemy.
66 Timm Pntssia declared war against your Majesty .1) rilurn for
the Treaty ofTilsit,whieh replaced the King on the tbr,uh, and for
the Treaty uf Paris, which admitted him to cu., ainai:f•-• '
WednesJav morning the expedition fn' A iJel ica sailed
from Plymouth, with a fine breeze a 7 s•immt,m east. It consiits
of the Diadem, of 6 t nuns ; Diomede, of 50 ~yin-; Romu-
lus, of 44 guns; Nemesis, Fox, and !..4nrces, 'and
Mariner rocket-ship, having on board two battalions of.rot-
rines, some companies cf artillery, at,d a ‘ete!;,n ha.rtalksts,,
One vessel (the Mariner) has a large of CongtevrY.4
rockets on board. It is under.tood thAt attetnp s wilt be
made, immediately on their arrival in America, to born'
some of the enemy's sea-ports. Time whole will touch *-
Cork.

Th" memoirs of a celebrated Marchioness, that is announc-
ed for publication this month, we unde!Aand, not only con-
tains the private history of this " matured Eschantrevc hnt
also lays open the secret recesses of a house not an hula,' ed
miles from Pall Mall. .t will in teality be a feast for the fashion-
able world.
A letter from St. Gall, Switzerland, dated the 18th ult.
says—
" We learn, from Constance, that a frightful calamity threat-
ens the town of Überlingern For room than right days it was per-
ceived that the ground upon the borders of the lake had sunk, and
this plienonienmn was amionnved in a manner so alarming, that the
in!nihitants, after having seen• ed their tie, fled from their dwel-
lings. This presentiment of dancer has been realized : on the 16th
and lith inst. J 3 houses gradually sunk into this abyss, and disap-
peared. On the lf.:th, theOolvent cfCapuchins, so weir known for
it, hospitable reception of travellers and strangers, merged into the
abyss 14 feet, and threatened to disapppcar gradually trout sight.
Other houses ha% e sluice sunk many fill. Ey: ry one under the
greatest alarm. It is kared that the whoie town touches the 1110111eLl t
of its destruction.