The National Register.
London, England, 1814-01-09 00:00:00

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the Duke de GItAMMONT and heir to t'le title of. that fa.
silly, originally coming from Bern. This young nobleman
has been in the town of Guiche, and some others in Bern,
previims.to his coming to.this country,• which, probably; in-
dorsed LORI WELLINGTON to make him the healer of his
dispatch, to apprise our Minis:cis of the dispo,ition-of the
inh.thitants of that part of France where our army now is.
The Duke dc GR A twMONT was Captain of the Lie
(CarileS du Cops) of LEwis the XVI th, and hohis now the
same situation in the service of LEWIS the XVVIth.

NV:IS4ION O 1 FRANCE.
Naroleon's &Now; of universal empire have not only va-
nished, hot the lea! power which he so long possessed is
quickly departing from his gia,p. The Crown of Old Vrance
itself sits toosc!v on his brow, and at the moment when her
provinces are imaded, the alternately desponding, threaten-
ing, and encouraging Avrirings of his A g.,nts, pro e that all
patr.otic spirit has been crushed by the weight of his despot-
ism, :rod that if disaffection to his person does not already
display itself, general apathy at least pievails. Let s..ver
address to the people, as well as his answer to the •".e-
-ita,te,. and the sin ech of the Ptesident, Fontanes, he read,
4,% en in the most eursory wanner, and the real dis-
position of the French will be cleat iv
ascertained. "le
hopes of mankind arc filiftiled, and the hour of venge,o,ce
st; k. Two hundred thousand Allies have crossed the
i'ppt'rnhime, and whilst cro•sing Switzerland to invade the
let tit()) l• s ► f the common enemy, have rus!ond lc that coon-
try het lights, her lihe:ty, and her ancient constitution.
conduct on their part, cannot fail to pro•luce some
effect on the minds of Napo,eili's sl.tves It will prove
.their ass rricin that their .object is not ((inquest but to
zeinsi ate tint ions in their ancient possesions. The cue-
pl)'s chief t e,-oiqrce,. is now to endeavour to pUrsWide
ltiy peoole that the dismemberment of Fr anee is the
!oily cod of the present contest but the French believe
thr, when they sue that in Spain, in (,;rt man v, and, in
Jithal d, the A!lies hove only tuconqucti:d the country to
.givv it back to •its legitimate Sovereigns. It the king of
.Fax tiv has ly cn ditreiently treated, it is bec:oise the (keep-
,t;on of which he had cnce been guilty towards the coalesced
rowels, had rendered him unwci thy of being entrusted with
the means of a-si ;tit% the enemy.
The eklveter of the two advocates whom Napoleon

•hss seleved to defend his usurpation, may exci:e some
• surpi ise. Count Laeepede is 'a man of science and in-
formation, belonging to that class which the revolu-
tion proscribed. lie has committed no crime and belonged
'to no faction. It is on that account that Napoleon made
him President of the Senate, in erder that on occasions when
he *should demand heavy sacrifices, and iequire a passive
'beilicilce to the most tyrannical measures, the name of the
Orator of the Senate should give additional weight and au-
thority to his applicatien—Fontanes is what is generally
termed a mat) of letters. lie is one of the best poets and
litterati of modern Fiance. I. ike his colleague he enjoys
the reputation of never having. committed any crimes.
Until Buonaparte's usurpation he ra!ber leaned to the
ituti-revolutionary& party. But be is an egotist, and
ifery fond of mimey. In the first years of the Revolution,
he was one of the editors of the Journal Monarchique. Dur-
ing Roberspierre's government he only tried to cause himelf
to be firgotteni and only re-entered the scene when the two
Councils opposed} the Directory. lie was then joint editor
pith Mr. De la Ilarpe and Abbe de Vauscelles of a paper in

- JAN. -9.

the interest of the Couricils. lie was consequently pro-
scribed on the Isar of Fructidor, left France and came .to
England, where he was well received by the agents
of the Bourbon Princes. By the- direction of • the
Count d'Artois he received three or four hundred pounds.
From London he applied to be allowed to return • to
France, which he obtained leave secretly to do, by
the interest of the Director Rewbell, and of the Deputy.
Before he quitted Eng!and he transmitted proposals to Lord
Grenville, then Secretary of State, in which he offered to
give secret information respecting the state of the national
treasury, and of the navy, .in France. Lord Gren7ille be-
ing at Dropmore, these proposals were sent round to Mr.
Wickham, but nothing was done, as Mr. pentanes could
not defer his departure until the Minister had formed
determination. The speech of this Gentleman is consistent
with his character. If it he attentively examined. it will
appear that of a man who foresees the possibility of the re-
storation of the Bourbons, an 4 is willing, in that ca%e, to
secure some employment' for himself under their Govern.

Two mails from Bremen and one from Heligoland arrived
on Wednesday night, by the former of which we have an
account published he Fran/fin-1 Gazette, of an insurrec.
lion in Tvrol agaiin.t the Bavaiian authorities. Inspruck
had been tAen by storm by the insurgents.—A Proclama-
tion to the Tuvolese, issued by Baron Von' Lichetifeld, dated
Inspruck, 12th Dec. states, that the object of the Insur-
gents in the Tyrol was to withdraw from Bavaria, and place
themselves under Austria.—The Heligoland maihstates, that
Gluckstadt is cannonaded by the Crown Prince : its fall
cannot be long delayed and it appears by what folli4S, that
the ulterior operations will carry the Crown Prince to the
South.—General Winzingerode is said to have been ()Meted
to march to Dusseldorf; and part of I.ntzeirs corps has like-
wise taken the same direction, in order to collect materials
for the passage of the Rhine by the whole of the Prince
Royal's army.—The must sevete measures of police have been
adopted
.at Ilamburgh. A meeting of more than six Fersons
in the day-time, in the streets, is declared an unlawful assem-
bly. The moment a is filed, every person in the streets
" must run into the neat'est house, and the patrole ate cm-
powered to disperse even the smal!vst meetings.
The Crown Prince of Sweden has issued a Proclamation,
addiesscd to the inhabitants of Holstein, in which it is an-
nounced, that the treaties between the Allies having stipulated
the jun( time of Norway to the Kingdom of Sweden, (certain
Compnsatioos being fixed for Denmark) he occupies Huh.
stein as a pledge for the due cession of Norway to the Swe-
ll dish Crown.
The Allies are said to have offered to Buonaparte, previ-
ous to the revolution in Holland, that the Rhine should be
the boundary of France ; that the United States of Holland
should be erected into an independent kingdom, of which
Louis Buonaparte should be Sovereign ; that-Murat should
give up Naples, and be indemnified-by a Government com-
posed of the ancient Bishopricks on the Rhine ; that Italy
should be portioned out into various districts for Eugene
Beauharnoi;, the Archduke Francis, &c. atsd that the Pope
and the King of Naples should be reinstated—Spain to be
restored to Ferdinand—and Joseph to have an indemnity,.&C.
Thursday dispatches were received from tho. Rhine,
Holland, and the South of France. The two former confirm
the intelligence of the passage of the Rhine by the Allies,
with the important .addition of the accession of Switzerland
to the great cause of Europe.
The Eat' of Ym.mtiutli•arrived yesterday morning from
the Russian head-quarters on the Waal..