The National Register.
London, England, 1813-02-07 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

disturbance might be allayed by very simple means. All
the mi,fortnnes of the Grand Army aye said to have been
stated in the 29th Bulletin, white only noticed the loss of
PAartivioi's division, consisting of 2.300 men. This
bring the state of the case, if BUoN AP MITE were to direct
all his men to write to their friends, it do more ►owards
tranquillising the good citizens, than his tpsertion that the
retersbergh Reports are "faise, eery false !"
The alarm excited by the news from the North has been
an peat, that it has actually been found necessary to call
upon the French Officers to give a contradiction to the Rus-
sian accounts, and letters have accordingly been written to
this effect by BEACH ARNO iS, D A VOU!:T. and NEY. BEAC-
H ARNO is says, " 1 know that the Russian statements are
quite false." This is very satisfactory, but he will tell his
mother, the repudiated JOSEPHINE, another story. DA.-
VOCST has read the Peter burgh papers with astonishment,
and, far from having been beaten, asserts that be never met
the enemy but he defeated him ;. and NEY, giving a formal
contradiction to the Russian accounts, boasts of having take❑
an Officer prisoner, who was sent to him with n fag, of truce.
" All the Russian repot is are romance::," and in spring he
says the Russians ' will evert• where find the men of Auster-
, litz, of Eylau, of Friedland, of Witcpsk, of Smelensko, of the
IVloskwa, and of the Bereina." el'his tcue. They wilt
every where find th, ,n, when the return of spring dissolves
the veil of snow which now hides their rotting carcases. If
the conviction of .tl►is can give*coinfort to the good, though
somewhat disturbed, citi:.eus of France and Germany, let
them enjoy it.

RECONCILIA LION BEM TAY ON APARTE AND THE POPE.
The annexation of Romc and the Papal States to France,
during the campaign lso9, extended the territories whilst
it really diminished the influence of NAPO L BON. Till then
he had been anxious to appear as the restorer of religion.
On becoming posse se(l of the Consular power, he had closed
the temples of the T hcop I i lan th I opes and other philosophi-
cal sects, had recalled the banished priests, and opened the
churches to the w(,p,hip of the Christian God. When he
assumed the Imperial Crown, he had recourse to the same
artifice to s‘nclion his usurpation, and it was only after he
thought his throne firmly established by the victories of
1805, 6, and. 7, that he dropped the mask, openly discarded
his pretended reseect for the Head of the Roman Church,
deprived him of his temporal sovereignty, and reduced him
to the condition of a prisoner of state. This conduct eradi-
rated from the mind of the Catholics, who, in the destroyer
of temporal Papacy, immediately thought they recognised
-ANTicii ars r, all sentiment of dutiful obedience. Hypo-
crisy revealed, grows too hideous to be tolerated. Hence
NAPOLEON created additional enemies among his own sub-
jects, and afforded fresh grounds for hostile opposition, to
the Catholic population of other countries. In vain were
'the French clergy bribed ; the refusal of the Pope to ratify
`the Imperial divorce and the new alliance with the daughter of
the House of AUSTRIA, as well as the bull of.excommunica-
lion generally believed to have been issued against NA PO-
.II, EON, although disarmed, by the dread of his power, of their
full effect, yet undermined his influence, and spread dissatis-
faction so far, that loud murmurs • broke out against his
apostacy, and secret plots were formed in every quarter to
-overturn his authority. To give a different vent to this
turbulent spirit, after two yeari of fear and indeciSion, he
Undertook the Russian campaign,' relying on a new series of
triumphs and conquests to restore the tottering stability of
ed Ir' hopes, by the de

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,his allies, and compelled to call upon his discontented sub-
jects for fresh levies, he felt at last the impolicy of his
conduct towards the Pope. This Pontiff, who had been led
from Italy to Fontainbleau, to be placed beyond the reach of
rescue, was unexpectedly visited by NAPOLEON and MARIA
Louisa. The proud Emperor is said to have humbled him-
self to obtain forgiveness, and the sanction of the Pope to his
marriage. lie probably urged that the unequalled dangers behad
lately run, the sudden annihilation of a most powerful army
' which made him exclaim in his address to the Senate, "De-
struction comes in a moment ?" and the disappointment of
all his plans, since his injurious treatment of the head of
the Roman Church, had removed his blindness and struck
him with repentance. Ile, no doubt, lavished professions
and promises, and the aged Pontiff, assailed by the entreaties
of the EMPRESS, and the supplicatiGns of a host of Car-
dinals and Archbishops collected for that purpose, yielded
after six days' resistance, and signed a new Concordat, the
terms of which at e not yet publicly known, but in which
he probably revokes his sentence of excommunication, sane-
, tions IleosiaP attTe's divorce and marriage, and consents
to crown his son Emoeror of France and King of Italy, a
measure which NAPOLEON has been preparing ever since
his return, and which seems indicative of his intention to
rene.- the campaign in person, and of his apprehension that
it siti:l prove decisive of his fate. In return for these con •
cessions, the POPE will perhaps be allowed 'to hold the for-
mer seat of his sovereignty as a fief depeodent on the infant
King of ROME, and to resume some part of the temporal
I s:alc of which had been 'deprived. It is possible, too, that
1
he may have been cajoled into an appeal to Catholic Princes
and subjects, to rise against the Russians as enemies of their
faith, and that BUONAP Al re despairing of support other-
wise, may attempt to procure it., by causing a crusade to be
preached against the " Barbarians of the North, their sa-
vage costume, long beards and ridiculous customs t"

Advices from Copenhagen observe, that a friendly inter-
course will be immediately re-established between Great Bri-
tain and Denmark. Count SANTI has proceeded from
Stockholm to Copenhavn ; and his mission is supposed to
relate to measures of very important consequence. Even
between the Courtc of Berlin and Hesse Darmstadt there is
an interchange of Ambassadors Extraordinary. The Elec-
tor of llEsse was stripped by BUONAPARTE of the greatest
part of his dominions, for adhering to Prussia in the last war
which she sa unfortunately waged against France, and this
renewal of intercourse between the two PRINCES, is an evi-
dent proof that they-set the future enmity of BUONAPARTE
at defiance.
Letters from Berlin advert in the most confident terms to
the revival of trade, and particularly to an extensive com-
merce to Silesia and Germany. Colonial produce was in
very great demand throughout the whole of the adjacent
country.
Two mails arrived from Gottcnburgh on Tuesday, but no
official advices have been received from Lord CATHCART.
The accounts brought from St. Petersburgh by the mails are
not of so late a date as those previously
rcei received from his
s
Lordship. Government have, however, ved dispatch
from Stockholm to the 20th ult. The surrender of General
glom( was but imperfectly known in that city, and it was
reported there, probably without foundation, that 6000 of
MACDONA LD'S corps had laid down their arms at Inter-
burgh, and that the King of Naples (Mutt AT), having col-
lected about 7000 or 8000 of the fugitives from Konigs-
burgh, ordered them to proceed and assist the retreat of
ed Al di' -,ed

his power. Totally disappointed in his hopes, by the oe. uzucacia
struction of bis grand army, apprehending the defection o MAcDONALD, but they refused, tuutinied, and dispersed.