The National Register.
London, England, 1808-09-11 00:00:00

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The PROPRIETORS of the NATIONAL RZGISTEIt are in posses-
sion of an Authentic and Correct PORTRAIT of
GENERAL JUNOT. rril:
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It is their intention to GIVE it with the Paper
ON SUNDAY NEXT, SEPTEMBBR 18, 1808.
Orders should be immediately sent to the Newsmen, or to the
Office, No. 11, Catherine-street, Strand.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Laotian,
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1808.

POLITICIL EVENTS OP TIER WEEK.. • .4N
There has not been of late a week so barren of foreign
intelligence, and never one, perhaps, in which the public
were more disposed to anticipate important occurrences.
Speculation is consequently active and officious to account
for this disappointment. In the mean time floating ru-
mours, vague, unfounded and absurd, arc occasionally cir-
culated to offend, if not to gratify, the public feeling. In
on paper it is gravely asserted, that a difference of -opi-
nion has been manifested by our Generals in Portugal, re-
lative to their future operations : in another we are grati-
fied with the information that the Hero of Vimiera is re-
turning home, in consequence of Sir HEW DALRYMPLE'S
Laving taken the command. We will not insult the un-
derstandings of our Readers by adverting to the imbecility
or malice of these reports : We will only contrast their
dull, discouraging speculations, with the gay, fascinating
accounts of the Parisian Journals. In this we behold the
characteristic traits of the two nations. Our Journalists,
for having been disappointed, only a few days, of another
Gazette Extraordinary to fill up their columns, grow grave,
sullen, and gloomy, and, in the midst of the public felicity,
ponder over imaginary evils. Not so our light-hearted,
amiable brethren on the other side of the channel ! In the
midst of their reverses, when every post brings them an
account of the surrender of one of their fleets, the destruc-
tion of an army, the loss of a kingdom and a fugitive So-
vereign, when, from every quarter of their vast empire,
new symptoms of alarm forbode still greater disasters, they
fill up their pagei with brilliant descriptions of balls, festi-
vals, and illuminations. Senators and Generals, kings
and Princes, Queens and Duchesses, trip on " light fan-
tistic toe," promiscuously through the mazes of their ani-
mated quadrilles. Even the savage NAPOLEON forgets his
ferocity, and mixes with the joyous throng. Happy peo-
ple ! and still happier innovation 1 It were fortunate for
yourselves and your neighbours that you had sooner felt
the sting of the tarantula. But vain is this triumph and
this ostentation on the part of your wary Tyrant. This
condescension and this affected gaiety, but ill conceal the'
gnawing, vindictive feelings of his ferocious bosom. These
splendl feasts, and the jealous watchful eye of the police,
may contribute some time longer to conceal from his good
city of Paris, the portentous revolution in his affairs. The
more pains are taken, the more falsehoods are accumu-
lated, the more vigorous the precautions, the more mor-
tifying it will be to his lawless pride, when his miserable
subterfugei and his disgraceful discomfiture are discovered.
His good citizeus of Paris, whatever revolution a series of
"Imes and public callosities, or a succession of naOAster.,

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