The National Register.
London, England, 1809-12-03 00:00:00

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meat inaght with at i uantity of arms on boaq; o Vie
as,istauce of the insurgents. It is now known, Gentlemen,
that tea thousand men, sent from this country, would have
raise the whole of the North of Germany; saved the un-
fortunate Scrum.; decided, perhapS, the fortune of the war;
and so convinced was Colonel Scaiu. of the co-operation
of a British army, that when a body of Danes, who are, in
like manner clothed in red uuiformS, were detached against
him, he considered them the long expected auxiliaries ;
op .nc:l to them the gates .of Sp.alsnnil, and was mas-
sacred with all his followers ! This we, the first evil
cousequeuce of our never-ceasing preparations;--the
delay deprived freedoio of one` of most ardent vo-
taries, and the world of one of its greatest men! The
preparations were announced. at last, as completed ;
but during the preceding bustle, the Cabinet forgot
to nominate a Geheral. The 'disputes upon this
portant subject consumed two weeks more; and though
tl?e Public strongly objected to the wisdom of the Choice,
nevertheless, from their impatience to see thin 'armament
sail, they were unwilling to cavil even about this nomina-
tion. But some invidious power seemed tolkwart all the
projects of our hopeful Ministers; and, when the diflieulty
of the appointment was, at lasi got over ; our troops Were em-
barked, and every thin°. was in'a state of readiness ; in that
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moment, so ardently and impatiently wished for, the wind
became suddenly unfavourable, which had been propitious
for a considerable time before, and continued, with the
most perverse obstinancy., to hlOw inthat direction. In the
interval, the petrifying account of the Battle of Virags raM and
of the Armistice arrived ; and the Public were dreadfully
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awakened from their dream of glory and conquest to the
rfilicUteOf their own' situation, and to theiniorrigible stu-
pidity
of a Junto of trifling, restless, dilatory and impro-
vident blockheads. To complete this mid farce, the expedi-
tion, when it could render no service in the North of Europe,
in the way of diversion, or conquest, sailed from our shores.
And whither -to Spain utidoubtecHY. • Niai but mark, Gen-
tlemen, the inconceivable ignorance of the Cabinet—it
was ordereil to proceed to Zealand ; where, in the event of
tie greOest success, it could not answer aotirPple, worth
t►►© equipment of the fifth part of the f wee that was em-
ployed. The consequences were worthy, of the plan, and
the plan worthy the heaflti O4T,4 which it emanated.(JO
sign h3s,lkccil OfftrO.yo I our name 40414; and, for
this immense sacrifice of lives, . money and honour, what
havO•we o.4ned, or what tiave we perforniect ? I blush 'to
qAinp it,re have piped and'
_pOrfortneci nothing
I am as little inclined, dentktnen, to gloomy anticipa-
tions, and haye as little superstitious terror about me,.
as
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any man breathing ; but 'whenever I look to oiir history
fur bp last eighteen menkhs, I feel an unutterable anxiety
about the future. -There is no fatality in human affai.e.
-They prosper, when directed by Wisdom "; and are *blasted
by folly, irresolution, and iporance. OUrs h'ave been in-
variably ill conducted for years ; and. the cause 1 have
ready accounted for.. you are going, Gentlemen, to pass
some resolutions relative to the greatest and most. ignoini-
pious of all our disasters. Fix your eyes as you enter the
Hall, on the statues onion,' Cia.inam and Mr. B r.ca Fenn
sind let the memory of -their tivc virtues,` and deserved
immortality, stimulate your abhorrence of a system of
irefligacy, they so successfully Combated and exposed ;
and to Which I have no hesitation ih imputing the disgrace-
-911 issue of our meat //expeditious. .

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tOtteb-h•-iNTELLIckArts.

FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS.

As this paper (the Rotterdam Courant) was golog to
press, we received Paris Journals aird letters of the 17th
instant. They are chiefly tilted with accounts of the ad-
dresses presented to the Emperor, by numerous Deputa-
tions, and his answers thereto. is answer to an address
from a Deputation of Romans, was to tile following
effect

"MESSIEURS,EICPUTIES OF TIIE DEPARTMFNTS Of Rohr;!
--My mitt(' is filled with remembrances of your ancestors. The
first time that I pass tne Alps, 1. will itta!‘e same ,tai in your
city. The French Lmperors, my prrtieressors, had sepvrated
you. from territory of the Empire, and iosigned your collo; y as
tieft to your Bishops. But the welfare of in people lax ion•
,:,er admits of any Ili baNilM hatever. France anti Italy oeul.t be
completely united under the some system Besides, you had
need of a powerful hand. I feel a particular satisfaction' in be-
ing your heat:factor. But it k not my inteulimi that there
shall he any the least chauile made in the rctigiuu of our fa; hers.
I, the eldest sun of the Church, will not depart from ner bosom.
Jesus Christ did out deem it necessary to invest :7.dint Pewr
a secular bupresuacy. Your See, the first of Christendom; shall
remain such. Your Bishop is the spiritual head of the Churct„
io like manner as tam its Caesar. 1 give to God that which ig
God's, to {;tear that which is Caesar's.

liUuA, OCT. 26.—The official report of the battle of
%Vagrant, and lite events which led to the armistice, is at
present 'in the pre ii. it states the lois Sustained by Cie
Austrian army betneen the sth And 12th of July, at f ur
elenerals, I.At inferiOr Officers,' 0601' priraies,'intid 2 j 35
horses, t 1$ Generals,' 4320 inferior; 11,940 prirstes,
acid f 912 horses, wounded; and 1 t i officers, 7 414 psi • rtes
and 253 horses, missing. -
3lurrion, osr. 10.--On the 4th inst. General the Count
of 'Edon, Drouet, issued 'a Proclamation at lasi ..uck,
stating; that Andrew duffer had sent in his suhmiss im in
writing, inforniing him at the same time, of his hAting
given orders to the misted inhabitants of the Tyrol to re.
,iirtit&tbeir bottles, tO lay doWit their twins; and to con-
fide in the promise given them by Napoleon of proeuring
'atunesty f them. The Proelitimittoit then goes oa
to -state, that as all pretence for perievering in reiist-
ance is thus talsta away, every one of inhabAsals
found in arms, after the lapse of 24 hours, shall be put to
deAth as a highwayman : and all Officers civil a..d initaary,
are strietly'eivjoined to see this order carried into executi,..ni.
Intelligence having been .received that one Zeggerlea
had assumed Iltdtitle conthiiinder, and *as again gtir-
rill* up the" inhabitants of the Zillerthali and the Pinzitgan.
to insurrection, orders were forwarilek: to Major-General
Count Minticci to proceed • to [tie with his bri-
gade Cpst had come from Salkbi;rg. i!e ads: wed on the
otit. 'At the distance of a iitiai-ter of a league Iruiii .!itl.
the troops .cable insight Of the insurgt.iits, uho tierce post.
eddii both Sidts Of' the valley, from hid) they ;Ait tip a
litea*e,? Are to prevent the colnina From tuarchilit;; along dm
Which was blocked tip in various parts. Tito 3.1
regiment .of infantry of Doke Charles, carried their en_
tittichment with their usual' g,allantry, made invinse.is •
toasters of khe heights on both s.des, rani took I.ossotiNioi,
of Zill. insurgents, ;hough 4000 strohg, tie!' with
eonsidprable loss to the e,,viroits cis alityrlma. Our loss
eonsil'ed of 4 killed and 19 17;111111(1es%
• Major-Gcueral Cowl Yost B(ker's procectilt in the di-.
rection of Steinarh, on the 7th, with the 7th regiment
of infantry. Fra Roche's battalion of intantry, a
squadron of casal;•v, awl hall* a hatters of attlilletv. Just
as he approlched Matrey, he was attacked in ;4'<itii, and int
. both his flanks, by the insurgents, who kept up a heavy
fire upon the column. The troops, hot, ever, gairied pos-
session of the heights of Matrey, aild prfbcoedell ;flung
them as far as Steinach ; anti the lvsJrgeuts, who .weAt
latent 1600 strung, rclvcatt They, neverthclots, seemed