The National Register.
London, England, 1811-01-06 00:00:00

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Mr. MADiSON'S Message has at last been made
public. It contains the usual account of the rela-
tions existing between the United States and
European Powers; and although it alludes to the
promise made by France of rescinding the Milan
and Berlin. Decrees, and to the refusal of our Go-
vernment to repeal our Orders in Council, unless the
operation of the French Decrees should have first
entirely ceased, it does not breathe any sprit of
hostility against either party, but maintains a
strict neutrality which the PRESIDENT may think
dignified, but which will, generally, be deemed
the offspring of timidity. The state of the coun-
try is represented as most nourishing, notwithstand-
ing the unjust spoliation of its trade, and the re-
venue as far exceeding the expences of the year.
The attention paid to military objects, however,
betrays an expectation of approaching hosti-
lities : and as improvements in the arming,
organization, and discipline of the Militia, are
pointedly particularised, it is natural to suppose
that the American Government contemplate a land
campaign with a Power which still possesses territo-
ries in the vicinity of the United States, as by no
means impossible or improbable.
Private letters state, that a negociation had been
carried on at Paris between the French Govern-
ment and Gen. ARMSTRONG, before the Duke of
CADORRIS letter had been transmitted to the Presi-
dent, and that the Proclamation issued by the latter
was founded on the informationhe had then received,
and which announced that the Rambouillet Decree
should be repealed ; all American vessels freely ad-
mitted into French ports, and all confiscated
property restored, as soon as Congress should have
revoked the Act which imposes a penalty on the
contravention of the Non-Intercourse Laws. All
American goods were also to be received in ex-
change for the produce of the French soil and in-
duiltry.

Dispatches were received from Lord Wellington,
on Sunday, dated the 17th ult. which appears in
Tuesday's Gazette. There have been some trifling
affairs of advanced posts, but nothing particular
has lately occurred at head-quarters, and the main
hostile armies retain the same positions which they
respectively occupied at the date of the former of-
ficial, apices, . The Lisbon Papers state, that in a
late attack upon the Isle of Leon, near Cadiz, the
enemy were defeated, with immense loss, but the
particulars of this important affair are not yet
known.
- ' French Papers to the 27th ult. arrived on Wed-
nesday. Those of the 23d contain a long and un-
interesting detail of the operations of the French
armies in Spain, during the latter end' of October
and the whole of November ; but they dO not gp-
pear to have been followed by any important con-
sequences. .The-ltioniteur holds out the hope of
`the speedy.ledtittion of Cadiz ; but we have the
itatisfactiou FOicnow that the measures of defence
tare fully commensurate with the most active efforts
of the enemy.
The annual Expose of the state of the French
Empire was Lid before the Conservative &flaw, on

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