The National Register.
London, England, 1811-07-14 00:00:00

At R.

the Pont•du-Bone, is one third part executed. That which cuts
the peninsula of aretany, in jqining die.Ronce to La Vilains,
now giant on. , The Cane of illOuef, which joint NaPuleea=
vile to L'Orient.' and which will ores day lead from NapoleosSfr
vale to 13rest, is almost
ROADS.
The report states that the rew roads have already brought
Turin 36 burrs wearer Paris: Milan 50 hours: Bayonne and
Spain 18t M.tyence and (.:;erniAny 124 whilst others are open-
ing in other directions. It also mentions the construction or
bridges at Bourdeaux, Rouen,_ Aviztiom aid Turin. The
works at Paris consist of new fountains, the completion of a
second gallery uniang the Louvre and the Thuiller es; and the
cOnsCruttion St three new bridges:

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• MARINE.
We have lost Guadalaupe and the Isle of !ranee. The wish
to relieve these colonic* would have been no sufficient reason for
trying tQ send out our squadrons in .the state of relative inferi-
ority in wiiicti they are.
Since the aimeotion of Holland, that country bas furnished
us with 1,000 stamen, and 13 ships of the line. We have con-
sideralile fleets in the Scheldt and At Toulon. Squadrons of
ships of the line, more or less etrong', are in the different ports,
and 15 ships on the stocks at Antwerp. Every thing there is so
arranged as .to add every year a great number of ehlps.of war to
our squadron in the Scheldt. Twp ships of the line are building
at Cherhou-gh ; and the magazines of timber, add other mate-
rials of every kind, are there so considerable, that we may put
five on the stocks before the close of 1811. L'Orient, Roche
fort, and 'Toulon, have all their frames occupied. Numerous
ships are constructing at Venice,
Naples ought, in poretiance of treaties, to have this year FliX
ships of the line, aid sit frigates. That kingdom has them not;
but its Government will be convinced, of the necessity of repair-
ing Of; negligence.
Our resources, our interior oavigatioo, are sufficient to ,ad=
vance the vaierFoi part of our marine to the sanle point as that
of our enemies.. •
The experiments made of a maritime conscription have suc-
ceeded. Young men of 18, 19, anti. 20, tent on hoard our
ships, display the best inclination, and are rapidly forming..
The frequent sorties of °dr squadrons, the cruising oil tluecoaet;
the evolutions of our fleets and flotillas iu the luyeler Zee, the
Scheldt, and in our roads, have enabled our young conscripts t*
make a progre.ss Which justifies our entertaining the best hopes.
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In one year the greater part of the strong places in Spain have
been taken, after sieges which do honour to the genius of the,
artillery Of the Freoch army. More than 900 colours, Brd,ooQ
prisoners; and hundreds of piecei of .cannon,, have been taken
from the Spaniarde in a number of pitched Jeattles. .This war
was 'retying to its close, wile.. Englund, deriartiug from het
usual policy, came to present herself iii the (One line. , It is
easy to foresee the result of this struggle, and to conipzeheod all
its effects upon the destiny of the world.
The population of England not being.able. to suffice for the
occupation of the two Indies,:nl Arnerita; pied of a *ley of
establishments in the Mediterranean ; for .the defence of Ire-
land, and of her own coasts; for garrison*, and the manning
of her immense fleets; for the consuMptioh of men in an ob-
stinate war, supported against France on the Spanish Peoinsui4
the chances are greatly on our side, and rnglind hall placed her
self between the ruin of her kopulation, if she persists in sup.
porting this war, or digrace if she ahand6ns it, after hiving put
herself forward so strongly.
France has 900,000 men under arms; and while neW forces,
new qrniies march into Spain to combat there cur eternal
enemies, 100,000 men, 50,000 horses, remain in our interibri or
on our coasts, ready to march in defence of our rights Where:vet
they shall be menaced.
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The Continetital System, which is follotved up with
.04.
greatest constancy, saps the trains of the finances of England.---
Already her exchange loses 33 per cent. her colonies are destke.
titute of outlets for their produce; the greater part of her manu-
factories are shut; and the Continental System has only jusc
arisen I Followed up for ten years, it alone will destroy the re.
SsUrces of England.
Her revenues 4re inot founded on the produce of her soil, but
en tl—wroduce of the commerce of the *oral ; oven already bet
countieg-houses are half closed. The English hope in vain, that:
from the advantages of time and of events, which their
passions light up, some markets 'Will be opened to their com-
merce.
With regatc
to change in
withent maritime
ritime commerce.
upon the Continent
but should
resents a

aid to France, the, Continental System has produce 4
in her position we have been for ten years past
xitime commerce, nd we shall stiil be Without ma-
morce. The prdblbition of F.nglish merchawlize
ontinent has opened an outlet for our manufactures;
that be wanting, the consumption of the Empire
scannable ima,rket; it is for our manufacture. II

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be regulated by the
eurnerie •
• The prosperity .of the Imperial
the emerte of the universe. _
are necessary to meet the expenees ti* Empire,
suit of home-taxes, direct or indirect.• • England
milliards, in order to pay her mimes; and her proper revenue
could not furnish more than a third of it. We shall believe lila!
England will be able to support this struggle as long as we can,,
when she shall have passed several years without loans, without
the funding of Exchequer Bills, and when her payments shall
be in money, or at Lag in paper convertible at pleasure.
Every reasonable man must be convinced that France mty
remain ten years in her present state without experiencing-other
embarrassments than those she has left for the last ten years,
without augmenting her debt, and, in short meettog all her cx-
pences.
England Must every year of war borrow ado millions, which,
in ten years, will amount to eight milliards. How Is it to be.
conceived that she can contrive to support an increase of taxes'
to the amount of 400 millions, in order to meet the interest of
her debt—she who cannot meet her current expences without
Borrowing 800 millions a-year e The present financial system
of England is baseless without a peace. All the systems of
finance, founded upon loans, are in reality specific in their
nature, because borrowing is calling in aid the resources of the
future for the relief of present wants. Notwithstanding this,
the existing Administration of England has proclaimed the
principle of perpetual war; this is, as if the Chaneellor of the
Exchequer announced that he should propose, in a few years, a
Bankruptcy Bill. It is, in fact, mathematically demonstrable,
that to provide for expenditure by annual loan of SOt) millions,
is to deciare,'that In some years there will be no other re-
source but bankruptcy. This observation every day strikes
intelligent men; every campaign it will be still more striking to
the capitalists. .
V.re are now in the fourth year of the war in Spain; but still,
after some campaigns, Spain !hall be sobclued,:and the. English
shall he driven out of It. What are a 1,..w years in ofder to
consolidate the great enioire, and secure the tranquillity of our
children ? It is not that the Government doca.not wish tor
peace; but it cannot take place while the affairs of England are.
directed by -men, who all their lives have prefess-o perpetual
war; and without a guarantee, what would that peac.e be to
France ? At the cloee.of two years English fleets would seize
our ships, and would ruin our ports of Bourcleator, Nantes,
Amsterdam. Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, Venice, Naples,
Trieste, anti Handiurgh, as they ave done heretofore. Such a
pt ace-would be only a trap laid for our commerce.; it would be.
useful to England alone, who would regain an opening for her
commerce, and would change the Continental. System. The
pledge of peace is in the existence of our Beet and of our marl-.
time power. We shall be able • I make peace with safety when
we shall have 150 ships of the line ; and in spite of the obstacles
of war, such is the state of. the empire that we shall have that
nuniber of vessels ; thus theouarantee of our feet, and that of art
English A dmloistra don fon toted et) principles different from those
of the existing Cabinet, can alone skive peace to the universe...,
It wined be usefttl to us, no doubt, but it would ako be de
sirable in ofery point of-view :we shall say more, the Conti.
sent--the whole world derremds it: but we have one•censola-
doe, which is, that it isatill more desirable for eur enemies than
for ourselves; and whatever effort the English Ministry may
make to stupify the nation, by a multitude of panophlets.and by
every thing that, can keep in .action a population greedy of
news, tkey cannot conceal from the.world bow much peace be...
comes every-day More italispensahle to England, .
The Report concludes with a burst-of exultation at the birth
of the king of Rome.

PARIS, Jul.,' 3.—On Sunday the F.mpero. r and King gave au-
dience at the Thuilleriesfo his Excadtency the Duke Del Campo
D'Alange, Ambassador from the King of Spin, who-presetited
his credentials.
After this audience, the Emperor, seated on his throne, stir=
rounded by the Princes, ISilinigers, Great Officers of bb House-
hold, Members of the :num.! and Council of State,- received s
Deputation from the Legislative Body.
The Count De Montesquiou, President of the Legislative
Body, delivered the following Address :

•' SIR a—Your faithful subjects, the Deputies of Departments
in the Legislative Body, could not rcsunic their labours without.',
presenting to your 'Majesty a new tribute of their fidelity. •
44 Great provinces united to the lienpiro—immense labours''
undertaken for its prosperity and its gli)ry—all the arts employed
In embellishing our towns, and offering toetre country tuaktnisvh •
means of circtslation and abundance—such are the new. betstllts
coleitrred by your Majesty upon the people, and the particular
objects of our gratitude. We love to celebrate cone/pelts which
facilitate the relditloas v1%1,4112441 tiatiens, and the MOTU of COina

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" What enemies of our repose can Iron* happyharta
Itentidn, Sire, can pretend to rid empire over the east
the daughter of Heaven, site rejects all right; foreign to het. !ads.
lime origin ; and satisfied with gieing•to obedience a more eutii
gust character, she wishes only to be 41depp4444Qf our 'view :
and crdr vrtaknesses.•
66 Spain, feigned with being instrumentalto the hatred of our._
enemies will abandon them to their vain eforts'--then-win terti
minate ;his tinguinary contest,. 'end we have for the .pledge
our ttlintiphs the itifallible ward of your Majesty. .)
66 Sire, one only sentiment prevails in this empire, and it. Is.
your happiness that gives it birth. The august infant granted to
our wishes, and already the tenderest object of youraffeetiont
and of our hot:it:l,f th). all due hearts with the tenderness with which
yours is penetrated. He appears the happy .fulfilment.of our
destinies—the amiable connecting link of all the people of. the
Empire- the first-born of a nation which you have filled with
glory, and from whom he demands the most. paternal senti-
ments; may he grow up for your happiness and for ours-.to be
the inheritor of your genius—the glory of the French nenie.the,
living image of the virtues of• his mother—to enjoy the love of
onr children, and to feel for them an, the tenderness which Wte...
feel ft,r him in his cradle." ,
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His Majesty answered. , • •
61 MR. PRESIDENT, AND Dialrn al 07 TR
LEGISLATIVE BODY, • '
a lam well pleased in having you near me, under dreuPar
stance!! so dear tb my heart.
66 All•the wishes which you form 'for the future are very agree-
able to me. My son will answer the expectation of France ; her
will feel for your children the sentiments which, I feel for yealk
Frenchmen will never forget that .their happiness and their
hlory are attached to •the prosperity of that throne which I
ave raised, consolidated, and aggrandized, with them, and
for then : and I desire that this may be heard by all French-
men. lii whatever situation Providence and my will may. place
them, the love of France is their first. duty.. I agree* your :
sentiments."
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• . His Majesty
.afterwards received deputations from the.de•
paitments of the. Bouches de l'Elbe, the lioucbes du .Weser; and
,rEins:superietir. . • . •
• The Prince t.f Schwartmbourg, Ambaseador,from the-Eltf.;
'Verne of Austria, proceeded in state to Ss. Cloud, on-Thursdays
to uresiut to the King of i&vrne the Grand Insignia of the Order •
of At. Etienne of Hungary. His Majesty was it) his tratilerencl
the Prino presented the Order to the Governess.: • •

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BA vest NE, Joxa 42:4 . —;:Yesterday the ging of Spat*: arrive 4
Ittthis city at three in the afternoon. All the honours due to
the august brother of his. Majesty-the Emperor and Kin; were.
paTd•to him. General tlie..COunt de Tillonfbion,"Cointnanding th;
department, went to 'meet hut) upon the road, with a detach-. •
ment of the Guard Hopoor on horseback, and.; of, the Gen-
The civil and militry authorities repaired to the
Igates of the. city, Where M. l .um, sub-prefect, lad the ItrinOur
tOtistneirtient his Catholic IVlajesty. • . .
Xing replied as follows
• "' *that* you, M. Sub-prefeCt; for the sentins‘nts mimes
expresied to me: '
Alnong the reasons whielipielte Me desirous ci the epeedy •
re-establislitnent of order in Spain, that of
.seeing renewed the."
amicable relattoni and commerce of the'perrinsults with Yrante...;
is not the least important, andparticularly with the proviriCe•Or..,
.71,1001, which has given co ruatiy proofs of attachineut -td
-.)r,and Which has eitus-a4ureit. partfeuhir yfir.
Eisr
glut tude. -
- 'go 4%*
Cries o 4 ".Live the Emperor " Live the Xing of. 4 i, .
were heard on all sides.
His Majesty way greeted at histutraoce by nhite.s of artillert
from thick44o, theships of war In the port, and the gunalij the,
fortress. He passed through the- city between a double' nut of
tropps,,w!lit..l) ejttendedlo the-imperial castle of Marrac.,,Whete
his Westy aliglitid. An immense Iriultittide filled the win..
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dowp,and crowded the-streets during his passage..
- s.4..ViPic•Sty R1:4(1451Y. 4Ctgl*Ltai, iservlce of the Horse and
Ftlilt Guard-of Honour, &trine* short staff which be must'
waken 1V4rmit........ • •• '' • • -
This day -his Catholic Majeity reeelvid4e ecclesiastical,
• aril, and ipilitary..authuritier: he.:tphf4 to cle.jisf them with that ,t;
'Lliielness and affability which chiratteriSe-hrerf.
VIEN TT*, Julia 22.—P0 the•itth We were informed of
death of the old King of Sardinia. .„
Tits coon of . recrobute bas.*4llle4. to .0.114 woe.-

TIAE-Nk'rik)NAL itt-cti4.l74u.
••••••• Mr.....M0N./111.••••••
More thin. slitynalikiii Or eau- inerce tiliPOpUlatiOnatSe the fertile Tessurcow
• all exehatige and Of all prod pee. ..
trial. Treasury is not.founded on ""ln the midst of thereat eitertitizot, order and' atninorgiest.:
Mose than 900 millions, which prevail in the public:treasury; kis enlightened wisdom fiidies.-
nese of the Empire, are the re- , every mistake, and deriveifronl the most.fyitolpus of our.wpats
['direct. • England must have two 'unknoveii riches.
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