The National Register.
London, England, 1808-06-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

tranquillity which prevails here generally, and more partleu-
lady with regard to military preparations, shews that the war-
like reports propagated abroad, are premature and unfounded."
DENMARK.
CO PF.N it Ir.Ev, MAY 21.—Tornea, by which the Russians
intend to penetrate into Sweden Proper, is situated in the North
of Lapland, and is the last town of Europe towards the Arctic
Pole, and in summer exhibits the singular spectacle of constant
day light. At our .oidnight the sun is seen in the northern he-
misphere under the polar stars. It was at Tomes' that Mauper-
this, Cels;us, and other mathematicians, accomplished the ar-
dam', task of mea-nring the meridian, aud there the depression
of the earth at the Poles t:'!is first discovered. This region is
one of the most dreary the face of nature presets. Scarce a
shrub rise• from the Crozet' soil. The eve ;tercel .c 4 only ark 4
stank barren heaths, and snow-covered hills. The territory of
toe Stadtholder-hip of %Vest Bothnia, to which Tornea belongs,
consist; of 1,900 Swedish square miles, ou which, however,
there are sauce 70,000 inhabitants.
—sum.
PRUSSIA.
KON IVGsnrßGii, MAY B.—The following Declaration late-
ly appeared in our ( iazeite :
" ii twever scrupulous Prussia may have been in maintaining
her engagements entered into with France and Russia, with re-
spect to breaking off intercourse a ith England and Sweden, yet
the attempt has been again renewed, to place the conduct of
the Pru-sian Govensment in this respect in an equivocal light.
Such an attempt has been made in No. 460, of the Hamhurgl.
'Clutege List of the present year, in an article dated Dels.ingoer
(Nlarch 101, stating, that a Prussian ship, Capt. Gerrin, com-
mander, belonging to Memel, had arrived there from the North
Sea,. which, besides coffee, and a great quantity of cotton,
brought a variety of tnerchandize from Sweden, all which were
afterwards forwarded. But while this account exposes Its un-
founded nature by saying, that the goods were landed in Den-
mark, a country where the same prohibition exists as in Prus-
sia, and departed thence without being hindered, the Prussiat
Government caused an examination to he taken of the shippers,
pilot* and sailors, a Ito declared that the ship sailed from Me-
mel with a lading of tin ore fur Hull, on the 27th May, 1807,
was obliged to put into Nora ay on account of damage, and an,
obliged to remain there till the end of the year for the necessary
repairs; from thence she reached Hull on the 27th of January,
1808, fr which place she again sailed on the '27th of Feb. in
ballast, without taking in any goods. On her voyage back she
again went into 1 °may, on the sth instant, to learn whether
the Cattegat tuts free from ice ; from thence she reached the
Sound on the 10th, cleared out for llelsingoer on the Ilth, as
laden a ith ballast, for V arel, sailed the same day into the Bal-
tic, and was &ken by contrary a inds into Liebau."

AMERICA.
sPV.Prh; RR THR UNITED sr.crEs, APRIL 20.
On the motion of Mr. White, " Resolved, That it is expe-
dient to authorize the President of the United States to have
manned and equipped for service, with all convenient dispatch,
the frigates and vessels of war of the United States, to he used
as in hi• opinion, the circumstances of the country, and the con-
duct of foreign !timers towirds the Uuited States, may require."
A committee was thereupon appointed to bring in a Bill con-
fortwibl to thisresqlatiou.

TS►e Bill entitled " An Aet laying an Embargo on all ships
and ve,sels in the ports and harbours of the United Slatei, and
the several artit,tipplementary thereto; nod for other purposes,"
aas read tae third time and passed.

HOUst4 OF RRPRhsPar.trirss, APRIL 16.
The Committee to whom was referred the Correspondence
between Munroe and Slr. Calming, Nir. !Madison and Ilr
Rose ; aLiti the Communications made to the Senate 0:
,10th March, comakinr a Letter from Mr. Erskine to the Seem
tar% of State : and a Letter from Mr. ehampagny to Mr. Arm
stronr, this day ga%e in their report to the House of the Senate.
At the t!osiclusion of n hich the following resolutions were
sub nitted.—

Resolved, That the Committee do bring in a Hilt, authoris-
ing ail' Presid..nt of the L,.ited States, in the event of such
:'eare, or suspension of hostilities between the belligereci
Power- of Lurope, or of such change. in their measures affect.
itw Neutral eionmerve, rot may render that of the United State.-
ulficiesnly safe is his jud,;iticii, to suspend the Act lay ing. au