The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER..

Conwittee to take into ronsitkration the documents relative to the
racgociation that should be laid before them. 'the Senate received
a similar communication, and both Bodies appointed Committees.
On the 2601, M. FOSTA WES, as President of the Committee, made a
Report to the Senate dlt the communications which had been made to
tbe'm, at the same time we understaval the Legislative Body made a
Repost, 111 which they declared it to be their opinion that the EM-
PEROR 8110111 d comply with the proposals of peace that had been
Math', and in vesy plait] but respertful language, they 11 presented to
the EMPEROR tlie absolute necessity that there was Um giving up
his conquests and restoring peace to Europe. BUONAPA RTE Was
exasperated at this Report, and exerted all his influence to prevent
it from receiving the approbation of the LcOslative Body. mo-
Coo, however, was made to adopt awl to order it to he printed, and
it was carried in the affirmative 158 to 38. Thus, left in a minority.
13CONA PA ItT E turned round en the Lejslative Body, and said, that
'bey were no longer constitutional, since one-third of their number
ought to have gone out by rotation ; although, by a -Swains Consul-
tant, of the 15th November, it was declared, that owing to the exi
geocy of the pnblie affiiirs, the 'Deputies were to continue their
functions. No matter! Under this pretext, he retitscd to sanction
or poblish their Report ; and, on the 31st ult. he adjourned the Le-
gislative Body, and directed measures to 1w taken for conv&king the
Electoral Colleges.
"Fit harl,the prudence, however, to act on the advice ithich the
Legislative Body rave him. He forthwith scot his acceptance of
the term* atlered him by the Allies, and he began to issue these De-
clarations of an alteted system, and these very humble oddrescii to
the,people of France, which have been the topic of so much animad-
version anti surprise. In e.!oing this lie claimed the support of the
liepre,entative Body, as he hot tmaird b melt nit their jui:g • :cut ;
and even on the appointment Ed the Conimissioner,
.virldcd to their
advice. We have this anecdote upon such auth.i,ty 43 to make us
give it implicit belief."

French Papers to the 16th inst. were received nn Wed-
nesday. Some notice is at length taken of a of the Mar-
shals and Generals, and something is mentioned of art arniv.
The Munilenv of the 13th presents a naly sketch of their
partial afThirs on diffitreitypoints, all of whirl.) of cotirsc arc
Mated to have terminated in favour of the enemy. Victor
is said to have passed the Vos.ges, and to have fixed his
head-quatters at -Berate, .ftillowed by the enemy- “Trith ca-
valry only."—Marshal Nev has his head-qua! tots at Nancy,
whilst Geeerat Duvignan occupies the defile before Epinal—
General 'Duhesme is at St. Dicz—General Segur commands
a brgade of the Guards of honour, in the defile of 'everne—
Genetal Montlegier is at Hambervillets, and Marshal Mar-
wont has taken a position on the Sarre. What force, how.
ever, vither of these officers has with them is not comm,t-
nicated ; hut Segue, in a proclamation addressed to the in-
habitants of the Department of the Upper Marne, tell them
that an at my of 80,000 men would arrive in a few days. In
the mean time the people are again appealed to, and called
upon to take up at ms, with au assurance that the enemy,
.once driven bey and the frontiers, they may then lay down
their alms and peace would be seemed. Segur exhorts the
people to come forward en masse, assuring them, that tl e
present sacrifice. they %vete called upon to make would be
the last, and that " the acres clone. of their rising en masse
irvouN snake the enctny re/ire" from the country.—The Allies
arc said to Move failed in an attemrt to carry Hu-
ll inguen by assault, and to have converted the siege of that
fortress into a blockade, in consequence of an inundation
produced by the opening of the sluices, in which a great
slumber of the be•iegets are said to have been drowned.
—The siege of Report also is stated to have been converted
into a blockade, al:er fruitless attempts against that town.
It is admitted, however, that the light troops of the Allies
spread themselves in every direction ;" that one column of
the Allies has advanced towards Besancon, where it is en-
gaged with General Marcelez, and that they have advanced
to Geneva, to bans-le-Sonlnier, and even to Dole, within
twenty miles of Dij,tu.—General Marcelez is opposed to the

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column which moved upon Besancon. At ItanThervillers,
a town about ten miles north of Urinal, a division of the
Allied cavalry, about 1500, are stated to have been defeated
by General Bridle, with a brigade of cavalry, with a loss of
many dead on the field, including a Colonel and a Major of
Cossacks, and sixty prisoners. A squadron of the troops in-
vesting Mott penetrated to Langres, which they are said
to have enteted tm the gate being opened to admit a flag of
truce sent to summon the town to surrender. Mr. Faure, an
officer of the National Gnat d, who was on duty,, gave orders
•to tire on them, when they immediately turned about and
fled.- On the following day (Cie "10th) General Chouard ar-
t iyed at Langres with a brigade of 1 5000 of the finest cavalry,
and was received with enthusiasm by the inhabitants.—The
Morillcur states the number of the Allied force which enter eel
Dole at 600; the Journal de Paris of the same date (the
13th) estimates it at 8000, and adds Ora the place was taken
possession of in the name of the Emperor of usti ht. , Lans-
le-Soulnier is said to have been occupied on the same terms.
Thls account is no doubt ;midi-died with a yi.T.oy to pList,ade
the French nation that the object of the Ames is the dis-
memberment of France.---Bv a !twice published at Pal is on
the isth, Buonapat te in viteF. all such as have served in the
Imperial Guards to re-enter that corps until the enemy shall
be di iti cu from the French ter] itot v. The.-e pedients es-
tablish beyond doubt the Wore of the late conset iption and
the utter inability of Buonaparte to procure any competent
force in his present emergeney.—The French funds ate at
.50f.
Paris Part': of nne day's later date than the preceding,
state, that the grand head quarters are still at Metz under
the commarid of General Belliat d—that Metz is also the
head quarters of Kellerman and General Curial, Colonel-
Commandant of the foot chasseurs of the Imperial Guards,--
and that Mollier had arrived on the 1 ith instant at Chau-
mont. The Journal de Paris of the same date, adds that
corps of different armies are daily passing through Lille .pro-
ceeding to the frontiers, and. the corps d'armi.e of General
Decaen, at Antwerp—that General Grouchy occupied, with
a corps of cavalry, the defile of the Vosges, and that Nev had
an ived on the gth at Naito.. Great reinforcements are said
to he proceeding to the army under Macdonald ; and the
enemy finding attempts at negotiation fruitless, at length be-
gins to assume a menacing tone.
Mails from Passages, Corunna, and Cadiz are arrived at
Falmouth, but not in London., The Falmouth mails of the
;Bth. 19:h, and 20th; are not arrived. No statement of Irish
mails could be made out yesterday morning at the General
Post-office in consequence of the non-arrival of the
tnail-
coaches.

A mail from Passages has arrived, accompanying the di,-
patches from Lord Wellington, with advises from head-
quarters to the 12th inst. Considerable reinforcements, we
understand, have been obtai•eed from detachments of the
Gallician army, which had been on march from the Ebro to
join the Commandcr-in-Chiefon the Arlour, -
Accounts from Spain state, that the Catalonian army bad
entirely broken up, and was in full march to join Lora
Wellington in France ; and this was in consequence of Su-
chet's army having also broken up, and left Spain for
France.

An article from Bourdeaux in the French papers dated
the 6th, states, that our army had attempted on the Ist. to
erect a battery on a little island, for the purpose of passing
the Moor, hilt that the bridge of boats was sunk, and the
battery destroyed, with the loss on our part of 300 killed,
and a great number wounded.

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