The National Register.
London, England, 1814-01-16 00:00:00

JAN. IG.

A in:LH froth Cadiz arrived on Tuesday.—The Freneb are
said to have sent some of the artillery at Barcelona to France,
and to have debtroyed many pieces of cannon. Three thou-
Fand veteran snldiers, a great proportion of whom were ser-
jtants and corpornis, 17N1 been sent to France, to be replaced
bv cons( ipts. There is a report,that Suchet is to be super-.
sedcd by Mortier.

Private accounts from Lord Wellington's army are said
to report, that the French statement, respecting the severe
rem-mitre of some of *their cavalry with a detachment of
the British 18th llussars, is not unfounded.. The detach-
ment of the-lath consisted of two -troops only, which we7e
severely cut up. Among the casualties of the Officers, it
is said, that Major Hughes was dangerously wounded; and
Captains Bolton and Croker, and two subalterns, are said to
have been cut down. The affair was stated. in the French
pers to have-taken place on the 18th of December.
The German Papers aye filled with lamentable accounts
(4' the distress of she Hamburghers, who ha% e been cruelly
CN Felled from their homes by l)avoust. However,•their
helpless condition immediately attracted title attention of the
own Prince, who, with a promptitude and generosity that
add, if possible, to his fame, appropriated 40,000 dollars to
the use of the soarers, and issued orders that they should
be accommodated in Lubeck and Bremen. More is promised
when the large sum already given is exhaust?d. His ex-
ample, as well as the situation of the unfortunate victims,
haq excited a strong sensation in their behalf. The wet-
chants established in Heligoland, promptly openzd a suh-
ars iption for their relief; and the Governor of the island,
J,ieut.•l'ol.Hatnifton, humanely contributed Iotol. to that
object.—A mong a variety of decrees issued by order of Da-
voust, to the unfortunate inhabitantS of Hamburg)), is one to
elect a Comini,sion, which is to condemn to death persons,
who, under the prosure of his bat barity, may use " inflam-
matory speeches fending to exaspet ate the inhabitants against
the troops?'

Government received on Tuesday morning dicpatche
from the Continent, announcing the fall to the allied forges
of :he ',want fortress of Nitneguen in Dutch Blabant, of
Torgau and Erfurt h in Saxony, of Blamont in the depart-
ment of Doubs in France, and of Zara the capital of the •pro•
v ince of that name in Venitian Daltnatia, together with the
no less important intelligence of the passage of the Rhine
at Dasse:d,tl by General Kleist, at the head of a Prussian
army. .4portly after the arrival of the messengers who were
the bearers of these dispatches, the following brief sutmuary
of their contents was circulated :

" The dispatches teceived this morning by Government
state that the head quarters of the Allies wet e still at I orrach.
General Kleist, at the head of a Prussian army, has
ctocsed the at Dusseldorf.

Nimegucu, Torgati, Erfur h, Zara, anti Blamont, are all
in pqsscssion of the Allies. Blaniont is in Lorraine, not far
from Loneville."

A Mail arrived on Tuesday from Holland, with accounts
from the Hague to the: 7th, and from Bremen to the Id. inst.
The passage of the Rhine is every where effected without
oprositi,in. The Austrians under Prince Schwartzenberg
11..ve entered Fiance from Switzerland, and are near Be,an-
con. (.eneral Kleist has crossed at Dusseldorff to proceed
to Brabant. General Blucher, with the Silesian army, has
crossed between Bingen and Caub into the der,rtment of
the Rhine and Mossel:e. General St. Priest entered Cob-
lentc on New 'Yeats day. Cologne is also said to in their
po,session. Gen. Bu;ow is to advance into Blabant with
LUtf:UO wen. Tnere i a tcpoit flout Holland of some action