The National Register.
London, England, 1812-05-10 00:00:00

TIIF NATIONAL REGISTER.
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Art, V. This ex,-hange shall take place immediately, as soon as the
pisoners shal/ arrive at Messina and Reggio.
Catuna, Feb. 10, 1810.
(Signed) JOHN PINE COFFIN, Lietit.-Col.
Dep.-Quarter- M aster-General.
J. L. GALDENI.NR.
(Ratified) W. C. BENTINCK.
AIANHES.

We have the satisfaction to announce the capture, on 1
the 13th of February, off Cape Corso, of a French ship
ot war by his Nl;ilesty's frigate Apollo, Captain TAYLOR.
She pryves to be the Merino store-ship, pierced for 28
rlns, but carrying only 20. 'The Apollo also chaced
another ship, which it appeared was the Mohawk, for-
merly an English sloop of war ; but it falling a calm,
aLd she being assisted by barks from the shore, they towed
her under the protection of the batteries of the Island of
Guauglia and Cape Carro.

• AMERICA.
The communications made by Captain HENRY to the
ritEsinENT, continue to form the chief topic of discussion
thronghout the Swim. They have proved a powerful wea-
pon in the hands of the Government, and have enabled it,
-we are informed by the New York papers to the 18th of ,
March, to carry all the war taxes through the House of
Representatives,even those which had been rejected at first.
Sonic of the papers consider the whole as an electioneer-
iug nick, and assert that although the tax bills may be
passed, they will not be executed. They tell us, at the
same time, that Captain HENRY was paid by Mr. MAI:it-
:SON to produce the correspondence which has been laid be-
fore Congress. The bribe which he is stated to have re-
ceived, is said to have consisted of 48,000 dollars, with
pit of *hit h he purchased an estate in France of COUNT
DE CHILLON) now in America. The conveyance of the
properly was even witnessed, and authenticated, it is as-1
serted, by Mr. MUNROE, and the French Minister, SERRU-
RIER. It was also settled, that the disclosure should not
be made public until he should be without the reach of pur-
suit he was, in consegnence, allowed to embark in the
I'Vesi for France ; and when the Committee of Foreign
Rel,“ions wished to have examined him personally, it was
toun,l that he had already set sail. Although these pa-
pers ..liscountenance the idea of war with this country, phi-
tltte letters met:tion, as the first step decidedly hostile,
7iisc a gener.ll ernhatgo was expected in a few days.—
The official print, The National Intelligencor, also speaks
the true sentiments of Government, in language calculated
to rouse all the national prejudices, and all the passions
.cif the heart against us.—" This whole affair," it says,
," is one on which comment would be superfluous. It
speaks in a voice of thunder which the very deaf shall
hear. Instead of applying it as a stimulus to party fer.
your, let it become a bond of union against the cominon
foe, who, whilst she was making lavish professions of
irindship through our Minister in England, and her Minis-
ter in this city, was perfidiously- stirring up rebellion, and
compassing disunion in this land, by secret agencies ; at
the moment she was pretending to hold out one hands in
fellewship, with the other she was feeling for the vitals of
the Republic, to which she might in the dead of the night
.direct her poisoned dagger."
" Whatever may be thought of the past," it proceed', " the .public
will not fail properly to appreciate the views of him who shall, after this
aiscVsere, trumpet forth the justice, clemency, and forbeinance of
Great Britain to the United States. If such z one shall be found, let him
be marked as the foe to freedom, as the parricidal enemy of his coun-
try r
Sitch is the temperate language of the American
tear.. It is worthy of NAPOLEON, and it is easy to her-

MAY

ceivc that Mr. NI IDISONIS style has acquired a depth and
richness of abuse and bombast, which he did not possess
before hi, connexion with France had grown so intimate

Two mails from Anholt, and a Swedish courier from
Stockholm are arrivod, and have brought some intell;,
fence. The statement given in the following letter
the pretended strength of the Russian army, is, however,
evidently erroneous. At the time her means are un-
divided, Russia would not be able to bring such a fore
to the field.
c;oIiTENSUROII, MAY 2.—The French armies are in motion; lnk
the latest accounts from St. Petersburgh say, it is generally suppo,e3
they will not venture to attack the Russians, who are represented as
400,000 strong, and in the most perfect state of discipline, all i)ossible
pains having been taken to render them so ever since the Treaty oi
Tilsit. The Emperor in person commands the army, and has plellvi
himsLlf to the Senate, to have no interview with Buonaparte but in the
field at the head of his troops.--Sir James Saumarez has just arrived,"
The disposition of the Russian Government firmly tr.
resist IitIoNAPARTE may be known from the measure
lately adopted, a new levy of 100,000 men. Copies of
the Ukase for this object have reached us. It is dated
March 23, and orders the enrolment in the proportion 6:
two recruits for each 500 of the population. The Ham.
burgh CoreFpondenent contains some particulars respect-
ing the c' rrespondence between Michel, who was lately
executed at Paris, and Russian agents. It appears, thit
his first communications were made to Mr. DOUBRIL: mid
that he afterwards gave information to the succeeding Rtes.
sian Minister, respecting the teal strength of the French
army in Gei many.
It is reported, that the present correspondence between.
the British and French Government relates to a propoal
made by BUONIAPARTE) that a large depot of nil:at, now in
Prussia, shall be imported into England and France,
equal proportions. To this proposition, it is added, ore
Government have intimated their intention to accede,
un
condition, that the vessels in which such corn may be inn
ported, shall deliver one half of their cargo in a British
port, and there taking on board Colonial Produce ancim.-
litifactures, shall then be permitted to proceed to France.
Paris papers, to the 4th iii tam have been received; the 7
conain no intelligence of importance. A person cf,ti,e
e of 1,114.11 En was executed in the place LI!
Greve, at Paris, on the Ist ins".ant, for having (as the Jou•
nals state it) sold the State Secrets to the Agents of
Foreign Power ;" supposed to be Russia. The Freud:
Journals are wholly silent on the fall of Badajoz.
Information has been received in this country, throngl.
France, that Barcelona has been again relieved Wit): vo•
visions, after having been reduced to the last extremity.—.
Such was the distress of the place about the latter end c:
March, th-'t the Frenelyhad actually begun to 1 undernini,
the works, with an intent to blow them up prior to, th,e'
evitcnatittiz them, when the arrival of a fleet front otal:
relieved their wants. rf•
Jamaica Papers to the 18th of March, have been ..-
•
ceived.-----They are full of complaints on the subject of
depredations committed in the West Indies by French 1
vateers, which are n3w more numerous than when
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West India Islands beloriged to France. These priva!:\::
arc armed, fitted and refitted in American harbours,
they also carry and dispose of their captures, an:. it is
serted that they belong to American owners.
The French General LEFEBVRE has escaped fron!b.l.,
parole. Information has been sent to all the sea-peci
stop him, but without effect.