The National Register.
London, England, 1815-05-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL, REGISTER.

torillon,

SUNDAY, 31.4 Y es, 1815..

The discussion of the Prince Regent's message, in which
I.klinisters ob'ained a majority of 33 I to 92, in favour of war,
ray hein followed by t-he grant of five millions of subsidies
for Rtosia, Prussia, and Austria. Although those Powers
are only bound, in conjunction arith us, to bring 150,000
pen into the field, Lord Castlereagh has stated their respec-
tive ((are in motion as follows: Austria 550,000 me►► ; Rus-
sia37s,oon; Prussia 236,000; the inferior Powers 150,000;
England and the Netherlands 100,600. In all 1,161,000
rneu. This will rather disarrange the calculations of the
Trench Politician, who in one of the Papers received yester-
day, gives the following estimate of the armies of the Allies
and their positions.
" If we recapitulate the forces of the Allies, we shall
end, in following the most reasonable details, that Russia
has organised and put in march 110,000 men ; that 70,000
Dutch, Hessians, and Ilanoverians, maintain a
menacing attitude . upon the Scheldt, the Lys, and the
Sambre ; that Bavaria has moved 25,000 men ; that Aus-
tria, after having inundated Italy with 100,000 Germans,
has directed 40,000 to the Rhine; and that Wurtzburg,
Baden, Hesse, Darmstadt, and Piedmont, furnish from SO to
S's,ooo men. All these forces are not yet up, and it appears
that they will not act until they are all united upon the line
of operations. Such is, they say, the advice which the Em-
peror Alexander has made to prevail on the Council of
Kings. But the Russians, debouching from Bohemia by the
route of Egra, or, according to other accounts by that of
E: fort, will scarcely have passed the Rhine five weeks
hence; or, in other words, the Allies would not be in a
state to open the campaign until the end of June.—Here an
important question presents itse.f—Would the Emperor
Napoleon wait patiently until all the preparations of the
Allies are completed ? We will not prejudge a question
'lrish is properly a secret of state, and which in common
reason appears to be already resolved. We come now to
examine the respective positions of the Allied armies. That
of the Doke of Wellington extends from Ostend to Char-
leroi : the Prussians, under Marshal Blucher, are stationed
frau Namur to Treves ; joining their left wing is the army
of Prince Schwartzetiberg, which lines the eastern frontier
from Ti eves to Switzerland. It is said to consist of four
corps, of from 30 to 40,000 men each, under the command
of Prince Wrede, Count Colloredo, the Prince Royal of
temberg, and the Prince of Hohenzollern. This last
corps, amounting to fifty thouaaml men, is assembled
behind the Black Mountains, between the Lake of Con-
stance and the Rhine. The Swiss also have furnished
their frontiers, on the side of France. with a federal army of
3`),"0 met]." The article proceeds to state, that Switzer land
'wishes to remain neutral ; that the Allies can expect no sup-
port frog► Spain, in her present state of irresolution and em-
barrassment ; and that the Regency of Lisbon would not
march the Portuguese army until they had received ex-
press orders from the Prince of Brazil. it then dwells upon

347

the want of unity in this allied at my, comprehendin; such
diversity of interests, languages, and manners, cou'rasted
with the French, consisting of one people, united 'in one
common cause, directed by one single genius, and w;th a
force of 3C0,000 veteran troops, and 200,000 citizen
soldiers.

FRENCH PAPERS.
Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday last, arrived yes-
terday.
__• _ _

Tl:ey still insist upon an intercourse having been esta.
Wished with Austria, and even announce the arrival of a
Courier on Monday from Vienna, which occasioned the im-
mediate convocation of a Council of State.
These Papers contain another bulletin from the Austrian
army in Italy, which spews that the Austrians are continuing
their successful career. Aquila, in the Neapolitan terri:o.
ries, has been taken, and Ancona is blockaded. The Aus.
trians are much nearer Naples than Murat.
Lord Exmouth's arrival off Genoa, with ten sail of the
line, is announced in the Genoa articles of the toth inst. It
is supposed that it will immediately proceed against Naples.
Marseilles has been declared in a state of siege, and its na-
tional guard dissolved. The disposition of the inhabitants
is uniformly faithful to the Born bons.
Bonaparte remains at Paris, and not a word is said of his
departure.
Disturbances have taken place at Montanbon.
Barrere appears again upon the scene. He has published
.a work upon Constitutions, and announces himself a Mem•
her of the Electoral College of the Upper Pyrenees.
' The Funds are drooping-57.

Franckfort Papers arrived yesterday to the 20th. They
suppose that the Austrian army entered Naples on the 9th ;
but as General Bianchi-was not much beyond Aquila on the
6th, we do not think they could have reached Naples so soon
as the 9th.

VIENNA, MAY 152.—The King of Denmark leaves this
capital on the 15th,—the King of Prussia on the 17th,--the
Emperor of Aust►ia about the end of the month.
" Large contracts have been concluded fur the army.
" It is believed here that the Austrian troops must hays
entered Naples on the 9th.
" By certain accounts from Sicily, the army of King Fer.
dinand is collecting near Melazzo.
" The head-quarters were to be removed on the Ist of
May to Messina, whether the King intended to go in person.
There was a constant correspondence between Sicily and Ca-
There is no doubt but this province, which has al-
ways remained faithful to Ferdinand, will declare in his fa*
your as soon as his troops land there.

On Wednesday, Ministers received dispatches from Lord
Burghersb, containing official infoimation of the &lee of
Murat by the Austrians, of which various accounts had been
given by the Fiench and German papers. The following
Bulletin was issued from the Foreign Office.

"BULLETIN.
Fo Office, May 2s, 1815.

"Letters were received last night fioni I.ord Burgheish
dated the Sd inst. which state, that the Austrian General
Bianchi was that morning engaged with three Neapolitan
div6iors in an action, which terminated in their total discom-
fiture, and the advance the Austrians (tom Tulentino to
within a short distance of 'Mum ata.