The National Register.
London, England, 1811-10-27 00:00:00

,TIONAL

AMERICA.
American Papers were received on Friday to the
21st ult. They do not supply any intelligence of a
decisive character, with respect to the matters at
issue between the Government of this country and
of the United States. Mr. PROUDMAN, the Mes-
senger, also arrived at the Foreign Office, with
dispatches from Mr. FosrEn. Marquis WELL ES.
LEY waited on the PRINCE REGENT immediately
at York House, to communicate to his Royal High.
ness the contents of the dispatches. Nothing, that
we can learn, has yet transpired, of the contents
of the dispatches ; nor is it likely that in the present
feverish state of the discussion and of public feeling
on both sides, that much will be suffered to get
abroad upon the subject, until the measnres to be
taken will serve to throw a light upon the purport of
the dispatches. It is not probable that any thing
definitive could yet have been communicated by
our Minister in America, as, until after the meeting
of Congress, the American Government will not,
in all probability, form its final eterination.
There can be no doubt, however, thdat Mr.m FOSTER
may have been able to form a pretty accu-
rate estimate of the prospect of being able to
bring the negotiation with which he has been
intrusted to a favourable issue. He must
have learned, as well from the apparent temper of
the persons in authority in America, as from the
spirit and character of their communications to him,
whether an amicable accommodation is to be
expected, or his mission be likely to prove abortive.
The result of his experience and observation he has
no doubt transmitted home. Government, therefore,
will be able to decide upon the subject from the
• contents of the dispatches ; and, if a rupture be
likely to ensue, will not lose a moment in preparing
for the emergency. Whether any part of the con-
tents of the communication from Mr. FOSTER
then be allowed to transpire or not, the Public will
be able to judge of the probable issue of the nego-
tiation from the actual measures that shall be taken.
If no squadron nor any reinforcements be immedi-
ately put ifkto • preparation for the Trans-Atlantic
service, we may fairly conclude that a pacific ar-
rangement is not hopeless ; if, on the contrary,
such measures of seasonable precaution should be
resorted to, we may easily foresee the probable
issue of the negotiation. The American Journal-
ists have concluded from the arrival cf. reinforce-
ment; to the regiments in British America, that the
British Government is determined on bullying the
United States. With more justice may we infer
from the detachment of any more regiments to
that quarter, that it is the opinion of our Go-
vernment that no accommodation is to be ex-
pected. We are sorry to be obliged so often to
remark upon the coarse and intemperate virulence
with which some of the American Journalists speak
of every thing British. Even the indications of
hostility on the part of the Indians are, with more
asperity, we are sure, than stice, ascribed to the
intrigues and influence of British agents. Upon
this point, however, the Americans may set their
minds at. ease. If we are to have war with them,
we shall be able to maintain it without the co-opera-
tion of a few Leeble tribes of Savages.

The accounts _ , represent that Power
as in a state of perfect tranquillity, after having
accommodated those differences with France which
threatened to reinvolve it in all the calamities and
dangers of a new war, whilst it was still smarting
under the effects of the late disastrous contest in
which it had been engaged against France. Whe-
ther these differences be or be not composed, it is
knpossible for us to decide. If they be adjusted
viithout any modification of the demands which led
to them by BUONAPARTE, we could not desire a
stronger proof of his comparative weakness and
want of means to prosecute an extensive and expen-
sive war. This is a positive benefit, not so much
from the evidence of inability on the part of the
French Government, as because every moment that
the great trial is deferred, must add to the resources
of those Powers with whom it would be com-
mitted in any new war, and aggravate those diffi-
culties under which alone it has thus been obliged
to lower its pretensions and recede from its de.
mands. War cannot be carried on without money,
emphatically called its sinews ; and, if neither the
prospect of fresh spoliations in countries already
drained to the last coin, nor the possession of funds
previously amassed, nor the resources of a revenue
productive and easily improvable to any extent of
public exigency, can be made the foundation of mi.
litary enterprises, it would be imprudent as impoli-
tic to precipitate hostilities. The French Armies
in Spain have not been paid for many months, and
though the produce of that country may be suffi-
cient for their bare support, the notorious want a
funds to pay them not only operates to prevent
their being reinforced to the full amount necessary
to give them any chance of success, but interferes
with their adequate or effectual equipment. When
we observe an object of such interest and moment
to BUONAPA UTE, as the final reduction of Spain,
impeded by the defect of pecuniary resources, we
can easily discover a sufficient reason for his forbear-
ance in the North. Had he possessed the means,
we have no doubt that he would. have undertaken
another expedition and another winter campaign
against Prussia, rather than have conceded a tittle
of what he had once preferred as a demand. To
his temporary deficiency of means then, and not to
his lenity or justice, has Prussia been indebted for
the present respite. If she should not augment her
means during the interval in the same proportion
in which he shall accumulate funds for her subjec-
tion, the return of Spring will, in all probability, see
him again in Berlin dictating laws to the Prussian
States.

The Duke of Sussex, we are happy to state, is
fast recovering from his late relapse ; his Royal
Highness is enabled to have recourse to his bed,
and enjoys some natural rest, and takes an airing in
his carriage daily.
The young Prince of Orange of whose military
debut in one of the late actions, Lord Wellington
makes such honourable mention, and who it ap-
pears by last Tuesday's Gazette has been appointed
a Colonel in the British Army, is supposed to be
the destined husband of the Princess Charlotte of
Wales.

REGISTER.
PRUSSIA.
The accounts from Prussia re,

THE NATIONAL

Extract from a letter dated Messina; Aug. 1 :
gg We are daily in expectation here of a revolution ;
things seem instantly coming to a crisis; the hatred
towards the English discovers itself more and more,
and a peace with France is almost assured, but by
no means doubted ; the people are gathering in
crowds, and exclaiming for want of bread; almost
all our friends of consequence in the Island are sent
into exile to Parignano ; and this day The Gazetta
Britannica was suppressed, and Giovanni de Bobold,
the printer, put in confinement."
66 The same CorresoonJent observes, that in the
space of four days, the inhabitants of that ciiy ex-
perienced thirteen shocks of earthquakes, and one
more severe than has been known for a long time ;
and alarmed the whole neighbourh od to so great a
degree, that many of the inhabitants quitted their
beds, and escaped into the streets without their
clothes."
The Moniteur contains n long Decree, filling
riearlv two sides, on " the measures to be observed
r *the maintenance and repair of all Military
Works in fortified places, whether belonging to in.
divi 'tials or to the State." It is comprehended in
eight titles, relating-1 To general dispositions.-
2. To internal regulations.-3. To new erections
and considerable repairs.-4. To the conservation.
—.5. To unfcrtified places.-6. To inspections.-
7. To erections chargeable to Government.-8. To
the Administration. In this Decree it is rendered
compulsory for the Mayor of the several towns to
go round the works at least once a year with the
Military Commanders, in order that the necessary
repairi may be made ; and, if any dilapidations
are permitted, or if the fortifications are permitted
by negligence to fall into decay, the Mayor is
made answerable for the same. He has appointed
him what is called a conservator, paid by Govern-
ment to assist him. It also requires that troops
should be btlletted according to the orders of the
Commanders ; and that if any difficulty arise either
in their accommodation, or in procuring provisions,
the Prefect of the Department shall be resorted to
by the Mayor.
Bunnaparte has issued a Decree, ordering the
formation of a corps of firemen for the city of
Paris. It is to be divided into four companies, each
consisting of 142 men. They are to be under the
orders of the Prefect of Police, and the gross
amount of their annual pay is fixed at the sum of
514,671 francs. They are to be raised by volun.
tary enrolment from the firemen belonging to the
three existing companies in Paris,---from among
discharged soldiers fit for the duty, and from all
citizens not subject to the conscription, who shall
have the necessary qualities. A fund of 18,000
francs is set apart for the recruitment. Besides
their particular duty in cases of fire, they are also
to be employed in the general service of the Police,
under the orders of the Prefect ; and parties of
them are to be stationed at different watch-houses
every night, while others patrole the streets for the
prevention of fire, and of every kind of disturb-
ance.

A large battering train is fitting at Woolwich ;
and 15,000,000 cartridges shipping at.Purfleet, in-
tended, it is said, for the Russiarkaald Prussian Go-
verninenu.

the rainy weather had then produced such an alte.
ration in the state of the roads, as to render further
military operations in the north of Portugal very
improbable for some time. The French, it is said,
are collecting horses on the southern frontier, and
it is supposed, that if the season permit, SOULT will
make an attempt to enter Portugal on the side of
the Alentejo.
By letters from Heligoland, we are sorry to find
that a violent gale has been experienced at that
island, and that the following ships have been
stranded on the sand-banks in the mouth (f- the
Elbe:--The Jane, DAVIDSON, from Heligoland to
London; the Fortunee, LOFTS, from Heligoland
to the Bahl. ; and the Ant, of Hull, from that

place to Heligoland.
Letters from Heligoland by the Mail of the 18th
instat t, report, that a considerable impressment of
seamen had taken place in the Elbe ror the Ant-
werp fleet, and that the garrison of Hanibuigli had
been increased by about 1000 men, who are shortly
to proceed for the northward. We are likewise
toll, that considerable movements of troops had
taken plate in Hanover, and other parts of the
'kingdom of Westphalia.
A Deputy from the lonian Isles landed from thi
Cyane, at Portsmouth, on 'Thursday morning, with
the usual marks cf respect.
Lucien Buonaparte's Poem, we are inf rmed,
consists of 22 cantos, and 15,700 lines. Applica.
tion was made two months ago to a Paris book-
seller, requesting him to endeavour to procure die
consent of Naptileon, for the admission of an edi-
tion of this Pc.em into Trance, but no answer has
yet been received. No English translator has been
selected.

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AU the disposeable small craft at Plymouth have
been ordered to be fitted out for immediate service
with the greatest expedition.
A large reinforcement will be immediately sent
to Portugal. The 7th Dragoon Guards, the Hussar
brigade, and General Campbell's fine Scotch regi-
ment, the 91st, form a part.
The 21st Dragoons, now at the Cape of Good
Hope, are to proceed to India immediately ; they
are relieved by a regiment of Light Dragoons from
this country.
Admiral Young has issued orders to the ships of
his fleet in the Downs, that no Officer is to go on
shore, except on duty ; in order that they may be
ready to sail at a moment's warning.
The Channel fleet, under Sir Charles Cotton, it
is said, is to rendezvous at Spithead, during the
winter, and not at Plymouth.
Captain George Cockburn is to hoist a broad
pendant in the Grampus, of 50 guns, at Ports.
mouth, for South America. The Commissioners
for mediating between Spain and her American
colonies (of which Captain Cockburn is a member)
go out in the Grampus.
The following is an extract from a letter written
by a Colonel in the Russian service to a Gentleman
of very great respectability in London,
Petersburgh, August 14:-
44 I set nut to mot row for Geprgi
army against the Persians, which is
the Marquis de EttAuzas."

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Letters from Oporto, dated the Bth, state, that

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INDIAN HOSTILITIES.

• EPROM TfIE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.]
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Our leaders have doubtless perused the accounts
gist n, at, different times, of the hostile attitude of
diffeient tribes of Indians. It has very naturally
be 'n a subject of surprise to those not acquainted
with the cause of it, that a handful of these abori-
gioal savages should seek their own destruction by
provoking t) e indignation and resentment of their
'Pore powerful neighbours of these States. It is not
ly, indeed, they would have stirred, but for the
ac ive exertions of the British agents on our fron-
tier. It is a fact that the latter have been exciting
them to hostilities against the United States by
every means in their power for several years past ;
and have scat rely ever intermitted their good of-
fc. sin ti.is ‘v..y. In the year 1810. a Miami chief,
recc;%•cd at Foit Malden his annual dona-
tion of go.ids, was tl us addressed by Ellicot, the
Brisish J-Vi2sent My son, keep your eyes fixed
on rrec—rny tornahAw. k is up ; be you ready, but do
not ::trOce until I give. you the signal." So long
ago as 180 s, an Agtnt from the British provinces
al rived ,tt the Pr.Thet's town, and delivered a mes-
xage, the sue • stance of which was, to urge the Pro-
phet to unite as many oily s as he could against
the United States, but not to commence hostilities
until they r Ave the signal. A great belt has lately
been sent round among those tribes on our nor-
thern ti cutler. for the purpose of uniting them in a
ci nfederacy. the object of which was, as we are cor-
rectly advised, 66 to confine the great water, and
prevent it troth overflowing them. This belt, since
its return, was shown to a prominent British agent
that colliery, who danced for joy to see so many
tribes had joined against the United States. Every
account we receive from that country confirms the
belief, that British Agents among the Indians ex-
cite them against us, and furnish them with mus-
kets, powder, ball, provisions, &c.
These facts exhibit so profligate a destitution cif
humanity and principle in the authors of the scheme,
,that we have been unwilling to place much confi-
dence in them ; but they are now confirmed by such
a mass of evidence as cannot be withstood. It the
actors in this drama had no regard for their own
honour, no 'feelings for their own reputation, to
deter them from this course of policy, humanity
might have shielded the Indians from these detesta-
ble intrigues of the British emissaries, which will,
we fear, devote these deluded natives to destruction,
nitless the exercise of their natural good sense should
snatch Ihem from the precipice on the brink of which
.they hover.
Meanwhile let us, one and all, look out for " the
signal," which is to be given when the Indians are
to strike.

MYSTERIOUS FEMALE.

Wednesday morning, the wrkmen employed in build-
ing some new houses in Chapel-street, wading from Grosvenor-
place, found a young woman, fashionably dressed, asleep
•n the ground in one of the unfinished halls. The workmca
awoke her, observing at the same time, what a wretched ac-
vp•trkeaodation it was for such a guest, and expressed their 'stir-
%prise how a female of such appearance could have been found
an such an abode. The Lady, however, expressed some dis-
pleasure at having her repose OUR rudely disturbed, and repel-
led their intrusion with an air and manner that abashed them.—

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As she seemed rather reluctant tot quit her abode, the master
architect came forward, and stated how unfit the place was for
suck a visitor, and also the inconvenience of her continuing
there, as the place she had chosen for her bed was exactly in
the way of the workmen, coming and going into and from the_
house. The Lady having listened attentively to this addtellie
appeared to have felt its force. She rose in solemn silence and
left the half-built house. About half an hour after the architect
perceived her lying in a neighbouring field. He went to her and
remonstrated with her upon a conduct corresponding so little
with her appearance, but she declined all explanation. He
then proceeded to apprise the neighbours at the case, and with
praise-worthy feeling had her removed to a public-house in Cha-
pel street, the landlord of which kindly gave her some tea, and
offered her a bed, which she accepted.
She is above the middle size, finely shaped, and of a most in-
teresting appearance ; her countenance very expressive, but dark
enough tor a foreigner. She was dressed in a scarlet riding-
habit, and carried with her a small bundle. On being interro-
gated from whence she came, she answered in terms that were
construed to mean from Malta, and that she had no friends—we
say construed, as she spoke faintly, and in a foreign accent not
very intelligible. After eating her breakfast she retired to bed,
and in the mean time, the curiosity of the good landlady being
strongly excited, she proceeded to open her guest's bundle. OA
search, it was found to contain a pair of lady's half-boots, a very
valuable white dress, and a chemise of remarkably fine linen.
The landlady watched her while asleep with anxious attention :
but how great must have been her surprise on hearing the Mal-
tese lady, when suddenly awaking from sleep, expressing herself
in terms that proved her to be pure and native Irish. The land-
lady was Irish too, and could not be mistaken; She, therefore,
interrogated her more closely, and the latter, finding that she
had let out more than she intended, became more communica-
tive. She acknowledged that she was a native of Ireland, and
that her name was Fitzpatrick.
Another circumstance which increased the mystery was, she
had only three farthings in her pocket, and yet, though money was
pressed upon her by the inhabitants of Grosvenor-place and
Chapel-street, she refused all pecuniary assistance. The pub-
, lican's wife not being pleased at the idea of being imposed upon
by her countrywoman as a Maltese, insisted she should leave
the house, which she did with the greatest composure, and
without moving a muscle of her face, and went again into the
fields, where she sat down upon a damp bank for two hours.
Here she was at last observed by the Overseer of the Parish,
who offered her an asylum in the Poor-house, which she re-
jected with great acerb and contempt. A Gentleman's groom
passing by, and hearing the altercation, offered to take her in
charge, and find her a comfortable lodging for the night, which
he said he was sure his master would reward him fur, as he was
an Irishman. She readily accepted the oiler, and they made
their exit together. The opinion of the Overseer and the Public
is, that she is insane.`
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The Gazelle of last night states, that the Prince
Regent hath been graciously pleased, in the name
and on behalf of his Majesty, to grant unto the Right
Hon. Arthur Lord Viscount Wellington, K. B.
Lieut.-General in the Army, and General and COM•
manner in Chief of his Majesty's • forces serving in
Spain and Portugal, Marshal-General in the army
of Portugal, Sic. his Majesty's Royal licence and au-
thority that he accept the dignity and use the title
of Conde de Vimiera, and wear the insignia of the
Knight Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword ;
which honours have been conferred upon him by
the Prince Regeht of Portugal, in testimony of the
high estimation in which he holds his distinguished
and glorious services on various occasions
Sir Wm. Carr Beresford, K. B. &c. &c. to use
the title of Conde de Trancoso, and to wear the in-
signia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Tower and
Sword :
Sir R. T. Wilson, Knight of thelmperial Military
Order of Maria Theresa, and Aid de Camp to the
King, to wear the insignia of a Knight Commander
of the Tower and Sword : • . •
Also unto Nicholas Trant, Esq. Captain is the
Royal Staff corps, Military Governor of Oporto,
&c. &c. to wear the insignia of a Knight COrarn44-
• der of the Tower and Sword.