The National Register.
London, England, 1812-05-24 00:00:00

OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH.

A most tremendous conflict is on the eve of breaking
(Int in the North. BuoNapAnTE at last quitted Paris on
the 9th inst. to review his Grand Army on the Vistula,
viltilst ALE:CAN DER had also left his capital, to put him-
self at the head of his army. Seldom have greater pre-
parations been made on the part of the French. NAPO-
180N has collected the whole of his disposable force from
the most distant points, and called his most active and ex-
perienced Marshals to serve under him. He marches to
battle surrounded with vassal Kings,..and armed with
their power. The King of PRUsSI Ais become one of his
Lientenarkts : the Kings of WCSTPHALIA, (JEROME) and
pf NAPLES, (MURAT) are on their way with all the mili—
tary force they can spare, to hold subordinate commands.
A large Austrian army, headed by the Archduke
CHARLES, is in readiness to co-operate with him ; and the
French troops have already entered Memel, and advanced
to the very borders of Russia. On the other hand the Rus-
sian army is said to be numerous, and full of confidence. It
cannot, however, be equal to the collected force of the in-
vaders, mad we cannot but own that we now view the ap-
prnacning campaign with more anxiety than hope. NA-
i is attended by his EMPRESS as far as Dresden,
Nehes.! they were to be met by the Heads of the House of
Austria. The .KING of ROME was to remain in France,
at the Palace of Meudon, about six miles from Paris.

In another part of our paper will be found a French
Decree, now produced for the first time, though dated
Aril 11, 1811, announcing the repeal of the Berlin and
Milan Decrees as they regarded America. This docu-
ment. which had been hitherto denied, because it did not
exist, has, no doubt, been lately issued and ante-dated, in
order to be made to a?ply to our late Declaration.
BUOIN APA TIT F, it appears, has meditated the same atm.
antis conduct towards the Emperor of Russr.t and h;s fa.
that he carried into effect so perfidiously against the
Roy al family of Spain. The conspiracy lately discovered
at St. Peiersburgh, was designed to carry off the Imperial
Family to France, and was discovered by the Swedish
General A RMFELDT, who, in consequence, has been ap-
pointed Governor of Finland, in the Russian service.
BUON APARTE, on the day previous to his departure for
the North, issued a new decree for regulating the high
prices of grain. This decree states, that the former de-
cree promulgated on the same subject has failed in pro-
ducing the hoped-fer salutary effects, and that the price of
provisions had arisen above the ability of same classes of
the community to purchase ; it then declares, that the
high prices are caused by exaggerated alarm, and the
speculations of avarice, and not from a real scarcity ;
on these grounds BUONA PA RTE. has fixed a maximum for
the six central departments of the French Empire, that
no grain shall be sold beyond a fixed price. His object,
doubtless, is to allay, if possible, the popular discontents
which might, during his absence, break out in a manner
dangerous to his power.
A Morning Paper states, ,4 that some discoveries have
recently been made. which have rendered the departure
of LUCIEN BUON APA RTE from this country, a measure of
iAispensable necessity."