The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-04 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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St.:11" bill;RY AND COVFVT GARDEN 1 [MATHES.

We this Flsv present our Readers with a correct Plate of the front
!wo National 'theatres. In our next we shall lay before
com,)arative view of the interior of each, when the erect
wiveh the I e;:. esentatiOu of the exterior is likely to produce, will
lie rt....1,..,1, Seita from the street, Covent Gimlet' presents the ma-
appo::rmice A Grecian temple, full of severity and grandeur;
.t lYn:y Lem, with its brick sides and stuccoed front, looks more
I,,i'tont demised mansion Of some honest Country Squire, than
t :1:t, of the Dramatic Muses. it h therefine to be lamented that
t • ; o:-.1:re should have been built SO forward as to render the erec-
ti lOw intended Portico inspos-itile, fiir want of room, when so
is left unoccupied in the to.ck, towcrds Thury.lane.
(o 6,o.deii has a kit the advaintaf!e in external accommodati
i • ltreill'd coi.•pletely shelter the visitors to i!se pit, boxes,
'•q WS. link the inclioneley the weather, before the door; of •
e (yen. Di or) L.,.e seems hitherto to possess nothing
4.1 ILF i-d, and the-public trust reoann exposed to the rain or snow
t p .vcitwat, until the House opens. The want of a Portico
re,! t,v patio:tit rls tCit tic the Company going to the dress boxes,
w!i! i, to to cross the b:aa-, pavement, on binding from their car-
:::4l :Iscend the •teps without any she;ter whatever. We men-
las tiies? il. fromeies, in the hope that they may be remedied, and
111 ,t a Them re wh:eli sm passes in internal accommodation and magni_
11 seller ever of the kmd which we have seen at home and
a ;ra•ol, may he net fret thro.ig:eitit

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ton Den,
.V 1) 0("1*()BER 4.

FIGI I i 11 Fit

r;;l:E.kr GF itt.7SIANS 11()4IOV.A.

We obserxed izt our that at the date of the seven-
tecoth Ftetieh Etffle tilt. the critical time seemed to ba‘e
;Ink e h when the Swedish expedition rui..tht turn the tide o fI
wlr in favour ef agaits‘it whom it began to run. Ihe
•shof-k w' armies appe.tred at hand, aril a victory Ott the pa, t
the Fe ench, unless antkipated by a powerful. and ell'ee,..L;!
to ight,Nve thought, not only put them in pthises.i.ou!
of Moscow, but ten its' the ratrirally weak mimi of N-
DER into tuici uc concessiotts, and a ruinous pc ,te. The I
Swe&sh expedition has in.t vet sai:ed, and our ;yin
have uvfortimaielv been realised; a general engagement h:ls
at la-t heen fought, and the Ilussimis have been (1.47..‘.,tcd.
had tags happened before they had evacuated tour hundred
miles of territory, the French would have derived from theii
victory no other advantage than that of penetrating the Iron-
tkrs ; whilst the I:ussian:, in their long line of tetrcat, :mold
have had time to coileet retiforccinenis, anal in eel'Al y
face the enemy with recruited numbets, below he could
have leached the vitals of the en-Tile. But it will be :;aid,
he would then have pot stied the nu,si:.lns too rapidly to allow
them to re-assemble their forces effectually. The llus:dans
had several lines of entrenched positions, to ICCeiye their
dispersed diviAonS,.. in case of defeat, and to check the foe.
They had a chain elklottifted posts before Wiltia; tire., had
the cots enact! Caro ft of Orissa, the fortress 00 natal ry
and the strontr line of the Dwina: and they had the iOrtified
town Of -Smolt-Asko. But they evacuated the triple ramparts
of:their ferrhiiry 'without • a battle, and were driven from the
- ,
,-,mbretvoti,e) at the fi ststand their main army acempted
to make:
i . Iblit they been defeated in front of W dna, could
ttey have beCijintrsued with more rapiditr than they have
been, by an enniv'to whom they offered i oppt.iit:on, unti.

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he WAS posted deep in the bosom of the land? Whether
the sanguinary battle of Moskwa will have the deplorable
effect our fears anticipated, remains as et impo.sible
for us to ascertain ; but sihen we consAer that it wa.
fought with that particular intent by. N A Pm. EON, who sel-
dom errs in his calculations, and who could have turned the

Russian entrenched positions,. and compelled their evacu-
ation without fighting, had he not wished, as by tells his scl-
diers, to obtain " their spe,.dv return to their country"—
when we sec that private Ictters flout Paris already howl
that they " shall soon have peace with the !ii:s.iattc," we
feel serious alarm lest this diq omfiture, joined to the pro-

longed want of co-operatiOn on the part of SNMICII, S 110 LSI d
SO operate on the mind of At, EX ANDE Rs' to induce him to
listen to the proposals which w►lt, no doubt, h 1• ant-011v
made to him. In 'these NAPO!. EON Will, ;Li usual, with