The National Register.
London, England, 1817-08-25 00:00:00

STOCKHOLM AUG. 8.

In the seaport of Calmar, the seventh town in'the
kingdom, containing 4,500 inhabitants, the Magistrates
and a great part of the citizens hove signed an as
upon the honour and faith of Swedishmen, not
to have any repast of more than six dishes; nt dinner
to give only red wine and Malaga (Mountain) ; in the
evening no wine at all, in the afternoon no coffee ; to
renounce the use of all foreign confectionary and pre-
serves: further, that the women shall lay aside all dresses
of gauze,. tull, crape, or other expensive foreign. mate-
rials ; shall not wear any lace above two inches broad
at the most, and to buy nu Turkish or other expensive
foreign shawls."
Lord Strangfird, our Ambassador to the Court of
Sweden had arrived, and on the 7th inst. had his first
audience with the King.

Paris papers of Wednesday, reached town on Satur.
day. They are totally barren of dontestic news.

From Leghorn 'they write, that, the American
squadron, under the command of Commodore Chaun-
cey had quitted their coast after having made consider-
able purchases in articles of luxury. Tho Americans
had almost emptied their stores of martle and
alabaster, us well as the shops oi' perfumery !
'From Rome :they write that Santini had chosen
Brunn in Moravia, as the place of his future residence,
and that he tad been conducted thither under an
escort.
•

Mr. Rush, who will sn.-ceed. Mr. Adams as American
Minister here, is the sr,. of the celebrated Dr. Rush,
trio obtained a vepliet :;:f a libel against Mr. Cobbett,
whiJi obliged the lattetto leave America.

AUGUST '2l.

TILL• CANADAS.

['Ross A CHARLEIMIN P%PEII.] •
The strongest fears arc expressed by intelligent Bri-
tish Journalists, as to the safety of the Cauadas, in a
future war between the United States and Great Uri-
win. We confess that we would rather behold those
colonies possessions of the British Empire than parts Of
our already too extended Republic. We have only
time to (Ali:r a short summary of out: opinions on this
interesting svkjeet.
We do not think it would be expedient for us to
possess the Cumulus, because, in the first place, the
Government of the Union will with difficulty, in a
fcw years, be able to balance the authority of the
States, which are spreading with fearful rapidity—
whilst the preponderance of the general authority is
the only circumstance by which its acts eau be enfbreed,
and its power respected.
We do not think it would be politic in the United
States to hold those colonies—because, in the second
place, our exuatsiv% territory is already a source of
‘veultness, from the innumerable points it presents to
the attacks of an enemy; whilst the. Lakes being in the
nature of Hand seas, arc an admirable natural barrier
to an extensive frontier. We are able to form military
depots, and fit out flets for our defence in this quarter,
with for superior facility to our enemy. An extension
of our territory will, besides, multiply those local jea-
lousies and prejudices, which must increase as the ems
lire enlarges its limits. A new population, with dis-
similar habits and manners, and ix•rhaps strong nation-
ality of feeling (for a part of Canada is French, or the
descendants of French) to be hereafter incorporated
with the people of these States, cannot be desirable.
We do not think that the United States ought to
wish to possess the Canadas, because in the third
place, they arc a constant source of expense, and an
appendage of increasing weakness to the empire of
Great Britain. They can never become formidable
to that portion of the population of the United States
which herders on them, because its growth is far more
rapid than that of the opposite British territory. The
irresistible temptation of interest is also fitst driving
the flower of the population of those colonies into the
more fertile territory and more genial climate of the
United States.

We do not think it would be wise policy to conquer
the Canadas (if in our power hereafter) because,
thurthly, we should then be deprived of the advantage•
of keeping the war, in a considerable degree, from our
doors, by carryin7 it into the territory of our enemy,
and obliging her to maintain a conflict with us
at an immense expense, in consequence of the-
great distance of those colonies from the Mother
Country.

But, chiefly, andlastly, we ought not to desire those
possessions, because the Lakes must be the scenes of
naval combats in future wars with Great Britain.,
whilst we arc too weak to meet her on the open ocean.
Those Lakes arc to be a school and nursery for our
gallant little Ileet:•. On their stormy bosom the Ameri-
can mariner will not loose his habits of hardihood; and
our Officers must improve in tactics and nautical skill ;
whilst the distance which Great Britain will have to
transport her shipwrights—the munitions of her
vessels of war, and the seaman to navigate and fight
them, will give us inculcable advantages over her.
in all these respects from our vicinity to the scene of
action.

Some accounts received from South America. have
stated-that General Mena, on landing in Mexico, had,
in imitation of Bolivar, destroyed all his ships, to con-
vince his soldiers that they had ro resource but in vic-
tory. Other accounts, however assert that he owes
the loss of his fleet, to a Spanish frigate, and some smal.
ler vessels of war, which had cruised in quest of him.

ARMY OF Occup.trios.---It is said that a short time
back the Allied Ministers at Paris were called together
to consider another application from the F rench Un-.
vernment for a further reduction of the army of occu-
pation. The representation was so strong as to cause a
considerable difference of opinion among the Ministers
present. The Duke of Wellington did not attend ;
but, after the meeting terminated, he was consulted as
to the propriety of acceding to the request. The
answer of his Grace is said to have been in substance
this :—That- he would not be responsible for the with-
drawing any of the troops then in Frsnce ; but that if
a reduction was intended, it would be better to with-
draw the whole at once, than leave a force which would
cease to be imposing if further diminished, This
answer was considered decisive, and :he application of
the French Government was for the present refused.

The fidlowin,. account is from a French Journal:—
" The perpetual motion appears capable of being ef-
fected through the medium of galvanism. A French
Physician has in his cabinet two galvanic piles, sixteen
inches high, which alternately attract a pretty heavy
beam. The continued oscillation of the beam gives
motion to a pendulum which has never stopped for the
last three years. The Physician is now endeavouring
to give to this movement an isochronism which may
render it more well.

ATTI (ST V.

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