The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JAN. 3,

PRICE OF STOCKS ON FRIDAY.

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2 per Cent. Con.. ... .... 291 ii i Ex Erns. (3l) 10 II 9 pm.
3 per Cent. Had.
4 per Cents. l5l 1 Bank Long Ann. lst 5-I9 I
s per Cent. Navy . SS* it Ditto Bonds

A Sec ni Address to Sir Fr:incis Burdett, Bart. by " An Eector of
'Westminster," on the Freedom of Election, in our next.
The Correspondent who favoured us with a call yesterday, will find a
Letter a our Office to-morrow.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

tontion,
SUNDAY, JANUARY- 31.

There is some hope of one of our squadrons falling in
with Commodore RODGERS, as our readers will see by the
following letter --

COMMODORE RODGERS' SQUADRON.

" S:TLLA, JAN. 36.—Arrived the Flying Fish, Captain FROOD,
from St. Michael's, bound to London ; sailed the 10th instant, and
on the 12th, fell in with Commodore Roriccas's squadron, consist-
ing of three frigates and two brigs ; was within gun-shot of one of
the frigates, but being a goad sailer, she escaped. On the 15th fell
in with a British squadron of three sail of the line and two frigates,
t , whom Captain FROUD gave the information of the Americans, and
they immediately went in chase, and he has no doubt.but our squa-
dron would fall in with them."

The Gottenburgh Mail which arrived at the beginning of
the week was unusually barren. It only brought the spe-
culations of individuals, instead of official intelligence. The
defection of the Prussians was not yet known in Sweden,
though rumours of the surrender of part of M ACDObIA LD'S
army began to he circulated. By the French papers since
received, to the eoth inst. it appears, that this Commander
had effected his retreat to Konigsberg, which he reached on
the Sd. the same day MURAT had left that place for Elhing.
There is no doubt, but MACDONALD would also shortly
follow the same rout e, as he was too weak to oppose a success-
full (resistance to the Russians, should they have really ad-
vanced against him, and as it must he MUR AT'S chief object
to collect all the remnants of his force in his new positions
is front of the Vistula, in order to pre'ent, at least, the sem•
blance of an army, both to the enemy who threatens hirn,
and to the Coweripts and other reinforcements that
have been sent to join the " Grand Army." Of the actual
entrance of the Russians at Konigsberg, no certain tid-
ings have reached us. The Corvention concluded with
General D'YoaK may have rendered them indifferent as to
its occupation, whilst the fatigue of the troops after a pursuit
of six hundred miles without halting, must have rendered
a tune of rest necessary. It is, therefore, not improbable,
that up to the middle r,f this month, they hnd not passed the
Niemen in any force, anti this opinion is c(.rr•borated by the
ease with which 1‘,4 A C DON A I.D in his weakeeed state entered
Tilsit, which had been for upwards of •a week in the posses-
sion of a Rusi;ici corps.
The French Palle' s, as usual, magnify the preparations
which are making throughout the empire to replace the
army they have lust, by another equally powerful. NA eO-
- N may hriog men to the fiat!, but the main pillar of
his strength, his veterans, much reduced by the former
campaigns in Prussia and Austria, and the destructive war
in Spain, have now almost entirely perished. Some corps
which had been left in the Interior. probably because their

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the tucleus-of a fresh army ;•but it must be long before
it can successfully contend with the warriors who have re-
deemed their capital from the hands of invaders, and hurled
hack on the head of their assailants the destruction which
they had spread through the other parts of Europe.
Austria, it is said in these Papers, after mature consi-
deration, has resolved to execute all the stipulations of her
treaty with France, and replace her auxiliary force on its
full complement. At the same time she collects an army
of reser% e of One hundred and twenty Thousand men
on her northern frontiers, ostensibly for their protection.
If this be true, it may have checked the advance of the
Russians until they had aseertained the real intentions of the
Court of Vienna, lest they should find themselves in nearly
the same situation as the French at Moscow, should Austria
see and seize an opportunity for falling on their rear. This
measure, on the other hand, may have been adopted to
blind the French Emperor, and prepare for a junction of
force with the victorious armies.

Ministers arc about to send out arms and equipments to
the Baltic, for the supply of the Inhabitants of those States
on the Continent, who may join the standard ofindependence

against Buonaparte.
Various orders have been received in town from Bel ltn,
for coffee, sugar, Brc. The Continental merchants flu longer
deeth it necessary to write in cyphers and abiguous terms,
but communicate their orders in the usual stile of business,
without any fear of the consequences of violating the "Con-
tinental System."
- The letters by the last arrival from Cornnna, mention ano-
ther action, in which the valiant chief, M rx A, has again dis-
tinguished himself; it took place it the neighbourhood of
Pampluna, and many of the French were killed Lnd taken
prisoners. Advices from the Sierra Morena state, that the
few French that were in La Mancha had withdrawn northerly
and those which were in the centre of the Peninsula were
taking the direction of the Ebro.
Extract of a letter from Setzen, in Conrland, dated De-
cember 17th:—" The day before yesterday' there passed this
place a Polish regiment, the last of those which infested this
neighbourhood. Overcome with cold and rilpire, they took
up their quarters for the night in the neighbourhood of Set;.
zen. A whole battalion of 700 men lay ie a large cattle shed,
and in the most negligent manner kindled a tire in the shed.
White they were all asleep, the tire burnt on, communicating
itself to the building, and, according to the report of some
of the soldiers themselves, 400 of theit comrades were burnt
to death: severity of them were not completely dead, but
were so frightfully burktk, that they ex[lred before evening."
The last Papers received from the Uni.;ed te'tates talk of a
great mortality, which still prevails in the invading American
army, particularly amongst those troops stationed at Burling-
ton. From five •to twelve men arc stated to die daily : the
11th regiment in particular has suffered greTi!ly. The cause
of this sickness in the army is traced to the soldiers having
been encamped in a low wet plain. Ins:Aires weie known
wherein the troops had been exposed for ten days together,
during very cold and stormy weather, poorly cIA, and with
a tent to cover them. The question of the Merchant's
Bonds remains. unsettled, and was still under the consideration
of Congress.
It is noticed, in some letters from France, that a Procla-
mation has been issued by Buos APART C, :t1 which he de-
clares, that the punishment of de:o h shall be inflicted on
all those composing the late Crand Army in Russia she)
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A Sec wi Address to Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. by "An Elector of they had spread throe
'Westminster," on the Freedom of Election, in our next. Austria, it is said
The Correspondent who favoured us with a call yesterday, will find a deration, has resolve
Letter a our Office to-morrow. treaty with France,
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SUNDAY, JANUARY' 31. Court of Vienna, lc:
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see and seize an opp(
There is some hope of one of our squadrons falling in
measure, on the oti
with Commodore RODGERS, as our readers will see by the
blind the French Ei
following letter -- force with the victor
COMMODORE RODGERS' SQUADRON.
" SCILLA, lAN. 36.—Arrived the Flying Fish, Captain FROLTD, Ministers are abot

campaigns in Prussia and Austria, and the destructive war I H......, -- -
in Spain, have now almost entirely perished. Some corps !dares, that the punishment of de:oh shall be ialicted on
which had been left in the Interior, probably because their all those composing the late Ciaud Army in Russia %vitt)
wounds and services entitled them to the rest and pay of in- I have deserted his standard, should they.returnrithiu hit •
raids, are now on their march to Poland, and may become territories.
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