The National Register.
London, England, 1813-12-12 00:00:00

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Nth rapers to the Sd inst. reached town en Monday ;
they contain the Decree for postponing the meeting of the
Legislative Body till the 19th, an account of the non-arrival
of the Members. The military intelligence continues to de-
scribe the defensive positions of the French stoops, holding
out the persuasion of safety, and telling the people that a vi-
Forous resistance will he made if the Allies attempt to cross
the Rhine. A variety of paragraphs are also put forth to in-
duce a belief of dissentious among the Allies, and of disease
and wancamoug their moors. A great part of the contents
of these papers have this character of delusion; and tiretnost
amongst *them is an article, stating that Lord Wellington's.
Only is in a deplorable state fur want of provisions, prefaced
by an announcement, that an entrenched camp has been
formed before Bayonne, guarded by ion pieces of cannot,
Wessel and Jobe's ate said to be provisiiited for n;ne
months, and Macdonald was to set out from Cclogne for
another destination. Denmark is stated to be staunch in the
cause of France, and making the greatest exertions. It is
rematkable, that nothing has yet been permitted to he salt'
respecting the revolution in Holland. The Conscripts, we
are told, march cheerfully to their depots. The Gazette ofl
Cassel, of the 17th November, is cited as stating that nego-
ciations are on foot which interest all Europe. Whether
there be any foundation fur it or not, must be left for time
to-develope.
Additional Paris Journals to the 6th instant arrived on
Wednesday. So late as the latter end of last month, no of-
fensive operations appear to have been undertaken las the
Allied Armies in the neighbourhood of the Rhine, and the
enemy continue to speak of the remarkable state of tran-
fluidity in which they find themselves in that direction.
From the Lower Elbe there is very little intelligence; and
of Davonst, we arc merely told, that his corps still continued
to occupy Ratzburg and Ilambutgle Om-scripts continue to
be matched towards the Rhine ; and " those lively and do-
cile youths," as. the Monitenr terms them, are exercised for
several hours daily, the public walks being for t'oeir reception
f' transformed into Champs de Marc'-..- Meta, on the Mo
selle, within the territory of Old Fiance, is the grand depot
and rendezvous of all the troops marching from die Intel ior,
for the defence of the frontier, on the side of the Rhine. The
Pt cfect of the Department of the Seine has issued an arret
calling upon the conscripts of the classes of the years Igt 1,
12, 13, 1.1, 1806, 1807, and the classes following them, des-
tined to furnish the contingsnt fu- the Department of the
Seine to the levy of three hundted• thousand men. The
persons for this levy may be takeit Eton all the departments
of the Empire, at the height qf jimr feet nine inches, (French
measure, or five feet one inch and three-quarters English)
and to the age of thirty-eirht years. if they have tint already
'served, and to the age of fotty-two, if they has e been
before in the military: On the side of Italy,. Buonaparte
seems determined to make a strenuous etlot t. Masena,
once more called into action, is said to be norching
in the direction of Getio, at the head of twenty o; twenty-
two thousand men, for Piedinont ; wltilu Murat with his
31111 V front Naples,. advances upon the Po. Buonaparte re-
mained at Park actively employed in supplying the wants
of the army. There are accounts flout 11:o onne of the 29:11
tilt. They express little more than the security which is
felt at that place from the formidable entrenched camp that
has been completed before it. It is asserted that a misun-
derstanding prevails between the Spa lila, ds and English,
from the former having refuted to advance. One article of
ia_these Papers we arc afraid is tno true. It is

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stated from Bourdeaux of the 26th tilt. that an Ameticatryes-
sel had art ived there in twenty days flout Boston, bringing
an account that the British Army in Upper Canada, under
CeMeral Procter, bad been made prisoners; the General
himself and 50 men only escaping.
,Sir James Yeo is also
said to have been defeated by Commodore Chauncey, but
this rumour, we trust will prove unfounded. • .
Accounts from the French coast state that the enemy •
are making evely exertion to send troops against Holland.
" Every person," •says one of those accounts, " capable of
bearing arms, is compelled to march, and where any oppo-
sitiou is attempted, force and violence of the most compul-
sive nature at to. A great number of gun-boats
are also conveying from Du&drk, &c. through the Nether-
lands, by the canals, to the Scheldt, intended, it is said,
for the defence of that river and Antwerp."
Three mails from Heligoland arrived on Wednesday. At
the same tune Mr. Myers, the Messenger, accompanied by a •
foreign Nobleman, arrived with dispatches from Lord Aber-
deen, at the head-quarters of the Allied Army at Frankfort.
from which we have papers to the 26th. In the course of
the day, Mr. Williams, the Messeeger, also arrived front
the coast of Holland ; and at night Dutch Papers were re-
ceived to the 7th instant. Adviccs from Frankfort, dated
the 2slth ult. state, that Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr had re-
fused to return to Dresden, and to have ,his corps replaied
in the situation in which it capitulated to Count Mellott,
upon which Prince Sewartzenbcrg gave orders that the corps
should be made prisoners of war, •and marched into Bohemia.
It consists of ahout 30 Generals, 1900 Officers, 28,00.0 men.
besides 6000 sick. Buonaparte has offered to treat for Abe
with:lrawing of all his troops from the fortresses on the Vis-
tula, Oder, and Elbe ; but his proposals have been rejected.
Most of these fortresses most shortly fall into the hands of
the Allies. Wallin and Stettin are said to have already sur-
rendered. Were it possible for hiin to march the whsle of
• the garrisons into France, he would at once possess an army
of veterans, which, when filled up with the new conscripts,
would become truly formidable. I u Dantzic alone there is
a large company .d'elle, consisting wholly of officers, who
sought refuge . there in the flight from Russia. The
Vienna Gazelle contains a ' formal notification, that the
Confederation of the Rhine had ceased to exist,4ll theSones
belonging to it having either voluntarily joined the Allies,
or beeu occupied by their arms. Most of the Kings and
Princes have attended in person at Frank fott, to offer their
alliance to the'Empetors of Austria and Russia, and the King
of Prussia. In that city have been the Kings of Bavaria and
Wurtemberg; the Grand Dukes of Baden, Ilesse Darmstadt,
and Wurtzburg,•atal almost all the minor Pt hires, even in-
cluding the Prince of issemburg, late an Oflicer in the.ser-
v ice of France, and of whose fidelity to Buonaparte the
French papers loudly boasted. The Frankfurt Gazettes
contain several of the treaties which these Rhenish Sove-
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reigns have concluded with the Allies. The Gland Duke
L of Baden, in an address to his subjects, declares, that he
had requested of Buonaparte permission to remain 'ten-
on!, which he refused. The fate of Davousl, and of the
RI: r; of Denmark, seems to be drawing. to a el iris
The latter, it is said, sent two Ambassadors to the Crown
Prince to treat for peace ; but they were dismissed with the
answer, that the Plitice would treat with them only on
Danish 'ground. We learn from Elensburgh, under date of
the '.6th of November, that Count Bernstorff had sent off to
Frankfort ; and the Austrian Ambassador, who was on the
point of leavittg Copenhagen, has been requested to postpone
his departure. Meanwhile, the Crown Prince, disregarding
all these pacific °vet tures, was to..pass the Elbe on the 4,01