The National Register.
London, England, 1808-10-30 00:00:00

TETE NATIONAL REGISTER.

men, have made a retrograde movement towards their own
frontiers. These Papers also state the return of the Mes-
senger who was dispatchel to the Central Junta. lie
brought back an answer authorising- the landing of the
troops under Sir DAs-io BAIRD. The disembarkation was
to take place the following day.

The Semiramis also arrived on the '2 oth at Corunna,
having on board Mr. FRERE, our Ambassador to the
Supreme Central Junta, and the Marquis de la ROMANA.
They were received with extraordinary marks of honour ;
and, as son as they landed, tb,. mules were taken
from their trriage, which was drawn by the people,
a►nidst the loudest acclamations, to the Government House.
general illumination took place, the same evening, on
the occasion, The Semiramis had a million of dollars on
board for the use of the Spanish army. Letters were also
received at Corunna from Lisbon, which mention the em-
barkation of 14,000 British, and 4000 Spanish troops, for
Catalonia. Sir JOHN MOORE, commenced his march on the
sth for Spain.

We have so often eulogised the Spaniards, and recom-
mended their cause, that it would he perfectly superfluous
to make any more professions of the lively participation we
take in every thing that has the most remote tendency to
advance their interests, or contribute to their success. We
never entertained the slightest doubt of their ultimately
succeeding in chacing beyond their frontiers, the baBe rab-
ble, as they themselves energetically call the enemy. How-
ever high our opinion of their character and exertions has
been, we acknowledge they have far surpassed the sanguine
expectations we entertained in their favour. They have
been always an honorable and a brave people ; they are
now become a very great one. How much we admire their
patience under privations and the most harassing duties of
war ! How much circumspection do they combine with the
most enterprising activity. Their Statsemen, their sol-
diers, their clergy, and their private citizens display unri-
valled marks of disinterested attachment to their country,
and captive monarch. What are now become of the ty-
rint's vaunted legions, who, like the ltomans, are expect-
ed to triumph, in a single campaigA on the Ebro, the Vis-
tula. and the Euphrates. They are brow-beaten. the mi-
serable slaves of the most unprinrirk.d and capricious ty-
nut. Such wretches, driven from their homes with the
whip of despotism, to subjugate a community
irritated freemen in arms what a curious and
instructive example does Bonaparte at present receive
with iusolent fastidiousness, the homage of vassal
Monarchs and of fifty Princes, whilst his remorseless and
perfidious heart is agitated to frenzy by the disastrous ac-
counts he receives from the Pyrenees. Should Nuv be
pursued as far as the Gnronne by the United British and
Spanish Armies; and if he were to receive the fulminating
ii!elligence in the midst of this brilliant corttge, how we
should like to see the impression it would make on the face
of the insolent Upsart. The degraded Princes who ob-
sequiously crouch before his throne, how they must sink
with shame and confusion, when 'hey compare their infamy
and humiliation with the glory and independence of the
Spaniards. Miserable wretches! in order to pres:!rve their
cooks, their mistresses, their harlequins, their Italian
singers, -.heir flatterers, and their pimps, they submit to a
drudgery and debasement, to which the most pinching

poverty, or all the horrors of the most loathsome
would be trifling in the opinion of some of thr
sore. Should Pwrza the GREAT be suddenly
life, and hear that one of his immediate desoeu
quitted his throne and kingdom to do he
Corsican, he would wish the earth might
swallow him up, in order not to wiiicss
strous humiliation All the effects of his
uius, and of CATHAaucc's comprehensive poli
trated by this weak, unthinking Monarch.

and marauding warfare of his Cossacks and Ta
land, and his attempts to rob his gallant brother-i!
province, are akoor compensation to his dish
jects, for the disgraceful part he acts at prtsel
done every thing in his power to gratify the a!
rancour a BONAPARTE against the KING of S,
the day of retribution shall come, when he wi
to bewail his own infatuation, and the pertid
of the traitor RomANzow. The discontent of
Nobles has hurled more powerful SON CreigllS
A NDER from their thrones. Sincerely do wo.
dishonorable and impolitic part he is playing
lanthropist and Philosopher entertained such
pectations from the first years of his reign ; ai
crificed his honor, the love of his subjects,
disemcnt of Russia, and the veneration of man.
approbation of a murderer.

The campaign in Finland has terminated in
Armistice. The Swedes have gained immori
the exertions they made to recover that provii
Russians ; but the latter poured such strong rei
into the country, that Field-Marshal KLusG,
(lured to the reluctant necessity of concludin
of hostilities, in order to save a part of the
was in danger of being cut off by the enemy,
veteran evinced some time ago a wish to retire
as this reverse occurred to his country, he wryvereign, and said, that as he shared the trite
Swedish army he would not abandon it in its
It is difficult to decide whether this- armistice
a peace between the two powers. Every thin
the attainment of so desirable an object, denen,
pressions Alexander receives at Erfurth. If h,
satisfied, "the first consequence of his disconi
the restitution of Finland ; but if the ty rant
exercise over his mind the fatal influence he
ring the conferences at Tilsit, there is no don'
prosecute with renewed vigour, a war he undt
other ob,;ect than to gratify the hatred of Boni

Our Cabinet has finally determined upon
which they ought to give to the Proposition
the Emperor of Russia, and from Bonapar
terday morning Mr. Shaw, one of the King'
left London, with the utV matum of the Bi
meat, he will sail in a th,g of truce, to
proc.-ed to Erfurth with his dispatches.

The Court incpected the Mealwcighers'
ordered th►' price of bread to be raised one assi
or Sd. in the peek loaf, to commence this dl
qiiartern loaf of wheaten is to be sold for
household Is. lid.
On Wednesday the Sessions commenced at
ley ; no trial of public interest occurred durin