The National Register.
London, England, 1811-02-24 00:00:00

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• Some more of the devices used by. the French
government, to draw money from the United
states of America, are likely to be soon published..
The depredations on their trade and commerce
formed, it appears, but one part of the extensive
system of plunder, and BCONAPARTE now denies
their right to the posession of the territories they
purchased from France and from Spain, although
in both instances France received the purchase money.
We hope that this fresh instance of fraud will open
the eyes of the Americans, who already seem to
view their Gallic friends with an eye of suspicion.
Yet we cannot pity them, it was easy to foresee .the
eonsetiu-nces of their unnatural predilection, and
surely they ought to have known, in purchasing
those territories, that it might always be urged
against them, when circumstances should permit it,
that by the fundamental laws of the realms, neither
French nor Spanish Sovereigns could alienate the
dominions of their Crown for money, and that such
sales were null and void.

On Thursday Dutch Papers arrived to the 18th
instant. An article in them from Stockholm con-
firms the report, relative to the recal of the French
Officers in the suite of Bernadotte. The theatrical
societies in Holland have excited the jealousy of
the French Government, and a number of them
have been shut up. This measure, from the strain
of the apology which is made for it, appears to have
r.-oduced some discontent. Of the various reasons
stated, the true one, no doubt is, that " their multi.
plicity rendered the superintendance of the authori-
ties.very difficult ;", and most assuredly that super-.
intendance is directed, not so much to the preser-
vation of the public morals, as to prevent the insti-
tutions in question from being converted into
political associations. These Papers, likewise con-
tain various Imperial Decrees : two of them relate
to a new conscription in Holland. The number of
recruits for • all the Departments is 3,600; a third
of which number is destined for the marine service.
They are to.be drawn from the list of persons born
in 1788, and to be ready for service by the 10th of
April. The 'Tuscan Departments are also ordered
to furnish a levy of 2365 conscripts, and the Roman
levy of 1000, both to consist of the young men
born in 1790. By onother Decree, the Dutch
booksellers are to make a declaration, previous to
the Ist of March, of all the copies on hand of
French works printed in Holland anterior • to the
lst of January, and constituting part of private lite-
rary property. Upon their being stamped, and a
compensation made to the French authors, at the
late of a twelfth of their value, they may be freely
sold in every part of the Empire.
This foreign accounts of the state of the negocia-
tion between Russia and the Porte are socontradic-
tory as not easily -to be reconciled. Some articles
mention the renewal of hostilities ; and others as
positively state the actual conclusion of peace be-
tween the two Powers, under the mediation of
Austria, probably backed by France.
In another column of our Paper will be found an
Jmperial Decree of Buonaparte relative to the dis-
tribution of the stock in trade of those Printing-
Offices, which -in his venegance against the object
of his terror, the: ETSF, he 'eras :amen !o mucli pains
to suppress.