The National Register.
London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

IRIt NATIONAL REGISTIIIt.

A letter from Milan of the 26th Nov given in the
Brussels papers of the 9th contains the following pas-
sage The Prinessa of Wales received )estcrday, by
a courier despatched from London, the deplorable news
of the death of her beloved daughter, the Princess
Charlotte. This cruel. event has made such a profound
impression upon her, that she fainted away several
times successively."
B RU ssrt.s, DEC 43 —One of our journals has pablish-
a some letters of Count Las Cases. The firstis addressed
to Lord Sidnaouth, and a second to Lord Holland.
These letters arc concluded by the following piece :
" All the public papers gave at the time erroneous ac-
munts of the reason of my departure from Longwood.
The following will re-establish the truth:"—
~ My dear Count Las Cases.—My heart sensibly feels what
you experience. Torn from me sixteen or seventeen days
! ago, von have been confined as secret, without being permit-
' tcd to receive any information about ate, or to communicate
with any person whatever, either French or English, and even
destitute of a servantof your own choice.
" Your conduct at St. Helena has been, like your life, lin.
notwable and without reproach ; I take pleas's' e in telling
)011 so. (Here threg font ths of a letter are wanting. )
" Your company was necessary to me t You alone, read,
speak, and nutlet stand English. Howniativ nights have you
passed with one in my illness ! However, l advise you, and
if needn't I order you to require the Governor of this island
to send you to the Continent. He cannot refuse this, having
no power over you but by your voluntary consent, which has
placed you under his antlior;ty. My heat t a ill rejoice to
know that you use on the way to happier countries.
Whether you go to England, or whether you return to
your country, forget the recollections of the ills which you
have been made to stiffer. Roast et' the fidellity which you
have shown to me, and of the entire affection which I bear
you.
'• If yon should one day see my wife and my sort, salute
them (erarassez.les); for more than two years I have had no
no news of them, either directly or indirectly. ('three lints
are here wantiug.j
" However, comfort yourself, and console my friends.
My body, it is true, is in the fusser of our enemies; their
rage forgets nothing that can satiate their revenge. They
kill me by inches, Luis me font mourir a coups trepingle
but Providence is too just, I ant sensible of it, to permit this
to continue long : in tie midst of this eousiimingclimate, de-
prived of every thing that supports life [Here three lines are
wanting.]
" As there is every reason to believe that you will not be
permitted to come before your departure, receive Illy tlilbraCt a
the assurances of my esteem and of my friendship. Be
happy.
" Your affectionate
*" Longwood, Dec. 1818. "NAPOLEON.,'

Accounts inserted in a recently-received Curare's
Gazette, describe the Spanish Patriot General Paez,
to have been beaten by the Royalist CaUeda. The Ja-
maica Papers, however, give quite a different story:—
They state, on the contrary, that Calzada, wit}. a corps
of 700 Creoles, had gone over to the Independents, and
joined General Paez ; and that, with their united force,
they had defeated the Spaniards, Corcen, and Curtin
According to an article in the Jamaica Courant, a pow-
erful and scarcely interrupted tide of success had favour-
ed the Patriots in all directions, and Alorillo himself
was in Caraceas preparing to carry off every thing
valuable, and to proceed to the westward towards Porto
Cabello. On the other hand accounts from the Havan-
nah state, that the Royalists have been successful in
New Spain ; having taken the fort of Comanja, defend-
ed by General Mena and 700 men. Mena himself,and
the major part of his followers escaped but he left be-
hind upwards of 300 of his troops, and the greatest part
of his artillery and ,munition.
A vessel, named the Eliza, is recently arrived from
India, which on her voyage to England, off Madagas-
car, spoke the Palladium, a country ship, also on her
way homewards. The Palladium left Bengal on the Gth
of July, and had on board a Government Gazette,
wherein was announced the agreeable tidings of a peace
with all the Mahratta powers. A territory producing a
a revenue of one million and a half had been ceded to
the 'Company, to indemnify it for the expenses of the
war. Lord Hastings had left Calcutta to see the treaty
executed.

The American Papers contain a laughable specimen,
of Republican Quixotism. The Government of Ame-
lia Island, has decreed, that all the individuals com-
posing its army, (we have heard they amount to above
a hundred, from the drummer to the Brigadier-Gene-
ral) shall have certain portions of land according to
their respective ranks and length of service, in the Flo-
ridas, when—(this is a very awkward condition of the
grant)—they have conquered them. The graduated
scale of the donations is actually given, and we find
that a private, who has served six months, is to have
120 acres; nine months, 440 acres ; twelve months,
800 acres. The officers are to obtain these endowments
in the ratio of their rank, thus an Ensign is to have
1,600 acres, a Captain :1,200 acres; and so an till we
arrive at 13rigadier-Genentl, to whom arc assigned
10,000 acres. This is really incredibly tiiolish. The
American Government might just as rationality partition
Ireland or England. It shews, however, that plun ler
and spoliation are the prime motives of these assertors
of liberty, and than they only want the power to do all
they promise.
Thursday evening summonses were issued for the as-
sembling of a Cabinet Council on Friday at two o'cl „
which was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers now
in Lt ndun.