The National Register.
London, England, 1813-06-27 00:00:00

4

Tit

Ti

strengtii of his neighbours and his enemies abroad, and be
protected bitnsell against all conspitacies and counter•rev.o-
lutions at borne. Hence, no-doubt, proceeded, in a great

measure, his partiality for mar, and indifference to peace.
During the former, his 800,000 men in arms, awed the world:
in the latter, they only threatened and terrified himself.
Such an army was like a two-edged sword, which it is diffi-

cult to wield ‘vithou.l wounding ourselves. _

As long as NAPOLEON did not feel the waste of consoli-
dating his empire beyond the period of his own existence,

and transmitting a crown as NI ell as a same to posterity, he
relied on incessant warfare as his security, during his life•
lt was only when repeated successes had opened still higher

prosy ects to his ambition, that he saw the propriety of lay-
ing doe et fOundations for his power, and adding. lasting
solidity to his greatness. He wanted an ally against his own
aiinv, whose friendship would support him against that mass
of soldiers, whom he bad taught to annihilate kingdoms
and thrones, and he sought and found him among the
Princes he bad conquered. The ancient house of Austria
sanctioned hi.; usurpation by her alliance, and it is not un-
reasonable to suppose that the birth of a son may have given
him new views and new feelings, and materially changed the
nature of his ambition. To preserve ought now to have
become his object rather than to extend, and his late attempt
to consolidate the enormous power he possessed on the Coo-
tinent by comnelling Russia to adhere strictly to his ruinous
commercial system, has by its very defeat, and the destruc-
tion of his veterans, all:oiled him an opportunity of safely
restoring peace to the world. His present armies are nuttier
OUS it is true, but they are composed of young conscripts
lately taken from their paternal roofs, and who have not
been long enough inured to the splendid toils and-woes of
war, to prefer them to the enjoyment of domestic pursuits
and happiuess. Should a general peace be made, and should
they be di,banded, instead of forming discontented par-
ties and hatching rebellion in the State, they would joyfully
return to the bosom of their families, and restore to society
useful members who still retain their veneration for, and
their ability to fulfil, its duties. The surviving veterans, so
much reduced in numbers by the last campaign, would now
form the peace establishment, and preserving their military
rank and means of subsistence, would have no cause for dis-
satisfaction. Reviving commerce might reconcile all orders
of the people to aGovernment which owes its greatest un-
popularity to its suppression of the blessings of trade, and the
great object which NAPOLEON has now evidently in view,
the securing the inheri,ance of his crown to his son, would
be more easily-effected. It cannot be denied that, no longer
feeling only as an Emperor, but as a father, the completion
of this scheme must lie paramount to every other design in
his mind, and that he would purchase it at the expence of
many sacrifices. *As peace alone can accomplish it, is it
not therefore reasonable to consider it as one of the reasons
that would induce him to embrace peace with joy, even if
attended with a considerable reduction cf his present power?

Sir Rctilf* feceiVed contusion from a
• shell tet. • t.:A. •
‘• It o but Qc own& well.

ritroutits.

I

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ,

FRENCH PAPERS.

r

21.

PAnts, ham 15.—Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent
has received the following intelligence of the situation of the Ay.
n ies on the 11th June :
The Emperor arrived at four o'clock in the morning of the 10th,
at Dresden. The Horse Guards arrived there at noon. The Foot
Guards were expected the following day, the it th. The Emperor
arrived there at tlk moment when lie was the least expected, he
thus rendered useless the preparations made for his reception.
At no,,n, the King of Saxony went to see the Emperor, who
lodges in the suburbs, in the fine house of Marcolini, where there
are a grand suite of apartments on the ground floor, and a hand-
some park ; the King's palace, which the Emperor formerly inha•
bited, having no garden. At 7 in the evening, the Emperor re-
ceived Mr. de Kaas, Minister of the Interior, mid of Ju.tiee, from

the King of Denmark.
A Danish brigade of the auxiliary division, placed under the
Prince of Edam'ld's orders, on the 2d of June, took possession of
'Althea.
The Prince of Wilma, on the 10th, was at Breslaw ; the Duke
of Treviso, at Glogan • the Duke of Belton°, at Grosse!' ; the Duke
of Reggio, upon the frontiers of Saxony and Pros%ia, on the Berlin
side. The armistice had every where been published. The troops
were making preprations to place their barracks. and encamp in
their resoretive positions, from Glogau and Leignitz to the frontiers
of Bohemia and Gorlitz.

Pants. JIVNy. Majef.ty the -FinpresF4neen and Regent
has received the following inteJtigence of the situation of the army
on the even;og of the I.lth :
All the t,•oops had arrived in their. cantonments : barracks are
building. and camps are forming.
The Emperor has a parade every day at ten o'clock..
Some of the enemy's partizans are still in our rear. They make
war on their own account, after the manner of Schill, and refuse to
acknowledge the armistice. Several columns. are in motion to
destroy them.
Her Majesty the Empress-Queen and Regent has received the
following intelligence from the army, dated the 18th :
Baron de Kolas, Danish Minister of the Interior, dispatched with
• letters from the King. has been presented to the Emperor.
After the affair of Corei:lia:rn, a treaty of alliance was con.
eluded between France and Denmark. By that treaty the Eta•
peror guaranteed the integrity of Denmark.
in the year 1811, Sweden made known at Paris, •the desire she
to of uniting Norway to Sweden, and demanded the a.si-tance of
Fiance. She was answered, that whatever wish France had to do
au agreeable thing to Sweden, a treaty of alliance having been con.
eluded with Denmark, guaranteeing the integrity of that power,
his Majesty could not give his consent to the dismemberment of the
territory of his ;illy,
'From this moment Sweden detached herself from France, and
entered into negotiations with her enemies.
Afterwards, the war between France and Russia became imminent.
The Swedish Court proposed to make common ean.e with France,
but at the same time renewing its propositions relative to Nor-
way. It was in vain that Sweden represented, that from the Nor-
wegian porte, a descent upon Scotland was easy ; it was in vain
that she dwelt upon all the guarantees which the ancient alliance of
Sweden gave France of the conduct she would follow towards
England. The reply of the Cabinet of the Thuillerles was the
same,—it had its hands tied by the treaty with Denmark.
From that moment Sweden no longer kept any measures ; she
contracted an alliance with Russia and England; and the first
Initiation of that treaty was the common engagethent of compelling
-Denmark to cede Norway to Sweden.
The battles of Smolensk and of the Moskwa restrained the acti-
vity of Sweden; she'received some subsidies, made some prepara-
tions ; but began no hostilities. The events of the winter of 313'ar.
rived ; the French troops evacuated Hatnburgh; the situation of
Denmark became perilous : at war with England, threatened by
Sweden and Russia, France appeared unable to support her. The
King of Denmark, with that fidelity which characterizes him. ad.
dressed himself to the Emperor, in order to get out of this situation.
The Emperor, who wishes that his
_polies' should never be at the
expence of his Allies, replied, -that Denmark was at liberty to treat
with England to save the integrity of )t.r territory, anti that his
esteem and friendship for the Kin., should receive no diminntien
from the new connection which the tbree of eitcuntstancvi obliged