The National Register.
London, England, 1814-10-02 00:00:00

TiIi•NATIONAL.

We have received Montreal Papers to the 28th, and Que-
bec to the 3 Sit of A ugust : the latter.contain the melancholy
accounts of the failure of the attack on the 15th upon Fort
. Erie; and the former, the consolatory assurance that rein
forcements had afterwatds joined the British army, so as to
Bentralize any ill effect which this serious disaster might have
bad upon the state of affairs in that quarter. While we la-
ment with the friends of the gallant men who have fallen,
and deplore the loss which their country has sustained in
them, we may be allowed to assuage the bitterness of grief,
by the reflesion, that it was not before the superior valour of
an enemy that our wartiors, fell. The awful visitation
(whether the result of accident or of design) was insurmount-
able by courage, and constancy, and discipline; it alone
. snatched the wieath of victory from the brow of the con-
querots; and though a cruel fate denied them to wear the
laurel living, it shall bloom and flourish over their untimely
graves.
Previous to this catastrophe, two of the enemy's schooners
were, on the 11th, taken dose by the fait, by Capt. Dobbs,
and a party of seamen and marines.
Our loss amounts to 57 killed, 3n9 wounded, and 539
missing, or prisoners; in all 905. Colonel Scott, Lieut.-
Colonel Drummond, and two other 011iccs, weie killed, 23
wounded, 7 missing.

French Papers fo the epth ult. arrived yesterday. Tt ap-
pears that the approach of the Congress does not create any
great expectation of peace among the Parisians, for the
French Funds instead of rising arc rapidly on the decline.
On the 20th they were upwards of 77 and on the 28th had
fallen down to 724 t. This is attributed to the articles in-
serted in the French journals, the tendency of which is to
induce a belief that jealousies and dissentions are on the
eve of breaking out amongst the Allied Powers. These spe-
culations are generally considered as the woik of the Go-
vernment itself, but this is not easy to reconcile with their
effect. For why should Louis XVIII contribute himself to
shake the public belief in the security of his throne, by oc•
casioning this alarming depression in the French Funds,
that great criterion of the confidence placed in the stability
of a Government ?

The King of Saxony is said to have drawn up his own de.
fence, and the Officers of the Saxon army have signed an
Address to the .Allied Sovereigns, praying the restoration of
'his Saxon Majesty to the Throne.
Accounts from the frontiers of Austria state, that Lord
Castlereagh and Prince Metternich have bad a conference.
Count Nesselrode, the Russian Minister, has also had a con.
fe:ence with the Prince. Neither the Emperor of Russia
nor the King of Prussia are yet arrived at Vienna; but the
• cry is " will they come I"
Paris papers arrived on Tuesday, to the 26th. The Duke
of Berry has left Paris on a military tour. lie is to inspect
Mctz, Thionville, Landau, and Strasburg!). On this foiti•
fled tine a large French army is collected, consisting chiefly
of old troops restored from foreign prisons. The Chamber
of Deputies, in their last sitting unanimously rejected the
amendments proposed by the Chamber of Pears, rela-
tive to the Civil List. The most important of these was
that which axed at six, instrAd of. four iniihuns, the revenue
of the Princes of the Roy:il Famil3 for 181.1. It althea.s by
an articles from Bayonne, that great interruption still sub-
sists in the communication between Fiance and Spain, the
French traders, from some cause or other, tint veottirinz to
carry on commerce to any extent 'ail) the Spaniards. The,
Congress, it is now said, is to assemble ou the 4th of Octo.

ECT. 2

her, when the Emperor of Ausitia. is again to be de. a ed
Emperor of Germany. Nftrway is tett, eseoted in a disttio.ed
state. Drontheim, Bergen, and other principal parts gif the
country, disown the Convention, and refuse ff. send Dept'.
ties to the Diet, which is to meet on C‘e 7►h of Ontobtr.
Christiana also remains in a state of discontent:

Wednesday, further Paris papers were received to the 26th
' tilt. Lord Castlereagh has arlived at Vienna, The
Congress, it is said, will be of shoat dui soots ; the prinetoal
questions of territorial engarements have been abeadv se tied
by the leading powers on the Continent In the Chamber
of Deputies on the 24th, Baron Louis, the Mioister of Fi.lance,
brought forward a project of a law with regard to the do. es
on the importation of colonial produce. mak Me a corowerahls
difference in favour of the produce of the French islands
The Paris Editors continue their system of rose!ting
articles, purporting to have been transmitted from Cr, Tho,v,
but which disclose, if not the views of the French Govern.
ment, at least the wishes of the writers. An appeal is wade
in one of the Paris Journals to the Emperor of Russia, on the
rights of maratime nations, which is a hint given to the
Plenipotentiaries previous to the meeting of Congre,s on the
subject. The article which is copied into the. Alonirew, is
particularly inv idtious at this moment, when Russia is media-
ting between this county and America, and when the rights
of mat itime nations will he particularly discussed.--No
tical article can he inserted in the French papers, unless it is
inspected by the Censor, who is the Editor in Chief, and who
is appointed by' Government, although paid by the proyie-
tors of the journals. _ _

French, Dutch, and German papers arrived on Thursday,
but their contents possess little interest. By the former e
learn that Villavicencio, Governor of Cadiz, has caused se-
veral individuals to be executed in that city, for their op-
position to the system of bigotry restored by Ferdinand.
Spain is still in an alarming state of ferment. One of the
German Journals has a report that there are to be fuur
kingdoms in Italy, viz. Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, and
N3ples; and four free cities. namely Venice, Genoa, Leg-
horn, and nnc Ina. The Sovereign of the Netherlands con-
tinues I.is insrction of the Belgian fortresses.—Bernrdotte
has returned “, Stockholm.--The Russian Marshal Barclay
de Telly inspected the Polish regiments at Warsaw on the
811 inst. ; he was received with shouts of 46 Long live the
Emperor Alexander, who gives us Poland again t" Nothing
further is stated respecting the negotiations at Ghent.

A Dutch Mail arrived yesterday. Prussia it is said to
have abandoned her pretensions to the city of Mentz. The
provinces on the left bank of the Rhine are expected to be
united to one ofthe great States of Germany—a demi-official
notification to this effect has been made.

A Hamburg Mail arrived on Wednesday. The papers rei- .
terate the statement of its being determined upon that Sax-
ony should be allotted to Prussia, and state that His Majes-
ty the King of Prussia is to be crowned at DT.
den as King of Saxony. It is added. that Ferrara and
Bologna, in Italy, arc to be given to the King of Saxony as
an indemnity. It is stated in a private letter from Paris, in
the IlerniLnrele Correspowlenten, that MaEshal Ney, on the
sth inst. had an audience of the King of France, for the
purp.:se of requesting that Davoust should be withdrawn
from retirement, and permitted ti appear at Court. Ney is
said to have stated, that it Was the opinion of the Marshals
and the al my, that Davoust had behaved like a soldier and
mon of hohour at Hamburgh. It was understood that the
King, with .whatever, reluctance, would find himself undo/
tie necessity of complying.