13 i • . the are assured, writes in high spirits, and the troops look confidently forward to the achievement of a :omplete triumph.—With equal pleasure we : can I urther add, that Ministers express no fears, nor are they under any serious apprehensions about the fate of the army.—We have perused some letters from Lisbon, of the 15th -of Feb. which mention, that :t few days previouS to that date, a considerable ;lumber of troops from Plymouth, Lad been landed ireni transports which had arrived in the Tagus ; They were immediately marched to Lord '471.1.- IINGTON'S Army. We understand that the greater part of those General Officers drank who had obtained leave of absence from our army in Portugal, are preparing to leave England for the Tagus. We trust, that they may riot arrive too late for the expected gene ral action—that they may be on the field, and par. ticipate in the glory of that achievement which is so confidently expected . from the known valour of cur own tioops, and from the straitened situation of the enemy The following letter we received yesterday from our Plymouth Correspondent : " PLymoul it, FEE. (28.,—Carne in the Bush and - -Dragon 11,Iugg, and another transport, from I,isi .n with returne d stores, twelve days passage ; sailed with a convoy under His Igajesty's ship Poictiers, 74, on the 16th instant; parted com pany on the 18th ; and it is supposed the rest have gone up the Channel. It is said these transports bring accounts, how far correct we canact•votich, that Massena had broken up his ca p at Santerern, and marched from that position, and that 2000 French sick had fallen into our hands. It was also reported that Junot had arrived at Lisbon for medical advice from a severe wound he had received on his reconnoitring party.—We give these reports as they are given to us, without vouching fur their authenticit , ;. It is said that LordWcllin ,, b ton gave Junot his m passport for odical advice in the. most handsome manner." FAILURES IN PARIS. The effects of BUONAPATZTE'S commercial policy begin at last to show themselves in the grand pity of the French Empire—Paris. We are told that an immense number of failures have re cently taken place in Paris ; they are enumerated at forty, among which are some,houses of the high est character. One house, is said to have stopped for six millions of francs, it having at the same time in its posses:ion nearly doable that cum in GOVCIIIMeId cnd other go,:-1 Rills for which no di, , counts could le rditaiacd. Two per Cent. per month had been given fir private loans ; but with this exorbitant interest very little money could be t.liteined. In En,2,-land the credit of her Government is so high, that she can raise money to any arnotnr. whenever she pleases ; but in France we see that the Bills of h€r Govern ment are mere « rags - -that her subjects have not faith in them. So regardleFs is France of all prin ciple, that !-he may still continue to levy wherewith to satisfy her armies; but .lct England be true to herself; and she ha, no , li:easion to fear the 1 , De crees" of the cneniv 4z.f . the world and of huma nity. AME LUCA. Letters from !'kw "! - o, k, to the Ist of Febroary, fully confirm the • ruclan;:boly accounts of the numerous failures in the United States. ip w of forty houses are said to have s:eiped payment at New "York, and several ethers at -more, and other Commercial 'Towns. These lailurcs had e.:•,:ited the rr ,. ^atc.'st alarm, A letter TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. of the 25th January from Washington, states' that the United States Frigates, John Adams, had been directed to be put in readiness to receive on board dispatches for the Courts of Great Britain and France, which were to be conveyed by diplo. matic agents, to be immediately appointed for that purpose. By an article, dated New York, Jan. 25, it appears that Mr. Bnociator,s LIVINGSTON was about to proceed in the. United States' brig Nauti lus, as Minister Extraordinary to the French Court.' The following are extracts from the American Papers received on Friday : " New York, Jan. 28. 44 We have it from good authority, that our Government has received dispatches from Mr. PINK N ET, our Minister at Lon don, dated the Nth and 2.lth of November. Mr. PINKNEY conveys an assurance from Lord Wx nnIESLEY, that the first holi ness done after the appointment of a Regency, or after the reco very of the KING, would be relative to the rescinding the Orders in Council. " January 29. " In corroboration of the article in yesterday's Gazette, is the following, from the Ba.lintore Ferlera4 Gazette:— " It is understood that the Secretary of State has received dispatches from 'WILLIAM PINKNEY, dated the last of Novem ber, in which Mr. PINKNEY says the British Ministry have agreed to rescind the Orders in Council; and Send Minister here ; and waited only the appointment of a Regency, which was expected to take place in a day or two at farthermost. This was the credited report at the house this evening." The Report of CIIAMPAGNY to BUONAPARTE, dated the Bth Dec. last, in which he says, that ti as long as England shall persist in her Orders in Council, your MAJESTY will persist in your Decres," has produced a considerable effect in America. CHANGE IN THE NORTH. The latest advices from the North inform us that in the month of February a meeting was to take place'at Koningsburgh, between the Emperor ALEXANDER and the King of humbled PRUSSIA, It is said that one of the objects of this meeting relates to the proposal of a marriage between the King of PRUSSIA and a sister of ALEXANDER. 1 t is now generally understood that the deposed King of SWEDEN, now a resident in this country, is about to depart for Petersburgh; but we are told that his views are' not cg personal." On Friday night a Select Committee was ap pointed in the House of Commons, on the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to inquire into the cause of th:, decline Qf Commercial Credit. lie WAS induced to propose hav;ng an inquiry instituted into the grounds of its decline, from re presentations which were made to him from various parts of the country, but abstained from any further observations on the !subject, until the cirumstances underwent investigation in the Coniinittee. Mr. W. Port: is arrived in town from Ireland He was in the Hotu;e of Commons on Friday night ; but nothing was said illustrative of those motives ii , hich led to the enforcement of the Con vention Act. By an arrival from Cadiz, a Calalonio Gaza le , .E.-thwordin ry has been received, containing an ac count of the defeat of tlx enemy on the 15th ult. in the vicinity of Valls, to the army under the Marquis Campo Vel de. The troops lie was engaged with appear to haTe been the advance of the division under Macdonald, and were most probably on their march to cominc;ice the sky of Tarragona. lIJ