THE NATIONAL REGISTER. prospect of peace. The evident inclinations of the Arnefi can Government appear to he, to wait the result of the Con giess at Vienna, in hopes that it will not be favourable to peace. Hence, they argue we shall have employment for our troops in Europe, and be thus pieventcd sending the armament necessary to give a dec.sive blow the other side of the Atlantic. For, from sources upon which we can depend, we learn, that not less than a reinforcement of 35 or 40,000 will be necessary. A report has been brought in letters from Pa, is of the 3d, stating the surrender of Gen. Drummond, after a sanguinary action with the united troops of Genet°ls Brown and lzard. The fidlovking postctii:t of a letter was extracsed at Lloyd's yesterday : After your !titer, or rather my letter to you, was written and sealed yesterday, I received a !otter from which state', that the Gustaces .-Jdo/phus arrived at the Isle of Ri.6 (which It ft New York after the Fined?) brings adviecs that the British situeral Drummond, with his whole corp rfarin6e, am onntin ,, e* to 4000 men, S urrendered prisoners of war to General Blown , at Niagara." INow as we have never found the Paris Papers backward in announcing any intelligence, that might be considered as unpleasant to us, from America, it is strange that the above disaster, stated in letters from Paris of the f;d, is not men tioned in any of the Paris Papers, either of that date, or of the 4th, sth, or 6th. It is most likely this intelligence will turn out to be nothing mote than that already known, that General Drummond was closely followed to Chippawa, but that he afterwards turned upon the enemy and drove them back to Fort Elie. The Liffey frigate arrived on Thursday at Portsmouth, from Quebec, after a short passage of twenty days ; she brought dispatches for Ministers front Sir G. Prevost and Sir J. Yeo, and also ,'otters from thence to the 10th ult. and from Montreal to the 5111. We ale sorry to say, they do toot con firm the reported capture of Sacketes Harbour, or of Chaun cey's sq;,ad,on. No attack had been made on them, our fleet afcer foicing the enemy to retire to port for shelter, hav• ing itself lice n occupied in conveying provisions, stors, and military reinforcements, to Lieut.-Gen. Drummond, who bad been placed by the junction of Brown and lzard in a very precarious situation. On the 13th of October the united forces of the American Generals, $OOO strong, made an attack on our army at Chippawa, but were most gallantly -repulsed. On the i 9!h following, a body of 1,500 Ameri cans, which bad Leen detached with a view to turn our right, was also met and beat back with considerable loss. This defeat compelled Generals Brown and Izard to fall bat k on Fort Eiie, whither they were followid by Major-Generat De Vt'atteville's division, which, however, found them too strong!) , posted to be attacked with any prospect of success. Lieut.-General Drummond having been afterwaids reinforced by 1500 men sent flora Kingston by Sir G. Prevost, it was expected that I , e would shortly make an attempt to drive the enemy from Fort Eric. Reports had, indeed, been received, that the Americans had abandoned that post,. after blowing tip the furtificati:ms, and bad pasted over the. chief part of their forces to Buffaloe: but these statements were evidently premature. Sir George Prevost, after having superintended at Kingston all the necessary arrangements for reinforcing General Drummond, had returned on the 4th ult. to Mon treat. Sir James Yeo possessed a complete ascendancy on the Lake; but Chauncey was safely 'pooled in an unattack able position at Sackett's Harbour, where he evidently meant to remain on the defensive, without risking any attempt to come out and give battle. Commodore Owen is named as the Officer who is to suc ceed Sir James Yeo in the command on the Lakes, who is coining borne on account of his health. DEC. Li. li Posteript of a letter from a Gentleman in Dumbarton, to a Gentleman in Edinburgh, dated Thursday, Ist December : " The town of Greenock has been in a great bustle to-day, oman apprehension of an immediate visit from Commodore Rodgers' squadron , now believed to be in the Channel. The militia have been called out, and. preparations for defence making. An express having arrived from Admiral Sawyer, on the Irish station, ammunition, shot, and shells, ate now sendieg off clot.' the Castle to the new battery." " After writing the above, we find that the report alluded to has caused a greater sensation than we were aware of, the garrison (4'04 city, in consequence of orders from Edin burgh, ate preparing to march for Greenock, and six anthill.: nition waggons have just arrived here for the same destina tion : 150 militia arc also on their march from Edinburgh for Greenock: 2 • The fir itish and German Officers absent on leave from our army in Brabant, have received orders forthwith to j. in their respective corps ; and some of them left town yesterday to pursue their journey to the coast, to embark for that purpose. Friday a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, and in the evening Mr. Mctts, the messenger, was sent off with dispatches to Lord Gambier, Mr. Goulburn, and Dr. Adams, the Commissioners at Ghent. f Early on Faiday, Mr. Pegler, King's Messenger, art ived at i the Foreign Office, with dispatches from Lord k'astlereagh. The nomination of Don Pedro Ccvallos as Prime Minister of Spain, appears, by recent accounts, to have been attended with the best effects, from the system of government being altered. The state prisoners, such as Arguelles, &c. are al-, ready allowed the communication of their friends, and ex pectations arc entertained of the suits ins • jutted against them, being brought to a conclusion If not too late, this cle:nge may have some effect on Spanish America. An event took place in France on the 25th or 2Gth ult. which is calculated to excite no small degree of curiosity and astonishment. The Earl of Oxford, with Lady Oxford, had been for some time at the Court of Murat, King of Naples, where they were high in royal favour. His Lord ship came apparently on special business, both to London and Paris, leaving his Lady at Naples. At Paris, on his way back to Naples, it is said he boasted of being the bearer of many very important letters ; be that as it may, on his de parture from the former capital, at the first post from Paris, the Commissary of Police, Carninge, had been waiting fox his Lordship between three and four hours. On his ap proach be accosted him with great civility, and requested him to alight from his carriage, as he had an order to take possession of his papers. The Noble Lord remonstrated against the violence, but in vain. Ile was obliged to deliver up all his papers. M. Carninge then told him he was at liberty to pursue his route to Italy ; but the Noble Earl re turned to Paris, and complained to the Duke of Wellington, who, on nelking representations to the French Government, was told, Lord Oxford bad no light to carry so marry letters, to tire injury of the revenue, and that all those addressed to subjects of his Britannic sh.jesty should be forwarded, but that those la the enemies of the French Government should he detained. This last condition has excited some surprise and speculation. Some think they are letters from English men to extraordinary characters in Italy, even to the Em peror of the isle of Elba, as well•as to his brother Lucien; while others assert many letters have thus been obtained from high French military characters, to Buonaparte and others. Certain it is that more than the ordinary precau tions were taken in Paris immediately afterwards. On the evening of the 50th November the gates of the Thatches were shut before the usual hour; ball cartridges were deli. I' ~',