THE NATIONAL R i 72 ry will, during a whole war, lose the benefit of his services. It may happen, that the fugitive may carry plans and information, which may serve to fa cilitate the future designs of the enemy, and to en crease the dangers by which•we are threatened. It also establishes a regular body of traitors scattered through every part of the country, who, after having suffered themselves to be gained over by the ser vants of the French Emperor, would not hesitate to accept his bribes and execute his commands. This is therefore an evil which must be remedied: It was, perhaps, the consciousness of the means which NA POLEON possessed of silently and progressively regaining the freedom of his Officers, prisoners of war on our shores, that prevented him from agree ing to a regular exchange, and led him to make the negociations on that subject little more than a fruit ful channel of mockery and insult. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, in every point of view, that the escape of French Prisoners should at last be efficiently checked. And as their mode of avoid ing our vigilance is no longer a secret, we trust, measures at once decisive and effectual will be promptly adopted. OUTRAGE BY BUONAPARTE. TO TILE EDITOR OF tIl I!: NAT/ON AI. REGISTER. 0 ..=••••• Stit—l entreat you to communicate the following important fact to the British Public, and to all other nations the year 1783 of the last century, I purchased an annutty on my life, in the French funds, which property has beeu treated with re spect throughout all the dangerous convulsions and factions of revolutionary anarchy, and has now lately been seized by the imperial ruffian and robber Napoleon, in consequence of my political writings, and my loyalty to my own country, which dark and silent theft was committed by a whisper to the Minister •f Finance (without any public decree) to take no notice of my certificate. • This unparalleled outrage on property, the great hinge of civil society, will prove a more instructive comment /to the code Brigailde , oi• Nopoleone, than all the pompous criticising of Re viesver4 to compare and prefer it to British jurisprudence, and will/ old out a useful admonition to those jacobin fools who give credit to the French Government, in either commerce or po licy, and teach them that if the laws of private property are treated with such contempt, how little confidence can be plact d in treaties with such revolutionary ruffianism, to maintain the rAations of civilized policy among nations, or the peace of the `world. 'Haig sacrifices of my property should alarm and unite friends a mankind to effect the salvation of England. and the protec• a'on of the world, I shall regard my loss as an inestimable gain, though it was all I had to live upon. J. STEWART, Traveller. We are sorry to learn, by the letters from Murcia, that the fever continued to rage with unabated fury at Carthagena ; and in several other places ill its vicinity, the deaths were esti mated at 100 daily. The unusual heat of the season, at this advanced period, is supposed to have contributed greatly to prolong and aggravate the severity of the contagion. The setting in of the colt weather was looked to with confidence for a cessation of this mil ible scourge. IST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. RECEPTION OF BONAPARTE IN HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, OCT. 9.—Toitlay we had the happiness to see their Majesties within our wills. The National Guard and Guard of Honour. assembled early, and about half-past two their Majesties made their solemn entry. The Mayor and his assist ants had the honour to present their Majesties with the keys of the city; and pronounced a discourse analogous to the occasion, to which their Majesties deigned to reply. Cannon were fired, and the bells rang. All the houses were ornamented with fes toons. The Ecclesiastical authorities were ranged in costume before the gates of their'remplts. Orchestras, distributed from distance to distance. animated the most interesting scene ever beheld in our city. The streets and windows wereixowded, and the spectacle was mo-t imposing. If any thing could. possibly have added to the solemnity of the day, it was the unanimity with which the new subjects of their Majesties manifested their joy. Acct.:mations of lung life to the Emperor and Empress were heart ff nin all quarters from the moment they entered the town. Their Maje s ties testified. with that affability which is so natural to them, rAv sensible they were of the universal proofs of love and admiration bestowed upon them. As soon as he ar rived at the Palace, the Emperor deigned to receive the Minis ters, Senators, and Councillors of State. After which his Serene Highness the Prince Govern , ,r• eieral had the honour to pre sent to his Majesty the superior Functionaries, L•lnd and Sea- Officers, the Authoritieg of the Department, the Tribunal of the First Order. the Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor, the Impe rial Council : the heads of the Guard of I lonour and National Guard. At night the town was illuminated. SPEECH Or M. VON SCIIOLTEN PRESIDENT OF THE TRIBUNAL OF TilE FIRST ORDER. " SlRE—Deign to permit the Members of the Tribunal of Am sterdam to have the honour of presenting to your imperial and Royal Majesty their respectful homage. Frenchmen in heart more than in consequence of the union, the inhabitants of this great city feel all the honour of forming part of the Empire of Charlemagne, restored by a Monarch who is superior to him in all respects : of being governed by a hero and legislator, whose victories ensure the tranquillity of his numerous subjects, and who alone of all Sovereigns enables them to enjoy an enlightened administration and wise and uniform laws. Sire, your Majesty has deigned to watch over the maintenance of these laws. Their perfection facilitates their introduction, and ensures their march. The difficulty.that always attends a new order, yields to the hap piness which is procured by the laws of which your Majesty is the creators and which are so well adapted to the present order of things. We shall neglect nothing. Sire, to matte this part of your subjects share in the happiness which your Majesty spreads over your vast empire. The Ki:,;• of Rome guarantees the du ration of these benefits; and the different people, subject to your Majesty, amalgamating more and more, will defeat the efl;arts of those who would disturb that happiness, and will realize that universal peace hitherto considered only as a sweet illusion:--• May the august presence of your Majesty, Sire, be the happy omen ; and may the remotest posterity bless this moment and the name of your Majesty.—May we, Sire, deserve the appro bation of your Majesty and his paternal goodness, to which w•e recommend most respectfully our persons and Our families." SPEECH Olt 3d. VAN, PRESIDENT OF TILE Ch AMBER 07 COM• MLRCE. " The Chamber of Commerce of your good city of Amsterdam is too happy in being admitted to the honour of laying at the feet of your Majesty the homage of their profound respect, the assu rance of their unbounded devotion, and their eagerness to an swer the wise and paternal views of your Majesty. 'They know that your Majesty, wh•ise vast genius embraces and regulates in the twinkling of an eye the different interests of so many nations, cannot stoop to the narrow calculation; of some individual; and they would be as incompatible with your glory, as with the real interests of your empire. We entreat you, Sire, to accept the most ardent wishes for the prosperity of your reign, aad the pru longation of your life." NAPLES. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. " PALERMO, 44un. 14.—The news from Naples represents that city and kingdom in a most wretched state. Italy is fast approaching that barbarity of the dark ages to which Bonaparte threatened to reduce all Europe. Th.: landed proprietors pay upwards of 801. per cent. of the produce of their estates to the Government. The large palaces of the nobility are rapidly fall ~: ~.