662 THE NATIONAL IiEGIST e' ~... incere desire of peace, would ever have started. " There remained," " but a Itw days Or the most important of negotiations." Why difi th:sre remain only a few days What had the Armistice in common stith the ? it not possible to oegociate fight ing ? Whal sew ddys more or lea:, when a treaty of peace is in question ? 1: t,1.• r,ibito-t of Vienna did not wish to negociate, hot to ?h.:A .te, as cm!: • are dictated to a besieged place, a few days ; but than ‘i by did it riot propose a eapiiidution ? reavai:o•il iew days for dn• most important of nagociations. riation, then, i , ;hat which can be concluded in a few days ? •Tin ••.try %%lieu s.iii•fatl4,ry explatitition is wished. but ft •-• %t lit) ha, .al;Pit hi< deteralitrution bet.re-baud. }tc.w • .110,1 Frailce, sonic days wore or leBs may he !•.'•?. /t e a to I :it It. IVe ,uu•t bore do josike to the penetrution of the Cabinet ••‘. Yitcoit. No doubt a te.ate sncli :IF the Atti v d S„veleigos desired, was foteinli to the wt-11.•s of Franc,.; in I.kc manner as such a peace ns Fr nice Api)tove must have h-en contrary to tile w•isites of the Al lie 1 4 .,e.er that enttis into inTociation wishes for all that it watt obtain ; but wlo.n there is a inerin.tia, he infrron.cs between these ntrary wishes. Ent •Loft was nut the pail which the Austrian Ca- Noel had assigtwd ,tseif. It never was a mediator; it was att enemy f; , ,in t time when, aceorditip, to its own conles , ion, it I..ishrd no i.ther peace then that %% Inch was wi•bed by one nnly of the parties Nit what was the peace which the Cabinet of Vienna wished ? It it re.nly wished peace, a peace of kind. why did it not explain itwn ? Why, bre tine it had adopted all the pretensions of Bau , sia, of Ptussia, stand at Vila.and ; and hecatve it had, besides, pretensions of its owl-, o t which It did not wish iii give way, because it hind re solved on wit'. Note M. France proposed tl:e mpetir k a of. a Con,JP.s because ,he sine..iely wi.lted peace; becatt,e 4):- flattered herself OH, her nipo t tiktotries, when ilk the pre‘ever of those of Itucsia and would !owe to an underbtand.og ; hecatkse t Ci+llgre , . even Wider the MC diulivin of Akan.k,k, would b a otea , s to escape the dangers of the in bilist4t:.ons which the Cabiott of Vi , mtia circulated. France :ICC•'l)tetl the uveil:l6,m of Anstiia, hrom.e, supposing in th • Cabia t t id*Artennir th e ambitious ‘tervt, of which we had no dotibt, iir was to be b-lie‘ed that it would find itself clamped by its part of Nediatoi, and would not dare, in a public ne•gociatlou, imileitaken for its st.l interest, It; our moderat- views, and the sacrifices which we were disposed to make for peace; bre mse, nt floe, if it had been otherwise, aid if the 11, awl our enemies had been agreed on do it reciprocal pre.len••it-nx, the Cabine► of Vienna would pro• pose an ultimatum, which would excite the indignation of Fiance and 1 /er Allies. Note N. Aor.t!il, then, was already united in principles with the enemies of France. Wlto , !'quire( from her this confession ? The Calnint of Victind leared lest France should prevail in a ne gnci.,li'`n to sepa-oe Austtia 1•f um her powerful enemies. No doubt is Austria had united with then► to prevent their making pence. and with the firm resolution of making war against us. she must hare•feared a tiegeriation, in which our moderation might have offered them more advautageoter chances in peace than in war; but why, then, did the Cahinet of Venom otter its mediation, and cause Europe to resound with its wishes for pence ? Note 0. Austria wiThes to establish an order of thing•, which, by al% i s e distribution .4 biters, places the euarantre of peace tinder the aigi• of an of itidependeot States. Si e will not make peace till an equal disbibittitin of to- ces shall guarantee the independence of each State. '1•o obtain this ste ought immediately to aggrandise at her ri Alt expense liar aria atilt Saxony ; for the great Powers must desceed, in order that the nrnk.'r Powers may become their equals. When it shall 1. rye glee() thi;t example, it will have a right to demand that it shall be imitated. Thus the Cabinet of Vienna wi•:bes to fight,--to rt :pier ull Powers a lleptiblic of Sovereigns, the elements of which shall be perfectly eyed ; and is it to such reveries, that the repose of the wo:Itl is to be sacrificed ? Can public reason, and the ()trillion of Lurope, be tow. , openly sported with ? In drawing up manifestoes, as lee 11 as in the regulatom of its conduct, the Cabinet of Vientra has not listened to the coanseh. of wisdom. [These Documents to be continued.] STATE OF THE FRENCH . ARMY. A number cfletters have !wen intercepted by the Allieti troops, %%inch prest.nt a Inf.:l melancholy picture of the unhappy situation of the iml.vitloal composin; tl:c * French army. The solilicrs %cent to have b;ct (hat confidence in themselves Nt - Iliell was toinially their char;‘cteri‘tie in a peculiar degree.--There are oppresive miseries for the present, vvi!hoot hope in the future, and actual Wretched uess, agiravatv..l by the it usvect of a snbzequent increase olmisfer- U. OCT. 17. tunes. Their infercority to the allied troops is more than once con. reised. Gloomy. rumours added to their deapnisdenrY ; and to re.. riled) , a Riipposed financial deficiency, a forced loan to a great aniAini, and even a , signats are mentioned as about to be recurred to.—The following are a specimen of these letters ; EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE QUARTER-MASTER 1 ) - - 2 TO 114 A Ll..iltE D- -. • . 44 Dresden, Sept. 3. 1813. " We were for ten days of the last mouth without bread ; we h a d onlv potatoes, which we boiled and ate without any . thing else. Th e water is constantly over our bodies, lying along in the mud. O ne night a great deal of rain fell; illy boric could no longer hupport i t , and I still less. I swi ar to you, that had they .attacked us, ti wy might have killed us all without much difficulty'. One pour dragoon could no longer hear nit ; he litew his brains out." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. 1)---, TO HIS MOTHER AT MA ES " Lowenberg, Aug. 29. 1813. E irapr d f rom the greatest dangers, my first thought is to in. folio you that lam still well. lam naked as my twirl—the cloak of a !wens d'ornil., which has been lent me is my only covering ; hut let us not anticipate, and do n it make yourself uneasy about what I write to von. For three days we were in march by dreadlid roads, and amidet continual rains, our singlits division, with sixteen cannon. Arrived within o leagues of this town we enconntered the enemy who was double our numbers, and who surrounded tts on all sides ; our only hope was in fighting with desperation, which we did ; but after the finest resistance, the greater part of us were.compelled to surrender. Two of my comrades had the same good fortune as my self, to escape the enemy ; and we are soliciting our return to Maest kilt, to recover front our miseries. The whole regiment was made prisoners, exrept Captain Si--, who was in the rear with the wounded of the regiment : the Colonel, the Commandant of Battalion H---, in short, all were taken, not excepting my poor friend K—, ll is with the baggage ; I must find hint to. morrow. I have lost every thing, I ant stript of every thing, and --." TO MR. S EXTRACT OF • LETTER FROM MR. R AT LAMDALLE, IN BRITANN Y. " Dresden, Sept. 8. " A General Order has just been published to the army. All the stragglers to be collected, and every tenth man upon whom the let may fall, is to be shot. Should this order be rigourously executed, in another month we should no longer have an army. The greater • part of our men are too weak, and - our horses are too much fatigued. The apparent system of the enemy will considerably multiply the number of the wretched. He means to exhaust us by marches and countermarches. He has a great advantage—particularly the Swedes and Austrians; their men are strong and vigorous, and their eatialry admirable. Some sqaudrons of the Guard of Holtonr have already arrived ; these poor fellows know not how to manceuvre ; •they are at Pima; if they have fought how many of them will be left? We arc told that fresh levies are making in France ; indeed, every one must march should the war last ; there will be an absolute me.. cessity for it, should our enemies multiply, every day ; should the Turks join them, and they talk of it. I know not the power in Europe that will not be against us. How unfortunate and hated the arc !" TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. COLON lU. DEPARTMENT, DON% NI N G-11 REET, OCT. 11, 181 S. Dispatches have been received from Lieut.-Gen. Sir G. Prevost, Bart. dated Kinston, Upper Canada, July His 'Excellency has transmitted at copy of the official report of Licht.-Col. Clark, of the *d Lincoln Militia. of the successfid attack made on the enemy's post at Black• Rock, on the morning of the 11th of July, Lieut.- Col. Bishop!). being unable to write in consequence of the severe wounds he received. Licht.-Col. ('lark reports, that the objects of the enterprize were achieved with the utmost gallantry, and that by the judicious . arrangements of Lient,Col. Bishopp, the enemy's block-houses, stores, barracks, and dock-yard, together with a large vessel, were burnt, and ail the ordnance and stores that could not he removed were destroyed, 3oel the detachment was on the point of re-ennharKing !osing a sinle man, when it was warmly at t.:lo,rd by a Woltz rt-inloreenient of the euemY, aided liv a mime , ' oils body i.f!ndiatis, who had he ti enabled to approach under cove r of the st:r . rooltdio ; . ! cell kept up a galling tire 'won the boats. The detachatert had thirteen raid: -and file killed ; Lieut.-Colonel Bishopp awl Captain Samidurs, .ttst re;:iirent, severely wormded tied priwntri Licut,-Col. Clark, 'A Lincoln regiment ; antl