THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . enemy still continued in possession of the new. It was thought, however, that they must soon be dislodged. Some disturbances have taken place at Dresden, in consequence of precautionary measures adopted by the French, in mining the bridge which connects the two towns. Large reinforce ments of troops were marching to join the Russian Grand Army. No less than 55,000 infantry and 42,000 cavalry, had arrived on the Vistula on the 6th of March. Various reports circulated towards the latter end of the week have disappointed our hopes. The first stated the capture of Dantzic by storm, the second an insurrection among the sailors at Antwerp, by whom the fleet had been surrendered to our cruisers. Both rumours were un founded. A Cadiz Mail arrived yesterday, but contained nothing of importance. Dispatches were on Friday received from the Marquis of LL LINGToN, the substance of which was in the course of the afternoon communicated in the following official Bulletin:— DFPATtTIITrNT, April 9, Irl3. " Dispatches received from the Marquis of WELt.txctorr, dated Frenada, the 24th March, and from Colonel 800 E D dated Corunna, April 1. '' Lord N 070 N reports, that nePrly all the French troops Imvo been withdrawn from La Mancha, and the Army of the South is concentrated betwten Talavera, Madrid, and Toledo. • "The Army of the C.ntre has moved towards the Diotro, and Lord %V ELT., rots believes that JOSLPII BUUNA PA Rn.: quitted Aladrid on the 17th Maid'. Colonel BotracE repurttt, that the second division of the Ariay of Portugal. composed of the 25th, '''7lll. 50th, and 59,11. regi , oents. -fish had w•senibled hastily at Valladolid, have marched for Burps, accompanied by the 640, and the skeletons of uther regiments bum Toledo. " The enemy's garrison at Leon is diminished. and in Zamora tlicy are seiling the grain stoic-. The French ate threatening kiilboa, and threaten to attack Gistro." Mut sday arrived a mail from Heligoland, bringing Ham burg Correspondent ens, and letters from Hamburgb, to the SSth tilt. ; papers from Berlin to the 24th ult. shortly after' the latter came to the hands t f Government, the following Bulletin was issued:— " WA It DEPARTMENT ATM it 8, 1813. "A dispatch has been reefivei trout the Lieutenant Governor of Beligoland, dated the Soth f March. • "It appears that of the detachment of Veterans Fent by Colonel NA3111.70 N .to Cuxhaven, a party, consisting ot one Lieutenant, three seatjeants, and ‘,!5 mein, had marched to Breinerlee to occupy the battery at that olace, and afford some support to theinsurgent pea santry. The enemy appears to have collected a force efb or 6,000 nen at Bremen ; and on the ltlt a detachment of about 700 earthed with rapidity upon Brernerlee, dispersed the peasants, and fired the bridr, which was bravely defended by a part of the Bth Veteran Battalion, under Lieutenant BAUMIESTER. This officer *with nor 14 of his men, were killed. The enemy then attacked the battery where the rest of the Veterans, and a body of peasants, were stationed. These people capitulated, in the hope of saving their lives.. The French spared six or seven of the British veteran , , but ma.sacred every one of the peasants. They then pillaged the town, and returned hastily to Bremer,. The French sustained some loss in forcing the bridge, 24 of the Veterans, and about as many ot the peasants, where lost in this affair. Ti►e Russians appear to have pn'hctl some Cow,lcks towards Bremerlee, and it was reported that Count WITTGENSTIEN had crossed the Elbe in force. " The following Bulletin was shewn on Sunday at St. James's Palace :—" Windsor Castle, April 3. —His Majesty has been almost uniformly under a slight degree of excitement since the last monthly report." Earl MoiRA has left town for the Isle of Wight, where he will embark immediately for the fast 'APRIL 1?. The French Papers contain a report mul , by the Duke of BAQSANO to the Conservative Senate, on the Ist iustant re lative to the defection of Prussia. The tune of docu ment marks the excessive irritation of 13u0t% AP A RTE in the strongest manner. It begins by asserting am , he would have dethroned the King of Pausst A in 1807, but for the urgent entreaties of the Emperor ALEX AN DER; and that he only spared him on condition that Ru-sia sin 'd go to war with England " It then goes on, lndicrntt rnongh, to speak of the favours heaped on the be•d of that catch; details the events which have recent' y taken pl.,ce; c,)m;,lains of ingr:.titude, and concludes in the following manner.:— " At length, on the tat Nla.en, the Prq•.l4l Gr.strnmeta consummated by a Treaty with Riiss:a what C•enerai i) . Yotk had commenced. It was on the 17th of Marc:, Weslaw, arid ! L e (27th at Pa:is, that the Ministers of the uf Prussia officiAv announced their Master's having made common cause with the enemy. 66 Timm Pntssia declared war against your Majesty .1) rilurn for the Treaty ofTilsit,whieh replaced the King on the tbr,uh, and for the Treaty uf Paris, which admitted him to cu., ainai:f•-• ' WednesJav morning the expedition fn' A iJel ica sailed from Plymouth, with a fine breeze a 7 s•immt , m east. It consiits of the Diadem, of 6 t nuns ; Diomede, of 50 ~ yin-; Romu lus, of 44 guns; Nemesis, Fox, and !..4nrces , 'and Mariner rocket-ship, having on board two battalions of.rot rines, some companies cf artillery, at , d a ‘ete!; , n ha. r talksts,, One vessel (the Mariner) has a large of CongtevrY.4 rockets on board. It is under.tood thAt attetnp s wilt be made, immediately on their arrival in America, to born' some of the enemy's sea-ports. Time whole will touch *- Cork. Th" memoirs of a celebrated Marchioness, that is announc ed for publication this month, we unde!Aand, not only con tains the private history of this " matured Eschantrevc hnt also lays open the secret recesses of a house not an hula,' ed miles from Pall Mall. .t will in teality be a feast for the fashion able world. A letter from St. Gall, Switzerland, dated the 18th ult. says— " We learn, from Constance, that a frightful calamity threat ens the town of Überlingern For room than right days it was per ceived that the ground upon the borders of the lake had sunk, and this plienonienmn was amionnved in a manner so alarming, that the in!nihitants, after having seen• ed their tie, fled from their dwel lings. This presentiment of dancer has been realized : on the 16th and lith inst. J 3 houses gradually sunk into this abyss, and disap peared. On the lf.:th, theOolvent cfCapuchins, so weir known for it , hospitable reception of travellers and strangers, merged into the abyss 14 feet, and threatened to disapppcar gradually trout sight. Other houses ha% e sluice sunk many fill. Ey: ry one under the greatest alarm. It is kared that the whoie town touches the 1110111eLl t of its destruction. ARRIVAL OF TWO COSSACKS. The frequenters of tke 'Change and the neighbourhood of Lombard street, Cornhill, Chesp , ide, &c. witnessed on riday a rtr)st grutityin4 sight, by the arrival pt . two post chaises at the rmeign Post-Office; in the first was an English Officer of the Artiliery, in full (*nib), KCCOM• pahied by two Officers of distinction from the Russian Court, also in full unifr,rm ; and in the second chaise was a Co , sack, with his beard, an d in the full costnioe of his profession, with a tremendous long spear, placed between his legs, reaching- from tru to twelve feet out of the carriage window ; it was shod with iron about six inches, and quite sharp, like our hoardio L ;-pikes. By the side of the Cossack, sat a Don Cossack, also in full costume. The Cossack had a most warlike ap pearance, very strong features, and about Vie age of forty ; the Don Co'sack was much y oui. , Ter, not looking much above twenty ; both their countenanc:s were higi•ly animated. After waiting about Ito minutes, they set off to go to the West-end of the Town, but the crowd was so great opposite the Mansion House, that both chaises were storped, and several of our highly respectable merchants and bankers suriuunded the carriages to shake hands with the welcome strangers. They drove to the house of the Russian Secretary, Cuunt Li:ben, in Barley strettiCaveudibli-squarc• ) 1 1 1 I I I 1