THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 90 the Sovereigns have come to a perfect understanding, that •every thing is very nearly agreed upon at Vienna, and that it is more than probable that the Duke of Wellington, on his arrival there, will have little more to do than to sign the Treaty, conjointly with Lord Castlereagh. The definitive decisions of the Congress, it is added, will be signed and published within tin ee weeks. The letters from Vienna speak to the same effect, stating that every thing that was es sential to the peaceful termination of the proceedings had been adjusted. Of the basis of the Treaty, nothing new is mentioned in the Paris Papers, but it is understood that Prus sia is to receive a part of Poland, and that portion of Lusatia vvbich has for a considerable period. belonged to Saxony ; that the rest of Poland, excepting what belongs to Austiia, is to pass under the dominion of Russia, and that the King of Sax ony will be restored, and permitted to retain some districts late'y attached to the Duchy of Warsaw. How far this outline may be correct is not yet ascertained ; but cf the fact of the basis of a Treaty being at length agreed upon, there is little doubt.—The intelligence from Spain in the French Papers, tends to confirm some previous statements of an intended am nesty. This measure had been suggested to the King by the Minister Cevalios, and favourably received. The publication of 'a decree of amnesty was daily expected. The Madrid ac counts express considerable surprise at the appointment of Mr. Canning to an Emba l / 4 sy at Lisbon, wliele there is no Court. Tuesday, Paris papers arrived to the 20th ult.—Brussels papers to the same date also arrived, and also Augsburgh Journals to the 21st. The intelligence in them from Vi enna is to the ISt b, and it is still maintained that the main points rerard;ng Poland and Saxony are arranged in the =antler already stated, by re-establishing the independence of the latter, with the loss of sonic territory given to Prussia, and indemnif,ing Prussia in Poland. It is now said that the share of Poland which is to devolve to Russia, is not to he come a kingdom, hut that the Emperor Alexander had been declared Gland Duke of Warsaw. The Emperor, it is added, was exi ected to depart on the 20th, when the chief business of the Congress would be at ranged, but nothing has yet been published in any shape of authority. Danizic, Ilamburgh, Lubec, BlClnCli t and Frankfort are, it is said, to Le fee cities. 1 The most recent letters from France, and from various prts of the Cootinent announce, that the favourable turn to atiairs at Congress bad e►►livened the spirits of the German people; and who were now seriously looking towards a per manent peace ar.d a brisk trade. Commercial orders to a great extent have reached this country within these few days from France. Thursday, Paris papers to the 31st ult. and Brussels Jour nals to a recent date. were teceived in town. From the dif ferent Vienna articles by these papers, it appears, specula tion there was as much afloat as ever regarding the negocia tions. The intelligence from thence reaches to the 20th, but still without a particle of news that can be relied upon as to the result of the discussions. The Brussels papers quote a letter from Vienna, dated the 19th, stating that there was an approximation to an arrangement, but that still many difficulties remained. These accounts thus only serve to contradict the previous statements of a final arrangement, without giving us any information as to when such an ad• justment may be expected to take effect. Lord Castlereagh tad announced his intended departure from Vienna on the 19th ult. FEB. 5. American Papers to the 10th, and private letters to the 29th of December, arrived on Tuesday. It appears by the former that the American General M'Arthnr bad made a temporary incursion into Canada, and defeated a body of militia ; but this partial success was not attended with any important consequences. A very gloomy picture is given of the general situation of the United States. The Tax Bills meet with great opposition, and the letter of Mr. Dallas, the Secretary to the Treasury, bad produced universal despon dency. It is admitted that the props of the Government ' were rapidly giving way ; and Mr. Hanson, a Member of Congress, asserts that the picture drawn by Mr. Dallas is not SO bad- as the reality. " So completely empty is the Treasury, I and destitute of credit," says he, " that funds cannot be ob. tallied to defray the current ordinary expellees of the diffe ! rent departments. The Treasury is obliged to borrow pitiful stuns which it would disgrace a merchant to ask for. It is at this moment unable to pay even its stationary bill." The National Rank Bill, which had been previously lost in the [louse of Representatives by a small majority, was again in troduced in a modified form, and has passed Congress. New York Papers have arrived to the 29th December. All the Tax Bills have passed the House of Representatives, and two of them the Senate. Our force has appeared again in the Rappahannock, and it was feared meditated an attack upon Annapolis. It had ascended as high as Tappahanock. and had almost destroyed the Town., The Natio.ial Lcirlli gcncer, the official print of the American Goverment, ex hausts every term of reproach and invective, in speaking of this predatory and harassing warfare. Extract of a Letter from one of the Lieutenants of his Majesty's ship Leander, dated at Fayal, 14th of January.— " In search of the American squadron, we saw a large brig the other day, which the Captain ordered us to draw to, but under moderate sail, so as not to shew any particular anxiety, suspecting, from circumstances, she was a British vessel cap tured, and being desirous, if she should prove so, of getting hold of the American Prize-Master, and by imposing this ship upon him as an American frigate, obtaining information which otherwise we might not get. Nothing cou!d have hap pened better. This brig prove d to be the John, of Liver pool, lately captured by the Perry privateer; and the Arne , rican.prize,master, a high-blooded Yankee, hoisted out his boat, and without any hesitation came on board the Leander. The moment he got upon deck, he congratulated the officers on the squadron being at sea, and in a situation where they would, as he expressed it, do a Carnation share of mischief to the damned English sarpents, and play the devil's game I with their rag of a flag, Ile then observed, that he knew !this ship the moment he saw her, by her black painted masts and sides, and the cut of her sails, to he the President, as he was in New York just before she sailed ; after these observa tions, in which the Yankee professed to be very well in formed, he walked up to Sir George Collier, and to the ex treme amusement of all, making his bow, addressed him as the American Commodore Decatur, reminding him at the same time of having once seen him at New York. Sir George agreed to all this when the Yankee presented the John's Papers, to sinew what she was, and complained of his crew, which he said, were such a vile set of mutinous sarpents, that his life was in danger every night, and re quested, therefore, some of them might he changed for so many of the supposed President's crew, and that one in par ticular might have a second flogging.—All this Sir George promised with great gravity should Le done, and ordered the First Lieutenant to have as many men ready in exchange for those complained of. The.C.'aptain then asked Jonathan iPto his cabin, and retiring for a moment lot a chart, returned 1111111 w ~~