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TIM FIELD OF-IPAIERL3O. EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL or A GEN,TLESIAN. JULY 18.—Dined •at the ram of La Belie AlV aree ; the owner of which and his family tarried eight drys and nights in the wood. Visited the well wher:in we saw the bodies of eight men of the Im perial Guard -of Napoleon • they had jumped down with th eir arms. Went to the scaffold or observatory, • et ected by Bonaparte for the purpose of reconnoitring t'.e British forces ; it is 36 feet high ; I nailed on the pinnacle the royal arms of Great . Britain: John Baptiste Decoste lives at La Belle Alliance ; be was . the guide to Napoleon in consequence of his knowing fie country, and remained with him from Sunday at eigh: o'clock, till - Monday at five; first went to Pont Marcenelle, a league beyond Charleroi, both were on horseback; gave him.a Napoleon at parting. An aide-de-camp, three gene d'artues, and 154 of she staff, all on horseback, followed. Before the battle Bon 7p,irte had 180,0(10 men ; of them only between 30 and 10,000 were left. This statement was signed by John Baptiste Decoste, tied witnessed by Tim sties Kerr. The French formed a battery by making holes in the garden wall ; here is another well, in which were found 73 men : the trees in the orchard were peppered very much ; the ditch around this or chard was used as a battery, and hundreds kilted; saw 84 other pieces of cannon taken from the enemy ; they took home only 12 guns ; Counted 40 graves, containing English Officers, in one acre of ground, resembling dung heaps. The proprietor of La Belle Alliance is Antoine Herbert. Went to the observa• tory erected by the Duke of Wellington to observe • the movements of the Fiench army ; saw Bonaparte's carriage; very complete, with drawers, &c. for eaee.e. . key 19 —Went to the hospitals, and saw at the doors prodigious crowds of females waiting, to ad minister succour to the wounded ; officers and pri vates were found lying indiscriminately together, but very clean; females of rank attending them with surptizing zeal. • Sew soldiers slightly watinded, in the field, using the French cuirasses as frying pans to dress their victuals. In one place saw 36 out of 73 who had lost either a leg or an arm, besides' flesh wounds. JtuY.2o.—Visited another hospital, containing 4'20 wounded ; b..ll.English and half French ; all well taken care ot, and very clean ; they had all Port wine, and strong soups, but Puny were in a dying sate; others the sight quite gone. Returning, wit nessed a shocking sight, i. e. the dead drawn along by fish hooks ; they were going to be buried in the fields by the peasants. JULY 21.—Visi:ei the field of battle, and saw scat tered about prodigious quantities of broken swords, s/ ears, saddlee, bridles, caps all cut in pieces. Pick: al up two crosses of the Legion of Honour, and an iron cross of Prussia. Saw vast numbers of cuirasses - taken out of the water, iwo which they were thrown by the peasants for concealment, and aitetwards sold for two franks each. Met waggons full of wounded, crying out from extreme suffering. • The water every where quite red. There were 20,0(X) wounded at one time in Brussels. All the' wells at Waterloo spoiled by throwing men into them. Churches still full of wounded. No inhabitants around Waterloo. We took a large quantity of camphor with us, as a preventive against infection. Were muzli annoyed by the incalculable swarms of carrion flies preying on the carcases of the horses which still lie unburied. Owing to the dry weather the ground cracks or opens, And as the bodies of the men.buried are not above a foot below the surface, they may still he seen in many places. 'The Prussians obliged the peasants to bury the dead at the point of the bayonet ; many were put to death for refusing. Since, horses, and men have been burnt together. Jeev 25.—Dined at Quatre Bras. The orchard of this house has four acres, and hundreds of fruit trees ; each of the latter had from eighty to one lluedred shut in them. Coming front Waterloo pissed forty waggons of wounded cryieg out;—the linen had been in cottages, and not able to be moved before ; many died instantaneously ; others were in a putrie state—a kind of living death I The road, from Brussels to Genappe, 16 miles, covered with horse shoes, parts of cloaks, broken muskets, drum- L ei e s , b ro k en b a n n ers. B- n ight of a peasant the eller r crown taken off the pouch of Captain Latour, of the Imperial guard. The Foot Guards, I learnt, stood the charge well ; and at the time of the lave; rial charge the Ensigns were killed, when the grena diers received the colours, and affixed them on the lop of their arms, and afier a huzzii, cherged, and drove the enemy back. The French Order of Louis was found in the pocket of General Beaumont, who commanded Baneparte's advanced guard—he had eleven spears run through - him. The French had by far the best ground. '1 he cuirassiers cherge.l cur ca vairy doe n the hill, and cut up the light cavalry bet when they got to the bottom of the hill, the Life Guards, and Blues, almost annihilated them ; nut 50 %yeti left, and they threw -off their armour, and gal loped away. - JULY ‘26.—Agaio dined at Quatre Bras. The laediord said that only 157 Belgic troops were left alive out of a corps of 1800. Quatre Bras is a niile from Genappe. At Place Nay, where we next day took refresh ment, s:w 300 Wiles in the house and roof ; one ball passed through the two walls of the house. The water at this place was still quite red and in puddles; it smelt s'ionsitrubly offensive. • We went nett to La Calow. In this house Bona. parte supped, and afterwards set on tire ; it is a large mansion, which; together with the farm, barns. etc. ,seere all consumed ; it is 4 . mile Iroin La Belle Alliance. At Place Nay we were shewn a cellar vilicrein ley five, of the Imperial Guard. The 79th dispatched them. Whilst We staid, they were buried in the garden ; thl well contained %0 Frenchmen, anti they had spa ilecithe water. The of plain at Watuloo, miles broad ;—leitg.tb, 6 miles., . • FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, AUGUST it. o t • ORDINANCE OF THE KING. Louis, by the Orme of Gob, Ling of Irmo and Na varre, to all, &c. 44 'raking into consideration our Decrees of the 24th of July and 2d of August, in virtue of which Marshal Ney is ordered before the Court Martial of the Ist Military Dtvision, sitting at Paris (Depart-, ment ef the Se:ne) Taking into consideration the order of the 21st of August, by which our Minister, Secretary of State for the War Department, has nominated the mem bers which are to compcse this Court-martial : " Considering that by the terms of that appoint ment, and in virtue of the sth article of the law of the 4th Fructidor, year 5, Marshal Moncey, Duc de Cornegliano, is called to preside ever the said Cow t-martial, as being the oldest of the Marshals of France ~ Taking into consideration the letters of Marshal Moncey, from which it appears that he has not the only excuse which, alter the 6th artiee of the law of l 3 Brumaire, would be valid to exempt him from presiding at the said Court-martial : 44 Considering that the refusal of Marshal Monkey can be ascribed to nothing else but a spit it of re sistance and insubordination, so much the more cul pable, as an example . diamorically opposite might have been expected from the high rank which he en joys in the army, and the principles of obedience which his long military c steer should have taught him to respect; we have resolved to apply to him the penalty decreed by the (ith article of the lath Bru maire, year 5, against every officer, who, without a valid excuse, refuses to sit in a council of war to which lie is called ; we the:Clore have ordained, and do ordain as follows : " Art. 1. Marshal Moncey is cas . ..iereil (kstitsi)l he shall buff, r three months impri.onnient. " 2. Our Minister, Secretary of State for the War Department, is chaiged with the ex-aution of the present ordinance. Given at Paris, at the ThulUeries, August 20, 1815, 21K year of our reign. (Signet) " Loci% Minister of W.e, (Signed) Govvion - ST. Ctn." The Gazette gif,idie bes'cles the above decree, am. tains a long ordinance comprising particular regula tions with regard to the disbanding and re-organiza tion of the cavalry, together with several minor ones, appointing Counsellors to• the Court of Cassation. displacing and appointing Sub-Prefects and other civil officers. Tlik ordinance which directs the dis banding of the' present cavalry force, and fixes the rules for the organization of a new one, refers to the decrees of the 23,1 of March and 16th of July, and consists of 3! articles. By the first it is ordered that the Secretary at War shall nominate to the King such General Officers as may be thought qualified and proper for arranging the details of the new or ganization. The remaining articles to the 15th, de scribe the different classes of officers and men who shall be finally disbanded, or may be iigain admitted. 'rite 15;h decrees, that in the new cavalry force there shall be 47 regiments, which shall include one of Ca. rabineers, six of cuirassiers, ten of dragot n twenty lour of chasseurs, and six ef hussars. Evf!ry regi. ment is to consist of four squadiens, and is to have one Colonel, one Lieutenant-Colopal, two Chiefs of Squadron,• one Maio!, together with a Cai:tain of Lys y sqtkadron and sub ilterns. The full comple ment of Officers of different ranks for the whole cavalry force of 47 regiments, shall be 2,068, .and the number of men when complete, 25,286. The regiments shall have designations, not from their numbers, but from the titles of different duals of the Royal Family, or the names of particu lar departments of the kingdom. The Emperor of Austria yesterday visited the King of France. Their Majesties remained an hour to. tether. In a few days it k exptcted that an official note of great importance will be published. The Emperors of Austria and Russia, the King of Prussia, and the Princes, will leave Paris on the 10th and 11th of September, to repair, by way of Meaux. to Vekus, in Champ lgne. The Russiaa army will be there reviewed. 'llience the Sovereigns will go to Dijon. A camp is going to be farmed at Geniis, three leagues from Dijon, for the purpose of the re view of the Mistrials army cantoned in Burgundy. The Emperor of Austria will then pursue his journey for Milan by way of Lyons. We are assured that the Emperor of Russia will also go to Milan to assist at the coronation of Francis I. as King of Lombardy. The King of Prussia will only go as far as Lyons. It is not believed that the King of Prussia will return to Paris. It is said that his guards are making pre parations to leave Paris in tw.s or three weeks. They write from Bayonne, that there was a grand movement of the Spanish army on the extreme fron tier of Pampeluna. There are between twelve and ill teen thousand men. There appeared tp•day an excnlpatory - memoir for MArshul Ney, drawn up and signed by M. Denier, one pf the most celebrAted avueats of the Paris bar. We are assured that the King has raisFd to the title of Dukes, Counts ArchambaUd de Perigord and Francis d'Escars. We hear from Toulon, under date of the 22d, that Joachim Murat had for a long time secluded in a private house, There is no doubt but that all the accounts which have at different times been err. culated concerning him were invented by himself and spread Abroad by his agents. While it was believed that he hail departed in disguise, and that *he was wandering in the mountains, or among the seques tered villages, .he was exerting his influence secretly with the Court Of Vienna to obtain permission to live in Austria with his wife. This favour. being granted him, he has embarked for the asylum awoilited him. ' Bonnaftmx Murat, his nephew, and Gruchil, one of his old agents, are detained in the castle of We hear from V:enua that Madame Murat has arrived at the Code at Haunbourg, in Austria, from Trieste, a residence which she has furnished in the most superb stile. She li.is a numerons retinue. M. B scciocchi has asked pet mission to join her sister, but it has not yet been granted her. A young licentiate appeased today before the Royal Court, to take the oath of Advocate. On the reading of his name, ylierre Erodes M---L 2l the Mu. gistrate expreped some surprise. How could it hap. pen that a man who'deVoteehintself to the study of the lavis &MU have neglcOted to couspll with that which prescribes the forikalitim far pllrgiaggee. fee seers of the, profession of re*ohstionary names f Pierre Brutus ,wds requested to get himself baptised before be could be admitted to take the oath. • The same day the Correctional Police tried a Ha noverian of 20, whose godfather and godmother did not giveltim the same of Brutus, but who assumed himself that of Nal:ekes Becker, without proving any right to it. Indeed, it is not very likely that 20 years ago, in a country like Hanover, be could have been placed under the protection of sock a patron.— B c thus as it may, on the 14th of July last, Napoleon Becker was loitering about the Hanoverian quarters in the Bois de Boulogne. Being caught at the very moment when he was about to steal an officer's horse, he received a severe heatiog with the flat of a sabre. Less fortunate at Ranelagh, where he stole a mare and colt, he was taken and delivered up to justice.— Several wittusaes deposed, that this Napoleon, who sometimes said chat he belonged to the Hanoverian army, and at others to the Prussian, was in the habit of committing all sorts of disorders. He was sen tenced to t4,vo years imprisonment. French Funds—Five per cent. Consols, on the 29th, 61i fr. Bank Actions, 1002. PARIS, AUGUST 30. RATIONAL GUARD OF HARI". ORDER OF THE DAY OF THE t 9 r u OF AUGUST. •• About one o'clock in the morning of the 28th of Aogust, a parole of the National Guard .from the post of St. Joseph, occupied by the Sd Legion, ar rested ag:eeably to the Order of the Day of the Go vernor of Paris for the Allies, two Austrian corporals, accused of having dangerously wounded a man. " Other soldiers of the same nation who attempted to release their comrades were arrested, but set at liberty after a short explanation. which convinced them of their error. , 0 In this service the patrol. was supported by a detachment from the post of the General Staff, fur nished by the 4th Legion. " Notwithstanding the trouble that was taken to explain German to these two Austrian corporals, that nothing more was intended than to conduct them before their chiefs, these men, doubtless intoxicated, and Inside themselves made an obstinate 'meaner against the N.ition:.l Guard, and slightly wounded Messrs. Leroux and Garein, chasseurs of the 4th company o f the 4th battalion of the 4th Legion. I• This resistance, these wounds, and the atmonr of the multitude, could not disturb the coolness mid the moder uion, full of firmness, of the National Guard; it secured and disarmed the two Austrian corporals without finning them, and conducted them to the post of the General Staff, where, upon the ap plication of an Aide.de-Cansp of.the Austrian aril they were delivered up to tl:e detachment on duty at the hotel of his 1-ligliress the Prince of dcliwart . trenberl. ••The National Guard has particularly to com mend the conduct of the Aide-de Camp and the. Commandant of the Austrian post. These tifficels did not hesitate to acknowledge that the Ausirian corporals were reprehensible, not. only fcr being abroad after the tattoo, but also for having struck with their weapons an unarmed person, send above all for having resisted the National Guard, which bad no other object than to restore order, and to withdiaw them from the crowd exasperated y the sight of blood, They added that they mad. a point of concurring with the National Guard in the main tenance of ti epublic tranquillity. • The General in Chief has thought fit to record in the Order of the Day the details of this event, in which the National Guard has manifested that noble and tine courage which consists in meeting daneer with coolness, in not lacing moved either by a blind resistance, or by the cries of a vengeance not less blind, and in not employing against misguided men, any other force than that requisite to disatm them. 46 The General in Chief expresses his high saris. facion on this account to the chief of the !wrote, and the chassenrs who composed ;1. 46 An Officer of the St:,ff will repair to Messrs. Leroux and G acig, and tesnty to them in the name of the General in Chief, all the esteem and interest 'which their conduct excites. “ Praise is likewise due to the zeal and the promp titude with which the post of the General Staff pro ceeded to the aid of the patrole of post St. Joseph. es The General in Chiet has been particularly pleased with the manier in which M. Bretin D'Au. bigni, Officer of Chasseurs, comm tnding the post of the „General Stall, behaved, as well in affording assistance to the patrole, as in his relations with the Aid-deiamp and Commandant of the Austrian post. This conduct ought to be commended on another account M. &run, Counsellor to the Royal Court, has just been presiding at the Court of Assize at Reims; ,and no sooner had he returned than he hastened to resume in the National Guard a'service which has given him an opportunity of chewing that he unites the firmness of the Of f icer with Abe circum spectiop of the Magis!rate. (Signed) AVIGNON, AUGUST 17. " Count DzsoLue." TIIE PREFECT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VAUCLUSE TO THE sus PREFECT OP AVIGNON. 44 M. Sub-Prefect—l am informed that encesst.s have been committed in "several Communes of tha , Department; a dozen of factious.persons, the shame and the disgrace of all parties, repair successively to the paints where they expect to find the ;lightest de fence and the most booty, and disguising their ex cesses with the name of public vengeance, they gratify wlthnut obstacle their love of plunder. I did think that the well-disposed persons would unite in a mass to repress such robbery, and to deliver up the authors to justice; I see with regret that I have been mistaken this handful of assassins spreads terrot whet ever it appeals 0o cssistaoce is made to it; and the inha bitants remain quiet spectator► of the excesses of which they will them:Wee: soon be the victims ; nay more, they darenot evep point out to authority the authors of these crimes in which such pusillanimity renders them accomplices. Be pleased to inform the Mayors of your arrondissement, that my intention it, tt:at the most efficacious measures be taken to secure . these men, and that viierever they shall appear in arms, the tocsin shill tie sotindecl, and give to all the sur rounding common?" the signal to pursue them. If these measures are spsnitickalt, if these misdemeanours are repeated, I +dare, that I will send detachments of Austrian troops into the communes in whidi they shall iro eomotittett. It w . 41 be with regret' that I *ball teen, to foreign forte to restore tranquillity the departments; but since the national force is de. termiaed to be insufficient, I think myself justified in, employing any means to prove that the superior al,. charity abhors these excesses s its remlution is fix e d, will not be any looser the sport of a handful of assanir . • (Signed) ve Baron de SAINT CNASIANO THE COUNT DE SAAR, ACTING CHAMBERLAIN, alai ( IN THE ftavica OF HIS MAJISTT THE EMPEROR ( AUSTRIA, COMMANDING THE Ammo; Titoops AVIGNON, TO TIIR MAYOR OF AVIGNON. is Mr. MA YOR —In once more entering the territo l of France, the Allied Powers are come to repla( firmly upon his throne the most virtuous and the mr, respected of Kings, Louis XVIII. ; they are con to deliver France from those military hordes, *h., under the buckler of defenders of the country, o , press and lay it waste ; they are come, is a word, purge this kingdom of those men who would ir.re sarnly re-kindle the revolutionary torch, and per t . tuate the calamities which have too long more their country. 4 6 All Europe is anxious for the repose which st has• purchased with such great sacrifices; it is that is the grand work of the Allied Powers, a t that will he the recompence of their efforts. They already feel a soothing satisfaction in lath had it in 111:!ir power to contribute to the restorAtk of the ancient throne of the lilies ; but this tinn will not be complete, till the Allies shall see a the French rally round their King, and fcrm but or family under the authority of the best of fathers. 4 , In this same family there certainly are ungrat ful l children, perfidious subjects, traitors t►► tlit country, perjured men, who deserve to be esi,, ! L for erer from the nation which they have dishonolut, ; and from the society of which they are the scanty, Batt let it never be forgotten that it belongs to 0-, King, alone, or to his delegates. to pronounce t!: jt:rt punishment of their crimes. The lEgng of Franc has felt the necessity of this punishment since he h, decreed it. As justice belongs exclusively to the King, stti jects could not infringe that sacred right wirh ol committing the most heinous outrage upon the top authority ; and yet 1 must confess to you, Mr. Maya we have the pain to behold the daily repetition, an thai too under the reign of justice and clemency it sell, of those tragic scenes, of those intestine wig which desolated France for so many years, under th, do inion of the most cruet tyrant; and I myself. since ms arrival in your city; have been a witness these disorders, " I am authorise(' to assure you, Mr. Mayor, tha the Allied Powers see with horror these abomini. tions, this disregard of all principle, by Frenchnue before the face of their King, whose heart is deep!, affected by it, whilst they themselves hive come t ei.ofer on this kingduns the sweets of peace s Lr, i be well rememberei, that to do justice one's self is% overthrow order in a state, to be an enemy to the Icing, to fill into fresh anarchy. 4 ' ilia all sentiments t.f hatred and revenge be es tinguished in every heart; he who meditates vv. ,ednee is much snore unhappy than he who is the oli t j •ct of it. Guilt ought not to be the instrumento( punishing guilt. Human justice alone ought to tvitlit the swi,:,l of justice. The most striking marks that subjects can Os or th...ir love and fidelity to their King is to mem os or.lets punctually, to obey his will in all things, sod. to anticipate his wishes. Um we see with regret, that pine. his return to France the voice of I.c!is XVII/. is not attended to, his orders ale not es cuted,.his justice is slighted by those whose duty, to observe it, and make it respected, oitilst the urn. q uii lity of the peaceable citizens is every moment du tarbed by the most alarming scenes For these reasons, the Allied Powers, faithful their oaths;-Are determined to second, wit.. alt means, toe effcirts of their august Ally, Louis XVIII to assure to France *Ad and durable peace and :tit his subjects the enjoyment of its happy results. 66 Acv.rding to the orders and powers that 'Eta% been given to me, I request you, Mr. Mayor, to or& that after nine o'clock at night, all assemblages au expressly forbidden, ai well in the squares and in the streets, as in the coffee-houses, public-houses) Ed other places of resort. 6 6 That no person shall insult any one, be he &to he will, upon any account whatever, and still lot commit any kind of excess. is I declare to you, that frequent patroles of twin under my command will traverse the streets after the above mentioned hour, and that they will strictly en. force the execution of the present order, which hu no other object than to ensure the public tranquillity. In using all the means that are in my powers 1 exe cute the orders of my superiors. " I rely, Mr. Mayor, upon your zeal, and entreat you to accept the assurances of my distinguished con. sideration. " The Count Ds P*sn, Major." Extract of a geressine Letter from Paris. dated the 29. h of August, written by a German Gentlenfo from London :—" I have had the pleasure to se., out good and gallant friend . and soldier, Prince &miss? it was on the only day he has been at Paris since came here : month) he received the Order of the Bath, and returned the next day to his army al blm, mandy. I waited on him early in the morning, no found him with his pipe, giving directions to a long file of fine young Officers, drawn up in a line in a large room t I explained to him the nature and state tithe Irakrloo Subscription: in Britain. by which he no highly glatitied. I explained it alsb to Prince Ham' ne.mwao, in the Palace of the Duke of Montebello, (Lasnes).4 They are a noble people in Britain; s aid he, • but look round here, at all this silk, embr ol • dory, gilding, and w a ste o f L uxury-wee how en 3l l is spent bere.'—What a masquerade this city exin' bits, of all the nations in their various sinewy dresses ; dragging their noisy clattering sabres along the pavements of the Capital of the Conquered Gauls' You would be astonished at the gdod order, nay OP banity, that prevails among this countless multitude' The Bourbons are too good for the French of the pro sent day, after their long, bad, licentious, and Wary habifi of conquest and spoliation of the rg n countries round them : the justice and expediency' replacing the Bourbons on the Throne a Fr."'"' weal understood by the intelligent few, know, do not 'always guide the mass of coaan4l minds." but these, yo MEDICAL THE %TRE. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. THE WINTER COURSES OF LECTURES will be commt:nced at tins 'lleare on MONVAY, Oct*. bn 2, at Two &Clock : On the THEORY sod PRACTICE of MEDICINE by Dr. Hue. Ou ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY, by Mr. Aberp.ihy. • On the. IHEORY and PR AC I'ICE of SURGERY, by ditto. On CH EMIS CRY and MA I ERIA MEDICA, by Dr. Hue. • On MII:WIFERY, by Dr. Gooch. • -.The ANATOMICAL DZAIONSTUATIOWIIb) Mr. Stanley. Fuiihir inay he obtained, by inquiring of Mr. Wheeler, Apothecary, at the Ha•pital. 1.. • • • 1 1 1 IC la 0 1 11 'll It 11. C a tz tc kg Id TO it. m• to U. to ITt de art the icd r • V rpS the en. ity. 'IC• tat 0D• rf the 221 out eI the far• )og ge the Ile, 0, 1 oel thi• .415 roS Is: ur• de. ial of nu