Star. — London, England, 1815-06-26 00:00:00

1' ' O l . • • • • f 'II f~ I r • meo, r • 1 .4MEAL.: kV PAPERS. BOSTON, MAY 26. On the lath, the United States squadron, destined for the Mediterranean, sailed from New-York.. It is composed of the following vessels, viz. Fmk:Ares— Guerriere (Commodore's ship), Cap. tain Lewis; Macedonian, Captain Joues ; and CAm stellation, Captain Gordon. SLOOP OF WAR—Ontario, Captain Elliott. Batas—Epervier, Captain Downs ; Fire Fly, Cap tain Rodgers; Flambeau, Captain Nicholson; and • Spark, Captain Gamble. SCROONERS—Spitfire, Captain Dallas; and Toren, Captain Chauncey. We understand the whole of the squadron are to rentleav )us at Gibraltar. William Maier, Esq one of the Commissioners appointed by our government to treat of peace with the Dry of Algiers, embarked on board of the Guerriere. The spiadron was detained at the Hook by head winds until Saturday last, when it sailed with a fine breeze.. The sloop of war Alert, Captain Cooper, has taken on board at Washington, the heavy guns for the Independence and Washington, and was to sail from thence in a few days. Fort Bowyer has been given up by the British, agreeably to the requisitions of the late Treaty of Pet/CC. MATH ?AMU. 1 PARIS, JUNIVet: The only official news published yesterday, k tained in the following dispatch, addressed to the Minister at War (LETTERS WRITTEN racist IPLEURUS, JUNE 17, 1815.) 14 The French armies have again Immortalized themselves on the plains of Fleurus. 4 , \Ve entered Belgium en the 15th. The enemy was overthrown in a first affair upon every point where he attempted to resist us. " Before Ch.trleroy several of his squares were broken and taken by some squadrons only ; 1,700 prisoners only could be saved out of 5 or 6,000 men who eomp sed those squares. Yesterday, the 16th, we encountered the whole of the enemy's army in its position near Fleurus ; its right, composed of Eng lish, under the command of Wellington, was in front of Me;let, its centre at St. Amend, and its left at Sombres, a formidable position, covered by the Ligny. " The enemy occupied also - the little village of Ligny, in front of this river. Our army 41 , 1boticlietl in the plain ; its left, under Marshal Ney, by Gosse. lies ; the cei,tre, where the Emperor was, by Fleu ins ; and the right, trader General Gerard, upon Sombres. The action began at two o'clock upon the left and centre. Both sides fought with inconceiv able fury. The villages of St. Amand and Ligny were taken and retaken four times. Our soldiers have all covered themselves with glory. At eight o'clock the Emperor, with his whole guard, had Ligny attacked and carried. Our brave fellows ad. vanced at the first discharge upon the principal posi tion of the enemy. His army was found in the centre, and obliged to retreat in the greatest disor der; Blucher, with the Prussians, upon Namur, and ‘Vellington upon Brussels. 44 Several pieces of cannon were taken by the guard, who bore down all before them. All marched with cries a thousand times repeated, of Vile l'Em pereur.'—These were also the last words of the brave men who feil. Never was such enthusiasm— a British division of 5 or 6,0(X) Scotch was cut.to pieces • we have not seen any of them prisoners. The doble Lord must be confounded. There were upon the field of battle eight enemies to one French man. Their. low is said to be 50,0(10 men. Tile cannonade was like that of the battle of Moskwa. it This mormag, the 17th, the cavalry of General Paygol is gone on pursuit of th: Prussians upon the road to Namur. It is already many leagues in ad vance ; whole hands cf prisoners are tAkeii.—They do not kn:iw what is become of their Commanders. The route is complete on this side, and - I hope we shall not soon agam hear of the Prussians, if they should ever be able to rally at all. As for the English, we. shall see now what will become r:l' them. l'he Emperor is hem." Some private letters from the army give the fel lowing particulars: " Tare English are retiring upon Brussels by the forest of Sqignies; the Prussians are falling back upon the Meuse in great disorder. " The 17th at eleven, P.M. the Emperor had his head go ii ter s at PlAncheny, a village only five leagues from I.lruss: :f. The rain fell in toi rents. .His Ma jesty was fatigued, but he was very welt. "-Count Lobau, who was marching 'with the ith corps upon• blamer, was, with his vanguard, only half a leaguilrom the town. Five battalions are goite from Lille to escort the prisoners taken on the 15th and 16th. “ We are assured, that Marshal Mort:er, whose sickness vas become more serious, has arrived at his estate called Plussis-les•LAndes, near Penis.” PAM'S, 1131 1 / 4 7E 21. A report, dated the 15th and 16th June, made by General Schramm, commanding at Angers, and in the department of the Maine and Loire, states what follows : The General in Chief must be at Chalons: the communes from Nantes to Napoleon give up their arms. The inhabitants have pointed out five pieces of cannon, which were concealed, and which luve been brought to head-quarters ; the cannon and the muAtts ate of toglish manufacture. 'the General• in Chief hopes he shall soon restore tranquillity in the country. Lieutenant-General Puthod gives a satisfactory ac .count of the organization of the national guards in the 19th division. Two battalions of the national guards of the Loire left Lyons on the 14th, and by the orders of Marshal the Duke of Albufera, repaired to the camp of Chatillon. Another battalion of the Loire, and four of Puy de Dome, are gone to the same AlebtinAtion. The Journal of Nantes contains a Proclamation by General Travot, dated Cliallans, 15th June, in which he announces to the inhabitants of the West, that the legion of that name is going :o be re.orkanised by an Imperial Decree. Tnis corps, as well as that of the chasseurs of LA Vendee, is to be exclusively em ployed- in tluse countries, and dissolved as soon as tranquillity is restored. • A journal mentions Oetrral Dui°lles and' M. Turpin de Crisse, as two of the principal chiefs of the Insurgents. It is annonnced that M. Jules de Polignite has been arrested near Montmelian. A letter from La val announces, that great hopes were entertained of .rt 61 that country i and that it is al. Commissioners from the Vendeans are • to treat about Its of the Pas de Nais has sent to the .his department the description ot se of the Count de L;11e, who are traverse France to excite disorders, and encourage the system generally adopted by the French fugitives, et destroying the niagazinea, par ticularly of gua•powder, and the manufactories ton neetad with•theut. The irtnr Prefect has also put the description of several persons who have been sou towards Lyons, and a list of IS persons who escaped from the pri-, son, in the Department of the North, a:.: ppuA l t, o f the night of the.fitit. • CH A MUIR OF REPRESENTATIVES. • SITTING 01 tall 19111 The principal subjcct brought before the Chamber this day, was the Report presented by M. Duter.. Mont t nu the etbninistratieb finances in 11113 and 181+. The projects of the Budget for 1815; which have not been fully executed, with the project of a 14W which is the euoitseence of this, are an nexed to the report. The reporter, states, that, there was a great d.•fi ciency in 1813, on swung of the invasion, &c. lie accuses the late Government of having exaggerated this deficiency beyond all bounds, by stating it first at 1,700 millions, and afterwards at 759 millions,, though it never exceeded ISO millions ; thereby ob taining a pretext to issue the royal bons, which, de. preciated from the beginning, would infallibly have led to the introduction of a paper currency. Tne Minister proposes to inscribe the amount of these bons, as well as all the debts of the late Govemment, in the grand Livre, with interest from the `a2.l of March, 1815. The Caisse d'Amortissiment, which the lite Go vernment converted into a mere bureau of the royal treasury, to receive the funds necessit y for the cur rent expenses, is proposed to be restored to its origi nal destination of a sinking fund. Adding to the 14 millions which it still possesses, four millions of re venue taken from the forests belonging to the Royal Family, and a million from other forests, it will be able to conti:sue its operation of reducing the debt. Tlic dent is stated at 303,605,000 trAnc., which, with the indonoities to be paid to the Communes #or the lands, amounts to 316 millions. The funds 04 the C.tisse d'Amortissimeut m.ty reduce the annual expense by 24 or 25 millions. To cover the arrears of 1814, the Mintster pro. poses to apply the produce of wood to he cut di,wn, observing, that the I.tte Government exceeded aia tiuv bounds in this meAstire. The Budget of 1815 is as incorrect as that of 1814 was, promising an merplus .A 70 milliui,s, while there is a deficiency of 110 millions. lhere is ni' tem- about the receipts, except in the indirect contribta 11113. The expenses of the war wal occasion an additional impasse of 120 millions. As the means destined to meet the extraordinary expenses, and pay the arrears, though solid, do, not oiler an ,immecitate resource, and the Goverment c‘insaluently appears to be poor in cash, though in the midst of real wealth ; he proposes a national loan of 150 millions according to the scale of the dip -et conttibutious, and payable in the same manner from the Ist July. - [he anisaint of this loan is charged upon the produce of the tomtit to be felled. The equipment of the National Guards makes an extraordinary expellee of 41 millions. This may lie awi by raising all the sureties (cautionnimens), one hfih of wlllcti %%ill produce 30 millions, and be c:cting a 20th from ail salaries for 2,0%1 to 6,000 moles in ail France, lend a 10th from all salaries above 6,000 francs. Au acljdnrnment being proposed, M. Regnault de jt.lll d'Ani;ely opposed it. 84 The Ministers of the Earper. - 4," said he, 44 have prepared a statement of the necessary measures in the present ciscum stances, sclicli will be immediately presented you in the mime of the country, in the name of all that is most sacred to you. I conjure you to lose no time in adopting the regulations necessary to organize your prehnitiary labours. Don't you see that cur enemies, in haste to repair the disasters they have just rail rienced, are again busy on all sides. Laws are neeessary to organize our Constitution—to esta blish the transmigration of our system into the tour.. tries .which are stretching out tl:eir arms to us. Laws aft necessary to secure the freedom if the press, to repress crimes. Have you not even to-day seen it tnalicinusly stated in a journal, that General Travot has been made prisoner, and exchanged for M. de la Tremeille: And this news is published, when La Vendee is almost pacified, and when they are, per bap. disarming at Portsmouth, the vessels intended to effect landings on our coasts. I protest against any adj.nnument, till you have improved the mea sures, necessary under present circurnst:inces." M. ReGNAULT afterwards stated tnae was no rea son to fear any thing for General Travot, and that all promises the happiest result. Cti AirillEft OF PEER!, Mat co. • After some unimportant discussions, there being nothing niore on the Order of the day, M. LATOUR tlaunocao expressed his surprise that under such important circumaance• there should be nothing on the order of ti e day, while there were num. bet itss ohPcts of importance that it was urger .t to put there; a most important one is this—the Emperor deductl that he bad ltid down the absolute power which circumstances had forced him to assume. and the Constitutional Monarchy WAS put in activity.— Now the Constitution allows of none but legal ar rests. Are those that have taken place for three months been legal? I require that the Minis'ers make a report upon all these arrests, that the citmats Who are tint c allied according to the Constitution may be res; 'red to their liberty anti to their families. This unexpected demand excited a degree of asto nishment. M..THicEAUCISAII thought the MOtioll ftenliltAte, because the Orders of the Mangier, regidreir, Thai, in make it, an adjournment to a attain day shall take place. ,M. LATOUR•MAUBoURG Proposed to adjourn to the next day. After some &mission, the Chamber adjourned to Thursday. • CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 110. The proposition of M. DU NN. for naming. it cons mission of twenty-one Members, to collect the :tat tered laws into one body, and arrange them so as to tend to one common end, excited au interesting di.. cupion. Alter some oppositiou from one or two Members, Mr. Jay said, it is in vain to dissemble. France Is in a crisis which will decide 0411 future Attacked without by a coalition of Kings, and agi. tatted within by the e nemi es o f liberty, it. can limit lankly only in the intimate union of good citizens. It is for you, by consulting public opinion, to bind closer the ties uhich unite the people to the Govern ment. It: (Air internal enemies have cnoccired guilty hopes, it is because they may li.eve believed, tor a tnomtnt, that this with) was wedkened. Remember the mospotts of entlitisiAstr; which burst from all the 1 10 ends of generous ideas. when, after twelve months bitilaillattoa *ad tiesroutlenq, the firm, words of the Emperor announced we return of liberty. T' unity of opinion imposed silence on our enem Teir first attempts to excite civil war expired bet the sublime spectacle of a great nation, anim : with the most ardent patriotism, and full of co derce in the solemn promises of the head of the sta You are not ignorant, Gentlemen, that the additi , • Act to the Constitutions of the Empire did not h all our hopes. The people, who for these twenty years have been sd often deceived, agAin liberty was for Government a means rather than end. They feared for the future the intoxicall,i , viaory and power. The firmor concluded a speech by supporting the proposAl of M. Dup'in, the appointmelit of a Cammittee. This proposal ;11/11 warmly supporter M. I.L.F.uat. DX Chore, App roving of M. Dup• proposal, was of opinion that the Deputies v. ' Department should name one o f tlitr;e Ment., which would thus form a unian of eighty-seven F. sons, who might be divided afterward. i;:to . different Committees, according to a plan proposed, anti which was v..artoly supported. After some debate, the proposal cf M. Lesertl Clive was adopted. French Funds—June 19, opened at .c 7, closet! 53-25. line 20, opened at 5:;•5'..), closed at 5::- I.l.ink Actions, SA. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, JUNE 21, 4 P.M. A letter from Binche, dated the 20th at noon, says, 44 A Prussian corps has just passed through this town, going towards Maubeuge (tour leages off.) News is this moment brought, that the gates of that town have been opened to the Prussian advanced guard, which left this place yesterday evening." Joss 22.—The surrender of Maubeuge seems cer tain. It is now affirmed, that Louis XVIII. leaves Ghent to-day, to go and fix there the seat of his pro visional government. Tile Queen arrived here yesterday evening. She visited this morning the Prince Royal, her son, whose name will one day be tooted with pride in the his. tory of our country. 'lnc wound of this young hero is not so slight as was thought ; however, there is no danger. A division of 8000 French troops, which had remained near Wavre, left it the day before yester day at five a. m. to try to effect its junction by throwing itself into the woods of Limelette and Ortignies, being pursued without ceasing by the PrwslAr. troops. Several bloody actions took place, iu sthich the enemy had 5000 killed, wounded, and prisoners; the remmining 3000 saved themselves by gairl;l;g the Meuse, which they crossed between N(. mu: actl Dinant. Such is the result of one of the most c .mplete overthroi•'s that history mentions. EXTRACT OP A LETTER FRUN CHARLERvI I DATED JUNE 20, IN TILE MORNING; " The well-known sentiments of the Functionary who is the author of This letter, guarantees the au thenticity of the det•Ols which he gives. 46 The 14th in the •.vening, the Prussians were in., formed that a movement was executing along the, whole French line; and in fact, at seven a. m. on the , 15th, the tirailleurs were upon Marchiennes-sdr Pont and Cfaiillet. There were several affairs of out posts, and the firing of musketry wok place as far as the entrance of the wood of Gully. The French re ma'ned masters of the town at eleven a. as. 46 Bonaparte's army defiled during two days; he was himself at the head of the first column ; he passed,' thiough here at three o'clock, as far as the wood of Gilly, where he took a position. About 6 or 7 ft. in. he returned to lodge at Puissants, and set off again the nest Morning at 10, to direct the battle which took place from Ligny to I;2,,iatre-Bras —I never in my life saw a finer French army than that which he had this time. 6 6 N.B. The author has served several campaigns as a conscript. It was wholly composed of veteran troops, and had a considerable materiel. Well, in twice tseeary four hours he has lost all; his soldiers began to 'arrive here on the 18th, at seven P.M. la Me onod terrible dirorder. Three quarters of those who returned were wounded. The Generals and Officers were in the, most cruel despair, and vented a tit. u , sand imprecations against this man, who cannot sa. bate his blood : they will not serve him any longer. Almost all the Camels, Majors, and Generals, are eitht r killed or wounded. In . a word, of 40;000 cavalry who passed threugh here, not 10,000 capable of service have returned ; they all threw away their arms; and every soldier said he was . going home, and that nobody should ever bring him into the fire again. " Officets have told me, that the retreat fi - oin Mos. eow was not near so terrible as this, because the Ge nerals and' Chiefs of Corps ft-id abandoned every thing-, and saved themselves as they could. 66 Of the immense artillery which Bonaparte had, only twelve pieces of cannon have returned. 66 Front Queue-bras w Beaumont- you cannot take four sups without flitting; effects that have been abandoned. M ire than 100 caissons, Jo:. d with am. munition, provisions, and money, were abandoned in the streets of Charleroi, which in three hours were all pillaged by the populace. 46 I have Oa ;tamed that almost all thiough which the Frc:noll pa , :sed :11 tLir beet; }Amulet-ed. Marshal Bluenet's corps the heads of his columns are advancing to The Fiench prisoners taken by the Pr sent to Tirleinont, Louvain, Liege, &c. is immense. The artillery taken is sent to the army " • MONS, JUNE W. x •• Numerous columns of Allied troop%' estimated at 40AXemen, passed through our towniund along the staciefroing to the Fren‘h tetriturroiehere they have ordeiiio encamp to•day. • _ • bulletin of the health of the Prince of OTange, Jitinribd : . 41 , His Itoy.al Highness has not passed this n:ght m well,as . the preceding. His health is Iti.wever good • th;s tnatieing. *pre is no )ever, and the wound has thCbtist sitiaMedtice posaildx." t it inv . ' . *Wendy reported at Brussels on the 22d, ' • • road Lilts had opened their gate. . • ' . . .. - . . .. ,„... - . a . _ . -• • - 4:2:- '•, 44.' . -. 7 ,--- . ~ , 4-4 •.• -. .. •,,,!. ~,i, —•-- - • - 11 the village' ihv Ncification r retreat hai . Owed that Cor )11 is litre, a to Paris to :0 Beaumo iitto , Prefect of 'russians, a rims of their number 1 ern4 Aries to the sear of 1 charged to travel 77!. 4RMr. No further rillici.tl publication of the names of • killed awl .wounded in the I.tte action will take pl. until the rctu-ns Are c , mplete. The sollowios nar are given in itdditl(lll t. the mournful ha att.tche.: . the Gazette Extrac.rd;rwry: Captain Blackman, Coldstream C..ards, &Mod ; Lleuter.: Colonel Wyndham, ditto, woo ded baMy In the arm ; nant-Colonel 144`kinutiti, blOstly in the knee; Captain Sun:: badly in the ann; lion. R. Moore, badly In the shoulder; sign Prillitbs, badly in the ann ; Ensign Montego, ; sign Vane, ditto. Third Guard., Captain Forbes, Cap a't, Ac ton, and Ensign Simpson, lolled; Colonel Dsstwood; Colo Bowater, Colonel West, Captain liesketh, Captain Evelyn, 1. siva Lake, Ensign Baird, and nr guie-141;rr Srothart, trona .. Saturday night the Lion. Major l'Ency, who %; the bearer of the late i nip): Lain Dispatches, left tot , :t to join the Duke of WttuudToN. The late gallant service, and sufferings ofthe of UXBRIDGE, who was judiciously selected by t': PRINCE REGENT for the command of th e Brit;sh C • were no nover announced to his Royal nos% than lie declared the elevation of that hero:. Officer to a MAuQUISATE 41 the British Peerage. The gallant General Pori,oNsit has left a your", wife and toti . cl,arminp, female children, the eldest n • z eight years old, to lament hit loss; this anthil ) ;, Lady is also in a state to iucteose the number of hc: afflicted family. Saturday night the two eagles, recently taken fror: 3oxftrAuTr, together with the English, rrits,i.tc..ica Dutch colours, were triumphantly displgtd ft )rTI the windows of the Home Secietary of States 9Xcc. Daring the short stay of the illustrious Dike ef WELLINoIost at Brussels on the 19th instant, he wro , ,t a letter to a distiti;u:slied personage, giving an ac- C,..WIL of the tremendous coidlict r,l cf e 18,h, which, • tvi.i'e it affords a Ene disiilAy of the vaw,tcd humanir ) of our Hero, serves stilt more to entourage us in t 1:: couti.!erit hopes we ussuessitin iftsregird to the ds.ci•ise effect 9t his last iplcudid and unparalleled triumph. The letter to which we anode has the f 11u. , lug beat , . tiful, impressive, and atiecting cohelthion—it ought to be transcribel in letters of gold, and framed an glized for the admiration not only of the present, but of invite ages My heart (sass he) is broken by the terrible loss I have stistaieed of my old trienes 4 , and companions and my poor soldiers; and I shaii ag not b! sati,tied with this bittle, however glorim, " fit dxs tut of itself put an end la Bonalirle." A strong reinforcement of artillery, and all &a men belonging to the light corps which can be co. lected, are to be immediately forwarded to the Date of Wst.i.morotes army. Three more Regiments of Heavy Dragoins ar under orders for immediate embarkation for rim • ders. The Battalion of the 11‘h Regiment a P)ymouth is livid in readiness to ernbarc at th. shortest notice. A detachment of 600 men is to be selected fror. the:byre Regiments of Foot Guards in London, join the battalions Flandcrs. Ministers have lust no time in communicating th• late splendid and decisive sictory to the lolal inh i bitants of Li Vendee, Bourdeaux, &c. Severn' thousands of the Extraordinary G_sme hive bee:• translated into French, and have been sent tor distri bution in those districts where the spirit of attach• ment to the legitiMate • Monarchy of France I' powerfully exists. It is confidently stated that the gallant regimen, thc 9th Light Llragoons. which have served in Soo! Arnericv, Walcherea, and with the Doke of aNcrroh in the Peninsula, and which is at th•s ti in the highest state of discipline, commandid by di ainguished o.bcer, Lieutenant-Colnael Mont.AVD. will be immediately sent with the 14th Light 14 , 1 goons to the South of France, there to pat take ‘Lt! the French R"yalists in the glorious struggle agrius. tyranny and oppression, and to share with their conr rade' in ern» tie laurels Of victory. We believe the following will be found to be tolerably accurate statement of the Duke of Wet usovors's force; the whale was divided into twc iirts divan :•—• Ilse brat, under the command of his Royal Highness the Prig* of Orange, comprising the let, SJ, and sth divisions. Ica tobl the Geuerlis Cookr(tif tilt Guards). Alten, and Piano. The second corps was comotanded by o,:aeral Lord Il 1 . an J composed of the ud, sth, and , 411 irisions ; the two orivri of which were under the orders of 11. clinical, anti 11 % ). Hinuber; and the oth, nominally that of air 1 4 . Wk, • bed nut yet joined the army. This invincible and tAiutaiphaut fretfretis said to have coca' ,rl about British Bayonets • German !.rood Haney/flan infantry, new WAN - lirunswick and Nassau' . Dutch SCOO, Belgic .Scoo Total Infantry Artiilery.—Dritlth, 30 istigadee, . de guns each, Ger men lovuli, liamtverlaus, &c. - Cavalry—linttsb Milt, Greenest I.egioo 3500, Dim ate. 3009 . • ' . . ;o P' •