Star. — London, England, 1815-05-17 00:00:00

C 1 119 M• ;th' • 10 0 IV •• 1 . • • f. 1. 1. T. • FRENCH PAPERS. The Jaffna! de Paris of Saturday last contains the following Report of the Preparitions of the different Powers arming against France s RttsstA, they say, has under arms 400,000 men, but i's force . k niSt altogether disposable. The Polo nese army, which constitutes part of this force, has manifested sentiments so opposite to the wishes of the Emile; or Alexander, that he has been obliged to send them towards the Turkish frontier. It will be neces sary to kave in Poland a considerable forte, to keep down the rising spirit of this brave and generous people in favour of independence and liberty. The eNtendcd frontier of Russia dem.inds the presence of an , -t her tof the R ussian force. 4 , The liiug of PitussiA makes a figure on paper of his lan IvEhr and his /and/kiln but the men wtto compose t h ese corps. are cultivators, torn from their Flotlglei—iltell who would defend their country it it v.r:;e vt.lcked, but who will. not willingly quit their firesides for a cause foteign to them. SAXONY, so indignautly treated by ?he C•migress at Vienna, is in a state of ferment that gives the most lively apprehensions to the Court of Berlin; and Prus sian troops must be employed to watch the Saxons; mid the Saxon army is itself so discontented, that they dare not trust it in the ranks. 4. The attention of AUSTRIA is chiefly directed to the side of Italy. This diversion will prevent her trim marching any . considerable number of her forces towards the Kline, where, it she made' any conquests they woold be altogether for the interest of Prussia, against herself. The Cabinet of Austria is too know ing thus to assist its most formidable enemy. 4 , The ENGLISH h.ve at most 30,000 in the Low Countries. Let iis calculate on 100,000 men from all the rest of the Confederation, and we are probably abi,ve the mark. 4. If there were a design in France again to pene trate Germany, there is no doubt but the theatre of the war might be opened on the banks of the Da nuhe. The United forces of the Allies could not prevent it. But this is not the object. It is the plan of the Allies to enter France, and what will be the conk qu,:.• ce ?—F.ighty thousand Frenchmen, fatigued by a disastrous campaign, did keep in check for three months the combined armies of Europe. At this day '50,0 1 . 1 0 Frenchmen, well armed and . equipped, fresh anal full of ardour, wait on our frontiers the signal of battle. Thus, on our side, die Allies att .ck us with a torce less than they possessed in 181 S, and we have to oppose them with an army more than three times the amount of that which we possessed in that untvrtnnate moment. These facts are so clear that roaiice cannot deny them." BRUSSELS 4NII.FR4SX,fI2RT PAPERS. fIANC;VInt.MAY . 1. ' . • • A Committee is appointed. muter the immediate direction of the Cabinet Ministers, to watch over every ding relative to the internal police for the safety of the country, particularly in regard to sus picious persons, whether natives or foreigners. Mr. L.inddrost Von Schrader,. and Messrs. Counsellors Blumenbach and Rumann, are appointed Members of this Committee. A Consistory of the. Catholic per suasion is forming in HiPetheim, with the consent of the Prince Regent: . Mr. Palm, who. as 'brought in here list week as a French spy, was tAken by the Prussians at Paris, and dismissed indeed ; but, that he might do no harm in Germany, wilt - to England. At the beginning of this Year he was released from England nags earnest entreaty to reign's home.: Instead of that be went to France, where he remained till lately. The result of hi; trial is expected with. impatience. • VIENNA, MAY 2. • The ihsarian Observer contains the following re. mai ks upon the letter. of General Villeneuve : •' It is long since any document has appeared so ex traordinary as the letter of General Millet de Ville neuve to the Commander in Chief of the Austrian Army in Italy. It deserves to figure in a distinguished manner, even in an age so rich as our's in empty phrases, and may be quoted as a model of revolutio nary policy. 6 , We can add nothing to the answer of the Au strian General ; it contains the best refutation of the principle s•► often abused by France, in the late wars, that the tint musket or cannon shot decides on the commencement of war. Now, as then, the leader of the enitmy's army designed, under an empty pretext, to gain would, and to make his adversary fall into a snare. But never before Were the march of a whole army into a foleiga territory, assaults upon fortresses anti tecs.do-pont, and lastly, a proclamation like that from ltimini s ot the 50th. of March, which invites to issuneiaion all'the neighbouring states, and even of otlieis snore remote, represented as actions which have p.tt the lbr.ioce who his undertaken them of his own accord, .without any provocation, out of pure ambition, and who has directed them in person, in a May ot making the disagreeable discovery, diat he was bt a mistake at war with the great power which he has So grievootly offended. " It is doubtless a sad thing for King Joachim, that he has fail cd in the attempt to makeuse of the resources which" he says have been long since offered him in Italy ; but thaise proposals have certainly not b 'en inadt him, either by hik .friends or by those a the :nave people of Italy: 4 ! The cOnviction which King Joachim bas ac.• quircd by the communications which he bashad with Lord &millets, that the hostilities commenced against him riot not the resolt of a plan, proves to deenntiStraii'm on which side was the offensive. The King's:eireir on this point may certainly be attended with consequenfes of . importance to ; for relit negociations with Bentiock cannot have 1 . ft any dotkbt upon his, Mind that the English Gene ral considers every voluntary attack upon an ally of England as an attack upon that_poWer itself; and the w e ll ktlowp t iOyalty of Great Britain will always knov2 bow to diatinguisb between words anti actions. 'the Cabinet of Naples may ,besidereasily Iran. quili;eltself, When it learns that one of its •agen , t, named Ainds q who, attempted to repair secretly iron' Flotence to Pism o his talon into the hauds of. the, Austrian stony, with. ill the instructions which he had about him ibst that., none oft deligus and plans of nca( !‘aa lug unknown to .She of and _lbpi (his Court, if it Ipsd peed of luck a t.!ltarye li able to appreciate at their jun.. 'value, even to know, in their full extent, the overtures which have been made to it by the last associator, Who was sent back horn Trieste." Our Court has concluded a treaty with his Ma jesty.the King of Sicily, by which this Monarch is to be reinstated in the Kingdom of Naples. , The son of the Duke of Ferra Capriole, the Sici lian Minister, set out yesterday with this Treaty to Palermo. . The fine regiment of Meerfeld's Huhlans passed through:here to-day. • The dep i arture of the Sovereigns is not yet fixed ; that of the Grand Duke of Baden and his Ministers Will take place, it is said, on the 4th of this month. ' His Majesty the King of Saxony is expected to-day at Loxemburg. This journey gives hopes of an agreement which,' under present circumstances, would be 4 very advantageous event for all Germany. • VIENNA, MAY I. , When we had nearly finished printing to-day's rkiper, .we received intelligence that King Joachim is continuing his retreat from Rimini, %where it was supposed he would take a. position, with such ta pidity that on the 27th he had his head-quarters at Pesaro. Lieutenant Field Marshal Count Neipperg arrived on the 28th at Cattolica. His advanced posts were before Pesaro. • • The advanced guard of Baron Bianchi entered Ikiligno on the 27th. By the daily actions with the re it-guard desertion increases, and the number of the prisoners is very considerable. The people every where receive our armies as deliverers, with the strongest demonstrations of joy. May 4 —On the 20th of April, the Imperial Pro clamation for the erection of the Kingdom of Lops bardy and Venice was made public at Milan. At night all the public buildings and the theatres were illuminated. Farther ceremonies were deterred till the arrival of the new Archduke Viceroy. According to the report of a soldier who accom panied Bonaparte from Elba to France, and after wards went to Germany, where he was apprehended through the vigilance of the Prussian police, Bona parte assembled his men before he quitted the island, and harangued them. He told them, that ahe would lead them to Prance, and thence to Germany; at Paris they would be joined by all the veteran troops returned from captivity, as well as by the people: and he assured them, that if they behaved well they should have full liberty in Germany, awl be each rewarded with an mate in that country." How does this agree with his present pacific declarations ? The Giornale de Venezia contains the following let ter from Lugo of the 19th cf April : 44 At length weare delivered from the banditti. About 12,000 Neapolitans have cost us here in two days 40,000 dollars. This is the public charge ; what private individuals hate Ipst by them is incalculable; shops were plundered, fields - laid waste, the country people beaten, and the women treated in • the most brutal manner. And these are the heroes who preach up the independence of Italy ! To augment our misfortunes, they have burnt all the bridges, and consumed or sunk all the shipping. Of the forced requisitictis I shall say nothiog—suffice it to observe, that during the short time they were here we fancied ourselves to be in hell." GERA, MAY 1. We have received the particulars of the march of the Russian army, which is to leave Kalisch, from the 18th of April to the 7th of June. The Ist brigade arrives here on the 3d of May, aed the last on the 12th of June. The whole number is 84,000 men, and 21,000 horses. FRANKFORT, MAY a. Yesterday arrived here the 14th Bavarian regiment of fobt from Aschaffenburg, and are gone to-day to Kreutznach. Prince Miran of C.ourland is arrived here. • - . Marshal Prince Wrede arrived the day before Tee. terday at M.anbeim., MUNSTER, MAY I. The French Courier who carried Bonaparte's dis. patches to Copenhagen, and who was destined to Stockholm, was arrested here the day before yester day. Orders had been given by the Government to arrest him on his passing through Singer ; this order has been executed 'here on his return. BRUSSELS, MAY 12. The spirit of the people of Paris gives Bonaparte so little confidence, that he thinks he cannot take pre cautions enough for his personal safety. lie does not sleep two nights together in the same bed. The victim of his mad ambition, he scarcely piae. sesses the shadow of that power, which, gigantic as it was, did not content him— he is himself - sensible that the authority cannot long •remain in his hands; and he is preparing to embark once more. :He is sending a quantity of effects to Cherbourg. We may be sure, that this time the possibility will not be left_ him. Ney, who is become an object of contempt to his army, has been obliged to declare to Bonaparte that it refused to obey him. Your presence with it is indispensable," said he ; a without that I cannot answer for making it tight." On the other hand, f'ouche assures him, that the tranquillity of Paris wholly'depends Upon the stay hp makes there. The battalion of Saxon grenadiers of the guard; who were in garrison at Natour, having made some difficulties about taking the oath to the King of Prussia, this battalion was disarmed without the least resistance, in the presence of the Prussian General Borstell. The other Saxon corps took no share in this proceeding of their comrades. The battalion of the Guards has been conducted to Tirlemont. GENOA. On the 27th of April the Russian General Tully arrived from the Austrian head-quarters. A ship's Captain, from Nervi, deposed, at the Office of Health in Genoa, that he had seen the three•colmired flag hoisted at Marseilles, on the 11th of April ; but that, op the next day, the people pulled down the eagles, and•replaced the emNems with their lilies; that a So papartist was thrown intoahe seal he did not knOw how the matter ended. On passing Toulun he heard 16 cannon fired, and saw two ships of the line orna mented with white flags. swtsf a •EttLAND, MAY 1. • Lucien Bonaparte, who has hired a country ho use *Bellevue, in the bailkiage at Gex, keeps up an active correspondence with Madame De Steel, at Copet. The great Council of Berne has accepted the declaratiOn of the Congress, with 190 voices against thirty-four." ionr. • - - • a • •• • FROM TIM JOUR!ML OF LOUIS 17711. GHENT, MAV s. The Journal de l'zmtire of the 21 instant gives, under the heAd of Augsburg, an article from the Igensein Zeitung, which accuses the Duke of Feltre of 4. not havoug punished either Drouet or the brothers Lallemand. ' • Such an accusation proves nothing but the most profound ignorance of the enactments of the penal code of the FrenCh army. The Couri'Martial ap pointed to try a General O ffi cer must be convoked in one of the divisions bordering on that where the mi. litary offence les been committed. No General Count d'Erlon commanded the 16th diVision, and the Generals 1-111emand served under his orders ; they could, therefore, be tries only in the • . ist, 2d, • or 15th divisions. The Cilia Martial must be composed of mien General Officers, all already eniyalqd in the divisiod selected for the assembling of the Court. Of the bordering divisions, the firs: was the only one ivhete there was a sufficient number of General Offioert fdr forming the Court Martial, in active service : and it: was resolved that it should be held at La Fere. ". The necessity of taking the judges from among the Generals present in the first military only rendered the selection the more difficult amidst the allowable suspicions of a period so critical, which defections already known increased, and which the event has justified. Nevertheless, the members to compose the Court Martial were filed upon, but it could not meet until the persons who had received the notice shouWhave assembled at La Fere. The Duke of Feltre, on the evening of the 13th of March, received orders to cause Count d'Erlon to be arrested. On the Ikb he transmitted them by telegraph and by post, and ordered him to be put in prison. Why he was merely directed to remain at home under arrest, is unknown : but this favour fa cilitated his escape, and the necessary search in pia :nit of him delayed his removal to La Fete, where. the Lallernands, his accomplices, already were„ and upon whom the same sentence must have been pro nounced. The rapidity of Bonaparte's march saved them from the vengeance of the laws. If it be recollected that Bcinaparte's . entran:e . into Lyons was known. at Paris on the day when the pcirt-folio of the war de. pattinent was given to the Duke of Feltre, it must be obvious that he does not de...erve the repro ich con tained in the illlsonrin Zritanz, of having favoured his progress. Napoleon, after having abdicated at Fontainblean a crown, as he then said, to prevent the effusion of blood, • has just armed against France between four and .500,(XXf foreigners, . by wishing to lay hold of it again : is tailed changinz one's nntrd • • Napoleon, however, IS quite an altered Malt horn tiliat he has been. He says, and we must believe him, that he will noragain expel eithe'r the Council of Five Hundred, or the Tribunate, or the Legisla tive Body, as he did up to the Ist of January, 181+, inclusively ; and that, on the contrary, to use his own noble expressions at a memorable conjuncture, he 'means to wash his own dirty linen with 20,000 legisla.' tors in the Champ de Mai. He will become mild, patient, polite; will acquire a singular affection for public deliberations, and by this eddying conversion prove how greatly preferable his reign is to that of a King who neither imprisoned, exiled, nor shot any one ; but who did not the less establish despotism and feudality—at least as Napoleoa affirms, who has no interest to deceive us. In fine, Napoleon promises us a just and liberal government, which is almost equivalent to his having given it us, since among the number of his new vir tues he counts 'that of keeping his word—since his abdication will be the last engagement he will permit himself to br..ak—since, in pliying with his oaths, he will no innper say by way of excuse, This they call chaskrip s one's mine!. Vth.it Non s, beside , his he not furnished of his candour, and of his good faith ? On his arrival, he ordered the apartments of Maria Louisa, and of his, Sun, to be got ready, although he knew that Austria, like all the other Powers, had put him out of the pale of civil And social relations. He said that the decla ration of Congress was a forgery of the French lega tion at Vienna; and the next day he wrote to Ge neral Grouchy, that this declaration authorised him to treat the Duke d'ingouleme as the powers of Europe wished to treat him. He caused to bc p lb. fished in Isis journals, sometimes that:the SoViteigtis would not care to attack him---sometimes that they. were collecting numerous armies on . all sides—scape l . times that their only obj e ct was to deprive France, of the energetic government %Met he was going to give them, and sometime! that it Was abilrrd to imagine that they would take , arrnsagainiva stnglf - man : sometimes that the ..llousboits ,lioiceowledged. the impossibility Of reigning.in France,and.soillltilneel that they were rallying all Europe.; sometimes .that, the foreigners 'Were-going to shed streams - of btniid for the interest of a single family, and iontetirliws that 'lt wits not the restoration of that - family which tilt.) proposed to themselves, .but: the hutrtili tiffai sf 44 debasement of .France sometimes, in .shorti ;that Louis 4CVIII..had, by the mucous soaditioks of , tlx.l treaty of Paris, sacrificed the honeutpf France; ,and sometimes that he, the individual Napoleon, content ing himself with the same condition!, 'wouldreitore to France the force and the ascendancy which she had lost. All these inconsistencies, all these denials,vill• they surprise those readers who are attentive to the impartial and bold observations which result from the new liberty of the press, or which the public acts and ministerial reports furnish to us ? No: they will remark that almost always 24 hours elapse before one of these assertions and that which destroys it; .and they will confine themselves to saying-6$ this they call changing one's mind." Timm TnotNANn POUNDI.—The Ticket, No. 3,869, drawn on Saturday last, a Prize of . steBo,ooo, was SHARED by Waifs, in U.e Quarter, Two Eighth:, and Eight Sixteenth:, and SOLD at truly fortunate Office, I No. 17, Ludgate.street, (near St. Paul's) where the Holders may receive the value of their respective Shares, roan, Denusad. This is the Tnunsty-sing Ca pital shared and sol e d by WWII iu little more than 7'eve Tear: • and it will be recollected, that 12,688, entitled o n he 15A of lot Month to 1,000 Guineas, and na. 2,502, the last Prize of A 10,900 ever shared, *re a& sold at Wns's Ofcet- IMMBURGH MAIL. VIENNA, APRIL 29. Eight thousand French prisoners returning from Russia to France that were in Germany, have re. veived counter-orders. and will now have to nuke the long journey back again into the desarts of Rus sia.. It is calculated that only 96,000 prisoners have yet returned from Russia to prance. MAY I.—The report of Murat's having embar!;:d at ltiniini, is without foundation. BANIBERG, APR!! 28. The Princess of Wagram with her family , arrivA here again ; she was not allowed to piss throng!, Wirtemberg. Prince Berthier is here at Ilamb i t% under the strict surveillance of the police, a:al iu ';.. capital with his father-in-law. HANIBUROH, MAY s. ;Yesterday. the Hanse Towns resolved t'arough their Deputies here present, the union ul their contingent.; wilich was wished for in the last war, but could rot he accomplished on account of Coruna AMU. The. appoiturnent of a common leader of the Hanseatic Legion will initnediately.tike place, and be notified to the Duke of Weltinkton, under whose command our troops are to be pl.toed, along with the cantii gents of Brunswick,. and Oldenburg. THE EVENING 'STAR. LONDON. TO CORRY.S4IONDENTS. The facts stated by " A in the ltuyal Navy" rcipet g the action hetwten hii M'ajtesty'i packets Montague ati4Pll..an with the United States privateer I.;lttbe ott their pawttige to tit; Brazils, are, we know, quite cprrcct ; bur tin y have been ..two than once inserted before-in the STAR. Thr uc:cr (.1 tut late Captain Nogsaitsi. of the Montague, fur zeal, couia.le, and nautical knowledge, are too gensrally ack ou ledgrd need any euiogium. • • WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. 1815. PRINCUSS or WALas scum—Holiday at the Stack licLattgr This day the Official Account of the tinsuccvssl4l affair ill the Nepaul country, in which thy gallant Major:Gencral GILLESPIE unfortunately IcII, was given to the Public in the following SUPPLEMENT To we LONDOWCAZEXTri. • : INDIA-BOARD, MAl'l6, Inis. The following letter from the Adintant-Grerneral of the Forces in Bengal to the B . ecretaii: of the Su preme Government, with its inclosure, 1; is ben re ceivetf at the East India House, fromthe Vice-Presi dent 4nCouncil, in a dispitCh - dated the - 15th, No. vernSir, 1514. - . . . . , . . . Rim AOAST, Q. SECRETARY 'TO GM EnysrEN T, SECRET Diti.4 RTMILS T. _Stn:-1 am directed by the Right Hon: the Crir mander in Chili to . transmit fo you, Tor the informa tion of Government, copy of a dlipatch'iticeved th's afternoon . from Colonel Mawhey, at present enrr. manding the •British troops in the Tilieein,. reportirg the particulars of the gallant;• unsuccessful, at. tack z the fort of Kalungs, on the 31st 'eh. Great as is the loss sustained on this occasion, and deeply as it is to be deplored, it is some . satisfaction to the ruindnf the Right Hon. the Commander in Chief to observe, it falls considerably short of the nainber there was at first reason to apprehend had fallen and suffered. The undaunted valour displayed by the officers and troops who were engaged, under the serious disad vantage of one column only, and the reserve having (from the accidental cause mentioned by Colonel Mawbey) reached the destined points of assault, out of four columns and a reserve, or&red by their la mented leader in the original plan of attack, Las ex cited the highest admiration in the Commander in Chief, and the firmest conviction in his Excellency's mind, that the object would have been effected, if the most determined valour could possibly have achieved it under the circumstances of the contest. Orders have been given for the 'close investment ci 'the place, and means are•abcsut to be employed for its reduction, which will, the Commander in Chiet trusts, prove speedily effectual. Rlie•Commander in Chief *cannot conclude without reiterating tittettentiments of deeP concern which he 4tite already *Woad at the severe public lobs sus taint.cl; by the n untimely and ever-to-be lamented fall 'af Major General who evinced in the 'motiffithl tldse of his career, that ardour of heroism iindletbledieid,which had spitrikingly distinguished itsTiote cotirse: I havie the hortair to be, &c. • (sway *C..H. PAGAN, Actj.-Gen. A. 1 , Arad-lumen" l i ockoow,. Nov. 9, JBl4. kg. 640141 . Oclt wi th the Ludheanah de. tacluitini;lnined th e 'other corps of his division at Rbopir oit 'die . 3tOth Itistant, and was at Plapea on 'the 81st, preparatory to raping against Nallaghur. chi keY to the Iviiiiioal . .passes leading to . Ulmer Sills Positioil at lirkih, near the . 4utledge. . , Capp Walt, Kaling l / 4 /49v. 1, 1814. contiduation o f the brief and hurried ac count of the melancholy transactions of yesterday, Which I had the honour to forward to you, I now beg leave to transmit, fox the Right Honourable the Commando' in atief's information, the following more detailed and connected report of the unfortu nate and unsuccessful attack on the fort of Kalunga, in the -Dhoon. in pursuance of the arrangements and instructions of our late noble and gallant leader, Makir-General Gillespie, the army was formed into four columns of attack, wi 4 th a column of reserve, on the `29th of October, agreeable to the inclosed statement., The columns under Lieutenant-Colnnel Carpenter and Major Ludlow, marched from the encampment at half pact three o'clock, p.m. on the 30th October, ~+