Star. — London, England, 1815-04-25 00:00:00

Dural PAPERS► VIENNA, APRIL IS. ARMY REPORT. By official accounts from Rome and Milan, the' gof Naples. after the free passage through the Roman territories was refused him, violently entered the Pope's dominions on the 22d of March, at the sa me time he marched with his main force from the marches to the Uganons, and on the 30th began li.is tilitio by attacking the imperial posts at C esena .— ci ore l Gavenda, of the Prince Regent's Hussars, or j oe j, in case of attack, not to engage in any c L rion: action, and therefore retired to his position of lice. B ti-on Frimont, one to whom the Emperor has F ivoo the chief command of his Italian army, is col. lecti .1; it between Canal Maggiore and Piadena (here 1,,11,m, die account of the action with Field-Marshal already published). Aiter the battle, General Bianchi, according to „l ee s, took his position behind the Canal of Ben aild on the tete-de punt of Burgaforte, on APRII. 16. A 0 1.11 in of 10,44ki Hanoverians has passed within a few days, on their march to IMUSSELS. APRIL 19. L ar.l WA;itigcon„ with his torincipal Aid-d ••Camp, i s ir . 3 .• t ,, iii3pecL ilia frontiers. On his way through A conference with Lotiii XVIII. t ;le Minlilltd the works which ire thrown up t ..,„ lit:t .o much :0 fortify that city as to •t tt hom a su.lden data. The castle is already vered by htrorr.! baiteries, and the works on t h e tho to Ale far advanced. Lurd Wel. pro,:cc.,i,d then to Ostend, on his way to Fla Ypres. Cambray, Mons, avid Char. .tween .it ard Bruges he met some Egg with a large trAin of artillery, amma -6,;":, hid' were landed At Ostend, and were t loceediiig by forced marches to Cambray. The Frrncit ate collating in two points. The most nu men its c,srp; i, nett Lille, the other between. Man. bog and VAletirennes. I t i s ipiiserved that the French are endeavouring to 1-c -establish the camp of Jim is', near Valenciennes, a- well as the camp of Celia, near Boucham, they raising nu on the RiountAin of Augni. Th e p u k e ~f Weilington is incessantly busied in c..;A:iising the dilfcrent corps oi• his army, which, ~n mired, will amount to 160,0(X) me•n. The correspondence between the Court of Vienna cl the Ri ig of France is extremely active. THE EVENING sTitt. • 11,0 N 1)ON. TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1815. Sr. MA ax.—Holiday at the Bank. Last night, at a late hour, a Dutch Mail arrived, contents of which, taken along with the Frock ' aim of the King of PAUSSIA to his subjects, laid },fore our Readers yesterday, and the movements of II the Powers win to decide the question of war as ;ow determined. On Wednesday, the 12th inst. was ..blishedat Vienna the following DECIAWATICM 01","/A - BY THE EMPEROR OF Auinti4 AGAINST THE KING OF NAPLES FROM THU VICNRA COURT GAZETTE. a. Ytenn2, Aiirl 12. " After the campaign of 1812, the King of Naple s , •ft the French army in which he had Commanded a .r: s. He had scarcely arrived in his capital, when caused overtures to bc made to the Austrian Court i-,pecting his intention of combining his future politi c ,1 proce:dings with those of the Austrian Cabinet. S'ottly after the campaign of 1813 commenced, on the first appearance of a favourable prospect for Na. }Aeon, King Joachim left Naples, and again took a command in the French army, at the same time he privately proposed to the Atiattian Cabinet his medi ation between the Allies and the French Emperor. The glorious 18th of October decided the tall 9f the French Empire; the King returned to hie donlinimser end immediately renewed the o r guciations that bad been broken off respecting his accession to the Euro ;lan Alliance. He caused his army to advance, and proposed to Muria the partition of Italy. The l'o Tas to be the limit of the two states. Some months c;apsed in coatinued negoeiaticns with the Allies oa in a no less frequent correspondence with the e;:rnmander in Chief of the French Italian \nrinT-- 'ilie Neapolitan army did not side with either party ;:itlier meld count upon it; but neither bad to com bat it. F or A ustr i a th i s state o f th i ngs was the lea ,t do:rime:l:Al. it could direct its chief force against the common enemy. without attending to Italy. " On the 11th of January, 1814 y the Treaty be. tween Naples and Austria was at length signed. yet the N:apolitan army remained long inactive, under tae pretext that the indications were cot yet az e!langtci. Written proofs which fell into the hands of the Allies left no doubt that the King's secret con rections with the enemy still continued. They shewed chiefly hi; intentions of decoying the French Empe ror, respecting the accession of the King to the Al liance of the powers which had already taken place. The victories obtained in France itself decided the ate of the King. Paris was in the hands of the allies, and the Neapolitan army began its campaign ;—the aivention of the I lilt of April, 1814, had ended the W ar again* Napoleon ; the negociatioes at Paris Led the reciprocal relations between France and its I .lte enemies ; all the armies began their retreat ; the Neapolitans retired into the Papal Marches, to which tlic King pretended by the treaty of the 11th April. (S!‘nuld this be January 11 ?) Therelations between all the powers to be fixed at the Congress at Vienna. The branci.es of the House of Euurbon . declared I•inst the recognition of King JOACININ / the situa edit of tly latter etas yet MuclAhange a by the retarq of the ancient Royal Family to the thrones of France and Npain. An equitable policy could not but pre scribe to hint to limit his future views solely to the reclaiming one of the finest kingdoms in the' world, and wholly to renounce all conquests, and the more since conquests could not be made but at the expense of a neighbour, who in a military point of view was wholly inoffensive, and in a political point of view of the highest importance. Moderation and good faith are words without meaning in the eyes of the Princes , of the new French dynasty. King Joachim, however, instead of thinking on maintaining himself, formed in silence extensive projects for the future. He pre pared the execution of them by taking advantage of all the elements of a political and military revolution: none of his plans nor of his movements escaped the Austrian Cabinet. This was not the way to bring over to his side the opinion of the Courts who opposed the admission of the King of Naples to a place among the Sovereigns of Europe. As the burden of the military exertions was too great for the kingdom to bear, the King resolved to take more decisive steps. In the course of the month of February he ex pressed his design of sending an army to France, for which end he required nothing less than the passage through Middle and Upper Italy. Such a strange proposal was rejected with a suitable reproof. 44 O.* the 25th and 26th of February, 1815, his Imperial Majesty sent declarations to the French and Neapolitan Governments, announcing his irrevocable det.:rmination never to allow the tranquillity of Middle aitd Upper Italy to be endangered by the marching in or passage of foreign troops. His Im perial Majesty gave orders for the march of a large reinforcement of troops to his Italian dominions, to supeort his declaration ; this declaration of Austria was answered ou the part of France with the assurance :I!itt the King had no such intention. King Joachim kept his declaration back ; the discovery of his real' views was not yet come. On the sth of March, the news of Nap:denies escape arrived at Naples. The King immediately sent for his Imperial Majesty's Ambassador, and declared to him that he was and should still remain inviolably faithful to the system of the alliance ; he renewed the same declarations to the Cabinets of Austria and England, at the same time he sent his Aide-de-Camp, Count de Beaufremont, to FranCe, with the commission to look for Bona parte, and to assure him of his support. Scarcely was the news of Napoleon's entry into Lyons received at Naples, when the King formally declared to the Court of Rome — ' That &considered the cause of Naito leon as hit own, and would now prove to him that it had never been foreign to him.' He required at the same time a passage through the Roman states for two of his divisions, which, however, fir from acting in an hostile manner, should nut disturb the Holy Father in his capital ; the Pope protested against this viola tion of his unitary, asii whey it took.plaras.l4ll4- ness left Rome and repaired to Florence. 44 On the Bth of April the Neapolitan Plenipoten- I tiaries at Vienna delivered a Note to the Cabinet, which, with assurances of the mod friendly sentiments of their master, and of his unalterable wish never to separate from Austria, announced that his Majesty saw himself forced, by the altered state of things, and for his own safety, and in agreement with the military measures which all the Powers thought it necessary in take, to give likewise to his military force a greater developement. This developement should however be within the line of demarkation which was fixed for the Neapolitan army, by the armistice of 1813. Meanwhile the Neapolitan army, without any fur ther declaration, began on the 30th of March, hosti lities against the Austrian posts in the Uganons. •, His Majesty the Emperor and King, confiding is the perfect justice of his cause, and relying on the valour of his army, on the tried loyalty of his people, , and in his immediate communication with all the Powers in Europe, has caused it to be signified to the Neapolitan Government, by an official note, dated the 10th instant, that his Imperial Majesty con siders the state of war between the two States as begun, and leaves the farther decision to the force of his arms." From the particulars stated in the Declaration of FRANCIS it is impossible to deny that, whatever causes of complaint Mona? may have had against the Allies, or any of them, for their slowness in ac knowledging his Sovereignty, his conduct has fur. dished at least equal cause for complaint to • the Al lies, and more particularly to Austria. It is certainly reident that the K u of NAPLIS has been guilty of Much duplicity ; nor were the Allies, as it now ap. pears ignorant of his proceedings : and with such knowledge k would have been strange had they bear hasty to meet his wishes, and thus to extend his means for perpetrating evil. From the moment it was known that he had notified to the Court of Rome, "That ht considereel the awe of NAPOLEON al his owe, and tosuld now prove to him that it had never ken fortify; to him," it beehive impossible that the Allies could place any faith in his professions of attachment to die common cause. We have given in the preceding column sow other extracts from the Papers brought by the Dinah Mail. We have also inserted some extracts from the Ist and 2d Numbers of a new Paper entitled the Journal Universe!, published at Ghent under the au thority of Louts XVIII. The rime Papers inform us, that the Kino has with him three of his Ministers, be Duke of FEAT!, Count BLACAS, and Count stiu- COURT. :His Majesty lately called to his councils Count LALLEY TOLLENDAC, and M. de CHATEAU- IiftIAND. The Dukes of RAGUSA and BELLEW, a►e also at Ghertt. The Kreo's health is quite re-esta bl:shed. Part of the household troops are at Alobr, under the Duke of Brm. No Paris Papers arrived either yesterday or to-day, tun come private letters have reached town, which concur in stating that the French metropolis never displayed more gaiety than at present. Various re. ports are circulated. respecting the Constitution which has been promised to France as the result of the cx. petted Champ de Mai. If we may credit the reports circulated, the Republican party will be gratified by the adoption of some name for the head of the government less offensive to them than that of either Emperor or King. At ail events the Sovereignty is to be limited. It is said that when BONAPARTE entered Paris and saw CAN NOT, who was the first person he sent for, he ad dressed him thus t... 46 You are the only man who told me the truth before my reverses."— ,, Sire," rep Ned CA.RNOT, " do you wish I should continue to speak the truth ?"..46 I require Well, Sire, France 'will and mutt have a free Constitution." — " I will give k to her : I am determined she shall have it."— Such is the dialogue which is said to have passed be tween these two extraordinary men ; the one a repub lican, who never unbent the rigidity of his principles, and the other a man who, after having rioted in the fullness of arbitrary power, and brought even Mo narchs and nations to obey his mandates, now art. fully professes to strip himself of his restored autho rity, to revive and consolidate the rights and liberties of bis people, of which his whole political life proves him to be the greatest enemy. It will be seen from the proceedings ip the House of Peers last night that, as we stated on a former oc casion, the copy of the Treaty of Vienna, of the 25th ultimo, which has appeared, is substantially in correct only in the clause threatening the adhe rents and supporters of BONAPARTS with exemplary vengeance. The Alien Bill again came on in the House of Commons, and the Report will be brought up this day. We are rather surprised that any objections should have been urged against this Bill. Those who do so would be the first to complain should the pub lic suffer any evil from the great influx of foreigners. If Ministers shall abuse the power committed to them they are responsible, but to make them answeubJe for the public safety without arming them with proper power would be unreasonable. '2l ra :;; to i' • SPORTING INT ELLIGENCP. NEWMARKET FIRS I' SPRING MEETING, 1315. M(NDAY, APRIL 21. Me...Dundas's Piranuts, est. heat Lord Foley's Scapewol, Art. 41h. T.Y.C. 100gs.-6 to S on Pyramoc. Capricorn, Met. heat the Duke of Rutland'. Kii tus.ilf, ust. I 21b. sOgs.-0 to 4 astir C.yricorii. Mr. Ihlny's . Emily, est. 31 0 .5. beat Lord G. H. Cavendish's Cat, 12:t. 7th. R.M. 2titigs. h. ft.-2 to lon Emily. Ile Gipping Stalvsof 200 gs. each, h. ft. sst.7lb. each. R.M. Mr. Andrew's colt Garus, by Hambletoniati 1 Mr. Thornhill's colt Anticipation, by Hambletonlan 2 Lord Foley's colt, by Quiz, out of sister to Chi r p en h am 3 Lord G. H. Cavendish's cult, by Waxy, out of Lily 4 Sir J. Shelley's filly, by Sorcerer or Waxy Sir J. Shelley's filly, by Walton, out of Fanny Four paid torfeit-7 to 4 agst Giros-5 to 1 agst Anticipation -2 to I agst Lord G. H. Cavendish's colt, by Waxy. Lord Jersey's Cannon Ball, Bsr. 71b. beat Mr. Dundas's Libe rator, fist. A.F. 104 gs.-2 to I on Cannon Ball. The King's Plate of loOgs. for glares, 3-yr• olds, Ast. 41b. 4 -yr olds, 9st. 41b. 5-yr-olds, Vet. 101 b. ti-yr•olds and aged, lost.— Last three miles of B.C. Duke of Grafton's br. filly Wire, 3-yr-old 1 Lord G. H. Cavendish's bl m. Cat, 5-yr-old • 2 Mr. Wyndham's br. filly Mermaid, 5-yr-old - - 3 Mr. Blake's bay filly Alma, S•yr-old 4 to I oo Wire. .. 4 WONDERFUL EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING—The Leeds Rockingham Coach, that left Snow hill on Friday morning, at eight o'clock, was at Newark-upon. Trent, by eight o'clock the same night-126 miles front London ! A duel has been fought at Brussels between the Hon. Mr. CAPEL and Baron TRIPP, but without in jury to either party. Mr. WATERS, of the Opera-House, has very libe rally consented to allow the use of that Theatre for a Benefit to the Caledonian Asylum. heat.—This day the•LORD MAYOR ordered the price to be reduced one halfpenny in the quarter!) loaf. ' As soon as the Marshal of the King's B:nch Prison received authentic information that the room in which Lord COCHRANE had been confined since his appre hension was dangerous to his health, he had the Noble riiird removed to a more commodious apartment. The report of the BONAPARTE having seized the Duke of WELLINGTON'S plate is quite erroneous. It lies been' brought to England. It has been statpd in a Sunday Paper, and since 'mentioned in other prints, that M. BLACAS I on the 16th of March, sent for M. le Faro, the principal partner in the house of PERREGAUX and Co. and pro cured from him bills on London for one million ster ling, and gave him drafts on the Bank of Paris for the money ; but the money was stopped by the vigi 'lance of M. de la BORDA ; in consequence of uhich M. Crottisiolit, another partner in the firm of P - ERIIE- Gma, hurried over to 'England, and fortunately pit:- Tensed the acceptance of tie bills. We this forenoon received Halifax Papers to the (213th. t They 'do not contain any news of moment. ItiAr . cniral Gown's' e was daily expected to sail I i fromiliat pan for Bermuda, and immediately on his arrival it, that island, Admiral Sir A. COCHRANE: was to prokir le to England in his Majesty's ship TON- N RIM PoMoNP., from Bermuda, and the COS SACK, had arrived at Halifax, from' a cruizu, with the Tl4se schooner in tow—a recapture, on her way to an Miriam port. ' SECOND EDITION. STAR-OF FICE, THREE O'CLOCK. Paris Pipers of Friday and Saturday last have just arrived. The Emperor visited the Theatre Fran. iis on Thursday evening. and was received on lt:s entree, (according to the Moniteur) with the most en. thushistic matlcc of apero!latinn, which vele re peated on his retiring, at . the end 4 the fi 1 11 Act. By a Decree of the 2 ):11 Aptil, M. B. CONSTANT is appointed Councillor of St ite for the Interior; and M. GRAMMONT, Mayor of Bourde. ux. The minor French Journals contain a Proclama. tion by MURAT to the Italians, in which he prow:•es them national independence, and cl ums all Italy as the reward of his services. COURIER EXTRAORDINARY, FRU/ ty :•101VING. There have arrived at Metz, 1, ur S Yon Hussars, mounted, as deserters. Som Bay aim, d h .erters. .:ve also come to the French advanced r osts, re) ing o:f their but►cns, and crying " Vive I' !" Prince BEE TIIIER is not at Vienna : hr was a 13-rrn. berg, and expected passports to return to France. COURIER EXTRAORDINARY, S. TURDA MORN'' G. Six battalions of tirailleurs are aboui to be formed, and six of voltigeurs of the young guard, nud three of the old. The German Papers announce that the mother and sister of me Emperor have been arrested in It ly, a! d shut up in a fortress. This conduct forms a striking contrast with the orders of his Majesty to permit the Duke d'Angouleme hell) , to quit France. The state of siege, in which Lyoas was, is raised. The Journals of Stockholm of the 31st March an nounce that great military preparations are going cm in Sweden, which have for their object the preserva tion of general peace. [PROM THE JOURNAL DE PARIc.] • Marshals Nay, Souk, Lefebvre, and Serrutier;_are daily with the Emperor. An Officer who has'artived with dispatches from the King of Naples to the Emperor states, that the cry throughout all Italy is, where are the Frencl•, why do they not come ? The French Funds have fallen to 57. 71LA 4A Air. Yesterday the Duke Of YORK transacted milituy business with the PRINCE REGENT, and al tervrads went to his Office in the Horse Guards, and 1;eld a tary Levee. Among those resent' weri! Lietufrn tot- Generals HART, HUOONAE, and GANIMEL ; M in-- Generals Sir W. PONSONST, DARLEY, and CAMERON ; the Marquis of WORCESTER, Sirs Jun Bnows and • JOHN CAMPBELL, Genera GA writ, and neat 3) ()tilers. The Foot Guards are to he comma:l, 4 M by Major. Generals Cloxr, BYNG, and MAITLAIVD. I JEAd quar ters at Otte.s.natd, by the last letters. The Earl of DALIIOISIF., Sir TIIoMAS PICTON. and Sir LOWRY COLE are cm r i..a s stime o ) l.ir commands, as Lieutenant C-nt:ralr, under the A) u Wur,lNG.Enx. FXSRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN 6F1'.11611 1N T:l6 .BEITISII ARMY, DATED ANTWERP, APRIL '2O. 66 The Duke of Wat.triarom formally assumed the command of the Grand Belgian Army on the 11th. The advanced corps of the Russians are ex. pected on the 15th of M.iy on the Rhine, and it is the general opinion in the army, that until the Cos sacks come up in a considerable body, no grand movement in advance will be mode. Great reliance is, of course, laid en the impression mule by these Gentlemen in France llst year. “ The B: itish force in Bclgium does not at present exceed 3250 cavalry, :?0,100 infantry, and 2500 artil lery. Tne Gelman and 1-I moverian troops in our pay, all of whom are brave and ttust.worthy to a proverb, amount to 3600 cavalry, 11,500 infantry : total amount, 6350 cavalry, 37,400 infantry and ar tillery. Besides these, the Dutzli troops, who are in a high state of discipline, and who are animated with a proper degree of hatred Against the French, what ever may be s lid to the contrary, are 10,000 in num ber, and the Belgians 'amount to 10,000 more. •4 All these united forces occupy a line of frontier posts running from Ostend through Fumes, Roes brugg, Poperhinge, Ypres, Messine, Menin, Cour tray, Tournay, Atli, and Mons. Brussels, Ghent, and Antwerp form our rear support, and contain our depots and reserves. On the lett we are flanked by 80,000 Prussians, whose head-quarters are at Liege and Namur. 41 The advance cavalry patroles daily see those of the enemy, and they have already had an engage. ment. The Germans behaved nobly, and cut down a few of the Vive Napoleon gentry :ant phrase. Ant werp is the head-quarters of th.i 7th division of the army : it consists of the 25th, 37th, and 81st regi ments, besides 5000 Hanovtrians." The surviving Officers of the Second Brttalion 59th Regiment, who were, present at the storming San Sebastian, have lately presented Captain FULLER, of that regiment, a valuable Sword, in testirthiny of • the hi .1i opinion they entertain of his pliant con duct on that occasion, wbefilw succeeded to the com mand of the regiment almOst immediately on their quitting the trenches, and maintained it in tinc most distinguished manner during the whole of the assault, and until the next morning, uhen he was I elii-ved by Major (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Horaill. who had just arrived from England. -Captain commanding the regimait ani setting a most bril liant example to those under him, . escaped unhurt. The 59th Regiment lost 'A/ officers And 338 rank and file during the assault. Ca pt:iin Ftn.Ltit has since been twice wounded, but is sufficiently recovered to accom pany his (the Grenadier) company on service, tor which they are now under orders. Tile letters from Antwerp mention that the garri son of that city was no longer to be composed British troops, their services being requirod on the more ac:ive theatre of the war ; and notice bad been given that 12,000 Hanoverians were aiproaching that fortress, to whose gallantry its protection was to be confided. • U , c