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• n front, and in the road front Bincb to Haguenau, which latter turns it, and *mold make it appear ! n• :en connected with the movement of Gen: Walmo e.• 11 trona tainterberg, to be slam untenable. The forest — of Haguenau is three leagues long and fen leagues wide; and therefore a formidable Obstacle; •.!••til a sufficient number of troops can be collected to ,vc upon all the roads tbroUgh and round it. General Rapp commands the force opposed to us, I nd is said to have 18 battalions, three r e gi ment! of c avalry, and a proportionate artillery. (Signed) Geo. Itannsson, Li•nt.-Gen. Lord Stewarv&e. are. &e. Siumatil, Jane 27, & My Loan—The advanced guard of his Royal lii:•nness the Prince Royal Of Wirtemberg has just ttlied this place, having skirmished with the enemy !root l i .guenau. Between Raguenau and the place where this is dated, two squadrons of the chasseurs de Louis made a brilliant charge against a French re eiment, which they overthrew and dispersed, taking m iry prisoners, and having killed and wounded se: seta'. At Haguenau we were saluted with, the cry of " Vivo le Roi," and they hoisted the white flag. ' (Signed) Gao. Jinni:toot:, Lieut. Col. Lieut: den. Lord Stewart, &e. See. ate:.. . Haeuettaa,lupe Tee titled, P.M. Mt LORD—The short time allowed me for report ing to your Lordship the operations of .this day, pie: rented me froin detailing twyciur leifdship at large, t h e movements of the different dielsogiept the eespit o f his Royal fliihness-the trineeltoial of Wlet em , berg. ft I ha thenbeen informed 'Of the move ments the left division . Of this corps,,under Gene. •al Walmoden, 1 should have stated. to your Lord chip, that be moved yisteiday morning from tauter. beurg, on the road to Fort Louis, to turn the forest Haguenau, where it was evident the enemy would odeavour to arrest our progress as long as he possi bly could. On the arrival of General Walmoden at Seitz, he rossessed himself of that village after a trifling skir mish, but had hardly secured himself in it, when the enemy made a vigorous auack upon his position, and ende.ivoured to retake it; he however maintained himself against a great superiority of force, but not withrut suffering considerably, having had about five hundred men killed and wounded. Tne enemy retired from before the position of Genell Walmoden during the night, and be is' dou.!'.:is this earning at Donsenheim, and his ad vanced posts most probably at Gambaheim, which would place theM on a line with ours at Brumahl. The movements of his Royal Highness the Prince Royal of Wirtemberg Nave been hitherto made upon the supposition, that Prince Wrede was moving a %gum to intercept the retreat of General Rapp, and :envoi him to threw his corps into 'Strasburg, it king impossible that he should continue his retreat ,pot, Colmar, 'where the Pitied, Hohenzollern ought .o arrive tO-ttiyi kn.* sprats,. however, that no column is moving upon the rtiad from ,Saverne to , molest the retreat Of General Ups . but that Prince Wade is direetitigthe atoift6.of4iiisibede corps upon Nancy, where it is presumed* tea Velee on the zeroing of the 29th. - His Royal - Hight:4es eisrpe iristrei so concentrated,. Ind the enemy appear to he4o a 0411 1 ,4 is the gal ant and well-thie,zeel) *lir Of tavaty,:this - 44;. - diat should itnagyte the. Would itoftlsinlz of opposing: is in our en&eavotir to east:Straslmorgtcmocierow .; tad it is 'worth* -of .remark , OA his .itoyal:Highnisr eal then have otearoplishkd that important object tyro days earlier' din was espeeted. Never did I see soaps animated with better spirit, or more - ably dkccittit than the lad sinntld, any impOrtant t occasion seim-:foe; growat exertions, we very justly entertain the room ealeglsine expecta tions of their oversonting wh*tever &made may be opposed to them. . CSiii9odt ie Gamma Juan/sox, • tart.-Col. Lieutenant General Lord Stewart, &e. he. Vendesibeisis, hair a My Loot —Mylettor of the Eth will have rotor• tned your. Lordship. bnw vignrotisly his Royal High • nets the Prince Royal of Wirtembett was punting the corps of General Rapp. and you will, doubtless, hat supposed that his Royal Highness would no. suffer him to place his carps in a position which rould for a moment delay the important object of I,l' adding Strasbourg. and thereby ascertaining whether General Rapp intended to enter that fortress, or cnutinue his retreat. On the arrival of Ms Royal Highness's &Ups at I !Etc place, General Rapp .was tound occupying a positunt with his left upon the villages and heights of ' 1 ,- unberilitiim, and btendenheim, and his right arra (Plante on the Rhine—this front being covered by a small rivulet with cavalry and artillery cold pass coly at the village of Lambertheim and Scrdwegen• berm, and by a bridge un the Chanute. On _t u se points, therefore, his Royal Highness directed hii airCkll, having his cavalry close up, to fall upon the tiu my, when he shueld be driven front the village*, al.' he also sent s strong column of cavalry red id« Pantry to idlll Sim left of thy enemy* positionb andri fir threatening to pods him inns the ftnneeti entnite him to ehandon.that insportanepoint. of his position; if his object was still further retreat. . • The enemy nude § u it. was natural to suppose tf'ey would, an obstinate stand at all these posets, and kept up a most destructive fire of musketry had t~tiilery ; but nothing could withstand the bruvery of the troops comprising this corps, and. without one check, they stormed tie enemy's position, when the " 7 .dry, which was closkep, passed at a gallop the , bridge of the Chaussle, and toot five pieces of French horse artillery, aid% their caissons. and several prise. rsi and periled the enemy instil she guns of the: rortress were fired upon theft. It would indeed be d‘liteek to saywhich one ought vraise most, the Aestriasta, Wirtembergers. or :lesions; toe they seemed td tie with each other ht pi ItitT .01nseeenscnt and eentage in attack. • fine nieletnentlf thfougboat the whole day were, - narked with a eneleitai sad.reesisina which most an. 'ire success, add 'lltaitask was as &desirably Jae. :lite,' as ahll planiteW ,„ - The diviu n ulGetteraavem o W a tmnden took no. part 'n the action, for thee 'mild Not debourtheoatitke I they were matching, °Pr as thief were trf 74 ; 1 -known position which 'dewy . ocCitiAtd••.be- , 11, veil the 11l and tkellbine. • Thus the sartierity of hip Royal. Highoen's corps • -•.• • • • ..• • was not so great, and the advantage they have gained, therefore:l;s:4 creditable to them. Whit •• era RiPP's s; it is indeed dif „ ficult to geesl I certain air It'hi that he Owed the pre sent existence of his corps tiithe'protection the for trail afforded him. It knot quite ascertained what route he hal l taken, and as soon atl belay any atcount of his movements which can lie[ depended Upon, I "hall again have the honour Of addiessing your Lord. dlip . . We discontinued the pursuit at . Oberhansbergen for the more important object of investing the fortress. I have the honour to be, atm (Signed) Geo. JENKINSON • Lieut..Crd. and Car: R. H. Artillery. To Lieittenatitten e ra Lord Stewart, K.B. &cake. Ste. Chateau Sallee% June Sr . , ISIS. Mr Loeo—l have the honour to acquaint your Loidship, that the advance of the army under the command of Field Marshal Prince Wrede having yesterday arrived in the vicinity of Nancy, a depata tion from the town came forward to them, to assure the General commanding, of the good dispositiOn of the inhabitants in general towards the Allied troops. and that they were only desirous to know at what pe. rinds the Cenimander in Chief would arrive, in order that they might he [ prepared to give him and the troops the most fav oura bl e reception. Several mounted, national guards, .wearing the' white cockade, attended the deputation, and the Mayor has issued 'a * Proctamition to die inhabitants, to Maintain order and trangLirlity. • The small puttee Or troops, which have been "abed through the town, were received withh[cries 'el 91 Vivent les Bourbool!" Vivent lei Allies !" A courier with the snail from Paris of the 234 his been taken near t hi s p l ate — many o f t h e letters. [describe the discomfiture ef the French army on the . 18th to have been unprecedented. One 'letter he particular (extremely well written,) from Rheinsti o. 'states several remnants of regiment*, of all arrot.:to have marched from the field of battle to 'hit plate; in little more than two dais or two days and a half. The army under Prince Wrede will march to. morrowand occupy Nancy and Luneville, leaving corps in Observation in the direction of Phalsboorg, Blamont and St. Diez; one division between Nancy and Tool, and other corps to observe Metz. The head-quarters are to be at Nancy, and the army will halt where it will be posted to-morrow. • I have the honour to be, kc. (Signed) A. UPTON, Br. Gen. Lieutenant-General Lod Stewart, Ste . ate. 84e. - , Imperial Heed.Qtnireerr, Saareboure, July 3. MY Lenn—The head-quarters of the Sovereigns and the Prince Field Marshal wised yesterday at ibis place ; the necessity of the close intestment of Pfalzbourg, which is on the great road trom Stees. ,bourg to Paris, and the march thronglithe defile.and passage of the Vosges with - se large a part of the army, and nearly all the artillery, mad* the ender. taking of yesterday almost Hrteulesn ; the guns and carriages were sltrwn up, by patties of sOldiersi. rocky steeps.. clutiippenee4 Inaccessible s the road awl been made re the 'spate of some few hosts, to rags id the fora:2: *SW to shorten the march.; but the difficulties lacsigreat; • added to the- interim heat of the weather,. to get- hat -trelot"Mid guns thiough, and dellrield.Matilisklyat bond -hinsselt - under the necessity-of , • • The accounts from Field ' "Ace Wrede, 'state his belief' cl'having low corps of the. ecstasy on his felt, or in the direction of Itt. Diener Binyeres. The Marshal has received, di eatigps from. Prince. Schwartzenburg, in consequettce Of..ttie joint request of the Duke of .Wellingtoo a rid Marsha Blucher, to , advance rapidly. • It appears the Authorities attlatiel request Prince Wrede to maintain order in the town. • General Csernichef fill in with a, the enemy; on the left of the Moselle, between and Longvion, consisting of between two and: gyre thousand men,. one squadron of cuirassiers,. and. artillery,. which, he attacked and drove back mei . Metz.—The Aohduke Ferdinged pushed forvrar4 to Iterniremont. to operate on the lank and rear of La Courbe, if he should remain near lielfort. It is reported that Rapp's cavalry from StiatbOorg with two regiments of infantry, are eadeavoering to 'make 'their way to La Cottrbe. The Commandant of Ton! has -refined to enerender the place ; that of Mateo& imam sortie with $OO men, but was driven back with Lose. The communication is c established be tween the Prince Royal of urtemberg and the Archduke Ferdinand. The desertion out of Strasbourg ii very great. The armies will continue their movements forsvard as rapidly as possible between the Seine and the Marne. The - Bavarian artily will be directed from .Nancy on Vetry, Les Franeves, and Fere Champenoise. The Russian army follows in two columns; the right ; i on Chateau Salines, by Pont a Mousson, St. Michael, Chalons and Epernai, The left and the head guar. bf the Sovereigns, by Ligny, Sc. Disier, Vetry, anti Moninsiral. 'The Austrian,en left wing of the army operate also two.columns. The first corps d'armre support 'be RAl4oall left, sod follows.La Courbe from &fiat tortoni Langres and Chaumont, or whatever direc tion he may take. . • The 2d corps, as.yoor ',lordship already knows, continues its operations in the Vallee du Rhin, and blockades Strasbourg. The Sd corps, being relieved thete, Marches by Mota'g, blirecourt, Juinrille, Vitry, and on Fere Champenoise. The reserve from Colirlat direels it .4eif on St. Dies and unites with the bd corps, taking rare pt the blockades of Schlettstadt and St. Maurice :Aux Mines. General Minnassy commands the looked. of Huuiniagen and &fort t General Count Maher& Nets Breysaeh ; and Count Stubbmayer, " chlettstadt. Dear I may intrude on your Loedsbip i s time by a repetition of detail.; but to point opt the marches clearly, it is accessary continually to revert to the scions of Ilse main corps. Your - Lordship will isbierve, that - by the seperation of La Courbe and app, and the possible drt4Clittsenti that either may have made, as also the uacettainty of Suehet's line of tetrat, tdgether with the number of strong places irhave.to blockikle, we oballhe liable to have small erns and detachments of 'sipf,yomoy, starting up. in Arent quartets ; they may f even gain partial suc• l in our-leer y 461.6465 t remotion have been! '•' . • * • • :41•1 j s • ~' . tscbm of taken lay the Prince Field-Marshal, consistent with our Seale of Aperatlons, and • nothing essential cab saki the great Movement: . The armies wilt issernbled reiiithintipenois! en the 14th.—I have the honour to be, fkk . .. (Signed STRWAR i'; Tae Vaccine Casttereagh, KG. &c. &c &c. P.S. Intelligence has just arrived, that the Arch duke Ferdinand, in investing Neuhrtisath, had 4 sharp action. The tillage of Wiekelsheim wit strongly men/sled by the enerriy, but they were driven out by the Austrian regiment of Wurtemberg. The Archduke's advance was to be at St. Marceau: Mines, the Ist July, on which day the investment ef Schlettstadt was to tike place. Count CoBored() had :another sharp action on the 29th, in the neighbour hood of Befort. In consequence of die nature of the ground. the opposition was great, but the Austrian loss is trifling. S. teipertai Head Quarters, Never, lely 6. Mt LORD—The Allied Armies of Austria and Russia continue their advance towards the capital of France ' • there have been m a ny -sh ar p acti-es with Generals Lacourbe and Rapp. as also on the side of Marshal Suchet with General Frimont ,- these if shall endeavour shortly to detail, and your Lordship will perceive, by the vigour and intrepidity with which the detached corps of these armies, and the Austrian army of Italy have handled the enemy, that oppor-, tunity is only wanting for them to emulate the great example of the 18th of June, which will live in the 'memory of these great military nations for ever. "re commence with the progress of the advance, Marshal Wrede, instead of blockading 'Pout, threw bridges over:the Moselle at Ch snelleray, and on the '2d bad his headquarters at Ligny. The Comman ders both of Toul and Merman refused OA being suns mined, to surrender those placei. The Field Marshal has taken measures to invest them ; but from these impediments on the great line of road to our advance, and the Corps Francs, which are in movement in different quarters in our rear, and have attacked baggage. &c. Ste. with success, the march has been slower, and the communications more •difEcult ; however, by military measures which have been adopted here, the lines of communications with dull-ear will be better secured, and some Colonnes Mobiles will be formed, to clear the different pains of the Vosges, and the great forests and close country. General Barclay de Tnlly followed Prince Wrede through Nancy, and is this day at Pont a :Musson. • 'Generals Lambert and: Kortf's cavalry occupy the country, and patrole towards Verdun, Clermont.' Dunn, and Moutmedy, &c. General Czernichelf was no the 29sh in Rlteitni, and pushed forward on the 23 to Chalons; at this place he has had a very brilliant ae.ir.. It appears . according to the best i n f ormat i on I can procure . that .be sent un about one hundred hone. as an. advance, under Colonel NistetZ. They charger) into the town, when the guard at the pate assembling, and seeing, they had been An trit-Cd, and forced, immediately shut it, and gave the alarm. Tire advance who had pc e/Dated, made stood their retreat • by dashing for ward. to the Pa t L, ga re, at iheitsthef ixtrenalty. Gene , tan Caernichetf, seeing -.his advance • committed, • bronght Op cannon, and•dismenthted. reme•Bavarian light horse. battered dawn the nes and forced an, )opettill into tl.e place.- .His ;psalm coining then in, at a garwp,• clear ed. •IdnyL ixteeti. slat attackit the .frentr,•-.intintry. as , enrbling . "ilt dhrerent allnartert, kenmp theta...ted4thiseeaY,able zart 00101! Seas hoisba .by 'hops*, pE dred ;dainty. one Geneial, itigaud, and other o. cars, six pieces, of watery, and the town of Chalon. Tbe Arelidakie • Ferdmsed, • reports, 'that. tie • has foutick it'occessary the *hole Abstrien sion Macanchelly White Schlettstadt, the enemy having rgarrisorkof six thousand men i his Imperial Highness's headquarters were the Sd at St. Dies, from which he airports, that Marshal Collotedo car. vied the town and citadel Montbeillard by assault .on the 2d instant • *ea mins and a considerabl e qumstity of* sines iota be** fotuud in the plank ; the ; number of prisoners liras great, and they ars !eryttsipag ern, houn, The isdranee guard _ part of Lacourbe's corps, cansittingaf about man,;oa the 27th, and 'drove them before them to i ttunnemerie.; the -Austrian lose is seven officers mad; some • hundred Mem The etela7 asselnbka 9 11 the night' or ilia • 28th 8411 X) infantry and s(*) cavalry near thevenneb ; theg were driven with she belionet, tbrouph that Olace, with littlet•foss Oft our side. • ' 1 Gefeeral &heatther carried the strong forti64 01). , sition near Motitheillard, which: .the tomb with; greet intrepidity, retook. hlarshal Count cnnareas. atTranreed, '&004 ; Seheider during the night, and the position-was again attacked, and again Cattied, Ott the 30Ph. On the Ist of July, Marshal Count dofloltdo'r corps advanced in three columns towards mont, Besencourt. and Roppe t the two former places; were carried by assault. The enemy had placed some guns and cavalry and infantry, on the heights 61 Beaumont, which were soon dislodged s it is esti mated that Lacombe had with him shoot 4000:men in these affairs, in addition to his corps, •ftent the garrison of Beton. He sent a flag of truce *at the' c.ose of the day of the 24 . requesting an armistice ; the proposition in answer on the side of the Allies was, immediately to surrender &fol.-, General Baron Frimont reports, from,Shene, that on the 28th General Creneville attacked eirouge, : crossing the Arve, near Geneva. The enemy pro., posed an armistice for twenty•fourlinurs, which it stems was accepted, in order to obtain the great ad llantake of the enemy evaCtiatiag the valley of the Arve. On the same-tray Geneva, was occupied, and the enemy. driven from the heights of Savonen with considerable loss. General Count Buhna had passed oh the 2Sth, Mount Cenis, with the greater part of his corps. On the 29t . h the enemy was found in position at tile T.:te de•Punt of Arly, near Conlians, which he occupied with 3000 men : whilst the Sardinian General Dati -1 desaine, with his troops, and the Piedmontese occu 'pied the e nem y on t h e i r r i g h t , G enera l Frank, with the brave Austrian regimeut of Duaas, carried the position, and Tete-du-eont. by, assault. After a most obstinate resistance, the loss in this regiment is lc °Seers and 900 men I the total loss in this affair. wail The Piedmontese suffered considerably, and. behaved with very great valour. General Frank's conduct has been particularly praised. The headjuartera el ihe Sovereigns, and Prince ;. • 1 , otnr - ; ' men ral ; chip, hour, H ode; bly Oc ro wish, ende. hirnst withr htnd Tr Gene dou . Vance wools Till Royal the sts Aunt :env( king %ran I arri colitm molest Weeds Nancy genii His Ind th int at is in sad it two di Nei spirit, any it we vet tions oppoat Lieu' 111 Y used y ness ti the co have suffer could ck, wheth Of CM' On pl positi( Limb pnyan small ohly beim, points art ck tm m 3 ar.• h Elmo by tht him ti if his they s and k artille th e tt !heck malt h lir o i rr : ne if ti 1 :U A L Vf rApitti Tin - narkt rtre rh dart I 7;(11-1 Feld 142rs'Ia1 terisitifnbeig finm ht.iiceto morrow to Voht-1 hive the /Kinn* to be. &e. • • • (Siggedl Lie:A—Gen. The Vhenniit Castirrtsgh. S. &e. P. S. I hatte just tecei•ei irifritruatiori that Cert. Czeriaichelr will .rrive day at MeaUi, wh.te Prince Wrede expects tti establish himself on the 9th instant: Estryit of a big:mu:Pl from his ticeileittbi Ceuta: NO "Alit • cane, K.T. to Viscount Cartscaemtia, &Ind tem Nancy, Ot6 Jr:7, /Nl5. The Emperor of Russia, icebinpaidell by the Ertirtimor of Austria, and the King of Minh (who joined their Imperial Niajestik at Spirits) ); and by Prince Schwartaenberg, hat tnatinued lis mart, to Nancy, at the bead of abudt thirty tkousand Russians, by the ,marches deuliltd id the margin*. The fortress of Shulsburg hi ing in thk enemy's hands, and garrisoned, it was pid g ett expedient to turn it by moving through the valley of •L'lnimt•il sd villages of Pfulteveyer and Zeihrigen to St. .I , an. in other respects, the Russian stlfantrt ha4te ni4de tldny long mortises from Bamberg tti thus place Wight/en 4 halt, the halt at Saarburg being a myna/ for the tue.A. quarters, hot none for the troops, who ‘iere rn eiqi- Rant movement. A column of atliitan ps marched at the same time by Kaiserslautelq Saatbruck, to give detachments for blocking the •.,r -tresses on that line, Meta, Thionville, &c. while the remainder has moved upon Pont a Mousson, the t &Atli of these columns keeping in a line with the head of this.' - The Prince Royal of Wurtemberg has, in theme" time, alter some gallant engagements, driven (;crier Rapp into Strasburg, and will march upon Lui..e. rifle and this place by Ruon d'Etapes and Ilatiiirat o as seen as his corps is renreed by t•.e Austrians. Lord Stewart will detail the movements of the armies of the Archduke Ferdinand, and of General Frimont, and of the Sardinian armies. Some corps of armed peaSsnts and freehooteri have 'established themselves in the woods and mountains which - the army has lately passed, and from whence they have committed depredations and robbery upon persons following the army. To repel these. orders have been gives* to General Wiotzingerode, who is at the head of some divisions of cavalry, to deer the country of these people, and to '-secure the communications in the rear, until the mestablislament of Goveriment. Field Marshal count Barclay de Tay and Gene ral Count Platoff.triet the Emperor at Vic, and the former has marched with the advanced part of this corps. The head-quarters, with the Kuwait uivi s►ons, will pass the M•tsellr x little below 'foul, %etude there is st ford, and the Meuse at Pagpy, and writ:id vaxce to Void. I have the honour to inane a report of the - Nam. pation of Chiffons upon the Marne by Lieutenant Ge neral CoUnt Czernichet with some Cossiicks and a few other light troops, where he took from the enemy sit pieces of ordnance, and he has proceeded to connect himself with Martini Blucher or the Duke of Wellington. ". Prince Wrede has advanced on the great road from Strasburgh. to PAris, and wet at Bt. vizier when last heard of him. • ..-ANIORT OF THE OCCUPATION OF CHALONS a IT OgNEKAI. IcH 7711 P. • glasithi ClBortuebed. at er iyorlog Made several forced marches, /Wed oh the 13th July before Chaktos•aur-Merne and I* karat that tber had a garrine there eompoeed :he lAt 'gi me,* of mammy of theline, +nd .is pieces of cannnn, under in. orders of Rl4tsud, Genital Q 1 Lhvi•jun, be determined to mate ah 111111314ite attack by three . nt t 7ates I lie enemy do.. iiodid tined with Ora' bac was obliged to Meld to the bravery*" the troopehatmegkei by (Anent citereichelr. Ile teething elm by uthealg.B2 %tett as the Suet were tossed. All the garrisons takklbll,Cipmthel, aware made peloonors. b June 27, to Spins lithiti, to It hduhabetrt ; June MP, to Welisgoburs ; fun 1112, te Idmegiar • i filly t, to •-avern ; Jetty 2, to Sastbolux; Shy fir IsOnsili iity 4, to Vicki July s,-to Nam?. We no, receive Paris Papaw. daily ; those of Wednesday are now before . eik.bet they add little to oar information respecting what passing. at Paris.—The French Papers contain two distinct fizzrespecting BONANAATi The _Jriernq e, d . which is generally accurate in its inseiligentes states simply that 44 15011/4AIITI has been arrested." L—i• The dame di Fria& gibes a part of i letter from nee of his attendants. dated at Rochefort on the 7th, in Aka the writer says, u we sail in half an hour ;" L and desires his friends to write to him is• New York. A third report (but not countenanced by the Pari s Papers) giviss out that BONAPARTIR has joined the rebekerany on the Luke, and adds that his 44 cies rates Rata sworn not to lay down their arms until they secure a guarantee for their,mister, and a apltn. did allowing - for him during the remsinder ni his life."-6.72ie gtsat length of the Gazette obliges us to be ,brief ting the contents of the Paris Paperi but this le the las necessary as we have' given ample Retracts of every think woktby of the least notice. • We tindaatand that many forcible memoriA7l have been presented te the Patna RZOINT by mili tary Men of high rank and experience, recommend. ing the immediate destruction of all the French for tresses on the tide of Flanders, as the best. sad indeed the only permanent security for the fat are tranquillity of Europe. We sincerely hope, there. fore, tel hear that the Allies have rated to the ground the fortifications of Valenciennes, Lille, Cambray, and every other spot capable of harbouring any French military marauders on the side of Belgium in future. Without this ♦igorous measure the Ne therlands never tan be safe. _ According to recent accounts from Paris, JEROME BoM APA ET ell chateau, which stands in the English lines on the road to St. Denis, has been completely. sacked, and suffered as it did last year. The new furniture that had been put into it, mirrors, chande hers. Ottoman sofas, etc. are in pieces. The house had been loop-holed, and the windows blocked up for a defence. De IA sect. Aoctotur.-k-A tratiendous esplosion toot plate last night to the boomer Lush* Law, a foreigner, and firework nisker, resident in Wilite s s-street,bpitaNields, which wholircle. stroyed Me house, together wkb four others adjoining, and shat tered the windows of about a hundred more in the neighbour hood. The °tight of the aticideot cannot be discovered, a. all the uthsbinnts of the boom were killed. Only five persona have yet bean ascertained to have fallen victims to the explosion, but n i. coujectured that double the *umber baviscomo to their daub ta the house. • P