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r GBRlfidiN PAPERS. TWENTY-EIGHTH BULLETIN OF THE CROWN PRINCE. " Flead•cparters, Lubeck, December 6, 3813. dg General Bulow, with his troops, has cieriecrby assault the fortress of Arnheim, a place of the great est importance for the defence of Holland. It had a garrison of 4000 men ; the works were in a very good state, and mostly armed. On this occasion the Prus sians gave a new proof of the intrepidity which cha. racterises them. The loss of General Bulow, in killed and wonnded. was 300 men ; that of • the enemy must have been considerable. Some hundreds of pri soners were taken. " Major Marklay, with a detachment forming part of the advanced guard of General Winzingerode, en tered Amsterdam on the 24th of November, amidst the acclamations of the inhabitants. He was followed by General Benkendorff. " On the 27th of November, General Gagarin, with 300 dismounted_ Cossacks, attacked the garri l son of Deventer, who had sallied out for the purpo of burning or occupying one of the suburbs., and after a very übstinate combat, he drove back the enemy as lay as the bridge, killed a - numler, arid toolrixty. prisoners. "On the -28th Colonel Natischkin occupied Arners fort, the garrison of which retired upon Naarden. " The two forts of Cuxhaven; Faro and Napoleon,. are taken. The garrison are prisoners of -war. " We are improving the fortifications of Doesburg and Zutphen. " General Winzingerode has sent to the Crowa Prince the keys of the city of Utrecht, taken by the troops of Colonel Narischkin. Tne Prince Royal trans mitted them to the Emperor Alexander. "Count Strogonoff is charged with the blockade of Marburg. • " The Swedish army having approached the Steck, ritz, with the corps of Lutsow, occupied the points `froth the moith of the river, to the environs of Buchen. Diipubitions were made hit att:iCking the enemy on the 2d of December. General Count Woronzow, and General Tettenborn, had received orders to cross the Elbe at Buitzenburg. The Marshal Prince of. Eckmuhl abandoned his position in the night, and retired behind the Dille. Major Ct derstr•zn, with a flying corps, at the same time 'passed the Elbe at Geschstadt. The troops crossed the 3tecknitz, pur. sued the enemy's rear-guard, and took some prisoners. " The left bank of the Stecknitz presents, at cer tain points, heights anti positions which . appear unas sailable. The borders of the river vAiciti the tawny occupied are very rugged, and fhe other bank is a 1 ,7 tuctst every where 'mari.hy. The accessible pats display. entrenchments constructed with great care, pel6sticieCl and:friezed, in a way that might have stopped. for many days ] the progress of the most in tepid. and most warlike troops. " The army made a movement on its right ; Ge. sseral WortinzoW . *Oilseed upon Lauenburg : the Swedish army sponidollra sat Ratzeb,urg. On the Sd General Woronzow marched' upon Schwartzen beck, aid curried Bergedorf by assault. The cavalry Audi - some Prisoners. 4 44 General T . ettenborn advancerupon Arnfelde, and -tittemegting himself vgith Count Wdronzow's cavalry, cut .of the communication between Hamburgh and Labeilt. . r• . . "Oa the 4th; General Walimoden passed the /*chits, and Collected the greater part of his corps at .I(liukrede. His advanced guard encountered the •euerny at the villageof Sievenbaum, and drove him from it,. aiatr taking some s prisoners. ." :The swedtsb aialy rharched.between the Wack ,nitz and the Stecknits, pushed its advanced posts .uPon the 'left bank of the latter fiver, and drove away the enen y. K General Vegesack crossed the Wacknitz at Grun .u, and re-established the bridge at Ctumessen ; he took, the leit of the Swi.dish army. A strong Je.,, tathtnert of all arms, cotmnanded by Lieutenant Co. lone:_ Anckarsa?hrd, remained between the Wacknitz and thelTrave, to observe Lubeck on that side, and to collect materials for the construction of a bridge opposite Schwartau. " On the morning of the .sth, General Posse caused 1 a division of the brigade of Ge►►eral Sthnitzenheim to attac►s the enemy's, position upon the Landvehr, and after a short musketry fire, he carried the re doubts, and re.establizhed the bridge. Some men were killed and wounded. The Baton de' Melin, of the lst regiment of guards, a distinguished officer, was killed in this affair. a General Vegesack passed the Stecknitz, in order to j in Count Waiknoden, who was to advance upon 1t:n(1,514e. It being intended to carry Lubeck by tde, Marshal Count Stedingk caused the .Swe. dish army to advance. When arrived at half a league from the town, he ordered a halt, to wait for the lad. ders ; during the interval he engaged in parleys with the enemy. " It was already three o'clock, the ladders were not yet cc.tre up ; the knowledge which he bads& the fortress of Loheck, and el the means of defence which it . .iffordt•tl to a man of skill and resolution, in timed Mar ,hal Steding.k not to reject proposals.- 9enerall o all:rnancl signed with Colonel Biorustierna, Creel ~t-tt.e s ta g o f t h e .4,, ei.l.sh : - tioniy, a capitula tion, importing that the enerty's troops should eva cuate the town at ten at night, give up at five in the afternoon the Mollen-gate, and not day-break of the following morning. • The enemy having only to defend the Mollen-gate, covered by a double water, and advanced works, had it power to effect his retreat while there was no bridge upon the Trave ; and according , to the uniform re. ports of the Engineers, 24 hours would have been re quisite to throw pile over. • The troops entered the town at ten at night. ci The enemy retired upon Segeberg. General Wallmoden is marching upon that point, and General Skioldebrand began this inorning.at 'six o'clock to pursue the enemy with his cavalry. Some hUndieds of prisoners have already been made . , 6 The inhabitants of Lubeck were determined -CO second, by means more efficacious than,mere wi4hes,' the efforts of the army which came to restore to them their name, their rights, and independence; they were ready to join their arms to those of tiTe assailants. This brave resolution is an appealto the inhabitants of Hamburgh. " Lubeck new resumes its ancient denOmination of ree and Hanseatic City ; the flag of civilization and of commerce again waves on its walls. Thus shall Justice always destroy the edifice raised by violence. " The King of Denmark must see in the capitula tion granted to his troops, that the door of reconcilia tion with Sweden is not yet closed. He has only to lend an ear to the prayers of his subjects, to the wishes of the inhabitants pf the North, and to the generous proposals of Sweden and her Allies." . . . , FRENCH PAPERS. . things which tends to degrade all the Crowns in Europe ? What. himself humbled awl degraded, PARIS, DECEMBER 19. ipelled to renounce the power of To-day (Sunday, the 19th) his Majesty the Em ig,- and destroying an that stir- 6eror and King set off at one o'clock, from the Palace of the Thuilleries, to repair in State to the Legisla- VIENNA, NOVEMBER N g • tive Body; where, having been received with the The Emperor has given to the Killk of Bavaria the Order of the Golden Fleece. His Imperial Ma- usual ceremonies, his Majesty, after taking hi s teas e made the following Speech : jesty placed the decorations with his own hands dur ing the residence of these Monarchs at Frankfort. 66 Senator:, Clonsellorr of State, Delnitie.s.from ape LEIPSIC, DECEMBER 2. Department: of the Legislative Body ! The Russian General Baron Thiele:lan has pub- 44 Splendid. victories have raised the glory of tle. Inked in a German paper his justification for having ' French arms during this campaign ; defections wide quitted the Saxon, to enter the Russian service. It I out parallel have rendered these victories useless ; al: appears from it, that prior to the period when the has turned against us: - France itself would be in King of Saxony was in the hereditary Austrian States, .that monarch had actually concluded a convention, danger, but for the union and energy of t h e F renc h. -- in pursuance of which he gave General Thielmann, "In these weighty circumstances, it was ray first diet) charged with the command of the fortress of I thought to call you around me. My heart has need Torgau, an order signed with his own hand, to main- I of the presence and of the affection of my subjects. • tain with the greatest zeal, the independence of that 46 I hive never been seduced by prosperity. Ad fortress, and to declare in all events that it should not - i versify would always find me superior to its attacks be opened but by order of the king, and in concert with his Majesty the Emperor of Austria. This letter 1 64 I have several times given peace to nations when was dated Ratisbon, April 19 : its contents were con- , they had lost every thing. From a part of my con firmed by a second letter, dated Prague, May 8, ' quests I have raised throne% for kings who have for. 1813 ; which besides bore, that in case the fortune ot - , war brought back the French troops on the h a nks of : sa & en me ' • the .Elbe,•the conduct of the Commandant of Torgau 1 " I had conceived and executed great designs for should continue the same, nor should he then open ; the prosperity and the happiness of the world. A tla; gates of thatiortress to the French. On the 21/th ! monarch and a father, I feel that Peace adds to the of. May, General Thielmann received an absolute or- security of thrones and to that of families.. der from the King to give up Torgau unconditionally I 44 Negotiations have been entered into aitla Cie *to France, and to unite the Saxon troops to the 7th corps. U pon this e tleneral Thielmann lest the se: vice Allied Powers. I have adhered to the proliminarT and entered that ref Russia. basis which they have• presented, I had then the • • DUSSELDORr, DECEMBER e. hope, that before the opening of this session. theCen- OnDINANUE CONGERNING THE GENERAL WWERNIMENT greys of Menheim would be assembled ; hut new OF THE GRAND nUCHY O!.BCRO. i delays, which are not to be ascribed to France, have " The high allied powers, constantly occupied with deferred this moment, which the wishes of the world the important and firm resolution of deiiveiing Ger many from the yoke which - it has hitherto borne, wisb I eagerly call for. only to employ the force of the countries conquered f " I have ordered to be laid before you all the ori. by their arms for that single object, towards which all ginal documents which are in the port-feuille of my - hearts. in Germany unanimotuly aspire. department of Foreign Affairs. You will make your. 66 For this purpose they have established for the selves acquainted with them by means of a Commit government of the conquered countries, .a general department of administration.. which they hove en .' tee.—Thu Speakers (Orators) of thy Council will trusted to the undersigned Minister. of State, Baron acquaint_ you with my-will on this subject. de Stein, Knight of the Order of StAndreve, 'aline '• On my side there is no obstacles to the re-esta functions shall have Mr object to employ the resources , blishinent of peace. I know and partake all the of the different countries, in the execution of this mi. ' se ntiments of the French—l say of the French, be litary-anel political plan. Governors-General will be there is not one of them w . ho would desire eepointed, who will form the principal anthorities, muse and the central point of the whole civil and military peace at the price of honour. • administration. Fidelity and firm attachment are 64 It is With regret that I ask of this generous expected, en the part of the inheWtants, to that cause people new sacrifices ; but they are commanded by which all just-thinking men have already embraced; . arid that they will punctually obey the ordinances us noblest and dearest iqterests. "It was necessary to recruit my armies by ounce.which the supreme department of administration, and • l'the Governor-General, shall issue. This submislisio Mug Iftles I nations cannot treat with security, ex. is a duty doubly binding on the old authorities of the conquered countries. - They will take inengagement kept by . cliSplaying their whole strength ; and an in crease of taxes becomes indispensible. What my thereto by a particular oath, of which the formula i ; Minister of the Finances will propose to you, is con ! shall be submitted ro them, or renounce their func formable to the system of Finaiice whi c h I h a ve cst t !, bons, end- thtle declare tlicenselyes, hostile to the good I cause. .`' (Signed) ' Baron de StelN." blished. We shall meet every demand withain a Lelpie, Oct. 23, 1813. loan, which consumes the futute, and without paper 1 46 In consequence of the above ordnance, the nn- money, which ;s rile greatest enemy of social order. 1 dersigned State Councillor of his Majesty the Empe. • 1 ror . uf Russia has been charged with the organization 46 lam satis fi ed with . tpe pentiments which my and provisional direction of the general government people of Italy have testifiedeov:ards me en this tug a. •of the Grand Duchy of Berg. That govrernaarat I casion. Denmark and Whites alone have remained embraces all the territory which formed 1: 411 - 0( the ' faithful to their alliance with me. Duchy prior to the formation of the 32d military „ The Republic of the United States. of America division of the French Empire, with the' exception, nevertheless, of all the districts which formerly made continues with success its war with England. I 1 p art of the Prussian states, and which re-enter imme. " I have recognised the neutrality of the 19 Swis; ; diately under the sovereignty of the King of Prussia. C a nton s . I "In assuming the provisional direction of all the " Senator:, Comatellors of State,. Detssales from, S/ civil and military affairs of this general government Deltartatenis to the Legislative Body! established by the high allied powers, A require the inhabitants not to acknowledge any other authority, "You are the natural organs of this Throne ; it is but to obey it alone. Knowing the good spirit of this for yarn to give an example of enemy which may country, distinguished for the loyalty, fidelity, and recommend our generation to the generations to industry of its inhabitants, I confidently expect that : come. Let them not say of us—' They have sacri they will cooperate with as much .zeal as energy in . Seed the best interests of their country ! They have the deliverance of Germany, which is the sole und acknowledged the Jaws which England ha 3 in vein important object of the victorious Powers. Let all honest men rally around me to contribute by their • sought during four centuries to.laipose on France l' effutts to this great and salutary result. 1 "My people cannot fear that the policy of their (Signed) 66 Justus GRUNER, Emperor will ever betray the national glory.. " Dosseldorf, N0v.25. " Provisional Governor-Generar• ; " On my side I feel the confidence that the rrenea BAREUTH. DECEMbER 8. - I will be constantly worthy themselves aed of me !" The English Colonel, Moore, who passed eight I After the speech of his Ma ,the the Session being days at Nuremberg, on his way from Constantinople to the head-quarters of the Allies, arrived here yes- terminated, 'his Mtajesty rose in the midst Of :tech terday, on his_ way back to Constantinople. mations, MILAN, NOVEMBER 29. His Majesty returned to the Palace of the Thuil- The King's Procureur has made the following Re. leries with his retinue, by the same way as he repair port to the Grand Judge : ed to the Legislative Body. " On the 17th. at ten o'clock at night, information was received at Urbino, that a banditti of about 300 . Discharges of artillery . were fired both as his Ma gistmen had assembled at Tavoletto, about ten miles jy left the Palace of the Legislative Body, and from Urbino, and had fired upon some troops, and when he reached the Thuilleries. compelled them to retreat. The object of this ban. BAYONNE, DECEMBER 13. ditti was to take possession of Urbino. During that; After the advantages gained on the 10th and l lt l s night, the Public Functionaries of Urbino formed pa- : . , troles, and kept strict watch. • I (and which, in reality, were much more considerable than we knew at first, since, according to all accounts, 1 66 On the 18th they organized, as well as they the loss of the enemy could, a force of 250 men ; and to secure th e safely amounted to lOor 12,000 men) of the place, some moveable columns have been Iwe have had only skirmishing at the out-posts : but marched from Pesaro to attack the banditti, who still yesterday the enemy strengthened his line, and seem remained at Tavoletto." ed to be preparing to attack. ROVEREDO, NOVEMBER 2'. This morning the Marshal Duke of Dalmatia a" The brigade of Folseis is belore Legueno, and le ticipated him. He caused the whole of the enerv:. in cemMunicetion withZeneral Nugeia. The latter line to be attacked at day-break, on the heights t • embarked on the oth of 'November, at 'Priest, , o n board English and Austrian ships. Fie appeared on Lasherenia, between Sr. Jean le Vieux, Molly:Jr. the 12th before Venice and Malamocco. That place and Villa Franca. The Count D'Erlon, having ur is blockaded by sea, and a part of the troops wee, der his command the 2d, :lc; and 6th divisions of it landed at the Mouth of the Po. . The brigades of fantry, a brigade of cavalry, and 22 pieces of caw*. Rebrovich and Meyor blockade Venice on the side was supported by the Ist division of infantry, and of the Lagunes, the garrison is about six thousand men. General Nugent himself occupied Ferraro on afterwards by the sth. the 18tle and has pushed on desechmerrs as Car as The 3d division, commanded by General Aber., Rovigo. The trenches before Palma Nuovo will be had orders to attack the position in front, follow:.; opened as soon as the heavy artillery arrive. the high road, while the 6th division, Tiede: ti - The brigade of Thomaesich has made the conquest orders of General D arr i can, moved to the ;:ght t , of Dalmatia ; there is no other place but Z a ra that holds out. General Raiz.' defends that pla c e with 'ake the centre fort at its beginning, and attack tl ... about 1800 men. The remains of the enemy's army left of the enemy, e is between Mantua, Verona, and Rovigo. At the same time the 2d division, commaeded le • • • • .be panted' tal prolamill a state of all the nes and all .nd the Trnnt of rightV he to think 1 ditch fitellisith bitsirrairbecing,infn:bri:; it always in . his Moods him P' PRAGUE, DECEMBER 4. Our Gazette, after communicating the Senatus Consultum of the 26th November, adds the folio siting reflections : _ _ If the new levy of 300,000 men be, as there is no. reason to doubt, exclusive of that of 280,000 men, ordered by the decree of the 1 lth of October last, the total number of men raised in France, during the year 1813 alone, amounts tb 1,140,000, of whom one half at least has been anqihilated, dispersed, or taken prisoners; in short, lost to France. The French nation can hardly be plunged into such blindness, or reduced to such slavery, as nest to ask on all sides, Why these immense preparations ? Where is the imminent danger that renders necessary such measures of defence ? Does a spirit of madness, or the mania of conquest, possess all the Sovereigns leagued against us, as well as the nations whom they govern ? Or wish they to take vengeance upon u; for all the mischief which we have been compelled to do, them ? In short, mist we shed the remainder of our blood, and eicpose ourselves to lose our last sirength, in order to ward off a destructive peace, which would i i brng along with it our dishonour and run ? " But all people of sense . throughout that Mo isnarchy would answer itlnira:)usly—there is not the least inundation for all this. Our serf-stied erearsies, 4vho are not so in reality, - have taken up ar ~ oppress, despoil, or tyrannize over others ; tl tit for their own independence, which it is their g d ob t,. ject to recover. , What peissible motive crAil duce them despicably to renounce their own pre iples, and expose their oun enterprise to danger, seek ing to domineer over their neighbours; Vengeance is as little, the motive which animates them. Have we not been their companions in misfortune Did not the vexations, the calamities which every where followed our steps, press with double weight ori Our selves ? And do we not participate their wishes for deliverance and tranquillity, though we cannot mani fest them in the same manner ? Thus the only con. sideration which could justify the sacrifices at this Imoment demanded of us, and the danger of total ruin to which we are exposed, would be, Nit the peace proposed to us must bring with it still greater calamities—must compromise the national honour, - 1 and destroy our welfare and security. " The last of these blessings is for ever guar steed to us by our own strength, by the means of efe nc e furnished us bc'th by nature and art, by our national spirit and our military means. Our safety has not been-seriously endangered at any time ; but it ciporot be augmented by conquelts, by distant possessions, nor by extending despotic sway over foreign nations. Such pretended advantages, by producing endless wars, can only hirass, weaken, and *sham us. The molhent France shall re-enter her true and just limits she will become strong and unassailable, tne internal strength - of no state in Europe will exceed her's, and no attack will place her in danger. tg Our welfa-e is sufficiently secured by our geogra phical situation ; by the extent and fertility of our country ; by our industry, our arts, and the perfec tion of our social institutions. It has been severely shaken by a long succession of wars, undertaken from caprice, ruinous in themselves, and useless to us. But a.piece, whatever it may be, provided it renew the an cient relations of commerce and friendship which united us to all our neighbours, that it open anew the seas to our commerce, and restore to the industry and ingenuity of our nation its ancient stimulus, will soon, in the bosom of reviving prosperity, even under an ordinary Administration, make us forget our false grandeur, as well as the real misfortunes with which it was accompanied. "As to our national honour, it cannot be impaired by a peace'which shall only set bouirds to our injus tice. If our military honour only consists in our alone gaining battles in Europe, in n':ver suffering any military glory but our own, and in never being beaten, it has long been lost beyond redemption.— Should we even gain as many new victories as in times past, the opinion of our invincibility exists no . longer. Nothing can efface our defeats in Spain— our retreats from Russia and Germany ; the battles Of Sisisimanca and Vittoria, of Smolensk and of Leip sic ; but, no political arrangement can deprive us of what is irilly solid and indisputable in our military glory. - :. _ - "Such, douhtlessi.mugt be the language of all just and enlightened nitit in France. Is the Elpperor Napbleon :done, then, to be allowed to pl.ico his glory in the misery of world, and the submitsion of all neighbouring states to his will ? He sip, that dis4onoured throne, and a crown without glory, would be to him insupportable.' By what right dcel, ht; wish to escape that imaginary humiliation, by