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So difficulty in giving instructions and powers to ne gociate. conduit% and sign a conyentio% by which _ _ . •• they _ would tit of the mediation of Austria ; but t that it witi-efiiinportance-to know, previous to enter.; ing on negociaalons,: if the alliance still existed, be cause, in that ease, Austria guaranteed. the integrity of the present territory of France,- in as far ins relates to us, in determined poOtion ; whilst, in the contrary case, we do not know in wliat situation the two Powers respectively are. It was not, therefore,Ja question foreign to the great object of peace, but one that had foi its end to determine if the treaty of . Paris silt -• Arc,. .t.!••• . • However, his Moiety saw reneweds in the note transmitted on the 11th by Count de Bubna,-the offer of the mediation of Austria, without any Plenipoten tiary appearing . on her part, authorised to negotiate, conclude, and sign, . 1. A• supplementary convention, which established' and ensured the existence of the treaty of alliance. 2. A convention relative to the acceptance of the mediation. A mediation cannot be accepted without determin ing at the same time, for what end, upon what ob ject, and in what manner, it is to be exercised. It would- be contrary to what has been practised by all nations, and particularly to the custom of the Cabinet of France, IA treat for a-mediation otherwise than by" a convention discussed and freely consented to. undersigned is in consequence charged t 0... mans-. . • Ist. That the Court of Vienna should make kiloton whether the treaty of alliance of'Paria is still existing, and continues to connect the two Powere? 2d. And in the event of an affirmative, that she shall give powers to negotiate the .new convention, which is to supplant the secret articles of 'the treaty of Paris, considered byher as not being applicable ' to the present conjuncture. 3d. That she will charge a person, furnished with instructions and powers, to negotiate, conclude,-and sign a convention, relative to the mediation why she has offered.—The undersigned, &c. S.—NOTe PROM TUE-DUKE DE BAMAKO TO coUNT DE METTERNIm. Dresden, June 16, ISIS. The undersigned, Minister for Foreign Affairs, having received, through M. Count de Bubna, a Notes dated the 11th instant, hastened to lay it before 'his Majesty the Emperor and-King. His Majesty has ordered him to give the following reply to it ; which the undersigned has the honour of addressing to his Excellency Count de Metternich, Minister of State, Conferences, and Foreign Affairs, for his Majesty the Empero; of Austria. His Majesty the Emperor and King has not ceastd to express his wish for peace, both before the recotn risencement of military operations, awl since-the events favourable to his arms. He has held no other lan; guage in the communications with the Emperor of Austria, and with the Agents who have been sent to him. His wish is for a general peace, because till that] shall have been concluded, none of the Powers that j have maritime interests will be able to enjoy their rights and the advantages to which chit' peace alone would permit them to hope for. The mission which, the Court of Vienna gave M. de Wessenbeig at London, and the ohject of which was, at that time, communicated to the undersigned, was received:by his Majesty the Emperor and King, as leading to wards a general peace, Count de Metternich joined to a note, transmitted to his Majesty's Ambassador, on the 26th of April, a report by which M. de Wes senberg announced on the 6th of the same month, that in a fivr days the English Minister would ex plain himself. From that moment no communica tion has been made, and we would be in a state of belief, that after three months things were still in the same state, if it did not follow from Count de Bubna's note, that the Court of Vienna had given up the hope she had conceived of a maritime peace. When his Majesty proposed at Dresden, by the / - channel of Count de Bubna, the establishm'nt of a Congress, where all the parties interested in a general peace shoeld be called, and where bases to reconcile all pretensions would be laid down, he thought it would be proper for the United States of America and the Spanish Insurgents to take part . in it, because all the maritime powers had interests to discuss. The intervention of the United Scans appeared to be the more natural, as England had just refused to nego ciate, upon the mediation of Russia, for the arrange ment of the differences which had arisen between America and Great Britain. But his Majesty at the same time made known, that if Russia and Prussia wished to treat without England, he was equally ready to agree to it. He announced, that as soon as the dispositions of the Belligerent Powers should be kno'svn to Mm in this respect, Plenipotentiaries appointed, and the place of their assembling in Congress agreed upon, he would send his there. It is a month since his Majesty thus formally ri t . pressed his wit's for the opening of a Congress. AT. ready have tea days elapsed since the Armistice hap. ply suspended the effusion of blood, and no commu nication has yet made known the dispositions of the Belligerent Powers. His Majesty,avould with regret impute the loss of. time so precious, and the slow approaches to an ob ject of so great interest to humanity, to pretensions of which he however found indications in the note of M. de Bubns. It would seem, in fine, to result from that note, that the Belligerent Powers are to treat, and communicate among themselves. through the medium of the Court of Vienna. His Majesty would rot hesitate to express his opinion, upon that preten sion. He 'cannot treat for peace without negotiating it ; he canton neg-ciate but in the forms consecrated by the usage of all nations, and by Plenipotentiaries who, joined to those of the Belligerent Powers, and ;if or the exchange their lull powers, will enter into .Ittplanations. • '1 o wi-li shat hii . Majesty should renounce the right it.her:ot in the independence of Sovereigns, to. cause his. interests to be discussed, by hit Plenipotentiaries, craiti.rinahly"to rulei Of f eebich these is no example in hist. , ty of thUir eve!,having been-departed from; this would be to raise 4 preterision whichever; state . pre serving the sentimeue.of its dignity 'should repel. .His Majesty not emisent to it ; he has not the right of. coaenting'to' it for his Allies. . • His Allesty, at:* tialkof the nesocietion.ot Ll 4 - . aroustiee, , theatty eatesed„ it to be declared* ,Rolia and Prussia, throligti the Duke of Vitilkeei that ba • =lady to -treisCupan a basis benobrebiettoi He • . authorises the undersigfied to again insist spat ;the immediate opening, in a plAce between the resi dences of the different Belligerent Courts, of a Cot . graft- for a general peace • and in case Englan d should have refused, or sho uld refuse to adhere to it, for a continental peace; and to make the -reiterated declaration, that as soon as his enemies and their Allies sliall'have appointed their Plenipotentiaries, and that the place for their assembling in Congress shall hate been designated, he will send his thither, and , invite all his Allits,in send theirs. His Majesty, earnestly persevering in the wish of 'entering into ,negociation, Batters. himself that it is not to him can be imputed, either the intention of de ferring the peace, or - of the delays which have al ready occurred, to the prejudice of humanity, to the opening of the Congress, the only means of arriving at the accomplishment of this salutary work, which' is the object of all the wishes of his Majesty, and the aim of all his hopes.—The undersigned, Ike. The Duke of BASSANO. L Y~ is ''4ll NO. 9.—NOTE OF THE COUNT DE METTERNICH IN REPLY TO THE NOTES OF THE 15TH JUNE. Gilscken, June 22, 1811 The undersigned Minister of State and of Foreign Affairs of his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, has received orders to make the following reply to die mote which his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affair; of France did him the honour to address him from Dresden, on the 15th June last. Austria and France concluded on the 14th March, 1812, an alliance on the same rounds arid in the same spirit as that of 1756. This alliance, purely defensive, was founded on the principle of 4g Main taining the peace of the Continent, and of re-esta blishing a maritime peace." It therefore rests on the basis most conformable to a sound policy, and its stipulations contain the most.perfect reciprocality be. tween the high contracting parties. Any alteration Which might be endeavoured to be made in the Act of the Treaty, could only be effected to the detri ment of one or other of those principles. The sepa rate and secret articles determined the species of co., operation which Austria wits to give, in a war which, unfortunately, was only too easily to be foreseen, and which all the conciliatory efforts Made by his Impe- . rial Majesty and Apostolic King, were not able to prevent. The war in fine broke out ; nevertheless the Em peror, true to his principles, never ceased, even du- 1 ring the campaign of 1812, which was marked by the greatest efforts of the belligerent powers, and by a loss of men of which history presents but few ex amples, to direct his atteetion to the re-establihsmenf of peace as speedily as possible. His Imperial Ma jesty, in order to render this wish the more efficacious, seized the moment when, alter a first campaign, a sufficient interval presented itself for an explanation , with the several Powers. He offered, in the month of February last, his mediation to France, Russia, and England ' • he extended this offer to Prussia from the 'moment that Power appeared as a principal party in the scene of action. The whole, with the exception of England, accepted the mediation of Au enia ; but nevertheless it was soon but too fully as certained, that a negociation,solely supported by the good offices of the Court of Vienna, would not be . sufficient to reunite Powers separated by a great di versity of interests, and to whom every. sacrifice, every effort, mast appear weak after those of the year 1812. The Emperor did not suffer himself to be discou raged. He was not slow in placing himself in a con-, dition to support his pacific words, by organizing respectable forces, and it was with satisfaction that his Imperial Majesty saw by the communications made by the French Ambassador at the Court of Vienna, in the month of April last, that in this respect his opinion was participated by his Majesty the Em peror Napoleon. The undersigned had orders to declare, in reply to the official note of Count de Nar bonne, dated the 21st April, that his Imperial Ma jesty would elevate his simple intervention into a mediation, and that he would thus appear as a prin cipal party in the scene. Accordingly Austria, not not being able to act at the same time as a principal power, and lend a limited succour, the Austrian auxiliary corps received orders no longer to risk the fate of arms on a foreign territory, but to return within the frontiers orthe Empire. The Emperor at the same time declared to the French Government, that his mediation should not in anywise prejudice the basis of the alliance with France, as the CW Q high contracting parties might by mutual consent place under a reservation the stipula. tions of the treaty of the 14th March, 1812, which were not irreconcileable with the attitude command ed by the necessity of the re-establishment of peace : , his Imperial Majesty added, that, he was ready to consign this reservation in a diplomatic act. The facts being thus stated in their natural order, lit results from them that Austria is far' from consi dering her alliance with France. This alliance, which essentially rests OR the principle of peace, as irrecon. cileable with her mediation, which only tends to re store repose to Europe. The Emperor would never have sanctioned an alliance which had not the basis of peace for its ob ject. He would have renounced every engagement which should have opposed itself to its reesta blishment. His Majesty the Emperor of France, besides desir ing that the offer and acceptation of the Austrian mediation should be likewise consigned in a diplo matic act, the Emperor ofAustria made no difficulty in acquiescing in this demand. His Imperial Majesty in consequence ordered the undersigned to declare to his Excellency M. the Duke de Bassano, 1. That being persuaded that there is nothing con trary in the treaty of the 14th March, 1812, to the mediation of Austria, he authorises the undersigned to agree with the French Government on an express reservation with regard to such of its stipulations as may be affected by it. 2. That he will n , t in any wise refuse to make a convention relative to the offers and the acceptance of the Austrian mediation. 3. That. finally, the undersigned .is charged and provided with the necessary full powers to regtdate the terms of these two acts, and to sign them. Thi undersigned, 4c. (Signed) , mat Tettateil. , GAZA7.7E EXT114.012.411f.d.R1': WAR DEPARTIdarr. • . Cpptain the Tari s wing or inT Manerr . astrea llia ,thi lB s:nt l ntng :with a Dispatch fro field.Mardial the Marquis of , Watunororr, addressed to miIt:II3ATORIT. one of - his MAAS:WS principal. Settiaries of State, of which the following is a eepy: LEZ4CA,, OCTOB ER 9, 1813. MY Loan;-- Haviair deemed it expe dient to cross the Bidassoa with the left of the army, I have.the pleasure to inform your Lordship that that object was effected on the 7th instant.: Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Graham directed the.istand sthilivisions A end the Ist Portuguese bri gade,,under Brigadier-General Wilson, to cross that river in three columns below, and ,in one above the site of the Bridge, under the command of Major. Calera Hay, the Hon. Colonel Greville, Major-Ge- Oefal the Hon. Edward Stopford, and Major-General Howard ; and Lieut.-General Don Manuel Freyre directed-that part. of the 4th Spknlsh army ender his immediate command, to cross in three columns at fords, above those at which the Allied British and Portuguese troops passed. The former were destined to carry the enemy's entrenchments about and above Asidaye, while the latter should carry those nn the `Montagne-Verte, and on the height of Mandale, which they were to turn the enemy's left. The operations of both bodies of troops succeeded in every point. The British and Portuguese troops took seven -pieces of cannon in the redoubts and bat teries which they carried, and the Spanish troops one piece of cannon in those by them. I had particular satisfaction in observing the stea diness and gallantry of all the troops. The 9th Bri tish regiment were very strongly opposed, •charged with bayonets more than once, and have suffered ; but I am happy to add. that in other parts of these corps oar loss has not been severe. The Spanish troops under Lieutenant-General Don Manuel Freyre behaved allmirably, and turned and carried the enemy's entrenchments in the hill, with great dexterity and gallantry ; and I am much in debted to the Lieutenant-General, and to Lieutenant- General Sir Thomas Graham, and to the General and Staff Officers of both corps, for the execution of the arrangements for this operation. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Graham having thus established, within the French territory, the troops of the allied British and Portuguese army, which had been so frequently distinguished under his command, resigned the command to Lieutenant-Ge neral Sir John Hope, who had arrived from Ireland the preceding day. • While this was going on upon the left, Major-Ge neral C. Baron Alten enacted, with the light sion, the enemy's entrenchments in the Puerto de Vera, supported by the Spanish division under Briga. d ier- General Longa, and the Marescal del Cam po Don Pedro Giron attacked the enemy's entrenchments and posts on the mountain, called 'La Rhune, immedi ately on the right of the light division, with the army of reserve of Andalusia. Colonel Colborne, of the 52d regiment, who corn. mauled Major-General Skerrett's brigade, in the ab sence of the Major-General, on account of his health, attacked the enemy's right in a camp which they had strongly entrenched ; and the 52d regiment, under the command of Major Mein, charged in a most gal lant style, and 'carried the entrenchments with the bayonet. The Ist and 3d cayadores, and the 2d bat talion 95th regiment, as well as the b2d, distinguished themselves in this attack. Major-General Kempt's brigade attacked by the Puerto, where the opposition was not so severe ; and Major-General Charles Alten has reported his sense of the judgment displayed both by the Major-Gene ral and by Colonel Colborne, in these attacks; and I am particularly indebted to Major-General Charles Alten, for the manner in which he executed this ser vice ; the light division took 22 officers and 400 men prisoners, and three pieces of cannon. These troops carried every , thing before them in the most gallant style, till they arrived at the foot of the rock on which the hermitage stands, and they made repeated attempts to take even that post by' storm; but it was impossible to get up, a*d the ene. my remained during the night in possession of the hermitage ; and on a rock on the same range of the mountain, with the right of the Spanish troops. Some time elapsed yesterday morning, before the fog cleared away sufficiently to enable me so recon noitre the mountain, which I found to be least inac cessible by its right, and that the attack of it might be connected with advantage with the attack of the enemy's works in front of the camp of Sarre. I RC.. cordingly ordered the Army of Reserve to concen trate to their right; and, as soon as the concentration commenced, Mariscal del Campo Don Pedro Giron ordered the Battalion de las Ordenes to attack the enemy's post on the rock on the right of the position occupied by his troops, which was instantly carried in the most gallant style. -Those troops folliwed np t heir success, and carried an intrenchment on a hill which protected the right of the Camp of Sane, end the enemy immediately evacuated all their works to defend the approaches to the camp, which were taken possessiOn of by detachments gent from the 7th divi iion, sent by Lieutenant-Geneial the Earl of Dal housie, throngh the Puerto' de Eschal;r, for this purpose, Don P. Giron then esiaglished a battalion on the enemystleft, on the rock of the Hetmitage. It was too late to proceed further last night, and the enemy withdtew from their post at the Hermitage ; and from the Camp of Sarre during the night. 'lt gives me singular satisfaction to report the good conduct of the Officers and troops of the Army of Reserve of Andalusia, as well in the operations of the 7th instant, as its those of yesterday. The at. tack made by the battalion of Ordenes, under the command of Colonel Bore, yesterday. WAS made in as good order, and with as much spirit, as any drat I have seen made by any troops ; and I was much satisfied with the spirit and discipline of the whole of this corps. I cannot applaud too highly the execution of the arrangements for these attacks by the Mariscal. de Campo Don Pedro Giron, and the General and Staff Officers tinder his directions. I omitted to report to your Lordship in m_y patch of the 4th instant, that upon my way to ponce. vanes, on the Ist instant, 1 directed Brigadier-Gene ral Campbell to endeavour to carry or the enemy's piquet: in his front, which he attacked on that night. and completely succeeded, with the P troops under his command, in carrying the vdtdeof one piquet, consisting of 70 men—a fortified post on the mountain of Arolla was likewise stormed, and the lwhole garrison put to the sword. Since I addressed your Lordship last. I have re. ceived dispatches from Lieutenant-General Clinton, in Catalonia, to the Scl instant. The General was still at Tarragona, and the enemy were in their old position on the Lake t. Lieutenant-General Lord William neetinck had embarked for Sicily on the 226 otSeptember. I send this dispatch by my Aid-de-Camps Captain the Earl of March, whom I beg to recommend to your Lordship's protection.—l have, Ice. . • (Signed) WELLISGTON. I inclose a return of the loss incurred in the late operations • and a return of the killed, wounded, and missing, o f army under Lieutenant-General Lord William Bentinck, in the affairs, at Ordal, on the 12th and 19th ultimo. [This return win be inserted is the Gazette of Saturday next.] Return of the KILLBD, Woomera, and Mumma, af the Army • under the command of his Imelleacy Pieta-Marshal the Mar. quiz of Waztancrron, K.G. in the Paimpaftba fildswea, aud forclns the Enemy's Lbw% en the 1111 and loth Oaetwr, cats. Royal ArtMet7--5 rank and file wounded. Coldstream Guards, Ist Bettabon—S tank and file hided, • rink and fde wounded. 3d Guards, lot Baualies-•-9 rank and life wended, II rani and file missing. Royal Scots, sd Battalion-1 rank and 11.141.4,44 earjennts, to rank and file wounded. 4th Foot, ISt Banana-1 Staff, 1 Sit, 4 rook and lit wounded. 6th. Foot, Ist Batt.-1 Captain, 1 rook and file killed; I Cap tain, 1 serjeant, 5 rank and file wounded. 9th Foot, It Ban. , -6 rank and file laid; 1 Cam, 7 Lloate• nants, a Ensign, $ &thaws, 63 rank and ile wounded. 38th Foot, Ist Battalion-4 rank and file killed; 1 Sajoast, rank and file wounded. 4sd Foot, ist Batt.-1 &leant. 1 drunter, 1 rank awl • khled ; s Serjeants, 14 rank and file wounded. 47th. Foot, 241 Batt-1 Setjeant, 4 tank and file wounds& Sid Foot, Ist Batt-1 berjeant 11 rank and die killed; 4 Cap tains. 1 Lieutenant, 1 End.% s !Melissa., a drommeirs, io rank and SW 'roundel. 49th Foot, Id Batt.-1 drummer. stink ind dab Foot, kb Sett.-4 tank and file woundiag.Rlank and Mt missing. • 95th Foot, Ist Battee-10 rank and file welmidaL 95th Foot, nd Batt.-.41 Lieutenants,ll/10.0 4 111lesakandfilt. killed; 2 ans. 4 Lieutenants, S tunismnp, IT ugh and till s • 1 rank and file miming. 95th Foot, 3d Batt..-4 rank and Ms killedp..l Umersitn, 17 rank and file, wounded. lit Light Batt. King's German Legion -1 LINIIMIR. I rant and file, killed; £ Cicadas. 1 Liontanant. 1 alskits. I Ss' Joann, 57 rank and Ile, wounded. Sd Light Batt. King's German Legion-4 rank andilk ; Lleutosann, 7 Serjeants,29 rank and Mr, at Line Batt. King's Merman Leikino.4 nali " sortatiosded. . 9d Line Batt. King's German 141100•1 Liertniant, IWO spit file, wounded. Stk Lime Batt. King's German Lenion-1 rank and ib kink 1 $ rank and file, wounded. brallallak Oil's-1 Serjeant, S rank end Ale, kid; 1 kb*. I Copts*, 4 Lieutennt i I rank sled fie. wenedati. Total Mild% Lear—i Captain, 2 1.14*, 261,01/$l. • drummer, 69 rank and file, killed; 1 Majaw, in Captains. NI Llesitenaits, 4 Ensigns, 1 Staff. $ll Salience, drummers. rank and Me, vs; S rank and Ile aildnllesbe total PortureeeLosa-1 Lleutennat-Celan 4 1 t I Ws must, 2 Wiu, flatmate, 41 rank and Ilis, Mid ; 1 Mnp foe, I Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 7 Ensigns, If Sestesased 1 demi vner, 1511. rank and file, wounded ; e rank and file. —. General Total-1 Lieutenam-Colonel,llGapaniss. Menqinsints. _ 2 Ensigns, 7 Set jeauta,l Drommar - 010 iud71241811; 2 Majors, IS 14 Liestauams, 11 Sam 1111 48 Serjranta, 4 sn- nek as filo. W 01111641 li rank and tile Mining. Accurate retorts' have sot beau rradvad of the Spanish los% but It is esdnaated at 730 Wed, wounded, sod odatiog. (11gued) E. M. PakawlaM, AdApOrm Orman Kates and WouwsaD in the 7th mtd itch Cktobir. 11111111111 EMS*. 95th Riot, Sd late.—Lhostasta NA Cesiratß lit Light Batt. K. G. L.—Lbtetweit Mem& 6th Foie, le Batt.—C-arain Shaw*. POiTOOI3IIBIIILILMID. lst Casadores.—Lientenant-Cubad Alpo, and Ogstaln Jam Ant. ditnatta. Sd Cgadorear-Lientenant Joao Pinto; Ensign Jose Plan; it ' Jog. Navarro de Andrade. lIILITIMIS osfFsas WOVIIOtII. 4th Foot, Ist Batt.—Surgeon I. Gordon. Wordy. 9 th Foot, Ist Inet.-.Captain Jervoise, slightly; Lientanafts Dais, Sheppard, and M'Aslam, severely; Lieutenants C Campbell, and Lanesurier, slightly; Lieutenants Breaks, and Stirling, severely; Ensigns Nash and Kenny, severely. 52d Regintent of Foot, Ist Batt.—Captains Mete (Major), sad Douglas, and Lieut. Hunter, and Ensign Fraser, wanly ; Captains P. Campbell and Shedder', slightly. 95th Regiment of root, ad Battalion—Captains Hart, severely; Gibbons (since dead); Lieutenants Ridgeway and Fry,sevetaly; Budgeon and Madden, *lightly. 95th Regiment of Foot, Sd Battalion—Lietstenant G. Vickers, 'evenly. lit Light Batt. King's German Sedan —Captain Hulrensanth "lightly; Captain Rautenburg, and Lieutenant Wahrendort, severely; Lieutenant' Lemtrs, Minn", and Mararndoni 4 114 Ensign Gibson, slightly. 24 Lbw Ditto—Lieutenant A. Hesse, severely. 6th Foot, let Batt.—Cay tgin Rogers, slightly. Brunswick I.ight Intantry—Major Fragittin, slightly; Captain Wolfrodt, severely; Captain Warknolz, slightly ; Lieutenants Theido and Greisheitn, slightly ; Lieutenants Schneider sod Gnomon, (2d) severely. roarocycsa OTTICICRS WOUN9CD. 171 h Lbw—Lieutenant Jobs A. blatbizon. lit Caeadores—Major Antonio Low, Tel:. Barn's, slightly ; Lieutenant M. J. Antonio Sohral, slightly ; Ensign M. I er. D'Abneida, slightly ; Ensign 1)oni. M. Coelho, severely ; En sign Joao. Ant. de Millo, severely; Ensign E rancisco 1 seeks, severely. 7th escadores—Joag. fteeiro, severely; Ensign Man. Minim, Csesilares..—Captals Jae Valley, severely; FAO lpl P. Jut rintP Strie, sever*,