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, FRENCH P4PERS. tFROM THE 11bNITSUR OF THS BTR INSTANT.] ANSWER OF A GERMAN TO THE PROCLAMATION OF GENERAL BARCLAY DE TOW. ii• 66 If you speak to the Austrians, they will tell you, that Austria make s war on R uss i a b ecause R uss i a made war on her in 1809 ; because the first political Jo,' terestof Austri a i s , t h at M o ld av i a an d W a ll ac hi a. , ise'not united to Russia, and that a check be given to tour insatiable ambition ; that Austria makes war on I I Russia, because the false measures of the Cabinet of 1 St. Petersburgh are such, that there-establishment of Poland is rendered necessary ; and because Austria, weakened by the-losses Russia has occasioned her in the late preceding wars, feels it her interest not to lose the provinces that are left her; because the people of Austria have never found in her alliance with Russia either the support or assistance necessary 60 protect her' from France; because the Russians, every time they have entered the Austrian provinces, sot having fulfilled one half of what they promised, baying shewn no knowledge of the art of war, having &sways been defeated, having incurre d.-the animad version of States and Nations, by-the acts of cruelty Lod plunder for which they are distinguished ; the se of Austria has allied herself by a permanent •system to France, a system which constituted her prosperity in 1756. These are the reasons which I have induced Austria to form an alliance offensive 1 and defensive with France. 66 ' If you had not matte war on Austria in 1809; if since that time you had not, without provocation, stripped her of her provinces ; if you had not seized ppou Moldavia and Wallachia, which she could not see with a tranquil eye under your dominioni if you bad been to her a steady and effective ally, she would pot have made war upon you. " Must I answer as a Prussian ? I will tell you, eve make war in Russia because we have an offensive tind defensive alliance with France, because You dis gracefully betrayed us at Tilsit and Erfurt ; be cause, instead of demanding at Erfurt the evacuation of the places of the Oder by the French troops, you took care only to secure to yourselves the possession of Moldavia and Wallachia. You had sworn to ou`r plaster not to make peace without stipulating for the integrity of our Monarchy, but you stipulated only i for your own interests, and you even took parts of temtory to incorporate them with your Empire. It was not the battle of Jena th a t cons tit u t e d our m . is fortune, but our alliance with you! It was the chi merical illusion of your innumerable armies, which, since the time of Catherine, have alarmed and terri fied Europe, and which we have learned to estimate . at their real value. 66 When we were your allies, you did not defend ws; you' only came amongst us to ravage our territory. Our Monarchy would have been lost beyond redemp tion, had not the wisdom and policy of our Master made him this day contract an alliance with France. He is beforehand with you. An alliance with you would have been fatal r making common cause with you, the war .must have been on our territory : making common cause with France, the war_ is far removed from us. The Emperor Napoleon keeps his word with his allies, he protects them, but you do noeprotect your's. The aUies of Emperor Napoleon have always gained some aggrandisement in territory and security, while your's-have beers uni formly ruined. 66 Shall I speak as a Bavarian ? I will tell you that we make war ou Russia, because, for these two centuries past, the Bavarians. have made war with France ; because our Master is a Member of the Confederation of the Rhine ; because your alliance occasioned our free Provinces to be laid waste; be cause our alliance with France has doubled our do minions ; because Bavaria, iiistead of fifteen hun dred thousand souls, which she had, has now four millions of inhabitants, united under the dominion of the wisest of Princes, and under the most liberal and mildest Government that exists. Our fathers would have beheld our present situation with envy. ....Our territory was formerly the theatre of war,, now it gasses before us, and our soldiers acquire Only triumphs. 66 Shall I speak in the name of the Wirtembergers, or of the People of Baden ? They will answer you, that they make apart of the Confederation of the Rhine ; that since this period, the States 'of their Sovereigns have been always increasing ; that the Puchy of Wirtcmberg, which contained two hun dred thousand inhabitants, is now a kingdom, con sisting of twelve hundred thousand souls ; that the ; adargravate of Baden, which contained sixty thou sand souls, is now erected into a Grand Duchy, • and has a population of eight hundred thoutand ; that the misfortune of Nations, is being divided into small Principalities ; that the countries of Wirtem berg and Baden are happy under good and upright Prances ; that these two houses have produced two Empresses, who have done nothing for them, who Lave forgotten their country, and abjured the reli gion of their fathers, and the love of their country; that since the alliance of the two States with France, they . enjoy the love 44 their Sovereigns ; , and the mildness of their Governments ; that, above all, they are protected, and see the war at a distance i from them. • a 4 , Saxony, I will tell you that the Sovereign of Saxony makes war because she is a Member of the Confederation ; because you wish to strip her of the Duchy of Warsaw; because war with France had, ruined our country, and because it is France that has restored liberty and independence to Saxony; because your alliance would have ruined Saxony, as it has ' ruined Hasse Cassel, the annihilation of which ytiu were the first to acknowledge ; and that we have ' never had more glory and happiness than since our Princes have become Members of the Confederation • of the Rhine. 1 ” If you address yourselves to the Westphalians,' 0 they will tell you that it vies yea who first abandoned the House of Hesse Cassel, as you were•the first to • acknowledge du throne of Westphalia; that, allied 4 to France, it is the policy, the i n terest, a nd the iodi c nations of the We si phalian.s, to follow her destiny. " 111 , short, shall weanswer you as Germans? WW . i will tell you, thatthe greatest mislortpne a nation can experience, is to see Its territory the theatre of war; that the interest of Germany was to be with you or with France ; that we have began ten years with foul that we have only experienced, duals 4 that.tdrie, •. - -- ___ ._ .. _ • , - .. shame , defeats, losses, sad mitfortuties ; that oar Pitenigii oliNirAlt• AP. nu m , country has been constantly the theatre of war ; that r now our standards, united to the French-eagles, fight Government Ths acts of wan tea barbarity which the English Mil siti atnnINAL DI PARIS OF T1M..... 4 _ out of our own territories, and that we only hear for them talked of; to learn the glory with which they.power , date not th eir fwar practises Oa flit prisoners whom the tune has put ia their commencement o from our time. The Americans, who are covered; that experience has proved to ds, that the greatest scourge we can suffer, is to have had Russian armies in our country. Besides, by the treaty hae causing l at length embraced the spirited resolution of their rights and flag to be respected, still rea fthe famous hulks at New York, in which Ges of Tilsit, which you made with the Sovereign of co France, and the Protector of the Confederation of the neral c Clinton heaped by thousands their unfortunate What was still more horrible, the want Rhine, .you entered into an engagement to compel cou n try men. o,fa.ir, England to a peace. Peace would have been made, the excessive heat, and the bad quality of their on a pestilential disorder that carried had you kept your engagements. Peace alone can no_ numbers I oe, b roug ht of those unfortunate persons, among give to the Commerce of Germany all its extent. o f f were several females, and children of wader, You alone, therefore, are the cause of prolonging the w h o m ~ .. misfortunes of the world. years. In 1,77 a ship, named la Rosiere, was much " But is it very wise or politic in a Minister to shattered in returning from Port-au-Prince. An preach up desertion and rebellion to the people against English Captain, who fell in with her at sea, per their masters ? Do not s u c h mea n s s hew the Mitts• , suaded her to refit at Saint- Augustin in Florida. s 1 tice of your cause, and the w ea kness of your arms. • Scarcely had she arrived when the Englishman made What do you call free resolution ? We make war, as ! th French ship come to moorings under his cannon. at all times, because our best interests require that we War had not been declared betwixt the two coun be against you. You tell us to rise: We are not op. tries, nevertheless the crew of the Rosiere were ried off, and kept prisoners in the town. A hundred+ car pressed or bowed down . It is for you, a nation of ; , were slaves, to rise. W e are f ree m en , happy und er t h e i fra ncs promised to the savages for the scalp of sovereigns who have governed us these 900 years. We .e very w Frenchman whom they should take endeavour are not under the fire a nd sword of a foreigner, c i ing i t n o t esc . condition, (said M. le Chevalier Achard de 311ao • follow the voice of duty ; we obey the Sovereign : 1 vouloir, in a letter to M. de Sartines,) we bare been kept two we do by that means what we ought, and those who months and a half; at the end of that dme, they sent us to Port endeavour to convey into our bosoms the horrors of au-Prince, in a miserable vessel, with a few pounds of biscuit, baU the p anarchy and civil war, in order to save their own not sufficient f or usar . territory, make a vain, puerile, and criminal calcu-j The Chevalier de _ Bretigny was likewise made pri lotion. What! should the Austrian Eagle, the ', soner before the Dechuatien of War, and carried to Prussian Eagle, the Lion of Bavaria, and the Green ;Saint Augustin. Ctown of Saxony be the prey of slavery ; and the I "1 h ssel! (said be, in his letter to the Minister of Marine) colours of the Cossacks, of the Russians, the Musco- i si xty forgotten in the space of four days, and left without usy F r ench d to a desert island, shut up in a town, vices and Tartars, should they be the banners of pa- r ' 1 food. They were told, that if they did not agree so falls, triotism and liberty in Germany ? You tell us of the , either in the regiments that were here in garrison, n or ise i t . : aid you expect from the brave Russians in a condi board tie - onf at first - fri but the s shou ldtil t:Lat as carried into Imm:alate men tion to bear arms in a population of fifty millions of don, and the i unkappy men, to escape from a horrible death, inhabitants : then let us alone: do not have recourse , agreed to serve under the English mbar% I bee* seen them, i to us, and defend yourselves. But we have heard with tears i n th e ir eyes, sign their agreement, call me to beer enough of those fine stories; instead of fifty millions ! witness to the violence that was t n. f themselves, and n the t m. and entreat ate to clves, be of inhabitants, you have not twenty-five millions, . lm p y t t e in t he e 3. sincerity dnnunfoi-tof the .e, P end could only sigh in silence. and of these a part so barbarous that they are not to u (Signed) "The Cuevet.tha De Bit L CLOWN" be reckoned on ; another part of them must make It is well known, that last year the Emissaries of head against the Turks and Persians, and another the English Government endeavoured to excite the issuing from the tomb, rise in a mass, and arm them selves against you to reestablish their native coun- i Savages to make incursions into the territory of the U try of Poland. If you fight to the last extremity for United States, to massacre the peaceable inhabit a nts r the independence of your country, you do well; but and to scalp the women and children. that does not say that you fight for our interests, if The inhabitants of Pensylvania have not fo rg ot we had an the nature of the presents sent by the tribe of the dare say so, y , the ex oppos ample of ten years should mak e site to those of France, and ifou us ' Sinckas to the King of England, in 1778. The f ac t ! see the value we ought to set on your power. But is deserves to be better known than it is. short, the mountain is in labour, and brings forth a The letter of the Indian, which accompanied t h ese pr was addd to o mouse. Those Those high sounding phrases end ir. pro ve esents, resse Col nel H rnor of Canada, and is here given verb aldimand, , atim : posing to us to desert, and in offering us places in a .. Father—We desire that you would stud over from the other German Legion. You would wish us to betray our , aide of the water TIIOII2 SCALP/ to the Great King, that be sovereigns, our country, and our religion, in order to see them, and i sl f ee h p is in peaces; and e d sensib b l i e t of our serve under your standards ! What a base proposal ! the t d n e w s t e r d u c u t o un n o nn un presents ha i r . : sot . be es tn grateful people. P When a General, a Minister, has so far disgraced i (Eigned) " CONCIOGATCHI, Chief of the Sinckas." himself, as not to blush at such a proposal, one cant 1 Those horrible spoils, which the British Comma• only have a horrible idea of the morality of his.na. dens received as a trophy worthy of them, were the tion. Besides, what should we gain in your serv i ce ? . sad remains of their brothers of Pensylvania, of New Do we not know ? Pay, we should receive it in Jersey, of Virginia, and of New-York. paper; we should be in the most frightful climate in i The enormities practised by the agents of the the world; we should incur the contempt which at-' Court of St. James in that war, either against the caches to all foreigners in . the service of Russia . If ! Amer i cans or aga i nst the French, would amount to a you saw for some time your arms prosper, it was to volume. The most wonderful circumstance is, that the Munichs, the Ostermanns, Scecountrymen of our's, no retaliation was practised on the part of the latter. that you owed that success. And how did they ter- It has been alleged, that they piqued themselvei upon minate? by exile into Siberia. Your nation is jea- , the principle of generosity—l rather think it arose lour of the Germans, and hates them. You have re- from the weakness of the Government, for there is paid with ingratitude those who. have served you. ' no generosity in suffer;ng s injuries with impunity ; or With respect to those unfortunate men whom you in replying by barren seinonstrances, to acts of injus, have corrupted and debauched by the prospect of a tice and barbarity. happy lot in the flourishing provinces of your eip.. f It is difficult to reason coolly, in discussing a ques pire, what is become of them ? Their confidence iii tion so self-evident—but it is requisite to express oor your promises has brought on them misery, despair, , indignation, and to expose the absurdity of th e re and death. 1 proaches of the English Ministry. Were Lord Cos " Yost speak of the liberty of Germany; what do tlereagh a man of candour, would not he thus address you understand by that ? Is it the distribution of the the House of Commons: Houses of Austria, of Brandebourg, of Bavaria, of 1 44 Gentlemen, some French prisonershave escaped Wurtemburgh, of Baden, of Hesse, of Saxony, of, from the hulls, others have broken their parole ; this Westphalia, &c. ? Certainly this is a project on the is wrong, and contrary to the principle s of honour. part of your Prince very honourable, anevery mora l- ,It is true, our countrymen have set them the exam and this is addressed to us, known fbr our attach- i.l le, but what right have the French to follow it ? ment to the Sovereigns who have governed us so as not the history of all forrrer times shewn, that many centuries. Do you mean by liberty the pre. the English may do what they please, and that no sent you would make us of the Muscovite Code, with one has a right to find fault ? Have not we seized respect to peasants ? Is it by attaching us to the soil the crews of 150 merchant ships previou! to a decla that you would pretend to make us free ? The word o , ration of war, and are we not always complaining Liberty is revolting, when coming from your mout hs. ; that the enemy have been guilty of a great injustice How dare they, who treat men like horses, speak thus in making reprisals, and in detaining our countrymen to the Germans ? who happened to be on the Continent. 46 Baron de Tony !—You wish to revolutionize, to .. Let us remain true to our principles ;we have make republics 1 It is you, it is that handful of Ger-1 allies, who shed their blood to maintain our commer man adventurers, so passionately fond of England, . cial pre-eminence; we grant them the honour of who would have no rest till you bad put our hinces i fighting by our side, but after all, those Allies are under the knife of the butchers, till you had burnt , only y Spaniards and Portuguese, and not the sons of ' our towns and villages, destroyed our manufactures, . Old England. If they have the misfortune to be and, under pretence of giving Liberty to the Ger- I made prisoners, so much the worse for them ; we no mans, devoted our race to all the horrors of anarchy 1.: longer acknowledge - them, and cannot consent that 44 This Proclamation is to us a new ground for they should rank with that description of prisoners blessing Heaven fez. the strength and power of sour . who have a right to be exchanged. Such a privi- Protector ; for it is neither from Dresden, from Mu-1 , : lege can only belong to the English. In admitting nich, nor Stutgard, that this Proclamation is dated ; it is net even from an exchange, we have enough of p r i soners to re l ease Berlin or Warsaw ; le i -11 ,rises'r all our countrymen and all our alli es w h om t h e f ate ' you have been driven back into Russia, when you of war has put into the power of t h e enemy j b ut abandon Poland, which you have been unable to de. I consider that then our hulks wou ld b e em and fend, that you so far forget every feeling of honour ! we woul pty,d so longer have the pl easure o f wre aki ng and decency, that you have recourse to the pen, and i i our vengeance upon the defenceless French, for the to the aid of r.dventwers and miscreants ! There is I loss of our commerce and the ruin of our altunifac not an- honest man in the world who would have . 1 turers. It is said we -have broken a capitulation.— wouldwished to sign such a Proclamation. Such language strange, to dispute with us the privilege we have ac have become England, though the Minister, I quired of breaking our word. Did we not capitu however, would not have avowed it. We will con- late a; Closter Severn, in presence of a French army, , elude by giving you our advice. Dread, lest while and did the Minister make any scruple of violating you are talking of Liberty to the People of Germany, the convention, though signed by a Prince of the it may pot be given to your slaves, lest it be given to Blood ? Let us not relinquish, I repeal, the princi- Poland. In tine, be assured that the houses which pies of our forefathers. Th at only is . injustice which govern our Countries, more ancient than yours, are militates against our interest. I must nevertheless more immoveable on. their thrones. The House of confess, when. I compare the present with former Russia may perish either by the catastrophies which times, 1 unavoidably experience some Now we ma.!e Peter perish by the hand of Catharine—Paul by the hand of ••*• e. But the Houses of Saxon are treated with insuffe ra bl e arrogance . I d read l est ofy, you msty one day be compelled to be just, end then, Bavaria, of Wurtember g, of Baden, of Hesse according to the predictions oft e great Lord phia -1 Darmundt, will suasive your vain menaces. It is hank you will be on the brink of ruin," Those . , more easy to see Russia return to at state of bar. have read attentively the debates in the Lo wer Hous e barisin from which Peter I. made her emerge, than on the 26th of June must perce i ve t hi s to be a f a i th . so see ;hese illoetrious Houses extinguished, or their ful translatiop of the ideas of Lord C.astlereagh, palaces set in flames by the torches ofheigunda whom though by him more correctly ea d. the Baron de Toll,• wishes to stir up against their If any principle of homer yet exist in the hire* Sovereigns, and their crollptrYs rind a h ci --; *ll- .l °nl bl if. of EnsPlith let theta answer our call, satilet ill* tx ---• , the cr8.4... . • , into the faierint Palliasses isakete 1111 facts : 'S ise. Villa of the two the Law et Makes t was the Int to violate " td. Of which of two tiers most frequently broken their " Sd. Upon yr* pretence does 55,000 men, in defiance of the espi.. _ Let Mr. Whitbread, Mr. .. other Members of the House of commons, grappl e openly with these questions ; and the families who in both countries lament the long captivity of their children, their brothers, and their friends, will know at length to which of the two Governments they ought to impute their misfortunes. Above all, you Mr. Wilberforce, who have often lent a generous support to the oppressed, employ now all your elo. quence in favour of the prisoners of the Belligerent Powers ; tell the matrons of England, that if their children are condemned to live in a foreign lam', it is owing to the injustice of their own Government. Cause, if possible, your Ministers to blush for des. contempt they testify for their allies. Tell them t h at in attaching themselves to the British cause the Spa. niards and Portuguese had a right to expect, in 4 exchange of prisoners, the same advantages eshid t the English wish exclusively to enjoy. Powers have the piss. k? Ind detain in her prisons Ice et Ba7lera ? rilberforce, and die RUSSIAN BULLETINS. The following are the latest Bulletins from a t Russian army : 6 ' Reed-quarten. June 27 orr 114 • Yesterday our army entered the eacop metg of Drissa. The rear-guard remained at me flap long march from the main body, to observe the mew. meats of the enemy, who does not seem to havens& any dr"" !, Headitiareers Jay (114 64 It appears that the enemy makes a strolling powerful movement towards our right flank, Oak k composed of the first Army of the West ; but the Com mander-in-Chief is well informed of their inteotims, and is prepared to frustrate their attacks. 46 Prince Bagrathion continues to make those name meals which have been pointed out to him. .Tha General of Cavalry, PlAtoff, who covers those mo►e. meats, fell, on the 26th of Jane (July 8) on the part of the enemy who continued their march from Nom. grodka to Korelischschi ; their advanced guard, cos. sisting of three columns of cavalry, was attacked by our Cossacks, and driven hack even through the sags of Novrogrodka. to ascertain our positions." It 14J The following day, the 27th (July 9), tbe vantages which we obtained over the enemy wee by far more important. The enemy, after basil reinforced his advanced guard, attacked General Ph. toff, who had occupied the small town of Mir three regiments of Polish flulans under the command ci General Turno, were completely defeated in this ea. gagement, two Colonels, several officers, and glO privates, were made prisoners. Gillen! Tarno bin/ self, with a small number of his Hulas, had Andy time to escape the same fate." BT. PETERS BURGH, JULY 8, (JULY 4) - C.omaida His Excellency the Minister at War, .. in Chief of the First Army of the West, hums. flitted a dispatch to the Minister of the Waite ' from which the following is an extract: " In fine, I can assure you, Sir, for the idols . tion of the whole of the public, that our troops la tie West are in the best condition. All of them are prei pared, 411 are on the watch, and burn with impatience to come to action with our implacable enemy. Hi. therto, besides, all our plans have been successful; and with the blessing of Con, and the valour dour soldiers, we have not the slightest reason to doubt de successful issue of our wart.tre l " With the above dispatch was also transmitted, I/ the Minister at War, the following General Order s which was issued to the Vint Army of the West. 4, the 24th of Jr' July 6.) June, ( " By his unexpected, and even impetuous inroul into our territories, the enemy hoped to dissipate, by his columns, into =all portions, our military form extended along a line of more than 800 /CPUs IA after he had annihilated each by itself, to accomprit his vindictive designs, as it were, with one blow. Dy such means only, however, coosrary to the law d nations, has be hitherto succeeded is vanquish* other armies, and in bringing other States under hi dominion, who were deceived by con&ling in lbs universal respeit that was paid to the most acsol rights. 44 But, however furious his advance =ales has been, hitherto it has not berndeller, with the effects which he wished. An the 0 1 . 111 P. ' corps have, by skilful and vigorous movernsetVelm &sir chreciion towards the point of general inkei ' They no longer meet with any impediment. " Soon, brave warriors. shall yos be milli Pi then will I place you, with concentrated o pposi ti co to the foe srho hashed the aedesity terrupt our repose t and tubes be, exhausted by . less marches, and involved in numberless ffilcllol. and wants, shall offer us battle, then will we vie ously grapple with him, and by the help d a GOD, inflict vengeance arm him for oarsdret+ amir for all those whom he hal subjected to bus Pa w ' You have already seen a specimenof this: roll the rearguard of the Tint Army of the Nast A! led the impetuous attack of th e e enemy's odor . guard, which was thrice their nem*, dis lack, and forced them with gnat loss to seek rair in the woods, The Sovereign sball soon be Oi l acquainted with this exploit of nun d . • Pisbed vs i • May it be seen as an trample for un i versal nt4 16. 1 imd den slieti I ry Ls sure tocoureflu. , , 1 . I I 1 1 1 1 .1 1 A .1 1