Star. — London, England, 1814-03-02 00:00:00

PRBNCii PARIS, F hit VARY 23. l-ler Id4jesty the Empress and Queen has received ele following news, respecting the situation of the so nes, el the 21st of February : 64 Baron Comilaridaiit at Besancon, liter• as follows : On the :31st of Satinety the enemy' made an at tack from the side of Briguelk ; in the night he weed to play upon the town two batteries of howit trs and cannon, and attempted an attack upon the f o rt of Chandoue t he wab every where repulsed, s tuidst the cry of " eve rEmperesii." He has lost more than IWO men. At whatever part the enemy presents himself, we are sn a condition to well re:eive tine' " All the Cossacks whO had spread them - selves as pcar as Orleans are hastily falling back. Every where !the peasants pur sue, and take and kill a great num ber of them. At Nogent, these Tartars, who have no thing human, burnt some barns, to which they :et fire with - their hands. The peasants having come out to extinguish it. the Cossacks charged them and rekindled the fire. In a village on the Yonne. the Cossacks were amusing themselves in burning a fine farm-house, the tocsin was sounded, and the in-. habitants threw some thirty of them into the flames. " The Varier Me:ander slept on the l'tth at 'l Bray . ; he bad flied his head-quarters for the follow: i l l day at Fontainebleau. The Emperor of Aus- 1 tria did nauquit Troyes. 14 the Emperor Napoleon had on the,2oth, in the mein, his head-quarters at Nogent. All the enemy's army is marching uppn Troyes. —General Girard has arrived with his corps, and the division of cavalry of General Roussel, at Sens ; he had his advanced guard at Villeneuve l'Archiveque. The advanced- guard of the Duke of Reggio is half way between Nogent and Troyes, at Chartres and at lalesgrigny ; those of the Duke of Tarentum are at Pavillon. The Duke of Ragusa is at Sezanne, ob serving the movements of General Winzingerode' who, having left Soissons, has marched upon Rheims, by Chalons, to unite with the wrecks of General . Blucher's army. The Duke of Ragusa would fall upon his left flank, if he should again engage himself. " Soissons is a place sheltered from a comp de main. ' General Winzingerode, at the head of four or 5000 light troops, summoned it to surrender. General Rusca replied as he ought. Winzingerode placed his twelve pieces of cannon in a battery : unfortu nately the first ball killed General Rusca ; one thou sand men of the National Guards were the only gar rison in the plate ; they were thunderstruck,. and the enemy entered Soissons, where he committed all the horrors imaginable. Tile Generals who were in the place, and,who should have taken the command upbn the death of General Rusca, shall be brought before a conned of enquiry, for Chit town ought not to ha been taken. " The Duke of Treviso re-occupied Bo;ssons on the 19th, and has re-organised the defence of it. " Gen. - Vincent writes froln Chateau Thierry, that X5O of the enemy's light troops having returned to Fere, in Tardenois, M. d'Arbaud .Missun marched against them with sixty horse of the suede; d'konneur which he had collected, and with the assistance of the national guards of the villages, beat them, killing sc. veral, and dispersing the remainder. 41 General Milhaud ntet the enemy at St. Martin-le. Bosnay, upon the old road .from Nogent to Troyes. The enemy had about eight hundred horse. He caused them to be attacked by three hundred men, who overthrew him, made one hundred and sixty prisoners, killed some twenty men, and took about one! hundred horses.- He has pursued, and is still pm.' suing tee enemy retie dame let ream. The Duke of Castiglione has left Lyons with a considerable corps d'arnsee, composed of chosen troops, to march into Franehe Comte and Switzerland. " The Congress of Chitillon still continues; but the. enemy throws every difficulty in the way of it (mail tennemie y pa* mite eeittri d'estravet). The Cossacks at every step stop the couriers, and although we are bat thirty leagues distance from Chatillon, in a direct line, couriers do not arrive but after four or five days ) o anwe- It is the first time the rights of nations have in this manner been violated. Among nations the least civilized, the couriers of Ambassadors are ee :petted, and no obstruction given 'to the communica tions of negotiators with their Government. "The inhabitants of Paris might have expected the greatest misfortunes, bad the enemy arrived at their gates, and they surrendered their city without de fence. Pillage, devastation, and fire, would have, finished the destinies of this fine capital. " The cold is very sharp. This circumstance has been favourable to our enemies, a% it has enabled them to carry off their artillery and baggage by all the • roads. Without that, more than half their waggons would have fallen into our hands." MINISTER OF JIJSTICE. We, Count Molc, Grand Judge, Minister of Jus tice, Officer of the Legion of Honour, and Grand l Cordon of the Order of Union, " Considering the letter addressed to us on the 17th of February,;lBl4, by M. the Duke of Vicenza, whereby he informs us, according to the orders of his Majesty the Emperor and King, of the King of Na ples having declared war against France, and that it is the intention of his Imperial and Royal Majesty that we should, by a formal declaration', and confor. • LONDON. NEXT FRIDAY THE LOTTERY BEGINS DRAWING. • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1814. PRICE OF STOCKS THS3 DAY - AT TWELVE:WC-OQC Bank Stock nothing done—S per Cent. Red. 70ii-1031 Cons. 704 j 'Ml—for acc. 72i 72 711...-4 per Ct. 85it 5 per Ct. 97iii-14.Anns. —Omni= 284 t 28 India Bonds 7s. Bs. pr.—Exchequer Bills Ss. ss. pr. Paris Papers to the 25th ultimo have now reached Town. They furnish us with no accounts of fresh battles, with the exception of a slight affair between Troyes and Nogent, which is narrated in the usual stile of gasconade. The head-quarters of BONAPARTR were at Nogent on the 20th and 21st. He admits that the armies of the Allies were concentrating at Troyes. The most important passage in the official Report to the ENIPRESS is certainly that in which the negociations at Chatillon are noticed. The Congreis continues, but " the enemy throws every difficulty in the way of it." This does not allude to the conduct of the negotiators. It is evident from what follows, that the Cossacks, not understanding the laws of na tions, and probably anxious to check every approxi mation to a pacification until they have visited Paris, are the aggressors. The interior of France must be in a most distracted state, since a courier with dis patches can travel one hundred miles in four or five days only ! A pathetic appeal is made to the Parisian Public, anticipating what would have been their sufferings had the Allies carried Paris by a coup de maim. The Generals who commanded at Soissons are repriman ded in• the same querulous tone which has recently „ ;parked BONAPARTE'S Bu lletins. The defection of MURAT is formally announced In the Paris Papers. Count MOLE, calling himself Grand Judge, announces that the King of NAPI.ES has de- clared war against France, and calls upon every na- I tive-born Frenchman to quit the service of the Nea politan Government. We apprehend that MURAT will sustain no loss from the absence of the spies and sycophants of his brother-in-law, NAPOLEON. On the whole we eonsider the present intelligenee as more favourable than any received for some time from the Grand Allied Army. The different corps, approach each other, and by this time we may be lieve ate united. They ought, in our opinion, never to have acted separately in their approach towards the French capital, if they had the means of keeping together ; but perhaps the demand for provisions for such numerous hosts in an enemy's country, and other' circumstances, with which those who superintend the operations could-alone be acquainted, compelled them to pursue different roads. Whatever may have ori ginally occasioned the advance of BLUCHER and WINZINORRODS by different routes, the circumstance was favourable to the general system pursued by Na- r roiaex, which has aiwayaheeri td ear owe npon some weak point of his adversary with an over whelthing force ; and the whble history of the war for the last fifteen years, proves that to this system he has been indebted for his greatest successes. From the hasty view we have just taken, our lteadets will easily perceive that we consider the re treat of the Allied Annies as not having been with out its advantages. It is a matter of no small im portance to perceive, from the asuerly retreat of BLUCHER, the unshaken bravery and perfect disci pline of his army, how much the morale of the Ger man troops has been improved, since the spirit of the Continent has been roused to throw off the chains of the oppressor. The time has been—nor is the pe riod very remote, in which the advantage gained by BONAPARTE in his attack upon BLUCHER would have been followed by a complete defeat instead of a masterly retreat. The consummate skill, valour, patience, and forti tude displayed by the Allied troops on this occasion, are of infinite importance. In our estimation such a retreat as they effected is in its consequence of more real advantage than even a victory under common circumstances ; and sure we are that BONAPARTE must so view it. If the army be composed of mate rials that can present such a front to the foe when' di vided, what may we not expect from its united la bours The ilutution of the allied troops is a circumstance. of great Interest at the present moment, as it will have no small influence on the negociations now car rying on at Chatillon, and which there is every reason to believe will lead to the restoration of a General Peace. The French Papers to the 25th, besides the extracts which are given in another part of this Paper, con tain an article stating that Admiral VERIIk.VIL still holds out in the Texel, and praising the condu ct of that Commander. Last night both Houses of Parliament met, pursu ant to adjournment, and again adjourned to the list March. Our Readers will perceive that no particular opposition was made to this measure. The retarding of the• routine business of the Session was slightly hinted at as a matter of inconvenience, but no amend ment whatever to the motion was suggested. The House of Lords was numerously attended, and to strangers were behind the Bar. Amongst the Peers present, we noticed—. The Archbishop of Can:erbury, their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Gloucester. the Dukes of Norfolk and Montrow, the MaNnisses of Lanschrwn and Catatden, the Earls of Abergavenny, Carlisle, Chohnondeley, Darnley, Derby. /far , roWhy, Liverpool, Nelson, Pomfret, Sandwich, Sienc- r, and Stanhope, Vvcounts Melville and Idmouth, the Bishop of Chester, and Lords Arden, Eldon, Eilenburough, Kenyon, and Watsinghstn. The attendance in the House ofCommons amount ed to upwards of 200 Members. The gallery was eorowded with strangers. The Lynn ettanesta.on waited upon the Papier Ii.EGENT, after the breaking np of the House of Lords, at Carlton House, and had a long audience. Mr. Rosixsos was in constant consultation with the Earl of 1 4 tvitawsk a few days previous to his depar ture. He dined with the Noble Earl and Countess, Madame STARE., and a select party on Thiwsday.— On Friday he was closely engaged with the Noble Earl before and after the Cabinet Council. On Sa turday and Sunday he also attended the Noble Earl. On the latter ,day the Letan CHANCELLOR was present part of the time, till their Lordships waited-upon the PRINCE REGENT, to take his final sanction to the dis patches. Mr. ROBINSON dined on Sunday with hi, mother, Lady GRANTHAM, and afterwards saw the Earl of LIVERPOOL again, to take his last instructions. We are authorised to state very positively, that ' Madame CATALAN' will contract engagement this year at the Opera.—At her Concerts, which will com mence at the Argyle Rooms on the 24th instant, and continue once a week during the three best months of the season, she will sing several pieces of new music, and tunas from some of the most admired Operas. Toe CAMBRIAN .JUBILEE.—The Loyal Society oil Antient Britons held their Centenary Meeting yester day. A number of Noblemen and Gentlemen, also many Ladies, assembled in the morning at the School, in Gray's-Inn-lane Road, when each, according to custom, was presented with an artificial leek. Soon after elevea o'clock they moved in grand procession, but the morning turning out very wet, the children Gould not walk ; the girls were consequently taken into, the ladies' carriages, and the boys in hackney-coaches. —A band of music preceded the President's carriage (Earl Pas= ), then the Bishop of CHESTER, afterwards Ills City Marshal in full uniform ; here a few of the ibts walked, then followed a long . train of Gentle men's carriages; the servants wearing leeks. Had the weather been fine the sight would have been a • truly gratifying one. The procession arrived at St. Martin's Church about half past twelve, when the service was read in the Ancient British language, by the Chaplain of the Society, and an ex cellent discourse was delivered by the Lord Bishop of Cintsrge. They proceeded afterwards to Carlton- House, where the children gave their Royal Patron several hearty cheers, continuing their route through St. James's-square (saluting the puke of NORIOLK and Sir W. W. WyriNz), through Hanover-square, &c. to the Freemason's Tavern, where an excellent dinner was provided, of which between seven and eight hundred persons partook : Earl Piracy in the Chair, with the Duke of KENT on his right band and the Bishop of CHESTER on his left. Private letters from Holland state, that VIRHUEL I i is fixed a limited time to give up the Testa flect ‘ provided the country continued in possession of ha present Sovereign. He has solemnly protested that be will burn the whole of the shipping in case mu.' stares are taken to compel him to surrender. Sixty Frenchmen are on board the ships for the porpoise of carrying into execution any orders of the Admiral for their destruct*. mably with the existing laws, tecall all Faischinen who may be in the civil or military Service of the Neapolitan Government : and conformably with the article of the Imperial Decree of the 6th of April, 1809, and the 17th and 18th articles of that of the 26th of August, " We declare, that all Frenchmen who may now, with or without the permission of his Majesty, be in the military or civil service of the Neapolitan Go vernment, are to return into the territory of the em pire within the space of three months, to be reckoned from the 17th of February, 1814, and that they shall there be held to prove their return, according to the forms prescribed by law; in default whereof, and after the expiration of that term, the defaulters shall be denounced, and pursued by the agents of the pub lic government, conformably with the dispositions of the Imperial Decree of the•6th of April, 1809. ig Given at Paris, in our Hotel, on the 22d of Fey bruary, 1814. (Signed) " COUNT MOLE." PARIS, FEBRUARY Stg. The Emperor slept at Nogent on the night between the 20th and 21st. His Majesty continues to enjoy the best health. On the 21st his Majesty's head-quarters were at Troyes ; the Duke of Reggio was at Romilly. Her Majesty the Empress has yesterday and to• Way, at one o'clock, kit the palace of the Thuilleries, and taken a walk. PARIS, FEBRUARY 2X On the 21st the Emperor's Head-quarters were at Nogent. His Majesty enjoys goad health. The Marshal Duke of Reggio was at Romilly; on his way to Troyes. MILAN, FEBRUARY IL Since the affair of the 11th,- nothing has occurred Along the whole of the line oh the army. On the 12th, several discharges of artillery were heard iron. the enemy's lines, the object of which was to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the Emperor of Austria. _ . They write from Mantua, that the security of its environs is likely to be affected ; a 'detachment of the enemy's cavalry having broken the chains of a num ber of malefactors, and set them at liberty :—they !rid all been condemned to severe punishments, and some of them were even sentenced to irons for life.— The deliverance of these malefactors is a new bene faction, for which we are indebted to the generosity of our enemies. French Funds—Feb. 22, 56f.—Feb. 23, 561. 50c. THE EVENING STAR. MAILS. AIM DIM • 2 0 S 1 - 0 0 • 0 1 - 0 2 - 0 IS - 0 2 Clubno - Waterford Calif Lisbon • Corunna Hellgnlind Guernsey Jersey Passages lialitat St. Setastian's AU. DVS. • 0 O s 1 . 0 1 9 o 0 o 0 O 0 Malta - Gottenbutgh Holland . FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 27. Nothing arrived today. Sailed the Eliza Packer, with a Mail for the Brazils. The Duke of Kent Packet, for Lisbon, has gone into the Roads. PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY es. Arrived the ship Sydney Cove, of and for Lon don, Ftrooz master, from Rio de Janeiro with a cargo consisting of coffee, cotton, hides, ivory, &c. put in here to join convoy ; sailed thence on the 2&I of Oc tober in company with the NARCISSU3 frigate. Sailed this day his Majesty's ship ULrsszs, with a convoy for the Eastward ; also sailed the SULTAN man of war to join the Channel fleet ; Swn:Gzx gun brig for Halifax, with dispatches. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH I . Arrived his Majesty's ship ULYSSES, with a large fleet of transports and merchant vessels from Ply: mouth ; and the Clarence, JACKSON, from Pemam ?men, laden with cotton, hound to London, put into this port to join convoy. Went out of Harbour the Ackticut and HYPERIOZ:.—Wind N.W. strong breeze . DEAL, MARCH 1. Arrived the &lumina sloop of war, with a convoy from Portsmouth, which are sailed for the River. Five o'clock.—Arrived another Reet from Ports mouth, particulars not known; the two Indiarnert that arrived at Portsmouth are supposed to be among them.—Wind N.W. HARWCH, MARCH 1. Arrived the Alliance Packet, Cipt.iin MAISII, with a Mail from Heligoland.—They report that the ice extend ten leagues from the Island.—Wind S.W. SHEERNESS, MARCH r. Put 'sack yesterday, after post, the Swedish ship Oscar, Honsartz master, not being able to get into the River Maese for the ice ; she confirms the infor mation obtained yesterday, that 11 sail of the FLA.• men's convoy did attempt to get into the Aid, but it was repotted to the master of the Oscar by the crews of an ice boat, that only five of the ships succeeded, the other six were cut through by the ice, and would in all probability be lost. The Swedish brig Red. ligheden, GERDES, master, and a copper-bottomed transport, marked H, were carried on shore by the crews off the Island of Goree. A transport brig is to tally lost, but the, crew saved ; she i. said to have beets laden with bornh.shells. I',e Mime& fetus sloop of war has the signal flying for convoy for Elsineur. . COVIt'OF CORK, FEBRUARY. 2.3. We are happy to announce the safe arrival of his Majesty's ship TRINCULD, Captain Rassy, from ac companying the West India Jim as tAr as the Western Isles. His Majesty's shi;) PaRSIDES Capt.sin MA. SON, was left on the 12th instant, by a vessel arrived 'here on Monday from SP. A ndero, off that port, col lecting the vessels of his convoy bound to Passages, having already seen those in bound to St. Andero.— His Majesty's ship BACCHUS, Captain Wruks, sailed yesterday morning for Ply Mouth. His Majesty's ship TARTARUS, Captain Pasc.oz, and JALOUSE, Captain Lowe, sailed yesterday on slim cruises.—Monday se'nnight his Majesty's ship MENELAUS recaptured (the TRutetmo, Captain Retina, being in sight) - a very valuable Spanish ship from South America, be. tween Ushant and Scilly, endeavouring to make a French port ; the had been previously captoried off the Western Isles, by two French frigates, who took out her crew, and put some of their own hands on board, with directions to proceed to France. She is said to have specie, &c. on board, to the amount of a million sterling. The Frenchmen were in the act of taking the specie out of her, when an English man Of war heaving in sight, they quitted the prize and gave her Chace. The re-capture is arrived in Plymouth. .-13 y the arrival in this port yesterday of the ship Fidelity, Captain Htxraa , from Passages, we are enabled to communicate intelligence from the South of France so late as the 15th inst. to which period no movement had been made by the Marquis WIILLUic.• TON, but every preparation was making- to advance as soon as the weather and the roads would permit. Spars, cables, &c. were collecting for the purp9e of throwing abridge over the Adour. Our army was in high spirits and excellent order,and the gallant Marshal was in-very good health, and frequently took the di- ' version of hunting in view of the French lines. The last fleet of merchantmen that Ailed from this har- • hour for St. Ander% &c. had all arrived out safe. . . Advises received yesterday from Bilbna assert, that the Spanish troops, appointed by the Cones to escort King FasnINAND to Spain, had already set uut for that purpose. Extract of a letter from Sackett's Harbour, dated January 19—" We have every possible reason to ex pect, and I have not the least doubt that we shall be at tacked daring the winter. Report says. that the creamy are making every necessary preparation for that pur pose at Kingston. A short time since several detached companies of troops, amounting to about 800 mt n, were marched to French Mills, leaving this plice nearly destitute, so that there remains at the Harbour only about 700. Our fleet is manned to the best ad `vantage, but at the best the ships can only act as floating batteries." CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, MARCH 1. Wbn Hav t i w ng u no k i lt e o s e h e 4rri r fro v rn ali M of o an ada V y g: s a mp ini v h li li o nl btigneolTh nittg. radistib what B a n .. - ter prices. Barley Is in demand, sad is. par vertu dame. a other irticlel there Is no altesation. .1