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Flanders to Admiral Young, who, I hope, w:11 be e❑abled to forward it immediately ►o England, with my most sincere conguttulations on this decisive event, Ih- v. the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CHAS. HAMILTON SMITH ) Captain, D. A. Q. M. G. Right Hon. Earl Bathurst. (FRANILATION.) " Acc ordin g to the plan of the high Allied Powers, all the different corps were to concentrate, in order to form two army-corps ; for this purpose, some short ret , ogrAdo movements were necessary. The army of Marshal Blucher had concentrated itself nehr Laon ; and Napoleon, at the head of EiL;hty Thousand `•len, had followed it. Yesterday a courier arrived here with the tidings that the Field- Marshal had determined to come to a general engage. ment on the gth ; and at this moment a second cou rier is arrived, bringing the following Official infor mation from him : 46 This morning, before day-break, the enemy at ticked my right wing and centre, under the corn :nand cf Generals Winz;ngerode and Bulow ; and by favour of a thick mist, penetrated to the walls of Laon. About mid-day, when the mist cleared off, the corps of the two above-named Generals drove back the enemy. A very severe contest of infantry btgan on intersected ground, and we progressively advanced, until the fall of evening. 66 About three o'clock in the afternoon the enemy's columns appeared on my left wing, and took posses. sion of the village of Athieres, and commenced a heavy cannonade on the corps of Von Yorck and Kleist. Having foreseen this occurrence, I caused the corps of Langeron and Sacken to break up, for the purpose of strengthening the left wing, with orders to act offensively at the same time with the corps of Yorck and Kleist. .01.'"The Generals Yorck and Kleist executed this order with their usual ability. The enemy was, at the close of day, wholly overthrown—his artillery, Lis ammunition waggons, and a great number of prisoners, fell into our hands. General Yorck in forms me at this moment, that he still pursues the enemy, and that his cavalry has already driven them in the greatest disorder as far as Corbiny. I hasten to commuain k te these tidings to your Most Serene Highness. 4g P.S. Up to this moment, Seventy pieces of cannon have already fallen .into our hands; the number of prisoners and caissons is not to be estimated. The victory was principally decided by a brilliant charge of cavalry. My left wing this day crosses the Aisne. Jt is not certain whether Napoleon commanded in per. son. The most of the Prisoners declare that they had seen him; but Deserters say, that be departed on the evening of the Sth with 15,000 men, taking the road for Paris, as the Grand Army, under the com mand of Prince Scbwartzenberg, had entered Fon. tainbleala." From the official accounts now in the possession of the Public, as well as from the known system of fraud and deception which pervade the statements in the French Pacers, it is impossible to doubt that the orerations of the Allies have been well concerted . and the plans equally well executed. The alternate advance and retreat of Prince SCHWMITZENBERG and General BLUCHER, it is now apparent, were parts of an arranged system calculated at once to harass the tnemy and wear out the physical strength of his army. What comes now of all the reported dissentions among the Allies, the pretended want of cordiality in their movements, and the mischiefs foreboded from family partialities and attachments ? We congratu- late the Public on the public contradiction given to all such vile surmises, by the sound drubbing given to the Usurper, and the actual advance of the two Armies towards Paris. That we should not be long in hearing of the ap proach of the Allies to the French capital after such a brilliant victory as that obtained by BLUCHER was a natural expectation ; especially when coupled with the previous departure, or subsequent flight of BON .1- r 11:f F. from the defeated army—for which is the real fact remains still to be ascertained. If we may credit the rumours of this morning, that event has actually take; place. Several letters from the Coast mention that the Allies are actually in Paris; but we have not beard on what day this event is supposed to have taken place. What a crisis does the present moment anticipate !—a crisis, perhaps, already realised. We shall not indulge in idle spe culations and. con jectures o n an event o f w hi c h we have as yet no offi cial information. Let us hope that a few hours will' coiliirm the report—and let us hope that in such an event the monuments of the Arts, of which other countries have • been plundered, will not .be passed over as matters of comparatively trivial import.— None but barbarians can so view them ; nor will mo ralists undervalue the weight which should attach to objects, which, in the estimation of the enemy, formed a justifiable ground for hostile invasion and assault, that they might obtain them—objects which since the invasion of the Allies, have been made matter of argument with the people of France for' resisting their approach to the capital—objects which have been dignified with the epithet " splendid fruits of former victories."—Neither a statue nor picture. of which other nations have been robbed should be left in Paris, if the Allies gain possession of that city. • - .. ' . SECOND EDITION. OCCUPATION OF PARIS BY THE ALLIES. FLIGHT OF BONAPARTE. STAR OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. We stop the Press to insert the following Letter, tcteived by express frcm Dover. We have every reason to believe that the intelligence it contains will prove correct, as it has reached us through a most respectable channel : " An Officer of the Belgic Cavalry, from the Head-quarters of the Duke of SAXE WLIMAR, at Tournay, has bcen landed at Deal, from one of Ad miral YOUNG'S cruizers, dispatched with him from the Roompot. 44 He had Dispatches for Lord B tTHURST, and re ports that five Battles have been fought, in all of which t he Allies were Victorious. The first was fought by Marshal &Aroma, at Laon, against BONAPARTE, who was defeated with great loss, and retreated to Soissons, pursued by BLUCHER, which occasioned a second battle here, which appears to have been ob stinately contested, and a second time the Allies were victorious. In this affair the Duke of TARENTUNI and SEBASTIAN' were killed ; the former of whom was buried at Soissons with military honours. BONAPIIRTZ then retreated to Meaux, where he was a third time brought' to action by BLUCHER, and defeated by the corps d'armee under General DE YORK ; and had then to fight another battle at Cha renton, tour miles from Paris. He was again beaten, and obliged to abandon the Capital, retreating with the wreck of his army in the direction of Rouen.— It also appears that Prince SCHWARTSILNBERG had attacked and defeated Marshal OUDINOT at Corbiel, acrd was advancing towards Paris." Other letters mention positively, that Paris was occupied by the Allies on the 13th instant. A report has also reached us, but we know not the authority on which it rests, that the PnaßE frigate has taken the Esset American frigate. We have given extracts from Paris Papers to the ' 13th, but their contents are rendered scarcely worthy of a comment, in consequence of the following pis sage in a private letter from Paris of the 11th— " Don't believe the Meniieur—we have been beaten." It is rather Itriusge that the events of the 7th, whicti happened only 60 or 70 miles from Pat is, should not be officially made known in the capital until the 13th. That some details respecting the battles of the 9th and 10th had reached Phis, cannot be doubted, wc think, from the state of the French Funds. We have to announce the arrival at Leith of Cartel from Norway, having on board a Deputation from the Provisional Government of that country. Baron ANKER, a Danish Nobleman, is at the head of this mission, and it is stated that they will proceed to London, to implore the mediation of the PRINCE REGENT with Sweden, to avert the annexation of Nor way to that Kingdom. The measure is decidedly 1 1 unpopular among the Norwegians. The QUEEN continues confined to her private apart ment's, in Windsor Castle, in consequence of a severe cold. . The Doke of SUSSEX, we are concerned to say, is confined at Kensington Palace, with his asthmatic complaint. Yesterday, soon after three o'clock, the Princess CHARLOTTE, attended by Miss KNIGHT, took an airing for about an hour in her carriage, in the Parks. The Baron VANDEIt DAYN VAN MAASDASI, Grand Master of the Household to her Royal Highness the Princess Sovereign of the NETHERLANDS, whose pre sentation to the PRINCE REGENT, at a private audience on the 9th inst. accompanied by M. FAGEL, the regu lar Ambassador, was notified in the Gazette of Satur. day last as having come on a special mission from the Court of the Hague, has been sent over trinake a demand in form of the Princes; CHARLOTTE'S hand in marriage for the Hereditary Prince of ORANGE.— The sanction of the previous consent and approbation of the PRINCE REGENT, of the PRINCESS herself, and of the whole Court and Government , has already smoothed the way to the arrangements of this impor. tant and auspicious union, which must, however, according to the established etiquette among crowned heads, be demanded by embassy after it has been agreed upon by the parties ; and the settlements and provisions as resulting from the exalted condition and prospective sovereign duties of the personages to be married, must be reduced into a Treaty by Plenipo tentiaries specially appointed. Mr. VAN MAASDAM is charged with fall powers for this purpose on the pact of the Prince Sovereign of the NETHERLANDS. The late Lord MONTGOMERIE married his cousin, Lady MARY, a very amiable woman, the daughter and heiress of the late Earl of ECLINTON, by whom he flab left two sons ; to the eldest the extensive estates of both families, united by this marriage, will ulti mately descend. Some years ago, Lbrd Morrrco- AERIE erected a beautiful Mansion, from a design of the lace Mr. WYATT, ai Coilsfield, the old family estate of his fAther, which, with the surrounding grounds, he embellished with great taste, and where he lived among his friends, in a style of the most ele s gAut and liberal hospitality. NJVAL INTELLIGEiIak MAI AU. DUL. Dublin Waterford Cadiz Lisbon ARR. Dui. O 0 O 1 0 lo O 1 p !) Co unna , 1 I He igoland O 0 Oottenburgh O 1 1-1111aiId . .‘I..MOLITH, MARCH 14. Nothing caged but the Mice, for Liverpool.— Wind E. N. E. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 15. Came in the WOLVERINE sloop of war, from a, cruize ; and the RAPID schooner, from the Eastward. Sailed the E rn.ltioN frigate, on a cruize.—Wind N.T. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 16. Sailed a fleet of transports, bound to Passages, with troops, protected as far as Plymouth by his Ma jesty's ships BRAZEN, ZEP2IIII, and MALAEAR; the BzAzEN proceeds to Cork.—Sailed the LEANDER, for Guernsey ; and the SYBILLE, for off Cherbourgh.— , Went out of the harbour the ABUNDANCE. Caine in the CAMEL. No arrivals. DEAL, MARCH 16. Arrived the TICKLER cutter from Admiral Yotwo in the Roompot, with a foreign Officer from the Allied Armies, who is said to be the bearer of dis. patches of the total defeat of BONAPARTE. Sailed the ROSARIO sloop of war, with a convoy to Ports mouth. LEITH, MARCH 14. A Cartel arrived yesterday, with an Envoy from Norway ; left Ch6stiansand on Wednesday last. On Tuesday the Lottery was contracted for by RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. and SwJF r and Co. The Scheme, we understand, is entirely new : every Purchaser is to have the Chance of the Prizes, not only in that Lottery, but in the succeeding Lottery. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the extra ships Lady Castle . _._ reagh, 602 tons ; Larkins, 637 tons ; and Coldstream, 694 tons, were taken up, and stationed fur Madeira and Bengal. Sir GEORGE COLLIER is to sail immediately from Portsmouth for the American station, in the LEAN- DER, 54. guns. This ship has been built and fitted out exactly upon the plan of the large American fri gates ; and is, in every respect, the first vessel sent out on an equality with the enemy whom she is in tended to meet. The Affidavit of Lord COCHRANE, we are given to understand, has saddled the Marshal of the King's Bench with the debts of Mr. RANDOM DE BLRENO£II, who, having been now found at random in Green- street, instead of being within the Rules, has made others liable to the creditors. Sir WILLIAM GARROW iS re-elected M. P. for the Borough of Eye. The following extract of a Letter from Mr. F. JOHN, dated Arendal, in Norway, February 25, af fords some interesting information, with regard to that country. 41 t left Harwich nn the 30th of January, in the Albion packet, for Gottenburgh. The Albion,aafter the mail of the gtith of January and two passengers were put on board the Diana, set sail back to Eng land, her leaky condition not ;Wowing her to beat the lea , in these latitudes. Out Captain (M , DoNocou) expected that a gale might free the Swedish coast from the enormous quantity of ice that stretched horn twelve to fifteen miles out to sea, which floating about in huge masses, rendered it extremely dangerous to approach ; in consequence, he determined to cruize in the Sleeve, betwten Marstrand:end the Skaw, the north point of Jutland. : 4. My own impotence, together with the import ance that naturally attached to ten mails, which our packet and our companion the LARK had on hoard, led me to hope, that the merchants of Gottenburgh, who must have been informed of our arrival off the coast, would contrive to send rff an ice-boat for land- ing the bags and passengers. However, no prospect of relief being held out to us from any quarter, atter a cruize of nine or ten days, we prevailed upon the Captain to make the coast of Norway, where, in conse quence of the late peace, the pilots might be expected to come out. On the 16th, we got in sight of the land, and towards four o'clock, four pilot-boats came along-side of us, protesting that no danger could be apprehended from our landing in Norway, as they had positive orders to pilot vessels of all flags into the neighbouring ports. 4 4 We were too impatient to get ashore, to harbour any doubts respecting our personal security. Arrived at Arendal we met with no detection on the part of the Navy Department, the order to the pilots being given them from an official quarter. The military department, however, had not as yet any intimation corresponding with it, and we w re declared priso ners. We underwent an examination before the Ma gistrates, aad rested our defence on the point of hav ing landed on the faith of an express order of the Government of Norway. Our case was stated to the Sheriff of the county, residing at Christiansand ; and his understanding being as narrow as that of the Burgomaster of this place, be did not consider himself authorised to give the matter his own decision, but referred it to the chief seat of Government at Chris tiana, although in the interval the military autho rities had received orders to allow all individuals of friendly nations to travel unmolested throughout Norway. It may well be said that there are four different Governments established here—the Naval, Military, Civil, and the Royal ; each of them acting on diffe rent principles, or rather against than in concert with each other. One reason may be given for our unwar rantable treatment, namely, that the whole country is in a state of fermentation, in consequence of the peace between Denmark and Sweden. The whole nation, it would appear, is determined on opposing the ar. nexation of Norway to Sweden, unless they are el lowed to make their own conditions. In this they expect to be supported by England, which has alway' shown a partiality for nations that contend for then liberties and independence. In case the incorpora tion should he eufurced unconditionally, Prince CHRISTIAN, who re.ities at Christiana, is expected to be proclaimed immediately King of Norway." A. THE ARMY. Yesterday the Duke of YORk trans a cted business.with the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton kif The Duke of YORK dined with Colonel no!it.e. at the Officers' mess at St. James's Palace, on WO. r• General vcrin reached Deal yesterday ax.roit:g, on his 'return to Holland. He takes his passage on board the Gni rpom. The tmder.mentioned Battalions have been Or.lered to furnish detachMents for immediate embarkation for Holland: 4th Foot - - Colchester. sth Ditto - • Windsor. 9th bitto - - Canterbury. 14th Dirt) ' . Verdun. 19th Ditto - • Hull. 22d Ditto - - Chester. 39th Ditto - . Weymouth. SW Ditto - Ipswich. 86th Ditto . - Hythe. The sth Regiment have received orders for 400 of them to march to-morrow, on their way to Holland. Tuesday, a fine detachment for the 98th regiment, consisting of seventy rank and file, marcheJ from Horsham to Portsmouth, to join the regiment in North America. Thursday, the first divisrn of the Ayrshire Militia arrived in Belf.tst from Doriaghadee, pp their way to 3irabane, &c. The undermentioned rates have been fixed, as pro per to be allowed to Officers of the army, as indem nification for watches lost by them on service, &c. To a General Officer the actual value,/ Forty Guineas. not exceeding Field Officer ditto Twenty Guineas. Captain ditto Ten Guineas. Subaltern ditto Sit Guineas. Military Staff Officers to be allowed for the loss of watches according to their rank in the army; those belonging to the civil departments of the army ac cording to their relative rank with that of Military Officers. Captain EDWARD MICHELL; Brigade Maj"r to Sir THOMAS GRAHAM, who was so seveiely and .d itt the late attack upon Bergen-op-Zoom, is he su of the Rev. Mr. MICHELL, Prebendary of Glace •ter. — Captain hliciteLt. fell, covered with wounds, when in the act of escalading the scarp wall of the head of the centre column. His wounds are eight in number and although severe, we are happy to l.arn that they are not dangerous. He was in good spirits when the last accounts came away. The Dispatch from Sir TIMMAS GRA HAN! bears the most honourable testi mony to the merits of Captain MICHELL. His intrepid conduct was in fact the admiration of the whole of his tellow-soldiers. WINDSOR, MARCH 16. Sunday afternoon the Duke of Karr arrived at the Castle on a visit to the QUEEN. Yesterday Dr. HEBERDEN arrived at the Cast k from London, to come into waiting on the Kim The Earl of WINCIIII.3EA and Lnrd RIVERS arrived at the Upper Lodge on the same day. The weather still continues too frosty for hunting. The famous pack of Royal hounds is at present in the kennel in the Little Park, where the King's harriers were kept ; they are shortly to be removed from there to Cumberland Lodge, till the new kennel is finished which is building for them near Sandpit -gate, where formerly the late Duke of CUMBIRLAND S hounds were kept. We are authorised to state, that, in compliance with the wishes of many Subscribers of the first die. unction, the Tickets to Madame CATALAN?S Con. certs will be transferable, from Ladies to Ladies, and Gentlemen to Gentlemen, in families only.—Further particulars relative to these Concerts will be explained by HOOKFIAM and Soxs, Old Bond-street. The Duchess of DORSET and Lord Wiiirwoars appear resol;ed to restore harmony in Ireland, as Concert: are the order of the day, under their aus. ices. _ The French people need not be surprised at the freedom of the Cossacks, as, from the severity of the weattrer, the latter must fancy themselves quite at home. _ _ _ Yesterday as a young woman, a servant, in Greek street, Soho, was cleaning the outside of some win• dows at the back part of the house. she missed her , hold, and fell into the area. Many of her bones were and her skull was dreadfully fractured.— She died soon after. CONFESSION OF MURIDER:-.NONSIOUTH, MARCH 9. —About 27 years ago, the body of a young woman, named Mary Prichard, was found in-a mill pond in the neighbourhood of Longtown, in the county of Hereford, with many marks of violence thereon, and a Coroner's Jury being summoned, after a patient investigation, delivered a verdict of Wain' Murder. The deceased had for some time lived servant with Mr. Gilbert, of Cluddock, and two young men, John Davis and John Jones, being her intimate acquain tance, suspicion fell upon them, and they were in con sequence apprehended. Jones had formerly lived at Mr. Gilbert's with her as a fellow.servant ; but . his then mistress (Mrs. Hopkins, of Irelarrdon) swearing that he was in her house all the evening, that he went to bed before her, and that he did not rise till after she e•as tip; and this bein , i corroborated by a boy who swore that he slept with him, and that to the best of his knowledge he was not out of bed till he arose with him to go to their usual employment, he was discharged. Davis also proved his innocence. Some times after this Jones left that neighbourhood, and took up his residence in Monmouthshire, when he married, and had five children, but his wife has been dead some years, and he is now in the decline of life. Being at length severely afflicted with illness, and fearing the approach of death, he sent a few days since 1 , 4. the Rey. Mr. SAYca, of Trellich, to whom he made a full confession of tke murder. He acknowledges that he retired to rest with the Iriy be lore his mistress went-to bed, that when he thought all the family were asleep, (having previously ap pointed to meet the unhappy girl, w by him), he stole out of the h ouc e, com mitted the o pregnant horrid deed, and retur e ne n d b to it a few m inuteshishedhowtahsu t distur bing u absent. Fl sti l live , g havingthou ben i t , a very we.‘k st tie, and lip• pears much cAsiet in his ni.aid sired the conte,sioi).— H.s present residence is on haigth Common, near t e HArgood, *twist three miles from hence. 61 t OeKi. DAY A l TwEi it ed. ebet—Cons. 700i....f0r :cc. 72{ 73 72 4 per Ct. shut..-3 per Ct. 224—Onin. 27 3 .vr. U.k.:LuLX 1 Eitt. L. • • • • • • • • • td