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DUTCH PAPERS. LIEGE, APRIL ts, (from a Letter.) Every body has been astonished at seeing the Crown Prince of Sweden remain inactive, while the Allied Armies were penetrating into the heart of France, and seem wholly engaged in reviews and fetes, at a moment when his presence with the army in the field could not but accelerate the grand result which the events of the campaign o 1 1813 must naturally pro. duce. The following particulars explain this cotianct : At the time of the meeting of the Congress at Cha tillon, Sweden, as an active party in the grand coali tion, expected to be invited to send a Plenipotentiary. This did not happen. The Prince remonstrated, bet ro resolution was taken. The Hanseatic Legion, -formed, in a great measure, by the care of his Royal Highness, and paid by England. was (according to Conventions that were made) to be united with the Swedish troops under the Prince's immediate command. Far from this, at the moment when these troops were to act they received another destina tion, and were employed with the corps under General Bulow. The Prince of Sweden having represented that these new arrangements were contrary to the Conven tion already made, and having received no satisfac tory answer, declared, as it is affirmed upon good au thority, that neither he nor his troops should take any active part in the operations till he had obtained what he demanded. At last all the little instances of neglect towards this Prince having been repaired, his Royal Highness has quitted Liege, put his troops in motion, and is gone himself to Paris. FRONTIERS OF ITALY, APRIL 6. The English army having advanced from Leghorn bas taken Spezzia, where there were only 400 men, after an action at Sarzano, and now threatens Genoa, where there are no more than 1000 men in garrison. This has obliged the Viceroy to give orders to eva cuate all the magazines in the Lago di Guarda. It is affirmed that for this week past the wounded sol diers of the Italian army are sending to the French frontiers. CLEVES, APRIL 20. Yesterday arrived here 16 or 1700 Prussians, who are to go to Wesel. The officers say that the fortress on the right bank is to be besieged by 40,000 men, and fort Napoleon on the left bank, by 3000. For these two days past we heard a heavy cannonade on that side, and they say that the Commandant has low declared that he will defend the place to the tmost, and receive no more flags of truce. • now do utmost, • WAR One diately The strictly Non , and ml The into P. The dressi.! Marsh acj v l the Gt bappir and in it is b expres love, mated Roi ! Al! persor specta the m Hi! arta Lv of hil leme, Ge arse,sga servit been the i At de B . 1.,0rr 1 G 4 point Pen Meni Corn' term A the 1 _ 1., st and c tart 4ov t IP host 4 slew Joni I pub retu . c-at• 5 r vR he . FRENCH PACERS. PARIS, APRIL 29. tlt DEPARTMENT . ORDER OF THE DAY, APRIL 2L One month's allowance and pay shall be imme .Ay paid to the while French army. The Inspecting Officers shall hold their reviews • None shall be entitled to payment but the officers men who attend. (Signed) DUPONT. 'he folh4ing are further details of the entrance Paris of his Royal Highness the Duke de Berry. 'lse Prince of Neufchatel had the honour of ad i-ig hi{ Royal Highness in the name of all the 'shah of France, in the following terms : MoNsEIGNEua..—The Marshals of France, and all Generals who are at Paris, experience a great mess in congratulating your Royal Highness, in seing you enter the Capital of your ancestors. iu the name of the whole Army that I come to cress to your Royal Highness those sentiments of devotion, and fi delity, with which they are ani. for the King and his august family."— Yive le riven: kr Bourbon I —I the Marshals, the General Officers present, the .rsons in the suite of the Prince, and the numerous stators assembled, repeated this exclamation with most lively enthusiasm. :is Royal Highness replied, in terms the most :tionate and most honourable to the French Army. ,very preparation has been made for the reception .is Majesty Louis XVIII. the Duchess d'Angou. me, the Prince de Conde, and the Duke de Bourbon. ieneral Lecourbe, who had been exiled by Bona. :e, first to Sons le Saulnier, and then to Bourges, been reinstated in his post, and placed on active ,ice by Monsieur. He has arrived at Paris, and very well received by his Royal Highness► and Allied Sovereigns. Amongst the Officers who accompanied the Duke Berry, on his entrance into Paris, we distinguished Burgliersh.- General Caffarelli has had the honour of being ap. Ineed to accompany to Vienna her Imperial High. the Archduchess Maria Louisa. The Baron ;nneval, Private Secretary to her Imperial High :a, and the Baron Corvisart i Physician * also ac )mpany the Princess. The correspondence with Spain and Portugal will kilns its tormer course on the 26th of this month. A Courier has arrived with the intelligence that Marshal Duke of Albufera has given in his ad -I'n the Acts of the Provisional Government, id sworn fidelity to the House of Bourbon. The garrisons of Strasburgh and Kehl having de clared their adhesion to the Acts of the Provisional government, an Armistice has been concluded with ,e Allied Commander in Lower Alsace, 'suspending hostilities. The Papers contain a number of Addresses to Mon sieur' from different Public Bodies, and a further T list of adhesions. The departure 'if Bonaparte caused a rise in the iblic funds to-day. We may remark, that he never Armed to Paris alter ore of his expeditions without ,iisi .g them to fall.—Fieneh, Funds / April 2g.— per Cents, 62 1. 25 e. .:* ' • - 'RQC.I.AMATIOI4 OP MORAL wucEramy To ; HIS ARMY. • • • " Valence, April le,. SOUNIERSThe Senate, interpreter of the ta li:nal v 411; wearied of • the tytannical yoke of Napo en Bonapart e , peorviuneed; on the 2d April, his twteiture and that o f his family. " A new tionardalcail Con stitution, equally solid and liberal, and a descendant ef our ancient Rings, ' supply the place of Bonaparte and his despotism. gi Your ranks, your honours and your distinctions are secured tp you. <, The Legislative Body, the Grand Dignitaries, the Marshals, Generals, and all the corps of the grand army have adhered to the decrees of the Senate, and Bonaparte himself, by an act, dated at Fontainbleau, the 11th April, has abdicated for himself and his heirs the thrones of France and Italy. " SOLDIERS—You are freed from your oaths; you are freed by,the nation in whom the Sovereignty re sides; you are freed also, if this were necessary, by the abdication of a mau who, after sacrificing millions of victims to his cruel ambition, had not the beast to die like a Soldier. The nation calls Louis XVIII. to the Throne; a Frenchman by birth ; he will be proud of your glory, and will feel sentiments of exultation at seeing tlimself surrounded by your Chiefs : the descendant of Henry the Fourth ; he will possess his heart-ohe will love the soldier and the people. 44 Let us, then, swear fidelity to Louis the 18th, and the Constitution which presents him to us ; let us display the truly French cockade, which banishes every emblem of a revolution which is gone by, and you will immediately find in the gratitude and ad miration of your King and country, the just recom. pence of your noble labours. At the Head-quarters of Valence, the lath April, 1814. (Signed) 4 4 Marshal AUGEItEAU." " TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. . 44 MONSEIGNEUR-1 bad not had a courier for a fortnight before, when I received the letter which your Highness and the Members of the Provisional Government did me the honour to write me, dated the .sth of April, and detailing the unexpected events of which France has just been the theatre. A ter mination so decisive for the safety of France, cannot tail to console all French hearts : and our feelings are sufficient to prescribe our duties, amidst circumstances so important. Those who have been fighting these twenty years for glory, will devote their hearts and their arms to a cause noble and pure, to the return of a wise Constitution, and to that of a Prince the heir of Henry IV. and the pledge of Europe's re pose. In our camps we were ever faithful to France; we have partaken in the sufferings of our country, we now share in its hopes ; we obey its wishes, and we join our voices to it's. It is pleasing, when we were ready to shed our blood in new combats, to have only 0 stop its effusion in every quarter, to rest our arms, and to see ourselves, together with all French. men, arrived at that object of so many efforts and glorious combats—a peace durable and worthy of France. 4 4 I am, &c. (Signed) as Marshal SUCH ET, Duke of Albufera. " Head-quarters, at Narbonne, April 14, 1814." ACTS OF THE GOVERNMENT. Palace of the ThuUleries, April 22, 1814. We, Charles Philip of France, son of France, Monsieur, Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, &c. have decreed, and do decree as follows : I. There shall be sent into eackt of the military di visions an extraordinary commissioner of the king.. His mission shall have for object, 1. To disseminate in the country an exact know: ledge of the events which have restored France to its legitimate sovereigns. .1 . To insure the execution of all the acts of die j Provisional Government. . S. To take all the measures which circumstances shall require to facilitate the establishment and acti vity of the Government. • 4. To collect information relative to all branches of the public service. IL With this view the said Royal Commissioners are authorised to require all civil and military audio. rities, and even to give them orders, which all font tionaries and public agents shall be bound to obey. 111. According to the account which shall be given them of the conduct of all these depositories of public authority, they may pronounce their suspen sions, and appoint provisional successors. Every act of suspension and of replacement must be immediately transmitted to the commissioner of the department whom it shall-concern, together with a report assigning the motives and grounds of such act. ___ . IV. They shall be empowered to set at liberty the individuals who may have been arbitrarily arrested for political acts, if they are not detained in virtue of letters of arrest issued by imperial procurators on ac count of other acts. V. They shall cause provisionally to cease all pro secutions, punishments, arrests, and other similar measures, which may have been pronounced in mat ters regarding the military conscription. VI. They shall cause to cease all requisitions, le vies, works, inundations, or other extraordinary mea sures ordered by the late Government with the sole view of prolonging the war. VII. They shall correspond with the Commis. sioner for the Interior about the whole of their mis sion, and with the Commissioners of other public departments, in regard to their respective objects and powers. (Signed) CHARLES PHILIP. 'By Monsieur, Lient.43eneral of the Kingdom, (Signed) •* The Baron de VITROLLES. The following l‘re named Commissioners Extra.. ordinary of the 'Xing, in order to repair, by virtue of this decree to the Military Divisions hereafter mop% tioned, viz. Ist Division Parier-Manhal Petignon. 241 Ditto, Yiesteree—The Due de la Rochefoucault d'Hudovilk. ad Ditto, Metz—Marshal Kelkrmanit ' ' 441 Ditto, Nancy—Covet Roger de Dames. Dub Ditto, Strasbourg—Chevalier de la Sane. Sth Ditto, Resanson—Martinis de Chantpagoe. 7th Ditto, Grgnoble—Cotust Augustus de Juigni. sib Ditto, Tonloa—Count Bruno de Doisgetin. 9th Ditto, Montpeller—Count Mat,thew Montmorency. 'loth Ditto, Toulouse—Count Juies de Pelipae, Aidetde-Camp of his Royal Highness. 11th Ditto, Bourdema—Count Dejean. • 15th Ditto, Rochelle—M. Gilbert de Webs. 15th Ditto, Rennes—Count de Ferrieres. 14th' Ditto, Caen—Duke Charles de Plb'sauce. 15th Ditto, Rouen—M. &min, Counts!kir of State. 16th Ditto, Lille—Marshal Menlo, Duke of Treviso. 15th Ditto, Mon—General Nansouty: 12th Ditto, Lyons—Count Ale;is de Nona Wes, Lieut.-Colonel. 20th Ditto, Periguenz—General Mireeeot. ilk 'Ditto, llourges,M. Otto, COunsellor of State. ' Tours—Viscount d'Orntend. Ottr Cosamistimgcl2lhe D at 0( tke Invrieris obsrsed essiailiet IX the INNIi Decree- '(Siens#) • ' ' • ! • crwass PHILIP. n THE EyENIN4 STAIt 14 - ON EON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1814. Last night Lord GEORGE LENOX arrived in Down• ing•street with dispatches from Marquis W ELLING• Tom, containing the details of the late unfortunate oc currences at Bayonne ; and also of the Suspension of Hostilities agreed upon between Marshal SWAT and I Lord WELLINGTON. _ _ - Lord Ganitoz Lase* passed through Paris on Sun day best, where every thing was quiet ; and indeed, he says, in his whole route from Theulouse, there reigns the most perfect quiet and order. He did not meet with the least stoppage from want of horses or any other cause. He did not hear a syllable at Or leans of King JOSEPH and JEROME having any follow ers, or of having committed any outrage. He-left the Kum of Fasucz on Monday night still at Calais. He was admitted to his presence, and gave him an account of the state of the South of France, and of the adhesion of SOULT. His Majesty was waiting at Calais till the completion of the pre parations for his triumphant journey to Paris. He was to set off yesterday at noon. The multitude of English at Calais is prodigious. They were detained there by want of conveyance to the capital. The inhabitants were in a state of en thusiasm. They had marked the print of the foot of the KIK% on the first step of his landing on French ground, and they meant to erect a monument on the spot.—The Official Account of the affair at Bayonne, &c. was this day published in the following GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. WAR DEPARTMENT, DOWNING-STREET, AM". 27, 1811. Lieutenant Lord GEORGE Lenox arrived last night at this Office, bringing a Dispatch from Field Mar. shal the Marquis of Wv.LINciTOM, addressed to Earl BATHURST, of which the following is a copy : Toulesse,Aprillll. MY Loin—On the evening of the 12th inst. Colo nel Cooke arrived from Paris, to inform me of the events which had occurred in that city to the night of the 7th inst. He was accompanied by Colonel St. Simon, who was directed by the Provisional Govern ment of France, to apprise Marshal Soult and Mar shal Suchet of the same events. Marshal Souk did not at first consider the informa tion to be so authentic, as to induce him to send his submission to the Provisional Government, but he proposed that I should consent to a suspension of hos tilities, to give him time to ascertain what had oc curred ; but I did not think it proper to acquiesce in this desire. I enclose the correspondence which 'passed on this occasion. L ln the meantime I coneladed (on the Me) a coo. Mike for the suspensioo of hostilities with the Ge 'Neill Officer commanding at Montauban, of which I miaow a copy ; and the troops being prepared for moving forward, they marched on the 15th and the 17th inst. towards Castelnandary. I sent forward on the 16th another officer, who had been sent from Paris to Marshal Souk, and I received from him the following day the letter of which I en close a copy, brought by the General of Division Count Gazan, who informed me, as indeed appears by the Marshal's letter, that he had acknowledged the Provisional Government of France. I therefore authorised Major-General Sir George Murray, and Marechal de Campo Don Luis Wimp fen, to arrange with General Gazan a Convention for the suspension of hostilities between the Allied Ar mies under my command, and the French armies, under the command of Marshals Soult and Suchet, of which I enclose a copy. This Convention has been confirmed by Marshal Souk, though 1 have not yet received the formal ra tifications, as.he waits for that of Marshal Suchet. This General, apprehending that there might be ,some delay in the arrangements of the Convention with Marshal Souk, has in the mean time sent here Colonel Richard, of the Staff of his army, to treat for a Convention for the suspension of hostilities with the army under his immediate command ; and I have directed Major. General Sir George Murray and the Marechal de Campo Don Luis Wimpffen, to agree to the same articles with this Officer, as I had before agreed as relating to the army under Marshal Suchet with Comte Gazan. No military event of importance has occurred in ibis quarter since I made my last report. It gives me much concern to have w lay before your Lordship, the enclosed reports from Major-Ge. neral Colville and Major-General Howard, of a sortie from the citadel of Bayonae on the morning of the 14th inst. in which Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope having been unfortunately wounded, and his horse killed under him, he was made prisoner, I have every reason to believe that his wounds are oat severe, but I cannot but regret that the satisfac. dos generally felt by the army upon the prospect of the honourable termination of their Libours, should ,be clouded by the misforttme and sufferings of an officer, iky highly esteemed and respected by U. I singer:Ay lament the loss of Major-General Hay, whose services and merits I have had frequent occa sion to bring under your Lord‘hip's notice, Por a letteT frm Lieutenant-General William ~ .• _ _ . _ _ iCkiatop, cif 4te totn J learn t h at be was about to catry imp execution Ty orders of the 4th and Sth of March, to withdraw from Catalonia, in cogs.. quence of the reduction in Catalonia of the force under Marshal Suchet. Upon the breaking-up of this army, I perform a most satisfactory duty in reporting to your Lordship my seine of the conduct and merit of Lieutenant- General W. Clinton, and of the troops under his command, since they have been employed in the Peninsula, Circumstances have not enabled those troops to have so brilliant a share in the operations of the war as their brother officers and soldiers on this side► of the Peninsula. But they have not been less use. fully employed ; their conduct when ergaged with the enemy has always been meritorious ; and I bare had every reason to be satisfied with the General O- ficer commanding, and with them. I send this dispatch by my Aide.de.Camp Lord George Lenox, whom I beg leave to recommend to your Lords Lip's protection.—l have, &c. • (Signed) wELLINGTON. I inclose a return of the killed, wounded, and miss. ing on the occasion of the sortie from Bayonne. Saucaut, April 14, 1814. MY LORD—It is to my infinite regret that, owing to the unfortunate circumstance of the capture of Lieutenant- General Sir John hope, the duty de volves on me of informing your Lordship of a sortie which the enemy made this morning at three o'clock* from the entrenched camp in front of the Citadel of Bayonne, with false attacks in front of the posts of the sth division, &c. at Aught and Bellevue, I am happy to say, that the ground which had been lost on this side was all recovered, and the pic. quote re-posted on their original points by 7 o'clock. The injury done to the defences is as little as could be well supposed, in an attack made in the force this one was, and will, I hope, be mostly repaired in the coarse of this night. The casualties are what we have to !egret most; on a rough guess Lieutenant- Colonel Macdonald estimates them at four hun dred men. • • I much lament to have to mention the death of Major-General Hay, general officer of the night. His last words were (a minute before he was shot) an order to hold the Church of St. Etienne, and a forti i fled house adjoining, to the last extremity. Major General Stopford is wounded, not, I hipe, severely ; among the killed are, I am sorry to say. Lieutenant Colonel Sir H. Sullivan and Captain Crof ton, of the Guards; Lieutenant Colonel Townsend is prisoner, as are also Captain Herries, Depitty Assist ant Quarter Master General and Lieutenant Moores Aid de Camp to Sir John Hops. Not wishing, however, to lose any time in sending off this report, I have requested Major Gen. Howard will detail for your Lordship's further information, the circumstances of the attack, and its repulse, bas ing been myself at the time with the sth division. Sir John Hope's horse was shot and fell upon him, which p►ev+ented his extricating himself. We bear that he is wounded in the arm, and a French officer speaks also of a wound in his thigh, but we trust this may have reference to his former injury. The boot of his left leg was found under his horse. To a flag of truce, the proposal was rejected of Lieutenant Colonel Macdonald's being admitted to see him ; but vie now expect that Captain Wedder burn, and what other assistance he may require, will be admitted to him, upon the condition of their not returning. The arrival of the 62d and 84th regiments on the other side ftornVera, this day, will allow of my streng. thening the force on this, by withdrawing from that in front of Anglet. I hive, &e. (Signed) C. Cotvutt. To Field-Marshal the Marquess of Wellingtoo, K. G. ate. ate. Camp near Blyonne, April 15, 1514. Sig—ln consequence of Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope having been wounded and taken prisoner, it falls to my lot to have the honour to detail to you, for the information of his Excellency the Commander of the Forces; the result of an attack made by the enemy on our position in front of the Citadel, of Bayonne on the 14th instant. Yesterday morning, a considerable time before day._ break, the enemy made a sortie and attack in great force, principally on the left and centre of our poi-. don of St. Etienne, is front of the citadel. The left of the position was occupied by piquets of Major- General Haft brigade ; the brigade itself had beet; directed to form in case of alarm near the village of Baucaut, as lt was merely serving provisionally on, this side of the Adour i the centre by pictinets of the 2d brigade of guards, and the right by picquets of the Ist brigade of guards. Major. General Hay was, the General Officer of the day s in command of the line of outposts, and I regret much to say, was killed shortly after the attack commooced, having just given directions that the church of St. Etienne should be defeated to the last. The enemy, however, lay great superiority of num. tiers, succeeded in getting in towards the left of the village, and got momentary possession of it, with the exception of a home occupied by a piequet of the 88th regiment, under Captain Foster of that corps, and who maintained himself till the support coming up, Major• General Hinuber, with the 2d line battalion, King's German Legion, under the command of Lieu. tenant - Colonel Bock, immediately attacked and re. rep:* the 'village. The enemy attacked the centre of our position like. wise in great cumbers, and by bearing in great force I 1