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going to reinforce the Attitsian army on the Adige and yet they retreated across Italy without an ob. stacle. Let us compare this capitulation of Alexan. dria with that of Dresden—the fate of M. de Melas with that of Marshal St. Cyr, and we shall see which party has shewn moderatiop in victory, and fidelity in its treaties. Let us proceed. After the treaty of Luneville, the Continent seemed likely to enjoy a long peace...— France, engagei in her maritime prefastrations, bad no forces on the banks of the Rhine ; all our troops were on the heights of Boulogne—the vessels for their embarkation were collected—the expedition was ready—the signal for departure was going to sound ; when Austria suddenly gave the signal for battle.— Her armies threaten our frontiers : we march with the rapidity of lightning—the tempest bursts as Ulm —Vienna falls, and Austerlitz delivers the whole empire into our hands. If our enemies had been in o ur place, what would they have done ? We know . not; but the treaty of Presburg tells what the Em peror did ? • . • The House of Austria, which may be said to have only existed in some of the Eastern Provinces, re covers all its possessions, except the Tyrol, the part of the Venetian States ceded by the treaties of Campo Formic , and Lnneville, and some other detached pieces of territory, but which were compensated for by the cession of Salzburg_ and Berchtoldsgaben. Lastly, in 1809, while the Zgaaperor was beating, at Astorga, the English army of General. Moore, an aggression still more unjust than in 1809—an ag. gression, the avowed purpose of which was to invade France, provoked the French legions. All the Western and Southern Provinces of Aus. Ilia are conquered ; the capital is, for the second time, in the hands of the victor. Hungary beholds the French eagles on the ramparts of its cities ; aq everaemorable battle put the whole monarchy' at the disposal of the conqueror ; the Russian armies, ' then our allies, threatened Eastern Gallicia ; the Hose of Hapsburg might have ceased to exist. • The treaty of Vienna - restored the House of Aue: aria to the rank of a power of the first order. Such. has been the generous and noble conduct of the Map" • peror of the French towards one of the BelligerstaC Powt.A. Austria, after four successive wars, upfortu• nate far her, in which _she has seen her existetsce four times in danger, loses only a few provinces ; ah! if she had obtained over us all the advantages which we have gained over ter.,.-if in three years she had twice occupied Paris, should we be as powerful as she now is ? Should we have the influence which she exercises in Europe ?---Ifseems. that we may be allowed to doubt it. •In 18)6 Prussia, without provocatiion, made her armies advance towards the Rhine; the . French le gions go to meet them, and the battle of Jena putting an end to this mad contest, renders the conqueror, at the end of a month, master of die.2aussiaa Meow thy ; a great and powerful ally still defendedit ; but ,the latter being itself vanquished in the plains of Friedland, leaves the Emperor Napoleon master of the destiny of Prussia. The Treaty of Tilsit places the King of Prussia again among the Sovereigns or Europe. The Em peror Napoleon restores to him almost tyro-thirds- of his kingdom, the whole of which victory had put in his power; and, thanks to the generosity of the con queror, Prussia still retains above five millions and a half of inhabitants. - Shall we speak o f R uss i a , w hi c h, a f ter t hi s same War in l8)6, and the loss of several, battles, tar_ from flog theediect ti its defeats, acquired the district Ot 3/0111114 Win Prussia, whir* she 'had engaged to defeat- Maw altl ao vain allegations, nor phrases without assaiss I t h at areisolt which our contemporaries asst s and srhielt history has already collected. Sett the *Hies proem their moderation as we have ja Irsincitlittated mart; let tjsem come forward, let and teat world will judge if they have a us. 74 .111* cable, great,' generous, in the midst Of ssies. let us now displaLitmness, courage, cf Pesee•—let as be awe united than ever "ht tecpresnround the throne to Which such brilli. seSiroribies ire suspended—lee us distrust *an enemy who sumps to divide us, and sotto, hoping to weaken by disacicit• • and to depress as by terror, sends before hi. fallacious Proelamatioos, and enters with the toreh in his hand--lit us bst deaf to his promisei, is well as to Mi menaces, and let him learn, that we 4te no mere •to be seduced tatt;to he frightened ; then he will be forced to desire sincerely the peace of which iu S Pealt4cerbapS without wiihing for it-; humanity: will respire, and Europe will be consoled. Let this pompous declaration, then, be read with the well founded distrust which it is calculated to ; and if there be a single Frenchman whom it C+ll move, let him op en t h e anna l s o f P o l an d — l et . read the Manifesto of Catherine, when her armies' landed that kingdom. She came haft* restore its happiness, to maintain its Indent constitution, to se. care liberty of conscience. Let him proceed three Pages farther, the sacking of Prakue, and the mas sacre of 30 ,000 citizens, will shock his eyes; let him, read on, and he will see written in bloody characters "--POLA.ND'IS NO MORE! ' ~~ . ... No. 3252, Twenty Thousand Pounds; 411 - 7 i; itive Thensanti Re ads; £O4, four fhousatul Pounds; and Eight ether Capital Prizes, in the last Twelve Months, were ALL sold in Shares, at WEBB's Office, No. 17, Ludgate-street, (near Bt. Patti's.) . where" .Iliekets and Shares arepow.sellintiviwareelliadutranillember& The Lottery begins drawing at an early hour on Tonsaor Mor oi:lg next, and the First-drawn above .ezto is entitled to as adt tional Prize of £10,000.--All Business in the PuWic,Ftp faith. feilly and expeditiously execiatpd by. . . S:OSk Broker ; Stage Lottery and it lab 1 1.101.4 ISM I l' ' Ludpte-atreet. a f •-si•-: . • •i. . I ~ T. VENING STAR. LONDON, NEXT . IIIZSDAY THE STA I MIXOTTIORT BEGINS DRAWING. THURSDAY, JANUARY is, 11114, Day appointed fors bahtait. Tiiincassittmo. Holiday at all the Public Olicoo. .: ft 136NAPARTZ has treated us with another Manifesto against 'the Allies. It occupies three columns of our Paper. . It is a. most masterly production. It I rpronounces (unintentionally, we must own), one of the noblest panegyrics upon Great Britain which we ever read. His dying groan 'ism delightful to our ears! He tells us that this country has acquired not only a prepongerance, but a real omnipotence. Long may that which he impioudy calls omnipotence, conti nue to be ours; and perish the traitor who would take it from Us! It has been constantly directed to the great and good cause of rescuing Europe from the grasp of the Oppressor; and we cannot refer to better or more . luminous arguments in favour of our assertion than those which are furnished by this singular docu ment. In 1796, he tells us that France was a preponderat ing Power on the Continent.—We remember it well. She was then mistresrof !Tolland and of Italy, while the Rhine and the Alps were her boundaries. She had also something like a nary; but .BONAPARTIC pleased to omit that item in her preponderance. By what fatality has she lost all these advantages ? The answer is simply—she had the misfortune to allow a low-born upstart to call himself the " head which France had chosen 1" The sketch which DowApAares .s Apolntist, at ra ther supplicant, gives us of the events of the. last twenty years, is highly edify*: it'lliscloses some traths—:.some state secrets, which nobody but BONA-' PARTS and his "familiars" knew before. We did not know, to instance, that he was diverted from the in vision of England by the diversion made by Austria in his rear. We trust that our negotiators will re member this debt of gratitude when they restore her share of preponderance to that faithful Ally. - It is, in short, made perfectly apparent, that 'every Power on the Continent has had its alliances with. .France forted upon it at the point of the bayonet. We must do them the credit to say, however, that they seized every opportunity to shake off their chains; and to this country they always looked, as to the Temple of Hope. It is more than lydicrous, it is farcical, to hear I BONAPARTE iilk of his. " just, generous, liberal, and noble conduct," on all occasions. Yesterday, soon after two o'clock, Mr. FACET., the Dutch Ambassador, accompanied by his brother the Major. were introduced to his Royal Highness the Flu NCE ganazif, 4 4 nd had an audience, and at which time,, we Understand, they took leave of his Royal Highness previously to their leaving Ingland. His Royal: Higlisra the Duke of CLARLNC't sailed yesterday from the Downs, in the PAci.ot.us, for Helvoetsluys. . . Mr. Itrintt fisisrboen Confined for two , months with a Violent attack of the gout, athii house, in Grosve nor-street. It is the Erst attack, and is a very serious one. •• - The judgments yesterday morning expected from /he LOUD - LIIANCELI.OI 9 in the Court of Chancery, were not pronounced, owing to his Lordship's indis position, being the night befOre attacked by a it of the gout, under which he is still unfortunately con fined. The PRINCE REGENT Last night honoured Covent Garden Theatre with his presence, to see the nevi Pantomime. , • • DnuaT-1.4611 THEATRE.—The new Opera of Na; renrig was performed again last night, and some judi-' cious alterations having been made, it was received throughout with very general approbation. General VANDAMME, it is said, lodges at the Krem lin, in Moscow, and has every day a view of the French prisoners a; work, who are forced, to build the houses burnt and destroyed durinr, their invasion. The Dutch Officers who have arrived in Holland, from England, 194 in number, are to be formed im mediately into a. guard of honour to attend uPott the Prince of ORANGE. • A detachment of Guards, of about 550 in number, embarked yesterday morning at Deal for Helvoetsluys. The fall of ,G luckstadt on the sth inst. of whith Government yesterday received an of f icial statement, will much Facilitate the operations of the Allies in that quarter. It is a strong place, situated on the Elbe near its mouth, SO mile. N. W. of Harnburgh, and 55 N. of Bremen. The garrison, consisting of about 5000 men, were to march to Kelinhausen for the further orders of his Royal Highness the Citowx PIeNCE of Swzollr. The British loss, in the attacks preceding the capitulation, was, three men killed, and two'Officers and 15 seamen wounded. One brig and seven gun-boats also fell into the hands of the victors, Some idea may be fornied of the situation . of France, from the cooltehts of the following private communi cation,• which is undentood to have , come from a source tlirmay be relied on as anthenti; : ' " JAIIIIIIRT 11,1814. " I haVec ock. perloos who I. Nand* last Mist (Monday et Tie people are in a state of the wawa coo. lotion, and Mks a flack bf *op (Asst diet singe) looking for a leader.. Theta tsars, or betas, ANdilliP. lll .lll the amount of the Ails mereldeg on Paris to 400,000 men, sod they know of ne obstacle of importance to check their program Ivvy Soilita, and every,piece of ordmusee-sed mullet, is taken from the ssaiaats and all other towns, and wards/ to th. &t it th• maw ilagaising for tit defame of the (vital II • 0 4 lb *atm daay at the sea-pons is done by.the Oshtemo I 0113sa 0/1101 *Om me by the parties who witnessed ail ... - 111111114; FROM AO " AND )3 _ . _ One treat% and two Hetigoland MAils have ar- Rived. , v • - We havereeeived blonds and letters from our pri , rate Correspondents in• Holland, to the 10th. The in: telligence they bring is important. The Caowx Puma . is expected instantly to join his exertions to those of our countrymen now in Holland, for the. completi emancipation of that country. The partisan corps, those whom L'INAPARTE charges with " carrying ar wat• art their own account," make deep incursions- into_ France. All the Allied Arinies on the Rhine Lave received reinforcements and complete equipment, and are advancing: " ARNHEIM, JANUARY 5. 66 Official intelligence has been-received here that the Generals Blucher and York have crossed the Rhine with 80,000 mea. The partisans make emir sions to within two days journey of Mahnaisos." "11E1.mm - JAWARY s. In consequence of the slikress of ,the unfortu: 'nate people of Hamburgh, occasioned by the barba• tity - Of Marshal Davoust, by which upwards of thirty thousand men, women, and children have been forced to leave their homes, destitute of every means of sup port, his Royt Highness the Crown Prince of Swe+ den's first care hasleen to order the stun of 20,000 dollars to be dedicated to their immediate relief, an subscriptions for the same purpse have been opined in different towns on the Continent." " BREMEN, DECEMBER 31. gl Hamburgh is besieged, but 'not yet taken; We look and hope every hour for intelligence of its being stormed, such being the intentioq of the Russian - sol diery. General Winaingerodt, with his main Corps, left - us about eight days age, and has broke up for Holland. But it is reported that he will march against Brussels." di BREMEN, JANUARY 4. "Tie Crown Prince of Sweden, who was before ilamburgt with bis corps d'armee, is expected to pass ihroitgh here on his way to Holland. • 44 If is expected that the Hanseatic Legion will"busk up from hence for Holland:, •" Number., of Hambur - gliers arrive here, who, • driven from their homes by the severe measures of Marshal Davoust, repair hither to seek covering and suppoilig-istnd the^ve found it. Nothing seriotts 4ai yei been 'attempted aKainst Hamburgb, and that Irbsiness 'appears to go on very slowly. Harnburgh is. sufficiently provisioned, and is yery strongly fortified." ..- • " FRANKFORT, DECEMBER its. !!,According to intelligence received, the French have quitted the town of Erfurt. The French gar rison has reueated into the citadel. " The Russian armies daily receive considerable Yeinfetionetits, bath of well-clothed and - eterci • sed recruits, as likewise of convalescents. 64 The corps d'armee of General Count Langeron, which forms a part of the Army of Silesia, and is cantoned in the vicinity of our town, received an ad dition, in the course of 14 days, of 16,000 infantry and 3000 cavalry, excellently mounted. This corps, notwithstanding the loss it has sustained in this bloody and memorable campaign, will soon again he under arms .50,000 men strong. " The corps d'armee of General Baron Sacken, which likewise forms a part of the Army of Silesia, has likewise received considerable reinforecements.— The 6th Infantry corps, under the command of Lieu tenant-General Prince Gieherbatow, has left the corps of Count Langeron, and joined that of General Baron Sacken.-- (Bremen Paper, Jan. 3.) • !•,• "‘ WARSAW, DECEMBER 6. 44 By offiCial inteUigehce received by the Imperial Civil Governor of this place, M. Sabowniekow, the French General Von Daendels, Commandant of Modlin, has capitulated ; and the imperial Russian troops, under the command of General Von Icleiu miehel, entered that place on the Ist inst. 64 Of the garrison, which consisted of SOCO men, -the French troops were made, unconditionally, pri soners of war ;—the -Germans, viz. Wurtzburgers, Wirtembergers, and Saxons, were immediately sent off to join the Allied Army; but the Poles were sent to their own helms. 44 The stores of cote . and salt found in the place were very considerable." " WARSAW, DECEMBER 11. " A third army corps of reserve of *O,OOO men lately organized in Russia, has already entered Po land, under the 4 command of Lieutenant-General Be. rabrazow, and will very shortly break up to join the army on the Rhine. " Several detachments from sixteen Russian regi treats, among whom are both horse and foot Guards, and likewise some hundreds of waggons, with pro visions of all kinds, are going thither. " The recruiting service id Prussia is likewise car ried on with the utmost vigour, so that an army of from .50 to 60,000 men is nearly ready to march, and which can shortly break up for its destination." " ITALY, DECEMBER 14. _ - 44 His Excellency the Field-Marshal Count Belle. garde, who, on the 12th instant had arrived at In spruck from Frankfort, arrived on . the 14th at Bot zen, and on the 15th at the head-quarters at Vicenza where he ,took en himself the command in chief of the Imperial Austrian Army in Italy. - " General Stahremberg had, on. the likkof De cumber. ceptdatd an attack made on him by the - A caused the enetnyaionsiderable loss in an ettgagiement between Comachio and Ravenna ; and likewise by a sally from Brondola.--,(Deistrchelietiecliter, Ise. V. (PRIVATE LETTER). " BRILL, JANUARY " General l3utow made a movement towards the Rhine (leaving 2000 men at Breda), but haesinee countermarched, and will join General GRAHAM tO morrow with 15,000 men. A report has already ar rived that Bergen•op-Zoom is taken ; the French had about 8000 men there, hiving received reinforce. ments from AntsVerp. .Several cbaVoYs phich had left the latter place, destined for Bergeneop-Zoom, have been captured by the Cossacks, who traverse the country in all directions. Of one convoy of prov:. lions, consisting of 390 waggons, they took 280. Of the declaration made by Printe Bcnwmaritexszao and Count NfErrEitmcit, that Peace could not be shade on honourable terms with I)ONAPATg e you . are al• ready acquainted. . . " A report has prevailed that the French had re ceived ciders to evacuate Brabant ; I think ik is true; . u General Mortara left Paris lately with. all the °tees that could be collectzd, which were conveyed in all sorts of vehicles towards the Netherlands. Aborerp particularly has claimed the regard' of Bo- HiPAItTR. It appears . twat MORTIIti with his forces, was countermanded, and all returned speedily to- Waids Paris, in consequence of the intelligence that &Allies were crossing the Upper Rhine and eater ing France, and that '25,000 Swiss troops had joined them•—•such are the reports. " Lord CA, - rz e ritEAGEl and suite.arvieed on the 6th at' HelvtiOn the EARBUSIIOOir of war, and remained there one night. He passed through this Own on-t Friday. of Convoysof tidgips and ardllery are daily arriving from England. _Among them is a Highland Regi.:l- - moot from Fdrt George. General Gma s itara hal ; made a movement insadvance to-day, and as soon as • Bergen-op-Zoom may fall, the army will proceed tab..` wards Antwerp. ". Buz, on South Beveland; it is svposed, has eurtendered to the forces under the command of Captain owe 4 who had invested: it. The enemy had twice mads sortie, but without success. He . littely landed at midnight 400 men from' Flushing $. they proceeded towards ihe town of Borslen, South -- .Beveland, in which there was an English' advaacipt z party of about 20 men, and one field piece. " At day-light a sharp skirmish took place. Our ' wea l although reinforced by a Lieutenant of the . 4 . and a small party of sears lai,- were-eblized ti!;-- 1 - •- tett* with loss before such ueequal numbers- 7 -A* . *twiny did all the miscliief they were ably and then eetire.l. The naval force increaser daily - in that neighbourhood, so that yrs shall be soon masters of ill that at present opposes us. " Colonel CARLTON has the command of the ad vanced posts of our army, which is now in full secti• City by the protection it receives from " a flotilla of gun-boats in the Tholen river, commanded - by Lieu. tenant Miaow, of the JASON frigate. " Deserters frequently arrive at headquarters from Antwerp and other French garrisons; they tonsist chiefly of British and Dutch soldiers. They state that there were about.ls t ooo troops at Antwerp, but that a large proportion consisted of boys as young as fourteen years. The place could easily have been taken in the'first instance, had the Allies pushed on. Many places were evacuated by the Fre ich- from panic, and the same cause would hive made them sitirender - cullers which they now, having recovered from their fear, seem disposed to defend. " Mr. PA RSONE,AIIe of the tong's Meesalert, EiTiY( d in town from Jiolland dmorning, with di s p a t c h t , The Heligoland Mails' of to-day have brought us a dccument tssugd by the CROWN Punta OF SWE DEN, which does equal honour to his head and. heart. The miserableinhabitants who have been turned oet of Hamburgh, naked and peanyless ' are taken under his paternal care, and his Royal Highness knocks at, our doors as a mendicant in their behalf.. Ile has thewn a noble example of munificence himself ; and Colonel HAMILTON, the Governor of Heligoland, has Or One Hundred Pounds. Eternal Honour to their names ! Every Briton . ought to be proud to see his name inrolled in the same page. We understand that accounts have been received - I by Government from Malta, later than of the 2d De. cember, and by the same opportunity additional inior !nation from Sicily. Lord W. BENTINCK had set sail from Palermo in a ship of the line, bat the destination was not known. This circumstance will be connected I naturally with the report we have before mentioned, that an interview was to takeplace bet weentlar RAT and this Nobleman. Gen. MAITLAND,it is Said, is ex tremely popular at M a lt a . A G ent l eman i s now here, who had the opportunity of inspecting the instrument stating the powers with which he is entrusted, and they appear to be unlimited- as to every purpose of internal Government. Under his authority a Council of Trade has been appointed, and the majority nomia nated are British subjects. To this Board all com mercial differences and arrangements are to be re ferred, and much benefit is expected from the' expe rience, discretion, and impartiality of the Members. FlRE.—Last night an alarming and destructive fire broke out in a Cow-house, belonging tb Mr. Flub, near Lewisham. Three fine milch cows were burned. The other part of the building was not contigtlbus to .the spot, otherwise the whole of the extensive inisoc, with several ricks of corn and hay, oust also have been destroyed, v.v. yams , •• •••• •• • - ley state. " It is also said, that 40,600 of the Ante ue to penetrate into ran c e ,by way of Italy I * the Marquis of W ILLINGTON It to roasthesountmfreen Iliallause to the Southern Pyrenneet, and in einjunglion.llol,lol44wirrtznentioned force . 'lltsrao4lteenkt 4 - 1:4441;on Mareottlitittlkiiiir hvith 1000 men, its three colttmns o and pirated the nemy to the fatal of Iroviso. By this event the . Fonnection with den. Nugemo who had his lvza,l- - quartet; at Comachit? ) and his vani.guarci at krren- na, is now quite secured. The said General . has latily