Star. — London, England, 1814-03-26 00:00:00

PREVCR PA PltltS. PARIS, MARCH SA To-by, the oth of March, being the anniversary of the birtl.-day of the King of Rome, his Majesty has received the homage and the congratulations of the principal persons in the empire. To-day, at two o'clock, her Majesty the Empress took a walk on the terrace of the Thuilleries. The garrison of Bergen.op-Zoom has made a very te.tecessal sally, and taken the Commander of the English troops besieging it. A Frenchman, who is come back from Dresden, where he had been made prisOntr, informs us, that he did not see a single corps in all the parts of Germany .through which he travelled, nor yet on the banks of the Rhine. All the enemy's reserves had joined him before the late affairs; thus he has not a single rein forcement to hope for. The fine and numerous column of new troops brought by General Jansen, which the Emperor re viewed at Rheims, was composed of old soldiers, who are impatient to meet the enemy. Accounts from Switzerland, dated at the beginning of this month, tell us, that many Cantons reject the arrangements proposed by the Allies. There is a great fermentation in people's minds, and it is diffi cult t 9 foresee when it will stop. The Empress of Russia is arrived at Berlin, where she has been received with the honours due to her rank. The Minister of Justice of the kingdom of Italy has just published a decree, recalling all the subjects of that kingdom, who, without the Emperor's permission, are in the service of the King of Naples. They have a delay of three months from the Ist of February. PARIS, MARCH 21. The enemy's army, which had passed the Seine at Pont and Nogent, having learnt that the Emperor, :Waster of Rheims and Chalons, was marching upon its rear, began its retreat on the 17th, and on the 19th took up the bridges it hich it had thrown over at Pont, Nogent and Arcis-sur-Aube. The Emperor of Russia, and the King of Prussia, were with the co lumn which was marching from Arcis-sur-Aube upon Villenoxe. This column was very near being cut off. On the approach of the French army debouching from Eperndy byFere Champenoise, the Emperor of Russia retreated with all haste upon Troyes, whence the head-quarters of the Emperors are returned to Bar sur-Aube. • Oa the 15th and 16th numerous reinforcements of troops arrived at Rheims, which have been reviewed by his Majesty the Emperor. It is affirmed that General Langeron has died -at Chalons.sur-Marne, in consequence of an illness. The• Marshal Duke of Dalmatia has made a move ment in advance ; his head-quarters were beyond Conchez, at Carlin. The 10,000 men from the army of the Duke of Albufera, and the column which has debouched by Piedmont, are arrived at Lyon.. These reinforce ments, and others which have joined the army of the Duke of Castiglione, have put it in a very formidable condition to act against the enemy. Regiments of troops of different arms continue to pass through Paris, and take their route to the Grand Army. Battalions of the national 15uards of the de partments also repair to this city. chose of the de pattnent of the Orne arrived here yesterday noon. FRENC#t FUNDS.—March 19, 48 fr. 25 c.; Bank Actions, 655. NOYON, MARCH 17. We are still in the hands of the enemy's troops. It is difficult to describe the vexations to which all our inhabitants without exceptiod are exposed. How ever, we submit to all the demands and all the requi• sitions that the enemy makes. The houses in the suburbs have been wholly stript. RHEIMS, MARCH 16. Yesterday the Emperor reviewed numerous rein forcements that were arrived in this town. One of our columns has advanced upon Chalons, where it will soon enter, and where it is hoped that it will get possession of some magazines belonging to the enemy. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH 26. 1814. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Red. stint—Con•. 63;65 654—fos act. 68i 65 Ot 4 per Ct. shut-5 pet Ct. 961 95-omniurn 22 17+18 bait Undo 63. i ts. per-Exchequer BiEs3s. ss. pr. • We have the satisfaction .to communicate some farther interesting particulars respecting the diffusion of the glorious counter Revolution, which is now 1 operating the regeneration of France. "The Deputies front Bourdeaux, who arrived at Falmouth, did not Come direct to London, but proceeded for Hartwell, the residence of their revered and much injured Sove reign, Louts XVIII. with whom they had an au dience yesterday, and were most graciously received. They arrived in London this day. Their names are Baron de la BARTHE and Monsieur de TAMA. They left Bourdeaux on the 14th, and were the bearers, among other interesting documents, of the Ittlow ing PROCLAMATION: " At Ecurdeaux, in the Hotel de Ville, March 12, 1814. 44 INHABITANTS OF BOURDEAUX—The paternal Ma rstrate of your city has been summoned, by circum tar.ccs the most fortunate, to be the interpreter of 'Your tong suppressed wishes, and the organ of your feelings, in order to welcome, in your name, the Ne phew, the Son-in-Law of Louis XVI. i:..hose pre sence converts into allies, irritated nations, who, almost to your gates, bore the name of enemies. " Already, people of Bourdeaux, proclamations multiplied by your impatient pens, amidst the subser vience of the press, have re-assured you of the inten i,tions of our King, and the plans of his Allies. " It is not to subject your provinces to a foreign yoke that the English, the Spaniards, the Portuguese appear there. They have assembled in the South, as the people of other countries have done in the North, to destroy the scourge of nations, and replace him by a Mooateh, the lather otitis people. It is tliroogli him only that we tan appease the resentment of a neighbouring nation, against which we were precipi tated by the most perfidious despotism. " If I had not been convinced that the presence' of the Bourbons, conducted by their generous Allies, must put a period to your calamities, still I should not have deserted your city ; but should have bent my head in silence under a temporary yoke. Never should I have been seen to wave that colour which presages a pure Government, had I not been assured that all classes of citizens would enjoy those blessings which the progress of the human mind promised to our age. " The hands of the Bourbons are free from French blond. With the testament of Louis XVI. in their hands, they forget all resentment ; every where they proclaim, and they prove, that tolerance is the first wish of their souls. Aware that the ministers of a religion different from that which they profess, have lamented the fate of Kings and Pontiffs, they promise equal protection to every faith which invokes a GOD of peace and reconciliation. It is in deploring the horrible ravages of tyranny engendered by licentiousness, that they forget the er rors caused by the illusions of liberty. Far from wishing them to fall on those who, with an ardour too severely punished, pursued its vain phantom, they come to restore that true liberty which leaves at once the people and the monarch without distrust. Every liberal institution shall be maintained. Alarmed at the facility of the French in voting imposts, the pil lars of despotism, the Prince will be the first to de vise, with your representatives, the most legal mode of taxation, the most equitable distribution, in order that the people may not be overwhelmed. " Those brief and consoling words which the hus band of the daughter of Louis XVI. has just address ed to you— " No more tyrants !—No more war ! No more conscriptions !—No more vexatious im posts !" have already cheered your families. ~ Already his Majesty has twice proclaimed, in the face of all Europe, that the interest of the State made it a law with him to confirm the sales, which by in numerable changes interested so many families in estates henceforward guaranteed. 4 , People of Bourdeaux ! I have obtained the assu. ranee that it was the firm determination of his Ma jesty to favour industry and to recal amongst us that impartial liberty of commerce, which, prior to 1789, had diffused comfort among all the laborious classes . Your hat vests shall cease to be ruinous ; the colonies, too long separated from the mother-country, shall be restored to you ; the sea, which had become well nigh useless to you, is about to bring back friendly flags into your port. The laborious artisan will no longer lie idle; and the mariner, restored to bis noble pro fession, is about to navigate the seas anew, to pur chase repose for his old age, and to bequeath his ex perience to his sons. 4" rhe husband of the daughter of Louis XVI. is within your walls : he himself will soon communicate to you the expression of the sentiments which animate him, and of those of the Monarch whose representa tive and interpreter he is. 64 The hope of days of happiness which he assures to us has supported my strength. 44 I have no need to invite you to concord. Do no t all our wishes tend to the same object—the destrue. tion of the tyranny -under which we have all equally groaned ? But each of us must concur thereto with as much of order as ardour. Amsterdam did not wait for the presence of her deliverers, to declare herself, and re-establish the old Government, the only one capable of restoring her commerce and her prospe rity ; it was to the patriotism of merchants that the Stadtholder owed his reestablishment, and the prompt creation of the army, which defends the liberty of Holland. 44 You will have been the first to give a similar ex ample to France. The glory and advantage which our city shall thence derive, will render ke it for ever famous and fortunate among cities. 44 Every thing permits us to hope, that to the ex cess of calamities those times so much desired by wis dom are about to succeed, when the rivalries of na tions shall cease ; and perhaps it was reserved to the great Captain who has already merited the title of deliverer of nations, to attach his glorious name to an epoch so happily wonderful. 44 Such, fcllow-citizens, are the motives, the hopes, which have guided my conduct, and have determined me, if necessary, to sacrifice my life for you. Gon is my witness, that I have had nothing in view but the happiness of our country.—VlvE Le Rot I (Signed) " The Mayor, LYNcH." The above was printed and circulated on the 12th, before the entrance of the British troops ; and what is perhaps still more singular, it was drawn up subse quent to the publication in Bourdeaux of BoNAPARTE'S decree dencuncing death to all who should support the ancient dynasty. A convincing proof that the magnanimous Mayor of Bourdeaux at least, has set his life upon the glorious cast of dethroning " the Monster," as BONAPARTE is most emphatically, and most justly denominated, in the above vigorous pro. clamation. To the gratifying particulars of the reception of the Due D'ANGouLEmE at Bourdeaux,contained in the sub_ joined letter, we have to add, from another source, equally authentic, that nothing c'ould exceed the trans ports of joy which electrified the audience at the The atre, when his Royal Highness appeared. The beauti ful air d 0 kichod, 0 mon /24.1" was immediately struck up, and secored *ith the mosrloyal vociferation. Extract of a Letter from an Officer of distinction who attendeci the Due d'Arsuoui.xma into Bourdeaux, dated Bourgettisit, March 14th g , I preceded the Duc d'ANoout.ams into this town, and acquainted the Mayor with his arrival. It was immediately published ; upon which the red cockade was Joule aux pitch, the white one substituted in its place, and the white flag hoisted. The whole of the town re echoed the cries of rive le Duc d'iln gouleme I immediately assembled about 200 young' men, mounted and decorated with white sashes and cockades, and went two leagues out of the town to meet the Duc, who entered with the cordon bleu, as Hereditary Prince of the Crown of France. Never did I see so numerous and unanimous a populace : in the streets, though very wide and very long, a pin would not have found its way to the ground. To give you an exact description is impossible; and without knowing well the character of the French nation, you could never conceive the extraordinary enthusiaim which the whole of the inhabitants displayed.— if bat le Tyran ! if bar les Aigles 1 Scram: le Monrir e ! Vive Bourbon ! St. Louis ! Henri IV. ! Louis X7IIL ! Monsieur le Duc, et Madame la Duelsesre d'aingoulemc ! Immediately on his arrival, the Duc went to the Ca thedral, at the door of which he was received by the Archbishop, &c. Yesterday we were at the theatre, when an address was presented to the Du:: d'Angou leme, together with a crown, which he accepted, and immediately the music played Vive Henri IV. ! La vietoire ert a nous ! On pout on etre mieux, qu'au rein de ra famille, &c. and " GOD save the KING !" We are now organizing troops as fast as we can." These important events in the South would proba bly be known at Chatillon some days ago ; for it cannot be doubted that every means would be em ployed to transmit the intelligence through France. Even should every effort of this kind have proved abortive, the presuMption is, that the news may have reached that place from London ; for Mr. GUY, the Messenger, who sailed from Deal on Tuesday morn ing, would, if no impediments were thrown in his way, reach Chatillon on Thursday. By the 24th official accounts would reach them, and we infer that Preliminaries have not been signed, and that they will not be signed till an opportunity has been afforded to the French people to declare for their legitimate Sovereign. The Paris Papers to which we have alluded, and from which we have given extracts, present nothing of importance. The public know pretty well how to appreciate the accounts in the Moniteur. Had any ground for real boasting occurred, we know it would have been seized on with avidity. The next accounts from the Allies in the North, will probably inform us of the effects produced by the knowledge there of the Revolution at Bourdeaux. We ought to add, that besides the accounts brought by the Deputies from Bourdeaux, another person 01 eminence, whose name is not mentioned, has reached London, from another part of France, with dis patches for Louis XVIII. A Dutch Mil arrived this morning, from which we have Oven extracts in the preceding columns.— The accounts in the Dutch Papers, from Marsh 41 &manes army, do not come down later than the 12th. On that day he was in position before Laon. At the Stock Exchange, there was an amazing bustle this morning, from the hour of opening (ten o'clock) till twelve. Consols began at 6t3f, and Omnium at twenty•two and a half. In a short time Consols were done at 65, and Omnium at 17i ; the Speculators were giving turns of one and two per cent. to make up. There is no news to warrant the fall, but it is supposed that three or four of the large Speculators have been selling, which the people of the house perceiving, have forestalled them, by sellim their own stock. The band and colours only, of the Wexford Mi.' litia, lying at Woodbridge, received a sudden rout, a few days since, for Yarmouth, said to be in conse quence of some great personage expected soon to land at that place. That fine regiment, the Royal York Rangers, who distinguished themselves at the capture of all - the West India Islands, are now quartered at the following stations : Barbadoes—three Rifle Companies, under the command of Major STARCK ; three Light Infantry Companies, under the command of Captain WARR. S. Vincent's—three Light Companies, under the command of Major Ewart ; and three companies at Grenada, under the command of Captain BIRD, All in good health, and in a fine state of discipline. The importance of Bourdeaux, in a military point of view, is very trifling, being built in a semi-circular shape, following the windings of the river, and com manded from the whole of the opposite shore by a chain of hills, from which some mortars might de stroy the whole town in a few hours. Nor has it any fortifications, the Chateau-Trompette, Fort Louis, and Fort Du-Ha, built in different parts of the city, to overawe the inhabitants, having been dismantled pre vious to the Revolution. But it enjoys an influence over the south-west of France, which few provincial towns in any country poisess. By commanding the noble streams of the Garonne, the Dordogne, and the Ile, all accessible to our men of war, Bourdeaux is the . general and only mart of all the rich districts of Gutenne, of Limousin, of pan of Angoumois, and of Sainton;e. Connected with most of these coun tries by a similarity of habits, peculiar to that part of France, and by a vernacular idiom, totally unin telligible to Frenchmen north of the Garonne, Hour deans is considered as the only capital of those pro vinces, and in it all their mercantile and agricultural interests center. SECOND EDITION. We have received Paris Papers to the 23d, being one day later than those noticed in a preceding co. lumn. They state that the Allies were in retreat from Nogent and Troyes upon Bar-sur-Aube. 80. NAP*RTE, on the 20th, was at Arcis.sur.Aulee. Ge. neral PLATorv, with 3000 " Barbarians," i. e. Cos. sacks, had been at Seem= and Fere Champonerie, but was beaten back. Mr. SMITH, the Messenger, has arrived from Hol land with dispatches. We have received, by the way of Holland, the fol lowing accounts front France t—Marshal Bmcnea drove the enemy over the Aisne on the 18th ; By- Low on the 19th marched upoa Soissons ; and WIN. ZINC/EMMA upon Rheims. BLUCHER on the 20th intercepted a letter to BONA PARTE, giving an account of the Revolution at Bourdeaux. The same events must the refiva have been known at Chatillon about the 2lst or ltd. It was reported in Holland once more, and gene. rally Credited, that the Negociations at Chatillon had broken off, and that Lord CASTLEREAGH was on his return. We stated the report on this subject already. THE ARMY. The 2d Battalion of the 26th, or Cameronians, are ordered to embark for Holland forthwith. The Earl MULGRAYE'S Regiment, the 31st, expect a third Battalion at the next volunteering. The Regiments unfler the ctmmand of the Mai (pis Of BUCKINGHAM, Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNNI. and Colonel BAYLY, which were going to Rolland, are now ordered to embark for Bourdeaux. Major General CAMPBELL will proceed with the first ships ordered to Newfoundland to take the command of the troops on that station. Three battalions of embodied detachments are form ing at Colchester, previous to their embarkation for Holland. Wednesday a number of fine recruits for the Or fnrd militia marched from that city to join the regi ment, in Ireland. Thursday sailed from Harwich the transports with the troops, amounting to 2SOO men, which have been so long detained, having on board detachments, con sisting of the 57th, 56th, 52.1, 44th, 37th, 35th, and 33d, and King's German Legion, and Royal Vete rans, to join S:r THOMAS GRAHAM, in Htalland, un der convoy of the Acoeass• it gun brig, Lieutenant WATSON. Yesterday morning the Dutch Regiment, which had been formed at Yarmouth, marched out of the Barracks, about 600 strong, and embarked at the Jetty, in high spirits, on board three transports foe Holland. The 2d Royal North British Dragoons, or Scots Greys, which were stationed in Canterbury to be in readiness to embark for Holland, in the event of their services being required there, received, on Tuesday last, a route to proceed immediately to Portsmouth, for embarkation, to join Lord WELLINGTON in Gas cony. This fine regiment began its march on Wed nesdar morning, The heavy ordnance, consisting of nearly 70 pieces of cannon, of every calibre, were removed List week from Woodbridge to the depot, Colchester. They were landed at the former place from the Ordnance Office, for the purpose of experiments on that erten sive range on Sutton Heath. The volunteering from the Militia to which we lately alluded, is ordered to take place on the 4th, sth, and 6th of April. The volunteers and substitutes composing the 2d East Suffolk Regiment of Local Militia, to be com manded by T. b. Goody, Esq. M. P. were sworn in on Thursday, at the Head-quarters, Woodbridge. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. EAST-INDIA SHIPPING. The country ship RADNOR, Captain W. BERCI:LILT. arrived at Portsmouth the 25th instant, direct from Bengal, which she left the 23d October last. _ The GENERAL STUART arrived at Calcutta the 221 August. The MARQUIS OF WELLINGTON was in the Bengal River the 12th October, and was expected to go down to Saugur in a few days to complete her cargo. FALMOUTH, MARCH its. Arrived the Princess Elizabeth packet with a Mail from Surinam, in 61 days ; Lady Wellington, with a Mail from Jamaica, in '3B days. Sailed the PROTEC TOR, with a convoy of 50 sail, for Plymouth. PLYMOUTH, MARCH t 4. Came in the Favourite, WOO% from Waterford for Balboa—captured by an American privateer, given up to the Master, afterwards detained by the Lawn.- NM° sloop of war. Sailed the SPARROW and SCYLLA on a cruise.—Wind West. HARWICH, MARCH 23. No arrivals. Sailed 21 transports, with stores for Holland, under convoy of. the AGRISIOR gun•brig. and 11 ditto, with troops for ditto. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH sS. Arrived the Padagus troop ship, from the Downs; SPRIGHTLY cutter, with two ships, from Dartmouth ; WOLVIRINR, with a few transports, from Plymouth ; and the PROTECTOR gun-brig, from Falmouth, with two ships under convoy. Sailed the Brussels troop ship, for the Downs. Went out of harbour his Ma• jesty's ships DAUNTLESS and Leomau...—Wind W. 'MAL, MARCH 2.5. Came down from the River the Dorsetshire. Tol man. for India, and a few other ships, and remain. with the whole of is outward-bound.—Wind S.W. A 111 \ I e :0 4 C i.