Star. — London, England, 1814-03-08 00:00:00

, 1 . *44 EASTERN DISPENSARY, GREAT ALIE-STREET, GOODMAN'S FIELDS. THE ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL of this CHARITY will be oelebrated TO-MORROW, Wednes day, the 9th instant, at the City of London Tavesn, Bishops gate-street. His Royal Highness the Duke of KENT is the Chair. Dinner on Table at Half-past Four o'Clock precisely. "„• Tickets, at Thirteen Shillings each, may be had of the Stewards; also at the Dispensary and Tavern. S'f WARDS. JANITS 1-11 , 011F.S ANDLYDON,_EIq. Lombard-street. NICHOLAS CHARRINGTON, Esq Mile-End. WILLIAM •Emits, Esq. Church-row, Fenchurch-street. • ALisoN HILL, Esq. Limehouse. W. S. HANDASYDE, Esq. Wapping-street. H. BACON HALL, Esq. CuUum-street. • JAMS INGLIS, Esq. Mark-lane. CHKISTOPIIIR JACKSON, Esq. Mark:lane. RICHARD MOUNTIORD, Esq. Birchin-lane. OCTATIUS MASHITAH, Esq. Tower-Hill. JAMes PAICHAKO, Esq. Church-row, ?enchurch-street. WILLIAM Row, jun. Esq. Little St. Thomas Apostle. WAITt, Esq. Old Burlington-street. $4, Jewry-street. 5. WEGENER„ Secretary. THE ARMY. By a letter from St. Jean de Luz, dated the 9.lst of last month, received yesterday, it appears, that, owing to the state of the weather and the Adour, the ►eft of the army had been unable to pass that river, as was intended by Lord \VELLLNGFON, and that his Lordship was in the course of that day (21st ultimo) to .return to the right of the Allied Army, under Sir RoWL&ND HILL, which was at St. Palais, avhere important operations were expected to take place. It was understood to be Lord WILLUNGTOte4 intention to move the left, to join the tight of the army. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER IN LORD WEL LINGION'S ARMY, DATIED ST. JEAN DE LUX, FE* 20. 44 The weather has been, for the last ten days, as file as we could wish it—the roads completely dried up. Yesterday the reserve 18-pounders and rocket brigade snoved forward towards Bayonne : they are intended, I understand, to cover the formation of a bridge of boats about to be thrown over the Adour, below Bayonne. - The boats are already collected., chiefly from the harbours of St. Jean de Luz and Socoa ; they only wait for planks, which require a .considerable time to bring up. It will be 800 yards long. A boom will be thrown Across, to prevent any : thing coming down the river to destroy it. I saw a snan yesterday who had j,L•st left Bayonne. He says that the people wish to surrender, but that the citadel completely commands the town. The roads leading from it into the interior are fortified for 20 leagues. It is understood that the BoultEoN standard will be hoisted at Pau. ProLlAtuntions are printed, and ready to be dispersed. Lord Wer.t.muron has reserved 5t155,000 Of the money lately an ived, probably for the purpose of paying those who may join us en .that .oceasion." •On Tuesday, six companies of the fifty-third Re. fiment marched into V.alsmouth, and embaiked to join the other /ow companies of the ‘4.1 battalion, sow serving with the MeirqU‘S WELLINGTON ; also in the course of last week, detachments for .the 149th, 4.3 d; Mb and for several other regiments in the South of France. About -WO of the Royal Waggon Train embarked at the dock-yard, Portsmouth, on Saturday morning, for the army in Spain. About 1560 volunteers from the Militia, for vari .ous regiments under fjord WiLLINGTON, gmbatked, last week at Portsmouth, and sailed for Plymouth. The Venus, Captain MACKENZIE, has alto proceededt to that port, to take on board money for the army, and lieu proceed with the transports for St. Jean de 1..u,z or Passages. The brigade of Foot Guards having received a very considerable augmentation from the Militia, the Three cagiments now consist of 8000 men and up wards, a very high establishment for this expensive body of troops. Colonel BAYLAMPS Provisional Battalion are on their march to Portsmouth to ernbatk for foreign service. Saturday se'nnight, a corps of l3ritish Artillery, under the command of General GOWER, arrived at Utrecht, and on Monday proceeded for Breda, where the Dutch troops lately employed in the siege of Gor. cum have also orarched. The . whole of this force, it • is undeisto,,d, will join that now under the.comosand t.of Sir Toom.ss GRA LIAM. The Dutch corps hat left Bois le Doc, in order to strengthen die force before I Grave. The siege will iu 'inure be conducted with the utmost wizotir. Captain Hasiza - roti, of the Royal Fasileers, is ap,- 'minted Aide dc-Camp to Lieutenant-General HA lir. . The p battalion of the 30th regiment have arri., !mill at Colchester from Winchester. • Vice following em berg in the 3d Regiment of 1 rjeshire J..rical Militia, command.hl by Lieutenant.' Osaratzi, have voluntarily agreed to an ex. ~tension of service, under the provisions of the Act 'of the present Session, viz. 35 cfficers, !CA non-com ' missioned office's, 22 drummers, and .522 privates On last, Sir WATKIN WI.LLIANS WYNNE gave an elegant &met to his regiment of Provisionals, at the barracks in Winchester. The men were to have dined in public in the Cathedral Church-yard, but from the unfavourable state of the weather, they were prevented. About 900 of them were regaled with a pound of beef each, pudding, and good strong beer. The officers partook of an excellent dinner at the White Hart Inn. Sir WATKIN presented the co lours to the regiment at the barracks, and made an animated and apposite speech on the occasion. Tuesday, the. 22d ult. the Ist Royal Cornwall Lo,- cal Militia, c"nuuanded by the Right Hon. Lord ELIOT, assembled at their head quarters at Liskeard, fcwr.the purpose of ascertaining the disposition of the . ''otrace's and men as to an extension of their service to do garrison Jury for the present year, and on Wed nesday spurning the regiment met on their parade at ten O'clock, where his Lordihip, at die head of the, regiment, addressed them in au energetic and appro-, prime speech, on the importance or the service for which they were called together ; and after his Lord ship's address, the regiment, like Cornishmen. tine to each other, and loyal to their King and Country, stave ti.tve buzz's, with the Cornish motto, ,! ONI AND ALL," and marched from the parade to the place . appointed for siy,r.ing the roll, and then returned ti tra.r!. respective homes, where they a r e anxiousl) uaitink their cfnbutry%'call to when and when tLtir services may be required. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MARCH 4. The latest letters from the headquarters received yesterday evening, announce that the different corps of the army are performing grand manceuvres, And that his Majesty continues to enjoy the best health. ORLEANS, FEB. 25. The following is a brief relation of what passed here on the 18th instant The evening before, about seven o'clock, after a combat towards Chateauneuf, the enemy, to the amount of from 16 to 1800 horsemen, all Cossacks, with two pieces of cannon and a howitzer, came to attack our city. An obstinate engagement had been maintained about half a league from the city by about 400 men of the 155th under Major Legneau, with two hundred other: troops, fourteen dragoons, and some inhabitants ; this combat lasted eight hours. We had ❑o artillery, but the rich fields which sur round us, covered with vines, fruit•trees, and inter sected with hedges, gave our numerous sharp-shooters an immense advantage over the enemy, who had n 4 infantry. Our loss was not more than eleven killed and thirty wounded; while that of the enemy was at least 80 killed, and more than 100 wounded. During the night, the enemy lodged in oar coun• try-houses, which he pillaged, sacked, and destroyed. He carried off all the horses which suited him, taking SO from the little town of Chateauneuf. The enemy committed, both at Bellegardo and Lorris, which they passed through, all the exegeses which characterise their march. The urban guard maintained perfect tranquillity in our city. LISLE, FEBRUARY 28. On the 24th instant, five gens d'armes were escort ing a convoy of ninety-five Spanish prisoners from Landrecy to Cambray, in order to be conducted to 'fours. Having reached Inchy Beaumont, they were charged by a detachment of Saxon cuirassiers, who carried off the prisbners; but the triumph of the enemy was short, charged in his turn by a French detach ment from Landrecy, he was put to flight, and the prisoners were retaken. We had six men woceded at the recapture of the citadel of Doulens. Large magazines of forage were found there, which have been sent towards the for of Douai. This expedition, which was con. conducted with as much skill as vigour, is a new ser vice performed by the brave Genet-Al Henrion. ROUEN, MARCH S. On Sunday last, February 27, the different corps forming the garrison of this city, were reviewed by the Prefect, and the General commanding the De partment. The ilieirds of order could u,t witness without extreme satisfaction, the imposing force which this rtwiev presented. They felt convinced, that the tranquillity of our city was sheltered from every at tempt. It will be in vain for those corps of partisans which hare carried alarm into some defenceless dis tricts, to shew themselves on our territory. Similar measures would sucfice [not only to i,ustrate their projects, but even to prevent their . er wrtAining them,. They` would not dare to attempt the secur►ty of a population possessed of so mach energy, and such means of -defence. ?.SAILCH S. Four thousand five hundred men et the Ational Guards of the Deux-Sevres, Loire Inferieure, and the Ille and VilAine, arrived this day in Paris, on their march to the army commanded by the Emperor. These men are of astonishing strength and extreme ardour ; they were almost all armed. The devoted ness of these bra-ye Fri'nchmen cannot be too highly estimated, who think it no sacrifice to hasten to the assistance of their country in danger, placing a just confidence in his Majesty the Emperor. The excesses committed by the Russian and Prus. sian soldiers are so revolting, that General Blucher, who dreads their effects, has been obliged to publish a proclamation, in which he acknowledges that the country people, irritated by these excesses, have taken up arms, and that there is reason to tear that the FreAch nation will rise as one man. GENERAL ORDER. " idead•4uarters at Paris, February 22. " After movements of hoops made with great pre cipitation, it is very necessary to be incessantly em ployed in re : establishing order in all branchetof the Service, and particularly that attention should lie fixed on the men who remain behind, whatever 1* their rank in the army. " The General Commandant is informed, that offi cers performing the functions of waggon -masters, re main, with their equipages, in liksdgings, without being thereto ♦ uthorised ; and that others have got lodgings for themselves, without a legal order from the Mayors of the Communes. " In consequence, the General Commandant or dains that every insulated man, or Chief of Detach ment, who shall be lodged in a Commune in an ille gal manner, or shall haye abused the confidence of the Mayors. shall be instantly marked out, the, his conduct may be examined, and punished actor g to the exigeucy of the case. " Every military man must be with his c • every man belonging to the army, and wandering on the roads, shall be arrested by the Fens-d'Armerie, and conducted to the general Staff at Paris, under good and se aicient guard. " The General Commanding in Chief the first Mi. litary Division and the city of Paris, invites the Pre fects and Sub-Prefects, to communicate the present order to all the Mayors of their Districts, who must empl'y for its execution the National Guards of their Communes ; and orders the Commandants of subdivisions, established at the different poit t anti vil [Ages, as well as the geos.d!Armerie, to ass • in the execution of these present measures, under their re sponsibility. (Signed) .4 The Count Hut.." TARBES, FEBRUARY 23. From the nth to the 17th of this month, the ene my's army has 'made a movement on all their line, and has endeavoured to throw bridges over the Adour ; but in vain, in consequence of the good dis positions which 'were taken by our Generals. It 6 believed that 'the enemy has given up the idea of /W pass ing the ont': Reinforcement's from Toulouse are announced to us. The levy•FnlnassF ha;-;, taken place in our department with 'a great deal of success. ' GRENOBLE, FEBRUARY 27. Since the occupation of Charnbery by our troops, - • • the enemy retires precipitately below the columns! Which pursue him, and which have caused him consi derable loss. We are authosized to peblish the fol lowing letter from General Marchand to the Senator his Majesty's Estraordinary Commissioner, in the 7th military division : CIAM3IRT, Februag23. M. COUNT-1 hasten to announce to you, that our troops have entered Aix : our cavalry executed a charge, and took five of the enemy's hussars. The Austrians are in full retie-kt. lam about to proceed to Aix to make arrangemvits, and I reckon on re turning hither to night. Our troops will .take n posi tion to-night at Alby. 4 , The inhabitants. 61 Aix yesterday illuminated their town on our arrival. The Austrians have lett them nothing.— I am, &c. (Signed) 4 6 MARCUAND, Gen. of Div." PARIS, MARCH 2. They write from Meaux, that Marshal the Duke of Ragusa has obtained, at Lusy-sur-Ourc9, a signal advantage over the enemy ; the latter is retiring be fore our troops. Letters from Amiens announce, that the enemy's detachments which occupied Doulens hive been driven from it. TROYES, FEBRUARY SS. The Emperor has gratified all our wishes, by pass ing three days in his good city of Troyes. The house which he inhabited was constantly surrounded by an immense crowd, who always entertained the Bove of seeing his Majesty ; but during these three flays the Emperor did not stir out once. On the 27th, at mid-day, his Majesty, surrounded by his brave guards, took the road to Arcis. The people pressed'around him in passigg. The air re sounded with cries of rive PEniftereur. The same enthusiasm was excited by the presence of his Ma jesty when he entered o "walls victorious; all thought, they could not testify to&tnuch gratitude ; and, in fact, the details with which we have been made ac quainted could not fail to add to our love of the So-: vereign. The French army had arrived in a suburb about three in the afternoon ; it Gould have. entered, the city with the fugitives, but the Emperor chose rather to suspend the march of the troops than to expose our city to the flames, with which it was threatened by an enemy enraged at being vanquished. His Majesty passed the night at a miserable hamlet, and it was not till eight in the morning that he made his entrance into our city. The circumstances of that happy day. will never he effaced from our memory. Every body approached the Emperor, spoke to him, pressed his hands, thanked him with tears. His Majesty seemed affected, and saw in these marks of attachment the joy of children on the return of a cherished Either. On the evening of the 26th, Arcis-sur-Aube was retaken by our troops; the enemy was flying at all points. He had learned the movement which the Emperor was making, and we know that his ap proach always precipitates the flight of the enemy's armies. We ex, ect to receive important news. Every body hem becomes a soldier, arms himself, and breathes only vengeance. The enemy could not have behaved worse. After having pillaged a fine paper maru.dactary in the vici nity of our city, he threw all the paper into the river, to a considerable amount, and destroyed all the Ink chinery. Nothing caw* more frightful than the out rages committed by thena4n the small towns, and in the country. Atter pillaging' evevy. thing, :Joy fit fire to the houses. The inhabitants are filled with rage ; they arm, and rush on the barbarous authors of so many atrocities. At Troyes, on their Tore* the inhabitants took or killed itoo men ; a butcher. threw a paving stone at General Wrede, who was knocked from his horse; a peasant of Vandquvre took twelve stragglers prisoners, after having shut them up in his house, which they had entered to plun der: boys of twelve and thirteen have shewu the greatest courage, and brought in prisoners. IMPORT TO HIS EXCELLENCY TIIE NIINISIEII OF TUE IN- TILRIOR, BY M. DESPRP2 CRASSIFR, AUDITOR T,O THE COUNCIL OF STATE, DATED MARCH 4 2, 1814. I now lay before you the heart-rending picture of ; the calamities and outrages which the inhabitants of the communes I have visited have experienced from the enemy. It will be an abstract of the subscribed , depositions taken by verbal examination, and an abridged detail of the havoc which I have seen with my own eyes. That part of the enemy's army which caused all these evils WAS chiefly composed of Russian tromps, a small number of Bavarian and Wurtemburgets, and some Hungarian hussars. At Nangis the inhabitants generally had to com plain of pillage ; their personal outrages leave fright. ful recollections ; pillage itself was always accompa. nied with menaces, very often with ill-treatment ; and it was with pistols at their breast, and the sabre over their heads, that these brigands compelled the unfortunate inhabitants to declare where theittooney and valuable effects were concealed. The first and second depositions state, that a fern* received from those miscreants a blow on the loins, with the flat side of their sabre, which deprived her of semi "that they held a knife to the throat of ano ther to compel her to disclose where her money was ; that the two husbands of these women were cruelly struck, and that one of them, after being beaten in his own house, was driven to the enemy's camp with blows of the fist, and the butt-ends of muskets ; there the brigands compelled him to strip, and were about to shoot him, when an officer fortunate-ly came tip, and delivered him from the hand, of the ‘.e At the house of the man of lauded ino.wity who makes the sixth deposition, they perpetrate d the most horrible excesses. With blots of the tilt and the butt-end of their muskets, they demanded .his brandy and money. I myself saw the bloody minks of the blows which he received ; but their fury did not stop sere: four females from the commune of Bay, d canton of Mormant, had taken refuge with this proprietor ; two of them were girls Irons 12 to IS ; the others were women from 28 to BA. These un• fortunate creatures were the victims of the brutality uf these ferocious men ; and 01, eye-witness, who wished to prevent their outrages, was himself sevvrely beaten.' [The report, after describing a variety of similar outrages on the pet sons of individuals, proceerJs as; follows :3 There is not a farmer, an innkeeper, or an Lille bitdint, whO has riot seen his cattle, his implements of tgriculture, his property, his furniture, carriel off, , wasted, or burnt. The 'churches and ministers of re ligion have not been spared more than, others. The btrongect language would fail in describing dye mournful aspect which these ravaged habitations pre sent. The Secretary of the Mayor of Rampillon, who has been a soldier, declared to me, that he never saw troops deliver themselves up to pillage *Amick horrible rage, even when licenced so to do. At Minis, I visited a number of farm-NC:I, which had been previously.,well furnished ; bat, now in all the apartments nothing was to be seen but hag. ments of broken and half-burnt furniture, feather beds and mama's.: torn to pieces, and the feathe r . and vocal scattered about. It was with the wood work of this furniture, of waggons and ploughs, and with the fruit-trees of orchards and gardens, that they lighted their fires at the •bivonacks, and roasted ti, cattle which they had carried off and killed. In all the places I have passed through, the inht bitants have declared that these banditti spoke only of pillaging and burning Pats. k havebeen assured that each of them had a torch slung at his back, and when asked what use they meant to mate of it, they universally answered, that it was to set fire to Pam, where they calculated on arriving by the 18th of rebruary. This fact was confirmed to me by Grabwisky, Mayor of - Muranut, a Pole by birth, who understood their language. The picture of the calamities which these unfortu nate people have suffered, and which are reserved for all those of the other departments into which the enemy may penetrate, must rouse the indignation of all Frenchmen, and give them the courage and energy necessary to repel those hordes of barbarians beyond the frontiers, and force diem, by a peace gin:ions for France, at last to give repose to all Europe. FRENCII, FUND*. March 1.55 f. 25 .c.—March S. 54 f. 50 c.--March 4. 52 f. c. ER AI 'IN 4 1 1 A PERS. COLOGNE, FECRU.!I,R'y 16. ft is confirmed that the French Commander gif Mentz has oifered to capitulate in the space of Sit days, in case the garrison before that time receives no stmcours from Bonapazze. in the meanwhile all hostility against the town is to be suspended. Tis'A proposal was sent by a bag of truce on the 4th inst. kut accoiding to the latest accoaants no answer had been returned by the besiegers, and it is expected that the place will soon surrender. kiE4GSBOURHOOD AF 4.NTWERP, ;IL Notwithstanding what has been stated, the euegy is not yet completely blockaded by the forces now this city, and the cause is the impediment; which have been occasioned by alte severity of the season. On account of this obstruction the garrison hat bees enabled to receive down the Scheldt, without much interruption, some important articles of supply hod' of ammunition and provisions. A gallant affair has taken One between a body of Cossacks and a party of the enemy. consisting of about SOO men, who were escorting into the city a quantity of corn. The Cossacks took ten waggons laden with grain, made some prisoners, killed a con. siderabk ;lumber, and drpve the rest under the pro• tection of their batteries. FOIE NIX 33.4.9.- • A great Iktid most salutary revolution is on the eve of biking place in the politics, or political sown, and viwoof the 101tOpeas States and Princes, The ,appaetoilt Westphalia in 160. was kiistai is a ea to the rights o f nations-_-ao also were some sub ' sequent pacifications. Corsica was seised by France; Poland was divided among the Russians, Pritssiaas, and Austrians. Little regard was thenceforth paid to natural rights, whether established by prescription or treaties. The french plainly disavowed aoy re. gard to these. They talked only of ceoruesicace-,-of the demarcations and boundaries of Nature- ot the arondimmat of empire. Even o 4 chip system, it might have been imagined that the Alps ? the PPinitegsl the Rhine, and the Ocean, might have been chasi• dered as natural boundaries—as well marked iron. tiers. But these were found to be but feeble barriers when opposed to power, to force, in the hand: of ambition. 4.nd it has been demonstrated, that it is in abstracted or weetaphysicul arrangements, *PP' re.atly so subtle and flimsy, alone, that the peace et Europe can be settled and maintained. The got powers are taught to know, and be fully.and practi• cally persuaded, that their own rights cannot have any permanent establishment ? without a respect to the rights of others. Bonaparte, as appear s by the Frrngh papery , thinks it highly unreasonathat .hs should be called es to give up the whole of his conquests ? " the natural fruits of his victories.'t It is well known that . justice was eery irrertilsrly and imperfectly administered in Scotland, partite• laxly in the Highlands, f or ming th e l ar gest portion of that country, until tbskabolition of herit{ble Jurip dictions, in 174 w. Appeals gtiglpt have been mad to the King's Courts, itiorcas might have been, made by the =l4l Statest_iu contact wio .some overwhelrningiPtiali; In Diet of the Empire. The noted Lord Lovat possessed a large track d territory, and was besides hereditary Sheriff of We Shire of Jr.verness. A kind of gentleman-chid a robber, a vassal or feudatory of his—ia Scotch, 2 feuer—had stole, or carried off, perhaps y 4411 41 1; much concern about sectecy, a number of cattle from the estate of t I.aitd. at soma small distance, as des tances were reckoned in the Highlands, that is,aboti; 12 or 20 miles. Thu Laird threatened a crimini prosecution before the Justiciary Court. Tice for , made no scruple of stating the predicament in whit. he stood to his Lard pal amount. Lovat invited, L; rather sumnoned the Laird to Beaulieu, his cis& where he met the thief. Lord Lovat, who had she Rebellion of 1745 in view, was w lling to pima. and conciliate the favour of the fetter and all 4 6 tenantry. Cornucopias of whiskey and honey wept. r'itind—a pacification was agreed to—the terms cs which were dictated by Lord Levat, who decree'. that the whole of the cattle, Withrtit the exctp:ion a single cow or goat two-veal .i bullock) =boa' be restored to the giwner. L.Ord war satiened -- the thief said nothing before his .Lordship ; but . 1 ► coop as he had quitted the castle, l,e grook.l dissatisfaction in Erse, impelling, " that it was vt:f hard that nothing should have been awar:.ed bv t• ' Lordship De him fur his ,rouble." i