Star. — London, England, 1814-02-16 00:00:00

"d e r the date of the 24th, that the Atiss;an Major.] cereal Prince Cherbatoff, observing that the enemy m „, 1 ,1 pot evacuate Ligny, attacked him there and compe lled him to leave the place. .. At Ligny it was reported that the Prince 'of Niachatel had come thither from Paris on - the 22d, an j that After a conference M four hours with Mar- Ncy and Victor, he returned to Paris. At this odes:lice it is said to have been determined that blirshal Victor should hold Ligny and Bar4e-duc till t h; 2tith inst. on which day the young guard would be ~l il t t ., arrive from Antwerp The Hereditary Prince of Hesse Homburg oc cupied Dijon on the 19th." A privnte letter from Rotterdam; dated Feb. 11, ovs , 4,, A s I passed thro' Breda, 12,000 Saxons were marching to join the Prussians. Both Prussians and Sast‘ns are much superior looking men to the French. cannot help noticing the conduct of Gen. Sim.- r oi in the attack on Antwerp : he was confined, a few days ago, with a broken leg, and such was his ardour that he went to the field, his servant carrying a pair of crotches, should he be obliged to dismount, which he was occasionally." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1814. PRICE of S COCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK Red.7o l6gliii—Cons. 74 69 fiii—for acc. 704 70 691;704 4 per Ct. 814- 5 per Ct. 974-•.omn. 26 251 20 254 ba s . 7, 85. . Ans. 17f 5-16ths--Exch. Bills ss. 6s. pr. We stated flee arrival of Mr: FISHER, the Messenger; yesterday. He brought Dispatches from Lord BURG- IiEaSH, dated on the Bth inst. at 'rules; and from Lord CA:TLEREAGH, on the 10th inst. at Chatillon Sur Seine. The former have been published in the Gazette—the latter, of course, have been divulged to none bat Cabinet Ministers. The Dispatches from Lard BURGHERSH contain the official account of the occupation of Troyes, which is described as a place of no mean consequence in the present state of the campaign. It is about 90 miles !run Paris, and is the capital of Champagne, the most fertile district in France, or perhaps in Europe. It is remarkable for a fine gothic Cathedral, the ~de mations of which, previous to BONAPARTE'S arrival in France from Corsica, were the richest and the most splendid in the christian world. It was subse- _ . quently plundered to swell the private treasures of various Members of the Sacred Dynasty. On the morning of Friday last, when Mr. FISHER left Troyes, an order had been issued for the advance of the troops towards Paris, and the Emperor ALEX ANDER was at the head of 35,000 of his Guards in advance from Troyes. The Russian artillery is de xribed by Mr. FISHER as the finest he ever saw. It was known when Mr. FISHER left Chatillon that' the wlsole of BONMIARTE'S force did nut exceed 120,000 men, while that of the Allies amounted to nearly 300,000. The 'circumstance of BONAPARTE having bad 4 horse shot under him was generally known wher ever tbe ifviessenger passed, and - it was supposed that he would hazard every thing rather than accede to the conditions proposed by the Allied Powers. There were very few males to be seen among the population of the country through which the English Messenger passed,. and the travelling was extremely inconvenient, as he bad most of his way to make in, an open and wtetcbed cart. He did not go through Paris, as the'French Papers have falsely stated, but took a straight direction to Calais, where he arrived last Monday. The people at Calais knew nothing respecting the plans or operations of the EMPEROR, and the utmost despon4ency prevailed wherever Mr. FISHER passed. He embarked at Calais at six o'clock on Monday evening, and reached town yesterday about eleven. It is altogether impossible to .describe the terror which the threatened approach of the Cossacks diffused throughout the whole 'of the country. The dread of retaliation for the ruin . of Moscow was the topic of general fear. When Mr. FISHER left Calais on Monday evening, a report prevailed that an Armistice had been signed for eight days between the Allied Powers and BONAPARTE. The defection of MURAT from his brother-in-law was not concealed in France, and it was understood that he had undertaken to act with all his forces againt the Vicz-Rot of ITALY. A Prussian corps occupied Chalks, and a body of Cossacks, belonging, we suppose, to WINZINGE• RODEN corps, was at Laon, ninety-one miles north oast of Paris. Mr. Fist= declares, that he met a Prussian courier, who confirmed to him the infor mation of a division of 6000 men, belonging to Bur cosa's army, having been surrounded, and forced to surrender,- without fighting. He also read at Cham bray, on the 13th, the Bulletin noticed in our Paper of yesterday. The following are some further particulars respect ing the intelligence brought by Mr. FISHER, as corn municated by an intelligent Correspondent at Dover : 1, DOVER, FEBRUARY 15. a Mr. FISIIEN the Messenger, landed here this morning, at one o'clock, from a flag of truce, from Oalais, and almost immediately set off for Town.— He comes from the Congress, and found some little trouble in coming on the roads, owing to the post horses being so bad ; and the terror of the approach of the Cossacks has caused some of the post-houses to be nearly abandoned. I hear he did not come through Paris, as the roads from the present seat of war to the capital are cut through in many places, to impede, if possible, a little, the advance of the Allies. I also hear that he mentioned, that in the last battle the French gained some advantage over the left of Marshal BLUCHER'S army, but which did not prevent his advancing. The French had retreated as far as Nugent stir Seine. 44 I have been making enquiries respecting the firing which was heard here from the French coast on Friday and Sunday last, according to accounts in some of the Papers, but I cannot learn from any one person I have asked (and I have enquired of many sea-faring men), that any firing was heard here; from the state of the weather on Sunday, the wind being south, any firing from Boulogne, particularly if the French fired so much as they have been accus tomed teo in celebrating aviciory,must have been heard here by the whole town ; I am, therefore, inclined to think that if there was firing on those days, it was very little, and not on account of any victory gained by the Corsican." A great deal of business was done this morning at the Stock Exchange. Omnium opened at 26, and almost instantly fell to 244, but in a few minutes afterwards rose again to 25t. Th - ecause assigned for this fluctuation is a rumour that the Allies are desirous of making a separate peace with BONAPARTE, the British Government having come to a contrary determination. Of course, we give this merely as the rumour prevalent ; but this rumour, we have rea son to believe, rests on no authority. The subject of the Negociation engrosses the gent ral conversation. Will the Allies treat with BONA : . PARTE on the terms at first proposed ; or will they rise in their demands, in consequence of the suc cesses obtained since he hesitated to close withthem? Will they treat with such a man—or ought they at all tt?.treat with him ? Should no delay take place to give time for the expression of popular teeling in favour of the BOUROONS ? And is not such a line of policy practicable, without any direct attempt to dic tate a form of Government to the French Nation.— These are the questions discussed in every political • circle ; and rumour says, that they have engrossed much of the attention of Ministers. Rumour goes farther, and Says, that they are not perfectly agreed on these points. According to some who pretend t.) be in the vcret,- t•Ord CASTLEREAGH has written to his colleagues, re commending Peace with BONAPARTE, whose autho rity, they say, is unshaken, and whose means are suf ficient to discourage the hope of breaking down or I overthrowing his power ; and if we may credit the same authority, his Lordship's representations to this effect have been warmly seconded in the Cabinet by the Earl of LIVERPOOL. On the other hand, it is a;serted, shpt in the Cabi net there has been nothing that ought to be called a disagreement in sentiment. - That in the nature of things 'it is impossible to discuss a question ofj any kind without putting the :trgumenti in every shape and weighing thetn on all sides ; and that the mere putting of objections r even stating them strongly, should not be considered as a dissent from the general conclusion of the majority. For our own part we do think, that terms of which prudence might approve at one time, may, by a change of circumstances, be rendered highly injudi cious at another. Let the conduct of NAPPLEON him-' self on the jet of such a questitin be considered. In the days of his success, when pressing Austria to de gradation by the weight of his military force, he would nut suspend his operations for a moment even when treating, and his ultimate terms were dictated by the actual state of the moment. Previously talked of conditions were out of the question. Statesmen at this moment owe the fulfilment of great moral duties to the world, and if they neglect any means that PROVIDENCE has put in their power, or sacrifice any principle of justice, or leave unre pressed and unremedied any national act of robbery (however the name may be changed) which they have the.power to punish, they become accessaries to the crime, and authorisers of an example more dan: gerous to the safety of States and Empires than any evil that can result from the occurrences of common ,war. It is not vet two months since the robber who still rules over France, employed, as one of his arguments to excite the French to war, that the aim of the Allies was to rob the sacred territory of the fruits of his former victories 1 What fruits ? Those monuments of art assembled is the National Museums, which are the envy of the world. Here theft is ranked with the legiti mate objects of war, and the robbery is changed to an act of glory and legitimate victory. Sure we are, that such an idea never entered the mind of the Allies, for it could only be hatched in the mind that had al. ready tirade it a principle of action. But the question having been started by the robber himself, we have no hesitation in saying, that the Allies are bound—if they have the means—if it ap pears within even the reach of possibility—to demand full restitution of every one of those monuments of art. BON Aril ItTS has avowed the principle of war to steal pictures and statues—the Allies are therefore, in our mind, bound to extirpate the principle; for if it be acquiesoed in, it amounts to a piohibition of all improvement in the Arts. To attempt their improve. ment under the admission of such a principle, would be to invite an enemy to invade the country, for the purpose of removing the fruits of genius, to enrich a foreign capital. Have the Allies succeeded so rir by unanimity' and perseverance, and an invariable regard to prin. ciples ? What have they to fear from an adherence to a system proved by its effects to be sound and good ? Has timidity ever rendered 'service to any State within the reach of the French arms ? Vlave the French improved in morals? Has - France improved of late in timer.? What can the Allies now tear from the resources, the power, the villany bf NAPOLEON, if they be only resolved to do themselves ample justic'ei, The following informatiOn from Plymouth was only received this morning: " PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 9. go Sailed the Pomona, HOTSPUR, and EUROTAS fri gates ; PELICAN and FOXHOUND gun-brigs, to the Westward, in quest of two French frigates, which chased the SPARROW brig of war into the Chops of the Channel. 66 The Constitution, American frigate, sailed from Boston 30th December, on a cruize. The ENTER PRIZE and RATTLESNAKE brigs of war, sailed from Portsmouth (New Hampton) the 10th of January, on a cruize." Yesterday morning, atter the Duke of YORK had transacted military business at York House, he rode out on horseback about twelve o'clock, and proceeded along Westminster-bridge to view the ruins of the Custom-house. His Royal Highness returned soon after two, and paid his respects to the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House. He afterwards went to his orrice in the Horse Guards, and held a Levee. Among those who had interviews were, Sir SAMUEL AUCH• MUTT, General BALtoult,. General STEVENS, Lieute nant-Colonel G. P. Tomtit, of the 41st regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel MANsa l Lieut.-Colonel Molt- LAND, Colonel BALFOUR, &c. The Duke of MONTROSE walked out yesterday for the first time, in Grosvenor-square, since his severe attAck of the gout. This m , rning was married, by special licence,•the Right Honourable *lslioraA WALLACE, M.P of the India Board, to the Dowager Viscountess ivInvILLE. Monday next, Mr. GRA . NVILLE VERNON, seventh son of the Archbishop of YORK, will lead to the. Hy meneal Altar the accomplished Miss EYREi daughter of Coloner EYRE, of Grove House, in Nottingham- shire. There is a curious coincidence which has recently occurred, of an illustrious individual, and of a great nation :—The Duke of NORTHUM-BERLAND, famed for the virtues of humanity and benevolence, has in re peated instances cancelled securities by making a blaze of them.—The nation, equally disinterested, kept Government securities, to a great amount, in the upper part of the Custom. House, and gunpowder in the lower ; by which means all the securities, , nt Sa turday, were discharged, not only in a blaze, but with an explosion. Thursd:ty evening last her Grace the Duchess of DORSET gave her first Ball at Dublin Castle. The company began to assemble at nine o'clock, and at ten dancing commenced, at which tin the rooms became much crowded. The band of the Lancashire regiment was stationed . Sin the. loWer hall, near the great Ntaircase. At half past twelve o'clock the corn pany proceeded to the grand presence-Chumher, and great dining room, Where the supper Was laid, and which consisted of the choicest delicacie.. Dancing re-commenced soon after one o'clock, and the com pany did not depart until a late hour, highly,grati fied by the polite affability and condescension of her Grace. Letters were yesterday obtained from St. Jago, in Chili, of the 2d and sth of October, and from Buenos Ayres of the 12th November. In theiormer, it is mentioned, that the insurgents had been unsuccessful in their measures; and that SANCHEZ, who comman ded tor the Government party, maintained his autho rity. General BELOJIANO, it is likewise said in these letters, had been defeated by the successor of GOYE- N ECHE, with►n the territory of Peru. —At Buenos Ay res, a fine c f 500 dollars is imposed upon any person sending a letter to Great Britain not conveyed by one , f his Britannic Majesty's ships of war. We under stand that all the specie emblrked on board the AQuILON and other' ships destined to this country, has been bought up by an agent of the British Go vernment, sent for that purpose to South America. Mr. JENNINGS and Mr. NANKLVEL, the late Master and Surgeon of the Queen Charlotte packet, loge pether with the other survivors of her crew, came home in the Duke of Kent. The body of Captain M UDGE was picked up in the harbour of St. Sebistian, the day after the vessel was wrecked. So extreme is the want of Artillerymen in the French Army, that all the Marine Artillery at Brest, Cherbourg, and the other Naval Depots, have been sent for to join the Grand Army, and are compli mented in the order for that purpose, with being told that they are destined to serve under the eyes of the Eiurettott. . Saturday se'nnight, arrived at Yarmouth, SPEN CER SCOTT, late of the brig Liberty, of that port, having made his escape from France, where he has been a prisoner about four years; during the princi pal part of the time he was confined in the fortress of Bitche. On the advance of the Allies, he (with other prisoners) was removed to Sedan, where they remained till the middle of January : an order was then received to march the prisoners from that depot farther into the interior ; on the day they set out, Capt. SCOTT ( with a person belonging to London) contrived to escape, and after a great deal of fatigue, marching principally by night, and avoiding large towns and high roads, they fell in with a party of Cossacks, who directed them to Reermonde, wher'e they found Gen. WINZINGERODE, from whom they obtained a passport to Dusseldorf, when they crossed the Rhine, and proceeding by the right bank (in order to avoid straggling parties of the enemy) for Holland, they, . reached Rotterdam on the 2d of February, and em barked vn board a King's cutter, which landed them near Lowestoft. Capt. SCOTT speaks highly ,of the kindness of Gen. WINZINGERODE and the Russian of ficers: the General not being able to accommodate , them with any means of conveyance, generously gave them six Napoleon d'ors, to defray their expenses,-jo cosely telling them, they might repay him it ever they s.heuld meet him in Russia. ArdtrAL INTELLIGENCE. . , t-cs-‘l , -..„.. . - • --, ••—•••---- IP MAILS. • ARR. 'bur: Dublin • - 0 o Corunna Waterford ...• 5 '1 Heligoland Cadiz - - .. 0 1 Guernsey i Lisbon ' - - 0 1 Jersey Malta A * ... 0 I Passages Gottenbulb - 0 I 1 'Lino: Holland - - 0 0 St. Sebastlan's ARR. Dv.. 0 u - 0 7 0 I a a 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 14. Arrived the HALCYON sloop of war, from Passiges ; and KANGAROO, from ditto, with dispatches. SAikd the INSOLENT gun-brig, with a fleet for Spain ; ERE.. DANUS frigate, on a cruize; and Joseph, TILLMAYNE, ter St. Jean de Luz. PORTSMOUTH, FEB 15. I Arrived the TiIAMES . frigate, and GROWLER gun brig, with a fleet of abdut 40 sad, among evnich are the Europe and Asia East Indiaman, Cape Packet. Speak, Argo, Charlotte,. Hector, Adams, London, and the Ann. Arrived also the DESIREE fiigate, from the North Coast of Spain. Yesterday evening sailed his Majesty's ship WOLVERINE, with specie on board, for Passages. Sailed to-day the SNAP sloop of war, on a crnize. The West India fleet still re. mains, but the ships from the Downs having arrived, we fully expect the whole-will be away,early in the morning.—Wind N. E. . • 'DEAL, FEBRUARY 15. Came down from the River the Sarah - Ann, Gig sow, for Havannah ; and several others, particuiars not known.-:—Wind N. E. 4 DOVER, FEBRUARY 15. Two divisons of the .52t1 and King'p German Re giments came into-day, and will proceed to Del to morrow, to emb*rk for Holland. ' MILFORD, FEBRUARY 12. Arrived the .FOXHOUND s t oop of war from Ply mouth. Sailed the BIMIC sloop,M war on a cruize. HARWICH, FEBRUARY 15. • Arrived the Belvidere,. Peggy, liclen, and Friend ship transports from Hol;and, la N E. FAYAL, JANUARY :27. His Majesty's ship MAJESTIC put in here the other day, in quest of the Constitution A merican frigate. COVE OF CORK; FEBRUARY 9. WEST INDIA CONVOY.—Yesterday arrived his Ma , jesty's ship CONQUESTADO., 74. guns, Lord IVittiasl STEWART, front Portsmouth, to take char g e ot the .; convoy appoioted to sail hence the 25. ch inst. for the 7 West Indies. His Majesty's ship spittiN TEi, Captain N.D. COCHRANE, will sail this day or to morrow, as will also his Majesty's ship C.ssrILIAN, Captain Bite, NIER.-.•WILLIAM AIRES, Esq. Secretary to Admiral SAWYER, apd_ his „Lady„ arrived .here on Sunday morning, in his Majesty's ship TEazeit. :.Captain HARGRAVE, from. Plymouths His Majesty's ship • Pitotecrott, Lieutenant MircutNoit, arrived also on Sunday from tbeShannon. • HALIFAX, JANUARY 19. • The prizes do- not' fall in the Way of eir miner. no plentifull.;•as - they did. The .sqpiaticon Uapealte consisting of the DttaGotit,'AltiaiDay bissioNlAN, and Scrum, save been the most success tel. The AmeeiCati - whaler Gardner, With 500 barrels of oil ; and the Policy; ot London, with I'M) barrehi . of oil,' the latter recaptured from the Essex, have been seat in by the RAMILICS and Lorne. A few ldays since, the Rieronuve arrived* from New Provi dence on her voyage to and from that place she, captured. the following vessels—ship George, tram a I whaling voyage ; ship Alcnormik, from New York, bound to Porto Rico; brig San Pedro, from Boston, bound.to Havatioah ; schooner Balton's, form New Haven, bound- to St. Barts ;* schoonei Threebrothers, from Salem, bound to St. Domingo; schooner Mar. strand, from Boston, bound to tiavannah ; and sloop Caty-Maria, from New York, bound to St. A considerable reinforcement of seamon are gong to - Canada, some of whom are to man a new frigate, which is to carry long 32-pounders on her gun-deck. ....--Great numbers ot artificers, ship car e eLtets, and labourers, have lately taken their departure from this town for Montreal and the Upper Prost - ince. JANUARY 22.—Many people in England are, no doubt, informed that several 74-gun snips and frigates are building in the United States; but the es-tract u nary size ot these vessel., in ref finite to n mi nal rates, may not be so generally known. The op portunity I had lest summer of viewing the Mao:- moth, 74, and a frigate, building at Pod kdelphia, enables me to give the length at tae tread ot their keels, by which their full dimensions may be tolera bly estimated : the keel of the 74. is 173 feet 5 inches; this 74 proceeds very slowly fur want of ma . aerials, having in October last only a few of her floor timbers laid down ; it was expected s'oe would not be ready for launching until May or June 1815, and even that would depend on the vigilance .of our ships in the Delaware, in cutting of their supplies of timber: her lower deck.gulis are to be long 42-pounders, and she is to mu tat at least 96 guns. • The keel of the frigate is 160 feet 6; inches, 16 ports on a side on her main deck, wilt carry long 32-pounders on her main dick, and is to mount 62 guns? she was nearly planked up in October last, and it was expected would be launched in April . or May next. They ships building at Baltimore, and to the eastward, are all, I undetstani, of nearly the same dimensions as the two at Philadel. phis, but much farther advanced, especially the 74.'4 one or two of which it is expected will be at se.i early in the ensuing summer. The frigate - United States is now equipped with eight long S`'2 pounders on each side her main deck, in lieu of the same number of 24's, which have been transferred to the Mecelonian.— The Constitution saik'd from Bost. .in on the Ist of January, with 500 men on boa! d I the Congress sailed' from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the Sd, on a cluize ; the President was to sail t,n the 2..1 inst. with the Frolic and Wasp. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, FEBRUARY 16. We have hectic() fresh arrive., since Monday ; but the yam thy ei grain unsold being large, the sales were very heavy, and what was disposed of fetched Monday's price. Übe mai ket Fettling on the decline, most of the buyers hold off tW sett Fn• day, In impacladas at a great fat is every artvilis. • .&• V. e. • `.