Star. — London, England, 1814-03-07 00:00:00

ARMY BEFORE 174M8URGII. FIFTH BULLETIN. 1 ' Head-quarters at Pinneberg, Felsruarybet. It As the General in Chief of the Polish Army, Count Von Bennigsen, had taken his measures for making an attack on Wilhelmsburg on the 9th of February, he issued the following directions for that day : 4 ‘ General Ahrenschild, who, in the absence of Count Walmoden, commands the Corps-d'Armee before liaarburgh, received directions to amuse the garrison by a strong demonstration, and thereby sup port the attack on Wilhelmsburg, which was ap pointed to take place at four o'clock in the morning. 44 The rest of the troops under his Excellency count Bennigsen were ordered to march to the ap pointc-ci place, an the direction of Wilhelmsburg, by ;our o'clock in the morning. Of the two columns tutder the orders of General Doctoroff the Gist was commanded by Lieutenant-General Emine, and the second by Count Tolstuy. General Markoff had the command of the third. 44 The first column under General Doctoroff, and the third, had orders to attack and drive back all the enemy's posts which they might find on the road— which he executed with precision, as the first column broke through the great road from Hamburgh to liaarburgh on the one side, whilst the third under General Markoff did the same from the other side ; but the arrival of the column under Tolstoy was de tained by an unexpected inundation, and other oh szacles. The General in Chief, having accomplished his purpose, ordered the troops to fall back to their for mer positions. The enemy lost about 1008 men in killed and wounded by th:s incursion, among whom are the two Generals Von Osten and Rome ; and about 900 or 1000 men, among whom are 16 - Officers,-were made prisoners. By this progress of the brave Russians the enemy likewise lost 12 pieces of artillery, 60 casks of gunpowder, above 30,000 cartridges, 60 hogsheads cl wine, and a great quantity of provisions." SIXTH BULLETIN. " Head-trial ters of his Excellency the General in Chief of the Army of Poland, Plnneberg, near Hamburgb. " The 17th of February deserves to be accounted among the fortunate days of this glorious war, in which the Ruscians on the Elbe strove not to he be bind hand witlitheir companions in arms on the Seine. " The General in chid, Count Bennigsen, on this day gave orders for a similarexpedition to that of the 96 of February, against Wilhelmsburg, to be under taken, by causing the fortresses of Hamburgh and Haarburg to be threatened by the Generals Tschap kr, Chipelef, and Arendschild, by making false at tacks. " The General of Infantry, Von Doctoroff, pushed forward with two columns, under the command of the Generals Count Tolstoy and Von Emme, towards Wilhelmsburg, by the way of the Bill and Ochsen werder, for the purpose of joining the column of Ge neral Von Maricoff, on the road of communication between Hamburgh and Haarburg, which column was taking the same direction from the side of Al to', by the way of the Rheierstieg. " Marshal Davoust knowing us to be the real mas ters of Wilhelmsburg, and nevertheless obliged to de fend this fortified island, to preserve his comrounica. hen with Haarburg, although unable to remain there, gave, we are sorry to say, as being too early apprised of our attack, on the approach of our columns, seve ral signals, by burning a house on Wilhelmsburg, and firing of rocketi, on which the enemy's posts on Wilhelmsburg, and adjacent isl +eels, endeavoured to form a junction, and, by fighting their way to receive assistance from the fortresses. Our columns would not permit this junction to take flace, but pushed di rectly forward towards the high road, where they then formed en fronte against Hamburgh and Haarburgh, and drove the separated enemy behind the walls of that city. " General Arenschild supported this operation by a demonstration which he made at the same time against Haarburgh, to the satisfaction of the General in Chief, and thereby rendered it easier for the troops pushing forwards against Haarburgh from Wilhelms burg, to effect the burning of the.bridge of commu nication near Haarburgh, which was of the greatest consequence. Haarburgh was thereby become to. tally separated from Hamburgh, had it. been consis tent with the plans of the General-in-Chief, to keep possession of W lhel ms b tug. "As the intent of this expedition had by this means been so unexpectedly soon fulfilled, even before noon, and the Prince of Eckinutil, with his army, which has already decreased to about 20,000 men, was shelter. lag himself in dread behind his walls, the General in Chief, Count Bennigsen, gave orders for quitting again Wilhelmsburg, in the same manner as before, and for bringing the troops back to their former can tonments. As trophies of this day, they brought with them seven officers and 393 privates, as prisoners and the soldiers drank to victory in the wine they had taken from the enemy. " The enemy, who fled too soon, lost on this day at)out 500 men_ killed and wounded, among wham theie are said to be several Officers of high rank.— Our loss could not be otherwise than trifling, as our brave soldiers would not give the enemy time to face about again. It nevertheless consists in 87 privates and seven officers, a proportion which is greatly to ele honour of our oihcers." COLOGN, FSBIKVARY Si. _ - The Hussar regiment of Bey passel throes& here 0 4 the 17th, in proceed so Boon ; it was destined for the corps besieging Mentz, Kett pectiyed counter or ,itrs, and is now on its much to the interior of France, I to 'pin the army of Blucher. Yesterday about 60U0 troops arrived here, partly sw edish, and partbr Hanseatic ; the greater part of them have proceeded onwards, after being reviewed by the Crown Priocita, A During his Royal Highness's stay here, we had within our walls the Russian Envoy, Count Suchte. kn; the Austrian Envoy, Baron Vincent ; Mr. Thornton, the British, General Krusemark, the Prus fiitni and Mr. Von Bourke., the Danish Envoy. BREDA, FEBRUARY 25. We learn from Antwerp that the French Com mander has sent out of the city '2200 of the poor inha bitants, and that the remaining burghers were "or• tiered to provide themselves with necessaries for three 'months.*Those who were not eile to Isl. kt tDh tmcic of provisions were to leave the city. Yesterday arrived three battalions of Dutch and Prussians which have broken up from the neighbour hood of Gorcum, and which are on march this morn ing for the Hague. A Dutch battalion has also come in here to-day. This afternoon about 100 French pri soners, taken in several skirmishes, entered the place. BREMEN, FEBRUARY 23. The Russo-German Legion, which belongs to the corps of General Walmoden, and is from 6 to 8,000 strong, is now in this city; it consists chiefly of Ger mans and Dutch, who were formerly in the French service. To-morrow the Duke of Cambridge is ex• pected here, to review the corps of Walmoden, which will immediately march for the Rhine. BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY 14. Hitherto no circumstantial. account of the great battle (mentioned in several public prints) fought between Bar-stir-Aube and Paris, has transpired here. General Von Winzengerode, who has already passed through the greater part of Belgium, likewise in a re port published here, speaks of that battle but only in a few worts. He confirms the account of the enemy's rear, which consisted of several regiments of cavalry, being totally destroyed—that a part of the enemy's cavalry endeavoured to take post at Chalons, but Kati again been defeated by Blucher, who had then taken possession of that place ; and finally, that there re mained only a small corps of reserve near Soissoris, and Napoleon's weak army, in that neighbourhood. The Prussian and Saxon troops, who had been here for some days, are broke up for Mons. BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY 16. This day .5000 choice cavalry defiled before his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and marchid on to Halle. In the afternoon, 2-1.00 more men of Saxon infantry arrived here. The Generals Bulow, Boyen, Oppen, and Silinsky, have felt our city, and followed the army to France. A number of women arrive,' here to-day in wag gons from Antwerp : they assure us, that the Com mandant of that fortress forces all the Burghers to take up arms. A great quantity of besieging artillery is arrived before Antwerp, from the frontiers of Holland. ROTTERDAM, FEBRUARY 22. According to letters received front Brissels, of the 18th of February, 6 or' 7000 Saxon troops h.id in the morning passed through that city towards Enghien and Ath, whither the head-quarters of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar are likewise gone. COPENHAGEN, FEBRUARY n. The course of the posts to Sweden and Norway is again open, and the packet boats established at Fladstrand, between Denmark and Norway, during the war, are laid by. The opening and reading of letters, going to and coming from England and we- den, as was directed during the war,Jias likewise now ceased. THE EVENING STAR. LON DON. MONDAY. MARCH 7. 181+. ?RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT TWELVE O'CLOCK _ . 3 per cent. Red. shistu..-Coss. 70U-for sec. 7111 4 per Ct. shut-5 per Ct. 971 Sit t India bonds I Is. 12s. pr.—Exchequer RVIs 3s. Ss. pr. Since pur last there have been no arrivals from France. Having stated this, we need not apprise our Readers that the various specuhttions which have been put forth, on the authority' of letters, pretended to have beats received from Paris, are mere stock jobbing manoeuvres, unworthy of any serious notice. The non-arrival of accounts from the theatre of war has, hewever, had a sanative effect on the public mind. Men are again beginning to exercise their reason, and to wonder how they could have been so completely duped as to credit absurdities at which common sense revolts. Had the experiment not been made, could it have been credited that any portion of the community should entertain the.extravagant idea of Britain per se dictating the Ter ms of Peace, at the risque of dissolving the Confederacy, which has been so happily formed for the future safety of the European States ? Those who are still so infatuated as to blame Mi mi tens for not realising their preposterous hopes, might, with just as much reason, blame them for the stupidity and apathy of the French in not having risen to restore the BounnoNs ; or for having such a long and severe winter, attended with so many incon veniknces, during their administration. The following communication from Paris has been circulated in the various departments of Govern , spent. The writer of the litter, and - the Gentleman to whom it is addressed, are of the highest respecta bility, and there is no doubt whatever that the letter is genuine: EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROXI PARIS, DATED FEB. 28. . ~ They write from Bourdeaux, that Lord WEI: LINGTON, profiting by SOULT having weakened his army, has crossed the Adour, and is marching upon Thoulou se with one hundred and twenty thousand men. a At this moment (ten o'clock) we I•ave nothing of any suspension of arms, but I learn. that General BuLow, with Twenty.five Thousand Men, and Six Thousand Cavalry, commanded by CZERNICIIEFF, is before Meaux. Thus Paris may be occupied by the Allies, while the Emperor is negociating at Troyes." A letter from Dusseldorf, dated February 18, brought by the Bremen Mail, says, We have th;s moment received intelligence of the surrender of Antwerp. This important occurrence was known at Brussels even before the departure of the Post, but we are still in want of the particulars, which we shall probably receive by the next post.." SECOND EDITION. GLORIOUS NEWS. NO ARMISTICE WITH BONAPARTE. BLUCHER AND SCHWARTZENBERG AGAIN VICTORIOUS. • AKRIVAL OF THE CROWN PRINCE AT THE HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE ALLIES, &c. &c. STAR-OFFICE, FOUR O'CLOCK. Mr. ROBINSON and Mr. KEY, the Messengers, have arrived in Downing -street, with dispatches from Lord CASTLEREAGH. They are dated at Chaumont sur-Marne, on the 2d instant. They state that BLUCHER and SCHWARTZENBERG have successively defeated the French under BONA PARE in two desperate actions, subsequent to the 26th ult. The CROWN PRINCE of SWEDEN arrived at the ft-4, 4 -quarters of the Allies in Frastce, on Tlitarsd.ty . last. NO ARMISTICE HAS BEEN CONCLUDED WITH BONA- PARTP.. According to reports, heard by the Messengers on their route through France, Marshal BLUCHER was at Meaux, about twenty-five miles from Pads, on the 28th. Perhaps it was General fleLow, and not Btu- CHER. Prince SCHWA RTZENBERG has been joined by Sixty Thousand fresh Troops, Hungarians and Croats, It was to effect this junction that he fell back from 'Troyes. A Cabinet Council is now sitting upon that part of the dispatches which relates to the Negociations. NAVAL INTEL LIG E CR. I LS. Alt. DUI. Dublin - - t 1 I Coruna - 0 0 Waterford - it 1 Heligoland . I 2 ' Cada - - 0 0 Guernsey .ii 2 0 I I Li•bon - - 0 0 Jersey - . 2 0 1 Malta - - 0 1 Viagsages 0 0 Gottenburgh - 0 16 Hal ii a: - 0 0 Holland - - 0 1 Bremen - - 0 0 Two brigs were captured near Dover on the 4th instant, and carried into Calais. • FALMOUTH, MARCH 4. I; rrived yesterday the litxp and Acme revenue cutters, from a cruize ; Walsingham packet, from Passages, last from Plymouth, wl.ere she landed her Mails ; RACER sloop of war, Lieutenant JULIAN, from ditto, and sailed again with the CLINKER gun-brig, with a convoy for the North Coast of Spain. Nothing arrived to-day. Sailed the REINDEER sloop of war' (in a cruize ; and the Ann and James and Henry transports, for Cork.—Wind N. - PLYMOUTH, MARCH 5. Arrived the GRAMPUS and HAZARD troop ships, from Portsmouth ; the John Freeman and Minerva, from Waterford ; and the Hope, from Cork: Arrived the Nisus frigate from Portsmouth, with 15 sail of transports under convoy.—Sailed the MAGNISICENT and CLARENCE men cf war, on a cruize.—Wind E.. PORTSMOU TH, MARCH 6. Sailed yesterday his Majesty's ship ROYAL Sove rtEws, 110 guns, and the Hindostan store-ship, with the fleet under convoy for the Mediterranean, with the wind at North-east.—Arrived to-day his Ma jesty's ships ONYX and URGENT, with a small convoy from the Downs.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Hum's, for Off Cherbourg.—The INTELLIGENT gun-brig is appointed convoy for Guernsey and Je -iey.—The BoNnow man of war, with the East India Fleet, are expected to sail in the morning.—Wind Easterly. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. Captains G. Hay is appointed to the Pelter, a new sloop; Dic kens, to the Comus ; Peter Fisher (commanding the Meteor bomb), to the rank of Post Captain; and Charles Mitchell, to the Espiegle. Lieutenants J. C. Snell, to the Sybitle; J. Tullock, to the Sa bine ; I'. Jones, to the Desiree; and T. Simmonds, to the Tigre. Mr. Webb, of the Admiral's Office, is appointed Purser of the Satellite; and Mr. A. Drew, Master's Mate of the Eurotas, fie promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. The following Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants, on Wed-. nesday :—Messrs. .1. Martin and W. Knocker, Barossa; Fred. Blacker, Prince; J. H. Wheatley, Puissant. DEAL, MARCH 6. Sailed the REDPOLE gun-brig, with a convoy, for Portsmouth.—Arrived the FAVOURITE sloop of war, from Portsmouth, and sailed for the River.—Re-• main in the Downs, his Majesty's ships MONMOUTH, GRIFFONNE, OLYMPIA, SWAN, VIPER, and 8AD0111... HARWICH, MARCH 6. Arrived the Lady Nepean packet, with a Mail and passengers, from Heligoland. Put back the Diana, Auckland, and Lark packets, bound to Gottenburgh, not being able to get in for the ice. The following is a list of the persons who unfortu nately perished, when the Cardross ferry-boat uset, on Sunday se'nnight :—John Ferguson a nd john M'Aulay, boatmen ; Robert Bean, grocer, Renton ; John Colquhoun, weaver, Dumb ar t on ; Mr. Logan, a young man, from Glasgow ; Janet M4Crigor, Ann Holmes, and ---. M'Gee, young women ; and a young man, name unknown. Ale. DIM Tlir ARM?. • ' EXTRACT OP A TATTER !EOM THE MEAD-WARMS OP LORD SYVELLINOTONPS ARMY, DATE) FURUARY IS. 4 6 Every thing has undergone a change since RV last. Sow.? has broken up from ,1 :? line of the Adour, and marched for Paris with great part of his army. The position at St. Jean Pie de Port has been so far abandoned, as to leave no apprehensions from thence; and Suarez has quitted Spells leaving garrisons in Barcelona and in other posts, and had his head-quarters on the 4th at Avignon, on the marcli, for Lyons. 41 All this is most unexpected, and must have arisen from some fresh successes of the Anises of which we are in entire ignorance, nothing whatever being known from the front. Report, (ver fertile here,) states, that the Cossacks are at Paris t but it is useless mentioning these things to you, to whom, of course, long ere this, all is known. " A part of two British divisions have been pushed across the Adour, the 4th And 7th. All is prepara tion for advance. Lord WaLalloroN's head-quarters will be transferred forthwith from St. Jean de Luz to Pau, (the place of nativity of BIRNADOTTE). it is supposed that Sir JOHN HOPE will move with two or three divisions in the direction of Bourdeaux, while Lord WELLINOtON, with the rest of the army, marches on Thoulnuse. Sir JOHN DOWNIE, with the Spaniards (for that Officer 6 especially appointed by Lord WRI.• LINOTON to command the Spanish army now here), occupies our old positions in front of Bayonne. The Commissariat Department is using every exertion to llntlocks are purchased from *vary part of Spai n ; hay and corn, biscuit, salt beef and rum, come from England, and an advance will cer tainly take place. , " Not a word of the Bounsoxs here. The Dec D 9 ANGOULEME is still. with us, but no preparations for hoisting the French flag. I fancy it is all over with ahem.' Yesterday the fdlowing Bulletin, as to the state of the Kirin's health, during the last month, was exhibited at St. James's Palace to the inquirers, who were more numerous than they have been fot some months past : WINDSNI-CASTLE, MARCH 5. His MAJESTY continues under the full influence of his disorder, but his bodily health is good, and Liz MAJESTY has passed the last month in an uniform state of tranquillity. " HENRY lIALFORD. « J. WILLIS. P4l. BAILLIL. 46 R. WILLI *" 66 W. lILBERDEN. Yesterday the Lord and Groom in attendance at St. James's Palace. at the exhibition of the Bulletin on the state of the KING'S health, were Lord 9t. HELEN'S itl3ci Admiral LEGO& The Proclamation purporting to have been ad. dressed to the French by the CROWN Pelves, and dated from Romer on the 6th ult. has been pro. nnunced by the Swedish Minister at our Court to be a fibricAtion. Friday died at his house at Maize-hill, Greenwich, Major-General Sir Jos s DOUGLAS, of the Marines. MAYO ELKTION.--Fifty-third Day's Poll :—Mr. BnowNF., 4317: Mr. 14nwAN. 4313.—Majority for Mr.,BaowN, 4.—This is one of the closest and most ebsinate contests ever known in either 'cohntiy: THE PARKS.—Hyde Park was yesterday attended by crowds of fashion dries. The severity of the wea ther, however, prevented the belles from venturing from their carriages, which were drawn ap in treble lines on the south side of the Serpentine, from whence a full view of the sted-lhod heroes on the ice of the Serpentine, was obtained. Among others, whom we perceived in the busy throng, were— His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Russian and Spa• nigh Ambassadors, the Countess of liarrowby, the Countess of Baihurat, Lady Harrington, Lady Bishop, Earl Raiburst, Earl Douglas, Lord Petersham, I.ord Archibald Hamilton, Sir George Talbot, Sir Charles Colville, Right lion George Rose, Right Hon. G. Ponsonby, Right Hon. Charles Long, &e. Lice. BURNS'S MAUSOLEUM.---The subscription for Bunws's Mausoleum is filling up with great spirit, and we are happy to observe the interest which this national object has every where excited. Should we be asked what BURNS has done to merit this distinc tion ?—the answer is easy. He has made a perma nent addition to the pleasures of human life. He has bequeathed to us from the treasures of his own inven tion, a new remedy for those tedious and listless hours by which all are liable to be overtaken ; and we be lieve that a single evening rarely passes which is not cheered, in various quarters of the globe, by the strains of the Ayrshire Bard. The Rev. GEORGE MURRAY having been appoin ted, about the beginning of last year, to the Bishopric of Sodor and Man, and presented to the PRINCE Rs. GENT by the Duke of Athol, upon the occasion, it was discovered, that, being only thirty-one years old, he had not attained sufficient age to be a Bishop, ....Arty-, two years being the requisite age ; his consecration was in consequence .postponed till yesterday, when it took place in Whitehall Chapel. The Archbishop of YORE, as head of the Province to which the Bishopric belongs, presided on the occasion, accompanied by the Bishops of EXETER and OUSTER and other divines. A very distressing event occurred in Prince's -street, Glasgow, on the afternoon of Thursday, the 4th inst. Some masons had been engaged is making improve. ments in the cellars of Gibson's Land there, when, having gone too near the foundation, the whole back wall of the house, of four stories, fell down with a most awful crash. The fire engines repaired to the spot, and a military guard, which at present surrounds the mass of ruins. l'he engines played on the flames arising from the fires in the tenement having commu nicated to different parts, which were happily got un der. Several of the inhabitants were precipitated from afire at height, and most miraculously preserved ; but it is supposed some have been buried in Lb, ruins, which cannot, for some time, be removed. The te nement is as large as any in the city, and presents an awful exhibition at present. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, MARCH 7. 'There was a good supply of Wheat this morning, for which there was a brisk demand, and that of fine quality sold f rom is. to Ss per quarter higher than on this day week. *ley N adi freely, at as aderasee of es. per quarter, and fine Malt is else es. per quarter dearer. Beans are Qs. per quarter bleats Oats fully maintain last week's priers. White Peas Wag scarce sold medal's and are 2s. per quarter dearer. In odor ankles there b Do alterstiett. i i , , .y ~u