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o• • It o d the place. The garrison, ender the orders of the General of Division Montrichard, are prisoners of war; but are to be sent to Italy, and not to serve till exchanged. In the city T 64 pieces of cannon have been found, together with a great quantity of mai. Lary stores. • ECHAFFI4AUSEN, FEBRUARY 16. It is reported that tote Bourbon Princes, on their arrival at Basle, 'applied for the necessary passports to repair to the bead-quarters of the Allied Powers, and were relnvd. It is also said, that the circulation of the Address of Louis XVIII. to the French people has been forbidden. LOUVAINE, FEBRUAR? 23. The Pope has been removed from Fontainebleau to Limoges. Those who had the custody of him had the cruelty to refuse him permission to be tc companied by two Cardinals, whom he had particu• larly requested : he therefore departed with only his physician. Cardinal Pignatelli, in consequence of indiTes:tion, has been suffered to remain at Fontaine hleau : all the other Cardinals have been sent away : Scoui; to Toulon Mattei, to Arles ; Ruffo to Grasse; Sacco, to Uzes ; Oppizomi, to Catpentras ; Saluzzo, to Pons ; Gonzalvi, to Bezieres ; Braneodoro, to Orange; Tilla, to Nitmes ; and Gabrieli, to Vigau. NAPLES, JANUARY so. The Queen has been appointed Regent during the absence of the King. Ithen the news of the armistice with England was received bete, it caused great joy. The Ministers for negocialing a definitive treaty of pease with that country are already appointed. ROME, JANUARY 31. The Neapolitan General Lavauguyon installed our , Provisional Government on the 24th instant. In the afternoon of the same day the King of Naples en tered our city, and took up his residence at the palace Farneze. Prince Chigihas been appointed Prefect of our city ;_ end the ports of our departments, like those of Naples, have been opened to the ships of neutral and allied powers. On the 28th, his Majesty set out for his head quar ters. Before hisdeparture he caused to be set at liberty all the priests who were in confinement for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to Napoleon. During his stay here the King of Naples paid a visit to the Royal Family of Spain, which was re turned by King Charles. He also sent his compli ments to the King of Sardinia, who being indisposed, kept his chamber. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. 41 P 6 BREMEN, FEBRUARY 25. On the 20th instant 350 more of the inhabitants of Eamburgh were expelled. We learn with pleasure from these new victims, that the epidemical disorder in l-tamburgh prevails only among the military, and not, as was feared, among.the inhabitants ; of the for mer an hundred are often buried in one day. General Vandamme, it is said, who is now- con fined in the Kremlin, was to have been sent to Sibe- rig. To avoid this fate, he proposed to a Russian Nobleman, if they would spare him this journey, and leave him a pact of his estates in France, to make a discovery of great importance to the Ames. The Russian Government refused to give him a hearing. Vandamme, it is said, renewed the offer, on which a person was sent to him, to whom he might confide the secret. This secret, it is affirmed, was, that Napoleon had placed the sum of 350 millions of franis;fromthe treasures amassed in Germany, in the Bank of Eng land, at the same time mentioning all the mercantile houses in whose names this money was vested. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1814. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK 5 per Cent. Red. shut—Cons. 71i —for acc. 71i 72 4pa Ct. shut-5 per CL 97i 619—Onanium 274 India bonds 10s. 119. pr.—Exchequer Bills 3s. ss. pr. The Gazette of last night contains the highly gra_ !lying details from France, of which we gave an accurate sketch yesterday. The movements of the Silesian Army are again detailed by that masterly historiographer Colonel LowE. _ They are precisely of the character which might be expected from the transcendent military talents by which the Veteran BLUCHZR is distinguished. Nor has Prince SCIIWAKT UNSER° been at all wanting in his duty to the great and glorious cause in which he is engaged. It seems Marshal &mum, in the first instance, continued his retreat till be found ..--14nNAPARTR had advanced to a considerable distance, following Prince SCIIWART. ATRIUM% and then he again put kis army in march towards Meaux, crossing the Marne on the 28th ult . Cleneral SAcars having on the preceding day occu. pied the suburbs of Meaux, and Wilma and Man unwr being too weak to give any effectual opposition. trince SCITWARTZRNBIR4I, in the mean time, continued retreating until BOXAPARTR found it necessary to turn, in order to march against &wren, and then the Prince again advanced his imp towards Troyes. , t was in the course of this retreat. that the action took place at Bar-sur•Aube, on the 27th. This place was occupied by the enemy on the preceding day, but who were driven out of it shortly afterwards st the point of the bayonet, by General WRFDE.— On the 27th it was again taken by the enemy, whom t ;ereral WITTORNSTRIN was ordered to attack Prince SenwAnTzeNseno frequently directed the movements of the Russian troops, and eras himself slightly wounded. The result was, that the French were driven from all their positions, .with.tbe-loss of be tween two and three thousand men. On the Ist inst. the enemy were pursued across the Aube, and the Allied advanced posts established at Magny on the' , left of that river, and at Val Suzenay, on the right. "l'he Prince ROyal of WHITRNIBURG also drove MAC . IMVALD from Clarivaux and Ferte-sur-Aube, and advanced to Pontette and St. Usage, which the enemy ahandoned. The head-quarters of this part of the allied fore. were mobil:ha at Bar-our-Seine ; and WITTGENSTEIN and Waioe were pushed upon Van- Oeuvres, in order to act in conjuction with the Prince 'loyal of WIRTENEURO and General.GroLaY upon Prince SCHWARTZENBERG was thus again recover kg his ground, whilst BONAPARTE had gone with the main body of his army to Arcis, and was marching a considerable corps upon Sezanne, in order to coun teract the movements of BLUCHER. It will be seen, therefore, that the two armies of Prince SCHWA RTZEN BERG and BLUCHER are in fact acting in combination, although upon different lines of operation, and that Box arairre is in some measure placed in a situation limilAr to that in which he found himself at Dresden' by being compelled to march alternately against each, without being enabled, as it seems, in the mean time, to leave a force sufficient to prevent the ad vance 1 . 4 e other. The ies, it is true, have not yet reached Paris, as were, perhaps, too sanguinely expected by some persons ; but, on the other hand, BONAPARTE has in his turn been unsuccessful in his attempts to break'or separate their armies, or to prevent them from again advancing in different lines of operation, and he is compelled to resort to the most harassing movements from point to point, in order to save the capital.— Btactrea, till his reinforcements came up, would pro bably retreat on the approach of BONAPARTE, and the latter would then have to march again to encounter the advance of SCUWARTZENBERG. The silence of the Paris Papers to the 6th, proves that at least for two or three days subsequent to the date of the dis patches, the enemy had nothing to boast of. One thing may with certainty be inferred from a compiaison of our own official accounts with those furnished by the enemy; namely, that no Ar mistice had been solicited by the Anstrians. Such a circumstance could hardly have been passed over in silence in the former, had it occurred, and we may thence infer that the statement was intended to an swer some temporary purpose of the enemy. We re collect that at the time of the battle of Botzen, a similar falsehood was published in the Monitear, which was afterwards officially contradicted 'by Prussia. That the enemy should find it necessary to have re course to such expedients may be held as an indica tion of his want of success in the expected result of some of iris movements, and an admission of the su perior tactics of the Allies. We again repeat it—all that is known, up to this moment, of the relative state of the contending ar mies, is favourable to the hopes of suffering humanity. And we may be allowed to add, that, though we do not believe the Allied Powers ever to have laid it down as a principle, that the occupation of Paris should precede any pacification ; so, on the other, hand, we are equally satisfied that it never was pro. pnsed by any one of the Allies that, in the event of circumstances giving them the power to occupy that city, they should not avail themselves of it. —That this event may take place, is, we think, very possible ; for the situation of BONAPARTE, placed be tween two large armies, in full operation, with rein-, forcements in their rear, is highly perilous.—What a triumph would it be to annihilate entirely the power of such a restless despot 1 but we are backward to ex• cite hopes which may not be realised to such an ex tent as this. We may, however, indulge the expec tation that, at any rate, his power to disturb other countries for years to come, will be taken away. If we might credit reports from Dover this day, the contest may be considered as near a close.— One letter which we have seen, written last night, says—" We are in hourly expectation of a Messenger " from the other side. The private news this " evening is, that the Allies have , got to Paris. Pray " GOD it may be true." We can only add, that, though we cannot vouch for the truth of the news, the letter comes from a most respectable quarter. Another circumstance which we shall state may possibly he received as favourable to the hopes of an approaching pacification:—Last night tiotice was given from some of the Government Offices to sus pend certain contracts for sail-cloth ; and, if we are rightly informed, some of the contracts for clothing. An arrangement has been made by means of which, information from the Head-quarters of the Allies in France will in future be received direct from Ostend. It is some time since the Litter place was occupied by detached parties of the allied troops. Dutch Papers to the sth instant, and also German Papers, have reached town. Amongst other extracts ,is an article from Schaffhausen, stating as a re port that the BOURBON Princes, on arriving at Basle, had applied for passports to proceed to the head-quar ters of the Allies, but had been refused, and that the circulation of the Proclamation of Louis XVIII. addressed to the French people, had been forbidden. A curious sorry is related of VANDAMME, who it is l e stated, in order to save himself from being sent to :-ibrria, had offered to make important discoveries; and that the result was a disclosure that BONAPARTZ had placed a sum amounting to 350,000,000 francs in the Bank of England, and a description of all do mercantile houses in whose names the money was invested. We are not told whether VANDAP4M4 by means of this tale, prevented his threatened b" ment to Siberia. - SECOND REPORTED DEFEAT OF BONA: PARTE, BY BLUCHER. As tending to strengthen thereport from Do. ver already alluded to, we hate to mention, that a most respectable House in the City (in the habit of daily receiving communications from Paris), has this day received information that Marshal Btu- CHER has 'defeated BONAPARTE in the vicinity of Paris, with the loss of Seventy Pieces of Cannon We hope to be able to confirm this news in the course of to-dai upon official authority In addition to the above, it is reported, that there are letters in town from Deal, on the authority of which it is stated—that the Cossacks have fallen in with and liberated all the prisoners . taken from BLUCHER—that they have entered Boulogne—that they are also in the neighbourhood of Dunkirk—and that Antwerp has surrendered. These, and many other rumours, are in circula tion: As rumours we have received them, and, as such, we insert them, in the earnest hope that they may be realized. The rumour of an Armistice between this country and Naples is happily confirmed. It is to last till the conclusion of a general Peace. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, MARCH O. Arrived the Polly. Oak and Lark, from Cork.— Nothing sailed to•day.—The Francis Freeling Packet, with a M.til for Passages, is gone into the Roads. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 7. No King's ships arrived or sailed to-day—but a large fleet of merchantmen, coasters, and colliers have arrived from the Eastward, having different destinations.—Wind E. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 8. Arrived his Majesty's hips HAM A DIWA D and Rm. POLE, from the Downs.; and the Bridges transport, from Deptford, bound to Spain: Sailed the Uitoesr gun-brig, on a cruize. His Majesty's ship BENBOW, with the Wet India fleet, remains.—sVind E. DEAL, MARCH 8. Came down from the River the Baroness, Long vile, Ocean, and Admitil Berkley, for the South Seas, and several other ships, and sailed for Ports mouth, under convoy of the SWAN cutter. Arrived the FLYING Ficit schooner, with dispatches and let ters from the fleet in the Scheldt ; and the Plossitrt schooner, from a cruize off the French coast. MARCH 6. The THUNDERER is pulling to pieces in the first dock in great baste. The workmen are employed to day in loading additional transports, this business will be completed by Tuesday. The TONNANT will sail to-morrow, from Gillingham Reach, for the Nore, if the wind will permit. Mr. PALK EN is appointi•d Clerk in the Master Shipwright's Office, in the stead of Mr. LAWS; and Mr. BENJAMIN HARTE in the Clerk Surveys', in the stead i.f Mr. RA (AGAR ;—and Mr. CHARLES VINALL, to the Check Office, in the stead of Mr. BURTON. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Cnnquestadnr, for the Hercule, a French gaunt. and Pru• dent, vadl be paid on Friday, at Mr. Smith's, Plymouth-Dock. The Strenuous, fur the Ann Jeanne ; Nimrod, lur the Spark ler, and Urgent fur the Tryguson, on Wednesday next, at 9, New Broad-street ; recalled Wednesdays and Thursdays. 1 he Patriot, for propeny at Cuxhaven ; and Apelles, for the Ravi sour, on Friday ; the fomer at 2S, Norfolk• street, Strand, and the latter on board. The following are the particulars of the vessels captured by the Clorinde French trigate, viz. Lusitania, Johnston, from London to Surinam, given up. Minden Hall, Bann, from London to Bermuda, attempted to be scuttled, but found at sea, and carried into Piruouth. John O'Gaunt ' from London to Martinique. Aurora, Fichimdt, from ditto to Amelia Island. • Superb, Roberts, from Gibraltar to England. Town.hend packet, from the Brazils to Falmoutb. • Sarah, Conyers, from London to Berbice. Uni y, Brownltll, from Teneritie to London. Elizabeth, Prints, from the Baltic to Madeira. Dolphin, , from St. Michael's ; and The —, V.'oodgate, from Lisbon to London—all destroyed. Yesterday at three o'clock a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which sat till within a few minutes of five. Soon after the breaking up of the Council Sir THOMAS TTRWHITT and Mr. SILVEBTER the King's Messenger lett town with dispatches for Lord CASTLEREACH. From his Lordship they pro ceed to the queen of WIRTENIBMI, to accompany her Majesty to England. A suitable number of attend ants will be provided for the occasion. General AEGNIER, who has made such a figure in BONAPARTE'S recent campaigns as Commander of the Saxon contingents, lately died .0 Paris. He had been long heartily sick of the cause in which he was em ployed, and his death was no doubt accelerated by the acuteness of his feelings. Ihe CROWN PRINCE'S •Bulletin described him as behaving in the Battle of Dennevitz « like a man desirous of death." The defection of the whole Saxon Army at the battle of Leipsic, an event which Rtconza had long foreseen, occasioned his retnrn in disgust to Paris. He was once more ordered to join the army, but he died :ud der'', at Guignes, a‘ it is said, of a Diarriwa. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, MARCH 9. We had a small arrival of Wheat this morning from Suffolk, which fully Maintamed Monday's prices. Barley is is. per cr. dearer, and ready sale at that advance. Oars are full Is. per quarter higher. la other articles there is tto alteration. I EXCHANGE. EDITION. FRAUD ON Till STOCK. • Yesterday, at four o'clock, the Sub-Committee ap pointed to inquire into the late nefarious business re. lating to the death of Bonaparte, made their. Report w the Stock Exchange at large. A table was placel . 'in the centre of the house, and four of the Committee placed themselves on it. Mr. Lawersee read the Report, which, after a concise exordium of the m tives which induced the Committee to take np the business, and to endeavour to point out the authors, proceeded to state, that they were happy to say that not the least suspicion attached to any Member of that body, as being concerned in so scandalous a transaction, and which would, if proved on any indi vidual, have produced his certain expulsion from the Society. It then stated the evidence of the post-boy, named Shelling, who drove the pretended Colonel Du Bourg, mentioning all the particulars that have already transpired relative to the imposition, stating that Bonaparte was dead, etc.; also of Crane, the hackney-coachman, who drove the Coked to No. 13, Green -street, Grosvenor-square, after he was set down' at the Marsh C r ate, Lambeth. The evidence of SAYER, the Bow-street Officer, who wai employed to learn nut who the house in Green•street was occupied by, stated that a Mr. Dor rand quitted it on the 12th of February, and let it furnished to Lord Cochrate, the Hon. Cochrane Johnstone, and Mr. Butt, who came in on the 134 h February, and occasionally met there several times previous to the Colonel du Bourgh arriving —that on the Colonel's arriving, he enquired for a particular name, and was told he was goo, to breakfast is Cum berland -meet, &c. to which he instantly repaired. Mr. LAWRENCE then stated that he went to Messrs. Bond and Co. bankers, in Each inge.alley, to endea vour to trace some bank-notes paid away by the Colonel in his passage up, and four of £1 each were traced to have been taken out of the Milk about, one or two o'clock on Saturday, the 19th of February, but they said it was difficult for them to trace one pound notes, as it was but seldom they took the par ticulars. Mr. FEARN 9 S evidence was next read over. He stated that he latterly had been in the habit 'of doing business in the Funds for Lord Cochrane, Cocl•rane Johnstone, and Mr. Butt ; that he always understo-d that what business he did for Mr. Butt was to be placed to Lord Cochrane's account ; that on the 21st of February, which was the day the fraud was put is practice, he sold for—. Lord Cochrane X 199.000 Osmium.. Cochrane Johnstone 140,000 Onsntum. For DU o - 100000 Con‘ols. Mr. Butt . 1Y.4.000 Omutum. For Ditto Ihri s o 0 Comas. That he was desired to sell them tar the first account day in cash, but not to sell them for money ; that he was surprised to find that Lord Cochrane and Mr. Butt had taken an office fur him (Fearn) in Shorter's court, Throgmor to n-street, withutst his knowledge,. where they used to meet Lim and give their orders. Mr. PITCHES, another Broker's evidence was next read. It stated that n ize was too ill to attend ; bet to a Mr. Wakefield, one of the Committee, who waited on him, he declared tbat.he had rld for Lord C. C. Johnstone, and Mr. Butt, about £563,000 Umnium. rt. ' Mr. &gi Lnoses, another Broker, had rid tlO.OOO Omnium for Lord C. and delo,ooo fill' Mr. Butt. Mr. Itteuano.soN, the Bookseller, had been ap plied to, to sell for the above parties a very large aim, but refused, on account of his not being willing to be responsible for such a sum. Mr. CHRISTIAN, Clerk to Mr. ream, the Stock fro ker, at first, but afterwards confessed, that he had changed a £5O note, obtained by el check of CS of Mr. Fearn's, o's Me•Arg. Bond, The Bankers, to; one pound notes, un Saturday the 19th February, four of which one pound notes acre paid away by Colonel Du Bouts. When further interrogated, he said the noes obtained foe the £75 check of Fearres, was on account of Mr. Butt. Mr. SA NIYIN, of Northlieet, one of die persons who came from Northfleet in the post chaise, had appeared before the committee and given them some informa tion, but protested his innocence as to being concer ned in the fraud. A Mr. M'RAE had, previous to the plan taking place, mentioned that such a scheme re , ) , Ar be done. A variety of other matter Carle forth, which we have not time to state, after which, Mr. Sinoxit moved the thinks of the Stock Ex change to the Sub-Committee, for their great exer tions and zeal in endeavouring to trace this foul trans action, which %ins carried unanimously: Mr.DAVID RICAIMI then in a very animited speech stated, that the Stock Etchange generally labour e d under all the opprobriu:n of any foul transaction. when in fact they were the chief perms injured by such nefarious practices,/ .He thought the investiga tion could not • he made too public, AS it niight ope rate so as to deter any other desperate characters from trying similar attempts. He therefore moved th,gt the whole of the Report might be printed, which motim was seconded by Mr. Bish, and carried tin'anirooully. Mr. LAWIIIINCE then stated, that he WAS in hones the whole might be printed, ao as to give eeerr Mem ber a copy by to-morrow. • MERINO SOCIETY.m•ANKUAL Suow.—The Sheep, Wool, and Cloth, to be sbe.vn for the Premiums offered by the MERINO SOCIETY, for the Ye4T 1814, will be exhibited at Mr. Sarmait's Repository, in Goswell-street, on Thursday and Friday, the lOth and 11th March instant, aid will be open for the in spection of the Public, at twelve o'clock on the 10th. The Anniversary Dinner will be on the eleventh, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lin. coln's Inn Fields, at five o'clock precisely, when the Prize Plate will be delivered to the successful Candi dates.—Tickets for the Dinner to be had at the Bar of the Freemasons' Tavern.—N. B. Those two lo.au tiful Indian bred Beasts, of amazing height, are still at the above yard, for the public inspection. SPORTING INTELLIGENCR.—In our statement Tester. day of the odds against the different horses for the Derby Stakes, we omitted to name 16 to 1 against Mr. Lake's Brother to Sajana. The betting on the different Stakes has been very flat, with little varia tion for some time past, as owing to the centinued severity of the weather the race horses have been pre vented getting into regular work, and Mould they experience further check, will affect tho se w h o v e t any are engaged for the Craven Meeting,_ Sir J. show s horse Phantom is taken out of training, and will be the ensuing season at the Royal Stud House, Hamp ton Court. 1