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„ k " 1 • F . .! , .. INTER CEP[ 'FIERS. Le BAUM. Sif POLOWING /MI COMES OF ORIGINAL LETTERE AND . , DIRPRITDREI or..tiq GENERALS' MINISTER.% GRAND OFFICER 3 OP STAIR, (C. AT PARIS, TO BONAPARTE AT DItRSIAN btrERCEPTEW THE ADVANCJW . 'TROOPS OF THE ALLIES IN THE NORTH OF GERLIANIt. (J!ra l iskii by•Aifirtry, Alietwark.strel) The'Senator Count Itociisaiß, 'ecretary or State to the Grand - Duchy of Berg, to-the Count DIMAS, Gilead of Division, Intentiant-Gencrai lithe Arniv ‘ 4 `Parts;teptA9, 3 sta. ," My Dear General—l.received at Cheibourg the letter yott did Ile the honour to lei'de to me from Dresden s .on the 18th of August. I wished not to answer it till I should be. in readiness to execnte the commissinn with Which k charges me to the King of spain, Yesterday and the day before I pa i sied at MOrtefontaine. 1 read his Majesty die few lines in : which you express your sentiments towards him, and your tvishes for his prosperity. King appeared very sensible of them, and charted ar s e t i a thank yob. _His Majesty is very well, and bas given far, ;ince his arrival at Mortefontaine. They jead die Sarni lot( of life there that you remem beri they. isieakfaat in -some summer-house ; they hunt, fish, sail, say not a word about business; dine, play at billiards, and go to bad. .The King main tains himself: strictly incognito from all the world, and receives neither Ministers nor Senators, nor Coon sellers of State, nor military -men ; in short, nobody. You must perceive that his present situation, and.the' Emperor's absenie, Tedder this conduct in some Sort necessary. . 111 )e PriocesseZenaide is little, round, Well formed„ wfll educated, and speaks with a great dealiof good sense; much to the purpose. not easy to see what hinders heyfroin getting band. The other islet, Very thin, but sensible. " The King seems to be well satisfied with a pri vate life ; at least he is much at his ease, and wcars the appearance of its being altogether to his taste.— He retains his former Affability; as the Queen does her uatural discernment, her quickness 4 penetra . iion, and her g< : , ol se..nso, well seasoned, but without *mom." - • THi 4.llWitatAWC,l,Loit oft THILIWPME:To Hls MAJESTY Atio KiNG. 64 Sitt.4 received this : morning the letter with which your 'Majesty, honoured me, dated: Harlau, ttie 214 h of this'elsonth. " It hal made tnefity bePPy, ai I he *been /81 days without receiving any newt. direct from youi Majesty. • • " From the interruption of the cummanications,. we ought nor to be surprised at receiving no setters. But the public, who reason little, or reason ill, ima gined that this suspension arose from the bad state of affairs, and presaged evils from which we are now happily rendered secure. " According to what has reached me from the Duke of Baisann, and from other, quarters, I find that your Majesty has cleared all the defiles or the Saxon fruntfers, and paralysed all the movements attempted by the enemy to operate a new invasion. Your Majesty supposes, in your letter, that I have received the pieces onthe Austrian declaration, &c. I have already rendered an account to your Ma• jesty on this subject in my letter of the 22d: it will therefore be enough to recall to your Majesty, that the two first dispatches were lost, that the triplicate reached to', and was presented to me by M. de la Besnardiere ; but that these pieces being very volu minous, it has not yet been possible to complete the copies. I adde that' having received no command nor instruction from your Majesty, relative to the communications to be made to the Senate, I shall defer making any use of these pieces till your Ma • jesty shall be pleased to make known to me your Majesty's intentions on the several points which I bare taken the' liberty ta submit to him. I again en treat your Majesty's directions on that subject. " Some articles, inserted by the Minister of Police in the infericir journals, and the last notices of the Moniteut, have contributed to improve the public opinion. People begin to be satisfied that the greater number of the reports spread about of late are mere inventions. • • 64 With respect to the fall which the public funds have experienced for some weeks past, it is the mere consequence of ceitain speculations, and of the na-, tural tendency of monied people to alarm themselves, and see the dark side of all things. 46 1 aql, with the profoundest respect, Sire, Your : lmperial and Royal. Majesty's most obedient, most devoted, and faithful subject and servant, 46 The Arch• Chancellor of the Empire, 44 Paris, t9stli Sept. 1013." Co4IS,IcEHEs. THE PRINCE AuCH-THer.sUitEn, TO HIS' MAJESTY THE EMPEUOIt AND KING. 4 g SIRE..-All is quiet here—and will remain so, if nothing happens to us from Without. ;There is con lineal variation in the public funds, but constant re gularity in the ad niniseration. • -• • • " Whe Prefect of the Bc.uches de Ls .Mettellia in- disposed ; ptthaps seriously so. tlnfiertunately, he - has embody in whom he confides ;. via thus affairs will eaperießce some delay. . • 44 Homage and respect, • " pasts du Nis i 29th Sept, 1913." T HS MINCH ARCH-CHANCELLOR TO HIS XXCELLENCT THE DEICE OF BPssl.lo. " leari;, September 29, IS! 3. • 6 . 4 Moesileur le Duc—l have received your hitters of the 21st and 211, and, to-day, that which your Excellency wrote me on the 18th has also come to bawl " if consequence of A.a.......interroption of our coot , Intnajeationb, 1 And that your ExCelleney has been obliged to su pply the dispatches by extraordinary means. Every ,thing announces . , that the enemy's p att i es ire . of s oon will be-iftspersed, so that corre spondence will resume its uktial course. M e a t nbile, M. le ant; I am infinitely obliged t') you for ail the intelligence which you have had the go duess to send me, particularly for your ac e outs of the Lint.eror's bealth. I have already as .- awed your Exceliency evil . rrpoits can only be checked by positive inlormation ; these reports al wAys take their tifiC horn commercial letters. " Yutit E,scellency inturres me, in your dispatch tithe 2:3J, that you send M. de It Besnardiere a cruadtuilicate of the pieces relative to ti,e Austrian anti SwediAderlcrationc, anti this in older to supply t‘le other dospaules o which you ; suppose to bu lost. '.I ti,ac tt the two brst were aqually Jpst, but the tri p . cate came sale, ancl*ss presented to me by M. de AV"' • . 14 Besnardiere, as I anuouncel to you in my letter of the 2‘,..'d inst. These pieces.not being yet copied, have not been remitted to me. Besides, I can make no use of them till I have received the Emperor's orders respecting the communications that are to be made to the Senate, and the several points accessary to these communications. On this subject I can only refer your Excellency to the contents of my letters of the 22d and `6th, and beg you will request that his Majesty will be pleased to make known to me his intentions. (Signed) 44 The Prince Arch.Chaucellor of the 'Empire, 44 CAMBACERES." TUE COUNT DE lIIEDOPTILtIip FRENCH MINISTER AT FRANKFORT, TO HIS EXCALINCY Till DUKE Of SAS.. SANO, DATED FRANKFORT, OCECUIER lr 1813. 44 Mr Loan—l have the honour to inform your Excellency, that the Grand Duke iuddenly deter mine& to Ink Aschaffenbuig for 'Constance, in the middle of last night. The Grand Master of his Court, Baron de Ferette, came to-day to bring me a letter from his Highness, containing these words : I am on the road to Constance, whither I am called by my episcopal duties. I pass by way of Cads .rube, Fribourg, and Morsbourg. f entreat you, - to reiterate to my benefactor, .the august Protector of dm Confederation of the Rhine, the assurance that I shall remain faithfully attached to him till death.' “ It s<vms that this Prince conceived the idea that they were attempting to carry him off by their parti zans, and that; when masters of his person, they would use every endeavour to detach-him from then Confederation of the Rhine. Although the Baron d'Eberstein waited, in order.to give him information of what was passing in Westphalia, for more uccu. rate accounts than those he had received from the 'runaways in the first moment of alarm; although that Minister communicated to him news of a less terrifying nature in the course of yesterday ; his Highness had already taken his measures in secret, as it is believed, in consequence of advices addressed to him by express from this place in the night of the 29th of September. In these he had been given ,to understand, as certain, that the partizans had already shewn themselves at Giessen, on the side of West phalia, and towards Ftada, on • that of Eisenach. At the same utile, th - e departure. of the Duke of Castig lione from Wurtzburg may have made him apprehend that he should be left entirely uncovered on that side ; and- the liAessiness which he felt with respect to the dispositions of Bavaria, completed the impression - Made on his mind, insomuch that he could not he. lieve himself secure from a coup-de-main in his resi dence at Aschaffenburg. “ In my answer to his Highness, I say, that if he had communicated his apprehensions to the Duke of Vainly and myself, we should have been able to fur nish him with more exact information ; and that pro bably he would not then have determined on so pre cipitate a departure, the effect of which on the minds of the people nosy be very injurious in the present conjuncture. " TH. Ctif.'CTE• D'UEDGUYII/LE." TUE COUNT DE MERCY ARGENTEAU, FRENCH MINISTER AT MUNICH, TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE DUKE OF BAs- SANG. . " Munich, Sept. 28, Isis. " My LORD -I have received your Excellency's letter of the 19th,, containing the substance of the last operations that took place, for driving the enemy again upon Bohemia. I hastened to communicate these details to the King, who listened to them with great interest, and I lost no time in transmitting them to General de Wrede. " The more details your Excellency shall send me respecting present events, the mare means you will put into my hands for counteracting the effect of the Austrian bulletins, which arb every moment dispersed throughout the line of the Bavarian army, and dis seminated by anonymous letters in the interior. The last of these, for 'instance, proclaimed as victories those very events, which have thrown back the com bined armies upon Bohemia in utter disorder. They asserted, that in the warm affair of the 19th, near Pcterswalde, the Russians took from us three co lours and seven cannon ; and that, on the same day, General Creusel was made prisoner, with 3000 men. In the same manner they announced the capture of Trieste, and several battles with the army of the Prince Viceroy, which has terminated in their favour. " The introduction of the Vienna Journals is pro hibited. The compilation of those of tills kingdom is superintended with as much vigilance as 'possible. The Gazetteer of Bayreuth alone has indulged him self in some impertinencies, for which he will be se verely reprimanded, and perhaps lose his license. (Here follow twelve pages in cypher.) ds Be pleased to accept, Sir, the homage of my respectful devotidn. (_igned) • ..".'Ehe Count de MERCY ARGENTEAU." • r THE COIIiT,DENIIRCY ARGENTEAU, FRZNCII . MINISTER AT MUNICH, TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE DUKE OF . BASSANO. 66 Munich, 29th September, 1813. "MY LORD—I .have received the letters of the 24th, which 'your, Excellency did me the honour to address to me. S shall take care to have the Amts. . burg Gazette sent to you immediately ; and I um tong to adbpt meetturcs -to procure, with the best possible regularity, the Vienna Gazettes, which I shall forward to you with all 'speed. 4 4 General de irttrede acquaints me, that, accord. ing to information. Which had reached him, of the date of the 27th, the Geneeal of Division Buonaventi, who commands the extremity of the Prince viceroy's left wing, then occupied Brizen. By this movement rite communication between that city and Inspruck ' can no longer be more than momentarily intercepted by brigands and revolutionairer. Nevertheless, it will, perhaps ; be difficult to extinguish entirely the spirit of insurrection which reigns, amidst secrecy and si lence, in part of the valleys of the Tyrol. (Signed) - The Count de MERCY ARGENTEAU. a . P.'S. The llwroness de Wessenberg, wife of the late Austrian Minister in Bavaria, who is now in England, arrived A: yesterday from Vienna, and an. nounces her intention to fit her residence , here. This r esolution, which seems to connect itself with the r epprts which have been for some time current in t hese parts, has excited considerable sensation." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM COUNT GERMAIN, F MINLsTER AT IItdRZBURG, TO UIS EXCELLENCY TILE MINISTIat FOR FIuIIEIGN AFFAIRS. • " M. de Bvgne has intercepted, at Bayreuth, let ters from a pi iv.ite person at Wurzburg, informing the Governor of Egra of the Doke of Castiglione's movement. These letters contained the most circum stantial details of the force and comp9sitiosi 9f the • troops. M. de Hope, in making me adittainted with this discovery, vas not able positively to inform me who was the author of the correspondence: the spirit of the nobility of Wurabnig is such," that it maybe attributed with equal probability to twenty persons at once. • I shall therefore defer exciting the inquiries of the Grand Ducal GovernMent on this subject, until we have collected such a body of proofs as to leave no doubt respecting the author of this manctuvre. " Letters from Boheinia, of the date of the 25th, announce, that the want of provisions is beginning to be felt there, and that the price of all sorts of grain is considerably adVanced. The tommanication of letters and journals is entirely re-established. I send /our Excellency the numbers of the 4u man (therter, up to the date of the 22d September. " THE COUNT GERMAIN." COUNT OTTO DE MOSLOY, MINISTER OF STATE, TO 111$ EXCELLENCY THE DUKE Of BitsSANO. " Paris, 28th October. 181$. 44 MONSIE UR LE Duc.-I have at last received the document so long promised by his Excellency the Dnke of Santafi, with a' particular statement of the places to which the Spanish refugees have retired. The total number amoutus to l 700; but this Minister observes to me; that the military men, and person; composing the Court of his Majesty the King cf Spain, will be found in the supplementary docurnents. 44 The Prefect of the Gers, who has seat us a statement of the Spaniards in his department, fur nishes a list of 1,670 individuals, all in the lowest state of misery. it is true that this department is the fullest of all ; but, supposing that the others pte sent as- on an average with no more than half this number, the ;aim total of persohs requiring assistance will very far exceed the Duke de Santafes calcula tion.; and the commissioner* will find it out of their power to satisfy all the demands which will be made them. , on '6 In the instructions which your Excellency . has done me the honour to send me, there is no ment;on made of persons in military employtnents. Never theless there exists a very great number of them ? sflio have been recommended to me by the Minister at War, and his Excellency the Duke of Dalmatia.— Pis Excellency the Duke of Santafe also makes a great point of these persons receivlhg assistants.. A very considerable augmentation of expense must be the consequence; but although the Commissioners' tan see no reason for excluding from his Kijesty's munificence those who have borne arms in the cum mon came, they require a formal authority to com prehend !herd in their department. I entreat your Excellency to make known to me the Emperor's com mands on this subject. 66 Under all circumstances, the demands multiply to such an extent , that the Commissioners find them selves under an impossibility of making a general dis tribution without exceeding the funds allowed them, -or making a new reduction on the ratios now estab lished, and which are already too straitened for a great number of the ret ugees. They will, neverthe less, be obliged to have recourse to this last step, if his ajesty should not think proper to augment the sum now appropriated to this service. The Civil Commission is then under the necessity of soliciting a further supply of 50,000 francs a month, under the name of Fund Reserve • and it engages-Doan em ploy this fund any further than the wants of the claim ants shall render it an indispensable part of their duty. 66 I entreat your Excellency not to lose sight of the contents of my letter, No. 8, of the I.6th of this month, and to send me back the statements annexed to it, with your observations upon therfa. 66 Be pleased to accept, Monsieur le Due, the ho mage of My devotion, and of my high consideration. (Signed) 66 OTTO." THE CHEVALIER OGINSKI TO MIS EXCELLENCY Talk DATION !Hamm, Faucm MINISTER 1!4 THE PLUME OF W4USAW. " isbadeo, Sept. sit, ISt 3. " Your Excellency—Here have we been for. two weeks at Wisbaden, at a distance from every thing that is interesting , to u in the world, and from our country, without any other resource than the pension which has been graciousl y granted to us. I venture to entrqat your Excellency, therefore, that you will have the goodness to remember us, and to cause the arrears for the months of August and September to be paid at Mentz. Without health or means, I am much grieved at having to address your Excellency in this urgent necessity ; but your Excellency will' have the goodness to pardon the liberty I take, and to believe that I am ever, with respect, your Excel lency's most humble and most obedient servant, Ocnisitt, (Chev. de la Legion d'Honneur. )" TILE BARON DR DURANT, FRENCH MINISTER AT NAPLES, TO HIS EXCELLENCY TIIE DUKE OF BASSANO. " Naples, September 18, 1813. 44 My Lord—There is absolutely nothing new in this city. Every body's attention is turned towards the operations of the army ; and the idle gossip which mixes itself with this general impression 14'iel. dom of a description worth recording. 4$ The Queen has received letters from the King, of the date of the 3d. I have had none from your Excellency since the 31st of last month. "• M. de Gallo told me, three days.ago, that Prince Esterhaty had requested him to provide for him the means of embarking on the coast of*Apulia for Durazzo, in order to reach Hungary by way of the Turkish provinces. This resolution on the Prince's part, appears to me a new indication of the opinion expressed by M. de Mier, that he will nor be so semi in readiness for his departure, since it *as their inten tion to have proceeded together. M. de Gallo told me also, that there was reason to believe it was with the consent of the Emperor' ' himself that the Prince (lariat bad remained at Vi enna after the departure of the French legation. 44 Some copies of an Austrian Manifesto have reached this place through commercial channels.— One of them fell into my hands. Is this piece the work of London or of Vienna ? This tender interest, too, for the integrity of Prussia, is a circumstance entirely novel in Austrian politics. A• such a dis tance from all the arrangements of the day. 1 hardly dare express one of the sentiments to which the read ing of this paper has given birth in my mind ; yet, perhaps, some useful glints might be collected from it ; and if the desire of giving to France a salutary repose saild lead the Emperor, after having so gloriously maintained the honour of her arms, 'to make some temporary sacrifices, lune many jams . ,-. would bb eared him, by the discordant elementi of unios between his enemies, by time and negoci ttiem, of returning to the execution of the projects he has ' conceived fortis own glory, and for the lasting pro •sperity of the Continent. (Signed) I 4 e Baron de Dua.prr." To HIS MAJZSTY Tilt KING Mr Tilt TWO • ousts. &TRACT. ) A 44 My good Friend—We have .been much con cerned at hearing of the affair of General VAndamme, but the'Emperor can set every thing to rights- 4 w. thing can resist him. I have read, or rather Tee have read, your report to the Emperor, and were much affected by it. My dear friend, bow would you h ave me remain easy ? I cannot express to yeti how un happy I have been for some days past; why I know not, since I expect your speedy return and peace; nevertheless many circumetatices have contributed to it. First of all, the long time that elapsed without bringing us any details of the battle, your silence, the privation you had sustained in consequence of General Dumont's wound; and, to conclude, my voyage, which made me so ill, that, if it had not been for the Minister of Finance, who never left me. and'who took upon him the orders for my disembar kation, which I had not strength to do myself, and which nobody else would have dared to do for me, I verily believe I should have died. Poor Mouchelet tell a sacrifice to it ; for, seeing me so weak, and hav ing been able to findneitherlorses nor carriage; he determined to mount the hill afoot, in the midst of a tremendous storm of rain. to procure me some broth, of which I stood greatly in need. Here the poor fellow got a deflusion of the chest, followed by a putrid malignant fever, and, in short, was earned by it in two'days, before one knew, as it were, that he was ill. • 44 Thi, i s has agitated me; he had been so long at. tached to rim service, and was so distinguished for his zeal and fidelity, that I kould rnat preserve myself from a certain impression of mel incholy. I have al. most regretted this unhappy voyage, which, for this week past, has constituted all the happiness of the Princes and Princesses. The Prince !loyal set off the day before yesterday co make the circuit of the Bay. on board the same vessel: he returned quite en. chanted. The Princesses are to go to-akorrow, and promise themselves the same pleasure, with Lucien for their beau.; 44 I don't know whether you receive any letters..but I write to you n'ary often. • Every thing is perfectly calm and :Tranquil, and I hive you will be so too. My health is not very bad ; that otyour children ie excellent. I have' recommended Campomelle to send you every thing you may.stand in need of. . I hope he will do so, and that you. will want for nothing. I have ordered him to read you some woollen hosiery, which will be very comfortable to you is travelling. I send you also, General, Dumont's. sword. Adieu, my friend ; take care of, yourself, I beg you, and think of us. I embrace you as I love you. (Signed) 44 CAROLINI. 41 I forgot to speak to you of a circumstance which has produced a rather singular effect. Your courier -arrived at the moment,J weaving on board thcves. sel ; as chance would have it, I met him, and spoke to him myself. I asked-him : whether* ha4.any other letters ? he told. me, no; so that I told the mi nisters, who came for ma orders, that you had not 'written to any of . thetn. The next morning they brought me their letters, saying that the cpurier had deceived me. They thought ionght to punish him for having lied so to my lace. " I am well convinced that this order could never have proceeded from you but I could not refrain from mentioning it to yon, in order that you may ' find out who, of your secretaries, can have issued so impertinent a mandate. For, my good friend, it is of the utmost importance to know every thing that is written, aid, since you cannot take the trouble, I mut. For instance, Julien said that they had taken so many colours, so many pieces of cannon, so many 'prisoners, and he did not make them amount to the. quarter part of what yon told the ; so that neat' day, 'when they read the Moniker, they falsified, by Ju lien% letters, what I had caused to be inserted in it sc , cording toYour's. This his' a bad effect, and destroys confidence. if these gentlemen choose to announce vidueries, let them—nothing better—but let them not give me details ; let them not specify numbers either for more or less, so as to contradict those which I receive from you. Look to this. I have not beets angry at it ; because 1 am very sure that this coo. tier has acted from no instruction Or yourls. But it is more important than you shay suppose—pay atteit• tion to it."-.-WithOtit date. SPANISH PAPERS. CADIZ, JANUARY Is. The Minn, which is jest arrived, is one of the rlehest vessels that ever entered our port. She brings froniNera Cruz 3,624,466 dollars )f Nlexican coinage, and .157,563 in provincial money, besides 1 245 bars of silver, and 32,395 ignots (8 ounces each) 257 bags of cochineal, 23 ofindito,and 19 chests of vanilla. From the Havannah she brings b 1,085 , bars of Mexican coinage, and 11,02.; in provincial money, 3481 ounces of gold. besides a large quantity of tobacco, coffee, and Jesuits' bark. By accounts from lla, dated September 19. we learn, that an.epidemic disorder waged in the city of Mexico, which had cut off 25,000 ..f the inhabitants. The Gazette of that capital of the 4th of Septembers contains an account of a victory gained by General A rridundo, over 2400 Anglo-Americans, and 6,10 La• dians under Toledo. This action had secured the province of Tejas, sad given a mortal blow to the disastrous rebellion in that kingdom. On the 'tint hand, the rebel Morelos, it was said, had made 'sell Master of 'the settle OE Acapulco, with mud% riches, .2000 muskets, and the best' ktidlery m the kingdom. It was also asserted, that he was issern• Wing deputies from varicose districts, tor the form& tion of a Congress. Our latest accounts frost Montevideo are to the 19th of October. Both this expeditions, with !raps from Cadiz, had arrived there; but 800ot them welt sick of the scurvy, and nothing had been done horn sickness and the want of cavalry. The enemy were • still under the walls of this last bulwark of the Spio nish dott3iniopt op. the river Plate. ALGIERS, sovgmaza, a. The corsairs of this Power have just brought in two prizes; one of them it it Biciliaa ♦essel from