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S . • • 1 FRENCH PA PWRS. , BAYONNE, JANUARY £O. Far flom endeavouring to attack us, the enemy appears afraid of being himself attacked. We have here an,arrny of 90,000 men, animated with the best spirit, and well disposed to dispute the passage of the Adour, in case the enemy should dare to attempt it. It is certain that the Spaniards have retired into the rear ; only English and Portuguese are seen in. ling General Harispe carries on a destructive war against the bands which by stealth scatter themselves over the country ; he daily gains nett advantages.— In consequence, we are extremely quiet here ; and as you have said you do no s tifear the. Cossacks, we still • • less fear the English . A packet-boat, coming from London; was totally lost in the night between the 19th and 20th, upon the coast of Fontarabia. The enemy experience great difficulties ie ensuring their provisions, the dis . tribution -of which has lately been made with great irregularity. There - are many sick among the inha bitants of St. Jean de Luz, and the communes occn pied' by the enemy, who has himself many sick in every regiment, but the Chiefs do all they , can t° conceal the-numbers of them. It is annotriced with • sonic appearance of truth, that the Spaniards are or ganizing an army of fro/n5O to 600tX) men in Old Castile, to ensure their independence. The same misunderstanding stfl subsists between therm . and the English. .Three English vessels, wrecked between Old Boucant and Cape Breton, have been entirely` dashed to . pieces ; scarcely any of their cargoes have been saved they consisted of-oxen, barley, blankets; and clothing for the troops., • • . ST. DIZIER, JANUARY 9,6. • . The enemy was here.two days and commit ted the Most frightful vexations. - fie respected nei ther age nor sex.. Viiiimen and old men were the objects of his violences and his onteages. - The wile of.Sieur Canard, a rich farmer, aged 50 years, is . dead, ,in consequence of 'the - ill-treatment she expe rienced. Her husband, .upwards of seventy, is dy ing. Lt would be too . shocking to give here a list of other victims. • • The arrival . of French troops, which yesterday en tered our town, put an end to our misfortunes. The enemy ha ving attempted' to oppose resistance, was soon put to rout with considerable loss. - The Emperor's entrance gave place to the most touching scenes. ' All the population pressed round him ;, all evils appeared forgotten. It gave security tor all we held most dear. An old Colonel, M. Bai lard, aged seventy, threw himself at his fet, which -he bathed with tears of joy. He expressed; at the same time, the grief which a brave soldier felt, in seeing, enemies ratite his natal soil, and his happi ness at seeing them fly before the imperial eagles.— We learn that' the same enthusiasm which broke out here, manifested itself at Bar upon the arrival of our troops. The enemy had already taken to flight. CHALONS-SURAIARNE, JANUARY e 7. The head-qu4rtErs of the -Emperor were removed, to St. Dizier .alrpost as soon as his Majesty arrived. The troops are marching upcirr Upper (e:hampagne And-Burgundy. . • LYONS , JANUARY 2 5 Marshal Augereau, Duke of Castiglione, went on. the flid to the Theatre des Terreaux, with his Staff, and M. &Albeit, Mayor. As soon as he had entered the Prefect's boa, the house resounded with the most lively applauses. The cries of Y ;tier Enopereur, Five le Marie4al Augerenu, were several times repeated ; whilst the orchestra played the airs, eu petit on Are • minus, and 10 Victaire ea a now. The acclamations . became universal, at the sight oK Count de Bondy,* who came to rejoin the Igarshal. THE MARSHAL OP THE EMPIRE, COMMANDING •IN CHIEF THE ARMY I Or LYONS, AND THE 7TH AND 19rn LITARY.bI.I•IONS, TO THE IN f iARITANTS O f LYONS. " Inhabitants of Lyon's!—Anenemy, weak in means, and uncertain in his movements, has dated for some-days to menace your • city. Called to your defence, I found you,disarmed ; from that time I had neither sleep nor repose rill I bad collected suc cours ; still greater will shortly arrive ; I have posi Live assurance of it. In the mean time you are tremb ling with rage, brave Lyounois, at having bten in sulted to . ,your very walls, by an enemy proud of a moment of surprise. . • These r t enerous sentiments on your part have nrlt astonished me. Arc you not people who in •all difficult circumstances have displayed a great Lou rage ? Tr:e 14vtrof yont. city was always your dis tinguishing character ; to this noble motive was joined the honour Of the French name; of which you are so jealous, and that gratitude which,. you owe your august govgrcigii, whose tirst.eare, upnu mount ing the throne, was to .heal your wounds, and re-erect _ I your edifices. 'You always were, you well know,'the object cif his particular care. You owe it then: to him.:-you owe it to' Fiance, who ha: bet eyes upon • tyott. to, chive far trom our walls the enemy, whose presence only is an insult, and who paralyses. your industry,., and plunges you into a•state of uncertainty and alarm, which your honour and your interest command you to put an end to.. a To arms, then, brave Lyonese—rally around roe. Let us march forward, and only leave to the army,- which is hastening to your defence, the care of pursuing to the frontiers the enemy whom you have already put to fl,Ditt:. (Signed) AUGEREAU, of Castiglione." 0 11nd-quarters, Lyons,' JAIL 2i, 1814." • CHALOkIS,bUR-SAQNE, JANUARY 20. On Mundt,' last, at six. ih the evening, we learned that the, enemy threatened-Tourtrus. Immediately Conend yielding to the eagerness , of Inc . Cli4lonese, gratutid them an order to fly to the assist ance of the brave inhabitants orfournus, and assur • ed the in that he would soon be there in person. • Midnight ,had sc•trcey struck, when 'we had al. re.a..iy been welcomed by tbeirourntissieni, vtith the most fraternal receptinn, • ... - ' s ilt the break of. ki;ty, Genera) Legrand pushed his -reconnoitring •tlizee,lt•a4ues in advance of Tourntis.: ht returned, and .nevi. wed tl:e troops which he had collvcted, and received atom their tie oath to die at Jr ot..,n,Lur : . The enemy, changing . his plan, oitk, and 11Qt re-aprearstither on the lbili or t r I ?y crdet of ,the General we returned to out homes. I .Y NS, ANUARY I 24. • The •Eten: y yesi.;3llay . QCcupied the smile positions. • • • Tt is not known Whether. he has eyacnatedMeximieux. He experiences every day new difficulties, ..and his -entrance into our territory has had do other effec than to arouse the energy of our fellow s titizens. • PARIS, JANUARY rt. At a general 'Meeting of the Proprietors of ihe. Bank of France - , a , general account of the proceedings of the Directors, and of the state'of the Bank, was given by M. Jauliert, the Governor of the Bank, of which the following is the substance : " In. the last 15 months the Bank has paid very large sums; in Decemberlast, 38,8(Y',000francs, and in the titsc 18 days of January 21,230,000 francs. " Till this time (says the Go'vernor) our readiness to pay satisfied the eagerness to receive. But on the 18±, at the cl , ,sing of the chests, theGenefut Council not perceiving, as they had formerly, -any sign.; of a diminution ot the demands of payment, and seeing t')at the reserve, and the portfeuille of bills of ex change, were do the point of ceasing to be in harmony N ith die debts of the. Batik, found itself obliBed to takc a great resolution. ‘‘..l..curding to the statement already published the tinount ot specie and bills in the Bank exceeded•by nearly• a million ot francs the whole of the debt, so that these alone were a sufficient guarantee% But the capital of the bank, amounting to 111,500,000 francs, this sum must be annihilated as well as the portkuille exhaustod before a single banknote can be in danger pt not being paid. 4 , However, when a bank of circulation is este ',Wished, arid the public recognizes the utility of its notes, it cannot be supposLid that all these notes will be presented for payment at the same time ; and therefore such yanks ought never to have more specie on hand than is sufficient to satisfy the greatest pro bable demand. But. the demand li.cving for some days exceeded all the' calculations of experience, was the duty of the Council nol to be carried away by the eagernesS of the persons Who demanded pay ment : but for the resolution taken by the General Council, the Bank would have been obliged Lo cease all discounting, which would have been a great mis fortune, and a great injustice. " It was necessary to attend to the interests of sons in trade, whose foresight hits been deceived by the want of consumption, and who make such laud able efforts to surmount the difficuliies of the moment. " Though the efforts of some houses have not suc ceeded, it is- notorious that the means of most pf them are superior to their engagements, and that soon they will be able to perform 'them entirely. " It is for the interest' of the public, that the ope rations of trade should be facilitated. In short, pre serving the facility of discounting, and thus employ ing the only means that remained to. prevent greater evils to commerce, was at the same time securnig the realization of the bills in the •portfeuile—an object which will be obtained. Moved by all these considerations, the Council, on the evening of the 1S:1. resolved that 500',0C0 francs should be paid daily, and that this sum should be increased as occasions allowed. A meeting of an huudred of the principal merchants in Paris, invited to assemble by the Council, unanimously appioved of Lb.'s resolution." _ _ _ Atter stating the capital of the Bank, and shewing how it is employed, by - which it appears that-by tar the greatest pair: is placed on government securities, the Governor concludes thus : _ _ Nothing can trouble the security of the Proprie tors, or the conkierice of the holders of bank-notes. " Gentlemen, the Bank has begun • 1814 with anxiety. But depend on the Genefal•Council. It will and means to reconcile the rights of the holders of notes ; rights which claim the precedence, the first re- . . gard due to commerce, which cannot be neglected without giving • rise'to greater misfortunes ; and the interest of the proprietors, whose property will be ma naged with.the zeal and uprightness which distinguish the General *Council. " Gentiemen events will second our efforts. We have for our guarantees the character of the Empe ror, and the energy k.f the French." This speech was replied to in the name of the Cen sors, by M. MARTIN, as follows : " Gentlemen-The detailed and luminous account which,.-in his quality of Governor dt the Bank, and in the name of the Genelal Council, Count Jaubert. has just given you of the operations of the Bank dur ing the year 1815, and of its 'present situation, leaves the Ceniors little to say ; if they address you, it is for the purpose of recognizing the executers of this ac count, which their duty has led them to examine in all its parts, and to deplore the extraordinary circum stances, so little to be presumed, which, £ r above a year,. weigh With gradually increasing pressure 'on the commerce of the French Empire, attack it its vital principles, suspend its habitual transactions, have wounded credit, the essential source of the prosperity of commerce, and placed the-Bank of France in a difficult situation. "A number of commercial houses, justly esteemed -for their honourable conduct and for their industry, possessing property which bit lately was much sae ripr to their ilebts, alid'which had reason to think theic riches durable, have e4l;eriencticl, for some month past„distresses and a continually increasing constraint, from the impossibility of realising the property com posing their fortunes. 66 In vain they have endeavoured to support their reputation by the greatest sacrifices : they have been unable to avoid the unhappy and much-to-be-lamented situation in which they find theniselves. Since the time that the Directors of the Bank have perceived the gloomy presages of this crisis, they have doubled their care, to afford to trade the neces sary succours, and. to check the progress of this tor.. rent of misfpunes : but they have been forced to modify their iiitentions,' by their first duty of being always ready to pay their nuteo in cash, when they should be presented. " At .the beginning of the year 1812, the Bank had 114 millions in specie in its cof f ers ; 117 millions of notes in circulation, and only 15 millions in bills in its pbitefeuille. . This situation.had begun in the middle of 1811; it it had continued, the dividend due to the proprietors could not have been disuibuted without encroaching on the teseree. Then nothing announced a speedy ' change in this state of things. nor more products arising from cotoluerle ('lshir very obscure • phrase piobatily means prOtits arisiog from discounting,) 66 The Government supplied their sterility ; 52 millions of bills were discounted at the Imperial • • Treasurt, and a4ded to 5 tuftleis.ot '3l6cit Ex change to which the.arnount of the, polefettige wai .car.ita, gave the hope of a dividend wit t lwattoiching the caPithls put in reserve. in . the course of the same year the Bills of Exchange. were,ieduced to 10 millions, and the gate of the totrers 'kept at 124 to 112 million:. Then the Government paper amounted to as much as 75 millions, and produced the greatest of the dividend, whi ch, however, was this year only 66 francs. But from the very beginning of 1813, ,the state of the Bank was very different ; it had 85 millions ip notes in circulation, and 26 millions'soo,ooo francs, in specie, in its coffers. 44 However, this was still the p'roportion pointed out by experience as the most proper for a discount ing bank. In the usual course of things, ,it must reckon for its profits on the representative sign for which it has a privilege. At that time-the Bankdis counted all tills as far as 90 days' date, Which uni ted all the qualities prescribed by .the law, and which . the merchants offered it, and yet it had .to regret being possessed of only an amount of 45 . miaions in them. In the last six tn.aults of the same year, events of a higher order unhappily greatly aggravated this state of things : the wants of the merc;t.a.ts we;e multiplied,while they were deprived of the ....dimpy reseurces: the Bank was forced to double its prii denCe in being more strict in the choice of the hills which it discounted, in reducing to sixty days the longest term; and in giving the preference to current paper, it was necessary to tend to reduce the debt which could be demanded to the level of the reserve in money, and to ensure speedy returns. In the same inten ion, the employment of treasury paper was suc cessively reduced to '54. milliens, and would have been still more so, if 14 mlllions ill bonds of the droilr reunit had been realised in November, as there was reason to hope. 44 The reilibursement of this loan is to be effected at different fixed terms of the next month of March and the following August. The more you shall be acquainted, Gentlemen, with all that the direction of the Bank has done, the better you will be convinced that it has never wanted. vigilance in the exerci:.e or its Xaties, and that if it has been led to take for a mouient measures which are painful to it, the sole cause of this is the fatality,of events which have sur prised, have deranged the best measures, and ren dered vain the wisest calculations. gt It is also in thDse unexpected exerts which have so rapidly followed each other, that we must look f•►r the cause of the exaggerated tears to which persons have given way, who are not in trade, and are actprainted with the means of the Dank : holders of its rotes, and having no exact idea of the guarantees on which their security depends, they hastened to the lytneau to receive payment, - while the rapidity with ich they were satisfied did not calm •their uneati n..is. Certainly they 'would soon have seen their erro:, ►t it had not been supported by all the means pruper to serve them. • " In a few days above 20 millions in notes were paid in specie, and reduced the reserve of the Bank to 14,354,000 francs in cash, and the nott's •a circulation to 38,326,000 francs. •• The greater part of these notes b<ring Fill useful to trade, notwithstanding its state tli Stiigflatioll, the General ,council judged on many , 'cci , unts, that i t would be prudent to limit to 500,0!1u francs, the snm to be daily exchanged for antes, an.t t,i .o.iort a mr,t-' sure for the revision of this sum' watch might disrti,- buce it to those who should be. piesunied to stand need of it. " From this measure the good effect was expected of preserving in circulation th m iney which wis dis tributed, and of moderating the Twice at which it was sold. Besides, there remained in the colfas •of the.bahk several-millions in gold. - •• If theinyment of the notes had continued with out limitation, gold being.at a considerable premium,- it would have been sought with new eagerness, and the Bank would have been deprived of it_ before the payment of the bills in its ptirtft:tulle would have pro cured returns sufficient to pay the notes presented to it ; and if it had suspended its payments for a single day, the credit of the notes would have been itopair ed •honest and too credulous people, unable to ap preciate the cause, and to see its results, would have felt prejudices which it was proper to spare them. 46 , These motives gave rise to the resolution of the Council'of the 18th instant, and to the calling of the meeting df the merchants. But this meeting not taking place s till Ole 19th• in the evenia all notes presented this day were paid in cash. icurtriillictoils and an half paid this day shesVed the necessity di the • resolution taken the day before. The meeting ackqow ' ledzed its utility. It was printed and put in execu tion : we have reason to congratulate• ourselves upon, it. Money, which was then at 3 per cent. Akio, had fallen by the 26th • to half per cent. agio.. Yet s .Gentlemen, we must npt dissemble, that these are not measures which deserve to become principles; we will allow that they are exceptions to the prin ciples which ought to govern, the Bank of France . ; but you will also perceive that those measures are adopted in circumstanceswholly extraordinary; which require extraordinary means: the effects are'relative to the causes. " NotWithstandiag so many events which have long hindered the natural course which the Bank would always wish to pursue, and which have turned it aside from its natural direction, and painfully em ployed its'directcirs, it has been highly satisfactory to them to offer last year a dividend of 7.5 fr. 50 c. per share, and 7f.75 c. reserve. The preceding years had not produced such good dividends, beeausethey had not discounted so much. " During the first. half year: of 1813 there was discounted— At Paris 335,367,401 fr. 73 c. At the Bureaux; iu bills-tin Paris. - 90;6,737 7tt During'tbe second half-year. at Paris 305,082,451 tS4 On Path - - 11,121,627 45 Total - - 6(.1,1 3i , ,81 9 fr. 30 C which )ave produced SO 91,635 fr. 1 c. deducting the discount of the terms which, on the 24.th . 0f De cember last, had still to run on the bills in the port- The first half year froduced 427,0(V francs mote than the last ;—the causes, Gentlemen, arc known to yen,. 6+ Motives, which you will dotibtless apprtciate, have made the General Coancil resolve, that, for the present, no more than. 4n amount of 4'5 millions in notcc shall be left in circulation, which will still be' usiul to Ltade l to the service of discounting and ruc nom, current, and' that the surplus shall be de stroyed. The decision has been immediately pm in •execution, and their operation will be continued as the notes are received, till a calmer sky shall shine upon ns. • ""Yesterday, at the closing of the books, the notes in citculaticm were reduced to 38,671,000 francs. - the Committee chatted' with the inspection of the books and portfeuilks have often verified them: they have constantly leen. that ,the •choice of, paper taken on discount has been made witfi prudence and. the wisest impartiality ; if sometimes reclamatloa, have been made on this head, the Censors have con vinced. themselves that they would' not have taken plAce, had their authors been as well informed as tilt Council of Discount. " Let us hope, that the Genius- who directs our des tm*s will soon succeed in making the anhiety of tie moment followed by peaceful days, and in restcrlil7 to con.merci: that bene:iecnt activity which wit fuse prosperity through all parts of Coe SLilte." THE . SUPPRESSED AION iTEUR, ort THE DOUBLE MOM. LE f, OF JANCT ItY I • ADVERTISFNIENT. There has appeared in circulation a small number of copies of the Afstaiteur, No. 20, the content, i 4 V. hid: are almost entirely different from !Lost of the 41/oi/we published and distil - fluted on tee same day. Till's phenomenon, of the appeatatice of a double n2i,vspaper,avitn the same number and the sante d eta, has excited the more curiosity, as those who were in ‘ possession of it chewed it only in a secret maiii:er, as if it had been illicitly obtained. We have taken all possible pains to obtain it, and to learn how this piper esciTed trom the priming office of the Moniteee, and weriay.e succeeded. It contains the papers relative to the-negociations fur peace. We have learnt that this number was printed, and that the delivery of it was begun when the printer received r.Pders to suppress this number of the AL.ii.....ur, - and tare back all the copies. that had been eastrilnited. It should seem that t.l.is order, having been given late, it was nor possible to get back- more than it small part of the copies already distributed ; whether some subscribers, more cunning, or.l:.is docile than the others, refused to give them back, t er whether the order was negli gently executed. Be this as it may, the persons in whoSe hands these copies remained have shewn them, _and some have even sold them for money. it was in this latter manner we obtained that which we reprint. —We have asked ourselves, what motives could have leefto the suppression of this pap;;, and we have dis. coveted nothing certain on this head ; hit on reading in the Moniteur, N0..20,,0f the 20th January, which, was published, and which the Editor adult ledges, the article Paris, which announces that the - Duke - o s i Vicenza was,to receive his passports at Chatilloa-sur- Seine, we conjecture that the courier who, brought this information arriving in the night of the 19th, this news was supposed, to be of sec)) a nature as would satisfy the public; and mike it isenecessary to give is the satisfaction of leirning, by .the statement of the negotiations, the point at which they hid arrived.— In our opinion, this reasoning was fake; au"' in what ever manner the indiscretion has taken place, we avail ourselves of it, and will let the public benefit by it iikewise. . . [Here follow to c Declaration at Frankfort; Prince Scnwat zenberg's Proclamation - to the French, dated Lorrach, Dec; 21 ; and Field-Marshal.Bluchei's Pro cLimation to the inhabitants of the left bank of the • Ritine, dated Jan. 1,.1814, which have been already before the oublic ] NoTE. OF COUNT sthrinenxicu, or ANSWER TO THAT OL THE DUKE OF BASSANO, DATED DREsDENT, Abu. IS. Ttrague, August El, 1513. The undersigned Minister of State and for Foreign Affairs received yesterday the official note which his Excellency the Duke of Bassani dial him the baxiour to address to him on the 16th inst. It is not, now that war has 'broken nut between Austria 'end France, that the Austrian Cabinet thinks itselt called upon to reply to the gratuitcius' inculpa tions contained in the note of the Duke of Bassanc. Supported by general opinion! A`ustria s c.inily awaits the judgmek of Europe, and that of posterity. 'The proposal of his Majesty the Fooperor of the French still offering to the Emperor a glinimet ing of hope to attain a general pacifitation,:his Majesty has tholight it his ditty tn lay hold of it. In consequence he has ordered theomdersigned to acqnaint the Rus sian and Pruisian Cabinets with the desire for the opening of a Congress, which should employ itself during the war, with the means of bringing about a I general' pacification. .. • i Their Majesties the Emperor Aiexander and King , of Prussia, animated by the same sentiments as their i august Ally, have authorised the un'dertigned to de. ' dare to the Duke.of Bassano, that. being unable to decide on a point in which allseem equally interested, . 1 1:yids-out having previously conferred upon it with the 'other . Allies, the three Courts • will, without delay, 'make them acquainted with the proposal of Trance. The Undersi ' ned is' charged to transmit, with as i -little delay as ossible, to the French Cabinet, the 4. ' overtures of a the Allied Courts in answer to the above proposal: He has the honour to offer tohis Excellency the . , ttuke of Bassano the renewed assurances of his high consideration. .(Signed) The Count of METTERNICH.* RWORT OF THE BARON DR ST. AIOKAV. On the 26th of October, having been fpr tivociall previous treated as a prisoner of war at Weimar, a; : 1 which place were the head-qoarters of the Emperors,, ?. of Austria'and Russia, I received orders to depart the - next day with a column of prisoners, who were to be . t • sent to Bohemia. I had. till then seen nobody, wit' : made any reclamation, thin:cing the title with which ". I was invested was suffidient reclamation of itself, aii, -- having protested beforehand against the treatment which I experienced. In these circumstances, how. ~ ever, I thought it my duty to write to Prince Schwan zenherg and Count Metternich, representing to them : the Impropriety of this proceeding. Prince Schwartzenberg immediately sent to me . Count Parr, his own Aide-de-Camp, to excuse the moi. take that had been made respecting me, and to desire me to call either on him or on Count Metternich. I im mediately repaired to the house of the latter. Prince Schwartzenberg having just absented himself, Count Metternich received me with marked eagerness. He said but a few worlds on my situation, from which he ' took upon himself to relieve me, being happy, as he said, to do me this service, and at the same- time to express the . esteem whi;h the Emperor at Austria had il hi. .