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Austrian's, which was advanc ing upon the road of ' Nantua, to assume the offensive : he would then to operate in the attack upon Lyons. A most successful efort has been made by a corps' under the direction of Colonel Sembschen, against the posts occupied by the enemy upon the Simplon. Captain Luxem, who was charged with these attacks, captured the whole of the enemy's force employed' there, and established himself at Domodosola. Since I commenced writing this dispatch, a report i s ar rived from General Keiseroff, that the enemy are. actually in possession of Fere Champ eno i se , an d are advancing in force on this side of it. The enemy are also reported to be advancing upon the road from Chalons to Sommesons. The sth corps l under the orders of General Wrede, :s in conbequence now taking up its position in front a t his place, and on the right bank of the Aube. I have the honour of reporting to your Lordship, that the fortress of Custrin has surrendered to the ,fillies.--1 have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) BURGHERSIf t Lieut.-Col. 63d Regt. - - Lord Viscount Castlereagh, in a letter to Earl Bsthurst, dated at Bar sur Aube, the 22d of March, incloses the following copy of a report of an affair with the French army under the command of Bona parte at Arcis sur Aube, the 21st inst. Head-quarters, l'ousey, March 21. The disposition renewed yesterday was to place the army in a concentrated position before Arcis.— The right flank was placed at Orthillnn on the Aube, and the left between St. Remy and Mont sur Aisne on the Barbnise Rivulet, having in its centre the vil lage of Mesnil la Comtesse ; General Keiseroff was placed on the left bank of Barbnise, in observation of the enemy. The enemy kept a considerable force in Arcis, and bad large masses of infantry and cavalry before it, and on the route from Ferte Champenoise. He per mitted the march of our different columns to form their junction without molestation, having only en deavoured once to interrupt the progress of the Prince Royal of Wirtemberg : but a sudden and bold attack of General Count Pahlen's, in which three guns were taken, forced the enemy so far back, that the junction of the different columns of the army was completed, and the position taken up without difficulty. Until half-past one o'clock nothing particular oc curred, and both the armies remained ready for battle ciposite each other : about this time the enemy were perceived filing off on the other side of the Aube, and their columns taking the direction of Vitry. A powerful rear-guard remained in possession of Arcis, and had placed itself in a position on this side of the place. At this period the Prince Royal of Wirtemberg, with the 3d, 4th, and 6th corps of the army, made a united attack on Arcis, at the same time the sth corps of the army, and the cavalry, were directed to move on Reimerie, and the infantry of the guards and reserves to Lemont, to pass the right bank of the Aube. The attack on Arcis was begun about three o'clock, and was withstood by the enemy with the greatest obstinacy ; but the Prince Royal of Win temberg, by his good and able dispositions, carried every thing before him ; and the enemy must have sustained an immense loss in killed and wounded, NZ:teh.which the field of battle was covered when he abandoned Arcis. • The necessary dispositions to follow up the enemy are ma,:e. WAR DEPARTMENT. DOW NIVG-S1 It EE r, MARCH 30, 1814. A dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has been received this (IA) , by Earl Bathurst, addressed to his Lordship by Lieutenant-Culoi,elCooke. Rheims, March 22, 1814. MY Loan—The army of Marshal Blucher was re-, inforced upon the 16th inst. by the corps of Count St. Priest, which load retired from Rheims, after a combat, in which the General was unfortunately wounded in a dangerous manner. Upon the 13th inst. the army was again put in Motion. The corps of Generals Kleist and Yorck were upon this day at Bery au Bacq; that of General Bulow marched from La Fere to Laon ; and the Russians, under General Winzingerode and Count Langeron, in position at Amifontaine and Ramcour. The bridge having been destroyed at Bery au Bacq, two pontoon bridges were established this night, and the rear-guard of the enemy having retired, the whole passed the A.sne upon the morning of the 19th, the Prussians taking the route to Fismes, and the Rus sians the high road to Rheim;. The Allied cavalry, under the orders of Generals Czerniclieff and Benkendorff, surrounded the town of Rheims early in the day. Towards six in the even ing the infantry, under General Count Woronzow, having artived, dispositions were immediately made for carrying the place by assault. For this purpose some guns vrere moved forward, sup potted by two battalions of Russian light troops, t 3 the gates of the town, which were blown open, and Cie troi,ps catered without resistance. The strictest order and discipline was observed. The rear-guard of the enemy, under the command at Marshal Monier, retired in the direction of Eper naY ; thei. cavalry quitted the town about the same time the Allies entered. Napoleon left this place, with the greater part of his 'my, upon the 160 instant : he also marched upon tile same route.—l have the honour to be, Scd. (Signed) HENRY COOKE, Attached to the Any of the North. WAR DEPARTNIENT. DOWNING•STREET, APRIL 1, 1811. A dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has i)eeit thil, day received at Earl Bathurst's Office, ad. dreisAl to his Lordship by Field-Marshal the Marquis of Wellington, K. G. : Tarbes, Mareb 20, 1814. MY Lonn—The enemy cpllected their Lorne at COU. chez on the 13th. as I reported to your Lordship in thsvatch of that date, which induced me to con centrate the army in the neighbourhood of A yre. The lanous detachments which I had sent out, and the re. series of cavalry and artillery moving out of Spain, join till the I 7th. In the mean time the enemy iding his situation atCouchez very secure, retired 15th to Lembege, keeping his advanced posts 'ds Cuuchez. _ _ _ army marched on the 18th, and Lieutenant- General Sir Rowland Hill drove in the enemy's out- Ton Lembege. The enemy retired in the night Vic Bigorre ; and on the following day, the LONDON. MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1814, PRICE OF S I'OCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Cons. 62 -} t —for acc. 6t f-5 per Cent. Navy 2u 4. Ornnium, nothing done. India Bonds Is. dis. Is. prem.—Exchequer Bills 2s. dis. 2s. pr. On Saturday we announced the arrival of dispatches from Lord CASTLEREAGH, communicating the impor tant fact of the rupture of the Negociations. The sensation which this intelligence excited was highly honourable to the British character—not a single sen timent of disapprobation was any where heard.— " Thank Heaven !" was the universal exclamation, and the Funds suffered no depression—on the con trary, they improved. In the course of the evening, when the Gazette made its appearance, the public were put in possession of the most recent Official details from the Allied Armies in France, through the medium of dispatches from the several British officers employed. With the opera tions described in these details we were already par tially acquainted. The extracts from the Paris Papers, and the pri vate communications from the French coast, furnish us with intelligence still more recent.. They do not mention a word, however, of the defeat of BONAPARTE by Prince SCHWARTZENBERG on the 21st. On the 25th the French, according to the Paris Papers, had contrived to get into the rear of the Allies. The LAr interpretation of all this is, we apprehend, that the Allies have got between BONAPARTE and Paris so that the Capital is now at their mercy. The si lence of all the accounts from Paris respecting the state of the French funds is in favour of this inference. Chaumont, St. Dizier, Brienne, and Langres, said to be occupied by the French troops, are at least 40 miles farther off from the Capital, than the positions mentioned to be occupied by Prince SCHWARTZEN BERG and Marshal BLUCHER. The following are the most recent communications from the French coast : " Boulogne, April I—Eight o'Clock, P. M. el The greatest alarm and consternation prevail here. Our Commandant has just received intelligence that a battle was foiight on the 25th, between the Emperor and the Allies under schwartzenberg, at Bricon, in the neighbourhood of Chaumont, in which sys were net Ilicensful. The Emperor had hoped, by some masterly manoeuvres upon the flank and rear of the Aur trian army, to compel it to retreat. He bad, in. the Interim left Paris to its own resources of defence—and relied upon its being covered by select corps which occupied the principal positions leading thereto. " The victory gained by the enemy on the 25th, has cut off the Emperor's communications with the capital, for the present. They may no doubt be re-established, but during the interval the army under the Prussian Commander Blucher advances on Paris. '• At the time I write, the most alarming accounts prevail. The enemy's advanced guard have been seen within tell miles of the capital. Consternation reigns there. The corps which co. vowed it have been driven back. The National Guard know ,what belongs tattle character of Frenchmen : but they have never been tried i and it is much feared that uotwithstsuiding its &lowly raised fortlacaticins,46 each* win attempt; in 2 f eV, days, to •enfir Path. " Our communications by several roads are no longer safe, and the Post Office Couriers are compelled to take circuitous routes. " The Allies have re-occuplea SOissont. in tbe battle of the 25th the enemy took 40 pieces a can non. The killed and wounded on both sides wete immense. " The Negotiations at Chit Mon have been broken off. The enemy required the fulfilment of the most exorbitant conditions: nothing less than the surrender of all our fortresses." With respect to the action at Briton on the 25th, alluded to in the letter from Boulogne, we have to observe, that the silence of the French Papers throws no discredit whatever upon it. They are equally silent as to every other disaster which has recently befallen the great EMPEROR. Why, for instance, have they not mentioned the rupture of the Chatillon Conferences ? The news of the rupture of the Negoclation has relieved the public mind from a state of great anxiety, and the Allied Powers from every embarrassment re specting the line of conduct to be pursued for the welfare of their respective States, and the general benefit of the European community. It is now ren dered evident that there has been no want of unani mity among the Allied Sovereigns, no sinister line of policy, no dereliction of principle in favour of any un happy family connexion ; that all have been actuated by the same imperious sense of duty : in one word, that the tone of the Usurper has been that of insult— not of conciliation ; anti that no choice was left to the Allies but to continue the war for the purpose of conquering a Peace. In the mean time a most important event has oc culted, and which cannot fail to have a powerful in fluence—the rising of a respectable portion of the French pnpulaticn in favour of the legitimate Sove reign, whose Throne has so long been occupied by an upstart. It is not easy to estimate the results which may be expected from the co-operation of this new arm. Like the rising in Germany, it will tend every day to narrow the field of conscription, to cut off the supplies required for the support of the tyrant's army' and, in an equal degree, to increase and extend the moral and physical powers of the Allies. As no middle course is left to those States which have combined for the emancipation of Europe, from a most degrading state of bondage and subserviency, to the ambitious views of an unprincipled usurper, we may expect that the war will be carried on with, if possible, increased vigour. Let all thoughts of accommodation with the self-made Emperor, be for ever laid aside. Let every engine be set in motion to encourage the population of France to employ its own energies for deliverance from the degrading yoke under which that kingdom now groans. The more vigorously the war is prosecuted the shorter will be its duration : the people every where know the necessity imposed upon their Sovereigns to conquer a peace by the sword, and, grievous as the burden may be, will bear it with cheerfulness, that the contest may be brought to such a termination as may secure the future safety of Europe against the designs of an execrable Tyrant, who can be bound by no treaty that may leave him the power to do mischief. The Diana packet has arrived at Falmouth, in 19 days, from Halifax, bringing Papers to the 10th ult. Accounts had been received there, previous to her sailing, that the American frigate President, Com modore RODGERS, had arrived at New Yoi k, after a successful cruize, in the course of which she had taken and destroyed aitr ea t number of vessels. Two large American privateers had been captured and carried into Halifax by one of our cruizers. No recent ac counts had been received at Halifax, from Canada. The Legislature of Massachussets has refused to sanction the violent measures resorted to by MADISON and his faction, against British prisoners, and, by a solemn Act, has ordered the jailors of the above State to set at liberty all prisoners of war. " BURLiNGTON, JANUARY 28. " It is related that General Winder, who had been permitted, by General Prevost, to return to the Uni ted States on his parole, is the bearer of some propo sitions from Sir George, for putting an end to the close confinement of prisoners of war on both sides. We hope there is nothing in this. 44 It rumoured that the British have 4000 Dien em bodied at La Cadrie, with 400 sleighs, ready for an expedition somewhere. Wilkinson's army are stated to have burnt their boats, and are striving to get back to Sackett's Harbour." " HALIFAX, MARCH 8. ig Arrived yesterday the Lizard privateer, of Salem, of 2 guns and 42 men, prize to his Majesty's ship Prometheus, out fifteen days and had made no cap ture : she reports that Commodore Rodgers had ar rived at New York." The following are the most recent accounts of Commodore RODGERS : " NEWPORT, (RHODE ISLAND), FEBRUARY IL 46 The following is copied from The Rhode Island Republican, (printed at Newport) on Thursday last : eg COMMODORE RODGERS. " On Tuesday evening passed this harbour, for Bristol, the Swedish brig Pelec, 19 days from St. Barts. Captain Ratithon, of this town, who came a passenger in the Pelec, informs us that he saw a Bar• badoes paper, which stated that Commodoie Rodgers hadcaptured (60 miles to the windward of that island) ten sail of the London fleet—all of which he burnt, except one, which he gave up to the prisoners, after taking out the most valuable part of their cargoes. 6. The Barbailoas rapers contained the aster of the *easels captured; anal further state, that pre'v . toti to Conitnotiore Rodgers c tpturing those v. scels, he fell in with a ship which bad been cAptured, With a number of others, by a French frigate ; C..mmodore Rodgers threatened to send them to the United Swet t to retaliate for the conduct of the British Government relati`ve to the cartel which he sent into England on his former eruize ; they were, however, permitted to proceed. Y, Only about eighty sail out of nearly 900, which sailed under convoy from London, had arrived at Barbadoes ; and it was apprehended fifty or sixty had been captured, br lost in the gale which dispersed the fleet. It was conjectured in B.irbadoes, that Com modore Rodgers had gone in pursuit of the Cork fleet of 60 sail, under convoy of two sloops of war, accord. ingly three frigates had been dispatched in pursuit of him." SECOND EDITION. bISPATCRES FROM BOUIDEAUX. STAR-OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK. bispatches have been received at the Admiralty from Admiral PENROSE, dated in the Gironde, in sight of Bourdeaux, on Monday, the 28th ult. They state that the British squadron had entered the river Gironde, and proceeded up towards Buur. deaux, with trifling opposition. The Imperial French flag was hauled down, and the Bourbon standard every where displayed on board the shipping in the River. The inhabitants on both Banks had also testified the utmost joy at being liberated from the fetters of the existing Government. Several vessels and cargoes, supposed to be Ame• rican property, bad been seized. Deputations from various parts cf the South o France had arrived at Bourdeaux, to concert measures for the restoration of the legitimate Government. It is reported in the City, that a desperate Batie has been fought at Vitry, in which BONAPARTE was killed. The accounts are said to have been received from Dover. We cannot ascertain the preci4e source from which the above report comes. Instead of supplicating for Peace, BONAPARTE had the impudence to put certain demands ; and upo l the Allies refus;ng to accede to them, he recalled CAULAINCOURT from Chatillon : Ist. He demanded Italy as a Kingdom for BEAULIARNOIS. 2d, He de. minded the line of the Rhine s the boundary of France, with Antwerp and the Scheldt; 3d, He demanded part of Holland —the Waal to be the boundary ; 4tlily and lastly, he had the consummate affrontry to demand an indemnification fir his brothers JOSEPH and JEROME, for the loss of their Kingdom. i ce r ai not feud 31e to the ne, torardi l'he Genera ° Pints tii upon 19th, held a strong rear-guard in the vineyards in front of the town. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, with the Sd division, and Major-General Back's brigade, made a most handsome movement upon this rear-guards and drove through the vineyards and town ; and the army assembled at Vic Bigorre and Rabestens. The enemy retired in the night upon Tarbes. — We found them this morning with the advanced posts of their lett in the town, and their right npon the heights near the windmill of Oleac, their centre and left were retired, the latter being upon the heights near Augos. We marched in two columns from Vic Bigorre and Rabestens ;and I made Lieutenant-Gene ral Sir Henry Clinton turn and attack the right, with the 6th division, through the village of Dous, while Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill attacked the town by the high road from Vic Bigorre. Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton's move ment was very ably made, and was completely suc cessful: the light division, under Major-General C. Baron Alten, likewise drove the enemy from the heights above Oriel' ; and Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill having moved through the town, and disposed his columns for the attack, the enemy re tired in all directions. The enemy's loss was consi derable in the attack made by the light division ; rsurs has not been considerable in any of these operations. Our troops are encamped this night upon the Lar- , zet and Larroz ; Lieutenant-General Sir H. Clinton with the 6th division, and Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton with Major-General Ponsonby's and Lord Edward Somerset's brigades of cavalry, being well advanced upon their right. Although the enemy's opposition has not been of a nature to try the troops, I have had every reason to be satisfied with their conduct in all these affairs, particularly with that of the 3d division in the attack of the vineyards and town of Vic Bogorre yesterday, and with that of the sixth division and light division this day. In all the partial affairs of the cavalry ours have shown their superiority, and two squadrons of the 14th dragoons, under Captain Miller, on the 14th, and one squadron of the 15th, on the 16th, conduct ed themselves most gallantly, and took a great num ber of prisoners. The 4th Portuguese dragoons, under Colonel Camp bell, likewise conducted themselves remarkably well in a charge on the 13th. I have not received any recent intelligence from Catalonia.—l have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) WELLINGTnN. TO THE ED[ fOR OF THE STAR. SlR—The Committee of the Stock Exchange not having an swered my letters which I addressed to them, on the 23t1 and 28th of last month, requiring an etplana:ion front them for their having taken my property front my Broker, has In duced me, from their silence, to make a further inquiry to whom those sums had been paid; and as I find it has been traced to a Mr. Bish, of Coruhill, I was under the necessity of desiring nay Solicitors on Saturday last, to oommence legal proceedings against Mr. Bish, for the recovery of my property. I Am Sir, your humble servant, R. G. liuTT. .Ibbetson's Hotel, Vere-street, near Bond-street, April 4, 1814. THE EVENING STAR. FALMOUTH, APRIL lb Arrived yesterday the Diana packet, with a Mail from Halifax in 19 days ; and to-day, his Majesty's ship firucov, from a cruize. The Elizabeth packet, with a Mail for Gibraltar and Malta, is gone into die Roads. Wind S. fresh breezes and dirty weather. TORB Ilr, APRIL S. Arrived theWnITING schooner and LORD CuCHRANZ brig, from a cruize : the sloop that tou'dered on Thurday last, near Berry-head, is the Havants, of Arundel, GALE master.—Wind S.W. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 2. Came in the Comus sloop of war from a cruize, the PRIMROSE sloop of war from Lisbon, and the FANCY cutter from off Brest. Came in yesterday the WARSPITL► and ZEALOUS, 74. 9 5, from off Brest. The Minerva, DuNNT, from Tarragona to Newry, was taken the 20th ult. by the American privateer Expedition, and given up as a cartel: she is arrived at Plymouth. PORTSMOUTH, APR IL S. Arrived yesterday a fleet from Lisbon in 15 days, under convoy of his Majesty's ship MEDINA, in all about 36 sail. The convoys at Portsmouth are as follow—The WARRIOR, for the West Indies; the BELLEROPHON, for Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Que bec, and New Brunswick ; the TERROR, for Ber muda ; and the PROTECTOR, for Cork, and interme diate Ports in the Channel. The convoy, having on board the Provisional Bat talions for the South of France, sailed on Tuesday, but were obliged to bring up in Cowes Reads, where they still remain wind-bound. DEAL, VRII. S. , Arrived his Majesty's ship A CM %, with a convoy from Portsmouth ; the Providence, MovATr, and Surrey, MACKAY, for New Providence ; and the Fa. vourite, JARWOOD, for the South Seas.—Wind S.W. " WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 2. " His MAJESTY has passed the last month in an uniform state of tranquillity, but his disorder_ is unabated." • Messrs. LONGMAN and Co. beg leave to state, for the information of those who were disappointed in procuring the First Edition of The Wanderer, 6y the Anther of Eyelina, Cecilia, and Camilla, that the S econd Edition will be published in the course of next week. CORN MARKET, MARK-LANE, APRIL 4. Having but a short supply of Wheat this morning, that of fine quality sold 2s. per qr. higher than on Monday. Ilar.ey is dull sale, and is. per qr. lower than on Friday, but is lull as high as on this day week—the quantity at market wa s b ut sma ll , b ut the buyers bold otf in the expectation of a large arrival on Weilnes day. Peas and Beans remain as on last Monday. Oats are per gr. shaper. la ether ertigiell Were is no alteration. t .. • 1 • • • • . • • .