The National Register. — London, England, 1813-02-14 00:00:00

FEB 14. THENAT i 0 IN A.a4 4 ib-r,x-a. miriv.- -- . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. of Tarente, arrived on the 13th inst. upon the territory of Dantzic His Excellency the same day gave up the command to General Count Rapp, Governor General and Commander in Chief of all the troops charged with defending thit place. Several affairs have taken place, and every where our troops have repulsed the Russians. BANK/ OP THE VISTULA, JAN. 17.—The Russian army, after having predpirated its movements to Marienbourg, sud.lenly halted. The heads r.lcolumns which had passed that river, where recalled. There only remain between the Vistula and the ()(I,:r .oine bands of Cossacks, who pillage on every side, and are the greatest scourge to the inhabitants, as no dicipline can restrain them. he determination ot the Russian Army appears to be the.conse. quences of the losses it has suffered. They are little lets than those of the allied :limy, for although the Rut-,iati soldier was more accus tomed to the am.ite, lie suffered a great, r scarcity in traverting the eoun!ry whose last resources had been drained by the mops who pre. cet:ed them. FRENCH PAPERS. PAM% Fri. I.—The Viceroy, the Emperor's Lieutenant, Com. I maroler in Chief of the Grand Army, writes from Posen under date of 2flth of Jaunary, at six o'clock in the evening,. that the remounts of horses are proceedieg in with the greatest activity ; that the corps ! which Gemral Rape ce nimai ded to Dantzic, amounts to thirty thoui:ind five hundred men, without inciuding the troops belonging to the artillery, engineers, or marine- ; that he has under him Ge nerals Heudelet and Granjean ; that General Campredon commands the engineers in it, ai.d General le-peu the artiller) ; that tho place is provisionAl with tread and vegetables for five years, in meat, . braud)r, medicines, &c. for feurteeli months ; that all the besieging artillery frern Riga entered that fortress ; that the besieging equipage . sent from Magdebureh, end destined for Dunaburg, had previously entered Dantzic ; that the fortifieatit its were in excellent condition ; that the magazines were abunnantl) supplied with cloething, arms, I and warlike ammunition ; that a brigade of cavalry, composed of dra goons an chesseurs, 2000 strong, is at Dantzic, under tie orders of General Cavaeceic ; that General Rapp occuties the neighbourhood of the place tor six leagues round. lie has in the Treasury where- • with to Insure the soldiers pay tor a }ear. From Thorn the intelligence is equally satisfactory. The commu nications from that town with the head-quarters were open. The 'lace was well armed. The division charged with its defence con- I sisted 016000 men, and had its posts at six leagues distance from that town. The Prince of Eckmuhl had sent General Girard upon Born berg, from whence he had repulsed the Russian General, Worceacif, after having tal en or killed some Cossacks. The Bi.varians were can. toned between Thorn and Posen, connecting the communications. The Viceroy besides announces that Prince Sch.eartzenberg occu pied Pultusk and Ostrolenka ; General Reynier, with the 7th corps, was on the right : the sth corps, which Prince Poniatowski com mands, was re-organized, and already reckons '30,000 men under arms ; horses abound at Warsaw ; that the Prince of Neufchatel had been extremely ill ; the gout, which had attacked his stomach, made him suffer (Oreille pain, but they had succeeded in receiving him, and the Prince was in the he -t state ; that the Prussian corps is reformed be tween Stettin and Po•en • that the King of Prussia, accompanied by M. St. •Marsan, French Minister, and the Austrian Ainbasador, had gone to Breslau ; that orders had been expedient to f,rm a strong • French advance-guard composed of more than 40,000 fresh troops ; that Stettin, Custrin, Glogau, were provisioned for a year, and in goon condition. BERLtN, JAN. 25.—His Majesty the King having determined to remove for some time his residence to Breslaw, and to establish here during his absence a Supreme Commission and Goveinnient, com posed of the following Members, viz. Count de Goltz, Private Counsellor • De Kirchusen, Minister of State and justice ; Count de Lottum, Major General and Privy Coun sellor ; Dc Schuckmann and De Bulcn, Counselors of State. • The said Commission is authorised to take, in the name of his Ma levy the King, the measures Necessary in all cases which require a prompt determination, or of these which cannot be decided by his Majesty himself, on account of the distance of his residence. Ad the authorities, civil and military, are bound to obey the orders and deci sions of this Commission, one of whose first duties is to maintain, with the military authorities of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, t:te same good understanding, which, to the great satisfaction of his Majesty, has hitherto subsisted in consequence of the just coo duct of Marshal Duke of Castiglione, and the good discipline whiA his Excellency has maintained. The ordinance, however, changes nothing in the constitutional duties of the respective authorities. Each of them will remain responsible to his Majesty for the duties entrusted to them. The Commission will only occupy itself about affairs of general in terest ; but in order that it may have a general knowledge of the whole, the Superior Author ties are bound to send their reports to his Ma jesty, through the hand of this cormnission, that on arriving, should it be necessary, they may be accompanied with their opinion. After which the Royal decisions will be regularly forwarded through the same channel . It is not necessary to observe that all the Authorities are bound to furnish the Commission with whatever information they may chuse to demand. His Majesty exhorts all his faithful subjects, and particularly his good citizens of Berlin, to conduct themselves in every circum;tance towards the French soldiers: as becomes the rela tions between allies, and the good understanding which subsists with his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon, whose Envoy accompanies his Maj , sty to Breslaw. His Majesty has given the superior authorities the: ecessary orders, hut at the same time enjoined me, befCre follow ing I im to Bre3law, to make known his august will to the Public c which 1 do by these presents. Berlin, Jan. 22. (Signed) HARDENBERG. BERLIN, JAN. 26. —According to our Official Gazette, the Russi ans I ave repassed the Vistula, with the exception of detachments at Bron berg, and its environs. Their principal army was between Os trot( nka and Pultusk. I/01741C, JAN. 9.—The 19th Corps d' Armee, under the Duke CADIZ MAIL. GENRAL S fAFF. To the Generals in Chief of the National Armies, I this day ad. dress the following : The army is already informed, that the command of all those bz longiug to Spain hiss been conferred upon the Captain. General of the same, the Marquis of Wellington, Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo. Although this is the first time his Excellency has had. the honour of annour eine himself to the armies as their General in Ch: 1, he has fur a length of time been acquainted with their merit, their exer tions, and their conditions ; and upon taking upon himself the dis charge of a comm Ind so highly honourable, wishes to assure the Ge nerals, Chiefs, Officers, and troops, that his measures will be di rected to enable them to serve the country with advantage, and that the honour of the profession may prosp r under hia command. Nevertheless, it is necessary, .that whilst Government pays the greatest attention to every thing which relates to the well-being of the troops and Officers of the the army, military discipline and the royal orders should be maintained in all their force, because without disci. pline and or.!er, not only is an army not in a condition to make head against an enemy, but it becomes a burthen prejudicial to the State which supports it. The General Chief, therefore, hopes that the Generals and Offi cers of the army will, on their part, make every possible elliirt to comfit and maintain discipline in all its vigour ; according to the royal orders, on all occasions of service ; assuring them, that at the pro per time, with the greatest satisfaction, he will call the attention of Gover,ment, praising their conduct on all fit opportunities ; he will not fail to point out any Want of attention on the part of the Officers in the fulfilment of their respective duties with regard to tie military code, as well as all want of discipline and good order in the troops : all which I transmit to your Excellency by order of his Excellency the Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, ter your information and fulfilment as far as it concerns you. (Signed) Cadiz, Jaz. 5, 1513. LOUIS WIMPFFPEN, Director-General of Anillery. The Paper entituled El Tribuno del Pueblo Esponel, (the Tribune of the Spanish People) contains ob-ervations at considerable length, on the Decree of the Cones of the 6th of January, passed onthe ap plication, (les solicitudes) of Lord Wellington, constituting him Ge neral in Chief of all the Spanish armies. The writer obsei ves, that " every rood Spaniard must certainly, at all events, support the So vereign Congress. We may attack its errors, but we must bz careful not to destroy the institution. At the same time, we should asslrt the liberty of speaking like freemen, and pointing out to our Repie sentatives what we conceive to be errors, that they may a:niid them. All institutions are composed of men subject to the imperteL.tions of human nature. In fine, the nation which has not a Representative Body, cannot be free." The writer their proceeds to animadvert on the Decree, which he affirms " places Spain under a govern ment, and is not only contrary to particular articles of the Constilus tion, but to its whole intent ; since it provides fundamentally, that all the Authorit;es shall be responsible for their conduct. But • w ho dces not sec that flit: General who commands the army of another na tion, whose Government may communicate to him orders contrary to those he receives from our's, is morally incapacitated from exercis ing any authority in our army, unless it shall be said that our orders are to give way to his ? Who does not perceive, that to confer such authority on a person, who cannot be deprived of it without the dan ger of involving the nation in a new war, is both impolitic awl un constitutional. if this General should commit any error, he cannot he made responsible for it, unless he will voluntarily submit kmself to the judgment of the law. It may perhaps be said, that according to the expression of the law, Lord I,lfeituigt,n is responsible; that :c -sponsibility, however, must be nugatory when the law has no power to enforce it without kindling a civil war.. It it should be saiu, that whoever is acquainted with the virtues of 'lsis Noble Gen. cannot doubt but he will act according to the law ; it must be. admitted that his responsibility does not depend upon. the Constitution, but up. n his ion probity. in the H A RDENBEKti. sponsw tivvv•-•cig JLINDL LOG SlLlba ay. vir a "v.. SSW isaa )fficial Gazette, the Russi. to enforce it without kindling a civil war., It it should be saiu, that xception of detachments at whoever is acquainted with the virtues of rliis Noble Gen. 4. innot ipal army was between Os. doubt but he will act according to the law ;it must be. admitted that • his responsibility does not depend upon the Constitution, but up. n d' Armee, under the Duke his own probity. 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