The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-23 00:00:00

5S THE NATIONAL REGISTER.. Conwittee to take into ronsitkration the documents relative to the racgociation that should be laid before them. 'the Senate received a similar communication, and both Bodies appointed Committees. On the 2601, M. FOSTA WES, as President of the Committee, made a Report to the Senate dlt the communications which had been made to tbe'm, at the same time we understaval the Legislative Body made a Repost, 111 which they declared it to be their opinion that the EM PEROR 8110111 d comply with the proposals of peace that had been Math', and in vesy plait] but respertful language, they 11 presented to the EMPEROR tlie absolute necessity that there was Um giving up his conquests and restoring peace to Europe. BUONAPA RTE Was exasperated at this Report, and exerted all his influence to prevent it from receiving the approbation of the LcOslative Body. mo- Coo, however, was made to adopt awl to order it to he printed, and it was carried in the affirmative 158 to 38. Thus, left in a minority. 13CONA PA ItT E turned round en the Lejslative Body, and said, that 'bey were no longer constitutional, since one-third of their number ought to have gone out by rotation ; although, by a -Swains Consul tant, of the 15th November, it was declared, that owing to the exi geocy of the pnblie affiiirs, the 'Deputies were to continue their functions. No matter! Under this pretext, he retitscd to sanction or poblish their Report ; and, on the 31st ult. he adjourned the Le gislative Body, and directed measures to 1w taken for conv&king the Electoral Colleges. "Fit harl,the prudence, however, to act on the advice ithich the Legislative Body rave him. He forthwith scot his acceptance of the term* atlered him by the Allies, and he began to issue these De clarations of an alteted system, and these very humble oddrescii to the , people of France, which have been the topic of so much animad version anti surprise. In e.!oing this lie claimed the support of the liepre , entative Body, as he hot tmaird b melt nit their jui:g • :cut ; and even on the appointment Ed the Conimissioner, .virldcd to their advice. We have this anecdote upon such auth.i,ty 43 to make us give it implicit belief." French Papers to the 16th inst. were received nn Wed nesday. Some notice is at length taken of a of the Mar shals and Generals, and something is mentioned of art arniv. The Munilenv of the 13th presents a naly sketch of their partial afThirs on diffitreitypoints, all of whirl.) of cotirsc arc Mated to have terminated in favour of the enemy. Victor is said to have passed the Vos . ges, and to have fixed his head-quatters at -Berate, .ftillowed by the enemy - “Trith ca valry only."—Marshal Nev has his head-qua! tots at Nancy, whilst Geeerat Duvignan occupies the defile before Epinal— General 'Duhesme is at St. Dicz—General Segur commands a brgade of the Guards of honour, in the defile of 'everne— Genetal Montlegier is at Hambervillets, and Marshal Mar wont has taken a position on the Sarre. What force, how. ever, vither of these officers has with them is not comm,t nicated ; hut Segue, in a proclamation addressed to the in habitants of the Department of the Upper Marne, tell them that an at my of 80,000 men would arrive in a few days. In the mean time the people are again appealed to, and called upon to take up at ms, with au assurance that the enemy, .once driven bey and the frontiers, they may then lay down their alm s a nd peace would be seemed. Segur exhorts the people to come forward en masse, assuring them, that tl e present sacrifice. they %vete called upon to make would be the last, and that " the acres clone. of their rising en masse irvouN snake the enctny re/ire" from the country.—The Allies arc said to Move failed in an attemrt to carry Hu ll inguen by assault, and to have converted the siege of that fortress into a blockade, in consequence of an inundation produced by the opening of the sluices, in which a great slumber of the be•iegets are said to have been drowned. —The siege of Report also is stated to have been converted into a blockade, al:er fruitless attempts against that town. It is admitted, however, that the light troops of the Allies spread themselves in every direction ;" that one column of the Allies has advanced towards Besancon, where it is en gaged with General Marcelez, and that they have advanced to Geneva, to bans-le-Sonlnier, and even to Dole, within twenty miles of Dij , tu.—General Marcelez is opposed to the T xr • mst.l 49/ ir / 1 11 • column which moved upon Besancon. At ItanThervillers, a town about ten miles north of Urinal, a division of the Allied cavalry, about 1500, are stated to have been defeated by General Bridle, with a brigade of cavalry, with a loss of many dead on the field, including a Colonel and a Major of Cossacks, and sixty prisoners. A squadron of the troops in vesting Mott penetrated to Langres, which they are said to have enteted tm the gate being opened to admit a flag of truce sent to summon the town to surrender. Mr. Faure, an officer of the National Gnat d, who was on duty,, gave orders •to tire on them, when they immediately turned about and fled.- On the following day (Cie "10th) General Chouard ar t iyed at Langres with a brigade of 1 5000 of the finest cavalry, and was received with enthusiasm by the inhabitants.—The Morillcur states the number of the Allied force which enter eel Dole at 600; the Journal de Paris of the same date (the 13th) estimates it at 8000, and adds Ora the place was taken possession of in the name of the Emperor of usti ht. , Lans le-Soulnier is said to have been occupied on the same terms. Thls account is no doubt ;midi-died with a yi.T.oy to p List,ade the French nation that the object of the Ames is the dis memberment of France.---Bv a !twice published at Pal is on the isth, Buonapat te in viteF. all such as have served in the Imperial Guards to re-enter that corps until the enemy shall be di iti cu from the French ter] itot v. The.-e pedients es tablish beyond doubt the Wore of the late conset iption and the utter inability of Buonaparte to procure any competent force in his present emergeney.—The French funds ate at .50f. Paris Part': of nne day's later date than the preceding, state, that the grand head quarters are still at Metz under the commarid of General Belliat d—that Metz is also the head quarters of Kellerman and General Curial, Colonel- Commandant of the foot chasseurs of the Imperial Guards,-- and that Mollier had arrived on the 1 ith instant at Chau mont. The Journal de Paris of the same date, adds that corps of different armies are daily passing through Lille .pro ceeding to the frontiers, and . the corps d'armi.e of General Decaen, at Antwerp—that General Grouchy occupied, with a corps of cavalry, the defile of the Vosges, and that Nev had an ived on the gth at Naito.. Great reinforcements are said to he proceeding to the army under Macdonald ; and the enemy finding attempts at negotiation fruitless, at length be gins to assume a menacing tone. Mails from Passages, Corunna, and Cadiz are arrived at Falmouth, but not in London., The Falmouth mails of the ;Bth. 19:h, and 20th; are not arrived. No statement of Irish mails could be made out yesterday morning at the General Post-office in consequence of the non-arrival of the tnail coaches. A mail from Passages has arrived, accompanying the di , - patches from Lord Wellington, with advises from head quarters to the 12th inst. Considerable reinforcements, we understand, have been obtai•eed from detachments of the Gallician army, which had been on march from the Ebro to join the Commandcr-in-Chiefon the Arlour, - Accounts from Spain state, that the Catalonian army bad entirely broken up, and was in full march to join Lora Wellin g ton in France ; and this was in consequence of Su chet's army having also broken up, and left Spain for France. An article from Bourdeaux in the French papers dated the 6th, states, that our army had attempted on the Ist. to erect a battery on a little island, for the purpose of passing the Moor, hilt that the bridge of boats was sunk, and the battery destroyed, with the loss on our part of 300 killed, and a great number wounded. 1111111 n, t %