The National Register. — London, England, 1814-03-20 00:00:00

TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. whole of the td and 3d, they had heard from the city the carnet:ma ding of our army which wts apprqadiing Suissons„ and because a battalion of the Vistula, which was in theplace, and which quitted it with tears in their eye, had given the greatest proofs of in- General Corbinean, Aide-de-camp of 'the Emperor, and the Ge neral of cavalry PLAferriere, had proceeded upon Itheints, which they entered at tour in the mornitig of the sth, by lurid's! , an enemy's corps of four battalions which covered the town, And the troops of which were made prisoners. Every thing in Rhein yd rs. taken. On the sth, the Emperor slept :at Bery-an-line. Gefitral Nan scuty forced a passage by the bridge or Bery, routed a division of cavalry which covered it, obtained posseasionafiwti pieces of emmon, and took 300 cavalry, among whom waif CulouelTriskre Gagarin, who commanded a brigade. The enemy's- army was %divided into twoltortions. 'The eight Russian dirisnms Of Sachen-and of Winzlegerode had takett'a posi tion on the heights Of Craone, and the corps Of on. tae beichts of Lann. ' • • On the 6th the Emperot rameic sheep at Carlini, the heights' of Craone were attacked and carried by two Initiations of the Guards. The officer of ordnance, Caratnan, -a ythitut ottlecr of experience, turned the ri /lit at the head'of a battalion. The Prince of Moskwa munched on the tarn of Urtnbre. 'rite enemy retired, and took pn. sit ion on a height which was reconnoitered on the 7th at day-break. This gaye•else to the bsttle-bf Craone. The pc-Ition wei tine, the enemy havino. his tight and•left pilled MI ravines, and a third ravine Mills front. He defended the only passage, 14)0 toises broad, .which j'Aned his position to the pla teau of Craone. .~ The Mike of 13rHann marched with two divisions of the young Guards to the Ab!At , y of ‘'aireler, to which the enemy had set fire. He drove them from it, - aod Passed the. do file winch the enemy defended with 60 pieces a!' cannon. Gen. Driinet passed it with several batteries. At the same moment the Prince of Moskwa nis , ed the ravine on Oft left, and debauched on the enemy's right. Ike cannonade was very heavy during an hour; General Gronehy debonched with his. cavalry. General Nanst,sity pagSV4l the ravine on the enemy's right, with two divisions of cavalry. T. c defile be ing passed, and the enemy forced in his position, he mks pursned four leagues, and cannonaded by SO pieces of cannon with grape %shish caned him to sustain a great loss. The plateau by which li e had retreated havinT «lso•ravines on the right and left, the cavalry (mild not get up to attaek him. The Emperor moved hie head.rinarters to Pray. ;On the next 41sy, the tttli , we pnrsued the enemy to the defile of Ureel, and on the same day entered Suissons, where•they had left a bridge equipage. The battle of Cranne is extremely glorious 4o our arme. The enemy lost six Generals, and'eldimated at from 5 to 6000 men. Out's has been tioo killed or wounded. . _ • TIo• Doke oll3ellono was wounded by a ball. •Gen. Grouchy and (hot. Laferrieie, a cavalry oftlirr 'of great distinction, were also Asontided, iu dehonehing at the heactof their troops. (:eo. 11;:ilhard ha, taken the command of the cavalry. 'I he result of MI these operation; is u loss to the enemy of from It) t o 1,2,o:;0 men, and :30-pieces of-cannon. The intention of the Emperor is to manoeuvre with the army upon thr l'Anfq, liAncii 14.-11 P Empresr-Queen and Regent as re ceived the following lie‘‘S of the rituation of the armies to the IVtli , . . . • Tlic day after the battle of Craoric (the Atli)" the enemy waipnr sued by the Prince of Mcfsk wit to the village of f:tiniville, Gekeral Wountizow, with ? or kOOO men, gnarded this priyitiott,'whieli .was very difficult to be got at, because the road which. leads ts., it runs fur a league iretween.tWo -impracticable mar4res. Gourgault, an officer of Uistiliguished merit, get off at 11 at • might.tiam Chavignon, • with two Imatalions A kt the. old guard, turn ed the position, and proceeded ,hy upon Chivi. He. reached the enury, whom be attacked With the bayonet at oneAn the morning. The.gumians were awakened with the cries of Five IT/ape/T.4lr, and pursued to Loon. The Prince of Moilwa de bunched by the defile. On the 9tit at day-break we reconnoitred the . enemy who h a d joined the. Prupsiaa corps. 'lslie position was such as to be deemed iiiattacici - ,hic„"Witook a position. The Duke of Ragusa, who had slept on the Bth at Corboue, ap peared at two in the afternoon at Veslud, overthrew -the enemy's vanced guartl,...attatliced the village of Althies, utbioll he parried, d was aticce4il disitog the. wit* day.. •At l iaalf-put six. he_took 178 tip a position. At seven the enemy made a dash of cavidry, one league in the rear, where the Duke of Reggio had a park of reset ve. The Duke of Ragusa procceikti thither quickly, but the enemy had time to 'carry off 15 paces of cannon. A great part of pers3nntl saved. On the' same day General Charpentier, with his division of the young guard, carried the village of Clary. Oa the next day the enemy attacked this village, seven times, and were seven times re pulsed. General Charpentier lost 4th) risoners. Tice enemy left the avellnes covered with his dead. The Emperor's head-quarters were on the; 9th and 10th at Chavigeln. His Majesty, judging tl►at it was impossible to attack the heights of Leon, fixed his head quarters on the 11th at Soissons. The Duke of Ragusa occupied on the same day fiery an Bac. Gen. Corbi. eau praises the good dispositions of the inhabitants of Rheims. Oa the 7th, at eleven in the morning. General St. Priest, com manding a Russian division, appeared before Rheims and summoned it to surrender. General Corhinean replied with cannon. General Defrance then arrived with his division of Guards or Honour ; tte made a fine charge and drove off the enem y Gen wer h w set fire to two great manethetories and to fifty houses, h ter on the outside of the town; a conduct worthy of a tumeoa e in all times turncoats have been the most cruel enemies of (licit 0)101. try. . . • Sois;ons has suffered much. The inhabitants have conducted themselves in the most houourv.bie manner. There are no praises too great for the regiment of the Vistula, vvhiell formed the garrison there arc no Arai es which the regiment of the Vistula deems too' great for pie inhabitants. His Majesty has granted this brave corps decorations of the Legion of Honour. The plan of the enemy's campaign appears to have been a kind of general h,oura, dash upon Paris. Neglecting all the strong places of Flanders, and only observing Bergen-op-Zoom and Antwerp with troops inferior by half in number to the garrisons of those towns, the enemy penetrated upon Avesnes. Neglecting the places of the Ardennes, Meziere, Roeroi, Philippeville, Givet, Charlemont, Mont mealy, Maestreont, Vanloo, and Juliers, they passed by impractica ble roads, to arrive upon A vesnes Reihel. Tlu•se places com municate. ;Ire not observed, and the gar; hems alarm the rear of the enemy considerably. Whilst General St. Priest burned Rheims, his brother was arrested by the inhabitants, and s; nt off prisoner to Chailemont. Neglecting all the places of the Meese, the enemy ad vanced by Bar and St. Dizier. The garrison of Verdun is come quite to St. Mikiel. Near Bar a Russian General, who remained sonic moments with fifteen men, after the depannre 01 his troops, wa.; killed with his escort by the peasants, it; revenge for the atrt-ei lies he had ordered. Metz pushes its sorties to Nancy; Strasburg, and the ether placea.of Alsace, being observed but by small parties. there iv free ingresa and egress. and provisions arrive in abundance. The troops of the garrison of Metz go as far as Spires. The de partments having hastened to complete the corps of bat talions are in all these places, where they are armed, equipped, and exer cised, we may say that there are several armies in the rear of the enemy. His position cannot but beeome mire dangerous daily. We see by the reports that have been intercepted that the regiments of Cossacks, whose force was, 950 men, have rose- upwards of l'2o, withont loving been in actiiim, but only by the hostilities of the peasant,. . The Duke of Castiglione mancenvres on the Rhone, in the de, partment of the:Aisne, and in Franche Comte. Generals. Desaix and Marchand . bare al ri Yf n. the enemy from. Savoy. Fifteen t hou mud men are passing the,Alps, to reinforce the Duke of Castiglione. The Viceroy.has obtained.great success at Borghetto, and has dri• yen the enemy upon the Adige. • General Greiner, who set out from Placentia on the Vint' March, beat the enemy at Parma, and (glace(' him beyond Taro. The French troops that occupied Rome, Civita, Vecelea, and Tuscany, are entering Piedmont to pass the Alps.. The exasperation of the population inereases.daily in proportion . to the atrocities which are committed by those hordes, more bathe , rons still (ban theietlimute; who dishonour the Jinrnan race,, and whose military existence has fur its object pillage and crime, instead of honour and renown. The conferences of Lnsigny for an armistice have failed. We could not agree upon the line of. demarcation. We were :;greednpon tee points of oecupatinn to the north and cast, • • but the enemy wis h ed not only to extend hieline upon the Soane and the Blume. but to in close Savoy in if. We replied to this unjust pretension, by propos ing to adopt on this line the status quo, and to leave the Duke of Cri , tiglione and Count. Hubei& to settle it upon the hue cf their ad . vauced posts. This was rejected. It WO then necessary to DAP 11,t _c_?n. ,e