The National Register. — London, England, 1815-07-09 00:00:00

TilK-NATIONAL REGISTER. . . Cur hing, Constitution, anti Laths. PUBLISHED AT NO. 11 5 NCWCASTI,E•ST[tEET, STRAND. r 1 I SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1815. Nn. 3P3. POLITICAL DISQUISITION. FRENCH AND ENGLISH ACCOUNTS OF THE SIEGE AND CAPITULATION OF PARIS—FLIGHT OF BUO NAPARTE. The pride of France is once more humbled, and what must render the blow more severe, it is hundrled by a rival she had so ()Pen threatened with invasion and slavery ! Those Dritish warriors, who were represented as unable to defend their country, have planted her colours on the domes and palaces of vainly fortified Paris, and by the example of their heroism and discipline, now teach even French vanity to recant i's boasts and to bend before superior prowess. Moniteurs to the sth jog. received yesterday morning, have brought us the details of the first operations of the Allies before Paris. On the 30th ult, a messenger and bulletin were sent to the Chambers; the former announced that the Allies were in sight of the capital, that all the corps of the army of the North bad been ordered to unite in line' which had been effected, that the army had been re-organised, and occupied well its positions. The Bulletin announces, that at three in the morninyor the 30th the village of Vertus near St. Denis, had been at tacked ; that the right of the Allies bad been opposed by several corps at Mont 'Valerie') ; that at noon a Prussian Colonel had arrived in Paris, and, it was supposed tosummon the city to surrender. An answer in the negative was re turned, and those subsequent engagements took place which terminated in the Convention concluded on of the 3d. In the Chamber of Peers a faint gleam of information was thrown on the present situation of Buonaparte. The Mi nister of War, correcting an error that had taken place in the report of what he had stated the day before to the Chambers, declared that he had not said that Buonaparte would not embark, but that though he would embark, he would not set sail until his passports were sent him. It apt pears, therefore, that he has got to some French port. If tins %%as the case at that time, there is no doubt of his having set sail the first'opportunity that promised to favour his flight. His waiting for passports must be an assertion made for the:ourpose of preventing us from following him in his flight, by leading us to believe that he bad not yet quitted France. For having once been allowed to embark, what pa,sports did he want to go to America ? Ile could not ask ant' from u:.; and the jurisdiction of France did not extend beyond her territorial limits. The suspicious A merican vessel which was seen to leave Havre eight or ten days ago, and after having been pursued by our cruisers, when Rik4ike vid ril, No. CC:CA-alt. ... ►~X PRICE 9d. l eve of being filed at, was saved by the sudden rising of a f )0, contains, we fear, the great Disturber of Europe, who, I 'ejected from the bosom of a world, is now on his way to convulse the peace of another. 1 But let us retut nto a more g r a t e f u l su bj ec t , t h e ser i es o f successful operations which were crowned by the Suriendec of Paris. The enemy, on the near approach of the Allied Armies to ! the capital, made an attempt to cut through part of Marshal Blucher's army, which by the last dispatch, occupied a line : 1 from Senlis, through Villers Coterets to La Ferte Milon, oft iI the direct and nearest road from Soissons to Paris, In thi s attempt they failed with loss, and immediately moved off to the Pi ussian left wing at La Ferte 'slilon, which they at tempted to turn, and get to Paris by the Meaux road. They were attacked there by Bulow, who took from them 500 • prisoners, and drove them across the Marne.—Mean while the advanced guilt d of the British army crossed the Oise on the 29th, and the main body on the 30th, and on the lst of July took up a position with its right on the heights cf Rochebourg, and its lift on the Forest of Bondy. Marshal Blucher, pursuing the direct road from Senlis to Pat is, took. the small village of Aubervilliers on the 30th, and then moved to his right, crossing the Seine at St. Germain's, in order to make way for the advance of the British arnsv, which occu pied a line in his rear from Bondy to Rochebourg. As the Allies approached Paris, Davoust sent to the Duke of Wel lington and to Blucher, a letter each, demaodi g a ces•ation of hostilities, :in account of the abdication of B. impart e, and of an armistice having been concluded with the Austti:n Generals Bubna and Frimont. No answer w.is roomed to this letter, and the operations were continro d with undimi nished activity. The direct road to Par is, from S e nli s . an d St. Denis, would have led the Allies to Montmartre and Belleville. But the attack upon Paris on that side waS judiciously avoidr d. St. Denis had been strongly fortified, and the waters r,f the little rivers Bouillon and La Ville Mar, which flow to the north of Saint Denis, had enabled the enemy to inundate the ground on that side. Montmartre and Belleville present commanding heights, which had been strongly fortified. Paris was not accessible to attack without gear loss to the assailants on the right bank of the Seine. The left bank was more vulnerable. Accordingly, whilst Marshal Blucher moved across the Seine at Saha Germain, eon,;,, g round to the South %Vest of Paris by Saint Cloud and Ple , is Pique, leaving Versailles as a point for his '''serve, the Duke f Wellington drawing off his left from the Forest of Bondy, and moving to his right, threw a bridge over the Stehle at Argenteuil, and sent a B.itish corps towards the Pout de Neuilly. Thus both armies were in commuoication ••.r the left of the Sei n e. Th e effect of all the molcmen., was to render all. the preparations un •he liAht ()auk of t;,e `eine . . and at Niontin i 3rtie d litotlevi;le. fw the delencc f fails, unavailing.—But Blocher d:d not estahli-1) L.:; 1 "•'11 . al St. _ . Cloud, Mendon, and Plesis withoul ,•• r.:1)!c resistance. The cheitly. reit.f.,rced 1 Soult al;, had alma 50,tftO regpl.tr tut tips in Pat is. ‘I th to se 'hey attacked Marshal Blw her ..t St. Cl.ud a. d Mc , d n, ar d a Nary obstinate action tuuk place. PrusAan gltailkry, how- 7.1