The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-09 00:00:00

THE NITIONAL REGISTF.R. Ink cai:tre may be successfa;iy empl, yeti the se cows, w;,iels have fio re , rular battle% to maintain. 1 hen bushxss k not to attack list emissions in the bivouacs, hut to surpri:e single detarliments, ram oil the sT'onts, the Comicrs, the maratrlerslto take away all the pro visions scattered in the villages, destroy bridges, to render the roil.' impassable for arltllery, either by di ging ditches, or fonnine Lbattis of treeii, These measures, superinteilded by_old and intelli gent soldiers, mly maid the march of whole columns, and even an:e them to tall into the liMals of the regular national army. The forest keepers, game-ktepers, &c. are excellent sentinels far the free corps. They may be particularly setvic • able by givieg ns( information to the regular army, concerning all the enterprises of the ene r.y ; for them it is a point of honour to watch his operations to give information of . his smallest Movements. It a bivouac of car riages, or a convoy fixes itself near a Village, let the inhabitants come in the night, carry oil the hones, and burn the carriages ; iu a Word, let the citizens ()revery rank concur in the Ocrence of their lionses v their families, and all that they hold dear and sacred. They are obstacles which May he opposed to the enemy with tin , More suceesr, since the tinther he adVanc..s the arose difficult it wil; h e for him to repair his losses. Why ghoul i gee not h a ve the % a is l e advantages On combatting him on our territory, as Le had agais;st in combating on his Let him rind himself insulated without re sources without succour, wherever he shall appear. Let all the Francis recognize in the enemy's ranks, those who have slain the ir tams, their friends, their fathers. Let a noble sentiment noirnale them ; revenge for them a duty; it becomes a virtue. Aleive all, lei no one dwell with a false grief on the evils io.eparable from our a'i'm;tit noble, and patriotic ariel does not vent itself in vain complaints, it dis• lays it:elt in generous effnrts. Whatever be the cause of the danger, it exits, and the national honour allows only one refit ction the necessity of repelling it. FRESCH FUNDS.—Dec. 23, 591. Nr price stated,-- , -.51, 49, Dec. 31 5 lt.—Jan. 1. No prier stated. DECLARATION OF THE ALLIES, WITH RE.Ann TOSWITZERLAND.• (Tn %NstATtori.) topy of a Not 4 tronntlitted bll the ( " nint de ('apodis!rbt und the Cberttlicr tic Letzettein, to his Lxccllency the Lund:minion ()J. Switurland. . . The owlet -aimed have just rect ived c; ‘ '^rs from their to make the following Declaration to his :Nu.tileisey the Landaminan of I I irrland : Sw outland ha.- fur many ages enjoyed an iodepen4nee fortunate for herself, tisefol to het neighbours, and ocees , ary to the iv:down:ince of ,o volt' ical equililmotti. Those scourges of the French Revolutionu tit wars which for twenty tears have sapped to the very foundation.: the prosperity of all the Settees of Europe, had out spared Snit zet land. Agitated in her interior, enfeebled by the vain effort to escape ;I from the baneful inflilenCe Of a devil tat 'nu torrect, Switzerland sao ;1 nerseif dip; iced by link anti 'Mk, Of 010,4` lolly( at ks essential to the presevvation of her nob-pestilence by France, who ealle•l herself I I! her frit otl. The Emperor Napoleon ended, by establishing twort 11 hi. ruin of the So iss Fed( s ation, and under a title 041 then sink:town, a 11 diteet puriminent it lineiteo nrempa'ible with the li::erty of the 1 1 Belo b ic, that ancient liberty so Itspeettd by all the Power: 1 .rope, and %%hid' was the unat'anttc of the ties of friendship w hich Sit itV rland had continued to Loeser% e ‘A - 1h them, even to the epoch of her :41 , .. 1 ectioff , and which is the principal condition of the , to of a State. The orniciples which animate the Allied Sovereigns in the present wto ale %led known. Every nati••ll winds has not lost the rensem branee of its induptos tyre nn:dtt to avow them. The , e powers 's[ l .esir • that so II Fee %or, touchier with all Ett7ope, the r.•o4v ',cid of this s• f c emy station, and with her an volts f. oi•tters the this right. Ti e. yancot Ltlin f a etttralit), which, in the actual relations of St.% ttzet land, ems; • name. Th. of the Allied Powers. in presenting them.telves upoit the frontiers of itzet.an e\pt et to meet with none but friends. Thep 1 ..put sal and 114 si!c• eitz,aLe themselves rot to ivy tJotvn nests bt - f-re I:0-y ell-tire to the RI public those Oars. , %idyls Fr , net ita• tort. t 'on it Without any pretension Its noddle with her 'Picric; rektions, they wilt never sutler that Swit ge si a tl shoo d he played Itttler a foret._ll influence. Tliev will it cognize her new rAlity on that day on which she shall he crt e lepen .ent, attd they expect front ihe patriotists alga brave uation, that faithful to the . lirineiiges *which • have en- JAN. ~1. tiered them illu-ttions past ages, they will second the rionle and e i:ervii, efforts %%hick %%hid' -lionld unite for the sante Caine all the 4ovfrei::tis 311(1 nations of Ettr , pe. The Untlersigned, "in making thi s e o mmunieation, feel it their duty to a•-(plaitit his Excellency the Landaminaii %kith the lernelaioa. lion and Order or the Dav, hich the 60111111aitier ill Chief the G..attil Army will at the nnqrnent of the army entering the Swiss territory Excellency will find them contl.rma.ile to the sentiments wtiich their Intl) Hal end Royal Majesties have towards the Confederation. The Under-i_• ed, &m. illmi•N BULLETIN OF CROWN PRINCE. 1 - lead Qoarterc, Kiel, Dec. 21. Ginekstadt is snrromidcd If the place he not surrendered by he tint frost Ne ill be stormed. The ::arri-011 established near the village of Ilk einloth, in 4 very advatitie...e:mis position, a battery If four 13 pounders, with 4VO infantry to set ve it. A battalion of t h e b r i ga d e of General (le Itoye made itself master of the battery, pursnetl the enemy Older the grape shot the of the fortress, aril made many prisoners. " All 11e.. picparations had been made to attack the fortreqs of Frede:irfoi I ; the troops of the second In ktade, under General Baron de I'o-•e, were at 3 , 10 piers hom the wall. After a very ;hop fire. which lasted a day and night, and which our soldiers sus tained with a true northern wing-fruid, the Commandant capitulated on the 12:11. We found in the place tot pieces of eaneon, much ammunition, includiog or .*)00 quintals of powdcr. the garrison .ii prisoliers ut war. PIWCI AMA TION, isiuco fIY LORI) WFI.LINGTON IN FRANCE. PROCLI ATION. Head-(loaners, December 18, 1813. Haying taken into consideiathim the necessity of fixing Itte opon tt llich trade is to be carried on in the Ports of Freed) Navarre. to the South of the Adour, the Commander in Chief of the %lite() Army inhkes known : Ist. That these Potts should he cowidt red free and open to nb% idnals ()fall Nations ( with the exception of !how that 111:1 be at war with any of the Allied Power.), alid to produce cf Lvety V. 'There shall be letled on all goods imported by sea into these p‘ots - i, a duty or 3 per ernt. ad riem•enz ; o.emptina from such duty the tolowing artiel , s :—Wheat, Indian Corn and Flour, Bariev, Dais. Bran, 11'1,c:tit Bread, Ileani, Pc IQ, and Aalt. Goods and provv.ions inspoi led by sea for the A:lied Arioieg -hall i n ' exempted from payinc the duty fixed by article V. 4. The 74Ittnicipalities are eliar ,, ed with the Organization of the E•tabli,knlcnt: requisite f,,r raising the duties ; and they are :O to the Commander in Chiet re. , tilations for the execution of the service with which they are char:;ed. T. Municipalities shall make a report every Mcnday to the Command( rin Chief, of the import 4 during the pi eceding eek, and specifyiwg the amount of the duties levied, and he w ill give tin in rders for the application thereof. W ELLIN GTO N. TUESI)A Y'S LONDON GAZETTE. COLONIAL DETARTMENT, DoWNING-STREET, JAN. 4. A Di•pateli ‘vhich the follot%itiz . ig a copy, has been this moruitim received by Earl Bathurst, his Majesty's Prinei'tal Seer( tarp . State tor the Colonies, film' Lieut.-General Sir George Pit:rust, Bart. Head-gnarterc, La Chine, Nov. 1813. rtly LORD—Major Central Wilkiwon left Grenadier I.!;.iiel,•'t.n Lake altot io, on the Stith ultimo. w ith 1;;,03;1 men in siollt anti hatteattx, and pmeeetled down the St. I..titrience, in order td CO opt - rate with Nlajor-Gentiral Hampton in the inv.l.,ion of Lower (:anaila, and for the avowed purpo,e of takityz tap his winter•titiar lers ;it Alontreal having on tie 3lst halted a few miles below tiravi Ilv Pont+, on tl.e south side of the river, his po%ftion waq . ou the following day reconnoitred and attervrard‘ cannonaded by a ~livi•iou of gun•boat., under the eithimand of raptaiii Muleaster, of R yak Navy. Ry keeping close to his own slitirj, the ern iny ...rrived, On the fith iti;.tant. within six miies of the poft of Pr.-won - , ‘‘ Inch lie endeavoured to pass tinobserbed dining the night of the 7tl)'; iJut thi; vi2 . ,ilanct of Lieut.-Col. Pearson, who cum/lamb 11r.‘re, P .