The National Register. — London, England, 1814-03-06 00:00:00

152 PAWS: OF STOCKS YRSTERDAY. 8 per Cent. eon. ll7e. I Oisaltint . II ttll rm. 1R .o.equer LVVMAN'S communication in our next. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Unbolt, SUNDAY, MARC!! 6, 18,4. STATE OF THE WAR IN FR AFCE. L -ALLIES SUING FOR AN ARMISTICE. We have this week to announce a great alteration in the situation of the Allies in France. Our last accounts left them driven to the Marne on the north-east side of Paris, and across the Stine on the south-east. In the mean time the junction of Blucher's army with that of Prince Schwart zenberg was confidently expected at Troyes, the rallying point chosen by the Austi ian army, as, on the 20th, accord ing to Mr. Robinson's account, the head of Blucher's co lumns were only eighteen or twenty English miles from that town. That event, which seemed of Material import ance to the success of the immediate operatiotw was of course confidently expected. The French bulletin of the 21st mentions no military movement of any importance. The head-quarters of Buonaparte were then at Nogent, where they had been on the 6th. He acknowledged in it the taking and the subsequent evacuation of Soissons by Winzingerode; but, according to him, the town ought not to have been taken ; it was protected from a coup-dc-main, and defended by one thousand,national guards', commanded by three generals ! Our lacer militia have hardly so many field-officers. The commander in chief, Rusca, a man well known, without any talents, but devoted to Buonparte from the beginning of Isis career, was however unfortunately killed by the first shot, and the two other generals, who did not assume the command after his death, were sent before a sourt of inquiry. Complaints against the excesses commit ted by the allies, and more especially by the cossacks, fill the greater part of that bulletin. It contains, however, an article much importance in a political point of view. The " Con gress of Chatillon," it says, " still continues, but the enemy throws every obstacle in the way of it." Then follow fur ther complaints against the Cossacks, who intercept the couriers, &c. Etc. It is also admitted in that bulletin, that owing fo the frost, the Allies in their retrograde movement waved all their artillery and all their baggage. On the QSd, the latest date of the French Papers which brought that in telligence, French funds were at 56 fr. 50 cts. and this ought to be kept in mind. _ _ The intelligence contained in the bulletin of the 24th, seems to he systematically arranged to puzzle the mind. In our digression from military operations, we shall first notice its most prominent feature, the demand of an armistice on the part of the Allies. This intelligence is conveyed by the bulletin in three distinct paragraphs, separated by much ex traneous matter. We shalt., however, connect them togt ther;iu order to enable our Readers to form their owp judg ment. •4 On the 23d Prince Wentzel Lichtenstein came to the head quarters ; this new flag of truce was sent by Prince Schwartzen berg to ask for an armistice. " On the 23d our troops invested Troyes on all sides. A Rua tian Aid-de-camp came to the out-posts to request time to evacuate the city, otherwise it should be burnt, Sce. &e. " COunt IFlahatit, Aid-de•camp to the Emperor Napoleon; Count Dnica, Aid-de-camp to the Emperor of Austria ; Count Schousva -441; Aid-de•camp to the Emperor of Russia; aud amend Raub: THE NATIONAL REGISTER. =ar' - eK . .%+••••r - f:. _,r "r. MARCH 6. Chief of the Corps of Engineers of the King of Prtmia, are met together at Lusigny, to treat on the conditions for a suspension of arms" This Bulletin, officially announcing an armistice, was fol. lowed by an unaccountable depression of the French Funds, ' which were on the Qith, the 'next open day after the publi cation, at 54 fr. 75 cents. From this circumstauce, front the subsequent military operations, although o no great im portance, mentioned in the Bulletin of the 27th, and front the rank cf the Officers named to settle the terms of that ar mistice, mostly Aid-de-Camps, that it merely was an arrange ment of a local and temporary nature to save Troyes from destruction, as Macdonald had saved Chalons by the same ex.' perlient on the 6th. It is evident, however, that by this evacuation of Troyes, and the subsequent occupation of the whole course of the Aube by the French, as detailed in the Bulletin of the 27th, the Allies are now retreating behind the Marne, the point on which they were first attacked by Buonaparte. This fur. Cher retrograde movement, of the greatest importance in the present state of warfare. appears to have been imperiously commanded by one of those masterly movements of Buona. parte, who, on the 22d, attacked in person, at Berg-sur , Seine, General Blucher's army in march to join Schwartzen berg. He did not make any great impression on the Prus sians; but their march was effectually interrupted by his co lumps threatening the continued flanks of an army in march, and a retreat of the whole army of his confederates became of course necessary to secure a junction in the rear. Thus has Buenaparte repulsed his enemies at a distance from the capital of France, and improved his former succe's. Many reports are afloat respecting this miscarriage of the Allies ; but we consider ourselves merely as historians, and leave speculating to pretended politicians, poets, and stock. jol - bers. Nothing is known on the state of negotiations, },tit that they still continue, and we hope those recent events will show the inhuman futility of further delays. The spirit of the French people is evidently rising, as they feel the oppression of conquering armies ; and those few Individuals who prematurely attempted to shew their attach. ment to the Bourbons by exhibiting the insignia of the ancient regime, have atoned by the forfeit of their lives for their antiquated loyalty.—So much for loyalty iu the pre. sent age. POLITICAL SELF-EXPOSURE. An address was issued by the Crown Prince to the French at Cologne, on the 12th ult. in which he informs them, in moderate language, that the intention of the Allies is only to obtain a safe and honourable peace. The Dutch papers, which arrived last Friday, brought a pretended copy of this address, but so altered and so full of personalities, that most of the morning pacers declared it tok be a fabrication. This supposition greatly offended the Courier, which, in an ar ticle of considerable length, vindicated last night the au thenticity of this document. " There is an address from the Crown Prince," said this well-informed paper, " before he left Hanover, in a very different style and tone from that mawkish one from Cologne, which we published yes terday. This is the true way in which the Corsican should be spoken of; these are the colours in which he should be depicted. But it has shocked the delicate nerves of the Patty : they cannot believe that it is genuine. It is "so direct a personal attack Upon Buonaparte, and expressed too in the strongest language, that we must consider it a fabrica tion, as we cannot believe his Royal Highness would bath se expressed himself in a public document." ik):e