The National Register. — London, England, 1814-02-27 00:00:00

FEB• 27. .. On Me 171 h. -t day -break, the Emperor inai..hed from Guignes upon Nringis. The battle of Natigis has been one of the most bri I; it • • The Russian General in. Chief, Wittgenstain, was at Nangis, with throe &visins. v Oich formed his corps &armee. General Pahien, 'ti winding :It:. BA and 14th Russian diviaions, and much cavalry, was at _rat t T of Division, Girard, an officerof the highet promise, ate, o.clied at the vitlag,c of Murmant, upon the enemy. A battalion t'Ac 433 r , ts_inent ot infantry, always worthy of its tniient repute tion, w c.•useci it to be distinguislacd twenty years ago, by the Em. pvroe in 'he bud.: of Castiglionne, entered the village at the pas de c,i rge. ( " ,unt Vainly, at the heal of the dragoons, of Gen. Theil har,• cnmiug 'tom Spain, and which arrived 'at the army, turned the v its.leb. Count Milhaud, with the St h corps of .cavalry, tur •ed it on the right. Count Droact advanced with numerous .bat t:rios In a MOlliellt all was deci&d. The squares formed by the R-.s.oart infantry were broken. Ail was-taken v Generals and : Officers; la: ison-rs, 10,000 muskets., 16 pieces of cannon, : and .10,eitissniv:, Into our power ; Gen. Wittgenstein escaped ; he, in great haste, saved hint elf in the directiim of Nogent. He had announced to Sieur liil•y, with %shorn h.. lodged at Prov,ns,' that he would be at Paris on the 18. h. On returning; he stopped but a quarter of an hour, and had the fia.ikness to say to tits beat, " 1 have been well beaten; two of r.•y divisions have been taken, and in two hours you will see the end, " .! C qua Witty, with the Duke of Reggio, marched.upon Provins ; the Duke of Talent° 111):)11 Donnemarie. The Duke of Belluno rrarcaed upon Ifillaneuve-lc-Comte. Gen. Wrede, with his two divisions, were in a position there ; Gen. Cerard attacked at , .pm them to route. The eight or ten mous-and men who corn. po aid •he Bavarian corps were lost, if Gen. L'Heritier, who coat maisden a ivisiun of dragoons, had charged as he ought to have clone ; but this General, who has on so many oceasionadiatinguished himself, a liowea tots one, wiikh ollored itself to him, to escape.. TlicEmpea ror his Liaised his eisappro:sation to be conveyed to him. He has not bee o brought before a Council of Inquity, certain that as at Hoff, in Prussia, 1411(1 a. :,aim in Moravia, where he commanded the 10'h regimen , of Cuirassiers, he will nb rit eulogiums and repair his fault. " Ilk Majesty has exprested his satisfaction to Count Valmy, ro General 'lluelltard, and his division, to General Girard, and his corps d'armee. , • " The Emperor passed the night between the 17th and 18th, at the Castle of Natios. " On the 18th, at day-break. Gen. Chateau matched upon Mote reau. The Duke or Belluno st as to It...ve arrived there on the even ng of the 17, It. He halt dat Satins; it was•a great fault. 'I he occupa tion (Attie bri(!gesad Monterean would have gained the Emperor a day, and eoabled him to avail himself of a flagrant error of the Austrian army 4• General Chateau arrived before M sntereau at ten A. M., but at nine o'clock, Gcn. Bianchi, commanding the Ist Austrian corps, had taken a poy;iti ai with two Austrian divisions and the Wittemburg di ison, upon the-heights before Montereau, covering the Midges and the ;own. General Chateau attacked him ; not being. supported by the other division of the corps Matinee, he was repulsed. Sieur, Le couteuix, who in t , e morning hart been sent upon a reconnoissance, having had his horse killed, has been taken. He is an intrepid young 111141 44 General Gerard supported the baffle during the whale morning, The Emperor proceeded there at full gallop. At two, P. M. he CillSe.l the rising ground Plateau) to be attacked'. Gcn Pagol, wh o I marched by the road of Melon, arrived, whilst these affairs were going on, executed a brilliant chaige, overthrew the enemy, aat drolfc him into the Seine and the Yonne. The brave 7th chasseurs des hunched upon the bridges, which the grane-..shot, tram more than sixty pieces of cannon, prevented from being, blown up; and we, at the same time, obtained the double advantage of being able to pas the bridges at the pas de charge ? take 4COO men, four pair of colours, six pieces Of cannon from the enemy, and kill 4 or 500 men. " The squadron de settler debouchei in, the plain. General Dub site, an officer of rare intrepidity, and long experience, de b•Jui. d uwoo the road of Sens; the enemy was driven in every di: rectaaa, and our army-defiled upon the bridges. The old guard had only time to.sh.w itself; the ardour of the troops of General Gerard and Genetat Pajol prevented it from participating in the anie... " The hillab•tatus of 11ontereati did not remain idle. Musket-shits fired from the windoivs augmented the enemy's embarrassment. The Atistrostis and I,Viltembeoliers threw.away their arms. A WiTteM. berg General has been killed, an Austrian General taken. as we.l as several Cul -nets, among whom is the Colonel of the reaimens Of Collerecto, talten with his Etat 'Major, and his coliairs, Oat. the same day, Generals Charpentier and Alex deb:melte,' from Nick's'., traversed the forest of Fontainebleau, aid drove the Coaaacks ant! an Austrian. brigade from it. General Akx arrived at Nlorot. 'flw Duke of Tarente arrived,bcfore Bray, " The Duke,of Reggio is pursuing the enemy's parties from Pro yin:, towards Nogent. " The General : of Brigade., Montbrun, who had heea ettarged with ),E)o Melt to defend Motet and the forest of Fontainebleau, abantiOnod 153 • them. .and retired upon issonne, notwithstanding the forest of Von tai, ebleau might bt disputed foot by. foot: The Major-General has suspended General Mentbrun, ;did sent him before a Council of En. noiry. •'A less .which has aensigV•taffecteil the Emperor, is that of General Chateau. This young officer,- who gave the utmost promise, was int•rtal:v woutxted.upon the bridge ef Montereap, where lie was with the. f.iniilleuts, If he dies, and .he report of the surgeons gives little reason fQi hope, he will, at least wile, accompanied with tire r.e_ grits i.f the whole army ; 'death worthy of envy, and much pretr.. oak: to existence te'every• military mrr, who cannot pr.!serve it, trot by survivin t , his reputation, and by-stitling theentonentowith which, in these great circums ince st, the dence of "the country and the ho nour of site French tante taught to in. pite him " The Palace ot Fontainebleau has been preaerved. The Austrian General Hardeck, who had entered the-tovyn, and placed Sentinels to defend it against tha excesses of the Cossack,. who, however, suc ceeded in pillaging, aoine.door.keepera, mid carrying sway the horse. cloths from the.-tables. the inhabitants do not complain (1 the Austriafs, but of theft tart, monsters who dishonour the Sovereien who employs them roid the army which protects them. These bri. .ands are cheered with gold and jewels. There have been :found trout eight to ten'*atches upon those whom the soldiers nod peasantry have killed—they are true highwaymen. " The Emperor, ota his march, met the national guards of Brest and Picton. He reviewed ttiens,-- 1 Shew.' said he to thetd,.'..oi what the men of the West are capable; they were at all times this taithful defenders of their country, and the fattiest support of the monarchy.' " His Majesty passed the, night of the 19. h, at the Castle of Site vale ' situated upon the heights ot Montercau. " The inhabitants complain greatly of the vexatitans of the Prince Royal of Wirteo.berg. Thus the army of Schwan vithurg round it. self touched Centatney by the derelt of Kleist ; th s Curoa haying • ala ways constituted part of it; by the defeat of Wittgcst...tein, by. that the Bavarian corps, of the Wirtcmberg divislan, and of General Seoul ie's corps. -• The F:tnneror his granted to the three divisions of the old guard ( nounted) 510 decorations of the Legion of Hon >or. ).as gamed , a similar number to the old toot k uard. Ile has given 100 to the c a. %%dr. of Gen. Theilhard, and a like number to the cavalry of Gen. Milhaud. " We have allerted a great number of the decorations nf -S E. George, St. Wiadimer, Sr. Anne, taken from Thelma who covered the dittercitt fields of battle. ' •,. • • • ' • " Our loss in thebattlos of Mange" and. Montereau d-es not exceed 430 men kilted and wounded, which, although seeniingly improbable, is nevertheless the exact truth. " The town of Espernay having been informed of the success of our army, soun:.!ed the tocsin, barriehdoed its streets, refused a passage to 21:Omen, and made some prisoners. t.et this example he every where imitated, and it is . to he presumed that very few-men of the enemy's army will repass the Rhine. " The towns of Guise and St. Quintin have also shut their gates, and declared that they would not open.them unless a sutfrcient force of infantry presented itself. They hive not .acted, like Kliciors, which had the weakness to open its gates to 1:1J Cossacks, and for eight days has complimented and well treated them, Our annals will preserve the reccillecrion of the populations which have failed in what they owed to themselves and to honour. They, on the contrary, will exalt those, whirat, like Lyons, Chalons-sue-Swine, Tourtis, Setts, .St. jean de Loans Vetrey, Chalons-sot-I%42rue, have paid their debt to I ite country, and have risen to Mat height which thc glory of the French ,name. demanded. Franche : Comte,. the. Vosgis, and Alsace, will not forget the moment of the retmgrade movement of the Alhei.. The Duke nt . Castiglione, whr has collected an army of chosen troops, at Lyons, is tha•cning to block up the enemy's ter teat, PAa Is, Fxs. '2l.—ln this moment, we learn that the Einperor of Russia and King of Prnssi4, who' wete on the 18th at Bray, precipi t tetv lett it, as soma as they knew time bridge "I Montereaulltel been forced. • • ; ...• • Ttieltoniteir of the cg:i Fth Ivey contains no intelligence (,f the least irrEportattLe; the minor papers of the same date have not been received.. • FRIENCH FuNni.—reb.?i, opened at 57,10; end at .55 90. 11Itt.tn. Vrii. Estatitte %%Inch we have thiA moment re. ecived trent Gnite, Nhere it left the Pewee Viceroy on tile moroing of the ha+ brought iv. the !aiming nests Ors - 44 • II combined movement, 'army of the Prince Viceroy dos holiched Vesterthty at day-break, ciom Mittelo, in several' colonist% General 'Vernier vein:lima upon thr 'Upper 11,1;in•ickt4i;h the !On stud 6th flit which %very the fifiV 110)01:ith Aftr!Walli baoc, and -upport the movement of the ['Hock. Viceras 14'011 ilia Franca. The Prince infesided r the enemy battle at ad% !mint. We 'Apt elt (1 VI till(' the lif the enemy's toteet. ' Where 1 11 cY %%Cie ple•teti on the eveninE of the 11receititi4 day, :It RobervatheivVilkt •1~1:3 14 e0, /Mil Valk:teen. By nu- tstraordinuty circumstance, tie cueiny in the 'awe rigtis noircletd all hoe