The National Register. — London, England, 1813-02-07 00:00:00

TILE NATIO:sTAL REGISTEiti R~ lie virtue, it may spare you some pains to reflect on the' general character of your conduct, lest a Pl►ucian should exclaim " fine speeches are like cypress trees, 111(9 are ley and beau4fu?, but yield nofrriit." AN ELECTOR OF WEsTMINTER. Westminster, 22it Jan. 1813• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPER, PAR 5, J AN. TR.—Their Majesties left Paris on Tuesday the 19th, TO hunt at Grosbois. In the evening they %sent to sleep at Fountainbleau, where they were not el( pected. On their arrival, the Emperor repaired to the apartments of the Pope, who was in conv...r•ation with some Cardinals and Prelates.. — His Majesty and the Holy Father remained together nearly two hours. The next day (Wetine•day) the Pope, accompanied by the Cardi nals Bayane, Doria, Rolf), the Archbishop of Tours, the Bishops of Evreux, Nantes, Treves, and Edessa went to visit his Majesty the Emperor, who received the Holy Fa ther in his grand apartments. On their return from the Emperor, the Holy Father repaired to the apartrvents of her Majesty . the Empress. A short time after wards, her Majesty, accompanied by the Ladies of the Palace, and others of her attendants, returned the visit of the Pope. On the fAlowing days, his Majesty and the Holy Father had fre quent cooversations together. At length, on Monday, the 25th, at seven in the evening, his Ma jesty and the Holy Father having met in the grand saloon of the apartments occupied by the Pope, signed the concordat, whit has terminated all the difkrences which have arisen with respect to the aft:6N of the church. This act was signed by the Emperor and by the Pope, in the pre sence of the Cardinals and Prelates who were at Fontambleau. As soon as the concordat was signed, her Majesty the Empress came, of h. r own free motion, to congratulate the Pope on this happy Vent. PARIS, JAN. 26.—The King of Naples being indisposed, has thought proper to quit the command of the army, which he has given up to the Viceroy. This latter is more accusto:ned to a erand admi nistration. He I)o:sesses the entire confidence of the Emperor. After the treason of General d'York, the King of Naples judged it _advisable to march upon the Elbing road, and from thence on Posen, where his head quarters arrived on the lath of January. General Rapp, with a garri,en of 30,000 men, occupies the island of Noyat, and Dantzic ; WOO men occupy Thorn and its neighbour hood ; tik:oo Prussians are in Grintdentz ; a•corps of obse:yalion, which the Prince of Et:kraut)] commis, is upon Bamberg. Prince Schw:irt zNiberg Genera! Replier arc in advance of Warsaw. The sth corps is re organising in that place ; and the Duke of Tarentum, is ruar,:hi:;g upoit Posen. Marshal St. Cyr has recovered from his wound. The Duke of Belluno has arrived at Posen. There has not been, since the alLtir of the Duke of Tarentum, upon the Niemen, in which he made three Russian battalions prisoners, any engagement wi•atever with the enemy • there hy..e only been some =counters, of little importance, with the Cossacks. All the dismounted cavalry has arrived upon the Oder. General Bour tier, who is at Berlin, writes, that he has made contracts for 30,000 horses; 20,000 of which have already been delivered at the depots, as well for the remounts of cavalry, as those of the artillery and military equipages. The cold weather still continues. The Kiug of Prussia is re-organizng his contingent between Stettin and Colberg. General Lauriston departed yesterday from Paris, to fix his head whiners at Magdeburg, where the corps of observation which he commands is to arrive. General Souharn will pass the Itlihie with the vanguard of the corps of observation of the Rhine, and will move on towards Frankfurt. His Maj sty has given to General Bertrand, the command of the army of observation of Italy, which is to unite at Verona. A v4a-guard, composed of .10,000 fresh troops, will unite at PO:411, tinder the orders of Marshal the Duke of Elchingen. This Marshal is among the number of those whose courage and .trength of mind have stood the test. The King of Saxony is uniting lila troops about G logau. "rhe Emperor of Austria is assembling considerable forces in Gali cia. We can already count there an army of more than 50.003 men. The greatest confidence and harmony exist between the Imperial Courts of Vienna and Paris. The King of Denmark is deaf to the menaces and intrigues of Eng land, Russia, and Sweden. Dantzic is now an unattackable fortress •, 30,000 good troops have been collected in it ; good Generals command them, and the Governor of the town is General Rapp, a brave and intrepid soldier. A consi derable number of engineers and artillery officers are in it. The place -ot been a battle at Konigsberg ; tlaare has not been a battle at Elbing ; nu General Officer has been wounded, and we repeat it, that no affair kis taken place s;ia:e tb•t of the Duke of Tarentum upon the Niemen. Germany has nothing ti tear, either from the intrigues of England, or the irruption of the Barbarians, who only knew how to defend their country by devastating it, and their capital by hurning it. In short, as soon as the winter skill terminate, the Rusaiai s will be chased, and driven back—the quiLker in proportion as they may have the further advanced. We are authorised to make this expose, to tranquil. list the good citizens of Frnice and Germany ; and we add, that they may be certain, that it any events happen, we will immediately make them known to the public, with the SAMC truth and simplicity with which were made known the misfortunes ot the army in the 29th Bulletin. We do not know why the Et gliah attach importance to inundating our coasts, and th Continent, with pamphlets filled with false accounts ; in short, all the inistortilileS Wll:ch the army suffered arc stated in the 29th Bulletin; but what the Petersburg!) G zettes add—that eagles and cannon were taken from us in front of our ban ners is false, very false.—(Moniteur, Jan. '26.) PARIS, JAN. '27.—The greateA activity prevails in sending off the horses which the city of P,:ris, and the ditkrent corporations, have offered to government. We see every day a considerable number of fine horses arrive at the Ci.itnp de Mars, and this sight draws num bers of curious people to the spot. The addresses from the towns and communes of the empire are dictated by the same spirit, and by a devotion without bounds to his Majesty the Emperor. LETTER FROM PRINCE EUGENE NA rOLEON, VIC/ROY OP 'ITALY, 10 THE MINISTER: AT WAR. Marienwerder, Jan. 6. My Lord Duke—The St. Petcrsburgh Gazettes have fallen n , to my hands, by which I perceive how unnaPural and fake are the rela tions which they contain of the events of N.vember and December, I will stop only at what et:tic:erns ni‘ cot ps d'armee. It is stated in these papers, that on November P, Pl:doff attacked me, and dispersed my corps, took from me :3700 men, and -my wii:de artillery. These statements are false—Pl:noir sLarcely presented himself before my corps. He was repulsed in every part. If he has made some prt sore:s, he has not taken a single one with arms in his 1 ands, but he may have picked up some single stragglers, who, during the night, to avoid the extremity of the cold, had sneaked into the villages. With regard to the cannon, they have not carried oil a single piece, although it is true, that I was obliged, by the loss of my horses, which perished through the excessive cold, to abandon the greater part of my artillery, a: . !er having dismounted and broken it. I know that the Russian statements are qui.e false ; the extent of the coun try, and the extreme ignorance tit the greater part of its population, give the Rus'ian Government great liberty in this respect, and they take good care to profit by it, in causing the most ncitsensical reports to be spread about. We were at the gates of Moscow, when that people believed ua to be beaten. (Signed) EUGENE NAPOLEON. LETTER PROM 111 MARSHAL TRICE OF ECKMUHL TO Tilt MA JUK-GENERAL. Thorn, .Jan. S. MY LOR n—l read with astonishment, in the St. PeterAiiirgh pa pers, that on the day of the Itith November, the enemy took 12,000 prisoners train my corps d'artnett, and that they had scattered the remains of that army in the neighbouring woods, in such manner, that it was entirely destroyed. It would be difficult to push impu dence and falsehood hither, if all the Russian statements since the commencement of the campaign, and in the prec ding ones, werelnot already known. Did they not sing Te Deum at Petersburgh ; and were not ribbands distributed there for the battle of Austerlitz ? Did they not say that they had taken Ital pieces of esnnon from us at the battle of Moskwa ? and did they not again, on that occasion; ehannt the Te Deem which tilled England with joy ? How many difficulties did they not raise in acknowledging the taking of Moscow ? Did they not likewise proclaim themselves conquerors at the battle of Malo yaroslavetz, where we pursued them for forty wrests ? The fact is, that his Majesty, knowing that the Russian army from Voltynia was marching towards the Beresina, was ob:iged to :.et out from Smolensk, notwithstanding the rigour of the s eason. By a sud. den change in the temperature, the cold, which was but six degrees, advanced to twenty, and even for a moment to twenty-five, according to some of our engineer officers, who had a thermometer. All our horses, and our train of artillery; perished. His Majesty no longer wished to come to an engawment with the enemy ; he no longer esen wished to allow himself to be amused by petty affairs, desiring to gain with all speed the Beresina. When his Majesty passed through Krasnoy he had to drive back the enemy, who placed himself be tween the guard and my corps d'arinee. As soon as my corps had re joined the army, his Majesty continued his march, and my corps was to follow, without employing itself in maintaining a contest in which the enemy would have the advantage of a numerous cavalry and artillery. But my corps never met the enemy that it did not beat him. It has suffered very heavy losses, from fatigues, cold, and that fatality, I which caused all the cavalry and artillery horses to pe 'sr A - -at vmyof my men dispersed, to beck retuise agium4 the iii --- 1170 - v - iio .- ;:e . d - Tvi - t . h - e - v b e . ;:y — tiiii - ig — fur two i years. " I risk. A great Many otmy ilien oisperscu, Lv a‘u&s. &us Ail the lepvlt; whibil 11,LVO been circulated arc false. There has riguur of the cull, audit-I:aq wete takix. . _ _ FEB. 1 •e. - •1•