The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-16 00:00:00

••^ Si •• • II and %%weh ~ ittt en tl the whole country . through whieli the rem:iins tbttr avoi% pa-•rtl, his continued on that line, and the places ihey o t cori% d, in many of which it llow rages with increased %io iyener. 'Corral'. and I)resden, are the places where it is at ;Hi -sent wog &stint-the. F reue•h are the !nitwit) il .-trams mAny ot the inhabitants of the adjaeciit villages pi rich. To: L:ati is so into II infcctcd, that it w wild be dangerous to introduce fresh troops. lac Itussian reinforcements are very tine, and the army is healthy and in good condition, horses as well as men. By the l a t es t acc ounts the W;pl reporttql to have I WeIV e thou-ami men at s l:••.ttc. The Giiiiras were removed from thence. nuil art• st:iteil to be concentrated about Paris, except three or tour titotisawl, said to na.e !leen dctarbt d tow arti, Floutlers. There k no couNidisr , oi.t• force at P.e•iiicon ; the General emu ininding lilac went to Lyons for succour, Lit returned without siwet Nlooireorc 113% e received hut , ' to the 30th inclivive, rrbica contaiii litionapat aliwer to the I:hare the honour to be, zir. CATIICART. (TuAxst.vriosi,) Head gilarters Altkirch, Jan. 4. Ye‘terllav Captain Berlin Weimer al rived with ii patches flout Eield• Mal sital Lion coati t Count Bubna, announcing the occupation of aw city of Geueva. %Viten the troops arrived within cannon shot Count Bub na was informed that it was intended to surrender the place. .1 lie columns were nevertheless supplitd with artillery, ladd , rs, and fascints, and advanced w ithin grape shot of dm place, w ken they saw the white flag, and at the saint: time the enemy's ea% airy retirine7 towards Chan.bery Major Count St. Quint in, wbo had I), ea sent intN the town, reported that the Commandant, Oen. Jordois, a wiirthy old officer, was irk; ill of violent cramp, sue minded hr bis Stati,mol in such a state as to be unable eithcrto resist or capitith.t.:. The ::ates were opened, awl the troops marched in, and creetti , ieJ the town and the passage over the Arve. On the :9th Decemher Idly at tillerymen bad arrive ' y and there silos a repot t that several battalions had mareVe.l from Turin to rein force the garrison of Geneva, and that (kite,- I 7.,*(rimier was order ed, by the E.mperor Napoleon, to defend this most important point to the last extremity. In this fortress was found a very valuable artillery preparatiQn, 1.17 cannon, of which nineteen are iron orduanee, and thirty !French field pieces. Count {Willa lost no time in detaching parties on the road fro in CP! X to St. to sectire the passage over the Jura. and also jbattolcs from Martigpy upon Simplon and St. Bernhartes mountains. The amount .Qf the army under Marshal Blucher, which haq cro,sed the,Rhine, is stated to be 80,000 men. Billow end Benkendortf will enter Brabant with 50,00(1. The in. lmbitants, both of France and the Netherlands, afford great facilitits to the partisan corps of the Allies. The point of Anion for the three columns from Coldentz, Caub, and Man- Leim, is Kreutznach, a fortified place, seven leagnes on this side of Mentz, iu the hiAlt road by Metz and Verdun to The Austrian Field-Marshal Count Ncuperg, after having passed thruugh the Tyrol from the head-quarters of the (irand German Army, to those of Marshal Bellegat de, the Austrian Comniinder-in Chief in Italy, has continued his journey to Naples. The Austrian Envoy, Count Mier, has also recently gone fiom Naples 0, Vienna, and was upon the point of returning to the formcr city. It has been for some time known that Murat was negociating with the Allies. The' Bremen Papers state, that the Crown I'i ince was ex rected to pass through that city, on his way into Holland, leaving the pperations against liamburgh to one of his Ge- Dinah.. A third Russiau army of reserve, amounting to 40,000 men, has arrived in Poland, and all the old Rus , ian and Prussian armies are receiving considelable reinfol ce- NM I'S. .11111111 P THE NATIONAL nEmsTrin. OBEIGN I.IIELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPER*. JAN. 16. PARIS, :lAN. 4.--For some time past, !noel' has been said of' the Derlaration of the Allied Powers, ibited Dec. I, and inserts:if in the Franhfort Gazette, of the tith. The enemy have thrown some copies of it on our frontiers, end oar eiyi•t.; tlit.y have eveu sAlit it by the post office at n ask, to a great ninny persons. Mr,..;.• 'f t .: Orator of the Senate has quOted sonic passages from it, vvhielt he ham refuted with equal .ticogth and soniolness Offliginlient ; hilt ‘‘e thick it our duty to make some reticet;ons on this strange paper, calculated to Alike every apprehension. If, at er havin.:, made to his Attics:v. the rinpi.rot of the French, just, goorous, and liken! proposals, the A ha,l int..l wiL.l .1 tp. fli•;1I, 01 had even receive:! only an evasive answer, it cann.o be denied that their declaratioo ..‘ wild he calonlatc.l to wake s. toe inl• presSioll on people but little avqnaitzted with the i:iiiire. - t proceed jugs of diplomacy ; but. if, on the contrary, the proposal, of ti:e Allies have been formally aerepted hy his Majesty for I..,s.pri -,, r(ai the report of the. (o:railittre ut the !•;enate proves;': if it w not till after they had 'Trek ed ibi . • acceptance of liis Majusty. t. • i :he I Allied So% ereigns publiilied thin declaration, it imist be owtie•.,•:: tt their sentiments are not so noble, !Mr t1;•11' views SO disinteresie ', as they affect t . proclaim ; that heir manifrstrehas no other ohjert than that of paraiysing the enerhyy of the Freneii nation, by at tempiing to persuade them that tiseirgoct.v invent has rejected juxt. Kin/Tr:us, and liberal prolesais; that thi* declaration, appdrent!y so moderate, may be a cloak for a:1 ambition which dares not to show itself openly ; in short, that it is d.scord itself, whicii ie , suming the garb apt:lee, has IL; own into France a declaration, which is but a deceitful ;are. -Molt we !Mu just said is not a mere supposition. It was on time :ith of Dec. in the evening, that the Allies reriveil the acceptance of t!‘ Emrever of the French : it wit , on the tit%, that they publish in the G acetic of Fraidaurt, which c:tv was at that time their head quart! r.! , , the finnan. declaration which they have dated oil the Ist. Chi. is a cer;ain lam, the bare relat . on ot . which is .;it,'ieicot to overturn all this show of generosity and Love of pence. Truly se* iiiig%t eisdense, after this, with replying to au act, %%hick ,•: e • are tit no loss how to appreciate; we will, however, cx.mine it in de tail; refe.:c it, as it' it had been made its the spirit of good faith ; and wlttu it is stripped of all the deceitful forms whi,:h conceal its real character, it will be easily perceived' that it eon deceive no , body. and that all the I. - lynch must answer it only by their unani mity, tle..r courage, slid the most generous efforts. 'Ha Allies do not make war on France, they say, but against tht: ropoutersusee which the Emperor Napoleon has exercised beyond the bunintaries ut his empire. We shall not repeat here, the reflections, fall of wisdom, Vlllith M. de Fontaucs has• opposed to these forms, so new in the social and political order of Europe ; but we will ask the Allies, if it is not to their imnrudent attacks that France is indebted fur this preponderance? Since the famous treaty of Pilnitz, have not they • alternately compelled us to cOmba; and to vanquish them ? In 1796, France, mistress of the Rhine and the Alps, ruling over Holland and the Milanese, was already a preponderating .power oft the Continent; and this plepondcranee, the rel•nli of the tirit Coali tion, was recognised and sanctioned by the treaties of 1;:isle and Cam po Formic). The Emperor of the French has undoubtedly ear ' 4 tied it farther, and every new war has strengthened it ; but who provoked those %vats? Those who in 11105, .1606, Iho9, violibted their treaties, and attacked France, who was engaged in combating the prepondsrance of England. • Let the Allied Powers be sincere : always aggie sors, always conquered, they nevertheless formally concurred in the general measures which they now seek to represent as the .unhappy result of Freneli proponderotee. ... is Germat y the point in question? At Ratislion, at Ltineville, in the fixing ut the indemnities, or, to speak more plainly, .in the partitiou of the German Empire, did we not see Austria and Prits,iu co-operate in the most active nimmer 1 Did not Russia conthwt the ncgociations in concert with France ? ihd not she goo:mice the result ; amid did not the Russian Ambassador proclaim thes:, that the distribution of the indemnities was made for the peace and hopl,ig , :t3 ,!,.• the Continent 1 Is the continental system in question ? Was not Russia herself the first to give, during the Ante' ican war, th:.. signal tor the mea sures which were taken by the maritime Pt., ers of the North to stop the preponderance of tire. English, which is now become, it eve 418 y ihae the expreagoui a real onsnipAcuce on all the seas -ei' the