The National Register. — London, England, 1814-02-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 114 France and of &iron The negociations, whatever their nature and their aim may have been, have not checked the progress of war. It was scarcely possible to bring down N keor.toN's spirit lower than it has already Sunk, and therefore the continuation of hostilities, as they could not improve the conditions of the treaty, would seem to encourage a belief that it was intended to make conquest supplant peace. It may be apprehended, however, that all has thus been exposed with a chance of gaining but lit tle. Should seriotet disasters attend the prosecution of the Ava r, and one more place the Continent at the feet of a rescued Dospot, how would the opponents of a safe, ad vantageous, and honourable peace justify their conduct ? The lion driven to his den is more terrible than ever; for despair inspires that contempt of danger and wildness of exertion which sometimes wrench the victory from the conqueror's hand. " Una salus victis null= sperare sabacm." Let not that maxim he forgotten by the rulers of na tions. They are the agents of, but cannot make, the fate of the woild. The late advantages gained by the enemy, at a time when he was thought at the last gasp of his poli tical existence, may he solemn warnings of an approaching change of fortune, should peace be unreasonably delayed, which ought not to he despised. What could be more painful, than to have regained and foolis h ly lost the inde pendence of Europe ? FORE. !GM INTELLIG EN CE. FRENCH PAPER. FEB. 20 PARIs, Pro. 11.—Her Majesty the Empress, Queen and Regent,. has to-day received the following intelligence from the limy : " The Emperor yesterday attacked at Champaubert the enemy, c onsisting of twelve r e g iment., and having forty pieties of %autumn ; the Gen. in Chief Oinouvreilf has been taken, with all his Generals,. ill his Colonel', Officers, cannon, eaivons, and b iggage. -We have made (WO prisoners; the remainder were driven into a morass cilang), or killed upon the field of b.ittle. The Emperor was pursuing General thicken, who is separated from General Blocher. 'a Our loss has been extremely light, we have not 100 men to regret." Majesty King Joseph, reviewing to day the grenadiers of the National Guards of Pari., was pleamid to communicate this . news to them.—( ifonittur, Feb. 11.) Fys. 12.—M. Montesqnien, Aid de-camp to the Prince of Nenfehatel, dispatched by his 'Majesty the Emperor, has brought to her Majesty the Empress the followiug news : 0,1 the 11th of Feh., at day-break, the Emperor, having left (;hampanbert after the day of the linh, pushed a Corps towards Chalons, to keep in cheek the columns, who had throw N themselves on this side. With the rest of his army he took the roaii to Monttnirail. A league beyond, he met the eurpa or /.en. Blucher, and after an action of two fours, the whole of the enemy's army was overthrown. Never did tour troops display more ardour. " The enemy, every where broken, is completely routed ; in fantry, artillery, ammunition, ail is in our power; ur The re'ult ts , :!l be immense. " The Prussian army destroyed. The Emperor is extreniely well, and we have lose ea person of rank.—( Nunif ear, lap. ln.) PARIS, FHB. 15.—tier Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has received the accounts of the situation tit the armies : On the 12th of Feb. his Majesty followed tip his sueeeves. Witcher endeavoured to gain Chateau Thivriy. ills troops welt. driven from position to position. A whole corps, which had re mained united, and which protected his retreat, was elll 1111.1 rear-guard was composed of four Russian battalions, three Prussians battalions, and three pieces of caution. The 'General who commaiWeil it was also taken. Out , troops entered Chateau Thierry pelt-mull with the eoeuty, and arc pursuing on the road to Soissons the wrecks of this army, which is in dreadtbl confusion. ' " The results of to,day, the I.2th, ate thirty pieced of camion, and an innumerable quantity of baggage waggons. The number tit prisoners was already 3,1)00 ; more are brought iu every moment, %Vu have still two hours day -light. Among the prisoners are five or six Generals, who are sent to Paris. It is believed, that the General in Chief Sacken has been killed."—( Moniteur, Feb. Ist.) Pit usi !Ns, FEE. I`'.--(Frum a private,letter.)—Vou have cer tainly heard of the Emperor's success yesterday. I acquaint you with the departure of his Majesty, with the Dukes of Treviso and Ragusa, and the Prince of Muskwa. All the.divisions from Spain, which were here, marched away yesterday.; it was chiefly the cavalry and infantry of the Duke of Ragusa that was engaged. The guard did not charge. at eleven in the morning.-- News is just arrived, that the Emperor has wholly destroyed the corps of Blucher and Sacken.— Vire l'Empermr. P Anis, Fua.,l(2.—liis Majesty King Joseph rt viewed yesterday in the court of the Thuilleries the Grenadier companies or the :S ,t -( tiOlial Gnat d of Park. Ihe ctlicers and subalterns of the con pauses of fusileers were preseut. The fine .appearance tit these troqps, the excellent :whit with which they are animated, must' inspire the citizens of l'aris with the. greatest c-iitidenee. A !isely em ation was excited by the appearance of his Majesty the 'King of Rome, in the uniform or the National Ciaard. Daring the review a Courier am% ed with dispatches, el hich his: I‘l,ijesty King Joseph lead aloud. '1 hey contain in substance, that his Majesty time Emperor attacked on the tittli, near SdZaWIC, a Ruse sian turps 01 twelve re:4Wliellts, %heels was completely anniedated. Six thousand men were taken prisoncrs, and the rest di lye!' into the marshes. Fortv-twopieces 01 caution Were taken neon. the t'uei)iy. Roinanzolf, the Colonels, all theOzlicers, mere killed or takcti prisoners. The materiel of this corps has been entirely de stroyed. We have not lost above ‘...00 men. It added that the corps of Generals Witcher and S . acken ate is f a critical situation. '[lie Emperor is in pursuit of them. These I• dispatches arc dated from Champancit. 31R PUT AND MR. FOX'S OPINIONS (IN THE BOURBONS. Mr. PrTT--" My opinion of the past remains unaltered. This coun try wits at first called upon to resit: an attack against all existing 6 0 . sk•iinnvitts : its object 'vas sectvity. I must witless that his Majeaty's 'Mi n isters then thought the dissolution of the Revolutionary liovern ment was the best nontus of obtaining this-security, though they never declared it a sine gun non. t then thought the restoration of the Mo s.:ltchy w wild he a happy thine for France and for Europe. I think so tint con f e s s , that to my dying day I shall always regret the dis appointment of my hopes. I should have been happy to have put to tedier the fragments of that venerable edifice which have been so cruelly scattered. [ should have been happy to have been able to drive France within her ancient limits, and even to have strengthened the hirriers of her neighbours."—( Speech ors the Preliminaries Pence. ) Mr. Fox --" As far as the object of war was restituticm of the !loose (if Bourbon, It i to me a reciiiiimeridatiim of the pence that that o bject has failed : had it succeeded, the general liberties of mankind would It lye been endangered."--(Spercir on Ole frainsinarirs.) Had Mr. Fox been alive, we should have been glad to have asked him how the iiberties of mankind have been protected nod secured 0 the G.lvernment of the 'r rant who has usurped the Bourbon Throne ? and w huther he thinks the liberties of mankind could have hero tioiught into such danger by the Bourbons as they hare been by this Object of the warm eulogies of all his party, Buunaparte ? • The Duke'de Berri does not proceed to his original destination, but is expected to his brother the Duke d'Angoolente, who, we believe, is with L ird Alonsieur is gone to the head quartets of tae addrv-sing himself to the Eniper:: - of llussin in behalf of 11k sitti . ...ring House, he might use the languisge of Mr. Burke to the ess of Ilassia in 1791, " Ihst in the rase of the S . overei , 7n of r'Ance the cause of all Sovereigns are truest," that " a dereliction of his c ao s. o could not be without a strong imputation on the public and pri vate honour of Sovereignty itself, nor ssithout tsn irreparmhie injury to its isitert'sts. It would occasion to reresent Monarchs as natural inessult , s to each other, and that they never support or countrualkie aut,i,:ct:, of a &other Prince, except when they raid against him." A new bal:oting of troops has been ordered for the whole Ausirian Empire. tiunpry alone is. to furnish sixty thou sand men: Moin. 1