The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-23 00:00:00

. ..,... .. „ . _ . . . . . . - . . 1 . 1 . 11. ;54 •Tn r, .NATIONA L REGISTER. . Ann.; . es:. • A officer who It ft Vienna rectbe ' 7 ' the gives the following . tion of the Allies tending to tranquillise the nation re :dive faimaii,ti: to the object of the Allies. 111. Martens, of the Austrian -' Ite . ssei is marchine to the Rhine 17 divisions, consisting foreign department was to draw it up, in the name of the • (*coo ci ssacks ii,cluded i of i in,ooo wen Prussia has an allied Sovereigns. It will state the wish of !be Powers to . sr liv of gn,noo in route for , he Rhine, and that part of the remain in peace; that they do not pretend to dictate laws to low C iintries in' her posse;ston The Pt ussians show great Fiance, not. oblige, it to be governed by the Beat bow, but resew :vent towards the ['tench, and are disposed to do all will allow her to choose any other chief, except the Empe lossihre taischie , to France shoeld the war commence ror Napoleon. This declaration is ro be circulated in France, England, Holland, fiat over, and Hesse, will assemble a by Frenchmen who can be depended upon. . t kr( eof Co,ooo were ready to act by- the 15th of May, un- . _._..... • . der the conmeenl of the Duke of Weliineton. ON ANIMAL MAGNETISM AND OTHER EPI : . The force i f the Bavaria,' army, according to the return DEMIC MANIAS. bride to the Prince of Wrede, was 44,000, on the 29th —........... )fast it. Jr is supposed that it will put in motion a corps of (From the Gazette de France.) *5,000 for 'Fa. Rhine. 1:• I t i s an acknowle d ge d f act, t h at i t i s ver y'diffi ca lt t o A ' nsfria. furnishes ISO,OOO men for 'ltaly, but only about , aeteono ran he relied on. • The Austrian at my on the Rhine acquire wisdom: on the other hand, nothing is easier than ii estimated at 1145,000 ; but it is positively said that its real I to adopt a prevailing folly ;- and this unhappy facility still increases, on account of the number of persons who find Sot( e is only 70,000. , themselves simultaneously exposed to the same species of • Wi: tumherg far t a corps of 10,000 men for the first Line of the win d armies. The remainder is to he placed in mania. The same happens in that case as in heavy rains, the reset ve Baden has 10.000 men, and the division which each drop that had fallen flowed slowly, and might he that State wet have in the line is estimated at 5000. The stopped by the least obstacle; but when they are once stn ingent of /Jesse Darmstadt, which is fixed at 4000, is united, they produce an impetuous torrent ) of which seady. nothing can check the course. . . ... ' The forces of Piedmont have been greatly exaggerated. The history of all ages abounds with authentic rel atio ns That countryhas coly 12 or' t 5,000 men on whom the Al- of manias at once epidemic and contagious. That which Res can count. These ate destined to take the offensive by once seized upon all the.girls of the town of Miletum, . Monte Cenis., irr concert with the Austrian corps. The and induced them to hang themselves, was of a very fatal Allies also propose a defrauds with a corps by Nice on An. character. Neither remonstrances, says . Plutarch, nor IF bes and Marseilles, the tears of their fathers and mothers, or the consolatiOns On the 5(1 and 4th of April it was agreed by the Allies at of their friends, prodneed any effect upon them, for they Irienea, tat all the French prisoners of war should be sent always found means, in order to destroy themselves, to to the eNticmity of Russia, and neither be restored or ex- elude all the stratagems and inventions of those who erant:fd. Those who choose aoserve will he sent to the ar- watched them. i , wies of Caucasus, others may form colonies, and those who Previous to that period the daughters of King Prtetus, rtinse t ,, do any thing are to be sold for slaves. The other and in their imitation the women of the town of Argos, Allied Vowels are to treat the pi . isoners they may make with i had fallen into a state of mental derangement, which made 1 - all' the sett( t ity and contempt due to the conduct of a nation them fancy that they weiechangad into cows, to that they which arrogates to itself the right of choosing its Govern- ran bellowing, through the fields: . • . *sent • Another Mania, of a more lively character, attacked The Allies essentially rely on the Emperor's inability to the inhabitants of Tirynth, of which Atbeneus gives an procure a sußieient number of muskets, on, there being very accoun t. Th e h a bit o f a convu l s ive l aug h had gr o wn so few cannon in Fence, and on its being impossible for the strong in their town s that they could dot treat any affairs Emperor to find 'raises for the . artillery. They are persuaded seriously. Deeply afflicted at this singular epidemy, they that he has only from 18 to 20,000 cavalry, and that he sent to consult the oracle of Delphos to obtain the means eannot repulse above 25,000 ; while they, as they pretend, of curing their disorder. The God ordered them to sa will have 70,000 in line. crifice a bull to Neptune, then to throw it into the sea It was deciezal in a Council on the 4th and 3tb of April with due ceremonies, but without laughing. This last at Vienta, to prosecute the war oil a systematic plan ; not condition was not easy to observe, yet owing to excessive to assume the offensive until all the troops be in line; to self-restraint every thing went on very well until the end inake•sieges, in order that a double and triple line of fortress of the ceremony. All jovial persons ) especially children, may not be in their rear ; not to give battle to the Emperor had been removed lest they should impair the gravity of except with double the number of troops of every arnte. The the congregation ; yet a boy, more curious than the rest, Duke . of Wellington has a plan of his own for all the Allies, had stolen into the train ; as soon as he was seen, the peo and for all the operations in general, even for Italy; but be ie attempted to drive him away :cc what'' he exclaimed will rrnt disclose it until all the Allies are ready to commence Pare you afraid I should swallow your bull." They re / hostilities. plied by bursts of universal l aughter and the Tirynthians The grand held-quarters of the Allies will be at Frank- o / fort. Prince SchwartLenberg will have a great commandOn understood that they must resign themselves to their fate. the Rhine: During the middle ages and the long period of mental The Allies distrust the Swiss ; at Vienna they called the 1 obscurity which followed the reign of Constantine and pat titans of liuonaparte. The Allies dread the French army, the destruction of the Roman Empire, all the epidemic but think still more that the nation will take part in the war. manias which visited almost every country in Europe, On the G.ls of April it was still said at Vienna, that only the was generally attributed to witchcraft and the possession military supported Napoleon; that all the South was in in- of the Devil. I can only mention here a few of the most sarreet ion, &e, remarkable; such was for instanee that which about the There was to be already circulating in France a rfoclama. middle of the sixteenth century infected almost all the . • _ .. . _..... -- . :., ..- ..„,, t ,..., - _ .• . _.• .. 7 —.. -..,-=.._ . . .. - - - -, , ' s -46 .;-., •• ** ' . 7 . -. ------ - 7 _,.r - --7, - .lis•-• .--.4ism -.7 -64.11 . 14.. : ' - '.4.0