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

THE NATIONAL REGIS No 320. Our Zing, Constitution, airo laths. PUBLISHED AT NO. 11, NEWCASTLE-STREET, STRAND. SUNDAY, I: EnIZUARY - 9 7. 1814, POLITICAL DISQUISITION. -41?'"dr'se• STATE OF MI. V% AR IN FRANCE. We have received in the course of last week a most im pertant mass of official intelligence, which enables us to form a 'netts , accurate view of the state of warfare iu France, the Gazette of last night, and from Buonaparte* bul letins, which come doWn to the same date. On the Sth of this month the Allied. Armies formed round Paris a con nected sNui-circle, on a cord of which stood Buonaparte with all the troops he could gather front every part of the dominions still in his power, like the bear at a stake ready to take advantage of the unguarded and unsupported advauce of the boldt assailants. The., 9th was spent on both sides in military movements. O the loth, by Buocaparte's own bulletin, the Silesia , ' army was within three days march of Paris, and it became deccssary to relieve Ow capital from immediate pressure on that side. Acco!dingly on that day Buoaaparte, who had previously mad.! all the necessary preparations fur that object. moved forward from Sezattne to attack the van Euard of General Sicken. posted at Chant• paubert, under General Alsufielf. lie se , !rns to have coin; pletely surprised that corps, which was obliged to yield to superior f(o-ces with considerable loss in artillery and men, killed. wounded, and prisoner;, and among the last was the Commanding General himself. On the 11th, G ens. ..o.kezi and D'Yorck, eager to revenge that defeat, advanced towards Monrmitail, about twelve miles from Champaubert, to at tack the enemy, They stet Buonaparte at the head of thir ty thousand men ; a desperate action ensued ; the village of Marchais was taken and retaken three times. Those corps Cif the allies boat of having retained their position, and ad mit having lost four pieces of cannon' ; but they subsequent ly retreated towards the Marne, and afterwards retired behind that river on the llth, a suffigient acknowledgment of the superiority of the enemy. (We merely state what appears to us to he the fair result of those actions ; on Buonaparte's own accounts, as they differ from it we shall briefly advert in the sequel.) On the 13th. General Blucher. Commander in Chief of the Silesian army, who had surely been apprised that Sacker and 1/Yerck had been worsted by the ene:ny, but who pro bably was not aware of their h.iying retreated acroFs the Marne, advancc4 from Bergeres, the center of his position, to support them. lie directed his march towards Ltors, a small town, occupied by Marshal Nfarmont, with nine or fen thousand men to observe his movements, and who retteated on his approach. It does not appear that Nial'S h3l Blucher was able to make any serious impression upon him, but still barrassing him in his re'reat, he foll Owed him to the smajl. village of Prowentieres, beyond Champanbiert, the se rot. I Aro. CCUN-T. A '. - 3: : 4 the former action, and both armies bivouacked for the night, Blucher being determined to attack next day. But before this deign could he carried into execution, Nlarmont re. treated still farther to Janvilieres. In the tn...en time, Bno• naparte, who, having followed Sacken to the Marne, was at Chateau Thierry on the 13th, made a forced march- in the night with all his guards, and a considerable corps of cavalry, and on the morning of the 14th er:e ‘ted his pre-concerted junction with Marmont. The veteran Blnch"r was evidently surprised by this rapid and masterlytnovement.An engagement was now inevitable, and he had to contend in a flat countr„ with forces superior to his in a doubleproportiott, ar4 with a cavalry three-fold mare numerous ; he was however supe r;or in artillery. In that unforeseen exigency Blucher was still himself, and he could rely on his troops. The cavalry of his advanced guard was soon forced to give wav before the vastly superior numbers of the enemy ; but it found a safe reaeat in the intervals of the infantry formed into squarer, behind which it rallied Blucher, however, finding the ground untenable, from the superiority of forces against him in an open country, began his retreat towards Etoges, His infantry continued farmed in solid squares, the intervals being furnished with artillery, and the cavalry occasionally skirmishing on the exterior sides of his moving fortresses. In that way he retreated near sixteen tniles, fighting every inch of the ground, resisting the most furious charges of the enemy's cavalry, without one of his squares being once broken. Surrounded at one time on all sides, he broke his way by his determined resolution, the steadiness of his troops, and the fire of his artillery and musketry, first through circumvenintr corps of cavalry, then through infantry, end at last reached Etoges at night in safety, with the loss of about three thousand five hundred, and that of the enemy must have been much more considerable from the nature of the contest, masses of cavalry being exposed to the fire of ar tillery, and to the mitsquetry of squares of infantry against which all their charges had been unavailing, ; bad one of them been broken the loss of Bluchor's army was inevitable, Buonaparte firmly reckoned upon it, and perhaps no . other General, and no other army could have-avoided the impend. ing destruction. By this retreat Blucher and his. army ae. quired more glory than the most splendid . victory. Buono' parte, however, reaped the most solid fruits of it. Blucher in consequence of that action retreated unmolestNl to Cha , ions, behind the Marne, where he was afterwards joined the corps separated from his army during these operations, and by odic& who hastened to reinforce him, but in the mean time the neiehlrent hood of Parisi as far as the hanks of the name, was free 4 from the presence of O' tietny. , Subseenently Blucher having been joined by all those corps, ~411 his army being co:npletety with 411 niVesfaries,-, ITER. PR Ter 94•