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

116 TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. it ~.ertfol. It grieves me, that I cannot spate you the participatioo of ail the evils and inconveniences inseparable from war; but I will do every thing in my vwer to !lighten its Wakens. We will not degrade ourselves by-taking vengeance for the enoimitiet perpe trated by your hands in our countries ; we make war against him cloue who wishe% to render it everlasting. I am going to abolish the most hateful of your imposts, the consolidated duties, and the impost on salt. mud moderate that on registration : may I, for your sake e.peeially, wave inhabitants of Lorraine, be the means of causing the gvod old time. to return, width west. enjoyed by your ancestors under the gent e and partadal government of your Dukes.' THIRD BULLETIN OF Tilt ARMY BEroat wtmuuncar. " fle,idluartcr, of Hie (kn. in Chief of the Polish Army at Pinneoere, before liamburgh. 44 On the night between the Ist and 2t! (nth and i•lth) of Ja nuary, the advanced guard of General Markow drove back all the French posts to the entrenchments of the Sternschanze, and other works near Altona. Tic loss of the enemy. io killed, wounded, prts.n. rs, was con-ideraide. Our out-posts established them 'eves opposite to hi* rnhenelnnents, whereby his posts at ands be and llarmberk being surrounded, they as well as the posh of Shill beck and f• II back On this occasion, as well as on other d.sys, more skirmishes took place, all to the advantage of our troops, who killed and took prisoners s cousidembk. Humber of the enemy. 4g 01 the Bth (zoth) Count Stroganoff took aii the villages before tidachitrg.. Gen Sel , co t•clinschinikok who was posted at Orb sem% r ler, aftutded all the :assistance he could iu this attack ; the te•-•: tut' which was, that the enemy lust the whole of the villages ticiu environs of Haarhurg, as well as the island of Moorvrarter. i.e Ili , . ps rots Gin t 8 co::01-01 penetrated into tie ton n of Haar !g, at.!: th. re spiked uiee casinos!: ef 1 1 - 1:•• caiz bre. text worn. ill; the an attempt on 048 Aarder ; last the admira hfc st.-st:•s!c.• (;en.Schenstschusehinil.ett, a nd a flank movement mace b) C nett Stoo l :m.(41, caused him to retire with precipitation, roil to lea.t four pieces of caution in the possession of the The I-ss or the * newsy boss. dO. was ‘e . y coosiderable :we took pri-oners 1 Aires , and rl OO !oldicrs, and the number of his killed nod %mooted was very great." FOURTH OF THE ARMY BtrortE HANIBURGII. 66 Head cillarte.rs oft e neral in Chief of the l'ulesh A illy at Pitineberg, berme " The CI niniandin2 iesieral in Chief, true to the al:opted plan Of .....nstantly alarming the gat ri , :on of liatobisreli, and carry log off the pf—t• maintain' it without the works of that place, in order to see me loste.cit surp. 111i,4:••• olt the 1:;111 (the (25th) Ja lwarYe the With el- y of 1 , 1.= heloe tit Enopresi Elizabeth Alexwena, i n 0! . e , =err Sin festival, a general attack on all the enemy's posts at 11;dnein, the A• sehlap,ervriek and Iltc Staileiehr, mlnte i,e aiso three te d demo= -tr un all the outworks situated ore , he *ltle. of Nt•aodsbeel. anti Alton*. " Tt retinites 01.:. tio ' a:eliA‘ord For our adored F.aipress, , to iedeoin!t= ti e In.tiw cou , age of her brave Russian., and to assure the I ei;• et •nece.s of t es. ie., pilau. }Jannis, the Ausehlagerwick, and the pie.itiotis snore carried by the bayonet. 'ro it)4.;.-out picks tg, in front of the entrenchments of the Land -1.1 r. the Stern( In u it, twit the contiguous Lunch, were killed or taken, and the recuononot.uce of these works was posited tu within the 'tinge ut gr we shot. " The io , s of the merry ' as considerable. 'llse prisoners brought in ;intuited to eight officers and 300 privates, and the number of 11-11cil is gru.iter. grunt number 4-f offieers and soldier% were bayoneted by the the aim ch of Hamm. Our loss is say inconsiderable. FEfl. 20 tO cnturoil tis ; and that these t‘to Authorities, animated with the most patriotic sentiments, correspoud entirely w ith the wishes of the Spanish people, who have entrusted to them the hap piness of the country. . . JAN. 25.—We have now to mention another branch of the Corsi can's plot, which has reached us hitherto only in the shape of rumonr, but which, when we consider its finesse, and the new em barrassment in which it wac meant to entangle us may yet be looked upon as authentic. It appears, them that, by the tacaty between our unfortunate hiii and Lrier was.to procurein marriage for Ferdinand VII. an Anstri an Princess, the Archduchess Maria Ileatrix, aged 76 years, and the alanOiter of the Archduke FFidinand, uncle to the Emperor. It i• nonereAsaly to point out to our readers the views of ISuonaparte in this propo sed connection : the Emperor of Austria, it seem... 43 r,l be alts plank of safety for the Corsican in his .tremenilons shipw r 4 t'k ; be will leave no stone unturned to deceive him. and itrivive Again, then fore, would we nictitate the necessity of vi;olance against his plots and inttignes. SPANISH PAPERS. MADRID. JAN. 23 —We have obtained some additional infor mation relative to the tnntoits tois..ion of tlw Duke de San Carlos. That. personage, it appe.r,, brought two lettela, one from our be- Jove() Kinj, 21141 the other trout the execrable Coisicati. The Re 'envy tai , et eti ta.e tunnel, bat the lath rw. pent back unopened to Its ni at-herniis antilop'. In this eontlitet the liegetiey g; ,re a new proof of the decisior, good f.itia and In, ally with which they act forthe I en( fit of the country. 1% e understand, also that in the float bt er . r , of the Corte., the Regency bid before them an acre mot of the new plots f the Cor,tettit, and of the manner in which they had item', and G at the Cot tes expiePed their fullsatis b- the Regency. We have also It the Cortes and the Exe greatest union find harmony was the objet of the Cur- t . 41( . 11/ii flt tit. COMP. purm:ttl by the ;4 . ' 4 mi I l l. a . II ll ' :4.aiigkinintlai44iitig, that rti 11% I' (..;.. 0 4,0 ••: ~.. ..14 . 4.0rst \ hr . A 4, 11 th:s (Itzlitatit" .. ? .4: • - •: •: • .%1 it - I - • f . :!:\ • .:.`i-. -..,-%..- ~..-:•,* , ..;; :11,- . -- -:4;k4 ' v. :: TN44 • 4, • /14.'4! .•:'-''' . B, , • ' .-..:.c".. • ' ' _./ :-- ../. 4... .. y l / 44‘, s• .4., :pr.. .... 40,-,,,.....•;::::„...• SECOND SUPPLEMEAT TO SATURDAY'S GAZETI WAR DEPARTMENT, DOWNING-STREFI, FEB. 1.;. A di.patch, 01 Well the is a cui.y. wits last (Tait ed at Earl liatburst's Office, addressed 1,) his Luid,hip by Ctn. Sii Tbi;ruaa Graham, dated 11eicxeri., Ftti. 6, 1814. 11c d-quaricry, Mercxein, Feb. 6, 1814. _ _ . My Gunn--T sLould have been happy to hove had to announce I. your Lordship, that the inovement on Al:i.4crp, fixed by Ge)). Boum fur the 2d in.t.int, had produc. d a greater effect; but the want of time and of greater means, will account ;‘, your Lordship tot the oisappaint• meet of our lope, of a more Outttliciory result; for Gen. Below re. teived (after we bad got . tire better of al! the great obstacles in the way of taking a position near the town ) order, to proceed to the aouthwaid so.:tct in concert with the griind army; and the state of the w , thther, furs nue time back, not (lily prevetted my receiving the supplies of ordnance and ordnance store. from England, bet made it impossible to laud much of what was to• board the transports near NV illiamstadt, the icc cutting off all commu ication with them. 11) Lye, ho%%ever, sincere pleasure in assisting your Loitiship, that every past of the service was conslocted by the Officers at the head of the different departments ) with zea; and intelligence possible. To 'cake up fur the want of our own artillery, all the serviceable Dutch mortars, with all the ammusiiiiim that could be collected, Were prepared at Willitoustadt, and on the evening of the lat the troops of of the first and second dssisions, thut could be spared irom other ser vices' were collected at Braeschat, and ot xt morning ibis vilkge (fer. tilled with much labour ever since oar former attack) was carried in the must galloit style, in a much shorter tune. and %Alt ruueli less toss than I could have believed posstbl , . Major Gen. Gibbs. commanding the 2d division (in the absence of Major-Gen. Nl.Kenzie. coutitted by a dangerous fish from his home), ably seconded by Major-Geo. Tay kr, and b% Lieu' -Col. Harries, com manding Maj:)r-Gen. Gibbs's ktigade, conducted this attach, in %hick all the troops engaged behaved with the usual spi.it unit intrepidity of British soldiers. I lee! pertiv tdatly indebted to the Officers already named, and also to Lieut.-Col. Cameron, commanding the detachments of the three bat talions of the 9511; ; to Lieut.-Col. lionipesch, with the regimeot ; to Alajor Kellv , with the 64th ;to Lieut.-Col. Brown, with the ; I for the di•tingoi,hed manner in which those corps attacked tha lett mi d centre of the village, foaming the etivit.y from every strung and storming the mill battery on Ferdinand's 1)% ke ; a bile Major Gem Tay hr, vi i.lt the 5.241. undrr Lieu' Col. Bible; the n. - .oh, under Major ,Macalister ; and the 78th, under Lieut. Cu_. I,iiidt,ev, matching to the ri g ht, and ditraly on the mill cf Ferdinand's Ihke, threatened the e h em % , entiminnication froni :Miami] towards Antwerp. Two pieces of cannon and a considerable number of prisoners fe}l into our liandA. • NO time was lost in marking out the batteries, which by the great ex• ertions of the tirtillerv, ni.der Lieut.-Col. Sir 6. W.mdi and the EN' gineers, under Lieut .Col. Carmichael Smyth, ar:rr the good will of the woriiiticr pArlie%, were Coll:l.leird by half past three, p. rir ot the Sd. The working opviied :It that hour. During the short trial of the fire that mot nin', the deteetilp state of iliv Williainstadt mortars and ammunition was too ri:ible. Our weans were thus diminished, and much time Wii . S lust, as it was not till twelve at nuon the fullovriug,day (the 4th), that the fire could be opened again. That day's fire disabled five of the six 24spouutiers. Yesterday 114 fire was kept up :11l day. The practice was admirable, but thery was not a sufficient num ber of aheils falling to prevent the t.eviiiy fiom ex. El:lgo:tailing Ere- whenever it broke out among the iirills , atui ear lire