The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-06-23 00:00:00

A. • FRENCH PAPERS. LETTER FROM AN ()MEER OW HIGII RANK, Dart' Wailerln three ledr*le* in from of nna-ei., Jima. 19. We have gained a great and most glorious victory yesterday evestiug, and totally defeated Betraparte's arme, and taken all his cannon, baggage, &c. The Duke has done all this—it was the severest and most bloody action ever fought, and the con. duct of the British infantry have even surpassed its f o rmer fame. The contest began shoat eleven o'clock, and last ed sill nearly the same hoer at night, whets the Bri. tish troops were halted, and the Prussians, who had come ue, were sent forward in pursuit, and Mar. sisal Blucher has followed them to the Sambre. Our head-quarters will be to-day at Nivelles. This victory has saved Europe: it was frequently very doubtful ; but the Duke, by his extraordinary perseverance and example, saved the day. We have already taken upwards of 100 pieces of cannon and immense numbers of ammunition waggons, and Blu cher has just sent its word that his road is actually cloaked up with the artillery, baggage, &c. and *tech we have taken. The rout of the French has horn complete, and there are several thousand pd. snnets and many Generals killed and taken of the enerey• Our, lose is, ales ! most severe; it grieves me to the heart to enumerate the names of the heroes who lave fallen—Picton killed, a great loss! Gordon and Canning, the Duke's Aid-de-Camps, killed ; Delancey ; Lord Uxbridge has lost a leg; Fos e ,. s Somerset an arm; and Colonel Ponsonby is, I fear, in great danger, as both arms are broken ; letrise. is severely wounded. I cannot go on with this aleintsch. Iv part of the subject, but must refer you to the Duke's public dispatches, which, of course, will he °sore accurate than the rumours that reach me its such a moment of grief and joy, and agitation of spirits. come runaways front the earl) , skirMiehes spread, I fear. sons.' alarm at Brussels; thank God, nut one luau of the British infantry wee found in the rear.,. Our cavalry made several most brilliant chargee; and the itousehoki brigade has particularly distin guished themselves.—Lord Uxbridge's conduct Charleroi. how 15. throughout the day was most animating, and he un. On the 14th the army was placed in the following fortunately received his wound nearly at the conclu.. ma nner :— sims, when the enemy were in full retreat. The Imperial headquarters at Eteitumnnt. No language cats do justice to the extraordinary The Ist corps, commanded by General D'Erlon, merit mot talents which the Duke displayed during was at Solre, on the Sambre. • , the %hole of the action. Our infantry were mostly The 2d corps, commanded by Gen. Heine, was at formed in squares, and the enemy's cavalry were five , el em .se r .ll eute . or sic, or eveis ten times during the day upon our I The 3d corps, commanded by Gen. Vandamme, ground and round our squares, but one of which they ! was on the right o f B eaumont. never penetrated. I never have seen or heard of a I The 4th corps, commanded by Gen. Gerard, had field of battle so covered with dead and wounded.e— arrived at Philippeville. The Duke was all day every where in the thickest of On the 15th, at three in the morning, General it; and his piece of refuge was in one of the squares Reale attacked the enemy, and advanced upon Mar. the enemy's cavalry charged. At six in the evening u hl enn ee,a,-Pont. There were various engagements, the Duke ordered the attack. We bad till then been in which his cavalry charged a Prussian battalion, On the defensive, and in less ,than half an hour we and made 300 p r i so ners. routed the first line, and threw them on their second, At one its the morning the Emperor was at Jamig and then the rout was general. The Guards (Adam's, , non-sur-Ileure. rack's, and Impel' brigades), and am old Corfaili General Maw% division of light &ruby sabred Legion, behaved nobly. The Duke, I pray aadt l two Prussian battalions, and made 403 prisoners. may be spared to us, as without him we cud* Gen. Pajol entered Charleroi at mid-day. The nothing. Sappers and marines of the guard were with the ad bur loss since the 16th must have exceeded 5000. values to repair the bridges. They were first to pe. —I have never seen so many British killed and ' uetrate into the town as sharpshooters. wounded. Gen. Clan, with the' lit Hussars, advanced upon The fire of artillery and musketry was terrible. Gosselies, on the Brussels road; and Gen. Pajol The Duke intends moving immdiately and to enter upon Gilly, on the Nampr road. France. The French Officers say that Bonaparte lAt three in the afternoon General Wickman de pot himself at the head of the Imperial Guards during douched with his corps on Gilly. the charge, and charged with them up the hill. It Marshal Grouchy arrived with the canlry of Geis. Is believed that Jerome flonapatte is killed. I Excelmane. Sir M. Delancey is found, and lam informed by ; The enemy occupied the left of the position of ass Officer who has seen him, that there ii every pio- Fleurus; at five in the afternoon the Emperor or. balsility of hii retotery. dered an attack. The position was turned, and carried. Four squadrons of the Guard(' command. The parade in St. limes's Park, yesierday morning, ed by General Letort, the Emperor's Aid-de-Camp; was uncommonly numerous and splendid. The house- brae three squares; the 26th, the 27th, and 23th told brigades; consisting of the Lfe Guardi 2nd Os- Prussian regiments were routed. Our squadrons ford Blues, and the Font Guards, were drawn up ' sabted from 4 to 500 men, and took 150 prisoners. at half-imat nine o'clock, and occupied the space . During this time Gen. keille passed the Sambre at from Cal Iton.house to the Bird-cage-walk. At ten Ma rchiennes-au-Pont, its order to advance epos' Gos. the guts fired a double salute, its celebration of the Belies with the divisions of Prince Jerome, and glorious victory achieved by the Duke of Welling. General Bechelu, attacked the enemy, took from toss over Bonaparte; after which, the cavalry him /50 prisoners, and pursued him on the read to flourishing their swords, the infentry witting their litus‘els. caps with sprigs of oak in them, gave three We thus beanie mastent of the Whole position of hearty cheer., in *hick the military were joined Fleurus. by the seeds nations of an immense concourse of At eight in the evening the Emperor re-entered his people, who bad assembled at an early beer from head-quarters at Charleroi. all parts of the metropolis. The cavalry then This day cost the enemy five pieces of cannon and went through various evolutions with incredible WOO men; of whom 1000 are prisoners. Out loss is celerity, end the bands continued playing national 10 men killed and 80 wounded, the greeter part be airs, flourishes of trumpets, &c. it intervals, for three longing to the squadrons of the guard who made the qualtert of an hour. At eleten a gerieral move. charges, and to three squadrons of the 20th dra. meat of the troops took place. The Foot Guards, eoons, who also charged a square with the greatest who occupied the centre, advanced to the rails of intrepidity. Our loss, though trifling in amount, the Park, for Ming double lines, three deep, the Life has been sensibly felt by the Emperor, from the se. Guards on the right, and the Blues on the left. The *ere wound received by General Letort, his Aid-de. Duke of York on foot, end surrounded by an iat. Camp, in charging at the head of the squedrons.— mense crowd, who had accompanied him from York: He is an officer of the greatest distinction : he was house, appeared in front of the line, was received by struck by a ball in the lower part of the belly, but the military with the usual honours, and by the con. the surgeons give hopes that his toped *ill not be parry with loud and reiterated acclamations. A feu- niortalla. de joie was now fired from the extreme right of the I We have foetid some magazines at Charleroi.— line to the left, the effect of which was greatly en. the joy of the Belgians it would be impossible to hanced by the cavalry discharging their carbines. 'the describe. there were Items villages which, On thd Foot Guards then fell hack to their usual position ; sight Of their deliverers, formed dances; and every the cavalry closed from right and left. The Doke of ; *here there is rt movement which proceeds from the Yolk, in full uniform, accompanied by a number of ; heart. Field Officers, read the London Gaulle, containing I In the report of the Major-General of the Stall', the glorious news from the theatre of the war; at the names of the officers and soldiers who distill& the conclusion of which the military and the specta- , guished themselves will be inserted. tors united in three more loud cheers, after which I The Emperor has given the command of the left to the military filed off, some to their quarters, and the Prince of Moskwa, who, in the evening, had his others to relieve the different guards. The pnpu- head-quarters at Quartre , Chemins, on the road to lace followed the Commander-in-Chief to his Office Brussels. in the Horse Guards, huzzaiug and clapping their I The Duke of Treviso, to whom the Emperor gave hands. A rumour prevailed oh the parade, that the command of the young guard, has remained at the eagles which had been taken, would be exhi- 1 Beaumont, ill of the rheumatism, which has forced bited as proud trophies of the victory ; but this ex. him to keep his bed. hibition is postponed till the solemn ceremonial of I The 4th corps, commanded by General Gerard, depositing them in Whitehall chapel shall take place. arrives this evening at Chatelet. Gets. Gerard has The captive eagles are now at Carlton-house. They stated, that Lieut.-Gen. Bourmont, Col. Clouet, and are quite new, and are two of those that were the Chief of Squadron Villoutreys, have passed over presented by Bonaparte to his household troops to the enemy. at the memorable assembly of the Champ de Mai, l A Lieutenant of the 11th Chasseurs has also gone and have under them a magnificently embroi- over. tiered colour, about the size of the standard used by I • A letter of the F.operar, of the 16th, sods arith4hcse wear, the cavalry. • Wilke with Ids own Min t re e et is going 94 ITcH." .. ~_ v~ ...~. , . . THE STATESMAN: • PAIL'S. Jcria 17. GENERAL ORDER. •.... . ' ' t. ' . . t ,•• . • . 4* Avesses, lime 11. 11111 t . :! " SOLotrus !•.—This any is the annitqrviry .of Marengo and of Priedlain, which telee decided the destiny of Europe. Then, wafter Austerlitz, as aft i ter Wagnm, we were too gen erous ! W s b e li eve d lin the protestations and in the oathimf Princes whom we left on the throne ! Now, howeirer, coalesced . !among themselves, they would d estr o y the 14(.- : pendeoce sod the most sacred rights of trance.— : They 'have commenced the most unjust oinggrittsiOns. Let us march, then, to meet them. Are they and Iwe no longer the same men a? 44 Soldiers, at Jena, against these same Prussians, now so arrogant, you were see against there, and at Mantmirail one against sis ! " Let these among you whe have been prisoners of the English, detail to you thehulks,and the fright ful miseries which they suffered! i 46 The Saxons, the Belgians, the Hanoverian*, the soldiers of the Confederation of the Rhine, lament that they are compelled to lend their arms to the cause of Princes, the enemies of justice and of 1 the rights of all nations; they know that this Coali tion is insatiable ! After having devoured twelve millions of Poles, twelve millions of Italians, one million of Saxons, six millions of Belgians, it must devour the States Or the second rank of Germany. Ig‘ The madmen ! a moment of prosperity blinds them. The oppression and humiliation of the French people are beyond their power. If they enter France, tbev will there find their tomb. " Soldiers! we have forced marches to make, battles to fight, dangers to encounter; hut with steadiness, victory will he our's; the rights, the honour, the happiness of the country will be re-con quered I " To every Frenchman who has a heart, the em inent is arrived to conquer or perish. (Signed) " NAPOLEON. (A true Copy) " The Marshal Onke 4 DALMATIA. " Major-General." The Majo...General has ordered that these deserters shall be immediately sentenced conformably to the lass. • , It would be impos‘ibie ! to describe the good spirit and ardour of the eveny.• It Views the desertion of Oh small number of traitors who thus throw off the mask as a fortunate event. TELEbmArnic DISPATCH TRANSMITTED FROM LYONS, 17T11 OF JUNE, IN THS lfonlmrllia~,, the 15th, nine al Bight. . . . THE pima OF •ENUFERA To His, EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER AT WAN. . ~ . , . , .. _ " The enemy was attacked this morning. We have taken 600 ,prisoners, among whom are p Co. lintel and a Major; and we hare killed from 200 to 300 osen. - NSigued) •' The Doke of ALBUFERA." • iftE*ll.lMolll .THIt ARMY. • la rear of teeny. half pair eight in the eveniag a( the iCith Jane, !LUIS. The Emptror has just obtained a.Complettvictory over the, Prin{iaa and English armies united, under the orders or Lord.Willington and Marshal Blocher, —The army, .et,thir, Moment, .tlebouches by the ail, lege of Liitty, in adbatsce of Flom), to pursue the enemy. .•• PARIS, Joao ilesp* Jime 17, (oar o'clock to the meminx. The batik of yesteiaay lasted till 10 o'clock in the evening. We are still in pursuit of the enemy, whe has experienced a terrible overthrOw. We have hitherto 8000 prisoners, 20 pieces of cannon, and several standards ; many officers of rank, among others Count lutzow. Wb expect at day-break to collect a great 'mother in the villages of St. Amend, and ethers who were rut off by the movements which the Emperor caused his guard to make. The grena diers end chassours of the old guard massacred entire mimes, and have lost very few men. It appears that it was a charge of the bayonet by the imperial Foist Guard which derided the battle. The enemy must hare been est remely numerous. I never saw such enthusiasm moos!. soldiers. The columns which mirched to battle, the wounded who returned from being dressed, nem ceased to el clains—" Lire the Emperor 1" COPY OF A LETTER PROM TES MAJOR‘OLIIERAL TO Tilt WA MINISTER. IFleensi, Jose 17. 1815. MOnstsott blanstutL,-4 announced yesterday, from the field of battle of Ligny, to his Imperial Highness Prince Joseph, the signal victory which the Emperor has gained.. I returned here with his Ma. jesty at 1l o'clock in the evening, and it was neces sary to pass the night in attending to the wounded. The Emperor has remouiced his horse to follow the success of the battle of Ligny. It was fought with fifty, and the greatest enthusiasm on the part of the troops. We were one to three. -401--eight o'ctoch ie lise -evening, the Emperor lambed with his guard ; six battalions of the old guard, the dragoons, and horse-grenadiers, and the cuirassiers of the Gen. Delort, debouched by Ligny, and executed a charge which separated the enemy's line. Wellington and Blucher saved themselves with difficulty : the effect was theatrical. In an instant the firing ceased, and the enemy was routed in all directions. We have already several thousand pri soners, and 40 pieces of cannon. The Gth and Ist corps were not engaged. The left wing fought against the English army, and took from it cannon and standards. At night I will give you further details, for every infant prisoners are announced. Our loss (100 not appear enormous ; since, without screen ingjt, I do not reckon it at more than three thousand Men. (Signed) Marshal, Major•Oen. Duke of DALMATIA. (A C..py) Marshal Minister of War, Prince of ECKMDH L. ..--.. IMPORT TO THE IMPIROR DT Till DUKE OP OTRANTO, MINUTZIIOI , GESERAL POLICE OF THE FAME& " Jane. 1815. Staz,—Charged by yotlr Majesty to make known to you the state or the Empire in regard to public order and security, it Is from this Information that the Chambers will be able to appreciate the measures which Government hag taken, and deliberate on those which the &sting crisis renders necessary. " While your Majesty marches at the head of the French armies to repel foreign aggression, you .have a right to expect from the energy ■nd fidelity of the representatives of the midi's' the legal means of ar resiing or punishirtg the enterprise of internal ene mies. " At the same time, Sire, these enemies now, as in times past, are far from numerous ; they disturb only some departments ; and in those where they base hid most success, the mass of the population re jects, disavows tblhai add anxious only to separate from them. 46 Sire, I must tell ydu the whole truth; our ene odes have sidtitity, audacity, instrements without, supporters within; they only await the favourable moment for realising the plan contelved 20 years ago, and for 20 years counteracted, that of uniting the camp of hies to La Vendee; and of drawing in a part of the multitude into this conspiracy, which extends from the coast of the Channel to the Medi terranean: " In this system the country districts on the left bank of the Loire, of which the population is the most easily misled, are the principal focus of insur rection, which, with the assistance of the wander ing bands of Dritany, is meant to be propagated into Normandy, where the vicinity of the isles, and the nature of the coast, render the communications more easy i on the other side it rests upon the Ce mines; in order to extend itself to the banks of the Rhone, by the revolts which may be excited in some parts of Languedoc and Provence. Bourdeaux is since the first the centre of direction of these move ments. " This system has not been abandoned. Nay more, the party, at every new phads of our revolu tion, hes been increased by all the discontented whom "Vents produced, by all the factions en. courapd in their plans by the certainty of amnesty, by all the ambitious who wished to acquire some po. Utica importance by change. So that if we consider . :.,~. , . .... , the heterogeneous elements of which this party is now composed, if we observe the diversity of • viens and interests which. it includes, it can Ise charoc• terised as a royalist party only in the sense of its being an enemy of the Gmerittneut ;,for it has oo fixed and determinate ? ohjoct in, its. ulterior listen. lions, and consequently no uniform and gon , ral cha racter. , • • • •* . r ' It is shis party which .now disturbs internal tranquillity : it is it which igito.tes Marseilles, Thou louse, and Bourdeaurt.; Marseilles,. where the spirit of sedition animates even the, lowest classes of so ciety,, arid where the laws have.beers set at nought ; Thoulouse, which seems still under the influence of the revolutionary erianisation which was given to it some months ago; Bourdeauz, where all the germs of revolt repose and intensely ferment ; Bounteous, where the country had foimetly such numerous de fenders, where liberty escited.to such generous sacri fices ;—Boordeaus no* sends forth the apostles of civil war! • . . . " It is this party which, by means of false newt s , False hopes, therlistribution of money, and the em. ployment of threats, has succeeded in raising the peaceful cultivators in the whole of the territory in. 1 clpsed between thr Loire, La Vendee, the Ocean, and Le Tluntet. Arms and ammunition have bee* landed there. Old names, new men, appear swots this Moody theatre; the bytes of rebellion airings up, is ,re-preduced wherever it formerly exercised it; ravages, and is not put down by our successes at Esnai, St. Gilles, and Patinae. On the other fide of the Loire, bands Iny waste Morhihan, some lows of the departments of the Ille and Vilaine, the Cotes du Nord, and of the Sarthe ; they for a moment in vaded the towns of Aursi, Rhedon, and Memel, the fields of Mayenne, even to the gates of Laval : they stop the seamen and the military cajled out ; they disarm the landholders, increase their numb er, with the peasants whom the compel to march, plun der the public chests, destroy the documents of the administration, threaten the fniictionaries, stop the diligence', seize the couriers, and Intercepted at . one time the communications of Mans with Augers 1 —Angers with Nantes—Nantes with Rennes--end 1 Rennes with Vannes. j "On the coast of IA Manche, Dieppe, Havre, have been agitated by seditious movements. Throughout Ithe 15th division, the battalions of the national militia wire riot formed without the greatest difficulty. The military and the marines refused to answer the calls made on them, and obeyed only *ben compelled.— To the measures which circumstances required was opposed a culpable resistance, oran inert force, more dangerous and more difficult to tonquer than re sistance. Caen has been twice troubled by the Royalist reactions; and in some district* of The Onie, bands are forming t as in Btitantty and Mayenne. l "In fine, all the writings calculal I weak men, embolden the factious, divide the nation, throw contempt . ment ; all the pamphlets which invert, of Belgium, or the clandestine priplit France; all that foreign Journals pub' all that the writers of the party tributed, is hawked about, is dist. punity from the want of repressive abuse of the liberty of the press. " Immoveable in the system of mt you have adopted, your Majesty duty to await the convocation of t ! order to oppose only legal preca manoeuvres which ordinary Legible,' ways punish, and which it could net prevent. 66 The Reporter then alludes , taken against similar insurgents in . I property, prosecute the families of I could not be reached, to strike in scribe whole classes under imaginary to punish the quality tether than dividuals, are worn-out measures, w experience has shown their inutilit: the power of a threat. 66 The times, besides, are changed, piers which surround us are the same they have s however, a different cause, different nature, and public op inior another manner. " In the early part of the Revolt pable of *amnion, because every tht the people themselves ; the state of impossibility of resisting the paisiot rity, excused every thing : but not/ not in a majority wet/ numerical the universality of the citizens is forcne.l the calm and enlightened classes of - Europe. No class of society now political chimeras which were pursut of enthusiasm and of error. Even the party in agitation, we no longer , dices and fanaticism which supported lious : it is civil liberty, and the peaceat of all their rights, which the immense French now claim. 66 Besides, your Majesty does nt the terror of revolutionary measures', even wish to generalise the employmeni authority ; you have subjected k to ' which forms the majority in the com, Police. This ought to be the case, rare exceptions; for wherever the mi ii thefirst line, there is no second lit 46 The General of the Army of t[ received extraordinary powers for the , surrection, because war must be opposed " However, among all nations Or particular code for periods of crisk. berty carrot remain the same in all the State. Every danger of the Star citcumacription of individual liberty internal aggression arid of civil broil citizen to make the momentary sacril Isis personal security, t h at the Gayer' the means of guaranteeing the gene, There is no free State which, in time sent, has not beets obliged to mortify personal liberty of its 4.if izenn. nt suspended the Habeas Corpus Act, foreign war ? The difficulty turns on throe sonment, the period Nsed within which to be denounced to the tribunals, and *maiden. ~_ _ • b: N 'A l i . 7 ' toted to discourage shake confidence s rt on the Govern- iss from the presses printing-houses of publish against vs, compose, is 'dig. I L L apersed with hn, ire laws, and the moderation which thought it your the Chambers, its ecautions to the lation cannot el. either foresee not to the onsisureil .1793. To seise )f the guilty who 3 a mass, to pro, ry denominations, the crime of in. which, now that ty, have not even rl, and if the den. le in appearance, use, thOy are .of on judges them its lotion alt was ca. hing was done by 'anarchy, and the ona of the majo. * the people are I ; the opinion of meet upon that of f France and of dreams of the led at the period. ri in the nooks of find the prejo. the first rebel- ,ceab!e enjoyment se majority of the lot wish to renew res; you do not melt of military the civil power, rumissions of high , saving in a few military power is 'lnc. he line has alone he country in in. liseti to war. there must oe a . Individual the situations t the compels Tat e l, y : every case of t . compels every ifice of a part of rooment may have will security...-. me. like the pre. • :" more or legs the &cm has Engle fori even for a mere .iota: the imprl- ichihe accused is the trial of the .• At, • ; MI ft