The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-03-08 00:00:00

• i. r itt4. WK. C oiith the flat side of their sabre, which deprived her of sense; that they held a knife to the throat of another to compel her to disclose where her money was ; that the two husbands of these women were cruelly struck, and that one of them, after being beaten in his own house, was risiven to the enemy's camp with blows of the fist, oat] the butt-ends of •muskets: there the brigands compelled him to strip, and were about to shout him, when nn officer fortu nately came up. and delivered him out of the hands of these barbering. At the house of the man.of landed property who. fakes the sixth deposition, they perpotreted the . post horrible excesses. With blows of the fist and the butt-end of their muskets, they demanded •his brandy and money. I myself saw the bloody mark, of the blows which he received; but their fury did not step there: four females from the commies. of Badly, and canton of lklerrnaut, had taken refuge with this proprietor; two of them were girls frees 12 to 13 •, the others were women from 28 to 35.-r These unfortunate creatures were the victims of the brutality of these ferocious men; wicket* eye-witeess, who wished to prevent their outrages,..was himself severely beaten. • [The report, after describing a variety of similar • outrages on the persons of individuals, p cpeds as `follows :] . • There'll not a farmer, an innkeeper, or nn lobo. 'Want, who has not seen his rattle, his implements 'of agriculture, his property, his fureituri4 cerried • off, wasted, or burnt. The chin-Chit and mi. listers of religion have not been spared more than others. • The strongest language would fail in describing the mournful aspect which these ritlaged habitations present. The .Secretary of the Mayor of HAnt-' pilion, who has been a soldier, declared to me, that lie never saw trops deliver themselves up to pillage with such horrible rage, oven when licensed ao to do. At Nengia I visited a number of farm-houses, which had been previre•ly well furnished ; but now in all the apartments tiothiug Was to hiseen but fragments of bisoken and half-burnt ftrfniture, feather beds.: and matresses torn to pieces, and the feathers and wool scatterctiabont. It was With th6.'Wood-eiork of this furniture, of waggons and ploughs, and with tbefruit.trees of orchards and gardens, that they lighted their fires at their bivouacs, and roasted the rattle obitth they had carried off and killed —. —;•••• -1i4•all th© plocea 1 have paved through, the inhabitants hare declared that these banditti spoke iputy of pidagii%g and burning Paris. i have Iren etuuretrtlint each of them had a torch slang at his • back ; a;:d when asked what use they meant to make •of it, they universally answered, that it was to set :fire to Parisi- where they calculated on arriving - by the 110.10 of February. This fatt was eon, •Ermed to me by M. Grabwisky, Mltyllr of Unr itnatirN a l'ote by birth, who understood their !en v/sips. The pinta* of the calamities Wadi these usifortik ...nate people have suffered, and sVI ith are reserved for .40 I those of the other departmentsieirn which the • iletrimy trillypelietotte _toast refuse iLt m Liodimatlou of Owe and energy 'pecettart fu'repel those' hnrdes of • barbarians be. yeinl the frontiers, and farce them, by , a peace glort 3us for France ) at last alive repose to all Europe. ' !MENU! FUNDS. • Moth 5.5 f2st. f Matek 4, - 59 f. 75 C. S. 54, ;:0 I DVIVII.IND ,GER.V ; dIV P4PIRS4 Csall,o6!ft, Fry. 16.-44 is confirmed, that ihe /P►ench Commander of Wails has offered tg capitu. late in the space of twenty-one days, its cant lle gar• *rison before that ti►t►e receive no succours Trote Bo ? tutparte. In the meanwhile all hostility efattsst the town is to be suspended. This proposal' Was sent by a fin of truce on the •4th instant, tut according to the latest accounts nn answer had been returned by the besiegers, and it is expected that tl►e place will soon surrender. NEIGIieoUItOOOD OF ANTwERP, FEB. 2.—Not ,stithstantlitig vs hat has been state ti, the enemy is not yet completely blockaded by the forces near this city, and the cause is the impediments which have been o•Tasintied 11 the severity of ibe season. On Ar s . coma of this obstruction the prrisou has been en. abled to receive down the ticheltit, without much kle terruption, swim important articles of.sapply 4.tltqf . _ arynianition and provisions. 4 A galtaist affair has taken place between a body of Cossack And' a party. of the enemy, consisting of . ii.Shotit 300 sieu. xho were estai tiNg into_ the citig a guasititi Corn.. The Cossacks took ten waggons , grain, made wni...! prisoners, killed a coq. sideritle number, nod drove the rest under Big pro. tecti i rn of their batteries. • • tieTTER D tMI FE if. tge— Let tef 3 frossallgrartey of thS:Crown prince state, that his Royal Higloom wasproceeding southward to join tint Allies with all possible expedition. The wagons and other con vernier of the natives of France were put in requi. sition to accelerate this lioretnefit: * •-• HkOVE4 . FEB. IS.—Official intelligence has been :reottakA Iter', that the town and fortllieationa of Sas dt Oelind; a pliCe eertli . 4 . Gheni, has surrendered, Ind that the Prince nfOrange hiving been proclaimed *the 'Sovereign, formai possession has been taken of it In his name. M. de Yenge was dispatched by his Royal Highness neat& duty, and to connect under the same Sou , reiglity the surrounding, territory = This Officer is to carry iotosiperation the new Go. *eminent, and to comintiaicate with the Commis. sit:niers of the Allies. We are expecting the hest results from these measures, and from some symp toms that have lately appeared, the surrender of Bruges is expected. According to the Hague Courant, of the '2d, the savoured guard of General Bulow's Corps haareiched -Loon about the end of last month. • The •fiitt, at least, is antionoced as follows.:-- r " Monday, the 1. 4 .8 th ult. being the birth-day of his flightiest Wil liam Frederick Charles, youngest son of oar Sore 'reign, was eolebrated here. On the same Any this 'young Piinee was with the advance of General Billow, at Laon. six leapt* to the oorth of Sols ions.“ Lit I • e „ .111 , j ;OA ..s; ; a I.ein . ! art 7! E 'A'!''' MA Till StARCII it, 1814. After our Paper find been put to press yestet ay, we announted the arrival of two hlesseegers, with I dispatches . from Lord CASTLYRIAGH, dated Chau. mont, the 3d instant. Paris rapers were also re lueived inike course of the evening, up to so recent a date tie the 6th instant.—Late iu the evening Go. 'lver . !meta issued the following;' n • " BULLETIN. " Dispatches have been received, from Lord cAs, Tt.suzion to the 3d inst., dated Chaumont. 1 ' " It appears, that after PriecotienwitittzeNesuo had determined to retire from Tr,oyer, Marsha rilLucusft %sag attacked by a strong corps ado erica my at Thiery, when an ateidentol fire having bielke ! out in t4e Qin e ler of ..the town he occupied, Mss forced to abandon it; and to form at a short distance from it on the plain. 'rite enemy pissed over his iWrivance guard with a view to commence an attack, but was driven back through the town with loss. Marshal 111.1*IIER then. marched with his almy. upon Sesanne, tli.Attat o k the corps of MAR/fps:4 which ..he drove - across the Marne, and ItaTing sent his light troops. into Means, he so alarmed .• .hiattatonT, that he quitted Ferte-soul-Jouare, 'on which bye tad retreated, 'and enableteMattshal 1 13t.ucaza to pass the Marne at that place;4e— The Marshal was in communication with Gen. Wirt- ZINGEnunE. Gen. BULOW was advancing to join them. M AIIMONT had been jeinald by Marshal Mos. 'TIER, and their joint force ItaltOpetell 10 him 11 to" 20,000 men. During thetie * **tions,ff . Nfrikfi had endeavoured to force the politions on thiAube., • The enemy had obtained possession of 13ar.snr- Aube, and had taken poshion.in its front. Prince , iCIIWARTZENBERG determined to attack him and after a welt contested action, drove Ittin fromiull his positions,, and through the town of !Bar-stir- ( Aigie r with the loss of MOO men. In ennsequenee of this advant*e, Prince SCRWARTZENnt.RG determined to drive the enemy from Clairvause, Fotttelle, and St. Usage, .which was etlected. * 4 Intel tigenee being recelied (bat StrtrairAtfift l 4ll.l marching with lead of iii.Cartnt on *attune, to act against Marshal Btpcsisn, Prince SGIINV?.RTEEN- BERG had ordered an immediate -advisee *pots Troyes. " nunliittfied fiat lrotaraftii teilYing 43 0.00 isien in the bus s 4Trnyes, hall with l ' rest of his, army Apinst Siarshal. tiskcesils ;blather, I was every 'reason • to hope 111111V111,1101411141E110R wont(' be able to limn a junction- with *lnallsWlP -1101s16,'.1101;OW, and WottoN2oW. "' The corps of ST. PRIEST Was arrived at Vettfyi, celleral Sr. J Aco ,was to joist him fresn ! " Gen: FRIBIANT, oti the Ist, attacked the ope nly's rear-guard, and overthrew it near Vaudoeurre, where he established his head-quarters. " A force had been ordered to reinfolrca ostristial • BuaNA, and General BiAncui's corps lint ordered upon Dijon. The Plenipotentiaries remain at Chatillon. natural strength a , col tie. pra'tticable a creature as is found among the huer l in race, bet the operation must be /nada-through- his 'resort to his feelings. Of the proceedings of4seled Wettauctow •sve ire more: than #ver OnalcieS to hese an otLaiah er authentic detail, since the opttiotts, and Areports thereon are 'coesideraidt et variance. Niihik private letters. the Aistiet sanguine; eepeclations, 'the Fretich account, under the. dips ,of Tarbes, February 28, asterts, Ott his Lordship has been frustrated in his design of thtowiog bridges over the Adoar. It is added, thet reinforcements from Thootouse have joined' the French army ; and the article concludes with saying, thet the levy-en-masse has taken place In the di. ptuitment with a great deal of success. A D utch Mail arrived : bads ' morning,' bringiiik, Papersto a late date, frown which we have selected the following extracts:— • lIELYOETSLUYS ) MAUCH 6.—By accounts received *ton' the Hague, it appear*, • that another bat.' tt bas been fought between the Allies and news . rte, 4)ear. Bar-sur-Aelse, on the 46th of P4onlarf, in which the,.Freech were completely de feat ed with the loss ef. 10 , 000 prisoners, and 60 pieces of cannon. to*eass, FEB. 23.'—his Royal Highuess the Chown ..Prince of Sweden is still remaining. itt vials city, and his departure does not yet appear to be' fitted. The well-known Saxon General Thielmann is likewise expected here. Besides the Swedish troops which were to cross the Rhine-at this place, another column of 10,000 mew. are to pass it at Dusseldorff. But the Rhine is it present so full of ice, that it Its,,been necessary to take away the draw-bridges, for which cause the passage would be very difficult, and even imprac ticable, for a body of troops it this moment. CAB,LSRULLE, 17.—According to official in- Vligence. received from the head-quarters of Lieu lant-General Count Von Hochberg, and dated The contents of the above State Paper cannot but , surprise many, and disappoint others, since it speaks only of military movements and operations ; and though 'Without detailing a single battle, makes no mentioak . Whatever of an approach to peace by an ar mistice, ,or adopts an expression from which it might reasonably be inferred that such nett event was even in contemplation. On the contrary, every effort is displayed, and every preparation making by the Allies to regain that military aectlad ency and local advantage they possessed over lah ' enemy tn bit wwe ground so short a time ago. Irise 'tenth ihigriMeolt kietf scan& a Dote not a Ant A . 1'; unison 'MIA!! . ilih, 'for instead of lafoiminCap how the proposal, the •apperaut sappitiottism fur au Armistice has bees treated-or disposal:4o/, ravers told by tbg Aokritgli ei. thiliiiikiMilLtWitis diftkell! ' 66 corps ar e performing grant atattervres."—On these manceuvres a Morning ~ f . -;Art,Tipter) 0 1 7 ar deavours to divert its Readers, y 4% eng to Oa gine a profound mystery is concealed I ? those mile- ' tary evolutions ni. BONAPARTIk.--Sref our 'owl part, we see' ntsthing to obscure eV IPace r ssiblei eh the plainest understanding - IR tht4tte 11114- LEON has avast great stake on the fiesii . e is ea! 04) ing —ill is arhiSSl4..ou both sides. If he pill out meneturre, so as to prevent the accession of rein. forcements to Ms edsersaviedfrom the Rhine, be a PPrti" bends tlieir nunthithillity bettwelled io a terribte , :antl tot midable hgi/ht..Agaithbo has no leaf reason to (treat? 71,3 , m01.• the junctiori p , ;these in," Ipsito, arm i es opposed tp shim alreadyie Ow /MIAs r .1.4.10 of ,all that he may say of. Wryest 4 diet FaiuMlt4osploi is 4,9- posing the install h e . csattleenuallifradr_gpl4r . he supplies , of , efrsEetl „ ?stuff, . ! I . "4,0041: 1 11,:. ', , 1 14‘.14,_, o ta ii t sad • t ,i .. is% ..',;; ; ',i ' , AlifthelOW , Jlejg, - i ntent, 4 1 therefore, put to his most vigorous iodiasistaipik ~ . .1., int , f 0 ,3 ... i (-.yip) Abeihausbergett, of the 12th instant, the gar ?lsolis of StrattilvAi: Kehl, and Landau, had made Alretal sidlies kr the .00urse of this month, and were :Ittwardriven tiscektr the valour of the Russian and, Baden trooo; 7 teemingitil Weise of - thcliarii4fi, rim; ' ditr:l,lo4ntmand orthat . General. In the engage.: I - llamas which have taken place near Strasburgh, oar! r _ xsossdavebr,‘ find especially the 6th and. Bth butts. have particularly distinguished themselves. • .Rttvsletsfia. 24.—We learn from Ghent, uri..- tiler date of 'Abe inst. that Major Smith, and I four other English military &ricers, had arrived, There three days before from Termonde, with a Cow ;roissary from the Allied Army ; t is ftionght, Is : concerning the expected arrival of St n'English and liannverian corps at 6lankenburg.and Neirport. , . T7,—.101t Ole of West. Flanders, Yeurne, peringe ,4a " w• end arse), are in the power of the Ules; but the inhabitant' of the last,mentioc* *taco having tired upon lho Cosslcks s 140 y lit d tom treated according to the laws of war. Ypres is isiiamoned 'and besieged, and • tbere it tio.donfit 51 F . ,1411 flltr a tlrliili boon Ittrreirdo. The gerrivn t 411 likabOily-tat 01100111atemeas, aed ang *SP 0.011,19044.*!*14,A1#4.1001010tithai1 successfully to repel his as• usediately on the appearance of VIP Allies. Yt 's t hi s • tree s tbat it has 60 pieces of artillery mounted on Genvul the walls, but wants a sufficient quantity of wafts t MIL . ' , stores. 1 . ) The same sly be said of Ostend and Niewport. \rt EA ' is On the left sidewf our frontiers, Gen. Below I , as al. "oence ready placed his troops close under Valenciennes awl -- -.6Mauheuge l sending foraging wags as far as Cask bray. t?..M The Russian troops which have ams t ilm j a s aftnitr . tfteittd , li _netritetsieka from Thierry, to a posi-. of _fin eden's army, haze. istunediat.4.--movati.-faese tion on the plait), a abed distance 'from that town. , thence, for the purpose of.rearching farther up along This' withdrawing from itsbierry, is ascribed to,bii ththe-Masse,, and join the corps updor, Go a , tyi nkie accidental lire breaking nit in the quarter Oclitie gerode, in Champagne. It 'is 'ironed that the gaol. Ipwn the Marshal occupied. The • corps thedist. son of Luxemburg consists 'of *nicely tin) mea l gaged must have been pretty trearty...balatioad it; three-fourths of which are'discontents4 Natiomj strength, since it appears that th *t r ench passed Guards.Sorne•disturhaticta having•takost piece amen over the advanced guard of General Bt.ucuest s. the gat risen, several persoes:hareheeti very sever e ly, with a view of commencing an _attack upon his' punished. 'rhere* are 'fiVe*Tie*ripOrts cir so . 'skin body, but were driven back with loss. The l; about negotiations being on roOLfOr..,theiji, Marshal then following the active disposition he .is; of that itnportant fortress-. A 1 •4 ,7 istfoliti laid to possess, made a lateral movement uPon', werp has again caused PuTP) 1 0•1 0 rants Seznnne, to attack the Corps of Marshal MARMONT, who were tint able.to provide:themassiees *igtei 0„ . 1; which be drove. across the Maine. By this move. visions, to quitthat•City. Other respectable mitt- meat the Marshal communicated with General WIN. bitants have bees set4.4e beitrd:the fleet, as hostages ZINGEIWISE. General Brialy., was advancing to ; for payment of theinetributioet,,hich are levied on join them, in which attempt, we shall pot be sur.., their feliew-citizens with seederttpled severity; prised, - If we learn by !helmet account, the effect of I 'rise passage of troops tbrosigh ; :th'scity con inn s one of those wind manteatres BONAPA9TE has been without interrui.tion ; a, great: retie o f s cions speaking of. Among the several Articles of intelli- have arrived here to day agaie l _ . whir Sire - siveetlut dome from the French Paperi, our !leaders will, no be follesvesfity.otherscal likewieed7iiirsa;astoseosp, doubt,' remark what is said of Bosay.tare, shottiew.; 4 1 ,1", atsidOsill Aitisinits?lhorte . himseirep so close at Troyes daring three #9ll;‘- ; -` *.ote. . No doubt hi was waiting the arrival; or twee - tsp. - iSestlral barracks lee pettier in readiness .1a t ie pibach,, of expected reinforcements from the western i city., to:quarter the Belgian- regiment" iti r whicb are depftrtments, as absolutely necessary to the success now Otising. ;.• ; •.! • ‘. • , . 'of his. manoeuvres . The effect of the violent out- ' The O ff icers far the first regimentecelfalledgillgb lages eortimitted by the troops of the Allies, in pointed; eed t wedaifgeitkneriiiseranf sniliteekigr i p, •France, and which are no•vrbere denied,. are differ- I natives of this ceobtret• ifestio , bett;- , 7'N v'h, r • gently calculated upon: , some in this country consi- sakeit the French coloactt .71 g. ! tier them as. likely te..infim@ate the French,. "cud 1 , of their mitrse bender the object of their enemies exweyetteiii it- of Belgium is now definitively viraptithe.dl. aft native. I , taissebl4; tiiittlSeiliitpttna ne Of those whvi here A itil born Frenchmen are left out ofl4ol. Activedlog rieNr pirieer s fts,sotnedegree at least, to prevent them, to a disposition made by O! rercrobrral l ,` ell imay be . of that opinion. We .think otharwlive public ..-lanctionviriee, as Atc. smog Paver eiasperate, they invigorate a Frenehniati sihet. give Art 4beir .oatil of "alleeafirvi oil e' hkMled excites his passion gives him ••a khnl Super.-: Powers, in-wrkitig, in deficiency whereof thee wilt vfr st- - -.th and 'urn • A t , Frenchman is ge be tilde* by °theirs.. .P 1 "e 0 „„ s Several °facers belonging 444 l egiitiesiiirgleit of the Crown Prince of Sweden,' t his let OtrietOsi I city, which has given rise to a repent,..tiiiitlls Royal Highness will likewise pass some days in it, iiKusiELS, 28.--His 'Serene: iligheess the Prince of Saxe-Weimar is returned cit'ut torlihis qt. soh" glirricirt t4oisssonswilitit'ellitovar:deide • priw Bonet's, and are about 25W. or 2006;aituag, have now arrived in this city. These men de• -plorable condition. - • According to *cresols frni . it appears thvt the corps gerode, ,is Its direct., crusfiriext:Titil k OW V** General Bulow. . . ; ti • .4A \ • It is reported that • tenerai getiritur'who. With a corps of French troops, hod. Mltltheri'lertirtit + Sois. sons, has been defeated, end that < Sdiiions has again fallen into the hands of the Alliei.' ' Intelligence from the frontiers, Med the 26th inst. state, that General Maison had left Lisle, with a part of 'his corps, and taken the road to St. Omer. The Leeward - Island Mail, received Oil morning, has brought a heavy list of captures. , The following have already been put on Lloyd's books, and many more are expected before the day is over :---TNe Princess Royal, Foster, from Loudon to Jamaica, was captured op the ttlst of December, off thb Canaries, by the Sultana French Frigate, olf 4 guns, and, after being plundered of 150 tons .f fret cargo, was given up, and arrived at BarbadoeS on the 6th January. The frigate had taken and beret the Spanish ship Conferanza, from Cadiz for Wil mington; the Prince' George, Beid(fry, from Londeli for Jamaica ; the — 7 .. ,1 -../jCaroline Boatkaas, Boyes f frem do. for do.; the Potsdam, 'Cummings, from do. tar do. ; the Flora, Ireland ? from London tis • Illrar nique ; the Brazil packet, Caster, from Madeira*, the Brazils. The Rvsaira, from Cape de Vet% ilia the Tizeiit, from do. were captured on the tirb etlttl 29th of December by the Nymphe. and Motirrie French frigates, from Brest ;. the Conner was up as a cartel, and arrived at liarblabes thet.:loths4 January, the others weredessro : 41 ytit - . -4 • The Wanderer, Pritchard, from London to: 34. mates ; and the MertteTtie, Cirstans4,-freUs 414t4n16 of Good !lope, were , .takert stud destroyed on tlio 4th of Jinnary, in lat. 13. 00.- Ion: 5"I.00. by the President AntericsOldipie. • THE Prmact tote COlRT.—Yesterslay, at :MO 'o'clock., the rift Mee lia6airr hell a GAO Carlton-house. Count hiltaairet.of, the *Austrian Minister, was intrOcloced tb Ala Royal Highness bjr the . FAH of latt'saPOOt. , oit Eacellency had an sodionee. to deliver-44i orodentials, And was most graciously receiVetl. Boon WtssExatran, the late Austrian rnvoy,Jsatl a private audiPflce c his Royel Higbettstylsod took leave, previoug to his tleparture'fron. Fngtar. , .). At three o'clock the Pomo" held a privy. and afterwards spire andiencee to the 13ostk i lliPavri. . stpaa itkd Go!tillAttlifYwint• *pears by -tie last letters reoeiveit ilossipaido tilr TitaxAs'fippit has not; Anitc.i ) 1 "14% . h • ea . he INA w c can e estimat es y MOO Men * Mittiso apathy of the lower unless increases, and they ap. .fonciis manifest a partiality rather de" * !Mut* ......... Arr. Malls nue of skill at this moment, successfully to repel his as. 0 lta bo Ma 0 - 0 .... ..... ... eixtrland •- • . -as " 1 400. , "" „L ca. I . 1 ..,:d r avig • ..... - '.4 . • . I. „, 1 milk 4r , tli ilkili 0I s ' Nu - s . •S I 13 li r,. N. K i S " - is ,fy cont •• - 4 • " - tor.'4,l ' . •-‘ ' •tel : ' Nord CAST • 4 "ZA ' SS. p C. Red. fit nds 11 911 ' S tier Geist. Cons. 71* 1 Exchequer Mil& LI 6 p and the contents of the late and present intelligence 4 c o o l . firr ire i r s t ?i i t in so ft :tin 27 1 Walt ffhl. h ttarVi: Mil ' . Owough the 140110P11, 0 “r_•••iiia - lsomitio w e lea, t ,„4-. _. _,-. 4 _____ _w. _. , ledgpallot t Prien k loww f oisrlartscack had found it rsi ; t iv , - A 4Triiii ~.., r &Al' . i'Sr ' - 'TWA - 116y to refire (rots% 'Troyes; and that Marshal "11 ~" OW ft' is fe th re in TRI es \ SI be de to 10 (1( Irt El .