The Statesman. — London, England, 1814-01-20 00:00:00

Th7977l:;:r•r>t .. . . J \ ~ • 41 r " 11 - - r: i ' ..,.... * .0 ..• 1 . I nit sTivrEsm 1 0 ' -.--• r-..-• s•-•.•""7." —••••••••"*"."—...100r,1111111,1110..... .. " 'L .... WM be admitted at this bureau every diy, -. .Ir. •rtprooun. ;~, . : Pt ~....... ;i: .110" grit y._ . regiment of dragoons, turned the town on the 9th, and alixaticed on the read of Epircii, while General Moittitt;;ier ins tched directly-to Ramberg Nets, and pensst raiedinio Ore tow Theenemy'slsoo horse were broken every where. They attempted to rally at some. • distance, but were charged impetuously, broken, and .1 'pursued abose two leagues, leaving many rkail on, ••• the field of battle. A Colonel, and a Major of Cos-, seeks, are among the killed.. Sixty. C:nsacks were taken prisoners. M. Liconelimine; Chief of the Staff of the division of General Cfriche, distinguished, ' 4 . himself. 114 killed' two Cossacks ' ', and wounded se. Tos al, with his own histiiis General Duhesme has fixed his head-quarters at, St. Diez. General Segur s commanding a brigade of the t Ouards'of HoSiour, profited of a moment when a regi- Ametit of Cossacks was embarrassed in the defiles of • Sarerne;• lie attacked them, killed many, and made • some prisoners. On the 9th, an advanced-guard of the enemy's Si lesian army, which has surrounded Mentz, advanced to Sarre Louis, into which they threw some shells.— The garrison made a sally, and pursued the enemy two leagues. The.Dake of Ragusa has taken a position on the Sarre. A squadron of the troops which advanced towards Langres, and al town on the 9th. The national gi to defend it. The enemy sent an of truce to summons the town to gate was opened to let him in ; when, the laws of war, the enemy's sew • ward to force the passage and chart but Mr. Faure, an officer of the as was on duty at the gate, gave ord , - enemy, who immediately turned abou' ing several-dead behind, among 4•7 The First Lieutenant of the squadrt • soner. This little affair does great town of TAtigres ; Mr. Faure is • Chevalier o, the Legion of Honour. Oa the following day, the 10th, General Chouard arrived at Langres with a • brigade of 1800 of the finest cavalry. It would be • difficult to express the enthusiasm with which they wore recived by the inhabitants. This brigade was to be followed on the 1 lth and 12th by a great num ber of troops, infantry, cavalry, and artillery. BOURDEAUX. JAN. G.-011 the Ist of January the enemy attempted to erect a battery on a little island,l ia order to try to pass the Aduur. His bridges of I • :boats were sunk, and his battery destroyed. He had . shove 300 killed, and a greater number wounded. • The inhabitants of Batten and the Basques eagerly • flocked to the standard of Gen. Harispe, who greatly annoys the enemy. JAN. 10.—The last accounts from Bayonne con , tain nothing new respecting military events in that quarter. Reinforeemeuts continue to arrive at the ,camp before Bayonne. Bi3ANCON, JAN. 7.—Our town is in a respectable state of defence : the garrison is about 10,000 strong. DIJON, JAN. 7.—The town of Auzonne, which covers our department, is put in a state of siege. I`.tats, JAN. 15.—The troops reviewed on Thurs day, in the Thuilleries, consisted of 30 battalions of . infantry., 40 squadrons of cavalry, and a large train of artillery. placed cannon, posted .. Ives. Lotts-li- Sauilier has been evacuated. It seems, that these -- measures have been taken in consequeerke.of a:.dis-es PRICK Or STOCKS THIS patch directed to the Prefect ekthe JAsit ist *hies *Hunt the speedy arrival of a.corps of French eroopii Per ni t. t i ! ,(l . • "I 7e announced ; which dispatch was intercepted. .. I I X C e enn. 821 66141 enemy. On the 6th they had quitted Loulians. -5 per Cent. Nue: 94, The motions of the column which has penetrated LooX. Atm. 16 3-16 to Geneva are slow. The etiemir are not at Bourg. 1 , .ieee!. , -••-.-- * The castles of Joux and. Salius hold out. Thal town of Salius has beet; very ill treated. On the 6th, at nine in the morning, a column eu.- tered Dole, and took possession of it in the numeof. the Emperor of Austria. The strength of this co-, lumn is estimated at about 7or 8000 wen. The cs valry is in good condition, but the infantry is coin-, posed of young recruits badly exercised. The enemy are guilty of many excesses which no. thing can justify. A farmer in the environs o(Bean repaire expresses himself thus:— " They were said at first to be tame and gentle ; , now they show roughness and malice. On •evety occasion they clap a pistol to yew brie* to know where you have concealed your valuables." The Mayor of Villevieux, who was not able to collect in two hours 200 setiers (a seder is MOO' beaten. The tlemiei *sated ; soseral, blows they ha'ee oui enemies bring. fiteir Proclama- 1 slask ; they .ao ,t-,projects. at; provinces, that they r beve le let loose upon irians„ 4 44 4 4 1 14, 12, leeitiPo - An the French nation be rottatshpilt ht 4teltigil to Jet auth outrages to go unputill theewl ,4e among us men debased enough to be ill Able to the uational honour ? Can we repote in tranquil lity while our fellow-citizens are exOsed to all the scourges of an invasion Frenchmen !—You have only one part to take ; it is to arm, to unite, to present to the enemy the sight I of a courageous nation, resolved to defend its ter ritory end its independence. Your countrymencon..; jure you to succour them : it is only to deliver theme, from pillage and destruction, that the Government] calls you to the field of honour. When the enemy are driven back beyond our frontiers, you will lay down your arms, and you will enjoy the blessings of peace. LIEGE, JAN. 6.—The 2500 men who had patted over to the left bank of the Rhiue, near Remagen, from whom we took a "salmon, a caisson, and 300 prisoners, not having been able to regain their boats, went along the left bank of the river to Coblentz, where they were surrounded by our troops, and forced to surrender, with six pieces of cannon. CHAUMONT, J ax. 4.—Count Sego r, his 114 *jetty% Extraordinary Commissioner, arrived here yesterday evening, at the Hotel of the Prefecture. A', nu merous detachment of the National Geard went a great distance from the town to meet him. lie seemed much. satisfied with all that had been done to execute the orders of his Majesty relative to the conscription, the contributions, and the requisitions of horses. Before he left the town he addressed to • Marne FRENCH FUNDS. 51 fr. I Jam 14, • 50 fr. 50 c. 5/J ft. 50 c. the inhabitants of the Upper • a Proclamation, of w Bich the following are some passages:— " The enemy is in France. You feel, French men, the duties which these words impose on yoo. 44 You will be neither deceived nor terrified by their perfidious insinuations, and by their audacious enterprises. They wished to see 'if yogi - were . stttt Frenzlimen ; if an unforeseen march would not discourage you ; if they could not live some time at the expense of our frontiers. " But do not believe that they wilt dare to pene trate into the interior of a country in arms to stop them. The Emperor's army of 80,000 men, which aVilimoon arrive among you,' would crush them ; the attny of the Rhine would cut off all retreat; the national guard would intercept ail subsistence. " Already one of our advanced guards hes driven them from Colmar ; a detachment sent from Bensancon has repulsed them to near Befort ; thti peasants of Alsaco have made the Cossacks repeat of their pillaging.. 44 Who could be stupid enough to believe in the feigned Moderation of those foreigners :.Their army Majesty the Emperor and King invites all • in Germany has no motley ; it uses n kind of paper have served in the Imperial Guard, to enter', money, which has no credit. When they violated , o service in the Guard, till the enemy shall • the territory of the Swiss, they promised. to treat from the French territory. I them as friends. At Basle they imposed a coutribu. le old warriors will feel how honourable this tion of two millions. They had imposed at Colmar ,'n of the sovereign is to them. I a contribution of one million : our sabres, end the They may repair to the military bureau of the pitch-forks of the peasants, have given them the out, Ir. of the Department, at the Hotel de Ville . payment which they ought to receive. ,to have thei r owe Swelled and to receive 66 The army of the Emperor Will be in e few 0 1 - - ordeis. • in row department. When he co/si, is. J,in. V?, 13, Tams, JAN. 15.—A considerable number of mtli tary, belonging to the Hotel des Invalides, desired to . , be presented to his Majesty, by his Excellency Mar. :Oat tierrat ter, to sack permission toserve. Iris Ma jesty was affected by the zeal of these brave veterans. , lie accepted the offer of some hundreds of them b who, being between the ages of 45 and 40, and per.. fecitry cured • ,el. their wounds, are able to serve . well. Among thole whose offers were not accepted, ~, . were 'two soldiers above 60 years old, who, for ,letting their age, and the consequences of their ho. neurable wounds, eagerly demanded permisbion to fight till the enemy should be •thiven back beyond . elr frontiers. This scene, which was witnessed by oar. young soldiers, was extremely affecting. • • • c. &SCUMS OF TILE DEPARTMENT OF TIME SEINE. lc* to such as have served in the Imperial - 7 'S ~~ _•:- r .ftr DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK India Bonds 1 p 1 d Exchequer Hills 9icl. Ditto 3ed. 3 5 p New Omuiurn 194 20 p Comm* for Acct. 676 , s THE ST4ITESALIN. LONDON: THURSDAY% JANVARY O, IRI4. provinces, to subject us to a foreign yoke, that they have invaded our territory ; that they have let loose upon us those swarms of barbarians, who live only on pillage, and are strangers to every sentiment of humanity." It has eier been supposed, by men best qualified ;to form an opinion on the subject, that any attempt i to despoil France of her natural extent of territory, or to force upon her any kind of government not 1 the object of her own free choice, would not only be without success, but would terminate in the dis grace and discomfiture of the Powers by which either of these attempts should be made. It appears no longer doubtful, that the present project of the Al lies combines these two impracticable and hazardous attempts. The strongest evidence is afforded by , their conduct, that (be dismemberment of France, and the restoration of the BOURSONs to an enfeebled and degraded throne, are the two main springs of the policy of the confederation. It has been for some days confidently asserted in the best in formed circles, that the old and obsolete claims of Austria to Lorraine, Alsace, and Franche Comte, have been revived, and that the Court of Vienna de mands the cession of those provinces in full sove reignty to, her as the sine 'qua non of Peace with' France. This claim, so repugnant to the true po licy, se ieaouslstent with the matted and Soletin ' ~ -* ' • ~. • ; , All doubt upon the subject _.- 6 ...t0 sne courage ,of those who hale :well coif:-digteratious of elirAllies, we had great ;.' •, —elm --- !rem ten in the morning Llia sum. _ . Ideeted themselves,' and cover with just contempt b e li ev i ng . ~, The Maitre des Itemsers. Haven - at the, Empire'. Pee- I those,. whb, on this greatelcCaalon.l shall not have ' Plans, JAL 11.= --The atmy of Prince Scbwart . • reit otelto.Deparnsent 1/4 1 die tribe, - ' behaved Ake tree and old Frenchmen. . • . , moved. Dole and Lons-le-Saunier y i...niterg has attemoted to eau, Ifuningtien by assault. ' : (Slip#,/ - . '•CJIABROttir " itthabitabts of the department ot the Tipper Franche-Comte, have been taken l'ho etiemy were repulsed. The Comandant. of 1 4 Paris; Jan. 13, 1814:1814:t m • ............ !}levee;r!}levee;all ought to give you confidence :the enemy b y , th e Alli es , i n the name of the fie Ware having caused the sluiceso he opened, a Ati Tat A, and his arms were put recut number of the besiegers were drow„...i, PART'', JAN. 13.—We have already said that fear you • ; your army is advancing ; peace • is at .la ; the sacrifices which have just been required of s Since these events, the enemy has dist:o;lomnd his enemy committed many excesses on their. _ march's you have uo object . bat to obtain a peace, which of the public buildings of the; latter attacks, and has converted the siege into a block- 'New letters from the department of the Saone Il d will reward you for them : make them with resigua- This fact speaks volumes, and ostablishes, Ilk.* ir. ,' . 9 Loire confirm this news. On the 6th the ettemyilt.: ' . t utmost hat bayft certainty hai Ilh t the shavei evidence , ons sought t i h gi e oh justice i lam to ic r e tion and confittence, for his Majesty has resolved i e le o p A f r i o li f e s `lice eerps ot troops bz.sieging 13efort having made , tered Lotts-le- Saucier to the number of about 800 i • that the shall fie the lust. The Emperor has himself 4- VI Mil fruitiest attempts against the town, which I men. They had given notice of their coinieg on the said, as Monarch and father he feels now as much lion rest them very dear, have also changed the siege into i 3d, and demanded rations for 4000 men. It seems nl-blnekatle. . Itobe a part of their yystent to , exaggerate the number .as yOu the want of peace.' I.: _ 1 ? Acres-Mug to the general plan of operations, the iof their forces. Their first care etas to take posse'. I 64 But that this peace, so much desired the enemy must lose all , ma hope y s of the French people of the temper of res , be ndration and applause of the srorld t Duke of Belluno has pained the Vosges; he has i sion of the public money, and to Ampose on private Weedily concluded, died Ids head i quarter* at Harare. persons requisitions of every kind. They carry i tivin at . your expence; of taking from the rich what are, nevertheless, actuated by the 13611 . o:te column of the enemy has advanced : towards away by force the corn, the cattle, cloth, linen, they have; and of darerwhelming with labour and row, ambitious views, Which have can: . lieseee-et, where it is engaged with General Meru- boards, in short every-thing that •cau satisfy their 7 fatigue those who have nothing; this only hope of every coalition which we have s een .slea. '!'heir light troops have spread themselves in wants, or tempt their cupidity. i pillage is the cause of their delay. successi , against the power of France. That the CI directions ; 120 u men are gone to Geneva; SOO The Allies have taken possession of Lons-le- Sao - I " The news alone of your rising en masse can . So totts-le.Setlitier ; and 600 to Dole. crier, in the name of the Emperor of Austria. His : make them retire. Be prepared then, Frenchmen, the BouRBONS forms part df the projects o) k I d . . The Prince of Muskwa has his h a ..ea--quarters at arms have been put up at the Prefecture, and at the l an ready, in case of need, to rise en ar e a is rendered evident by the circumstance. , .-; Non,ney, General D.Jvignan occupying the defiles be- salt-works. . - versally credited, that the Duke of ANGO , ',ooloinal. On the sth, the enemy pushed some parties to- companied by Count ErtipiNEDAMAS, Feaava.—te Ow SA line ot the tit liarearrople of the Lending the , (meaty have followed the Duke of Belluno, wards Bletterans and Beanrepaire. An express sent I '„, ",, v t • Affirm 0. yes t er d ay ' s ~TATESPIAtIf, Instead a 44 mend a desire to ( • ago , lays on his way to Spain, 'to jol . het whim/retry only. A light division of 1500 of ', from Lotts-le-Saunier announced , . their arrival at ' •' forward It," real " sod a &sire to retard It." 'the ~joy's cavalry hail taken a position at IL:tuber- i Loultans, and bespoke quartets for tour thousands vigor* • Gettetit Hi icho diOlched one Of his bri- . men. MI at once, at night fall, flips* detachments I must have regardless of sanctioned, dee -4 Milli' ellitil.Pl llotimayer , of the '2d i fell b ac k on the . heights of Sloutaign, where 41 1 Are. they I 0 i Gotieneturell and themsel - t i the lb lf the P' - Helieolarei the opening of the present Session of Parliament.— AT This act of publicly assisting a 800 RIION Primo to. Bond p ' prosecute the claims of his family, amounts id- 5 to such a recognition of their validity, sad anutu Wry to such an, assurance of pers e ve r i ng so f ort *swill not readily, in any circumstances, be rettarbal. ..-... The plea of honour will be set op, in favour'of steady 1! la adherence to a cause once espoused, sod , national pride will probably be alleged to ju,tifjPa perse. 2M/111 verance in a. disastrises and destructive policy. A crusade at once against the integrity of the French It;, Empire, and against tim'aethority of its *aiding Go.* ,' vernmeoti . ts not a novelty in . the military annals of ' French Papers, to the 16th inst. arrived yesterday. Europe. The Alliesaro now recurring to a n old Their contents are of considerable importance, as , experiment, which they have some good reasons for they make it appear that the military arrangements ; knowing to be dangerous. Hoye Ihe capitals.of of the French Empire, are rapidly advancing to such Austria and Prussia been visited - by; thir ties*. state of .maturity as will present the most formidable ° lating presence of conquering legions; have_ the' obstacles to the progress of the AllieS. The stations t national wealth and resources of England better ;exhausted almost to the very drainings,her taxes, of the different Marshals and Generals, to whom the 'llatireaos has confided a share in the defence of the : —her public debt,—her number of paupers aug... country, Sr. mentioned in some detail. VICTOR, i l menhir'' tone degree the most alarming and unfore• after passing. the Vosges, had established his Head. i seen ; have these calamities been produced, became those powers once formed the mad project. of' re quarters at Belays; NaT was at Nancy , • Duals. i gulating the internal Government of France, a n d "NAN had -tikovi POSSOBITIOR of the defiles before `Epinal; . DOUitiNit had kiii bead-quarterat St. I)iez ;' despoiling her of part of her dominions, and has the .sitid MAlM*** was posted* on the Sarre. It up- lesson failed to teach them ICLIII0011" Hat the exp - p m! o l o p Alit a f orce .. o f 80,000 men was ex.! wive of 20 years of war and eillierrimientotally thrown 'VOW to arrive in a few days, in the department of away upon them, that they thus ilentore to renew the **Upper Marne.. No military conflict, that can !game they, bare found to be so - desperate, and 10 deemed of much importance, had taken place.— i to revive a project, whIA has already dilapidated - National Gnarls had been successful in some ; the resources of ono-State, and brought the very ex. -slight affairs with detachments .of the Allies. ' At : ;Vence of the otheitOsider the mercy of a. conqueror, Langres, to which place we had been told the ad.. l This hes been &nip . ittot *siting back to the par 'ranted guard of the Allies had penetrated without. we cannot but dread the. future. Wet seriously itil43 interruption, it now appears they sustained .a s liP.!e that thesconflict about to take place on the, 1 repulse; they failed also in an assault on hinnlai .of Frq a nce, vkiffi4 More tremendous than any know , guen, and the siege of that place has been converted to modern time.. The cOtkoest of a population into a blockade. These impediments and vbstrac. nearly thirty, milieus, is a task 'which no armies, tiuns in the career of the Allied Armies, are highly ! however powerful, can achieve; - awl-it no arrange- I unfavourable to their ultimate prospects, they'afford *neat should impede with thtirrench Goverament, Itime for the rising spirit of resist ace in the people 1 the Allied Sovereigns may probably have great cense , lof France to consolidate its force, and for the; to repent having undertakes it. Whatever disasters' French Government to pot forth all its energy.— ! may ensue from WS dangerous and unjust attempt,may There is now no doubt that the population of France be fairly ascribed to the war-faction for this country: will vigorously exert itself to repel the invaders, Weyesterdaydeveloped some ofthe causes towhichth' from her boundaries. If even on the first entrance , party is, indebted for its influence in the regulation of the Allies into the French territory a disposition ' our public affairs.* The fortune of ' war has blew in their favour had been prevalent, their conduct, proved, by recent experience, to be so chaagc we lament, has been such as to convert ahe kindness and, pet - wipes,' that no degree of present prosperit , of that nation into bitterest enmity. The Paris can warrant a departure from the principles of • I Journal, after noticing some instances of outrageous deletion, or justify &confident reliance on contink Ferotaity in the conduct of the Allies, offers some re- success. An opportunity has just been offered flections, is which it is scarcely possible but that the composing the distractions of the world by a secure public mind of France fully concurs. , and honourable peace. It has been suffered " Tide, then, is the peace which our enemies escape. Whether it may again return is extreme!' bring t this is - the moderation announced in their problematical ; and a responsibili sy of the most Proclamations. They have thrown off the mask; ful nature rests upon those by whose policy, or they no.longer take the pains to dissemble their pro- whose instigation, it has been neglected. jects. It is to tear France in pieces, to seize on our 1 The French Papers contain an article from Boni - loam, dated the oth -Wt. 'tad - that-the Air .t Ing, . Army had sustained a loss of 300 killed, and a grew number wounded, in an unsuccessful attempt to erect a battery on a little island, with a view to favour their passage of the Adour.. The bridges of boats, it is said, were sunk, end the battery destroyed. Reinforcements continue *to . camp befdre Bayronne.—Ministl ceived certain advice from the LINOTON, that SUCIIET has marched with his whole disposable army . France; in consequence of which, sent the most urgent demand Gen. IJARISPE, with a diviiisx .has taken a position at St. Jean b in Lord WELLINGTON'S rear ; pected that Lord WELLINGTOI k 0 attack him ; as, if Strom Oink, he might be annoyed by • known, however, in the presen. what course SUCHET will pursue— proceed towards Lyons, or co.. of Soma in opposing the advance This explains the reason for the or the destination of the troops - Indies: Every exertion is r Lord WELLINGTON ; ar tl we . meats will arrive in time. P II EFECI ii =' : . Not ice- Ciihard : " Ms . .• 4 • -such as hi agaiit intc , . bedriven . '. .. " The , .1 , • let • ` ~...., . insitatiou " The - .. Praectue 1 11666.. 4,f Paris, their ord • - bushels) of oath was cruelly bem i are before Befort mane of SeMetes has been very ill I appeared before the of the inhabitants are dead of the hi ;uard had resolved .redid. officer with a lei this, then, is the peace which of o surrender. Mhinviotboasodera don announced in hen, in contempt it iiii.o. 1101. hire thrown off the tadron rushed fw. 41110011110 tai to to dissemble Eh rge into the street; . is to ht*traticaiti pieces, to seize o rational guar d; who 10 sgbject us to a foreign yoke, that lers to fire on the vide ear territory; that they have bout and lied, leay. us those swarms of barbarians, es % rhowk h a V a ptifo. pillage, and are strangers to er .. iron was made, pH.. inanity. ',6,„ rat honour to the Can the French nation be usoafahi named Chevalier of inter such outrages to go unpuiihl r.- 7 7.7:7 1 4 1 7 • =liali)4oea=tap ' eat dliculty iq ect is now re. belonging to It; • possession of to Emperor of t up et some , tter place.-- Hanes, with the nentabla truth, cc and modem. • o secure the ed. and to disarm .esistance ; they Imo selfish, liar. tsed the ruin of , lcceslirely arise to roitoration of cte.44 the Aenea s ;ionic!) ii 681. 04440 U. 1; left town four oin Lord WEL. irilish lliinistrzy consistency, or language which , • MOB REGENT et .t 11110 N P4iSigt to mily, srmeerits validity, cad •••01. acs dates y leror. past. - >' he. e soil r. NORIA : ,n of .mies t angr- mew, caust! Raters ynay intry. ion of beet ;eeile perity r inued rim' di. magi. ! ed to emely aw.' or at Boer' f tinie s t" I „ arrive at the Frencio nisters have also re- he 'Marquis of WEL- arched from Catatonia y, and has returned to ith, the Nnble Lord has for reinforcements.— • , on of Sutures 'softy, , in Pied do Port, which and therefore it is ex• iN will find it tleteTSarr r should advance on hit FLARIPE. ft is not esent state of ° France, trsue—whether he wilt o-operate with the army Tante of the British.—• he order given to change ordered for theliat making to a trust that Me °M t! f •