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FRENCH PAPERS [FURTHER EXTR kCTB.3 PARIS, DEC. 28.- , ---The allied armies haveviolat ed the neutrality of Switzerland. The armies, tvhose commanders affect snob moderation in their language, whose conduct is so violent; and whose proclamations are so haughty, ale preparing to invade our frontiers,. and our enemies already flatter themselves with the hope of making France suffer the fare of Poland, ,and of degrading it to, the lowest state of a conquered nation. Frenchinen! the situation in which you are at. this moment placed resembles, in no respect, the situation ot a people threatened by the ambition. of its neighbours. Listen to the truth ; you are are worthy ot hearing it. Our enemies, so often initubled by our victories, so often reduCed to so licit peace front the generosity of the victor, will conic among us with their hearts cankered with resentment, and she will, dictate laws to you with fire and sword in their hands. But they know that no coalition ever triumphed over . a great peo ple, unless that people, deluded by. false promises and a feigned moderation, has become itself acces tory to its own ruin, and has awaited , in crim i-, nal inaction, the triumphs of its enemies". What is then the object of those insidious pro clamations which precede the march • of their armies, and on which they still place More de pendance than on their strength and their courage Their object is to divide, in order to weaken you, to unman your arms, to annihilate in your souls the love of Your country, to render you insensible to national • honour, to fashion you before band, insult, to ill-treatment, and to the humiliation of a foreign yoke. They make war, say they, only on your Em peror. What an insult to a generous nation ! but at the same time what perfidy. Frenchmen ! .they think you mean enough to forsake the bead whom you have *seri, whose powerful voice has imposed silence on the sail: guinary passions, and who - has placed your pro perties under the safeguard of The laws. They believe you insensate enough not to guess their motives. Separate from your government, you would becbme an easy prey to. them ; they dread the moment 'when your Emperor, collect ing with energy, the force of the nation, shall rekindle the thunderbolts of Austerlitz and Ma rengo. Compare to' these ignominious proposals the magnanimous conduct of your EMperor. D,vice victory has conducted hint to Vienna ; twice in the centre of the Austrian monarchy he found himself the arbiter of the destiny of the House of Hapsbourg ; did he ever propose to these people to provoke their Sovereign No, a peace honour able for his enemies was the first fruit of his vic tories ; and these same enemies who have not yet touched upon our frontiers, dare to offer such an insult ! It is to Frenchmen they propose trea son. It is on our dishonour' they found their hopes ! But who is.there among us that can bs igno rant of the fate that threatens him if they could accomplish their designs ? Are not all the French liable to a joint responsibilitylor •all the events which, during these last 20 years, have followed Cacti uui • apid succession? Let us pass on,the acts of violence, tue t illage, the devastation which attend the progress of those barbarous hordes, issuing like tempests from the caverns of the North. But what class of society would be secure from an odious inquisition, and from the vengeance of the conqueror ? What would be the condition of tiose who have acquired national property, whose titles are interwoven with the existence of the Government ? What would become of all the citizens who have loved and served their country, and who, in solemn addresses, have mhnifested their attach ment to the Imperial dynasty ? What would be the lot of the publiaunctiona ries, and of all those whom 'confidence in the Go vernment has brought back to their houses,' and who owe to' this Government, which has held out to those a helping hand, love and fidelity ? The answer is easy ' • the laws would no longer be respected—the snbversion of fortunes would be universal=-foreign agents would dispose ot the lives and properties Of the citizens. Let us figure to ourselves the horrors of the convulsions which would arise from such a state of things. The French people would be placed between infamy and despair ; ,it would no longer exist to independence and glory. Our public mo numents would he mutilated. The master-pieces of art which- we possess would fall into the hands of barbarians they would strip our museums of these sublime productions of genius, the fruits of our victories, and objects of eternal jealousy to our enemies. Frenchmen, let those truths be ever present to your minds ; animated by the remembrances of national glory, inflamed by that love of your na tive co►intry which engenders prodigies, you will repel criminal insinuation, you will protect your Wives and your children agßinst the insults of a licentious soldiery ; you will secure your proper ties which are threatened. Our enemies will find in each of us an enemy. if they enter our terri tory let them be stopped at every step by the pa triotisn► and the courage of the citizens. . From all parts of Europe numerous defenders will fly to the succour of thei , :brethen ; the sword of -your Emperor will again lead you to victory, which will never be doubtful of base desertions ; do not frustrate the caleulatiOns of his genius.— Already our valiant youths hasten -towards our frontiers. The voice of the country has not been Beard in vain. The general safety is at stake:— Let our efforts be unaninions, and we shall o b ta i n an honourable peace, the only one which can be solid, and make the French happy. LETTER FROM GENERAL MILHAUD, COMMANDING THE FIFTH CORPS OF CAVALRY, TO HIS SERENE HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF NEUFCHATEL. " Colmar, Dec. 24, 1813, 7 o'clock, evening. " PRINCE,-1 have had atlength the good for tune to fall in with the corps of partisans com manded by the Austrian General Schcller, who had sent yesterday into Colmar a party of sixty horse, all hour before the arrival. of the sth corps. Tile brigade of dragoons,- counuanded by General Montlegier, received orders to advance towards-1 St. Croix, where the enemy had 2000 horse, an'il overthrew them, notwithstanding their obstinate resistance. The 2d, 6th, and 11th regiments of dragoons, every where broke though the.enetny's corps ; which were twice as numerous ;' they sa bred 900 Bavarian light horse, Austrian hussars. Szicklen hussars, and of Hesse Homburg, and gave a severe lesson to two regiments of Cos sacks. The enemy left three hundred dead on the field of battle. The brigade of Montlegier took 130 horses, and Made 231 prisoners, of..who.m. 60 are Cossacki. M. Petro Auraz dangerously'. wounded ; also a LientenantColonel of the 'Hus sars of Hesse Homborgi named D'Amstein, wounded:. " The energy of the soldiers of the sth corps has been augmented, if possible, by the devotion (denouement)' of the inhabitants of the Upper Rhine, and of all the Magistrates. The Count tie la Vienville' and ,the Mayor of Colmar • set the example. All' the inhabitants, animated with the greatest zeal for the Emperor, and the defence of their country, lomitydemand arms against the ene mies of our' august Sovereign and of our country. We have been received on the Upper Rhine with an enthusiasm which doubles the energy of the: troops. " The Colonel of the Cossacks, whom we have taken prisoner, has received a title in Russia, and two villages as a recompence, and commands two regiments of CossackS'of Elmousen and :Bowen. He been,treated with respect by the dragoons who took him. " I am proud, my Prince, of commanding the fifth corps of cavalry, which his Majesty has con tided to me. " 1 shail employ every possible means to hang upon the flanks of this army, and to know what it intends to do. " We blve to regret the loss of ten killed, but not one officer. Capt. Cover, of the 6th regiment of dragoons, two officers of a detachment of the 22d, and sixty subalterns and dragoons have been wounded. " Aceept . the assurance's of my profound respect. " The General of Division, commanding the sth corps of cavalry, (Signed) Cornet MILHAUD.", His 11Iajesty has granted 30 decorations of the Legion of Honour to the_ officers, subalterns, and soldiers, selected from among those who have particularly distinguished themselves. PARIS, DEC. 29. REPORT FROM GENERAL COUNT MILHAUD.TO THE PRINCE MAJOR-GENERAL. " Colmar, Dec. 26, 1813, at noon. Sts,--Since the action at St. Croix, in which the brigade of dragoons under Gcneral Montle gier behaved so gallantly, the enemy has received numerous reinforcements. Yesterday General Hardier, who calls himself commander of the Austro-Bavarian van-guard, arrived at linsisheim with 6000 'foot, 3000 horse, and six pieces of cannon. From Basle they have brought in wag gons a number of infantry, who have passed by Battenheim. A good peasant, worthy of credit, makes their force 12,000 foot, and 6000 horse : be cannot tell the number orcannon. " The division of General 'rive has relieved at St. um Luc. heavy cavalry of the sth corps. I keep in reserve the division in o-e -neralliHeritier, with a brigade of infantry. I .have commissioned General Dermoncourt to ob serve along the Rhine from Huningen to 'New B'risach. • " I am well seconded by the excellent Prefect, Count de la Vieuville, by the Mayor,of Colmar, and by all the Civil Authorities. The enemy's parties committed dreadful ex cesses before our arrival at St. Croix, and in other villages. The-indignation of the people is ex treme. When I have received the names, of the officers and soldiers of the brigade of Montlegier who have the most distinguished themselves, I shall beg your Highness to solicit rewards for these brave men. The. Colonel of the Cossacks, and the Colo nel of the Austrian Hussars, are both dead of their wounds. I have ordered them to be buried with military honours. 1 am, &c. (Signed) " Count MITALy.3I)." COPY OF THE LETTER OF THE LANDAM!S.IAN OF SWITZERLAND, TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND KING. " StaE,-- 2 rhe course of events has marked the moment in which the Diet of the Confederation, extraordinarily assembled, thinks it its duty to publish the system which Switzerland intends to adopt during the present war. " Evee since the time of Francis I. neutrality has been a fundamental principle of the alliance of the Swiss with the Crown of France. The treaty concluded in 1803, having anew recalled and consecrated it, we remain itavariably faithful to our national maxims, by declaring at this mo , ment our resolution to observe towards; all the powers, in the strictest and most impartial , sense, this neutrality, which is the basis of our political existence. " To your goodness, Sire, we are now in debted for having, in these latter times, seen an obstacle removed, which might have tcriously compromised it. By acqtfiescing, in our wishes on this head, your Majesty has given us new rea sons to hope, that the declaration of the Diet will be favourably received, and that you will deign by a formal act to facilitate the recognition of the re ciprocal guarantee of the neutrality of Switzerland ley all the powers. " With this confidence, Sire, the Piet makes similar requests to the Powers allied against France. It attends also, at the same time, to the military arrangements which are rendered neces sary by the presence of some corps of troops near the frontiers of Switzerland. " Messrs Vincent Ituttimann, formerly Lan damman of Switzerland, Avoyer of the Canton of Lucerne, and Jean Henry Wieland, Burgomaster of the Canton. of Basle, who repair to your Impe rial residence, in the character of our Envoys EX traordinary, are commissioned to present to your Majesty the declaration of our neutrality. We entreat your Imperial Majesty to deign to re ceive them with kindness, and to approve of their mission. " We ire, with sentiments ot the most pro. found respect,: your Imperial ttnd Royal Ma . :esty.: ,vevy obedient servants, faithful allies, mid goad, friends, The tandamman, President of the General Diet of Switzerland, - (Sigiled) " REINHARD, " The Chancellot of the Ccinfederation.- (Signed) " MOUSSON. " Zurich, Nov. lg." [Here follows the Declaration of Neutrality by the Diet, which has already appeared.] COPY OF A LETTER OF HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND, KING, TO HIS EXCELLENCY M."REINHABD lIANDAMMAN OF SWITtERLAND. " have read with pleasure the letter which you have commissioned Alessrs Ruttiman and Wieland, Envoys Extraordinary• from the Confederation; to present tome. 1 learn with particular satisfaction the concord which has reigned among all the Cantons and all classes of citizens. The neutrality which the Diet has una nimously proclaimed, is at once conformable to the obligations of your treaties, and to your dearest interests. I recognize this neutrality, and I have given the necessary orders for its being respected. Let the nineteen Cantons know, tbat they may at all times depend on the - lively interest which I feel in their welfare and that I shall at all times be ready to give them p r oofs of my protection and friend Ship." " I pray to God, T.tandamman, to have you in his holy keeping. "From the Palace of the Thuilleries,.Decetn. ber 14, 1813. . • (Signed) " NAPOLEON." NAMES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED BY THE DECREE OF DEC. 26. (See Yesterday's Paper.) MILITARY DIVISIONS. • COMMISSIONERS EXTRAORDINARY. 2. Mezieres 3 Nletz ...Chasset, Senator. 4. Nancy. Coleteen, Senator. 5. Strasbourg 6. Besancon , De Valence, Senator. 7. Grenoble De St. Vanier, Senator. 8. Toulon Gantheaurne,Couneillor of State. 9. Montpellier— Pelet, Councillor of State. . 10. Toulouse Caliarelli, Councillor of State. .- 11. Bouideaux liarnier, Senator. 12. Rochelle Missy d'Anglas, Senator. 13. Rennes • .. . - _Canclaux, Senator'. 14. Caen 1 atour-Maubourg, Senator. _ .. 15. Rouen Montesquieu, Senator. . IC. Lille ' Villemanzy, Senator. 18. Dijon 19. Lyons Chaptal, Senator. iti. Perigueux..... De l'Apparent, Senator. 2 I . Bourges De Seinonville, Senator. 22. Tours I ecouteux, Senator. 24. Bruxels •....Pontecoulant, Senator. 23. Liege .he Peluse, Senator. 5'16. Mayence 81A1TRES DES REQUETES, OR AUDITORS WHO AC COMPANY TilE COMMISSIoNERS. Mail. Div. • • 2. 3. 4 . 5. Aubernou, Auditor. 7 . 8. 9. 10. 1 l 1-2 13. 14. _ 15. 16. Ctiapclier, Auditor. • uauwa =or. 21. 2?. 1 ecuuteulx, Auditor. 24. -•. 25. 2ti (Signed) - - NAPOLEON. S TAT E PA PE R. COPY OF A NOTE TRANSMITTED BY THE COUNT DE CAPODISTRIA, A \ ND THE CHEVALIER DE LF.BZET-: TERN, TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE LANDAMMAS OF SINITZSRL AND. The undersigned have just received orders from their Courts to make the following Declaration to his Excellency the Landamman of Switzer land : " Switzerland had for many ages enjoyed an independence, fortunate for - herself, useful to her neighbours, and necessary to the maintenance of a political equilihrum. Those scourges 01 thy French Revolution, the wars which for twente years have sapped to the very fdundations the pro sperity of all the States of Europe, had aot spared Switzerland. Agitated in her interior, enfeebled by the vain effort to escape from the baneful influence of a devastating torrent, Switzerland saw herself deprived, by little and little, of those bulwarks essential to the preservation of her independence, by France, who cailed herself her friend. The Emperor Napoleon ended by establishing upon the ruins of the Swiss Federation, and under a title till then unknown, a direct permanent influ ence incompatible with the liberty of the Re public ; that ancient liberty, so respected by all the Powers of Europe, and which was the guaran tee of the ties of friendship which Switzerland had continued to . preserve with them even to the. epoch of her subjection, and which is the prin cipal condition of the neutrality of a State. " The principles which animate the Allied So vereigns in the present war are well known.-- Every nation which has not lost the remembrance of its independence ought to avow them. These Powers desire that Switzerland should recover, together with all Europe, the enjoyment of this first right of every nation, and with her ancient frontiers the means of sustaining this right. They cannot admit of a neutrality, which, in' the actual relations of Switzerland, exists only in name. "The armies of the Allied Powers, in present ing themselves upon the frontiers of Switzerland, expect to meet with none but friends. Their Im perial and Royal Majesties solemnly engage them selves not to lay down arms before they en sure to the Republic those places. which Fra'nce has torn from it. Without any pretension to intemetidle with her interior relations, they will never suffer that Switzerland should be placed under foreign influence. " They will recognize her neutrality on that day on which she shall be free and independent ; and they expect from the patriotism of a brave na tiOfl that, faithful to the principles which ill rendered them illustrious in past ages , they I,`, secfinfl.the noble and generous efforts which shoilliq unite for the smile cause all the SoYereign s a nations of Europe. " The undersigned, in making this communi" cation, feel - it their duty to acquaint his ) ' Ce i i lency the Landamman with the proclamation sit order of the. day which the Commander in Ch le of the Grand Army will publish aCtile momen t (3 ' the army entering the Swiss territory. " His Excellency, will find them confor m to the sentiments which their Imperial and . 11 0 Y 3 Majesties bear towards the Confederation. .; • " The Undersigned, gcc.' MAILS. ARRIVED-1 'Waterford. Due-1 Malta, 4 Gottenbtlre4 2 Gum nsey,,2 Jersey, 1 Dublin. PRICE OF STOCKS ' TUTS DAY AT TWELVP O'CLOCK. C0n5015...,.... 65i 661 owilitim 164 lei • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORI :10 '4, Morning, 48 minutes after 3. I Evening, 130 minutes after THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS !MERE FALSU:q AIMEAT LONDON, FRInelY, J_INZLIRY 7, 1814. We continue our extracts from the French PPP —they are of the same doleful and desperate tore, of the same intermediate character bet" <<o terror,and phrenzy with those of yesterday. te Journal de Paris, conducted by a m u st intio l3 tool - of F; BVONAPART'S (Mr. REAL) speaks °Ol i ; more plainly than either the Tyrant himself 0 1.1) 1 , official myrmidons. This exhortation to re' v ante is a singular piece of I,vorlimanship—it braces no one topic which could rouse a free in v or a patriot to take up . arms. There is not t o ! shadow of au attempt to spew that the Peola e ,i France have any th i ng to lo 3 e but—their ,Empera. Precious object for which - to sacrifineinaTe fit-' and endure ag.gravatetl miseries! For 8u05A0 61 , 4 the canting Monk of the present hour ; bat bloody Usnrper of tire past. For Bo uN Ar Ar - oi " the bead whom they have 4hosen,"--we 1 , 4 the assertion. 1A faction chose him, awl 111 5 1 • 4 ambitious act put the Win into his 'Lana : of tV people of-France he was' no more se!ectecl P 35 " :fr , Ruler than were the Brissotines, ,the Robc ;1 0 , riennes, or any other of •the demagogues , O, for a longer or shorter period of time, a 0 neered over that unhappy country. TVI . o f f in their turns—the bubbles floated ton stream of corruption, .burst ,and • soul' r i• he is only the Lit and greateit of these --.•:sr. .( disappearance is at band, and let us not even the. degraded population ,of Franco belied by the accusation, that they wish to : t o r port him on the surface. Hoist the Flag, and afford them the opportunity of o° ,l. Of BUONAPARTF. say, tts you must— "lf such a One be fit to govern, speA"— 'OO and the universal answer of France be, tD language of the same inspired Bard— . Fit to goverh! No, not to live.-0! nation'miserable, With an untitled Tyrant, bloody sceptred, Wava ils' But shalt thou see thy wholesome days agai ? 1,0 6 But even the Alinior.s of the Despot o ' 4 dare not appeal to the people. They feel that people have no common cause with thciv they rail at the moderation of the ",feigned," because they see that it has re c o , o the Nation in some measure to a sense of its rights. They speak not, they think not people. It is for th e i r own preservatio"lr;ll bawl out so lustily, and bowl the apt" of of danger. It is for the preservtitl °ll 0 . 43 their Leader, in whose fortunes their a cr arc bound up, but which is no way cu 1 4 11 ,, ed with the welfare of France, that they s° eerely and passionately yell Out tho shout c‘ Help us, or we perish !" Indeed tbo tie strangely explicit on this subject, as 3 11 0 3 4e v . g rally are who feel genuinely interested itt S s • they say— " What class of society (they exclaim) would be ; o '' What would be the conditiou of those who have a c.ittir e sot tional prolv•rty—.2chose titles are interwarell with r ipe 5.54 ; 1 111 ,4 Of the Goetrnateat ? What would become of ail "0 3 who have loved and served their country,,awl j a" : i fil l addresses, have manifested their attuchmead to the IMi Dpnasty ? What would he 'the lot of the Public Fu~ a Ot' :tries, awl of all those whom eoutidiurce in the G' i cer , f rticr has brought barlc to their houses, and who owe to vernment, which has held out to those a helping l' 3t-' and fidelity ?" Aye ! what would become of your zw irL Emperor and all his assaslluatin , S T lt'' )Pte-5 What would become of all the pillage tb t l i amassed by fraud and violence ? What %O w' pi ts come of the titles assumed by Galley Si' ve6 A ot 4 convicted Felons, and whipped Scoundrels' branded Thieves ? Oh I Frenchmen , fly t° 91 0 . or your Corsican Treasure will he reduc ed original insignificance—fly to arms, 0 r P d a l. s6 ofr ment will fall upon bin' and his re d ciates—shed more of your' blood, Ic U ill° l a 11 !I