The Sun. — London, England, 1814-02-24 00:00:00

WITCH MAI . ~ iRI r ived —IFORTSLI.IYI, FEB. 2J.--Art Officer, just ar from Head- t ptar.ters, informs ns, that Sir . 14 0 ,, PtAm was again p re p ar i ng t o a d v a nce !Pon As kicti, Arittreip; and only waited the arrival 'of c6ngreves rockets, which it was expected lie would receive this day. 134 " s sr.s, FEB. 14 . —Troop - 3 are continually passing through our town. Cot.oo.?cß, FEB. 3.—Count D'ARTors passed th '" , igh here at half past five o'clock thi s morn under the name of Count ba PoNTHIEU, oil • * a)? to Basle. , FEB. S.—About 5000 Ttus -Balh tr oops infantry,, artillery, an d C ossac k s, ac s.., e ll here yesterday, or in the environs, and set. (41 :t. this mornin g for their ulterihr destination. • 7 JAN. 12.-General M a rs oN h as esta ui!ithe'dbis 6 nd-quarters at Tournai, but it is no t t r '"Oit lie will long m ai nta i n hi mse lf t h ere. A ll t AMI Hain au t are evacuate d, an d t h e ends army concentrated in the town of Tour r°'s canunt l'ong maintain themselves there.— z 'reei l to quit Tournai, the last town in Bel tie:ll4l44"-t will remain, for the moment, no other C i ltee for it than nutter the catfrion of Lille, L t e MAie spirit of the inhabitants of which gives 114 little reison for" the Government reckoning ii)9ll their co-operation in the defence of that "'Port ant Place. - iiii keo unts from Leyden of the lith . detztil some ti 3°Fte nt sorties fr(nn Naarden and Delfzyle.— t a ' a disgrace to Holland that these . torts have b een k noc k e d a b out the cars of their gat. . I, ons. tio„„ th e ""RECITT, FEB. ls.—The gate of Arlcel it s ` 1,',,,, N Y-One n ow possesse d b y the Prussian he e.rs t" at Gorcum ; and through this gatethe f; at tlis t o marc h on t h e 20t h inst. ime other. n s l .gre held by the Dutch troops. 4114°p-1 -F.-Doc, FEB . 6—S trong d e t ac h ments o f 4 1 , (1. tro ops (1,61 y pass throughl this place. Yes a . . 11,. t two thousa n d S axo n s ar r i ved, and 111111_ C ossacks are quar t ere d i n the of te r ' ~,'t• Three oth er b a tt a li ons h a v e to-day: en tll. ,44, o ur town, w hi c l r are t o marc h in a (i ayor iCil the neighbo ur h oo d o f Antwerp, and v% hiei be f o ll owe d b y other troops. Pzn, s.—On the fist day of this month ene my made a sally towards Ravestein, burn lie"iand destroying whatever came in his way.-- \V e ',," 1 the barbarity to ham-string several horses.. is 41 -re happy to learn that the attack upon ( : rave tilC,to be undertaken. Several . piecris of "ye been sent in that direction. D1t 11 ,,, it, -- Si. t IVatfrforrl. ''eliLishott, 2 Malta, 13-Gottenburgli, l nolland, guland, 1 , Waterford. STC CRS •Aol, T)1:3 I).NY AT TWELVE n'Cl.ori:. ....... Oulu. for March-2E4A 491 29. 111 AIN. . • qz,l LEI. I' LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. utos after 5. Evening, 31 minute 3 after .5. PrrlF S N. I.- DICF.RE FA LSI! NI AU DEAT LONDON, 7.lr Uns O.IY, FEBR 17.1 al' 24, 1414 • 4111 * Or DI SIWITIIES FROM LORD CASTLE- Ih CUATILLON, ISTIL-TAKING OF SOISSONS 1-ST°IIMIAND DESTRUCTION OF THE GARRISON bF S'VEN T HOUSAND MEN.—CAPTUTIE OF TWO leamATEs. 18°I3Patchel f ront Lord CASTLEREAGH, dated the Iv I'l a t C hatiilon arrived this morning. They br oti ere l br ou g ht Wit by Mr. FREDERICK ROBINSUN, a D oy - et of Lord GRANTHAM, who landed a: er from a Flag, of Truce and reached town Tll3his °re noon. H e came from the Allied Armies. Gentleman confirms, to the full extent, the sticce=aOE WINZINGERODE, and represents the 'eeeN boasted tjoi victories o f B UONAPARTE as gross rggera tions. 14 all the actions between BLUCHER and Buo- o, A 1t.1.2 ' the Allies lost about 13,00) men, and Ar rh ., —; or iscu it 3 cnen has since been restored to or'i4l • kretn4l strength, by the junction of rein tkv Ill ents fro m the Corps of WINZINGERODE and .No olow. The Empero r of flusst and King of PRUSSIA ire at Troyes, where a Congress was i 0 be held, Lord C AST* EIMAGH Would assist. t Ti le foll ow i ng are the particulars-of WINzrN, fa°l3a's brilliant exploits, which we hasten to Z bli34 irt a less official shape, that the public a y ll c't he detained from the good news till the " 1 6 11 u 4 .....mtin is promulgated. Intelligence has been received at the Admiral tatY4ll the * way (rf H o ll and, that W INZINGERODE Soissons, and a foitified camp near that 4 - 41t e by storn t On the 1-Ith inst. when betweeu (i and 7000 of the Garrison were killed and taken, among whom are two Generals, BUSCA and LONG CHAMP, 3000 taken prisoners, 13 pieces of can- non, a n d many ammunition waggons." This sufficiently e4lains the halt in the French accounts at Chateau Thiery, and also the fact of the line of telegraphs being cut off between Paris and Boulogne. We have great pleasute in stating, that two French frigates, the Alcmene and Ipligenia, have been captured.hy the Venerable and Cyane. We this day present our Readers with 'extracts • from the French Papers to the 21st, the arrival of which we announced yesterday. They confirm Aire statement we gave respecting their contents, in so far as'regards the exhibition of several thou sand prisoners in a march into the Capital, and they add to our former stock of Parisian news, the account of another action fought on the 18th at Montereau, on the Seine, about forty miles from Paris. The source whence the description of this battle is derived is of the most unauthen tic kind ; and it is deserving of attention, that since BUONAPARTS arrived at Guignes on the 16tb, at Gnigees txenty-fire .miles front Paris, there is not, op to the 20th inclusive, a single syllai)le of official intelligence respecting the operations in which the Tyrant has been en gaged, although we are given to understand, _that on the 17th and 18th, several very sanguinely actions ensued between him and the army of Prince, SCHWARTZENBERG. We have nothing of the issue of the battle of the 17th, which, at noon, had been so favourable to BuoNArant-ra, and so disastrous to the Allies. The tale of that day's :lose remains yet to be told, and we are transported, as if fOr the sake of giv ing dramatic effect to this grand and terrible drama, to another scene (one day later in date) at 11.1ontereau, ‘vhexe, having passed the actors with similar indistinctness before our eyes foe a few moments, the curtain is also dropt, and we are left once more to our own ima ginations for the finale. The description of the contest on the 18th is as follows :—OUDINOT is said to have " advanced upon Provins"—a dubious expression, which, it will be observed, would ap ply to the slightest movement from Guignes or Nangis, and would as correctly relate to the change of position on the 17th, as 'to any new progress on the 18th, without meaning that this s corps had approached, far less that they had. arrived at the place mentioned. With this brief paragraph, however, the efforts of the soi-disant Duke of REGGIO are dismissed— We then come to the more momentous exploits of BUONAPARTE in person. He caused the troops to march in the morning on the Bridges of Brily and a forrtereau :—being informed that_WREDE and the Wurtembergers were posted at the latter place, he attacked them in person with the corps of Vic/soli' and Gramm, the Guard on foot and horseback (probably brought with bins from Van champ), and also with the division of Pasoe, from Melun. Of course the Allies were over thrown, the bridges on the Seine and Yonne (which were destroyed in the news of the former reports) carried by assault, and the enemy pursued across these rivers. The results are again in threes ; i. c. three thousand priSoners and three pieces of cannon--in fact, it is ob servable, that in all his late victories, the " Great Captain " has trade it a rule to capture one gun for every one thousand men ! We are not informed of any thing which took place in the direction of Bray, where " the troops sent" would coma into action quite as. soon as those at Montereau—we are not informed whether Ount- NOT discovered an enemy in his march or nsat,L but the whole details of the 18th (such as they are) relate to the strength of the French army brought I to act upon the left of the Allied Force, and the ad want lges they gained were of such a nature that the Funds, which had risen from the parade of pi ' sorters on the 18th, to 561, fell on the 19th, when this good news was promulgated, to 55+. — We are not, however, inclined to look to the state of the French Funds as by any means offering correct data upon which to form a judgment. The obvious operation of the very near approach of the Allies to that City must have been to shake their credit altogether, and it . is impossible to account satisfactorily for their rise from any victories on the pare of the enemy. A Victory over an. invading army at Windsor, or the account of their being forced to pass the Thames at Staines, would scarcely elevate our 1 sinking Consols two or three per cent. and we doubt that such an effect would be produced even I were we to hear that a second army on the other side had been severely beaten, and compelled to retreat in confusion from Gravescud to Brent wood. In short, we are of opinion that the prices quoted are little more than nominal, and that if there is any rise at all, it is in consequence of purchases made on the s.pecidation that the capture of Paris end the reatdration of the Bona- Bons might give solidity and increased value to the national credit of France ; reduced as it is to its losveSt ebb, under the nillitary despotism of a Fo reign Usurper. , . W e have frequently called attention to the sin gular nature of all the intelligence ußon which we have of late been doomed to reason*: It is en tirely ex piste, and the public are not to be in structed how . good the story on one side is, till the story on the other side ,is told. But if this axiom holds generally, how much more securely may we rely on it now, when even in the state ments of the Enemy there are so many palpable falsehoods, such remarkable slurrings over of important facts, Ellett' studious concealing of the truth, and such abrupt and inexplicable breakingS off in the midst of the very pith and marrow of the mast 'momentous parts of the narrative. Upon summing lip the lo s ses acknowledged .by the Enemy, we snd that between the 9th and 17th 'BUONAPARTE suffered a diminution of IMO men, hors de combat, while the Allied Army lost only 80,000. On the 17th and 18th his loss was trifrng; that of the 'Allies about 0,000 ! Those who have appetites for_ these. wonders will believe him. Wherever he advances, the slaughter of. his adversaries is pro digious; here ten-thousand, ther,e twenty thousand, elsewhere s i x. thousand. When the Allies march forward,. the French retire without the notice of a single man killed, or prisoner taken. MACDO. NALD, from Chalons to Meaux, beats his pursuers the whole way ! MAamoNi, from Eloges to Montmirail, goes as quietly through the night as if on parade!! VICTOR and OoDINoT, from Nogent, and from the whole right hank of the Seine, which they were left to defend, fall back, inasmuch as we know, without firing a gun, or experiencing a sin gle casualty ! But it would be idle to point out the incredibility of these accounts, upon the face of which falsehood and delusion and fraud arc stamped too legibly to mislead any human crea ture blessed with a capacity of such extent as to enable him to spell that two and two make four. . The accounts from Italy in these Papers are very gratifying. We find riPtrUHARNOJS no longer de fending the line of the Adige, but attached on both banks of the Mincio.—He ie struggling in the strung positions fiom the Lake de (arda on his left, and Mantua on his right. These forced— he must fly towards Genoa. We received American Papers this day to the 2d inst. inclusive.-Bir G. PaavosT's Dispatches to Government have not yet arrived. The intelli gence from head-quarters, Quebec, dated the Bth nit. is of the most gratifying description. Gene ral Orders badbeen issued, announcing a Dispatch from Lieut.-Gen.Daummoxp,which stated that an attack had been made on the 30th Dec. on the Enemy's position at Black . Rock, where he was advantageously, posted with 2000 tnen The Ene my was attacked in the most gallant manner, and pursued in his retreatto Buffalo, where he attempted to make a stand, but was forced to make a precipitate retreat to the Eleven Mile Creek, on Lake Eric, leaving seven field-pieces, and four schooners and sloops, astd -- a consider able quantity of ordnance stores. The whole of our troops did not exceed 1000. No British Offi cer had fallen on this occasion. Black Rock, Lewiston, and Buffalo, were burnt previous to the evacuation of our troops, as some retaliation on the Americans for the miseries which the unfor tunate inhabitants of Newark had been made to suffer upon the evacuation of Fort George. Our loss in this gallant Action did not exceed 25 killed„ and .50 wounded. The Enemy suffered severely ; hut from the rapidity of his flight, only 70 prisoners were taken, among whom is Doctor, alias Lieutenant-Colonel CHATIDT, General PREVOST had announced these suc cesses in a spirited Proclamation, dated 12th Ja nuary, in. which he details the outrageous con duct of the Americans, but it is too long for us to insert this. day. We continue extracts from .the Spanish Papers. The low And crafty conning of the Corsican was never more glaringly evinced, than in his present attempts to degrade the Spanish nation,- by se (ieing it into hi 3 views by the bribe of restoring a King, no longer of use to him, and of evacuating a country which his own necessities prevent bins from retaining ! ! We rejoice-to sec that the Spa nish people arc not to be gulled , by these tricks. The answer to inquirers at Ti re House again yesterday was, that the Earl Of LIVERPOOL was better. The Cabinet Ministers and a number of personkof distinctiisa left•their nanaes, SECOND E SUN-OFFICE, Two o'cLocx. We further learn, that BLucf-P , lt's corps was _ _ re-established at Chalons ; and by the reinforce_ naents which he had received before Mr. Roßlx- SON left Chatillon, amounted to upwards of 50,000 men in the highest order. With this force be was marching upon Troyes. The Allied Armies were collecting between Cba- lons and TrOyes. Mr. ROBINSON received information on the road that BUONAPARTE had forced the Austrian corps at Montereau. But no general battle had taken place. THE FOLLOWING VESSELS ARE LOST ON THE COAST OF FRANCE: The Union, JONES, Sarah Ann, COURTNEY, Crawford, PATERSON, of ; Samuel, of Torbay; Ceres, OLIVER, of London ; Argo, HAttLowE, of Milford ; Pa/tad/WM, RENIDS')N, of Sunderland ; Anne,'SMITH, of Newcastle. ; Live= PEARCE, of Harrington ; James, GLOVER, of London ; and three Transports, riia:dced BV, YB, and LV, are lost on the coast of France. NAVAL NEWS. DEAL, FEB. 23.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Actmon, and Active hired'arined cutter, horn the Roompot. Came down from the River the Dia dem. CHARLTON, for Tarragona, and remains in the Downs, with his Majesty's ships Monmouth, Cressy, Griffon, Growler, Rinaldo, and Cracker ; the Glamorgan . and John and Mary transports, and a division of transports, with the 'German Legion on b o a r d for Germany.—Wind E. S. E. PLYMOUTU, FEB. 21.--L-Arrived the Menelaus frigate from a cruize ; Clarendon, Henry Broad hurst, Admiral Gambier, Union, Gratitude, and Britannia transports, from Passages ; Havante, GATE, from Waterford ; Staff of Life, DANIEL. from Dublin. The Aintable, French chasse war4e, laden with wine and brandy, is captured by the Arrow schooner, and arrived at Plymouth. , Yeiterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Mr. TnowAs Woon:. Hous E was appointed Deputy Auditor, in the room of Mr. BAKER, deceased. JOHN CALLEY, was appointed the Company's Agent at Torbay. The Vengeur, Captain IticKETT, left Ita:4pla roads on the 10fh instant, to command ,the squa dron•off L'Orient, with a view of inter:epting the enemy's frigates, of which no less than twelve are at sea. . THE . ROYAL t,'AMILY. Yesterday, about half past twelve o'clock, her lAJESTY, accompanied by the PriDeesSeS - ELIZA. BETH and MARY, arrived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor, escorted by a party of light horse. They were received at the Palace by the Pages in waiting. They were afterwards visited by the Dukes of KENT and SussEx, - and by a number of the Nobility. . A few minutes before five o'clock, her iIIAJEsTr left her Palace in her chair, escorted by frur yeo-; men of the guard and four footmen, in their state liveries. The chairmen were relieved opposit4 t. James's Palace by two other chairmen, who pro ceeded to Carlton-house. They 'entered by tae garden-gate opposite to the Horse Guards. The Princesses followed soon after, attended by four yeomen and four footmen, to dine with the - PRI - N CE REGENT. The QUEEN and Princesses are expected to leave town this day for Windsor, instead of to- morrow. Yesterday, being Ash Wednesday, a little be fore twelve o'clock, her Royal Highness the Princess CHARLOTTE, attended by Miss K.NtoilT, went to the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, where she was received in the Royal Closet by Lady OSBORNE, the daughter of the Duchess of LEEDS. The Service was read by ,the Rev. 'Mr. PRIDDEN. After the Service, Princess LOTTE returned to Warwick-house, and after wards took an airing in Hyde Park, accompanied by Miss KNIGHT. Sir THOMAS TYRWHITT is expected to leave town in the course of next week, or in a short time for the Continent, for the purpose of accom panying the Queen of WIRTEMBURGH to England, to visit her Royal and August Family, and to try the experiment of her native air for the recovery of her health, which is very indifferent, The Duke of Kent packet brought passengers from St. Sebastians, Lientenant-Colonels Stevens, Mercer, Nicoll, Ree-ves, Heharn, and Timms ;, Brigadier-General Afazarrido ; Majors Chalmers and Nayler ; Captain Bowater and Steivent ; Lieutenants Dawker, • FrOst, and Considene ; Messrs. Hatsell, Newkey, and Zarnampa;and Fe lesano Zavala. The conduct of Mr. HOLROYD towards the late unfortunate Miss LAVINIA RoniNsoN, has excited so much indignation among the people of Man. chwer, that though he had, in the first instance, determined, to remain in the town ; -he has deemed, it expedient to abandon his resolution. The lower orders assailed his house, broke. the doors and ‘vindows, and posted. offensive labels against him in various parts of the town. The , Trustees of the Lying Inn Hospital had, previously to the dis covery of the young Lady, displaced him from the situation of Man-Midwife to the institution. He was at length so convinced of the danger. of his situation, that he procured an escort of u e Police, and quitted the town. e" b