The Sun. — London, England, 1814-03-02 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.. FEB. 23.—iler Majesty the Empress and titeen has received the following news, respecting the situation of the Armies, to the 21st of Fe- • brnary Baron Marulez, Commandant at Besancon, 'rites as follows : " On the 31st of 'January the enemy made an attack from the side -of Briguelle : in the night, he caused to play upon the town two batteries of howitzers and cannon, and attempted an attack upon the fort of Cbandone ; he was every where repulsed, amidst the cry of d Nye rEmpereur." He has lost morc than 1200 men. At whatever part the enemy presents himself, we are in a con 7 Ilition to well receive him." All the Cossacks who had spread themselves as far as Orleans, are hastily falling back.. Every where the peasants pursue, and take and kill a great number of them: At "Nogent, these Tar tars, who have nothing human, burnt some barns, to which they set fire with their hands. The pea sants having come out to extinguish it, the Cos sacks charged them, and rekindled the & l e. In a village on the Yonne, the Cossacks were amusing themselves in burning - a fine farni-house, the toe sin was sounded, arid the inhabitants threw some thirty of them into the flames. The Emperor Alexander slept on t!;c 1 ith at Bray x he had fixed his head-quarters on the, fol lowing day at Fontainbleau. The Emperor ,of Austria did not quit Troyes. The Emperor Napoleon b,ad on the 20th, in the evening, his head-quarters at Nogent. All the enemy's army is marching upon Troyes. Gen. Girard has arrived with his corps, knd the division of cavalry of Gen. Roussel, at Sens ; he had his advanced guard at Villaneuve l'Archi iNue. The advanced guard of the Duke of Reg gio is" half-way between Nogent and . . Troyes, at Chartres and at Mesgrigny ; those of the Duke of Tarentum are at I'avillon. The Duke of Ragusa is at Sezanne, obserVing the movements of Gen. Winzingerode, who, having left Soilsons, has marched upon Rheims, by Chalons, to write with the wrecks of Gen. Blucher's army. The Duke of Ragusa would fall upon his left flank, if he should.again engage himself. Soissons is a place sheltered from a coup-de-: main, General Winzingerode, at the ilead bt 4 or 5000 light troops, summoned it to surrender. General Rusea replied as he ought. Winzinge - rode placed his 12 pieces of cannon ,in a battery : unfortunately the first ball killed General Rusca : 'lOOO men of the national guards were the only garrison in: the place ; they were thunderstruck, and the enemy eptered Soissons, where he com mitted all the :aorrors imaginable. The Generals who were in the place, and who should have taken Ihe command upon the death of General Rusca, shall be brought beforesa Council of Enquiry, for this 'town ought 'not to have been taken. 'The Duke of Treviso re-occupied Soissons on the lath, and halreorganised tl►e ddfence of it. General Vincent writes from Chateau Thierry, that 250 , of the enemy's light troops having re- turned to Fere, in Tardenois, M. d'Arband Mis- sun marched against them with sixty horse of the garden d'honneur, which he had collected, and with the assistance of the national guards of the villages, beat theca, killing several, and dispersing the remainder. General Milhaud .net the enemy at St. Martin le-Bosnay, upon the old road from Nogent to Troyes. The enemy had about 800 horse. He caused them to be attacked by 300 men, who over threw, him, made 160 prisoners, killed some 20 men, and took about 100 horses. He has pur sued, and is still pursuing, the enemy tepee dais les reins. - , The Duke of Castiglione has left Lyons with a considerable corps d'arrde, composed of chosen troops, to march into French Comte and Swit zerland. • The Congress of Chatillon s,till continues ; but the enemy throws.every difficulty in the way of it (mais l'enncmic y porte ioute espece d'entraves.) The Cossacks .at every step stop the couriers, and al though we are but 30 leagues distance from Cha tillon, in a direct line, couriers do nqt arrive but after four or five day's journey. It is the first time the rights of nations have i❑ this manner been violated. Among nations the least civilized, the couriers of Ambassadors are respected, and no obstruction given to the communications of negeciators with their, .Government. The inhabitants of Paris might have expected the greatest misfortunes, bad the enemy arrived at their gates, and they surrendered their city without difence. Pillage, devastation, and fire, would have finished the destinies of this fine ca pital. Tile cold is very sharp. This circumstance bas been favourable to our enemies, a► it bus enabled gOLEM QUJE DICER VALSUAI AUDEAT LONDON.. WEDNESD4Y, M.IRCH 2, 1814. . We have a letter from France of the same date with the latest Paper, but probably written in the . . evening, as it mentions a fact not alluded to in the Public Journals, namely,- that 13tlos . ..u7AnTE had issued a piteous and pathetic Address to his good People of Paris, calling on them for a. ge neral rising and arming, in aid of his exertions, and for the defence of their City. There is a paitierapli . soritebitigtii this dfii . !eb. in the P< i'3; hilt it is likely that a more forinAl requisition may bare issued, as stated by our CiirrespOndent. The contents of the French Papers, of which we announced the arrival yesterday to the 24th inclusive, tvill be found in our preceding columns. They are highly satisfactory. Whether it is, that having so repeatedly annihilated all his enemies, the Corsican has, like A'LEN ANDER the GREAT, no• more worlds to conquer, or that the word anni hilation (anconiissetnety) does ,not mean precisely . what it - Used to do, and therefore the . process must be ,more frequently iterated to produce the full effect, we cannot determine; but certain it is, that the triumphant armies of the 'Enemy do not seem to proceed' with that rapid motion which might have been expected to follow such exter minating victories as those which he pretends to have achieved. The sc s avered fugitiVes under SACKEN, who fled in confusion across the Marne, have not been pursued to destruction by3lowr tEs he was atSoissons on the 19th. The wrecks of BLo cuea's army have not been swallowed :---MAamoNT was only at Sezanne on the 20th. The discoiu-' fited corps of Wirtembergliers at Montereau have not been surrounded anti taken :—MACDONALD was at the same date at Pavillon, and BooNA PARTE at Nogent. The whole of the' Grand Al lied Army, under SCHWARTZENREUG, has imt been put hors de combat :—OuDINoT krlts not iii posi tion beyond Chartres and Mariy, a few miles from • Nogent, and subsequently pushing ,his left in advance a short , way up the ' Seine to Ro milly. Such is the view of affairs which the Report of the Army up to the 21st furnishes for the consolation of the good citizens of Paris. — But they are further comforted with• an ac count of the repulse of an 'attack upon Be sanFon on, the 31st of January —with the details of a skirmish, in which 800 of the Allied ,horse were defeated - by Gen. MILUAUD, at the head of 300, at St. Martin-le-Bosnay—with the particulars of a disaster which befel 250 Light Horse, who had the impudence, notwithstanding 411 their beating, to return - to Tere-en-Tardenois (half way betweeo Soissons and Chatean Thierry), —and, better -than' all, with an assurance that tile hateful Cossacks . were falling back from Orleans, whittler they had spread themselves. These Cos sacks are the endless theme of the 'l'vrant's de nunciations. We are told that the " Peasants kill •and take a great number ;"—that in one place " some thirty were thrown into the fire ;" at another, that " ,hey i 3 r e hunted like fero cious beasts 3 " and then, by way of episode, We, are stunned with exclamations against the bar " barities and cruelties committed by these Tar tars, as if men, who were thus butchered, burnt, and hunted, were to be the most meek, gentle, and passive creatures on the face of the - Earth', acting with all discretion and humility, and going about to return good for evil ! Humanity recoils at the horrors inseparable ' from. a state of 'War,. and [to man can Ittlp feeling fbr the miseries of . . an invaded Nation.' It is thus we have endnred many a pang when contemplating the. devastation which has rendered Gerintuy, fair and fruitful Germany, one uniform and hideous waste. It is thus that we have shed the tear orcompassion, when we 'wandered in fancy over the wilds of Russia, made yet - More terrible and desola - te s by the glare of burning towns, and the unburied corpses of her sons, slaia io defence of their na tive land. It is thus; we have Mourned over the golden vales of Italy, reddened with the blood of their patriotic Cultivators, murdered in hundreds for resisting their spoilers. • It is thus we have deplored the wretchedness of enslaved Holland, ravaged by - a Despot's Bands, and doomed to en dure the heaviest wrongs without daring even' to curse the opprepors. It is thus we have groan ed in anguish for these twenty years of unparalel .led misery, during which Europe has presented, from the genial South to the rougher North, only one frightful aspect of smoking.ruiris and bloody fields; of the hopes Of individuals Wasted, and the happineSs of entire nations destroyed"; of ruthless ambition, regardless of obligations , human or divine, pursuing its merciless course, and of savage despotism bathing in gore tile fet ters it had succeeded, in imposing ,upon the uai verse. From the reflection of these scenes of havock. we tuns to 'France, experiencing the jus tice of Heaven in that retribution of which slid so bitterly complains. We may shudder at the infliction, but we are compelled to own it JUST. Nev'e did people more deserve that retaliation with which they are visited. The scourge, whose misrule they support, has in this manner caused every nation of the earth to suffer, and the laws of 'God satncion that vengeance for which. the blood of tuillionS has shouted aloud to Heave O.... But we have been led away by our feviings on this occasion from the events which it was our in tendon to record in, an abridged form ; 7 it is not in When the most i ttiat ear i3' `` to graced • a throne complains of the sato:alb- Y• which his own atrocities have expose d a contr 'Why,—let the Vreich peOple D.sk e ar s thesb Cossacks here to injure us WlP' t brought them from the frozenWolga and st° lPl Irtis to the loye - ,'y Marue and futile Seine ? 14 ' 11 ' ‘ accursed an:l restless tyranny Y o u r d .eva sta.tia .lls ' and massacres, an a l invasion of other land's! ' 6! that France should perish for the crimes Of a r`r ix:~ gne' ,dignation reign Usurper.? • • ers The rest of the military affairs, its these r it i l may be compressed into sttnill compass., The 6 ,‘ . r ture of Soissons is inveighed against most 1 ' 1E ; terly, and' other Generals are 'to be brough t i c trial. for disappointing the. expee':ations' of ti le ; Master. We like this dissatEtaction it not ‘)). proves that his affairs do' not succce,d t o wishes, -brit iSlikely to sow the seeds of (I ' s' ;( scission Among . his•ppartizans, which may in " L. ' growth o'vei•throw the system. of the `l.. , . 31 altogether, and hurl hitnseil' to drstrtic; tion. Au GP: REAU s tated to have mar-eb., from 1.,34115 . at the head of ' a coOsideobit" corps d'arin6e for Frauche Coutpte and zerland. We know that t: u: • ' this force was .felt by - the Aniei .131 - ". • itui:Csl diversion, but we trust it will he a , over-balitued by the exploits of oi;t• NV;,;l_, TON, tyho aLif.in graces the field. AVGNE:.:AO besides, not a Commander for importiint oper 3 t — ! ii , WINZINGERODR Is paCitig hiniself in conttottnicli tion with the left of B UCnER, by.l7Z.lli;lius Some error, it is said, that 31 1; m..ONT would fail on I,is left nk, if 'be agai.% engage. MAttivinNt, at Sezainic, is f." l. Q 1 : 1 his right. - We rejoice to learn, that aci_r and able Ally, the Cold Weather, has orzlin ported the confederates. The Emperor 0 1 j ° STRIA remained at Troyes (hiring - the late n h meats, and the Allies were marching . torrarik , concen,trating upon that Aninlet° French Journal fixes BuONABARTE'S iltaj-tiL ters there Ow the 21st; but this is stiFosed tee Cbatuns. an error. v et' The French Fonds have r ise n t o SG. 51i, ! 4§ it is with great delight we learn that he Co*: 11. ;do at Chatillon does not proceed so sluooth!y , Corsican desires. .1-16 speaks of the didit:ult cs encounters in this 'reispeck, and of_ the inte cil ; l :, Lions given to the Couriers by t hey noble who, after al 1 1 seem to be the best Europe: .The treacherous violatOr National right, the :kidn . appev t l , l the inu;.(lcter Of Princes, seized olt territories ; the torturer and assassin of P ri• spnerxi of war ; the ro:ther of Cpuriers Envoys ; the detz-.itter of Travell - ers, andperP° 0i3., tor of every outrtge bvitie:i can lie tueotiou.e4 • conceived against law or' justicz--Lthis • dares tilai, . ni t' i,is "- it 'Pi t:.. first time that the rights of nations have A j - 2iV P IA, t::11, f)t,,11 !`,l. )1 , ,7 Oar lU'l °C.,c and lifi 41;:i giti . Cll. neip!Cil.ttiOnS (ioyerumeli:." " ,etlY It 2S so, when it snits him to have a e tertnivation his hazardous condition. Wes . o ► otherwise,' a few more stopirages, robberie,l4, nturderft, would adil little to his catalogue 0 1 °V , fences. 1i t 0 ' The commencement of War by •Mup,AT 8.4' 1 BUONAPARTE is recognized at Pltis, Deo .3ll' tion issued liy a' Count ATC; , E, MilliSter of jtt'' tics,--(Justice should tc lard, and so they got a mole France)- 7 -in crhich all Freneb" ' are recalled from the NeAnolitan Service " . " ) f threemionths from the lith February, on being proceeded against conformahiylo . the . . penal Decree of 6tii 1849: This flt - , declares such persons to be `‘ Rebels to the i t peror," their pc , ssessions in France are - c 0965' cated, and they are condemned to death, ace''' . ing to the 3d Article of the Penal Code of °c' tober, iii.• 7 ---- ** 11 " ----- i e" By our Naval News it appears, that some °P.. rations are going on in the direction of 00 01.4- Some further Dutch Papers'*tre unimpatant. • • Parliament met yesterday and adjourned the to 21st, after a short anti uninteresting co n rersat i ‘: in both Houses. Mr. WIITTBItgAD, who 1110 5 e 11 mano gin's . , proposed an so amendment unneco ol l' , that we do not believe he could have g,;)t . a ilbla S' voice to vcrte for it. Yesterday, - a little befOre, tour o'clock, -110 Duke of YO R K held a Levee ur his - Office, i" 10 Horse-Guards, as Commander-in Chet. A'. l)'.- those on his Royal Highness's list were— , ahem , General 0:0 Li Les, 11,:ut.-General Ae% 1 , -" gen, Colowl De Bourg, Major-General onraitK, it Ha. tins, Sir George Osborne, C'olonel Itanhev Grosvenor, the Margnii of Worcester, anti the Guards, on his return from the k‘tArtinis of Wr .. . toa ' S ArM. Yester y day - morning - -the Rnssian Amlrs * "lt had a long audience of the PittNi;.t REGENT' Carho.ll thtiti to csity off thtir and bagga g r ,t,y• all the roads. 'Without that, more than half of their ‘vaggens would have fallen into our hlndi. FRENCH FUNDS. Pleb. 22, 56f. Feb. 23, 5Gf. 59. c. [No minor Papers of the 24th of February hare been received.] MINISTER OF JUSTICE. " We, Count Alol6, Graud Jutlge, Minister of Justices Officer of the Legion 'of 'Honour, and Grand Cordon of the Order of Union— " Considering the letter addreSsed to ns on'the lith of February, 1814, by M. the Duke of 'Vi cenza, whereby he informs us, according to the orders of his Majesty the 'Entpororand . King, of the King of Naples having declared ‘var against France, and that it is the intention of his impe. rial ttnd Royal Majesty that we should, by a form4l declaration, and conformably witti the existing laws, recall all Frenchmen who may 'be in the civil or military service of the'Neapolitan Government ; and conformably with the article of the imperial Decree of the Gth of April, 1809; and the lith and 18th articles of 'that of the 26th of August " We declare, that All Frenchmen' who may now, with or without the permission ofbisNajes ty, be 'in th'esmilitary or. civil service, of the Nea-. 'politan Government; are.to return into the terri tory of the empire within time space of three months, to be reckoned from the 17th of February, 1814, and that they .. shall there be held to prove - their return, according to the forms prescribed by law ; in default whereof, and after the expiration of that term, the defaulters shall be denounced, and pur sued ,by the agents of the public Government, conformably with the dispositions of the Imperial 'Decree of the 6th of April, 1809. " Given at Paris, in our Hotel, on the 22,1 of February, 1514. (Signed) " Count MOLE." PARIS, FEB. 22.--The Emperor slept at Nogent on the night between the 20th and 21,St. Majesty continues to enjoy the best of On the 21 , t his Majesty's head-quarters were at Troye's ; the Duke of Reggio was at Romilly.— 'Her Majesty the Enipress has yesterday ,and to day, at one o'clock, lett the Palace of the Thuil !cries, and taken a walk. _PARIS, FEB. 23.—0 n the 21st . the Emperor's head-quarters were at Nogent. His 'Majesty en joys good health. The Marshal Duke of Reggio was at Romilly, on his way to Troyes. MILAN, 1E8.'15.-Since the affair of the 11th, nothing has occurred along the whole'of the line of the army. On the 12th, several discharges of artillery were heard from the enemy's lines, the object of which was to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the Emperor of Austria. _ • They write from Mantua, 'that the security of its environs is likely to be affected; a detachment of the enemy's cavalry having broken the ch a i n s of a number of malefactors, and, set theta at li berty : they had all been condemned to -severe pitnislments, and some of them" were even sen tenced to irons for life. The deliverance of these malefactors is a new benefaction, for which we arc indebted to the generosity of our enemies. GERMAN AND DUTCH PAPERS. AMSTERDAM, FEB. 17.—Yesterday' were re ceived here, with every demonstration of joy and affection, the organised • Militia, which had come from Haern. GoES, FEB. 13.—The _Country of and Axel has, within the few last days, been deliver ed from French. intrusion. The day before yes terday, in the evening, Commissioner De Yonge, from Zierik Zee, arrived, and yesterday he pro ceeded through Axel, for the purpose Of taking possession of the States of Flanders,,.in• the name of his Royal Highness our Sovereign.Priffee, and to appoint the national functionaries for the esta blishment of the same authority. Yesterday 300 more Russian marines reached us, by which the joint Anglo-Russian force on our Island is increased to 2400 men. ' BRUSSELS, FEB. 9.—Yesterday all the troops belonging to the division of General Ilorssel, and which proceeded from Mechlin, left our town to pursue General Maison, who had retreated by the way of Mash and Daornick. NEXT FRIDAY 'fHE LOTTERY BEGINS DRAWING. MA11... • ARRIVED-1 Guernsey, 1 Jersey, 2 Dnblin, 3 Waterford. Dur:---1 Lisbon, 2 Malta,' 15 Gottenburgii, 2 Holland, 3 He ligoland, 1 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TIVSLVE O'CLOCK. Consols 70if I OLunium, 27ii HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 53 minutes after 11. I Evening, 19 minutes after 1.2. THE 'SUN. It