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troops of the same army appeared before Befort and after having lost'lsoo in tin assault, had like wise changed the siege into a blockade. On the ,46(11, the pews 'from this place was satisfactory. Another cc rps'Of Printe Schwartzenberg's ar tily had marched 'to Epinal; and thence towarck Nancy. Oti the 19th its advanced posts were be fore Tool, The Duke of Bellow) wa3 behind the Meuse, at Void, occupying Commercy, and coin rouniCa!ing with the Duke. of Ragusa - . - On the 12th the Duke of Treviso was at Lan grm ; he had‘before him the corps of Gen. Giu lay, which is also a part of the army of the Prince of Sehwartzenberg. On the 13th and 14th • the Duke Of Treviso sent troops against the enemy's advanced guard, which was 1800 i strong ; 300 chasseurs of the young guard, conducted by some people of the country, marched at one in the morning, into the rear of the enemy,- who had just taken his arms, attacked him with they bayonet, killed 5 or 600:men, and tookfroulltim 230 pri soners. / On the 19th, in consequeneenf general arrange ments,*the Duke .of Treviso bad taken a, posi tion at Chaumont, where he has been joined by two more divisions, and by a park of 70 pieces of cannon. Two battalions of Wertember7ers coming from Epinal, having got too tar, the Duke of Treviso; after causing there to be cannonaded for, ten till flutes, had then? attacked with the baybuet by 60 grenadiers of the guard, Who offered their s&vices. These two battalions were repulsed by sixty nieu, and thrown into the river; eighty prisoners were taken. Camps of reserve are• forming at Meaux, at Soissons; Chalons, Troyes, and Arey sur Aube.. A' hundred squadrons Of reserve cavalry, are forming at Meaux and Melun, under the Generals of Division. BOrdesanit and Paco]. . . The. national guarck of Normandy, Poitou, and 13rittany; are on the march to reinforce the camps of Aleauk, Soissons, and Troyas. A park of 600 pieces •of cannon is collected at Chalons, under General linty. The moment is come - When, from all parts of this vast empire; . the French who desire , speedily to deliver the territory of their country, and pt e serve the national honour which we have received from our'forefathers, ought to take up arms, and niarch to the camps, which are the rendezvous of the brave and true frenchthen. The enemy ant ounee that they invade France with 200,000 Inca. There are 20,000 in Braißrnt, 60,000 9f the Silesian-array before Mentz,' Sarre Lonis,'Luxethbotirg, Ttlionville; and Metz, and 100,000 in the army of the Prince of Schwartzen berg, which is at Bourg, before Besancon, Hun inguen, Schyalstadt, and liefor,t, and -on the , side of Langres. . . rASSAGE OP THE RII/NE BY THE ARMY CALLED THE ARMY OF SILESIA, COMPOSED Of PRUSSIANS .AND RUSSIANS. On the Ist January 'the army . of Silesia passed the Rhine at different points._ "Xhe corps marched, viz. the Russian division of General Langeron 'before Mayence, having his advanced gua:d to wards Treves,; and the divisions of Sacken and 'You* upon the Sarre; Kleis t's division in reserve. These four divisions, including cavalry, may be estimated at 50,000 nap. .The Duke of Ragusa has retired before these corps without stiffening any loss ; he has taken a position on the Sarre, has caused Sarre Louis and Bisehe to be provi sioned, has movetkowards Metz, and staid some days before that town, to make all evacuate ,it who were useless for its defence, and to com plete its pro Visions fora year. He occupied St. Michael, and was beyond Verdun. On the 1901 of this month, without having had any affair of consequence, Verdun was provisioned, armed, and in a good.state of defence. The division Saeken•rwas at Ponta Mousson, that .of Yorck before Metz, that of Kleist before Thionville, and that. of Langeedn before Mentz. The infantry of this army is wholly employed in the blockade of the fortreSses. The rigour of the season, the bad weather, and the multiplied bivouacks, have increased the ravages of disease amongst the troops, whose health had beep al ready i►upaired by the fatigues of the campaign.— The hospitals -in the rear of the arwy are full, and the roads are covered with dead horses. The Pre fect and the Mayor of Metz, the Sub-prefect of Thionville, and in general all the population of, the Messeu have deserved the praises of the Bniperor.,: ARMY, OF THE NORTH. PARTS, JAN. 20.—The di ser ti on o t eight batta lions - from the 3d and 4th foreign regiments, and of two battalions of Hollanders, which formed the greater part of the division ot General Moli tor, having left Holland wichdut defence, and the cities ot Amsterdam and the .k.lagne being in a state of insurrection,, General. Molitor immedi ately threw a garrison into Naarden, and General Rampsen shut himself up in Gin - cum. Troops were also thrown into Bois•le-Duc. Bergen-op-Zoom received •a garrison of 5,000 m en . hvents suc ceeding witb rapidity, a panic diffused itself among those who at Antwerp directed the mili tary dispositions. The evacuation of the im portant place of Williamsburg, and that of Breda, were ordered. .'T'he enemy profited by the error, and immediately took possession of them, and Williamstadt becathe to hint a point of. sup port fOr his disembarkation. General Graham took advantage of it, and landed a column of Eng lish militia, between 4 36(15600 men. In the eva cuation ofWilliamStadt, so great was the distrac tion, that the powder, the artillery, and a flotilla, the crews of which were almost alone sufficient to defend the place, were . left behind. An inquiry has been ordered into this aiLir. The Minister at War 'immediately directed General Roguet to march upon Breda, and endeavour to retake that place before the enemy should be able to provi sion it, and re-establish himself there firmly. On the 22d December, General Rogitet marched upon the city of Breda, overthrew the advanced posts, sui rounded it, and threw some howitzers into it; he had hoped to' make himself master of it, when he learned that a corps of English had landed at Thole!), and was.marching to place itself between Lint and Antwerp; he therefore 'judge it proper to approach nearer to that place, and took ,a pOsition at Oogstraten. General Mahon was appointed to the 'command of the first corps of the army of Antwerp; be hastened Co ,complete the provisiOning of Be.rgen-op-zootn: for nine months. The forts of arid . Liefken-. sock were provisioned ; noshing; and Teerveer received provisions fbr a year ;: in fine, the places on the left bank of the Scheidt, as Ysenddik; Hultz, and the forts of . the ye of Cadzior, were completely armed' and proyjsioued'. T Gen. Matson also employed liiinsekf its exei'elsing his corps, with all the battalions which. bad-been - cdnipleted in the strong places of Flanders. , , On the 11 tit of January General Billow de bouclied from Breda with a Corp's' of from 10 to 12,000 men, and marched upon Hoogstraten.— General' limpet had his left at West, IVeSel, l and his centre at Hoogstraten. The brigade, Ainiard, which formed his right,,ocenpied . 'Turnhout ; it received orders to incline upon Lierre,,which pre vented its taking part in the .affair. A colimm of the enelnY debouched 'by Lier„ while another co lumn of twelve battalions marched upon Wordel. General Roguet had placed a battalion of the - 12th tirailleurs in the church-yard of Menderhoot. - This battalion repulsed all the attacks of the enemy, /and covered itself with glory, ' The road of Meer Was defended with equal success.' The enemy re doubled his attacks an all the points of the line, and was every where repulsed with enormous loss, and without being able to d'..tvelope before Hoog straten. General Roguet lm'ing learned in •the evening that a column of 4000. English, under the command ,of -Sir T. Graham, which had left Ro sendoel, Werenlarchiwz,' epon 'Antwerp, and being ignorant of the force, of the difTerent corps of the enemy which alight attack him, judged it neces- , sary to approach nearer to Antwerp, the better to appreciate their deploying,; and concentrate his defence. Ile. inclined upon Winegeem, where he ' supported his right, his left was connected with the corps from Antwerp, which occupied Mer Zen aod Deurne. • The 12th passed in making movements atitl diS positions to give a good reception to the enemy, who, after the severe losses lie had suffered on the 11th, advanced with great cititiO.n. On the 13th, at eight in the morning, the corps of Billow debonched by the routes of Braaschel and Turnhout, while a column of light infantry, arriving by the way of Scitoten, tried to separate General _Rogue( from.the ofOzarne,' - cebich was defended by a brigade of the young guard. At the' same mbinent, the c or p s . of: Graham at tacked Merxen, which was.oectiPiecl by four bat-, talions of the Ist corps and a battalion of the la bourers of the marine. The cannonade began along the whole line, and the enemy advanced in force uponUrinsgeem. Our artillery overwhelmed theni they made the greatest efforts, and even sacrificed some soldiers to force the village. Gen. Roguet thlykmced with five battalions, aad the enemy was completely repulsed. . The death of the General of Brigade Avy bad occasioned a little disorder on Our left. A. batta lion of the 4th regiment of light infantry distin guished itself by its firmness, and restored .ord,?r. The village of Merxen was occupied by the enemy for a moment. Our troops rallied on Dyne, anti . siatihn the enerrs.r.rrrrc cveiy where relitthed, The ocrps of Bulow retreated precipitately upan Turn- ' bout, and that of Graham by the road of _Bergen op-Zoom. On the 12th, General . Maison, deceived by false accounts, thinking that the enemy was ad vancing upon Diest and Louvain by la Campine, had taken with hiM the brigade Aimard of the corps of General lloguet, had united it with the divisibn Barrois, which was in reserve at Liers, and with the cavalry had advanced in the direc tion which he presumed the enemy would tak e : when he L a d di scovere d t h at the news he had re ceived was false, he acquired' the certainty that, the victory was decided; and that the enemy were in full retreat.• But for this circumstance, which deprived us for a moment-of part of our force, it. word(' have been possible, by pursuing the enemy briskly, to' drive him over the Waal, and to raise the siege ofGorenin.. The enemy's•troopsin the north are -partly employed in blockading Wesel, Naarden, Gorcum, Deventer, anti the Helder. When the brave Admiral Verhuel was informed of the enemy into Holland, he retired to ,the Het. der, and 'occupied the forts of Larable and Mor land, and other fortified points which cover the, Helder and Moerdike. All possible means and; persuasions have been ew;doyed to make him be tray • his duty —"I have provisions ; for two months,", was his answer ; '' I have taken an . oath of allegiance to- the Emperor of the French." • The admirable system of defence %i'hich has se cured- the Helder from attack, is :due to the CO lone!' of Etigineers M. Paris. If many millions have been spent; we have gained -the •inestimahle advantage 'of holding the key of the:Znycler-Zee. It - is for want of having' taken. this, precaution, that the Republic of Holland lost two squadrons • since 1793. The garrison of the Helder has made several Sallies, and driven the enemy as . f ar as Alkmaar. The garrison of (loariAt;*.hail , elt@Wise, in several sallies, occasioned the enemy severe losses. • THE ARMY OF ITALY. The 12th the Viceroy had his head-planers. at Verona. He had a communication with Venice, which has a numerous garrison. Palma Nuova and Osopo are provisioned for ten mouths. Mantua anti Legnago the same. The army of the Viceroy was 60,000 effective under arms, ex.\ clusive of ,garrisons. The ,Reserve Army at Alexandria is 24,000 strong. This place, and the citadel of Turin, completely armed and provisioned. The Army of Italy are going to put themselves in motion. The Conscription of 1813 is raising in Piedmont, to reinforce the Reserve Army of Alexandria. The inhabitants of the . DepartMent beyond 'the Alps show the best spirit. FRENCH FUNDS. Jan. 17 - 43 frauks 18 - 47 19 48 20 - 48 21 ' 42 141. - 75 CO lati. 59 , 26 - 25 DUrcii PAPERS. . , LEYDEN, JAN. 19,--From Breda we learn;that cnr. the 17th lust. 'twenty pieces of artillery arrived there ; and on the following day they were 'for-; . warded,to Dordrecht, from .whence they- will be' 'sent to SleSwyk, to be mounted on the batteries ,against Gokcum.. They are accompanied by be tween 12 and 1300 Prussians, belonging to tilt corps at General Billow, who arc no longer re. quired to he engaged before Antwerp. The number of pritimiers:.taken in the late affair amounts to 3 or 600, including about - 200 taken by the British Army. In addition to .these pri— soners,. 70 have arrivcd 4 iat Hoogstraaten, taken by the Cossacks in the direction of Atondeucic. The enemy had fled in that direction on being driVen by General llorstel from Turnhout. The report of the Cossacks is also that they have killed a great number: ' • _ . By the last letters,;General Tuben remained with 5 o r 6,000 men at Morxein. General •BorStell' was at \Vest Mane and St. Antonius, with several thousand Prussians and English in• advance at-Capelle, on the great road from Zunkurt to:Antwerp. The British troops are to move to Heykam, to prevent the passage of the French on the road to Hoogstraaten, which-is yet free. There are likewise 5,000 Prussians at Bres caat and Eckeren. There are a few allied troops posted in the Ber .genrout, only three-yuarters•of a, mile from the walls of Antwerp. Thus it appear's that the Al lies are surrounding Antwerp and although the communication - of the enemy with Flanders is not yet cut off, he, cannot long possess this cility. The British head-luartcrl are still at Rosen dael, but they are to be mored more to the southward, to West Wesel, or Putte. This last place is 'between Bergen-op-Zoom and Ant werp. [From the Nederlandsche Stoats Courant]. THE. uIiG,E; JAN. 24.---Peace having been con cluded with Denmark, we learn from undoubted authority that the Crown Prince of Sweden is op' his march towards Dusseldorf, at the head of 40,000' men. We have also received the iniport ant intelligence that the strong fortresS Of Dant zic, after having been besieged.a year all hut ten days, at lust capitulated on the 2d instant. The _garrison, which at first; was 30,000 strong,"but was diminiSlied one-half by malignant revers, the effects of the cold and miseries undured in the flight from Russia, remain prisoners of : I var, an d twill he sent to Russia ; with the exception of the Dutch, who are on their way to their own coati .try, and of whom two officers have already ar-. rived here. The quantity of caution, muskets, and all kinds of military stores, found in Dant zic, is astonishingly great. , In a former Courant, Under the head of "Paths, JanAtte," we communicated the linpe'rial Decree, by which the Legislative Body was dissolvzd, at the same time Mentioning the prObable reasons, of this dissolution. We have_ since received fur ther confirmations of thew, with this addition, that the report of the Committee of the Legisla tive Body, with regard to the documents commu nicated to them on the subject of negociations, --- as - vf - surli - a L pzucific complexion, and so 'strongly recommended the acaeptiince of the preliminaries proposed by the Miles, that the Eiuperor, in a in lions rage, ordered the printed copies of the re port to be destroyed. This violent conduct bad excited universal indignation; and the wish to be at last delivered from the pinching yoke of slavery -was become very general. - Insurrections had •11- ready broken out in some of the northern parts of Fiance, as welt as in Artois' and Picardy. From Breda, we learn that a requisition had been there made for 700 horses to draw the Eng lish artillery; whence it is 'concluded that the besieging of the fortresses is..to be set about in earnest. DOSSELDORF,_ JAN. IS —Russian troops con tinue to cross the Rhine without ceasing. The cossacks of the corps of CzernitcheiT, which cross ed the Rhine, have advanced to Gulik and Len nep. In Neuss there are a great number of Rus sian troops, and General Czernitcheff's head-, ,quarters are there. Upon the entrance of the allied troops ,into Co .blentz,- where almost all the houses were illumi .nated, some hundr . eds of armed French., besides thoe in the hospital, fell into their hands. The Cossacks brought the Prefect of Coblentz, and the French General Guerin into Simmeren, after having aken from the General , 150,000 francs, which he was carrying off to the former place. In Andernach tile Cossacks seized the post waggon and 80,000 francs, ',destined for the French Imperial chest', but all the other property they let pass. ARNIIE IN, JAN. 19.—The passage of troops of all arms, as well as cf artillery and ammunition, still continues. Today.thecorps of the RussiAn General Benkendorf crossed the Mine, while the great force assembled at Dusseldorf crossed.the same river between that town and Enuerik. FittE.--This morning, between six and seven o'clock, a fire broke out at the residence of ":11AitayAT, in Peckham ; it was occasioned- by the - foulness of a chimney in the' coachman's - apart - - ments, which were situated over the stables and coach-house, in the latter of , which were two ele gant carriages, and before the flames could be impeded, they, with what property the coachman ,was possessed of; ,as,Well as a quantity of hay and corn, were totally destroyed. The Wife of the coachman, who had lain-in but a few days, most miraculously escaped with her infant. MIIIM"ULOUS ESCAPE.-Yesterday morning, be tween .two and three O'clock, the family. of Mr. MAy - som, a Grocer, in Woolwich, were most se riously alarmed by the upper part of the 'house -giving way, in consequence of e quantity of snow supposed to have penetrated through the tiles upon the cieli n which, on dissolving, forced the ciel ing down, and falling, with great pres Sure into an empty attic, roused the whole of the family; the water still continuing to find its way further, obliged them to leave the premises, which they had scarcely done befor e th e en d wa ll gave way, when the roof fell in with such force that the house cattle tdraaost - level with the grctund. PRICE 'OF STCCES 'Mrs r)A•Y AT rwsmvs o'cLocti. . ,R9lO Cerrs.• - 67 43 I Red.Arm.....671i 1 Omniurj.• tIIGH WATER AT LONDON BIUDCE TO-MOl 3 - 11° ,i: 2.1 mi in nutes after 7. I Eveng, 4G minutes a`t.".4 TI; SITN - A F QUIS DICERS FAL'i:l AUVEAT ? LONDON', FR I D.,117, A' 17,1 Ii I' 0 3;4814. * • Iv Copious and impontant Extracts frOpi pers to the 24th axe given in our prece‘.'' columps.. . The accounts they give of the 01 0 `I ments of the Allies, though a good 'deal - disgo' form a very satisfactory sequel to the latest ligene,e received 'from our Ministery at What Lord CATHCART and Sir CB A n.ES STE°told arrlft * us.the Allies were about to do, the Journals confess the Allies have done. informed that they Were about to' advance v P . ;; Lyonk, and we find they had reached 3 ' . 6 miles-of the sec o nd c ity in France, without encountered, or being likely to. oneounter, 991 position to .its occupation. On the CO .Macon, a large . and popilloustown, about 55 9it g higher op the Spane, suffered the bridge over til e , river (the passage of whichled to Lyons) to I )°5 ; cured by a mere patrole from .the arm y of 1 - 3uama., and the unresisted advance towards lee !). was the immediate result. Dole and St. .1) 39 " yielded at once to equally insignificant partici troops ; and wherever they bave.yet proceedei ! ' t l Allies have had no reason to be convinced by tic stern opposition of the population, that they n it so vehemently attached to th e i r Corsican a le ' kto (s his friends among us represent. Th e infra- lt i,eo .of., Lyons (that is, we iselieve;the portion of t ' i tv who have identified their 'interests wlt h Usurper) have fled in dismay, and hid thetos c ' s r 4 and their plunder in the mountains. AVe also informed that the army of General 131-t 7c11 ., would advance to Metz, and before Met cording find the corps of General Yoßcs., - moNT having " retired with ou t , 'sulfcrin, ihbe loss," that is, having been driven from all t o il strong positions On the Vosges Mountain s river Snare, which he so strenuously exertea ll7to, ,e t self to defend. G enera l S ICKEN h a d also PO I : forward to Pont-a-Mousson, about 12 M iles ff ° : Nancy, on the Moselle, while General 141 - .L0';"1n,90 With his corps, was on rim same down, before Thionvine, nnd ss ' if left blockading Ment z . Th us i t i s ev id e nt ) ' t (n . t glance, even f rom tine acknowledgment A t to Enemy, that - all the fine . and important Wl' : 0 from the Rhine to the Moselle has subinittea the Conquerors; almost without resistance. On the Lower Rhine', MACDONAIjj Who If, , charged with its d e f ence t o Ni meguen , 1.4111 :: j seated as h a vi ng " . repulsed all attacks. 7 SA " . ‘ t this means in F renc h we d o not k now , bot ni(1 ;1 • assuredly, the positi ons o f th e s i ctor i ons Mor sb oe are the most inconsistent with success th 3t , ever yet read or heard of. One would stfle s lo . for instance, that having repulsed rill attacks, i f had prevented the Allio from crossing thc he was clotrged to no, such thi li(L they passed the Rhiae before his faCc. did he beat them afterwards, and force t i ' e . 1 1 back ? NO such tiling; he himself retreated , 11 ' - to MaestrLtht on the 14th, an d t he n to Na' 9ur on 'the 18th, surrendering, with the exceptiv3 the fortified places into which he threw garfit''' )s' all the territory between the'Rhine-andthelq edses. viz. Gelderland, the Duchies' of Cleves, iiiin!" ll' and Juliers, and the Electorate of Cologne--1' 13 : ing the MetiSo between himself a n d th o se bc' Lf " ll ' enemies against whom the Rhine couhl riot test him, and seeking safety among the stro p fortresses which encircle the Netherlau2s. These Papers assert that Langr es was still French hands on the 12th, a;td,..by and confused' statement, seem de roes of . 1 111v;!1 ' it understood that it remained frith .them week after. This, if our readers will examine tic - • manner in which th e ,f ac t s nre m 1 4 entioned, t be a part of the saute sys“- • delusion' which si•ealis 'of the head-quiufers of E" Allies as at baste on the 19th—thus keeping' t b ' s word of promise to the ear of the French Kati( ' but brealing it to their understanding, t'e 0 , We have also another version of th e R evo at Gene,va, , which has sorely disconcerted 130 0141 ' PARTE!S nerves, the cause of which was miscon ' duct on tile part of. the Magistracy and_ the " tiro of the moment." That species of m iscoc . duct, of which th e T yra n t has of late had so true .reason to compl a i n , appears to .b c so genera l , th' t we have great hopes he will speedily find be b'► .1 mistaken the name of the disease, Nl ' 'hiCil the Vertigo, but the Influenza—and of a• vc r • cdtc,izitik, , nature too. • The liAbt troo s ,• c 11j culynneerl of tt