The Sun. — London, England, 1814-02-11 00:00:00

TO 'IIE EDITOtt. tear Sort, • You will, I trust, 611oW tilAt there are not Many het sous wh o h ave b etter not i ons o f t h e r i g ht s o f t ` l , ln gs , with regard to fighting ) than myself.-- l erefure it a pp ears to me , t h at a num b er o f Flats i 'i „ il !he Opposition 'ti n y ; are quite mistaken in'their - about the style of milling practised by th e Allies in France. It seems to me, that they ar e acting upon the best system, and that ' e ir victory w ill h e t h e mo r e d ec i s i ve from i not flooring the adversary by one L'low. : I. ""re you I have always, on experience, found, by holdi ng u p m y enemy's head a little, and 2 . lig him most gloriously, I made more sure of . "'Plering him, with sufficient punishment to his rising again, than if I had put in a '-'lll3l-e body blow or two, which, though they •ay aim senseless for the moment, so that e could not he br o ught u p again in time, Aromar°t in the end so effectually prevent him from re t;iewirg the contest, as the way I have recom -1=(1.-11 e Allies appear to sme to be follow thj,", Il ly plan, and a more clarety fibbing than are ttow It BIJONAPA RTE, while they hold Gls tread under their arm, could not be desired by Your obedient, THOMAS CRIBB, Champion of England. S•--I f .--I will back lhuctiEn against the Corsi any money. V44,_, ur Correspondent's orthography is a little out ; but we lu rather have It so than dear SUN. a ltqr b u 1 Waterford. 1), , p.--1 Lisbon, 1 Malta, 9 Goten ,!;"11, Holland, Heligoland, olan►d, t ~l Guernsey, 1 Jersey, • kottblin, 1 Waterford. PRICE OF STC CFS C o TRIG DAY Al TWI:I.VE O'CLOCK. 4 =nl, • 601 Omnium. 23j 251 23 \ I NN W'ATER AT LONI)ON MUDGE TllllO tv n ' 20 minutes after 7. Eveuin, 47 minutes after 7. THE SUN. SOLE:kr QUIS DICERE FALSUM At/DEAT ? LONDON, PRI D-4Y, FEBIII7.IIII' 11, 1811 [FROM THE CITY, ONE O'CLOCK.] ti lkil other very considerable sensation is excited 4 te ulorning on 'Change—of course, the reports h t various. The prevalent sentiment appears to tic that there is an arrival of a Messenger from 1- lead-quarters, announcing a Cessation of . st ilities ; but whether the Treaty has been made 1 411 lkilitlAvAtiTz or the Senate, cannot be solved. i 8 very c onfidently asserted, that the Prince de ti `De has been informed by a veryhig,h authority, . 14t the Allies have surrounded Park, and that the I., ll : t tilad sent a Deputation to Prince SClrwAßT— thatt4; entreating him to spare the City, and B to s hould be delivered up. 11„ ci ts have had another rapid advance. % Iv n vninitun is 26" i, and Consols 70. fla g of truce, it is said. has arrived. The IV• t art assured that part of our fleet have passed U°bll %, and proceeded into the Scheldt. An Cl i ien Se smoke was seen ()Vet. Antwerp on the ; ti t ‘ 4ll t• but it has not been ascertained whether tt t c vri was in flames, or nhether it arose from cL i t estru c tion of the French fleet. Antwerp was a inly invested by the Allies on that day, and a ct : . l.4l endous b om b ar d men t was h ear d b y our ttdr on. t to e hove reccived a Letter, dated the ith p o lla an Officer on board our fleet in the Room -411 c'n whom we can implicitly depend. He " the Allied Army, under Sir TIIOM,ts kitsod and G enera l Bu Lo w, be gan t o bombard 4, tli ' er l) on the sth inst. The Nymphen and `r frigates with the Cretan and Banterer brigs, S e th sent to force the passage of the West ‘ti tti lici t, which they yesterday accomplished k t little damage, considering the heavy ter; o f shot an d s h e ll s from the French bat, t'a l %a t Flushing and Cadsand, However, Bri- a loar and pesevcrance soon effected this de- Iv t t'bjeet. But what cannot our gallant Tars te l 'en directed by spirited and skilful Officers. li' ot ra l Nen of war are now at anchor near t 1 Ilatz, under the direction of Commo )N , ° WEN, and all communication is sus ' c l between Antwerp and Flushing. De ,tters ''• come daily on board Admiral YouNG's tr, t),ls 4 'd rep ort, that there are not many French ench the Island of Walcheren. At Flushing e it tr e are about 1500. who, according to report, much discontented, and in hourly appre- , etrt ofreceivin ,, a visit from the Allied Armies." t t , 4 4 ; 4 1- ;t'tter of a v er y r e cen t d a t e fl•om Grafelines V I 413 the following information ; the fears of P 4 th e o ri may perhaps have exaggerated some tit A e , fac t 3 The reports brought here arc, that Itrt'nes have advanced and taken possession of Ghent, and Brussels, and that Ostend iV ioupgrt are inundated ty the Garrisons (Ten se sluices, to prevent their occupation by the Allies; aM) parties of the toiSacks peered every hour to make their appearance be•- fore Dunkirk." The very important contents of French Papers to the Bth, which we announced in a third Edi=_; tion yesterday afternoon, precede this notice, and I arc as gratifying as could be wished. They de scribe the defeat of the Tyrant in his attack upon I BLUCHER, his consequent disasters, and, up io the 3d, demonstrate his utter incapacity to resist the Allied forces.—The covering which quibble and falsehood endeavour to throw over these facts, is too thin to deceive even the meridian of Paris which too much resembles !‘ a strong frontier place," to be susceptible of any very gross delusion from the near theatre of war. We will, however, follow the Enemy's own account of his exploits up to the 3d, when as we suspect he (to use a very homely adage) escaped out of the frying-pan into the fire ; and while he left one half of his men to fate and Bey clue, brought the . other half into the pre sence of Prince SCHV'ARTZENBERG. The re port, in the Noniteur of the sth, sets out with a detail of the action of the 27th, at Dizier, or rather in the road from Vitry to the latter place. BLUCHER, having crossed the Manic at this point to march upon Troyes, BUONAPARTE obtained possession of the place, 'in consequence, as he says, of having forced the rear guard of the Allied Army. Chalons, Vitry, and Dizier, are on the right of the Marne, and here we find VICTOR 1(11(1 the cavalry under DULIESNI E ,WhiCh had been driven before BLUCHER Across the Meurthe, the Mo selle, and the Meuse. On the 28th, BUONAPARTE following the course of Abe Allies, crossed to the left bank of the Marne, arrived at Montieren der, about fifteen miles from St. Dizer, leav ing Vassy and Joinville on Lis left, so that tlie whole story about fifteen thousand prisoners and 43 pieces of cannon taken in this direction, was, as we suspected, fabrication. On the 20th we find the Russians and Prussians of BLUCHER and SACKEN, to the number of 40,000 men, bad encountered, in their way towards . Troyes, the force under Nay, and the cavalry of ilehetetun. This brought on the battle of Brienne, of which the report gives - a most confused account, and concludes with asserting that it terminated with nightfall, in the retreat of the Allies and the burning of Brienne, the town where the Usurper was instructed in the art of war by the bounty of a Boueeos King'. BUONAP...RTE had sent a column on the road to Bar-snr-Auhe, , which seemed to be the point of retreat of the Enemy ; this compelled BLUCHER to recall his artillery, &c. from Lesmont, where he had intended to cross the Aube. Now Lemont is a few miles down the Aube, from Brienne and La Ruthiere, and Bar, in which direction the Allies ultimately did march, are, on the contrary, higher up the river. It therefore appears that they not only did notin tend to cross the river at the former, but that they destroyed the bridge there, in order to pre vent the Corsican from outstripping them in his race to Troyes. Accordingly we find that on the 30th BLUCHER was pursued, by GROUCHY, to beyond La Rothiere, that is about five miles on the road to Bar, whither it was his obvious inten t tion to go. Here we may observe, on the sin gular coofessiou of the enemy, that with all the troops he had brought with him from Paris, rein forced by the corps of VICTOR, NEY, and all his cavalry, he had reason to complain of the advan tage of numbers on the part of those against whom be had to contend, at the same time stating them at no more than 40,000 men ! ! " The 31st (continues the Report) was em ployed by us in repairing the bridge of Lamont sur-dube, the Emperor wishing to advance upon Troyes, in order to operate upon the column's which were directing their march upon Sens, by Bar-sur-Aube, and the route of Auxerre." In other words, he endeavoured to save him self by crossing the river, but on the Ist of Fe bruary, the Allied Army became, in turn, the assail-, ants. Reinforced by the corps under Gen.GUILAY which had come up from Langres by Chamont, the veteran Marshal Pcsu ON took advantage of the dangerous measure to which the victories of the Emperor had driven him, viz. to pass a consi derable river in the presence of a powerful enemy, and the rear of the conquering Ilero of Smor gonie and Bricnne was assailed by tine adversary whom he had just beaten and pursued in an other direction ! We are certainly only ci vil judges of military tactics ; but those here described, it must be confessed, defy our skill to reconcile with any idea but that of flight on the part of the Corsican. But it was not his rear, on the right of the Aubc, alone that was attacked : both banks became the scene of a battle, in which the Allies acted throughout on the offensive Dienville, and La Rotherie and Gaelic, were in• deed aloat wonderfully maintained by the Lads od titgaiuSf Are times their nUnitiett, ant the Austrians., 'attempting to cross froth the left to the right, were worstctlit was, in short, " one of the finest achievements Of the EreaCll Ai my," but unfortunately night eeine On, and spoiled all. When BLUCHER «•!5 defeated at Brienne, the night favoured his retreat, and no errors occurred—but even when BUONM'ARTE was victorious at Dienvil:e, a whole battery Of his artillery mistook their wav, and fell into the hands of the Allies. Such facts require u.; com ment ; nor is it necessary to observe on the singular way in which the Arinie seem to have rested together on the field of battle, so that BERTHIER bad nearly gone over to the Enemy, and one of his blundering Aides-de-Camp was actually ' taken. In all these glorious victories the Cor sican took two hundred and fifty yrisoners On the 2d of February we find the enemy still endea vouring to get his rear across the Aube, but, it would appear, in vain, for the tale breaks off thus inconclusively : " it snccessively tank po sitions to finish pasiing the bridge of Losmont,and rejoiningthe rest ofthe army:" "on tbe3cl atnoon, the Emperor (not the army) entered Troyes." To crown these satisfactory statements, we learh that a portion of the Allied force had proceeded to Vitry—against thew the corps of MACDONALD and SEBASTIAtii, which had arrived at Chaloni, were directed to march. Such are the very gratifying accounts from the illoniteur. That the defeat of the Tyrant up to the 3d only is as incontrovertible as could he wished, we take upon his own showing : that he has met with (Tisasters still more decisive when he came into action against the 'MAIN ALLIED Foßcr, we still most sanguinely believe on the au thority of the private Letter we yesterday qcoted: The Al may not have been able to enter Paris on the 7th, as they intend'ed,but the getting up of the palisadoes . , &c. shews that they were expected about that time. It is absurd to speak of defending Paris, especially by Con scripts who arrive daily, so far advanced in dis cipline as to want only clothing, equipment, an:! arms !" Cardinal 111Aunv is at his prayers again—they are now for merry, in sackcloth and ashes, with no reference to the sublime genius at. Dresden. We had intended to offer some comments on the statement in the Monitr:;tr, that the Ambass.!- dors of Europe bad met at Chatillon. Our space, however forbids it to-day, and we hope it will turn out to be an unfounded assertion resorted to, to prop for a little longer the tottering empire of the Usurper. FLAG OF TRUCE. SUN OFFICE, Two o'CLocx. We have reason to believe that the Report of a Flag of Truce having arrived is authentic. It Ivas yestetday reported that the whole of the Low• Countries have declared in favour of the Allies. A letter from Heligoland, dated February the 4th, rcpwts, that accounts had been received from Hamburgh to the 2tith of January, which state, that the city was set on fire at several points by the French, aiul that Aitona also was in flames. Yesterday morning the Earl of LarEnpoot. wa engaged at the Foreign Office till near 3 o'clock, when be accompanied Earl S2r.NcEn to the Se cretary of State's Office for the Home Department, where they were mct by the Archbishop of CAN TERBURY, the LORD CHANCELLOR, and the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Court of King's Bench. We understood that the • meeting was upon busi ness relative to the Charter-house. The Earl of LIVERPOOL waited upon the PRINCE REGENT yesterday, at Carlton-house. Yesterday the Dukes of YORE. and KENT visited the PRINCE REGENT. Yesterday after noon, the Princess CHARLOTTE left Warwick House, in her chariot, accompanied by Miss KNIGHT, and proceeded to Hyt i le-park, where she rode for about an hour, and returned to Warwick House at half-past four to dinner. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, on his arrival in Ha nover, was surprised to find, that all the cannon of that garrison, consisting of fine brass ordnance, had been so securely interred before*the French entered it, as to be all dug up in good order the day after his arrival ; and what was no tmeron fortabk appendage to this incident—all the fine wines belonging to the Royal cellars, havi'ng been deposited with similar care, were brought to light on the day of general rejoicing there for his Royal Highness's restoration. Libations were plenti- - fidly administered on the occasion from this rick store, which, amongst other choice kinds, is said to abound with the finest Old Hock in Europe. The Duke of MONTROSE took an airing hi his carriage yesterday, the first time since his long confinement with the gout. His Grace called at Carlton House, and left his dutiful respects to the PRINCE REGENT, and also called upon other friends. An order hat. been received for 450 privates, and a proportionate number of officerF, of the 2d baitalion 38th, to embark at Cork, to join their regiment under Lord WeLt.INCTox. The 2d bat talion, quartered at Fermoy, consists of 850 men, raised within these last two months, by volunteers front the 11154 and LosHai i . .,0P I) ilVtidt,,t, We are informed from verV gObci that it soon P the }'case or Lords Meets, isgai:4.; a Peer of very independent principles tinti tharac ' ter intends to give tiotiCe et a mdtion, Obet.ioonei by the late spoittancou3 avowal of a' 6diM' of verses by Lord liv . RoN, addressed to the Princesl CHARLOTTE of WALLS, in which he has taken tll most unwart'antable Ifterties with her am,r_,nst ther's character aad. conduct ; this rtmticm heill of a personal nature, it Will he netesnr:: to givtt the Noble Satit•ist some days notice, that he may prepare himself for, his defence against a chargtt of so aggravated a nature, ‘;rhich tnay perhaps not be a fit subject for a criminal protetution, ass tic laws of the country, not foreseeing the probabi lity of such a case ever occurring, ttridtr all the present circumstances, havg nbt made a provisions against it ; but we know that each lloase of Par , liament has a controul over its own turtnhth, and that there are instances on the Journals of Parlia= ment, where an individual Peer has been sus pended from all the privileges of the high situa tion to which Ilis birth entitled him, when by any flagrant offence against good order and govern ment, he has rendered himself tit:worllv of exer cising so important a trust.—Morning Pont. THE MARKETS. Coax-EtCHA&OE, rtn: 11.—Our trheat trace this Muff ing was dull, and may be con:ndered Cs. lower, having a con siderable quantity left on hand. There were soine , fresh ar rivals of Oats, which supported the last quotati,ns. Barley was dull; other kinds of Grain remain much in the same state as on Wednesday. INLVIKET, FEE. 11.—This day's Market had a t scanty sop?ly of the various kinds of Cattle; Beef, lktnttoti,. Pork, and Veal, were cheaper, and the trade, for the =est patt,was not over brisk. The sales in the-Hay-market were riot lively; Huy, Straw, mid Clover, here got up in prtei NISB LAVINIA ROBINSON. [Further Particulars.] Since the alarming absence of this mOst unfort. , tunate and much-pitied young Lady from her home, we have altogether forborne, from, we trust, proper motives of delicacy, taking notice of, or offering any remarks on this distressing case, whilst it remained in suspended douLt, momen tarily expecting to have it in our power to appease the universal anxiety of the public, and, satisfied that the exertions and incitements of her friends and their kind assistants, for lien discovery, ren dered no in•erfer.nce en our part necessary ; not will our readers require us., at the present time, to introduce a recapitulation of the circumstances attendiag her sudden departure. We can no'x most assuredly declare, that she is no more I—she was found yesterday morning the hapless tenant of a watery grave ! The river Irwell, as 'seemed to be the previous prevail'ng opinion, contained her remains. On morning the fr.;st began to give way, and on Sunday the ice on the surface of the river broke up, fortunately with a moderate rise of the water, or much damage must. have ensued to the mime rows weirs, hut the shoals of ice floated down with nothing of the impetuosity th,r. was feared. It was. on a sand bank, ,tear Mode Wheel, about three wiles down the Irwell, and oue on this side Barton, that her hotly wits found, environed by two l,icces of ice. Mr. GoODIER, of Eccles, whose mill is on the stream contiguous to the spot, was the first to observe her, which was about nine. o'clock on Monday morning. No time was lost in conveying the intelligence to Manchester; when Mr. NADIN, Deputy Constable, accompanied by a few of her friends, some mem bers of the faculty, and whets, immediately set out to survey the body as it lay, and caused its removal to to.,vn. The corpse wits wrought this afternoon in a hearse, and though it has been missing front the Ifith of last December, scarce any symptoms of decay have appeared, owing to the preserv!ng qualities of the frost ; and we are told it even yet pretsents a lovely spectacle of inanimation. Every usual and necessary step has been taken previous to the holding - of an inquest, and at nine o'clock this morning, the Coroner (NATHANIEL MILNE, Esq.) and a Jury, will enter into the investiga tion, the substance of which we shall take every pains to collect, and insert ,in our next.--(illatt ellester Mercury.) If an additional instance were wanting to corn. plete the monstrous character of BuoIsAvARTE, it would be found in the following fact :----In every movement of his army in their advance upon Mos cow, he gave the most positive order for ail the Russian male children to be taken from their af flicted parents, and carried, under proper two; t.s, into Prance ; and to such an extent was that sa vage order fulfilled, that not less than 20,000 of these young victims were thus pillaged from their own country, the monster remarking„ " That. they were young enough soon to forget their conntry, with their lathers and mothers, and to become, in due time, good f(enclanen!" On Thursday a trilling w , r aer was shot for at . the Regent Gardens, Cheltenham, by an inhabitant, who had engaged to strike 20 pieces of wood, three inches square, thrown distinctly up, at the distance of twenty yards, with as many shots as shoh! , ,i, the average, amount to 28 in each, makin g an aggregate of 5 GO. Also to strike the 52ane num ber of penny-pieces, thrown up .at 10 yards dis tance, with the average of 5 shot-marks on each, making at the 20 an aggregate of 00. The slrots at the wood were greatly excee,led at 10 firings, and at the penny-pieces at 7 winning both at 17 shots, -without a miss. _ M. MANGEti, watchmaker, of Wurtzburg, has invented nod constructed a new nr.ehine, which indicates for a long time, and in the iiiost exact manner, the real movements of the evrth aid of the moon, as well as the apparent movements yi the sun and of the celestial .bodies s with ail the phenomena (ecliptics, for example) that result from the respective positions of the stare. A ce lestial globe, fourteen inches and . a half in diame ter, made by M. MANGER Himself excellent watch with four needles, and a wileelwork, which is placed within the celestial globe, f.:rra the e;. , sential parts of this tatichille.