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ment on all their liue, anti 11.19 Pntleavonrea to throw bridges mei. the ; ill vain. in eohsequence of tliei.ood disposlllons which were taken by onr Ciener,is. It is believed that the enemy has given up the idel of passing the Atlour. Reihi - 6rec!neots from Toulottse are an noimced to us. Lie levy-en masse has taken : 1 1;;le,s: in our department with a great deal of P..fiNOBLE, FEE. 23.—The General of Divisiot Con: , t _d;llchlind, !ids just written to the Senato Cmcoi• de Saint Valiec, Extraordinary Commis iiohyr from his ALliesty, to the 7th military divi the following letter CHAMBERY, FEB. 22 " M. Lt CotTNT—I yesterday caused a movement to be madc2, to threaten turnin; the enemy on his right flank; 1 ignorant whither this movement gave uneasiness to the Amtrians, or wlither they had some fear of :',l.rshal Auge reah, but at two o'clo:1; in the morning. they decamped and retcerted towards Atmeey. We are going to put ourselves in march to pursue them, and I expect they sill not halt till they have arrived under t he,W.llls of Geneva.' GxeNoBLE, FEB. 27.—Since theaoccupation of Chanibc.ry by cur troops, the enemy retires preci pitat,lv before the colums which pursue him, and which have caused him considerable loss. %Ve are authorised to publish the 'following letter from General Marchand to the Senator his Majesty's Extraordinary Commissioner, in the 7th military 61visron " CIIAMBE,RY, FEB. 23. " M. LE CouNT,—i hasten to announce to you, that our troops have entered Aix : our cavalry executed a charge, and took live of the enemy's hussars. The Austrians are in full retreat. lam about to proceed to make arrangements, and I Teckon on returning hither to-night. Our troops will take a position to-night at Alby. The inhabitants of Aix yesterday illuminated their town an our arrival. The Austrians have left them nothing. '' I am, &c. " MERCHAND, General of Division." PARIS, MArcn 2.--They write from Meaux that Marshal the Duke of Ragusa has obtained, At Lusy-sur-Ourcq, a signal advantage over the enemy ; the latter is retiring before - our troops. Letters from Amiens announce, that the enemy's detachments which occupy Doulans have been driven from it. . . TROY ES, FEB. 28.—The Emperor has gratified all our wishes, by passing three days in his good city of Troyes. The house which he inhabited was constantly surrounded by an immense crowd, who til\lays entertained the hope of seeing his Majesty; but ;luring these three days the Emperor did not stir out once. On the 27th at mid-day, his Ma jesty, surrounded by his brave guards, took the road to Arcis. The people pressed around him in passing. The air resounded with cries of Vice l'Empereur. The • same enthusiasm was excited by the presence of his Majesty, when he entered our walls victorious ; all thought they could not testify too much gratitude : and, in fact, the details with which we have been made acquainted, could not fail to add to our love of the sovereign. The French at my had arrived in a suburb about three in the afternoon ; it could Lave entered the city with the fugitives, but the Emperor chose rather to suspend the march of the troops than to expose our city to the flames, with which it was threatened by an enemy enraged at being vanquished. . _ _ vi=, lf„.;„ctv ki , ‘ nijlit at a miserable bander, am? it was not till eight in the morning that he made his Ciliraflee into our city. The circumstances of that happy day will never be efTheed from our memory. Every body approach ed the Emperor, spoke to him, pressed his hand, tha.:ked him with tears. His Majesty seemed aifected, and saw in these marks of attachment the joy of children on the rtturn of a cherished father. On the evening of the 26th, Arcis-sur-Abbe was retaken by our troops ; the enemy was flying at rill points. He had learned the movethent which the Emperor tivas makii!g, and we know that his approach always precipitates the flight of the enemy's armies. We expect to receive important news. Every body here becomes a soldier, arms him , - selt . , and breathes only vengeance. • he enemy could not have behaved worse. Af ter having pillaged a fine paper-tuanufactory in the Yicinity of our city, he threw all the paper into the river, to a considerable amount, and de stroyed all the machinery. Nothing can be more th: o the outrages committed by them in the small towns and in the country. After pil laging every thing, they set tire to the houses.— The iolnibitants are filled with rage—they arm, and rush on the barbarous authors of so many atrocities. At Troyes, on their retreat, the in habitants took or killed 400 men ; a butcher• threw a paving-stone at General \Vrcde, who was I\nooked front it S horse ; a peasant of Vandceuvre took 12 stragglers .Fisoners, afzer -having shut them tip iu h's house, which they had entered to plunder ; boys of 12 or 13 have shewn the greatest courage and brought in prisonerb. REPORT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER OF THE iNTEIIit)R BY M. DESPREZ CRASSIER„ AU DITOR T( IHE COUNCIL OF STATE, DATED r.IARC! 2, 1814 I now Ia ir:forc. you the heart-rending picture of Ihc c. , !l:naities and outrages which the inhabi tant• of the commun;:s 1 have visited have expe- Tienced u the cinuny. It will be an abstract of the subscribed dopot;itions taken by verbal exami nation, andan abridged - dettil of thelw, - ock which I have seen with my oivn eves. That part of the enemy's army which cause( ) all these ev i ls, was chieliy composed of Russian troops, a small utr:nber of Bavarian and Wurtem bergers, mid some Hungarian hussars. At Nangis the inbilbitaitts generally had to complain Of lil idge: their personal outrages leave frightful recollvction3 ; pillage itself was always a,:colnpanicd incirices, very often with ill treaZinent ; and teas t,ith pistols at their breasts, and the sabre over their heads, that these bri g:rads compelled the unfortn hid te- inhabitants to declare where . their money acid valuable effects were concealed. The Ist i0u1(2 , 1 depositions state, that a female received front these miscreants a blow on the loins, ivthth • fi , ir side of their sabre, which de f sense ; that they held a knife to the throat of another to compel her to disclose where her money was ; that the two husbands of these women were cruelly struck, and that one of them, after being beatea in his own , house, was driven Wale enemy's camp with blows of the fist, rind •he butt-ends of muskets : there the brigands compelled him to strip, and were about to shoot when an officer fortunately came up, and de livered him out of the hands of , these barbarians. At the house of the man of landed property, Ns , h o mattes the sixth deposition, the✓ perpetrated the most horrible excesses. With blows of the fist and the butt-end of their must - icts,. they dv manded his brandy and money. I myself saw the bloody marks of the blows which he received ; but their fury did not stop there : four females from the commune of Bailly, and canton of Mormant, had taken refuge .With this proprietor; two of them were girls from 12 to 13, the others were women from 28 to 35. These unfortunate crea tures-were the victims of the brutality of these ferocious men ; and an eve-witness, who •wished to prevent their outrages, was hint elf severely beaten. [The report, after describing a variety of similar outrages on the persons of individuals, proceeds as follows There is not a farmer, an innkeeper, or an in habitant, who has not seen his cattle, his imple ments of agriculture, his property, his furniture, carried off, wasted, or burnt. The churchea and ministers of religion have not been spared more than others. The strongest language would fail in describing the mournful aspect which these ravaged habita tions present. The Secretary of the Ma}•or of Rampillon, who has been a sohher, declared to me, that he never saw troops deliver themselves up to pillage with such horrible rage, even when licensed so to do. At Nangis visited a number of farm-houses, which had been previously well furnished ; but now in all the apartments nothing was to be seen but fragments of broken and half-burnt furniture, feather beds and mattresses torn to pieces, and the feathers and wool scattered about. It was with the wood-work of this furniture, of waggons and ploughs, - and with the fruit-trees of orchards and gardens, that they lighted their tires at the bivouacs, and roasted the cattle which they bad carried off and killed - • - In all the places I have passed through, the inhabitants hare declared that these banditti spoke only of pillaging and horning Paris. 1 have been assured that each of them had a torch slung at his back ; and when asked what use they meant to make ot it, they universally answered, that it was to set fire to Paris, where they calculated on arriving by the 18th of February. This fact was confirmed to the by M. Grabwisky, Mayor ot Marmont, a Pole by birth, who understood their language. -- The picture of the calamities which these un fortunate people have suffered, and which are re served for all those of the other Departments into which the enemy may penetrate, must rouse the indignation of . all Frenchmen, and gire them the courage and energy necessary to repel those hordes of barbarians beyond the frontiers, and force them, by a peace, glorious for France, at last to give repose to all Europe. FRENCH FUNDS. March I, - 55 fr. 25 c. I March 4, - - 54 fr• 50 c. DUTCH MAIL. - 53 fr. 75 c {From the German Observer, p•ablished at tremo,ll PARIS„ FEB. 6.7—After the Report which Mr. Laini, a lawyer, from Bourdeaux, as Member of the Legislative Body, made upon the Papers rela tive to the Negociations for Peace, which were laid before them on 'the 28th December last, Mr• Bainouard, from Dijon, made a very remarkable speech, of which the following is the subEit3nee : After a pretty long exordium, in which he highly praises the Emperor for calling the Legislative Body together, anti communicating the account of his proceeding, he observes, " that this high proof of confluence can be justly returned only by telling his Majesty the plain truth," he proceeds thus : • "Political differences, the cause of which is yet unknown, interrupted the good understanding between the Emperor of the French and the Em peror of Russia. We do not doubt but that the war was necessary, but it began at a time when the conduct of it was threatened with danger. Our armies marched with those of the other Sove reigns of the North against the most .powerful and the most dangerous of them all. Our vic tories followed in rapid succession, but they cost us dear. The terrors of a winter unknown in our climate changed all our victorie s into feats, and the breath of the North destroyed the flower of the French Army." The orator now mentions the detection of the Allies, first that of Prussia, by which the garri sons of Dantzie and other fortresses were cut off from the French army ; the mediation of Austria, the frnitle,;s hopes inspired by the Armistice, and the last vain triumphs of the French arms at Lut zen and Bautzen.' lie speaks of the fidelity of. the King of Saxony, o f the indifference Bavaria to the common cause and its declaration against France when it saw. all the rest of Europe against her; he laments that a hero who had the boldness to prefer a throne to the dignity of a French citizen, should have been led by political circumstances to employ his power against the person to whose beneficent hand he . was indebted for his new dignity. He then con cludes-- " Some days of glory were no , w followed by re - verses, more terrible than those by which our first army was destroyed: Fr we saw all Eurcpc in arms against her, and while Oie hero of Sw , :den joined the Allies with his 4ictorious trool's, Holland broke the 'tics flint bound it with us. Europa was in filmes, and sought to turn upon France the conflagration wl►ich consumed her. We are in - - capable, Gentlemen, of chewing you onecheer ing spot in the picture of diitrOs which Ire un fold to you. An army blasted by the storms of the Not 6 was replaced by another ) the troops compsing which were torn from the paternal soil, from the arts, and from trade. This army was destined to drench with its blood Ltiptig's fatal plains. " We must confess, Gentlemen, the victoribus enemy Laving advanced to the Rhine, offered to our august Monarch a peace which a hero-accustom ed to so many splendid trophies could not but find extraordinary. But if at that time when the un happy fate of France was not wholly decided; a noble and generous pride preseribed the rejection of such a peace, it would, however, no longer be prudent to persist in this rejection, "now that the enemy has invaded the proper territory of France. Were the question merely to deliberate on degrading conditions, his Majesty would have needed nothing more than to lay before his peo ple the project of peace offered by the enemy, but t . hey do not seem to desire to degrade but to re press Us in our ancient frontiers, and to stop the ebullitions of that ambitious activity which for these twenty years has been so highly detrimental to all the nations of Europe. Such proposals do not seem to offend the honour of the Nation as they prove that the enemy fear and respect us. IT is NOT THEY WHO DESIRE TO SET LIMITS TO OUR POWER; BUT A WHOLE WORLD IN,AhMS RECLAIMS TILE commoN RIGHTS OF ALL NATIONS ! " The Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Rhine in close an immense - territory, which contains pro vinces that did not always and originally belong to the dominion of the three Fleurs de Lis, and yet the fottner. Royal Crown of France shone above all other diadems in glory and Majesty— [Here the President interrupted the Speaker with the words, " what you say is contrary to the Constitution.") Rainouard answered : " Here is nothing contrary to the Constitu tion but your presence ! !'' and continued— " The Protectorship of the Confederation of the Rhine has ceased to be a title of honour, since the moment Oat the people of this Confederation declared the Protectorship dishonourable to them. No right of conquest was here exercised, but only the title of an alliance advantageous to the Germans.—lt becomes his Majesty's dignity to leave those people to their fate, Who arc battening to put thewsclvcs under the yoke of Austria. As for Brabant (probably Holland) which the Allies desire to retain, according to the basis of the peace of Luneville, it seems to us that France may readily give up a province bard to be maintained, where the English spirit al most exclusively prevails, and to which the trade with England is so absolutely necessary, that these countries, since we governed them, are sunk into poverty anti misery. Have not we seen the noble families of Holland fly from their na tive soil, as if contageous diseases reigned there, and carry the wealth and the industry of the country to the enemy ? Courage is doubtless ne cessary to preach truth to the heart of our. Mo narch; but must we not rather risk his displea sure than abuse his confidence; rather endanger our lives, than the welfare of the people whom we represent Nothing must deceive us. Our sufferings are at the height. Our Country is threatened in all its frontiers, Trade is anni hilated ; agriculture languishes ; industry is checked every Frenchman has suffered in his fortune or his family, wounds difficult to be cured. For these five years the peasant has not 1 enjoyed the fruits of his labours—he can scarcely subsist, and the produce of his labour serves but to enrich the treasury, which is annually drained for time supply of our army,continually wasted and famished. The conscription is become a hate ful scourge to all France, because this measure is incessantly renewed. Since two years the youth are carried off thrice in the year. A cruel useless war periodically devours the youth orn from education, agriculture, commerce, and Are the tears of mothers, the sweat of me people, among the regalia of Kings ? It is me nations should again breath freely. It is me, that the thrones of Kings should be coma fated, and people should cease to reproach France with desiring to throw into all the coun tries in the world the firebraruls of destruction. Our august Monarch who partakes in the zeal that animates us, and is ardently desirous to insure the happiness of his people is alone worthy to begin ,this great work. Military ambition and thirst of conquest may mislead a great heart, but the genius of a true hero, who despises a glory purchased with the blood and repose of nations, finds his true greatness in the public welfare, whiclt is his work. The Monarchs of France hays m arts. ever prided tletwely:es •c.v;ng their Crovffn Got), their 'people, and their sword, becaus(' peace, good moral 3, and strength are, next t* freedom, the firmest pillars of Empires."' 0 'I he Answer of NAPOLEON to.the Address o: tiles Legislative Body was as - follows : I have prohibited the printing of your Ad; dress ; it is seditious. Eleven twelfths of tlue Legislative Body consist of good - citizeus--- I know and respect them. The other twelfth contains rebels and bad citizens, and your Cora mittee is amongst the number. (This Committee consisted of Messrs. Lain 4, Rainouard, Galbk, Mayne le Bryant, and Flanquergues). Lain 6 is a traitor, who corresponds with the Prince Re gent through' the medium of iJeseze. I know it, and have proofs. .The other four are seditious persons. This twelfth consists - of men who wish for anarctly, and are like the Girondists ! Whither did such conduct lead Veragniaud and the other Chiefs ?. To the scaffold! At this moment, when we have to drive the ene my from our frontiers; is not the time kb • desire changes in the Constitution. People should fol low the example of Alsace, French Coma:, ana the Vasges. The inhabitants apply to me for arms and olliers, and I have sent them some Adjutants. You are not the representatives of the nation, but the deputies ,of • the de partments. I called you around me to ohm tain support from you, not because I want for courage, but because I hoped that the Legislative Body would increase my courage.—lnstead of this it has deceived me—instead of the good I expect• ed of it, it has done mischief,, a small mischief in deed, because it could not do greater.—You seek in your Address to separate the Sovereign from the Nation. I alone am the true representative of'the people, and which of you would chuse to take oa himself this burden ? The throne is but a piece of wood, covered with velvet—l, I alone, a m the true representative of the people. If I would fol . ' low you, I should give up to the enemy more Oar' he himself requires. In three months you will have peace or I will be annihilated. But now en^ crgy is necessary. I will advance after the enemy, and beat them. The moment when Huningen bombarded and Befort attacked is not the proper one to complain of the Constitution of the Eur pire, and the abuse of the Executive Power. " The Legislative Body is hut a part of - al ° State, and cannot be compared even o ' 4ll the , Senate and the Council of State' -'.- I am at the • head of the Nation, bec °s you approve the Constitution as it Should _France ren,uire another Constitution vrbio' I did not like, I should then say, look for anc" ther . Sovereign. The enemy is much more if" censed against me than against France; but shal l I for this reason allow myself to tear the Znipirc in pieces % Yes ; I make pretensions because have courage ; I am proud because I have doll° such great things fur France. Your Address is unworthy of me, and of the Legislative Body ; and I will one day have i t printed, to put the Legislative Body and the Si r " tion to the blush, Return to your homes, and ba assured that, even if I should be wrong, it is 1 0 your business publicly to reproach me for it"' For the rest, France wants me morel than I so IIC France."--(German Observer, Feb. 26 and 280 lIELVoETSLUYS, MARCH 6.--By, accounts re ° ceived from the Hague, it appears. that anoth er battle has been fought between the Allies and Buonaparte r near Bar-sur-Aube, on the 26th ° I February, in which the French were complete l / defeated with the loss of 10,000 prisoners, so GO piccas of cannon. COLOGNE, FEB. 23.—The Crown Prince of Sweden is still remaining in this city, and his de; parture does nut as yet appear to be fixerl.---&, 13 0 . well known Sax o n G enera l Thi e l man i s likelins expected here. Besides the Swedish troops which were to cros s p the Rhine at this place, another cvlumn of 10, 0 ... men arc to pass it at Dusseldorff. But the Rhine'' at present so full of ice that it has been necess 3l to take away the draw-brid ges ; f or w hi c h caus e the passage would be very difficult, and even i 0 1: practicable, for a body of troops at this motnel l " —(llaarlem Courant, March 5.) • CARLSRUIIE, FEB. 17.—According to officiari ll i tclligence received from the head-quarters ° I. Lieut:-Gen. Count Von Floehberg, and da te , from Oberhausbergen, of th e 12th inst. the P rr ; sons_of Strasburg, Kehl, and Landau, had Oi t a several sallies in the course of this' month, n il were always driven. back by the valour of the at ls ; Sian and Baden troops, for Ming the siege of thew places, tinder the comm a nd o f that General. jrA the engagements which h ave t a k en p l ac e il l Strasburg, our Lainiwehr, and esp ec i a lly the u t d • and Bth battalions, have particularly distinguji lle themselves. (Same Paper.) pert tined FEB. 6.--The reinforcem e nts - - et tined tor the Allied Army, ha ve b een nol on ly ve 'l speedily collected, but likewise put in motiori advanced forwards. An entirely new Austl is army of reserve has lately p asse d tlirough t b ig place. Yesterday the l a st co l umn o f it- lett t place. Their march is brough- up by 4 re.J.l:n e v of dragoons, under the Hereditary Grand Pt l e j of Wurtzburg. 'lbis army, which is coainiji'd it ot ) tht kr ; 41;;