The Sun. — London, England, 1814-02-23 00:00:00

[ Oll5 IC I tio" 1 1 ' 4. s ell eate"c I . be C°l - Ja s r • L' ,l . i t ' re . i •i4, I iter c° : (;e"ef'' IC , • $ 10 , • t h:e Bridge at Melon, still further down I . : ei ne, and ten miles on the road from Fontaine- - 1 1" ' I. A0 Paris. In the performancetf all the "ti es set down, by BuoNaPaarz for these Cern taa Niers to perform when he left Nogent on t i! , l.9t h, it is acknowledged they have utterly fail. Vtoroa no sooner heard of the approach of "e Allies, than he abandoned Nogent to he de;- aded by.l2oounder a Qeneral Boutimovr, and. 4 ''." eel the Seine with the rest of his army. The Al lies are represented as having been replilsed lie 101eNugent on the 11th and 12th, am'. to have `t 2 000 men. Even were this true, it is evi cie,„ that it was only a detachment ivhich 11;1,1 be e " sent against the place, tvhile, time principal the. . l Pft hank 14 the River, awl accomplislled t heir Purpose by forcing the passage at Bray. lu s turned on his right, V ICTOR was under t he at n ecessity of destroying also: the Bridge \l ogent, and retreating rapidly on Nangis, to li pc i t't himself with the corps . of OUDINOT. By ti P ulovment across the Seine at Bray, SCHWART i7'IIII.44I:IIG; teems to have penetrated the cebtre of nerny, and compelled him to the saute ex- Tie'lle nt on each side ; for as Vim:in blew up the b lid g e. at Nugent on the right, so did OupttioT 4 1411) ."01. - hlow up the bridgesot Montereau and , ‘1 tinn on the left, and hasten to an union with le ()ti ter corps on the Vere, a little river Itt t i , c " flow•s from above ,Nangis, by Guignes, 'l4l falls, into ' the• Seine at Villenouve, about "a ge front Paris. In this Alirection, and 1111 tie t he line of the road. front Provins to Al etropolis, through Nangis and Guignes, tine 'cottered forces of the enemy united into one 4 4% ; but no dates are ascribed to any of these tl eti sq that we are imitable to draw accurate con atut i ns from them, further than the one leading tt : Prominent feature, that the French troops tr ' incompetent, though covered by an import a: rive r, to offer any effectual resistance to the of the Invaders. 44 °fl the 16th B U O NI PARTE arrived on the ''ere, ze d established his head-quartets at Guignes, k)v e twenty miles front Paris.—Here the narra tiue, the lam e ant i i m p ot ent narrative, breaks off, 4 4 '1 " we are as suddenly transported back again to 1 : t b attle of Vauchatnp on the 14th, as BUONA aPpearS to have been trasported front Van ''lll'l) to Guignes. At Vauchamp the story of the f 4ttl e, in which the last of I.3l.:ucuca's corps was the last time destroyed is resumed, and the saa t ti d t urn of MAIII;;NT'S night - attack on sonic tf - itfantry at Lloi , ,es states, that lie bet , 1 00 me.t, and that the victory which was „ .r e • el er vleribed as the most complete that was • lid el , ti ao bi ll eved, is now said to ha v e been more con pityi e . than was at fit st represented. Wha t a ar e tIS for the French Bulletin writers, that there °III Y three degrees of. comparison,—many, tn ote otherwise.' wc cold(' understand ' el 'Yperb o l es which out-herod Herod anti out °NArARTE. tu _ . ‘v rihi s active General (for here comes the tog of :2 4 ° soone r go t to Guignes, than he got 'intoi cir4 • A eurious document, in the shape of an I)oatitilentie letter f•om Nangis of the 17th,' at pp "' states, that on the morning of that im ami- A rta" day BUONAP,ARTE attacked the Allies, w as; at th e h our mentioned, so successful, th 4t he had taken 6000 prisoners, awl was ea .tx-ageq in P ursu i ng hi s ,victory. These prisoner t ; elO enter Paris at Mid-day on the i6tb, by Ch arenton Gate! A zastesthis .lel,r;ei t • lc ar2,l. lm left in our informationthen:iato of ab'tabruptly th e is sue of which the Tyrant's fate depends—on tllei,Stte of which depends the question .whether eiti ' i dles shall immediately enter 'Paris as Con tietOrs or part of their force be led in triumph to t "gh the. streets as Prisoners.—Not that we %/r ile : el " that in the event even of a defeat, the ' ,l ' s Of our Com,,,lderates Would be ultimately II ", though they might suffer derangement de l'lY; for it is th e gratifying nature of the prey e4 t Contest, that our . Enemy has his All at t i alce oi)on every chance, while his Adversaries 1 : ‘ rtiffiellit but a sure game, and bring,only ` l lt bio th e d ec i s i on of fortune that w hi c h t h ey t la Y lose without being ruined and undone. 14 -this uncertain state of timings we will hazard ,ceonjectures—yet our hopes are high, and we • it ; Look for the most glorious and decisive results. evident that Vicroa and OUDINOT had no Qrce w herewithal to resist the Allies—there could not b e many r e i n f orcements b etween t h em an d ris---and ISuONAPARTE, traversing from the '''gilt of the 14th a cross-country and‘bad roads, for n par or .npn fifty miles, could not by any exertion a very considerable body the 411 e . rs who had been so laborious and bloodily , 4 ~- t&eo on that day. lie cannot, we theraore thh i k 7 have any superi or ity over PrineecHwAßT "Eitu, who would not have passed the Seine but at the head of a foi ee adequate to the mighty bbjcct in view. The non-arrival of any intelligence fun o►tr Ministers through France, is another strong zud convincing proof that the Usurper is afraid of the truth being 'mown. But be this as it may, it is now clear that the crisis has come, and that in in a very short period we piny expect to,hear that the fate of the world is decided. The continuation of the French rapers inserted yesterd4y, afford us no new intelligence of im portance. The death of the patriotic and gallant VON YORCIi at Chateau Merry, is repeated with greater confidence, but we trust with no greater truth than that of Gen. WREDZ some months ego. Sr/CHET is SAN to have sent reinforcements to Lyons, and AUGEREAU to have a respect able force in that place, though the invaders are levying contributions to the very gates. A parade 1.,1 made of SAO Austrian prisoners passing through Nantes. On the side of Italy •every thing looks well.—Lettersfrom Switzerland (61111 enough !) say; that French troops are marching from that Country to Piedmont, and the Moodeur has an account of a victory gained by BEAU ITARNOIS on the Bth. Putting the Swiss Letter and the positions of the victorious Army together, it is evident that the Conquerors are endeavouring to fly into France, pursued by an overwhelming force wider RELLEGARDE. We announced on Monday the arrival of the CROWN PRINCE at Cologne, and this, day insert a Bulletin from his head-quarters, from which it appears, that his army, composed of the corps of BULOW, WINETICGERODE, WORONZOrF, STEOGO NOFF, the Swedes, and banish Auxiliaries, would be in condition to attack Paris from the North by the present week. Butow and \VINZINGERODE arc, as we know, already pressing on the scene of action, by Rheims and Soissons. It is reported that when MONSIEUR reached Frankfort, he found a letter from the Emperor ALEXANDER inviting 11im to repair to Head quarters with all speed. We are not aware of the correctness of this statement, but have every rea-: son to believe that the Royal Person alluded to was using every possible exertion to reach ..Head quarters, in consequence of an understanding communicated. to him immediately after his ar rival in HollaLa. His departure trom the Hague was sudden ill the extreme. He was to have dined with, the Prince ORANGE on the day of his departure, but set out at day-break, pre pared to travel with the utmost celerity,. having, on the preceding night, received the communication we have mentioned. in the centre of France we trust he is destined to act a glorious part, and, should any partial successes or the Tyrant have determined the Allies to support the lawful icing as a measure of - politial -expediency, we should rejoice in the defeats they tr4ve sustained, even were they as great as GallieqasconaTe represents them. • A further arrival of New York Papers furnish a long and dry detail of the American Budget. A loan of 30,000,000 dollars is wanted for the Fre- sent year: We have given Extracts from a Letter from the Chronicle shop—a specimen of what they can do in the South of France SOULT, it seems, is about to send off 50,000 men to join the 600,000 at Paris, leaving 25,000, who, from their supe rior skill and positions, are More than a match for Lord WELLINGTON ! ! We shall see. Spanish Papers bring the Treaty between FER.• DINAND and BuosArAnTE, the precise - pattilT and conditions of which are already known to the ExtrAct of a Letter from an Officer on bonrci of one of our Vessels in the Roompot, dated the 20th inst. "_ We have no particular news to tell you, ex cept 'that •eve have sent the Antelope, 44, and a Russian frigate, past Flushing, to join theNymphen and our small squadron hi the \Vest Scheldt. — Our first squadron, consisting of the Nymphen 1 and Forth frigates, and .Cretan and Banterer brigs, %vent past the. walls of Flushing without. the loss of a man. We have not yet beard how the An telope, and Russian frigate succeeded 'in going by, but the account will soon arrive. There seems to be little going on above Batz, ;Ind - Bergen-op- Zoom still holds out, and at present we have not a sufficient battering train to reduce it. When we have a few more gun•-boats and bombs, we ihope that both place's will be soon brought to I surrender." Lnrd SIDMOUTH was at the Admiralty this morning transacting business with Lord I\IEI.I7II.LE for somc time. _ _ _ Lord iiI,ELVILLE 11 , 21 d a Levee of Naval Officers this morning at the Admiralty, which was nu merously attended. NAVAL NEWS. PL'AMOUTTI, FEB. 21.—Arrived the York, 74, fint the Channel fleet; Menehats frigate from a and the Arrow schooner, with a Let of transports, from Pa,sage: Arrived the brig St. Juan'Baptiste front Lima, bound to CA die, with bullion and specie on board, reported to be worth two miilions sterling : she was captured the 2d inst. near Madeira, by the Malank prid Terpsichore rrench frigates, and while exchang ing prisoners, two British frigates hove in sig.:t, and went in pursuit of the enemy. Twenty Frenchmen were left on board, and proceeded with the St. Juan Baptiste for France ; but on the 14th inst. near L'Orient, she was tec4ptured by his Majesty's ships Rippowand Menelaus.— The French frigates had not - time to take out any of the bullion.— , Wind E. FALMOUTH, FEB. 20.—Arrived the Thomas and. Mary, Autumn, Lady Cathcart, and Henry trans ports, with several others, name unknown, be ing part of a fleet which sailed.from Pasinge the 12th inst. under convoy of tne Arrow schooner. — 'Wind E.'S. E. Drat., FEB. 2`21---Arrived his Majesty's ships Cressy and Tickler from the Itoompot. Sah el( the Albany, Harriet, Symmetry, Vent's, Choice, and Union transports, for Harwich ; the Archer gun-brig with the outward-hound for Portsmouth. Arrived his Majesty's ship Surveil lante, with prisoners escaped from the French depots, by the way of Holland.—Wind E. S. E P4RTSMOUTIL FEk. 22.--Sailed from St. Helen's. roads, his Majesty's ships Dannemark, Alhicore, and ,Muros, with the •ciivoy for the East Indies, Cape, Brazils, &c. Also sailed his Majesty's ship Perseus with a convoy for Lisbon, and the Wan derer for Plymonrh. Came into harbour, his Ala-, jestv's ship Desir6c from Spithead. . The Bet.- moda takes convoy to the Downs.—Wind' LAW APPOINTMETS. The Morning Chronicle, with its usual alacrity in finding fault, and its usual want of informa tion, has arraigned the appointment of SirVl CARY GIBBS to be Chief Justice of the Cominon Pleas, and of Mr. Baron THOMPSON to be Chief Baron, as a violent, unconstitutional, and almost utlprece den -ed departnre - from the established course of professional promotion. We ,should be glad to ask the Writer in the Morning Chronicle, in what book of authority he finds that the translation of JiNlges (as be . - terms it) is declared to be unconstitutional, and from whom he derived the extraordinary information that it is a do viation from the " established routine ?" If the IVritet's recollection be not entirely destroy ed by Party prejudic , !, he may be able tO in form us -how it happened that Mr. Baron EYIIR was translated to the Office of Chief Baron, and afterwards to that of Chief Justice 'of the Common Fleas. flow happened it, we desire also to know, that when Lord LOUGHBO ROUGH was removed from the Common Pleas, tile then Attorney-General did not succeed him How happened it that when Chief Justice EYnc died, the " established' routine" was again deviated from, and the -Attorney- General did not ascend the Bench ? .How hap pened it that. Chief Baron SKINNER, who.precett ed Chief Baron EYRE, Was transla i ted from the office of a Pdisne Baron, and that Mr.Justiceßut.- Lcu and Mr. Justice Lv.vßENcri were translated from the King's Bench to the Comm,on Pleas ? But it would be endless to enumerate all ", trans- lotions" and promotions of Judges. Mr. Justice • BATH - vasT , was translated into the office of Lord Chancellor; Chief Justice LOUGHBOROUGH and Chief Justice ELDON were also translated. These, perhaps, we shall be told, are racidern cases% The Chronicle, perhaps, in the fervency of its love for the,COnstitntion, will refer to those '" good old times" when the Judges were removable at the pleasure of the Crown. If he wishes to go back to those times, we will present him with examples out ' - of number. Two, however, will do for the present : Sir EnwAlio COKE ADA MATTHEW BALE, who are generally supposed to have known something of the Con stitution of this Country, were actna'lly translated, the one from the office of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to that of the Kim's 13ench; and the other from that of a Puisne Baron to that of Chief Barton.. Unfortunately there was no Morn ing Chronicle in those days to - enlighten their norant minds. Yeiterdny the Duke of YORK held. his weekly Levee at his Office, as Commander-hi-Chief. Among those who. had interviews of his Royal Highness, were, Lord KINGSTON, Lieut.-General FINCH, Sir CHARLES GREEN, Lieutenant-General TILSON CHOWNE, Major-General AiREY, General I-lAmmosn, and Captain HUNTER, on his return from France. Lord LiYEßroot. was better yesterday. • Count MECRFELDT, Ike new Austrian Ambassador, was yesterday introduced to his Lordship by M. Da _WEISSENBERG, the late Austrian Envoy. TherLORD CHANCELLOR'and several of the Mi nisters saw ihe- Earl of LIVERPOOL yesterday, and a number of persons of distinctions left their cards. At the same time that Vicount CASTLEREAGH scot oti Mr. SYLVESTER, the King's Messenger, with dispatches through France to Buglaw', he also sent off another Messenger t 4) Lord Wsr. BE NTIN CK, TRE INFAMOTI Fint/D, FURTHER P.I.RTIL C., r }i:'. I) P . , Tlq.k:l) ON 'IIIE The persons at Dover, who were :irst non( t ,‘., , Ji in transmitting the false intelhealao e to 1_,,,,', ! a n ann wilt!, of course, tel it iacuan i t,-ut on ti a,. exonerate thennelve,s from the charge of p. - , -ici--' pitting. in so infamous a trausa. Ono, hake FIC_ ' ,, rt the following statement I—l'aey say, that micialle of Stintlay night, a persoat airei,se{t .•! ,• officer, walked from the head) of Dover t,. , .. - •1,- the town, and meetiug Ivo h a watchnn•:, quired of him the way to the Ship No, ' , • , s'--. cure a post-chaise and boats for t; - • - The -pretended Officer was a tall da, k , !:,,r, . dressed in scarlet and grAd, with a hi , at_ •• r::. on his hie:lst, the coat turned up wii , l} ale n i , and he wore a large sword by his side. He te,aaed ' to, be much fatigued, and his beard was Very icing: The Collector of the Customs was much displeased that he was not called fipin' his bed to examine ihe Officer. Before the impostor• proceeded oft his journey, he addressed a letter to Adaral Fo• LEY, •!6 - the,putport; that he law ordered back his , • bo:at's ti•ew Lo France,.and requested the polite ness of the Admiral, in case.they should be inter cepted by any of the British - cruisers, that Ole men might be properly treated, and sent •to Prance without loss of time. To this epistle he subscribed the name of Colonel De BURGH. No boat, however, was seen ; and it is to be presum ed he ,•wits not landed from any, but that his elo,Les ~ had been purposely made wet, to induce belief that it was from the spray of the sea. For every thing he had, 'mid event • at the turnpikes, he offered Napoleons for change: How: near be approached town in an Officer's, garb does not appear. ' The fellow, whoever he maybe, was supposed to have entered Dover on. Sunday morning, by the road leading from town. • . i Such a person, with a companion, was met in a post-chaise and four. A landlord,of one of the Inns of Rochester was seen in the company .of the suspected person, and he will, be required to give some account of his companion. Beside's the principal plot acted at Dover, there was a slirt of under one connected.with it, the scene of which lay at Northfleet. 'This was deemed expedient, it would seem, in case the Dover scheme shoulel, miscarry. At five o'clock on the Monday morn. ing a party arrived -at Northfleet in a six oared cutter. They called up a Mr. SAtaticiil, to reeuest that he would accompany two Of them to town, who represented themselves to he Messengers from France, to communicate the death , of ,BuoriaPARTE, And- the .hoisting of the Bova- Pus': standard in France. They were decorated with white cockades, and horses with laurels.--- They told Smanos; that they would first 'proceed to the LORD MAYOR, and as if with that intention, they took their route through the city. Their progress was greatly impeded by the mob, who stopped thon at every short distance. Pretend in;; to recollect themselves oa a sudden, they said it might be de( med disrespectful by the Govern- went if they did not first communicate with the itlinisters ; and then, as if for that purpose. the.? ordaeaa ,a..,. ~,,at-lioys wait) xtimg-avreet. •Before t however, they di-t -cll7;eetaictle le' t chaise, li l a ) i i s s e ( , ie :i s n t i l g it o :i t o r n i ' d.of their companion, supposing, no doubt, that their ptirpose'had been already answered. We trust the Committee of the Stock Exchange will be alive to every circumstance , from ' which evidence can be collected, and that they will stea dily pursue the track till they, have brought the miscreants, whoever they may be, or. whatever is their rank, to condign punishment. - It has been ascertained, that ',one broker . pur chased for: his employers, in the early. part of Monday forenoon, the enormous sum of six hun dred and fifty thousand in Omnium, Which pur chase, it-is estimate', on a moderate calculation, produced a net profit or sixteen thousand-pounds... 'the whole amount of the transfers in the course of the day,_ it is said, exceeded a millioa and a half. _ . A special meeting of the Gentlemen of the Stu:k Exchange was, it is said, held yesterday eveniog, :for' taking into consideration tile means for discovering the agents in the late scandalous hoax, with a view to the punishment of the ot fenders, and the rescinding of fraudulent liargaius founded upon it,. CORN-EXCHAWGE, FEB. 23.—Having no "fresh arrivals this morning, our Market Was barely,sup plied with the different kinds of Grain ; hence Wheat and Rye support their prices, and Barley, Malt, and Oats, have advanced per quarter. Tick Beans are 2s. and Boiling Pease b. per quar ter dearer, and looking upwards. English Wheat 48s. 635. 70s. Fine ditto "ies. —s. —s. Foreign do - 495. 595. 795. Rye Barley - - - 315.375. —s. New ditto - - - 425. —s. Malt ' - • - - Fine ditto - 795. Tick Beans - - 4c , 5 . : Old Tick Beans - 495. sr.i• Small Ticl: Beans Stirs. —s' Feed Oats - - -19 s. 295. Fine clitto - - - Poland ditto - -31 k, Fine ditto - • 345. Potatoe ditto - -38 s ..—s• White Pease (bull.) 55s .(355, Nev ditto - - -71 s. —s. Rape Seed 41.1. —l. per last• Fine Hour - -15 s. 74 Oren Prase - - - 83 s. 465. I Seconds - -60 s. 655. New ditto - - 525. —s. A detachment of the 23d Regiment of Weislt nisileers, consisting of 340 men, marched into Salisbury on Friday, and next morning for Win chester barracks. • EDINBURGH, FEB. 19.—Detachnients from the 26th,-79th, and . 92d regiments arrived in this city on Thursday, and this day embarked at Leith on board the smacks for Gravesend, in all about 400, men, to join their regitrieut , ; in France. The first division of the Royal Lanarkshire Militia arri,ctl here yesterd-iy and marched this morning , for Perth, . Since the relaxation of the late sevcre weather, Many different birds, strangers to the winter / fl isii of our rivers and meadows, have occasionally alighted on the banks of the Peak and the Trent. They appear to be a species of seai-fowl, and vary in their size from the sparrow-hawk to the %vac! goose. The masses of ice and congealed snow which were deposited in Moorfields before the general thaw, have not suffered any material diminution. , This fashionab/ep-art Of the town has acquired the appellation of New Iceland. -, ir° s3 Et!' 1;' i 0 :1 1 0 tie -, , Pc'