The Sun. — London, England, 1814-03-18 00:00:00

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Ig, 19-14, Mr. SHAW, the Messenger , reached town this finr;.. ,z -,,, with Dispatches from Lord CASTLE-.• 1? , . , - o 'A(;I4, whom be left on Sund a y l as t at Chatiilon.\ he contents of the Dispatches had not been made l'hown when this Paper was put to Press ;• but it s e em s • , eYment that no such unpleasant event has eteurred as the signature of Preliminaries for 4 1) elec. with the Corsican Usurper, or an 'Ar mistice, for, in that case,. an Agent of' more im-• LO r tance W ou ld have b een sent,by his Lordship.— Ire r ' StiAx* arri ve d at P ar i s on M onday last, were u. e Was deprived of all private letters and public 1 : ' 4 " 31 5, and ' su ff ere d to depart with nothing but i,. e Dis patches, a strong nega:ivd proof that the .""*li :ToUrnal's, With all their artificial colouring Q . er ents, 'could n o t pl a c e th em i n suc h a li g h t as to he faitaurable to the cause of the Usurper. Mr. uw ( ~ • -- "ned, at Calais yesterday, and arrived at - b o v t! r late last night. , ;, i t is evident from this, that. the Allies were not It P aris la t e so as the 14th. • Anoiher Gazette Extraordinary, promptly and beoPerly issued by G overnment l ast n i g ht , w ill -nand in another part of our impre•likon. It '' ' .tt ains th e first part of dispatches from Colonel .dated Leon, the 10th and 11th, up to Intirnitig of whi c h l at t er d a y ap p ears to -b e the the 410 st recent account furnished by Col. LowE from Sc ) ire, 1 ene these r gloriotis actions. Thi s p o i nt o f I ) i ki, , o o clock, in the forenoon of the Eleventh, 1 h eld in v i ew , w ill ena bl e our Re a d ers to t v .l , ll(le ' st and a few ma tt ers w hich sour) to he at ' ri alee,hetiveen the letters of COL LOWE and that . its (zzadated) of M arshal BLUCHER; which evidently , , 1 : ° • : --#l / )1 Comes down to.a later period than ,fe 1 C c ti trShol.4l cer's informatict. The substance B aaMreinnieations that, on the - 1 11 . " Z APAR TE Obtained possession of part of th e ,1 111) 7 -8 of Soisions, and spent the whole of tie ' a. Y in a Er nitiess and Wasting attempt to take 10 which was most gallantly defended by ~ • Corps of tAisloe -no!,, a asSiar: nfintry of the Coo i nd is by Gen. Itaintwtcit . . The Buri n atant s slept in almost adjoining ; houses their short :end perturbed night ; on the t(ltt'ng the F rench retired, b affled ; and the Ilk " C rated w as compelled to direct his concen voperations upon the second line of a d- t,,torwart} 'et tow ards the north, by Rheims. Push ing i n this direction, hi s tight crossed - the - e Aisn e at l ilerv-le-ba c , on the afternoon o f t h e 6 t l, d attacked the Allies near Craone. Night put . 11 t " to this Affair, On the 7th the 13attle-of ki rar t Alai * as fou g h t. A fter a brave resistance by ° force in this quartet, the accumulating lies or the enemy u Coming p, an d 4 . 0 00 • pressing with gamy r oto upo n not more than two Corps, he t oo fo rm i da b le to be withstood, and they Arisere (I to wards La on , l eav i ng on l y 5 0 or 60 cn tuners' and ne i ther h gun nor a gun- carriage, h e ba nds of th e assailants.' Yet this is the t a ti- , 4 w hiCh the M on it eur ' states twelve thou -n(` )- Prisone rs , a nd 30 pieces of cannon to have 11.,ren taken At the s ame t i me . (though not vi;: tin ned) we suppose the troops were with from Saissons, and th e w h o l e o f t h e Al p: Ar L orought tO concentrate on the fine fr sit4°lltm, °f Laon: In the battle of Craone the the two Armies was changed, as we for " 1 :)? st ated, and they faced each other-more from Z'htowest, th an , as b efore, from south to north. %trlesnbserinent movement of BLUCHER howeverre- . t, t. red f iiiirs to their original state. Th ere were f our e LA neb G enerals Wounded, viZ.V ICToR , G RoueHY, .4 1 -LE and C HARPENTRAs ; and th us conc l u d e d l ' r tY-t w i ll . c r a ps of inc ess a nt marching and fighting, ' je ll the laurel -covered army of Silesia was haged. bi l " e ne xt docum ent i s the Duplicate of the It S , ratCll frOril Col. Lowi to Sir C. STEWART. .tvenarrates, in a l etter of the 10th, the chief t h e 9 nt ' of th e b attle of Laon during the Whole of 4 v. t l ); and in a rostcript o f the I 1 th gives lotierY brief a ccount of a battle during the ,trat '' and finishes with \ the intelligence o f th e b 4tt e i the E n e my in the night. This last aPpears to us, aft er t h e most careful corn- C ; ; I : 31)11 of all t h e information received, could only p r : taken Place b etween the Allied left and the t°War 7 ght, on the road ( or Ch aussee) from.Laon (18 Saissous. It ought to be cateerved, that . . the three titsiftrontd, Soissons' i and Laon, font a triangle, and the roads from the two former-Meet in the latter. It' is clear that the right wing of the French was enr tirely defeated on the 9th, on time road from Rheims to Laon—the eastern line by which they were advancing. Forty-five piccea of can non, and.an immensity of tunibrili, &c. were the fruits of thiS victory ; and the Ge neralstrYoßcit, liLatsr, and SACKEN,puritted the eneMY froM Althies to Corheny, half way to Rheiins. It is to this farce, to which BLUCHER refers, when; hi his Postscript, he says,'" my left wing passes the Aisne this day, ; ' i. e. on'the 10th, at or near Bery-le-bac, which is onl.a few miles from Corbeny, to which place they had pursued the foe on and " during the whole of the (pre ceding) night. While the French right, how ever, in which their main strength lay, was thus broken and pursued on the road to Rheims, their left Still Maintained a desperate conflict on the SoissonS or Western road, and only retired in the night of the 10th, and were followed the nekt morning by the Allied Cavalry to Chavignon,- on their retreat to Soissons. The great battle was that of the 9th, mil the chief contest between the major part of the forces anchoth sides took plaCe and was decided on that day at Althies. The names and rank of the Officers. employed corroborate this opinion. The forger continued struggle on the gth and lOth was cer tainly between 'less numerous and important bo dies, as the names and' rank of the Commanders on this side indicate. To stun up these remarks,--it'appear; to us that we may learn from the Gazettes Extraordinary that there has been two battles, in the beginning combined together, but in the end distinct and separate,. by, the different fortune which attended the principal points contested on the first day. • The first we will call the general battle of the 9th, in which the right and strongest wing of the French was rolited on the Rheiins road, but their left stood firm on the Soissons road, both wings being engaged. The second Battle was that of the 10th, and in this only the French left were engaged—their right, defeated on the preceding day; being, em ployed in flight, and vigorously pnistted by Sk i“:tq, KLIEST, and .D'YoacK, towards Rheims. This force had lost the 45 pieces of cannon spoken of by Colonel Lowe ; and probably the abandon ment of further guns, dither by them or the left, made up the number of 70 stated by BLUcHEU. From these premises it may be inferred, that the accounts ire received yesterday, though not sane tinned by any official intelligence yet received, may prove to be partly correct and well-founded. Report often, truly precedes the more, regular and authentic information-- , —this is well,illustrated by the Third Edition of THE Su on \Vednesday, which contained the:tnost distinct outline of the operations . now recorded -in The Gazette, and whicb, though derived from private sources, will • (if our Readers will have the goodness. to refer to it) prove to them that we do not place confidence In these sources on light grounds. We extract the following from the Liverpool Courier of the lfith " TRIED EDITION, . cs Liverpool Courier Office, le o'clock at Noon. The gratifying intelligence of the capture of Bayonne, brought here by the North Star, Capt. BoToEtc, late last night, which will he found in the Ship Newt, and reported also in several of the late editions of the London Papers, which we have inserted, has this morning received further confirmation by the arrival of the Oporto Packet., Captain FODEN, the Master, whom we have seen, left Bilboa on the Ist instant, and states, that -about four days before he s a iled great rejoicings had taken place, in consequence of Lord War.- LINGTON baring passed ,the Adour, and entered Bayonne. " All the vessels that could be procured had been taken up by,Government -Agents to carry provisions to the army.—Confident expectations of the speedy fall of Bourdeaux was also enter tained." The following is the notice in the Ship News above referred to The North Star, Dryden, arrived at this port from Bil boa, left there the 211th ult.; on the 25th there were great re . jnicings there on account of Bayonne being taken by Lord 'Ncllington's army." The latest intelligence we have is from Lord WELLINGTON of the 24th, and front Admiral PEN HOSE `` off the Bar of the Adour the 25th." The latter throws some discredit on the North Star report, though it does not prove it to be er roneous. We know of nothing - to impeach the credibility of the report by' the other vessel : and we only hope that the news it brings may receive a speedy confirmation. The Bunker's Hill privateer taken was former- II the Lem-et in our service •; • out five days from INforlaix and had made no captures. The French papers have a date from Bourdeaux o f th e 7th, and mention, that on the, 3d an English squadron of five ships and four sloops an chored in the great road of Rochelle. IMPORTANT NEWS. SUN OFFICE, two O'CLOCK. 'NO PRELIMINAMES SIGNED : MAR- UONT'S CORPS DESTROYED AT RHEIMS: AUG BEAU DEFEATED: AD- 'VANCE OF THE AIJ,§TaIANS. There are Dispatches from Chaumont.' Uad Preliminaries been signed, they ‘ve7:!:l hive been sent (as we bave already observed) by a Bearer of higher rank than Mr. Su w. The Hon. Mr. ROBINSON, or,IIIr.PLANTA, would undoubtedly have come with the Dispatches. The Corps of Marshal MAnNtobrr has been de- stroyed by BLUCHER, at Rheims. , Si* thousand prisoners taken. No date is assigned for this new and brilliant exploit. AUGF.REAU has alSo been defeated in the South by the Austrian GeneraLßlANcar. The Graiid Army, tints'released from apprehen- sif-In on its flank, broke up frorn Troyes on the thirteenth .(Sunday last, and not &fore)," and ad- vanced to join the victorious Bt.uenEß. This .ffitelligeuce, which MAY BE RELIED ON, will of course supersede the' more glowing ru- moue; from the Coast. The advance of Prince SCHWARTZENBERG on the 13th, though it does away the sanguine antici- patio!' of his in - uncchate entrance into Path, is perhaps the most gratifying part of this News. IT PROVES THAT, AFTER THE DREADED TENTH AND TWELFTIL, WAR AND NOT PEACE WITH THE USURPER WAS CONTEMPLATED. SECOND EDITION. The following a short Bulletin issued - by Goverrun'ent : BULLETIN. " Accounts have been received froln Chaumont of the 12th, and from Chatillon of the 13th. " The news of Marshal BLl:ctiEa's victory had arrived at Chatillon, anti that Gen. ST. PRIEST bad retaken Rheims on the 12th, and made 3000 pri- SOIICTS. " SCHWARTZENBERG, who had remained at Troyes, was moving upon Chalon.,. " General Blitz:cm hid IlefeatA AuGEgEmj At Macon, but the details had v. arrived. "The Plenipotentiaries t(-ere still at Chatilion." The troops of the ftei , olution:sts engaged in the siege of Montevi , :mo, had been defeated by the trrison of that fortress, which had been augmented by teinfot'cempnts from Europe, and the siege ha•;: in consequence been raised. Dna 11LINt.TEL DE SARavrEA, who is a - passenger from South America by the Herines, had been ap pointed'by the Junta of Buenos'Ayres; Envoy at the Court of London. This person is a Creole by birth, was formerly President. of the Junta, and was 'once engaged on a mission.to tJte Cuart of 34adrid. The Lail of Li VERPOOL had a long audience of the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. The arrival of hii Royal Highness the Diike of CLARENCE is expected every day. The Duke's house isi the Stable-yard is :preparing for his re ception. _ • Yesterday the Earl of WESTMORELAND gave grand dinner to the Foreign Atnhav‘adors, any! the Cabinet Ministers, at his houge in Grosvenor square. _ _ - Yesterday morning two Deputies from Norway were landed at Gravesend, and only wait there for passports to procoed• to town, to lay before Ministers the change of afhirs which has recently taken place in Norway, with the view, as is sup posed, of obtaining the sanction of the British Government-to their independence and neutrality. The affidavit of Lord COCDRANE, we are given to understand, has saddled the Mirshal of the King's Bench with the debts of Mr. RANDOM DE BERENGER, who, having been now found at large in Green -street, instead of being within the rules, has made others liable to the creditors. On \yednesday, which was settling-day at the Stock Exchange, the differences on the specula tions in the Funds on the 21st February, the day of the fraud, were paid into the hands, of the Trus tees, a , reeablv to the Resolutions of the Menibers, of tliStock Exchange. To-morrow the PRINCE REGENT will bold a Council to receive the' Recorder of London's re port of convicts under sentence of death . in New gate. It is not surprising that a TepOrt: • should be spread of &lON APARTF,'S proceeding to Normandy,' for it must be agreed on all hands that . he'is on the road to Rouen. . CAMBRIDGE, MARCH Chancellor's Gold Medals for the best .Classical Scholars ivho have this year taken the degree of A. PP: are ad judged toZiessrs.MlLLt:T and ELLIOTT, of Trini-' ty College. NAVAL N E W3l LIVERPOOL, MARCH I6.—Arrived the Oporto Packet, FoDEN master, froM Bilboa, from whence she sailed the Ist of March. It was reported there, that the Marquis t cf . Wer.LINGTort had en tered Bayonne on the 25th ult. and that great re joicing was made at Bilboa in consequence. Also arrived the North Star, BRYDEN, from Bilboa sailed the 26th ult. On the Ist of March, spoke his Majesty's brig Adder, in. lat. 47. 3. on the 6th of March, spoke, in lat. 47. 23. his Majesty's ships ,Pomona and ('dnus, who informe:l him that they had captured the :lay before the Bunicer Hill American . privateer, of 14 guns and 86 men, which had sailed from Morlaix• five days before, in company with the True-blooded Yankee. DEAL, MARCH 17.—Sailed the Griffon sitiop of war, with General TAYLOR, for Holland, and the Badger hired armed cutter with dispatches for Admiral YOUNG. Arrived the Liyeret gun brig, with .dispatches from the Commander in Chief in the Roompot. The Olympia cutter hls a signal for convoy to Portsmouth. -Wind N. B. PORTS,MOUTH, MARCH 17,—Arrived the . Wii- Ham, HARRINUTON, from Waterford, - with provi sions. Caine' into - harbour the Clorinde (late French frigate.) —Wind •N. FALMotfl 4 tt, MARCH 15 —Arrived about a duien ships, from Waterford, Cork, and Wales. Sailed the Walsingham packet; with a wail, for Suri nam.—Wind East. It svais yesterday reported that the Essex Ame rican frigate had been captured by the Phcebe, of 38 guns, off Rio Janeiro. We trust that this pleasing intelligence will shortly be officially con firmed. The action, we understand, was very sanguinary, and lasted a considerable length of time. The Gallant guns-brig sailed from Leith Roads on Sunday, with a convoy, for the Baltic, The Furious gun-brig also got under weigh for Got. tenburgh. THE ARMY. * AI mediatety It is said that 6000 troops will be embarked for Holland. Yesterday forenoon, a muste',. of t h e t h ree re ,. cage Walk, when 300 m,l were i lrafted, giments of foot 'guards tool:, place in the Bird. and or dered to bold thewelv 01. in readiness for intim:. diate emharkation. Lyery officer, .4On-commissioned officer, drn:ii m er, and privs4, ir! the Ist -Oxfordshire L o c a l MI-, „ "conn,,Ailited by Lord C. .orENCER, hare agreed ' t • , • extend their services for six weeks. Ye . ...sferday the West Kent regiment of Militia 11 7.tfied 'at Windsor, in order to refic , .'e the sth root, who are ordered foriimmediate ernharkation. Oa Friday, Saturday, tied Muuday last, the Royal Ayrshire Militia, commanded by Colon'el. KELSO, marched from Ayr, on their way to Ire hthd, NEW CONVENTION ACT.—" We can state (says ti;;. Dalin. Evening . Post) on authority on winch we have been in the habit of relying, that a 13i11 is in preparation, and will be introduced early on the Meeting of Parliament, by Mr: PREL, to *mend tit;: Goavention Act—by which Meet ing, whether in. the present form, or what is call ed an Aggregatc.Assemhly,' will be declared to constitute a misdemeanour. -In short, it is , in .tended to enact, that no Meeting, unless one where the Sheriff of theliailiwick or a Magistrate . presides, shall be deemed a legal Assembly. ,klence it is easy to infer, that Public Meetings must loon cease altogether. It is therefore incumbent on the Catholic 130ard to speed all business, and to prepare their different Petitions and Addresses for; or else we much misdalculat, there vrill not be 5t...7}1 a Body as' the Catholic Board in existence by the middle of April." —Never tvas there a measure more wanted than that which is here spoken of. The folly,. licentiousness, and mis chief of the Catholic Debates, have risen to 'a beight which demands.the interference of the Le giSlature. They - met under the pretence of pre paring a. Petition to Parliament, and there is not a subject connected with the internal or external policy of the. country, into which they have not wriggled themselves, and canvassed like a regular Parliament. We are sorry to say that she indisposition ot Mrs. JORDAN has continued for some time, al though her great spirit, vivacity, and resolution, enabled her to triumph over its appearance during her presence before the public, on the stage. Wednesday, however, increasing indisposition obliged her to resign the limps.' contest, and yielding to the advice of her physicians, Mrs. JoaDAN-in the evening reluctantly left town for the sea-coast. SUICiDE.-Yesterday morning Captain C-, formerly Commander of an least Ifidiaman, put an end to his existence by shooting himself through the bead, at his apartments in tire neighbourhood of Bloomshury-square. He dined the preceding day- at the Captains' Club, and appeared in excel lent spirits., No motive can be assigned for this dreadful act.. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARCH 18.—Our Mirket was thinly sup- - plied with the different kinds of Grain this morning, and Wheat sold for 2s. per quarter more than on Wednesday. Oats ,have also advanced Is. per quarter. Boiling Pease were is, dearer.. Tick Beans being. in dep!and, sold freely at an advance of 2s, per quarter. Barley,' Malt, and other kinds of Grain, remain ;%t• t he last quoted prices. SMITHFIRLD, 111sItcsi 18.—This dar's Market had a scanty supply of the various kinds of Cattle; Beef, Mutton, and Pork, sold at last prices ; Veal was cheaper; and the trade, for the•most part, was but indifferent. The sales in the Hay- market were not lively; Hay fetched last price; Straw awl Clover have got up in price. The - fishery carried on by the inhabitants of Dieppe, during last year, comprised 104 vessels of 3100 tons, and navigated by 1807 men : the total amount of fish was valued at 232,000 /francs.