The Sun. — London, England, 1814-03-17 00:00:00

ao . most sincere congtatniatious 6,it this de bisite event. - . .1. I I)a.Ve the honour to be, &c. (Signhd) CHARLES HAMILTON gmrrir, Captain, D. 42: M. G. -might Hbn. Earl Bathuisti n r)so :s PRICE. OF SICCES THIS DAY VI Twe.r.rt• .7141, I Omni= THE SUN. SDLENS (XIS DICERE FALSUM AIDE.'? 011 1 " LONDON, t IttIRSII4Y,.MA RC H 17, 1414. janf e lc ; O 1 b)t "IORE BRILLIANT VICTORIES Li on AC 11,,C oii" - %a , Di tilC o diOr t h e to siTV le a o f ' , W pb er s ' 00 011' ,verelY is sti o onbe i,104) i'RANSLATION. ikeedrding, to the plan of 'the' High Allied "ers, all the different corps d'arrrie Were to "nekntrate themselves, in order ta , form two treat armies. ircir this effect, some momentary retrograde movetnents.were necessary. The army ~6 ri Marshal illticher concentrated itself near Laon, ha • v 'ng opposed to it Napoleon, at the head of ei ghty thousand Men. • A courier, who arrived Yesterday.. brQught inforinationi that the Field ;7tarshal had resolved to give battle on the gin ; anal this moment a second courier is arrived, l ' iln ging the following account : T his morning, before 'day-break, the, enemy at rlted my right wing and centre, tinder the ot orers°f Generals Winzingerode and -13ulowr ; and, 11mier favour of h thick fog, he penetrated qiiite 'thunder ale walls of Laon. Towards noon, when i4e fog clear e d awa y, th e t wo c orps above men .)ned moved against the enemy, engaged in in tersected ground, a very sharp affair of infantry, Vul gained 'ground till night-fall. ,Towards three in the afternoon, the enemy's I "'llinin s appe ar ed on my left wing, took the vil a° of Althies, and cannonaded briskly the corps of try()relt and Kleist. Having foreseen this event, I sent the corps of "ngeron and Sacken to reinforce the left wing, With orders to assume-the offensive, in conjunc 'w with the corps of D'Yotk and Kleist. • Gruerals D'Yorck and Kleist fulfilled this ob- i t ct %vitt ] their known ability,. The enemy was :tally - overthrown at night-fail . his artillery, niunition waggons, and a great number of pri 1131ers fell into our hands. General D'Yorck i eports,to.me at this moment, that he i s st i ll in pursuit of the enemy, an d t h at i cavalry has already driven them in the greatest tonfusion to Corbeny. Mhasten to communicate this news to our ost — crone Highness. P. S. Up t o the present time, seventy pieces of cannon have been already taken. The numbers k i ) : Pris " ers and amm un iti on waggons cannot yet b. calculated. The, victory was decided" princi knY by a b r ill iant charge of my cavalry. My bowing p asses the Aisne this clay. It is not 'v I \l, npositiv e ly if Napol e on commanded in person. h t ; t nf the prison ers assert t h at ' t h e y saw : 41 letertci-s say that he set off on the night of t , a. with fifteen thousand men, in the clime -6°llBt u f Paris, the grand Allied Army, under the we of Prince SchWartzenberg, having taken to„t, 1-44; 7 ' b- -.1 Guernsey, 1 Jersey Waterford. ,DvF.-1 1,, I,',L,in) 1 I ‘lalta, G foid ottenhurgl;, 1 Heligoland, 1 Holland, Water. 2711 Or THE FRENCII AT SOISSONS- ,, AT NIEATIX Or CORBEII AND AT CHARENTON----FLIGIIT DUONAPARTE FROM PARIS TOWARDS ROUEN. Countrymen Hail ; the School and Prin.- el Ples of PITT ! OUR glorious day has arrived— i" hopes are crowned—our expectations are ful filled, It tll was yesterday our h a ppy task to lay before e Public;in the three Extra-editions of THE uNs which we 'this day repohlish, the glorious Intel ligence which reached us in the course of the Itfletnoon, We now give place .to the official utification of these triumphant tidings, as it • a ppears in the . Extraordinary Gazette, by which our Clovernment has sanctioned them by the stamp unquestionable authority., This document ti lers only in a few words of translation from 14 t Which was tendered into our Fourth Edition. We could stop here to congratulate our Rea- Il ers again and again on' the news. We could 'all On them to rejoiee iiith us in that firm' and unaltrable perseverance which through good 411(1 bad report, through bright and• gloomy. r"spects, thrbugh prosperity and adversity, has conducted us to the wished for Goal at last—. has blessed us with the sight of ty ranny overthrown, and .now, in the full tones by victory, swells in Our ears the notes of security, of happiness, and of PEACE !-7---Peaeo, eWcii '474 Britain may greet with heartfelt :rand- Obit, and .iiie iiiik-efie ii . jby e6f a iaiii; iatig se- Ties of years. But our duty is still mcfre delightful than eve•t to, dwell on these, proud and gratifying topics. The victories we have announced were only pre ludes to the stilt More important vietories; the . news of which we have to communicate. CHER (under whose praise language is foiled); BLUCHER WAS not the Man to stop short in the middle of his resplendant career. He came not from the Oder to the Aisne, there to conquer his enemy and halt. The Ourcq, the Marne, and the Seine were before him, , as the Katz .back, the Bober, and the Queiss of, Silesia,- and the routed French Were flying frpin:his valiairt legions towards Paris, as,. in the former eirciim . stance, towards Dresden. The, pursuit was worthy of the Her 6! The gates of Soi.ssons offered no insurmountable obstacle to him, as they had done. to ZUONAPARTE. By the Bulletin issued At Mid= night, by our Minister of the War Department, . we learn that it was taken by storm, and the French Marshals, MacooNALn and SEBASTIANI, slain. SEBASTIANI was the , bloodiest of . all the bloody agents of the Tyrant, and, like his Mas , ter, a Corsican. In this splendid action, we HD derstand, the enemy were almost entirely put to the sword. TO proceed, it is said A Foreign Messenger, an office!. of the Belgic Legion, arrived this morning from 'Tolland, in the Tickler, which lauded hiin-at Deal. His in formation is the climax of that which we have al• ready had the felicity to communicate. He states, that atter the defeats at Laon and at SoissOus, the brave BLUCHER again came up with the fugl- . tive French at Meaux, and once more defeated them. The results are immense and incalculable ; and the pursuit continued. SO much for the immortal army of Silesia, and its immortal Commander. Prince SCHWARTZENEERG . , says our Informant, was not remiss or inactive on , his part. The Drama could not draw to its proper close without bringing all the great Actors together upon the Stage. The Grand Allied Army under that pru dent, able, and gallant Generalissimo, advanced with rapidity front Troyes upon Nogent.— from Nogent be pushed on with equal speed to Montereau—to Fontainbleauto Melon, fifteen miles from Paris !—At CORBEIL, five miles from Melon, towards the Capital, he also over took the routed Corps of OUDINOT, brought thein to action, and DEFEATED THEM. They fled in confusion to Paris, and at CHARENTON, three mites from that city, were assailed by a di-vi sion of the Army of Silesia (under, as reported, the Prussian General VoN Yoßcx) which com pleted their disorder, and put the finishing stroke to the overthrow of ALL THE ARMES OF BUONA- PA-RTE Never were victories more complete.—teipsick itself has been rivalled on these auspicious days ! EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN is the estimated • loss of the Enemy. BUONAPARTE, it is stated, ha's abandoned Paris to its fate. lie run away with 13,000 of his Guards, (some say only 1500) and took the di rection of Rouen in Normandy: Ile had no other course open by which to fly. The Cossacks were all round the south side of'Paris, and over spread the country. But what has the Renegade USurper to expect in Normandy. Ther, by this time, we trust, is OUT WELLINGTON—there is no SUCCOUT . for Ty rants where Blitons grace the field. There, by this time, we trust, the Lillie(' Flag of the Bourbons floats in triumph, and is 'bailed by thousands of loyal Frenchmen, sick of destruc tion, and panting to regain, under their lawful King, freedom, repose, and happiness. There, we trust, he twill meet, in the Duke I) . k:icon- LEME, the avenger of the Duke D'ENGHIEN. It is supposed that, from motives of humanity, the Prince of SGIINVARTZENDERG deferred entering Paris during _the ardour of pursuit, and in the flush and heat and,fury of Victory.• The place is incapable of defence, an:l must (if this intelligence is any thing like the truth) long before this date, have passed into the possession of the Allied Powers of. Europe. We do 'not imagine that the Despot himself durst return to Paris. Even the defeats of Laon and Soissons (ot which we are officially informed) should all the above, which we have stated on pria t ite authority, turn out to be, whiob we trust it will not, unfounded :—even the defeats of Laon and Sriissons are sufficient to overturn the dynasty Of NiroLEorT, and relieve mankind from the hea viest curse of which ancient or modern history can produce an example, Upon the intelligence we have thus stated it is our duty to observe, that Government have as yet received no accounts of successes to the extent here mentioned. The substance of the informa tion as the War Office is given in the Bulletin of last tight inn tte Letter to the LaiD thioi s t,' a copy W . : • ,LETTER TO THE LORD MAYOR. Downing-nrcet, March tif)ni presents his coniplittients to e tont). ikIAY6R, and has tli satisfaction to in- form- his ,Lordship; . that a Foreign Officer has ar riied at this Office, dispatched froth Urussels by captaiii HAMILrov &nul, and forwarded. by Admiral YotiNG. He brought a confirnation‘ of the account of the Victory obtained by Marshal BLUCHER, at Laon, on the 9th instant ; and gives verbal information that the success was fol lowed up with great rapidity -during the 10th and 11th. Soissons had been taken by storm. Mar shal MAcnoti - AtH and General SaBASTIANI are amongst the slain, and the loss of the enemy is reported to be immense." A true Copy. WM. DOMVILLE, Mayoi. The Park and Tower gnni Were fired this niorn.; lag at nine o'clock. The French Papers to the 12th, the arrival and, only'important,conients of which we inserted iOTHE SHN of yesterday, furnish us, in our present extracts, with more detailed particulars of the operations of BCONAPARTE up, to the 9th, but they have lost all their interest in the greater intelligence received through Holland, It IS somewhat Vihimsical, how ever, while we are reading the accounts of the vic tories of, the SilesianArmy in our own Gazette, to be perusing, at the same time, the French Documents, which describe that Army as " wrecks" of corps ; to compare the boasts of the Corsican, of having " divided the E-etny's Army into two portions," with BLVCri ER'S statement,, that, " accord ing to the plan of the High Allied Powers, the different Corps were to concentrate, in or der to form • two Army corps ;' and to he, informed of the advance of our Allies to the gateS of Paris, while ,the Parisian Editors are endea vouring' to terrify theth back to their own fright ful climate,, by descriptions of their formidable 'harriers, manufactorieS of arms, number of guns, and the man oeuvres of the Polytechnic School Corbiny, mentioned in the Gazette, is on the right of the Aisne, between 'Rheims - and Leon, and near the towns of Craone and Bery-le-bae: Some doubts are excited what ier BUONAL'ARTE was or was not present at the Battle of Leon, of the9tli, some deserters having reported that he set out to oppose SCHWARTZENBERG On the night of the Sth with 15,000. It does not appear to be very probable that, contemplating an at tack on the ensuing morning, BUONAPARTE would, in any exigency, weaken his fume by so great a deductison. Sr. PATRICK'S Day ! We only 4rant News from IVELLINGTQN to coniplete our picture ! There is .a report that Bergen-op-Zoom is in flames ; but we cannot trace it. MACDONALD_ (Soi-diSalli Duke of TARENTimi) Was buried-at Soissous. The QUEEN continues confined to her private apartments_Hin Windsor Castle, by a violent cold. The Duke-of.Suss . e.x, we arc concerned to say, is coil - Ina-at Kensington Palace, with his astli- complitint. On Monday a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, on the dispatches brovglit on Sun day bi Major STANHOPE. At the breaking up of the Council, Mr. FISH ea, the Messenger, was sent off with dispatches to 'sir T. GRAN IN, and the Earl of CLANCARTY, our Ambassador at 'the Hague._ 'Yesterday information reached -town from. the neighbourhood of liambnrglr through Ilolland, of the 4th inst. by which we learn that - . the, camp fever, which hos committed such ravages in the other cities of Europe that had been exposed to the calamities . of war, has at length visited Ilam burgh, and we are told that a great number die daily, both of th'e inhabitants and the military. General TAYLOR left town on Tuesday evening, soon after six o'cloqk, to'proceell on his way to the Continent. lie is expected to return in about a fortnight. The" Malta Mail- has brought us letters from thence to the last day Of the preceding year, with the SubsetlUent information : " On the Gth trade Was again suspended at Valetta, end opened on the tath, in consequence of the disappearance of the plague. On the 22d it was stopped by order of Govern ment, oq account of the re-appearance of the malady, hut on the 48th, the cases not being fatal, the commercial inter course was renewed; the cases were these of a Maltese girl and a servant of an Itaiie n merchant, who are both expected to recover." The letters . from Gibraltar, by the same oppor- tunity, are favourable with regard to commeice, which was returning to its ancient channel throughout the ports of the Mediterranean. - We have letters from Constantinople to the Milt,' of January. it was supposed that the Turks would regain 'possession of their territories 'on the shores of .the,Adriatic, the French troops having been withdrawn ;'hut some difficulty %vitt probably arise on, accottucof the pretensitins of Russia, and the disposition,i):auifested by-the inhabitants of Cattaro to place themselves under .thy protection of the latter Power. We are authorised to state, that in compliantse with the wishes of many :71s . ubseribers of the first distinction, the 'Tickets to Madame CATALANI'S Concerts will be 'transferable from ,Ladies to'La- Ilies and Gentlemen. to Gentlemen, in families only. Further particulars, relative to these Con certs will be explained by HOOltittg and Sons, Old Bond-street. tikfi diAL iliiilffii4, Mesienger afriieci; 6htithe fj [oAii g is tli . 8 the DEPA RTME Maicia,--14fiatift*: . - A foreiiin OE6 cer hai artived at this Ofgee,; , patched friliin krussels by Captain Ildu:nicio . 4 SMrin, and tirWai'ded by Atl.nital YotAG. lie brings a confirmation of the aceonnt oft victory gained illy MarSHal 13ui6fiEit, at I~aon, ad the 9th instant ; Ad gives verbal intorrnatiOn the success was Olowed Up with great rdpic'it)i -. during the I 9th and 11th.. Soissons had beet: taken by . Storm. MarZlial ATAcLi*ALD and 6c.fie ral SEBASTIAN( were anlitingst the slain, and toss of the enemy is reported-to. be irritnense. NAVAL . NtWS. DEAL, llamtbil I6.—Arrivid the Tickler cutter from Adrnir,3l YOUNG, in the Roonipot, with t Foreign Officer, from the Allied Armies, who is said to he the hearer of dispatcheiof the i , ta defeat of BUONAPARTE. Sailed the Roiario sloop' of war, with a convoy to Portsmouth.—Wind N. E. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 16.—Salled a fleet of transports., bound to Passages .with troops; pro tected as far as Plymouth by his Majesty's ships Brazen, Zephyr, anti Malabar: The Brazen . pro; ceeds.to Cork. Sailed his Majesty's Ships-Leander' and Quernscy,.a.nd the Syhelle, for off Cherburgh. Went out4)f. harbour his • Majesty's ship . Minn, Once. Caine in his Majesty's . ship Camel . • PL Y MOUTH, MARCH 15.-- , -Came in the Wolve, ! , rive stiiop of war front a cruize, and the Roper schooner from the Eastward. sailed the Etha • lion frigate on a crpize.- 7 —Wind North. . • Fmvourn; MARCH I4. 7 —Arrived the Alice, for' Liverpool.—Wind E. N. E. LEITH, Maaca cartel arriect yeifer= • day with an lisuivoy froin Norway.; left Christian: sand on Wednesday last. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held atibi East India House, when Capt. PATTERSON, Of the ship Thomas. Grenville, took. leave, previous to departing . for China direct. Captain DUMBLE.. TON, of the.Larkins ; Captain I.ll‘Dotro.AL, of the Tigris.; Captain CAMERON ' of the Ann ; and Captain MANSELL, of the Coldstream, were sworn into the command of ,their respectiVe ships. The Fair American, which arrived a shoit time since at Liverpool from the United States, as a cartel, will sail in a few daysom her return. Sir G. COLLIER was to sail yesterday morning torn Portsmouth, for the Attic' icart station, in the Leander, 54. This ship has heen :and fitted Out exactly upon the plan of the largesAtne ricatr frigates. . • THE ARMY. The destination of the troops under the .corn. inand of Major-General BAtoiY, that were under orders to join Lord WELLINGTpN'sarmy inifranc6 is shauged. These troops will now be itninediately sent to Holland to ieintorce Gen. GitmfAm. The sth tegintent have received orders lor 40() of them to march to=morrow on their way to Uui s • land. The tinder-tnentioned battalions have been,or.. dered to furnish, detachments for immediate (auk barkation for Liallaud 4th F00t... Colchester,' ttb ditto • Windsor, • 9th ditto Catitetbury, 14th ditto. Wcedon, • 11`th ditto 'Hall, • 22d ditto t Chester, • spth ditto Weymouth' 6841 ditto Ipswich, BGth ditto flythe. The under-mentioned rates have been fixed, sis proper to be allowed to Olficer:i of the army, , ay indemnification for watches last by, thew. on set-, ice, viz.:— • To a General Officer, the actual va- Forty Guineas. . lue not exceeding . ' Field Officer . 'ditto . Twenty Guineas, Captain . . ditto .. Ten Guineas. Subaltern ditto Six Guinea:s. 'Military Staff Officers to be allowed for the loss of 'watches. according to their rank in the army ;-,those belonging to the civil departmentg' Of the army, according to their relative rank with that of Military Officers. The statements in the French Papers are did, appreciated in the private letters from Paris, our of which states, that the account of the action O t t the 7th is fare—" C'est un mensonge, nous sommes battu !''—' Tis a lie; toe are beaten. , Sir Wm.' GARRow was, on Friday re elected for the Borough of 'Eye, Without Oppod. tion. Sir WILLImu not being present, Mr. T., CHZNERY was chaired (as his substitute) among great concourse of the Freewill and othet-spec4 tutors. . _ Mrs. StDbONS Conimeneed het' readings at ford on lionday. Buo_NApAtITE was lately called liy One . of the orators the " Father of his PCuple,"—but it not*. be some such afather as old Suturii, who (nu: 2)1 his paternal affection, no doubt) was in the' of devouring hiS own children. The ilioniteur says, that " the Austrian Gcr.e , • • ral BUENA is retreating On all sides :" this must` certainly be a new triode of retreat ; in . the (;Id one, there was no option but to' go backwards, His Highness the Prince of illoskwa having 1191 v so many Muscovites at his heel's, must no doubt feel. himself quite at home. • .1 . 1 inveterate Punster observes, that if " .Ml'4 Well that ,Ends IVell,"lhcaour-tons seem to Int'vc v. good chance. ' Died, on Saturday, the 12th inst. in the 7'jd year of his age, CHASLts .of anipton, Lace-merchant and Banker, many year:a one of the Magistrates of that town, „Treasurer ity the General Infirmary, and to the,Nnrthampt6ll - shire Society for the Education of the Poor isa the I' rinciples of the Established Churoh. '