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LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. TUESDAY, IWARCII 22. WAR DEPARTM ENT. Downing-street, Ofarch 22, 1814. Dispatches, of which the following are - extracts, have been this day received, addressed to Earl Bathurst, by the Marquess of Wellington, dated Aire, 13th and 14th March, 1814. Aire, 13th March, 1814. The excessive bad weather and violent fall'of rain, in the beginning of the month, having swell ed to an extraordinary degree all the rivers, and rendered it difficult and tedious to - repair the nil inerous bridges, which the enemy had destroyed in their retreat, and the different parts of the army being without communication with each other, I was obliged to halt. _ The-enemy retired after the affair with Lieute nant-General Sir Rowland Hill on the 2d, by both banks of the Adonr, towards Tarbes, pro bably with a . view to he joined. by the detach ments from Marshal Suehet's army, which left Catalonia in the last week in February. In the mean time, I sent on the 7th a detach ment, under Major-General Fane, to take‘posSes sion of Pau : and another on the Bth, nn 'e Mar shal Sir William Beresford, to take possessiOn of Bourdeaux. • .1 have the pleastre to inform your Lordship, that the Marshal arrived there yesterday (the small force which was there having in the pre ceding evening retired across the Garonne), and that this important city is in our possession. Lientenant-General Don illanuel, Fvere joined the army this day, with that part of the 4th army tinder his immediate command, and I expect that Major-General Ponsonhy's brigade of cavalry will join to-morrow. I from Major-General Fane, who com mands Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill's outposts, that the enemy have this daj collected a considerable force in the neighbourhbod 'of Conehez, and I therefore conclude that they have been joined by the detachment of the army of Catalonia, which, it is reported, amount 3 to 10,000 men. Nothing important has occurred at the blockade of Bayon'ne, or in Catalonia, siiice !'addressed your Lordship last. Aire. March 14, 1814. I enclose Marshal Sir William Beresford's pri vate letter to me, written after his arrival at Bourdeaux, from which you will see that the Itlayor and people of the town have adopted the white - cockade, and declared for the-House of Bourbon. Marshal Sir W. Beresford's private letter, to 'which Lord Wellington's dispatch refers, is dated Bourdeaux, 12th March, 1814. It states, in substance, that he entered the city on that day ; that he was met a short distance from the town, by the civil authoritiez and popu lation of the place, and was received in the city with every demonstration of joy. The magistrates and the city guards took off the eagles and other badges, and spontaneously substituted theiwhite cockade, which had been adopted universally by the people of Bourdeaux. Eighty four pieces of cannon were found in the city ; and an hundred boxes of secreted arms had b-cen produced already. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MARCH 18.—Private letters announce, that a corps of French troopi has entered Cha lons-sur-Marne, a3d driven from it the enemy, from whom it took many prisoners. CnATEAU THIERRY, MARCH 17.—We this in stant learn that a corps of the-French army has entered Chalons-snr-Marne, after a battle, in which we took ti great number of prisoners from the enemy. SOISSONS, MARCH 17, in the evening.—Nothing new has taken place to-clay. The enemy is still held in check upon the Laou Road. That of Rheims is - free. The Journal de Paris of the 19th states, that on the 15th an attack was made on Compeigne by 300 of the enemy, who were repulsed. The Journal de :1'17.17-Tire of the .19th -contains a Broclamation from Soult to MS soldiers, dated Head-quarters, the March ; in it he makes no mention of his defeats up . to that time; be accuses Lord Wellington „of inciting the popula tion to sedition and reYolt, calls upon them to re venge this insult in blood, and tells them, that whether the assailants or the assailed, thaetill the Allied Army, farmed of so extraordinary ele ments, be annihilated, or shall have evacuated the territory of.the Emperor, there can be no re pose for them, _ _ FUNDS,—For 22d March, 48 f. 50 cu. DUTCH PAPERS. DERIAN, MAncn B.—An official report received by the Military Government from Major-General Von Henruksi commanding the corps blockading Custrin,. dated Goizon, the sth instant, states that the fortress of Custrin has capitulated ; the whole garrison are prisoners of war, and remain till further orders on the right bank of the Rhine. HAGUE, MARCH 16.—Account, published by 'authority, of the artillery, magazines, and stores taken on the 28th ult. by General Thupmen " More than 100 pieces of artillery and their appurtenances ; pontoons of wood aJ:d copper sufficient for the construction of two bridges; upwards of 1000 gun carriages. " A - store, of wood and materials for carriays, valued at 500,000 crowns; with 3,000,000 of fire stones. " Thirty quintals of powder, a great part of which is in cartridges; 1000 stand of arms, and a vast number of cavalry and infantry,equipages, haversacks, carbines, and pistols; vast number of models for artillery and machinery; and a great number of saddles and much harness. Mattrasses, bedding, a baking, and many hundreds of new bread; with ,40 great chests, and - 50 or GO sack s of meal, &c. An appraisement has been made of these various articles, and they are estimated at more thiti two millions of franks. BRUSSELS, 11lmtcn . 13.—Letters , from Frankfort of the 6th instant, continue to speak of the great exertions-making, in Germany and the neighbour ing countries, for sending reinforcements to the. head-quarters of the Allied Powers. A levy of between 12 and 16,000 . men crossed the Rhine, near rreiLutg, 'on the Ist of the month. .A force of nearly the same extent had crossed that river at Eanetick, and 600 men, a day or CIV6 pre viously, had entered liqankfoit from DarinStadt. 'These are only, however, small detachments of the great levies which are actually ontheir march on all the principal military roads.. BRUSSELS,. MAECH 15. 7 —The French General Marant, who commands at Ostend, having learnt that the Allies had in Bruges only sixty infantry and 'sixteen horses, !allied out with . 700 men to wards Bruges, which the Sinai! garrison left on the news, of Ms approach. When tine French came before the gates they found them open, and entered the city. without any opposition ; a de tachment took possession of the principal corps de garde. Notwithstanding this,- the French, without the least provocatics, began to fire from several howitzers which they had bronght with them, whereby many inhabitants were killed and several houses damaged. Meanwhile General Alai - aut demanded a contribution of 100,000 franks, to be paid in two hours, but the French hearing that the-Allies, considerably reinforced, were advancing, hastily left the town without waiting for payment of the money ; but the peo ple, incensed at the infamous conduct of • the French, fell on the rear and took some prisoners, who - fell a sacrifice to their rage ; then they fell on the houses. of some favourers of the French, and plundered them, and tvould have proceeded runtiel, but ror "the interference of the town guard. A deputation is come here to requvst a sufficient garrison. We hear that General Ma rant carried away the Mayor and Receiver of the Department as hostages for the contribution. LIEGE, MARCH 10.-4-lis Royal Highness the • Crown Prince of Sweden is still in this city. Aix LA CHAPELLE, MARCH S.—Troops of all arms are continually passing hereto join the army of the Crown Prince of Sweden. The greatest part are native Swedes, the other Saxons and Prussians ; they are well equipped, and obse rve the strictest discipline. AMSTERDAM, MARCH 13.—Yesterday morning the French, with 400 men and three pieces of can, supported by a heavy cannonade from the ramparts, made g furious sally from Naarden,but were driven back after a very smart action. • [The Dutch Papers contain alsaaccounts of sal lies made by the French from the other fortresses, as Dclfzyl and Coverden ; but have no later ac counts from the allied armies in France.] BREMEN, MARCH 10.-The garrisons of Stras burg, Kehl, and . Landau, made several sallies in February, but were constantly repulsed with loss by , the Russian arld Baden troops' under Count Hochberg. To alarm the garrison of Strasburg and show the means which the blockading corps possessed, Count Hochberg caused a battery ,to be erected very near the fortress, in .the night of the 14th of February, and towards morning caused a quantity of grenades and red-hot balls to be thrown into the town, which excited such alarm . and confusion that the batteries on the ramparts did not even return the fire. BREMEN, MARCH 11. -The Swedish Governor- General of Norway, Count' Von Essen, has 'en terea that ,country at the bead of 15,000 men, to take possesrion of his government. • The Danish: Governors of Koningswinger,' Frederickshall, rrederickstadt, and Aggerhuus, wish to delay the delivering. of them up ; Prince Christian also still remains in that country, where some malcontents appear desirous of exciting disturbances. BREMEN, MARCH 12.—A body of Danish ca valry has already passed through here, on the march to the Rhine. The day before yesterday 700 dragoons•; yesterday 500 hussars,; to-day 600 dragoons ; the infantry is not yet arrived, but is shortly expected to follow. We have no accounts of the military operations before Harnburgh. It is said that 2)00 more of the inhabitants haVe • been lately expelled from that city. BASLE, MARCH 1.-The allied armies become stronger every day. Yesterday passed through here 7000 Hessian troops, and two regiments of Austrian cavalry. The bridges over the Rhine being destroyed by the ice, occasions a vast num ber of troops to pass this way. • The fine appear ance of the Austrians in particular excites. general admiration. An Austrian battalion is gone from this place to reinforce ,Count Bubna at Geneva. BASLE, MARCH 2.—The Sovereigrs have just ordered two reserve armies to be. formed. These armies, which are destined to act wherever they may be necessary, are to assemble at Dijon and Vesoul. The first Will he commanded in chief by Prince Philip of Hesse Homburg, Lieutenant- General in the Austrian service. This .Prince, who arrived here yesterday, has under him the troops of Hesse Darmstadt, Wurtzburg, Frank rt, Itness, in Isenberg. The troops of Wurt- burg are expected at Lorraine on the 3d in►st. GEN EVA, FED:2B.----Yesterday orders were given to break down the bridges over the Arve. The enemy attacked the Austrians.to-day at Landeey, two leagues frvu here, on the road to . Ancey. The enemy was repulsed with loss. 1 -thatm I.—Since the affaii; of the 27th, in which the enemy suffered considerably, they have retired to Usses. _ _ The enemy's column of,B or 10,000 men which broke up front Pont d'Ain tovards Nantua, hav ing— left son►e hundred men in the latter tow►►, has taken the road to Macon, to oppose the Al lies, who continue their operations on both sides Of the same. AlAncn 2.—Yesterday there was another action near the villages St. Julien, .Ternier, and Chab- , • louse; 250 Ft each prisoners were brought in.- Many labourers are employed in strengthening our fortifications. All is here in motion ; the town is declared in a state of siege. Gen. Bubua expects reinforcements every day. .I%lAlicn 3.—This morning we• hear a heavy cannonade ; every thing slcetys that there is a bat tle very near us. News received this afternoon say, it is between Meyrin and Ferney, the parti culars are not known. LAUSANNE, MARCSII 4 :--Yesterday there was an engagenient near Ferney, the result (if which is not_ known. The dragoons of Lichtenstein at tacked three times. The gates of Geneva are shut. A great quantity of horses,, baggage wag gons of every description, and also some detach ments of cavalry are passing withon/ intermission through this tJwn ; they belong to' the Austrian army, they have comae fronts Geneva and are go ing to Bern. Yesterday Iti) artillerymen piissed through post to join Count Buhna. This morn ing several hundred Austrians passed through post going to Geneva. FLORUNCE, FEE. 25.—The warlike preparations, in this part of Italy ore at present at .a stand.— The Neapolitan troops have extended -themselves over the territory from one sea to another, in. the* vicinity of the French Italian army, with which it - was expeted they would have had a . severei , contest. On the other side nothing has been Clone against Leghorn. PAPERS. [Frum the Vittoria Paper of l'ith March.) In the battle of the 27th ult.' the French Ge nerals Ilarispe and Foix were wounded, and 'an- . other General , killed. The o:Beers taken pri soners say, that, by an order from Buonaparte, a fifth .part of the ,pay is kept back from the whole of the French Army. Many of the conscripts escaped "to their houses,. and every clay some de sert. They'write from Iron that the battering artillery ha - s passed tine ,Adour ; that the diviSion of Carlos Espana, and several EngliSb brigades, were forming the siege of Bayonne ; that the re mainder of the Spanish troops, and the head quarters of the 4th Army, were already in march, with rations for four days. , (From the Vittoria Paper of the 7th.) The day before yesterday an Aid-de-Camp from the Lord passed this place, with the details of the events which took place on the 27th ult. - All that we have been able to learn is, that if the roads had allowed the right and left columns to arrive in time, Sault was inevitably lost; but he suc ceeded in passing the Adour, although iii disorder, and with such precipitation that be abandoned the large magazines of forage and meal which be had in Aire and Mont-Alarsan, where the left of the Altlied Army was. (Front the Vittoria Paper of the sth or March.) On the 27th.of 'February-, in the vicinity of Or tides, Marshal Soult was completely beaten, and his army dispersed, was retiring towards Burdios, in which -direction the Duke of Ciudad liodrig, notwithstanding his 'having been wounded in the arm, as also General Alava, was pursuing hitn. We have not received . all-the particutars of this brilliant victory ; but it is stated that an EngHA General was killed, andet wo or three others wound ed in ; that the number of French killed ex ceeded 3000, with 900 prisoners - , and that they itiosides lost S pieces of artillery. It appears that the division of Morillo took a brilliant part in .this memorable day ; and, it is even added, that this valiant Captain lost a-horse. [From the Vittoria Paper of I , t March. kis said that 8000 infantry and 2000 horse; of the English militia, which are tht: best troops, have disembarked in Passages. 'MADRID, NIARCH 5. SITTING OF TILE lORTES OF rUiE 4TII OF :HARM: The Secretaries of State presented theinieives to give an account to Congress of the stare of the nation. TheSECRETARY of the TREASURY read a. memo rial, from which it appeared that the estimates for' the service of the armies amounted t 0.779 Millions wt reals [N. B. 20 reals vellon make a dollar] : and that of the anticipated third of the direct con tribution, only' 39,894,467 'Tali had been raised : so that there still remained to he collected some what more than 76 millions of reals. s The esti mates for the other services very slightly varied from preceding ones; and upon the whole, the expences of this year exceeded those of the preceding by two millions and A half of reals.— The deficit was very considerable ; but the Mi nister abstained from pointing Out the means of covering it, and left it to the wisdom and pru dence of Congress, to decide whether it would be expedient to re-establish any of the abolished taxes, which might be least injurious to commerce, in dmtry, and the arts. The extensive sense in which the abolition of provincial revenues and monopolies had been taken, had caused an extra . - ordinary decrease of the general revenues ; which be proved by the very trifling produce of the cus toms in Valencia, which at present ahotinded with articles which ought to pay duty. The Govern meet was letively employed in enforcing the pay ment of the direct contribution ; and Congress would decide as to the expediency - of, making a natioc* or foreign loan, to the amount of tsvo• • thirds of the expences of one year, under suitatie Conditions. After a variety of fines' ions had been put to the Minister by several of the Members, :the memo rial, on the motion of GANG ARGUELLES, VA S ordered to be referred to a Committee, WI printed. The SECRETARY AT WAR was then introducerlr and read an exposition of the state of the 03;11- tall force of the country. He stated the total amount of the army at 184,152 men, and 17, 416 horses viz. 155,609 infantry ; 21,705 ca al' of whom a number were dismounted ; 3,242 foot artillery ; 1,212 horse-artillery ; and 2,32 Or ers and pioneers. in the above amoot Were not included various stationary corps, whic l ' would'swell the amount of the army to 193,70 , • men.. He then spoke of the causes which twile the disposable force small, when compared witi l the ‘v hole, and set forth the progress which the arm'es had made since October last, and the fol . ', tresses which , had fallen into our power. He 4z't>' ave a sketch of the military operations ogai' l . he rebels in New. Spain, Peru, New Granada, o'4 Venezuela, . It appears from his exposition, that there wero attached to the army, seven Captains-General, 66 Lieut -Generals, 185 Marselials tie Campo, a° 353 Brigadiers. In the. military academies ther",. were 1603 pupils. The SECRETARY of MARINE stated the tre °2 want of naval resources xvhich still existed; though be trusted that it would be in the power of (ire' vernment to pay more attontion to the navy future.• The vessels at present in service Srcrc five ships of the- line, 10 frigates, and about ( A'' smaller vessels, 20 of which were packets. t 4 t CANTZU will accept our best thanks - for Ms favour, but original Copy of his interesting Letter came to band was inserted in THE .:I'UN some months ago. The Note respecting BaRENGER, sighed Scrufater, Wottl.! pose us to prosecution for libel. We itre much o bligcd tj our Friend, however, for tht: inforMation. - 'it t a , we might perhaps before this to have stated, ice J 4s ~ c to .ourselves, that the ,information published is THL •-". respecting. victories at Meaux, Corbeil, and Chasent`i" (which has unhappily turned out tt, be unfounded)i sc4t communicated to us raol;1 Lies of the Belgic 0 6e" who brought the bispatclies. Such authority W coul. hesitate in believing; and it will be recollected , that ecci'l Government relied upon verbal xommunications c it6.`" from the same source. We deemed this explanatio n to our Headers, and to the Conductoo of Provincial Us . Oilers, who copied the gratifying news from cur Colua'' M All.. - '. . seiP ARRIVED—I Holland, 9 Passages, 1 GuernseF, I - er I,„ '2 iiiinlin. IM —1 Lisbon, 1 Malta, 21 Ciutteaba4 - 1 lieliguland, 2 W aterfold. I' PRICF, OF STCCKS D ' . , THIS AY Al TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols' • ~70. iii I Omni= ........... . ~~~ I I MU:WATER AT 1.1)N1)().\;,. BRIDGE TO-M 0",,,,, P Morning, 5 minutes after 3. 1 Evening, QS tninotea,.`" ,0 ...,...,?...--- ...r. w. ,- ; _/ f r yi IN:7 S k 1 STN. &OLEN QUI• DICERE VALSUM AL/IlerVi LONDON, if" D 217 E .S' DAY, MARCH 23, 1814, The entrance into,Bourtle:4ux, and ,the rter of the Bourbon colours in that city, have t o a new,.a glorious, and a most important feat"'-701, that contest which, betoee these event s t o , place, seemed'to be drawing to a ar. d fc lt propitious close. That they have been vita l/I c isl by our Government, the langua;ge of the Bulletin and Extraordinary Gazette p" bi vc• 41, yesterday, slitiiciently evinces—and that tbeYo,ol at this momentous crisiS,,act like electricitl the Councils of all the Powers of Europe not be doubted. re We cannot help„ attaching very conii'le weight to the circumstance noticed 'ill tbe lowing lelter from Deal:---- ' " DEAL,. :MARCH . 22 .—GUY, the .Messnip who embarked this afternoOn on board t1)1‘1,17/.ete,' eutter;forCalais; has just been ordered , graphic Message,' to wait for further order s ' dac t This countermand indicates pretty s 3l- : rt llf rily and clearly that , the news received YO te 601' from France caused a very considerable s eli :o• 4 in our Cabinet, and rendered other instruca°ll.c,- . adywes nece:;!;ary to be sent to our Moiste r 61.1 ' talon than those with which the „Messet2ger vj'tts43ol4 viously cl4rged. , What'is the nature of the c ` o r which has been made we cannot 014 tpf on ourselves to hint'; but sure we g ' fi loo' out of the cheeriiig and happy ticliag 3 Bourdeaux no evil could ensue. 'E be r of the French People en masse, fro'')coo' tonne (as we anticipate) to the Se''' e pilv produce a Ninv PowEtt in Europe, " h e cannot he rejected by the Contircss for Pacification. No doubt some of the discouraged the adherents of the Botial 3° , l< :,bo r3il at length the disposition of a part of Fleogi' been made manifest, and who will g° ► tl ' e los vo of advising, the COnfedet ates to pat it lid Who will be so base as now to say, ftec(): BUONAPARTE, and leave to his botebelirql,iipiii people whom you have excited to oFP('-c.ry Who, -using the execrable cant of lotl,°'') t . Ol l it is execrable, being only cant), ll IIQ'Q } - 4- to put an C!nd to the effusion of blood, °l‘