The Sun. — London, England, 1814-01-25 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. Mn. EDITOR,-There are many degenerate ni tives of this country who look with pity on the situation to which the French Emperor has re duced himself by his inordinate ambition, and his horrible abuse of power, and they anticipate a speedy blockade of Paris, if not its entire demoli tion, by the fury of the Cossacks, as an:act of retribution for the sacrifice Moscow. Well, Mr. Editor, let these degenerate Britons grieve as much as they please for the fallen Usurper of France, but surely they ought not to lose sight entirely of their own country; sand the presen: con dition of its capital. Is not London at this moment under a blockade, which, if it continues, threatens to cut off all our, resources ? Are not most of our communications with the departments of the Em pire stopped, insomuch that we know not vdie ther they will be able to assist us, or bow they are able to provide for themselves ? " s he dreadful severity of the weather renders it necessary that we should resort toour fire-sides, and enjoy as much as we can of domestic comfort ; but is nut our - ca pital besieged by land as well as water, ,and have 'we not reason to apprehend that we shall soon be deprived of the means for keeping our hearths warm and .comfortable. I was going •to - add : to the melancholy list of our disasters, by a coin plaint that we• shall not have fuel to cook our meat ; but alas-! Mr. Editor, have we not conic to fear that no meat chn reach us ? so c10e : ... ly are we blockaded by our formidable in vader. Happily. 'we have been able in this me lancholy state.of things to find -out something to amuse ourselves, but this is confined to n few in dividuals, ana is by no means a general advan tage, except, indeed, as it affords public spectacle, which is always very gratifying to- a true-born Englishman. I hardly need say that 7 allude to the fashionable enjoyment of sitaiting.. The only comfort which it is possible for us to extract from this gloomy state of things is the hope that, if the present dreadful blockade sonld continue, the amusement of Skaiting may become ceneral, and if - so, we may eonsole ourselves upon the system. of Mr. Mmiruus, and hope that, as I,w many will doubtless fall a sacrifice to the fa shion, we may lose mouths in proportion to our' walit of meat, • • " The head-piarters of Prince Schwartzen, her , ' were on the JA still at Lnerrach, btu t were to be removed to Basle, whence, as Comma.nder in-Chief, he would direct all the movetnen,ts of , the- grand .A:lli e d Army. Its force is constan'tly WAR:' COSIFORTS.—A Gentleman observing, to increas' fig, and will in a few days, It is snppose.d, his friencl, he wondcredltow he kept himself warm amount to 205 1 ,000 men." . .during•this cold winter; was answ;!red, "that he BASLE, JAN. 4!---Th e French Minister Talley-- colgrived to do,it very we4—that he had a small rand, who, on his return from Z s urich to Paris, home and a good fire—that le had a son who was detained at AMU by the Austrian troops, has kept blw. i 4 4 i perpgual fever, 4141 a very fah wife." A MODERN PIIIthai3OPHER. B. My beer cask is frozen up beyond the redemption of 411 aw. Mr. ADDINGTON, jun. the Son of Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON has (as stated in our Harwich letter) arrived from the Continent, but at present nothing has transpired from Government of the nature of the intelligence he has brought. It is probable, however, that though, owing to the laterie3s of the arrivals by the Mails, &c. we are at present compelled to go to press with but scanty intelli gence, we shall have some communications to offer in the course of the afternoon.' In the mean time, Rumour is busy, and states that an Official Person has arrived on a Mission from the CROWN PRINCE to Lord WELLINGTON ; that Peace be tw'een Great Britain and Denmark has been con cluded ; and that the Swedish Army has passed the Dutch Frontiers. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, J. 25—Twelve o'clock. State of the Inland Mails : This morning the 'following mails have reached this office, viz. :—The Brighton, Rye, Ports-, mouth,. Poole, Dover, Norwich, Ipswich,-anil' Liverpool.—The following is a statement of the Mails due. . Worcester 2 Exeter ' 1 ShrewsbuTy .2 Gloucester 1 Holyhead .2 Edinburgh i Bath • I Glasgow I Birmingham 1 Manchester • • • .1 Bristol Leeds 1 Newmarket 1 Cambridge 1 Taunton 1 TWQ bags of letters from Falmouth remain due. It is, again reported that the American Presi dent's Message to Congress has reached Town by way of Lisbon, and that it breathes the same 'hostile spirit with all-the preceding documents issued under the auspices of the BUONAPARTEAN School, now unhappily at the head of the Govern ment of the United States. We have not had.ac cess to this Document, nor do we know any thing of its arrival, though our sources of inforMation I.Mb me :mantic are sucn as generally to enawe ua to receive the earliest intelligence from that quar ter. As for PrinceMAntsoN's warlike denunciations they, ate not of a nattire,to disturb us very seriously. We could wish that America were better governed ; , • • her mis-rule operates as a diversion in favour of the common Enemy, and employs a - British force whics, would be more gloriously engaged in re storing freedom to . Holland, or confirroinq• : the deliverance of Spain :—btit.tbe hour of retribu tion is at hand, and notwithstanding the gigantic. efforts now making throughout Enrope, there cvill be found a - sufficient force to spare to bring a conviction of their errors home to the Ame rican Government, and pnnish . them, for their ad herence to a vile and unnatural system of politics. The Chronicle Politician has, to-day, retcrned again to his old occupation, and as his own mis representations of facts seem to have lost their ef ficacy, be backs them with the Mistakes of Mr. Fox—a statesman whose speeches it is impossible now to react without being amazed at the false and erroneous views which Party Feelings impos ed upon his judgment. Unless 'we were dipt in oblivion, there is nothing the .Opposition should dread so much as provoking a retrospect of their recorckd opinions, for never did folly and pre sumption present'a more preposterous mass of in consistency, of 'prognosticated prophecies inva riably falsified by events, of unfounded opinions, narrow politics, and every species of political in firmity, than ,is to be found in every point of their course. But the Chronicler asserts that " According to the latest accounts received from the head quarters of th'e. Allies, it appears that he, (BuwiAPARTE) has succeeded in raising such numerous bodies of men on every point of their attack, as to stop the very rapid advance of the which was expected" Where and when these latest accounts were re ceived, we are at loss to imagine. They are en tirely confined to the Writer ; for the Paper in -which he hai put forth this assertion, has not yet favoured the public with any such communication even from Private Correspondents, and we are cer tain that no such information has been receiv ed or stated through any other channel. To be short with him—tbe assertion is entirely false, and BUONAPARTE has not succeeded in opposing great bodies of men to the progress of the Allies on any, far less on every point. We are . then assured that the panic of the French if; Hol , land " soon subsided,. and, except the fortress ° f ,Breda, nothing . has been' gained in six . wrecks. That this is equally unfounded, the writer, t° convict himself, has only to look back through the file of his pwn Paper for the last six weeks. There he will find, that even against the moseformidahle barrier of fortresset in :the world, the, success of the, Allied Arms has been uninterruptedly pro- gressive and i.nportant. We shall not stop to refute the already ten thousand times refuted falsehood, that this cowl try attempted or attempts to impose a Govern' meat on the French peOPle by force of arms.-' We armed in our own defence ; and it is a ca' lumny only suited to the Faction who love he r enemy better than their country, thus pertinr ciously to repeat what they know to be unfounde d and injurious. The Writer concludes with the following ; but after what we have seen ther e can be no dependance on any of his' statement s ' " On the 6th instant, CAULINCOURT - wrote 3 / 1 et official note to M. de METTERNICH, e x pressing " his surprise that be had nu received passpor ts " to proceed to head-quarters, to sign the prell " minaries to which his Master, the Ernper ° ' . " and King, had agreed. To this he received ' 3ll " answer—that the Allied Sovereigns had recel l. " ed notice that a Minister of high distinction 05 - " expected from England ; and that no fuitl' er " progress could, be made in the negociation u tid " til his arrival, of which M: CAtn.l scoW ir -" should have notice. Accordingly he waits 85 " Nanci fot the notice of 'Lord CASTLEREAG ° cf arrival at head-quarters. We are assured " this is the present state of the negociation• By intelligence from the bead-quarters of 1 / 7 „ ). { WELLINGTON to the 13th inst. w e undersol'd that up to that period nothing new had octio.' r e r since the driving the enemy beyond the little 0 1 0 Arrow, which empties itself into the Adour ab lj oy the Nue. The recent inaction was nrinciPaDe owing to the miserable state of the roads, and - badness of the weather. A Mail from Passw,i,res has brought letters f ro tiSray to the Gtb. It was understood that in c° , be sequence of the retreat of Marshal SUCHET , army of Catalonia had made a forward movo le a o , Ear! BATHU RST t r a nsacte d b us i ness yestO at his office. The Duke of YORK had a long inter vied' %/1 ' the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. br° o The Duke of M E C KLENBURG , QUEEr'S 4 1 0 ther, has postpon e d hi s i nten d e d ' v i s it to ` it i country‘till the spring; on ac c ou n t o f the sec ir ip of the weather, and his indifferent state of b 0 , 141 Every arrangement was ma d e f or his con' N with Mr. Tow SEND and some of the Memb er At • , the Deputation who went to invest tne ine r'y e y of Russt A %Vitt' the Order of the G a rter, (," tb return to this country. 0 1 (1, 0 4 .-,c , it is said. ergir at Plytriouth some days ag o , an d i s pro this time with L or d WELLINGTpti xr-,n,:ber° The - Duke d e B ERRI h as reac h e d the p°l`;;-ipid° he is to embark ; an d M ONSIEUR was , it ''' to set off yesterday for Harwich. to The story about.a present of di i mondl t bs: certain Empress now stands thus : It is 0 1 ' 1 ,0 5 her Ladyshirt sent a present of some flower-seeds i‘o the early wife of 13oosl'Aili f yl and that JOSEPIIINE in ?eturn sent her 10 1 7 3' 0 1° Frenth Pelisse,, to keep her warm in thi s do e weather. What mighty Politics are co nceal e je fe der these syrriboh.,we have been unable to bi d lope, but we have no doubt but strange 105 0 will spring front the seeds, and that the, may cover some remarkable affairs. It is expected that Antwerp will not be reg ti Aiti, invested, but left to be observed by a block il t , force. The Ccngrev e roc k ets h ave been against :the town with considerable e ffect- V i • The public accounts repeat, that_ PO ce .„o l '' been concluded between S we d en and De""" ri v i the latter_ceding Norway ; b u t w e are s °r o til isi say, t'?.e private advices thr ow som e doubt 0 statement. a nti f Letters from Oliva, under the walls 0 -,..„ e ptf i : zic, dated 25th December, state; that 1 - 1 1 00 ( RAPP had destroyed all his ammunition, a 9 , 1 ( 5 11) , the Duke of WURTEMBURG, who comffi 3n f a ct' / I , besieging army; had been apprised of the Joel If such be the situation, there can be 0° with regard to, the reduction of the place. but t: ) General BE NNIGSEN i s to b es i eg e 11 3 ' 11 ' 5 1,0,4 with 40,000 m en ; an d i n case th e frost se jl favour the stormi n g o f t h e t own , i t is suPP ° will make that attempt. c i There being no politi ca l agen t in this °,011;41 from Switzerland, the application to 0 0ver i0 1. , in favour of the prisoners of war of that„v, 4` was made ',to Lord BATHFRST by the I `.; STERKY-. the Minister of the Swiss CbaPC l „ l ,a6 don. His Lordship was pleased to ac C " le as e s ; ( the order, immediately for thc'r cqr those prisoners, with the most flattering t iolPel sion of regard anti esteem for the Swiss tj9 ce Reinforcements f o r our arm y in Fon - bo rr) arrived at Portsmouth, and are already e n u j r The detachments o f cava l r y am ount 10 0 ,01 5 1 ,i , of 1400 men and hor s e s , som e of whic h 12e 5 `, f this day, if the wind roves fair;wiih the and Zealous. Lieutenant-Colonel olonel DAlil s e ob o ',,i of the 15th Hussars,' is to go out wit h 1 detachments. cls (O P ' 001 Detachments of the Royal I-TorseGu o 00 45 ;o, 2d Life Guards, 10th Hussars, and isq r jo,, have embarked at Portsmouth, to join ~1 1 1 , 0 LINGTON. They consist of about 70 0 ,,„ 5 0r 4 0 . horses, and are to sail immediately f or Avery large body of infantry will eutha.ir: clays. e i nt, , The 2d battalion of the 30th Reg t 3 lst, th e dad strong; and the 2d battalion of strong, sailed' fr om Portsmouth on Sa t t er /bee(' Holland, in transports, under convoY o naldo.id JerseyiTle They arrived tvi rietici, beg at Portsmouth nsi o o t f tt l i a t s f t r o : o l,. sey acid • DUTCH PAPERS. CARLSAUHE, JAN. 7.—The corps of Baden troop*, made prisoners at Leips!c, entered here on the 31st ult, Our two dragoon regiments are.at tached to the 'corps of Count Wittgenstein ; the greuadier,batttaiion of the guards, and a divislon of artillery march with the Russian guards. On the 2d an engagement took place at Schind bucket, between Ellerstadt and Turkheina. At eleven is the forenoon the Duke of Ragusa 'ac quainted the inhabitants, that they must keep themselves in their houses, and place in security their most valuable property. Towards mid-day t he cannonade began ; but the French soon com menced their retreat, partly by Turkbeim, and partly in the direction of Hartenburgb . where they took up a position, from whence, however, they retired in the night, on the approach of the Rus- sians. The Duke of Ragusa has in his corps d'arm4e, ne vett regiments of cavalry, which together scarce ly amount to 900 men. On the sth, General Lanskoi, who commands the Russian advance, was at Spire, about a league and an half from Lantern, where be must have • Arrived on the 6th. CAssEL, JAN. 4.—Lieutenant 7 General Kleist, with a division of the corps under his command, is, expected here on the 14th ; the other divi sion, of his corps will continue the blockade of Erfurth. DORSTEN, JAN. 11.—The Russian division of General St. Priest, belonging to the army of Ge neral Blucher has now successively taken Cob lentz, Bonn, and Cologne: Indescribable was the joy of the last mentioned commercial city, when the Allies entered it, and.broke the iron yoke under which that city and its merchants had , so long sighed. Wezel is now surrounded on both Banks of the . Rhine. Before its communication with France was curt off, the Commandant had disarmed all the Dutch in. the kareison, and sent them towards France by Nenloo. Many of them, however,- Made their escape, at different parts of the road. LINTZ ON THE RHINE, JAN. B.—This day Ma," jOr-General Sasephavitz arrived bere, and has crossed the Rhine at Neueried. A thousand French, who yesterday passed through this place, retired to-night, and fell back upon Bonn. This will not continue long, a's the enemy will be soon driven from the neighbourhood. • 1:111ED.11 11-..-.icnter - t“a, entered this town from before Antwerp. General Bennint;sen was left at Merxen with 8000 'den.— The; bombardment of .the city, of Antwerp has . begin, kept tip far several hours with shells, rockets, &c. and some buildings' had been destroyed by the &intr. but no serious impression had been tnade On the ICI the late affairs on the 11th and ,12tb inst. about 50 of the gars son made their escape, and have joined our troops. They are to leave the •camp to proceed hither. They describe the con sternation of the garrison of Antwerp as very great on the driving in of the advanced posts, fol lowed up by the defeat of the whole army driven out before the place. According to their account, 15,000 French were engaged. The garrison, to the number of 8 or 9)00,.. was returned within the foraess. The destruction was considerable, as about 12,000 are computed to have returned.— The inhabitants are very much discontented, and join the Allies by the first opportunity. JAN. IS.—We have to-day no addition al news from the‘vicinity of Antwerp. It is sup posed that the enemy will make some attempt by a sortie to remove the Allies front Merxen, but. the latter are now too strong to leave the enemy - ,much hope of success in such an experiment. Reinforcements are moving down towards An twerp very fast, so dila the city will soon be wholly enclosed. As •yet the enemy are nom°, tested at several of the gates. A few days since the last escort of provisions was obtained there, FRIBURO, in the BEIiGAU, JAN. 4.---The fol lowing is a statement of the present position of the Allied Armies " For some days past the bead , cpiarters of Wrede have been at Altkirch, in Alsace, Anti the Allies on thareide besiege Huninguen and ISefort ; while Monthelliard and a number of other places have been takers,. by them . , and their ad vanced posts stretch northwaids to St. Croix and New Brisach, and westwards to Lure, in Franche Comte. Another column pushed for.Vard by Po rentrui, has its advanced posts at Beatnne-les dames, on the Doubs, in Franche Comte. Pon tadier is occipied by a corps which advanced . by .Biel and Neuchatel ; while lasly, Gen. Bubna, who on the 27th ult. entered f;ausanne-,. and vu the Geneva, has sent colw.otts in various di re tions 0-,c to the Valais cutmary to , occupy the pass of the Cr-eat St. Bernard ; ',another towards (Tex and St. Claue, to take pos t 'ession of the passes Of Mount Jura ; a third towar.ds Chamheri, to enable Savoy to throw off th e yo k e) and a fourth over the Rhine, to advance- .on the side of Lyons. _ obtained pennision to resume his journeys, 'awl departed on the Ist, trader an escort. Prince Schwartzenberg sent hint the following note, dated Loern,teh, Dec. 23 M. Count,-=-The position of the army which have the ho nour to command, no 'anger permits the continuance of French Ambassador in their rear. _ I have, therefore, the honour to transmit your Excellency the necessary passports for you' self and :tour retinue. Ex press orders have been given to treat your ;Excellency with all proper respect, at all the places an your journey occupied by my troops. I have the honour to be, tee. Field.;Marshal Prince SCIIWAI4ZENBERG. BINGEN, LOWER RHINE, JAN. 3.—Our-town, which was lately strengthened, and commanded by the General of Brigade Choisi, was this morn ing taken by storm by the troops under Count Langeron. 'I he French were pursued on the road to Mentz. There was sonic fighting in the streets, but the town has not , suffered. All the troops which pass through here observe the best disci- - pline, and conduct themselves in the mildest man ner towards the inhabitants. At this moment French wounded and prisoners are bringing in. HAGUE, JAN. •I.7.—His Royal Highness hav ing graciously authorized Count J. G. .van By landt, Mr. Th. de Smeth van . Deurne, Count W. van Limburg Stirum Noordwyk, Mr. Van der Staal van Piershil, and Mr. J. Steengracht van aost Capeile, to raise a volunteer body-guard, on horseback, for the - purpose, during the present war, of doing duty at the bead-quarters of his Royal, Highness, or thOse of his Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince—the plan to that effect has been transmitted by the Commissary-General for the Home Department to the Commissary-Ge nerals of the Departments, in order that the youth in all parts of the United Netherlands may parti cipate in this honourable object.. The Commis sary-General for the Home Department has pro moted this measure in ail possible ways, and hi therto there is every appearance of its being at tended with the best success, the more, as his Serene Highness .the Hereditary Prime has ex pressed his wish to have the command of this body-guard. ' • ZURICH, JAN. 4.—Towards the restoration of an old Government, 'a happy commencement has been made. The Deputation from the different Cantons were called together on the 20th ultimo, and passed the following Act : " The Deputies from the old Cantons of Uri, Schwartz, Swiern, Glaris, Zug, Vrieburg, Basle, •Schaffhausen, and Appenzel, being assembled at Zurich, anti taking into 'consideration the present state of their country, they were convinced, that by the course of events so well known, it is im possible that the existing Constitution of the Hel vetic League for the. Act of Mediation, can any longer continue. Further, it is imperiously ne cessary, for the welfare of Switzerland, not only that the old Swiss Bond of Union should be re vived, , but that it should . be . *strengthened by new regulations. For this purpose, the subsequent Convention has been agreed upon and ratified. 44 I. Protherly frienclihip and mutual assistance to and from each of the Cantons. - - " 2. liumediatt invitation for concurrence to be given by the old States of the League, as was , heretofore the practice with the ancient Members., • "3. The rejection of all such influence as is unbecoming a free pronle. " 4. A request to the Canton of Zurich, as the oldest and first in rank, to take upon itself the direction of the Govern ' The assistance and twderta . king to the Allies, - accord* occupationthe S f l atictenqrtrit ef Rl' General Wattenwyl, by a Pioclarnation under (late of St. Unbanus, Dec. 24, has bound over all the troops of the Confederacy. MAit.N A RRIVEI.I.-.1 Lisbon, 1 Passeges, I Madrid, 1 St. Sebastiates, 4 DlAlitt; 6 Waterford. Dur-4 Gutteriburgli, 1 Corunnt, 3 Heligoland, 1 Guernsey, 1 .I.ey, 2 Dub 4 Water ford. CONVERSION OF ST. PA V r,.--1-14)lifia)Lat the Exchequer, Bank, and South Sea -House. 1-I!GH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 10 minutes after 5 J Evening, 35 minutes after 5. THE SUN. SOLES! GUIS DICERE FA LSUNI AUDEAT LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1814. ii , ii, If e fit.;. f )r P(1