The National Register.
London, England, 1813-05-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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General Souham was at Weymar ; the town had been oesmpied
•by 300 Prussian Hussars, who were dispersed 011 the 19th by a
squadron of the loth Hussars and a Baden squadron, under the
orders of General Laboissicre. We took 60 hussars and 4 officers
koin them, among whom was an aide-de-camp of Genera! Blurbs%
PARIS, APRIL ‘47.---His Majesty the Emperor passed the 'ad ins
reviewing the four fine regiments of the old guard ; he expressed
his satisfaction at the fine state of these troops; they arrived at
Mayence by forced marches, and were only six days in performing
the journey ; they were so little fatigued, that they immediately
passed the Rhine. General Curial has arrived at Mayen: e, with the
skeleton regiments of the new guard, which is organising in this
town. All the equipment, for these troops have arrived at May-
ence by extraordinary conveyances.
- The Duke of Castiglione is appointed Military Governor of the
Grand Duchies of Frankfort and Wurtzi..urg. The citadel of
Wurtzburg has been ai•nied and provisioned.
The reports which have been • circulated respecting a pretended
defeat of Sehastisni, and the death of his Aides de-Camp, are false
and unfounded ; on the contrary, with the object of drawing the
enemy towards him, he ordered General Maurin to evacuate Celle.;
I'2oo Cossacks immediately threw themselves into it : on the 18th
General Maurin hastily entered into Celle, pelf-moll with the
enemy, who Was thrown into complete rout, and lost fifty killed,
great number wounded, and about one hundred prisoners.
During this time General Sebastiani marelisd upon Uelzen ; ile
! drove from Great Oesingen a party of 600 Cossacks, 411 back
• npou Spinkeitelb, where the enemy had collected 1,500 caval'ers.
General Sebastiani immediately charged and brcke them ; he took
• 23 men, wounded considerably more, and took some twenty Cos.
sacks: the fugitives were pursued to near Wizen.
General Vandionme commands at Bremen; he has ender his or.
ders the three flivis ons of Datum., St. Cyr, and Damon; can.
The uneasiness of need's minds calms in the 3Vd military davisifm;
the forces which they see arrive from all sides; the severe exam-
ples which have been made of the chiefs of the conspiracies; but
particularly the few troops which the enemy has been able to sties,.
• upon this point:, preveuted the ill-disposed persons.; from showing
themselye.4. The Duke of Reggio set out on the 23d from May-
ence, to take the command of the 12th corps of the Gran,' Army.
On the V. 4111, the greater part of the army had passed he 1110I111•
tains of Thuringe.
The King of Saxony having deemed it proper to apply. eh as near '
as possible from Dresden, has marched towards Pm agile. His Ma.
jesty the Emperor set out on tile 24thl at eight o'clock the even.
in g, from 'Mayence.
The Duke of Dalmatia has resumed the functions of ( lonel•Ge.
neral of the Guard. Ilk Majesty has scot to Welztar the Luis of
Treviso, to organise the Polish corps of General Dombtoase .
to form from it two regiment, of infaeiUy, t aof cavalay, and two
batteries of artillery. His Majesty, since the Ist of January, took
this corps into his pay.
Prince Eckmuld has proceedeJ into the 3t?d military division, to
exercise, according to t ircum,tances, the extraordinary powers
delegated to him by the Senatns Cmoultum of the 3d of Apt il.
NUREMBERG, APRIL 16.—We have received, by way of Rohe•
mia, intelligence from the neighbourhothl of Dantzic, annomiciug,
that the garrison of that fortress had made a new sortie, and driven
the Russians from all their position.: the latter were obliged to
evacuate a great part of the wound they possessed, which is now tie.
capied by a part of the gariison.
PARIS, APRIL 17.—1 t is difficult to form an idea of the sensation
which the presence of his Majesty the Emperor has canned through.
out all the branches of the military administrations, and of the .n-
-thusiasm which the certainty of his arrival has spread i:iroti;rl,t
all the corps d'armee. We have before us letters from Mayence,
which all agree in stating, that the troops are filled with ardour,
and that they with impatience wait the signal for battle. Our mi-
litary men arc particularly exasperated against the Prussians, whom
they consider as traitors, and promise to make them repent a con-
duct so dishonourable, and which has no example except in the
Prussian annals.

It must be confessed that the spectacle which, at this moment',
France offers, intoit astonish Europe, attentiie to the events which
futurity offer=. The London Journalists anoomiced, a tew days
ago, that the French army was annihilated, that our resoneces were
exhausted; and here suddenly is this army, which reappears more
numerous, more brilliant than ever, which in it:' prtturatory move-
ments already threatens the enemy. encourakes our faitlitul allies,
and spreads terror and alarm among those %vim have hcen deficient
in courage or loyalty. The more that the operation:4 of the cant-
raipt shall be executed upon an extruded bur, the more does the

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