The National Register.
London, England, 1814-02-27 00:00:00

THE 11910 NAT! REGISTRU.

t):l:itte- hteok,:•!Caays-swi were occupied in rep.airisig
the hs. idg .Gitatetot Tiff firra'•
." 'fete enemy not brill!! nat.. In retire, either upon the road (If
Epernay, flint! %%Inch he was Tilt off, or by bat which wows through
the toviii of ioissotts, ‘s,(lcla we occupy. bait taken the cross toad ic-
direction of 1(11:•itioi. The itiltaintai Is asn•rt tlikt of all that'
army 10.01'm men have not passed through Chateau Thierry, and
they in llw• greate-t disorder. -- A tew days hylore tit v had seen it
fifilirishinv, and 641 of hoa%tiog. .Getteral Yorek said that teu ho-
•v.ttzers vi till be stitficieut to reutter him master of Pal'l4. Iu
tio•ir ;roups only talked of Paris;. ou returning, it was peace
they invoked.
One cam) rt -mint ire idea of the exresses.to which the Cossacks
give theinsei‘e sip; there lire no vexatious, cruelties, crirnes, which
'those li•i•iics of barharians have not committed. The peasantry
pursue token track them in the woods like ferocious beasts; 'clic!
tem, and bi theta wherever there are French troops. Yes-
terday they rowlueted more than :,3t41 of thew to Yieux,lllaisons...
All the,.. ,Nili, hilt theniSOVOI in the woods to escape the conquer-
tlitir hands, and every. instaut augments the taluiber

• PAniq. FED. 16.---Tier Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent
received- the following Intelligetwe benn the irtuy., to thie• ibitt
Ft•hittral. in the :Laming :

4e On the 13th, at three o'clock. in the afternoon, the britlge of
Chateau Thiel-ry was repaired. The Duke- of, Trevibo pasited . the
Alum', and put himself in pursuit of the enemy, who, in dreadful
iii;;urder, appeared to be rctiria; upon Sunsuits and Rheims.
Geroiral glitcher, cm...landing in chief all the army- of -Silesia,
had con.tantly rem:tined at' Venus the three 'days- during which
hi. 4 army vra4 an•iihilated. He collected 1•201 men of the wrech,t
of (;en. Ossittliett's cows beaten at Champ Anhert, whielishe job)•
ed.lo a Hossian division of the eurrp, of: Langtrou, arriued•frotor
iiv'l_,,ence:_aiol. commanded by Lietit.-General. Atiroa.sofr,. He was
too %v al. to undei take any Uinta • not, ou the 13th,lie was joined
by a Prussian corps from General: Kleist, composed of fottrbrigades
-Ile diet, put himself at the head. of the‘c -40,tuto oieu.'aml marched
atz,taitist the Duke of Ititglisa. who still of copied Doges. in the
between the 15th and I,len, nor.juduina his fort•eii sufficient
to content' again,, the enemy. the [hike of, liazusa began nip re-
treat, and leaned upon Montntirtiil, was at 'seven o'clock
in the morniug of the 14th.

" The Emperor set out the same day from Chateau Thierry. at
four in the morning', awl :trrived at Moutmirail• at eight o'clock,
He caused the. enemy to be immediately attacked, who haul just
taken, a position with the corps of. his troops At the village of: Van-
ehatop. Tile Duke of- Razusa attacked his village. General
Grotichy, at the head of the cavalry, turned the enemy's right by
the vil;a,,rios and tl r woods, and advaorisd a league beyond the ene-
ity's position., IViii:e the village of•Vanehanry eras vizorously at-
taeks:a rmii a. fended in-tht. sanit -manner, tal.em and retaken several
CHIIC4, C• 4 :rend Grfeieby • arrived sin the rear of- the eKeiny, sur-
f viniti..rd and sa!rid ciree square-,, and arove the test lino the
%mods. At tic sine t thr Eliipcl*M* caused a charge to he
made (.1:1* i!eht, 4-olatirous de service, commauded by
Pr". Lit );it}iC}Wt.'lreSeildrOli ot the gtiarti. This charge was equally
briiliant and sateees-sfol. A •qoare of ..:060 men Was broken-anti
taLon. Au the cavalry of the tnard then came in a full trot, and
the enemy was pursued tepee dons It's reins. At two o:elnek we
Ixere at the viAge of Froineotiers ; the enemy had lost 60(X) men
prisaaleis, test pair of colours, and three pieces•ofeattunic • •
.6 The r order: d General (ironeltv to advance to Champ
Anbei t, kagilr it) the rear of the enemy. In f•tet, the etkettay COll-
- his ITIR t, arrivva at this point at nightfall. • He was sur-
rounded oft every side. and all %void)l have keen taken, if the Wei
uunghtifth of the roads had not hi :tiered pieces of light artillery
font) follow lug General Grooelry's cavalry. Howevet, themgh the
night was hi) obscure, !lime squares of tins intintry.were broken,
ki:led or tam), and the others briskly pursued as far its Eloges.;
the cavalry u.so took fitree pieces of eminon. The rear-goardAvati
composed of the Russian division ; it wis attacked- by the,first Mu.
tine Regiment of the Doke of Ragusa, wifh 111• Irayooet, twukew.
stud Won priseners taken, among whom -are General •Ousattssoff,
vvho run it, and all the col() ,els. The result:of-tithe brils
Jima day are 0;ono pris‘•ners, pieeei of IP,pair'of.co-
loin and a great inimy • •' • -

" Our los: -does not exceed f; or 400 oleo killed or wortiitkql,
which iv ow.iog to rhe.recidoielis with which 'the troop:. advatieed:4o
roe envois', Aid to lilt ity °friar eat/Wry; witiete- Foilitreed
hori as lie perecivril it, to. blithe Mc artillery retreat,- so
aim:Tiled under the grape shot •01..,G0 -pieces Of

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cannon. while of the 69 pieces which he had, he did nut oppose
above two or three to ns.
" the Prince of Neufchatel. the Grand Marshal of the palace
Count ftertrand, the Duke of Dautric, and the Prince of Moskwa,
were cowitantly at • the head of the troop. General °tonal,'
highly praises the division of the cavalry St. Germaine and Doti.
mere. Ihe cavalry of the guard has covered itM if with glory ;
General Lion of the guard is slightly wounded. The Duke of Ra•
visa particularly mentions the 1,4 marine regiment. The rest of
the iolaritry. bath of the ;;nand a:id the li:;e, Arf not fire a shot.
" Thus the Silesian arnn, comp(,-eil of the Russian corps, Sackett
and Langer" and the Prussian, Torok ant! Kleist.-80,000
hak been in four days, beaten, dispersed, and annihilated, witlemt a
general action, and without any loss proportioned to such greet re-
adlts."

PARTS, FEB. IR.—lier Majesty the Empress Qu'en and Regent
has received the following news from thr Army, to the 17th, in the
morning

" Tltc Emperor, in vetting out from Nogent i.n the 9th, to ma-
oto.ovre npi.n the enemy's corr. which was advancing by the
retie and Meaux upon Pori., Jett the carps of the Duke of Helton°,
and bf-General Girard Letorc Nogent, the 7th corps of the Duke
of Reggio at Pro%hug, charceo with the defence of the ht idges of
tirav and Moutereatt, and General Pkiol near Montercan anti
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• 46 The Duke of Betlnno having received information, that seve.
mal divi,ions of the Mistrial) army, 1,41 matched tram Troyes on the
day of the 10th, 'to advance upon Nogent, made his corps (Parolee
repass the Sewe. leaving General Bonrmont, with 120 u men at No-
d, for e:elletence of the town.
The enemy 1e1...c0t/A htnucif ?).1 lttli to enter Nogent. He
renewed his attacks all the (13y, and always in vain ; he was briskly
repul‘ed with the lois of IVO -men, killed or wounded. Genetal
Rourmont had harricadoed the -streets, indented (erencle) the
houses. and taken tvere measure for a vigorous defence, This Ge-
neral, who is an officer of distinction, was wounded in tl.e knee ;
Colonel Raviere replaced hint. The enemy renewed the al lack on
the 19th, hut still to Ito purpose. Our young troops covered them-
ftves with zloty. These two days have cost the enemy more than
2000 men.
'Me' Doke of Ramie having learned that the enemy had passed
at Bray, judged proper to _ cane the bridge of Nogent to be de.
stroVed: and Marched mpon Mantis. The Duke of Reggio ordered
the bridges of Montereau and.Mitun tq be blown up, and Petired
upon the river Peres.
" On the .16th, the Emperor arrived upon the 'Vera, and march-
ed his head-quarters to Guignes.
" The evening of the battle of Vanchamp (the 14th), the Duke
of Ragusa caused the enemy to be attaCked at eight o'clock at
Eloges; he took from him nine pieces of cannon, and he has finished
lite dysfunction of the Russian division ; there were counted Upon
this pnint alone of the field of battle, c:Off dead. The success oh-
sued 'af the battle of Vanchanup has been fungi more considerable
than was announced.

The exasperation of the inhabitants the romitry is at its
height. The..atroritie.: committed by the Cossack, silipti,s all that
can be imagined In their ferocious intoxication they have carried
their attempts to %yowl' of sixty years of age, and to young girls
of 12; they have plundered and destroyed the habitations. The
Teas:nits, breathing but vengeance, conducted by old retired mill-
tary men, and armed.with muskets of the enemy, collected. upon
the geld of battle, beat the woods, and lay hands upon all that
they meet They estimate already those which they have taken at
more than 000; they have killed several linndretli of them. The
Russians, frightened, turremler to our columns to find an asylum in
them. The same canses will prodnee the same effects' thtotigliont
all 'the empire and those.atmies which entered, they said, upon
our territory, to carry peace, happiness, the it-knees, -the arta,
;thither, sbalifitul on it. their annihilation."
P-A3i3o Fta iO.-4-Her Majesty. the Empress and Queen has re-
ceivodlthe following news of the situation of the arttsiea to the Ititb of
February •
ig The Duke of Ragusa was marching upon Chalons, when he
.learned that. a column of the Imperial Russian guard, composed of
twndivisions, of Grenad;ers, was marching upon Montmirail.. He
J cad about. marclied.nnen.the enemy, took &X) men, repulsed hhn
ppoti Sezanne, from whence the movements of the Emperor have
'forced this corps to proceed by limed marches fowardi
Count Groueliy; with the division of' iorantry of General Leval, and
'three diviVrinS•of the I St.eurps of •Lavalrv, liassed to. La Fertes.•ons-
Joliarre. Tile advanced. poso Of' the Duke of 'frcViso had en sexed
bassoons:. 2. z • • •

FEB• 27. ..

On Me 171 h. -t day -break, the Emperor inai..hed from Guignes
upon Nringis. The battle of Natigis has been one of the most
bri I; it • •
The Russian General in. Chief, Wittgenstain, was at Nangis, with
throe &visins. v Oich formed his corps &armee. General Pahien,
'ti winding :It:. BA and 14th Russian diviaions, and much cavalry,
was at _rat t
T of Division, Girard, an officerof the highet promise,
ate, o.clied at the vitlag,c of Murmant, upon the enemy. A battalion
t'Ac 433 r,ts_inent ot infantry, always worthy of its tniient repute-
tion, w c.•useci it to be distinguislacd twenty years ago, by the Em.
pvroe in 'he bud.: of Castiglionne, entered the village at the pas de
c,i rge. (",unt Vainly, at the heal of the dragoons, of Gen. Theil-
har,• cnmiug 'tom Spain, and which arrived 'at the army, turned the
v its.leb. Count Milhaud, with the St h corps of .cavalry,
tur •ed it on the right. Count Droact advanced with numerous .bat-
t:rios In a MOlliellt all was deci&d. The squares formed by the
R-.s.oart infantry were broken. Ail was-takenv Generals and:Officers;
la: ison-rs, 10,000 muskets., 16 pieces of cannon,: and .10,eitissniv:,
Into our power ; Gen. Wittgenstein escaped ; he, in great haste,
saved hint elf in the directiim of Nogent. He had announced to Sieur
liil•y, with %shorn h.. lodged at Prov,ns,' that he would be at Paris on
the 18. h. On returning; he stopped but a quarter of an hour, and had
the fia.ikness to say to tits beat, " 1 have been well beaten; two of
r.•y divisions have been taken, and in two hours you will see the
end, "
.! C qua Witty, with the Duke of Reggio, marched.upon Provins ;
the Duke of Talent° 111):)11 Donnemarie. The Duke of Belluno
rrarcaed upon Ifillaneuve-lc-Comte. Gen. Wrede, with his two
divisions, were in a position there ; Gen. Cerard attacked
at, .pm them to route. The eight or ten mous-and men who corn.
po aid •he Bavarian corps were lost, if Gen. L'Heritier, who coat-
maisden a ivisiun of dragoons, had charged as he ought to have clone ;
but this General, who has on so many oceasionadiatinguished himself,
a liowea tots one, wiikh ollored itself to him, to escape.. TlicEmpea
ror his Liaised his eisappro:sation to be conveyed to him. He has not
bee o brought before a Council of Inquity, certain that as at Hoff, in
Prussia, 1411(1 a. :,aim in Moravia, where he commanded the 10'h
regimen, of Cuirassiers, he will nb rit eulogiums and repair his
fault.
" Ilk Majesty has exprested his satisfaction to Count Valmy, ro
General 'lluelltard, and his division, to General Girard, and his corps
d'armee. , •
" The Emperor passed the night between the 17th and 18th, at the
Castle of Natios.
" On the 18th, at day-break. Gen. Chateau matched upon Mote
reau. The Duke or Belluno st as to It...ve arrived there on the even ng
of the 17, It. He halt dat Satins; it was•a great fault. 'I he occupa-
tion (Attie bri(!gesad Monterean would have gained the Emperor a day,
and eoabled him to avail himself of a flagrant error of the Austrian
army
4• General Chateau arrived before M sntereau at ten A. M., but at
nine o'clock, Gcn. Bianchi, commanding the Ist Austrian corps, had
taken a poy;iti ai with two Austrian divisions and the Wittemburg di-
ison, upon the-heights before Montereau, covering the Midges and
the ;own. General Chateau attacked him ; not being. supported by
the other division of the corps Matinee, he was repulsed. Sieur, Le-
couteuix, who in t, e morning hart been sent upon a reconnoissance,
having had his horse killed, has been taken. He is an intrepid young
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44 General Gerard supported the baffle during the whale morning,
The Emperor proceeded there at full gallop. At two, P. M. he
CillSe.l the rising ground Plateau) to be attacked'. Gcn Pagol, who I
marched by the road of Melon, arrived, whilst these affairs were
going on, executed a brilliant chaige, overthrew the enemy, aat drolfc
him into the Seine and the Yonne. The brave 7th chasseurs des
hunched upon the bridges, which the grane-..shot, tram more than
sixty pieces of cannon, prevented from being, blown up; and we, at
the same time, obtained the double advantage of being able to pas
the bridges at the pas de charge? take 4COO men, four pair of colours,
six pieces Of cannon from the enemy, and kill 4 or 500 men.
" The squadron de settler debouchei in, the plain. General
Dub site, an officer of rare intrepidity, and long experience, de-
b•Jui. d uwoo the road of Sens; the enemy was driven in every di:
rectaaa, and our army-defiled upon the bridges. The old guard had
only time to.sh.w itself; the ardour of the troops of General Gerard
and Genetat Pajol prevented it from participating in the anie...
" The hillab•tatus of 11ontereati did not remain idle. Musket-shits
fired from the windoivs augmented the enemy's embarrassment. The
Atistrostis and I,Viltembeoliers threw.away their arms. A WiTteM.
berg General has been killed, an Austrian General taken. as we.l as
several Cul -nets, among whom is the Colonel of the reaimens
Of Collerecto, talten with his Etat 'Major, and his coliairs, Oat. the
same day, Generals Charpentier and Alex deb:melte,' from Nick's'.,
traversed the forest of Fontainebleau, aid drove the Coaaacks ant! an
Austrian. brigade from it. General Akx arrived at Nlorot. 'flw
Duke of Tarente arrived,bcfore Bray,
" The Duke,of Reggio is pursuing the enemy's parties from Pro-
yin:, towards Nogent.
" The General:of Brigade., Montbrun, who had heea ettarged with
),E)o Melt to defend Motet and the forest of Fontainebleau, abantiOnod

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• them. .and retired upon issonne, notwithstanding the forest of Von-
tai, ebleau might bt disputed foot by. foot: The Major-General has
suspended General Mentbrun, ;did sent him before a Council of En.
noiry.
•'A less .which has aensigV•taffecteil the Emperor, is that of
General Chateau. This young officer,- who gave the utmost promise,
was int•rtal:v woutxted.upon the bridge ef Montereap, where lie was
with the. f.iniilleuts, If he dies, and .he report of the surgeons gives
little reason fQi hope, he will, at least wile, accompanied with tire r.e_
grits i.f the whole army ; 'death worthy of envy, and much pretr..
oak: to existence te'every• military mrr, who cannot pr.!serve it, trot
by survivint, his reputation, and by-stitling theentonentowith which,
in these great circums ince st, the dence of "the country and the ho-
nour of site French tante taught to in. pite him
" The Palace ot Fontainebleau has been preaerved. The Austrian
General Hardeck, who had entered the-tovyn, and placed Sentinels to
defend it against tha excesses of the Cossack,. who, however, suc-
ceeded in pillaging, aoine.door.keepera, mid carrying sway the horse.
cloths from the.-tables. the inhabitants do not complain (1 the
Austriafs, but of theft tart, monsters who dishonour the Sovereien
who employs them roid the army which protects them. These bri.
.ands are cheered with gold and jewels. There have been :found trout
eight to ten'*atches upon those whom the soldiers nod peasantry have
killed—they are true highwaymen.
" The Emperor, ota his march, met the national guards of Brest
and Picton. He reviewed ttiens,--1 Shew.' said he to thetd,.'..oi
what the men of the West are capable; they were at all times this
taithful defenders of their country, and the fattiest support of the
monarchy.'
" His Majesty passed the, night of the 19. h, at the Castle of Site
vale' situated upon the heights ot Montercau.
" The inhabitants complain greatly of the vexatitans of the Prince
Royal of Wirteo.berg. Thus the army of Schwan vithurg round it.
self touched Centatney by the derelt of Kleist ; th s Curoa haying• ala
ways constituted part of it; by the defeat of Wittgcst...tein, by. that
the Bavarian corps, of the Wirtcmberg divislan, and of General
Seoul ie's corps.
-• The F:tnneror his granted to the three divisions of the old guard
( nounted) 510 decorations of the Legion of Hon >or. ).as gamed
, a similar number to the old toot kuard. Ile has given 100 to the c a.
%%dr. of Gen. Theilhard, and a like number to the cavalry of Gen.

Milhaud.
" We have allerted a great number of the decorations nf -S E. George,
St. Wiadimer, Sr. Anne, taken from Thelma who covered the dittercitt
fields of battle. ' •,. • • • ' •
" Our loss in thebattlos of Mange" and. Montereau d-es not exceed
430 men kilted and wounded, which, although seeniingly improbable,
is nevertheless the exact truth.
" The town of Espernay having been informed of the success of our
army, soun:.!ed the tocsin, barriehdoed its streets, refused a passage to
21:Omen, and made some prisoners. t.et this example he every where
imitated, and it is. to he presumed that very few-men of the enemy's
army will repass the Rhine.
" The towns of Guise and St. Quintin have also shut their gates,
and declared that they would not open.them unless a sutfrcient force of
infantry presented itself. They hive not .acted, like Kliciors, which
had the weakness to open its gates to 1:1J Cossacks, and for eight days
has complimented and well treated them, Our annals will preserve
the reccillecrion of the populations which have failed in what they
owed to themselves and to honour. They, on the contrary, will exalt
those, whirat, like Lyons, Chalons-sue-Swine, Tourtis, Setts, .St.
jean de Loans Vetrey, Chalons-sot-I%42rue, have paid their debt to
I ite country, and have risen to Mat height which thc glory of the
French ,name. demanded. Franche :Comte,. the. Vosgis, and Alsace,
will not forget the moment of the retmgrade movement of the Alhei..
The Duke nt. Castiglione, whr has collected an army of chosen troops,
at Lyons, is tha•cning to block up the enemy's ter teat,
PAa Is, Fxs. '2l.—ln this moment, we learn that the Einperor of
Russia and King of Prnssi4, who' wete on the 18th at Bray, precipi-
t tetv lett it, as soma as they knew time bridge "I Montereaulltel been
forced. • • ; ...• •
Ttieltoniteir of the cg:i Fth Ivey contains no intelligence (,f the
least irrEportattLe; the minor papers of the same date have not been
received.. •
FRIENCH FuNni.—reb.?i, opened at 57,10; end at .55 90.

11Itt.tn. Vrii. Estatitte %%Inch we have thiA moment re.
ecived trent Gnite, Nhere it left the Pewee Viceroy on tile moroing
of the ha+ brought iv. the !aiming nests
Ors -
44 • II combined movement, 'army of the Prince Viceroy dos-
holiched Vesterthty at day-break, ciom Mittelo, in several' colonist%
General 'Vernier vein:lima upon thr 'Upper 11,1;in•ickt4i;h the !On stud
6th flit which %very the fifiV 110)01:ith Aftr!Walli-
baoc, and -upport the movement of the ['Hock. Viceras 14'011 ilia
Franca. The Prince infesided r the enemy battle at ad%
!mint. We 'Apt elt (1 VI till(' the lif the enemy's toteet.
'Where 111cY %%Cie ple•teti on the eveninE of the 11receititi4 day, :It
RobervatheivVilkt •1~1:314e0, /Mil Valk:teen. By nu- tstraordinuty
circumstance, tie cueiny in the 'awe rigtis noircletd all hoe