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Their towns shall all be hornt. IlambUrgh, Lubeck', and
Bremen, have denatiolialized themselves. They formed part
of the Grand Empire. They were, as you rightly: said, " the
ft uits of twenty vteirs exertions." They were become French,
and as you also justly and forcibly observed, " every French-
man ought to shed the last drop of his blood," •to maintain
the integrity of my empire. Their inhabitants arc therefore
,deep in guilt. They. have shaken off my authority, revived
.their ancient InwN, welcomed, and joined my enemies. They
shall perish. Your words, wtiven in red letters over the
seat of veneenee(-, shall be their sentence. The judges shall
-read them alootl, and all the blued which, not I alone, but a
British senator tell; the world. ,Isotild have been shed inmy
defence, shall he poured. to swisfy my offended justice.
Your papers have abused me for ordering several military
executions. This time they will be silent. More blood
will be shed, but not at my command. The voice that bids
the deluded victims die, -shall have sounded from England.
Your praise has demonstrated my greatness; your declara-
tion will vindicate my humanity. It has besides quieted the
scruples of weak consciences. You complain of the disap-
pea'ance of gold in England—flow can it be otherwise,
when it is all sent by your government to bribe my subjects
and my allies off the allegiance they owe me ? 'Would so
many secret 'societies have arisen in Germany without your
guineas ? Would FE York have given the example of treachery
to his Kitsg, and his king have followed it, without them
Would my own officers have conspit a;'ainst my authority
during my absence —They have met with their deserts.
The wind howls over their graves. But they had left
• seeds of rebellion in the hearts of my people, which I
strugeled to eradicate. 1 had grappled with winter in Russia
tlll. I found that l could not conquer nature. I then hurried
.10 my capital. My army had perished: my Generals sur-
vived. The world thought•me still powerful and trembled
a:. my eicayK!. I knew my own helplessness, hut I did not
uemble. 1 passed through States, secretly hostile, like C.Tes Art
amidst the temprots of Co. deep. I was calm, and I was re-
speets d. i threstened, ;Jai I was feared. ( the brave hand,
role bold voiee then rai,ed against me, might have crushed
nte. 1 lowered defiance as 1 passed, and I was spared. I
was delivered into the hands of my cuemits. They dared
r,-it avenge their wrongs. They trow shall try it in vain. The
•t•eur is past. I have recevered strength when art.'s began to
think me weak. I shall overpower when they begin to resist.
I called upon my people to atm in my defence, They were
compelled to do it. I wished to change reluct time i tato
eager veal and you have gi catty asoisted me. The exhorta-
tions or my Functionaries came from a suspicious quarter.
Year's do not. My Senate might tell my subjects, that- to
bleed for the intestity of my empire was their duty anal their
. interest, without being believed. They would 6CC through
such thin disguise and attribute the appeal to Inc aloe to A
British Statesman cannot be taken for my organ. Ills osenti-
silents must be his own. They will be taken for those of na-
tion, or shall be represented as such. MY people shall see tfleir
enemies vindicating the justice of my cause. They shall he er
obedience to my call denominated patriotism, and the opposi.
. tion of my foes, injustice and foliy. They shall rally round
nay throne, crowd my armies, and a war of personal ambition
shall become one of national utility and glory.
To you, my Lord, I am indebted for this great blessing.
To press dignities upon you at this moment would •be impo-
litic. Receive only my thanks. They are those of a Prince
typo has felt the extremities of his situation too deeplo oot to
retain an eternal seine of the value of those who have con-
frikuted to his relict'
aris) April 6, 18 0.

APOLEON.

.ANIRJ H.

FOREIGN ll' TELLICEItCL

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, APRIL S.
SITUATION OF THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE NORTH, ON THE 30T1E
OF MARCH, 11313.
The garrison of Dantzic dislodged the enem-y from all the heights
of Oliva, in the beginning of Marih.
The garrisons of Thorn and Modell') %ere in the hest state. The
imps which blockaded Zamose had removed to a distance.
I. pint the Oder, the fortresses of Stettin, Custrith mid Glogall
were not besieged. The enemy still kept without cannon shot of
them. The garrison of Stettin had burnt all the suburbs, and pre-
pared all the grouod round the forty % ss.
The garrison of Spandau had also burned every thing which could
operate against the defence of the place.
Upon the Elbe, on the 1; th, an arch of the bridp. of Dresden
was blown up, and General Durette had taken a position upon the
left bank. The Saxons hail marched round Torgan.
The Viceroy had left Leipeic, and had on the 21st his head•quar-
! ters at Magdelnirah ; General Lapoype commanded the bridge and
fortress of Wittenberg, which was armed and provisioned for se•
I era' mouths, it Was liven up to him in enod condition. Arrived
at "Iliaglleloweli, the Vice-RoY ; on the 22d, sent General Lanriston
anon the right bank of the Lihe. General 'Matson had marched to
Mocker'', and pushed forward his posts upon the Bite; and Zuzar ;
ee found only some pul:,s of light troops, ullich he overthrew, and
of which he took or killed about 60 men. -
Oa the 12th General Caria St. Cyr, commanding the :311:1 military
division, judged it advisable to repass to the left bank of the Elbe,
and leave HanibuiTli to the national guards. From the 15th to the
(.20th different insurrections broke out in the departments of the
months of the Elbe and the Ems. General Maraud, who occupied
Swedish Powermia, having been informed of the evacuation of
Berlin, retreated upon Hamburgh. He passed the Elbe at Zollen-
pi-eliar, and on the 17th effected his junction w ith General Caria
Vit. ('3 r. Two hundred of the enemy's light troops having overtaken
his rear...lrate he (Inked them to be charged, and killed some mnen.
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i Gineral Morard took post upon the lett bait:, and General St. Cyr
Isar: hod upon Breams.
" On time 2 tth, General St. Cyr dispatched two moveable colninna
to march against the buteries Of Carl.-bourg and Bloxen, of which
some smugglers, assisted by the peasantry, and some English disem-
barkation, had taken possession. These colunms routed the co-
lumns, ;mil retook the batteries. The chiefs were taken and silos.
The English who diseinhaiked 'were bat about nn hundred, We were
only able to take firm-ty prisoners from them. The Vice-Roy bud
-collected all hi:, oroiy, 100,(',0 strong. and :7,00 pieces of cannon
round Alagdeton•ft, mancenvring upon the two banks. The Genetai
of Brigade •Montbrun, who with a brigade of cavalry orcopiei
Stundalehavine learned that the enefey had vas,ed the Lower Elbe
in boats near Wertlen, marched thither on the 2131 h, dispersed thw
enemy's light troops, and entered %Verdun at dull gallop. The•dttei
Polish lancers made a suceesseul eliarge,-in which they killed about
5o Cossacks, and took Iv. The enemy hastened to gain the right
batik of the Elk'. Three large boats sunk, and sonic smaller ones
shivered to pieces ; they were laden -with about 60 horse=, and -a
airuilar 'lumber of men. We succeeded in saviug'l7 cavaliers,a3llovgi
whom were two officers, one an aid•de-ramp to Gen. Dernberg, who
commanded this column. It appears that a corps of 1060 horse, 2io)
infantry, and six pieces of canyon, have matched from the side
of Brunswick to excite revolt in Hanover, and the kingdom of
Westphalia. The Kiag of Westphalia has set nit in pursuit of this
corps, and other columns dispatched by the Viceroy will fall upon,
I its rear. Fifteen thousand of the Cllellis 's light troN's, ou the 27th,
passed the Elbe near Dresden, in small. boats. General Durette
marched against them. The Saxons had left this poismt undefended
by collecting round Torgau. The, Prince of Moskwa, with his
lioad-gnarters and corps d'armee, on the 26th arrived at Wurtzbeig,
hi s advanced guard debouched from the mountains of the Tlntriege.
'l' Le Duke of Ragusa had, on the 224 of March, his head-quarters at.
II imam His divisions were collie-Ong there. On the 3nth of
;I'. Arch, the advanced guard of' th r Corps of observation of Itale,
ha it arrived at Augsburg. Ali the corps crossed the Tyrol. Um; ific
27 th, General Vandamme arrived in person at Bremen. Donlon-
ce en and; Dufonr's divisiteos had already passed through Wer.el.
I In- lependently of the army of the Viceroy, of the armies of the
Mt tin, and of the corps of the King of IVestphalia, there wii! he in
the o,rst fifteen days of April near hO,OOO men ia the 5`441 wittla",'
dit is ion, in order to make a severe example of the inserreet ontt
tat; dr have troubled that division. Count BeaiintA, Mayor ut