The National Register.
London, England, 1814-01-30 00:00:00

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the plan of the enemy is to send forward weak detachments,
which represent themselves as the advanced posts of a who!e
division. Yet he cannot deny but these " weak detach-
mews," have taken possession of such places as Dole, Ma-
con, Bourg, Sec.
Whilst General Blucher's army rapidly advances towards
Metz, and compels Marshal Marmort to fall back, Napoleon
c,otents himself with hinting, en passant, that the Silesian
troo:•)s are before Metz, Thionville, Mentz, and other fat-
tresses, and yet he only calculates their number at 50,000
It ma? justly be concluded froth this statemeet, that he finds
it eel y difficult to collect any force in that quarter.
It is universally known that the provinces of, Brittany,
Poison, and ;'ormatidy, have 'wen the theatre of the war
which the Royalists have waged against the Revolution. It
is also nearly ascertained that the last levies have not been
comr,leted in tle•se parts, \viler:: the people has probably ere
now been informed of the approach of the Bow bon Princes.
It was important for Napoleon to conceal from the southern
departments, that the provinces- which had so gloriously re-
sisted the pmgress of the revolution, had displayed no zeal,
its the (same of the Emperor to which it has given birth. To
reconcile the fact with this object, Buonaparte has therefore
artfully caused to be published, that Brittany, Poitou, and
Normandy, wets, sending large levies which wo,stifirni part
of the reserve. What shall we say of that article relative to
Geneva, where he pretends that justice is still administered
in his name, though the town is occupied by the Austrians. .
Our papers have announced the departure of Lord Cai-
tlereagh for the head-quarters of the Allies, and in their
anxiousness to explain the motives of this mission, have
stated that he repaired to the Congress as our Plenipoten-
tiary. Lord Castlereagh set oil' with a different character
from that with which our writers had chosen to invest him;
but Napoleon has taken advantage of their imprudence : he
has declared that Caulincourt (his Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs and Plenipotentiary,) was at Chatillon-sur-Seine, ex-
pecting
his passports, which were to be sent to him on the
19th inst. to repair to the .head-quarters of the Allies, which,
on the 14th, were at Basle. Yet it appears that he bad.been-
disappointed in his expectatiow, as on the 23d it was not
known at Paris whether his passports had arrived.
As to the events which the French Papers wish to make
es believe have taken place on the . frontiers of Spain, they
are almost too insignificant to deserve. notice, and we are
too well informed on the subject in this country, not to
,I know how to appreciate the falsehood of those statements.
The extent of the Revolution in Holland can no longer
Ij be concealed, Napoleon therefore acknowledges that the ac-
'l my NV hich was to defend that portion of his empi're,. has beetr
compelled to fall back to Namur, under the orders of Mar.
shal Macdonald. After claiming a victory near Breda,
a poor matter of boast to be obliged to own that its only.
consequence was the bombardment of Antwerp !
Some very important advices from France have been re-
ceived, of the nature of which, however, prudential motives
forbid any the slightest disclosure at present. Suffice it
therefore to say, that events deeply interesting not only to
France, but to Europe, a-e, to all appearance, on the eve of
taking place.— ( Morning Post.)
A singular report is in circulation, that Lord Wellington is.
in correspondence with both Soult and Suchet.—We know
nothing of the fact.—(Sun.)
It was reported on 'Change yesterday morning that there
was an arrival from Harwich of some French Officers who
wore the White Cockade. This rumour, though extremely
probab'e, we have not been able to trace to any autheu'
Kiurcm—,,Sun,)