The National Register.
London, England, 1814-04-10 00:00:00

ANIL 4.

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lea ,iiiaisan.; is in obser*atiou of Boonaparte's army; on
V.r side lit St. Dizier ; its direction is not as yet known..
It is with the greatest regret I have to announce to your Lori.
ship, Colonel Campbell was 'yesterday most severely wounded
a C. s Colonel Campbell, coutinu:ng that gallant distill.
r.i4bed c. urse which has ever 'narked his military career, bad
witt• the first cavalry, whieb penetrated the Freneh masses;
the Cosraelo who came to support this cavalry nthtook him for a
French fricer, and •truck lion to the ground. Fri m the appear:
;.,nee s !hi, morning I an. however in considerable hope of hi.i re-
cov2r) . Col. Rapatel, la' .e Aid de-Camp of Gen. Moreau, was also
unfortunately killed.—l have the honour to be, See.'
BURGHERSII, Lieut.-Col. 63d Reg.
Viscount Castlereagh, &c. &c.

Ilead-quarters, Fere Cl,ampetioise, March 26, 18144
My LORD-13i:0111parte having filled in his attempt to debouelic
front Malley and Ards, across the Aube, and having abaodoncd his
of attacking Prince Schwartzenberg in his position at 3lenil
la Coilites,e, ece,tat to have been euided in his next operations by
the cic,:ire apt eventiog theinJetion ot the armies of Prince Schtvart-
zenberg lip; Marshal Blocher. hid lie not succeed to the utmost
in this object, it Wa% evidently his best policy to force their union,
and their couonti• ications as far to the rear, and to make it as eir-
cnitrnis as pos,ible. It is faither mahifest, by intercepted letteri,
that Baonaparte was or opinion, that the movement he dettrmined
on, on the tight of Priorc Schtvartzenherg,. might induce hint to
fah ba4; towards the Rhine, for fear of losing his conmitinication,
thAt he thm. would be able to relieve his places, and be in a better
sitnation to cover Paris.

It generally eccura, that mantruvres are made with the advance,
or the head of an army ; but Butinaparte, in his present undertaking,
seems/a have pushed his object so far, by the passage of the Aube
vs.tft his whole army near Vitry, as to have left himself completely
open to that bald and magnificent decision which seas immediately
aloptel
Buonaparte put his whole army in motion on the evening of the
eitst for Vitry. That night he remained at Sominepuis ; on the foi-
-1 .wiag dr., the advanced corps of his army arrived at Vary, and
summoned the place. It bad been placed by Colonel ---- in a
ry to:eral,le snite of defence, and it had a garrison of betort en
three and font thousand Prussians. Marshal Ney
.tsndeavoured by.'
every meeace, to obtain a eurrentler; but the brave Prussian Co-,.
told•lTsoiutely refused, and hell the town, which reduced the
French commander to cross the Marne by bridges constructed near
Fri.ruiesort. thromparte here passed his whole army on the Lad
an_l24th, sanri was immediately ase..-rtained to have taken thedircc-
tion of St. Dialer. • . •
Tree object, might be now in his view, by the. oLvements round
our riot :—to force na back ; if- this failed, to operate upothour
ronmmnicatioris, and even proceed to form a junction. with Mir,
shat Ate:eitran ;or finally, by moving to his fortresses of 11Ieta, c.
proloog the war by resisting on a new line, while he plieedonyin
the centre of France, having taken the best precautionwilis power!
for the defer -- of 11:e capital. " •• .
The Allies on the 22(1 having crossed to the right of the.A.nhe,
lost no time in adopting the bold resolution of torming the junction
of the two armies to the westward, thus placing themselves betwern
the Flinch army lied Paris, and proceeding with a nnited farce-of
at least two hundred thousand men to the capital of ,the French
enyare. •
In order t!‘e better to masit.this movement, the Mara of.the
al mv was made from Pougy, .Lestnont, and.Arcis, and Vitry,
;tadhis Coperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, .by two extraor-
dinary eiarehes of 18 and 12 rescues. established Ins. head-quarters
with those of the rield•Mjarshal at Vary, on the ,24th
A %cry orilliant capture of several pieces of. cannon, fifteen hun-
dred p.isoners, and a Lrge number of caissons, was made by Gen.
Aneer.m ki, of.the cavairy'r of the Russian guard, on the 1.2311; anti
en this (lay, and the.preetdin;!,
.several advemeed.gnard affairs took
place between. Gem. Wrede's corps, the Prinea.uf Wittemberg's,
and the enemy.
So son!, as the- Mafshaf took this decision, he made his di,•posi•
Eons
,alecordingly, by „Omit% a'•'eor.pa on the Bar•snr.Anbe
ttiuieh -ha% committed to the care of Gen. Due( a. to protect the
head-trarters of the Emperor of Austria. his sepplies, &e. act]
eau% them, if necessary, tow.ird+ t.lt airny of Co. south, and aim),
by se:o,-1)114y pressiou., forward io his opto at ions towards the Capital
to .L.ltte his rear, while he pursue. his objects in front.
The ease bioc:i army marcf:ed in three coluoms to Fete Champe-
noise on the t3lll. All the cavalry of the army formed the advance
and welt: to push forward to *LiarAle. The iith and 4th corps