The National Register.
London, England, 1813-12-19 00:00:00

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PARIS, Dec. 9.—A report from General Beauvais to the Duke
of Tareetum, dated ?skims, December 4, gives an account of the
surprise of Nenss in the night of the Ist, by 900 Prussian infantry
and 60 hussars. This event is attribnted to the negligence of
the Colonel of the 150th regiment, who was asleep, and whose
negligence was initiated by his soldiers, who where not at their
posts. The eagle of the 150th is supposed to be lust, and the
Colonel taken in bed. The Colonel of the 154th retreated from
the towm.
General Beauvais was sent by General Sebastiani, with Ytti foot
and 209 horse. The enemy, on seeing this force, retreated hastily,
and General Beauvais entered Neuss at nine in the evening.
Fifteen Prussian s a ere taken prisoners.
The Colonel of the !Seth suspended by the Major-General.
The Major-General being informed that several General officers
have their wives with them, orders, that within twenty-four hours
after the publicatien of this order, ail the women with the army
shall leave the cantonments, and return to the interior.
SPIRE, DEC. 2.—The piequets of the euemy Stationed along the
Rhine on the opposite bank, are neither increased nor diminished.
All iemains, in this respect, in the same situation.
It is affirined, that the greatest part of the garrison of Manheim
has left that city. -
Though many French troops have descended the Rhine, to repair
to the department of the Roer, nod replace those that are on the
march to Holland, the military force which defends our department
Mount Tonnere has not been weakened; on the contrary, it has
been lately much strengthened by troops from the depots of the
taihusnts Isv been eentilhither, and by numerous detachments of.
the conscription of 120,0(10 men, and by cohorts of the grenadiers
and chasseurs of the N..tional Guard. Those of the Moselle. and
Meurthe are united in our department, andillare distinguished by
their good appearance, zeal, and activity.
be positions of the hostile armies are still the same before
Ikteciz alit! Cassel. on the right bank of the Rhine. Nothing has
Lippened on this !side.
We have furnished great supplies for Landau, which is six
leagues from our town. This exe• Ilent fortress hes been provisioned
in a very short time; is provided with a very good and numerous
garrison, and is in the most respectable state of defence. Lanter-
hitcg, on the Rhine, has been also provisioned, and put in a good
Slate of defence.

LIEGE, nEe. 4—lt is certain that we have an army of SO,OOO men
at Sedan, which is not farther from us than we are from the Rhine.
That another still more considerable army it at Meute:
That Lotkendsurg is full of trobps ;
That the Duke of Tarentom, with his army, is at hand, to go
wherever his presence may be necessary •
That Juliers and Wesel are provisioneti and armed
That General Sebastiani, and his troops, are cantoned in the
environs of (Aimee: What can we have to fear?
CtIIAFFIIAGSEN, DEC. 6,—The Universal Gazette, printed at Ha-
tishom, relates, attera Liepsic newspaper, that befoe the rupture of
`the AirßiliqiCe 011 the 10th of August, the Emperor Napoleon had
made:tire follOwintt offers, which Crete refused

'ro peAore iUyiia.
I. To cede the Duchy •of Warsaw, indemnifying the King of
Saxony by the ce•sion of a tract acountry containing 500,000
3, To evamate,the Prussian fortresses, and to restore IJ:intiie to
the-King'of Prussia, on condition that the fortifications blionid be
Some parties of the enemy, among which sre mine Cossacks, have
appeared in Brisgan.—Frenelf Funds 55f. lbc.

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