The National Register.
London, England, 1813-06-20 00:00:00

ARMISTICE.

The fortunes of Prance continue to revive. The battles
of Bautzen and Wurtchen, immediately followed by the
abandonment of the capital and one half of Silesia, have
led, as in former wars to au Armistice between the Belli-
gerents. It is most favourable to the enemy, whom it leaves
in possession of all the country he had occupied, compels
the detached Prussian and Russian corps that acted in his
rear and intercepted his convoys to recross the Elbe, and sti-
•
pulates that all the fortresses which his troops still bold on
the Lower Oder, the Vistula, and in the Duchy of Warsaw,
and which bad been long blockaded, shall be re-victualled
every five days by the Allies, and a league of territory eva-
cuated round each of them. In most campaigns, an armi-
stice extended only to the two armies between which it was
concluded, and the other distant and independent corps
were left free to act as their respective situations allowed.
The present suspension of hostilities, on the contrary, is ge-
neral, and the Swedes have no soo:r reached the scene of
action than all their force is paralised without a blow , at a
time, too, when uniting with the Prussian division, which
under BuLow lately had a severe engagement with OUDI•
NOT at lloyeswerda, and with the troops under TETT EN•
BORN and Won° N zow on the Elbe, they might have formed
an accumulation of force in the rear of the enemy sufficient
t 6 seriously it ipede his further advance, if not to com-
pel him to retreat. This is not the only advantage
that NAPOLEON derives from this armistice. It gives
him time to being up the army of reserve collected between
the Rhine and the Mayne, to the Elbe, and to build
several strong places to complete the chain of fortresses that
defends the passage of that river, and prevent the future in-
cursions of the detached corps of the Allies, should the
negociations not lead to a peace. Besides two new fortresses
which are ordered to he immediately erected on the banks
of the Elbe between Magdeburg and Ifamburgh, the latter
city is to be turned into a place d'armes, and the communi-
mum with Harburg secured by fortifications on the islands.
BUONAP ABIOS dreaded vengeance has at length burst on
the Ilamburghers, but in a less sanguitialy way than usual.
He has demanded their gold, and not their blood, and has
imposed a contribution of 84 millions of franks (near four
millions sterling) upon them, to be paid in four weeks, one
half in cash and the other in bills, a greater proportion by
those who subscribed most liberally for the liberty of Cer-
many As the Armistice, which was signed on the 4th inst.
is to last to the 20th of July, six days notice being given of
the renewal of hostilities, and Breslau with a tongue of ter-
ritory extending from Bohemia to the Oder, is to remain
neutral between the two armies. NAPOLEON has removed
hit bead-quartets to Dresden, from whence -be can equally
attend to the negociations for peace and his preparations for
renewed hostilities. Ile has encamped his different eorps
at a stoat distance from each other along the line of denier•
cation and fully provisioned Cllogau. it appears that Aus-
tiia has really allowed the Polish corps under PONIATOWSKI
to pass through her territories, at the date of the last Path
papers. the eth inst. the Poles were only a few days march
from the French. The Emperor of AUSTRIA had quitted
his capital for Prague, it was supposed to presume over the
Congress.

The fact of WITTGENSTEIN having resigned the com-
mand of the Allies to BARCLAY DE TOLLY, is unfortu-
nately placed beyond doubt by the terms of the Armistice
which is died by the latter as Commander in Cbitf,