The National Register.
London, England, 1814-03-13 00:00:00

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pet had lean effected. By a forced march souring the night,
he then retsaced hit steps; -threw bridges over the Aube,
and pushing again forward towards the North, drove Marshal
Marmont flom position to position, and at last crossed the
Marne near Meaux (only 25 miles from
.Paris) on the 27th,
and %vas on the 28th firmly established on both banks- of the
river. He was aware, at the same time, that Buonaparte
might have troops in his rear, but for this he had provided.
Buonaparte, however, soon discovered the feint which had
been practised upon him, and leaving Macdonald with
45,000 men, to observe Schwartzenberg's army; set out him-
I self, wi!li his principal force, in pursuit of Blucher. The
veteran Geoerai haying.folly anticipated these motements,
retreated, at the approach of Buopaparte, towards the North,
where he was sure of meeting with reinforcements from the
army of the Crown Prince, and at last with the Crown Prince
himself. Buonaparte suffered himself to be drawn away from
the central position be had so judiciously chosen in the be-
ginning, by this march of Blucher; and, after a useless and
fatiguing pursuit, he was forced to acknowledge, in a short
sulky Bulletin of the sth of this montli, that be had obtained
no advantages ; but that Blucher's army, with the numerous
corps by which it had been joined, would have been destroyed
but for the treason of the Commandant of Soisbons, who
opened its gates to the• Allies. •Rheims. however, was li-
berated, as he terms .hut this is the town which about a
week before had been shai ply reprimanded in the Mon.iicar
fur the friendly reception the allied troops had exile, ieneed
from the inhabitants; and it may be rationally doubted whe-
ther or no they con,idered the arrival of Buonapaite's troops
as a deli ve7ance.
In the mean time, however, Prince Schwartzt.nberg, fully
aware of Marshal Blucher's movements, and acting on the
,acne plan of macceuvres adopted near Di esden, advanced
again on his side towards Paris, which he knew 111.104
narafte •i-as too far north to protect. He march-e 4
again upon Troves and upon all the sioJihouriwg
positions. The French were every whet e defeated, wi•li
even more confusion than loss, in several p actions;,
they retreated to Troyes pell-mell, and obtained a capitu';,-,
tion, by which they were allowed only half an hour to ev:-
cnate the place. At the expiration of that time the eava',l
of the Allies was sent in pursuit of the fugitives, and a gre,it
number of 1314c:tiers were brought in, as might be natnraliy-
expected from tke previous state of disoygani.,:vion of thos.e.
troops. Thus far we proceed on the authority of last nigli•!.s,
Gazette, but it is further stated, that even Nogent had been
evacuated by the enemy, . and set on fire by them. On
the 4th the head quarters of Prince Schwartzenberg's we ;•e.
at Troyes. and Buonaparte must of course retrace his s'e;l
back again to the south, with an army exhausted by fattning'
marches, to oppo,e the approach of the Allies to-
wards Path in that quarter. In the inean time Mi-
dler, reinforced by the numerous corps advarcing to
his assistance, will not fail to advance a.,zain towards the
cppital in the north-east direction, and we may confidently
expect, that the net drawn round Iluonaparte by the Allieg,
like the Penelope ever, will bring about the down Ell of
" the devourers of the'llonse."
A still brighter prospect is open, by the spirit which 1.1-,e
French people have inanifcste,l at the sight of the first of the
Bourbon Pt inces who have appeared among them since the
beginning of that revolution, during which they have had
so often to regret the Mild Government Of their legitimate
Sovereigns. We iiverfa itten hr Count d'Escais,
who accompanied Monsieur, the French King's next brother,
to France,sl a.Usli• on the authentic4y of which we can pledge.
Selvesf of th 4.1 glo2.;:ing tent s in which it speaks of ill