The National Register.
London, England, 1814-02-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL HEC;ISTEIL

FEB. 13.

farther than La Rnthiere and Dienville, where he posted his
rear under Victor and Grouchy, whilst he crossed the Aube
with his.van,• and hastily marched upon Troyes. This move-
ment, however, was not unobserved, and the great nume-
rical superiority of the Allies enabled them to make- a com-
bined attack, on three points at once, to endeavour to frus-
trate his intention. The active Blucher traced hack his
steps, and on the Ist inst. fell with his whole force on the
rearguard at La Rothiere and Dienville. Meanwhile a crops
detached from the army that invests Me'2, LuXemburgh,
and Thionville, appeared before Vitry on the road to (ha-
Ions; ;Hid an Austrian division, detached from the Grand
Army, stormed the bi idge of Rosnay between-Paris and the
enemy, which Marmoot was appointed to defend. On all
these points, the enemy tells us the assailants mere repulsed
with loss. He agiers, however, that at the close of the ac-
tion with Geaeral Blucher, a battery of artillery moving to
support a cavalry manceuvre, missed its way in the obscu-
rity •f the night, and was taken. But the brave c•ant►oneers,
sooner perceived this ambush, than they cut the traces,
mounted the horses, and contrived to escape with the loss
f only fifteen killed and wounded. This heroic a• t is re-
lated with much, complacency, but it did not touch improve
the situation of the rear- gnat d; for !bough it actually re-
tained courage enough to remain during the night so dose
to its enemy, that the advanced posts were almost intermixed;
and Berthier nearly went over to the Allies whilst making
his rounds; no sooner had the morning dawned than it re-
treated, taking positions, or rather being driven from them,
until it effected its passage across the Aube, and regained
Napoleon's main body, which on the WI inst. established
itsel fat Troyes. Macdonald, whom the previous accounts haft
le ft at !Mete!, was called from that place to Chalons, to oppove
the columns advancing from the side of Thiauville. By
his movement on Troyes, Napoleon seems to have exe-
cuted his plan of interposing between Prince Schwartzen--
berg's and Blucher's armies. lie stands in the rear of the
former, and in front of the latter, and though between two
fires, and threataned with utter annihilation, in case Of de-
feat, as long as he maintains the position, he prevents the,
farther march of either of the Allied Conneandeis on, Paris.
For should Prince Sc•ltwartzenherg proceed, regardless of
Napoleon's, army behind him, he exposes Blucher to the
danger of being overpowered by the superior numbers of
the enemy, in which case he would find himself entirety
cut off from the Rhine, and in a situation as full of peril as
that froth which I3ttoin extricated himself at Moscow,
only by the ruin of his army. Should he, an the contrary, re.
main stationary, be gives time to complete the fortifications
now erecting round Paris, and the advance of the Army of
Reserve in advance of that capital, so that he. might 114 his
turn be placed between two fires. In this situation it
might he thought that he would have recourse to a gr.
neral engagement, as the only means of bringing the
contest at once to an issue, did it not appear •fkoin The Mo-
niteur of the 15th instant, supported by later intelligence,
that recourse has been had to negociations.—" On the 4th,
in the morning, Count Stadion, Count Rmornowski, Lord
Castlereagh, and Bacon Humboldt, arrived at Chatillon•sur-
Seine, where the Duke of Vicenza already had arrivefl. The
first visits on both sides had been made, and the first confer-
ence was to take place between the Plenipoteatiaries- the

same evening."

Such is the statement given in the French official paper,
with the assurance, that no important events had since taken
place between the armies. We migTit doubt this intelli-
gence, had not the arrival of Mr. Silvester, the Messenger.