The National Register.
London, England, 1814-01-09 00:00:00

THE NITIONAL REGISTF.R.

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cai:tre may be successfa;iy empl, yeti the se cows, w;,iels have
fio re,rular battle% to maintain. 1 hen bushxss k not to attack list
emissions in the bivouacs, hut to surpri:e single detarliments, ram
oil the sT'onts, the Comicrs, the maratrlerslto take away all the pro-
visions scattered in the villages, destroy bridges, to render the roil.'
impassable for arltllery, either by di ging ditches, or fonnine
Lbattis of treeii, These measures, superinteilded by_old and intelli-
gent soldiers, mly maid the march of whole columns, and even
an:e them to tall into the liMals of the regular national army. The
forest keepers, game-ktepers, &c. are excellent sentinels far the
free corps. They may be particularly setvic • able by givieg ns(
information to the regular army, concerning all the enterprises of
the ene r.y ; for them it is a point of honour to watch his operations
to give information of. his smallest Movements. It a bivouac of car-
riages, or a convoy fixes itself near a Village, let the inhabitants
come in the night, carry oil the hones, and burn the carriages ;
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a Word, let the citizens ()revery rank concur in the Ocrence of their
lionsesv their families, and all that they hold dear and sacred.
They are obstacles which May he opposed to the enemy with tin,
More suceesr, since the tinther he adVanc..s the arose difficult it wil;
he for him to repair his losses. Why ghoul i gee not have the %aisle
advantages On combatting him on our territory, as Le had agais;st
in combating on his Let him rind himself insulated without re-
sources without succour, wherever he shall appear. Let all the
Francis recognize in the enemy's ranks, those who have slain their
tams, their friends, their fathers. Let a noble sentiment noirnale
them ; revenge for them a duty; it becomes a virtue. Aleive all,
lei no one dwell with a false grief on the evils io.eparable from our
a'i'm;tit noble, and patriotic ariel does not vent itself
in vain complaints, it dis• lays it:elt in generous effnrts. Whatever
be the cause of the danger, it exits, and the national honour allows
only one refit ction the necessity of repelling it.
FRESCH FUNDS.—Dec. 23, 591. Nr price stated,--,-.51,
49, Dec. 31 5 lt.—Jan. 1. No prier stated.

DECLARATION OF THE ALLIES,
WITH RE.Ann TOSWITZERLAND.•

(Tn %NstATtori.)
topy of a Not 4 tronntlitted bll the ("nint de ('apodis!rbt und the
Cberttlicr tic Letzettein, to his Lxccllency the Lund:minion ()J.

Switurland.

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The owlet -aimed have just rect ived c;‘'^rs from their to
make the following Declaration to his :Nu.tileisey the Landaminan
of I I irrland :
Sw outland ha.- fur many ages enjoyed an iodepen4nee fortunate
for herself, tisefol to het neighbours, and ocees,ary to the iv:down:ince
of ,o volt' ical equililmotti. Those scourges of the French Revolutionu
tit wars which for twenty tears have sapped to the very foundation.:
the prosperity of all the Settees of Europe, had out spared Snit

zet land.
Agitated in her interior, enfeebled by the vain effort to escape ;I
from the baneful inflilenCe Of a devil tat 'nu torrect, Switzerland sao ;1
nerseif dip; iced by link anti 'Mk, Of 010,4` lolly( at ks essential to
the presevvation of her nob-pestilence by France, who ealle•l herself II!
her frit otl. The Emperor Napoleon ended, by establishing twort 11
hi. ruin of the So iss Fed( s ation, and under a title 041 then sink:town,a
11
diteet puriminent it lineiteo nrempa'ible with the li::erty of the 11
Belo b ic, that ancient liberty so Itspeettd by all the Power:
1 .rope, and %%hid' was the unat'anttc of the ties of friendship which
Sit itV rland had continued to Loeser% e ‘A- 1h them, even to the epoch
of her :41,..1ectioff , and which is the principal condition of the ,
to of a State.
The orniciples which animate the Allied Sovereigns in the present
wto ale %led known. Every nati••ll winds has not lost the rensem
branee of its induptos tyre nn:dtt to avow them. The,e powers
's[l.esir • that so II Fee %or, touchier with all Ett7ope,
the r.•o4v ',cid of this s• f c emy station, and with her an
volts f. oi•tters the this right. Ti e. yancot
Ltlin f a etttralit), which, in the actual relations of St.% ttzet land,
ems; • name.
Th. of the Allied Powers. in presenting them.telves upoit
the frontiers of itzet.an e\pt et to meet with none but friends.
Thep 1 ..put sal and 114 si!c• eitz,aLe themselves
rot to ivy tJotvn nests bt-f-re I:0-y ell-tire to the RI public those
Oars., %idyls Fr , net ita• tort. t 'on it Without any pretension Its
noddle with her 'Picric; rektions, they wilt never sutler that Swit
gesia tl shoo d he played Itttler a foret._ll influence.
Tliev will it cognize her new rAlity on that day on which she
shall he crt e lepen .ent, attd they expect front ihe patriotists
alga brave uation, that faithful to the .lirineiiges *which •have en-

JAN. ~1.

tiered them illu-ttions past ages, they will second the rionle and
ei:ervii, efforts %%hick %%hid' -lionld unite for the sante Caine all the
4ovfrei::tis 311(1 nations of Ettr,pe.
The Untlersigned, "in making this eommunieation, feel it their
duty
to a•-(plaitit his Excellency the Landaminaii %kith the lernelaioa.
lion and Order or the Dav, hich the 60111111aitier ill Chief the
G..attil Army will at the nnqrnent of the army entering the
Swiss territory Excellency will find them contl.rma.ile to the
sentiments wtiich their Intl) Hal end Royal Majesties have towards
the Confederation. The Under-i_• ed, &m.

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