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h tee witnessed the cruel example held out to them by the troops

of France.
EXTRA-(T FROM LORD EURGITERSTI, DATED LANGRES, JAN. 18.
It is with considerable fatisfiction I. am enabled to date this
di-pateli from Latzgre!..
Yinir Lord►►hip Hill have been i!lformcd tlt.tt a force consisting
et lim,naparte's guards, had occupied ti►e important position of

th• • place.
Toe monntains of the Vosges, which form one of the principal
ban r • te the entry into the...heart of France on this tide offered a
Cs. .4 Ile position to a deferifiive army in the nt ighbinnhood of
town.
r: cm ;he arrival of the guards, it had been presumed, that a
eorps of Ft (Itch would have assembled here. Prince
Selykartzenhere, an eonst quence, dete4ritied to aibagnee upon it,
vi di a force which slundd secure him suttee's in the attack of the
position. ••--
Marsal M-rtier Ilid not await the advance of the allied army.
It appears that on the 16th he began his retreat from this place.
On the 17tn Geuer.d Gnylay pushed forward his fulvanced guard.
Coninfaralant of the town endeavoured to capitulate ha. it,
hn: he was :old he niteit render ; Ire was left xvithout the rec-ins
of lesi-tancei. The.fery Cat manse, which had Leen ordered by Duo:ni-
l:arts., had not Let-1, c;:llicti 11110 f fleet by the people.
Getter:a Gnylay took p' sso-sion of the place : Vartr44lo%liich
11:d hest tgrunglit 1101 n Vijon, a considelable quantity oftioWder,
en i two hamlet d men, have t.een captes-rd by the allies.
I.larshal Monier retired tawnEds Chaumont ; he occupied this
rare. with W.( lee thousand of the eld gmads, tn.:supported by any
othi r troeps.
At Chameent there does hot appear to be any reinfirremert
arrived for Prince Royal of Wintemberg has been
direete:: to Mardi ilpon that3o%%ll, aid it is expected he will be in
ho-session of it this ever,ing.
General Count Platow, has arrived with his Cpssacks at Nes&
Ch ite•an, and has already pushed his patroles ti advance of that
The h(r'ad-quarters of General !Metier were to have. been yester-
day at. Nancy. The Cossacks under Prince Tcherhatoti, according
to the last report from thatoificeri were advancing upon Tool.
TIZACT FROM THE HONOURART SIR C. W. STEWART, DATED
13 %six., .IM4I. 17. .
The details from all the advanced corps continue to be of the
nio,4 enconraging (reset iption.
Marshal Blucher has taken near three thousand prisoners and
tweiliy.fieelrieces,pfeapnon. since Isis passage of the Intim. flit
last reports are from Ai'rol, of the HMI instant. Detachments
sif his Temps occur Titres, and in a few days Luxembourg 1t i.l be
investe.l.
Marshal Marmont huts Isecn ender the recessity of immna Isle
inost r.•plit forced marches to prevent the Silesian gertieg into
his 'Tar by the Vosges monntains. • In his retreat, he has broken
dnwn all the bridges over the Saar, but Marshal Blucher is pm.•
suiint hint.
Voor Lordship will have from the advance of the armies, more
tlet:iled it: formation titan I Can give. Prince Seliwartz:ldwi g was
still at Vesout the 15th. The enemy were collecting at Lantires,
alit; the Peltier Marshal was 'lrreparing to attack them it they
reirainkl tilers', nide!' I should doubt he had made his dispositions
for this porpOse. The Main Russian-army, under General llarelay
de To lly, will he ready to support Prince Sehwartzenberg's offensive
movement. NV it tgenstein's corps eecupies the coluitt.
between nerail• Barclay tie 'folly and Marshal Witcher, and the
Russian and•Purissimi reserves, together with his Imperial Majesty
the Emperor of Russia, have krt. this place to march on Vesoul.
The French gariison that retired into. liesancon amounts to
8000 men.
Befort is still b mbarded, and General Schafer -commands the
forces whith it engages. •
General Bidsna's lasl repents were front Bourg eq Bresse, having
left detachments at Geneva and Fort L'Eeluse (which was taken)
and Settin : the Simplon and St. Bernal d are occupied. The
Prince of Wurtemintrg had -advanced: fr. rn Epinal, the enemy
retiring after their- ilofeat fir General•de Roy towards Charities.'
The Prince of ties...e Ha:filming, from Dole, and General Se:wither,
surrounded • the fort of Satins. General Platows Cossacks are
Leard of in every quarter..
}XTRACT FROM 'II4E 110,N. SIR C. W. STEWART, DATED BASLE,
JANUARY V 2.

The dttails which, your Lordship will receive from the advance
of the arai►J army, Nsill be more satidactory than a►►y 1 could

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relate. 'rite entry of the Empero of Russia into Vesoni with the
Russian and Penssian reserves, the abandonment of Langres and
the position around it .by the ecemy, the advance of the Mince
Royal of Wurtemberg to Chantont, are all subjects of congratula-
tion. The umvenient of so powerful a force as the Allies now
possess in all directions, upon any central point, render any po:ii4ion
the enems takes up so Fecal lens. that I was satisfied (as 1 sentured
to express in a former dispatch) they would not hold out at
Lane; rep.
Marshal 111ne1;er's last reports are of the 17th, from Nancy. lie .
sent the keys of this town to ;he grand head quarters ; the EM.
perOr of Russia met the officer bearing thsm, as he was on his
march t.; Vesoid, lie immediately sent tsvo cf the keys to the King
of Prussia, reserving two for himself, with an appropriate nosz:age,
• which ',hews the anxious attention and consideratitni that exists
I between the Allied Sovereigns on eve' y occasion.
Marshal 11;lue&er is in comb 'lineation with Gepe• al Wredi's
corps, and thus with the grand arniv.—Thi- animated vett ran
gives a vigour and life to ail his proceedings, that affords an invalu-,
able example to every ptotissional man.
'lt is with no small satisfaction I announce to your Lord-hip
another brilliant aellievente.n of the Prussian arms. His Pi ussian
Majesty is :loin master of WitteebOig, and by uo other means but by
As
the slorious valour of hi, brave-so ; ; rs. The siege et as begun en
the Ifith of Decendier, and the t.„, c was in our poses-ion on the
12th of January. No impediment-Of tli,4 sea•-on al riAed the spirit, ii
exertiohs of the I)e•ieecrs ; the enciny made a valiant resistance.
1 A bleach was made on the 1 i th, and it w;:s practicable on the ICtlt,
wlsen a psoposid to suit-ender was intole aura lift;ftel. A tillide.ight
1 the assaolt was determinad on iti foor columns ; the gallant Prussians
I overcome every obstacle, and in less,then half ;:ii heur they were
r' toasters of the pease. All the garrison that did not sun t'lliliT Wet c
put to the Vord. The Glvetner had ilittenehed the Costle and the
the llOtel en Vile ; the latter was cairied by the troops, and the
Governor, who was in it, sui tendered at diseictiun, with the rest
I of the 'garrison.
I This capture would add much to the fame of that distingni-he3
II officer, Cosaeral Taneotzi;u„ were it capable t.f ad;ition ; but his
exploits in this war arc too will known ever to be ()Wiwi ated from
' the records of posterity.
. The sit ge has cast about :',OO men killed and wounded, and the
assault about too, and seven otftecrs wounded.
The Plossians toned oinety-six pieces of artillery here, mid made
two thousand prisoners In 'forgot* they had already obtaintal
possession of three hundred ;tad sixteen pkee,:s. In these rortreSsist
Ithe Pi nsaians have Wood considerable magaainvs of corn and
gunpowder.
General Tauentiicn will new proceed to Magdeburg. It is not
to be overlOokva here, that evory tonne ss OM now falls. by the
admirable dispositions that have be en made, aguments very mate.
rially the forte advanvisig against the enemy.
We have thus reinforcements and three lines of te,orve, as it
were on the Oder, the Elbe, and the Wane, fruto which we con-
stantly derive aid.
The head-quarters of the Ertwcror of Attstria and King of Psustia
will we transferred this day to Vesunl.