The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-17 00:00:00

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Downing-street, March 17, 1814— One A.
An Officer has arrived at this Office, bringitl
Dispatches addressed to Earl Bathurst, of whicil,
the following are Copies :

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Copy of a Itter from Admiral YOUNG, commanding

jesty's Fleet in the North Seas.
Impregnable, Much 15, 1614*
My CoaD—l cannot send forward the acc°"l
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panying Dispatch without offering your 14°' •
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my most hearty congratulations on the c%2-
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Iriteiligelice.it conveys.

have the fiOilourrqbc, &c.
(Signed) W. YOUNG!,
Right Hon., Earl Bathurst, &c. &c. &c.

spy-of a Letter from Captain. CHAFILTS ITAXILTON SgICOP
Deputy Ackistant-Quarter-Master-General, to Earl /344
Tuu BAT; dated Brussels,. March 13, 1814.

MY Loll.l),—uis Excellency Sir- Thos. Grab°
having permitted. me in case. of any important o,°'
carrence, to address myself directly to..yout f•Ard;
ship,, I avail myself,. I hope with. propriety, of tble
indulgence, because the 'quantity of ice in tb
rivers of tiolland, together with -the contintrgice,
of easterly winds, might- retard a dipatch I,4°'°o
round by lielvoctsluys, and prevent intelligellcv
of the greatest importance reaching his IViajesti
•
Ministers. •

In consequence, I' take the liberty of encl P's
to yOur Lordship an extract of a leiter froth
Serene liighnrss the Duke of Saxe Weimar, °lr.
n 3ar)ander in Chief of the allied Russian, Pruss'
and Sax,,n forces in the ,Netherlands, to ‘-'°lls,
Lottum, Governor of this city, containing an co
tract of a letter froin Marshal Blucher,. which 014
have been dated•the 10th instant, but which

some inadvertence lias been omitted.
As your Lordship may possibly not be in 54,11
session of the previous measures of Alar-tia- g'
Bucher, I beg leave to add, that wben.l left 1—
Duke of Saxe Weimar, on the morning of tlO
10th, at TournaY, be directed me to inform e,
Excellency Sir Thomas Graham, that he had r 0
ceived to letter from Marshal Blucher, dated 13%0
Bth inst. at 7 P. M. informing him, 61.3:00
had tha4 day concentrated his forces, cong'"
of the corps of Billow, D'Yorck, Kliest,
gerode, Langeron, and I believe Woronqvf'tbe
all 90,000 combatants ; his left occuringajoe
commanding point of Laon (that city sta die
on a conical hill), and his right extending to
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small fortress of La Fere ; and that a battle •

inevitable.

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It appears that General Winzingerodelia° sve
feted some loss_orsthe 7th, but during the
filar'
operations which had taken place since the 0,
steal had broken up from the vicinity of Me: 1.5,
the enemy had likewise lost considerable nui"iji,
and among others 'Marshal Victor, Gen•Gr°fi.ell
La Marque, and another, had been se—
wonaded.

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most sincere congtatniatious 6,it this de-
bisite event.

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I I)a.Ve the honour to be, &c.
(Signhd) CHARLES HAMILTON gmrrir,
Captain, D. 42: M. G.
-might Hbn. Earl Bathuisti

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i'RANSLATION.
ikeedrding, to the plan of 'the' High Allied
"ers, all the different corps d'arrrie Were to
"nekntrate themselves, in order ta, form two
treat armies. ircir this effect, some momentary
retrograde movetnents.were necessary. The army
~6riMarshal illticher concentrated itself near Laon,
ha •
v'ng opposed to it Napoleon, at the head of
eighty thousand Men. • A courier, who arrived
Yesterday.. brQught inforinationi that the Field-
;7tarshal had resolved to give battle on the gin ;
anal this moment a second courier is arrived,
l'ilnging the following account :
This morning, before 'day-break, the, enemy at-
rlted my right wing and centre, tinder the ot-
orers°f Generals Winzingerode and -13ulowr ; and,
11mier favour of h thick fog, he penetrated qiiite
'thunder ale walls of Laon. Towards noon, when
i4e fog cleared away, the two corps above men-
.)ned moved against the enemy, engaged in in-
tersected ground, a very sharp affair of infantry,
Vul gained 'ground till night-fall.
,Towards three in the afternoon, the enemy's
I"'llinins appeared on my left wing, took the vil-
a° of Althies, and cannonaded briskly the corps
of try()relt and Kleist.
Having foreseen this event, I sent the corps of
"ngeron and Sacken to reinforce the left wing,
With orders to assume-the offensive, in conjunc-
'w with the corps of D'Yotk and Kleist. •
Gruerals D'Yorck and Kleist fulfilled this ob-
itct %vitt] their known ability,. The enemy was
:tally -overthrown at night-fail . his artillery,
niunition waggons, and a great number of pri-
1131ers fell into our hands.

General D'Yorck i eports,to.me at this moment,
that he is still in pursuit of the enemy, and that
i
cavalry has already driven them in the greatest
tonfusion to Corbeny.
Mhasten to communicate this news to our
ost
—crone Highness.
P. S. Up to the present time, seventy pieces of
cannon have been already taken. The numbers
ki):Pris"ers and ammunition waggons cannot yet
b. calculated. The, victory was decided" princi-
knY by a brilliant charge of my cavalry. My
bowing passes the Aisne this clay. It is not
'v I\l, npositively if Napoleon commanded in person.
ht;tnf the prisoners assert that'they saw :
41 letertci-s say that he set off on the night of
t, a. with fifteen thousand men, in the clime-
-6°llBt uf Paris, the grand Allied Army, under the
we of Prince SchWartzenberg, having taken
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Or THE FRENCII AT SOISSONS-,,AT NIEATIX
Or CORBEII AND AT CHARENTON----FLIGIIT
DUONAPARTE FROM PARIS TOWARDS ROUEN.
Countrymen Hail; the School and Prin.-
elPles of PITT ! OUR glorious day has arrived—
i" hopes are crowned—our expectations are ful-
filled,
It tllwas yesterday our happy task to lay before
e Public;in the three Extra-editions of THE
uNs which we 'this day repohlish, the glorious
Intelligence which reached us in the course of the
Itfletnoon, We now give place .to the official
utification of these triumphant tidings, as it
• appears in the . Extraordinary Gazette, by which our
Clovernment has sanctioned them by the stamp
unquestionable authority., This document
tilers only in a few words of translation from
14t Which was tendered into our Fourth Edition.
We could stop here to congratulate our Rea-
Ilers again and again on' the news. We could
'all On them to rejoiee iiith us in that firm' and
unaltrable perseverance which through good
411(1 bad report, through bright and• gloomy.
r"spects, thrbugh prosperity and adversity,
has conducted us to the wished for Goal at last—.
has blessed us with the sight of ty-
ranny overthrown, and .now, in the full tones
by victory, swells in Our ears the notes of
security, of happiness, and of PEACE !-7---Peaeo,
eWcii '474 Britain may greet with heartfelt :rand-

Obit, and
.iiie iiiik-efie ii.jby e6f a iaiii; iatig se-

Ties of years.
But our duty is still mcfre delightful than eve•t
to, dwell on these, proud and gratifying topics.
The victories we have announced were only pre-
ludes to the stilt More important vietories; the.
news of which we have to communicate.
CHER (under whose praise language is foiled);
BLUCHER WAS not the Man to stop short in the
middle of his resplendant career. He came not
from the Oder to the Aisne, there to conquer his
enemy and halt. The Ourcq, the Marne, and
the Seine were before him, , as the Katz
.back, the Bober, and the Queiss of, Silesia,-
and the routed French Were flying frpin:his valiairt
legions towards Paris, as,. in the former eirciim-
. stance, towards Dresden. The, pursuit was worthy
of the Her 6! The gates of Soi.ssons offered no
insurmountable obstacle to him, as they had done.
to ZUONAPARTE. By the Bulletin issued At Mid=
night, by our Minister of the War Department,
. we learn that it was taken by storm, and the
French Marshals, MacooNALn and SEBASTIANI,
slain. SEBASTIANI was the ,bloodiest of . all the
bloody agents of the Tyrant, and, like his Mas,
ter, a Corsican. In this splendid action, we HD-
derstand, the enemy were almost entirely put to
the sword. TO proceed, it is said

A Foreign Messenger, an office!. of the Belgic
Legion, arrived this morning from 'Tolland, in
the Tickler, which lauded hiin-at Deal. His in-
formation is the climax of that which we have al•
ready had the felicity to communicate. He states,
that atter the defeats at Laon and at SoissOus,
the brave BLUCHER again came up with the fugl-.
tive French at Meaux, and once more defeated
them. The results are immense and incalculable ;
and the pursuit continued.
SO much for the immortal army of Silesia, and
its immortal Commander.

Prince SCHWARTZENEERG. , says our Informant,
was not remiss or inactive on, his part. The
Drama could not draw to its proper close without
bringing all the great Actors together upon the
Stage. The Grand Allied Army under that pru-
dent, able, and gallant Generalissimo, advanced
with rapidity front Troyes upon Nogent.—
from Nogent be pushed on with equal speed to
Montereau—to Fontainbleauto Melon, fifteen
miles from Paris !—At CORBEIL, five miles
from Melon, towards the Capital, he also over-
took the routed Corps of OUDINOT, brought thein
to action, and DEFEATED THEM. They fled
in confusion to Paris, and at CHARENTON,
three mites from that city, were assailed by a di-vi-
sion of the Army of Silesia (under, as reported,
the Prussian General VoN Yoßcx) which com-
pleted their disorder, and put the finishing stroke
to the overthrow of ALL THE ARMES OF BUONA-

PA-RTE
Never were victories more complete.—teipsick
itself has been rivalled on these auspicious days !
EIGHTY THOUSAND MEN is the estimated
•
loss of the Enemy.
BUONAPARTE, it is stated, ha's abandoned Paris
to its fate. lie run away with 13,000 of his
Guards, (some say only 1500) and took the
di-
rection of Rouen in Normandy: Ile had no
other course open by which to fly. The Cossacks
were all round the south side of'Paris, and over-
spread the country.
But what has the Renegade USurper to expect
in Normandy. Ther, by this time, we trust, is
OUT WELLINGTON—there is no SUCCOUT. for Ty-
rants where Blitons grace the field. There, by
this time, we trust, the Lillie(' Flag of the
Bourbons floats in triumph, and is 'bailed by
thousands of loyal Frenchmen, sick of destruc-
tion, and panting to regain, under their lawful
King, freedom, repose, and happiness. There,
we trust, he twill meet, in the Duke I).k:icon-
LEME, the avenger of the Duke D'ENGHIEN.
It is supposed that, from motives of humanity,
the Prince of SGIINVARTZENDERG deferred entering
Paris during
_the ardour of pursuit, and in the
flush and heat and,fury of Victory.• The place is
incapable of defence, an:l must (if this intelligence
is any thing like the truth) long before this date,
have passed into the possession of the Allied
Powers of. Europe.

We do 'not imagine that the Despot himself
durst return to Paris. Even the defeats of Laon
and Soissons (ot which we are officially informed)
should all the above, which we have stated on
priatite authority, turn out to be, whiob we trust
it will not, unfounded :—even the defeats of Laon
and Sriissons are sufficient to overturn the dynasty
Of NiroLEorT, and relieve mankind from the hea-
viest curse of which ancient or modern history
can produce an example,

Upon the intelligence we have thus stated it is
our duty to observe, that Government have as yet
received no accounts of successes to the extent
here mentioned. The substance of the informa-
tion as the War Office is given in the Bulletin of

last tight inn tte Letter to the LaiD thioist,' a
copy W. : •

,LETTER TO THE LORD MAYOR.
Downing-nrcet, March

tif)ni presents his coniplittients to

e tont). ikIAY6R, and has tli satisfaction to in-

form- his ,Lordship;. that a Foreign Officer has ar-
riied at this Office, dispatched froth Urussels by
captaiii HAMILrov &nul, and forwarded. by
Admiral YotiNG. He brought a confirnation‘ of
the account of the Victory obtained by Marshal
BLUCHER, at Laon, on the 9th instant ; and
gives verbal information that the success was fol-
lowed up with great rapidity -during the 10th and
11th. Soissons had been taken by storm. Mar-
shal MAcnoti-AtH and General SaBASTIANI are
amongst the slain, and the loss of the enemy is
reported to be immense."

A true Copy.