The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-23 00:00:00

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th:e Bridge at Melon, still further down
I.:eine, and ten miles on the road from Fontaine- -
11"'I.A0 Paris. In the performancetf all the
"ties set down, by BuoNaPaarz for these Cern-
taa
Niers to perform when he left Nogent on
ti!,l.9th, it is acknowledged they have utterly fail.
Vtoroa no sooner heard of the approach of
"e Allies, than he abandoned Nogent to he de;-
aded by.l2oounder a Qeneral Boutimovr, and.
4''." eel the Seine with the rest of his army. The
Allies are represented as having been replilsed
lie-
101eNugent on the 11th and 12th, am'. to have
`t 2000 men. Even were this true, it is evi-
cie,„
that it was only a detachment ivhich 11;1,1
bee
" sent against the place, tvhile, time principal
the..lPft hank 14 the River, awl accomplislled
their
Purpose by forcing the passage at Bray.
lus turned on his right, VICTOR was under
the
at necessity of destroying also: the Bridge
\logent, and retreating rapidly on Nangis, to
li pcit't himself with the corps.of OUDINOT. By
tiP
ulovment across the Seine at Bray, SCHWART-
i7'IIII.44I:IIG; teems to have penetrated the cebtre of
nerny, and compelled him to the saute ex-
Tie'llent on each side ; for as Vim:in blew up the
b lidge. at Nugent on the right, so did OupttioT
4 1411)."01.-hlow up the bridgesot Montereau and
,‘1
tinn on the left, and hasten to an union with
le
()titer corps on the Vere, a little river
Ittti ,
c" flow•s from above ,Nangis, by Guignes,
'l4l falls, into 'the• Seine at Villenouve, about
"age front Paris. In this Alirection, and
1111 tie the line of the road. front Provins to
Aletropolis, through Nangis and Guignes,
tine
'cottered forces of the enemy united into one
44%; but no dates are ascribed to any of these
tleti sq that we are imitable to draw accurate con-
atut ins from them, further than the one leading
tt: Prominent feature, that the French troops
tr' incompetent, though covered by an import-
a: river, to offer any effectual resistance to the
of the Invaders.
44°flthe 16th BUONIPARTE arrived on the ''ere,
zed established his head-quartets at Guignes,
k)ve twenty miles front Paris.—Here the narra-
tiue, the lame anti impotent narrative, breaks off,
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we are as suddenly transported back again to
1:t battle of Vauchatnp on the 14th, as BUONA-
aPpearS to have been trasported front Van-
''lll'l) to Guignes. At Vauchamp the story of the
f4ttle, in which the last of I.3l.:ucuca's corps was
the last time destroyed is resumed, and the
saat
tid
turn of MAIII;;NT'S night-attack on sonic
tf-itfantry at Lloi,,es states, that lie
bet , 100 me.t, and that the victory which was
„
.re •
eler vleribed as the most complete that was
• lidel,ti aobilleved, is now said to have been more con-
pityi e. than was at fit st represented. What a
are tIS for the French Bulletin writers, that there
°IIIY three degrees of. comparison,—many,
tnote
otherwise.' wc cold(' understand
'el'Yperboles which out-herod Herod anti out-
°NArARTE. tu
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‘vrihis active General (for here comes the tog of-
:2 4° sooner got to Guignes, than he got 'intoicir4• A eurious document, in the shape of an
I)oatitilentie letter f•om Nangis of the 17th,' at
pp"' states, that on the morning of that im-
ami-
Arta" day BUONAP,ARTE attacked the Allies,
was; at the hour mentioned, so successful,
th
4t he had taken 6000 prisoners, awl was ea-
.tx-ageq in Pursuing his
,victory. These prisoner
t; elO enter Paris at Mid-day on the i6tb, by
Charenton Gate!

A
zastesthis
.lel,r;ei t•lc
ar2,l. lm
left in
our
informationthen:iato of
ab'tabruptly
the issue of which the Tyrant's fate depends—on
tllei,Stte of which depends the question
.whether
eiti 'idles shall immediately enter 'Paris as Con-
tietOrs or part of their force be led in triumph
tot"gh the. streets as Prisoners.—Not that we
%/rile:el" that in the event even of a defeat, the
',l's Of our Com,,,lderates Would be ultimately
II", though they might suffer derangement
del'lY; for it is the gratifying nature of the
prey
e4t Contest, that our. Enemy has his All at
tialce oi)on every chance, while his Adversaries
1:‘ rtiffiellit but a sure game, and bring,only
`lltbio the decision of fortune that which they
t
laY lose without being ruined and undone.
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-this uncertain state of timings we will hazard
,ceonjectures—yet our hopes are high, and we
•
it
;Look for the most glorious and decisive results.
evident that Vicroa and OUDINOT had no
Qrce wherewithal to resist the Allies—there could
not be many reinforcements between them and
ris---and ISuONAPARTE, traversing from the
'''gilt of the 14th a cross-country and‘bad roads,
for n
par
or
.npn
fifty miles, could not by any exertion
a very considerable body the
411e.rs who had been so laborious and bloodily
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~-t&eo on that day. lie cannot, we theraore
thhik
7 have any superiority over PrineecHwAßT-
"Eitu, who would not have passed the Seine