The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-28 00:00:00

NEWS FROM THE ARMIES.

YRONTiER3 OP SPAIN.,
•
Lord. Wellington every wh.eie announced that
he woukl force the passage of the Nive and of the
Adour, surround the fortress of Bayonne, and
march upon Bourdeauk ; he has completely'falled
in his designs, the combats which took place from
the 9th to the' 13th December, have been to- his
disadvantage, he has had inure than 15,000 men
put hors de combat; our loss has norbeen
a quar-
ter so great. Consternation prevails in the Eng,
lish army. Lord Wellington confines his preten-
sions, and catwes all parts of his line to be-ill-
trenched. • •

On the 20th December a. numerous garrison oc-
cupied Ba'yorn ; three divisions of the army, un-
der the orde•ts of General Reille, occupied the
entrenched camps, and were finishing the works.
General Mitasel was rapidly advancing with three
other' upon the lett bank of the Bi-
dousie, by Peyrhorade ; a numerous corps cover-
ed the banks of the Adour and the.Bidousse ; the
Doke of Dalmatia had removed his head-quarters
to Peyrhomle, to be nearer to direct the niover
mews upon the enemy's right flank.
During 'the latter end of December the position
of the English became more and more critical ; the
want et provisions was felt; their convoys, dis-
persee by the tempests, were driven upon the
coast!, of the Landres ; our detachments collected
cargoes of oxen and salted meat ; they even for-
wariied to Bayonne some lots of compressed hay,
sett!, from England in cases. _

The position which General Clansel had taken
annoyed Lord 'Wellington ; he feared for the
Etfety of his posts at St. Jean de Luz, his head-
nuae; ers li-e-ordered -St .---J.en-Te-Pivti-tie-- Port ft* be
atta.ckert, inkt he.wa,s..repufsed General 'thrive
had taken the command of 'our extreme left, or-
ganized the levy of the Basques, and every day he
dispersed the enemy's foragers. -• '
On the Ist inst. au English detachment, with
cannon, presented itself upon the left bank of the
Adour, before the Isle of Broc ; ,it was imme-
.diately repulsed, and obliged to abandon the bank, '
with loss. The Duke ofbalmatia, assured of the
good defence of Bayonne and the Adour, placed
General_ Clausel behind the Joyeuse ; on the 3d
of January an English regiment was driven from
the Bastin!: de Clarence. General Yaws marched
in front of Boula, where the enemy had a strong
detachment ;. the days of the 4th and sth were
passed tolerably quiet, in manoeuvres ; our
light cavalry, full of ardour, made some pri-
soners, and -much inquieted the enemy. Lord
Wellington proceeded from St. Jean tie Luz ;
he left before Bayonne and the Adour but
some det;tebnaents ;• hi& .1-ine was formed upon
Haspareno, On.. the 6th he deployed twenty
. thousand men, and at three P. M. caused to
be 'attacked a battalion of the 6th division;
placed before the Bastide de Clarence as RD ad-
vanced .post. -The battalion fell beck in good or-
der ; the two armies remained in presence of each
other till ten in the 'nothing of the 7th ; a battle
appeared inevitable ; hut the English army re-
treated in different directions, and entirely disap-
peared. Lord Wellington just perceived that the
part of the French army which remained in the
entrenchments of Bayonne was dehouching in his
rear, and about to cut off his retreat upon St. Jean
de Lnz. •

Bayonne is now one of the most formidable bill,
warks of the empire.
The misunderstanding between the Spanish and
English troops appears to increase daily.
ARMY OF THE I)UKIi OF TARf.NTE.

The Duke of Tarente, who was charged with
the defence of the Rhine to Nimegnen, has re-
pulsed ail the enemy's attacks. General Sebas-
tiani, who was at Cologne, has made- in different
affairs five or six-hundred prisoners. The Duke
of Tarente has caused the places of Grave, Ven-
loo,,juliers,'amlMaestriche, to he put in a state
of defence.
Since the Commencement of January, the enemy
having acted on the.offensive towards Breda, un-
der the orders of Gen. Billow, and towards May-
ence under the orders of Gen. Bliicher, the Duke
of Tarente concentrated Isis forces ; he had,On the
14th his head-quarters at Maestrieht, occupying
Liege and Charlemont, and observing the right
flank of Gen. Blucher. On the 18th his ' head-
qurters were at Namur.

gioTRANCE INTO SWITZERLAND OF TIE •ARMY OF
TkIE PRINCE OF SCHWARTZENBURG, COMTOS.ED
OF AUSTRIANS, RUSSIANS, BAVARIANS? WIRTEM-

BURGERS, AND BADENERS. _
On the 20th December the Duke of Belluno
bah his head-quarters at Strasburgh. The five
corps of cavalisr, with a division of infantry, oc-
cupied Coltuetri Laudatt, Strasburgh, Schglestadt,

. .
Ncubresaph, and, Huningwen, were 'i,rlned and
provisioned., Count thesEx,traol•ninary
Commissioner, . and Baron 'de
.the
Maitre de., Requetes,, had resolved it07,,-.rernairr. at
Strusburgh to animate, the national guittds; •
• ,The,, army -of Schwa! tzenipira, ~estimated.
100,000 men, including 15,0Y3U .Bar:r.rianf4:. 8000
troOpS, of Wirtemberg,, 4000 of.l4adeii;.-aud :the
Russian corps of •WittgeristOri, -entered:-Switzer-
land ,on ,the 21st Decernl,9r.
eounnttndiug. the advanced guard„ uraiebed
wards Berne, and thence.to,Geneva., where he:ar-
rived on ,the This
;4 With bustions and :a
.‘vall„-, opened its gates in:
gonsequence of the , bad conduct, of the Prefect,
the,`,.bati dispositions of the inhabitants, the 'ver-
tigo of the moment. The High Lords of the Lit-
tle Cotinci,l thought the . rnornent. favourable tor
the re-establishment. of their aristocracy, and.a*
proclaMlo,on.apiipQred, signed by them ,a11.7-13nt
;he democratic; party, Was , enraged, at this usurpa--
tion4
.theAustrianGeneral declared that he would
pot interfere:in. these differences, that it was a
yrcucipc4y ,which he. occupied
,in- the., course of
:war., Abe 'high Lords descended from their seats
rts sovereigns ; at the end :Of twenty-four hours
the French municipality, resumed, its fnnctions,
and justice.eontinues to be exercised in the nanie
of the emperor: . •
On the 16th.of January there was, only a garri-
son of 800 .4-tustrkans in Gcneva.
;The French ad-
vanced posts were within a cannon shot of the
town. Baron Finot„ 13refect,,of Mont Blithe,
had rapitltyorganisedfrec.cOrps, and the levy en
nlusse, the command of which had been taken by
the General of Division Dcsaix. The territory. of
Mont Blanc seemed to be secure from every at-
tack. Fort .Barreau was provisioned ; the body-
of troops of the line, national guar4 and volun.
teers, forming at Chamberri, increased daily; it
already ainounted to 8000inen. •
The department of the here has again distin-
guished itself by the patriotism of which it h,s,s at.
all times given proofs. It has risen in' a man at
the voice of the Extraordinary Commissionvr,:-
Count de St.• Villnr. General Mercaandv.. coin-
minds the national .guards atorthe levy en rna,sse.--
On tire 16th there were at Grenoble 15,000 inerti
under arms ; a park of sixty pieces of artillery -
WAS rapidly organising there. The fortre4ses of—
Besancon, Fenestrilles, arttligount buupitirr,were
provisioned.- - a.. 7. . •
The Department of the Drome.,
,which. at .first
had not shown so much ardour as that: af the
bele, was putting..itself in motion. The troops
of the line from :Toulon and Marseilles, and the
national guards of Provence., were 6.6 their march.
to reinforce the army of Dauphine.. .
Some troops of Gen. Dugout's advanced gnarda
Levol. -t-130.44-epartment 4:the 4; n:„. 1/0
copied Bourg, after having, experienced some re
sistance.frinn the inhabitants.; • , w
•
On the 19th the eneray's adVaDced pasts were
three leagues from Lyons. .
_ _

The Marshal Duke of Castiglione lied repai•re4
to Dauphine to rally all the troops, and to march
in force towards Lyons
.and Geneva. Gen. Miss•
nier occupied Lyons,'•an4 was destined to act on:
the right bank of the Saone.
, .
The Extraordinary CommisSion'er Count.Chap.i.
tal, and the Count du Bondy, Prefect of the
Rhine, have done all that could be expected from
them. The iphabitants,4l4yons have shewn ar-
dour and patriotiSm. The city being threatened,
many families had withdrawn, and the value of
the goods sent to the mountains is estimated at 100-
millions of liv'res. •

From Bourg, Count Biibna has sent light troops.
in all directionS fifteen hussars appeared before
1141iicOn. There were troops. and national guards
for the defence of the town, but the Mayor of
M4con, and the Mayor of St. Laurent, betraying
the public confidence, suffered the bridge over the
Saone to be occupied by 50 of the enemy. On
the .16th, the, force' of the enemy at Macon was
300 cavalry. This conduct is an indelible stain
for the inhabitanti of this town, and a contrast to
the heroic devotion of ,Chalons.

A part of the enetby bad appeared before this
last place ; the Chalonais flew to arms ; the na.
tional guard of Autun marched to their aid ; the
inhabitants of the Cliarolois descended .frcnn
mountains, four iron cannon were drawn from the
Creuzot, Alte.britikes were- barrieadoed, redoubts
were constructed, and the people put thentielves
in ,a state of .defenee On the 18th ithe enemy
r, ad
.been repulsed his attacks.

-Another division of the army of Prince S chwart4
zenbcrg had advanced towards Besancon. Count
Mumtaz had taken the command of the town ;
seconded by. Baron De Bry, _Prefect of the Doubs,
be had, in a few days, provisioned Dcsantonj
which was armed and in state of defence: -Gen.
Marulaz had, sent several . detachments, which
have surprised and cut'in pieces' parties of the
enemy. They estimate at 15 or 16,000 men thb
Austrian troops which are before Besancon, ariit
which send detachments iu..all directions. •
. One of those .detachments appealed -beford'
Dole; 150 cavalry were sufficient to. occupy that
town; having received reinforcements of infan-
try, they advanced towardaAuxonne, but the gar
rison sallied out, beat them, and drove
yond DOle.
The inhabitants of the little town of St. Jean
de Lasne have defended their bridge, and made 14
prisonets. A captain of the enemy's cavalry was
killed by a blow of a sabre from a superannuated
officer, who put himself at the head of the Na,
tional Guards.
Another corps of Prince Sz.hwarlzetiberg had
marched .to Huninguen; and after (miring bottle
barded that place for tour days, had changed the
siege into .a blockade.' On the 17th, the accounts
from,Fintiinguatij Schlestadt, and all the places
on the Rlriue, were perfectly satisfactory. Some

troops of the same army appeared before Befort
and after having lost'lsoo in tin assault, had like-
wise changed the siege into a blockade. On the
,46(11, the pews 'from this place was satisfactory.

Another cc rps'Of Printe Schwartzenberg's ar-
tily had marched 'to Epinal; and thence towarck
Nancy. Oti the 19th its advanced posts were be-
fore Tool, The Duke of Bellow) wa3 behind the
Meuse, at Void, occupying Commercy, and coin-
rouniCa!ing with the Duke. of Ragusa-. -

On the 12th the Duke of Treviso was at Lan-
grm ; he had‘before him the corps of Gen. Giu-
lay, which is also a part of the army of the Prince
of Sehwartzenberg. On the 13th and 14th • the
Duke Of Treviso sent troops against the enemy's
advanced guard, which was 1800istrong ; 300
chasseurs of the young guard, conducted by some
people of the country, marched at one in the
morning, into the rear of the enemy,- who had just
taken his arms, attacked him with they bayonet,
killed 5 or 600:men, and tookfroulltim 230 pri-
soners. /

On the 19th, in consequeneenf general arrange
ments,*the Duke .of Treviso bad taken a, posi-
tion at Chaumont, where he has been joined by
two more divisions, and by a park of 70 pieces of
cannon.

Two battalions of Wertember7ers coming from
Epinal, having got too tar, the Duke of Treviso;
after causing there to be cannonaded for, ten till-
flutes, had then? attacked with the baybuet by 60
grenadiers of the guard, Who offered their s&vices.
These two battalions were repulsed by sixty nieu,
and thrown into the river; eighty prisoners were
taken.

Camps of reserve are• forming at Meaux, at
Soissons; Chalons, Troyes, and Arey sur Aube..
A' hundred squadrons Of reserve cavalry, are
forming at Meaux and Melun, under the Generals
of Division. BOrdesanit and Paco].

. .
The. national guarck of Normandy, Poitou, and
13rittany; are on the march to reinforce the camps
of Aleauk, Soissons, and Troyas. A park of 600
pieces •of cannon is collected at Chalons, under
General linty.

The moment is come-When, from all parts of
this vast empire;. the French who desire , speedily
to deliver the territory of their country, and pt e-
serve the national honour which we have received
from our'forefathers, ought to take up arms, and
niarch to the camps, which are the rendezvous of
the brave and true frenchthen.

The enemy ant ounee that they invade France
with 200,000 Inca. There are 20,000 in Braißrnt,
60,000 9f the Silesian-array before Mentz,' Sarre
Lonis,'Luxethbotirg, Ttlionville; and Metz, and
100,000 in the army of the Prince of Schwartzen-
berg, which is at Bourg, before Besancon, Hun-
inguen, Schyalstadt, and liefor,t, and -on the,
side of Langres. . .

rASSAGE OP THE RII/NE BY THE ARMY CALLED THE
ARMY OF SILESIA, COMPOSED Of PRUSSIANS .AND

RUSSIANS.

On the Ist January 'the army. of Silesia passed
the Rhine at different points._ "Xhe corps marched,
viz. the Russian division of General Langeron
'before Mayence, having his advanced gua:d to-
wards Treves,; and the divisions of Sacken and
'You* upon the Sarre; Kleis t's division in reserve.
These four divisions, including cavalry, may be
estimated at 50,000 nap. .The Duke of Ragusa
has retired before these corps without stiffening
any loss ; he has taken a position on the Sarre,
has caused Sarre Louis and Bisehe to be provi-
sioned, has movetkowards Metz, and staid some
days before that town, to make all evacuate ,it
who were useless for its defence, and to com-
plete its pro Visions fora year. He occupied St.
Michael, and was beyond Verdun. On the 1901
of this month, without having had any affair of
consequence, Verdun was provisioned, armed, and
in a good.state of defence.

The division Saeken•rwas at Ponta Mousson,
that .of Yorck before Metz, that of Kleist before
Thionville, and that. of Langeedn before Mentz.
The infantry of this army is wholly employed
in the blockade of the fortreSses. The rigour of
the season, the bad weather, and the multiplied
bivouacks, have increased the ravages of disease
amongst the troops, whose health had beep al-
ready i►upaired by the fatigues of the campaign.—
The hospitals -in the rear of the arwy are full, and
the roads are covered with dead horses. The Pre-
fect and the Mayor of Metz, the Sub-prefect of
Thionville, and in general all the population of,
the Messeu have deserved the praises of the
Bniperor.,:

ARMY, OF THE NORTH.
PARTS, JAN. 20.—The disertion ot eight batta-
lions -from the 3d and 4th foreign regiments, and
of two battalions of Hollanders, which formed
the greater part of the division ot General Moli-
tor, having left Holland wichdut defence, and the
cities ot Amsterdam and the .k.lagne being in a
state of insurrection,, General. Molitor immedi-
ately threw a garrison into Naarden, and General
Rampsen shut himself up in Gin-cum. Troops were
also thrown into Bois•le-Duc. Bergen-op-Zoom
received •a garrison of 5,000 men. hvents
suc-
ceeding witb rapidity, a panic diffused itself
among those who at Antwerp directed the mili-
tary dispositions. The evacuation of the im-
portant place of Williamsburg, and that of
Breda, were ordered. .'T'he enemy profited by
the error, and immediately took possession of them,
and Williamstadt becathe to hint a point of. sup-
port fOr his disembarkation. General Graham
took advantage of it, and landed a column of Eng-
lish militia, between 4 36(15600 men. In the eva-
cuation ofWilliamStadt, so great was the distrac-
tion, that the powder, the artillery, and a flotilla,
the crews of which were almost alone sufficient to
defend the place, were. left behind. An inquiry
has been ordered into this aiLir. The Minister at
War 'immediately directed General Roguet to
march upon Breda, and endeavour to retake that
place before the enemy should be able to provi-
sion it, and re-establish himself there firmly.
On the 22d December, General Rogitet marched
upon the city of Breda, overthrew the advanced
posts, sui rounded it, and threw some howitzers
into it; he had hoped to' make himself master of
it, when he learned that a corps of English had
landed at Thole!), and was.marching to place itself
between Lint and Antwerp; he therefore 'judge-

it proper to approach nearer to that place, and
took
,a pOsition at Oogstraten. General Mahon
was appointed to the 'command of the first corps
of the army of Antwerp; be hastened Co ,complete
the provisiOning of Be.rgen-op-zootn: for nine
months. The forts of arid. Liefken-.
sock were provisioned; noshing; and Teerveer
received provisions fbr a year ;: in fine, the places
on the left bank of the Scheidt, as Ysenddik;
Hultz, and the forts of. the ye of Cadzior, were
completely armed' and proyjsioued'. TGen. Matson
also employed liiinsekf its exei'elsing his corps,
with all the battalions which. bad-been-cdnipleted
in the strong places of Flanders.,
, On the 11 tit of January General Billow de-
bouclied from Breda with a Corp's' of from 10 to
12,000 men, and marched upon Hoogstraten.—
General' limpet had his left at West, IVeSel,land
his centre at Hoogstraten. The brigade, Ainiard,
which formed his right,,ocenpied.'Turnhout ; it
received orders to incline upon Lierre,,which pre-
vented its taking part in the .affair. A colimm of
the enelnY debouched 'by Lier„ while another co-
lumn of twelve battalions marched upon Wordel.
General Roguet had placed a battalion of the-12th
tirailleurs in the church-yard of Menderhoot. -This
battalion repulsed all the attacks of the enemy,
/and covered itself with glory, ' The road of Meer
Was defended with equal success.' The enemy re-
doubled his attacks an all the points of the line,
and was every where repulsed with enormous loss,
and without being able to d'..tvelope before Hoog-
straten. General Roguet lm'ing learned in •the
evening that a column of 4000. English, under the
command
,of -Sir T. Graham, which had left Ro-
sendoel, Werenlarchiwz,' epon 'Antwerp, and being
ignorant of the force, of the difTerent corps of the
enemy which alight attack him, judged it neces- ,
sary to approach nearer to Antwerp, the better to
appreciate their deploying,; and concentrate his
defence. Ile. inclined upon Winegeem, where he '
supported his right, his left was connected with
the corps from Antwerp, which occupied Mer Zen
aod Deurne. •
The 12th passed in making movements atitl diS-
positions to give a good reception to the enemy,
who, after the severe losses lie had suffered on the
11th, advanced with great cititiO.n.
On the 13th, at eight in the morning, the corps
of Billow debonched by the routes of Braaschel
and Turnhout, while a column of light infantry,
arriving by the way of Scitoten, tried to separate
General _Rogue( from.the ofOzarne,'-cebich
was defended by a brigade of the young guard.
At the' same mbinent, the corps. of: Graham at-
tacked Merxen, which was.oectiPiecl by four bat-,
talions of the Ist corps and a battalion of the la-
bourers of the marine. The cannonade began
along the whole line, and the enemy advanced in
force uponUrinsgeem. Our artillery overwhelmed
theni they made the greatest efforts, and even
sacrificed some soldiers to force the village. Gen.
Roguet thlykmced with five battalions, aad the
enemy was completely repulsed.
. The death of the General of Brigade Avy bad
occasioned a little disorder on Our left. A. batta-
lion of the 4th regiment of light infantry distin-
guished itself by its firmness, and restored .ord,?r.
The village of Merxen was occupied by the enemy
for a moment. Our troops rallied on Dyne, anti.
siatihn the enerrs.r.rrrrc cveiy where relitthed, The
ocrps of Bulow retreated precipitately upan Turn- '
bout, and that of Graham by the road of _Bergen-
op-Zoom.

On the 12th, General. Maison, deceived by
false accounts, thinking that the enemy was ad-
vancing upon Diest and Louvain by la Campine,
had taken with hiM the brigade Aimard of the
corps of General lloguet, had united it with the
divisibn Barrois, which was in reserve at Liers,
and with the cavalry had advanced in the direc-
tion which he presumed the enemy would take :
when he Lad discovered that the news he had re-
ceived was false, he acquired' the certainty that,
the victory was decided; and that the enemy were
in full retreat.• But for this circumstance, which
deprived us for a moment-of part of our force, it.
word(' have been possible, by pursuing the enemy
briskly, to' drive him over the Waal, and to raise
the siege ofGorenin.. The enemy's•troopsin the
north are -partly employed in blockading Wesel,
Naarden, Gorcum, Deventer, anti the Helder.
When the brave Admiral Verhuel was informed
of the enemy into Holland, he retired to ,the Het.
der, and 'occupied the forts of Larable and Mor-
land, and other fortified points which cover the,
Helder and Moerdike. All possible means and;
persuasions have been ew;doyed to make him be-
tray • his duty —"I have provisions; for two
months,", was his answer; '' I have taken an.
oath of allegiance to- the Emperor of the French." •
The admirable system of defence %i'hich has se-
cured- the Helder from attack, is :due to the CO-
lone!' of Etigineers M. Paris. If many millions
have been spent; we have gained -the •inestimahle
advantage 'of holding the key of the:Znycler-Zee.
It- is for want of having' taken. this, precaution,
that the Republic of Holland lost two squadrons
•
since 1793. The garrison of the Helder has made
several Sallies, and driven the enemy as . far as
Alkmaar. The garrison of (loariAt;*.hail,elt@Wise,
in several sallies, occasioned the enemy severe
losses. •