The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-08 00:00:00

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" CIIAMBE,RY, FEB. 23.

" M. LE CouNT,—i hasten to announce to you, that our
troops have entered Aix : our cavalry executed a charge, and
took live of the enemy's hussars. The Austrians are in full
retreat. lam about to proceed to make arrangements, and I
Teckon on returning hither to-night. Our troops will take a
position to-night at Alby.
The inhabitants of Aix yesterday illuminated their town
an our arrival. The Austrians have left them nothing.
'' I am, &c.
" MERCHAND, General of Division."

PARIS, MArcn 2.--They write from Meaux
that Marshal the Duke of Ragusa has obtained,
At Lusy-sur-Ourcq, a signal advantage over the
enemy ; the latter is retiring before- our troops.
Letters from Amiens announce, that the enemy's
detachments which occupy Doulans have been
driven from it.

. .
TROY ES, FEB. 28.—The Emperor has gratified
all our wishes, by passing three days in his good
city of Troyes. The house which he inhabited was
constantly surrounded by an immense crowd, who
til\lays entertained the hope of seeing his Majesty;
but ;luring these three days the Emperor did not
stir out once. On the 27th at mid-day, his Ma-
jesty, surrounded by his brave guards, took the
road to Arcis. The people pressed around him
in passing. The air resounded with cries of
Vice l'Empereur. The • same enthusiasm was
excited by the presence of his Majesty, when he
entered our walls victorious ; all thought they
could not testify too much gratitude : and, in
fact, the details with which we have been made
acquainted, could not fail to add to our love of
the sovereign. The French at my had arrived in
a suburb about three in the afternoon ; it could
Lave entered the city with the fugitives, but the
Emperor chose rather to suspend the march of the
troops than to expose our city to the flames, with
which it was threatened by an enemy enraged at
being vanquished.
. _ _

vi=, lf„.;„ctv ki,‘ nijlit at a miserable
bander, am? it was not till eight in the morning
that he made his Ciliraflee into our city. The
circumstances of that happy day will never be
efTheed from our memory. Every body approach-
ed the Emperor, spoke to him, pressed his hand,
tha.:ked him with tears. His Majesty seemed
aifected, and saw in these marks of attachment
the joy of children on the rtturn of a cherished
father.

On the evening of the 26th, Arcis-sur-Abbe was
retaken by our troops ; the enemy was flying at
rill points. He had learned the movethent which
the Emperor tivas makii!g, and we know that his
approach always precipitates the flight of the
enemy's armies. We expect to receive important
news.

Every body here becomes a soldier, arms him,-
selt., and breathes only vengeance. •
he enemy could not have behaved worse. Af-
ter having pillaged a fine paper-tuanufactory in
the Yicinity of our city, he threw all the paper
into the river, to a considerable amount, and de-
stroyed all the machinery. Nothing can be more
th:o the outrages committed by them in
the small towns and in the country. After pil-
laging every thing, they set tire to the houses.—
The iolnibitants are filled with rage—they arm,
and rush on the barbarous authors of so many
atrocities. At Troyes, on their retreat, the in-
habitants took or killed 400 men ; a butcher•
threw a paving-stone at General \Vrcde, who was
I\nooked front it S horse ; a peasant of Vandceuvre
took 12 stragglers .Fisoners, afzer -having shut
them tip iu h's house, which they had entered to
plunder ; boys of 12 or 13 have shewn the
greatest courage and brought in prisonerb.

REPORT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER OF

THE iNTEIIit)R BY M. DESPREZ CRASSIER„ AU-
DITOR T( IHE COUNCIL OF STATE, DATED
r.IARC! 2, 1814

I now Ia ir:forc. you the heart-rending picture
of Ihc c.,!l:naities and outrages which the inhabi-
tant• of the commun;:s 1 have visited have expe-
Tienced u the cinuny. It will be an abstract of
the subscribed dopot;itions taken by verbal exami-
nation, andan abridged-dettil of thelw,-ock which
I have seen with my oivn eves.
That part of the enemy's army which cause() all
these evils, was chieliy composed of Russian
troops, a small utr:nber of Bavarian and Wurtem-
bergers, mid some Hungarian hussars.
At Nangis the inbilbitaitts generally had to
complain Of lil idge: their personal outrages leave
frightful recollvction3 ; pillage itself was always
a,:colnpanicd incirices, very often with ill
treaZinent ; and teas t,ith pistols at their breasts,
and the sabre over their heads, that these bri-
g:rads compelled the unfortn hid te- inhabitants to
declare where. their money acid valuable effects
were concealed.

The Ist i0u1(2,1 depositions state, that a female
received front these miscreants a blow on the
loins, ivthth • fi,ir side of their sabre, which de-
f sense ; that they held a knife to the
throat of another to compel her to disclose
where her money was ; that the two husbands of
these women were cruelly struck, and that one of
them, after being beatea in his own, house, was

driven Wale enemy's camp with blows of the fist,
rind •he butt-ends of muskets : there the brigands
compelled him to strip, and were about to shoot
when an officer fortunately came up, and de-
livered him out of the hands of, these barbarians.

At the house of the man of landed property,
Ns, h o mattes the sixth deposition, the✓ perpetrated
the most horrible excesses. With blows of the
fist and the butt-end of their must-icts,. they dv-
manded his brandy and money. I myself saw the
bloody marks of the blows which he received ; but
their fury did not stop there : four females from
the commune of Bailly, and canton of Mormant,
had taken refuge .With this proprietor; two of
them were girls from 12 to 13, the others were
women from 28 to 35. These unfortunate crea-
tures-were the victims of the brutality of these
ferocious men ; and an eve-witness, who •wished
to prevent their outrages, was hint elf severely
beaten.

[The report, after describing a variety of similar
outrages on the persons of individuals, proceeds
as follows
There is not a farmer, an innkeeper, or an in-
habitant, who has not seen his cattle, his imple-
ments of agriculture, his property, his furniture,
carried off, wasted, or burnt. The churchea and
ministers of religion have not been spared more
than others.

The strongest language would fail in describing
the mournful aspect which these ravaged habita-
tions present. The Secretary of the Ma}•or of
Rampillon, who has been a sohher, declared to
me, that he never saw troops deliver themselves
up to pillage with such horrible rage, even when
licensed so to do.

At Nangis visited a number of farm-houses,
which had been previously well furnished ; but
now in all the apartments nothing was to be seen
but fragments of broken and half-burnt furniture,
feather beds and mattresses torn to pieces, and
the feathers and wool scattered about. It was
with the wood-work of this furniture, of waggons
and ploughs, -and with the fruit-trees of orchards
and gardens, that they lighted their tires at the
bivouacs, and roasted the cattle which they bad
carried off and killed - •

- In all the places I have passed through,
the inhabitants hare declared that these banditti
spoke only of pillaging and horning Paris. 1 have
been assured that each of them had a torch slung
at his back ; and when asked what use they meant
to make ot it, they universally answered, that it
was to set fire to Paris, where they calculated on
arriving by the 18th of February. This fact was
confirmed to the by M. Grabwisky, Mayor ot
Marmont, a Pole by birth, who understood their
language. --
The picture of the calamities which these un-
fortunate people have suffered, and which are re-
served for all those of the other Departments into
which the enemy may penetrate, must rouse the
indignation of. all Frenchmen, and gire them the
courage and energy necessary to repel those
hordes of barbarians beyond the frontiers, and
force them, by a peace, glorious for France, at
last to give repose to all Europe.

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{From the German Observer, p•ablished at tremo,ll

PARIS„ FEB. 6.7—After the Report which Mr.
Laini, a lawyer, from Bourdeaux, as Member of
the Legislative Body, made upon the Papers rela-
tive to the Negociations for Peace, which were
laid before them on 'the 28th December last, Mr•

Bainouard, from Dijon, made a very remarkable
speech, of which the following is the subEit3nee :
After a pretty long exordium, in which he highly
praises the Emperor for calling the Legislative
Body together, anti communicating the account
of his proceeding, he observes, " that this high
proof of confluence can be justly returned only by
telling his Majesty the plain truth," he proceeds
thus : •

"Political differences, the cause of which is yet
unknown, interrupted the good understanding
between the Emperor of the French and the Em-
peror of Russia. We do not doubt but that the
war was necessary, but it began at a time when
the conduct of it was threatened with danger.
Our armies marched with those of the other Sove-
reigns of the North against the most .powerful
and the most dangerous of them all. Our vic-
tories followed in rapid succession, but they cost
us dear. The terrors of a winter unknown in
our climate changed all our victories into
feats, and the breath of the North destroyed the
flower of the French Army."

The orator now mentions the detection of the
Allies, first that of Prussia, by which the garri-
sons of Dantzie and other fortresses were cut off
from the French army ; the mediation of Austria,
the frnitle,;s hopes inspired by the Armistice, and
the last vain triumphs of the French arms at Lut-
zen and Bautzen.'

lie speaks of the fidelity of. the King of Saxony,
of the indifference Bavaria to the common cause
and its declaration against France when it saw. all
the rest of Europe against her; he laments that a
hero who had the boldness to prefer a throne to the
dignity of a French citizen, should have been led
by political circumstances to employ his power
against the person to whose beneficent hand he.
was indebted for his new dignity. He then con-
cludes--

" Some days of glory were no,w followed by re-
-
verses, more terrible than those by which our first
army was destroyed: Fr we saw all Eurcpc in arms
against her, and while Oie hero of Sw,:den joined
the Allies with his 4ictorious trool's, Holland

broke the 'tics flint bound it with us. Europa was
in filmes, and sought to turn upon France the
conflagration wl►ich consumed her. We are in--
capable, Gentlemen, of chewing you onecheer-
ing spot in the picture of diitrOs which Ire un-
fold to you. An army blasted by the storms of
the Not 6 was replaced by another) the troops
compsing which were torn from the paternal
soil, from the arts, and from trade. This army
was destined to drench with its blood Ltiptig's
fatal plains.

" We must confess, Gentlemen, the victoribus
enemy Laving advanced to the Rhine, offered to
our august Monarch a peace which a hero-accustom-
ed to so many splendid trophies could not but find
extraordinary. But if at that time when the un-
happy fate of France was not wholly decided; a
noble and generous pride preseribed the rejection
of such a peace, it would, however, no longer
be prudent to persist in this rejection, "now that
the enemy has invaded the proper territory of
France. Were the question merely to deliberate
on degrading conditions, his Majesty would have
needed nothing more than to lay before his peo-
ple the project of peace offered by the enemy, but
t.hey do not seem to desire to degrade but to re-
press Us in our ancient frontiers, and to stop the
ebullitions of that ambitious activity which for these
twenty years has been so highly detrimental to all
the nations of Europe. Such proposals do not
seem to offend the honour of the Nation as they
prove that the enemy fear and respect us. IT is
NOT THEY WHO DESIRE TO SET LIMITS TO OUR

POWER; BUT A WHOLE WORLD IN,AhMS RECLAIMS

TILE commoN RIGHTS OF ALL NATIONS !
" The Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Rhine in-
close an immense - territory, which contains pro-
vinces that did not always and originally belong
to the dominion of the three Fleurs de Lis, and
yet the fottner. Royal Crown of France shone
above all other diadems in glory and Majesty—
[Here the President interrupted the Speaker
with the words, " what you say is contrary to the

Constitution.")
Rainouard answered :
" Here is nothing contrary to the Constitu-
tion but your presence ! !'' and continued—
" The Protectorship of the Confederation of
the Rhine has ceased to be a title of honour, since
the moment Oat the people of this Confederation
declared the Protectorship dishonourable to them.
No right of conquest was here exercised, but
only the title of an alliance advantageous to the
Germans.—lt becomes his Majesty's dignity to
leave those people to their fate, Who arc battening
to put thewsclvcs under the yoke of Austria.
As for Brabant (probably Holland) which
the Allies desire to retain, according to the
basis of the peace of Luneville, it seems to us
that France may readily give up a province bard
to be maintained, where the English spirit al-
most exclusively prevails, and to which the trade
with England is so absolutely necessary, that
these countries, since we governed them, are
sunk into poverty anti misery. Have not we seen
the noble families of Holland fly from their na-
tive soil, as if contageous diseases reigned there,
and carry the wealth and the industry of the
country to the enemy ? Courage is doubtless ne-
cessary to preach truth to the heart of our. Mo-
narch; but must we not rather risk his displea-
sure than abuse his confidence; rather endanger
our lives, than the welfare of the people whom
we represent Nothing must deceive us. Our
sufferings are at the height. Our Country is
threatened in all its frontiers, Trade is anni-
hilated ; agriculture languishes ; industry is
checked every Frenchman has suffered in his
fortune or his family, wounds difficult to be
cured. For these five years the peasant has not 1
enjoyed the fruits of his labours—he can scarcely
subsist, and the produce of his labour serves but
to enrich the treasury, which is annually drained
for time supply of our army,continually wasted and
famished. The conscription is become a hate-
ful scourge to all France, because this measure
is incessantly renewed. Since two years the
youth are carried off thrice in the year. A
cruel useless war periodically devours the youth
orn from education, agriculture, commerce, and
Are the tears of mothers, the sweat of
me people, among the regalia of Kings ? It is
me nations should again breath freely. It is
me, that the thrones of Kings should be coma-
fated, and people should cease to reproach
France with desiring to throw into all the coun-
tries in the world the firebraruls of destruction.
Our august Monarch who partakes in the zeal
that animates us, and is ardently desirous to
insure the happiness of his people is alone worthy
to begin
,this great work. Military ambition and
thirst of conquest may mislead a great heart, but
the genius of a true hero, who despises a glory
purchased with the blood and repose of nations,
finds his true greatness in the public welfare,
whiclt is his work. The Monarchs of France hays

m arts.

ever prided tletwely:es •c.v;ng their Crovffn
Got), their 'people, and their sword, becaus('
peace, good moral 3, and strength are, next t*
freedom, the firmest pillars of Empires."'

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'I he Answer of NAPOLEON to.the Address o:tiles
Legislative Body was as- follows :
I have prohibited the printing of your Ad;
dress ; it is seditious. Eleven twelfths of tlue
Legislative Body consist of good -citizeus---
I know and respect them. The other twelfth
contains rebels and bad citizens, and your Cora-
mittee is amongst the number. (This Committee
consisted of Messrs. Lain 4, Rainouard, Galbk,
Mayne le Bryant, and Flanquergues). Lain 6 is
a traitor, who corresponds with the Prince Re-
gent through' the medium of iJeseze. I know
it, and have proofs. .The other four are
seditious persons. This twelfth consists- of
men who wish for anarctly, and are like
the Girondists ! Whither did such conduct lead
Veragniaud and the other Chiefs ?. To the scaffold!
At this moment, when we have to drive the ene-
my from our frontiers; is not the time kb • desire
changes in the Constitution. People should fol-
low the example of Alsace, French Coma:, ana
the Vasges. The inhabitants apply to me for
arms and olliers, and I have sent them some
Adjutants. You are not the representatives
of the nation, but the deputies ,of • the de-
partments. I called you around me to ohm
tain support from you, not because I want for
courage, but because I hoped that the Legislative
Body would increase my courage.—lnstead of this
it has deceived me—instead of the good I expect•
ed of it, it has done mischief,, a small mischief in-
deed, because it could not do greater.—You seek in
your Address to separate the Sovereign from the
Nation. I alone am the true representative of'the
people, and which of you would chuse to take oa
himself this burden ? The throne is but a piece
of wood, covered with velvet—l, I alone, am the
true representative of the people. If I would fol.'
low you, I should give up to the enemy more Oar'
he himself requires. In three months you will
have peace or I will be annihilated. But now en^
crgy is necessary. I will advance after the enemy,
and beat them. The moment when Huningen
bombarded and Befort attacked is not the proper
one to complain of the Constitution of the Eur
pire, and the abuse of the Executive Power.

" The Legislative Body is hut a part of- al°
State, and cannot be compared even o'4ll
the , Senate and the Council of State'
-'.-
I am at the • head of the Nation, bec°s
you approve the Constitution as it
Should _France ren,uire another Constitution vrbio'
I did not like, I should then say, look for anc"
ther.Sovereign. The enemy is much more if"
censed against me than against France; but shall
I for this reason allow myself to tear the Znipirc
in pieces % Yes ; I make pretensions because

have courage ; I am proud because I have doll°

such great things fur France.

Your Address is unworthy of me, and of the
Legislative Body ; and I will one day have it
printed, to put the Legislative Body and the Sir"
tion to the blush, Return to your homes, and ba
assured that, even if I should be wrong, it is 10
your business publicly to reproach me for it"'
For the rest, France wants me morel than I soIIC
France."--(German Observer, Feb. 26 and 280

lIELVoETSLUYS, MARCH 6.--By, accounts re°
ceived from the Hague, it appears. that another
battle has been fought between the Allies and
Buonaparter near Bar-sur-Aube, on the 26th °I
February, in which the French were completel/
defeated with the loss of 10,000 prisoners, so

GO piccas of cannon.
COLOGNE, FEB. 23.—The Crown Prince of
Sweden is still remaining in this city, and his de;
parture does nut as yet appear to be fixerl.---&,130.
well known Saxon General Thielman is likelins

expected here.
Besides the Swedish troops which were to crossp
the Rhine at this place, another cvlumn of 10,0 ...
men arc to pass it at Dusseldorff. But the Rhine''
at present so full of ice that it has been necess3l
to take away the draw-bridges ; for which cause
the passage would be very difficult, and even i 01:
practicable, for a body of troops at this motnell"
—(llaarlem Courant, March 5.) •
CARLSRUIIE, FEB. 17.—According to officiarilli
tclligence received from the head-quarters °I.
Lieut:-Gen. Count Von Floehberg, and date,
from Oberhausbergen, of the 12th inst. the Prr;
sons_of Strasburg, Kehl, and Landau, had Oita
several sallies in the course of this' month, nil
were always driven. back by the valour of the atls;
Sian and Baden troops, for Ming the siege of thew
places, tinder the command of that General. jrA
the engagements which have taken place ill
Strasburg, our Lainiwehr, and especially the utd•
and Bth battalions, have particularly distingujille
themselves. (Same Paper.)
pert
tined FEB. 6.--The reinforcements --et
tined tor the Allied Army, have been nol only ve'l
speedily collected, but likewise put in motiori
advanced forwards. An entirely new Austlis
army of reserve has lately passed tlirough tbig
place. Yesterday the last column of it- lett t
place. Their march is brough- up by 4 re.J.l:nev
of dragoons, under the Hereditary Grand Ptlej
of Wurtzburg. 'lbis army, which is coainiji'd

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