The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-05 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, FEB. 25.—0 u the 24th of February, in
the morning, his Majety the Emperor entered
Troyes after some brilliant actions ;if cavalry,
in which we took from the enemy several thou-
sand prisoners and eight pieces of cannon.
PARIS, FEB. 27.—Her Majesty the Empress has
received the following accounts of the situation
of the Armies to the 24th February.

" On the 22d, at two in the afternoon, the Em-
peror went to. the little village of Merg-sur-Seine.
General-Boyer attacked at Merg the wrecks of the
corps of • Generals Blucher, Sacken, and York,
which bad passed the Aube to join the army of
Prince Schwartzenberg at Troyes.
General Boyer attacked the -.enemy at the
pas de ',charge, cr.,erthrew him, and got possession
of the town. The enemy in his rage set the to
it with such rapidity., that it was impossible to
penetrate throng!! the fire to pursue him.---We
took, JOQ prisoners. •
" From the 22d to the 23d the Emperor had
his bead-quarters at..the little hamlet of Chatres.
On the 23d Prince Wentzel Lichtenstein
came to the head-quarters; this new flag of truce
was sent by Prince Schwartzenberg to ask for an
armistice.

General Milhaud, commanding the cavalry
of the 3d corps, has taken prisoners 200 horse-
men, between Pavilion and Troyes. General
Girard, coming from Sens and marching upon
Villeneuve, l'Archiveque, Villen, and Lubaut, fell
in with the rear-guard, of Prince Maurice Lich-
tenstein, and took from him six pieces of can-
non and 600 men on horseback, who were sur-
rounded by the brave division of the cavalry .of
General Rousse.
On the 23d our troops invested Troyes on
all sides. A Russian Aid-de-camp came to the
out-posts to request time to evacuate the city,
otherwise it should be burnt. This consideration
stopped the movements of the Emperor. The
town was evacuated in the night, and we entered
it in the morning. It is impossible to form an idea
of the eAessses thr; ;nh-bitcentc vt-
&wed daring the 17 days occupation of it by the
enemy. It would be equally difficult to paint the
enthusiasm and the transports they shewed on the
arrival of the Emperor. A mother who sees her
children rescued from death ; a slave, .whose
chains are broken after the most cruel captivity,
do not experience more lively joy than that which
the inhabitants of Troves have manifested.
" Their conduct has been honourable"and. wor-
thy of praise. The Theatre was open every even-
ing, but no man, no woman, even of the lower
classes, would appear there.
" Sieur ,Gau, an ancient emigrant, and Sietir
Viderange, ancient garde du corps, declared in
favo.ir of the enemy, and wore the cross of St.
Louis. They have been accused before a private
commission, and condemned to death. The first
. has undergone the sentence ;, the second has been
condemned for non-appearance.
" The whole population desires to ma: tit.
You had good cause,' cried the inhabitants, sur-
rounding the Emperor, to tell us to rise en
masse. Death is preferable to the vexations, the
bad treatment, the cruelties, which we have en-
dured for 17 days.'
" In all the villages the inhabitants are in
arms. Every where they fall on the enemies
whom they meet with. The stragglers, the pri-
soners, deliver themselves up voluntarily to the
gees d'armes, whom they no longer consider as
keepers, hut as protectors.
Gen. Vincent writes from Chateau Thierry,
on the 22d, that the enemy having attempted to
levy requisitions on the communes of Bazzi, Passi,
and Vincelles, the National Guards assembled and
repulsed the enemy, after having , taken and
wounded several men. The same General writes,
under the same date, that a party of Russian and
Prussian cavalry having approached Chateau
Thierry, he caused them to be attacked by a de-
tachment of the 3d regiment of the Guards of
Honour, ccymnanded by the Chief D'Escadrog
Andlau, and supported by the National:Guards of
Chateau Thierry, and of the communes of Bienne
and Crezensi. The enemy was driven away and
put to the route.; 12 Cossacks and 14 horses
were taken ; the National Guards were pursuing
the rest of the troops who bad fled into the
woods.

" iiis. Majesty has even three decorations of

the Legion of Honour to the detachment of the
3d regiment of the Guards of Honour, and the

same number to the National Guards.

"The Count de •Valmy has advanced to-day,

the 24th, upon BJr-sqr-Seine. On arriving at
Saint Paar he fell in with the rear-guard of
General Gullay, ‘vhich be charged and put to the
route,'and has taken 1200 prisoners. It is pro-
bable that Count Vainly will he at Bar-sur-Seine

this evening.

General Girard marched from the Bridge de
la Guillotiere, supported 'by the Duke. of Reggio ;
he adv;inced-upon Lusigny and passed the Baise.
GeneralDubesine has taken• a'position at Monte-

reau, near Vandouevre.

47r Count "Flahaut,' Aid-de-Camp to the Empe-
ror Napoleon ; Count Thieca, Aid-de-Camp to the
Emperor of. Austria ; Count Schouwaloff, Aid-de-
Camp to the Emperor of Russia; . and General
Ranch, Chief of • the Corps of Engineers of the
King of Prussia, are met together at Lusigny, to
treat on the conditions for a suspension of arms.
" Thus, on the 24th, the capital of Champagne
bits been, delivered, and we have taken about 2000
prisoners, among whom are a good many officers.
We have also found in the hospitals a thousand
wounded officers and soldiers left by the enemy."

PARIS, FEB. 28.—Her Majesty the Empress
has received the following accounts of the situa-
tion of the Armies, to the 27th Feb :

" On the 26th, the bead-quarters were at
Troyes. The Duke of Reggio was at Bur-sur-
Aube with General Girard, and the 2d corps of
cavalry ethumanded by Count Valmy,.
". The Duke of Tarentunt had his head-quar.-
ters at Massy-l'Eveque, and his advanced posts at
Chatillon ; be was marching upon the Aube and

upon Chary°. ux.
The Duke of Castiglione, who has under his
command an army of 40,000 men, mostly chosen

troops, was in motion.
" General Marchand was at Chambury ; Gene-
ral Desaix under the wallS of Geneva ; and Gene-
ral Musnur had entered Macon.
" Bourgand, Nantua, were also in our power;
the Austrian General Bubna, who had threatened
Lyons, was retreating on all sides. On the 20th,
his loss was already estimated at 1500 men, of.
whom GOO are prisoners.
" The Prince of Moskwa is at Arces-sur-Aube,
the Duke of Belluno at Planey, the Duke of Pa-
dua at Nogent'; troops were marching in the rear
or Ole remains of the corps of blucher, Jacken,
York and Kleist, who had received reinforce-
ments from Soissons, and were manoeuvring on
the corps of the Duke of Ragusa, who was at La
Fette Gaucher.
" Gen. Duhesme has taken Bar-sur-Aube at
the point of the bayonet, and made some pri-
soners, among whom are several Bavarian of-
ficers."

PARIS, FEB. 27.----To-day, Sunday, the 27th, the
colours recently taken by the Emperor from the
enemy's armies have been presented to ber Ma-
jesty the Empress Queen and Regent. They were
carried by two Officers of the Imperial Guard,
four Officers of the troops of the line, and four
Officers of the National Guard, who set out at
half-past eleven with the Minister of War from
the hotel of his Excellency.
Tlte procession, consisting of various detach-
ments of troops, with music playing, passed into
the court of the Thuillerics. The standards, pre-
ceded by the Minister of llTar and the Staff, were
conducted by the Grand Master of the Ceremo-
nies to the foot of the Throne, on which her
Majesty was surrounded by her attendants, the
Princes, Grand Dignitaries, &c.
His Excellency the Minister of War presented
the standards to her Majesty, and delivered the
following speech :
" MADAM,—New orders from the Emperor lead me to your
Majesty's feet to lay these nee: trophies taken from the ene-
mies of France.
" At the time when the Saracens were defeated by Charles
Martel on the plains of Tours and Poictiers, the capital was
adorned but with the spoils of a single nation. This day, Ma-
dam, when dangers equal to those with which France was
then menaced, have given rise to successes more important,
and which were more difficult to obtain, your august
Spovie offers you standards taken from the three great Powers
of Eui (we.

" Since a biind policy !gas raised up against us so many na-
tions—even those which France has restored to independ-
ence, and for whom she has tootle such great sacribccs—
may we not say that those standards are taken from all
Europe ?

" When our enemies, listening only to the suggestion of
revenge, in contempt of the ordinary rules of war, resolved to
penetrate into this empire, leaving behimitheru the vast cbaiu
of fortresses which surrounds it on all sides—when they de-
signed by a rash measure to get possession of the capital,
without thinking of the means of effecting their rctreatin the
midst of a population whom their conduct has exasperated,
how was it possible that, they were not stopped in this gigan-
tic enterprise by their knowledge of the genius, of the ta-
lents, of the character of the Emperor ? In a few days they
have learned the falseness of their calculations. The hold
and rapid operations I,Vhieli have just bailed their designs,
recal to every mind the gloriovs and memorable campaign in
Italy in the year 5, and that which succeeded it. It was

against the flower of the troops alliod against tie, at 61
battles of ►Montmirail and Vauchainp, at the combat of Monte.
reau that the ten standards were taken, which I present to

your Majesty from the Emperor.
" These pledges of 'French valoUrpreSage to us new and
greater successes, if the obstinacy of the enemyprotracts the
war. This noble hope is in the heart of every Frenchman.—
You share in it, Madam; you, who, always confiding in the
genius of, your 41ugustSpouse, in the efforts and the love of
the nation, have continued to chew in all the circutustances
of this war a firmness of mind, and virtues worthy the admira;.
ti of Europe, and of posterity."

.Her Majesty answered .M. le Due dereltre,
Minister of War : •
"1 see with lively satisfaction those trophies which • you
present me by the orders of the Emperor, my August Spouse.
" They are in my eyes the pledges of the safety of the
country.

" Let all Frenchmen, at the sight of them, rise in arms.
Let them assemble round their Monarch and their Father.
Their courage, guided by his genius, will soon accomplish the
deliverance of our country."

The audience being ended the procession with-
drew, and the standards were taken to the Hotel
des luvalidL. One of them is Austrian, four
Prussian, and five Russian.

Copy OF A LETTER FROM THE MARSHAL .DIME OF

CASTIGLIONE, TO EIS EXCELLENCY THE MINI

STER UF. WAR.

Lyons, Feb. 21.
" Sir,—l hasten to acquaint your Excellency with the 'se,
quel of my operations.
" Your Excellency has see.), by my Report of the 19th inst.
that Genearl Musuier, alter having overthrown the enemy at
.MeXimieux, had advanced upon Bourg. He entered there the
19th, and the 21st, in the morning, be marched upon Port-
sue-Ain, by the road of Bourg, while the brigade of General
Poerchelon took, that of Meximieux. The enemy, who seemed
to have concentrated himself in this important .positiOn, did
not think lit'to remain in it, and hastened to evacuate it, re-
tiring precipitately upon Mantua. I have given orders to Gen.
Mosnier to pursue him briskly, and try to get possessioivof
Mantua, where there are considerable magazines. General
Pauniteer, who, as I informed your Excellency, was march-
ing to Macon, entered it on the 19th, after a smart action,
iu which the enerny,.who wcs about 3000 strong, experienced
a considerable loss in killed and wounded. 1b e took 2CO pri-
soners. Our loss is extremely trifling: Gen. Panniteer has
orders to send out strung detachments towards Chalons and
Dijon. This General communicates also, by Bourg, with
Gen. Musnicr.

" Generals Marehabd. and I)esaix, after having taken
Echelles and Montmeillan, entered, on the 19th, into Chun:-
ben,. whence they intend to proceed tn. Geneva:
" The result of these different operations gives us 800
prisoners, and -insares the speedy deliverance of the de-
partments of the Ain, of the Saone and Loire, and of Mount
Blanc.

" The Generals greatly• praise the excellent spirit Thal
reigns iu the inhabitants of these departments.
" Accept, &c.
(Signed) " AOGEREACT, Duke of Castiglione."