The Sun.
London, England, 1813-12-24 00:00:00

MALE= ird frIF, CRO;VN PRINe4.

" Lt..thetlr, 6,1611.
" General buiokir; with his.troops,'lms carried
by aSsanit tht-fOrtress of Arnbeim, a Place of the
greatest iMpiirlarite ree the defence of 'Holland.
It had a garrison of 4,000 men ; the works were
in..a very good state; and mostly armed. On this
occasion the Prussians gaffe a tiew proof of the
inttepidity which characterises them. The loss of
General Billow, In killed and woithded, *as 300
men ; that of the enerhy must have been consi-
derabk.. Sonic hundreds of prisoners were taken.
Major Markly; with n detachment forming
part of the odvanced guard of General IVinzinge-
rOdei entered Amsterdam on the 24th of Noveni-
her, amidst the acclamations of the inhabitants.'
lie was tibikiwed by General lienkeridorti.
" On the 27th of November, General Gagarin,
with 300 dismonnted 'Cossacks, attacked the gar-
rison of liovuutet, who hod sallied out for the
purpose of burning or occupying one of the sub-_
urbs ; amt after a very obstionte`conthat:s be drove
back the enemy 'as far as the bridge, killed a num-
bet', and took 00 prkouers.
" On the 28th, ctilonel' Narisehltin -occupied
Amersfort, the garrison of, which retired upon
Naardcn.
",The two forts of Cuxhaven, Faro, and
poleon, arc taken. The garrisons are prisoners of
.war.

" We a're imporing the fortifications of Does-
burg and Zutphen.
" General Winzinv,erode has sent to the Crown
Prince the keys of the city of Utrecht,' taken by
the troops of Colonel 7;,tristikin. The :Prince
Royal transtnittec,l to the Emperor Alkm-
antler.

" Count Strogonotl'is charged with the blockade
of liprburg. .
"The Swedish army having approaChed the
Stecknitz, with the corps of Lutzow, occupied
the points from the mouth of that river to the
environs of Michell. Dispositions were made for
attacking the enemy. On the 2J Of December.—
General (;onnt Wormizoiv, .aryl General Tetten-
born, bad received orders to cross the Elbe at
.Boitzenburg. The Marshal Prince of Lekniuld
abandoned his position in the night, and retired
behind the Bilk. Major Cederstrom, with a :ly-
ing. corps, at' the same time passed the Elbe at
Geschstadt. The troops crossed the Steekaitz,
pursued the enemy's rear-guard, and took ciine
prisoners, •
- " The left bank of the Stecknitz presents, at
certain points, heights and positions which ap-
pear unassailable. The borders of the river which
the enemy.ocenpied are very rugged, and the other
bank is almost every where marshy. The acces-
sible points display entrenchments constructed
with great care, palisadoed and Prized in a way
that might have stopped, for
njany days, the pro-
gress of the most intrepid and, must warlike
troops. • ' , •
" The army made a movement on its right ;
General ‘Voronzow advanced upon Lanenburg
the Swediiit army upon pollen Ind Ratzeburg.
On the 3d General Woronzow marched upon
Schwarzenbeck, and carried Bergcciorf by assault.
I he cavalry made some ivisoneri.
" General Tettenborn advanced upon Amfelde,
and*conneeting hintssell with Count Woronzow's
cavalry, Cut off the communication between g3in-
bargh.and Lubeck.
" On the 4th, General Wallmoden passed the
Stecknitzs and collected the greater part of liis
corps at Klinkrade. His advanced guard encouit
tercel the enemy at the village of Sieveobatitti, and
drove him from it, after taking some prisoners.
The. Swedish army marched between 'the
Waeknitz and the Stecknitz, pushed its advanced
posts upon the left bank of the latter river, and
drove away the enemy'.
"• General•Vegesack crossed tale Wacknitz at
Grunan, and re•established the bridge at Cronies.-
; he took the left of the Swedish army. A
strong detachment of all arms, commanded. by
Lieut.-Colonel Aackarsward, remained between
the Waeknitz and the Trave, to observe Lubeck
ON that side, and to collect materials for the con-
straetion of a bridge opposite Schwartun.
" On the morning of the sth, General Posse
canted a division of the brigade of General &ink-
zenbehri to attack the enemy's position upon the
Landvehr, and after a short musketry fire he ear•••
ried the redoubts., and re-establiihed the bridge.
Some Men were killed and wolinded. The Barou
the Melin, of the Ist Regiment of Guards,, a dis-
tinguished officer, was killed in this affair.
" General Vegcsack passed the Stecknitz, in i
order to join Count Wallmoden, who, was to ad-
vance upon Oldeslooe. it being intended to carry
Ltibeek by. eieWide, Marshal ' Count Stedink
caused the Swedish army to'. advance. When ar-
rived at,balf a league from the town, ire ordered
.a halt, to wait for the ladders : during the inter-
val he engaged in parleys with the enemy. It
was already three o'clock, the ladders were not
yet come up ; the knowledge which he had of the
fortress of Lubeck, and of the means of defence
which it afforded to a man olskill and resolution,
induced Marshal Stedink not to reject proposals'..
General Lalleinand signed with Col. Biorostierna,
chief of the stall' of the Swedish army, a capitula-
tion, importing that the enemy's troops • should
evacuate the town at ten atniight, give up at five s, „
in the afternoon the Mollen-gare, and not he par- ample.
sued till day-break of the following morning, -
we s"`
"'!'he enemy havin• only to defend the front, •right in the judgment of otir Readers,
. After these general remarks, to set ("'-',1.`..te1;
0
of the Mollen-gate, covered hy. a double ditch
P to examine the very dochtile";
filled with water, and aiivanced works, had it al-- ()NAN°
ways in his power to effect hi: retreat while there in our second page, the speech of
n the 19'1"
was no bridge upon the Trave, and accoroing to to the Legislative Body at Paris, 0
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the uniform reports of the Fingineers, 24 hoar; or however va " meaning,
6ne or lin
rite
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would have . been regaisite throw one over.—
factory, for :want of Precisiml, 611 barlWl:of
The trotvs entered the town
.at ten at night-.
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'` The cotton retired upon Scgeberg. -General ;• may be, yet, in the
Wallanylen is- marching' upon that Pohli "I: Europe, it *mast be viewed as 11'11W° ` or
of the tear
General .31tiOldebraUd began morning at sip c,
•: ,exposition of the situation of Francwoof
o'Clock to pursue the enemy with his
Ruler, and of drew) I
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SOme 'Mint'; eds of prisoners have already Preen per and designs of her .
with wirki%
made, connected with the Confederates 'ts e
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" The inhabitants of Lubeck were
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were previously unacaisain e ney
to second, by means more OileaCioni than mere its
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'The daini cif victoriet;, arifi the cluirie of
ralleled defeCtiOnB, in the first paragraph, ire pass
over as unworthy cif comment.—We in
the conclusion, and shalt not too Minutely
the means led to that
when IttrosAPAirin truly say " AU. tiai
Thenioclern Despot,. '•
Deserted is his utinc”t need,"

Claims mine of our comOssiod. Flistdry prov2s
the truth i;vontrovertilily, that Ty. rauts• have

Ili) friends in the hour of adversity,. The
nett assertiOri respecting the safety of France,
its unity and energy, We. take cum granO
141!s• Yet we believe that Prance is united—
tt°t in. the Wish to support her ruthless
iiressor ; hut, on the contrary, to witness
overthrow, and the re-establishment of
I"Ce Oil secure and lasting bases. The whine
till(' cant of the three following passages arc
• Cgusting beyond Measure. He, PAIONArARTE,
talk of the gentle altections, of his need of sym-
prtthy, of lii generosity to pro-
ttrate Sovereigns ; be ! the veriest cold-blooded
nuirderer that ever polluted a Throne by usurna-
ti") or mleked with unfeeling apathy the miseries
he (leaped upon Mankind !
" I have never been seduced by prosperity. Adversity
*ill always find we superior to its attack:l:"
What does he mean by this ? If that Prospe-
rity has never caused,him to entertain unbounded
ambition and to aim at the undivided Empireof the.
\rwid, then,indeett,lie has never been seduced be-
Yond the limits ofordinaryand legitimate desires. Be-
yond these 6reamseribed objectshe has certainly not
yen! ured. He has not, like "Macedonia's madman,"
corc(Nei. co the habitable globe, and wept because he
could not lead his legions to other spheres. But
if it
be a seduction by prosperity to have thirsted
fat.
!Illiversal dominion, to have openly declared.
ti hat every nation on the earth should be dragged
to Conformity with his destinies, and that the race
of man should have no law but• his despotie:
,
kill, . then LaS BUONAPARTE been • misled by
Prosperity
thenhas the
bipated monster swell-
,cd i'l wretched preSumption and lawless vanity to
°wit undoing. Hearken to the, egotistical up-
start '"
I had conceived and executed great de-
foe the prosperity and the happinePs of the
This &If filled his soul ; but the world would
taut agree to his great dc4igns ; thetenseleis world
"iiid be happy in its own way ! Prussia would have
its own and Intlependance, and not be the
':lave of BUONAPARTE, though his groat design
was (as he told them) for their happiness. Hol-
land would be rich and free, and not exhausted
and oppressed tinder a minion brother of . a base
adventurer, though that adventurer assert • till his.
heart aches, that his plan is all for its. gootL
Spain in like manner would have its own .Boultaati
and Government rather than the intrusive Bottle
Xing, and islAeoLsoN's.fraternity, even though
the latter protested it was all for its welfare. But
need not travel over the Continent for. exam-

Alt ----there is not a people who i have submitted
4"ger than force compelled them to the schemes
of universal felicity
,which have reigned in the
breast of the Tyrant, and incited him to massacre
~°lle Moiety of nations that the other might be
tb.lessed, and to cart:), blood, rapine, and desola-
lon, from Calabria to Moscow.
" Al Monarch and a Father, I feet that Peace adds to the

aecui;ty .
ut Thrones, and to that of Parnilies."
True—ne does feel this at last.—His misfor-
‘ tunes have brought it home to him. The rice of
'the French Nation calling out " Peace, Peace!"
does
Convince him, that the security of one
hroae and one Family, at least, (and that
throne and family, the clearest to him because his
lotto
Lkpends upon the realization'pf these expec.-
.-
*ations, Tf he succeeds, be may ()Udine the storm ;
, • if he fails, he is undone. Therefore it is, thiit
Ave • ,
are Jealous of treating with this person) that
the t'le averse to peace with him. Not to con-
Si(
lel at all the political bearings of] this gre,at.
. ,
(11" ti", we put it to the solid sense ann..
tilt tuc of the British Public, did eve the moral
sYstem' of mankind receive so deep. and fa.
Yal a stab as would be given.. by the reception of
—4.APAuTE and his fellow ruffians into the
'lll'ttious family of European Monarchs. - Have we
been taught all our lives to prefer innocence to.
I'lll4 1114 the Christian Religion instructed us that
"31- in this life the wicked shall ileit prosper
"(I shall all the principles of one eduention :be
Lllbterted, and.al the doetrines7 of our faith over-
thrown, by having the notorious example set be-
fore
Our eyes of Vice paramount over virtue, and
vlllany.
triumphant over lionesty,? Above all;
sltall we find In this country any advocates for this
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1,1„, "ticus paradox while.we pose” a sense
b't arid wrong and can diitinguish good fraliV.
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%4i' • nary lates ry ese presenta, It bad then the hare)
4tainz, ssian;. the eOnkt Gf
lieitn wOtild : bit new tiebiys, i;i'hicti are lie., to
be ascribed to France, have deferred this mothetit, whit the
wishes df tti vorlifeagerly call fOr."t
In other worth, in), proudssfornabb haS cOlne
tiu.:n; and,l have .been compelled tti accept df
terms, in the hope that opportunity of avengilig
myseltf.or this humiliation -hereafteraccording to
the adViee of 'BElttlibtli.. -What..theie terms
,ake
is yet unknown. We hope tbe.Allies have trusted
.their advertary as they would the " Lion
fanged," for they knovir him. With 'regard. to
the delays, it is stifOCiently obvious that
the splendid Revolution in Holland (certainly not
ascribable to " the will, though readily ascribable
to the oppreiiion Of BUONAPARTE) must IlaVa de-
ranged any previous bases of treaty concerted.
There were also very unaccountable delays at
Prague ; may we hope for similar results at
Manheim !

We find that this copious subject has grown on
us beyond our intention, and that we must defer
its hailer consideration till to-morrow, brio...fly
noticing the *call.(oh monstrous !) fur " new-sa-
crifices" in treasure and lives, The common-place
assertion of there being no obstacle to peace on
the side of BUON.U'ARTE is what might have been
expected—He himself is the obstacle to the re-
pose of the world.

'N'tre repeat our Second and Third Editions of
yesterday in our first 'page, whenee- our Readers
,will•gather the best information relating tt.the
Mission of Lord CASTLEREAGH, and other mat-
ters of peculiar interest.

We I►ave received the following letter from our
Correspondeat at Yarmouth, bi►t have not yet,
been able to ascert►►in in town the nature .of. this
Communication. We believe it relates to the se-
paration of Denmark from rWONAPARTE.

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" YAVMOUTH, DEC. 23.
. ; A Dutch scbuyt arrived yesterday• M. oom
Xiotland with a Messenger. He does not bring
any stews of importance.
" The Lark packet arrived also yesterday with
mails and passenger:, from Heligoland. The Count
Da STAcKENETLDE a General lately in the Drench
service, and his Seat ctary, landed from her, accom--
panied by Major STEPHENSON, an Eliglish. Of-
icer, and proceeded for tondon.' He is said to
lie charged with a communication of impOrtOnce
to Gov:ernMent, and was committed to Cie core of
Major 'STBPLIENS UN by Count WALMODENT. The
Major also is the hearer of dispatches on the same
subject." .

The Frerick Papers contain, as We yesterday
stated, assertions of a victory 'at Bayonne ; but
we have no hesitation in adhering to the account
we• received from Guernsey, and inserted in THE
§IIN of yesterday. The Bayonne versiOn is too
apparently irreconcilable with common sense
to require exposure or refutation. The battles
on the 10th, 11th, 1201, and 13th, seem to have
taken place along the whole line, especially
where Lord WELLINGTON commanded in person,
and on the right, the action of the 9th was
chiefly confined to our left. A kind friend has just
favoured us with the following :
" There can be no tionbt, front Souvr's own ac-
count, or rather the Baycinne'account, that from
the 9th to the 13th inclusive, 'the
,French have
been uniformly beaten, and that Lord WELLING-
TONihaS not only maintained his [v.-mind,: but ac-
tually advanced further into the rear of Bayonne.
There are, we understand, private ketters'in town
from Sir U. COLI;IER, of the 12th, which mention
the fact of three German Battalions coming over
to Lord WELLINGTON, but the distance of Pas-
sage from the scene of action did not enable him
to give any particulars of battles , then actually
fighting."

:Lord CASTLEREAUx does not set out till Sunk'
day or iNionclay,. 'llr. JACKSON, brother to the
late Minister hi America, accotnpaincs his Loid-
s!lip.

It is strongly reported that Bergen-op-Zoom

is taken.

No further accounts of the Toulon affair. We
continue of the same opinion we wereyesterday,
that it is unfounded.

We give a few Itirtiter Extracts from Amcricatv
Papers to the .1 Rh Noveniber—but they 'are, of
•
little interest.

By the Cadiz Papers, which arrived yesterday
to the 4th instant, we- learn,, thit on the 20th of
NOveMber, the Cortes suspended their sittings in
'the Isle of Leon, which are to m
be resued iniga-
drhlon the 15th of.lanuary;lBl4. All the branches
Of the 'Government were remov:ing trout Cadiz to
fthat ca )Ital.
•- The Utirl 'of LivErtPoov was praent with Lord
CAsft.gateAqa. when -he had tile interview with
the Pricir. REGitvr .npon the cuntoits of the