The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-11 00:00:00

IMI'F4RIAL DECREES.

" Head-quarters, Frismel, March 5, 1814.
"Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of
Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the
Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation,
&c. &c. &c.

".COnsidering that the enemy's Generals have
declared that they would shoot all the country
people who should take up arms, we have decreed
and ,do flocree as follows :

" Art. I. All French Citizens are not only authorised to fly
to arms ; but required to do it, to sound the tocsin as soon as
they shall hear the cannon of our troops approaching them ;
to assemble, to scour the woods, cut slowo the bridges, inter..
r 11:i the communication, and to fall upon the Ilsznlis and rear
•f enemy. •

"2. Every French Citizen taken by the enemy, and who
Anil he pot to death, shall be instantly revenged by the death.

a:: r of in enemy's prisoner.
Our
.111inisters are charged with the execution of the
preset Decree, which ►hall be printed, posted up, and inserted
inlheitintletins of the LaiTs..
(Signed)

" NAPOLEON."

" By the Empsror,
(Signed) " The Duke of BA'SSANO,
" The MiniAter Secret;ry of Stue."

• Redd-quarters, Frismes, March 5.
cr Napoleon, Emperor of the French, li:if% of
Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the
Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Contedera.

&c. &c.

" Considerhog that the inh:tbitants of the towns

and country, indignant at the horrors committed
upon them by the eneni, and especially by the
Russians and the Cossacks, fly to arms through
a just sentiment. of national honour, to arrest
parties of the enemy', carry off his convoys, and
do him the utmost possible injury ; but that in
some places they have been turned from it by the
Mayor or other Magistrates—

• 4 We hilve decreed, And do decree As follows :

'' Art. 1. Mayor;, pablie Functionaries, and !nimbi-
tanti, who, instead of exciting.. the patriotic rilovetucnt of
tl;c people, damp it, L (ii..,41,4f1ing the citizens front a tegi-
tina4te defence, shall be condemned as traitors, and treated
as

Our Mini%teri are charged with the execntion of
the present decrea, which shall be inserted in the• Bulletin of

Lav%s.

By the Emperor,
(Sigr ed) " The Mae of BASSANO,
" The '.‘linitcr Secretary of State.'•'

COPY Or A,LETTER FROM TM: MARSHAL. DUKE OF

CASTIGLIONE TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINIS-

'rut AT

" I-lead-quarters, Sous de Saulnier,
.March 2, in the Ect:ning.

" Your Excellency has seen by myletter of the
ri3th February, that I had given the necessary
orders to my 'army to march upon Fran,che

Diet. ,
The contingents of each Canton., in men and money, to be
regulated by the Diet.
Commerce to be tree. and unimpeded throughout SNiit-
(Signed) " NAPOLEON. I zerland.

The Gantan of Zurich to be the first Carton,. and the
Burgomaster of Zurich fir the time being, to.be 'the Presi-
dent of the Diet.

BERLIN, FEB. 24 —The Dutch General Daen-
duls is arrived mere •noun Warsaw, on his way to

The 3d battalion of a regiment xvhich, was
formed in Sweden, out of deserters and prisoners
of war, chiefly Dutchmen by birth, has passed
through here on its way toliolland.,

1/IEGE) FEE. 28.—Yesterday evening, the Crpwzi

Prince of Swetlen eatevcd OaS athidst the
greatest rejoicings. He alighted at Ow Assent-
burg hotel, where he was waited upon by the Au-
thorities of the Department, and it Committee of
the Central Government. - His Royal highness
crime front Aix-la-Chapelle, and his suite was very
numerous und brilliant.

BRUSSELS, MARCH j.--There are still at this
moment 4000 French troops at Menlo. It is said
that General Borstal having detached a corps of
5000 men against General Maison, the latter re-
tired in haste to Lisle : 8 pieces of cannon and
600 prisoners were, however, taken from him.

Our Provisional Governmant has addressed, a
proclamation to the inhabitants of these provinces,
inviting them to come forward with voluntary
subscriptions for the arming of a force for the
defence of the country..
We hare received the following list of superior
Officers who were made prisoners at Dantzic :
Besides the Governor Count Rapp, there were
the Generals of Division Hendulet, Graudjean,
Bacheln, Lepin, Campredon ; the General of
Brigade, Admiral Dumanoir, d'llcricourt,
liusson, Bcsancourt, Fatine, Cavagnac, Prince
Radzivil and the Neapolitan General% of Brigade
Destrees ; and Pcpe.
AMSTERDAM, MARCH 7.—Our paper of this day
contains a list of 152 Gentlemen, selected from
the department of the Zuiderne, who arc to
form a part of the Assembly of Notables, ap-
pointed to take into consideration the plan of a
Constitution.

The raising of the 18 battalions of Landsturm
for this city, which commenced on the 18.1► of
February, is now completed. Yesterday, after
church time, all the battalions assembled on their
different parades, for the purpose of being exer-
cised : the good. order and regularity which the
ineurbers of these corps have displayed, both in
the course of their raising and their exercise,
prove ti►e excellent spirit with •vhich they are
animated. Thus, in less than three weeks, these
18 battalions, consisting of 600 men each, and
amounting in the whole to 10,800, have been
armed and organised ; and a part of them have
already replaced the national guards in .the ser-
vice of the city, the latter having marched cif for
Naarden.

BREDA, Msncrt 5.---,Yesterday arrived here a
convoy of French prisoners, taken by General
Win4ingerode in the affair at Soi3sons. They
coni.ist of General Longchamp, 5l officers, and
1,866 subalterns and privates.
On the 3d, the' British troops broke up from
their positions, to place themselves nearer Ant-
werp, and h!tween that city and Bergen-op-
Zoom. The head-quartefs are at' Calmhont. The
four battalions of Dutch troops which serve with
them are at Groot-zundert and Rysbergen.

STUTGARDT, FEB. 21.—A column of Wuttcm-
berg troops, under I‘lajor-General Spitzenberg,
this day departed for the Grand Army, with the
sth train of reserve ammunition. By these and
other reinforcements our army corps will have
been increased to 24,000 men.

The landsturm of Wurtemberg k now ot4ganis-
cd, and almost completely provided with officers
:Ind arms. It consists of 110 battalions, forming
four divisions, and composing a force of 110,000
men besides 2000 cavalry.
- The Military force of tlik kingdom,- therefore,
including guards, garrisons,,sooo cavalry, 27,000
regulary infantry, and 112,000 of landsturm, may
be estimated at a total of 144,000 men ; a pro-
digious amount, certainly, -for a State that has not
more than 1,400,000 inhabitants.

FRANKFORT, FEB. 20.—0 n the night of the
15th inst. the same calamity► occurred which hap-
pened in 1812, when the Woaden Barracks and
Hospital here, containing 1009 sick persons be-
longing to the Austrian army, were burnt down.
On this occasion the structure was completely
levelled with the ground. and a great number of
the patients lost their lives ; but the report stat-
ing the particulars as to the sufferers, has not yet
appeared.

TRIESTE, JAN. 21.—Yesterday we saw return
my into this port the ship of his Britannic Majes-
ty, the Eagle, comnianded,by Capt. Sir C. Row-
ky, already so well known in this town, since
the siet,T at the castle, in which he so Much dis-
tinguished himself, as we have-mentioned several
times already. From that moment he "has nut
ceased to acquire more titles to public gratitude,
as Commander of the expedition to the mouths of
the Po.

The success of that expedition, which has-ac-
•complished the double phjcct of shutting entirely
the Gulgh of Venice, and of securing to the Aus-
trian at my of Italy a secure pOsition on the right'
bank. of the'Po, is principally to be attributed to
the unrelaxing zeal of that Captain, who not only
directed the naval movements of it, sufficiently
difficult, especially at this season of the year, but
who also co-operated in tine taking of the ene-
my's forts which defended all that coast, and in-
cessantly supported, for more than two months,
all the operations of the General Count Nugent,
sometimes with the gun-boats, in the vations ra-
mifications of the Po, and sometimes by heading
the seamen on shore, not inteting with any ob-
stacks which his activity could not overcome.
• It is, in consequence,, with great regret that we
see we tiro shortly to be deprived of the presence
of that respectable Officer, who,,in a few days, is
to return to England. The time of ...his- mission
had been expired for some days, but his noble zeal
(IA not allow him to leare those seas as. long as
could find opportunities of being employed iu
expeditions useful to that grand cause notw defend-
ed by-'the Allied Powers.

NAVA L NEWS:

REPORI OF THE ADVANCE OF LORD WELLIN-.4

INTO THE INTERIOR OF FRANCE•
PORTSMOUTH', MARCH 10.—Arrived the :.=••'
cartel, with sixteen British passengers, it,r°
Morlaix, having been delivered up on excna.9"
by the French Government. Previous to tlig
cartel sailing, there was a report at Morlaix,
Lord WELLINGTON had penetrated considers"
into the heart of France.
, oft'
DEAL, MARCH lo.—Came down from tne
several sail of outward-bound, and sailed tillctet
convoy of the Olympia cutter, for Portscnouthi
among them are, the Frienship, for DernerAr9.'
Mary, for Tobago ; Maria Caroline, for l'as'
sages; Sanderson and Eclipse, for Spain.---Nry
N. E.
le
POPORTSMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Sailed the ReuAn rf,;s
sloop of war, with a convoy for Plymouth. P;
Majesty's . ship Hamadryad gives instructions
the trade bound to Quebec, Nova Scotia, iles
Brunswick, and Newfoundland.—Wiml
FALMOUTH, MARCH B.—Sailed the rr--dncint
Freeling packet, with mails and passengeTS,
Passages ; Duke of Marlborough racket, for 'n";
bon ; and the Dasher, Ily-14E-, and Sarah,
LEROE (two merchantmen), for Aialta. The lAr.
Castlereagh packet, with mails, &c. for
is gone into the Roads.—Wind N. t.
PLYMOUTH, MA c 9.—Sailed the Pheagli.ft
sloop of war, with a fleet of nine sail, for P.'
sag es.—Wind East.
HAnwicn, :MARcit 10.—Sailed the Lord PP(/'
can and Francis Frceling packets, with mails an
passengers, for Helvoetslnvs.—Wind N. E.