The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-02 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS..

FEB. 23.—iler Majesty the Empress and
titeen has received the following news, respecting
the situation of the Armies, to the 21st of Fe-

•
brnary
Baron Marulez, Commandant at Besancon,
'rites as follows :

" On the 31st of 'January the enemy made an
attack from the side -of Briguelle : in the night,
he caused to play upon the town two batteries of
howitzers and cannon, and attempted an attack
upon the fort of Cbandone ; he was every where
repulsed, amidst the cry of d Nye rEmpereur."
He has lost morc than 1200 men. At whatever
part the enemy presents himself, we are in a con 7
Ilition to well receive him."

All the Cossacks who had spread themselves as
far as Orleans, are hastily falling back.. Every
where the peasants pursue, and take and kill a
great number of them: At "Nogent, these Tar-
tars, who have nothing human, burnt some barns,
to which they set fire with their hands. The pea-
sants having come out to extinguish it, the Cos-
sacks charged them, and rekindled the &le. In a
village on the Yonne, the Cossacks were amusing
themselves in burning-a fine farni-house, the toe
sin was sounded, arid the inhabitants threw some
thirty of them into the flames.
The Emperor Alexander slept on t!;c 1 ith at
Bray x he had fixed his head-quarters on the, fol-
lowing day at Fontainbleau. The Emperor ,of
Austria did not quit Troyes.

The Emperor Napoleon b,ad on the 20th, in the
evening, his head-quarters at Nogent.
All the enemy's army is marching upon Troyes.
Gen. Girard has arrived with his corps, knd the
division of cavalry of Gen. Roussel, at Sens ; he
had his advanced guard at Villaneuve l'Archi-
iNue. The advanced guard of the Duke of Reg-
gio is" half-way between Nogent and.. Troyes, at
Chartres and at Mesgrigny ; those of the Duke of
Tarentum are at I'avillon. The Duke of Ragusa
is at Sezanne, obserVing the movements of Gen.

Winzingerode, who, having left Soilsons, has
marched upon Rheims, by Chalons, to write with
the wrecks of Gen. Blucher's army. The Duke
of Ragusa would fall upon his left flank, if he
should.again engage himself.
Soissons is a place sheltered from a coup-de-:
main, General Winzingerode, at the ilead bt 4
or 5000 light troops, summoned it to surrender.
General Rusea replied as he ought. Winzinge-
- rode placed his 12 pieces of cannon ,in a battery :
unfortunately the first ball killed General Rusca :
'lOOO men of the national guards were the only

garrison in: the place ; they were thunderstruck,
and the enemy eptered Soissons, where he com-
mitted all the :aorrors imaginable. The Generals
who were in the place, and who should have taken
Ihe command upon the death of General Rusca,
shall be brought beforesa Council of Enquiry, for
this 'town ought 'not to have been taken.
'The Duke of Treviso re-occupied Soissons on
the lath, and halreorganised tl►e ddfence of it.
General Vincent writes from Chateau Thierry,
that 250 ,of the enemy's light troops having re-

turned to Fere, in Tardenois, M. d'Arband Mis-

sun marched against them with sixty horse of the
garden d'honneur, which he had collected, and
with the assistance of the national guards of the
villages, beat theca, killing several, and dispersing
the remainder.

General Milhaud .net the enemy at St. Martin-
le-Bosnay, upon the old road from Nogent to
Troyes. The enemy had about 800 horse. He
caused them to be attacked by 300 men, who over-
threw, him, made 160 prisoners, killed some 20
men, and took about 100 horses. He has pur-
sued, and is still pursuing, the enemy tepee dais
les reins. - ,

The Duke of Castiglione has left Lyons with a
considerable corps d'arrde, composed of chosen
troops, to march into French Comte and Swit-
zerland.

• The Congress of Chatillon s,till continues ; but
the enemy throws.every difficulty in the way of it
(mais l'enncmic y porte ioute espece d'entraves.) The
Cossacks .at every step stop the couriers, and al-
though we are but 30 leagues distance from Cha-
tillon, in a direct line, couriers do nqt arrive but
after four or five day's journey. It is the first
time the rights of nations have i❑ this manner
been violated. Among nations the least civilized,
the couriers of Ambassadors are respected, and
no obstruction given to the communications of
negeciators with their, .Government.
The inhabitants of Paris might have expected
the greatest misfortunes, bad the enemy arrived
at their gates, and they surrendered their city
without difence. Pillage, devastation, and fire,
would have finished the destinies of this fine ca-
pital.

Tile cold is very sharp. This circumstance bas
been favourable to our enemies, a► it bus enabled

gOLEM QUJE DICER VALSUAI AUDEAT

LONDON..
WEDNESD4Y, M.IRCH 2, 1814.

. We have a letter from France of the same date
with the latest Paper, but probably written in the
. .
evening, as it mentions a fact not alluded to in
the Public Journals, namely,- that 13tlos...u7AnTE
had issued a piteous and pathetic Address to his
good People of Paris, calling on them for a. ge-
neral rising and arming, in aid of his exertions,
and for the defence of their City. There is a

paitierapli .soritebitigtii this dfii.!eb. in the P< i'3;
hilt it is likely that a more forinAl requisition may
bare issued, as stated by our CiirrespOndent.

The contents of the French Papers, of which
we announced the arrival yesterday to the 24th
inclusive, tvill be found in our preceding columns.
They are highly satisfactory. Whether it is, that
having so repeatedly annihilated all his enemies,
the Corsican has, like A'LEN ANDER the GREAT, no•
more worlds to conquer, or that the word anni-
hilation (anconiissetnety) does
,not mean precisely.
what it -Used to do, and therefore the .process
must be
,more frequently iterated to produce the
full effect, we cannot determine; but certain it is,
that the triumphant armies of the 'Enemy do not
seem to proceed' with that rapid motion which
might have been expected to follow such exter-
minating victories as those which he pretends
to have achieved. The scsavered fugitiVes under
SACKEN, who fled in confusion across the Marne,
have not been pursued to destruction by3lowr tEs
he was atSoissons on the 19th. The wrecks of BLo-
cuea's army have not been swallowed :---MAamoNT
was only at Sezanne on the 20th. The discoiu-'
fited corps of Wirtembergliers at Montereau have
not been surrounded anti taken :—MACDONALD
was at the same date at Pavillon, and BooNA-
PARTE at Nogent. The whole of the' Grand Al-
lied Army, under SCHWARTZENREUG, has imt been
put hors de combat :—OuDINoT krlts not iii posi-
tion beyond Chartres and Mariy, a few miles
from • Nogent, and subsequently pushing
,his
left in advance a short, way up the ' Seine to Ro-
milly. Such is the view of affairs which the
Report of the Army up to the 21st furnishes for
the consolation of the good citizens of Paris.—
But they are further comforted with• an ac-
count of the repulse of an 'attack upon Be-
sanFon on, the 31st of January —with the
details of a skirmish, in which 800 of the Allied
,horse were defeated -by Gen. MILUAUD, at the
head of 300, at St. Martin-le-Bosnay—with the
particulars of a disaster which befel 250 Light
Horse, who had the impudence, notwithstanding
411 their beating, to return -to Tere-en-Tardenois
(half way betweeo Soissons and Chatean Thierry),
—and, better -than' all, with an assurance that tile
hateful Cossacks. were falling back from Orleans,
whittler they had spread themselves. These Cos-
sacks are the endless theme of the 'l'vrant's de-
nunciations. We are told that the " Peasants-
kill •and take a great number ;"—that in one
place " some thirty were thrown into the fire ;"
at another, that " ,hey i 3 r e hunted like fero-
cious beasts 3" and then, by way of episode, We,
are stunned with exclamations against the bar-
" barities and cruelties committed by these Tar-
tars, as if men, who were thus butchered, burnt,
and hunted, were to be the most meek, gentle,
and passive creatures on the face of the-Earth',
acting with all discretion and humility, and going
about to return good for evil ! Humanity recoils
at the horrors inseparable ' from. a state of 'War,.
and [to man can Ittlp feeling fbr the miseries of
. .
an invaded Nation.' It is thus we have endnred
many a pang when contemplating the. devastation
which has rendered Gerintuy, fair and fruitful
Germany, one uniform and hideous waste. It is
thus that we have shed the tear orcompassion,
when we 'wandered in fancy over the wilds of
Russia, made yet - More terrible and desola-tes
by the glare of burning towns, and the unburied
corpses of her sons, slaia io defence of their na-
tive land. It is thus; we have Mourned over the
golden vales of Italy, reddened with the blood of
their patriotic Cultivators, murdered in hundreds
for resisting their spoilers. • It is thus we have
deplored the wretchedness of enslaved Holland,
ravaged by -a Despot's Bands, and doomed to en-
dure the heaviest wrongs without daring even' to
curse the opprepors. It is thus we have groan-
ed in anguish for these twenty years of unparalel-
.led misery, during which Europe has presented,
from the genial South to the rougher North, only
one frightful aspect of smoking.ruiris and bloody
fields; of the hopes Of individuals Wasted,
and the happineSs of entire nations destroyed";
of ruthless ambition, regardless of obligations ,
human or divine, pursuing its merciless course,
and of savage despotism bathing in gore tile fet-
ters it had succeeded, in imposing
,upon the uai-
verse. From the reflection of these scenes of
havock. we tuns to 'France, experiencing the jus-
tice of Heaven in that retribution of which slid
so bitterly complains. We may shudder at the
infliction, but we are compelled to own it JUST.
Nev'e did people more deserve that retaliation
with which they are visited. The scourge, whose
misrule they support, has in this manner caused
every nation of the earth to suffer, and the laws
of 'God satncion that vengeance for which. the
blood of tuillionS has shouted aloud to Heave O....

But we have been led away by our feviings on
this occasion from the events which it was our in-
tendon to record in, an abridged form ;7it is not

in
When the most i ttiat ear i3'
``to
graced • a throne complains of the sato:alb-
Y•
which his own atrocities have exposed a contr
'Why,—let the Vreich peOple D.ske
ars
thesb Cossacks here to injure us WlP't
brought them from the frozenWolga and st°lPl
Irtis to the loye-,'y Marue and futile Seine ? 14'11'‘
accursed an:l restless tyranny Your d.evasta.tia.lls'
and massacres, anal invasion of other land's! '6!
that France should perish for the crimes Of a r`r

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reign Usurper.? • •
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The rest of the military affairs, its these ritil
may be compressed into sttnill compass., The 6,‘.r
ture of Soissons is inveighed against most 1'1E;
terly, and' other Generals are 'to be brought
ic
trial. for disappointing the. expee':ations' of tile;
Master. We like this dissatEtaction it not ‘)).
proves that his affairs do' not succce,d to
wishes, -brit iSlikely to sow the seeds of (I's'
;(
scission Among. his•ppartizans, which may in "L.'
growth o'vei•throw the system. of the `l.. ,
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altogether, and hurl hitnseil' to drstrtic;
tion. Au GP: REAU stated to have mar-eb.,
from 1.,34115. at the head of ' a coOsideobit"
corps d'arin6e for Frauche Coutpte and
zerland. We know that t: u: • '
this force was .felt by-the Aniei

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over-balitued by the exploits of oi;t• NV;,;l_,

TON, tyho aLif.in graces the field. AVGNE:.:AO
besides, not a Commander for importiint oper3t—!ii ,
WINZINGERODR Is paCitig hiniself in conttottnicli
tion with the left of B UCnER, by.l7Z.lli;lius
Some error, it is said, that 311;
m..ONT would fail on I,is left nk, if 'be
agai.% engage. MAttivinNt, at Sezainic, is f."l. Q1:1
his right. -We rejoice to learn, that aci_r
and able Ally, the Cold Weather, has orzlin
ported the confederates. The Emperor 01 j°
STRIA remained at Troyes (hiring -the late nh
meats, and the Allies were marching. torrarik,
concen,trating upon that Aninlet°
French Journal fixes BuONABARTE'S iltaj-tiL
ters there Ow the 21st; but this is stiFosed tee

Cbatuns.

an error.
vet'
The French Fonds have risen to SG. 51i, !
4§
it is with great delight we learn that he Co*:11.
;do
at Chatillon does not proceed so sluooth!y ,
Corsican desires. .1-16 speaks of the didit:ult cs
encounters in this 'reispeck, and of_ the intecil;l:,
Lions given to the Couriers by t hey noble
who, after al 11 seem to be the best
Europe: .The treacherous violatOr
National right, the :kidn.appev
tl,l
the inu;.(lcter Of Princes, seized olt

territories ; the torturer and assassin of Pri•
spnerxi of war ; the ro:ther of Cpuriers
Envoys ; the detz-.itter of Travell-ers, andperP° 0i3.,
tor of every outrtge bvitie:i can lie tueotiou.e4 •
conceived against law or' justicz--Lthis

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tertnivation his hazardous condition. Wes-
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otherwise,' a few more stopirages, robberie,l4,
nturderft, would adil little to his catalogue 01 °V,
fences.

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' The commencement of War by •Mup,AT 8.4'1
BUONAPARTE is recognized at Pltis, Deo.3ll'
tion issued liy a' Count ATC;, E, MilliSter of jtt''
tics,--(Justice should tc lard, and so they
got a mole France)-7-in crhich all Freneb"'
are recalled from the NeAnolitan Service ".")f
threemionths from the lith February, on
being proceeded against conformahiylo. the
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penal Decree of 6tii 1849: This flt -
,declares such persons to be `‘ Rebels to the it
peror," their pc,ssessions in France are-c0965'
cated, and they are condemned to death, ace'''.
ing to the 3d Article of the Penal Code of °c'
tober, iii.•

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By our Naval News it appears, that some °P..
rations are going on in the direction of 0001.4-
Some further Dutch Papers'*tre unimpatant. • •

Parliament met yesterday and adjourned theto
21st, after a short anti uninteresting con rersati‘:
in both Houses. Mr. WIITTBItgAD, who 11105 e 11
mano gin's. , proposed an so amendment unnecooll'
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that we do not believe he could have g,;)t. a ilbla S'
voice to vcrte for it.

Yesterday,- a little befOre, tour o'clock, -110
Duke of YORK held a Levee ur his -Office, i" 10
Horse-Guards, as Commander-in Chet. A'.l)'.-
those on his Royal Highness's list were— ,
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Ha. tins, Sir George Osborne, C'olonel Itanhev
Grosvenor, the Margnii of Worcester, anti
the Guards, on his return from the k‘tArtinis of Wr...
toa'S ArM.
Yesteryday -morning- -the Rnssian Amlrs*"lt
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