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London, England, 1814-02-11 00:00:00

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LONDON,

PRI D-4Y, FEBIII7.IIII' 11, 1811

[FROM THE CITY, ONE O'CLOCK.]

tilkilother very considerable sensation is excited
4te ulorning on 'Change—of course, the reports
ht various. The prevalent sentiment appears to
tic that there is an arrival of a Messenger from
1-lead-quarters, announcing a Cessation of
.stilities; but whether the Treaty has been made
1411 lkilitlAvAtiTz or the Senate, cannot be solved.
i 8
very confidently asserted, that the Prince de
ti `De has been informed by a veryhig,h authority,
.14t the Allies have surrounded Park, and that the
I.,ll:ttilad sent a Deputation to Prince SClrwAßT—
thatt4; entreating him to spare the City, and
Bto should be delivered up.
11„ cits have had another rapid advance.
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vninitun is 26" i, and Consols 70.
flag of truce, it is said. has arrived.

The

IV•t
art assured that part of our fleet have passed
U°bll%, and proceeded into the Scheldt. An
CliienSe smoke was seen ()Vet. Antwerp on the
; tit ‘4llt• but it has not been ascertained whether
tttcvri was in flames, or nhether it arose from
cLit
estruction of the French fleet. Antwerp was
ainly invested by the Allies on that day, and
act:.l.4lendous bombardment was heard by our
ttdron.
tto e hove reccived a Letter, dated the ith
polla an Officer on board our fleet in the Room-
-411 c'n whom we can implicitly depend. He
" the Allied Army, under Sir TIIOM,ts
kitsod and General BuLow, began to bombard
4,tli '
erl) on the sth inst. The Nymphen and
`r frigates with the Cretan and Banterer brigs,
Seth
sent to force the passage of the West
‘tittilicit, which they yesterday accomplished
kt little damage, considering the heavy
ter; of shot and shells from the French bat,
t'al %at Flushing and Cadsand, However, Bri-
aloar and pesevcrance soon effected this de-
Ivt t'bjeet. But what cannot our gallant Tars
tel'en directed by spirited and skilful Officers.
li'otral Nen of war are now at anchor near
t 1 Ilatz, under the direction of Commo-
)N
, °WEN, and all communication is sus-
' cl between Antwerp and Flushing. De-
,tters
''• come daily on board Admiral YouNG's
tr,t),ls4'd rep ort, that there are not many French enchthe Island of Walcheren. At Flushing
e
it
tr
e are about 1500. who, according to report,
much discontented, and in hourly appre-,
etrtofreceivin,, a visit from the Allied Armies."

tt,44;41-;t'tter of a very recent date fl•om Grafelines
VI 413 the following information ; the fears of
P
4theo ri may perhaps have exaggerated some
tit Ae,fact3 The reports brought here arc, that
Itrt'nes have advanced and taken possession of
Ghent, and Brussels, and that Ostend
iVioupgrt are inundated ty the Garrisons (Ten-
se sluices, to prevent their occupation by

the Allies; aM) parties of the toiSacks
peered every hour to make their appearance be•-
fore Dunkirk."

The very important contents of French Papers
to the Bth, which we announced in a third Edi=_;
tion yesterday afternoon, precede this notice, and I
arc as gratifying as could be wished. They de-
scribe the defeat of the Tyrant in his attack upon I
BLUCHER, his consequent disasters, and, up io
the 3d, demonstrate his utter incapacity to
resist the Allied forces.—The covering which
quibble and falsehood endeavour to throw over
these facts, is too thin to deceive even the
meridian of Paris which too much resembles
!‘ a strong frontier place," to be susceptible of
any very gross delusion from the near theatre of
war. We will, however, follow the Enemy's own
account of his exploits up to the 3d, when as we
suspect he (to use a very homely adage) escaped
out of the frying-pan into the fire ; and while
he left one half of his men to fate and Bey-
clue, brought the. other half into the pre-
sence of Prince SCHV'ARTZENBERG. The re-
port, in the Noniteur of the sth, sets out with
a detail of the action of the 27th, at Dizier, or
rather in the road from Vitry to the latter place.
BLUCHER, having crossed the Manic at this point
to march upon Troyes, BUONAPARTE obtained
possession of the place, 'in consequence, as he
says, of having forced the rear guard of the Allied
Army. Chalons, Vitry, and Dizier, are on the
right of the Marne, and here we find VICTOR 1(11(1
the cavalry under DULIESNI E ,WhiCh had been driven
before BLUCHER Across the Meurthe, the Mo-
selle, and the Meuse. On the 28th, BUONAPARTE
following the course of Abe Allies, crossed to the
left bank of the Marne, arrived at Montieren-
der, about fifteen miles from St. Dizer, leav-
ing Vassy and Joinville on Lis left, so that tlie
whole story about fifteen thousand prisoners
and 43 pieces of cannon taken in this direction,
was, as we suspected, fabrication. On the 20th
we find the Russians and Prussians of BLUCHER
and SACKEN, to the number of 40,000 men, bad
encountered, in their way towards .Troyes, the
force under Nay, and the cavalry of ilehetetun.
This brought on the battle of Brienne, of which
the report gives -a most confused account, and
concludes with asserting that it terminated with
nightfall, in the retreat of the Allies and the
burning of Brienne, the town where the Usurper
was instructed in the art of war by the bounty of
a Boueeos King'. BUONAP...RTE had sent a
column on the road to Bar-snr-Auhe,, which
seemed to be the point of retreat of the Enemy ;
this compelled BLUCHER to recall his artillery,
&c. from Lesmont, where he had intended to cross
the Aube. Now Lemont is a few miles down
the Aube, from Brienne and La Ruthiere, and
Bar, in which direction the Allies ultimately did
march, are, on the contrary, higher up the river.
It therefore appears that they not only did notin-
tend to cross the river at the former, but that
they destroyed the bridge there, in order to pre-
vent the Corsican from outstripping them in
his race to Troyes. Accordingly we find that
on the 30th BLUCHER was pursued, by GROUCHY,
to beyond La Rothiere, that is about five miles on
the road to Bar, whither it was his obvious inten-
t tion to go. Here we may observe, on the sin-
gular coofessiou of the enemy, that with all the
troops he had brought with him from Paris, rein-
forced by the corps of VICTOR, NEY, and all his
cavalry, he had reason to complain of the advan-
tage of numbers on the part of those against
whom be had to contend, at the same time stating
them at no more than 40,000 men ! !

" The 31st (continues the Report) was em-
ployed by us in repairing the bridge of Lamont-
sur-dube, the Emperor wishing to advance upon
Troyes, in order to operate upon the column's
which were directing their march upon Sens, by
Bar-sur-Aube, and the route of Auxerre."
In other words, he endeavoured to save him-
self by crossing the river, but on the Ist of Fe-
bruary, the Allied Army became, in turn, the assail-,
ants. Reinforced by the corps under Gen.GUILAY
which had come up from Langres by Chamont,
the veteran Marshal Pcsu ON took advantage of
the dangerous measure to which the victories of
the Emperor had driven him, viz. to pass a consi-
derable river in the presence of a powerful enemy,
and the rear of the conquering Ilero of Smor-
gonie and Bricnne was assailed by tine adversary
whom he had just beaten and pursued in an-
other direction ! We are certainly only ci-
vil judges of military tactics ; but those here
described, it must be confessed, defy our skill to
reconcile with any idea but that of flight on the
part of the Corsican. But it was not his rear, on
the right of the Aubc, alone that was attacked :
both banks became the scene of a battle, in which

the Allies acted throughout on the offensive
Dienville, and La Rotherie and Gaelic, were in•
deed aloat wonderfully maintained by the Lads od

titgaiuSf Are times their nUnitiett, ant the
Austrians., 'attempting to cross froth the left
to the right, were worstctlit was, in short,
" one of the finest achievements Of the EreaCll
Ai my," but unfortunately night eeine On, and
spoiled all. When BLUCHER «•!5 defeated at
Brienne, the night favoured his retreat, and
no errors occurred—but even when BUONM'ARTE
was victorious at Dienvil:e, a whole battery Of
his artillery mistook their wav, and fell into the
hands of the Allies. Such facts require u.; com-
ment ; nor is it necessary to observe on
the singular way in which the Arinie seem to
have rested together on the field of battle, so that
BERTHIER bad nearly gone over to the Enemy, and
one of his blundering Aides-de-Camp was actually '
taken. In all these glorious victories the Cor-
sican took two hundred and fifty yrisoners On
the 2d of February we find the enemy still endea-
vouring to get his rear across the Aube, but,
it would appear, in vain, for the tale breaks

off thus inconclusively : " it snccessively tank po-
sitions to finish pasiing the bridge of Losmont,and
rejoiningthe rest ofthe army:" "on tbe3cl atnoon,

the Emperor (not the army) entered Troyes." To
crown these satisfactory statements, we learh that
a portion of the Allied force had proceeded to
Vitry—against thew the corps of MACDONALD
and SEBASTIAtii, which had arrived at Chaloni,
were directed to march.

Such are the very gratifying accounts from the
illoniteur. That the defeat of the Tyrant up to
the 3d only is as incontrovertible as could he
wished, we take upon his own showing : that he

has met with (Tisasters still more decisive when
he came into action against the 'MAIN ALLIED
Foßcr, we still most sanguinely believe on the au-
thority of the private Letter we yesterday qcoted:
The Al may not have been able to enter
Paris on the 7th, as they intend'ed,but the getting
up of the palisadoes., &c. shews that they were
expected about that time. It is absurd to
speak of defending Paris, especially by Con-
scripts who arrive daily, so far advanced in dis-
cipline as to want only clothing, equipment, an:!