The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-18 00:00:00

THE PITT' CL

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Yesterday was the Second Meeting of this 1
ii
for the season ; JOHN BLACKBURN, E(1... pd the
the Chair.
.It was numerously attende,, 3'l nec•f
giorious news, of the day, as we4l as the I:eccted
tion of its tituLty saint," St. Patrick, COlltriu."
much to the.hilarity of the Meeting. The folly
ing arc amongst the toasts, which were given,"
'4:Tlle hlne",—in silence. -
!"ChePrince Itqc,t"-=-three times three.
Qnren"—three times three.
of 17(41L, and the othevjoranches of
I,4aniilr.==thi've'ilines three. A, 'lli°
•' .14'e immortal Meanity of thEitht Honourable
tioes'

The N:tty .-aud Army' of Great nsitain"—three
three.
90°0
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Maythe principles of Mr. Pitt ever the.—r 9
of Great Britain!',--threertims thr
wee.
.
" The House of rlruns‘,vici,t, n d ay they never forg,.c 0.0
principles which state.l. them Oa tkeThro,he of these fte'"
--three times three.
The Prot estant.Aicendancy"-4hree time. three;rbistl"
`c Tie Sohs St.. Patrick; and May, the,Shaturt*Jiy
and Itose be united"—three tithes three; • 'title°
" of the Prince 'llegent"—.three
- • fAll
three. .
Our Ai.igust Allies, and may they complete the bo"
of the Tyrant of the World, and pave the way to a s°
nom-able, and permanent'lpeace"—Three times three. "
'4 Field Mar;hal Blucher",—with three times three; coot'
May the Resolutions proposed this dayj. for thie eff,f the
-of a hall? in etnnmemoration of the virtues .and (43'e des
tt
'light :Sion. Wm. Pat, be crowned. with succes.s"—tbr„ three. . • this

•4 Field ..,1 irshzil Marquis Wellington, a Member of
Chtb"—three times three:. . i stio,
• ." lib,•Soverei,,:n Prioce of the Netherlandi, and a ttires'•
union between tho Houses of Orange and Briiiiswicle
times three. -

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"'The Wooden Walls Of Old England." .
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" The Duke of Richmond-, Presidegt of this Club.,, solo'
"Bnonaparfe's curse -and Etiglaa's glory—SbiPs'
nits, and COMMtl'ee—three times three. 5 Prr ''-
" Toe health of Mr: Blackburn, the Chair Man, vi. 4,00,
posed in a c....iplimentaiy speech from Sir Williaul 610 ..r-,'
and received by reiterated plaudits."
.p„. ScV •
. " Mr. Lawson,- the successful candidate for the . ''t
O.
Jarship, sit -the University .or'railiVidge." of
" The Master, Wardens, and. Court of Assaistit(Tittil:geoios3-11.;
Worshipful CompanY of Merchant"...i'dylors,
them'for the grant of their Hall on the ensuin, Aollic
+! lof Mr. Pitt's Birfh-day." .
„, ail •
" 'fig lauded and conitnercial interests of the coun't;!
may they ever, as on this day, be united." ' •
Atcheson, simony of this Club."
~,,, nnks:l°
• -" The Union of Ii and ,Loyalt3r,- with ."'""
the pi Ofessional Singers." '
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"-The departed Heroes of this country."
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`.4. Mr. Ci-iiford, theTh.torian of Mr. Pitt." , pat.
" iNkay a peace be concluded on the princi les of .11.'
p. . ,
• ".The Trensurer, Mr. J. B. Morgan."
"'rise Corporation of the City of London." d 'l&.c.
" The Members of the Pitt, Clubs throughout Englo, '. 1)
Several Glees and excellent Sons were s"''''
fr. .6 3 , Gir
Mr. BELLAMY.; Mr:HA M
WES, r. LEETE, Itir' ic,A
Mr. DIGNUM, Mr. TERRELL, and. other P')o-:
sionfd singers, and the party did not separJte •
til a late hour.

- • ifs.
THE HASTY WEDDING.—Died last wee'', ' l
at,
SMITH, ivife of Mr. SMITH, broker, Care Y-sty
She was'buriecl on Sunday last and on the,boti
lowing day (Monday) the dcin iscso/ate "„-,,freF
was married again to a.yomeg daMsel of "cie-
a courtship of 0 hours ! Ihe bells of St• fbcY
ment's.-rung A merry peal on the .occasion
were..also mufflcd, as a_ mark of respect to "
parted ‘,.ite'

MATTA.
jatillvEn---1 Dublin. T7E—l Lisbon, I Malta, I Heligoland,
ha, 2 Got
Wteriat h
erurzi dli. .
I Holland, 1 Guernsey, I JeAey, 1 Dub-
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11 SUN•
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SOLF.M QUIS DICENE FALSUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
PR 1" r).-IY„11,1 nc if .Ig, 19-14,

Mr. SHAW,
the Messenger, reached town this
finr;..,z
-,,, with Dispatches from Lord CASTLE-.•
1?
, . , - o 'A(;I4, whom be left on Sunday last at Chatiilon.\
he contents of the Dispatches had not been made
l'hown when this Paper was put to Press ;• but it
s
e
em
s • ,
eYment that no such unpleasant event has
eteurred as the signature of Preliminaries for
4 1)
elec. with the Corsican Usurper, or an 'Ar-
mistice, for, in that case,. an Agent of' more im-•
LOrtance Would have been sent,by his Lordship.—
Ire r' StiAx* arrived at Paris on Monday last, wereu. e Was deprived of all private letters and public
1:'4"315, and 'suffered to depart with nothing but
i,.e Dispatches, a strong nega:ivd proof that the
.""*li :ToUrnal's, With all their artificial colouring
Q.
erents, 'could not place them in such a light as
to he faitaurable to the cause of the Usurper. Mr.
uw (
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--"ned, at Calais yesterday, and arrived at
- bov t! r late last night. ,
;, it is evident from this, that. the Allies were not
It Paris lateso as the 14th.

•
Anoiher Gazette Extraordinary, promptly and
beoPerly
issued by Government last night, will
-nand in another part of our impre•likon. It
'''.ttains the first part of dispatches from Colonel
.dated Leon, the 10th and 11th, up to
Intirnitig of which latter day appears to-be the
the 410 st recent account furnished by Col. LowE from
Sc
) ire, 1 ene theser gloriotis actions. This point of
I)iki,,o oclock, in the forenoon of the Eleventh,
1 held in view, will enable our Readers to
tv.l,ll(le'stand a few matters which sour) to he at
'ri alee,hetiveen the letters of COL LOWE and that
. its
(zzadated) of Marshal BLUCHER; which evidently
,
,1:°• :--#l/)1 Comes down to.a later period than
,fe 1
CctitrShol.4lcer's informatict. The substance
B aaMreinnieations that, on the
-111. "ZAPARTE Obtained possession of part of
the ,1111)7-8 of Soisions, and spent the whole of
tie 'a.Y in a Er nitiess and Wasting attempt to take
10 which was most gallantly defended by
~ • Corps of tAisloe-
-no!,, a asSiar: nfintry of the
Cooi nd is
by Gen. Itaintwtcit.. The
Burinatants slept in almost adjoining; houses
their short :end perturbed night ; on the
t(ltt'ng the French retired, baffled ; and the
Ilk"
Crated
was compelled to direct his concen-
voperations upon the second line of a d-
t,,torwart} 'et towards the north, by Rheims. Pushing
in
this direction, his tight crossed -the -e
Aisne at lilerv-le-bac, on the afternoon of the 6tl,
d attacked the Allies near Craone. Night put
.
11
t" to this Affair, On the 7th the 13attle-of
kirar
t Alai *as fought. After a brave resistance by
° force in this quartet, the accumulating
lies or the enemy u
Coming p, an d
4.000 • pressing with
gamy roto upon not more than two Corps, he-
t oo formidable to be withstood, and they
Arisere (I towards Laon, leaving only 50 or 60
cn tuners' and neither h gun nor a gun- carriage,
h e bands of the assailants.' Yet this is the
tati-,4 whiCh the Moniteur 'states twelve thou-
-n(`
)- Prisoners, and 30 pieces of cannon to have
11.,ren taken
At the same time . (though not
vi;:tinned) we suppose the troops were with-
from Saissons, and the whole of the Al-
p: Ar L
orought tO concentrate on the finefr sit4°lltm,
°f Laon: In the battle of Craone the
the two Armies was changed, as we for-
" 1:)? stated, and they faced each other-more from
Z'htowest, than, asbefore, from south to north.
%trlesnbserinent movement of BLUCHER howeverre-.
t,t. red fiiiirs to their original state. There were four
e LAneb Generals Wounded, viZ.VICToR, GRoueHY,
.4 1-LE and CHARPENTRAs ; and thus concluded
l'rtY-tw
ill . craps of incessant marching and fighting,
'jell the laurel-covered army of Silesia was
haged.
bil"e next document is the Duplicate of the
It S,ratCll frOril Col. Lowi to Sir C. STEWART.
.tvenarrates, in a letter of the 10th, the chief
the 9nt' of the battle of Laon during the
Whole of
4 v.tl); and in a rostcript of the I 1 th gives
lotierY brief account of a battle during the
,trat '' and finishes with\ the intelligence of the
b4ttei the Enemy in the night. This last
aPpears to us, after the most careful corn-
C;;I: 31)11 of all the information received, could only
pr: taken Place between the Allied left and the
t°War7ght, on the road (or Chaussee) from.Laon
(18 Saissous. It ought to be cateerved, that

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the three titsiftrontd, Soissons'i
and Laon, font a triangle, and the roads from
the two former-Meet in the latter. It' is clear
that the right wing of the French was enr-
tirely defeated on the 9th, on time road from
Rheims to Laon—the eastern line by which
they were advancing. Forty-five piccea of can-
non, and.an immensity of tunibrili,
&c. were the fruits of thiS victory ; and the Ge-
neralstrYoßcit, liLatsr, and SACKEN,puritted the
eneMY froM Althies to Corheny, half way to
Rheiins. It is to this farce, to which BLUCHER
refers, when; hi his Postscript, he says,'" my left
wing passes the Aisne this day,;' i. e. on'the 10th,
at or near Bery-le-bac, which is onl.a few miles
from Corbeny, to which place they had pursued
the foe on and " during the whole of the (pre-
ceding) night. While the French right, how-
ever, in which their main strength lay, was thus
broken and pursued on the road to Rheims,
their left Still Maintained a desperate conflict on
the SoissonS or Western road, and only retired in
the night of the 10th, and were followed the
nekt morning by the Allied Cavalry to Chavignon,-
on their retreat to Soissons.

The great battle was that of the 9th, mil the
chief contest between the major part of the forces
anchoth sides took plaCe and was decided on that
day at Althies. The names and rank of the Officers.
employed corroborate this opinion. The forger
continued struggle on the gth and lOth was cer-
tainly between 'less numerous and important bo-
dies, as the names and' rank of the Commanders
on this side indicate.

To stun up these remarks,--it'appear; to us
that we may learn from the Gazettes Extraordinary
that there has been two battles, in the beginning
combined together, but in the end distinct and
separate,. by, the different fortune which attended
the principal points contested on the first day.
• The first we will call the general battle of the
9th, in which the right and strongest wing
of the French was rolited on the Rheiins road,
but their left stood firm on the Soissons road,
both wings being engaged.
The second Battle was that of the 10th, and in
this only the French left were engaged—their
right, defeated on the preceding day; being, em-
ployed in flight, and vigorously pnistted by Sk-
i“:tq, KLIEST, and .D'YoacK, towards Rheims.
This force had lost the 45 pieces of cannon spoken
of by Colonel Lowe ; and probably the abandon-
ment of further guns, dither by them or the left,
made up the number of 70 stated by BLUcHEU.

From these premises it may be inferred, that the
accounts ire received yesterday, though not sane-
tinned by any official intelligence yet received,
may prove to be partly correct and well-founded.
Report often, truly precedes the more, regular
and authentic information--,—this is well,illustrated
by the Third Edition of THE Su on \Vednesday,
which contained the:tnost distinct outline of the
operations. now recorded -in The Gazette, and
whicb, though derived from private sources, will •
(if our Readers will have the goodness. to refer to
it) prove to them that we do not place confidence
In these sources on light grounds.

We extract the following from the Liverpool
Courier of the lfith

" TRIED EDITION,
. cs Liverpool Courier Office, le o'clock at Noon.
The gratifying intelligence of the capture of
Bayonne, brought here by the North Star, Capt.
BoToEtc, late last night, which will he found in
the Ship Newt, and reported also in several of the
late editions of the London Papers, which we
have inserted, has this morning received further
confirmation by the arrival of the Oporto Packet.,
Captain FODEN, the Master, whom we have seen,
left Bilboa on the Ist instant, and states, that
-about four days before he sailed great rejoicings
had taken place, in consequence of Lord War.-
LINGTON baring passed ,the Adour, and entered
Bayonne.
" All the vessels that could be procured had
been taken up by,Government -Agents to carry
provisions to the army.—Confident expectations
of the speedy fall of Bourdeaux was also enter-
tained."
The following is the notice in the Ship News
above referred to
The North Star, Dryden, arrived at this port from Bil-
boa, left there the 211th ult.; on the 25th there were great re-
. jnicings there on account of Bayonne being taken by Lord
'Ncllington's army."
The latest intelligence we have is from Lord
WELLINGTON of the 24th, and front Admiral PEN-
HOSE `` off the Bar of the Adour the 25th." The
latter throws some discredit on the North Star
report, though it does not prove it to be er-
roneous. We know of nothing- to impeach the
credibility of the report by' the other vessel : and
we only hope that the news it brings may receive
a speedy confirmation.
The Bunker's Hill privateer taken was former-
II the Lem-et in our service •; • out five days from
INforlaix and had made no captures.
The French papers have a date from Bourdeaux
of the 7th, and mention, that on the, 3d an
English squadron of five ships and four sloops an-
chored in the great road of Rochelle.

IMPORTANT NEWS.

SUN OFFICE, two O'CLOCK.
'NO PRELIMINAMES SIGNED : MAR-

UONT'S CORPS DESTROYED AT
RHEIMS: AUG BEAU DEFEATED: AD-

'VANCE OF THE AIJ,§TaIANS.

There are Dispatches from Chaumont.' Uad
Preliminaries been signed, they ‘ve7:!:l hive been

sent (as we bave already observed) by a Bearer
of higher rank than Mr. Su w. The Hon. Mr.

ROBINSON, or,IIIr.PLANTA, would undoubtedly have

come with the Dispatches.
The Corps of Marshal MAnNtobrr has been de-

stroyed by BLUCHER, at Rheims., Si* thousand

prisoners taken. No date is assigned for this

new and brilliant exploit.

AUGF.REAU has alSo been defeated in the South

by the Austrian GeneraLßlANcar.
The Graiid Army, tints'released from apprehen-

sif-In on its flank, broke up frorn Troyes on the
thirteenth .(Sunday last, and not &fore)," and ad-

vanced to join the victorious Bt.uenEß.

This .ffitelligeuce, which MAY BE RELIED ON,

will of course supersede the' more glowing ru-

moue; from the Coast.

The advance of Prince SCHWARTZENBERG on

the 13th, though it does away the sanguine antici-

patio!' of his in-uncchate entrance into Path, is

perhaps the most gratifying part of this News.
IT PROVES THAT, AFTER THE DREADED TENTH AND

TWELFTIL, WAR AND NOT PEACE WITH THE

USURPER WAS CONTEMPLATED.

SECOND EDITION.

The following a short Bulletin issued -by

Goverrun'ent :

BULLETIN.

" Accounts have been received froln Chaumont

of the 12th, and from Chatillon of the 13th.

" The news of Marshal BLl:ctiEa's victory had

arrived at Chatillon, anti that Gen. ST. PRIEST bad

retaken Rheims on the 12th, and made 3000 pri-

SOIICTS.

" SCHWARTZENBERG, who had remained

at Troyes, was moving upon Chalon.,.

" General Blitz:cm hid IlefeatA AuGEgEmj At

Macon, but the details had v. arrived.

"The Plenipotentiaries t(-ere still at Chatilion."

The troops of the ftei,olution:sts engaged in the
siege of Montevi,:mo, had been defeated by the
trrison of that fortress, which had been
augmented by teinfot'cempnts from Europe, and
the siege ha•;: in consequence been raised.
Dna 11LINt.TEL DE SARavrEA, who is a-passenger
from South America by the Herines, had been ap-
pointed'by the Junta of Buenos'Ayres; Envoy at
the Court of London. This person is a Creole
by birth, was formerly President. of the Junta,
and was 'once engaged on a mission.to tJte Cuart
of 34adrid.

The Lail of Li VERPOOL had a long audience of
the PRINCE REGENT yesterday.
The arrival of hii Royal Highness the Diike of
CLARENCE is expected every day. The Duke's
house isi the Stable-yard is :preparing for his re-
ception. _ •

Yesterday the Earl of WESTMORELAND gave
grand dinner to the Foreign Atnhav‘adors, any!
the Cabinet Ministers, at his houge in Grosvenor-
square. _ _

-Yesterday morning two Deputies from Norway
were landed at Gravesend, and only wait there
for passports to procoed• to town, to lay before
Ministers the change of afhirs which has recently
taken place in Norway, with the view, as is sup-
posed, of obtaining the sanction of the British
Government-to their independence and neutrality.
The affidavit of Lord COCDRANE, we are given
to understand, has saddled the Mirshal of the
King's Bench with the debts of Mr. RANDOM DE
BERENGER, who, having been now found at large
in Green-street, instead of being within the rules,
has made others liable to the creditors.

On \yednesday, which was settling-day at the
Stock Exchange, the differences on the specula-
tions in the Funds on the 21st February, the day
of the fraud, were paid into the hands, of the Trus-
tees, a,reeablv to the Resolutions of the Menibers,
of tliStock Exchange.
To-morrow the PRINCE REGENT will bold a
Council to receive the' Recorder of London's re-
port of convicts under sentence of death. in New-
gate.
It is not surprising that a TepOrt: • should be
spread of &lON APARTF,'S proceeding to Normandy,'
for it must be agreed on all hands that .he'is on the
road to Rouen. .

CAMBRIDGE, MARCH Chancellor's
Gold Medals for the best .Classical Scholars ivho
have this year taken the degree of A. PP: are ad-
judged toZiessrs.MlLLt:T and ELLIOTT, of Trini-'
ty College.