The Sun.
London, England, 1813-10-23 00:00:00

FRENCII PAPERS.

MILAN, OCT. i i .—Otis Arn4y has for three
fol-
lowing days offered the enemy .battle, but in yam;
he has taken a position upon the line of Isonzo,
FaotiTretts or fiAxoNY, OCT, pretend-
ed that apcording to th last plan of the coalesced
Powers against: the rrench Armies, a plan which
has been defeated, the enemy's army of. Berlin was
to have passed the Elbe, at several points, march
against Leipsir, and from thence upon Alten-
buurg and Zeitz, where it was to have eirected its
junction, On the rear of the French. Army
of Dresden, with a part. of Prince Sehwart-
zenberg!s army, and, afterwards march upon Dres-
den, Whilst the Russian and Prussian 'army in Bo-
hemia' and Icarian would combine 'its' movement
upon the sante city. •For this purpose the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the coalesced army of Berlin,
caused three bridges AO be established upon the
Elbe, one at Ackea (between Dessau and Barby),
the second at Rosslatt (near Dessau), and the third
near the Elster (some leagues abate Wittemberg).
A numerous corps of coalesced troops was' to effect
the passage of the Elbe upon these three bridges.
'The Prince of Sehwarzeuberg had detacheti the
Austrian army of General Klenan into the Saxon-
Erzgeberg, the corps of Cossacks of Prince•Pla-
tow (Hetman of the Cossacks) who had arrived
' at Toplitz, was sent front Bohemia to the Erzge-
berg, and toward Altenhourg. He bad been join-
ed by the" enemy's corps of partizans.
During these transactions the corps d'armee,
under the Prince of •Moskwa's Orders, put them-
. selves in motion, attacked the enemy's corps d'ar-
of Berlin, and drove them upon the right of
the Elbe. The PrttWan General litilow, who had
marched with his, corps d'armt.e upoir Wittenberg
(on the right bank of the Elbe), and advanced to
the suburbs, wits attacketiby the brave garrison of
that place with loss.
A new attack, attempted by the army of Berlin,
with considerable loss, was attended with no bet
ter success. The Prince. of Moskwa has even
gained an important advantage over the army of
,Berlin.. The enemy's corps in the Erigeberg have
been equally repulsed at all points.; It appears
that the unfortunate termination of those opera-
tions has determined the enemy's army of Bohe-
mia to return into the plaiu.3 of niplitz, and not
to make another offensive movement.
Ills :Majesty the king of Naples has mailesome
attacks,. with his cavalry upon- the right batik of
the Elbe, in which the enemy has constantly had
the disadvantage.
We are informed that General Count 'Rapp has
made a fresh sort6e froiu Dantzic, dispersed the
corps, and revictualled the tortress
Fresh troops coining from the interior of France
continue to arrive in Saxony. •
The :King of Sa,cony has issued a PrOchtmation,
dated Dresden, Sept 27, stating that—
Whereas many of the enemy's Chiefs, even of those who.
by circumstances have been plaeed near the Throat., have en-
deavoured to mishtad the subjects by circulating proclamations
to induce then: to 1.,141e part against the cause to 'tyllith their
Sovereign is attached, it is declared positively, that ail such
attempts will lie punished with the utunt,st rigour; .though his
Majesty linnws well haw fait,thilly tile' armi
attached to their Princes, alai •vhat proofs tlicy itti,Ve repeat-
edly given of their obedience an, (ievoteduess thQir ded:rees
and ordinances." • -

.(FROM TitE JotlaNAL DE PA tl3)
TI MM, OCT. 14. ----When Sweden, seeing order
established v,round her, undlioding herseif
without the natural boundary of her i)olicy, ex,
posed to the 4isusters of a war, cinatrary to her
iuterests, found the mccessity of rectifvb4. her
A 23

sr , am. giving. a co,--,t/Yi I
" • '•. - •.i
.at could no longer bt-no. tits
En: the tif the great. GnStavlts, she E.011.,11.hz'l
vlth
tbTi- •freidir o,;aos•melii. o Was frftrit'
among yreo.eli Military.. men ,wboi" UP the 14th
inirt9tieii Of thitt• iMmenslt/ of git?tY,
eon.qiired by twenty years, anol- 4ukceis,
that •ti'Vedeni toi give an Inviolable pledge of her
attaelinfeni to her itafirral elt-sse the
whit ‘Vaq to preside over her fiery destinies. The
Swedes Must have snpposed, that aman who had
the homout of!figiaing under the eyes of 'lds Us-
jesty the tnipefor of the-Frensh; tt hti serrtql his
'policy, and who owed to the Imperisl gertefOsity
his rank, his telltale; and his considerAtion; Would
always remember his
.first estuary, the favours
'with which he had been loaded, and that he would
endeavour to consolidate the independence of his
people; by consulting their,interests and their ins
eliniititm, which for two centuries had attaehed.
them to the system Of 1:1- met. The choice of
Sveden was a language Which vitas understood by
AO( Europe, and those who only knew the new
Prince -Royal by his military reputation; did not
fm: a moment doubt that he iiqiuld foliate a route
traced nut by his illustrious predeeessors.
But prudence even Is deceived in` her calcula-
tions, when she does not' take into consideration
private passions, the influent:cot which rarely gii3es
WAN' to reason.
Persons who were intimately acquainted with
Ch tries John Bernadotte, bad seen hint during the'
revolution float without.principle' 'anti without _
compass at the mercy of events, to flatter,
betray in their turn the factions which disputed
fur Ittiwer ; jealous of military talents which he
despaired of equalling, uneasy• in the midst of,the
re. establishment ,of Order, secretly iormeitted by
ambition's desires, ungrateful by chary:ter, and
taking his vanity. for elevation, and. his natnral
restlessness for genius.; those pm sons, I say, 4i:-
served 'his proceedings with distr,:st,. an.l we;-e
not long in discovering that. the hopes of Save-
den would he deceived ; Ow the new Prince
Royal would separate his interests from those of
his people, and would only use his indo.enee, hat
for satisfying the avidity of his ambition.
Nattirdly factions,,the new Prince Royal soon
gave himself up to that faction which the gold at
England, and the promises of Russia, had for such
lengthof time supported at the Court of Sweden,
and of which some members, landholders in Livo-
nia, thotrOt, less of serving the State than to pre-
serve their fortune, and angrinmr the expence of
"the Swedish nation. ''They persuaded the prince
to ttbandln to Russia Finland, an integral part of
the kingdom., and to hold out in the 'conquest Of
Norway a shameful equivalent. Renee thr.t
mand of the cession of. Norway to the preindict of.
Denmark. It is:knoWn that the French• Govern-
ment rejected that project •with indignation.
However events pressed forward, our armies,
conducted by the Emperor,. penetrated 'into thv
heart •of Russia. So long as fortune remained
faithful to us, the Prince Royal, although proba-
bly detached at heart from his formarcouutry and
august Benefactor, did not present himself upon
the field of battle. It Was not because he feared
to spill the blood of his countrymen, but that
sort of prudence which allies itself extremely well
with ostentatious speeches, that prevented hint
/from appearing saran the Continent. it was only
when the irresistible.. fury of the elements had
overwhelmed the French army, that, encouraged
by the defection of Prussia, be more intimately
,connected himself with the enemies of France.

.By what reasons can he justify this proceed-
ing ? How will he excwie'himscif to Sweden, for
having thrown her into a line of policy which she
cannot follow without- danger, and of sacrificing
the blood of herpeopli; in a came which is foreign
to them ? Will the el.imerical hopes he entertains
respecting Norway, console the Swedish nation,
for the real evils which it is obliged to suffer
tVil.l the cession of Guadaloupe be a recompcnce
for them ? But what Swede has nut rdre,,dy felt
that this cession, without guarantee is ithisoq,
and that that cannot be ceded which has. no), Lei
acquired by a treaty ? Bernadotte is perhaps the
only man in Sweden who has not seen that rids
oifer of Ean;land wus but an insult abet that the
British Ministry, .irceusiomed to speculations'
of every kind,, hail not disdained to ealcnlate
bow far the levity, or not to hesitate about a
word, the ignorance of its new Ally would 'ex-

eand -
it is thlefore for uncertain expectancies that
Sweden has given up Finland, her natnral bul-
wark, and detached herself from a system follow-
cd with such success during two centuries. And
it. is a non who owes his divides and his power
but to the influence of the 'tench Government, a
military renown acquired in combating the ene-
mies of France; it is him, who, forgettitig all that
is sacred in the world, betrays at the Same time
his honour, his former country, and 'the best in-
terests of that nation which had taken him into
its entire confidence. Let .him walk upon the
Continent till his hour has arrived ; let him.walk,
escorted by the Kotzebues,. the Gentz, the Seim-
gels, and all the contemptible libellists paid by the
English Oligarchy : -but let him learn, that he has
been judged by his conntrymen as he will be
judged by, posterity ; let him know, that the des-
tinies oft France are unalterable that the efforts
of her enemies will he wrecked before the valour
of her armie,;, the patriotism of her citizens, and
the, energy of her Government.