The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-19 00:00:00

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'!nit accuracy.
We arc-not, hoWever, disinclined to credit the
rePlrts which have reached us
,from various 'guar-
ter3' "'I which concur .in:stating that , another
battle had been fought-. on ,the., 15th between
;Br t,;(.„
Pnfl RucircirAßTE, and that it took place
tin •
'ma the very .ground covered with Unburied
tsar
and crimsoned with, recent blood from the
allir:uinaty contests of the I lth'add nth,' And if
this 1n• - •
am fact be true, what becomes of the
t •
'1 victories of Champaubert, of Montmirail,,
and, of Chateau' Thierry Have-all the. annihilated
r"Ps of ittiss:;a and 'Prussia risen again from
•.,.,
Barth ?•:Have-they sprung up armed. men
„ the serpent's teeth of CAnmus? or were all
te farmer claims of conquest mere creatures of
le brain, ideal glories, and empty boasts ? It is
4t
least most satisfactorily shewn by the results
that „,
were, as we affirmed them to be, gross
e. ::,erations, and, with, this appreciation Of the
"A
-sounding triumphs of the former days, we
ta° have no hesitation in ascribing exactly the
anle character of falsehood and gasconade to the
bow
vaunted victory of the 15th.
Instead of imagining that the first pretended
c;errt
-"row of BLUCiHER.and his 'separation from
rrittep •
QCHNVAETZENBBRG was the result of a
brilliant mancetivre'Oh the part of the 'Enemy, it
tee,
'"5 to be ascertained, even `from the French
!leen",
from nrs, that the operations of the Tyrant sprung
°'l3 absolute necessity. Er.u.t.mF.a, if he had
"en, could have preserved his communications
the Main Army—from their respective military
and
geographical situations, and, from the
",lation of BUONAPARTE—irI these reipects,
there Was nothing in the range of possihility
.1° interrupt this, except a voluntary movement
°rl the side Of BLucumt... It was the Allies, then,
° led the fighting. towards the North, and:
'uoNrApAnTE's following them in that line was
'4lpulsory upon him—he did it to save' Paris at
411 hazards : how he succeeded the next au;
lbentic intelligence will, in all probability, deter-
Bit it SU:llls'as if, in this desperate attempt
to fence off the immediate and more threatening
danger, he had certainly expoSed himself not only
t° the same peril from another clulrter, but ulti-
lilatelv to utter ruin. While engaged in contend-
4ng with BLUCHER from the Seine to the Marne,
."(1, ,as we yesterday 'supposed, with the same
tirtnnander, reinforced by Vot YORK and WIN-,
74'1ERODP., back aiain fiOnl the Marne towards
t.ll,
zc 'tle, he afforded the opportunity' to Prince
trw,k l
Capit . "qz.ENDErs. to striiceagyeat blow at the
a • 'This it is positively said, he had done-,
and at
monlogne -it currently ,believed' on
IrBd4Y, that the Ilistrian_ force had forced its
day by Provins, and reached the Environs of
atis
on the preceding day. It possible that
13tio 'l4l'Aterp might be aware 'of this event
ilue.ing the
consequence' of his movement agarnst
L"RErt that he felt his incapacity to re-
s the attack on both sides, and that, tinder
alI eirelmistances, lie preferred the alternative of
leis
riVe and' Son and Tre&opolis falling into the
ballets (Iran AUSTRIAN, 'rather than of a Itussr.o4
end
ttusslA force.
This • •
is, .howe-,,er; only a conjecture of our
town .
, and reits, on no intelligence received from
the arnlies. With respect to the supposed defeat
IlLuenea on the 15th, we are -perfectly at. ease
- the lea : Even were the Conzican's ac-
°'"its true to the letter, they would fill us
1.741' 110 apprehension, and far less with that
- of dismay which has seized upon
Of
°"r cotemporaries; wh,o, by a strange
!levyeisi ..•
on of reasoning,. appear to have con-
sitie
BUOI4APARTB as Vincibli when be was
zenith of his power, and Only Invincible
that he has sunk to the bottom of his despe-
T te •
fortune. Continued and endless reinforce-
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's are pressing forward to the Allies every
cc~ur---while the 'adversary is exhausting his last
staio
`, a great proportion of the provinces lvhenee
leis r
allK,s should be recruited are in the ,military
Posse •
5810 n of his enernies,.and in those which have
(Ito been spared the c'ontroul of invw,ion, the
'Lost
turn
-dpiu apathy prevails. Stupor reigns
, Pgbout, and the mass of the people are
,
'" to that delignitun into .which no spirit can
be ipe
'1"0, and which.dies all the experiments
°f the r
saorsrean to anhnate- or restore to activity.

The report of the Preliminaries of Peace having
been
Slgued is revi.to.lddy, we kndw not on
the' t f ciatio: It is probably derived from-
the Coast, where that which is so ay-
dent!), xvished obtains easy and implicit credit. •
Neither are we at home untainted with.the vice
°I most .superficial and interested speculation on
this
Inotnentous subject. - It is presumed that Mi-
llisteYs have changed their minds since the depar-
t4re
Lord CASTLEREAGII, and' hate sent his

LotAship new instruct:ons of a donttarvnatgte tc
those with which he originally departed 3, and up
on this bold conjecture they are arraigned and con-
detimed. The Courier, it seems, own-sthat i~zr.sri ass'
was. the bearer of Dispatches not of .a pacific
nature ; and the Chronicle,ctaking it fof granted
that Lord- CASTLEREAGH'S mission was of a pacific
nature, and that these dispatches cannot relate to
any fresh question which may have arisen,' ex.,
claims, '' it is a fyightful thing to see the Councils
of a Nation so swayed l"

In order, however, to put this writer out of
his fright, we will assure him that Lord CATLI;-
REAGH went out, in, the first instance, with, ftill
powers, and fully possessed of the sense 'of the
British Government; that the British Government-
are, have been, -and continue to be, .unanimous,
and therefore there has been no occasion for re'
versing our Negotiator's instructions, nor has it
been done. Neither Mr. SHAW ,nor the Messen-
ger who sailed yesterday at noon from. Deal, with
dispatches for hiS'Lordship, have carried contrary
or inconsistent advises to Lim. Our Cabinet re-
tains its first opinion, and abides by its 'first de-
termination, Which we take to be this—that from
their natural abhorrence of the Tyrant, and their
.
want of confidence in any obligation on his part,
they are most unwilling to enter into a treaty
with him : that they are most desirous of making
Peace with France under another' Government
but that if they fipid no motion in the population
of ,hat country for a change in their rulers, and
if they find the whole Allied Powers it:solved on
making peace with the Usurper, if they can (po-
litically speaking) accomplish what they conceive
to be a.fit and proper peace, that then, however
painful to them, they will consent to become.par-
ties in a general pacification, rather than remain
alone the enemy of France, backed and encourag-
ed by the opinion of the whole world ! •
Such, We say, are the pi inciples on which our
Government act—the sense of the country will
decide on• the merit'or demerit of the policy they

have adopted ; and we conclude with affirming,
that in that,policy there has been no change what-
ever since the departure of Lord CASTLEREAGH.

Our extracts from the Dutch Papers possess con-
siderable importance. Avesnes where AVINZING-
RODE'S head-quarters were on Abe 11 th, is about
100 miles north of Paris, so that he might
readily form a junction with the force on the
Marne, by the 13th and 14th.

The rEINCE REGENT has not left Carlton-
house.
for some time past, in consequence of se-
vere illness. A few days ago, his Royal High-
•ness:s symptoms assumed so unpleasant an ap-
pearance. that repeated bleedings were judged ne-
cessary 7 his Royal. Highness is. now, however,
considerably better. .
Yesterday, soon after twelve o'clock, the LORD
CHANCELLOR had an audience. of the PIUNCE E-
GEN'i at Carlton-house : his Lordship remained
with.his Royal Highness till past two. The Earl
of LIVERPOOL 11:“I a long audience of the PRINCE
afterwards. Earl BATHURST follo.r.vetfthesEarl of
LIVERPOOL.

. Yesterday tlie Dukes of Youts. and KIINT visited
,the PRINCE REGENT:- - . -•--

The Russian Ambassad.tr ha.',,a long interview
%vitt' the Earl of LivENP,uH, ves•-rd irninrniag.
In the event of a ;-!,•enei:4C-iiifgite7:4-7617Teace
being held, his Excellency Co' Er, RNA V NU NET.
will be Ambassacler for Spain Tilt Spanish Go-
Ve7 ment htls. appo:nted EvARIsIOPERP.2 DE,.
CASTRo to he ins .5,.:-!retary upon this' occasion.
We had letters yesterday from Paris, but-they
are not quite sn late as' the dates of the 'public
papers. They give, indeed, a very different
ac-
count of the condition of the,French capita] from
'that which appears in the Journali ; iustemPol. joy
,and enthusiasm, they speak only in the language.
of grief and dismay, and it is evident that a terri-
ble shock was apprehended. We have. also the
-following through Holland : - -
" BASLE, Jan. 21.--,.".The Prnssian Minister, Chambrier,
has gone from hence to Nettfeha;xl,-Gi bac possesion- of that
province in the name of the ic.ing of Prussia. All the Rus-
sian ,trords hare left us, and there ,are only remaining a few
Hung
Huna ri':rs, who had attendedthe Emperor: a Auktria as.
his Body (=hard, priorto. his departure for. France: - •
'" On the ISth the :garrison in the fort of.Huningrn made
a sally, by which, 10-N.ANer, we hist only a few men iu some
skinniihes. TI.L. town of Der is in the hands of the-Atlies,_
hut the enethy still retains possession of the citadel."--Ifoi'n.
Chronicle: • • • .. .

Private letters from Hambur ,h, ,of a date more
recent; than'the Bugetins; hint that the city, if not
previously.surrende'red, was t.o be stortned.ou or
about the present ciao. . .„., •
According to the letters from .Cadiz by the-
Mail, which arrived vesterday,, a person habited
like a Priest has been taken up at Granada on
suspicion. After. examination , it appeared that—
he belonged to. no order of but that he
was. a military .oflicer in the, service of 13t1,0,Na-
PAIiTE,. and he has in consequence. been detained
as a-spy. .:He was provided with letters of credit
to avery large anionat, on several houses in Spain
of the first respectability, and it. is supposed that
these means of corrurtion were to be employed to.
facilitate the new designs of the French Ruler at
the Spanish Court. •
. By letters from Wives of the..l4th instant, .it•
•appears,. that almost the whole of. Flanders was.%
•.:i -rated from French tyranny.. Ostend was .3611
occupied -'by a garrison of about 7 or 800:men,
but it was not true that the surrounding country
had been inundated. The young men of Flanders
.were joining the standard of the Allies in great
.nurnbers daily: , , •
According to advices of the 4th instant, from
• Hambusgh, the Russians were, at. that' time at
Hamm, and Horn, about a mile and an half distant
from the city,

Vcrit.ritre

natostritm—ErHE coßsvcAs- cit,ol
Dooni'd by Li, Conetut.t to retreat in France,

" Dcratcritid to ciiulb, and haelisvaed to aklianceo"

n72,.tv.-LEN naktiTV
There two Miss liuNTtits in Wincl.citer town,
Ant near them dwelt Mone, a yoling man of renov.'n;
Ile was youthful and handsome ; would settle for life;
And wish'd to make one of these Ladies his. Wife:
He weigh'd in his mind, but the conflict was .strong,
For MARIA was lovely, good-tempered, and young ;
SortrY was heiress to wealth in great store,
•And this had attractions to cli:irm the,youni AionEt
With MARIA tie enchanting, ah i how could he part ?
Yet could he resolve to tear wealth from his heart?
for ti ; it rir!'.er should come to an end,
;He ash'd

" dezi:Tst y01;1‘,7 the, sage Mentor replied,
" Vlwn Livice is thus ask'd, it cannot be -depied ;
Arid since you intreat it kith sillnucb good veal,

"freely shall give'it;—so don't take it ill :
If your heart was e'er'•open to Beauty and Youth
To the charms of Simplicity, Virtue, and Truth;
Then take young MARIA, in her you will find
The beauties of person surpass'd by the mind ;
In her you will meet a sweet partner for life,
A pleasing companion, .an amiable wife." -
" Your advice," replied MORE, " is most certainly good,
And worthy to follow; I Wish that I conic' :
But I, when I marry, my fortune would make,
And,Therefore, my friend, your advice I can't take."
" And I," said the other, " am sorry to say,
That Ambition has foolishly led you astray;
Lsee how it is,---Man is never content;
And he that has looney oft wishes it spent;
Whilst he with enough, would still add to his store;
And one that has wealth is the Hunter fur More."'
kiELEN.

WINDSOR, FEB. IS.

None of the ROYAL FAramy left the Castle from
the time of the Duke of YORK'S arrival on Sunday,
with the account of the death of the Duke of
MECKLENBURGII, the QUBCIsI'S Brother,, till yes-
terday, when the Court went into mourning.
The Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, and
NARY, took an airing in the Park this morning,
with several attendants. Princess SOPIII A did not
not leave the Castle.

On We+duesday were marched into the Foot
Barracks near three hundred fine young. men., all
of them volunteers from the East Middlesex
Militia, with eight Officers. The Band of
the sth. Regiment met theth at Eton, and,.‘dlayed
through both the towns to the Barracks. The Re-
giment, when. they came to •Windspr, only
Amounted to GO,. including. the Band ;..now they
are upwards of 800 strong, of well7disciplined
men, tram other Regirnent4.