The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-24 00:00:00

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rived —IFORTSLI.IYI, FEB. 2J.--Art Officer, just ar-
from Head-tptar.ters, informs ns, that Sir.
140,,
PtAm was again preparing to advance
!Pon As kicti,
Arittreip; and only waited the arrival 'of
c6ngreves rockets, which it was expected lie
would receive this day.
134"ssr.s, FEB. 14.—Troop-3
are continually
passing through our town.
Cot.oo.?cß, FEB. 3.—Count D'ARTors passed
th'",igh here at half past five o'clock this morn-
under the name of Count ba PoNTHIEU, oil •
*a)? to Basle.
, FEB. S.—About 5000 Ttus-
-Balh troops
infantry,, artillery, and Cossacks, ac-
s.., ell here yesterday, or in the environs, and set.
(41:t. this morning for their ulterihr destination. • 7
JAN. 12.-General MarsoN has esta-
ui!ithe'dbis 6nd-quarters at Tournai, but it is not
t
r'"Oit lie will long maintain himself there. All
t AMI Hainaut are evacuated, and the
ends army concentrated in the town of Tour-
r°'s canunt l'ong maintain themselves there.—
z'reeil to quit Tournai, the last town in Bel-
tie:ll4l44"-t will remain, for the moment, no other
Ciltee for it than nutter the catfrion of Lille,
LteMAie spirit of the inhabitants of which gives
114 little reison for" the Government reckoning
ii)9ll their co-operation in the defence of that
"'Portant Place. -
iiiikeounts from Leyden of the lith .detztil some
ti3°Ftent sorties fr(nn Naarden and Delfzyle.—
ta' a disgrace to Holland that these. torts have
been knocked about the cars of their gat. .
I,ons.
tio„„
the ""RECITT, FEB. ls.—The gate of Arlcel its`
1,',,,, N Y-One now possessed by the Prussian he-
e.rs
t" at Gorcum ; and through this gatethe
f;attlis to march on the 20th inst. ime other.
ns l
.gre held by the Dutch troops.
4114°p-1
-F.-Doc, FEB. 6—Strong detachments of
41,(1. troops (1,61 y pass throughl this place. Yes-
a . .
11,.t two thousand Saxons arrived, and 111111_
Cossacks are quartered in the of
ter' ~,'t• Three other battalions have to-day:
en-
tll.
,44, our town, whiclr are to march in a (i ayor
iCil the neighbourhood of Antwerp, and v% hiei
be followed by other troops.
Pzn, s.—On the fist day of this month
enemy made a sally towards Ravestein, burn-
lie"iand destroying whatever came in his way.--
\Ve ',,"1 the barbarity to ham-string several horses..
is 41-re happy to learn that the attack upon (:rave
tilC,to be undertaken. Several. piecris of "ye been sent in that direction.

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DICF.RE FA LSI! NI AU DEAT

LONDON,
7.lrUns O.IY, FEBR 17.1 al' 24, 1414
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4111*
Or DI SIWITIIES FROM LORD CASTLE-
Ih CUATILLON, ISTIL-TAKING OF SOISSONS
1-ST°IIMIAND DESTRUCTION OF THE GARRISON

bF
S'VEN THOUSAND MEN.—CAPTUTIE OF TWO
leamATEs.
18°I3Patchel front Lord CASTLEREAGH, dated the
Iv I'l
at Chatiilon arrived this morning. They
broti
ere l
brought Wit by Mr. FREDERICK ROBINSUN, a
Doy -et of Lord GRANTHAM, who landed a:
er
from a Flag, of Truce and reached town
Tll3his °renoon. He came from the Allied Armies.
Gentleman confirms, to the full extent, the
sticce=aOE WINZINGERODE, and represents the
'eeeN boasted
tjoi victories of BUONAPARTE as gross
rggerations.
14 all
the actions between BLUCHER and Buo-

o,A
1t.1.2' the Allies lost about 13,00) men, and
Arrh.,
—; or iscu
it 3
cnen has since been restored to
or'i4l •
kretn4l strength, by the junction of rein-
tkv Illents from the Corps of WINZINGERODE and
.Noolow.
The Emperor of flusst and King of PRUSSIA
ire at Troyes, where a Congress was i 0 be held,
Lord CAST* EIMAGH Would
assist.
t Tile following are the particulars-of
WINzrN,
fa°l3a's brilliant exploits, which we hasten to
Zbli34 irt a less official shape, that the public
ay
llc't he detained from the good news till the
"16 11u 4 .....mtin is promulgated.
Intelligence has been received at the Admiral-
tatY4ll the *way (rf Holland, that WINZINGERODE
Soissons, and a foitified camp near that
4-41te
by stornt On the 1-Ith inst. when betweeu

(i and 7000 of the Garrison were killed and taken,

among whom are two Generals, BUSCA and LONG-
CHAMP, 3000 taken prisoners, 13 pieces of can-

non, and many ammunition waggons."
This sufficiently e4lains the halt in the French
accounts at Chateau Thiery, and also the fact of

the line of telegraphs being cut off between Paris

and Boulogne.

We have great pleasute in stating, that two
French frigates, the Alcmene and Ipligenia, have
been captured.hy the Venerable and Cyane.

We this day present our Readers with 'extracts •
from the French Papers to the 21st, the arrival of
which we announced yesterday. They confirm
Aire statement we gave respecting their contents,
in so far as'regards the exhibition of several thou-
sand prisoners in a march into the Capital, and
they add to our former stock of Parisian news,
the account of another action fought on the 18th
at Montereau, on the Seine, about forty miles
from Paris. The source whence the description
of this battle is derived is of the most unauthen-
tic kind ; and it is deserving of attention, that
since BUONAPARTS arrived at Guignes on the
16tb, at Gnigees txenty-fire .miles front Paris,
there is not, op to the 20th inclusive, a single
syllai)le of official intelligence respecting the
operations in which the Tyrant has been en-
gaged, although we are given to understand,
_that on the 17th and 18th, several very
sanguinely actions ensued between him and
the army of Prince, SCHWARTZENBERG. We
have nothing of the issue of the battle of the
17th, which, at noon, had been so favourable to
BuoNArant-ra, and so disastrous to the Allies. The
tale of that day's :lose remains yet to be told,
and we are transported, as if fOr the sake of giv-
ing dramatic effect to this grand and terrible
drama, to another scene (one day later in
date) at 11.1ontereau, ‘vhexe, having passed the
actors with similar indistinctness before our eyes
foe a few moments, the curtain is also dropt,
and we are left once more to our own ima-
ginations for the finale. The description of the
contest on the 18th is as follows :—OUDINOT is
said to have " advanced upon Provins"—a dubious
expression, which, it will be observed, would ap-
ply to the slightest movement from Guignes or
Nangis, and would as correctly relate to the
change of position on the 17th, as 'to any new
progress on the 18th, without meaning that this s
corps had approached, far less that they had.
arrived at the place mentioned. With this
brief paragraph, however, the efforts of the
soi-disant Duke of REGGIO are dismissed—
We then come to the more momentous exploits
of BUONAPARTE in person. He caused the troops
to march in the morning on the Bridges of Brily
and aforrtereau :—being informed that_WREDE and
the Wurtembergers were posted at the latter place,
he attacked them in person with the corps of
Vic/soli' and Gramm, the Guard on foot and
horseback (probably brought with bins from Van-
champ), and also with the division of Pasoe,
from Melun. Of course the Allies were over-
thrown, the bridges on the Seine and Yonne
(which were destroyed in the news of the former
reports) carried by assault, and the enemy
pursued across these rivers. The results are
again in threes ; i. c. three thousand priSoners
and three pieces of cannon--in fact, it is ob-
servable, that in all his late victories, the
" Great Captain " has trade it a rule to capture
one gun for every one thousand men ! We are not
informed of any thing which took place in the
direction of Bray, where " the troops sent"
would coma into action quite as. soon as those at
Montereau—we are not informed whether Ount-
NOT discovered an enemy in his march or nsat,L-
but the whole details of the 18th (such as they are)
relate to the strength of the French army brought
I to act upon the left of the Allied Force, and the
ad want lges they gained were of such a nature that
the Funds, which had risen from the parade of pi-
' sorters on the 18th, to 561, fell on the 19th,
when this good news was promulgated, to 55+.—
We are not, however, inclined to look to the
state of the French Funds as by any means
offering correct data upon which to form a
judgment. The obvious operation of the very
near approach of the Allies to that City must
have been to shake their credit altogether, and it.
is impossible to account satisfactorily for their
rise from any victories on the pare of the enemy.
A Victory over an. invading army at Windsor, or
the account of their being forced to pass the
Thames at Staines, would scarcely elevate our
1 sinking Consols two or three per cent. and we

doubt that such an effect would be produced even
I were we to hear that a second army on the other
side had been severely beaten, and compelled to
retreat in confusion from Gravescud to Brent-

wood. In short, we are of opinion that the
prices quoted are little more than nominal, and
that if there is any rise at all, it is in consequence
of purchases made on the s.pecidation that the
capture of Paris end the reatdration of the Bona-
Bons might give solidity and increased value to the
national credit of France; reduced as it is to its
losveSt ebb, under the nillitary despotism of a Fo-
reign Usurper.

, .
We have frequently called attention to the sin-
gular nature of all the intelligence ußon which we
have of late been doomed to reason*: It is en-
tirely ex piste, and the public are not to be in-
structed how . good the story on one side is, till
the story on the other side
,is told. But if this
axiom holds generally, how much more securely
may we rely on it now, when even in the state-
ments of the Enemy there are so many palpable
falsehoods, such remarkable slurrings over of
important facts, Ellett' studious concealing of
the truth, and such abrupt and inexplicable
breakingS off in the midst of the very pith
and marrow of the mast 'momentous parts of
the narrative. Upon summing lip the losses
acknowledged .by the Enemy, we snd that
between the 9th and 17th 'BUONAPARTE suffered a
diminution of IMO men, hors de combat, while
the Allied Army lost only 80,000. On the 17th
and 18th his loss was trifrng; that of the 'Allies
about 0,000 ! Those who have appetites for_
these. wonders will believe him. Wherever he
advances, the slaughter of. his adversaries is pro-
digious; here ten-thousand, ther,e twenty thousand,
elsewhere six. thousand. When the Allies march
forward,. the French retire without the notice of a
single man killed, or prisoner taken. MACDO.
NALD, from Chalons to Meaux, beats his pursuers
the whole way ! MAamoNi, from Eloges to
Montmirail, goes as quietly through the night as
if on parade!! VICTOR and OoDINoT, from Nogent,
and from the whole right hank of the Seine, which
they were left to defend, fall back, inasmuch as we
know, without firing a gun, or experiencing a sin-
gle casualty ! But it would be idle to point out
the incredibility of these accounts, upon the face
of which falsehood and delusion and fraud arc
stamped too legibly to mislead any human crea-
ture blessed with a capacity of such extent as to
enable him to spell that two and two make four. .

The accounts from Italy in these Papers are very
gratifying. We find riPtrUHARNOJS no longer de-
fending the line of the Adige, but attached on
both banks of the Mincio.—He ie struggling in
the strung positions fiom the Lake de (arda on
his left, and Mantua on his right. These forced—
he must fly towards Genoa.

We received American Papers this day to the
2d inst. inclusive.-Bir G. PaavosT's Dispatches
to Government have not yet arrived. The
intelli-
gence from head-quarters, Quebec, dated the Bth
nit. is of the most gratifying description. Gene-
ral Orders badbeen issued, announcing a Dispatch
from Lieut.-Gen.Daummoxp,which stated that an
attack had been made on the 30th Dec. on the
Enemy's position at Black. Rock, where he was
advantageously, posted with 2000 tnen The Ene-
my was attacked in the most gallant manner, and
pursued in his retreatto Buffalo, where he attempted
to make a stand, but was forced to make
a precipitate retreat to the Eleven Mile Creek,
on Lake Eric, leaving seven field-pieces, and
four schooners and sloops, astd-- a consider-
able quantity of ordnance stores. The whole of
our troops did not exceed 1000. No British Offi-
cer had fallen on this occasion. Black Rock,
Lewiston, and Buffalo, were burnt previous to the
evacuation of our troops, as some retaliation on
the Americans for the miseries which the unfor-
tunate inhabitants of Newark had been made to
suffer upon the evacuation of Fort George.
Our loss in this gallant Action did not exceed
25 killed„ and .50 wounded. The Enemy suffered
severely ; hut from the rapidity of his flight, only
70 prisoners were taken, among whom is Doctor,
alias Lieutenant-Colonel CHATIDT,
General PREVOST had announced these suc-
cesses in a spirited Proclamation, dated 12th Ja-
nuary, in. which he details the outrageous con-
duct of the Americans, but it is too long for us to
insert this. day.

We continue extracts from
.the Spanish Papers.
The low And crafty conning of the Corsican was
never more glaringly evinced, than in his present
attempts to degrade the Spanish nation,- by se-
(ieing it into hi 3 views by the bribe of restoring a
King, no longer of use to him, and of evacuating
a country which his own necessities prevent bins
from retaining ! ! We rejoice-to sec that the Spa-
nish people arc not to be gulled ,by these tricks.

The answer to inquirers at Ti re House again
yesterday was, that the Earl Of LIVERPOOL was
better. The Cabinet Ministers and a number of
personkof distinctiisa left•their nanaes,

SECOND E

SUN-OFFICE, Two o'cLocx.

We further learn, that BLucf-P,lt's corps was
_ _

re-established at Chalons; and by the reinforce_

naents which he had received before Mr. Roßlx-

SON left Chatillon, amounted to upwards of
50,000 men in the highest order. With this force

be was marching upon Troyes.

The Allied Armies were collecting between Cba-

lons and TrOyes.

Mr. ROBINSON received information on the road

that BUONAPARTE had forced the Austrian corps

at Montereau. But no general battle had taken

place.

THE FOLLOWING VESSELS ARE LOST ON THE COAST

OF FRANCE:

The Union, JONES, Sarah Ann, COURTNEY,
Crawford, PATERSON, of ; Samuel,
of Torbay; Ceres, OLIVER, of London ; Argo,
HAttLowE, of Milford ; Pa/tad/WM, RENIDS')N, of
Sunderland; Anne,'SMITH, of Newcastle.; Live=
PEARCE, of Harrington ; James, GLOVER, of
London ; and three Transports, riia:dced BV,
YB, and LV, are lost on the coast of France.