The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-12 00:00:00

ITALY.

PROM THE VENETIAN FRONTIERS, DEC.
ceording to accounts well deserving credit, the
Austrians are entrenching themselves near Co-
Coldnrs, and Alcone. A column of yea-
-I),°litnn troops, 9500 strong, entered Terracotta
t"e 21st of November, and Rome the- 211 of De-
c,,eniher. It, however suffers much from desertion.
These troops appear to be intended to garrison the
Coasts of Italy, which are much disturbed and
'larassed by the English.
On the sth of December, the garrison of Milan
Consisted .440 men, nor did there appear, either
all the side of the Simplon, or towards Genoa,
a ti"
'IY sign of reinforcements arriving.
.The coon-
I.'etween Milan and the "%thick) was almost
(I:'‘tittite of troops; except in Brescia, Ruca..
(r''"44o, and'Sols, as also -.Swards the Val Camo-
C:' some single battalions were canto:led.=
tiat exertions - were made to enforce the con-
cePtion (brit with- little success) in the territo.:
Brescia anti those of Bologna and Ferrara
13,41tiettlarly ; but desertion was continual, and, as
filaY he said, regular. The provisioning of the
9rtress,,, was carried on by the most unsparing
texplisitionS on- the neighbouring country. 'The
absolute want of money and credit made the coin-
.retion of the contracts impbssible, and in
of the expense and difficulty of carriage,
I,'e country nearest was first plundered. Gonverno
;Tie:the Po :had been fOrtified. : the fortitying of
The
appeared to be given, up.
General, of Division, Grenier, and the Mi-
L'ister at 'War, Fontanelle, Ntik re tile principal sun-
E:lit'Socfrthe French Tnirtyin Italy. All accounts,-
concur in,describing the generalimpo
eOAe V--
! L,lshinent of the people,•and the dejection of the
er classes in the kingdom of Italy, in the
darkest colours. To the iron crown belongs also
.
on
sceptre.•

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rrE.D.,y.Esimr, ././..VU.,IRY 12, 1814

• w
have great pleasure in submitting to our
e'd`lers the-official confirmation of the surrender
of
Ghlekstadt, which important place was oh-
tai
ged
with very-little loss on our part.

OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
" Admiralty-Olfice, Jan. 11 , 1814.
"Dispatches have this morning been received
1411 Clptain FARQUHAR, of his Majesty's ship
448iree, dated off Ghickstadt, the 2d and 6th inst.
44hou1cing, that after an investment of 16 days,
a heavy bombardment,of 6 days, the fortress
0)` "hiclistadt surrendered by eapitulatiofi to the
jai`, commanding the British Squadron, and a
"l4ion of the Swedish Army.
deli 'he Garrison, of about 3000, were-to morel'
ikeli
Inause for further orders of his Royal
11: n, the
'4less the Crown Prince of SWEDEN.
TLC tritish loss in the attack preceding the
was 3 seamen killed, and 2 officers
5 scae,en wounded.—
41a f% riot expected to offtr any resistance.
'an u"etin of the CROyIN PafacE unimport-
ti t what relates to military affairs, but men-
b°llB "Ine acts, probably tmsasnctioned by the
I:itlish Government, (which may not have bad
.‘,1111.e t° glve counter orders to those engaged,)
eb have a tendency to bring trouble upon that

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4 ta Wl hat an animating and glorious picture do the
:is of those events we had the ,hapPintss of
Cale announcinq yesterday furnish for our
th'"ln` this day. From one end of Europe to
e °ther, the GOOD CAUSE advances with rapid
,•
-141 gigantic strides. The wonders of a Campaign
f older times are crowded into the common oc-
of "ttenees of a day. We talk of six or eight
the strongest fortresses in the world lutsr-
rl't surrendered, as if their solid walls were
h►y so many nuts to crack. The word ''im-
t'gnable" seems to have lost its import, and
14% c4rigival meaning of the ktill stronger phrase

" impossible" is extinguishc.l it tsitr Memories,
We have, indeed, an indistinct notion that the
former used somehow or other to be applied to
Sebastian, toPauiplona, to Zara, .to Dantzig, to
Nimegen, that the latter was employed iri speak-
i•
ng,. of the passage of the Rhine,' of maintaining
a British army on the Continent, of tho march
to Paris, and a variety of other operations, which
now
.seem to be scarcely difficult.—But we have
too much important information to notice to have
time to descant upon this curious alteration in
the.force of terms and depreciation in the stan-
dard of language.
Yet, before we proceed to the French, Dutch,
German, and Italian news of the day, yve take the
liberty of laying before our Readers a letterfrom
a Correspondent on whom we have the utmost
reliance, the contents of which, combining with
the other matter, strongly confirm our established
belief that the Crisis of the Corsican Dynasty is
at hand.

" .T.IN. 11, 1814.

" I have seen," says our well-informed Friend,
" Persons who left France last evening (Monday
last) at five o'clock. The People are in a state of
the utmost confusion, and are like a flock of.sheep
(excuse the simile) looking for a Leader. Their
fears, or better feelings, wagnify the anibunt of
the. Allies marching on Paris to 400,000 men, and
they know of no obstacle of importance to check
their progress. Every Soldier, and every piece of
ordnance and musket, is taken. front the sea-
ports and all other towns, and marched to the
dep6t of tile army collecting for the defence of the'
capital! !

" The military duty at the sea-ports is done
by the fishermen !
" The above is given me by the partieS who
w►tncsscd'.all they state.
" It is also said, that 60,000 of the Allies are
to penetrate into Francre by way of Italy ; and
the Marquess WELLINGTON is to cross the coun-
try from Bayonne to the Southern Pyrennees,
and act in conjunction with thebefore-mentioned
fOrce."-

The Dutch Papers to the 10th, read as a con-
text to the French Papers to the same date, and
both inserted in our preceding pages, lay the po-
litical state of Europe, as in a map, before us.—
Iu Fra'nce all is hesitation, doubt, and consterna-
tion. We hear of armies hbOut to be where
armies ought, from the exigencyot the case, to have
been long since stationed ; of the march of troops
to destinations lOng since occupied by their ene-
mies; and of brilliant reviews of a date when
there ought to have been long since ac-
counts of brilliant victories. On the other
hand, the Allies, with an unanimity unexampled-
in the history of Coalitions, have invaded
the Dominions of, the arch Enemy, with a
force unparalleled in the annals of the world,
and utterly irresistible by the single 'power of
France even in her days of greatest vigour
strength, far less ,in her „present state of ex-
haustion.

From this relative situation of the contending
parties, such splendid event; as we arc in the daily
habit of 'communicating are to he expected. Such
events as that which we yesterday announced in our
second Edit ion,thdßevolution of the important Sate
of Geneva, thereby laying bare another weak point
of France to inroad ; such events as the fall of
Torgau, and the transmission of the besieging ar-
tillery employed against it, to bring the same
fate to Wittenberg ; such events as the taking of
Blamont in the valley of the Daubs (not as stated,
by a mistake of our contemporaries, in Lor-
raine) the first surrender in proper France ; such
events as the capture of Zara, in the Adriatic,
and Gluckstadt, on the Elbe. But all these
things, great as they are, sink into insignificance
when we come to tell of 200,000 men, with an
advance of 40,000 terrible Cossacks penetrating
through the least defensible provinces of Eastern
France, while WELLINGTON carries successful inva-
sion through the South and \Vest, and Bur.oti, with
50,000 men bursts the barrier of Flanders, and
Br.uCHEn, the valiant BLuen Ea, at the head of
100,000 of his gallant Soldiers, crosses the broad
waves of the Lower Rhine, and forces his way
by the nearest Road towards Paris. Truly, the
fears of the French are not exaggerated ; with-
out accounting the army in Holstein for
any thing, they have fully more than Four
Hundral Thousand armed and veteran and vic-
torious warriors to combat on French ground ! !
Well may BUONAPAATE transform his Paris into
another Dresden, and make it the centre of his
defensive system. He can do no other—whither
will he fly when be flies from this last resort ? !
It would appear that BLUCHER had in the first
instance came in contact with MACDONALD be-
tween Cologne and Bon. A letter of the Bth at
night, states that an action had taken place be-
tween a column of 23,000 of the Allies and the
enemy, who opposed the ramp u the Rhine,

MO that dig isss was severs. At ..trasturglii
however, Miley, know better, for they assert
(vide EJ'tntir • Papers), that " all is trail:-
quit the Lower Rhine'' : we intagitie
vve thatl''next have it affirmed, from Dus,
seidorif, that all is tranquil on. the Upper
Rhine, The further they are removed from the
site of operations, the more agreeable to 800-
NAEJAIITE must be the tidings sent by his corres.
pondents: These Papers are -also filled with
stories of excesses committed by the- invasive Al-
'lies.---Other appeals then have failed, and the French
are to be terrified into resistance ? Does the Tyrant
not know, that extreme terror is as likely to
stupify as to excite ? MoaTtEa' is expected at
Langres—at LangreS ! why it is half way to the
centre of France !—More excitement to the people,
atitl on a par with M. SEGUR'S address to the depart.
',lent of Aube, in which he trails o'er the defeated
projects (" ram- projects") of his poor Master,
and gives a view of the miseries of invasion, such
as flows from the pen of an eye witness to similar
transactions, and bears all the features of expe-
rienct-taught truth in the speeches and writings
of these bloodstained Frenchmen.

The Dutch Papers present the reverse of such
Gallican lamentations and falsehoods. The So-
vereigns of the Continent declare to the Dutch
Ambassador, that they twill support people who
ha‘,:e so bravely broken their chains with their
own hinds. Cossacks burn to revenge Moscow on
Paris, and teach the cold-heartdd Wretches of the
Imperial gang in that ,city what are the horrors
they have been so long inflicting on others, while
secure at home they took nes view of the mass of
wretchedness, but vilely calculated how much of
.Conquest-, or spoliation would accrue to their
cursed leflder 'and themselves : Switzerland is
raised to Independence, and the territories
torn from her by- Corsican friendskip. will
be restored. On the • left of • the Rhine too,
the Inhabitants have welcomed the Invaders as
deliterers.

In the South, it is now erifient, that MtraaTiS
only anxious to make the best bargain he can for

We cannot even enumerate the favourable re-
ports in circulation ; the above authentic details
are enough fur one day's gratulation.

Tipt PRINCE. REGEST.-Monday evening, his
Royal Highnes-s the PRINCE 'REGENT, and his
scittl'ilrerived'at-linclttlen-palace, the residence of
the Bishop of LINCOLN, where a sumptuous din-
ner wa's.provided for his Royal Highness, and
where he slept that night: At half-past ten
o'clock yesterday morning, .his Royal Highness
and suite left the-Palace, and in the afternoon ar-
rived at Cavlton-House.

The PRINCE REGENT is expected to go in state
to the Chapel Royal, St. James's, to-morrow,
being the day appointed for a General-Thanks-
giving.
The Princess SOPHIA continues indisposed.
The Count Dc GRAM MONT. has left town on his
return to Lard WELLINGTON'S head-quarters.
Lord CAMEREAGH was, we learn, to quit the
Ungue on Saturday last, for the head-q'.:rters of
the Allies. _ _

Her Royal Highness the Princess of ORANGE
arrived in the Hague on the Bth. Notice was sent
by a courier last night, that she would reach the
Palace in the Wood in the morning, where she
would breakfast; in consequence of which Guards
of Honour and of the city were called out, and
marched in procession to. the Wood. They were
soon followed by the Prince of ORANGE in a coach
and six horses, accompanied by the Hereditary
PRINCE. The meeting of the husband and wife,
and of the mother and son, was very affecting
after so long an absence.
On the 9th, Lord CASTLEREAGH dined with the
Prince of ORANGE.
The Dutch Officers who have arrived in Hol-
land, front England, 194 in number, are to be
formed immediately into a Guard of Honour to at-
tend upon the Paince of ORANGE.
Sit TLIONIAS GaAnAst has had a slight return of
the complaint in his eyes; but is now much re-
covered.

General VANDAMMR, it is said, lodges at the
Kremlin, in Moscow, and has every day the view
of the French prisoners at work, wilo are forced
to bail(' the houses burnt and destroyed during
their invasion. _

It is positively asserted in two letters, that Bun-
NAPARTE, within a very short period, has been at
Strasburgh, where he remained only a few days,
and then returned to Paris immediately on hearing
of the passage of the Rhine by the Allies. It is
added, that he bad ordered a large body of troops
to follow him, determined to make the French ca-
pital his head-quarters.
Of our troops in Holland, by the last accounts,
the Ist Royal Veterans were in Willenistad, with
some artillery. The cavalry were sent on to
Klundeft as they landed. On the 2d instant, Ge-
neral Gum marched with three British regiments,
the 34th, 54th, and sGth, to Breda.. The 37th
remained at Klundert. On the 3d, the British
(as we learn from a private letter) advanced as fat
as six miles ,from Bergen-op-Zoom, but saw rto
ground on which they could attack 'that fortress,
which is well garrisoned, and in a most respect-
able state of defence. Breda was to be taken
'possession of by General Grans on the evening of
this date.

There was lately a review of the Guards of Ho-
nour at Metz, at which the Dutch Guards of Ho-
nour were surrounded by the French Gens d' Armes,
and were ordered to lay down their arms. They
were removed to Verdun and Dijon ; those who
had been long in the service to the former place
as prisoners of war, and those lately enrolled to
the latter,- as hostages. Here is another example
of the multiplied atrocities of Buonaparre,