The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-18 00:00:00

OUR ARMY IN FRANCE.

In regard to the positions of the hostile armies,
Bayonne was left to its garrison, !under: Count
REILLE ' • SOULT had his right at Peyrehorade,
and his left towards St. Jean Vied de Port : he
also occupied Bastille, Ayhire, St.. Etevan, and'
Hellette. The Allied Armv, on the other hand,
.held Urt, Hwparen, Boodoc, and Medionde. An '•
exchanged Spanish officer, who. passed through
SOULT'S army on the 2d, states that ell the old
troops had been marched into the interior.

.. tithe Duke D'ANoouLE:ne arrived at the head-
gnarters the:Sd instant. „Lord WELLINGTON
and his suite went out to•nieet his Royal High-
ness, who For the presciq remained as a private
Gentleman. •

Letters, to the 4th instant, were yesterday re-.
--eeived from Lord WELLlNuTox's...head-quarters.:
By diem we learn, that the army still remained in.
cantonments, and that the state. of the .weather,.
and the roads, rendered any immediate advance
impracticable. For the three preceding weeks,
Winter, such as might be expected at the foot Of
time Pyrenees, had prevailed with ‘considerable se-
verity.; and though there was then. some promise
of a change, it would regaire sonme.weeks of dry
'.weather to enable Lord WELItINGTON to move.
additional supply of money also was cousi-,
tiered necessary to- the resumption of offensive
operations. This, we believe, has been carried
out by the Erebus, which sailed. the other . day
~from Portsmouth.

In the neighbourhood of Lyons, the Allies are
said to have been driven from Mont Lae', about.
twelve miles froin that city.
•
Yesterday Mr. STRousE, who accompanied the.
Duke of CAMBRIDGE to Hanover, arrived in Lou-,
don from that place, with dispatches from his
Royal. Highness, and letters to the PRINCE HE-
GP.NT, the QUEM and other branches of the.
Royal Family. . • .
The paragraph which we copied from a Morn-
ing Paper of yesterday relative to - the .Count de
Vial. CASTEL'S remaining in' London had been:
contradicted, and it is stated that the Count left
London on Saturday, with his Secretaries, for
FalmOuth, where he is to embark in one of his
Maiesty.!s ships foi.the South of France, in fulfil-
ment of the mission which has been entrusted to
him.

Letters Were yesterday obtained by a vessel
• which hid taken the precaution of keeping to sea,
instead of approaching the ncighbOurbood .of
Gottcuburgb, where the ice has forsome time,
prevented all navigation. The dates are •of the
481.11 instant, and we learn that the Freelin'g packet
was so inclosed by the ice, that wider favourable
weather her extrication could not be expected in!.
less than a foreniiht. She has unluckily ten;
mails on hoard.

The last day appointed by the House of Com-
mons for receiving Private Bills is. the 4th of-,
March next. •

•."(:Yne of the two Senior Lay Clerks in the choir.
of, St. George's Chapel, Windsor,-has belonged to
the choir (luring the Iyhole of his MAJESTY'S 'lite 3
ancl the other.ever since his MAJESTY - began to
reign, in
.which- period there have been seven
Deam, and dearly one bundie.4 differeut Canods.

INTERCEPTED LETTERS,

(Continued from our Piper of Yefterday.l

Copy of a Letter addressed to the Minister at War by General
Mzoi;Lts, dated Rowe, Sept:27, 1813.

IV-ar-OfEce.

:Slit;----On the evening of the 'l4th inst. a de-
titelimetit °Nile National Guard of the Commune
della Prima, near-Citta di Castello, in the district.
of Perugia, consisting of six men, sent, by orders
of the Under 'Prefect, 'tj arrest the father of a re-
fraCtory conscript,- who had taken up arnts, were
stopped at a •distance of- about 3 kilometres by a
b'and of 14 robbers, upon whom they fired., and
with whom they continued engaged =for sometime:
One Of the National Guards havi;ig been Aille.d;
and two wounded. the 'officer: who' had :the cotn-
mild retreated •the remaining three The
robbers, on their. part, -toOk.. to llight;;Carrying
With;them one of their own .pary,,.wheY was-se-
verely %%rounded land, leaving on:tlib 'field of battle
two hail :and a pakcef -of papery/I Among vihich
papers have been discovered that belonged to a
Quarter-niaster of the gendarmerie •of Pieve St.
Stephano (department of,ihe-Arno), whom they
had killed three days- before ; which spews that
the same trOopi of robbers pass from one depart-
ment to the other, and Onts.appear to multiply.—
it appears certain; that in this direttion there are
but three bands,;tWo of which belong to Tuscany,
Viz, that which Is spoken of on the presgrit' occa-
Sica; Consistin:.f of fourteen men ; • another-of ten
men towards i3redv>; and that- of- Peppino di
Colleforte, o'f.seventeett men, belonging tolhe de-
l:tarn-tie a On e-
f the Trasimee, in thdistrict
rugia making in all ,about 30 rehbersie 'against
whom 300 men' are in motion, certain rounds bay-
ing been agreed upon between the movable co-
lumns of the department of the Arno, in the king-
dom of Italy, •and tire Chief Battalion Champ-
mison,, who commands the column of the Catti di
Castello.

As soon as the occurrence of La • Fratta was
known, two detachments, of 30 wen each, were
sent by the superior °dicer :against the band. that
committed the crime. , 'A r

• I direct the: commander of the department' to
give strict orders, that n-o armed, expedition be
sent out but of a strength' capable •of.•inspiring.
awe ; and -am desiring, the' Prefect- to order. -all
•the public authorities Under him not to 'commit, in
this 'manner, the'theans of•the public force. •:•
'The Prefect has sent a sword • to the otficer of
time six • National Guards of La Pratt..,, whose
Clothes:Wel., -pierced-. with many,lialis, as an ae-
i.nowledgment-ot his meritoripas services,••a•sum
of 150 livres•to the widow of the man that Was
Aad iU livres to each of the two wounded
then ;• which gifts cannot but encourage the Na-
tional Guards to act with ;.edou-b1..:u1
• -- • I am, &c. •
• . (Signed), MIOLLIti.

The confortrrty-of the copy with the original is
attested by the Secretary General Of the War De-
pUrtiuent.

,Extracts of private Letters, •wr;tten from Paris and the Inte-
rior, to the Head-quarters of the Grand French Army.
ht. clund, 211th Sept. 1813.
At length I yesterday received, my friend, vuur
letter of • the 20th, in which you inform me that
Edrpond iS:hiade pristin6r *. I Iliad been a long
time without news ; perhaps.there was a.letter for
ate in the bag by the courier, who got drunk., and
was robbed olit near Chateau-Titierry, for I can-
not believe that, being, at hea4-q9artees, you
sliOuld be twelve day's without writing to. me at
such a Crisis. Here we are in great
The manner in which they are carrying• on the
_war against us, recalls that saying,ofMomieur de .
Wornanzoti to 'Monsieur Dryer, in talking of the
Ernwror : 7 Wti.uitist wcHrbiknoitt...l

. . •
COlonel Count Edmund de TalleYrabd, who was made
prisoner on the: 19th Sept. by Generals llowaisky and Dohs-'
tehuttc, with the greater part of three regiments of
.Freuch!
Chaisinars.

To M. the Director N. N. (The cov,-r of this letter'waslost.)

29 Sept.

My DEAR DIRECTOR,—Since the publication of
• the notice forewarning of the possibility of an
interruption of the correspondence -between. the
. imperial heal-quarters and Paris, the public on-
. easiness• has run wild. They gossip, they invent
idle stories, they try• who can talk ttiz• ;Dust irra-
•tionallv.- The worst of all this i 5, that' the stocks
;are failing every day, but 8:good-:stiniOus will
,serve to .cure publiz opinion' of this: wandering,
• Accept, the good
.wishes of your solit.ary
PICARD.

To Baron LARREY Chief Surgeon to the Grand Arne}:
Fouknai,
.' I lite hcre.altitays in-:suspense, but the news
give me no hopes of seeing, you this ts'nter. I
imagine, that, although -better informed Wan my-
self,. you arcatot, on that account, .more•happy..
This is not living, My poor friend ; this is dying.
Where are you at present ?
all here in a state or suspense. Do not be
disheartened howc-e- for that does inure mis--
1
chiei than all the rest. - - - -
- His plan, at.present,'is to .s.2e you this
winter at Dresden, if y 9,1 take.up your tvint,er-quar-
ters thete, as every tiling, 1 fear, seems. to indi-
cate. I alone cannot batter •myself with vain
hopes, and I suffer mote on that account.
_I have received ti letter front your un-
cle, who is quite. uolltappy. want to -.44:e
his second son front hint, to send him to, Bayonne;
he is in despair. At that time, agreeably. to what
you wrote me, I tool: every possible step in his
behalf. But my nude besought me" to suspend
every thing, and now time presses, and the pos-
sibility is 00 longer the same, •

To Mcnisieur DAILLIENCOUNT, , Chief of a Squaklrcla in Lite,

tight!' Itcgitiseut of Cuiras6icr3.

Paris, 25 Sept.

The. son of Monsieur de 13eatimetz,
Marshal Al-order, is kilted. 'lf this lasts
-Mith longer; every one will have his torn ThOse
escape'' one canipaign perish in another. 1,
melancholy reflections on this subject, for
yo
,-•
tir good fortune cannot always last. A single
instant mayput an end to it, Mai situa-
tion is mine !

TUE 'MINISTER OF POLICE TO lIIS I%IAJESTY THE

EMFEROIt AND r,:::G

Paris, Sept. 9, I gl3.

hive the honour to nehire,,s to your Majesty
the bulletin -of General and Aniericun

l'cl'UttlalS to the 31st of July, which came by way
of Bayonne. •
We received to-slay dispatches from tTle army to
the 24th ofSepternber. . They have done
.ns
,great
service, and have pi'oduCed a easonable v.it:eration.
in the lan.,-;•uage of the people. In tnis place a
.mere nothing has power both to excite alarm, and
to restore confidence,

We have no news from any part of France,nor
frOiti'itly•Or Holland, that k• at all tinpleaSant,
dr; ideetl;:irt any-degree extraordinary. The re::
polt..'Of the last events tlmt have taken• place in
the'kitertl's'arfrq"iS•liot yet •iiublished Pari!sb:'
TheY ralkriiBgericiallY of tT.1.1).6-li'tiCarindisiio.-'
sition tO• exist
the B;4ariab GOvernm'ent';'lscdauSe::We' !non:
'that? Coolifry"
With /11Yria. ' • 'l.l 'does' r.'-it a
cOnti-ibbte• to excite' uripligill3Re reflections ; ';iut/
the title national character:* to rise strongly,
against ;ngraticuue ; and ' I 'have not yet 'seed
synifitOin of its disphYing itself in a:dir:'
fererit-inarier. I am- eVen E,,t-i.sfiecl with.
the language held by perSon's4 of Weight,
speet.to the general st'ate'of pr'esei-it.
The manner in which-they express. :heir opinitins
is'ifery•cOMMendable and .cry ,:ltisfactaq. It is
not, however, a time to or.cupy your Majestv
these.particulars at the present inneitire ;
they Will find 'their fit ph*:','ec' on another occasion.
• rhi4ttlay; at-the Council ol'lllinisters,"ihets4r of
your Majesty's..Ministers,"whose depaiiirients ate
connected with ohieets -of public expenditure',
gave: information -that the• Cortractors Havre
threatened' them with discontinuing the service;
without an anginetitation 'in thi.it portiori-of theit4
payment which is•inade in--specie: The reasOri
they assign is., ' that their loss.is too considerable
in the negociation of the annuities which are re-
mitted trythem for the complement of their pay.
The. Minister :Director of-the- War Department,
whose expenses are the hea'tiest, is placed in a pe."
culilr•predicament. -•MosVof7:his Contracts mitst
he'renewedlthiS year and it he doesnot adopt
somePexpetlients',-to. induCe thiliwesent Contritc=
tors,•-whobaYederived hirnsiddrahle profits froni
their engagements, to,continne. them, he will find
great"thilicultrin procuring others'. He 'seemed
to are tolie 4itty aware 4 the 'ttlflietilty of his si-
tuation, .and-disposed` tO ma4e4Very effort to re-
tain them in his serkdee.
The .Ctintritetors for 7 the pub& work's-at Paris
in ••like: eompkiiru of -!6eing paid by an.
„InSteail of• Whiol is poured into
the lreastiry out of thepohlie chests of the capital.
The works have hitherto i:moire on well; notwith7
414ttiiilin-gY7and.as•yet theft- hdYle been brit slight
appr,ehensions anionottr-,,workmen of their dis-
continuance.
• • f•do inat'spe-ilt to your Majes-tv of all the_ap-
preliensiOns- which prevail iu the Smutli:-.nol' of
all the complaints.caused by the requisitions with
which the country is burdened for the support of
the army :of Spain.' These are evils inseparable
from the reverses we haVe•experienceil in that
quarter, and we must have• courage to support
them. Your Majesty, besides, is
.inCapable of
'Affording any remedy to them,' from your
jesty's litelent situation. •
I have received to-day a•rery had account of
the state'of health of M. le Stiiitteur Laplace, of
whom there seems reason to' apprehend that he
will baldly have strength to resist the wittier
Season.- Three weeks ago, at his Excellency the
Arch-Chancellor's, 'he frightened every body by
-the alteration hi hiS appearance. It' acenreil as if
we were 'all taking leave 'of Tie looks as if
he had received the stroke of death already.
• • J am, With the most'profound respect, Sire,
• • Your- Majesty's faithful ser6nt and subject
t
Didir HOVIGO.