The Sun.
London, England, 1815-10-17 00:00:00

THE ARMY OF TIIE LOIRE.

RI:PORT UPON THE SITUATION OF THE ARMY Or

• THE LOIRE.
(From Ike Rhenish Mercury, Oct. 7)
Already, at the -outposts beyond the Bridge of
the Loire, at LA Charete, I found so little di-
cultY, that the Oflitiers would scarcely look at my

,open order, and would not sign it, and it %vas
only on my repeated request that he gave me a

(uncut' to •atnmci me, who was relieved at

every station. I yeas nowhere stopped, not even
at lirc gate, or rather latticed door. of the town

'of llourges—there was no ward at rill.
Marshal Macdonald lives with the Prefect, his
son-in-hiw, the Duke of Massa (REgnier, the
f,ou) and has brought a whole General Staff with
him, the 'chief of which, the one-armed General
had afterwards a two bouts conversation
'with me in the name of his Commander ; the re-
..sltlt of which is contained in the notices which I
Lave hereby the honour to lay before your Excel-

;eller

When Marshal Macdonald came to Bonrges to
talce .thc chief command, the r had indeed
made its s.ibmiSiion an, address ; but in spirit
it was very far from submission.—lle began by
`depriving of their commands, the individuals.
-I;amed in the Royal Ordinance of the 21st July,
and declaring them for the present' prisoners of
Slate. I, in fact, saw Colonel Marbut, (who at
Valenriernes waS the first to burn the white flag),
Gene•ral Count Lobau, Monet, D'Erlon, and some

others out of uniform. They are obliged to ap-
pear daily befo're the Commandant of the place,
Oil a new order from the King t,ball fix their place
of abode—Generals Dtoaet and Lefebvre Desnou-

-cites have.been arrested at Bonrges.
General Vandamme had willnrawn before the
arrival- of General Macdonald. His corps is now
commanded by General Le Fob that of Count
D'Erion, who is said to be severely wounded mid
ill. by General NlarkOngey.
Bcsidcs this, Marshal Macdonald has signified
to ail those who were put upon active service from
the half-pay, or the enjoyment of a pension, that
they arc to return to the former condition, and
Oven or prepared fora fourth part of the ar-
-11;y, pasports to return home.
" After these measut es," said Marshal Mac-
donald, to me, " The Generals•cominancling the
Allied Forces, cannot well doubt a moment
longer, but that his Ainjesty, my most gracious.
Sovereign, no• %%here • ees any enemy of h.is coun-
try hut in the ill disposed of his army, that our
serious wish is a speedy and din able peace. lint
yon will alSo see," said he to me, " that my si-
tuation here as Commissioner and Distributor of
the Hord displeasure Must be highly'unpleasant,
and that this was very much increased at the mo-
inept of his arrival,by what pas-ed at Come after
the Convention was concluded, viz. by carrying
oil:a detachment of Sapeurs from an island in the
Loire, which belongs to the department of the
Cher,-and of the plundering of a chateau belonging
to Madame de la Tremonille, by a detachment of
laiperial Austrian Yagers. Gen:1111;1ot begged me
theu, in the. name of the Marshal, fo impress
upon my General in Chief the necessity of remov-
ing, as soon as possible, the difficult ieS and the re-
ntraints in the commtmica:ions, to allow free cir-
culation to provisions, and ,to facilitate trade in
general, and also to permit officers and others
belongings to the army, who are provided with the
regular passports, orfeuilles dcroute from him, to
go home with their baggage, and the officers even
with their side-arnis. His new disposition he
sail consisted in this :----that along the Loire,
weak posts rentolued in order to -maintain in a
manner the police of the frontier or line of dernar.
cation.• For the rest-the two poor and wholly ex-
hausted provinces, Le Berry .and La Soiogne,
were quite sttipped.of troops, the Artillery and
Cavalry sent to Bretagne, where there was nlenty
of forage. Two regiments of Infantry remain at
Bourges. That Marshal Sachet, who is also to
Come under the command of Macdonald, and is
already ordered to approach nearer with his troops,
seems to delay this movement as long as possible,
in order to lose his chief command so much the
later. However, he had .sent the submission Of
that army to the King, and'according to his posi-
tiVe accounts, it was quite peaceable. Of Van-
damme, Flahault and Ney, he knew nothing 5 but
t 1,;,. despondency of the army was deCidedly top
great, and the consideration of these Generals
too much impaired by the late events, for them
to 'undertake any ,thing. Of Labedoyere, he
knew for certain that he was arrested at Paris,
and Moylen Duvernot at Montbressan."
,Lent.-General Roussel, whoni I sane among
the Generals who waited on' Marshal Macdonald
titter table, is one of those who arc put on half-
pay. He wore besides the Cross of the Com-.
nointler of the Order of Theresa, that of the Legion
of Honour, but with the circle in the middle taken
out, so that the Order looks like an ornamented
spying-glass. After this Conversation, I endea-
Nonted as well at Bourges as on the way back, to
procure soave information respecting the situation
and dispositions of this army, but I am not able
to give your Excellency any thin,, but detached
ponces on this subject.
At Bourges I saw.the former Imperial Guards,
of all arras the grenadiers are those who still
appear the most" deCently clothed ; the inhabitants
upon whom they are quartered praise them this
thne sus uncommonly' polite. The Curassiers have
for the most part sold their horses. Marshal
Macdonald has instituted an inquiry,, and caused
diem to be restored by the purchasers 5 the same
lies been done byrespect to the horses belonging to
the :teal stud, which voust took with him
it hell he marched out of Paris.
Fr6nt Borges to La Charitel saw the regiments
infaiqry; Nos. S and 21, the dragoons No. 3,
end the hussars No. 5.
At Cron le diaillon, which lies a little out of
road, I announced myself to Lieut.-General,
Markongey, who invited nie to breakfast With his
officers.. I accepted ,the 'invitation. At the be-
. ginning the conversation was very dull ; then I
turned it on the battle of La Belle Alliance, at
which .ive had all been present. Every one gave