The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-05 00:00:00

I'ltONl THE. FIiENCI-1 PAPERS.

One of the French provincial' Journals, pub-;1
at Caen, in the department' of Calvados, '
contains'a-Military-Order' which has excited some
notiee„' because it -hears-an allusion to politics,
•aud7yet it is-said, that. no pliky'in France tinder
stands the allusion. We give a short extract from.
the order, which is, signed by thc..Sato9
•D'Eto-.
nuigny, conttnander of the 14th military division,
and is dated March 14 :
" The General commanding this division is anxious to an•••
nounce the total destruction of a band of robbers, which was
ortra'nized last uMnth in the department of hie Orne ; and
• .ttiii.ll4.to•gi've•a strength to its.system of plunder, sought to
lois up polities. With it. The local authorities were only the
more ardent in coaiperating with the armed force in•the,pur-
snit. By their. intelligence, and the vigorous measures which
they took;-they Completely antiiiiilated.the hand of 'robbers •:
_some of theteaderawerekilled, some wounded, and otheo are
• taken, againSt whoM -the.Prevotal Court icitt iqueeed. The
...Nat•ionalGttavd•wa very uscitil." • • • •

• The Authorizie4 of Elberfeld have thought pro.,
Per to give publicity to the ti4iclaration of two
prisoners of war returning noin ,R,ussia, which
• states, that on the extreme frontier of-that Btu-.
pire,, to, the south of Moscow, there still remain-
ed several thousands of men of the old , French.
army, of whom some had made the effort to re-
turn, while others Were discouraged bythe diffi-
culty of undertaking a long and painful journey
withnot certain means. Aceording.to this,state-
rnent, there were some hundreds on their way at
this moment, as well for France as for Naples
:and, Germany. • .
The following is the article, dated Entericld,
I%larch 10 :
• "I'here have passed through,our town within
the last fortnight two prisoners of-war returning,
from Russia.. They have • stated, that there, are
still in the remote provinces of
,Ritssia many
snners, who only want' the necessary means to
let urn to their country.H!Orteof'these 'soldiers
was Frenchman, the -'ritUer•Te of thin
' town. • lie had dwelt in• a Russian' town•named
tiewersdenensky-Gorod, which seemed,to be situ-
, uted towards the "south, but at, a very great dis-
tance from Moscow. In the month of March,
1816, the time of his departure, he. found still
there threehtmdred prisoners, all Germans. The
Frenchman had resided, up to -July 1816, in a
place named Malouka, which .he stated was situat-
ed in Siberia. On the 18th of JUly, he had set
, out,trout, it with a column of 100 prisoners, 23
officers, and nine medical men, under the conduct
of a Captain.; hut only 300 arrived on the frontier
of erussia,.the..rest having•petished on the way.
About the en J d of annary they, arrived :
the Frenchman set out from thence with forty-
sne Hessians for Casio!. He assures us, that
when the aolutnti passed the town of Kalouga,
there, Were, in it 720 otter' prisoners of war, en-
gaged at work on a canal which they, were dig-
ging near 'that. town, and which they said was to
be united with :, the Black Sea., At Moscow he had
seen 1,100 other prisoners,' Ger Mani, and Nea-
Politens. Ardording to what he bad heard, there
were 4000 foreign soldiers at this niriment on the
snatch foy.Germally.
A-,0„),;,..ea of Elherfeld have prepared
,a proses .verbal of the assertions
,of these, two;
soldiers:4