Star.
London, England, 1813-12-13 00:00:00

OBlimAp PAPRRS.

BRANKFORT, DECEMBER I.
The enemy have blown up several bridges on the
Rhine? and undermined others.
Between Mentz and Coblentz he has erected tetes.
de-pont, to dispute with us the passage of the river.
The fortresses are strengthening and provisioning.
aid troops are marching into them. Every thing, la
short, announces his extreme apprehension and espec-
ration, that the Allied armies would shortly cross, and
establish ihemselves on the left bank of the Rhine.
Parties of our light troops have crossed tbe .rivet
and entered several places. They report, that t!:e in-
habitants received them in the most friendly sziartner,
supplied them with provisiors, 2pd pointed cut tr.
them the roads they silo4ltital;e er avoid the gead:-.7,
merie, who were in pursuit,
The inhabitants say, that such is the fear and jea•
lousy of the Government, that their houses have he tt
searched for arms, under pretence that they are re
quired for the conscripts, but in reality, to take away
the means of a formidable insurrections, with whicir
their oppressors are threatened. Many of these troop.
on having recalled to their remembrance the paternal
sway of their native Princes, when they lived not in
dread of the conscription, of requisitions without
number, and the increasing nut then of finding rations
•for the troops, shed tears of joy, and invoked HF
to accelerate the period when they should be united
once more to their German brethren.
- Some of the Emperor Napoleon's Guards have
lately arrived at Meta, and others were to follow.
The Emperor Napoleon has artfully induced tl:e
Helvetic Diet to declare the neutrality of Switzer-
•land in the present conjuncture ; but that neutrality
will not be acknowledged by th Allied Sovereigps.
An effort will be made to detach it from French con-
nection, which there is every reason to think will be
successful. Should it fail, Switzerland will be con-
sidered as part of France, and treated accordingly.
AUG:n:RC:HT NOVE?IBEK. s. '
We have received intelligence here, both.from the,
Tyrol and through Switzerland, that the Austrian.
Generals, aided by the Englith fleet, continue their
victorious career. Nearly the whole of the Venetia:,
States have been liberated. Venice, which is block;'
ailed by land and sea, contains hut a small ganiso4,
scarcely sufficient to keep the inhabitants from riser:;
in insurrection. Unless suecOured from without, ca
which there is not much probithPityk 'Vt cannot lot ,b
resist.
The had policy of the French's t.vident in their
measures. Desiroos of ietaiiihg their chin-lin:pa
over an extensive territory, they pf4ce small garrisons
in all the fortified places. They w taken their armies
for this purpose, a Rich is thew obliged to retrograde;
and leave the fortresses without support. (:)pr troops
appear before them, and the Commander, unable to
resist the attack from without and the population
within, surrenders. His troops gladly lola the Aus-
trian ranks, which are further 'increased by the vo-
luntery enlistment of the inhalatants. It is thus an
insatiable ambition defeats its own object. It covets
all and grasps a shadow,
• HANAV, NOVEMBER SO,
The Allied Armies are recovered from their late
vapid and fatiguing ruarchr.i. They will shortly re-,
sume offensive operations. troops which during
the ardour of pursuit were kelt behind, have nearly all
joined. Pontoons Illave been forwarded, and trains
of artillery, fit for besieging fortresses of the first class.
ate arriving in this town daily. Their conveyance is
difficult, on account of the miriness of the roads.
Some propositions have been received from the
Emperor air bleon for au armistice but they have
been refused.
MUNICH, DECEMBER 24.
The French are making every effort to raise troops.
and proven.; their being driven out of Italy. In the
Ecclesiastical States, and in Rome, they have taken
all the male population capable of bearing arms. As
soon as thi:se conscripts join the army, they will, ac-
cording to the instructions receiyed from some patri-
otic priests, des:rt CO the Austrians, and in their ranks
avenge the cause of their country. •
Venice iS believod to have been entered by the Aus-
trians, but we cannot vouch for this intelligence.

ANSWIM OF THE CROWN PRINCE TO
THE CALUMNIES OF DONAPARTE

On Saturday we briefly noticed the animated and
eloquent reply of the Citowsr Pittscx or Swaim to
the recant falsehoods, circulated against him by Bc-
NAPARTE in the French and German Journals uncle*
his controul. We are now enabled to lay it in an
ample form before our Readers—it is a most spirited
performance. The author begins with observing,
that the article published in the Afrnitesr of October
IC ISIS, contains " a tissue of calumny and vulgar
abuse which could only fill with disgust every honour-
able mind. Whoever was its compiler, none but ho.
naparte himself could have dictated it. That per.
sonage is known as a writer; his style cannot be mis-
taken. It is not with a pen that he writes aza:nkc
his enemies, that is, against every man of principle,
or who dares to oppose his will. A pen dipped in
gall would he too treble an image ; it is with the axe
of the executioner that he appears to roughhew the
violent and abrupt expressions of his sanguinary tirades.
But if there existed the shadow of a doubt as to the
true author of this libel, the following reflections must
dispel it. For more than two years past the French.
Gazettes, and all the journals subject to French id.'
floence, observed the most profound silence on ever
thing that concerns the relations between Frat4e and
Sweden. The ingenious turns by which your je....1%.
nalists blinked that topic, when the course of events
seemed absolutely to require its being noticed, might
have excited a smile.
" In your Moniteur, you did not say one syllable.
about the interview at. Abo ; the treaties betweec
Sweden, Russia, and England ; on the arrival of the
Prince Royal in Germany, at the head of a Scandi-
navian army; on the conferences at Treachenberg ;
or on the enthusia4ni with which that Prince was re.
ceived by the people of Germany. You made such
a secret of the true state of affairs, that French officers
brought in as prisoners immediately after the expira-
tion of the Armistice, to the camp of the combined
army of the North of Germany, were astonished at
their seeing Swedish soldiers; being still ignorant that
France war, at war with Sweden. I admire your
prudence. you know that the name of the Noce
Royal of Sweden would make a profound impression