Star.
London, England, 1814-02-08 00:00:00

V IC ENZA.

Sta—The official latex which your Excellency did
me the honour to send me on the 21.1 of December,
has reached me from Cassel through our out-posts.
I have lost no time in laying it before their Majesties.
They have observed with pleasure that his Majesty
the Emperor of the French had adopted bases essen-
tial to the re-establishment of a state of equilibrium,
and to the future tranquillity of Europe.
They have resolved that this paper should without
delay be communicated to their Allies. Their Ma-
jesties do not doubt but that the negociations may be
opened as SOCHI as the answer shall have been re-
ceived.
We shall hasten to inform your Excellency of it,
and m concert with you then the arrangements which
shall seem best calculated to attain the end we have
in view. I beg you to accept, Etc.
(Signed) Prince METTERNICH.
Frankfort on the Maine, Dee. 10.
LETTER F/10/4 THE DUKH OF yicENza: TO COUNT
ETTERis ICH.
Luneville, Jan. 8, 1814.
PRINCE I-1 have received the letter which your
Excellency did me the honour to write to me on the
10th of last month. The Emperor will not form a
precipitate judgment on the Motives which lave re-
quired, that his full and entire assent to the bins
wi your Excellency has proposed, kn common
with the Ministers of England and Russia, should

be communicated to the Allies before the opening of
the Congress. It is diecult to suppose that Lord
Aberdeen can have had powers to propose bases, and
not to negotiate.. •
His Majesty will not affront the Allies. They
have been undeceived and they still deliberate. They
know well, that every conditional offer becomes an
absolute engagement for him who has made it, as
soon as the annexed conditi6n is fulfilled.
In every case, we had reason to expect, before the
6th of January, the answer Which your'Excellency
announced on the 10th of December. Your corre-
spondence, and the reiterated declarations of the Al-
lied Powers, did not let us foresee any difficulties ;
and the accounts of M. Talleyrand on his return
from Switzerland, confirm that their intentions are
still the same. Whence, then, can these delays pro-
ceed ? His Majesty having nothing more at heart
than the speedy re-establishment of a general peace,
has thought he could not give a stronger proof of
the sincerity of his sentirnents in this respect, than by
sending to the Allied Sovereigns hii Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs, provided with full powers. I hasten,
therefore, Prince, to acquaint you, that I shall wait
.at the outposts of our army, for the necessary pass-
ports to pass through those of the Allied Armies,
and to repair to your Exceliency.—Accept, &c.
(Signed) CAULINCOURT. •
ANSWER FROM PRINCE METTERNICH.

Freyburg, in the Brbrau, January 8.
have received to-day the letter your Ex-
cellency did me the honour to write me from. Lune-
ville the 6th inst.• The delay of the communication
which the French Government expected in conse-
quence of my official fetter of the 10th of December,
results from the manner of proceeding which the Al-
lied Powers must observe among themselves. The
confidential conversations with Baron St. Aignau
having led to official overtures on the part of France,
their Imperial and Royal Majesties have judged that
your Excellency's answer of the 2d of December was
of a nature that required its being communicated to
their Allies. The supposition of your Excellency
that it was Lord Aberdeen who proposed the bases,
and that he was furnished with powers for that pur-
1-pose, is wholly unfounded. The Court of London
-has just sent to the Continent the Secretary of State
'for the Foreign Department. His Majesty the Em-
peror of all the Russias being for a short time absent
from this place, ..nd Lord Castlereagh being hourly
expected, my august Master, and his Majesty the
King of Prussia, charge me to inform your Excel-
lency, that you will receive as soon as possible the
answer to your proposal to repair to the head-quar-
ters of the Allied Sovereigns.
I beg your Excellency, &c.
(Signed) Prince METTERNICH.

Yesterday, Jamary 18th, that is ten'days after the
answer of Prince Metternich, the Duke of Vicenza
wits still at the outposts.
Printed by Chaignieau, Rue de la Nlonnoie, No. 11.

PARIS, IANUARY3I.

. Private letters from the army, received by express,
sly that the'Emperor beat the enemy again on the
28th,. and took 2000 prisoners and nine pieces of
cannon.

His Majesty continues to march in the rear of the
enemy, who retreats with the greatest precipitation
on all sides.

On die 27th the Cossacks made 111 attack on Ar-
cis-sur-Aube, and were beaten by our troops, who
killed several. They hastily tetired, following the
retreat of their army.,
Fonr hundred Cossacks appeared Wore Sens, with-
out infantry. General Alia, who had a few troops,
barricadoed the gates and streets, and by a brisk fire
of musketry, kept off the Cossacks, not one of whom
could get into the town.
The Sub-Prefect' bad left the place. The Cossacks
had some killed, and,sent a flag of tiruce, whom Ge-
neral Alia would not receive.

The Mayor of Arcis was base enough to write to
the Mayor of Sens to receive the Cossacks well, as
they only desired peace. Unhappily for him, his
letter fell into the hands of General Ali&
PARIS, FEBRUARY 1.

After the taking of Saint Dizier, the Emperor ad-
vanced on the rear of the ene.ny at Brienne, beat
him on the 29th, and took possessim. of the town and
castle, after a pretty smart action with the rear-guard.