Star.
London, England, 1814-03-08 00:00:00

TROYES, FEBRUARY SS.

The Emperor has gratified all our wishes, by pass-
ing three days in his good city of Troyes. The house
which he inhabited was constantly surrounded by an
immense crowd, who always entertained the Bove of
seeing his Majesty ; but during these three flays the
Emperor did not stir out once.
On the 27th, at mid-day, his Majesty, surrounded
by his brave guards, took the road to Arcis. The
people pressed'around him in passigg. The air re-
sounded with cries of rive PEniftereur. The same
enthusiasm was excited by the presence of his Ma-
jesty when he entered o "walls victorious; all thought,
they could not testify to&tnuch gratitude ; and, in
fact, the details with which we have been made ac-
quainted could not fail to add to our love of the So-:
vereign. The French army had arrived in a suburb
about three in the afternoon ; it Gould have. entered,
the city with the fugitives, but the Emperor chose
rather to suspend the march of the troops than to
expose our city to the flames, with which it was
threatened by an enemy enraged at being vanquished.
His Majesty passed the night at a miserable hamlet,
and it was not till eight in the morning that he made
his entrance into our city. The circumstances of that
happy day. will never he effaced from our memory.
Every body approached the Emperor, spoke to him,
pressed his hands, thanked him with tears. His
Majesty seemed affected, and saw in these marks of
attachment the joy of children on the return of a
cherished Either.

On the evening of the 26th, Arcis-sur-Aube was
retaken by our troops; the enemy was flying at all
points. He had learned the movement which the
Emperor was making, and we know that his ap-
proach always precipitates the flight of the enemy's
armies. We ex, ect to receive important news.
Every body hem becomes a soldier, arms himself,
and breathes only vengeance.
The enemy could not have behaved worse. After
having pillaged a fine paper maru.dactary in the vici-
nity of our city, he threw all the paper into the river,
to a considerable amount, and destroyed all the Ink-
chinery. Nothing caw* more frightful than the out-
rages committed by thena4n the small towns, and in
the country. Atter pillaging' evevy. thing, :Joy fit
fire to the houses. The inhabitants are filled with
rage ; they arm, and rush on the barbarous authors
of so many atrocities. At Troyes, on their Tore*
the inhabitants took or killed itoo men ; a butcher.

threw a paving stone at General Wrede, who was
knocked from his horse; a peasant of Vandquvre
took twelve stragglers prisoners, after having shut
them up in his house, which they had entered to plun-
der: boys of twelve and thirteen have shewu the
greatest courage, and brought in prisoners.

IMPORT TO HIS EXCELLENCY TIIE NIINISIEII OF TUE IN-

TILRIOR, BY M. DESPRP2 CRASSIFR, AUDITOR T,O THE
COUNCIL OF STATE, DATED MARCH 42, 1814.
I now lay before you the heart-rending picture of;
the calamities and outrages which the inhabitants of
the communes I have visited have experienced from
the enemy. It will be an abstract of the subscribed,
depositions taken by verbal examination, and an
abridged detail of the havoc which I have seen with
my own eyes.
That part of the enemy's army which caused all
these evils WAS chiefly composed of Russian tromps, a
small number of Bavarian and Wurtemburgets, and
some Hungarian hussars.
At Nangis the inhabitants generally had to com-
plain of pillage ; their personal outrages leave fright.
ful recollections ; pillage itself was always accompa.
nied with menaces, very often with ill-treatment ;
and it was with pistols at their breast, and the sabre
over their heads, that these brigands compelled the
unfortunate inhabitants to declare where theittooney
and valuable effects were concealed.

The first and second depositions state, that a fern*
received from those miscreants a blow on the loins,
with the flat side of their sabre, which deprived her
of semi "that they held a knife to the throat of ano-
ther to compel her to disclose where her money was ;
that the two husbands of these women were cruelly
struck, and that one of them, after being beaten in
his own house, was driven to the enemy's camp with
blows of the fist, and the butt-ends of muskets ; there
the brigands compelled him to strip, and were about
to shoot him, when an officer fortunate-ly came tip,
and delivered him from the hand, of the ‘.e
At the house of the man of lauded ino.wity who
makes the sixth deposition, they perpetrated the most
horrible excesses. With blots of the tilt and the
butt-end of their muskets, they demanded .his brandy
and money. I myself saw the bloody minks of the
blows which he received ; but their fury did not stop
sere: four females from the commune of Bay,
d canton of Mormant, had taken refuge with this
proprietor ; two of them were girls Irons 12 to IS ;
the others were women from 28 to BA. These un•
fortunate creatures were the victims of the brutality uf
these ferocious men ; and 01, eye-witness, who wished
to prevent their outrages, was himself sevvrely beaten.'
[The report, after describing a variety of similar
outrages on the pet sons of individuals, proceerJs as;
follows :3
There is not a farmer, an innkeeper, or an Lille-
bitdint, whO has riot seen his cattle, his implements of
tgriculture, his property, his furniture, carriel off,,

wasted, or burnt. The 'churches and ministers of re-
ligion have not been spared more than, others.
The btrongect language would fail in describing dye
mournful aspect which these ravaged habitations pre-
sent. The Secretary of the Mayor of Rampillon,
who has been a soldier, declared to me, that he never
saw troops deliver themselves up to pillage *Amick
horrible rage, even when licenced so to do.
At Minis, I visited a number of farm-NC:I,
which had been previously.,well furnished ; bat, now
in all the apartments nothing was to be seen but hag.
ments of broken and half-burnt furniture, feather-
beds and mama's.: torn to pieces, and the feather.
and vocal scattered about. It was with the wood-
work of this furniture, of waggons and ploughs, and
with the fruit-trees of orchards and gardens, that they
lighted their fires at the •bivonacks, and roasted ti,
cattle which they had carried off and killed.
In all the places I have passed through, the inht
bitants have declared that these banditti spoke only
of pillaging and burning Pats. k havebeen assured
that each of them had a torch slung at his back, and
when asked what use they meant to mate of it, they
universally answered, that it was to set fire to Pam,
where they calculated on arriving by the 18th of
rebruary. This fact was confirmed to me by
Grabwisky, Mayor of -Muranut, a Pole by birth, who
understood their language.
The picture of the calamities which these unfortu-
nate people have suffered, and which are reserved for
all those of the other departments into which the
enemy may penetrate, must rouse the indignation of
all Frenchmen, and give them the courage and energy
necessary to repel those hordes of barbarians beyond
the frontiers, and force diem, by a peace gin:ions for
France, at last to give repose to all Europe.

FRENCII, FUND*.
March 1.55 f. 25 .c.—March S. 54 f. 50 c.--March 4. 52 f. c.

ER AI 'IN 411 A PERS.

COLOGNE, FECRU.!I,R'y 16.

ft is confirmed that the French Commander gif
Mentz has oifered to capitulate in the space of Sit
days, in case the garrison before that time receives
no stmcours from Bonapazze. in the meanwhile all
hostility against the town is to be suspended. Tis'A
proposal was sent by a bag of truce on the 4th inst.
kut accoiding to the latest accoaants no answer had
been returned by the besiegers, and it is expected that
the place will soon surrender.