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London, England, 1813-01-16 00:00:00

CONVENTION.

Tc.day the undersigned, viz. the Commander-in-
Chief of the Prussian Auxiliary Corps, Lieutenan:-
Genetal D'york, on the one side, and the Quarter-
Master-General of the Imperial Russian Army, under
the orders of Count Wittgenstein, Major-General de
Deibetsch on the other, after mature deliberation,
have agreed to the following Cpnvention :
An•r. 1. The Prussian corps shall occupy, in the
interior of the Prussian territory, the line along the

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frontier front Metnel and Metnineitat to the road rr,l
Woineata to Tilsit. From Tilsit, this road whit
passes through Schaapeschken and MeLinkers to L
bilw, and comprehending the towns whith it touch!
shall determine the extent of the cc/natty %Oki) tl
said Prussian corps is to occupy. This tetvitt,ty di;
he bounded on the Other side by the Cm i,th Ha:
saint all this extent 311211 be considered as perfect,
nential, as soon as the Prussian troops shall have o
cupied it.
_

I It is :veil understood that the Rutsian troops are
[ be allowes4 to pass and repass upon the great to,
(Rocites) prescribed ; but they shall not take up the
quarters in the towns of this arrondissement.
Aar. 2. The Prussian troops shall remain in pe
fect neutrality, in the arrondissement designated t
Art. I, till the arrival of ordith from his Majesty tl
King of Prussia ; but they engage in the event of
-Majesty ordering them to join the Imperial Rene
siiops, not to fight against the Russian arms fat tw
months from the present day.
ART; 3. In the event of his Majesty the Kitig
Prussia, or of his Majesty the Emperor of all 111
Rassias, refusing to ratify the present Conweistioe
the Prussian corps shallbe at liberty tdmarett whirrs
ter the King shall tall it. •
ART. 4. All stragglers shall be given t:p to th
Pittssian corps, which shall be found OR the re:
Kttau road, and likewise every thing which form
a part of the material of the army. In respect to th
provisions And train of the said corps, and every thin
belonging to it, shall pass without obstacle past th
Russian armies, to rejoin from Konigsberg, or fat
ther, the Prussian corps d'armee.
LT. 5. In the event of Lieutenant-General d
York's orders being still able to reach Lieutenant
General Massenbach, the troops, which are uncle
the command of the latter, shall be comprehended i
the present Convention. •
Aim 6. All the prisoners -Which the kusciatt
commanded by Major-General Deibetscht shall make
from the troops ander the orders of General de Mai
senbach, shalt likewise be comprehended in this Com
vention. i•
Aar. 7. The Prussian corps shall retain the poste
of concerting about every thing which relates to ii
provisioning, with the provincial Reginurs of Prussic
not even excepting those provinces which may be a
cupied by the Prussian arms.
Done at the Mill of Pascherntt, the 18th (30)
December, 1812. u'roac,
Lieut.-General in the service isiPp
DE DEIEETSCJI,
Major-General in the setvicc of •
CONSERVATIVE SENATE.
SITTING Oki T 111: TENTH JANUARY.
The Sitting opened at three o'clock in the
noon, under the Presisioncy of his Serene Higt
the Prince Arch:Chancellor of the Empire.
His Excellency the Nlinister fur Foreign Aga,
was present at the Sitting,
Their Excellencies Counts Regnard de St. Jean
D'Angely, and Deferrnan, Ministers of State and
Counsellors of State being introduced, his Serene
Highness the Arch-Chancellor spoke in these terms t
66 GENTLEMEN—The nation is of itself disposed to
adopt measures which it judges necessary for the
maintenance of its glory, and for the preservation of
its preponderance in Europe.
6, From al; parts of this vast Empire, addresses
succeed each other ; offers multiply ; the public will
is ready to outstrip the appeal of sovereign authority.
46 The Emperor, who reckons upon the love of his
people, and who appreciates their resources, bas
judged that there is no reason for varying from usual
dispositions.
"His Majesty would even have deferred emu
them if an unexpected event had not made him s.
that the profiting of the useful Co-operation of Os.
allies, depended upon the develOpenient of our burn
forces, which is to accelerate the moment of an ho.
sour-able peace, such as a Ficnch heart can desire.
and such as his Majesty has not ceased to offer his
enemies.

•• It is in that spirit, Gentlemen, that the project
submitted to your deliberation has been digested.
Gentlemen, Orators of the Council of State, you
will expose the motives, the advantages of it, after
the Minister for Foreign Affairs has read to you a
report, and certain papers, of which his Majesty has i
commanded a communication to be mAdo to you."
His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs
then communicated the following report t
REPORT FROM THE MINISTIR FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO
j
HIS SIAJESTY THE EMPEROR AND XING.
44 SlßE—When Russia, violating her treaties and
renouncing her alliance with France, to unite herself •
with the system of England, declared war against
your Majesty, you apprehended, Sire, all the import.
ante of the contest in which you were going to en-
gage. You appreciated the formation, nadir the ;*
title of Cohorts of the National Guards, of DX bat.,
talinns of men between 20 and '26 years of age, who
belonging to the six last classes of the Conscription, I
had not been called to the active army. This insti•
tution has had all the success which your Majesty
could have expected from it. A warlike youth pre•
pared to the trade of war under the instruction of
old soldiers, eagerly demand to partake of the glory
of their brethren in arms. When fiom Smoleusko
your Majesty advanced towards Moscow, your vic-
torious arms, you did not dissimulate that its pm-
gress in the enemy's country added fresh chances to.
the common chances of war. You wished to furthtr
strengthen the basis of its operations, and you older.
ed the levy of the Ctaisct iptton for 11115, the whole a
of which is now under arms.
64 With the gariisons of the fortresses of France
and Italy, your Majesty has therefore in the interior
of your dominions, a force of more than 300,000
men, sufficient to support the war against Russia
during the next campaign. And your intentions,
Sire, was not to demand any extraordinary succours
if our allies, and especially as Austria, Denntaik, '
and Prussia remained faithful to the common cause.

—Austria, Denmark, and Prussia have given your
lajesty the strongest assuistocee of their sentiments.
°nisei* has even ofered to augment a third, and
arty the contingent which she had furnished in ext..
;titian of treaties to 30,000 Mei%
" tot whilst this power roastifested diapcial dons so
amformable to heetugagements, and to the interests
if her policy, the intrigues of Englandliripared one
these events which characterise the spirit of disor-
ler and anarchy, which that power does not cease to
10111113% in Europe. • '
• Genetal D'York, toms:landing .the Prussian
Corps under the orders of Marshal the Duke of Ta-
tente, betrayed at once his honour,. his General in
Chief, and his King. He has Made ft perticliPus com.
pact with. the enemy. •
0 There are no intrigues, no threats Which Eng-
iittd has not put in work to change the dispositions.
of Sovereigns ; but when she has found them firm to
their true interests, and.inimoveable is their alliance
with your Majesty, she has undertaken to produce a
lgeneral disorder by endeavouring to shako the fide-
ty of 'the people. •
" Beyond the states of your Majesty, Sire, there
are few countries where the audacity and manceuvres
of disorginatoms have carried uneasiness among tjle
depositaries of the public tranquillity. • In the Courts
of the agents. of corruptions in the camps of vile in.
'rit;gators, and insshorta to cities, schools, and even the
bosoms of the most reveled institutions, false enthu-
siasts inceatandy lalaoar to seduce by dark doctrines
those who ought, with.the most' c•Ourageous fidelity,
=distal° the authority which has been confided to
- and those whahaeo no other duty than that
of obeying,
• h such' cireamstances, Sire, and whenever, the
' :Vous of an alrieci.:Priace has uotheenible to
: Knuth the advantages which your political system
,ughtao'have insured you, it becomes animperious
,ecessity to have recourse 'to thou:Kam which your
sty will find in the power of your Empire, and
t • love of your subjects. • •
• Under these considerations. the Ministers of
our Majesty, assembled in an extraordinary Cabinet
mined, propose to you
1. To send to the active army the 100 cohorts
f National Guards.
" 2.. To make a call of 100,000 men from the
conscriptions of 1809, 1810, 1811, and 1812.
't 3. To raise 100,000 men of the conscription for
1814, which shall be formed in garrisons apd camps
pun our frantiers and coasts, and ready to march
herever it may be necessary, to the assistance of
our Majesty's allies. •
44 By this immense developement of forces, the in-,
rest„ the consideration of France, and the safety of
r.allies, will be guaririteed against all events.
" The French people will feel the force of circum-
ances ; it will, render .fresh homage to this truth,
'so frequently proclaimed by your Majesty from the
'eight of your throne—that there is no repose for
urope till England shall have been forced to con.
ude a peace,
" It is net in vain'. Sire, that you have given
France the title of the Grand Nation'—no efrOrt is

painful ta. her, .when the objet :s to evince her
love for your Majesty and. her devotion , to the glory
of the Aench natte. . .
.a .I. join, to this repoa. the documents relative to
lie defection of General D'Arork.
a I am, with the mosi*profound respect, Sire, your
klnesty's very litimble„
.very obedient, and faithful
'eat, • (Signed) ~ The Duke of BASSANO•
taxis, bauiary 9,181 J,"
SITTING OF VIE il,Tt& JANUARY.
-' I •
'The Senate re-assembled at two o'clock under the,
sidency of his Sereee Highness the Prince Aral-
, haocellor of the Empire.
Inbj
M• the Count de Lacepede, in' the name of de
Special Commission nominated in the Sitting of yes-
:ening, made the Report of the Ptojet of the Senato:-
onsultutn,,
I The &nate, after. having dclibm.ated on the Pro-,
et of the Senatus'Consultum, ordered it to be pre-;
"rated, with an Address, to his Majesty.
In. consequ trice of which, at ha: f-past eight O'clock
is evening, Messrs.. the Counts of I,...scepede, Presi.
at ; 'Deleaunaent And Pe Laparens, Secretaries,
ad the honour of presenting the Senatus Consultum
ci, his Majesty, with an Address,, the contents of
filch are *s follows:,
TRACT, FROM TILE REGIATERS OF THE CONSERVATIVE
SENATE.,
a. On Monday, the I.lthlatoua.ry, 1813, the Con-
ative Senate assembled, to the nuotber of Mem-
* rescrbed, by the 90th article of the Act of Con-
n. of the I.3th December, 1799,
Having adopted the Prajet of Senatus Consul-
which was presented to it in, the Sitting of yes-
r-day,by which 350,000 are placed at the disposal
Government :.
a. Deliberating oe the proposition. made by its
toio
ecial Commisstons charged with the Report of this
rojet t
" Ordain,. That the. Senatus Consultum, of this
y be ptesented to his Majesty the Emperee and
ing by the Officers of the Senate, and that after
tch presentation M. the annual, Presiden,t, shall ex.
ress to his. Majesty the sentiments of the Senate by
pt Address of the following tenor; .
1;46 ormei,....lrhe Senate has the honour to present to
Pis Xrnperial and Royal Majesty the homage of its
telity, its devotion, Its respect and the Senatus Con-
ilturn which it has just adopted, , •
gg It was its desire, Sire* to expressat _the foot c
iut Majesty's Throne, the profound indignation
ith which all the French are inspired, at the treasbn.
a General of an Allied Power, placed under• the
refers ofoone of your Majesty's Marshals, and. foTrft-
1g a part of your armies. , ~
ig 'This violation of the laws Othettearand of war
a new effect of the corrupt intrignei of the British
rabinet. It is a crime against the safety of Govern-
tents, the repose of nations, against public faith,
rid the order of society, The Continent of Europe,
Ire, is :weaved with those terrible commotions,
'hid% your Majesty alone has been Able to annihilate
our own country. •

u pat your Molesty has foreseewevery thing; you
►ve discovered that it was needful to employ the
reatest power, in order to command. events, or to
sect their effects. You wished to have nothing that
light turn you off from the object of your desires,
;* all your victories, and of the • so frequently re,
;wed sacrifice of your repose, of your affections,
4 of Tour dearest enigmatic The antics ,adds

to its numerous phalauses 350,000 Frenchmen, the
brave men of the immense armies which your Ma-
jesty is going to put in motion, will be ;he'Conquerors
of Peace, pignut st The President nod Seerltaries,
" Camsactites,
(Seen snd sealed) u The Chancellor of the Senate,.
Mdned) 41 &Ma Ar L ACC'
•
Napoleon, by the Grace of OOD sat the Constitutions, Emperor
et the French, King of -Italy, Protector of the Confederation
of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation, ace. &c.
to whom these,presents may come greeting.
The Senate, after boxing heard the Orators of the
Council of State,has decreed, and we ordain as follows :
EXTRACT 111034 THE 'RE.COTERS OP THE CoNaERVATIVR
SENATE OF ItiONDA.t, THE 11TH JAN. 1813.
44 The Conservative Senate being assembled to the
number of Members prescribed by the 90th Article of
the Act of Constitution, of the 13th December, 1799;
" Having seen the projet of Scnatus Coosultum
drawn up, and in the form prescribed by-the Act of
Constitution of the 4th August, 1802;
44 After having heard the Orators of the Council of
State on the motives of the said projet, and the report
of the Special Commission nominated in yesterday's
sitting, the adoption having been deliberated by the
number of voices prescribed by the 56th Article of the
Act of Constitution of the 4th August, 1802;

DECREE.

ART. 1,-.350.000 nien are placed at the disposal of thaw.
dater at War, to-wit:
" lat.-100,000 mu forming the 100 eohlorts of the first Boa
of the National Guards.

• 2d.-100,000 men of the Conscription of 180 g, 1810, 1811,
and 1812, taken• from among those who have not been called
upon to make a part of the active army. I
" Sd.-150,000 of the Conscription of 1812.
• 11.—In the itecatlon of the preceding Article, the hundred
cohorts of the-first Ban shall cease to form a part of the Nation!
Guard, and shall form a part of the active army.
" Such men as have married before the publication of this
prevent Senatus Consultum, cannot be designated to make a part
of the levies taken on the CenscriptiontA tor the years 1802, 1810
1811, and 1812.

" The 150,000 men of the Conscription of 1814 shall be levied
is the course of the year, at such time as shall be designated by
the Minister at War.

" ill. The present Senates Consultunt shall be transmitted
by a Message to his Majesty the Emperor and King.
(Signed) " The President and Secretaries,
CAMEACEECS.
" The. Count de BEAUMONT.
" The Count de (,APPARENT.
(Signed and Sealed) " Count Lartace, Chancellor
" of the Senate."

" We cofnmand and ordain that these presents,
sealed with the seals of the State, inserted in the Bul.
letin of the Laws, shall be addressed to the Courts,
the Tribunals and other Administrative Authorities,
to be by them inserted in their Registers, to observe
them, and cause them to be observed, and our Grand
Judge, Miniiter of Justice, is charged to see they
are duly published.
- 44 Given at our Palace of the nuilleries, on the
llth January.

(Signed) " NAPOLICON.
(Seen by us) We, Arch-Chancellor of the Empire,
(Signed) " CAMBACERge.
" By order of the Emperor, (Signed) " Duke de CADORE."

After the reading of the Report, Mes:.ieurs the
Councillors of State presented a Projet of a Sznatus
Consultum, (see the followitt; of the lIM,) the
.motives for *thick were explained by M. the Cotnit
Regnaud de St. Jean d'Angely, in the manner fol-
lowing:

MOTIVIA. OF THE SETTATUS CONEULTUNI FOR PUTTING
THREE HUNDRET) ANTIFIFTY THOUSAND MEN AT 'ffie

DISPOSAL OF TILE MINISTER OF WAR.

" Monseigneur and Senators—The Treaty of Til-
sit gave to the North of Europe a peace, which ir.
appeared would haVe been of duration. But Eng-
land, menaced with a war wilt the United States of
America, and dreading with great reason the bad
:ssue for her wl,ich must, sooner or later, attend the
flaniz kindled in Spain, occupied hesseif in giving-
birth to a new war against France, by obtaining the
breach of the alliance lately sworn to by Russis.
All the efforts r.t•the Emperor to•keep it, and to
insure the execution of the treaties were useless, and
the war was renewed.

" It was forced on him by the violation of the
most solemn' conventions, by rumerous armaments,
by evident aggressions, by repeated refusals of every
explanation, and in short, by the necessity imposed on
his Majesty to maintain the rights and dignity of his
Crown, and those of his Allies.

N The enemy, forced from all his posts, repulsed in
every combat, vanqUished in every battle, was forced
to abandon his capital to the victor, but he gave it to
the flames, which almost seduced it to ashes.

44 From t!:ence the necessity of this glorious retreat,
a retreat in which we have not been disheartened by
the asperity of the climate, the early severity of the
season, and its unussal excessive rigour.
• " The 29th Bulletin of the Grand Army at once
astonished and re-assured France ; the information of
its losses unveiled to the natio* with so much cnerge.
tic simplicity, with such a noble confidence, awakened
in all Frenchmen a feeling of the necessity of revair-

mg them.
" Meanthile the Emperor, who his enemies must
always fear, and whose arrival was wished for by his
allies and his subjects, returned to his capital whilst
he was believed to be still before Wilna, and causing
an account to be rendered high of thej resources of
his arsenals, his magazines, his treasury, of the num-
ber of his troops—announced to France his intention
of not making any demand of men nor of new con-
tributions,

4, With the annual imposts and the soldiery already
ender arms, he can support all the wants of the cajn-
paign
both in the South and in the North of Furope.
But, Senators, the facts of which the Minister for
Foreign Affairs has just given you information by his
Majesty's ostlers, must alter tke first calculations of
his wisdom, economical in the sacrifices of his people,
and cause them to be succeeded by calculations of
foresight and necessity. •
" Already, Messieurs, I have seen in this assembly
bursts of that indignation which all Europe will feel
at the 'recital- of a treason to which we would hesitate
to give belief, were T not avowed and written by its
author himself.
" The Prussian General, whose name Tust hence.
forth become idfameus, betrayed at once his Sove-
reign, bis honour, the duties of a citipn, and those
of a soldier.

a He ahaliefujly Sertraod. himself f,r9n, the Rail

of which he formed a part of the corps with which he
marched ; he has-given up those. who were exposed,
upon his faith, to the hazardous consequences of his
base abandonmente—of his unexpected desertion.
" Informed of*this'crime ' new in histnry data
dern wars, his Majesty the King of Piussia evinced a
resentment worthy.of his fidelity to his Allies. Joined
in sentiments with the Monarch, his Cabinet has only
shewn the wish of repairing—of punishing a political
and military crime, which offends the Prussian nation,-
and outrages its Sovereign.

44 These faits,these -assurances are contained id
the letters of which the Minister for Foreign Affairs
has given you a communication.
gs The guarantee that the heinousness of this event
will not only be appreciated by the Government, but
by the whole Prussian people. They will judge, and
all the nations of the North will-judge-with them] of
what misfortunes such a crime might be the source.
Prussia will chew her attachment to the Prince Who
governs her, by rallying at his example, and the voice
of honour, and by thelaithful observation of treaties.
, 44 Nevertheless, policy, attentive for many years to
the cause of events, will necessarily pause respecting
the causes which have effected. what I have just
spokefi of to you, and these causes, Senators, do not
appear improper to be rapidly traced here. We evi-
-1 dently find them in the manoeuvres and intrigues of
England upon the Continent. Too weak to defend
herself alone urn the sea against the French power,
.she has constantly and successively laboured to arm
against us all European Cabinets. It is England
who has brought and re-brought upon the fields of
battle the armies which the Emperor has conquered
and reconquered during the last twelve years.
44 When enlightened Cabinets, by experience,
1-
wished for peace, the peace which rejoiced Europe
made Englatid groan. Then she scattered among
the people, and particularly in large cities, by means
of her numerous emissaries and active corruption,
the seeds of hatred, the causes of division, the princi-
ples of disaganization, which separate subjects from
their'Princes, and people from their governments.
44 It was thus that numerous societies, under the
name of Friends of the Truth, of Nature, &c. &c. or
under other titles less ridiculous, have been iormed,en-
' couraged, and supported, preaching hatred, insurrec-
tion, and disobedience, against every Sovereign, the
friend of France, of Peace; and the Continent.

" Alas ! it was in our trance—now so peaceable,
then so miserable and so agitated,—that the English
Cabinet made, during several years, which were years
of crimes and misfortune, the trial of these fatal
means of discord and civil troubles.

66 It was by these means that England acted in
1809 against the Cabinet of St. Petersburg!), when it
chewed friendly dispositions towards France. It was
by her agents that England prepared in Russia the
influence of the party hostile to France, and by it
arose the hesitations, the variations, the hostile reso-
lutions of the Cabinet ; and in short, this List war,
which has cost Russia the devastation of her finest
provinces, the repose of Europe, the regrets of hu-
manity.

66 England has employed, without doubt, to pre-
pare the eternal dishonour of General d'York, the
same means, the same associations, by which in 1809
she brought regular corps into a rebellion, and (a
thingr
before unheard of) to make war against the
orders even of their Sovereign.
"Thus England disunites and divides the countries
over which she cannot dotnineer ; sl:e preparts the
ruin of states which she cannot subject to her system.
" In :bout, what means of destruction more iuevi-
i table for the throne the most strongly secured, than
j the desertion of an army ; its opposition to the in-
terests di its country ; its disobedience to the orders
lof its Monarch ; it all the Sovereigns interested in
' the suppression of such a crime, do not unite their
vows to cause their efforts to insure the punishment
of it, it will not b..! in their power to prevent a recur.
rence of it.

• " Happily, Gentlemen, the attempts of our enemies
to extend to France their fatal influence, their fatal
successes, are impotent.
" Our vast territory, our immense population, feel
only the sacrifices inseparable from the state of war ;
but are far from suffering the misfortunes of the
country which is its theatre.
" internally, trangoillity prevails ; industry, the
arts, the public works, pursue their course.
" Externally, Austria and our other allies shew
themselves affectionate and faithful.

" Our• forces, our means, our military resources
are immense.

Always at the moment when the first eruption of
those destructive volcanos fired by England, is going
to break out under these thrones which wi. h to rest
independent of her politics, it is necessary to collect
proportionable resources, even superior to the dangers
which prudence discovers.
" That which was yesterday sufficient for the se-
curity of Government, is to-day found to be deficient
in foresight. New events have created new wants;'
unforeseen conjunctures require unexpecmd sacrifices.
" An universal sentiment of devotion and fidelity
unites itself in the French people to the feelings of
their interest and of their glory, to direct their con-
iluct,anddetermine their resolutions.

4g His Majesty proposes to you, to put at the dis•
posal, of his Minister at War, a force sufficiently con-
siderable to overawe all our enemies, to destroy all
their hopes in all their suppositions ; and you know,
Messieurs, reflection and history has taught it you,
that it is thus we must repulse danger, it is thus that
success is guaranteed, that we ensure glory, and that
we must prepare peace.

44 The number of men demanded by the Minister
at War, are to be divided into three classes :

66 The first is to be composed of those cohorts
whose wishes have outstripped necessity, and who
have solicited as a favour, to exchange the duty of
defending the Frontiers of France, for the honour of
going to seek thienemy on the other side of the Siea-
nas. The second Class consists of a levy among those
men, who forming part of the four preceding Con-
scriptions are not comprised in the last. The levy
has for its object to keep up in the interior, until the
' moment when they shall have acquired a greater
strength, more decided aptitude for the military
service : the third Class, called by the Senatus Con-
sultum, I would denominate the conscription of 1814.
This is not to be immediately assembled ; the Mini-
ster of war will judge at what moment it will be
suitable to cause them to march. The efforts of the
Islanders, fouftlers of the coßtiqktal fir, stecpari

at a war wtthciut end, create an imperious law on the
part of France, of setting on footformidablt armaments.
14 She has not forgotten either the victories unw•;
Louis 14th, nor the disgraceful treaties under Loins
15th ; neither will she forget the triumphs which have
effaced those humiliations, the,necessity of preserving
untainted the glory she acquired, the utility of re.
'paring for new successes, the dignity of tie Crown,
or the honour of the nation, and of the French arms."
The.project-of the Senatus Consultum WAS referred
to a Special Committee, and the Sur.ate adjourned
anti 1 to-mor► ow.

COPY Or A LETTER mom COUNT ST. :.).IE.SZti TO TILE

MINUTE!' FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" Beeiin, January 1.
gi MONSVONETR—An A ide-cle-Cam p from the Dull
of 'Parente, dispatched by the Prince of Nqtfchatel,
has reached me. He brought me the inclosed d,‘
patch from the Major-General, with the letters WUr
accompanied it. The whole arrived at the rr,-.Tnel •
when 1 was in the house of Marshal the Dr.ke of t.
tiglioni, with the Chancellor Baron de Hardenbtrg,
Count de Narbonne, and Prince de Haltzfeld.

4, Baron Hardenberg appeared indignant : he irs
mediately went to the King, who had just returned
to the city. lam assured the King has determined
to dismiss General 11 York, cause him to :arcs
ted, give the commard to General Mien, call upon
the trosips, although there is but very little proii.dip
lily that they can be withdrawn, and to enjoin them
to place themselves under the orders of the Xing
Naples ; to address all ordess to this Prince ; to pub-
lish to the French army at Potsdam in Silesia, in the
Gazettes, an Ordrr du Jour in consequence.
4‘ In short, lam assured, that on this occasion the
King has again publicly manifested his attachment
to the cause of his Imperial Majesty and King, art
his indignation at-what had just taken place.
44 I have the honour, Sec.
(Signed) 44 The Count de Sr. Mantras."
No Us
LETTER FROM THE AVER Of TAREVTE TO THE PRINCI
SIAJOR-GENERAL. •
" .TlLit, Dec. 31.
44 MONSEIGNEUR—After four days of expectation,
inquietude, and anguish, which one part of the Pius..
sian carps has experienced respecting the fate of the
rear-guard, which from Mittau followed me at one
march distant, I at last am infolined by a letter from
General D'York, that lie himself. had decided the
fate of the Prussian corps.
46 I here transmit a copy of this letter, upon whirls
I will not allow myself to make any reiTectiJn; it gill
excite the indignation of every honourable man.
44 General Massenbach, who was here with me
with two batteries, six battalions and six squadrons,
I set out this morning without my orders to repass the
Niemen. He is going to rejoin Gen. D'Yurk. He
thus abandons us before the enemy. ACcept, &c.
(Signed) " The Marshal Duke of 'Lice el"
No. HI.

LETTER FROM GENERAL D'YORK TO THE DUKE OP
TARENTE.

Tattroggen. Dec. 3/.
" MormonEvn—After very painful marches, it
wa§ not possible for me to continue them without
being attacked on my flanks and rear;—it was this
that retarded my junction srith your Excellency,and.
left me to chuse betA'veen the alternative of losing the
greater part of my troops; and all the material which
alone insured my subsistence. On saving the whole*
I have thought it my duty to conclude:a couveation,
by which the assembling of the Prusiian troops is to.
rake place in Eastern Prussia, which, by the retreat
cf the french army, is in the power of the Russian
army. The Prussian troops will form a neutral
corps, and will not commit hostilities against either
party. Subsequent events, the consequence of negc-
ciations which are to take place between the Bellige-
rent powers, will decide their future fate.
44 I hasten to inform your Excellency of a pro•
ceeding to which I have been forced by weighty
circumstances.

4. Whatever be the judgment that the world may
pass upon my conduct, I shall be very indifferent to'
it. Duty towards my troops, and the most mature
deliberation dictated ir; the most pure motives, what-
ever appearances may be, guided me. la making
this declaration to you, Monseigneur, I acquit myself
of obligation towards you, and beg of you to accept
the assurances of the most profound respect, with
which I am, &c. . (Signed) a D'YOILK."
A true Copy.
(Signed) " The Marshal Duke of Tarente, MACDONALD!

No. IV.

LETTER FROM LIMITENANT•OENERAL DI MAURER/MI,