Star.
London, England, 1815-08-10 00:00:00

CHEN AUGUST 4.

The landing of English troops continues without
*intermission. Few days pass without our seeing troops
of this nation, of all arms, pass tin °ugh this city, on
the way to France.
£WITZERLAND, JULY 28.
The Diet has granted their discharge to Generals
Bachmann and. Castilla, and given the commLnd in
chief to Mr. Finder, the Quarter-Master-General.
The following Ordcr of the Day was addressed by
General Bachmann to his troops on the 21st :
" Soldier, !—'i•lte danger which menaces our country with ruin,
and made you take arm: with so much ardour, is now passed.
" l'ativtDENce has blessed the arms of the Allied Powers; the
theatres of war is removed (rem almost all our frontiers, and the
moment al•proaches when tranquillity will be re-established.
" A great part of our army is going to return to hs peaceful
homes. Receive my thanks for your seal and constancy. Find,
in the satisfaction of your Governmtnt, in the es►eem of your
fa:ow-citizens, the attachment of those who are dearest to you,
and the testimony of yohr own conscience, the reconvenes that
is due to you.
" Remain armed, and ready to obey, at the first signal, the
voice of your country and of honour, and prove at all times this
truth, which all good Swiss hold sacred—that the soldier who.is
bravest In the field, is also he who performs most faithfully, when •
in his own country, his duty towards the Magistrates.
" And you who have the honourable destination to remain
provisionally under arms, till the frontiers shall be entirely se-
cure, skew yourselves Worthy of it by your obedience to year
officers, and by all the military virtues which characterise the
brave soklier.

" May the small number of those who, is a moment of infa.
tuatloo, forgot their iluty, seize the opportunity which is afforded'
them to efface the fault inso which they have been seduced by
some guilty persons, who will pay the forfeit of their crime;.
(Signed) " BACIIKAINN."

6 ACEN, JULY 28. •
The arrondissement of Marmarmand for eight
days has been kept in a state of the trunost alarm
atrocious excesses hive been committed in the cantons
of Seyches, Laozun, Doras, and Marmande. A
persen named Florian, already known by his crimes,
when lie commanded the corps of partisans attached
to the army in Spain during 1813, and who appeared
at Agen twel"e days ago, with 30 men worthy of
such a leader, has plundered Messrs. Laboissiere,
Bonnet ou, Larpcur, and Guibert, stripped them, tied
them t" posts, and menaced them with a cruel death'
—he Oland and destroyed the house of the former.l
Other expeditions were no doubt planned, when the
Prefect and General Lkssieres concerted measures to
put an end to them. A detachment of Spanish O.
cent had orders to march, and act with the National
Guards and Gendarmerie. They did not succeed in
taking the leader, but some of his men were seized,
and the rest driven out of our department. lntelli,
sew? has been sent to the neighbouring distficts to
prevent these Tel beri cscapin4,

• • • . • -BinefiLL4einie - -
(Extract of a Letter.)
uliseve visited the field of beetles Theme et
the dead is sound. On the spot where this day moat:.
thousands thronged and fought, where thousandr
sank and bled, and groaned and died, there is now
not a living soul, and over all hovers the stillness of
the grave.
44 In Ligny 2,000 dead were buried. Here fot.'l:t
the Westphalian and Berg regiments. Ligny is k
village built of stone and thatched with straw, or. .„
small stream which flows through flat tneadews.
the village ate several farmhouses; inclosed e.:.
walls and gates. Every farna-lieuse the Prussic
had converted into a fortress. The French endee
vouted to penetrate through the village by means r.
superior numbers. Four times were they driven tee.
At last they set on fire the form-houses in the up;.
end of the village with their howitzers. But the Pru:
sians still kept their ground at the lower end. A
whole company of Westphalian troops fell in the
courtlard at the church ; on the terrace before t! •
church lay 6() dead.
" In the evening the French surrounded the se
loge. The Prussians retired half a league : the ;;.,
sitinn was loss.; and it is incomprehensible why ee
French did not follow up the advantage they hail oh.
tained, and again attack the Prussians in the night.
44 This as on the 16th. The same day aFr
column marched by the high road of Charlt.e.i
Brussels.
" At Qom. Bras, they fotmd the Duke of Brer:
wick and the Prince of Orange. Here the b title w 4:
as hot as at Ligny. The Duke let himself be curl:3
away by his ardour into the fire of smaU arms; a
musket ball went thrungh his bridle band and entek
the belly ; the liver was penetrated ; he fell,
bieathed his last in ten minutes. His sufferings writ
short.
‘' At the ion by the cross roads at Quatre Bra.
the contest was the hottest. Here arc the most grave;.
The wounded reeled into the inn yard, leaned again-.
the walls, and then sank down. There are still tet
traces of the blond on the walls, as it spouted Lirtt
from the wounds with departing life.
•• Where the battle WAS, the fields are complete!)
trodden down for a circuit of about a league. O.
both sides of the high road, ways are made :lbw
100 feet broad, and you can still follow the march o:
the b ittalious in all directions through the fine field.:
at tnn;Ze•
46 On the 18th the battle was renewed four leagnes
nearer Brussels, on both sides of the high rood, 'fat
spot is a plain sprinkled with hillocks. The diarnetet
of the field of battle may he about a hat,,tne and
half. Bonaparte placed himself near ne farm h
of Mount Sc. Jean, on a rising' ground, ultznee he
could overlook the whole. Beside hint was o,le Li
caste, a Walloon, who now lives near the It +inlet c•
Belle Alliance, and who was employed as a guide,.
This man told me as follows :—When the Prussian:
came out of the wood of Uritschermont, ld ,napart
nbsetved them with his gl ass, and asked oae of hi
Adjutants who they were ? the later upon lookin;
with hs glass retlifd, • they are t:ie Prussian ci);ours.
That moment Ida face assumed a chalky waitencsi
;is if the ghost of the sainted 42necrs of Prus,ia haG
appeared to him, whom he persecuted to death. na
said mailing, hut merely once ,husk his head.
•• When he saw that the battle was lost, he rode off
with his general staff and the above guide. lie flak
told Lacoste that he niched to he conducted by a bye
road to Charleroi. .
Genappe is an.open market town, a league and
a hall from the field of battle, through which runs the.
Dyle, a small streem. At the lower end of Genap,
lies an iron forge, which it drives. A Tuner of
mile lower lies the village of Ways, at-which there
t bridge. An officer had arrived at Genappe aboa:
five in the afternoon with orders to withdraw the 'tax,
gage. He had already considered the battle as lost
because the reserves had been brought into the fire.
When the flight became almost universal, the neli.
tary waggons were driven sixteen a-breast on the
causeway. In the narrow Genappe they were wedged
in together, and Lacoste relates that it took an heel
and a half to get through them. It was half pair
twelve at night before they got out of the town, with
150 horses t,f the staff. I askedhim why he did net
take Bonaparte by the bridge of Ways, where nobody
passed ? he replied 4 I was not aware of this road.'
44 Thus with all the maps of the war depot, wit.%
all the engineer geographers, who with their repeat-
ing circles can set off the geographical position of
places even to a second, and with a large staff, Bona.
parte here depended on the ignorance of a peasant,
who did not know that there was a bridge over the
Dyle, at Ways. People talk a great deal of military
skill and military science, while often. in decisive
moments, the whole depends upon the knowled- of
a very comman m 49.
" In the village of Planchenoir, the fourth of a
league from Belle Alliance, the guards were posted.
The principal house in the village is nearly burnt
down. It is inhabited by a very intelligent farmer,
of the name of Bernhard. He, like all the others,
had fled on the day of battle, but witnessed, on 'an
opposite height, the combat between Bulow and the
French reserve, and could give a very good descrip•
tion of it. He carried me to the key of the pesitien
.opposite Fritscfee•mont. He told me that the peasant
who guided Bulow's army, resolved not to cone out
of the wood at Ft itsclzermont, but to descend into the
'valley lower down, and to penetrate by Plenchenoir,
dearly in the rear of the French reserves. 64 Then,"
said he. " we shall take them all."
". The period was truly most critical when the
Prussians came to the attack. Wellington was 'Ai
pressed, all his reserves we e already in action, he
was already compelled to withdraw some of his Aril.
'key, and a countryman, from the vicinity of Brains
la Lead, told me, that he saw some of his army (as
be expressed it) ea &bandage. Bonapirte was pryka.
,bly only waiting for the moment when, with his
guards, he could decide the day. We shudder when
•we reflect. that at this important moment all de.
pended on the local knowledge of a single peasant.
Had he guided wrong, had he led them into the he'.
low way through which the cannon could not pans
had Bulow's army come up an hour leter, the sae
had probably descended on the other side. Had Be.•
wane been victorious, and advanced to the Rhine,.
the French nation would have been intoxicated with.
victory, and with what they call the national glory,
and a levy (4 motet 'would hove been effected throtizie
out all Fronde"

VIE EVENING SiAlt.

lA3 .. DON.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1815.
4AICE OF STOCKS THIS DAV (A.:LOCK:
3rdaice4l 5611:—Coils. money .511/I—fnr act. 51111
per Cent. 72 —5 per Cent. 114 is.dta
7if-1)o. pay. 71 pm
Exchequer 4a. dm. pa:.