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London, England, 1814-02-05 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, JANUARY 241.
To-day her Majesty the Empress Queen and
Regent received in the usual manner a Depotatioa

frorn the Officers of the National Guard of Paris.

Marshal the Duke of Cornegliano, speaking in the
name of the Deputation, presented to her Majesty
the following Address :
•• MADAME—His Majesty the Emperor and King
has deigned to permit that his faithful subjects, the
officers of the national guards of his good city of
Paris should place at the font of the Throne, the ho-
mage of their love and of their fidelity.
•• It is thus, Madame, that they have endeavoured
to express them :
" Sire, in setting out to place yourself at the head •-•
of your armies, your Majesty confides your beloved
wife, your son, the hope of the nation, and places
the safety, the tranquillity of the capital, .in our love, •
our fidelity, and our courage. •
" Sire, your noble sentiments have penetrated to
the bottom of our hearts—how much it is to be I
wished they could have been equally heard at the ex-
tremities of France I

" Still full of emotion, and penetrated with grati•
tude, we find it requisite to express to your Majesty
the sentiments with which we are animated.

44 Set out, Sire, with security—let no uneasiness;
respecting the fate of what you have, of what we have I
most dear, trouble your great thoughts; go with out '
children and our brethren to repulse the coalesced enc.
mies who are ravaging our provinces.
44 By the strength of your armies, and the power
of your genius, we will unite the force of the public • ;
spirit, which the dangers of the country reanimate ;
the power of the national pride, which is indignant at
the insolent pride of strangers ; and quickly will the
enemy acknowledge the imprudence of their enter.
prises, and the illusion of their hopes.

" Sire—Fifteen years ago you saved France ; You
Will now save it again.
40 Your Armies, already numerous, will iticrca3

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~, to the new levies which are, flying from' all parts to
ive the enemy from the land of the ancient Gauls,
and maintain the integrity of the empire within its
natural limits—such as they have even been acknow-
ledged by the enemies themselves.
France entire shall have for rallying cry.—'
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In vain, Sire, have the enemy conceived the in-
jurious hope of dividing the nation. To the hatred
and animosity with which the fear of your genius in-
spires them, your faithful subjects will oppose their
love and confidence, which the vicissitudes of lortune
have not destroyed.
yes, Sire, the indissoluble union of the nation
vicl the Sovereign, shall cause the fleeting infideli-
ties of victory to cease ; and, collected round you,
Frenchmen shall again be triumphant.
Proud of the august trust which you have con-
fided to our faith, the inhabitants of all classes, com-
posing the national guards of the good city of Paris,
animated with the same spirit, penetrated with the
same sentiments, will defend your capital against
;,trangers, and your throne against all the efforts of
ii kinds of enemies.
They are ready with their bodies round that
throne, where le free choice of the nation has placed
your Majesty and your Dynasty, to the duration of
are attached the glory, the salvation, and the
repose of France.
4, In receiving the Crown, Sire, you also received
our oaths; we now renew them at the feet of your
Majesty, at the feet of the revered wife, so worthy
of your love and of ours, and before the cradle of
your august son.
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44 NIAD.\mE —We entreat your Majesty to be
pleased to convey the expression of our sentiments to
the foot of the throne of your august husband."
[Here follows a long list of signatures.]
Her Majesty the Empress replied—
" Gentlemen, Officers of the National Guard of
Pari:—l participated the • sentiments which the Em-
peror experienced when speaking to you. Like him,
I have an entire confidence in your. courage, your
devotion, and your fidelity.
" I shall give orders fur your Address being trans-
titted without delay to the 'Emperor."

PARIS, JANUARY 27,
Lord Castlereagh arrived on the 17th at Arnheim.
He dined in that town, and immediately after conti-
nued his journey for the Head-quarters of the Allies.
His Majesty was to arrive the day before yesterday
at Chalon-sur•Marne. The camp at Nogent-sur-
Seine had been removed to Arcis-sur-Aube. The
different corps of troops are concentrating.
His Excellency the Duke of Bassano, Minister
Secretary of State, has set out to join the Emperor at
his headquarters.
JANUARY 28.—We have received accounts kom

his M4jesty the Emperor. He arrived at Chalons-
sur•Mame on the 26th. We are assured his Majesty
afterwards proceeded still further.
Yesterday and to-day many old troops coming
from the south of France arrived in Paris. They are
in a superb state. s
VersaiUes is crowded with troops, among which
are remarked many cavalry.
JANUARY 29.—The Marshal Duke of Treviso daily

receives reinforcements. During. the last four days,
at least 10,000 excellent troops and much artillery,
have reached Nogent, and we arc informed that the
roads from Sens to Troyes, are covered with troops.
It is probable the enemy will be obliged to retrograde

upon Langres by very bad roads.
We have had a very brilliant affair at the bridge
of Fontaine, between Bar-sur-Anbe and Chaumont.
The enemy at least lost 6000 men in it.
The wounded French are at Nogent ; the greater
part of them are but slightly so, and soon hope to re.
pin their colours.
We yesterday, announced the entry of the national
guards from Tournees and Chalons, in Macon.
It was on the 24th that Marshal the Duke of Tre-
viso was attacked by the enemy. Our troops occu-
pied the village of Fontaine ; and although they were
Inferior in number to the asssailants, they repulsed
011 their attacks ; we remained masters of the field
tal battle. The enemy's loss in killed or wounded
is %laid to be considerable. This first. advantage has
elect;ified our brave men, who were burning to try
their strength with the enemy, and drive them from
the French territory.
JANUAiIt SO.—Letters which have to-day arrived
from the army state, that after the affair of St. Dizier,
his Majesty advanced beyond 'Jassy.
I.etters from Rhetil announce, that his Excellency
the Duke of Tarente has just entered that town,
with the troops which ate under his orders :—it is
thought he will march from the side of Chalons.
The French army, commanded by his Majesty the
Emperor, attacked the enemy at St. Dizier on the
'27th, at five o'clock in the morning ; he has been
overthrown, and we have taken some prisoners from
him. The attack of our troops was so brisk, that the
enemy had not time to blow up the bridge.
A great part of the enemy's artillery has got en-
tangled in a forest, having taken a bad route from
St. Dizier to Mitirender. Nancy is thus delivered.—
The Emperor continues his movements upon the rear
*of the enemy, with a fine and good army.
The advanced guard of the French army was on
the evening of the 27th at Vassy.
The army under the orders of thesDuke of Treviso

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P.tris Papers to the Ist inst. were received last
night. They isform us that BONAPARTE has joined
his army in the vicinity of Chalons-sur-Marne. At
St: bizier, considerably in, advance from that place,
it is pretended that he has overthrown the enemy and
taken some prisoners. All this is very vague.—On
the 27th, the advanced guard of the Fretich army
was at Vassey, which is still farther in advance to-
wards Nancy, which place they are said to have re-
lievgd.--The first object of 13oaitemtra seems to be,
to prevent a junction between the armies of Marshal
BLUCHER and Prince Smiwaarzsamtao, and he will,
cf course, attack the first of these corps which ap-
pears in his front. We trust, however, that those
Heroes were able to form a junction long before the
27th. In the meAn time Paris is left exposed—a cir-
cumstance which is once more unequivocally admit-
ted in several articles in the Paris Papers.

A great outcry is raised against the bad faith of
the British Government, in not closing with BONA-
PARTE long ago, upon the terms concerted with Lord
ABERDEEN. The way in which this charge is pub-
lished is a specimen of their own bad faith : it ap-
pears as if extracted from a suppressed or double
Moniteur, of
,the 20th of January ; but is evidently
an article produced upon the spur of the occasion,
upon finding that the Allies were not precisely so
anxious as BONAPARTE to patch up a Peace.
This paper contains the Proclamation of the Al-.
lies, dated Frankfort, December 1 ; Prince Schwan-
zenberg's Proclamation to the French people, and
Blucher's Proclamation to the inhabitants of the left
bank of the Rhine; the Report of Baron de Saint
Aignau, and a correspondence between Count Met-
ternich and the Dukes of Bassano and Vicenza.
This correspondence. relates to thee opening of a
congress for negotiation, at which Vicenza was to
be received .as Ambassador from France: it doses
with a letter from Count Metternich to Vicenza, ex-
cusing the necessary delay in furnishing his passports.
The following is the last passage : 44 The Court of
London has caused the Secretary of State of Foreign
Affairs to set out for the Continent. His Majesty
the Emperor of Russia being at present absent, and
Lord Castlereagh being expected from one moment
to another, the Empefor, my august Master, and
his Majesty the King of Prussia, have charged me
to inform your Excellency, that you shall, as soon as
possible, receive an answer to your proposition of re-
pairing to the head-quarters of the Allied Sovereigns."
Baron St. Aignau says, in his report to his Govern-
ment on the 9th November, that 64 Count Metternich
assured him that the greatest moderation prevailed in
the Councils of the coalesced Powers; that nothing
was intended against the dynasty of Napoleon'; that
England was much more moderate than was thought,
and that there never was a more favourable moment
for treating with her; that he was afterwards intro-
duced to Lcird Aberdeen, who reiterated to him the
assurance that England was ready to make the
greatest sacrifices ; that she possessed much, and
would give up bountifully ; that the coalesced Sove-
reigns were willing that the Rhine, the Alps, and the
Pyrenees should form the natural boundary of France;
but that France must renounce her influence in Ger-
many ; the old dynasty established in Spain ; Austria
have a frontier in Italy, to be settled by negotiations ;
that even Holland should be an object of negotiation ;
and that England was ready to make the greatest sa-

orifices for a peace founded on these bases, and to of.'
knowledge the liberty of commerce and of naviga•
Lion, to which France had a right to pretend.

In another part of our Paper will. be found the
American Embargo Act at full length. It fully
justifies our conjectures as to the continuance of an
unrelenting spirit of hostility in the American Go-
' vernment, notwithstanding their affected moderation.
If they were sincerely desirous of Peace, they would
never have suffered this additional ground of irrita-
tion to be promulgated. Welklo not, of course, ob-
ject to their making increased exertions to carry on
hostilities vigorously by sea and land at the same
moment, with an offer of .negotiation, because it is
the usual policy of all belligerents, but, to exhibit an
illiberal spirit of jealousy and envy of our superiority,
on such an occasion, is unworthy of the policy of an
enlightened State. It can only retard the final con-
clusion of an amicable arrangement, and be produc.
tive of those very obstacles to which Mr. Mnruson
alludes in Mr. MONROE'S, dispatch to Lord CASTLE.
REAGR.

The American Papers contain a Report fromecein•
MOdare DECATUR, in which be complains that he -Inkl
been prevented in several attempts to put t 0 straAtoin
New London, by traitors on shore, who, whenever
he made the experiment, threw up flue lights as a
signal to the enemy. The sight of the enemy must
necessarily produce a visit from the Hue Devils to this
gallant Commodore. Perhaps he wishes to tread in
the footsteps of Commodore RODGERS, who, in a recent
dispatch to his Government, prided himself upon
getting out of the way whenever the enemy hove in
sight.

There is a rumour in the City that a battle was
fought on the 31st ult. between BONAPARTZ and the
Allies, in which the former claims the victory. It is
founded upon the authority of persons who are said
to have left the French coast on Thai sday.

Soon after three o'clock yesterday his Royal High-
ness the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at Carlton-
House. After the usual ceremonies his Royal High-
ness held a Privy Council, which was attended by

The Lord President, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord
Privy Seal, the First Lord of the freasury, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, the President of the Board
of Controul, the Lord Steward of the Household, the Comp-
troller of the Household.

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The ceremony of pricking the nominated list of
Sheriffs was gone through, and a proclamation agreed
to be issued respecting the services of the Marines.
His Royal Highness gave audiences to the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY, the Earl of HARROWBV, the
Earl of LIVERI")OL, the Earl of CHOLUONDtLEY, and
the Earl of BUCKINGIIANISIORE.

Ciiierws•vo anti Mr. Bumps aueu4ed as
Clerks of the Council. The Marital of HEADFORT
was the Lord in waiting. Sir Wu. KEPPEL was the
Groom in Waiting, in the room of the Hon. Mr.
HERBERT, who was prevented from attending hi"
duty, owing to the death of his brother, the Rev. Mr.
Hituaater, who died on Tuesday.—The Court broke
up about half-past five o'clock.
Mr. HENRY ADDINGTON, who has been under or-
ders to return to the Continent since Wednesday, was
to set out last night on his way to Kid, with the rati
fication of the Treaty of Peace with Denmark. He
will, we understand, after having exchanged the rati-
fication with the Danish Minister, proceed immedi-
ately to join the CROWN PRINOE, wherever his Royal
Highness may be.
Dituity-LaNe;—The Comedy of Wild Oat: was
acted here last night, and was given out for repre-
sentation again on Wednesday next amidst loud ap-
plause. • The piece itself (one of O'Xaere's) is full
of gaiety, whim, and incident ; and a play more per-
fectly acted in every part, rarely indeed have we wit-
nessed. We need only mention the names of MuN-
MtN, BANNISTER, DOWTON, ELLISTON, MTS. GLOVER,
and Mrs. URGER, and say that we never saw them to
more advantage. Of the excellency of KNIGHT'S
acting in Sins, the country lad, it is impossible to form
any adequate idea without seeing it.
COVENT-GARDEN. —The Tragedy of Juliet Cesar
was represented at this Theatre yesterday evening ;
and, as the character of Brutus was personated by Mr.
KEMBLE, the House was, consequently, much crowd-
ed.—But there was another point of attraction, which,
if not equal, at least of an importance in the next im-
mediate degree, and that was the return of Mr.
YOUNG to his public duties ;n this Theatre. On Mr.
YouNG's arrival from Manchester yesterday after-
noon, a notification. was !minted, and affixed at the
several doors' of the Theatre, signifying that Mr.
YOUNG would resume the part of Caul:tr.—On the
merits of Mr. KEMBLE, in the character of the noble-
minded Brutes, we have frequently had occasion to
deliver our opinion, which was not changed by his
exertions last night. There is a certain grandeur of
demeanour which is visible in Mr. KEMBLE'S repre-
sentation of an ancient Roman of dignity, which no
other actor bath possessed within our recollection.--
. His inherent love fur the liberties of the Republic
were finely blended with his manly unwillingness to
take off Cesar by an act of assassination, arid the con.
sent which he gave at last to join with the conspira-
tors in this fatal deed, was marked by such workings
of the spirit as it might be supposed that such a man
would be actuated by who
" Did nothing in bate, but all in honour." •
Mr. YouNG imparted to Cassius a vet,' great portion
of just feeling, and in the act of seducing Brutus to
lend his great name to his bloody enterprise, he
proved himself a master of the art of persuasion. The
emphatic wanner in which be denounced Cesar
" As bestriding the world,
Like a Colossus,
while mcn, like them, were only permitted to look up,
and wonder, was ably insinuated.—Mr. CONWAY
played Mari Anthony with spirit ; and delivered the
celebrated Oration, over the body of Cesar, with
much discrimination, and feeling--Mr. EcntaTots
looked and enacted Cesar with dignity and manliness.

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Just u this Paper wee putting to Press; the fol.
loWing account was received from HOKIN& Wt
have not had time to make farther enquiries. bat the
news is treated in the City:
" PLYMOUTH, pEBIWARY S.

"The MAJESTIC cut down 74 is just come into the
Sound, with an account of having captured the Pre-
sident, American frigate, and that ComModore
RODGERS was killed."