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Sif POLOWING /MI COMES OF ORIGINAL LETTERE AND
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DIRPRITDREI or..tiq GENERALS' MINISTER.% GRAND
OFFICER 3 OP STAIR, (C. AT PARIS, TO BONAPARTE
AT DItRSIAN btrERCEPTEW THE ADVANCJW.
'TROOPS OF THE ALLIES IN THE NORTH OF GERLIANIt.
(J!raliskii by•Aifirtry, Alietwark.strel)
The'Senator Count Itociisaiß, 'ecretary or State to the Grand
- Duchy of Berg, to-the Count DIMAS, Gilead of Division,
Intentiant-Gencrai lithe Arniv

‘4`Parts;teptA9, 3 sta.
," My Dear General—l.received at Cheibourg the
letter yott did Ile the honour to lei'de to me from
Dresdens.on the 18th of August. I wished not to
answer it till I should be. in readiness to execnte the
commissinn with Which k charges me to the King of
spain, Yesterday and the day before I paisied at
MOrtefontaine. 1 read his Majesty die few lines in
:which you express your sentiments towards him, and
your tvishes for his prosperity.
King appeared very sensible of them, and
charted arsetia thank yob.
_His Majesty is very well,
and bas given far, ;ince his arrival at Mortefontaine.
They jead die Sarni lot( of life there that you remem-
beri they. isieakfaat in -some summer-house ; they
hunt, fish, sail, say not a word about business; dine,
play at billiards, and go to bad. .The King main-
tains himself: strictly incognito from all the world,
and receives neither Ministers nor Senators, nor Coon-
sellers of State, nor military -men ; in short, nobody.
You must perceive that his present situation, and.the'
Emperor's absenie, Tedder this conduct in some Sort
necessary. .111)e PriocesseZenaide is little, round,
Well formed„ wfll educated, and speaks with a great
dealiof good sense; much to the purpose.
not easy to see what hinders heyfroin getting
band. The other islet, Very thin, but sensible.
" The King seems to be well satisfied with a pri-
vate life ; at least he is much at his ease, and wcars
the appearance of its being altogether to his taste.—
He retains his former Affability; as the Queen does
her uatural discernment, her quickness 4 penetra-
. iion, and her g<:,ol se..nso, well seasoned, but without
*mom." -

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THi 4.llWitatAWC,l,Loit oft THILIWPME:To Hls MAJESTY
Atio KiNG.
64 Sitt.4 received this: morning the letter with
which your 'Majesty, honoured me, dated: Harlau,
ttie 214 h of this'elsonth.
" It hal made tnefity bePPy, ai I he *been /81
days without receiving any newt. direct from youi
Majesty. • •
" From the interruption of the cummanications,.
we ought nor to be surprised at receiving no setters.
But the public, who reason little, or reason ill, ima-
gined that this suspension arose from the bad state of
affairs, and presaged evils from which we are now
happily rendered secure.
" According to what has reached me from the
Duke of Baisann, and from other, quarters, I find
that your Majesty has cleared all the defiles or the
Saxon fruntfers, and paralysed all the movements
attempted by the enemy to operate a new invasion.
Your Majesty supposes, in your letter, that I
have received the pieces onthe Austrian declaration,
&c. I have already rendered an account to your Ma•
jesty on this subject in my letter of the 22d: it will
therefore be enough to recall to your Majesty, that
the two first dispatches were lost, that the triplicate
reached to', and was presented to me by M. de la
Besnardiere ; but that these pieces being very volu-
minous, it has not yet been possible to complete the
copies. I adde that' having received no command
nor instruction from your Majesty, relative to the
communications to be made to the Senate, I shall
defer making any use of these pieces till your Ma-
• jesty shall be pleased to make known to me your
Majesty's intentions on the several points which I
bare taken the' liberty ta submit to him. I again en-
treat your Majesty's directions on that subject.
" Some articles, inserted by the Minister of Police
in the infericir journals, and the last notices of the
Moniteut, have contributed to improve the public
opinion. People begin to be satisfied that the greater
number of the reports spread about of late are mere
inventions. •
• 64 With respect to the fall which the public funds
have experienced for some weeks past, it is the mere
consequence of ceitain speculations, and of the na-,
tural tendency of monied people to alarm themselves,
and see the dark side of all things.
46 1 aql, with the profoundest respect, Sire,
Your:lmperial and Royal. Majesty's most obedient,
most devoted, and faithful subject and servant,
46 The Arch• Chancellor of the Empire,
44 Paris, t9stli Sept. 1013." Co4IS,IcEHEs.
THE PRINCE AuCH-THer.sUitEn, TO HIS' MAJESTY THE
EMPEUOIt AND KING.
4g SIRE..-All is quiet here—and will remain so, if
nothing happens to us from Without. ;There is con-
lineal variation in the public funds, but constant re-
gularity in the ad niniseration. • -• •
• " Whe Prefect of the Bc.uches de Ls .Mettellia in-
disposed ; ptthaps seriously so. tlnfiertunately, he
- has embody in whom he confides ;. via thus affairs
will eaperießce some delay. .
• 44 Homage and respect, •
" pasts du Nisi 29th Sept, 1913."
T HS
MINCH ARCH-CHANCELLOR TO HIS XXCELLENCT
THE DEICE OF BPssl.lo.
" leari;, September 29, IS! 3. •
6.4 Moesileur le Duc—l have received your hitters
of the 21st and 211, and, to-day, that which your
Excellency wrote me on the 18th has also come to
bawl

" if consequence of A.a.......interroption of our coot-
,
Intnajeationb, 1 And that your ExCelleney has been
obliged to supply the dispatches by extraordinary
means. Every ,thing announces., that the enemy's
patties ire. of soon will be-iftspersed, so that corre-
spondence will resume its uktial course.
Meat nbile, M. le ant; I am infinitely obliged
t') you for ail the intelligence which you have had
the go duess to send me, particularly for your ac-
e outs of the Lint.eror's bealth. I have already as-
.- awed your Exceliency evil.rrpoits can only be
checked by positive inlormation ; these reports al-
wAys take their tifiC horn commercial letters.
" Yutit E,scellency inturres me, in your dispatch
tithe 2:3J, that you send M. de It Besnardiere a
cruadtuilicate of the pieces relative to ti,e Austrian
anti SwediAderlcrationc, anti this in older to supply
t‘le other dospauleso which you ;suppose to bu lost.
'.I ti,ac tt the two brst were aqually Jpst, but the tri-
p .cate came sale, ancl*ss presented to me by M. de

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14 Besnardiere, as I anuouncel to you in my letter
of the 2‘,..'d inst. These pieces.not being yet copied,
have not been remitted to me. Besides, I can make
no use of them till I have received the Emperor's
orders respecting the communications that are to be
made to the Senate, and the several points accessary
to these communications. On this subject I can only
refer your Excellency to the contents of my letters
of the 22d and `6th, and beg you will request that
his Majesty will be pleased to make known to me
his intentions. (Signed)
44 The Prince Arch.Chaucellor of the 'Empire,
44 CAMBACERES."

TUE COUNT DE lIIEDOPTILtIip FRENCH MINISTER AT
FRANKFORT, TO HIS EXCALINCY Till DUKE Of SAS..
SANO, DATED FRANKFORT, OCECUIER lr 1813.
44 Mr Loan—l have the honour to inform your
Excellency, that the Grand Duke iuddenly deter-
mine& to Ink Aschaffenbuig for 'Constance, in the
middle of last night. The Grand Master of his
Court, Baron de Ferette, came to-day to bring me a
letter from his Highness, containing these words :
I am on the road to Constance, whither I am called
by my episcopal duties. I pass by way of Cads-
.rube, Fribourg, and Morsbourg. f entreat you,-to
reiterate to my benefactor, .the august Protector of
dm Confederation of the Rhine, the assurance that I
shall remain faithfully attached to him till death.'
“ It s<vms that this Prince conceived the idea that
they were attempting to carry him off by their parti-
zans, and that; when masters of his person, they
would use every endeavour to detach-him from then
Confederation of the Rhine. Although the Baron
d'Eberstein waited, in order.to give him information
of what was passing in Westphalia, for more uccu.
rate accounts than those he had received from the
'runaways in the first moment of alarm; although
that Minister communicated to him news of a less
terrifying nature in the course of yesterday ; his
Highness had already taken his measures in secret,
as it is believed, in consequence of advices addressed
to him by express from this place in the night of the
29th of September. In these he had been given ,to
understand, as certain, that the partizans had already
shewn themselves at Giessen, on the side of West-
phalia, and towards Ftada, on
•that of Eisenach. At
the same utile, th-e departure. of the Duke of Castig-
lione from Wurtzburg may have made him apprehend
that he should be left entirely uncovered on that side ;
and- the liAessiness which he felt with respect to the
dispositions of Bavaria, completed the impression-
Made on his mind, insomuch that he could not he.
lieve himself secure from a coup-de-main in his resi-
dence at Aschaffenburg.
“ In my answer to his Highness, I say, that if he
had communicated his apprehensions to the Duke of
Vainly and myself, we should have been able to fur-
nish him with more exact information ; and that pro-
bably he would not then have determined on so pre-
cipitate a departure, the effect of which on the minds
of the people nosy be very injurious in the present
conjuncture. "TH. Ctif.'CTE• D'UEDGUYII/LE."
TUE COUNT DE MERCY ARGENTEAU, FRENCH MINISTER
AT MUNICH, TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE DUKE OF BAs-
SANG. . " Munich, Sept. 28, Isis.
" My LORD -I have received your Excellency's
letter of the 19th,, containing the substance of the
last operations that took place, for driving the enemy
again upon Bohemia. I hastened to communicate
these details to the King, who listened to them with
great interest, and I lost no time in transmitting them
to General de Wrede.
" The more details your Excellency shall send me
respecting present events, the mare means you will
put into my hands for counteracting the effect of the
Austrian bulletins, which arb every moment dispersed
throughout the line of the Bavarian army, and dis-
seminated by anonymous letters in the interior. The
last of these, for 'instance, proclaimed as victories
those very events, which have thrown back the com-
bined armies upon Bohemia in utter disorder. They
asserted, that in the warm affair of the 19th, near
Pcterswalde, the Russians took from us three co-
lours and seven cannon ; and that, on the same day,
General Creusel was made prisoner, with 3000 men.
In the same manner they announced the capture of
Trieste, and several battles with the army of the
Prince Viceroy, which has terminated in their favour.
" The introduction of the Vienna Journals is pro-
hibited. The compilation of those of tills kingdom
is superintended with as much vigilance as 'possible.
The Gazetteer of Bayreuth alone has indulged him-
self in some impertinencies, for which he will be se-
verely reprimanded, and perhaps lose his license.
(Here follow twelve pages in cypher.)
ds Be pleased to accept, Sir, the homage of my
respectful devotidn. (_igned)
• ..".'Ehe Count de MERCY ARGENTEAU."
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THE COIIiT,DENIIRCY ARGENTEAU, FRZNCII. MINISTER

AT MUNICH, TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE DUKE OF
. BASSANO. 66 Munich, 29th September, 1813.
"MY LORD—I .have received the letters of the
24th, which 'your, Excellency did me the honour to
address to me. S shall take care to have the Amts..
burg Gazette sent to you immediately ; and I um
tong to adbpt meetturcs -to procure, with the best
possible regularity, the Vienna Gazettes, which I
shall forward to you with all 'speed.
44 General de irttrede acquaints me, that, accord.
ing to information. Which had reached him, of the
date of the 27th, the Geneeal of Division Buonaventi,
who commands the extremity of the Prince viceroy's
left wing, then occupied Brizen. By this movement
rite communication between that city and Inspruck
' can no longer be more than momentarily intercepted
by brigands and revolutionairer. Nevertheless, it will,
perhaps; be difficult to extinguish entirely the spirit
of insurrection which reigns, amidst secrecy and si-
lence, in part of the valleys of the Tyrol.
(Signed) - The Count de MERCY ARGENTEAU.
a. P.'S. The llwroness de Wessenberg, wife of the
late Austrian Minister in Bavaria, who is now in
England, arrived A: yesterday from Vienna, and an.
nounces her intention to fit her residence,here. This
resolution, which seems to connect itself with the
repprts which have been for some time current in
these parts, has excited considerable sensation."
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM COUNT GERMAIN, F
MINLsTER AT IItdRZBURG, TO UIS EXCELLENCY TILE
MINISTIat FOR FIuIIEIGN AFFAIRS.
• " M. de Bvgne has intercepted, at Bayreuth, let-
ters from a pi iv.ite person at Wurzburg, informing
the Governor of Egra of the Doke of Castiglione's
movement. These letters contained the most circum-
stantial details of the force and comp9sitiosi 9f the

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troops. M. de Hope, in making me adittainted
with this discovery, vas not able positively to inform
me who was the author of the correspondence: the
spirit of the nobility of Wurabnig is such," that it
maybe attributed with equal probability to twenty
persons at once. • I shall therefore defer exciting the
inquiries of the Grand Ducal GovernMent on this
subject, until we have collected such a body of proofs
as to leave no doubt respecting the author of this
manctuvre.
" Letters from Boheinia, of the date of the 25th,
announce, that the want of provisions is beginning to
be felt there, and that the price of all sorts of grain
is considerably adVanced. The tommanication of
letters and journals is entirely re-established.
I send /our Excellency the numbers of the
4u man (therter, up to the date of the 22d September.
" THE COUNT GERMAIN."
COUNT OTTO DE MOSLOY, MINISTER OF STATE, TO 111$

EXCELLENCY THE DUKE Of BitsSANO.
" Paris, 28th October. 181$.
44 MONSIEUR LE Duc.-I have at last received the
document so long promised by his Excellency the
Dnke of Santafi, with a' particular statement of the
places to which the Spanish refugees have retired.
The total number amoutus to l 700; but this Minister
observes to me; that the military men, and person;
composing the Court of his Majesty the King cf
Spain, will be found in the supplementary docurnents.
44 The Prefect of the Gers, who has seat us a
statement of the Spaniards in his department, fur-
nishes a list of 1,670 individuals, all in the lowest
state of misery. it is true that this department is
the fullest of all ; but, supposing that the others pte-
sent as- on an average with no more than half this
number, the ;aim total of persohs requiring assistance
will very far exceed the Duke de Santafes calcula-
tion.; and the commissioner* will find it out of their
power to satisfy all the demands which will be made
them.

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'6 In the instructions which your Excellency .has
done me the honour to send me, there is no ment;on
made of persons in military employtnents. Never-
theless there exists a very great number of them? sflio
have been recommended to me by the Minister at
War, and his Excellency the Duke of Dalmatia.—
Pis Excellency the Duke of Santafe also makes a
great point of these persons receivlhg assistants.. A
very considerable augmentation of expense must be
the consequence; but although the Commissioners'
tan see no reason for excluding from his Kijesty's
munificence those who have borne arms in the cum-
mon came, they require a formal authority to com-
prehend !herd in their department. I entreat your
Excellency to make known to me the Emperor's com-
mands on this subject.
66 Under all circumstances, the demands multiply
to such an extent, that the Commissioners find them-
selves under an impossibility of making a general dis-
tribution without exceeding the funds allowed them,
-or making a new reduction on the ratios now estab-
lished, and which are already too straitened for a
great number of the ret ugees. They will, neverthe-
less, be obliged to have recourse to this last step, if
his ajesty should not think proper to augment the
sum now appropriated to this service. The Civil
Commission is then under the necessity of soliciting a
further supply of 50,000 francs a month, under the
name of Fund Reserve • and it engages-Doan em-
ploy this fund any further than the wants of the claim-
ants shall render it an indispensable part of their duty.
66 I entreat your Excellency not to lose sight of the
contents of my letter, No. 8, of the I.6th of this month,
and to send me back the statements annexed to it,
with your observations upon therfa.
66 Be pleased to accept, Monsieur le Due, the ho-
mage of My devotion, and of my high consideration.
(Signed) 66 OTTO."
THE CHEVALIER OGINSKI TO MIS EXCELLENCY Talk
DATION !Hamm, Faucm MINISTER 1!4 THE PLUME

OF W4USAW. " isbadeo, Sept. sit, ISt 3.
" Your Excellency—Here have we been for. two
weeks at Wisbaden, at a distance from every thing
that is interesting, to u in the world, and from our
country, without any other resource than the pension
which has been graciously granted to us. I venture
to entrqat your Excellency, therefore, that you will
have the goodness to remember us, and to cause the
arrears for the months of August and September to
be paid at Mentz. Without health or means, I am
much grieved at having to address your Excellency
in this urgent necessity ; but your Excellency will'
have the goodness to pardon the liberty I take, and
to believe that I am ever, with respect, your Excel-
lency's most humble and most obedient servant,
Ocnisitt,

(Chev. de la Legion d'Honneur. )"
TILE BARON DR DURANT, FRENCH MINISTER AT NAPLES,
TO HIS EXCELLENCY TIIE DUKE OF BASSANO.

" Naples, September 18, 1813.
44 My Lord—There is absolutely nothing new in
this city. Every body's attention is turned towards
the operations of the army ; and the idle gossip
which mixes itself with this general impression 14'iel.
dom of a description worth recording.
4$ The Queen has received letters from the King,
of the date of the 3d. I have had none from your
Excellency since the 31st of last month.
"• M. de Gallo told me, three days.ago, that Prince
Esterhaty had requested him to provide for him the
means of embarking on the coast of*Apulia for
Durazzo, in order to reach Hungary by way of the
Turkish provinces. This resolution on the Prince's
part, appears to me a new indication of the opinion
expressed by M. de Mier, that he will nor be so semi
in readiness for his departure, since it *as their inten-
tion to have proceeded together.
M. de Gallo told me also, that there was reason
to believe it was with the consent of the Emperor''
himself that the Prince (lariat bad remained at Vi-
enna after the departure of the French legation.
44 Some copies of an Austrian Manifesto have
reached this place through commercial channels.—
One of them fell into my hands. Is this piece the
work of London or of Vienna ? This tender interest,
too, for the integrity of Prussia, is a circumstance
entirely novel in Austrian politics. A• such a dis-
tance from all the arrangements of the day. 1 hardly
dare express one of the sentiments to which the read-
ing of this paper has given birth in my mind ; yet,
perhaps, some useful glints might be collected from
it ; and if the desire of giving to France a salutary
repose saild lead the Emperor, after having so
gloriously maintained the honour of her arms, 'to
make some temporary sacrifices, lune many jams

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would bb eared him, by the discordant elementi of
unios between his enemies, by time and negoci ttiem,
of returning to the execution of the projects he has
' conceived fortis own glory, and for the lasting pro-
•sperity of the Continent. (Signed)
I4e Baron de Dua.prr."

To HIS MAJZSTY Tilt KING Mr Tilt TWO
• ousts. &TRACT. ) A
44 My good Friend—We have .been much con-
cerned at hearing of the affair of General VAndamme,
but the'Emperor can set every thing to rights-4w.
thing can resist him. I have read, or rather Tee have
read, your report to the Emperor, and were much
affected by it. My dear friend, bow would you have
me remain easy ? I cannot express to yeti how un-
happy I have been for some days past; why I know
not, since I expect your speedy return and peace;
nevertheless many circumetatices have contributed
to it. First of all, the long time that elapsed without
bringing us any details of the battle, your silence,
the privation you had sustained in consequence of
General Dumont's wound; and, to conclude, my
voyage, which made me so ill, that, if it had not
been for the Minister of Finance, who never left me.
and'who took upon him the orders for my disembar-
kation, which I had not strength to do myself, and
which nobody else would have dared to do for me,
I verily believe I should have died. Poor Mouchelet
tell a sacrifice to it ; for, seeing me so weak, and hav-
ing been able to findneitherlorses nor carriage; he
determined to mount the hill afoot, in the midst of a
tremendous storm of rain. to procure me some broth,
of which I stood greatly in need. Here the poor
fellow got a deflusion of the chest, followed by a
putrid malignant fever, and, in short, was earned
by it in two'days, before one knew, as it were, that
he was ill. •
44 Thi,is has agitated me; he had been so long at.
tached to rim service, and was so distinguished for his
zeal and fidelity, that I kould rnat preserve myself
from a certain impression of mel incholy. I have al.
most regretted this unhappy voyage, which, for this
week past, has constituted all the happiness of the
Princes and Princesses. The Prince !loyal set off the
day before yesterday co make the circuit of the Bay.
on board the same vessel: he returned quite en.
chanted. The Princesses are to go to-akorrow, and
promise themselves the same pleasure, with Lucien
for their beau.;
44 I don't know whether you receive any letters..but
I write to you n'ary often. • Every thing is perfectly
calm and :Tranquil, and I hive you will be so too.
My health is not very bad ; that otyour children ie
excellent. I have' recommended Campomelle to send
you every thing you may.stand in need of. . I hope
he will do so, and that you. will want for nothing. I
have ordered him to read you some woollen hosiery,
which will be very comfortable to you is travelling.
I send you also, General, Dumont's. sword. Adieu,
my friend ; take care of, yourself, I beg you, and
think of us. I embrace you as I love you.
(Signed) 44 CAROLINI.
41 I forgot to speak to you of a circumstance which
has produced a rather singular effect. Your courier
-arrived at the moment,J weaving on board thcves.
sel ; as chance would have it, I met him, and spoke
to him myself. I asked-him: whether* ha4.any
other letters ? he told. me, no; so that I told the mi-
nisters, who came for ma orders, that you had not
'written to any of . thetn. The next morning they
brought me their letters, saying that the cpurier had
deceived me. They thought ionght to punish him
for having lied so to my lace.
" I am well convinced that this order could never
have proceeded from you but I could not refrain
from mentioning it to yon, in order that you may
' find out who, of your secretaries, can have issued so
impertinent a mandate. For, my good friend, it is
of the utmost importance to know every thing that is
written, aid, since you cannot take the trouble, I
mut. For instance, Julien said that they had taken
so many colours, so many pieces of cannon, so many
'prisoners, and he did not make them amount to the.
quarter part of what yon told the ; so that neat' day,
'when they read the Moniker, they falsified, by Ju-
lien% letters, what I had caused to be inserted in it sc-
, cording toYour's. This his' a bad effect, and destroys
confidence. if these gentlemen choose to announce
vidueries, let them—nothing better—but let them not
give me details ; let them not specify numbers either
for more or less, so as to contradict those which I
receive from you. Look to this. I have not beets
angry at it ; because 1 am very sure that this coo.
tier has acted from no instruction Or yourls. But it
is more important than you shay suppose—pay atteit•
tion to it."-.-WithOtit date.