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London, England, 1813-01-22 00:00:00

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twenty-si; millions ,
941 110 it gib 900A00, as the !Intl* alulther
of young men in Old France fit for military earrica
of this number, at lea* ooe-third put has been KM
to the armies ever since 17:965. so that the Military
population of Old France, from tip age of go to 3@•
are in number equal to; country of two-thirds it;
population; or ors country, whose population is sta-
tionary, of 17 or 10 millions of people., and no more,
From 1792 to 1796, France lost more than one milr
lion of men, and she added besides half a mitlick of
men to her army, so that her military populationl
above the age of 36 must be very small indeed, and
not equal to a country whose population are tea mil-
lions, From what has been said above, it appears—
first, that the military'population ofOld France from
the age of 36 and upwards, is only equal to a am-
try whose population is ten millions ; and thatTrom
the age of 29 to 36, it is only equal to a copntry
whose population is 18 millions ; and secondly, that
one-third of its military population has been destroy-
ed since 1796, and more than half from 1792 to
1796 ; and thirdly, the number of young men fit for
the annual conscription in Old France, would have
been 208,000, if, in consequence of the immense
number of young men taken to the armies from 1782
to 1796, the number of children born in those years
had not been greatly diminished ; and of those
chil-
dren, a greater proportion than usual must have died,
in consequence of the general distress of the country.
We shall admit, then, that the men fit for the con-
scription of 1819, 13, 14, 15, and 16, in Old France,
are 209,000 annually ; and that the men 111 the new
acquisitions are as 8000 to each million of inhabitants,
the population of the new territory, viz,
2 000,000

Austrian 24ftherlantls, l iege, fte. . 2,500,000
riudninnt, Tuscany,RoPv, fcG ecct hl Italy 5,500,000

10,,000,000
These 10 millions of inhabitants would produce, at
8,000 to a million, 1:#43,000 men fit for the conscrir.
tion, or a total of about 280,000.
The means, therefore, which BONAPARIT possnses
'for carrying on the war against all urope, are, first"
a military population in old France (the only country'
on which he can rely), equal to a country of 18
millions ; secondly, a military population of bis new
territories, say equal to a country of eight millions-,
both together equal to a country of 20 millions of
inhabitants ; and a conscription on a population of
36 millions, that is to say, whatever proportion be
,'p'leases to draw from 280,000 annually.

•••
It may be worth while to inquire, what proportion
of his military population it will require to fill up an
army capable of opposing the Russians, Prussians,
Poles, and the Germans, to the north of the Rhine
and Maine; and likewise the necessary number, to
oppose the Austrians in Italy; for, we.must presume
that the Emperor of AusTitut, subdued as he has
been, will never be such an idiot as to omit the pre-
seat opportunity of taking possession of Italy, Dal-
matia, and the Tyrolese.

We shall now proceed to form some calculation of
the forces that are likely to oppose BONArARTE on the
Rhine :—Russians„ say 150,000; Prussians 40,000;
Saxons 15,000; Westphalians, Hanoverians, &c. &c.
say 80,000; Poles 30,000;—altogether an army of
250,000, most of them old troops, and 4 large era
portion cavalry. To oppose this immense force, Bo-
NAPART* has at present in existence;—AucEitaants
Corps, say 28,000: one Division with MACDONALD,
one Division with gwraza—both may be 14000;
and one Division in rrussia ; in all, about 50,000
men. He Inust therefore add his 100 battalions of
r National Guards, and all the Conscription of 1818,
to mate an army equal to that opposed to him on the
Rhine; and this army must be dreadfully deficient in
cavalry; besides, the greatest pert of the first 50,000,
men must be sent to garrison Dantiic, Stettin, Thorn,
Custrin, Magdeburg, Mentz, &c. &c. $o that,. in
fact, all these troops together, would be 40 or 50,000
deficient even to oppose the troops in the North of
Germany—to say nothing of Spain. But he mutt
send roo,ooo to oppose the Austrians in Italy, cons*. ,
qnently he must send there the 100,000 laaly decreed
from the Conscription pf 1809, 10, 1.1, And 121 to,
that all the troops, that were lately decreed, except'
the Conscription of 1814, will be necessary to meet
the enemy instantly ; and to act offensively, the
Conscription of 1814 will ate necessary—but if it be
considered that almost all BONAPARTE'S best officers
are killed, and that almost all the troops to be opposed
to the Russians, Prussians, &c. are raw noops„ and
are yet to be raised and disciplined ; he must be de.
(toted in every quarter, and driven, by next July, into
bis own territories, and muo then rely on bis own
population, diminished as it must he by. his present
exertions : for .3 great part of his new levies will be
destroyed by that time, either by the sword and by
sickness, occasioned by sending raw Uoys indiately into active service. 1

The Royal Academy assembled at Ilseir an?tß4
dinner in honour of. her ftlAgays's birth-days go
Monday, but departed from the 10601 practice of
having it at a tavern, and dinc4 in their coiwil
,Charuber at Somerset.H9lne. the Meeting was at.
tended by a larger numbir of Academiciani than Ks
been seen on similar occanims for *any _ma. *0
the day passed in the utmost festivity.

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1,1.0R101/4 lIEW 11014 1175314%;
fonnelnOW
GOttenbPl3ll3 1 ailatrivegl just as this
Pat** if? Pre's% 4a miklbt be exPnctech
ussians follow up their vietories by giving cin
respite to the enemy, General.MAcnosaLn has fol-I
lowed the example set him by his Master, and has
decamped in disguise, leaving his army-to shift for
itself, Every thing goes well. The following are
the only extracts which the late hour permits Rif
before otir RaderS 3
.1 GOTTENSUROK JAW. ta.
is We have jtist received intelligence . that Macdo-
nald has -followed the example of his master, and
taken himself off from his army—he travelled as a
Jew merchant, or rather as a pedlar, It is also posi-
tively said that Konigsberg is in possession of the
Russians,

4. 'There has been a riot at the Theatre at Berlin :
the people cried out Lang live the ginperor Alex-
ander of Russia." The King, wbp was present,
ordered silence, but In vain.

46 Report also uys, that the mob have been fighting
in the streets with the French soldiers, and a number
have been killed ip the city, as well u jn the country
by the peasantry,
66 General D'York ha; concluded an armistice
with the Russians, and agreed that the Prussian troops
shall not serve during the war.
If Letters of the 4th, fttm Konigsberg, by way of
Rngenwald, state, that the Russians were expeoed
there on the 7th. at latest, and were looked for with
the greatest impatience.
" The King of Naples, with the wreck of the army,
is at Wilau on the Pregel, to which place he has
drawn the whole of rae garrison of Dantzic, excepting
3000 men, and it is thought he intends giving battle
to the Russians, without cavalry or artillery.
6, It is said the Emperor Alexander has issued a
Proclamation, in which he calls himself-King of Po.
land, and Protector of the States of Prussia.

" P. S. Persons who left Berlin on the sth, state,
that they were present in the Theatre when the
cry of tg Long live the Emperor 41exander," was
vociferated with an enthusiasm which could not be
checked by the disapprobation manifested by the
King of Prussia."

SECOND EDITION.

STAR OFFICE, TWO O'Cl.n at.

Dispatches have bean received from Lord CATH.
CART, dated at St, retersborgh, an the 2d instant.—
They contain no details of military operations subse-

quent to those already before the public. Lord
CaTtieAres dispatches inclose a Proclamation issued
at Wilna by Marshal KUTIMOFif Prince of Smolensk°

in which he calls upon the Getman Statesi but more
particularly upon the King of PRUSSIA, to unite with
the Emperor Acexewnza in restoring the Balance of
Europe, and reviving the former splendour of the
Prussian States I—objects which his Imperial Majesty
most earnestly desires, and which his Armies are
now on foot to accomplish.
Private letters, received from St. Petersburgh at
the same time with Lord CATHCART'S Dispatches,
are filled with expressions of joy and exultation at
the glorious condition in which the Russian Empire
is now placed. Voluntary contributions, for the sup-
port of the State, are pouring in rapidly ; and the
Peasantry have risen in o mass to enrol themselves
for the Army,

A letter from an English Gentleman at St. Petered
burgh, dated Dec, 27, says, '4 The campaign had I
been carried on with unexampled resolution by the
Russians, which, together with the desolation that 4.
ways marks the path of a retreating army, has given
the war features of unusual ferocity, As an instance, ,
I need only relate what Gen, Winzingerode declares,l
a from Moscow to Stnolensko I travelled a prisoner,
and I firmly believe that not less than 60,000 dead
bodies are lying on that road. Bonaparte, in his pre
sense, charged the par d'anno, who escorted Win.'
sin erode, to shoot him if there was any danger of '
his being re-captured. The Cossacks, however, avere
too quid; for their obedience. A fund is establishde,
tinder the patronage,of the empress, for the relief of
the sufferers by the waf, especially for the late poor
inhabitants of Mosepw, whom the destruction of that
city has beggared. The Emperor has given 50,000,
and the Empress 25,000 roubles. The poorpe asants
themselves manifest their sympathy towards the
sufferers by their small donation ; many of them
amount to no more than five copecks (about three
farthings) ' • but, as their good Patroness says, ,e this
is more to them than than thousands to us." she is
most universally and enthusiastically beloved. The
common people call her 44 cur good arhl beantiful
Empress, and bath these epithets most justl7 belong
to hers"
fr It has already been noticed, that there were strong
demonstrations of joy at Vienna, when intelligence
was received there of the reverses of the French.—
On the day the last accounts, so disastrous to the
enelpy, arrived there, the audiences at three different
Theatres applied the titles of plays to the existing
circumstances. By a curious chance the follMring
were the titles of sheen ;—rhl..Siodod of Joice,The
.Lott Trecuure, and The Robecrg, art°, the French
Ambassador, ;s said to have remonstrated L hut the
C.Tovernmenrreplied, that it could not takeoguitance
of such occurrenrs, and for vihich they' could not
thoiv *horn to punish.

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