Star.
London, England, 1814-03-24 00:00:00

PARTS, MARCH 18.

The garrison of Ostend has made a sally, and
pushed as tar as Bruges. It took from the several
rece,vers in that city 200,900 francs, seized all the ar-
ticits of clothing and equipment collected by the
enemy, and carried them off without meeting any
obstacle. It is said that the garrison of Metz has
made a successful sally, and taken from the enemy
artillery and other important articles. •

DUTCH P4PARS.

BASLE, MARCH 4.

Louis XVIII. has as yet gone no further into
France than Vessoul. All is quiet on the side of Hu-
Bingen, but a great number of peasants are every
night employed on the trenches.

OFFICIAL ARTICLE.
46 BRUSSELS, MARCH 15.

" in the beginning of March the General of Di-
vision, Maison, united all his disposable troops to pe-
netrate into Brabant. His plan was nothing less than
to open a communication with the garrison of Ant-
werp, and then, reinforced, to advance upon Brussels,
and place th it city again under all the 'weight of op-
pression. The enemy occupied with superior forces
Menin and Cambray, and, on the sth; advanced with
about- seven thousand men, and thirty pieces of can-
non to Oudenarde, in which the Prussian Colonel Hobe
was posted with two thousand Prussians and Saxons.

" The enemy advanced in close column at thetas
a charge on the town ; but the unshaken firmness of
the allied troops rendered his attempt abortive. A
well direited fire of grape-shot spread destruction
throne his ranks, and he was forced to abandon the
enterprise,. after he'had for the whOle night bombar-
ded, thetawn. On the 7th, the Duke of Saxe Weimai
resolved to make a general attack, to deliver Cour-
tray from the enemy. The corps under the corn-
)nand Of General Von Borstell advanced on the road
from Tournay to Courtray. The advanced posts be-
hind the abattis were driven back by the bayonet,
sad at twilight the village of Belegham and Cour-
tray were in our power. Meanwhile the Saxon Co-
lonel Ziegler had advanced with a detachment of
Sardn and Prussian troops on the village of Suevel-
gem, occupied by the enemy with forCes three times
superior, and six pieces of cannon.
" These brave troops, diregarding the difference of
Numbers, charged the enemy with the bayonet in the
village, and forced- them to fly rapidly. Next morn-
ing was appointed for the general attack ; but the
enemy, intimidated by tile losses of the preceding even-
ing, evacuated Courtray during the night, and on the,
following morning Menin also.
" On the Bth, at nine in the morning, the Duke of
Saxe Weimar and General Von Borstell entered
Courtray (the brave Allied troops lining the streets),
and were received with the most lively and general
acclamations by the inhabitants, who had been cruelly
used by the French.
" The loss of the enemy in the different actions,
including prisoners,, may be estimated at 2000 men,
among whom are several Officers of rank.
" At the same time General Carnot made a sortie
from Antwerp, at the bead of about 4000 men, and
took possession of St Nicholas ; but as soon as he
learned that the plansef General Maison bad totally
failed, he contented himself with pillaging the en-
virer's, and returned to Antwerp.
" Thus has the valour of the Allied troops defeated
the last effort of the enemy for disturbing the repose
cf Brabaht, and the` disastrous result of his move-
ments will surely make him for ever renounce such
enterpr.zes."

F.111317RG, MARCH 2.
Travellers wh.) Lave this day arrived here from
Geneva assure us, that the French have already been
driven back to the distance of ten leagues. A strong
Austrian column is advancing over the Simplon, to
support Count Bubna.
SCHAFHAUSEN, MARCH 4.
The Austrian army of reserve is now on its passage
through this place. At the same time numerous co-
lumns of that army pass by Constance, Frauenfeld,
Stein, &c. moving at the rate of from twelve-to fifteen
leagues a day. It is said, that another army of forty
thousand men may be expected in our neighbourhood
by the middle cf next month.

TUT EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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• Paris Papers were received yesterday to the 20th
instant. They contain no official Bulletin from the
armies; not even a remote allusion to the proceed-
ings of the Congress; and are equally silent respect-
ing the triumph and progress of the British arms in
Gascony. This sullen silence, at a moment so truly
important and critical, is more expressive of the dial-
cultius of the enemy, than the most laboured and dif-
fuse description could convey.—The military intelli-
gence in these Papers is both sterile and unauthenti-
cated. A minor Paper affirms, upon the authority
of private letters, that the French troops had entered
Chalons-on-the-Marne; but. as no date i 3 mentioned,
the account is, in all likelihood, a fabrication. An-
other article says, that the Allies were kept in check
upon the Laon road, without, however, noticing how
far they had advanced on that line ; and that an attack
on their part, on the 15th, against Compeigne was
r epulsed. Compeigne is only 45 miles from Paris.

We announced in the latter part of our impression
yesterday that a notification of some importance had
been made by the Telegraph from Plymouth, re-
specting the counter-revolution of which Bourdeaux
may be considered as the focus. The atmosphere
was rather hazy, but the purport of the communica-
tion was understood to be that the insurrection had
spread rapidly in the South of France, and that dis-
tinguished Deputies had arrived to offer their alle-
giance to his Majesty Louts XVIII.
In the whole course of the war a crisis of equal in-
terest and importance as the present has never occur-
red. The raising of the Royal Standard in France,
as it changes entirely the features of the contest, so
will it have a powerful influence on the counsels of
the Allies. It changes the whole circumstances of
the war; and it may be considered as a most fortu•
nate occurrence that so many days have passed since
the capture of Bourdeaux without the receipt of any
intelligence to induce a belief that the Preliminaries
of Peace have been signed.

Lord CASTLER/AGH could conclude nothing before
the arrival of Mr. ROBINSON, the Messenger, at Cha-
tillon, which could not take place before the news
from Bourdeaux would be known to his Lordship.
'We may, therefore, conclude that the Preliminaries
will not be signed till an opportunity shall have been
given to the French to declare who they will have to
reign over them : for it is pretty well known that, so
far as concerned the Allied Powers, the Treaty with
BONAPARTE was entertained, only because the French
themselves had manifested no disposition to break
the "chains of the Tyrant. Under such circumstances
what could the Allies have proposed to themselves
by procrastinating the war ?
Now, however, a new and imperious call presents
itself to their consideration. If the Legitimate Sove-
reign has been acknowledged by a large portion of
the people, JUSTICE demands thitt his claims should
be attended to by the Allies. They are actuated, we
may believe,. by motives which cannot but make
them hesitate to recognise the claims of an Usurper in
opposition to the rightful Sovereign and the voice of
the people themselves. In a word—if such a portion
of the French people shall rise against the Tyrant as
may, ,in reason, be taken as an unequivocal declara-
tion,of the real sentiments of the Nation, the Allies
will assuredly feel themselves justified in procrasti-
nating the war, and affording to the French people
an opportunity of emancipation.

We have reason to believe that hint Majesty's Go
vernment have already adapted such. measures for
seconding the loyal struggle as the time has allowed,
that means may at least be in readiness for decisive
action,-should a prudent view of all the circumstances
warrant the Allies in rejecting farther negociation
with the wretch who has filled Europe with blood—
Great Oantities of arms, and every kind of military
equipage, are already afloat !

How different is this from the concluct ascribed to
Government, if not in direct terms, at least, by plain
implication, is the columns of some of the Daily
Papers ? They imploy a language, conveying an im-
presiion that Ministers require to be stimulated to seek
the overthrow of the Tyrant !
The fact is far otherwise—Let evidence be but
afforded that rational hopes may be entertained of a
counter-revolution being effected, and the world may
confidently count upon all their energies being exerted
to put in actiun every engine that may hasten the
destruction of the Despot.

The Watson, Captain GREGG, has arrived at Li-
verpool from Halifax, which place she left on the
17th February. It was reported at Halifax when this
vessel sailed, that the American flotilla on the Lakes
had been destroyed by the British. We have seen
Halifax Papers of the above date, but they contain
no intelligence of this nature, nor bas Government
received any such accounts.

Yesterday Lord MEL VI LLE held a. Levee at his
Office at the Admiralty, and was atteilded by the fol-
lowing Officers:---Captains CUMBERLAND, PAGE, BEL..
lER, MAUDE, BARTIU.LOIIEW, LUXIN ROCKIN GS,
NIKKEI.; ELLIOTT, &C•

FURTHER ADVANCE OF LORD WEL-
LINGTON'S ARMY INTO FRANCE.
REPORTED'CAPTURE OF TOULOUSE.

We stop the Press to mention the rumour of fur-
ther accounts having been received of the progress
of Lord WELLINGTON'S army in the South of France.
These rumours state) that his Lordship, on the 14th
instant, was within 30 miles of Toulouse) And that

he entered that city on the 15th, and was received
with open arms by the inhabitants, who immediately
hoisted the White Cockade, &c.

The subjoined letter from an Officer in Lord WEL-
LINGTON'S Army, though not so late as the accounts
from Bourdeaux, will be read with some interest :

" MONT MARSAN, MARCH 7.

" Nothing can be more gratifying than our recep-
tion since we commenced the march into the heart of
France. To-mprrow we start for Bourdeaux, Sir
Lowav CoLE's division and ours, under the.command
of the Marshal. Lord DALHOUSIE has come back to i
the command of the division, to the great joy of
every mother's son in it.
" At Buurdeaux, there are a great many Ame-
rican ships, and much nate property—to be sure,
we won't be at them !

44 The country we have come through is very rich,
and every thing cheap. Fowls, fat and fine, a shil
ling each ; turkeys, two shillings; ham and cheese
sixpence per pound each ; excellent claret and bur-
gundy, one shilling and sixpence per bottle; game of
every kind, as well as fish, very reasonable; olives
and fruit in abundance : moreover, in many-place 9
the inhabitants will permit us to pay nothing at all,
but treat men and officers with their best cheer. We
are all in high spirits.
41 The Conscripts desert in hundreds ; and the
people of the country would do any thing for us if we
would keep the Spaniards away ; bitt they are hor-
rified at the very name of them, and severely do they
leave their marks wherever they have been.
• " The people here, as in other parts of France,.
have no affectionate regard for theit Government :
they do not much love, thosigh they fear BONAPARTE;
but, restrained perhaps by fear, they have not yet
shewn much attachment to the Bovate.Ns. In a few
days, we hope to afforJ them a fit oppertunity cif
she wing themselves.

64 On the day of the battle of Ortez, they earn-
out in immense numbers, men, women and children,
to see the show, as people do at ASTLEY'S in London
or ally other public sight. When they saw the tide
turning against their countrymen, they shewed no
disappointment ; but, on the contrary, they, one and
all,carried the wounded into the town, but began,with
the English."

Mr. GM the Messenger, who left London on
Tuesday morning for Chatillon, with dispatches far
Lord CASTLEREAGH, was detained at Deal by signal
from the Admiralty Telegraph. Further dispatches
from Ministers were sent off to him in the course of
the evening : they communicated, we presume, the
glorious intelligence from Bourdeaux, and Mr. GUY
finally sailed from Deal yesterday morning.

We are glad to learn that Lord MARCII was much
better according to the last accounts.
Conches (not Coucher as printed by mistake in the
Gazette Zxtraordinary of Tuesday evening) is a can.
ton, lying a few miles eastward of the high road from
Pau to Aire ; about twt lye leagues distance from the
former place, and five from the latter ; north-west of
Tarbes fifteen.

The MAYOR of Bourdeauz, who came ont to wel-
come our troops, and declare for the BOURBONS, is, we
understand, a Mr. LYNCH, whose father, an Irishman,
settled in that city.
It is reported that General EDEN, second in com-
mand at Plymouth, is to succeed Brigadier-General
GORE, late of the 33d regiment, who was killed at
•
13ergen•op-Zoom.
The following Naval Officers have received Gold
Mtclals from the CROWN PRINCE of SWEDEN, on sc.
count of their conduct at the bombardment of Gluck;
stadt, viz.: Captains FARGVH AR, GREEN, M A RSTIALL,
Rosy, BANKS, KNEESHAW, and Sir GEORGE MONA T
KEITH, Bart.

JOHN VICKERS, late private soldier in the Royal
Welch Fusileers, and In-Pensioner of the Royal
Hospital at Chelsea, has, by his will, dated the ht
of June, 1810, devised, on the decease of his cousin,
THOMAS FOSBROOKE, now a pauper and lunatic in
Mary-la-Bonne workhouse, the cum of £4.00 three
per cent. Reduced Bank Annuities, for. the special
purpose of promoting the welfare and advancement
in life of the Female Orphans of the Royal Military
Asylum at Chelsea, having no fathers, at the discre-
tion of the Commissioners for .directing the affairs of
the said Institution.

The British prisoners of war lately confined at
Verdun, and recently sent from thence to Blois, have
again been ordered to be removed to Gueret, about
thirty-five miles N.E. of Limoges. It is almost need-
less to add) that they suffer excessively from these
harassing and fatiguing journies, having thus been
compelled to travel a circuit of nearly 600 miles,
and that their distress is in consequence greatly in-
creased. -

We regret to find, from an excellent Charge of Mr.
Justice DAY to the Grand Jury of the county of West-
meath, delivefed at the late Assizes for Mullinar,
that a system of outrage prevails in that county simi-
lar to that which preceded the rebellion of 1798. At
these Assizes nine men were convicted of adm;nistering
an unlawful, seditious, and treasonable Oath, and
sentenced to seven years transportation ; and six men
were found guilty of conspiring to murder, and ac-
tually murdering a man, who had informed against
the persons convicted of administering the' Oath, in
I order to prevent his giving evidence against them.