Star.
London, England, 1814-03-11 00:00:00

GRENOBLE, FEBRUARY V.

Senator Count de Saint Vanier, Commissioner
from his Majesty to the Ith Military Division, has
received the following letter, which has been com-
municated to the Mayor of our town :

' " Romilly, 25th February.

64 Monsieur le Comte—We yesterday seized upon
Annecy, which it was requisite to take by main force.
I had directed General Serran upon this point, with
2000 men; and although he met before him 3000
Austrians, of whom 800 were cavalry, he vigorously
pushed them before him, and successively drove them
from three very strong positions ; he seized uptin one
piece of cannon, and Major Meyer, of the regiment
of Kaunitz, having had a limb carried away, remained
prisoner of war. The loss of the enemy has been very
considerable,' our's amounts to about 70 missing,
killed, and wounded.

" The Austrians on abandoning Annecy retired
three leagues further beyond the bridge of Caille ; on
our side, our advance-guard is very near Frangy,
where the enemy has only a weak rear-guard of about
6U men.—Accept, Monsieur, Le Comte, &c.

(Signed) "Tie General of Division Count MARCHAND."
111,IPERIAL DECREES.
" Head quarters, Rotates, Marcia S.

" Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of
r Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine,
Mediator of the Swiss Confederation, &c.

" Considering that the enemy's Generals have de-
clared that they would shoot all the country people
who should take up arms:

~ We have decreed, and do decree as follows :

" Art. 1. All French citizens are not only authorised to fly to
arms, but required to do it ; to sound the,tocsin as soon as they,
shall hear the cannon of our troops approaching them : to as-
semble, to scour the woods, cut down the bridges, intercept the
communications, and to tall upon the flanks and rear of the enemy.
" 2. Every French citizen taken by the enemy, and who shall
be put to death, shall be instantly revenged by the death, as re-
prisals, of an enemy's prisoner.
" 3. Our Ministers are charged with the execution of the pre-
sent Decree, which shall be printed, posted up, and inserted in the
Bulletins of the Laws. (Signed) " NA POLte N.
" By the Emperor, the Minister Secretary of State,
(Signed) " he Duke of BASSA NO."
" Head-quarters, Flames, March 3‘

46 Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy,
Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Media-
tor of the Swiss Confederation, &c.
64 Considering that the inhabitants of the towns and
country, indignant at the horrors committed upon
them by the enemy, and especially by the Russians
and the Cossacks, fly to arms, through a just senti-
ment of national honour, to arrest parties of the
enemy, carry off his convoys, and do him the utmost
possible injury ; but that in some places they have
been turned from it by the mayor or other magistrates:
" We have decreed, and do decree as follows :

" An. a. All Mayors, public functionaries, and inhabitants,
who instead of exciting the patriotic IngWeateltt of the peopiw
damp it by dissuading the citizens from a legitimate defence, shall
be considered as traitors, and treated.as such.

" it. Our Ministers are charged with the execution of the pre-
sent decree, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws.
By the Emperor, (Signed) "NANMIO N.
The Minister Secretary of State,
(Signed) " The Duke of BASSANO."

[These papers contain no information respecting
Prince Schwartzenberg's army ; nothing relative to
Holland, nor any account of the proceedings pf Mar-
shal Souk.]
COPY OF A LETTER FROM TIE MARSHAL DUKE OF CAS,
TIGLIONE, TO ills EXCELLKKCY TAE MINISFER AT WAR,
66 Head-quarters, lons-le-Savinier, March 2,
Erten in the Evening.
" Your Excellency has seen, by my letter of the
28th of February, that I had given the necessary
orders to my army to march upon Franche Comte
and Geneva.
' In consequence, General Mqsnier entered the
place the day before yesterday, after his advanced
guards commanded by General grdonneau, had over.
thrown the clerny, who aripgaryd to intend resistance,
and who was briskly pursued along the road of Po-
ligny, leaving in our power 4 pr 4.09 prisoners, and
about 30 horses.
a Yesterday General Mumier marched upon les
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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1814.

Advices were yesterday received from Gottenbnrgh
through Denmark, after the stoppage of seventeen
Mails by the ice. The intelligence by this opportu.
nity serves, in some degree, to confirm the account
of the revolution in Norway against Sweden. It is
said that two Swedish vessels have, fin deli t&ce of the
late treaty between the Courts of Stockholm and Co
penhagen, been captured by the Norwegians, and
conducted into one of their ports, where the crews
have been put under arrest.

• By the German and Dutch Papers we are told,
that the Commander of Antwerp, and the General of
the Allies blockading that city, had had an interview,
when it is said a proposal was made to surrender the
place. On the 23d of February the Deputation
from Belgium, at the request of the natives of that
country, set off for the headquarters of the Allied
Sovereigns.

From Buenos Ayres we have admixes by a vessel
which left the River Plate on the 7th December. The
military operations throughout Spanish America were
conducted with little effect. The whole country from
La Paz to the territory of Monte Video was revoh
tionized, and an unequal conflict was waged in Chili,
the principles of the Insuigents, and consequently
their strength, daily gaining ground. Very serious'
apprehensions were entertained by the friends of the
parent state, that the kingdom of Mexico and its mag-
nificent capital would before long devolve under the
power of the revolutionists.

Moniteuri and other Paris Papers, to the Sth inst.
have arrived. They contain nothing to excite the
least alarm. The army commanded by BLUCHER is
described as in full retreat ; but in the same breath
we are informed, that he has formed a junction with
SACKEN, YORK, WINZINGERODF., and Butow. Our
Iteaders will recollect, that with the exception of
&Low's corps, which has not as yet been in the field,
the corps of all the rest were " annihilated," and the
Commander of one of them (d'Yoas) was dead of
his wounds ! At least, so said the same facetious
Gentleman, who informed us a few days afterwards
that the Allies had sent to beg an Armistice !
The future intentions of the Allied Generals are
fully developed, we apprehend, by the statement of
the French Papers. There are two immense armies
now moving simultaneously towards Paris. That to
the northward is commanded at present by BLUCHER ;
it has been already reinforced by the smaller armies
of WINZINGERODE and Butow, and will speedily ac.
quire additional strength from the accession of the
CROWN PRINCE'S army.
BLUCHER has once more fallen back it is true, but
the intention of this movement is evident—there was
no fighting on his retreat, for we presume that the
affairs alluded to in which the iOOO prisoners and
600 waggons were taken, were those in which
SCHWARTZENBERG'S army was engaged, and which
have been so ably detailed by Lord Button Eit Be
this as it may, we do not believe there is a word of
truth in the French statement. Why are not the in.
habitants of Paris delighted with the appearance of
some more columns of prisoners ?
While BLUCHER has thus eluded BONAPARTE'S
grasp without weakening his force by an engagement,
SCHWARTZENDERG, we have no doubt, is once more
advancing from the Southward. It is probable,
therefore, that both the Allies Generals will make
play in the same manner against the French army for
some week), until they so harass and weaken it, that
their combined advance upon the capital will ulti-
mately be made almost without resistance.
We hare already said there is nothing alarming in
the ricncii l!apers now before us, and the remark
equally applies to the formidable Report of Monsieur

AMEREAU. Thisoman predicts the f4ll of Geneva,
and the retreat of the Austrians across the Swiss
Mourrtains, with as much confidence as if he had the
means to enforce these events. The advance of Lord
WELLINGTON'S army, if nothing else" be interposed,
will nevertheless fetter this boaster's movements con,
siderably-.

Not a word of the Armistice which was negociating
so merrily, under the auspices of Count FLAHAUT.—
Who ever heard of negociations for an Armistice
lasting so long This report of an Armistice is a
stale trick.

After every battle, the issue of which was doubtful,
BONAPARTE, in order to prove to the Parisians that
he was victorious, used to end his Bulletin by saying,
that the enemy sent a tag of truce to request as
armistice. Such shifts as these are embodied into his
code of tactics.

In the papers before us. we have a strong proof of
the fears and terrors which agitate the naiad of the
Tyrant. He has left no means of defence to the
towns he abandoned eu the advance of the Allied
Armies, and now he accuses all the public few.
tionavies of treason, for not defending the sacred tee.
ritory. This threat of punishment will not be without
its benefits to the good cause: his threats are nearer
idle, if the course of events puts the victim within his
power—his slaves know it, ar4 those denounced wilt
make a virtue of necessity, as soon as they have an
opportunity, by declaring for their ancient Sovereign.
BUNAPAATE'S decree of retaliation is another rani
of the distraction and anguish by which he is tor•
cured. The Allies having declared that open towr...
and villages—places not under the command of rr!.:
Limy men, must blame themselves for any mischtet
that may be brought upon them, by taking an active
hostile part against the Allied intrties• This wAt tar
spirit of their Declaration.

NAPOLEON himself, when he invaded Spin, de•
nounced punishment against such peasants as, with-
out regular commissions, might take up arms to de-
fend their country. Now that similar measures ope-
rate against himself, he decrees retAliatioo apical
Ow prisoners in his power !--Such a monstn should
be put beyond the protection of the common law of
Nations.

His Royal Highnes" the Pniscz RECENT received
a visit from his Royal Daughter, the Prince's CRILIS,
LOTTE, 011 WedneS447.
It is the Princess MARY whose hand report is giving
to the King of PRUSSIA.
Yesterday the Duke of YORE transacted military
business with the Paisca KECK:t7, at Carlton House.
Viscount SIDNIOUTkI waited upon the PRINCE RR.
GENT yesterday;
The whole of the valuable library of Log Homo
including many Oriental works, extremely scarce,
was eittirely L'cstroyed by the late conflagration as
the Custom-house.- The Earl of 9XFCRD alai lost all
his linen, and some articles OF plate.

Munday next the Lottery ends.—The Wheel is irn.
mensely Rich—there are Two £26,006, besides
Eighteen atber Capitals yet to draw ; but those ‘s hs
wish to have a chance must apply on or before Sa-
turday, as the Drawing begins at a very early hour on
Monday morning.
Three Thousand Pounds have, in the course of 4
few days, been subscribed by the merchants in Glas•
gow, for the benefit of the sufferers in Germany, and
the subscription is still going on there and also in the
town of Paisley.

The county and town of Ayr have remitted about
£llOO to Sir JAMES SHAwgl for the benefit oi
Russians who have suffered from french invasion,

We record, as a circumstance highly to the croft
of British female feeling, that some 4..adies, oecultuir
sympathising with the distresses of their own sex in
those times of suffering, wholly their own, h4ve cern-
billed their energies, and have prepared many distinct
parcels, each containing the following articles :—A
blanket ; some mothers', girls', and infants' flanel
eloatning ; mothers' and infants' caps, and shits or
muslin and calico ; one cotton handkerchief—which
are now shipping from Sunderland CO Bremen and
Altona, as presents to the distressed of their own serf
and as shewing a commiseration which dots them the
highest honour.
A letter from Frankfort, dated February 20, says;
" On the night of the 15th instant the same calamity
occurred which happened in 1812, when the Waaden
Barracks and Hospital here, containing 1009 sick
persons belonging to the Austrian Army, were burnt
down. On this occasion the structure was completely
levelled with the ground, and a great number of the
patients lost their lives ; but the report stating the
particulars as to the sufferers has not yet appeared."
Tuesday night an elderly genteelly dressed mane
who tut ned out to be a grazier from Oxfordshire, of
the name of BUTLER, called a coach at the Holm
stand, near Middle-row, and desired to be driven n.
Oxford-street. The coachman stopped about the niiw
die of the street to know where to set him down, whet;
he found the Gentleman dead. An Inquest sat or•
the body next day, and returned a verdict—DicJ of
acoplexy.
Yesterday morning early a fire broke out in 0.,
premises of Mr. Barrett, victualler, in Blandly::
street, Manchestes tquare. The family, who wttc
alarmed by the watchman, escaped through the fror.t
area, when in a few minutes the flames burst throuo
the windows cf the lower part of the building, hi
manner that seemed to threaten the most exteasot,
destruction; but the speedy arrival of engines stopia:4
their progress, and confined the devastation to (Lc
premises, which were, bowever, partly consumes,
together with a large quantity.of valuable furniture.
The fire was supposed to originate from a spark 8)-
, ing from A copper among some paper and wood.
The infant child of Mr. Lewis, of Knightsbridge,
was run over by a horseman, at the tip of Sloanc-
street, on Tuesday, and bad both its arms broken.—
The iuffian who was the cause of the accident
off in the most unfeeling meaner.

BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE.

Captain Fatzt hai arrived with dispatches from
Lord WELLINGTON, but if, as We have been informed,

he left Passages on the 20th ult. he cannot have
brought accounts of very recent operations.
By the Alfred cartel, which has arrived at Ports-
mouth from Morlaix, a report has been received that
Lord WELLINGTON has advanckl with his army into
the heart of France. This report has reached us
from so many quarters that we can no longer doubt
the fact.

The extraordinary circumstance of the Arabella
packet having sailed for St. Sebastian's without a
mail, has given rise to a report in the City, that
Bayonne had surrendered to the Allied Armies, or,
according to other rumours, that the white flag had
been hoisted on the battlements,. and that the troops,
as well as the inhabitants, had declared in favour
of the BOURBONS.

Extract of a letter from an Officer in Lord WEL.
LINGION'S Army, dated Chateau de la Haraag,
Feb. 12:—" We have had, for the last four months,
the worst of weather ; and the right of the- army,
from its advanced positions since the beginning of lle-
ceniber, must have suffered some privations. The I
communicatioi, tet it, after quitting the high road to
3idart, is entirely by cross-roads, over a clay soil,
Much intersected by rivulets ; and it would be diffi-
cult to give you an idea of the state of these roads,
constantly trodden by mules and every other species
of transport that has been employed for the supply of
the army ; but as we never were healthier than now,
we may fairly conclude that good arrangements have
overcome the greatest difficulties. In 1812 the army
had no tents ; there was one mule belonging to every
ompany, to-carry its camp kettles, wh;ch were then
very large and heavy. In 1813 smaller kettles (one
to six men) were substituted to be carried by the men
in'turr.s, and these mules were. appropriated to carry-

inz tents for them ; thus by a most simple and mas-
terly arrangement, the whole army was put under
4.3nvas v,khont any additional transport or expence ;
and since tile middle cf December, all except those

2t.giments on outpost duty, have been in cantonments.
Uith respect to the cordiality between the army
and the inhabitants, I believe there can be nothing
more sincere ; I certainiy have heard of two instances
of foraging parties being interrupted, but this con-
stantly happened both in spain and Portugal, and
arises from the niture of the duty, and not, I am sure,
Irm any hostile disposition in the peasantry.tr.-
The country which we occupy is every wherethickly
inhabited ;—agricultnral pursuits are going on, the '
mkkett in the towns ate plentifully supplied, and
these is throughout every decisive sign of perfect con-
fidence and amity. Their attention and civility to the
English are Very great ; and I am sure that they per-
suade thentseltres that peace will never be made with
BONAPAB.7t. When the Duke D'At.GOULEME went
first to mass, I am told that every part of the church
was thronged in such a simmer as had never before
been seen: I asked an Abbe who the Duke was, drc.
and be detailed td Me his conaec tion 'kith Louts XV I.
with as much interest and accuracy as an English-
man would give an account of any branch of our
R0y2.l Fafaily. The Bounnorts are not forgotten in
trance, and the present times have given a warm and
lively ;tow to the recollection of them."
An Officer has reached town from St. Jean de Luz,
kvho left the Allied Army on the 24th uk. who states
that the beinabardment of Bayonne had actually com-
menced. A battery of heavy artillery had been con-
structed for this purpiise, and it was supposed that a
fensibte impression would soon be made upon the•
ktrotki. The siege was principally entrusted to Maj.ot-
General DOWNIE, who commanded a Spanish division
fe Considerable numerical strength.

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lIEVERAL *ORDERS.
noksz GUARDS, FEB. 28.—" The proceedings of a
Court of Inquiry, which, having lately been submit-
ted to the Commander in Chief, indicate, that in the.
instance alluded to, a very erroneous ep:nion has
been entertained as to the indulgence granted to Of-
ficers of tire Cavalry to dra‘v rations of forage at a
limited and reduced price 4 his Royal Highness fin,ls
it neetbsary to explain, that this privilege is granted
to Officers solely for effective horses actually in their
posse'asion, and _bees fide their own Roperty ; and
his Royal Highness commands it to be declared, that
any returns authorising an issse of forage under any
circumstances, must be considered incorrect,
and the Officer who signs them subjects himself to
the p..maities attached to the signature of false re,
turns.
66 At the same time his Royal Highness corn.'
mands it to be explained to the Army, that the indul-•
gence of the Conveyance of letters to non-commis-
siooed officers and soldiers, free of expence, is appli-
cable exclusively to letters designed for the persons
to whom they are addreised, and that no explanation
which may hereafter be offered for an abuse of this
privilege, which is attached exclusively to the said
non-conamissioned officers and soldiers, will be deemed
satisfactory, or will, in the smallest degree, exculpate
any officer 10/hal:nay, directly or indirectly, aici. or con-
nive at such deviation from the true intention and
spirit in which this bdon to soldiers was granted."
" By command of his Royal Highness the Com-
mander in Chief, (Signed-)
66 HARRY CALVERT, Adjutant General-"
}}rinse GUARDS, MARCH The Commander
in Chief commands it to be notified to the Army, that
has some time since been declared to the French
and American Governments, that his Majesty's Go•
vernment will not recognise or ratify any agreement
for exchange of prisoners made at sea, between indi-
viduals of the respective nations.
' " His Royal Highness directs this communication
to be made to the Army, in order that the Officers
may be aware, that in the event of their being cap-
tured at sea, they are not, on any account, to give
their paroles, until they are landed on French or Ame-
rican territory, and that paroles given at sea are null
and void. Any Office% who, after this communica-
tion, may enter into any such agreement with the
enemy, will be guilty of a breach of discipline, for
which he will be held personally responsible.
64 HARRY CALViRT, Adjutant General."

CAPTURE OF Tltoiti:
BY PRINCE SCHWA'RTZENgERd.

Letters receibed in Town thiS day from the French
coast, mention that Prince SCHWARtZENnEItO9S army
had taken possession of Troyes without molestation,
the French having evacuated it on their approach
and that Prince S;CHWARTZ. iNBERO was moving on
towards Paris, having removed his head-quarters
from Troyes on the sth of Matth.

This is precisely such an event as might have been
anticipated from the,statements in the French Papers,
and therefore extremely probable. BLUCHER and his
coadjutors were represented as retreating ; which,
judging from the previous movements of the armies,
might he taken as an intimation that the Austrians
were about to advance. Things could not be more
promising.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

FALMOUTH, MARCH 8.

No arrivals.—Sailed the Francis Freeling packet
with mails and passengers for Passages, the Duke of
Marlborough packet for Lisbon ; and the Dasher,
HYNEt and Sarah, DE LESIOE, two merchantmen, for
Malta. The Lord Castlereagh packet, with mils,
Bcc.!for Halifax, is gone into the Roads.—Wind N.E.
fresh breezes and clear weather.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 0.
Sailed the PHEASANT sloop of war, with a fleet of
nine sail, for Passages.—Wind E.