Star.
London, England, 1814-01-25 00:00:00

DOR STEN, JANUARY 11.

The Russian division of General St. Priest, be-
longing to the army of General Blucher, has now suc-
cessively taken Coblentz, Bonn, and Cologne. In-
describable was the joy of the lash-mentioned corn.
mercial city, when the Allies entered it, and broke
the iron yoke under which that city and its merchants
had so long sighed.
Wezel is now surrounded on both sides of the Rhine.
Before its communication with France was cut off,
the Commandant had disarmed all the Dutch in the
garrison, and sent them towards France by Venloo
Many of them, however, made their escape, at dill
ferent parts of the road.

ZURICH, lANUAXY 4.
Towards the restoration of an Old Gavernmenr, a
-happy comtnenpeneht has bten4e. The Deputa.'
tion from the different Cantons were called together
on the 20th ult. and passed the following Act :
,g The Deputies from the Old Cantons of Uri,
Schwartz, Schwitz, Glaris, Zug, Frieburg, Bask,-
Schaffhausen, and Appenzel, being assembled at
Zurich, and taking into consideration the present
state of their country, they were convinced that by
the course of events so well known,. it it impossible
that the existing Constitution of the Helvetic League
for the Act of Mediation can any longer contintte.-:-
Farther, it is imperiously necessary, for the welfare
of Switzerland, not only that the old Swiss Bond nt
Union should be revived, but that it should be
strengthened by new regulations. For this purpose,
the subsequent Convention has been agreed upon
and ratified :
i. Brotherly friendship, and mutual asAistance to and from
each of the Cantons.

" 2. Immediate invitations for concurrence to be given by the
old States of the League, as was heretofore the practice with the
ancient Members.
64 S. The rejection of ell such influence as is unbecoming a
free People.

• 66 4. A saltiest to the Cantos of Zurich, as the oldest and first
k rank, to take upon itself the direction of the Government.

• •
. • 5. The assistance and undertaking to the Allies, according
to their Declaration of the 21st of December, concerning the oc-
cupation of Switzerland, is valid until a guaeral Peace."
General Wattenwyl, by a Proclamation under date
of St. Unbanus, December 24th, has bound over all
the troops of the Confederacy►.

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.ADMIRAL VILLENEUVE's LETTER TO
BONAPARTE. - •-gwrgg

•It will be recollected that this brave and lamented
Naval Commander WAS taken prisoner at the battle of
Trafalgar. He commanded the hostile fleets on that
occasion, and after spending a few months as a pn-
seller on parole at Reading, he was permitted to re-
visit France. At Rennes he was met by a Mersen-
gi*.; with an order from BONAPARTF, to prevent him
from coming to the capital. Upon receiving this
order, VILLENEavz wrote thefollowing letter; nearly
the whole of the predictions it contains have been yr
rified--:the rest are probably on the eve Of fulfilmet:t

• " Rennes, May s, 1806.
•." •Sta—Youdttrust rentetnbei that when l.atouche died at
Toulon I commanded at -Rochford, and I declined to succeed him
I was then well convinced that whoever-treaded at directed the
adventurous apd badly-planned speditioa of the combined
A7Tench anti SPapish Beets, would be disgraced as well as MA-
lutred; ierni;fortutae spared his Vern an engagement (almost
uisatoidafile) with a foe accustomed to Victory, and coyeAug
the aka, of the world with his 'cruisers.
were. my. very words to the Minister of Menet
whets 1 aftgnwards, so much against any inclination, aailekfur
Ilaree.tona and Cadiz, and witnessed the manning andplanceuraes
of the Spanish fleet. My first dispatch conceived me.resignatore,
which 1 'stein iritt again sent in freer CSdit, froeFerrol, ana
frernMartimen. To the' order of the 24th pliSiptedialldslaiser of
reterping tnToulon with the combined fleet, (and we had even
re fight our way through that of Great Britain) I replied that such
orders should be.pbeyed, but I also reminded the Minister pf
!minter resigititiOn—of my former apprehensions of the utreer.
taint)' of arena:rants, and of my ileierminatius., whether roe-
ctssful or repulsed, to renounce fur ever a perilous post, white
my principles, and above all, your violent and cruel character.
has made me unfit to occupy.
" Neither fault not.want of valour. brought on the inisksrtuncs
of Trafalgar; this fact has been proved very fully in my ufficial
account•uf that battle :--why- s elute it a place in the Afteutes.,
stilt the calumnies and aspersions of my rivals and foss have
sways been admitted in its outrageous columr.s t

" When, in the midst of your prosperous and ambitioug
in Germany, asy riport reached you, did you not, with )ner
Usual petulance and cruohy, says' I set tbc example of a rethU
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MG is absolutely necessary to snake Victory the Order of the
Day in my Navy ?*—A thousand voices have repeated this, your
unfeeling expressions--this sentence of death, pronounced against

a patriotic French Admiral, by &ferocious foreign Usurper.; while
my dispatch was left unnoticed, unbeard of, and perhaps unread;
it contained, nevertheless, some severe truths, which would net
have added any lustre to your naval talents, but proved that be
whose incrtarityan)i ambition alone caused the loss of one French
Beet near Aboukir, also occaa:oued the loss of another near
Trafalgar.
si Lu nay last conversation with you, you observed to me ma-
self, that even were France the onopposed.misuess of all the
Continent, as long as she cannot compel Great Britain to submit
to her dictates, her eiterotal.power must be precarious, her hater•
nal state unsettled, her commerce stagnated, her rnenutAciories
depressed, and her inhabitants suffixing .and poor : —but what
have you dune to remedy these certain evils, and to preserve thee
necessary advantages?
44 Under your tyranny of four years only, my country and hoe
allies have aireauy lust a greater number of men of war tMss
composed the whole Royal Navy during a great part of the hies
reign of Louis XIV. and Lou ;X‘'. ; Ind should the some time
longer be cursed with the sway of your iron sceptre, her military
navy will be oil a level with her coninier era! navy ; and is her
sea ports, nothing seen but shameless pirates, ruined merchants,
and beggared traders.

" But has even my country Ititherto derived or gained any
honour from all your fortuiate campaigns?—is the more free
under your unlimited authority ? • Overburthened with taxes.
and cruelly oppresstd by an active relentless tnilitart detpotistn,
my slavish countrymen, without daring to utter a dgh, mourn
the gradual approach of inevitable ruin. Whilst you, Sir, your
relatives and your creatures, alone profit from conquest', achieved
at the expence of the purest blood, and most valuable treasure*
of France.
44 But to consider even in a political pffint of view... Tour user.
pation, your devastation, your indemnities, your changes, kid
your pacificatlons„ what glory, what advantage an ,Frenchmen'
and what safety can other Nations derive front sat• from
beholding a sanguinary adventurer an Emperor—his vicious har-
lot an Empress, his obscure and wicked brothers. and-la-others- •
in-law Kings and Princes, his profligate niecetc2yeens pod Priti7
resses, and biz criminal itscomplites Dotes, Field Marshals, led
Counts. Though you have enchained the persons, TO' have not
been able to bewilder—you cannot seize tbi serleirpt
men. Can therefore the presence in France Of 9.4,VlKAustnar.s
and Russians; prisoners, remind them of any *ix' else, than
that number of their countrymen in England, while -the form. r
are returning to their friends, but wham ale latter must never ,
expect to embrace again, iatuil delivered- from your tyranny....
They are svdi aware that GM'S Xritain a tee %wise and rce ',we-
b! resign another Peace wit& e seen who is more sanitising spina
her independence as a prdesskd friend, than daagerovi as en dreArgif
*eery; 'whose' olive branches hare always been the saipistirevis
. .
Fagot of a policical and social incendiary, Who continually offers
peace during war, while he plots and Meditate' nothing but doi •
itruction during a peace. From the language of this triter, you .
will easily perteive that Its author Is beyond the reads Of your •
ferocious vengeance, and fears :so longer either pow tacks or •
dungeons, your poisoners or tormentors.
. •
" Your Minister's orders to me Dot to approach the Capi:al
without express permission from you, have spin Leen theaseans
of deferring your punishment, and the deliverance of mankind
from it scourge. I waif resolved not to survive the ruin of the
"Ff4MC4 navy, sad bad meditated on dispatching you, before I
punished myself for haying been your tool, to the disgrace of my
'tenons, of my duty, of my birth, and of my proresiloo.
" that you are still among the living, and permitted to e'er-
c.,,,• your hubstrous tyranny, must be ascribed to the inscrutable
motives of YIROVJDLNCt, which time alone can dewelope. De-
pend, however, upon it, (and the vast enormity of your innu-
merable crimes must convince yen of its truth,) that as you have
lived one of -the grandest criminals on earth, so your end must
be untimely and terrible. An assassin or an executioner shall
finish a career of atrocities, which, to the shame of humanity
and of our age, has already been too long endured. That nein.
t nous posterity, which might blame apart,,,of my ptibile itfe, may
not be ignorant of the sincere repentance and patriutic sentiments
thit accompanied my death, copies of this letter hive been expe-
dited to several Officers in all French Naval Stations, notwithst.u.-
dieg whet your vile flatterers shall say to the contrary ; and had
your murder preceded my suicide, not only the present genera-
tion, but ages to come,t would have bailed me as $ deliverer, and
revered MC as a saviour. Altars as weU as statdeCwouid then
have been erected to my memory.
" Tremble, Tyrant you have lived abhorred, and mil ex-
pire with the cones of the universe following yore, .4.3 beyond
the grave. (Signed) thg Vii.eantuva."

THE EVENING STAR.

LON DON.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1814..
CONVERS:ON o► ST. PAUL. —I Mitlay at the Latik.

The Due *le Dxnni has been accompanied to
the Continent by Count de la FEHRON AYE, Count
NarrouiLLET, and Chevalier de BittAsaut. As we
have already stated, they will proceed through Hol-
land, in the first intance, to the Headquarters of the
Allies, ;Ind, it is reported in the emigrant circles, that
they will immediately atterw-ards proceed to Lyons,
vixre the white flag will r,e unfurled, under the
auspices of the Civil and Military Authorities, who
are ,Aid to have communicated their sentiments hi
this respect to the Allied Sovereigns.
His Royal Highness MONSIEUR will set off this
day or to-morrow, accompanied by the Count d'Es-
cos. It is reported that they wilt embark at Ports-
mouth on beard of a man of war, which will visit
certain points of the French coast with the BOUiIIION
gag flying. It is rumoured that they are expected
in more places than one.
• The I)uc d'AtictouLzrex is accompanied by Count
ESIONZ DaMAs. They proceeded to Plytitoitth,'
where they were to embark on board a fastifiling
frigate, in company with Colonel BUNSUIST, the
Under Secretary of State for the Foreign Depart a
went. Their destination is the South of France.

A Morning Paper presents us with this following
Statement on the subject of the recent nesociations
between the Allies and BONAPARTE :
“ On the 6th inst. entaxtqcouttr wrote an official
tote to M. rtz METTERNICII, supressiug • his surprise
that he had not received passports to prciceed to head.
quarters, to si4 the pteliminaries to-va fifth his Master,
the Emperor and King, had agreed. To this he re-
ceived an answer—that the Allied Sovereigns hied
tectived notice that a Minister of high distinction was
expected from England; and that no further progress
could be Made in the aegociatiou until his arrival, of
which M. CAULINbOiIIa Should have pntice. Accord-
ingly be waits :u Nanci for the notice of Lord CASTLV
kancilts arrival at head-quarters: We arc assured that
this is the present state of the neOciation."
Ho* we are to reconcile all this pretended elger-
neti on the part of the Allies to make 'Peace, with
their rapid advance into France, arid their undo for
trio BoußooN Pitteecso (a circumstance which the
*titer of the above article seems to have forgot)
we know not. We trust, in fact, that the whole

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statement is erroneous. We confess we cannot see
bow the repose of Europe can be settired SthUa the
names of BON wattle* and Canttadouni are par-
Mined to be mentionettitrany 'f'leaties ti Peace and
Amity with Christian Sovereigns.

Lttters frsm Oliva, under the walls of Dantzic,
dated 28th becember, state, that *General RAPP had
destroyed all his ammunition, and that the Duke 9f
VunThitsonti, who commands the besieging army,
had been apprised of the fact. -If such be ti.e situa-
tion, there can be no doubt with regard to the reduc-
tion of the place.

The Duke of Yonk had a long interview with the
PtuNtx REGENT yesterday.

The Duke of MECKLENDVIO, the QUEEN's brother,
has postponed his intended visit" to this country till
the spring. oii account- of the severity of the weather,
and his Indifferent state of health. Every arrange-
ment Was made for his coming, with Mr. TOWNSEND
and some of the Members of the Deputation who
went tb invest the Emperor of R (ASIA with the Oider
of the Garter; on their return to this country.

The Earl of YAR:cicUTH is it,riously ihdispersedi at
his house ht SetModriplace. His Lordship took cold
in h& passage from Holland, Which has increased so
inch, from the severity of the weather, that he now
keeps his bed.
There being rio political agent in this country from
Switzerland, the application to Government, in favour
of the prisoners of war of that-nation; was made to
Lord Bsuonsx by the Rev. Mr. STRRKT, thk Mi-
nister of the Swiss Chapel in London. His Lordship
was pleased to accompany the order, immediately
granted for the release of those prisoners, with the.
most flattering expression of regard and esteem for
the Swiss nation. •
BoRAPARTE hat d nt played notit saris well,
for though at one. time he beta almost all the Kings,
4cliecar, and Yawl, in the packs be has got nothing.
ektlier by Honours or Mk, and is put _to his Trumps
.
at last. -•
His Excelleney.Count Ds Stzon, in histroclanta-
tion to the inhabitants of the departhimit of the Aube,
says —" France
_desires peace ; the "emperor will
it ;"—but the Allies don't seem inclined to tabs the
will for the deed.
Films—This morning, between one and twoo'clocb,
most alarming tire broke out at Messrs. CoRBYw anal
Co.'s, chemists and druggists, in Holborn, and which
raged' with such fury, that it excited the most dream
fill alarm in the neighbourhood. It began in the elarm
boratory, and destroyed the whole of that part of thi
valuable property. The loss is estimated at £4OOO.
)4ost iottunattly, by the arrival of a number of fire.
*noes, which were supplied with plenty of watts.
the firemen were enabled to prevent any more of the
property from being destroyed.
A serious fire broke out on Sunday morning, about
five o'clock, on the premises of Messrs. HuRsT and
Co, biscuit-bakers, situated at the Half-way Houses,
fortsmouth, and in a very short space of time con-
sumes! the entire buildings ;-and 'but for the daring
and praise-worthy exertions of the King's artificers
and others present, the whole neighbourhood must
lave been reduced to ashes. No lives were lost.

THE ARNI.

IN LAST thGNT'I S l'aft*—By iTiorrephiCal
Oiniision of a comma, the lit and Cold/cream liniments o!
rein Guards WIN confounded.

Colonel Sir GEORGE ELDtRi of the 5d tacadores
( Portuguese) embark s immediately for the Peninsula.
The QLI West Vork Regiment of Militia is ort the
eve of embarkation from Gosport for Ireland.
It is stated in some well informed military circles,
that the cavalry regiment which exposed itself lately
to the very market animadversion of Lord WELLING-
TON, on account of insubordinate plundering, has
been brought tmder the consideration of the PRINCE
REGENT by the Commander-in-Chief, and that his
Royal Highness has directed the arrest of the regi-
ment's progressive rank for three years. Several
Officers have in consequence tendered their resigna.:
tions, which have been refused.

By the last Returns it appears that eight thousand
men have already volunteered from the Militia into
the regular Army.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAI

ARE. OUR.
bubier. 4 2
Waterford 0

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Heligoland

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Malta •
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Woolen

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Panages - 1 1
Madrid - 1 0
St. Sebastian's - 1 0

This morning the following Mails have reached
the Post-Office, viz.—Brighton, Rye, Portsmouth,
Poole, Dover, Norwich, Ipswich, and Liverpool.

The following is a statement of the Mails due :

Worcester - . 2
Shrewsbury & Holyhead 2
Bath . - - I
Birotiogbant . i
Bristol - - 1
Leeds • - I
1 Cambridge - - /

Exeter
Gloucester
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Manchester
Norwich and Ipswich -
Taunton -

- I
I

- 1
1
• 2

Two Bags of Letters from Falmouth remain due.
HARWICH, bkI4UARY 24.

Arrived the Albion, Captain MAY, with dispatches
and passengers, from Holland ; and also the Earl,
Leicester packet, Captain HAMMOND, with a mail
and passengers, from ditto.

PALMOUTH,-JANTJARY IR. •
Arrived the Rachael and Ann, —, from Buenos[
Ayres to London, after having been taken by ani
American privateer, and retaken by the Cymru: fri.
'gate. Also arrived the Crow Isle, WarsoN, froth
Smyrna; Cumberland, LONORIDOZ, from Penera ;
Frederick, SHEPHERD, from Cadiz ; and the Henry
MORRIS, from Port Mahon. •
PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 23.
'Sailed the DESIREE, Captain FAMQVIIMI.
£400,000, in specie, on board, for the payment %.
Lord Wzi.t.maren's army% which she will land at'
Passages or St. Sebastian% anttirturn RS soon as pos-
sible to Spithead. The ZRALotts,,, Captain BOYS, ac-
panied her down Channel, and will sail with her as
far as her course permits, on her way for Basque Roads,
she being ordered to join the fleet under Admiral
Loid KEITH.
Yesterd•:y arrived his Majesty's frigate Sz4nonsv,
Captain GORDON, from off Cherbourgh, which port
she reconnoitred on Friday, and discovered that two
of the enemy's frigates, with two brigs, and one cor-
vette, had made their escape from that place ; and
the SURLY cutter, from Guernsey ; also the Astir'.
DANCE and. DOLPHIN store-ships, frotn • Bermuda,'
sailed thence nearly seven weeks since, with the MA-
JESTIC razee, Captain MAITLAND ; and the CONFLICT,
Captain BAKER, having 14 sail of merchant vessels
under.convoy, which are all arrived safe in the Chan-
nel. The MaJEsTic, after seeing the convoy to Ma-
.deira, went on a cruiie in search of the enemy's fri-
gates. Sailed the Riem:no, Captain LYONS, with
transports, having troops and stores on board, for
Holland. This day arrived several sail of colliers,
coasters, and orttward-bound vessels from the east-
ward.

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tiORTSMOUTHI JANUARY 94.
Arrived the CROCODILE frigate from Oporto, with,
a fleet.—The Clarendon transport, from Port Mahos4;
sailed 12th ult. under convoy of the BOMBAY, having
in charge the following transports, viz, Ban Anna,
Mary Ann, Adamant, 422 Dartmoptla, 344 Royal
lriton, 202 Cornwallis, and the 42 Willhain. Those
.sertn transports have not arrived.—Arrived th 4 HOPE
_sloop of war from Plymouth.—Sailed the SEAHORSE
and WOLTER/11E for.off Cherburgh.—Wind N.E.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 0.

'rile Snail, CooK, which arrived here yesterday,

!brings an account that two French frigates were Crui-
zing off the Canaries about 26 days, but it was as-
certained that they had proceeded for the Coast of
Africa. Arrived the Mayflower from Oporto—she
parted yesterday with the Oporto, Lisbon, and Ber-
muda fleets off the Lizard, under convoy of several
;nen of war—the wind was then about South. West.
—Arrived the Portuguese Brig Packet De Lisbon,
from St. Salvadore to Lisbon, with cotton and sugar,
after being iaptured by the Eugene French privateer,
and recaptured by the MADAGASCAR frigate.

The Jane transport, from St. Andero to Passages,
i; supposed to be on shore near Bayonne. The Hilton
transport is lost near the same place.
The BLaaMLIM, Captain WARRIN, smiled on Fri-
' day from Portsmouth for the Mediterranean, taking
with her about SS sail of merchantmen under convoy.
She proceeds immediately to join Sir EDWARD Pic-
Law. The WeyMouth store-ship accompanied her.

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