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London, England, 1814-02-15 00:00:00

employ, to establish et4ex, tbe fart istiektie-

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fided to me.
" Soldiers ! Let your good- discipline prevent
from baying recourse to rigorous measures, which.
are foreign to my heart. Friends, we are approach-
ing the period of all our wishes; follow my counsels,
and a happy peace will crown our labours. The ge-
nerous rewards of our Monarchs will distinguish
merit, and your names shall be transmitted in the
most honourable manner to the most distant posterity.
(Signed) "Count de WITTGENSTEIN."
TUE DUKE OF CLAR.ENCE.

The following is a statement of the occurrences
which attended his Royal Highness the Duke of
Clarence in his late passage to Holland;

" His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence (Ad-
miral of the Fleet) elsibarked on the 7th ultimo, at
Deal, in Admiral Foley's barge, uncle': a salute of
21 guns, and proceeded to his Majesty's frigate Pac.
tolus, where the Royal Standard was hoisted, thefieet
manning their yards, and again saluting. At this pe-
riod the wind was foul forihe shores of Zealand, and
it continued in a contrary direction till the morning of
the 12th, when the Pactolus weighed, accompanied
by the Pioneer schooner, Lieut. John Row Morris,
the whole of the men of war at the Downs following
the motions of the Admiral of the Fleet in twisting
topsails, and in preparing for casting, in which posi-
tion they continued while the Royal Standard was in
sight. On the morning of thelSth thetPactolus made
the island of Schoon, and hoisted the sigpal for a pilot;
but as the bt.ig Leveret hove in sight,- and proposed to
lead, she bore up for the Chantte.l of the Roompot.—
On her arrival at the Stone Bank it was deemed expe-
dient to anchor, at which place she continued for the
night, accompanied by the Leveret and Pioneer.

66 Before- day-break 'on the ensuing morning his
Royal Highness left the Pactolus, and proceeded to
the Pioneer, which weighed, ;tad was occupied the
whole of the tide in beating along the shores of Wal-
cheren. Having weighed with the afternoon flood,
the Pioneer reached the RoompoLabout eight at night,
and just as his Royal Highness was stepping into the
boat to proceed to the Impregnable, Admiral Bed-
ford came on board, with information from the Corn-
mander-in,Chief, that if his Royal Highness did not
proceed directly to his destination it was probable the
ice would accumulate in such a degree, that, in a few
days, the Channel would be impassable. The anchor
was therefore immediately weighed, although the crew
were excessively fatigued, having been working the
whole of the two tides through a narrow channel ; the
cordage of the vessel being at the same time covered
with ice and snow. It was now also blowing a strong
gale from the S.E. attended with intense frost and a
heavy fall Of sleet, and the night was so extremely dark
that the coui se could only La u aced by sounding.
4, Mr. George Thomas, Surveyor to the Admi-
ralty, and Brett,. Pilot of the Impregnable, had
the d.arae of conducting the Pioneer, under these
disadvantages, and which they acc.oniplished in. such
a manner as to excite the warm approbation of his
Royal .Highness, anchoring her in safety at eleven
P. M. two miles from the town of. Zieritzee.' His
Royal Highness was also graciously pleased to com-
mend the manner and perseverance with which Lieu-
tenant Morris worked the schooner.
c, Daring the whole .of the time the Pioneer was
under weighs his Royal Highness never once left the
deck, stimulating the meat by his condescension and
affability. One of the men fell from the fore-yard,
being benumbed with the cold, and many were to
severely frost-bitten, that they were unable to con-
tinue on duty: His Royal Highness made repeated
inquiries concerning them, and previous to retiring to
his repose, desired the Surgeon to state to his patients
the concern which he felt for their situation. But
this•trait of Royal humanity was not so conspicuous
as that which was displayed in the morning, while
the Pioneer was at anchor during the ebb tide.
66 Two of the seamen had lately deserted with a
boat, while off Beachy Head, but being apprehen-
ded, were conveyed on board, where they were in
confinement, waiting the issue of an application for
a Court Martial, but which, fortunately for the cul-
prits, the state of. the weather had prevented from
being transmitted to Admiral Foley.
They had petitioned Lieutenant Morris for for-
giveness, previous to the arrival of his Royal High-
ness on board, and again on his arrival requested
their Commander to entreat the intercession of the
Royal Admiral: He accordingly laid their case be-
fore his
.Royal Highness, who ordered the hands to
be turned up, and the prisoners to be brought for-
ward, addressed them on the enormity of their crime,
and the absolute necessity of maintaining discipline
in the Royal Navy, for whose interest he avowed his
unalienable attachment, and which he elegantly chaT
racterised as the instrument to which ought to be
ascribed the present dawn of liberty over Europe.--
He then read the Articles of War which they had
,violated, the application for the Court Martial, and
their Petition to Lieutenant Morris; on each of which
he made appropriate remarks, and pointed out eti the,
crew the great.distioction between simple desertiott.
and desertion with his Majesty's stores, which list
'the law had ordered to be punished with double ri-
gour ; but, confiding in their confessed contrition,
he requested, in the most expressive manner, their
forgiveness from Lieutenant Morris—his Royal High-
ness, at the same time, being greeted with three heart-
felt cheers.
a -On the morning of the I.lth the Pioneer weighed
and stood in for the Pier of Zieritzee, where his
Royal Highness was met by Lord George Stuart,
who conducted him into the town, where he was re-
ceived in the most enthtisiastic manner. Deputations
from the Constituted Authorities waited on his Royal
Highness in the course of the day, to congratulate
him on his arrival ; the bells rang, the ancient Dutch
flag waved from every window, and in the evening
the town was brilliantly illuminated. On .the lfith
there a Ball in honour of the Queen of Britain's birth-
day, at which his Royal Highness was present. On
the 20th he left Zieritzee, and proceeded to the head-
quarters of General Graham.
" The Pioneer was to have returned. to England
on the 1", th, with the Royal Admiral's dispatches,
but the Channel being frozen up, she continued within
the Pier Heads of Zieritzee, until the morning of the
20th, when the ice_ having broke up, she sailed, fol-
lowed by the .Leveret, Investigator, and Resolution'
cutter ; she left Admiral Young with the fleet at an.!
chor in the Roompot ; the Horatio at Zieritzeea and
the.cornwall and Moutagu,at Tholen.*

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" All the transports troop ships, ice.• rare ordered
'from Holland immediately, and to repair if possible
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to the Downs. The greater part are frdten up at
Williarnstadt :—most of the rivers tune been frozen -
over, and all navigation stopped for the last three
weeks in Holla.nd. Hai the frost continued a little
longer, all the large rivers would have been in the
same state : however, they abounded with such masses
of ice, as to obstruct all navigation. Several packets,
and the Jason frigate, have been 'frozen in, Two
transports, the Amity and Barossa, impacted in the
ice, were driven ashore on Over Flacke, and remain-
ed in a perilous situation for several days—they are
now in safety at Helvoet, and will be docked.
Tholen is garrisoned by detachments of the 21st
and 37th, with some of the marine battalions, under
the command of Colonel Henry. The flotilla consists
of six schooners and Six gun-boats, which are 'destined
to act against Bergen, and finally againet Antwerp :
the flotilla is commanded by two enterprising officers,
Captain Van Nieveld, of the Dutch service, and
Lieutenant Arrow, of the Jason, who has a small
party of British seamen, who have eminently distin-
guished themselves in transporting the British troops
over rivers which had been declared by the Dutch to
be impassable, on account of the floating ice :—the
army is loud in their praises of these seamen, by two
of whom Colonel Henry and a small party were
lately extricated from a perilous situation.
" His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, in
naval uniform, visited Tholen on the 20th ult, and
inspected the fortifications at the seamen's bittery :
he took the opportunity of testifying to Lieutenant
Arrow and his small party, his high admiration of
their distinguished conduct. His Royal Highness
set out for the Hague.

ts Oa the 17th ult. the head quarters of the grand
Army were at Vesoul.

" The Emperor of Russia, on hearing of Lord
Castlereagh being on his way to Basle, immediately
set out for Belmont, in order to receive Lord Castle-
reagh in France. Prince Schwartzenberg was to
move forward towards Paris.

•
ig In most of the towns in Frazee . through which
the Allies have passed, they wound the people ready
to receive them—crying out for peace...and shewing
strongly their hatred towards their present Govern-
ment : still, so great an effect has the dread of the
Police and Military on the minds of the other classes
of the French nation, that nothing is very openly as
yet shewn by them :. they wait with much anxiety
the effect•of the concussion which is about to take
(lace near their capital.

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66 in chit late attack near Antwerp, the British ar•
tiliery was establialled . within three quarters of a
mile.of the enemy's fleet, which would in 48 hours
have been destroyed, and Antwerp probably carried.
The progress of Sir T. Graham's army was rapid—
hut in the midst of its success it was obliged to fall
back, in consequence of the centre and left under
Bulow having done so in consequence of false infor-
mation of the enemy's force. On the 26th •Bitlow
hearing of the successes of the other. armies, was de-
termined to match forward and surmount, every
ebstacle. The advance of the British army was in
Motion, to prepare to quarter at Brussels. However,
they did not move forward, in consequence of MaC•
donald having checked some Prussian corps,.and re-
port Stating his force at 30,000 in position between
Antwerp and Brussels—the head-quarters of the
,British being at Ondensbosch.
• 66 At six.in the morning of the 30th, the whole
,army marched forward towards Antwerp ; whether
they will attact it, or blockade it, and pass on, is not
known. Various molts .are in circulation here : it
.is said that the keys of Brussels. have been given to
the Allies, and that the Austrian flag has been hoist-
'ed there.

" The partial thaw which took place on the 30th
and 31st, has facilitated the' movements of the army,
who have before them a crowd of undisciplined
young Conscripts, who were struck with dismay at
the sight elf a Highland Regiment charging them ;
they dispersed, and several were drowned by the ice
breaking in, in their flight across the Scheldt.
" Celerity of movements, firmness in action, and
unanimity among each other, will produce to the
Allies every thing they can wish, and to Eurrpe
every thing she desires. 'The Censer gun-brig arrived
at Helvoet on the 31st, with specie and paper money
to the amount of 17 millions of dollars, for the Allies.
—Macdonald, it is ascertained, has not more than
25,000
.men." •
FEBRUARY it.
" Numerouslsaßiaes of British, lately prisoners at
Sarr Louii, Valenciennes, Bassaome, &c. daily ar-
rive here, having effected their escape during their
removal from those depots to Arras (which had 30(X)
prisoners), where they were to be assembled, and
thence marched to Tours, in consequence of the ra-
pid advance of the Allies. The prisoners for some
time past had only been guarded by armed Bour-
geois. Of 600 prisoners which were at Bassaume,
more than half have made their escape. It is expected
that those who were at the other depots will have the
like success. Every where they received the most
humane attention' from the inhabitants, who were
praying for the speedy arrival of the Allies. A nu-
merous body of Conscripts who had been named for
the late levy, belonging to four different departments,
left their families, and secreted themselves in a forest
near Valenciennes—some French troops were about
to enter the forest and secure the poor wretches.
" General Graham on the 3d of this month sum-
moned Antwerp—he bombarded it tor a few days,
as I have already told you. The Prussians had se-
parated from him, and gone to Brussels. Our at my
is in want of Congreve rockets. It is reported the
French have placed the snips in a situation that they
cannot be destroyed. The village of Merxen cost us
about 150 men, belonging.chiefly to the 55th, 73d,
5011, and 25th. •

44 The Duke of Clarence received two shots through
his coat.. General Graham has fallen back twelve
nailts,'i

PR iNCIf PAPERS.

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CKATILLOII-BUR -SAME, FSB. S.

Yesterday the Dunce of Vices as gave a dinner to
Lord Castlereagh, English . Minister fix Foreigs
Affairs; to Lords Cathcart and Aberdeen, Plenipo-
• tent iatia te. Qle Colflosss for .England; to Naga
Stadion, Plenipotentiary for Austria ; Count Rum- •
mmvslcy, letipmeutiary for Russia; and Biros-
Plenipotentiary for Prussia. The Dego.
ciatioas seem to proceed with activity.
Faa. 7...-Yesterday the Members of the Congress
dined with Lord Castlereagh. It was remarked chit
theism uo.constrained politeness On nitilleures force:)
prevailed between all the Ambabsadors, and partici,-
larlyhetwean those of France and England, who wcte.
full of attention to each other. —Menitnir, Fti. 9.