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FRENCH Pi/Pao .
?AIMS, IAWARY
, The Wing of Naples being indisposed, has thought
proper tp quit the cominaod of thcanuy, which he
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b: given up to the Viceroy: This latter is more apl
fiiittved to a grand aiit inistration. ge possesses
the entire confidence of the Emperor.
After thp treason of General d'Yorck, the King of
Naples judged it advisable to march upon the El-
-I?ing wad, and from thence on Posen, where his
ilead,quarters arrived on the 10th ofJanuary.
General Rapp, with a garrison 0f.30,000 men, oc-
cupies the island of Noyat, and pantzic ; 6000 men
pccupy Thorn and its neighbourliood; 6000 Prus-
sians are in Grauden4; a corps of observation which
the Prince of Eekmuhl commands is upon Bamberg.
prince SFhwartzenborg and General Reynier are in
adv?ince of Warsaw. The sth corps is reorganizing
in that place, and the Duke of Tarentum has march-
ed upon Posen.
Marshal St. Cyr has recovered from his wound.

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• Tim Duke of PocUuna.has arrived at Posen: there
has tip; been, since the affair-of the Duke of Taren-
tum upon the Niemen, in which lie made three Rue-
liar; battalions prisoners, any engagement whatever
with the enemy : there have only been some rencon-
tres of little importance with the Cossacks.
All the dismoupted cavalry has arrived upon the
Oder,

General Bourcier, who is at Berlin, writes that he
has made contracts for 30,000 horses, 20,000 of
which have already been delivered' at the depots, as
well for the remounts of cavalry, as those of the ar-
tillery and military equipages. The cold, weather
still continues.
The King of Prussia is re-organizing his contin-
gent between Stettin and Colberg.
General Lauriston departed yesterday from Paris,
to fix h:s head-quarters at Magdeburg, where the
corpeof observation which he commands is to arrive.
General Souham will pass the Rhine with the van-
guard of the corps of observation of the Rhine, and
will move on towards Frankfort.
His Majesty has given to General Bertrand the
command of the army of observation of Italy, which
is to unite at Verona.
A •trngu.lld composed of 40,000 fresh troops will
unite at Posen, under the orders of Marshal the Duke
of Elchingen, This Marshal is among the ntunber
of those whose courage and strength of mind have
mod the test.
The King of Saxony is uniting his troops about
The gmperor of Austria is assembling considera-
ble forces in Galicia. We can already count there
an army Of more than 80,000 men. The greatest
confidence and harmony exist between the Imperial
Courts of Vienna and Paris,
The King of Denmark is deaf to the menaces and
intrigues orE-ngland, Russia, and Sweden.
Dantzick is now an unattackable fortress ; thirty
thou:anis good troops have been collected in it; good
Generals command them, and the Governor of the
town is General Rapp, a brave and intrepid soldier.
&considerable number of evgineer and artillery offi-
cers are In. it The place is provisioned with every
thing for two years.
Xll the reports that have been circulated are false.
There has not been a battle at Kuningsberg ; there
bas not 13411 one at.glbing ; no General Pacer has
been wounded ; and we repeat it, that no 44;4 has
taken plats since that of the Duke nf Tarentum upon
the Niemen. Ger'many has nothing to fear either
from tl e intrigues of England or the irruption of the
Bqbar ens, who only knew how to defend their
country by devastating it, and their capital by burn-
ing it. to short, as soon as winter shall terminate,
the Russians will be chaced and driven back—the
quicker in proportion as they may have further ad-
vanced.
We are authorized to make this exposee, to tran-
,•quillize the good , citizens of France and Germa-
ny; and we adcl, that they may be certain, that if
any events happen we will immediately nuke them
known to the public, with the same truth and sim-
plicity with which were made known the misfortunes
gf the army in the 29th •pulletin.
:We do pot know Why the English attach importance
tp inundating our coasts and the Continent with pam-
phlets filled with false accounts ; in short all the mis.
, fortunes which the army suffered are stated in the
?9,h Pulletin ; but what the Petersburgh Gazettes
acid, that Eagles and cannon were taken from ps
in front of our banners Oandirres) is false, very false.
1---(pniceur, Jan. 26.
POSEN, JANUARY 15,

- Nis Majesty the Icing of Naples arrived here at
pne o'clpcit this night, and alighted at the palace of
the Prelecturate, M, the Duke of Abrantes, and
the General of Division friant lave been in out city
Or tile last *ea-
MARIgNWERWR, JANUARY 8.

Since yesterday we have had the head-quarters of
-the French army in our town. His Majesty the King
Of Naples, Commander in chief of that army, lett
us yesterday to go to Bamberg.
His Imperial highness the Viceroy of Italy; and
Marshal the Puke of Belluno, are still here.
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pmirrzic, JANUARY 17.

We have here_ a corps d'arrnee of 30,000, under
the orders of General Rapp.
General Bachelth who commands a brigade six
leagues from henc'e, atttacked, on the 15th, the ene-
my's advanced posti, and trade three gnss;a4 ofE-
Cers, 100 soldiers, and 15 hussars, prisoners,
.AUGSBURGH, JANUARY 17.

It is calculated, that according to the measures
lately adopted by the French Goiernment, 550,000
men will quickly, be disposable, without reckoning
the grip), Spain oy thg Grand Army
VISTPLA, lANUARY 22.

The Prince of Schwamenberg's corps &armee has
liken its cantonments along the Vistula to the south
of Warsaw The Russians have not yet passed the
Upper Vistula, where their have three corps; one un-
der the orders of General Sacken, that of the centre
commanded by Admiral Tschitschagoff, and that of
Count Wittgenstein in the North ; all these corps are
under the directions of Prince Kutuspw. At this
se.s',n• of the year, and 'with the weather we now
have, the couriers; go in four days from Wilna to St.
retersburgh. The cold increases with great force in

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the u!ighhourhooll of the Vistula. 'nen rag% as
we are told, great sicknesi ip the Russian any, and
principally among the home. r is the militia and
the IF vics 112* perform seri, Ice in * interior of 4u pia.
Lnrszn nion pEzwca EUGENE V4POLIONI TICUOY OF

I UP/ TO T ii milasTFß AT W4L
mytenverder, Antisry 6.
MY Loan Dortz--rThe St. Petersburgh Gazettes
have fallen into my hands, by which I perceive how
unnatural and false are the relations which they con-
tain of the events pf November and December ; I
will stop only at what concerns my corps d'armee.—
It is stated in these papers, that on the Bth Novem-
ber, Platoff attacked me, and dispersed my corps,
took from me 5,700 men, and my whole artillery.
These statements are false—Platoff scarcely presented
himself before my corps. He was repulsed in ever/
part. If he, has made some prisoners, he has not
taken a single one with arms in his hands, but he
may have picked up some single stragglers, who,
lluring the night, to avoid the extremity of the cold,
had sneaked into the villages. With regard to the
"cannon, they have not carried off a single piece, al.
though it is true, that I was obliged, by the loss of
lily horses, which perished through the excessive cold,
to abandon the greater part of my artillerye after
having dismounted and broken it. I know that the
Russian statements are quite false ; the extent of the
country, and the eztrenie ignorance of•the greater
part of its population, give the Russian Government
great liberty in this respect, and they take good care
to profit by it, in causing the most nonsensical re-
ports to be spread about. We were at the gates of
Moscow, when that people believed us to be beaten.
(Signed) " EUGENE NAPOLEON."
LETTER FEOIII TILE MARSHAL PRINCE OF ECKMUNL TO
TIDE MAJOR-GENERAL.
"'Thorn, lanuary s.
"My LORD—I read with astonishment, in the St.
Petersburgh papers, that on the day of the 16th of
November the enemy took 12,000 prisoners from my
corps d'armee, and that they had scattered the re-
mains of that army in the neighbouring woods,, in
such manner that it was entirely destroyed. It would
be difficult to push impudence and falsehood farther,
if all the Russian statements since the commencement
of the campaign, and in the preceding ones, were not
already known. Pid they not sing 'le ileum at Pe.
tersburgh, and were not ribbands distributed there,
for the battle of Austerlitz Did they not say that
they had taken 100 pieces of cannon from us at the
battle of the Moskwa ; and did they, not again, on
that occasion, ehannt the Te Deum which filled Eng,
land with joy ? How many difficulties did they not
raise in acknowledging. the taking of Moscow Did
they not likewise proclaim themselves conquerors at
the battle of Malovaroslavetz, where we pursued
them for the space of 4.0 wersts ?
4' The fact is, that his Majesty, knowing that the
Russian army from Volhynia was marching towards
the Beresina, was obliged to set out from Smolensk,
notwithstanding the rigour of the season. By a sud-
den change in the temperature, the cold, which was
but six degrees, advanced to twenty, and even for
a moment to twenty-five, according to some of our
hngineer officers, who had a therMometer. AU our
orses, and our train of artillery, perished, His Majesty
no longer wished to come to art engagement with
the enemy ; he no Imager even wished to allow
himself to be amused by petty affairs, desiring to
gain with all speed the Beresina. When his Majesty
passed through Erasnoy he had to drive back the
enemy, who placed himself between the guard and
my corps &armee. As soon as my core* had re.
joined the army, his Maieity continued his march,
and 'my corps was to follow, without employing itself
in maintaining a contest in which the enemy would
have the advantage of a numerous cavalry and ar-
tillery. But my corps never met the enemy that it
did not beat him. It has suffered very heavy losses,
horn fatigues, cold, and that fatality which caused all
the cavalry and artillery horses to perish. A great
number of my men dispersed, to seek refuge against '
the rigour of the cold, and many were taken.
44 Your Excellency knows that I do not dissemble
my losses ; they are undoubtedly considerable, and
fill me with grief ; but the glory of his Majesty's
arms has not for a moment been compromised.
(Signed) I 4 The Marshal Duke of Auerstadt,
Prince of ECKNIUIIL."

I.ETTER EROS( THE MARSHAL DUKE OF ELCEHNOEN To

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410 dri 'th_h"gb it-harnot ;hot when opr draft
holies u 4 Sth.the cold, we wepe ohligeci to
break our artillery, and lea", it behind as. To hear
these reports from 4t. Petersburgh, it must appear,
that we were all cowards, who Foul() not choose but,
fiy before the terrible Russian legians! It is tree,
that. according to their statement, we likewise fled
at the battle of Ivloscow. Ind that they pushed us to
the distapce of if wersts from the field of battle;—
consequently it must have been in our Bight that we
occupied Moscow.
" The Spring will do as justice for all these vain-
glorious bpastings. The Russians will every where
find the men of Austerlitz, of Eylau, of Friedland,
of Witepsk, of Srpoleasko, of the Moskwa, and of
the Berezina. (Signed)
" The Marshal Duke of Btatutcqm."

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• The Wing of Naples heii
proper
IP quit the 50=14
• %1 given up to the Vicar°
fittitornecl to a grand alba
the entire confidence of the
After th; treason of Gei
Naples judged it advisabl
Bing wad, and from the
.ileadfquarters arrived on tl
General Rapp, with a g
cu pies the island of Noyat
pccupy Thorn and its ne
sians are in Grauden4; a
the Prince of Eekmuhl co
. prince SFhwartzenberg fir
adviance of Warsaw. The
In that place, and the Dul
cd upon Posen,
Marshal St. Cyr has rec
- The. Duke of laellunca-h
has riot been, since the aff
turn upon the Niemen, in
Tian battalions prisoners,
%vial the enemy : there ha
tres of little importance v.
All the dismounted cat+
Oder,
General Bourcier, who
has made contracts for
which have already been
• well for the remounts of c
talery and military equil
still continues.
The King of Prussia i
gent between Stettin and
General Lauriston depa
to fix hs head-quarters
corpeof observation whicl
General Souham will p
guard of the corps of obsi
will move oq towards Fra
• His Majesty has given
command of the army of
is to unite at Verona.
A vanguard composed
unite at Posen, under the
of Elchingen, This Mas
of those whose courage at
stood the test.
The King of Saxony is
The Emperor of Anstr
bye forces in Galicia. W
_ an army et more than 8,
confidence and harmony c
Courts of Vienna and Par.
The Bin of Denmark
intrigues ot g-ngland, Rus
Daiitrick is now an ur
thou:an° good troops haul
Generals command them,
town is General Rapp, a
&considerable number of
fees are In it The place
thing for two years.
Xll the reports that hat
. There has not been a bat
bas not been one at.Elbinl
been %winged ; and we r
taken Ow since that of t
the Niemen. Ger'many
from tl e intrigues of Fng
Bt.rbar 4ns, who only kJ
country by devastating it,
ing it. 1.4% short, as soon
tie Russians will be chat
quicker in proportion as t
weed.
We are authorized to
,•quillizc the good , citizen
py i and wc add, that th
any events happen we wig
known to the public, witl
plicity with which were
if the army in the 29• th .p
MVP dp pot know ti.hy tio
tp inundating our coasts a
phlcts filled with false acc
, fortunes which the army
99th 13ulletin; „but what
that Eagles anti c
in front of our banners (64
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POSEN, JA.
is Majesty the King
one o'clncic this night, ant
the Prelecturate, M, the
the General of Division
Or tile last week.
• MARIp4WERIN
'Since yesterday we hays
-the French army in our to
of Naples, Commander
us yesterday to go to Bair
His Imperial highness
Marshal the puke of Bell
pAbiTzic, J
We have here a corps •
the orders of General Rat
General Bachelg, whq
leagues from hence, atttat
my's, advanced posti, and
Cos, 100 soldiers, and 15
4ku GSBURGH,
It is calculated, that
lately adopted by the Fre
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men will quicklj be dip
the army in Spain or the 4
VISIVLA,
The Prince of Schwarty
taken its cantonments alor
of Warsaiv. The Russia!
Upper Vistula, where they
der the orders of General
corm:aided hy Admiral '
r Count Wittgenstein in the
t • und;:r the directions of /
season of the year, and
have, the couriers go in ft)
retetsburgh. The cold is