The Statesman.
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Penalty not exceeding 401. for neglecting to fix a bat done nothing decisive of the queititti ofteiliniin"e
Emanates. the Monarchy, and it is evident that Loan will be
very baker or seller of bread within the City of under the necessity of dissolving them, for in
In and the liberties thereof, within the weekly
all their bickerings they seem far from being
if Mortality, and within ten miles of the Royal
loge, who shall sell or offer for sale, any breath, inclined to acknowledge him Sovereign. The
hei, or their shop, or who shall deliver any Commission of Gtvernment seem to have exe.
to any customer or customers, deficient in its cuted every thing, and to have carried on a private
'eight, according to the weight of the several negociation, the purport and effect of which were
as are hereinhefore directed respectively to communicaied to the two Chambers in a secret sitting,
shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a
which was protracted till late in the night; but it was
tOt exceeding ten shillings for every ounce defi-
in weight, and so in proportion for any quantify not to be expected that the proceedings of that sitting
than an ounce, as Vie Justice and Justices before would be made pAlic till the latest moment. The
such offender shall be convicted shall think fit ; following is the •
04ided always, that no baker or seller of bread
LONDON GAZT:TTE EXTRAORDINARY,
be liable for any deficiency in the weight of any JULY 1.
unlesi the same shall be weighed, and the de.
of the weight thereof ascertained, within 21
next following the 'irate of the same having been
and that nothing in this Act contained shall
istrsed to extend or to include such bread as
ily made and sold under the denomination of
inch or fancy bread or rolls.
:ers shall not bake bread or rolls on Sundays,
I bread, nor bake meat, pies, sc, except from
till one, on Sundays, ender a penalty for the
offence lOs. second 20s. third, &c. 40s.
miller, mealman, or baker, may act as a
:ice in the execution of this Act on penalty of 501.
talties are to be levied by dillies', and for want
tress the offenders to be committed to prison.
'arsons aggrieved may appeal to the Quarter Ses-

WAR DCPARTNIF,NT.

Downing' - eel, July 7. , •
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Captain Lord Arthur Hill arrived last night with
Dispatches, of which the following ate an eitraet
and a copy, addressed to Earl Bathurst by his Grace
the Duke of Wellington, dated Gonasse, 2d and
4th inst.:—

Gorasse, Sol July. 1815.

The enemy attacked the advanced.guard of Marshal
Prince Blucher's corps at Villars Coterets, on the
28th, but the main body coming up they were driven
off, with the loss of six pieces of cannon and about
1000 prisoners.
It appears that these troops were on the march
from Soissons to Paris, and ha►ing been f 'riven off
that road by the Prussian troops at Villars Coterets,
they got upon that of Meaux. They were attacked
again upon this road by. General Bulow, who took
from them fire hundred prisoners, and drove them
across the Marne.

They have, however, got into Paris.
'the advanced-guard of the Allied army under my
command crossed the Oise on the 29th, and the whole
on the 301 h, and we yesterday took up a position
with the right upon the height of Rochebourg, and
the left upon the Buis de Bondy.
Field-Marshal Prince Blucher having taken the
village of Aubervilliers, or Vertus, on the morning
of the 30th June, moved to his right, end crossed the
Seine at St. Germain as I advanced, and he will this I
day have his right at Pleski, Pique, his left at St.
Cloud, and the reserve at Versailles.

The enemy have fortified the heights of Mottmartre
and the town of St. Denis strongly ; and by means
oC ae little rivers Rouillon and la Vielle Mar, they
have inundated the ground on the north side cf that
town, and water having been intrnduced into the
canal de l'Ourcq, and the bank formed into a parapet
and batteries, they have a strong position on this side
of Paris.

The heights of Belleville are likewise strongly
fortified, but I am not aware that any defensivfy
works have been thrown up on the left of the
Seine.

Having collected in Paris all the troops remain-
ing after the battle of the 18th, and all the depots
of the vrhols army, it is supposed the enemy have
there about 40 or 50,000 trdops of the line and
Guards, besides the National Guards, a new levy
called hes Tirailleurs de la Garde, and the Fe-
delis.

I have great pleasure in informing your Lordship
that Quesnoy surrendered to his Royal Highness
Prince Frederick of the Netherlands on the 29th of
June.

I inclose the Copy of his Royal Highness's Re-
port upon this subject, in which your Lordship
will observe with satisfaction, the intelligence and
spirit with which this young Prince conducted this
affair.

I likewise understand that Rassaume has surren•
tiered to the Officer sent there by the King of France
to take possession of that town."

(TRANSLATION.)
Petit Wariniel, June 48,1815.

On the day before yesterday I had the honour
of receiving your Grace's letter, dated Joncourt,
26th instant, sent by your Aid-de-Camp, Captain
Cathcart, whom I have requested to inform your Ex-
cellency that Marshal Count RotheHier had arrived
this morning to summon the place in the name of
Louis XVIII. Ile entered into a negociation with
Lieut.-General Despreaus, Governor of Quesnoy.
The only result, however, produced by this was a
very singular reply from the Governor, from which
it appeared to me that he might possibly be induced
to capitulate, and I determined at once on firing some
shells and shot into the town, and of advancing our
tirailleurs to the very glitch, to annoy them in every
quarter, with a view of making some impression
on the Commandant, and of endeavouring by that
means to excite to revolt the National Guards and
inhabitants, who are said to be well disposed to-
wards us.

From the information collected as to the fortifica.
tions, there appeared to me no reasonable chance of
taking it by escalade, the ditches being filled with
water, in addition to the inundation which had been
made. At eleven o'clock at night, I ordered five
howitzers and six six-pounders to open on the town,
and I continued the fire until three o'clock at day-
break. The town was at one time on fire in three
places, but the fire was shortly extinguished. Souse
men were killed in the town and several wounded,
which appears to have produced exactly the effect
which I wished. Last night General Anthing, who
commands the Indian brigade, sent an Officer with
the propossis to the Commandant, according to the
authority which I had given to him and coupled with
a throat of bombardment and assault.

THE STATESMAN.

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Upon this a negotiation was entered into, which
ended in the signing of the following capitulation,
this night ; that is to say, that he would send an
officer, with an Aid-de-Camp of General Attain,
to Cambray, toascertain the fact of the residence of
the Kinf of France in that town, and the abdication
of Bonaparte in favour of his on and that,
,there-
upon, he would give us this night, at six o'clock,
possession of the Porte des Forets, to be occupied
by a company of artillery, and that the next morn-
ing the garrisbn should march out of the town ; the
National Guards to lay down their arms and re-
turn to their homes; the Commander, and that part
of the garrison who were not National Guards, were
to go and receive the orders of Louis XVIII. in
whose name we shall take possession of the town.

0.=••••=m

Guansse, July 4. 1513.
Mi LoaD,—Feld-Marslial Prince Blocher was
strongly opposed by the enemy in liking the position
oti the left of the Seine, which I reported in my dis-
patch of the td instant, that he intended to take up
on that day, particularly on the heights of St.
Cloud and Meudon ; ,but the gallantry of the Prus-
sian troops, under General Ziethen, surmounted
every obstacle, and they succeeded finally in esta-
blishing themselves on the heights of Meudon, and
in the village of Issy. The French attacked them
again in Issy, at three o'clock in the morning of the
3d, but were repulsed with considerable loss ; and
finding that Paris was then open on its vulnerable
side, that a communication was opened between
the tiro Allied Armies by a bridge which I had had
established at Argenteuil, and that a British corps
was likewise moving upon the left of the Seine to-
wards the Pont de Neuilly, the enemy sent to desire
that the firing might cease on both sides of the Seine,
ith a view to the negociation, at the Palace of
St. Cloud, of a Military Convention between the
Armies, under which the French Army should eva-
cuate Paris.

Officers accordingly met on both sides at St. Cloud ;
and I inclose the copy of the Militiry Convention
which was agreed to' last night, and which had been
ratified by Marshal Prince Blucher and me, and by
the Prince d'Eckmuhl ma the part of the French
army.

TM. Convention decides all the military questions
at this moment existing here, and touches nothing
political.

General Lord Hill has marched to take possession
of the posts evacuated by agreement this day, and I
propose to.morrow to take possession of Montmartre.
I send this dipatch by my Aid.de•Camp, Captain
Lori Arthur Hill, by way of Calais. lie will be
able to inform your Lordship of any further pa►ticu-
lars, and I begs leave to recommend him to your
favour and proteitioak
I hare the honour to be, Ate.
(Signed) WELLINGTON.

This day, the Sd of July, 1815, the Commission-
er, named by the Commanders-in-Chief of the re-
spective armies, that is to soy, the Baron Noon,
holding the Portefeuille of Foreign Affairs; the
Gwent Guilleminot, Chief of the General Statf of
the French army ; the Count de Bondy, Prefect, of
the Department of the Seine, being furnished with
the fall powers of his Excellency the Marshal Prince
of Eckmuhl, Commander-in-Chief of the French
Army on one side; and Major-General Baron Muf-
fling, furnished with thi full powers of his High-
ness the Field-Marshal Prince Blucher, Commander.
in-Chief of the Prussian Army ; Colonel Hervey,
furnished with the full powers of his Excellency the
Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief of the
English Army, on the other side, have agreed to the
following articles :
Art. T. There shall be &suspension of arms between the Allied
Annie+ commanded by his Highness the Prince Blucher, and h:s
Excellency the l)uke of Wellington, and the French army order
the walls of Paris.

Art. 11. The French army shall put itself in march tn-soor-
row. to take op its position behind the Loire. Paris shall be
completely evacuated in three days t and the movement behind
the Loire shall be effected within eight days.

Art. 111. The French army shalltake with it all its materiel,
geld artillery, military chest, horses, and property of regiments.
without exception. All persons belonging to the depots shall
also be removed, as well as those belonging to the different
branches of administration which belong to the army.

Art. IV. The sick and wounded, and the medical officers
whom it shall be necessary to leave with them, are placed under
the special protection of the Commanders in Chief of the Eng-
lish and Prussian armies.
Art. V. The military and those holding employments to whom
the foregoing Article relates, shall be at liberty immediately af-
ter their recovery to rejoin the corps to which they belong.
Art. VI. The wives and children of all individnah belonging
to the French army, shall be at liberty to remain in Paris. The
wives shall be allowed to quit Paris for the purpose of rejoining
the army, and to carry with them their property, and that of
their husbands. . _

A rt.lf 11. The Akers of the line employeJ with the Feder l-,
or with the Tirailleun of the National Guard, may either join
the army or return to their homes, or the places of their birth.
Art. VIII. To-morrow, the 4th of July. at midnight, St.
Denis, St. Ouen. Clictry, and Secilly, shall be given op. The
day after to-morrow, the sth, at the same boor, Montmartre
shall be given up. The third day, the 6th, all the barrier shall
be given up.
Art. The duty of the city of Paris shall continue to be
dose by tbe National Guard, and by the corps of the Municipal
Gendarmerie,
Art, X. The Commander: in Chief of the Cogliih and rrus-
sine armies engage to respect, and to make those Oder their
command respect the actual authorities, so long as thby shall
exist.

Art. Xi. Pshlie property, with the exception or that which
relates to war, whether it belongs to the Government, or depends
upon the Municipal Authority, shall be respected, and the Al.
tied Powers will not interfere in any manner with its adminis-
tration and management.
Art. XII. Private persons and property slstill he equally r•-
The Inhabitants, and in general nil individual,' whit
all ha to the capital shall continue to enjoy their rights and
liberties *lmola being disturbed or called to nersvutt either as
to she situations which they h. ld or may have 'mid, or in to
their conduct or poilikal opinions.