The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-03-28 00:00:00

STATE§MAN.

DUTCH PAPERS. Cormsnaosx, Faa. 27.—The Committee for the
--..e...-. !supplying of Norway with provisions has made
known, that h the King's orders this, as well as
fIACUE, MARCII H.—The following Proclima-
the eitai Me sitAtialbetg, U dlisolied, lie far.
ion was published on the 10th of March, at the
the sepplrnig• a .Noripay is concerned, and cond.
Ile.nl-qoarters of .Field-Marshal prince Schwartzeii-
• noes its skboe'only tilt its accounts arictoted.
berg : • ELIIINCIIR, FEL f
23.—The cold continues at rom
••FRENCHMEN:—You are expected to rise; your I
Bto 12 degrees of humor's. The Sound is fell of
Government favours such measures which serve to
departments
.ice, which makes the passage over it very difficult.—
excl.° to arms the inhabitants of the
Swedish and Danish are continually passing and re-
oreopied by the Allied Armies; it seeks to mislead
you biLdeoliitthi.proroises, by niesins which show the Wising'
4 zumgc., MAncu4.—The President of the Federal
Weakness of the power that has recourse To them.
Assembly has communicated to the cantons a note
' - it ?a are obliged to bear the presence of name-
'i from the Plenipotentiaries of Austria and Russia,
_roes armies.—Your Government atone can Put an
dated February 14, in which they applaud the spirit
end to your miseries. It will give yos beck your
that is dispisyed by the representatives of the 19
lepov %heti it -shall sign the peace which Europe i
affix it. • • cantons, adding, that they are convinced that the,.
three cantons which are behind hand, will hasten to
" The. Allies by no wens aim at the conquest of
join their co-estates ; that the Allies wish no other
France, bet they will wake no peace except upon :
union, welfare, and liberty of nil
conditions, which shall insure to their own king- i reward than the
'Switzerland ; that it may choose a constitution suited
dents, anti to France herself, a slate of durable re-
to the actual stvteof Wogs, and never be again im-
pose. 'The sacrifices which you make are, of short i
the fatal necessity of having recourse to foreign
duietion, the hiessingv that will result from the exer- ;der
... •
dons of 'so many nations all united toobtain the i.mediati°o•
The Plenipotentiaries, in it second note.say, that
seine end;•will be durable. Frenchmen ! your ex-
! I
bola detained at head-quarters, and yet wishing to
•istenee aitirtur national 'independence shall be este.
no longer g , y q
be present at the openin of the Session the re rtes!.
Wished gas y with our own ; you shall
see the blood of your sons flo.w for causes foreign to it may be put off for a fortnight ; it is accordingly
, put off to the 2d of March. The Little Council of
your interests. Zurich has a Proclamation tending
" Fen
ce alone can remove the Allied Armies from published to in-
form the public of the present state of straits and
the Fiend' territory. New battalions cover the
• to put an end to the false reports spoil by evil-
roads of Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Italy.
,
Frenchmen, raise your voices for the peace of Eu- minded Persons. .
. . •
. rope, that peace which is the sole object of the Allied : Berne, Friburg, and Soleure still 'refuse to llith.
their places in the Diet of the 19 cantons, 'on'the
Vowsrpi the only thing that is worth:), of being de-
21st instant, still demmiditig that a Diet of the 13 old
sired by you. Ask your Government for the resto-
ration of your colonies, for the opening of your cantons shell be called the new ones. to determine and fli the rights
. ports, for the freedom of your trade. These ad-
.and
vantages are offered you. Aq that you may do to I Papers Numerous
articles in the Dutch Gthe be-
erman
from Posen, Berlin,
support th'e ear will tarn to your one detriment, and Prague, /cc. of
of this month, announce the Continual and
all who, by themselves, or misled by others, oppose ;inning
us, will eupOse themselves' to inevitable ilesifec. ; uninterrupted march of reinforcements of all emit to
. tiou.
•• *MOW Prince of SCH WARTZ RN BERG, - : join the Allied armies in France. ' '
entz.vr, MARCH 17.—A person of consideration,
" Cenci-oin Chief of the fraud Allied Army. 1 who yesterday arrived from Paris, at Brussels, has
" Head-quarter Tiers, lOth March, 1814." : brought the newss that the fresh advantages lately
. I gained by the allied tr had made a -ofound im-

f

py _ _roops _ pr_
DaEstee, Massa' B.—abliatoputs from Holstein, -
pression upon the minds of the inhabitants of that
' which may be considered ma authentic, state as fol- ° capital, and. that at the moment of his departure
.low :—" Tte most considerable persons in Norway they considered every thing as lost, and without
have made an address to the King, in which they hope. It was also asserted there, that the Allied
thank him for the benefits they have enjoyed under
Sovereigns, through love for humanity, had proposed'
'his government;_ but add, that if. he is obliged to to Napoleon preliminary conditions of peace; ibis
renounce his sovereignty over Norway, he has no :,he had not only rejected them, but that in his rage
.right to dispose of this independent kingdom in fa- : he tore the dispatches, which has plainly conitneed
your of a third. That a Congress shall be held at ! the Allied Powers that it Is in vain from them hence-
Drontheim, to consider of the conditions under
i forthlo expect to treat with him.
'which they will consent to the union with Sweden,i BASLE, MARCHB.-7-Large torps of troops, as
-and that till these were, fully accepted, no Swedish, well as considerable transports of ammunition and
•garrit.ous bliould be admitted into any Norwegian , provisions, continue to pass through here. Some
'fortresses. President Kaas passed through Lubeck 1000 of the Wurtemberg landwehr, and 4000 Max-
on the 21st ult. going to the heat-quarters of the , burg troops have arrived here.
Crown Prince of Sweden, with blare:aces that Prince I A H
part of the trenches before uninguen is planted
•Chriptian, ohom the Norwegians desired for their !
with heavy artillery, and the siege will be vigorous-
chief, should
.immediately return to Copenhagen, ,iv li:ennead. •
and that D A.A
Denmark will do every thing to promote I ' rACSANNE, MARCH s.—Travellers from Genera
.the•cession. to Sweden." I say, that the loss of the French in several bloody bat-
lissmio, MARCH iO.-.--ZUStrirl is to be given up battles near that town is about 1200 men. On the side
AM the 20th of March, if the capitulation Is ratified. of Saks, the French had aipprmiched within catreoa.,
Some of the wort are already occupied by oar . shot of that city. At bfeyritt; %pi the rand
shot .
; Lysol, thiOltsemeis ePete****, eti:he re
t LEYDEN, M %Rai 20.—The accounts, which we ha taheoipiewoot 0,04. a me. fa
Ireceise from the neighbourhood of Hamburg's are ; the place, after a slight resistinte. They required
distressing in the highest degree. ' Between the Bth ' that the guilty shoild be given up.to them? threaten-1
a6d 10th of March, Marshal Davoust, expelled from ingtoburn thelown of Meyrio ; however,? only two
2300 to 3000 Inhabitants: In 'the nine hospitals in wtwe shot, and their houses burnt, het some are
A. pnirii, ten or twelve persons die on an average carried off to Geneva. It Is not known how strong
in twenty-four hours, that .is about 100 daily, of the French are; they show themselves is the whole
Infectious diseases, *4lch are at Prew" "finned to mountaitioes country from Gix to Corgne, but have
the. hospitals. I neither cavalry nor artillery, while General Itubna
daily receives reinforcements.
ROTTERDAM MARCH 21.—There are actognta
of the Freud; having been totally defeated sear
_ :
Geneva.

BREMEN AND HELIGOLAND MAILS.

BLANICENESE, MARCH 15.—Poor llamburgh still
figurers under the execrable tyranny of Marshal Da-
'oust. For the last few days we have received no
intelligence from it, nor can we form any opinion re.
spotting when it may be relieved from the misery un-
der which it groans.
COLOGNE, MARCH 14.—Letters from the neigh.
bourbood of Jokers, dated yesterday morning, say,
the last night was a very warm one for Julien. Be-
fore midnight the Allies began to tire upon the for-
tresi, and the cannonade lasted without interruption
till the morning. It is not yet known what effect it
produced in the town, but it is generally supposed
that it cannot ,hnld out long. The reduction of this
place will be important, not only in a military
point of view, but also because Juliers intercepts the
two great roads from Cologne and Dusseldorf,
which, in bad weather, greatly obstructs the comma.
nieatiol4.

FRENCH PAPERS.
PARIS, MARCH 22.—Her Majesty, the Empress
-Queen and Regent, has received the followhitintel-
ligence of the situation of the armies to th We of
March :
The Russian General Wittgenstein, with Ms corps
of the army, was at Villenoze. lie had thrown
bridges at Pont, where he passed the Seine, and be
marched upon Provins.
The Duke of Tarentum had united bis troops at
that town. On the 16th, the enemy mancenvred to
outflank his left. The Duke of Reggio engaged Ms
artillery, and the whole day passed in cannonade.
The movement of the enemy appeared to be upon
Provins and Nangins.
On the other side the Prince of Schwartzenberg,

BRUSSELS, MARCH 17.—We have just learnt that
the French have to-day made a sally 'from Antwerp,
as far as Grand Willibrock, where there were only
twenty of our troops, but on the reports of the
Muskets,. 6- or 600. mess, who were in the neigh-
tios4hood, went to meet the enemy. The action was
brisk ; we had some men wounded ; the loss of the
en-my amounts to 2 or 300 prisoners, besides killed
end woundO.
FRIPUCIVORT, MARCH 7.—After the advantages
over Blucher and the Prince of Wirtemberg, Napo-
icon wrote to his father-in-law, making proposals
for peace, in which he used the following expressions ;
1.• The Russian Army is annihilated ; the Prussian
Army is disorganized ; there remains only yours to
make war on me; but why ? let us make peace," &c.
The Emperor Francis communicated this letter to his
Allies, and three Generals were dispatched with a
verbal answer.
Forty Frenchw, - are expected here ' who

the Emperor Alexander, and the King of Prussia)."
were at Arcis-sur-Aube.
The corps of the Prince Royal of Wirtsmberg
•
bad moved upon Villers-aux-Corneitles.
Goo- Platows .ssitb Ns 3000 herbaria**, lei
thrown himself opts Fere Champenoise spsi Se-
sanne.
The Emperor of Austria had just arrived from
! Chaumont at Troyes.
The Prince of Moskwa entered Chalons-sur-
Marne on the 16th.
The Emperor slept on the 17th at Eperney. On
the 18th, at Fere Champenoise; &talon the 19th at
Plancy.
Gen. Sebastiani, at the head of his cavalry, came
up with Gen. Platow at Fere Champenoisr, over-
threw him, owl pursued him to the Aube,• making
some prisoners from him.
On the 19th, in the afternoon, the Emperor passed
the Auhe at Plancy. At in afternoon he
. -
Mery

:omen , to-day
-- _ five . the
hare been arrestabecanse they are acoeaed of having passed the Seine. at a ford, and turned „ which
poisoned ILussians. was occupied.
VilaNwA, MARCaI 2.—lt is said, that the King of At seven o'clock at night Gen. Wort; witk..the
Naples is to have the chief command of all the Ausr : •Chasseurs of the Beard; arrived at the village of
Iriantroops beyoed the Alps. It is known here Chatres, cutting off the road from Nogent to Troyes,
that Holland is -toliwootne a possession of the second bet the enemy was already in retro*. Yet General
line of the English !Aral Family, end that it is pro- Letort came up with his park of pontoons, which
posed to uoke. lip lieliaad the former Austrian Ne- had served for the bridge at Pont-sur-Seloe, took
i thevlonds. o ,- them all, and 100 baggage waggons; he node some
• MiNnav, MASCR lt.-•••To-roorrow the fortifica- prisoners. . . .
tioog of this town will be begun. Four thousand On the 17th Gen. Wrede retrograded% rapidly
xt.i.rkrnett ire to he employed daily. Lippstadt and upon Ards-ger-Aube. In the night of the 17th the
:r% ti ster are also to be oonverted into fortresses. i Emperor of Ruda reared epos Trays: Oa tie