The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-04-07 00:00:00

TUUSIDA,Ir/ APRIL VI 11114.,

A Bremen and Heligoland Nail arrited OW morn-
ing, by which we have. received the following in.
portant intelligence :
NEIGHROURHOOD OF HAMM/KOH, MARCH 29.
Great preparations • are making for a serious. attack
upon Hinnburgh,,,as soon as the Elbe Mall be open`;
a flotilla ot. English, Danish, and' Dutch gnn.beatu
,latolte-Vollected for this purpose, and a train of 40
pieces of henvy artillery and 18 mortars is already
on the road from.gandsbarg. . _

ANTWERP) *Ace 19.—Our garrison is reduced
`to about 6000 men, partly by the many sallies, which
have cost us very dear, and still more by desertion ;
four weeks ago tlittr ton-boats were posted at the
month of the Scheldt, but some English Vllssels
proaching to Mullen, the French hastily fled to the
wait%

.oux Goierisor, Cnrnotte, seems disposed to amass
htiv a great fortune befisre he gives up the city. Besides
contributions which he has from tltne to time
Wind means to impose and to collect in ass vtaigisi
isebood, 'he has obliged us to pay successively all
4e taxes for 1813, 1814, and 1815. Provisions are
itittadfully dear—one pone(' of butter costs 28 sti-
vests a sack of potatoes seven florins and 10 stivers,
ifri:

FRANKFORT, MARCII 24.—Count Von Melke, the
Danish Minister, arrived here to-day on his road to
the head-quarters of the Allied sovereigns.
. A traveller, who left Lyons on the 16th, met,
about ten leagues from that city, the advanced-guard
of the Austrian army, which is from 40 to 50,000
strong, advancing against Lyons. A ugereau had left
that city, with his army, consisting of not more than
:20e90 men, among whom are only 10,000 good
troois. They were prepared at Lyons to receive the

, General"Marchand was, however, still in the
iseighbour,hood of Geneva, with a respectable corps
Of about 10,000 men, and will probably be obliged,
If General Bubna advances, to retreat by way of
Turin, and join the army of the Viceroy of Italy.
NAWUR, MARCH 18.—As soon as the Danes have
joined the Crown Prince of Sweden, it is supposed
he will march with 50,000 fresh troops to Paris.
LAUSANNE, MARCH 18.—Since the 16th, several
detachments of that fine corps, the German Legion,
have passed through on carriages, going to Geneva.
We expect in a day or two regipents of cavalry be•
longing to this legion, which Is about 10,000 strong,
as is said, to be in English pay.
_ _

There was a heavy cannonade heard on the side of
Gegen this morning. A part of the garrison was to
Wtch: fort L' Ecluse this morning.
Vitro/A, MARCH 17.—The new levy of troops
goys 04 rapidly, but only few pass through here,
but they march through Bohemia and Moraiia to the
Rhine, and through Stiria to Italy. Great numbers
of horses• are bought op in Hungary and Tranvyl;
vania, and many come also from the neighbouring
provinces of Turkey.

The events of the last few days must continue tw
operate on the astonished mind for some time to
come. History has produced nothing to equal it,
from the earliest, records of its pages. The last
eighteen months appear to have condensed the oc-
currences of eighteen centuries ? That a *tax, lately
so formidable in arms, should now be so feeble in
authority, is, indeed, subject matter for amaze-
ment. We confess, that although we have for some
time been unible to discover any way in which
BONAPARTE could possibly extricate himself from the
difficulties with which he was surrounded, yet we
did pot anticipate his being so suddenly overwhelmed
by Qat, In the condition of a fugitive from his own
capital, It . may. be asiceal, where is NAPOLEON?
renowned in arms• is little better than a
wanderer, at the head of en uncertain army !