The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-03-15 00:00:00

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pent of their imprudent boldness. The enemy has diversity of hostile objects presented to his view, is
not dared to approach the fortresses of the Depart-
dennee, I,:he 4previsionlng of these clear (rem the variation in the fixing of his held-
ment of the Ae querterrin the self-same day. Notwithstanding all
fortresses, ,. ell astlimpe of the adjoining depart-
ment!, Isis .. .„,,, , fully ootripleted. ,t•he, Barris as, this, thi. French
r Papers (for theeels nothing official
• siell git' 1 ,!'"' ' its, aniunithated with. test
iirt. •7i
1 in their-Intelligence) affirm, that the Allies were in
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• • .- • .. • . • full retreat. Yet, on the 7th, they give BONAPARTE
On the 25th of February, just as the town of battle, at Craone, in the department of Aisne, 10
Conde wee piing Se. be biseiteded, Gen. Caul' :St. miles South-east of Leon, the fruits of which are, h
Cyr arrived to its relief with the garrison of %Ten.; the Papers hefOre. us) said to beiooo prisoners, and
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cietines. ' several pieces of cannon. The French denominate
.. At three o'clock in the afternoon, lie enemy was
it a glorious.% one for their armies : unless, how-
attacked. Avery hot fire•of musketry KM kept ;Pp
‘or-e•whour. At last 60 pounds of grape-shot•tired . ever, it mar-lead to events, not apparently and
among the enemy's ranks, caused him considerable, immediately ennected with it, We do not see how!
; loss, and compelled hint to retreat. He was pursued the affair deserves that proud distinction. Generals
twe leaves, and Olt sight-tali.. 1.. r• 1 ; WINZINGERODB, WORONZOFF, and LANG MON,
Mt :mitts, leliCritHColonel St. Priest, in the
united•with that of SACKER, are represented 'as having
'service f ..Russits lee of the Count de St. Priest,
former iiiliterie:Frence, has been taken pri- been beaten by BONAPARTs; but BLUCHER and his
sener. ileitliloy the gamekeepers :' he is le the army are. not mentioned. Now, the plan of the
04' *Cariffreo( this town.
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, I CROWN PRINCE'S operations becomes a very material
Pais, - A:licit 10.—Tile 114"1" Pr'lnce Garlt!!''.l object, for, whether success or defeat attend the g-
rin; WHO was taken priithner in the late a , ay-, .4.
ffairs-
,• . , ,of the above Generals andthe army of Prince
(rived at Parislo-day:
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*ARTENZBERG, it will be of the highest interest
On the Bth, in the .evening van English couritrli .
accompanied by a atif)Orter 94eer, passed thiee. o have the army he commands within no unreason-
ab e distance of them. rite last account of his Royal
`Guignes on his way te_eph. - I 1.
Highness was from Liege, on the sth, his long stay in
MARCH 1000;b0"ghefiii Whit° show some Fears
'siege tlisf lave s/seiquir projects so ipeedily. baffled.; ; h"
. place cannot fail bat excite many opinions.—
bTlii Prnssians, itt particatar,
are afraid lest eyerY ' w
AlthoUgh a Paris article, dated the 10th inst. speaks
lone should take up toms
as was done in ' PrussiO 'fa
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,months ago ; but what frightens them most, t, Ahat'lofdtscharos of artillery, announcing the success of
lhe capital gives to the nation a formidable example. - their armies, yeedid the find's, at the same timeremain pi) low as 51 and a quarter. - ,
Marshal Blucher himself said, " We rnitist see "elat
' Paris will do ; the peasants begin to rise in an alsj.m..
on tio;ci WELLlNGTON's.succ,essful operations, the
sag manner. nig manner. This flame may spread to Paris iteelf..
imblic mind reposes with great confidence. Letters
Let the people fairly resolve to defend themsefrolin
that cursed city, and I consider our cause ail .e. inserted to have been received from BoOrdeaux, dated
These were the Marshal's own swords. • '''''
,the
.4th, give out that the English army under his
~ ,At Bray the Emperor of Russia lodged I ihe :command, united with that of the Portuguese and
'house of a person now at Paris. Ile asked for map. . Spaniards- were within 15 lengues*of that city. An-
of the country, and the public papers. On reading , '
es ~other letter, on the same authority, of a later date,
the details of the excesses committed by the en .
troops, he seemed much affected, and id •6 1 tli
,Art;
; iffi.F,Trf4o,oideaUZ to have been actually in the hands
troops complained of are hordes that alt 'I 1. ,: ..ii.:.A,:lies 48 hours. We do not, we cannot fully
same manner even in their own country; %hey ' '."%jviefAtit.4ll. this. Of the Spaniards, too, making a
plunder as their glory ; and to check -iltin).l. he .11. Pireef his 'Lordship's advincing army, we are
be depriving the army of their services." . • .1 .
' ' W heaied -Co entertain some tation. The British
The l'ibice of Holienlohe, who was at,'Sens, spoke • ,k
..L.- •
Cointn,inen.llas a difficult artto
of the total inefficiency of discipline in :the Ruishtn
. Spaniards,,sinee they have been led to conclude their
and Prussian armies. c' Every one 'said he,
44 seeks to secure his plunder, and if this torit4.ees( business with the French has been brought nearly to
our army .Will -noon resemble a caravan.-"' a termination.
reigns a great misunderstanding between the froattil We have this day given the Articles between the
tit the different nations. When they once come to - .
British and French Commandivs in the unfortunate
blows with each other which will soon happen,* our I
attempt to storm fiergvn-op-Zsonv in which the lat.
agrarians will be forced to renounce•his Projects., .
[None of the Paris Papers say any thitieof the • ter have handsomely allowed their prisoners to return
army of Augereau, or of the taking of Geneva.) I home insniediately, On giving tbeii parole of honour
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nco,.tcel.seree in Esteems, till„ regularly :arircbanged.
A.Cafthis cruel disapfointthent, in which we have
loft so many Field-Officers, and others-af interior
rank, amounting, in killed, wounded, and, rtisiirig,
to no Less than 91, we are inclined to think that
• erleeteeeroe:sistanee voliktiiherhe disposed to offer thy
Dutch, .slibeld be through Hanover, as' being more
ceirreolegfflyaistsabli theme) and at tar lees • ex-
... Owe. :Cfer. relations with. germeny cannot now,
1 .7 1 we shoula suppose,; occasion coy hesitation as to the
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policy of the:meager/1;1f Holland must be aided by us.
tiir T. GWAIIIII Is well known to be brave, end
that quality-will often urge to attempt what skill and
experience would not altogether warrant. Of our:
selves we must confess, we are astounded at the bold-
ness of the enterprise; when we consider the nature
and strength of the works) and that the place has
occupied aforetime an army of 36,000 tried soldiers,
for more than two months, in a regular siege. The
Keight, however, though not bred originally to
arms; has been schooled by the ,example of Lord
WELLINGTON ;, and therefore we do not wonder so
mulch at the vastness of the project, as we deplore the
effects of its failure.

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TIIE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
TUESDAY, MAIM' 15, 1814.

French and Dutch Papers arrived last night, ete
former to the 12th inst. They fail to afford us that
satisfaction we expected to receive from their con-
tents ; both with respect to the different objects of
war and peace. It was not anreasonable to imagine, i
that they might bring us some information of the
determination of BONAPARTE respecting the ultimo- i
tum offered to him by the Allies ; the precise terms
of which we do not, however, pretend to know.—
Be they what they may, they cannot be accepted
without much repugnance, yet we understand the
10th (last Thursday) was fixed for his acceptance or
refusal of them. It is also believed, that within
two.or three days at most after the expiration of
the period mentioned, Lord CASTLEREARII would
leave Chatillon for England. Of ourselves we
do not believe his Lordship would be likely to
delay his return, should the French Emperor
reject the offer made him, as he must be aware
of the strong bias in a certain illustrious quar.l
ter to try the further success of the war, in
which we have been so long unhappily enOsled. 1
--But not a whisper do any of the FrOUCALA
Journals breathe of the looked-for decision on the i
question of peace. On the contrary, their senerel
complexion exhibits more the outlines of a pie* for "a
vigorous campaign ; there being scarcely a singiecorps
of either army in a state of repose at this'eainenb;l
unless, indeed, there be iu Paris a body of reserve pfl
which not a word of mention has as yet been made.l
Indeed, we shrewdly expect this may be the case,
for otherwise we cannot account for the position'
BONAPARTE ' has voluntarily thrown himself into,
which must, to the uninformed observer of the in.
lative situation of his enemies by the map, appear to!
expose that city to imminent hazard, and therefore,
whatever tnay be said of the vices of that personage, 1
we cannot justly accuse him of deficiency in talerit. I
The difficulties, and even dangers, he has had to
contend with of late must be obvious to every one ;1
but now he appears to have placed himself in a most
critical condition, unless, as we have observed, he
has some• considerable latent force in the capital,
with which he means to surprise the observing
world, should the enterprising BLVcIIEa, no!
I considerably reinforced, dash against its gates. That I
N4POLEON 191 in a gnat- measure, distracted by tha
. -4

Yesterday a Cabinet Council met at two o'clock,
at the Foreign Office, which continued its delibera-
tions till four. _ _ _

The dispatches brought by Mr. MILLS, the Mes-
senger, from Lord CASTLEREAGH, were dated the
sth instant. The Noble Lord was then at Chaumont.
Sir CHARLES STEW ART Was with him. Viscount
CASTLEREAGH is ocensionally at that place and at
Chatillon. Mr. M itts came by the Hague, and also
brought dispatches frum the Earl of CLANCARTY,
there.

CAULINCOURT is frequently with Viscount CATH.,
cut; the Earl Of ABERDEEN, and Mr. Trio ItNTO N.
A returned cartel, from Morlaix, which arrived
at Portsmouth on Thursday, brought over the sur-
gefan of his Majesty's late ship Grasshopper, which
wakcaptured in the Tete), about three years since.
a fortnight aisica this Gentleman passed through
where the people were packing up their most
goods, end hiding their treasure. This
_ took over Lieutenant Sues., of the 29th re-
_Jcsiiirt, who was sent back to France, by our
,Go.-
varnment, fee, having broken his parole. Lieute-
nant S. wor:iittiown into prison the moment he
landed.
Extract of a letter from a British Officer in the
.Scheldt, dated the 10th instant:—'r Four days since,
1000 Russians landed at Tholen, to join Sir Tiros.
GRAHAM: The Antelope, 50 guns, and a Russian
`Frigate, in going through the West Scheldt, were not
,o,st►eee!sful in passing Flushing as the first squa-
droi4 obb went the same course. Unfortunately
*ley 60$s got on shore abreast of that town, and
met riilli a warm reception from the enemy's bat-
teries. The pilot, under whose direction they were
go Log. through this difficult and intricate passage, lost
Will his legs, and a few of ourgallatit Mrs were
wounded. The Russian frigate received no damage.
By.fhe great exertions of officers and mens both ships
were safely got off, and are now at anchor between
Flushing and Betz."
Mr, Alvaro, the Messenger, who brought the dis-
pitchei from Lord Bunonzas*, passed near Nogent,
which has ben almost reduced to a heap of smoking
ruins. He had not learned by whom or by what
weans the conflagration was caused.