The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-03-08 00:00:00

oiith the flat side of their sabre, which deprived her
of sense; that they held a knife to the throat of
another to compel her to disclose where her money
was ; that the two husbands of these women were
cruelly struck, and that one of them, after being
beaten in his own house, was risiven to the enemy's
camp with blows of the fist, oat] the butt-ends of
•muskets: there the brigands compelled him to strip,
and were about to shout him, when nn officer fortu-
nately came up. and delivered him out of the hands
of these barbering.
At the house of the man.of landed property who.
fakes the sixth deposition, they perpotreted the
. post horrible excesses. With blows of the fist and
the butt-end of their muskets, they demanded •his
brandy and money. I myself saw the bloody mark,
of the blows which he received; but their fury did
not step there: four females from the commies. of
Badly, and canton of lklerrnaut, had taken refuge
with this proprietor; two of them were girls frees
12 to 13 •, the others were women from 28 to 35.-r
These unfortunate creatures were the victims of the
brutality of these ferocious men; wicket* eye-witeess,
who wished to prevent their outrages,..was himself
severely beaten.
•
[The report, after describing a variety of similar
• outrages on the persons of individuals, pcpeds as
`follows :] . •
There'll not a farmer, an innkeeper, or nn lobo.
'Want, who has not seen his rattle, his implements
'of agriculture, his property, his fureituri4 cerried
• off, wasted, or burnt. The chin-Chit and mi.
listers of religion have not been spared more than
others. •
The strongest language would fail in describing
the mournful aspect which these ritlaged habitations
present. The .Secretary of the Mayor of HAnt-'
pilion, who has been a soldier, declared to me, that
lie never saw trops deliver themselves up to
pillage with such horrible rage, oven when licensed
ao to do.
At Nengia I visited a number of farm-houses, which
had been previre•ly well furnished ; but now in all
the apartments tiothiug Was to hiseen but fragments
of bisoken and half-burnt ftrfniture, feather beds.:
and matresses torn to pieces, and the feathers and
wool scatterctiabont. It was With th6.'Wood-eiork
of this furniture, of waggons and ploughs, and with
tbefruit.trees of orchards and gardens, that they
lighted their fires at their bivouacs, and roasted the
rattle obitth they had carried off and killed —.
—;•••• -1i4•all th© plocea 1 have paved through, the
inhabitants hare declared that these banditti spoke
iputy of pidagii%g and burning Paris. i have Iren
etuuretrtlint each of them had a torch slang at his
• back ; a;:d when asked what use they meant to make
•of it, they universally answered, that it was to set
:fire to Parisi- where they calculated on arriving
-by the 110.10 of February. This fatt was eon,
•Ermed to me by M. Grabwisky, Mltyllr of Unr-
itnatirN a l'ote by birth, who understood their !en-
v/sips.

The pinta* of the calamities Wadi these usifortik
...nate people have suffered, and sVI ith are reserved
for .40 I those of the other departmentsieirn which the
• iletrimy trillypelietotte
_toast refuse iLtmLiodimatlou of
Owe and energy
'pecettart fu'repel those' hnrdes of • barbarians be.
yeinl the frontiers, and farce them, by ,a peace glort-
3us for France) at last alive repose to all Europe.

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DVIVII.IND
,GER.V;dIV P4PIRS4

Csall,o6!ft, Fry. 16.-44 is confirmed, that ihe
/P►ench Commander of Wails has offered tg capitu.
late in the space of twenty-one days, its cant lle gar•
*rison before that ti►t►e receive no succours Trote Bo?
tutparte. In the meanwhile all hostility efattsst the
town is to be suspended. This proposal' Was sent
by a fin of truce on the •4th instant, tut according
to the latest accounts nn answer had been returned
by the besiegers, and it is expected that tl►e place
will soon surrender.

NEIGIieoUItOOOD OF ANTwERP, FEB. 2.—Not-
,stithstantlitig vs hat has been state ti, the enemy is not
yet completely blockaded by the forces near this city,
and the cause is the impediments which have been
o•Tasintied 11 the severity of ibe season. On Ars.
coma of this obstruction the prrisou has been en.
abled to receive down the ticheltit, without much kle
terruption, swim important articles of.sapply 4.tltqf

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arynianition and provisions.
4 A galtaist affair has taken place between a body of
Cossack And' a party. of the enemy, consisting of .
ii.Shotit 300 sieu. xho were estai tiNg into_ the citig a
guasititi Corn.. The Cossacks took ten waggons ,
grain, made wni...! prisoners, killed a coq.
sideritle number, nod drove the rest under Big pro.
tectiirn of their batteries. • •
tieTTER D tMI FE if. tge— Let tef 3 frossallgrartey of
thS:Crown prince state, that his Royal Higloom
wasproceeding southward to join tint Allies with all
possible expedition. The wagons and other con-
vernier of the natives of France were put in requi.
sition to accelerate this lioretnefit: *
•-•
HkOVE4. FEB. IS.—Official intelligence has been
:reottakA Iter', that the town and fortllieationa of Sas
dt Oelind; a pliCe eertli.4.Gheni, has surrendered,
Ind that the Prince nfOrange hiving been proclaimed
*the 'Sovereign, formai possession has been taken of it
In his name. M. de Yenge was dispatched by his
Royal Highness neat& duty, and to connect under
the same Sou,reiglity the surrounding, territory =
This Officer is to carry iotosiperation the new Go.
*eminent, and to comintiaicate with the Commis.
sit:niers of the Allies. We are expecting the hest
results from these measures, and from some symp-
toms that have lately appeared, the surrender of
Bruges is expected.
According to the Hague Courant, of the '2d, the
savoured guard of General Bulow's Corps haareiched
-Loon about the end of last month. • The •fiitt, at
least, is antionoced as follows.:--r" Monday, the
1.4.8 th ult. being the birth-day of his flightiest Wil-
liam Frederick Charles, youngest son of oar Sore-
'reign, was eolebrated here. On the same Any this
'young Piinee was with the advance of General
Billow, at Laon. six leapt* to the oorth of Sols-
ions.“ Lit I • e „ .111
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