The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-02-22 00:00:00

FrilICU PIPERS.

—Esp.
PARts, Fee. 14.—rWe have received the following
letter,. dated La Ferte, Feb. 14, at eight iu the
morning

" The :trades of SaCken and Blucher are destroy.
ed ; the artillery and all the materiel are in our
hands; 15,000 prisoners will arrive to-day in this
town, which they pillaged three days ago. They
are to be sent to Paris, where, In four or five days,
they will make a very different entry from that with
which they had flattered themselves. The General-
ht-Chief Ousouvietf, the Major-Generel of the Rus-
sian armies, Prince Poltorszki, the General of Di-
vision lleidem•ich, are among the prisoners. They
'lie going to Paris, where you will soon see them.—
2
11te anesibilation of the Russian and Prussian armies
, -
is Ewe of the most glorious actions of the war : the
enemy had, however, considerable forces ; but our
troops have done wonders. Perhaps not one the,
sinenty'sioldiers would have remained to carry the
• news. of the loss of the battle, had the inhabitants
Of Chateau Thierry had the means of destroying the
bridge of boats which the enemy had made in that
1 town. For the rest, nothing has escaped bat trifling
wrecks, without previsions, without artillery, with-
, out initkriel.
. • _4‘ The peasants would suffice to give a good &c-
-ount Of them, even if the Marshal Duke of Taren-
Win had not !Joshed strong columns on the roads to
fthei:ns and Suissons, and which will pick. up the
remaies of the two beaten armies.
How greatly is our situation all at once im-
proved ! What great things has the Emperor done
in three days ! The most difficult is obtained, the
most violcot enemies of France are defeated ; the
others are not more terrible, and it is to be hoped
that it,will not. be _wore_ difficult to prevail against
thee.
41 A bridge of.boatsJeregiairing here by the order
e[ tbe`Rmpernr; it wilt-be finished today.
" ft is.titrnvetl, that in the rear of the enemy's
tlti. Peasants make cruel havock among the
f*Mses.- The Authorities resume their vigour, cause
.• bklidges_ to be cut down, the road); blocked) and
idsstruet the reireat of the armies. All revives; all
• is atilleifeil at fife pews of our successes. At Chem.
rubert, atiMouttoirail, at Vieux Maisons, and at
Napa's:ll;mq, the roads, the woods, the vine-
yards,' the fields, are loaded with dead bodies of
Prussians and Russians, with broken caissons, wag.:
%Ong, cerriegtis)- ht. - • -
' A *number of men from the neighbouring A-
-11 busiest been required to bury the dead, the

.. .
pipt ...11sas
istiat .........,_
bar or *hick's immense. -
• • to Enema - y and that to
". We have alreinlyabowe 80 of the enemy's can- .. • • •
Chalons. The emillsit hall : dreadful fini Ornsnslietry. The enemy no longer
! but little cavalry. hoeing himself without retxeltihie , Knight safety blot in flight. —Generals, Officers,
ion. It seems'ce#niuthat the'Russian General-in-
chief Sarken is dead. It is added, that Gen. Yorck : masses became confused. Artillery, cavalry, infer- ;soldiers, infantry, cavalry, and artillery—all fled
•
all fled pell-mell into the wood; .2000 men pell-mell.
.. as Mortally woquiled, and died in a house at Chisel try,
were drowned in the lake; 30 pieces of cannon and : At eight P. M. the night being obscure, it was re-
-WI Titierny. - -1• I 200 carriages were taken. The General-in-Chief, the quisite to take a position. The Emperor fixed his
--:Pg• Not above 200 of the old guard were engaged
Generals, the Colonels, more than 100 officers, and. head-quarters at the farm of Epine-aux.Bois.
ii. ,tiii battle 'of. esiontmirail. They have covered
• •1. 4000 men were made prisoners. This corps of two I.- General Michel, of the guard, has been wounded
• themselveo with ttfory ;particularly the dragoons (his- . .
tinguislied themselves. There is not one of these divisions
r__ and 12 regiments ought to have madded. b a ball in the arm. Our loss amounts to more
0, t 0,1300 men : but sickness, long, marches end than'' 1,000 men, killed or wounded. • That of the
brave men, whose exploits are not worthy of being
related. All that is told of the ancient Knights does battles, had reduced it, to 8000: scarcely l6OO enemy is at least 8,000 killed or prisoners.--
escaped by means of the woods and the darkness.--. Wit have taken many cannon, and six stand of
not equal their brilliant valour. " General Blucher remained at his head-quarterh.. at colours from him. This memorable day, which con-
Fes. 16.—Discharges of artillery announced yes. Vertus, where he nitnessed the disasters of this': founds the pride and boasting of the enemy, has an-
terday, at two o'clock, another victor t -
oart of his army, without being .able' to re- . mnilated the elite of the Russian army. The fourth
y g aired by •
in edy them. Not a man of the guard wilidingaged, :of our army has not been engaged.
Our armies. Ott the 14th, the Emperor completely ; .• • ,
of the four squadrons de service Who I The next da • the 12th at nine in the morning,
commanded
~ except two -y, . ,
defeated a corps of 25 or 30,000 men,
by Gen. Kleist. It is supposed, that this corps had . bared valiantly. The cuirassiers of the let corps of the Duke of Treviso followed the enemy upon the
have displayed the rarest intrepidity. road' of Chateau Thierry. The Emperor, with two
been detached from the Austrian artily to the assist- 1 .
cavalry
At eight o'clock, General Nansouty hissing de- . divisions of the cavalry of the guard, and some bat-
ance of General Blucher, bat arriving too late, ex. .
bouched on .the causeway, advanced upon Montmt.. tations, went to Vieux-Maisons, and from thence
verienced the same fate as the army to whose support
rail with the division of the cavalry, of the guard of took the road which goes right to Chateau Thierry.
came
it : 6000 prisoners, two Generals, 27 pieces of
cannon, and several pair of colours, have fallen into .Generals Colbert and L auFerriere, took the town, ;The enemy covered his retreat with eight battalions
d 600 Cossacks who were in it. i will arrived arrived late the preceding evening, and had
our hands. • This victory is spoken of as being very . all.
Ille I lth, at live in the morning, the division of not been engaged. Ile supported them with some
brilliant. The wrecks of the enemy's !
army were
cavalry of General G nyot also advanced upon Mont- squadrons, and three pieces of cannon. Arrived at
flying towards Chalons. . .
mtratl. Several divisions of infantry were delayed the small-village of Cocquerets, he appeared deter-
This happy news was read to the public in all the
by being obliged to wait for their artillery. The mined to defend the position which is behind the
different theatres, and was every where received with .
roads from Sezanne to Champaubert are execrable. rivulet, and to cover the road of Chateau Thierry.—
the most rapturous enthusiasm, and cries of Vivo
Our artillery would not have passed them, but for t A company of the old guard marched upon La Pe-
l'Enspereur !
FRENCFI FUNDS. the diligence of the cannoneers, and by the assist- ithe Noue, overthrew the enemy's tirailleurs, who
Feb. 11, 5.i f. oc. I Feb. 15, 59 f. 25 e. mice furnished by the inhabitants who brought their • were pursued to his last position. Six battalions of
horses. ',the old guard, at proper distances for deploying, op.
PAats, Frs. 15.-tier Majesty the Empress I The action at Champaubert, where a pert of the cupied the plain on both sides of the road. General
Queen and Regent has received the following ac. Russian army was destroyed, did not cost us above ' Nansouty, with the divisions of cavalry of Generals
counts of the situation of the Armies, on the 7th 200 men, killed or wounded. The General of Divi- Lefernere and Defranc, bad orders. to make a move-
of February :--i- sion, Lagrange, is among the latter, having a slight i ment to the right, and march between Chateau.,
• On the 3d, two hours after his arrival at Troyes, wound iii the head. Thierry, and the enemy's rear-guard. This move-
the Emperor made the Duke of Treviso depart to I The Emperor arrived on the 11th, at ten in the ment was executed with equal skill and intrepidity.
Maisons - Blanches. An Austrian division, corn- morning, half a league in advance of Montmirail.— The enemy's cavalry marched from all points upon
mended by Prince Maurice Lichtenstein, had ad- General Nansouty was in his position, with the his left to oppose the French cavalry. it was over-
tamed to this point, which is two leagues from the cavalry of the guard, and kept In check the army thrown, and obliged to quit the field of battle.
The
'town : it was vigorously repulsed, and driven two of Sacken, which began to show itself. Informed brave General Letort, with the dragoons' of the 2d
leagues beyond. of the disasters of a part of the Russian army, this division of the guard, after having repulsed the ene-
• to the .Ith, in the evening, the head-quarters of General had quitted Ferte-sous-Jouarre, on the 10th, my's cavalry, moved upon the flanks and rears of the
the Emperor of Russia were at Lusigny, near Vail- iat nine in the evening, and marched the whole night. eight masses of infantry, which formed, the enemy's
doeuvre, two leagues from Troyes, where the Rus-1 General York had also quitted Chateau-Thierry. At rear-guard. This division burning with desire to
sian guard was, and the enemy's army. The enemy ieleven in the morning of the 1 I th, he began to form, equal what the light horse, the dragoons, and the
intended to enter Troyes that evening. Ile marched' and all foreboded the battle of Montmirail, the issue mounted grenadiers of General Guyot had done the
on the bridge of La Guillotiere, where he found a I of' which was of such vast importance. The Duke preceding eveulng, it surrounded on all sides these
warm resistance. His first attack was repulsed.'. of Ragusa, with his corps and the first corps of masses, and made ap horrible carnage among them.
Some cavalry, who were made prisoners, told him, cavalry, had placed his head-quarters at Etoges, on The three pieces of cannon, the Russian General
that the Emperor was at Troyes. Then he thought : the road to Chalons. Freodenrich, who commanded this rear-gnard, were
it necessary to take other measures. At the samer Thesdivision Ricart, and the Old Gaud., arrived. taken; all which composed its battalions have been
moment the Duke of Treviso caused an attack to be at ten in the morning., . * - killed or made prisoners. The number of prisoners
made on the bridge of Clercy, which was occupied The Emperor ordered the Prince of Moilltwa to made in this brilliant affair amounts to more than
by the division of Gen. Bianchi. The enemy was line with troops the village of Marshals, by which 2000. Colonel Corely, of the 10th hutsars,diallli•
driven away. The General of Division Briche it seemed the enemy's intention to debouche. This guished himself. We then arrived upon the heights
made ft charge, in which be took 160 men, and village was defended by the brave division of Ge- of Chateau Thierry, from whence we saw the -
kit led a hundred. 1 neml Mout, with rare firmness ;it was taken mainder of that army flying in the greatest disorder,
0' 11141 sth, the Emperor was preparing to pass and retaken several times ,during the course of the and gaining with all haste its bridges. The great
,• •• ridge of La Pcillotiere, and attack the enemy, day. . • • . - road was cut off from,them : they sought their sal-
w ..,+ his Majesty learned that he had sounded a At noon the Emperor ordered General Nansouty ration upon the right bank-of the Maroc. Prince

1

4, - • •
• •

-
William of Prussia, who had remained at Chnte;!u
Thierry, with a reserve of 2000 men, ndosnoced to
the head of the suburbs, to protect the fligi,t or this
disorganised mass. Two battalioqs of the guard, at
this time, arrived running. At the sight of them,
the suburb and left hank were cleared; the enemy
burnt his bridges, and unmasked upon the right batik
battery of 12 pieces of cannon; 500 men of the
reserve of Prince William were taken.
On the 12th, in the evening, the Emperor had hie •
' head-quarters in the asutilfoutle of Niste.
On the 13th, from 'break- of day, we wine nertni
pied in repairing the bridge if .Chafean Thierry.
The enemy not being able, to. retire, either ppod
the road of Epertuty, from which he's's" tut 0$1.<1;
by that which passes through the tower of Suissotost
which we occupy, has taken the ciois kid, in Of
direction of Itheiras. The inhabitattts awe. that
of all that army, 10,000 men have not passed through
Chateau Thierry, and they lu:thr greatest disorder.
A few days before they had seen It • fieuri,l6,lg, and
full of boostiog. General Yorck said that 10 howit-
zers would be sullicienttio render him master -13 f.
Paris. In going, these troops only talked of Paris;
on returning, it was peace which they invoked.
One cannot form an idea of. the excesses to which
the Cossacks give themselves up; there are no vex-
ations, cruel!ics, crimes, which.those hordes aim-
bariatts have not n. 4114400. The peasantry pursue
them, track them in the woods,llrhe ferocious beasts,
seize them, and bring them wherever. there are
French troops. -Yesterday they conducted more
than 300 cf them to Vieux-Maisous. All those who
hid themselves in the woods, to escape the con.
qucrors, fell into their hands ; and eVery instant
angmeuts.the uturbar of prisoners. •

~:

.1

Jim
Arr.
• 0
0
0
0

PRIC
Bank
9 per
S per
4 per
6 per
......

sigh'
ly: ta
oft
of•
flu
P

°Per
Vista
43ad.
act*

ICdtlt
-44/110
*l4"

Her Majesty:hse Empress Queen and Regent Las '
received the foil-kin, advices from the army, of the
morning Of the L•stll:
On the 13'h, at three in the afternoon, the bridge
of Chateue.'fhierry.was re-established. The Duke
of Treviso passed the Mamie, pat himself is permit
of the enemy, whorin. frightful disorder, appeared
to have r upon, Soissoii and_Rheims, by tier
cross-road of Lafere in Tardenois.
General Blucher, commanding bethief the whole
Army of Silesia, had constantly remained at Versus '
during the three days which have'annibilated his
army. He collected 1200 men of the remains of
General Olsuffiew's amps, beaten at Champautett,
which he united toe Russian dlelsioll of the corps of
Langeroe, arrived from, klente, and commanded by
Lieutenant-General Ouroussoff. • lie was too week
to attempt any thing ; but on the Mk he was joints
I,y a Prussian corps f Gottetal_Kteist, tamposed of
four brigades. lie hiinself ati the head of
these 20,000 .men, and marched against the Dike of
Ragusa, who constantly occupied Etoges. •In the
night between the 13th and lkh,
.not deeming his
forces sufficient to meet the .enenty, • the Doke of
Ragusa pot himself in retreat, avid eupportakhintself •
upon Moromirail, where he was its perippiwi the •
Mk, at seven in the morning:. • . • -
The Emperor set opt the. same daygretteChateste
Thietry, at four in the morning, and dt eight aril,-
viet MuOmirail. Ile immediately aegis] the enemy
.to be attacked, who had just taken• up. a positites .
insist the body of his troppi et.Tthe village of Vas.
chi -01 i The Dakti'of Ragessiitteeli.ed,that,
General Grouchy, at_ the head:' of caratTer
turned the enemy's. right by the, villages ion& th
woods, and asimsoced a league beyond Ilte 'enemy*
position.. While the tillage of Vaechamp wassigoii.
ously .itttatited, sad as' rigorously' deferiletl, tskeu
!send retaken. several times, GetsetedGretichy arcked ,
,in the rear of the enemy, :surrounded and sabred
three Reams, and drove the- Ye.* into the woods.
At the same moment the Emperor esisediccharge to
:be made, by our, right, by lila fair ego ie
service, commanded by the Chief of
au dais
Guard, •La Buse. This charge „war -se :brilliant as
fortunate. .11., stittisra. .24Q0,_:-swen euts- pieycedied r:
;taken. All the cavalry of tharCruard then.errivedat
a sharp trot, end the enemy
,was Opted sword is •
I bawl. At two o'clock we wee .*t- the.. villege-of Fro-
' mentieres ; the enemy had lest" 6000 men. Map
1 soviets, 10 colours, and three pieces of cameo. •
The Emperor ordered General reetsuell to ate
vance upon Champauhert, a lelignein rear of the
enemy. En effect, the enemy continuing his retreat, -*
arrived on that point at night.. 'lie Was surrounded
on all sides, and all would have been taken, had the
bad state of the roads permitted :12 pieces of light
artillery to follow the cavalry of General Grouchy.
Nevertheless, though the night watt dark, three
squares .of their infantry were broken, killed, or •
taken, and the others were briskly pursued as fares
Etoges; the cavalry alsn'took three pieces otTannets.
The Russian division formed the rear-plaid;
attacked by the Ist regiment of Marine of. •tbe puke
of Ragusa, charged with the bayonet, turikeSE, .suld
lost 1600 prisoners; with Lieut.-Gen. Ouroussoff,
who commanded', it,
.end several Colonels. The re- '
sults 9f. this,..jirilliaut..slay are 10,000 prisonors,-10
piecei Cif cannon, 1.0 colours, pod- a great number .
of the.enemy
Our loss dos not tided three or four hundred .
men, killed 'or wounded :. which is owing to the* rea-
diness with which ()Or trOepsettecked the enemy,.
and the superiority of our client-Cy., whitely determined
him, as soon as he perceived, it, .to Pot his .art.idery
in retreat ; so that he marched tonitantly eclipsed to
the fire of 60 pieces of cannon; white, of the 60
cannon which he had, he opposcd to useistPia or
three: .. -
The Prince of Neufchatel, ?4tftir of
the Palace
.Count Bertrand, the Deke of Deltaic,
and the Pried; of Moskwe, wereCcOsstass4 at the,
head of the troops. -
General Grouchy bestows.theitigket praise oil
the divisions of cavalry St. Germain. slid D )umere..
The' cavalry of the guard covered itself otitis g,lors
nothing could equal its intrepidity. 'General Lips,
of the Guard, was slightly wOurided. The Dukes(
Ragusa makes particular mention'of the sat regiment
of marine, the rest of the infantry, both of the guard
and the line, did not fire. a shot.
Thutliifie -Army of Silesia, composed of the Ras-
sian corpi of Sackers and Langeron, the Prussian
corps of D'Yorck and Kleist, and about 80,000
strong, has been, in 'four days, beaten, dispersed,
annihilated, without a general action,- and wilt- '
out occasioning any toss proportioned to ststitgr.
results..

:tea
LT,l7',;-;