The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-03-29 00:00:00

orders of the Duke of Ragusa.
has marched out of Tyrol, with
which compose the corps of observak
The division of the Imperial Guards,
dere of the Duke of Treviso, have L -
fort. Utewardi of 2000 old hirsemet4 erhir
been in all the wars,.are remounted,' eq
united on the Elbe. They can all rejoin t it
in the beginnincof April.
• Sixty thousand of the cavalry are eqtripping s.
selves in our depots in France. One half of them the kingdom' ordered by tins last edict, and des.
are already on the road to Metz and Maeda. • titled to-01 tlie frontiers and maintain the internal
Notwithstanding the losses we have, sustained this security of the state. The' arming will not .be gene.
winter, an army far more numerome " and having rat ; the commandants of !legions sill teceiret ce'r.
one-third more artilleiy, will very soon take the fain !lumber of muskets, which shall brdeposited.in
field. A corps of 80 battalions will guard the 32d the places pointed out by the ordinance, and which
military division, and 150 battalions are forming will be distributed to the National Guards only during,
themselves to the manoeuvres in camps, or are In re- thatiroe of exercise. After thli period, the National
serve in the interior. • Guards will deliter their arms et the depots, and not
• Independent of the corps which the kingdom of resume them till the order for marching is given.—
Italy has in the Grand Army, 40,000 Italians win-Government has besides decreed that the National
form several camps to defend the coasts of Venice, Guards shall receive pay and provisions as infantry
of the Illyrian provinces, and of the Adriatic. ' of the line, from the moment they leave us, tabs.
The army of Spain has sent back to Franc* nearly placed in a state of activity ; the officers shall be
150 skeletons of battalions, and about 50 skeletons paid the same as those belonging to troops of, the
of squadrons, but they have found recruits, which ; line.
I far more than compensate for this loss. J The levy of this national guard is beimme• the
The 7th Regiment of Polish light horse, the fine more necessary, as all the individuals forming the
legion of gene-d'armes, which in such a distinguish- first class of reserve have been called to the active
ed manner overthrew the English cavalry, and four; army, and cannot consequently remain in the inte.
regiments of guards,nre the only entire core which! dor. However, no circle has yet received orders to
have been withdrawn from Spain, where they have! pot the national guard In motion, but it is believed
been replaced. I that such an order will immediately appear.
The gens-d'armerie of France has famished j STUTOARDT, MARCH ILL—Count de Narboane,
3000 officers and subaltern officers to complete all appointed Ambassador from France to the Court of
the skeletons of the cavalry. I Vienna, hied on his way through this place, proceed-
This is the true military situation of France ; it is i ing on his detestination, the honour of being pre-
the result of the energy and patriotism of the French. ; rented to his Majesty.
The Russians were received at Koningsberg and in Old IHAMM/Rani MARCH 11.—We learn, from certain
Prussia, with those impressions which attracts one to teources, that very impcising forces are to be immedi-
whatever is nee ; hut their leaden administration has
,Intely collected iii our neighbourhood. The first
already made itself felt. The Cossacks pillage :troops will arrive on the 15th or 16th instant, and
wherever they come; the country is obliged to sup- (take a position along the canal of Stecknitz, in the
ply all their wants; and all their eapences, even towns of Lauenhourg, Moeln, and Ratzebnuirg. At
those of the Generals and the Officers; those of the the same time a park of artillery will be established
posts, and at the inns, are paid merely with uotes,' upon the two banks of the nbe, and in the town of
or paper roubles. There is no longer any gold or Bergedorff.
silver coin to be seen. Thus is the ruin of that ViEvNA. MARCH 7.—We still possess 'rince
country completed, which the Russians pretended Schwartzenberg. This Prince goes often to Couit,end
they came to liberate. has frequent conferencet with the Chiefs of the War
Prussia is a prey to the same factions as those ! Department.
which preceded the war of 1806. i VIENNA, MARCH 7.—The troops which compose
PARIS, MARCH 20.—The Queen of Westphalia the army of observation were placed upon the war
arrived on Wednesday last at Trianon. I tooting from the day of their departure.
DRESDEN, MARCH 2.—The Minister for Foreign • Vreeee, Marten 10.—An extraordinary event at
Affairs, who remained at Dresden, after the depar- I this moment occupies the attention of the public.
tare of his Majesty, and General Guesdorf, the day j On the Bth at night, an actual Court Councillor and
before yesterday set out for Plauen. Gen. Lingenan a Councillor of Justice were arrested by order of the
now commands our town. I police. Their papers were seized and deposited with
Mance 9.—llis Excellency the General of Divi- , the Archives of the Department for Foreign Affairs.
sion, Regnier, arrived here on the 7th with his ge- Yesterday afternoon the former was transported un-
neral staff.
.1A part of the 7th corps entered rt the der an escort to Cie fortress of Munkats, in Hungary,
same time with a numerous train of artillery. These and the latter to that of Theuscenstadt, in Bohemia.
troops were put into quarters in the new town, and A Captain of a circle in the neighbourhood of the ca-
likewise in the villages situated on the right bank of pitni, and a person employed in an office (Comptabi-
the Elbe. The inhabitants of this capital aeieyed a I life) who were to have beeaarrested at thesame time,
high degree of pleasure in seeing their brave country.. and by virtue of the same order, have disappeared,
men return in such fine condition. Two battalions land according to the information which has been re-
of the new levy have been united to this corps, and ceived, they have escaped into Hungary.
it is believed that they are destined to complete the
regiment of infantry of Prince Clpinent, which so
particularly distinguished itself at the battle of Ka-
lisch.

GOTTENBURGH MAIL.

Gen. Regnier has this day reviewed two fine regi-
ments of cuirassiers, of Lichtenau's brigade; and
expressed the highest satisfaction at the behaviour and
discipline of these troops.
CASSEL, MARCH 12.—8 y a Royal Decree of the
Bth inst. the contingents of the conscription for
1813, has been fixed, viz. for the active army, four
thousand men; and for the reserve 2000 men.
FRANKFORT, Ahem 16.—Marshal the Duke
. of Treviso arrived here yesterday, as Well as Gene.
rals Sebastiani„ Lefevre, Barrow, Chouard, D.tin-
tu, &c.
LEIPZIG, MARCH 9.—Prince Fckmuhl arrived
here yesterday evening, with his staff. The Viceroy
of Italy arrived to-day, at one in the afternoon, so
that the head-quarters of the Grand Army is no in
our town.
The day before yesterday the different administra-
tive branches of the French head-quarters arrived in
our town, where they are to remain till new orders.
The passage of troops in this country is very
great. This town and all the neighbouring com-
munes are, far two leagues round, filled with troops.
Weknow, from good authority, that the two Po.
lish fortresses of Modlin and Zamosc, are in an
ex-
cellent state, and have nothing to fear.
FRONTIERS OF SIXONY, MARC'S 9.—At the same
time that the Prince Viceroy transferred his head.
quarters to-teiptitk, Uenerat Reviler, wlttchad for
ten days occupied the !eft bank of the Spree, near
Batmen, with a corps composed of French, Bava-
rians, and Saxons, marched upon Dresden, the mi-
litary position of which is so important, on account of •
its fine stone bridge over the Elbe. A corps of se-
veral thousand Bavarians took the direction of %Ns-
sin, to cover the bridge of that town. The skilful
General in Chief appears firmly resolved to vigor-1
oUsly defend the Upper Elbe, as. well as the course
of that river from Wittenberg to Magdeburg, and

G OTT ENEWRGE) MARCH 20.—Letters received
this morning represent all Prussia as up in arms
against the French. Young men of the fitst fumilie
were in the ranks. The Russians occupied Be.litl
on the 4th, and are now said to be in possession of
Stettin.
According to accounts received here, the Russians
entered Berlin on the 4th, after a severe skirmish,
in which the city suffered a little ; the Viceroy fled
towards Leipzic, pursued by 8000 cavalry. Gene.
ral D'York arrived at Berlin on the sth, when the
Government of the City was immediately given up to
him ; there was a general illumination on account of
the entry of the Russians; they were received by the
people as their deliverers; when young Kutusow, with
two other Generals appeared at the theatre, there was
a general burst of applause.
the King of Prussia is stated•to have had a meet.
ing w,ith the Emperor Alexander, at a small town ou
the confines of Poland, where it was agreed that Sax-
ony s!iould be occupied by 30,000 Prussians, of
which 5000 are to be cavalry.
BORDERS OF PRUSSIA, k EB. 21.—The Konings-
berg papers of the 28th January, contain the follow-
ing notice
According to an article is some copies of the Berlin papers
f the 19th inst. Major and Adjutant Von Nalzmer had been
•dispatehed by Major-General on Kliest to carry him orders to
take the command from me. and to assume himself the vols..'
mad of his Majesty's Corps d'Arnsee na Prussia. Al. yoat
Nalkiner has however, 'reached me, nor General Yoe
Kliest ; I shall, therefore, without any hesitation, continue to
exercise thecommand is chief. as well in the said corps, as in
the other functions, to which 1 am authorized by the Cabinet
Order of t ,e 90th December last; and this the more so ia con-
sequeoce of there being no Official Gazette in the Prussian
States, and there has hitherto been no instance of any General
receiving orders for his conduct through the medium of the
newspapers. To prevent all mistakes I have deemed it requi-
site to make this declaration public.
(Signed) " YON YORK, Royal Prussian Lent.-Gen.
Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief
of the Corps d' Armee iu Prussia."
Konigsberg, 27th Jan. ISIS.

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beyond. Considerable reitk;orcements daily arrive. AMERICA.
Generals Sebastiani and Latour Mauboerg are '
upon the two Batiks of the Elbe. There are 8000 men INTERESTING FROM CONGRESS—Fsa. 18.
betweeh Torgau and Beigera. General Lauriston has " The Committee of Ways and Means beg leave
conducted 10,000 men .to'Magdeburg, whets other, to report, that they have deemed it to be their
troops are stilt expected. duty that the public service may not suffer, and
NUREHBURG, MARCH 14.—The events of the war that the public credit may be duly supported, to
have occasioned the provisional suspension of the look beyond the Ways and Means of the present
Universities of Berlin and Breslau. . The Salon year, and to take into consideration the revenue
University of Wittenberg hag likewise very lately which may be wanted for the yepr 1814.—That an
been suspended, that city having been put loft state estimate of the probable amount of • the revenue,
of defence, and become an important military post ; which accrue under existing laws, and be recover-
the greater part of the students have left it, Some able within that year, has been submitted to Con-
of the professors, however, continue their emnrses to ' gress in the annual report of the Secretary of• the•
a few student. The ramparts of Wittenberg, which Treasury, made during the present Session.—
are very solid, and which have stood Veer since the That comprising the amount thereof, with the
Kith century, are now furnished with cannon, and sums w hick will probably be required, by a present
the bridge over the Elbe is secured by formidable regard to the public credit, it appears to the COT..
intrenchrnents, which have been • thrown up to mittee indispensably necessary •to make a further
cover It. provision; that this may be done by a partial sus-
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MAGDEBURG, MARCH B.—phis Serene Highness pension of tile .Now-intpojtation Acts, lAA 3Eill not
the Prince of Ec,lmuhl, set out the 4y befarc yea! greatly lessen Me* injurious (Pas upon the
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terday to proceed to Saxony. my." After some further observations the Retort

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General. Sidi ' .Stetdi)/ and the small town of Dam; situated coil
the . five divisions . ippositV on the right batik of the Oder, have been Sus
ration of. Italy.—.l4ociared in a state of siege-,'and it has been signified cot
As, under the or- 1 to the inhabitonl4:ith tho. exception orweritstmigt ,sio
arrived at Freak. ! vvho will
sndt.ho well to quitrit, either,tb laava• *NI
rsemei,ii'whO hare i the town, •or, fir in provisioias fors yMir, and be , bet
ed,' Noland, and to endpre A-thou privatioltalibleb tbil tar- *II
rejoin their rucks ties shoal& onditt_nelitataty., • -•
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e eqtrippingthem- • moment (indulged leitrinlifitheY National Guard, of !