Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-05-19

BRITISH ARMY SOUTH OF
FRANCE.
Extract Of a letter from the H. @. Of
Lord Wettington' army, Feb. Is, 1914

Lord Weltngton's army, REQ. 10, 1871
{ " Every thing bas undergone change
since my last, Soult has broken up from
the line Of the Adour, and marched for
Paris with great part of his army. The po-
sition of St Jean Pie de Post has been SO
far abandoned as to leave no apprehensions
from thence; and Suchet has Quilted Spain,
leaving garrisons in Barcelona and other
posts, and had his H. @. on the 4th at A
vignon, on the march for Lyons.
. All this is most unexpected, and must
have arisen from some fresh successes OF
the allies, of which we are in entire ignQ-
rance, nothing whatever being known
from the front. Report lever fertile here,
states, that the Cossacks are at Paris but
it is useless mentioning these things to you,
to whom Of course long ere this, all il
known.
A part of two British divisions have
been pushed across the Adour the 4.h and
7th--All is preparation for advance. Lord
WelIington's head quarters will be trans
ferred forthwith from St. Jean de Luz to
Pau, (the place of nativity of Bernadotte. J
1t is supposed that Sir John Hope will
move with two or three divisions in the di-
rection of Bordeaux while Lord Wellington
will, the rest Of the army marches on Thou
louise. Sir John Downie with the Span
iaras, for that officer is especially appoint
ed by Lord Wellington to command the
Spanish army here) occupies our old posi-
ton in front OF Bayonne. The Commissa-
riat Department is using every exertion to
obtain supplies. Bullocks are purchased
from every part of Spain; hay and corn,
biscuit, salt beefand rum, come from Eng
land. and an advance will certainly take
place"
March z.
For these two days there have been all
sorts of reports, no official intelligence or
French papers having arrived The con-
ferences for an armistice broken off--a sep
arate peace between Austria and France
the removal under French escort of the
Chatillon plenipotentiaries to Paris--the
advance of Bulow to Meaux--the conse
ouent alarm at Paris-the sudden return Of
Bonaparte from pursuing Scwartzenberg--
and the immediate readvance of the latter
-Bncher surrounded--and Butcher in
quick retreat upon Rheims or Soissons.-
Such were the different and contradictory
reports of yesterday. The advance of Blu
low to Meaux was stated ON the authority
of letter said to have been received from
Paris, dated on the 2Sth Feb. at 10 at
night IS. We are in great alarm, says that
letter, considerable destruction has been
occasioned by the light troops of the enc
my in our immediate neighborhood. Blu
low, or Butcher, has arrived at Meaux,
distant Is miles from this city, with $4,000
men, and Czernicheff with 6000 Cossacks."
Upon the above intelligence a morning
paper has observed, that Bulow could not
have been at Meaux on the 2Sth, Brus-
sells article of the 25th mentioning that his
corps were then only preparing to march
through Brussels. The Paris letter may
have been mistaken in the name of the ge-
neral, but part of Winzingerode's army
may still have been at Meaux on the 9th
or 2Sth ut. The last f. bulletins inform
ed, first of Butcher, Yorck and Sacken
having been attacked at Merry on the Seine
on the ED ult. and secondly of the same
corps, with the addition of Kliest's and OF
reinforcements from scissors (Winzinge
rode's division) being on the Goth manGa