Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-04-27
PARIS, Feb. %.
PREFECTURE oFrHE SEINE.

ThEr EO IKE Of he SEINE.
Extracts from the representations made by
the Deputies from the cities Of Mo,terean,
S zanne, Nogent on the Seine, Proyins,
AMI of Chateau Thierry TO the Munich
pal Body of Paris. of the. progress and
proceedings of the Allies in those CT
ties.
The Municipal Council of Sezanne say:
The 4th of Feb we had the misfortune
OF being invaded by 1000 Cossacks and three
sqaadrons OF Prussian light horse. Vexati.
ons ct every kind, acquisitions on reoaisi.
tons, the most extravagant demands sue
ceedng each other. Such was their con,
duct. This first visit of the enemy. which
lasted days. did more harm to our CITY
than 10000 regular troops would have done
IL Is days. No more safety for our CT ICES
mo more respect for women. Neverthe.
less this first misfortune would have been
forgotten. it conquered a second time by an
enemy much more nun erous. they had not
contaminated our misseries. IL was then.
gentlemen. that we felt most teeply our
painful ituation--robbery rapes. horrid
treatment, was the order of the day anew
demands hourly increasing, and which il
was impossible to satisfy. because for ON,
enemies pfetext to exercise on our weak
and meffeusive inhabitants the most abomj
liable vexations. ~, s.
In the insoxica ron with which their ephe
neral success inspired them, the Ru sans
publicly announced their speed, entrance
into Paris, and their intention to carry away
all the precious monumenls-iumortal tro.
plies OF cur victories to give Paris mn To
piliage to send all our women to people
,heir hornd desarts to blow up the rhuii,
ieries and to make, in one word the seat of
the hne arts but one heap of ruins
ouch IS the faithful picture OF the facts of
whish We have been the sorrowig VIC inns
and we can assure you, gentlemen, that not>
outstanding the horror which we feel. II is
rather short of tae truth than exayeera,
ted.
Ihe defiutofion ofthe CRY of Propns.
Gen. Rudler took up his quarters & that.
OF his staff the 18Th IN the evening this &c
neral immediately made forced acquisitions
at the houses of the Inhabitants of Cham
paign, Bordeaux, and Burgundy wines, of
Brandy and Sugar. The next day tie off
GERS of ms staff compelled the Mayor to
make further demand Tor chem of clothes
| muslins, linen, iron, tobacco, skins of all
kinds, and ali the horse nails which were II,
the city. During this the Russian soldiers.
Cossacks, BaskTs Kalmues took up their
quarters IN the City and subarbs, where they
seized the stores, provisions, and forage, &
robbed many of the Inhabitants and farmers
of PTovins and its cnvirons They assa,s,.
mated peaceable inhabitants; quartered a
Mayor put child in the FIRE to obtain
from has unhappy mother what they wantel;
to satisfy their brutal passion they violated,
in H.any places girls and married women.
OF whom one was 40 years old, one pregnanl
who was brought to bed some moments af.
ter. They even broke with kind of fur;
into the asylum of misfortune, by entering on
horseback and armed, the very hospital, &
robbed and mangled all the French they
found.-lhey spread every where dea Ii
and destruction. Notwithstanding all these
horrors, German and Prussian Princes, and
men OF the first distiction among our ene>
mics, commanded or accompanied the al.
lied armies, and never gave any order nor,
made any effort to arrest these scenes of de-
ISOLATION.
These cruel and barbarous savages boast.
ed with an ironical and insulting presump,
tion that they would hear the clock strike
IL the 18th in Paris; and that they fattered
themselves to be soon able to satiate the ven,
geance with which they were inspired for
the burning OF Moscow; and if we may Judge
from the ravages committed among us, they
would plumber this capital (Paris) of all her
precious monuments, rr destroy them they
would sack, pillage, devastate and burn your
beautiful city. The vengeance with which
they swelled would only be assuaged by its
entire destruction. If the inhabitants of Pa
ris could only visit our cities and villages,
they would shudder at the fate which await
ed them, and the horrid calamities which
they have escaped only by the victories of
the Emperor.
THE dehufaffon from the city Of Chateau
Ihierry sGys:
"Gentlemen-If all the citizens of the
| same nation ought to rccollect that they are
brothers, it IS above all in these times OF
mourning, where the misseries which weigh
down one portion menace the other.-Cer
tain OF hnding among you the sentiments
which we feel, we come, gentlemen, our
hearts overwhelmed with grief, to deposit in
your bosom faint sketch of the excuses
which our unfortunate city has been, during
the stay OF our barbarous enemy, at once the
theatre aud the victim. rr
lAfler describing in detail all the horrors
which their own city and the country around
experienced, tncy go on to say i
" we only scite to you some scattered iris
ais OF this vast picture OF horrors but what
we ought not to be silent about are their a.
bonihable designs on this elegant capital
Gentlemen, the genins Of the Enneror ha-
dispersed affair off the thunder which alrea,
dy rolled over your heads but IL new storm
should again menace you, learn and dread
their terrible effects. We have been wit
nesses OF the hopes of our enemies we have
heard their declarations Tn nronort;oo o.