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AQ auempt to earrjr it by assault rfTB5 ooeceMiui, a,cuera4 ana combined iTiCe TIT UriC j . .winy--.. . . ...: r.v. hrt i where tfvefa tnut ieoomPany tlwis froa? persons unknown to Ve payment of least .SO in .advjflM ; ' c.itinuancc wtthout payment of arrears, unlMS att tie i aUaek Becauac D6ces sary o force the musago pfl by the ee t the impartial observer, tfad they Wlcarryjh posUiott.di jfetel ilnlApfi division wn, v andamtne, supported by the c&vairy of ton. JSxocman was ordered! renew and main- vamtue engagement m Wavres, wbtfst ihabo- y or-iniantry and e&valry of r -' - MILITARY, To tkiM&itora of thi Xutional JtitelLigen Uenoraia fier&rd MdPajol, was o cross the river at Bielgt and Limelette, villages situate to the laft tt Wa. yW-iyyfcilli' these arrange mena were carry jr. J5ilini-ffiiet towards faair cloelt in the C- eeret caus4of the failure last campaij and the reasons of his defeat atlupon tbet chair lord Coaehrane vateri0(, noy of then may now be perceived superior rA. beara or plank, and an Gent!men.is I am frequen credit dat tha paMifi4ijtafWf' Wre aureeou of the Norihuberland jand being eon- lraim.-d to declare, lhat, as far as regard that part if it which Irents of military affairs, it contains maay eroneous assertlooa, mayil nol ir.t'iire la oBMJse that vour readeraould rer eeive, with some share of interest several nroor in support or mat opiuiou r ?j twuld meet with soroo in a note aanexed to the French translation of the letters of Mr. Warden, nublished in the AbeiHe Ameri- eainer ia which a friend of Marshal Grauehy disproves the censure whieh it. is preteirued was attached, at St. jlelena, to his conduct the JjJ"" day of the battle of Waterloo, Other more V?; iiiiportant iuforwation, relulive to Marshal Nev. Count Frebn. aud other disttnuished oSicers, Inijht hreafterfcbe laid-before yoq, 8 ses tb oi uie oaamrt, at UQarleroi, and the day afler iue oauie qi cieurus. . , . To aeeuw Marshal Grouchy of the fatal con senencea whiah were the result of this scpera tiou, to 'udf ttace that in so short a suace of time he could have annihilated an army at least e- quai to ma own, tnat be eould have surnraunted the obstacles opposed to lis march, br the na ttl,f6 of thtf'U attl attiritjsaUioiijBcattpieoVby nV CHemy,pa mat ne couiu nave moved with 4iarsfta tbfttfamik 'JIIrW Lambert to Waterloo. Tb.imf Wcidi f .r.i .i zTTTTT--fi -T?7T -rtP feetin this, was tu open the passage of the lvi, and overthrow the f russiaa army in or der if battle behind it ; had this even beeu iui niediately succeeded iu, the distance from Wa vres-to WaterJoo,&nd the nature of the soil, whieb i cuvered with wood9f without roads, and broken up, would not have afforded sutfi cient tjiae to arrive soon entush to prevent or repair the misfortune of that disastrous day. However, as the attacs which had been order ed, was the only weaus of .rMoiuin? the opera tions of Napoleon, aud accomplishing his views, were urged aud executed with viffor. At they did not succeed: Gen. Vandainme was unable to, cafry the bridge of Wavres : Gen. Gerard was wounded iu the breast by a uan, iu me i run teas auttttKOii me mill oeiOW ..........! k u il... imtimnnv nf iiiiIhj- witims. UU UIICU Ul.lllt imiuiviii v vv -j. -r . J- .1.1 I it x r : . ..: ... i. . lt!Mfl tHV fHlirls IVHrA HirPPfPfl tn hu mnila at preseui in me uunru uiaiw, iur i- ... ... ... , ,, , i T ' ouirhit ba now the province ol bistorv, whose V " r1"1 C 1 CU U,Ca , eucil, it is probable, will not always be grid- l uu '"V , " . , , " "7? d, intranet, by roreigu iiayonets anti prevotair ' ": , : P . ' ,7 ' ..! i.'i t Viliace ot Limclette. with a few thousand men. utitj ia r u n r m i no m ri ii tt i k t ) aim r iih i iv ij - - j T -w- --7 7 L.., jU. vr . 1. t . if m it ii iiui. iiiiii imi l. in it m ift i. ii i iik ritr ii i CU and allhous'ii mauv ot the p to, have' not, yet reached your hospitable she res, it u, neverlheloss, at all limes, proper to reader to every person what he is justly entitled to, and to coiiiraJict' Mr.' -Warden whenever" hia narration i unfounded. Vou will, perh'afks, be . ' the Dyle was still occupied by the enemy. Such was the state of things on the 19th, at 11 o' clock at night. Five or six thousand men, wjth wham was the Marshal, were on the othor side of the Dyle ; ths corps of Vandamme occupied I 1,'j i .... ... . I' tT . ! . I ' I . I. I I .turtled at thft ln-th of tha note in aiiestion : ,,a 'U,,.U1 -Vi " imau j.ossseu Lit persuaded, aA am", that the lovo of truth,; !De rUg, and tbassiariiiy in that prominent and honorable feature in the es u ol thcDxidpau. other parts of the American character, inclines them resolutely to! 8l,J Il.coverrd ? T'T" Counter the irkaoneoeis of long and ininutc ttumber-- with w.h.eh the Marshal detail,.when the object of research i the at- wt'd f" S10" lhn5" taintnent thereof aud th.isaipat4on of Spou-;' : n W,frUV i ,7 mT r'"l lessSlIusions, the offspring of party irit anrf.-y'P T2d ttt,lour f dutk rnpaJuJ ,f rt-oSam I&if&ttf not :t.Hoqii, Atarshalrouchy thea t-.out him to beg jou will publish it in one of yoif rwrn, Hror ot MO.ijrkli!nagcJ.iuiiUiruiuS liprs ' them,. airdTQJtl tnarch t Cratsi Accept, gentleman, the assurance of my eon-' V1 1? uim", tae u,i :.in-LT . advantageous positioa in which' lie was placed. an J to move also, towards the capital of the Netherlands, L'e hastened to re-attack tho Prus sians, which was done ou the 19ih of June, be fore the dawn of day-lthey had also prepared to do. the same thing, but pressed by the troops which Lad crossed beyond Limclcue, and who i 1 . i 1 : - .: if i - anuoyed meia ou tueir mcK, tney soon gave uileraticn. NOTE. Are we not warranted in withholjiog our belief of the accuracy of many of the assertions contained j:i the work of Mr. Warden, when e find hjni statingthat the conduct of Mar shal Grouchy, at the battle of W aterloo, was disHPDroved of at St; Helena ? ' Now, if Napeoleoa had causo to attribute-vav,r the loss of that battle tn the errors of ikt- Mar-! , ehai or to the non-execution cl orders which had Apt! ittHitripi to him fully to disclose thespouting 1 acuities of .Napoleon in nislarm cbair Avere then produced by Mr. II. and upon the ebair lord Uoachrane was plaeed. Ills lordship was. in this manuer. couveved on the shoulders .of his admirers across Palace-yard to the door of JWestminster liali, wbere Jie waa set down, amid three cheers, and ' entered with his bundles of parchmeat. : Hunt, who had pre ceded lord Co cbrancr clearing the way, now got, unbidden, into the chair, and was convey ed to the place from' whedce they Lad set put; Here he made another speech to the chairmen who- earrieeV him., and then entered the house. The mob then left him, taking the direction of thePark. . ' Jeveral persons h&4 ' been arrested and eia mined, on suspicion ef being coneeraed in Jllie assautupijft ibeprjftce regent, and one of the a had hea ce5Biiti0i for trial, ahaai.9f Brgei u'timi'g'-!. .i,''!""-'-' . ..-- simulate his situation to that tf Gen. Devsaix at Marengo, when iu an open plai t, a league and an half from the held of baitle, no impedi ment, no enemy separated- hiov from the first consul ; to join whom he had only to advance, the moment he received the orders Lord. J murtyy hi iVser to 'ifeflnW- tions put to hiihhv She chaucellarof thees- clitquer, Mr, Cu'(wi Mr.xVVajpe, jum) some " other membera, stated that he ia a lord ot the d the orders, and he re-: liA .uu. i-:. . l. ... ceived them in time.. Marsbal Grouchy, on the j :Tttt! ""u contrary, wasat more than tbriee that distance lnmeon Jus n,;al highness in the Cats from the Emperor j tjoin him it waa neeessa n their passage -liom the House of ry that he should effect the passage of a river, Jfld9" " thcir between Caileton that he should destfov a numerous army ; aud, House and St. Jame, theglaMof thecaniago. in udditiou to ibis, the orders were uotrftjeived was fi'actured ; it was the glass on the Prince'd iuiime. . - , left hand. The fracture appeared to be uro- Ineonclusiou, though victory eseaped Napo-'duccd by two bullets, fur rwuud aiwrtures Ud Icon iu his iatttuud decisive campaieu, he will net on that account be the less eutiiled to rank amongst the greatest military chieftaias ; none have been wholly.exempt from error, & his dis posirioiu on this occasiou were 'perhaps "not wholly iuvuliieraub to cristicism. lint history will inscribe ou her tablet, that the l'ruiibt'itu armyj notwithstanding-the loss of the battle of Fieorus, when joined at Wavres by the corps of BjIovv, which had not been en gaged ou the 1 til it, consisted of 00,000 men ; I hat (hat f the Duke of Wellington numbered 7O O00; that.Napo!eou had with hint but 60,000 soldiers at Waterloo, :iud Marshal Grouchy J7.000 ut Wuvres." Impartial pos'.erily will thus be enable to estimate what !i.iru of glory and talent is to be attributed to those Generals, to whom mi overwhelming superiotity of num bers presented so mauy facilities of disconcort iug tin- plaus, aiid paralysing the first success es of Napoleon, whilst he us yet in a manner possessed not the means to secure a victorious result. LNuLNH I continue, ti:U Week, t,. iuct mi8 iho E-i.iisl p.ip-. s, respecting' liif atuck vn ihv prince rje.Uj and tlio proceed . Rs oi' pAii ...liint on the sUtc'iu' iue iiatiou The jtacticujars of the atuak o'i the I'riiiee Iljgiiii, ai'e thui givca in u l.ou . n paper of Jau. JO.th. 'Uatiie return of the Pn'iice iiecent froni the iiajss oi iurds, tiiu crou ass.mo eu in the been made in the class, and the remainder of it was nut broken j ke 6ad not the slightest doubt that the fracture was caused by bullets. About a minute after tlm happened, a very large stune was thrown at the oiier glass, and then three or four other stones with great vio lence ; ha had examined the first glass that va broken mi nutcly j there" Was jno crowd near the carriage at the time btitf a pistol hud been tired with gntipoVder the person fir-; ing it,- he thinks must have been recogi zed ; he supposes, as no report wiis heard by iiim, they came from an air gun. t here was no bullets found in tlie carriage ; he supposed they were shot fi-otn some, one of the trees ; the opposite g ass was up, it was not br ke at all ; Ue gut out ol the carriage immediately alter the Prince Regent ; did not search the carriage ; nor did tie Know wheter any bul lets were found at the b ittom of it. The mas ter; of the Horse was in the earrigc $ splinters of the glass were fou ad ; the stone which struck the.opposite glass' did not enter the car' l'iagiV the gLss was Very thkkv y , - ' aoM TBa. SJilrXfeiriWilAa.-.. Twenty-t wo years age , that is, -in the yeaf fcn attack preeistiy slmiiar ia all points, was made en. the person' vf his present britan uie hiBjeflcy,' hUe proceeding in hi's own car-. lage to the house ot rarliAuienl oh the Lrst Wavres was occupied by the French, andUwts h.vi iuereased greatly. the enemy in fill retreat was pursued, ou the u n;CilUr, theuiob w been .eiveu him. he certainly would . ... , . , . i ' have done srioT the oflicial bulletin: inserted ai in1 f,u' T i! " ,; V " e k the.Mniteur, ou the 2U June. .Let this document that he was be consulted, and it will be 'found Mr' f?te vwrix is far from thinking so, as from hav- f ven,BS tb.6 (Marshat boult; i '? .pi . but who had not been able to jom xMarsliu.i ound for such an idea. 1 he instrue- 2, :,.n; ' .... a.. ing any gr tions given on the 17th June to Marshal Grou chy, enjoined him to pursue the Prussian army and to follow up the advantage gained Ihd pre ceding day at r leurtis. 1 he Prussians hadre tr '&ted In a diceetiou diverging from that which the Emperor took to form a junction with Mar sh! Nev, in order to engage the English army, lie did not then apprehend, the day after the i itTj i 1 e u r u s, a i wuieu ume jie aeparoieu ,i ,. ,i ., j, V, l j a i i i TT j T f K r i iTpo Marsha Grouch vZ that he stood in need !C "u uu ",u?uu,"luw ' "T At rf,, Jkmes9 as t . ii'w ise and they u.'gdii la utti'r (ho most viole .t and ludu creel txpresious the iutaut the royal carnuiC amerv.d. Wfaeu the cavalcade had reached lif e HtiSl o yard g ate, Tt appears t hat the glas sea of tbe state carriage were broken u oolii sides, a! ti -st lustalitaoeouiiJy. The 'gover'al iiiiprcis'uii was, that stones were the missiles day of the session. ThU the reader may conv paie these two accounts, we extract irom a pbiicatiou in the year i7u5, the following p.vN v me troops eniusieu to mm, to vanquisn tne Englisk and when tho Emperor detached him from Lis operations, he could no loncer place any reliance ou the immediate eo-operation of me army i the Alaranal. A aimpta narrative of the facts will enable us to judge, it the or deis of Napoleon were executed with fidelity, celerity awj intelligence. - Detached on the.irth of Juna, at.Ifalf past i i 111 l,ursuit uf Marshal Blu'cher, who bAd commeuced, fifteen hours before, that is, on the evening of lb 10th of June, his retrogade movemeuts, and who, favored by a dark, aud rainy night, had effected his retreat in several columns, it was as difficult for Marshal Grou chy to impede Ms march, as to ascertain the Mtrse 'a which be had moved j however, did covering the route-wh;t, tk...:. P. - '-'v, IUV IUI1U uiiui ill IUC i ussian forces liad ? - 1- i ..i . T. '"i ,,e uarwieu unineai. Grouchy, brought him intelligence of the dis asters ol the grand army, aud tne veroal order , eiyjl),ye(j, UUJ yet the glasVes, wbiab are of un of the Emperor to retreat whither aud m i.unimiiU thickutms, were , broken us cleanly best way he could. - - ; jJt)C ,.. a disetiarge from a im.- or pis 1. The retreat made by Marshal Grouchy, the j toj 5v "r . details ot wincn would oe auperuuoua-nere, --;'Ou "the Friuce royal alhiiu. from the was a-s. glorious to tbc arms ot if ranee, as "'rtato'earriage at Si. James' Palace, h mme might have beeu serviceable to his cou.itry, if u u,jy scul for ofl S,dinoutit ; aud aft wait- personal iiiiersi, u-eaouefyj aiiuuj" ..f"..1' i.inie considerable time lor, iLtuurivai ofjord . . l -M . . .a- 1 i ' n SiUifluuth, at bi. James Palace, left t in his Beine attacked on the morning of tne 20ih of June, at Namur, the Prussians were so vi- prtvate carnage tor Carletoa-Iiouse ; uiui the refractory part of 'the populacjiriiaviug left the atcly with the principal part of his troops to wards Gembloon, at which place he did not ar. riva till long after the dav i.lh..i n-. ll .... a - . u.K.uiwetta tew hours of necessary rest to the : soldiery he moved thenceon the 18th of June, teforo sunrise, in the direction of Wavres Uu r 8 cxiock, the morning he received a . getter irom Napoleon jnapprobatioabf his pro ceuure a.nd of nis ulterior arrangements, which ne had commnnicated toLiin 'as sbou as he had Crefi J!!e: nec3a -nfomation at Gem- u , ten!0 the n,wrmn5 aear Tarreva ;KJiJeagueafroni Wavres, he eaine up h?6 extre.me Teir Suard of the enemy, r HU,ch he caused to be attacked-it was routed, JitdaKi10. avrw 1 Prt f this city ;aiat?.oalh bauk of ihel)vle was- carri- y ine iTDch. Nevertheless, the Prassian gorously repulsed, that they were uuable to po8-jpark lke Was then received with loud buzzas. es themselves 01 tne City, auu u was uoi uu til eveuina that it was evacuated, aud soon lo sin!? all hone of cut tie si '"':otf the "MarshaTa "ar my they abaudoheJ the pursuit. s Allough during his march he was nearly sur rounded by the coalesced forces, o reached Soissou without auffering auy loss there ralli ed the remains of the Emperor' army, and af ter causing Napoleon the 2d to be. proclaimed at.llethel, he returned to Faris with 1j;o pie ces of cannon and more than 50,ouj meu. me com maud of whom he gave into the hands of M.irnlial Davoust. who had been entrusted by the provisional government- with the defence of the capital- 7 ' T This statement; the instructions given on the 17th Juue to Marshal Grouchy by the Em peror j Lis letter of the morning of the 18tb in approbation of the march and arrangements of the Marshal ;nhe order of Napoleon, the ouly one which the Marshal received, the day of the battle of Waterloo, to march thither j anorder dated athalf ptfstoue, and reeeived at 4 o'clock P. M. impossible to be executed so as to be cf any service, for the Marshat wasmany leagues from the Emperor, seperated from him by a n ver' abd by an army witL which he was engag ed : and finally the destiny of the fatal day be ins decided at the Very hour of Jhe rplion oi the orders of Napoleon, all this concurreutles timoDyririaeoatestibly proverrhat, lar r., A-6orvii. the tliehtest decree of censure, the"acraueemeaU and the eouduet of the Mir . i .....u .,,i-r mnnk fartunatacircuastaaecs His roval highness left his coulmaada for lord bidmoulh to follow him. to Carleidii-house, where his loidship arrived shortly a u wards, as did tb? duke -of Xork, and the d .ke and dutches of Gloucester ; their royal highnesses having heard of what had happetic.1 lo.-l ho time- in repairing to Carletuu-houje, to make iBquiries. ; Lord J. Murray, who attended the regent in the state .carnage, as. a. lord iu waititig, re ceived a blow over lus light eye trom a piece of the : strong plate glass-being struck against him. : - ; . ;'; '1 -Or; -. . , Whilst the more serious becurreuces just alluded to were taking . piace in the Park, a farce was got up iu . PaUce-yard, for the a mucuieut of the rabble there usseuibied. The actors were Mr. lluut aud Lord Cochrane. About three o'clock, the attention of the pass enters iu' Parliauieut street ere attraeted by a man, in a dirty blue greatcoat, .carrying a pole oiibis shoulder, to which a heavy'buudle of parchmeut was" susp.endTd7rTi.ts person was orator" Hoot, for as such he speedily announced hiniself.-f About fifty boys preceded aud, followed , him, called out, Make way for Mr. 'limit P and in this way the protession arrived in New Palace yard. Here Mr.' 11. stopped, and rapping at the door of No. 7, ask-ed-it'lbid Coaehrane was'eome Wietng -answered i a 4heirniAt iveChe depo'sl t e d h i s b u r d e n in the passage -and "paseully lord Ooachtane came lei tb. llcat-then harangued his fol- the noise was ugt uph : Amidst an immense croud collected in ti, James' Park, most of-them trom motives of truo loyalty, there was mixed a desperate mob, who .. evinced a most hcous andlnischievous dispo sition. - As bis majesty-went through the Park -it Was with, great difficulty ihat the guards could keep the way clear for, the carriage to pass. Souieti here between the horse-guards at-.d palace-yard, a bullet is said to have been fired iroin an air gun, which perforated the glass of the carriage, but most happily for the nation, failed to accomplish the diabolical purpose . w hich" it w us evidently -intended ioneffeet. - -- The bullet is supposed to have proceedeO either from an untenanted houe, in which it was very extraordinary, at such a time, that not a single soul should appear at one of tbe win do'ws ; or else from a. dray, on w hich stood a number of ill-looking fellows, apparently intent on mischief. , J r . " In palace-yard, a stone was thrown, which shattered one of the side windows. Ou his ma- jesty's return from St. James', the Same gang of rulliaus followed his .coaeti, and just as it turned under the gateway uf the palace, a stone was thrown, and also an oyster shell, which Went through the glasses of the coach." But this analogy does not end here; for lord Castlereitgb on the floor of the House f Com mons has ah caJy declared, that the ministry intend to follow the precedent adopted in 1795, so that we hae here a prospective into the measures that parliament will take The pre cedent of 1793, to which his lordship refers, consists of an act for the preservation of his ma- jesty's person, ocC.' 1 he first section otitis act provides, that if any person should compass, or imagine, or intend death, or bodily harm to the king, or tolevy war against him within' the realm, or without, or to move foreigners to in vade thi; rec.hu, or should utter, or express any:; sueh intent either by speakiDg or writing, they should suer the penalties of high treason- T!;nt otiv n-ranu who should bv SDeakinz or writing move, and incite the. 8ubjects:of,hia ma jesty lo the dislike nud hatred of his majesty's person, or governmen, snouia,. on conviction, sufferJransportation for seven years. This is v a broad outline c.r ,tno-iaw wnicn lorn uastie reagh assures us thtt he intends to bring before. parlianieLt- . " ' "' - Totj The .prince rugcnV$ speech -The speaker informed tne house, that the house had beev ' T 1 - ' - i i . .- I --.-if .1 a t i -1 I ;'i I
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