according to the language of the French papers, it was in a few days in the condition of marching to renew its connection with the grand army. In the mean time Gen. Winzingerode had carried by assault the town of Soissons, in which he made prisoners of two generals and about three thousand men, and took thirteen pieces of cannon. He moved thence to Rheims, from which it was his intention to join Blucher at Chalons. While these events were taking place upon and near the Marne, Prince Schwartzenberg was cooperating with the army of Silesia, by an advance upon Paris in the direction of the Seine. On Feb. 11, the Prince Royal of Wurtemberg summoned the commandant of Sens to surrender, and upon his refusal, forced the barricades, and entered the place. He then directed his force on Pont-sur-Yonne, whence he marched to Bray. Count Hardegg, on the 9th, attacked the rear of the enemy between Romilly and St. Hillaire, and drove it with some loss towards Nogent. Schwartzenberg having on the next day reconnoitered Nogent, directed another attack upon this rear-guard, in consequence of which it was obliged to retire into the town, and Hardegg pursuing the enemy thither, established himself in a part of the place. Wittgenstein having been directed to assemble his corps near Pont-surSeine, and Wrede to advance from Nogent towards Bray, the enemy abandoned the left bank of the Seine, and destroyed the bridges over that river. Schwartzenberg then determined to push these corps, and that of the Prince of Wurtemberg, to Provins and VilJenax, ready to advance, if neces sary, upon Napoleon's rear, or to protect the movements of that part of the army which was to act on the left of the Seine, towards Fontainbleau. On the 16th, the Austrian corps under Hardegg and Thurn, and the Cossacks of Platoff, had succeeded in reducing Fontainbleau, where they took a gene-, ral, some cannon, and prisoners. But the allied arms on this side also were now to experience a reverse. Napoleon having succeeded in driving back Blucher, in pursuance of his plan, turned his force against Schwartzenberg; and on Feb. 17 fell with a large body of cavalry upon the advanced guard of Wittgenstein's corps, which was posted at Nangis, under the command of Count Pahlen. The result of the action was, that this advanced guard was beaten back with a considerable loss of men and artillery; and in consequence, Schwartzenberg thought it prudent to withdraw the greater part of his army across the Seine. He still, however, kept possession of the bridges over that river at Montereau, Bray, and Nogent. On the 18th, the two former posts were vigorously attacked, but without effect; and the Prince of Wurtemberg, who commanded at Montereau, not only repulsed three attacks, but took prisoners and cannon. Late in the evening, however, the enemy renewed the assault with such an augmented force, that the prince was driven across the river, and so closely pressed, that he had not time to destroy the bridge. He retreated towards Bray, and a considerable part of the French force passed the river after him. The final result was, that Schwartzenberg withdrew the grand army from its positions on the Seine, and established his head- detach a force to the rear of it, the quarters at Troyes. The army of Silesia being restored to marching condition, advanced, on Feb. 21 to Meri on the Seine, purposing to form the right wing of the grand army at Troyes. It was there attacked from the left side of the river by a large force under Marshal Oudinot, upon which Marshal Blucher made immediate preparations to burn the bridge, which connects the two parts of the town, and to defend the part on the right hand. By some accident, however, the town was set on fire, which rendered its defence impracticable; and the rapid advance of the French saved the bridge from being so far injured as to destroy the communication. The small party left in the town was obliged, after a firing of some hours, to give way to the enemy who crossed the bridge. In the mean time Blucher had drawn up his army in two lines on a plain, and three battalions of the enemy having pushed forward to make a passage for the rest of their troops, they were driven back over the bridge, leaving some wounded and prisoners behind. Intelligence being received that Marmont was marching in force from Sezanne towards Chalons, Blucher on the 24th crossed the Aube with his whole army, and followed Marmont, who continued his route to Ferté-sous-Jouarre on the Marne. On arriving at Rebais, Blucher was informed that Marshal Mortier, with the young guard, had marched from Chateau-Thierry to make a junction with Marmont; and it being probable that Napoleon hearing of the march of the army of Silesia in this direction, would passage of the Marne in face of the united troops of Mortier and Marmont, became a matter of delicacy. The plan therefore was adopted of directing the corps of Sacken and Langeron to march by Coulomiers upon Meaux, whilst those of D'Yorck and Kleist were to proceed to Ferté-sous-Jouarre. The result was, that the two French Marshals precipitately quitted that town, and that the passage of the Marne was effected without difficulty. Sacken's advanced guard occupied the suburbs of Meaux on the left bank of the river. On Feb. 23, the French troops with Napoleon invested Troyes on all sides, and a Russian aid-de-camp came to the advanced posts to demand time for evacuating the city, otherwise it would be set on fire. This threat arrested the movements of the French, and Troyes was evacuated during the night. Napoleon entered it in the morning; and according to the French accounts, there were taken in the city 2,000 prisoners, besides 1,000 wounded in the hospital. This recovery of the capital of Champagne was a cause of no small triumph; and the spirits of the Parisians were further supported by the presentation in grand procession to the Empress, of the colours taken from the allies. Napoleon displayed both his apprehensions and his ferocity in a decree issued at Troyes, by which he ordered that every Frenchman who had accompanied the armies of the allied powers in this invasion of the empire, should, without delay, be summoned before his courts and tribunals, and condemned to the penalties inflicted by the laws, and his property confiscated; and that every Frenchman who had worn the badges of the decorations of the ancient dynasty in places occupied by the enemy, should be declared a traitor, and condemned to death, with confiscation of property by a military commission. The French troops assembled near Lyons under the orders of Marshal Augereau, commenced offensive operations about this time, and advanced to Macon and Bourg. The corps of Gen. Bianchi was sent by Prince Schwartzenberg to oppose them. The town of Barsur-Aube having been taken possession of by the enemy, Gen. Wrede was dispatched to retake it, which he effected on the 26th. The French, however, recovered it, but the suburbs remained in the occupation of the Bavarians. On the 27th, Schwartzenberg attacked the enemy on the road to Vaudœuvre, and after a severe action, drove them from all their positions on that side the Aube. The Prince of Wurtemberg and Gen. Guillay, succeeded in obtaining possession of La Ferté and Clairvaux. On the same day Napoleon's guards had attacked Tetenborn, who was posted at Fere Champenoise, and obliged him to retire to Vertus. Napoleon himself was at Arcis, and a considerable corps of his army was marching upon Sezanne. The operations of Schwartzenberg's army were preludes to the recovery of Troyes. Gen. Frimont, after various affairs with the rearguard of the French army, established his head-quarters at Vaudœuvre, The Prince of Wurtemberg, who obtained possession of Bar-sur-Seine on March 1, followed the retreat of the enemy to La Maison Blanche on the 2nd. By a recounoissance on that day, it was ascertained that the French army was in position along the Barce, on the right of the Seine, and at Maison Blanche on the left of it. An attack was determined on by Schwartzenberg on the 3rd. Its details are not intelligible without a local map; but the result was, that Marshal Oudinot was compelled to retreat with a loss of ten pieces of cannon, fifty-four officers, and three thousand prisoners. Generals Wittgenstein and Wrede particularly distinguished themselves in this action. The latter advanced upon the enemy on the 4th, who, upon being summoned to surrender Troyes, capitulated, on being allowed half an hour to evacuate it. As soon as that was expired, Schwartzenberg directed all his cavalry to pursue on the road to Nogent. Napoleon was at this time marching against Blucher; and Schwartzenberg dispatched Platoff to move upon Sezanne, in order to harass his rear. At this period we shall suspend the narrative of events in these quarters till we have given a view of what had been passing in other parts. It will be proper however first to mention, that plenipotentiaries from the different belligerent powers had been sitting at Chatillon during these hostile operations, for the purpose of establishing a basis for a general peace. A The name of the Crown Prince of Sweden has not yet been mentioned as connected with the operations of the allies in France. bulletin from his army, dated Cologne, Feb. 12, relates, that the Prince arrived at that city on the 10th, and gives the following state ment of the position of the different corps composing his army. The corps of Bulow, forming its right, was in the environs of Brussels, and had pushed its advanced posts in the environs of Mons. Winzingerode, whose head-quarters were at Namur, formed the centre: he had already gained possession of Mons, Avesnes, and Rheims. Woronzoff had passed the Rhine at Cologne to come in contact with him. The advanced guard of the Swedish army was to be on the Rhine on the 21st, and the whole army was expected to cross that river before the end of that month. The Danish troops had taken the route of Dusseldorf, passing by Bremen and Munster. It was the declared intention of the Crown-Prince to unite the whole army under his orders on a line between Soissons and Rheims, and then to act according to circumstances. The success of Winzingerode at Soissons has been already mentioned. Tournay was in the possession of the allies about the 20th, the French General Maison having retired to Lisle. Sas Van Ghent about this time surrendered by capitulation. The result of an unfortunate attack upon the strong fortress of Bergen-op-Zoom was the latest intelligence at this time communicated from Holland. On the night of March 8, Sir Thomas Graham collected about 4,000 British troops for an attempt to carry the place by storm. They were formed into four columns, of which two were destined to attack at different points of the fortifications, the third to make a false attack, and the fourth to attack by the entrance of the harbour, which is fordable at low water. The first of these, on the left, led by Major-Gen. Cooke, incurred some delay on account of a difficulty in passing the ditch on the ice, but at length established itself on the rampart. In the mean time the right column under Major-Gen. Skerret, and Brigadier-Gen. Gore, had forced their way into the body of the place, but the fall of the latter officer, and dangerous wounds of the former, caused the column to fall into disorder, and suffer a great loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners. The centre column being driven back by the heavy fire of the place with considerable loss, was re-formed, and marched ronud to join General Cooke. At day break the enemy turned the guns of the place upon the troops on the unprotected rampart, and much loss and confusion ensued, the detail of which it is unnecessary to transcribe. Gen. Cooke at length, despairing of success, directed the retreat of the guards, which was conducted in the most orderly manner; and finding it impossible to withdraw his weak battalions, he saved the lives of the remaining men by a surrender. The governor of Bergen-op-Zoom, Gen. Bizanet, who is represented as a brave and humane man, agreed to a suspension of hostilities for an exchange of prisoners, and to liberal stipulations for the treatment of the wounded left in his hands. The number of killed on this occasion was computed at about three hundred, and of prisoners, at 1,800, among whom a considerable number were wounded. An English reader will naturally feel impatience to be informed of the movements of the combined army under Lord Wellington, which had taken up its winterquarters upon French territory. The first intelligence received from his Lordship was dated from St. Jean de Luz on January 9, at which period no other incident worthy of mention had taken place than the occupation of a height by the French to the right of a Portuguese brigade, from which they were afterwards driven without loss. In a dispatch dated Feb. 20, Lord Wellington mentions that on the 14th he moved the right of the army under Sir R. Hill, which at tacked the enemy's position at Hellete, whence Gen. Harispe was obliged to retire with loss. Gen. Hill pursued on the next day, and found the French in a strong position in front of Garris, where Harispe had been joined by the division of Gen. Paris, which had been recalled from the march it had commenced towards the interior of France, as well as by other troops. A gallant attack was made upon this post by a Spanish and English division, under Gen. Murillo and Sir W. Stewart, who carried it without considerable loss. At the same time the centre of the army made a corresponding movement, and in successive actions drove their opponents across the Gave D'Oleron, upon which, on the 18th, its posts were established. The French at this time had considerably weakened their force at Bayonne, and had withdrawn from the right of the Adour above that town. The relics of the war in Germany consisted in the operations of the allied troops, which were employed in the investment and siege of those towns which were still occupied by French garrisons. The unfortunate city of Hamburg was still suffering under the unrelenting severity of Marshal Davoust's precautionary measures, one of which was the appointment of a commission having the power of condemning to death all persons who even used "inflammatory speeches to exasperate the soldiers against their commanders, or the inhabitants against the lawful powers, or against the troops." Dantzic was evacuated on Jan. 2, according to a capitulation, by which the French garrison remained prisoners of war. It was entered on the same day by Duke Alexander of Wurtemberg, at the head of 16,000 Russians and Prussians, amidst the general rejoicing of the inhabitants delivered from the sufferings of their long siege. The fortress of Wittenberg was carried by storm on the night of January 12, under the direction of Gen. Tauenzien. After the town was taken, the governor retired to the castle; but being summoned under the threat of putting the garrison to the sword, he surrendered at discretion. The loss to the assailants was inconsiderable. The French prisoners were to be sent to Berlin. In Italy the contest between the Austrians and the French was maintained with considerable vigour on both sides. Count Bellegarde, the Austrian general, on passing the Adige, addressed a proclamation to the people of Italy, in which he mentioned the resolution of the King of Naples to join the arms of the allies. It was one of the most decisive symptoms of the opinion entertained of Napoleon's approaching decline, that |