turned in the same manner. The day was gave "To her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. "The Loyal and Dutiful Address of the "May it please your Royal Highness, "We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, deeply interested in whatever concerns the honour and happiness of your Royal Highness, and the Illustrious Family with whom you are so intimately allied, approach your Royal Highness, to offer our sincere congratulations on the signal and decisive triumph. your Royal Highness has recently obtained. "We have witnessed with horror and indignation the odious and wicked conspiracy which, by malice the most inveterate, has for so many years been directed against your life and honour; and we beg to assure your Royal Highness, that while we hold in the utmost abhorrence acts so base and atrocious, we cannot sufficiently express our admiration of the dignified forbearance and magnanimity which your Royal Highness has manifested under a persecution of such duration, and aggravated by circumstances so trying and afflicting. "During the whole of this most arduous conflict, we have never ceased to regard the dangerous situation of your Royal Highness with feelings of the most lively sympathy, and we have beheld in the fortitude and firmness of your Royal Highness, conviction the most decisive of the unblemished rectitude of your conduct, which not only dared, but courted the most rigid investigation; and greatly as we lament that your Royal Highness should have been compelled, by any combination of events, to claim to be considered as innocent, or proved to be guilty, yet we feel with your Royal Highness that the period had at length arrived when forbearance would have ceased to have been a virtue. "We cannot, therefore, sufficiently applaud the wisdom and firmness displayed by your Royal Highness in demanding, for the more public vindication of your own honour, that of your illustrious consort, and the safety, peace, and happiness of these realms, an open inquiry into the base charges of your Calumniators, or an unqua lified admission of your innocence. "We sincerely offer to your Royal Highness our heartfelt congratulations on your complete and happy triumph over so dark and detestable a conspiracy, supported as it was by subornation and perjury; and we are most grateful to your Royal Highness for the proofs we have received in so firmly defending your own honour, of the anxiety you feel for the welfare and happiness of these kingdoms-this conduct affords to us the surest pledge of the blessings we may expect from your Royal Highness, when it shall please Providence to place your Royal Highness, with your Royal Consort, on the British Throne; and we most ardently hope, that the painful recol lection of your past sufferings may be lost in the pleasing enjoyment of an unrestricted intercourse with your Illustrious Daughter, the Princess Charlotte, and that she, without the same painful occasion to exercise them, may inherit, all the virtues of her Royal Mother, and afford us the consoling hope, that taught to venerate the free principles of the British Constitution as the best protection for innocence and security against oppression, she may, should the period ever arrive when she may be called to preside over the destinies of this Empire, uphold and maintain our liberties, and reign in the hearts of a free, happy, and united people. "Signed, by Order of Court, "HENRY WOODTHORPE." Answer of Her Royal Highness. "I receive with the greatest satisfaction the congratulations of the City of London; no branch of the House of Brunswick can ever forget to whose exertions chiefly it owes the Throne of those realms, and I have now peculiar reason to know the value of the Constitution which those exertions purchased, because I have found it a sure protection when I had no other defence. "The extraordinary situation in which I was placed compelled me to come forward in behalf of my honour and my life. "I have been rewarded not only by the universal acknowledgment of my innocence, but by testimonies of affection from a loyal and high-spirited people, which I shall gratefully remember as long as I live. and peaceable demeanor in this new and afflicting aspect of public affairs. They assure their countrymen the merit of their present and past obedience is not unknown to their beloved Monarch, who, though overwhelmed with cares and sickness, will shortly be in a situation to give them fresh proofs of his paternal regard. The Commission have been honoured by accounts from the Sovereign, dated Amberg, the 18th of March. His Majesty was then proceeding to Ratisbon. All Íoyal Saxons may rely on this intelligence. The Monarch will return. In the meanwhile they recommend submission to the course of events. Circumstances may render it necessary for the French General to withdraw his troops from the city, to meet the foe at other points; in which case the Russians may be received and provided with quarters and refreshments. It cannot be deemed criminal to yield, when resistance would be destruction. The Commission exhort their fellow-countrymen not to suffer themselves to be seduced from their allegiance. So foul an act would justly efface the merit of all their sacrifices during the last ten years. Dresden, March 28, 1813. GERMANY. Proclamation of General St. Cyr to the Inhabitants of the New Departments. INHABITANTS! I learn with the deepest regret, that evil disposed men, agents of the enemy, have mingled among all classes of your population, and seduced many to break that oath of allegiance which they had taken to Napoleon the Great, on the union of these departments with the Empire of France. Chimerical and absurd as the hopes are which these men have held out, they appear to have had but too much success. In frantic terms they have exhorted you to seize the opportunity of breaking your chains; and confide impli "At the present moment I am rather disposed to dwell upon this pleasing circumstance, than upon any recollection of a less agreeable kind. The trials, however, which I have undergone will, I am confident, produce one good effect-they will confirm in my Daughter's mind that attachinent to the Constitution which she already cherished, and impress her more and more with the conviction, that no station can be secure except in a free country: it is both the interest and the most sacred duty of an English Monarch to watch over the liber-citly to the promises of avowed enemies for ties of the people." the realization of a happiness, which can alone be conferred and secured to you by the great Monarch who now sways the sceptre of France. Reflect by whom these promises have been made; by a nation of harbarians, whose army, beaten in every encounter, was preserved from annihilation, and its kingdom from conquest and destruction, solely by the premature rigour of a season for which we were unprovided. They have followed our steps into Ger many; and have every where endeavoured ter with which the general Disturber bound to sow the seeds of disunion. Dreading a Germany, after dismembering her, and renewal of the war in Russia, they seek even obscuring her ancient name, can no allies in Germany, who will assuredly be- longer be tolerated, as it is the effect of come their victims, and be abandoned, on foreign constraint and of foreign influence. the first movement of the armies which are It must be dissolved.- -Their Majesties now organizing throughout the provinces of will only give protection while the German France. Recal to mind the acts of those Princes and nations are engaged in comwho now entice you to rebellion. Remem- pleting the grand work. Let France, ber in what manner they have abandoned who is beauteous and strong through heryou on former occasions, and ask yourselves self, occupy herself, in future, in prowhat support they are likely to afford you. moting her internal welfare! No foreign The vanguard of the Russian army has only power intends disturbing it-no hostile crossed the Elbe to plunder and destroy, power shall be sent against her rightful and has retired on the approach of our frontiers. But be it known to France, that troops. The forces of that power have ad- the other powers are solicitous of conquervanced with a temerity which will not ing lasting tranquillity for their subjects, escape chastisement. The first battle will and that they will not lay down their arms, be the signal for the garrisons of the for- until the foundation of the independence tresses they have left in their rear, to sally of every European state has been establishout and cut off their retreat. The first de-ed and secured.In the name of their feat will be to them annihilation; too hap- Majesties the Emperor of Russia and King py if the remains of their armies are per- of Prussia. mitted to return by capitulation. Prussia has been compelled to unite with the enemy. Her conduct merits as much pity as contempt. But she will be the first to abandon the alliance she has formed. From Russian Address to the Germans. While the victorious warriors of Russia, accompanied by those of His Majesty the King of Prussia, his ally, appear in Germany, His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and His Majesty the King of Prussia, announce to the Princes and nations of Germany, the return of liberty and independence. They only come with an intention of aiding them to reconquer those inalienable benefits of nations, and of affording powerful protection, and lasting security, to the regeneration of a venerable Empire.- -These two armies, trusting in God, and full of courage, advance, hoping that every German, without distinction, will join them, &c.—The Confederation of the Rhine, that deceitful fet Prince KUTOUSOFF SMOLENSK, FRANCE. IMPERIAL DECREE. Palace of the Thuilleries, March 25, 1813. -Art. 1. The Concordat, signed at Fontainbleau, which regulates the affairs of the Church, and which was, on the 13th of February, 1813, published as the law of the State, is obligatory upon our Archbishops, Bishops, and Chapters, who shall be bound to conform to it.-2. As soon as we shall have nominated to a vacant Bishoprick, and communicated such nomination to the Holy Father, in the forms prescribed by the Concordat, our Minister of Worship shall send an account of such nomination to the Metropolitan, and if the nomination be a Metropolitan, to the oldest Bishop of the Ecclesiastical Province. - -3. The persons whom we shall have nominated, shall appear before the Metropolitan, who will make the prescribed inquiries, and address the result of them to the Holy Father.-4. If the person nominated should be under any ecclesiastical exclusion, the Metropolitan will immediately inform us of it; and in the case where no reason for ecclesiastical ex ficers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the American army, and with a loss on their part of nearly the like number in killed and wounded. For the details of this affair, which reflects the highest credit on Colonel Proctor, for the promptitude, gallantry, and decision which he has mani clusion exists, if the appointment is not made by the Pope, within six months from the notification of our nomination, according to the 4th Article of the Concordat, the Metropolitan, assisted by the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical province, shall be obliged to give the said appointment.5. Our Imperial Courts shall take cogni-fested upon this occasion, I beg leave to rezance of all the affairs known under the fer your Lordship to his letter to Majorname of appeals, as abuses, as well as of General Sheaffe, herewith transmitted.those which may result from the non-ex- I have also the honour of transmitting to ecution of the laws of the Concordat. your Lordship returns of the killed and 6. Our Grand Judge shall present a pro-wounded on our part, and of the prisoners jet for a law, to be discussed in our council, to determine the proceedings and penalties applicable in these matters.-7. Our Ministers of France and the Kingdom of Italy are charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall be inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws. (Signed) By the Emperor, NAPOLEON, (Signed) By the Minister Secretary of State, Count AMERICAN WAR, taken from the enemy, the latter of which, your Lordship will not fail to observe, more than exceeded the whole of the regular and militia force which Colonel Proctor had to oppose to them. Major General Harrison, with the main body of his army, consisting of about two thousand men, was reported to be four or five days march distant from Brigadier-General Winchester's diviDARU.sion, advancing in the direction of Detroit. Downing-street, April 22, 1813. A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy, was this day received by the Earl Bathurst, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from Lieutenant-Gen. Sir George Prevost, Bart. Governor General and Commander in Chief of the Forces in North America. Quebec, Feb. 8, 1813. My Lord, I have the honour to congratulate your Lordship upon the signal success which has again attended His Majesty's arms in Upper Canada.--Brigadier-General Winchester, with a division of the forces of the United States, consisting of upwards of one thousand men, being the right wing of Major-General Harrison's army, thrown in advance, marching to the attack of Detroit, was completely defeated on the 22d January last, by Colonel Proctor, commanding in the Michigan territory, with a force which he had hastily collected upon the approach of the enemy, consisting of a small detachment of the 10th Royal Veteran Battalion, three companies of the 41 st regiment, a party of the Royal Newfoundland Fencibles, the sailors belonging to the Queen Charlotte, and one hundred and fifty of the Essex militia, not exceeding five hundred regulars and militia, and about six hundred Indians; the result of the action has been the surrender of BrigadierGeneral Winchester, with five hundred of I think it not improbable that, upon hearing of the disaster of this division and the loss of the supplies, he may commence his retreat; but should he persevere in his endeavours to penetrate further into the Michigan territory, I feel the fullest confidence in the skill and bravery of Col. Proctor and the troops under his command, for an effectual resistance to every attempt of the enemy in that quarter. -A small detachment from the royal artillery, at Fort George, with the light infantry company of the 41st regiment, have marched to reinforce Detroit; they are to be replaced on the Niagara frontier by troops now in motion from Montreal.—I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) GEORGE PREVOST. To the Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, &c. &c. Sandwich, Jan. 25, 1813. Sir,-In my last dispatch I acquainted you that the enemy was in the Michigan territory, marching upon Detroit, and that I therefore deemed it necessary that he should be attacked without delay, with all and every description of force within my reach. Early in the morning of the 19th, I was informed of his being in possession of Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, 26 miles from Detroit, after experiencing every resistance that Major Reynolds, of the Essex militia, had it in his power to make, with a three-pounder, well served and directed by Bombardier Kitson, of the royal artillery, and the militia, three of whom he had well trained to the use of it. The re 699] a return of the arms and ammunition which Admiralty-Office, April 20, 1813. Letters, of which the following are Copies and Extracts, have been transmitted to this Office by Rear-Admiral Dixon, addressed to John Wilson Croker, Esq. by Lieut. Chads, late First Lieutenant of His Majesty's ship Java. United States frigate Constitution, off December 31, 1812. treat of the gun was covered by a brave band of Indians, who made the enemy pay dear for what he obtained. This party, composed of militia and Indians, with the gun, fell back eighteen miles to Brown's Town, the settlement of the brave Wyandots, where I directed my force to assemble. On the 21st instant, I advanced twelve miles to Swan Creek, from whence we marched to the enemy, and attacked him at break of day on the 22d instant; and after suffering, for our numbers, a considerable loss, the enemy's force posted in houses and enclosures, and which, from dread of falling into the hands of the Indians, they most obstinately defended, at length surrendered at discretion; the other part of their force, in attempting to retreat by the way they came, were, I believe, all, or with very few exceptions, killed by the Indians. Brigadier-General Winchester was taken in the pursuit by the Wyandot Chief Roundhead, who afterwards surrendered him to me.--You will perceive that I have lost no time; indeed it was necessary to be prompt in my movements, as the enemy would have been joined by Major-General Harrison in a few days. The troops, the marines, and the militia, displayed great bravery, and behaved uncommonly well. Where so much zeal and spirit were manifested, it would be unjust to attempt to particularize any; I cannot, however, refrain from mentioning Lieut.-Colonel St. George, who re-tution, which resulted in the capture and ceived four wounds in a gallant attempt to occupy a building which was favourably situated for annoying the enemy; together with Ensign Kerr, of the Newfoundland regiment, who, I fear, is very dangerously wounded. The zeal and courage of the Indian department were never more conspicuous than on this occasion, and the Indian warriors fought with their usual bravery. I am much indebted to the different departments, the troops having been well and timely supplied with every requisite the district could afford.--I have fortunately not been deprived of the services of Lieut. Troughton, of the Royal Artillery, and acting in the Quarter-master General's department, although he was wounded, to whose zealous and unwearied exertions I am so greatly indebted, as well as to the whole of the Royal Artillery, for their conduct in this affair.--I enclose a list of the killed and wounded, and cannot but lament that there are so many of both, but of the latter I am happy to say a large proportion will return to their duty, and most of them in a short time; I also enclose ultimate destruction of His Majesty's ship. |