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formid&Blif S ^ aj ? with an evident intention to % ntt the former , before a junctidn w ' " maide with the latter . Several engagements took place fiefore the decisive battle , which was
fought at Bnenne , when after a very severe contest Bqoaaparte was compelled to retreat , which he did to Troyes , and then to Nogent , for at the battle of Brienne not only Blucjier , bijt part of Schwartzenberg ' s army wis engaged . The confederates then seem to have taken the determination of
marching to Paris , the one on the rigljt the other on the left bank of the Seine , And now Btronaparte , mustering all Ms force , made another attack on Bluefeer ' s arm y near Chateau Thierry , defeating- them according to his own account vfatnimmenseslaughter ^ and loss of men , liaggrage arid artillery , driving
them before hnh . towards Soissons , and coMpeHift g them to retreat to Rheims . 'Fills we have frorn the French papers , Hfrhjeh however give no account of Stli # artzeiiDerg ^ s army , which in the % tfeaif " time might Have " been expected
* o hiarch airectlytb Paris , and this Expectation gave rise to numerous repcSrts of ^ aris being taken ; and Buonajferfe feeing destroyed , and various ^ frauds beings prattised by the jobbers irj the funds ori the credulity of the
pub-In the mean tithe negociations were Carrying on between the confederate po # er 8 arid tfcre Frerich emperor , ' their ministers thcctitig for this purpose at ^ MtJlioii upon the Seine , At first an eljteet ^ tion was rats ed 9 ' that they migh t produce some effect , and particularly as ¥ fefe toesstfngersrrdrn the English
minister wcYdj ^ rmitte ^^^^ to come directly tb * Eng ! arid tfatoiagh Paris . Bat these ^ iojpes were 1 cept up for only a short ^ Ittie , and various s ^ rrriises were start-; t 9 o : ? on thfeir supposed failure . The at otte time state to
t ^ rtris were d be s ^ rfeh ^ as' B uonaparte cou Id not asgent to , ^ i iH England Was accused , but probably w ^ ithout reason , of throwing every obitacle in the way of negociatirig with the French emperor . At anbther tiine it was said , that nothing could satisfy the confederates but the
re-estabtfch-* nent of the JBoiirbons , and that this woit \ d Ijc effected jo ihp geij-cral saf | $ - faction of the French , as soon as tBe power of Buonaparte was destroyedi ? anU the advocates for that family cou Id Miew th ^ maerv es with any prospect of iuc *
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ces = f : I ft tms ttspect it Waj const ^ ittty maintained , thai 3 the conf ^ ertftes ^ woufd not interfere ^ svith the internal government of the country , nor force a so ^ fe ^ reign upon it against the consent of the
nation . Most probably the negociations were carried on , and are still carrying on , as such things generally are * , the ; terms rising or failing with the prospects of each party .
The conflict , however , does not appear so near its termination a 9 at first was expected . When we wrote our Jast repoi-t the probabilities vrere strong * that the confederates would dictate the terms of peace at Paris , and the check given to them by Buonaparte does not by any means
remove that expectation . The losses experienced by Bluclier will be easHy made up by the troops tmder tne Grown Prince of Sweden , who was advanced as far as Cologne in bis way to Paris 5 and the Netherlands having " renounced their incorporation with France , the way is made easy for anotber immense force to inarch
througb rfiat cou 11 try towards tne capital . Thus Buona ^ xBrte bas afiny after army to repulse , arid bis supplies are every day growing weaker : but at the same time , when we reflect oii ' fhfe energies of the French peojl ^ , it cannot be imagined , ibat ^ if tfe ^ persevere in their ailegiatibe tt > their emperor , the conquest of Frande Wilt be effected without torreiitb of frlotfd ,
and many dubious battlesi : 'v ' - * The English army in the South * # f France has been kept in ckeck bf tn « forces under the command ofSouli ^ which , however , have undergotafe a . very material change : for his vefih'atis have been transported byrapid marches to the aid of the empe ^ r , and their places have been supplied ? by the hew levies Kiade in the Soutli of -Fretted . As thie confederate army took tbfe direction of Paris from Switzerland , Lyons and the South of 'France hkve hitherto escaped . But tfte main point
is now Paris , and to" that city thic eyes of all Europe are tui * ncd ; It is left under the guardianship of the Empress Rtegeait , and every precaution is taken to preserve it from a suddeu attack . On the i eal state of its inhabit ants
tittle cati J > e known wHll certauity . The bank , as might naturaHy ' eip pecteci fn such Strati nrtstiitc ^ , h ^« ' tiogmit p « y ^ nett f ^ biit oyily to ^ ir jcer ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/63/
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