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A late Petersburgh Gazette contains the numbers of marriages, births, and deaths in 1811, in the thirty-six dioceses of the empire. There were born 634,697 males, and 671,450 females; and there died 503,999 males, 432,369

females. There died between 100 and 105 years, 467; between 105 and 110 years, 113; 3 of 140, and 1 of 150; and they record, in the diocese of Ekaterinoslaw, the phenomenon of one old mau between 200 and 205.

ALPHABETICAL LIST of BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced between the 18th of January and the 15th of February, extracted from the London Gazettes. N. B.-In Bankruptcies in and near London, the Attornies are to he understood to reside in London, and in Country Bankruptcies at the Residence of the Bankrupt, except other wise expressed.

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Gould G, Bath

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Gadbold J. Hatton Garden
Hartley J. Whitechapel
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Horth J. Norwich

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Hird R. Skipton, Yorkshire
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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN FEBRUARY. Consisting chiefly of official Papers and authentic Documents.

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in perpetual infancy, and to derive no practical wisdom from experience! It was now thought as easy to march to Paris as to will it ! At our time of writing, the French Bulletins portend great disasters to the allied armies; but let us hope that the lessons given by fortune to both sides, will incline both to PEACE, and that good may thus, providentially as it were, arise out of ENORMOUS EVILS!

FRENCH GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS.

Paris, Feb. 5. Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has received the following advices of the situation of the armies o the 3d February:

The emperor arrived at Vary or the 26th of January. General B. der, with the army of Silesia, had passed the Marne, and was marching on Troyes. On the 27th, the enemy entered Brienne, and continued his march, but he had to lose some time in repairing the bridges of Lesmont on the Aube. On the 27th the emperor The Duke of Belluno presented himself before that town. General Duhesme overthrew the enemy's rear guard which was still there, and took some hundred prisoners. At eight in the morning the emperor arrived at St. Dizier. It is difficult to describe the intoxication of joy of the inhabitants at this moment. The excesses of every kind committed by the enemy, espe cially by the Cossacks, are beyond all description. On the 28th the emperor went to Montierender. On the 20th, at-eight in the morning, General Grouchy, who commands the cavalry, sent word that General Milhaud, with the 5th corps of cavalry, was between Maieres and Brienne, in presence of the enemy's army, commanded by General Blucher, which was estimated at 40,000 Russians and Prussians, the Russians commanded by General Sacken. At four o'clock the little town of Brienne was attacked. General Lefebre des Nouettes, commanding a division of cavalry of the guard, and Generals Grouchy and Milhaud, made several fine charges on the right of the road, and took possession of the height of Perthe. The Prince of Moskwa put himself at the head of six battalions in close column, and advanced against the town by the road of Mazieres. General Chateau, chief of the staff of the Duke of Belluno, at the head of two battalions, turned by the right, and got into the castle of Brienne by the park. At this moment the emperor directed a column on the road of Bar-sur-Aube, which seemed to be the retreat of the enemy. The attack was warm, and the resistance obstinate. The enemy did not expect such a brisk attack, and had but just time to call back his parks from the bridge of Lesmont, where he intended to pass the Aube, to

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advance. This countermarch had much embarrassed him. Night did not put an end to the combat. The division Deconz, of the young guard, and a brigade of the division of Meanier, were engaged. The great force of the enemy, and the excellent situation of Brienne, gave him many advantages, but the taking of the castle, which force, caused him to lose them. he neglected to guard with a sufficient eight in the evening, seeing that he could About no longer maintain his ground, he set fire to the town, and the flames spread with rapidity, all the houses being of wood. Profiting by this event, he endeavoured to retake the castle, which the brave commander of a battalion of the 50th defended with intrepidity. He covered with the dead all the approaches to the castle, particularly the staircases on the park side. This last check determined the retreat of the enemy, which was favoured by the burning of the town.

At eleven in the morning of the 30th, General Grouchy and the Duke of Belluno pursued him beyond the village de la Rothiere, where they took their position. The 31st was employed by us in repairing the bridge of Lesmont, on the Aube; the emperor intending to advance towards Troyes, to operate upon the columns which directed their march by Bar-surAube, and the road of Auxerre upon Sens. The bridge of Lesmont could not be repaired before the 1st of February in the morning. A part of the troops was immediately made to file off. At three in the afternoon, the enemy having been reinforced by his whole army, debonched up la Rothiere and Deinville, which we still held. Our rear guard shewed a good countenance. General Dubesme distinguished himself by preserving Rothiere, and General Gerard by preserving Dienville. The Austrian corps of General Guilay, which attempted to pass from the left bank to the right bank, and to force the bridge, had several of its battalions destroyed. The Duke of Belluno maintained himself the whole day at the hamlet of la Giberie, notwithstanding the enormous disproportion of his corps to the forces that attacked it. This day, in which our rear-guard main. tained itself in a vast plain, against the whole of the enemy's army, and quintuple forces, is one of the finest achievements of the French army. In the midst of the obscurity of the night, a battery of the artil lery of the guard following the movements of a column of cavalry, which was advancing to repulse a charge of the enemy, lost its way and was taken. When the cannoneers perceived the ambush into which they had fallen, and saw that they had not time to form their battery, they formed themselves in a squadron, attacked the enemy, and saved the horses and harness. They lost 15 men killed or taken prisoners. At ten in the evening the Prince of Neuf

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1814.] Public Affairs hatel, visiting the posts, found the two armies so near that he several times took the enemy's posts for ours. One of his aid-de-camps being ten paces from a vidette was taken prisoner. The same accident happened to several Russian officer, who were carrying the word, and who got amongst our posts, taking them for their own. Few prisoners have been made on either side; we have taken 250. On the 2d of February, at break of day, the rear guard of the army was en bataille before Brienne. It successively took position to finish the passing the bridge of Lesmont, and rejoining the rest of the army. The Duke of Ragusa, who was in position upon the bridge of Rosnay, was attacked by an Austrian corps, which had passed behind the woods. He repulsed it, made 300 prisoners, and drove the enemy beyond The small river of Voire. On the 3d, at 3:00n, the emperor entered Troyes. We have lost in the battle of Brienne the brave General Bante; General Lefebre des Nouettes has been wounded by a bayonet; General Froistier has been severely woundad. Our toss in these two days may be

estimated at from 2 to 300 men killed or

wounded. That of the enemy has at least been double. A division, drawn from the enemy's corps d'armee, which observes Metz, Thionville, and Luxembourg, 12 battalions strong, marched upon Vetry The enemy whed to enter that town, which Beneral ontmarie and the inhabitants have defended. He in vain threw in shells to intiondate the inhabitants; he was received with discharges from the cannon, and repulsed to a league and a half dis

tance. The Duke of Tarentum had ar

rived at Chalons, and was marching upon

Paris, Feb 11.-Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has to-day recej red the following intelligence from the army:

The emperor yesterday attacked, at Champanhert, the enemy, consisting of twelve regiments, and having forty pieces The General in Chief Ousou wief has been taken, with all his generals, all his colonels, officers, cannon, caissons, and baggage. We have made 6,000 priBoners; the remainder were driven into a morass (étang), or killed upon the field of batile. The emperor was briskly pursuing General Sacken, who is separated from General Blucher. Our loss has been extremely light; we have not 200 men to regret. His Majesty King Joseph, review. ing to-day the grenadiers of the National Guards of Paris, was pleased to communicate this news to them.

Paris, Feb. 12.-M. Alfred de Montesquieu, Aid de-camp to the Prince of Neufchatel, dispatched by his Majesty MONTHLY MAG. No. 252.

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the Emperor, has brought to her Majesty the Empress the following news:

On the 11th of February, at day-break, the emperor having left Champpaubert after the day of the 10th, pushed a corps tcwards Chalons, to keep in check the ene my's columns, who had thrown themselves on this side. With the rest of his army he took the road to Montmirail. A league be yond he met the corps of General Blucher, and after an action of two hours the whole of the enemy's army was overthrown. Never did our troops display more ardour. The enemy, every where broken, is completely routed; infantry, artillery, ammunition, all is in our power or overthrown. The results will be immense. The Russian

army is destroyed. The emperor is extremely well, and we have lost no person of rank.

Paris. Feb. 13.-Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has received the following accounts of the situation of

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On the 12th of February, his Majesty cher endeavoured to gain Chateau Thierry. General Blu followed up his successes. His troops were driven from position to position: a whole corps which had remain ed united, and which protected his retreat, was cut off. This rear guard was composed battalions, and three pieces of cannon. of four Russian battalions, three Prussian The general who commanded it was also taken. Our troops entered Chateau Thierry pell-mell with the enemy, and are of this army, which is in dreadful confusion. pursuing on the road to Soissons, the wrecks The results of to-day, the 12th, are 30 quantity of baggage-waggons. The num pieces of cannon, and an innumerable ber of prisoners was already 3000; more are brought in every moment. We have still two hours day-light. Among the pri soners are five or six generals, who are sent to Paris. It is believed that the General-in-Chief Sacken has been killed.

Paris, Feb. 16.-Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has received the following intelligence from the army, to the 15th Feb. in the morning:

On the 13th, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the bridge of Chateau Thierry was repaired. The Duke of Treviso passed the Marne, and put himself in pursuit of the enemy, who, in dreadful disorder, appeared to be retiring upon Soissons and Rheins.

General Blucher, commanding in chief all the army of Silesia, had constantly re mained at Vertus during the three days in which his army was annihilated.

He collected 1200 men of the wrecks of General Assuffien's corps, beaten at Champ Aubert, which he joined to a Russian division of the corps of Langeron, arrived from Mayence, and commauded by Lient.

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General Ouroussoff. He was too weak to undertake any thing; but on the 13th he was joined by a Prussan corps, from General Kleist, composed of four brigades. He then put himself at the head of these 20,000 men, and marched against the Duke of Ragusa, who still occupied Etoges. In the night between the 13th and 14th, not judging his forces sufficient to contend against the enemy, the Duke of Ragusa began his retreat, and leaned upon Montmirait, where he was at seven o'clock in the morning on the 14th.

The emperor set out the same day from Chateau Thierry, at four in the morning, and arrived at Montmirail at eight o'clock. He caused the enemy to be immediately attacked, who had just taken a position with the corps of lus troops at the village of Vauchamp. The Duke of Ragusa attacked this village. General Grouchy, at the head of the cavalry, turned the ene my's right by the villages and the woods, and advanced a league beyond the enemy's position. While the village of Vauchamp was vigorously attacked, and defended in the same manner, taken and retaken several times, General Grouchy arrived in the rear of the enemy, surrounded and sabred three squares of the enemy, and drove the rest into the woods. At the same instant the emperor caused a charge to be made on our right by his four squadrons de service, commauded by M. La Biffe, Chef d'Escadron of the Guard. This charge was equally brilliant and successful. A square of 2000 men was broken and taken. All the cavalry of the guard then came in a full trot, and the enemy was pursued l'epée dans les reins. At two o'clock we were at the village of Fromentiers, and the enemy had lost 6000 men, taken prisoners, ten pair of colours, and three pieces of cannon.

The emperor ordered General Grouchy

killed or wounded, which is owing to the readiness with which the troops advanced to the enemy, and to the superiority of our cavalry, which induced him, as soon as he perceived it, to make his artillery retreat, so that he constantly moved under the grape-shot of sixty pieces of cannon, while out of the sixty pieces which he had he did not oppose above two or three to us.

The Prince of Neufchatel, the Grand Marshal of the Palace Count Bertrand, the Duke of Dantzic, and the Prince of Moskwa, were constantly at the head of the troops.

General Grouchy highly praises the divisions of cavalry St. Germain and Doumere. The cavalry of the guard covered itself with glory. General Lion, of the guard, is slightly wounded. The Duke of Ragusa particularly mentions the 1st ma rine regiment. The rest of the infantry, both of the guard and the line, did not fire a shot.

Thus the Silesian army, composed of the Russian corps, of Sacken and Langeron, and the Prussian of Kleist and Yorck, 80,000 strong, has been in four days beaten, dispersed, annihilated without a general action, and without any loss proportioned to such great results.

The inhabitants assert, that of all that army, 10,000 men have not passed through Chateau Thierry, and they in the greatest disorder. A few days before they had seen it flourishing and full of boasting. General Yorck said, that ten howitzers would he sufficient to render him master of Paris. In going these troops only talked of Paris; on returning it was peace which they invoked.

One cannot form an idea of the excesses to which the Cossacks give themselves up; there are no vexations, cruelties, crimes, which those hordes of barbarians have not

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to advance to Champ-Aubert, a league in committed. The peasantry pursuasious

the rear of the enemy. In fact, the enemy continuing his retreat, arrived at this point at night-fall, He was then surrounded on every side, and all would have been taken, if the bad condition of the roads had not prevented 12 pieces of light artillery from following General Grouchy's cavalry. However, though the night was obscure, three squares of his infantry were broken, killed, or taken, and the others briskly pursued as far as Etoges; the cavalry took also three pieces of cannon. The rearguard was composed of the Russian division it was attacked by the first marine regiment of the Duke of Ragusa with the bayonet, broken, and 1000 prisoners taken; among whom are Lieutenant-General Ouroussoff, who commanded it, and all the colonels. The results of this brile liant day are 10,000 prisoners, 10 pieces of cannon, 10 pair of colours, and a great many killed..

Our loss does not exceed 3 or 400 men,

track them in the woods like beasts; seize them and bring them whereever there are French troops. Yesterday they conducted more than 300 of them to Vieux Maisons. All those who hid themselves in the woods, to escape the conquerors, fall into their hands, and every instant augments the number of prisoners.

The people are exasperated to the highest degree. The enemy every where commits the most horrible excesses. All measures are taken for surrounding him on all sides, as soon as he retrogrades one step. Millions of arms wait only for the moment to raise themselves. The sacred territory which the enemy has violated will become

a land of fire which will devour him.

The left wing of the Allied army continuing to push for Paris, Napoleon attacked them at Nangis on the 17th, and at Montereau on the 18th, repulsing them with loss. An English messenger from Lord Castlereagh has arrived this day,

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