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tfie prince-royal of Wirtemberg, who immediately marched 
on Bray by Pont-fur-Yonne. On the 9th, count Hardegg 
attacked the rear of the French at Romilly and St. Hi¬ 
laire; and, joined by Wittgenstein, he again attacked 
them near St. Aubin and Marnay, and drove them upon 
Nogent, part of which was occupied by count Hardegg 
on the 10th. Wittgenftein having advanced towards 
Pont-fur-Seine, general Wrede towards Bray, the French 
abandoned the left of the Seine, and deftroyed the bridges, 
which were re-eftablifhed by the allies ; and Gen. Wrede 
advanced towards Provins. Gen. Wittgenftein crofting 
at Pont-fur-Seir«e, generals Bianchi and Guilay were at 
the fame time marching on Montereau ; and meafures 
were taken to place the grand army on the left of the 
Seine, with the right at Mery and the left at Montereau, 
fvitli the corps of generals Wrede and Wittgenftein, and 
of the prince-royal of Wirtemberg, at Provins and Ville- 
neuve.—On the 16th, difpofitions were made (on receiv¬ 
ing intelligence that Blucher had repulfed the corps op- 
pofed to him, and was advancing beyond Etoges) to re¬ 
move the head-quarters to Bray, and the corps of Wrede 
and Wittgenftein by Nangis towards Melun; that of 
Gen. Bianchi prefting upon Fontainebleau.—Mr. Robin- 
fbn (who brought the difpatches) was officially acquaint¬ 
ed, on his road, at Troyes, that, on the 17th, Fontaine¬ 
bleau had beeiT'taken by counts Hardegg and Thurn, and 
general Platoff; that the enemy loft fome guns and pri- 
ioners.and that the allied advanced ports were again pufhed 
on towards Paris. 
On the i 3 th Bonaparte attacked, with a large corps of 
cavalry, at Nangis, the advanced guard of count Witt- 
genrtein’s corps, under count Pahlen, and drove it back 
with confiderabie lofs both of men and artillery. Prince 
Schwartzenberg then withdrew his army behind the Seine. 
On the 19th the French made three defperate attacks upon 
the corps of the prince-royal of Wirtemberg, ported at 
Montereau, and occupying the bridge at that place. They 
•were repulfed with lofs : the prince of Wirtemberg took 
fome cannon : late, however, in the evening the attack 
was renewed, and the French fucceeded in obtaining pof- 
feflion of the bridge, and parted over a confiderabie part 
of the army. 
In the mean time, a treaty had been concluded between 
Bonaparte and Ferdinand VII. king of Spain. The bearer 
of it to the Spanifh government was the duke of San Carlos. 
He arrived at Madrid on the 4th of Jan. with a letter 
from Ferdinand, dated from Valence in France ; in which, 
after announcing his own good health, and that of his un¬ 
cle and brother, he trprefied the fatisfaClion he felt with 
the facrifices of the nation for his perfon, and its exer¬ 
tions in his behalf. He is farther made to praife the per- 
fevering fpirit of the Englifh, and the admirable conduct 
of lord Wellington, together with that of the Spanifh ge¬ 
nerals and the allies. The treaty is dated Valence, Dec. 11, 
1813; and is comprifed in 15 articles. The places oc¬ 
cupied by the French are to be reftored in their prefent 
ftate. Ferdinand engages to maintain the integrity of 
Spain in all her pofl’effions, particularly in thole of Port 
Mahon and Ceuta. A military convention is to be con¬ 
cluded, whereby the Englifh and French troops are to eva¬ 
cuate the peninfula at the fame time. Napoleon and Fer¬ 
dinand agree to maintain the maritime rights of Europe, 
fuch as they are faid to have been fettled by the treaty of 
Utrecht, and to have exifted in 179a. All the Spaniards 
attached to Jofeph to he reftored to their country. The 
garrifon of Pamplona, together with the prifor.ers at Ca¬ 
diz, Corunna, &c. placed in the hands of the Englifh, to 
be reftored. Ferdinand to pay his father-and mother 30 
millions of rials annually ; and, at the death of the father, 
two millions of francs to be continued to the mother. 
The following extract from the Concifo, Spanilh paper, 
ftiows that the Spaniards were not duped by the artifice 
thus laid to entrap them : “ There is not a good Spaniard 
vvlio does not defire the return of the unfortunate Ferdi¬ 
nand ; but he wifhes it for the good of his country, and 
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not to expofe it'to greater evils than thofe it has al¬ 
ready ipffered. Ferdinand mult return in the way in 
which Spaniards with ir, and not as Bonaparte means it. 
He muft come to make us happy, and not to be the caufe 
(though the innocent one) of new calamities'. Happy 
will be the day on which Ferdinand, reftored to his loyal 
fubjeCts, may be thus addreffed : Here is your throne, 
prelerved by the loyalty of your' fubjefts; here is your 
crown, ranfomed by the blood of Spaniards; here is your 
fceptre, which Spanifh conftancy replaces in your hands ; 
here is your royal robe, tinged with the blood of thou- 
fands of victims who have fallen that you might .preferve 
it. Never forget that to the Spanifh people you owe every¬ 
thing ! Never forget that you are come to be the chief 
of a nation, the monarch of fubjefts, who have abolifhed 
the'veltiges of defpotifm.” 
The Cortes came, on the 2d of February, to a final de¬ 
termination, refpefting the mode of receiving Ferdi¬ 
nand VII. By a decree, confuting of 14 articles', it is re- 
l’olved, that Ferdinand, on entering the territories of Spain, 
muft immediately fwear to obf'erve the provifions of the 
new conftitutiori. He is to be accompanied by no fo¬ 
reign force, by no renegade Spaniards, by no foreigners 
of any defcription, either in the capacity of domeftics, or 
any other. 
It was on this occafion noticed, with great concern, 
that two parties are gradually forming in Spain ; one the 
advocates of a defpotic monarchy, the other the admirers 
of the new conftitution. Reyna, the deputy for Seville, 
declared at this fitting of the Cortes, “ that, when Ferdi¬ 
nand VII. was born, with him was born the right of 
ruling Spain defpotically ; and that, when he fhould re¬ 
turn, the conftitution would be null and void.” The de¬ 
puties and the people in the galleries were fo indignant, 
that Reyna was driven from his place, and a procefs in- 
Itituted againft him. 
Ferdinand has however now reached his father’s king¬ 
dom under better aufpices. He arrived at Valencia in 
Spain on the 16th of April, and is probably before this 
time at Madrid. 
The prefent was thought a favourable opportunity for 
endeavouring to afcertain how the minds of the French 
people were affeCted towards the Bourbons. The experi¬ 
ment was attended with the happieft refult. The count 
d’Artois, brother to the king, left Bade on the 19th of 
February, and advanced intoFranche Comte. He imme¬ 
diately publifhed the following proclamation :—“ We, 
Charles Philip of France, Son of France, Monfieur, Count 
d’Artois, Brother to the King, and Lieutenant-general of 
the Kingdom ; to all Frenchmen, greeting. Frenchmen t 
The day of your redemption is arrived ; the brother of your 
king is in the midft of you—he comes to rear again the 
ancient banner of the lilies in the heart of France, and 
to announce to you the return of happinefs and peace, 
and the reftoration of law and public liberty under a pro¬ 
tecting government. No conqueror, no war, no confcrip- 
tion, no confolidated taxes, any longer! At the voice of 
your fovereign, your father, may your misfortunes be 
wiped off by hope, your errors by forgivenefs, and your 
difienfions by the union to be effected, for which he is 
yourfecurity. He burns with defire to fulfil the promifes 
he has made to you, which he this day folemnly renews; 
and by his love and benevolence to render happy the mo¬ 
ment, which-, bringing him back to his fubjeCts, reftores 
him to his children. Five le roi!" 
The count was received in all the French towns and 
villages with acclamations, and with cries of Five le roi 
Louis XFUI. Vivenl les Bourbons. On arriving at Vefoul, 
the population of the town, about 5000 fouls, came out 
to meet him. 
But it was at Bourdeaux that the firft official and im¬ 
portant manifeftation of this happy change took place._ 
In confequence of the defeat of Soult by lord Wellington 
at Orthes on the 27th of February, general Beresford°w-a$ 
ordered to pufii forward to attack Bourdeaux; but he 
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