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VOLUME I.
[ The Brunswick Advocate,
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OF TIIE
A WEEKLY PAPER,
PUBLISHED AT BRUNSWICK, GLYNN
COUNTY, GEORGIA.
The causes which render necessary the es
tablishment of this Press, and its claims to the
support of the public, can best be presented by
the statement of a few facts.
Brunswick possesses a harbor, which for ac
cessibility, spaciousness and security, is une
qualled on the Southern Coast This, of itself,
would be sufficient to render its growth rapid,
and its importance permanent; for the best
port South of the Potomac must become the
site of a great commercial city. But when to
this is added the singular salubrity of the cli
mate, free from those noxious exhalations gen
erated by the union of salt ami river waters,
and which arc indeed “charnel airs” to a white
population, it must be admitted that Brunswick
contains all the requisites % a healthy and
populous city. Thus much has been the work
of Nature : but already Art has begun to lend
her aid to this favored spot, and the industry of j
man bids fair to increase its capacities, and j
add to its importance a hundred fold. In a
few months, a canal will open to the harbor of:
Brunswick the vast and fertile country through
which flow die Altamaha, and its great tribu
taries. A Rail Road will shortly be commenc
ed, terminating at Pensacola, thus uniting the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic
Ocean. Other Rail Roads intersecting the
Btate in various directions, will make Bruns- j
wick their depot, and a large portion of the
trade from the Valley of the Mississippi will
yet find its way to her wharves. Such, in a
few words, are the principal causes which will
operate in rendering Brunswick the principal
city of the South. But while its advantages
are so numerous and obvious, there have been
found individuals and presses prompted by cel- 1
fish fears and interested motives, to oppose an j
undertaking which must add so much to the
importance and prosperity of the State. Their
united powers are now applied to thwart in
every possible manner, this great public bene
fit Misrepresentation and ridicule, invective
and denunciation have been heaped on Bruns
wick and its friends. To counteract these ef
forts by the publication and wide dissemination
of the facts—to present the claims of Bruns
wick to the confidence and favor of flic public,
to furnish information relating to all the
great works of Internal Improvement now go
ing on through the State, and to aid in devel
oping the resources of Georgia, will be the
leading objects of this Press.
Such being iis ciul and aim, any interfer
ence in the party politico of the day we nd be
improper and impolitic. Brunswick has re
ceived benefits from—it has friends in all par
ties, and every consideration is opposed to
rendering its Press the organ of a paity. To
the citizens of Georgia—and not to the mem
bers of a party—to the friends of Brunswick—
to the advocates of Internal Improvement— to
the cons:derate and refiectiug—do we applv
tor aid and support.
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vance, or four dollars at the end of the year.
•h • FROST, Editor.
• & SHORT, Publishers,
BRIUSWICK.
NAVY YARD
SOUTH OF CHESAPEAKE BA Y. ! i
Letter from the Secretary of the Nary, 1
Transmitting a copy of the Report of the 1
Commissioners with the examination ofi 1
Harbors south of Chesapeake Bay, with I!
a view to the establishment of a Navy
Yard. * 1
Navy Department, Feb. 1, 1837.
Sir: —ln compliance with a Resolution ’
of the House of Representatives of the (
28th ultimo, I have the honor to transmit, i,
herewith, a copy of the Report of the com- j!
tnissioners charged with the examination of 1 \
Ports and Harbors south of the Chesapeake ■
Bay, with a view to their comparative ad- (
vantages for the establishment of a Navy <
Yard.
1 am, with great respect, your obedient j
servant,
M. DICKERSON, !
Secretary of the Navy. ]
To the Honorable the Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
The undersigned Commissioners under i
a Resolution of the Senate of the United l
States, “To survey and examine Ports : i
south of the Chesapeake, with a view to j >
their comparative facilities and advantages 1 1
for the establishment of a Navy Yard, ” i
have the honor to report:
That they have given to the subject all 1
the reilection which itsnational importance j
demands ; have personally inspected the j
several ports whose draught of water gave
claim to public attention ; and have mature
ly weighed their relative pretensions to the
favorable consideration of the Govern
ment.
The undersigned arriving at a prefer
ence for a particular port, have discarded
all prejudice of a local or sectional nature
and have solely been influenced Jiy a strict|
regard of the public good. Asa basis for |
their decision, they have looked for funda- j
mental principles, and have been guided by
j the great desiderata in a naval establish
! meat on shore. They may be classed un
! der the following heads, and obtain value
i in the order in which they stand, viz :
1. Sufficient depth of water to permit
free access, at any state of tide, for the hea
viest class ofships of war.
2. Defence by land and by water.
3. Resources and supplies of every kind
for the speedy equipment of fleets.
4. Salubrity at every season of the year.
5. Ample supply of fresh water.
(i. Facility of wharfing and docking.
As no port south of the Chesapeake pos
sesses all these advantages, (and, indeed,
there is but one in the whole Union which
does possess them,) it has become the duty
of the undersigned, by the resolution of
the Senate, to designate that one which
seemed to them to have the greater number
of approximating qualifications.
CHARLESTON, S. C.
The port of Charleston, being the first
in magnitude and also first in order of in
spection, claimed their primary attention.
This harbor has been repeatedly surveyed,
and recently by competent officers of the j
United States army. The chart projected
hv them has been tested by the undersign- i
ed, and the result proved its essential accur- j'
racy ; from which, together with a naval j
survey in 1835, and valuable information
obtained from experienced pilots and other j
sources, it would seem to he established 1
that the mouth of the harbor is the main |
j obstacle to its present usefulness as a naval
| station ; for, being deficient in depth ofwa-j
: ter, no vessels larger than sloops of war can |
pass, and they only at high tides, and with j
a smooth sea.
This bar, which is of sand, forms an al
most continuous chain ot breakers running •
parallel with the coast, for nine or ton
i miles. The tides and freshets of the riv
! cr have broken through this barrier, and
' four channels have been formed for the
discharge of the waters. Three of them
are now incapable ot being navigated bv
large vessels, and the fourth,the mam chan
nel, is liable to great changes, from heavy
gales. Within twenty years it has been en
tirely removed from its former site. It i>
displaced by more than half a mile: and
where formerly passed in security ships of
17 and 18 feet draught of water, now rolls
j a dangerous breaker. ’I lie undersigned,
in contemplating the possible obliteration
ofthe present ship channel by the rieposite
of some future gale, do not regard it as a
lasting injury to the port: lor they believe
that anew, more convenient, and, perhaps,
deeper channel may he effected, by obstruc
tions in the ticlc-wav,which shall guide to a
given point on the bar the vast & swili col
umn of water composing its freshets & ebo.
Such is observed to bo the ac tion present
ed by the fortification now being erected
in the river, which has already, though very
incomplete and not very extensive, caused
in the opinion of pilots, the overfud cd tne
channel to be considerably deepened. Ibe
effect of so much power, directed on such
an easily moved ,-übtance of this bar, w hen
aided by dredging machines, cannot be
cjuestioned. Th* noble harbor with’.n,
sufficient in every ye*pect t*» accommodate
a large lleet and of the heaviest uraught.
i the great seat of wealth and
BRUNSWICK, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 3, 1337.
Southern commerce, all seem to bespeak
for it a generous expenditure of the nation
al treasure. But these speculations, wheth
er true or otherwise, belong to the engin
eer, whose know ledge of currents and their
effects will have due weight in such a con
tingency. Charleston is now consider
ed accessible with a draught of 17 1-2 feet,
hut with the aid of steam, a good tide, and
smooth water, a ship drawing IS 1-2 feet,
may be safely conducted. The average
rise of the tide is (5 feet, which is increased
or diminished by the violence and duration
ofthe seaward or landward winds, and this
rise and exterior influence is applicable to
all the harbors ofthe Carolinas and Geor
gia. There can be no difficulty in obtain
ing eligible sites for a navy yard, whenev
er it may he resolved to establish one in
Charleston.
BEAUFORT, S. C.
Th is harbor was surveyed by Lieutenant
Stockton in 1828. llis report has been
tested by soundings and observation, and
its general correctness ascertained. The
arm ofthe sea which enters between Hunt
ing and Fikon’s islands is known as Port
Royal sound. It is sufficiently deep and
capacious to accommodate the largest
fleets, but, like all the ports south ofthe
Chesapeake, labors under the disad
vantages of having a liar placed at its en
trance. From the bar to Beaufort the dis
tance is about 18 miles. Abetter position
for a navy yard can be found in the vicini
ty of Beaufort than at the town. The bar
has an average depth of 17 feet, which per
mits,with a fu!! tide, the passage ofa frigate.
Beaufort is placed in the line of internal
navigation between Charleston and Savan
nah, and hence, if blockaded by an enemy
by sea, has a safe and speedy transport of
supplies. The absence of a fresh water
river and marshes seems to assure as
great a degree of hcauli as in any of the
Southern harbors.
SAVANNAH, Georgia.
The bar at the nroth oftheSavannah river
is the deepest and most accessible of any on
the Southern const. The average depth is
19 feet at low water ; and hence, with a fell
tide, a frigate may pass in safety. But al
though thus favored at the entrance, these
advantages are soon lost in ascending the
river. The first point of effectual defence,
salubrity, and locality of a navy yard,
is Cockspur island, situated within five
miles ofthe bar, and two miles within the
river; but a frigate cannot reach this point,
by reason of an extensive sand-bank half a
mile below it, on which but 14 feet, at low
water, can be obtained. In ascending still
farther up, the shoals are frequent, and of
less draught of water ; and the river at first
brackish, becomes fresh ; and bonce, in so
low a latitude, ami surrounded by marshes,
is unhealthy in summer.
DARIEN, Georgia.
Merchant ships of heavy burden can
enter the port of Darien ; but it is unsuita
ble to naval purposes, by reason of its unfa
vorable locality, being surrounded by
swamps and morales and on account of its
being placed on a fresh water river, which,
in so low a latitude, must cause unhealthi
ness. The port of Darien can have no
greater pretension than the ingress of a
sloop of war ; and, hence, cannot compete
with the deeper harbor in the same State.
BR U NSW ICK, G non gi a .
The waters forming the port of Brun
swick are generally designated as Turtle
river ; hut, properly speaking, it is an arm
ofthe sea, which, entering between the isl
ands of Jekyl and St. Simon's,flows into the
interior for upwards of 29 miles, forming
a wide deep and swift column. As no fresh
j water river empties into this basin, it is al-
I ways salt, free from freshets and alluvial
i doposites ; and hence, from an early peri
lodoftime, no change whatever has been
| perceptible in the soundings or general
character ofthe port. From the large isP
i ands of St. Simon’s and Jekyl, (which arc
' distant from each other about one mile,)
I and running seaward for about six miles,
j are jutting two extensive sand-pits. At
' low water portions of them are laid bare;
j and unless the sea is unushally smooth,
'they form, in nearly their whole extent,
i lines of continuous breakers. Between
’ the spit-heads we found 22 feet at low wa
ter. Proceeding towards the land, by trav
! ersinTthe whole breadth ofthe channel,
the soundings gradually shoaled to 18 feat,
which is the least draught of water found in
the channel-w ay. About one mile within
Uhe. spit-heads, is “the .middle ground, - ’
Which is a hank of sand resting on the
j southern or Jekyl spit, and jutting into the
channel-way some 2(!ofathoms ; but leav
! ing a sufficiently wide 18 feet passage
1 towards the St. Simon's or notliern spit, for
1 a large ship even with an adverse w ind ; the
middle ground has but 14 feet at low water.
Entering still further up, the soundings
gradually grow deeper, so that when be
tween the islands it has obtained a depth
of 12 fathoms. The vessel is now in safety.
On the right of St. Simon’s sound, which,
to ether with similar water courses still
farther north, affords a safe internal navi
gation to steamboats and craft to Savannah
and Charleston. To the left is the arm of
the pea. (called the Turtle river,) from
which, by Jc-kvl and Cumberland sound, is
a southern internal navigation as (ar as St.
i Mary’s. The course from sea to the month
“HEAR ME FOR MY CAUSE.”
ofthe harbor is nearly west north-west,
keeping the nothern breakers on board ;
the channel then runs south and south
westerly, and, making a short turn to the
north-west,we arrive at the town of Bruns
wick—insignificant at present, but destin
| ed, we believe through her rail-road and
canal, to future importance. A shoal of
'soft mud, close to and below the tow n, on
! which but 12 feet can be found at low wa
iter, seems to indicate some other point in
j the harbor as a more suit able position for
a navy We believe Blythe's island,
! on the opposite shore, to be the most eligi
ble. It contains some hundred acres
covered with timber, and every way con
venient for wharves, docks, (scc., and for
a nursery ol the live oak ; it is distant from
Brunswick two miles, and has bold water
to within a Jew fathoms of the -shore.
There is no doubt that the port may he
strongly fortified. The island of St. Si
mon's and Jekyl present suitable positions
for extensive works; and a sand shoal two
miles within and in the centre ofthe river
(dry at low water,) affords a third basis for
a powerful defence, and steam batteries
will complete the whole. The average rise
ol the tide is six feet, which gives, at high
water, on the bar, 24 feet; sufficient for a
| frigate. It is deemed healthy ; and the
I absence ofa fresh water river, or fresh wa
j ter swamps, seem to justify the opinion.
ST. MARY'S, Georgia.
The harbor of St. Mary’s, on the south j
frontier ofGcorgia, has a bar very similar to j
that ol Charleston in its general features j
and depth of water: it is subject to the}
same vicissitudes from great gales. In2oj
years the ship channel lias been forced to i
the southward ; and the'site ofthe passage, j
where formerly passed the largest sloop of;
war in the navy, is now filled up to eight
feet. Under the most favorable circum
stances of wind and tide, the present ship
channel may be stated at 14 feet at low
water; the average rise of the tide is six
feet. The localities are unfavorable for
the establishment of a navy yard ; and, re
garding the harbor in every light, we feel
compelled to express an opinion adversely
of St. Mary’s as a port suitable for naval
purposes.
KEY WEST, AND THE TOR TUG AS.
Circumstances beyond our control, and
known to the Department, have prevented
an extension of our survey to Key West and
j the Tortugas; but our knowledge of those
| places, obtained in the course of service,
j justifies us in pronouncing an opinion ad
verse to them for the establishment of a
navy yard.
Kcv West is but a small island, distant
from the main; and the Tortugas, a cluster
of islands still smaller. The one can have
but limited resources: the other, none
whatever, not even fresh Water. Being
islands and incapable of succor in the pres
ence ofa superior force, they must eventu
ally fall, when cut off from supplies. The
more valuable either might become by the
establishment of a navy yard, the more it
would invite attack from a powerful ene
my. Their position is no doubt command
ing, but we deem them not worthy of great-
I cr value, when fortified than to afford a
! rendezvous to our cruizers, and to give
shelter and protection to them when pressed
by a pursuing enemy.
TIIE COMPARISON.
The undersigned, in obedience to a Res
olution of the Senate, have arrived at the
! point where they are directed to report on
j “the comparative advantages and facilities
of ports south of the Chesapeake, for the
establishment of a navy yard.” Depth of
| water and easy access being objects of the
| first consideration, they are of qpinion that
j the ports of Charleston, Darien, and St.
i Mary's, being deficient in depth of water to
: permit the entrance of a larger ship than a
| sloop of war, are unfit to compete with the
' frigate harbors of Beaufort, Savannah and
Brunswick.
The preference is narrowed down to one
of these; and having duly weighed their
relative pretensions, v. e have no hesitation
in preferring Brunswick. Beaufort must
yield to her in the essential points of depth
of water, easy access, and capability of de
fence. Savannah must give way, for her
j easier access and greater dept li of water on
I the bar cannot be carried up the river to a
I site safe from the sea and an eneyiy, and
| applicable to the establishment of a navy
! yard.
| If a frigate could hut reach Cockspur
j island, the opinion expressed in favor-of
Brunswick might he recalled. Brunswick
is the most southern frigate harbor outlie
Atlantic seaboard. Placed near the great
oath l ofthe commerce of the West Indies
i and Gulfof Mexico, her position in a state
of maritime warfare would be invaluable,
| since the navigating interests of an enemy
; must pass by her door. All which is rc
; spectfully submitted.
M. T. NVOOLSEY,
ALEX It. CLAXTON,
E. R. shubrick; •*-
December 2J, 18oG.
TROUBLESOME TIMES.
“Those who have cash,
Have trouble r.bout it;
Those that have none,
Have trouble without it.”
it a ® ail
[From LaNouvelle Minerve.l
NAPOLEON AND THE DUKE DE VI
CENZA. *
“Napoleon,” says the narrator of the de
! tails given under the above head, and who
i will be better remembered by many of our
! readers as Caulaincourt, “was subject to
j violent fits of ill-humor. When he wanted
j on these occasions a satisfactory answer,
j to those who contradicted his opinions, he
! used to show his displeasure by some dry
j answer ; but if it happened that lie was still
| opposed, he often carried his ill-humor to
I the very verge of rudeness. When the
conversation took this turn, I used, in or
• der to avoid cofiling to extremities, which
j I knew my temper could not patiently
! brook, to cut the matter short by gravely
i taking my leave. This used greatly' to an-
I noy the Emperor; but, notwithstanding,
| he never allowed me to depart without add
ing some word of kindness to remove any
j unpleasant feeling which lus previous
warmth might have created, and in this
! way, without further explanation, harmony
• used to l>e restored between us.” It np
| pears however that their differences, were
! not always speedily made up. “During
: the campaign of Moscow,” continues Cau
j laincoiirt, “at the close of a warm alterca
tion, 1 quitted the head quarters, and retir
ed to a kind of garret, which an officer had
the kindness to give up to me along with
; his straw pallet.—a luxury at that time.—
, Berthier came to seek me on the part of the
I Emperor. I, at first, objected to return,
being satisfied, in my own mind, that my
functions about his person hud ceased. 1
had even written to him requesting some
! command in Spain. lie returned my let
j ter, at the bottom of which was written in
hie own hand, ‘I am not so had as to send
you to get yourselfkilled in Spain. Come
and sec me—l expect you.” On seeing
me approach he laughed. ‘You well know’
j said he, holding out his hand to me, ‘that
we are like a pair of lovers, who cannot
bear to pass one another in anger.’
“Our difference on this occasion had
lasted three days. From that time bis sal
lies of ill-temper were much less serious.
I “Towards the close of 1813, the Emper
j or began to show himself more in public—-
land attended by the Empress—than had
been his custom. He probably felt it
I necessary to court popularity at the time,
jin order the better to counteract the in
trigues which were even then going on
very actively amongst, the friends of the
Bourbons.”
That Napoleon was cognizant of much
of what was going on on this subject, ap
, pears certain, from the statcAient of Cau
-1 laincourt, who seems at a loss to account
for the extraordinary apathy —the more
extraordinary, in one ofthe energetic hab
its and movements of the Emperor. One
evening, at the Opera, when the Emperor
and Empress were present, Napoleon, at
the close of one of the acts, retired to the
saloon attached to his box, and turning
suddenly to Caulaincourt, said, “They are
plotting in the Faubourg Ft. Germain; —
1 these people are incorrigible ; they say ma
ny bad things of me there. Have you heard
i any?” Caulainconrt’s reply was indicative
enough of the courtier and the soldier.—
“it is not in my presence that any one
would venture to speak ill of your .vlajes
tv.”
“They do, however,” continued the
Emperor, “plot and conspire absurdly—
meanly ; but these petty intriguers are not
dangerous; vet I am astounded at the in
gratitude of these people, whom, for the
most part, 1 have raised from misery—to
whom I have restored their sequestered es
tates, and on whom 1 have conferred, at, in
many instances, their own most obsequious
and humiliating solicitations, places in my
Court.” Caulaincourt does not mention
the reply lie made to these remarks ; but
he intimates, “that if the Emperor had
followed the counsels which had been giv
en to him, and sent ‘a certain personage’
to Vincennes, he would have done only an
act of justice.” “That traitor ,” he adds,
“was the life and soul of all the plots and
conspiracies then going on between the
Bourbon party und the allies, and from his
former relation with most of the members
ofthe foreign diplomatic bodies, he posses
sed much real influence.”
Though the Emperor knew some, ami
suspected more, of the intrigues which
were carried on* to take advantage of tiic
difficulties to which he had brought France
and the jeopardy in which lie placed the
imperial sceptre, it appears from the state
ments of Caulaincourt that he was not at
all aware of the extent to which they had
been carried, and the boldness with which
they were conducted.
Some few days after the conversation a
hovc noticed, at the breaking up ot a
Council, Savary, the Chief Minister ol Po
lice, placed indite hands of the Emperor a
t parcel, containing printed papers, manu
scripts, several letters, and a porl-fiuif/c.
“Hire,” replied Savary, “ they are proofs
in support of facts to which 1 have often ir
vain begged the attention ot your majesty.
The Empesor knit his brows as he casi
lus eye over one ofthe letters which Savarj
had put into his hands.
From the minister’s account of she man
ncr in which these important document!
J. W. FROST, EDITOR.
NUMBiaiL
' V--\
| came to his hands, it appeared that some
| time before the police got intimation that
j Madame La , under pretence of a joar-
I uey, for amusement, to Mentz, was to
1 lie the bearer of many important comtnuni
! cations from the Coterie of the Faubdurg
! St. Germain. W e are told, a more pru
■ dent choice could not have been made of
an Ambassadress for such a mission. She
was young; handsome, of most engaging
manners, great address, and a spirit which
| would not have shrunk from any ofthe con
sequenccs of the functions with which she
j was charged.» On the 3d or 4th of Decem
ber , 1813, she prepared to set out from
Paris. ller passports for Mentz were all
j en rrgf. —her elegant c alec he was covered
with boxes and trunks filled with tobes,
cloaks, bonnets,&c. Who could have sus
►peefed an evil from such an array of trum
pery ! In fact, nothing could have a more
l harmless air than the whole set out. In
this manlier, and accompanied by a con
fidential domestic, she journeyed towards
Mentz in perfect security, revelling.in the
delightful anticipations of splendid fetes,
of riches, and ambitious conquests. *Alas!
pleasant dreams are of short duration.
fair traveller had not achieved more than
half her journey, when she was' aroused
from her enchanting reveries to see her car
riage surrounded by vulgar gendarmes
and still less polished algiiazils of police,
who roughly threw open the door, and inti
mated that she must deeend. Her plac&
in the carriage was soon supplied by
gents, who commenced a most minute
search into every part, evidently in quest
of something which was considered of vast *
importance. She knew well what was the
object of their search; but as long as she
found that it was unsuccessful, she, with
the most imperturbable coolness, talked in
a high strain,using no slight threats against
this invasion ofthe liberty ofthe subject.—
“What could they want ? Were not her
passports all regular ? Was the reign of
terror returned, that men could be guilty
with impunity of such an outrage against a
poor unoffending feipafe ?” Her complaints
' aud-Mcmonstrances were continuedln this
style up to the moment when she saw that
they had found the long sought for parcel,
which was ingeniously concealed in the
bottom ofthe carriage. It contained the
correspondence—a port folio filled with let
ters of credit at Frankfort and other places, .
and beside 15,090 francs in gold. Her
tone and manner became now all at once
changed. To threats and remonstrances
succeeded tcijrs and supplications, and of*
i I'ors of gold to the worthy gendarmes. But
! all was in vain. The police agents were,
! as they usually are, insensible to tears,and
| inaccessible to gold; and the lady was o
bliged to submit to return to Paris, escort
ed by the gendarmes, and with three po
i ico officers, who ungallantly took their
j seats at the side ofthe fair traveller. They
' arrived at Paris by twilight, and Madame
1 La , having been subjected to a long
interrogatory by the Minister of Police, and
j all the documents of which she was the
bearer taken out and verified in her pres
ence, she was committed to a place of safe
ty. Her travelling companion and the
postillions, who (except the police) were
| the only parties cognisant of her arre3t,
were also properly looked after. When
Savary had related what we have stated in
substance ofthe manner in which he had
obtained the documents, the Emperor read
them, they were all ofthe utmost impor
tance, as they showed the views and objects
of the lefkimatislcs. Savary urged the
Emperor to take immediate measures to”
' put down those conspiracies against his
Government. Napoleon did not reply ;he
bowed to Savary to take his leave and a-
I wait his orders.
After Savary had retired, the Emperor
again read most of the documents,, an ex
pression of indignation escaping Trim now
and then. Some of them he threw into the
lire as he read them ; and others he placed
in the drawer of the bureau. For a time
he was sad and silent, and it was some mo
ments before he said to me, “Can you con
ceive such atrocities'?” It does not ap
pear from the statement of Caulaincourt,
that the Emperor either punished the par
ties engaged in the intrigues, or took that
advantage ofhis knowledge of then, which
he had been advised to do. 'This may per
haps be accounted for, by the more
sing nature of other objects, which about
the same time forced themselves on his at
tention. “Every day” adds Caulaincotlrt,“
some new disaster occurs tooomplioaie OUT
situation already sog embarrssing. The
strong towns in Gertnhny,in which our gar
risons had hitherto held out, were now go
in g from us one by one,and we thus besides
the forts, lost men, munitions, and matanel ,
the precious resources with which oujr en
emies enriched themselves. Still the new
levy 0f300,000 men was going on with fa
cility, but we wanted time. We were aow
in December, and the allies wore adran
bring by forced marches. On Ist Jan. 1814,
They crossed our frontiers.”
Emperor did not again speak t®
me of my proposition to make an appeal to
the French people. However ,1 still per
severed in the opinion that thht measure
would be the only one which could prevent
our ruin.—French intellect .could w«4l-un
derstand that a simultaneous defcnoo by