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PRIVATE LET rER. BANKS r THE ELBE, Ekß. 17.-1-" For there few ! nays we had been undillurbed by rumours of occur rrices in P'land, but the Hamburgh Papers of this morning announced to us a French account of a new viScry over the Ruffians. This account is fa vague, that it is certainly to be received with very limited credit. The Berlin Telegraph of the t..th, fpeaks of t0,0c.0 prifoners as being already taken, and fays, that the French army is in full purfuit of the enemy, which i s .ereating towards Koniglberg : while in Pofen, where a 141fe or exaggerated Ratement might former be detefted, the lots of the Ruffians is eflimated at 6oco, and no mention is made of the fnbfequent purfuit. Blth accounts agree in the number of cannon (2o): but neither of them add either the time or place of this viaory.. 4 , On the other hand, it is to be obferved, that nll previous accounts agreed in Rating, that aseneral engagement feemed to be unavoidable ; and how uch is to be apprehended from a decifive battle, •h e confiderate friends of the Allies cannot conceal. Sill we are not to forget that the affair at Mohringen was announced by the French as a victory; and as, fince their retreat towards Wittenberg, both armies have been fhifting their pofition, it is not unlikely that the French may have gained an advantage over one of the wings of the Allied Army, without a general engagement, of which we could have better judged, had the fcene of aCtion been Rated. What the French in their accounts do not fay, is often more fignificant than what they do fay. We (hall, probably, be forced to remain in uncertainty for fume time, as the Ruffian accounts come to us circuitoufly by Copenhagen. 4 1 It is now known that the neutrality of Auftria has been violated ; the particulars, time, and place, &c. I have not been able to learn; but the fa& is undoubted, and will, probably, loon be made public, as a turn has been given to the affair, which may render it fate to mention it publicly. A French Ge neral feired a magazine in Gallicia, and the Aultrians retired; but it has been pleaded that this was by millake, and Bonaparte has ordered that a Court Martial fhould be held upon the French General. 44 On Saturday a v.ncert was given at Harnburgh which had nearly been attended with very unharmo riot's confequences. Marlhal Brune came late, and was preceded by gens d'armes, who, with fixed bay onets, made way for the Martha), and behaved with great irfolence to all the company. There are only a few Dutch foldiers in the town, who are, in them felves, not tirong enough to keep the unruly populace in awe, and who, a few evenings, were aflually for ced to yield to them. The gate was burn open by violence, three times fucceffively by the mob, after it had been (hut by the foldiery." FEB. 2 regret that I having nothing, abro lutely nothing, to oppofe the difirefling repo: of the affair at Ptnrnan Eytau. People who hunt for topics of confolation, infer, that the defeat cf the Allies cantif.t ;ae entire, or the enemy would inflantly have taken prdellion of Koningfberg—and they re mind us, that the French, with almoll equal confi dence and minutenefs of detail, reported vidories in the late engagements in F,land, in which it fince ap. peared that they were repulfed. " Yetterday there was a number of idle reports, hating that Autlria had entered Saxony with so,oco and Bavaria with 60,000 men, but I give them no credit whatevet ; but it is otherwife, as to the fol. lowing, intelligence, which I have this moment re ceived ;—General Menaud has been taken priftmer by a detachment of Pruhians in Pomerania." " FEBRUARY 25.—1 t appears that overtures of peace have been made to Italia through the Duke of Weimar. " A p.ivate letter from Jena informs me, that Napoleon had fent for the Duke to Warlaw. " Still we are without any printed details concern. ing the laft e: gagements in Poland. The pod .rom Copenhagen did not arrive lad night as was expelled, and even the French Papers contain no Bulletins of the pretended vidories. The filence of the French fuggetls a variety of refledions, which are confirmed by a clofer obfervation ot the accounts they have favoured us with. In the Hamburgh Larreffmndent: of the 24.1 h, there is a letter of the 9th from Pruffian Evian, in which the fame refults are given, as were before dated tb have been found after the lubfequent battles. If there were any actions on the teth and ; Ith, and they produced no refults favourable to the French, molt alfuredly they were in favour of the Ruffians. But why have we not received clear and intelligible accounts of thefe vidories An officer of diltindion firm Poland has been two days in Ham. burgh—why has nothing tranfpired ? why are we dill left to guefs who was the oppoling Ruffian General Becaufe we could then compare the accounts with the known pofitions of the various Ruffian corps, and could then draw our inferences concerning the greater or lets importance of the battle. " It is further remarkable, that letters from Pofen of the z4th have been received, and that no mention k made of the affair of the 9th. It is evident there fore, that the communication is cut off between Pufen and the Fench army that was advancing towards Konirgiberg. Further, letters have been received bona that city feveral days fence the affair at Patilian Eylau. No Frenchman had been teen in the neigh. bow hood of the Pruflian metropolis. It is abfolute ly incredible, that alter a general defeat of the pro re.'tiog army, the enemy did not think proper to ad tuner. They might take pr,ffellion ot the city before the ci.adel had turrendered. Have the Fre , ch, on hidden, 101 l their love of plunder, or has their vu. ncinns appetite been fatiated by their acquititions in the North of Germany ? But a Te Deum has been lit-i• at Berlin. I cannot reply now to the unariftver able argument, but will rather communicate f.me Itatements 1 have heard from credible perform On the Rib, a terrible carnage took place at Eylau, hich laded from morning till evening. It was the is .d ans who made the attack, alo.ut (even o'clock, tTon three French divitions, which fuffered much hom the fuperiority of the enemy. Happily for them, the divifiuns under Matfhal Ney and Souk came to their affillance. Bonaparte pat liiinfelf at the head ot s his guards, undittingnifhed by his drefs. and made several bloody attacks on the enemy. Tae mufl:et h.4lls pAlf e d over s and betide him inceffantly. The Redi ins flood as firm as roche. Augereau, wh-0 is Wounded on the arm, is about to let Gil - to Paris.— li.'higfberg was occupied by a lirong Ruffian gurri• The field of battle was covered with the acad. 1 he battle was altogether the fir ft of i:s kind. " The Berlin papers (peak with affaled contempt of the Volunteer corps which iffue in all direElions from Culberg. under the command of Schilden. This little force has already harraffed the enemy exceed ingly. It reckons, amongli its acquilitions, two Ge nerals ; it has twice fcized large turns of money— military contributions. It has been on the one fide within three leagues of Berlin ; on the other, not Tar from Thorn. Military men know the eflicacy and importance of (itch fcouring pariies in the rear of an advancing army. They intercept cunvoys, retake prifuners, catch difpatches, and oblige the enemy to keep a lace four times as large as themfelves unem• ployed, in order to watch their motions. "It defer ves to be obferved that all the Aunt ian ne wf papers are no longer permitted to come to Hamburgh —they are withheld at the Putt Officer, which are now under French diralion every where; for no. other reafon, pinbably, than that the Antl:ian papers con tain the Ruffian Bulletins, as well as the French. —The Danifh papers are deter;cd from this aa of impartiality." FRANCE. PARIS, FEBRUARY 21. A courier, which left Warfaw on the 6th, has brought the following intelligence to her Majefly the Emprefs, written on the 4th Inflant, on the field of battle, at Liebßadt, by the Prince of Neufzhatel, Miniiler at War:— 46 We have fought the enemy at Altenflein, where he was attacked by the Emperor, while he fuffered himfelf to be fu-rounded by another column at Guf tadt. He was defeated at every point upon the whole of the line which formed his advanced guard. 64 We have taken a great number of prifoners, and fume pieces of cannon, The enemy is completely broken, and in full retrcat, in the otrnott a:111'11110n, with the whole army in clofe purfuit of him. The Emperor commands the advanced guard, and was never in better health. The Grand Duke of Berg is quite recovered. " Several cunt iers have arrived here in the cou►fe of the night,•and brought accounts to the Eropreis, of the s that fucceeded that of the 4'h, and of the teeth advantages which the Emperor has obtained over the Ruffian army." The Prince of Neufchatel writes to her Mojelly from Great Glandau as follows : " On the approach of his Majefly the Emperor, the Ruffian army fell back. OR the 6th, in the even ing, they were beyond Landfberg, with the view of coi.tinuing their retreat during the night. The Em peror, commanding the advanced guard, ordered the enemy's rear, whi , . - 11 had been reinforced, to he at tacked. In vain they refilled; the violence of the attack, commanded by his Majdly in perfan, had the ruo l complete effe4l. One divilion of cuiralliers maintained a moll gallant conteft with sigh: picked regiments of the Ruffian army, and cut them to pieces. —The columns which formed the tight and left wings have obtained fimilar advantages. " We (hall be at Koningfberg to-morrow. " Thus fence leaving winter quarters we have made Abolt 10,000 prifoners, taken 27 pieces of cannon, and killed and wounded a great number, without .akir•.g into account the advantages which mull refule from the whole, and ultimately prove fatal to the etemy.". Other letters mention. that a corps of 20,c00 men is cut off by Marihal Ney, and that Marfhsl Souk had alto obtained confiderable advantages. FEB. 24—Yellerday we received here the frilow ing three new Bulletins of the French grand army. FIF TY-31X TH BULLETIN. This Bulletin, which is dated from Arenfdorf, Fe bruary 5, fates, that after the battle of Mohringen, in which the Ruffian advanced guard was defeated, the enemy retreated upon Leobttadt ; but that the corps of General Ellen, which was at fir 11 defined ' for Moldavia, and alfo a number of freth regiments from different parts of the Ruffian Empire, having joined the Ruffian army in Poland, the enemy again, In early as the 27th, advanced in great force, with the defign of removing the theatre of the war to the Lower Vistula. The Emperor being informed of thefe events, ordered the Prince of l'onte Cor vo to retreat, and alfo to favour the offenfive operations of the enemy, in order to draw them towards the Lower Vitlula. His Majeity at the fame time ordered the whole army to break up from winter quarters. He alto left leVarfaw himfelf, and arrived on the evening of the 31f1 at Willenberg, whither the Grand Duke of Berg had already colleaed all the cavalry. On the ill of February we began to advance. At Peffenbeim we fell in with the enemy, who con fantly affurned the offenfive ; but here the Grand Duke fell upon them with feveral columns of cavalry, and entered the town (word in hand. By three in tire morning the enemy was on the L' , :ver Villula, which he had determined to pals, but where he now found his left wing furrounded. I'he Ruffians, however, formed themfelves in order of battle, and now com menced the battle of Bergfried, where the Emperor attacked the enemy with the corps of Ney, Ange reau, and Soult, and his Life Guards as a corps of referve. The contell was for a long time revere : at however, the eremy having been completely defeated on feveral points, and having 101 l four pieces of cannon and 1700 pr ifoners, abandoned all hit poll. tions, and night put an end to the fight. On the following day the aarorr was refumed ; but the enew had employed the night in retreating, and had left behind only the rear guard, which was endeavouring to follow, and which was fiercely pinfued, fighting all the tirtte, for lix hours. The difficuli y of the wound ptCVCIIZed Our cavalry from dying the enemy much iiijitry. On the sth, the whole French army was again in motion, advancing, and the enemy cnnitantly re treating, except one column, which was fill on this fide of the li:tle river Alle. The Emperor ordered Mat-Vials Souk and Davoull, and the Grand Doke to f011..w the enemy's main body, and Marfhal Ney, joined by a divilion of dragoons, to attack the cut off column. While, in confequence of thefe orders, the Crand Duke at Walerdorff, after fomeattacks, com pelled Boco or 9000 Ruffian cavalry to retreat ; Ncy came up with the head of the before mentioned co. lurnn, which, finding itfelf fur rounded, for a moment adopted the bid eiolu•ion of cutting its way through ow corps, but Let death and deft; u‘ftii.n on the points of our bayonets. Defeated and thrown into confrti.in, the enemy abandoned their cannon, en tail's, and baggage, and the other part of the c9lun3n, on learning the fate of the advanced guard, re• treated. In all there as ions our lois WAS ♦ery little, not more than eighty or one hundred killed, and from three to four hundred wounded. The lois of the enemy confi:led of fixteen pieces cf cannon, feveral thoulind pi ifoners, and a great number of killed and wounded. FIFTY-SEVENTH BULLETIN. This Bulletin is dated from Pruifian Eylau, Feb. 7. It mentir ns only tome attacks on the rear of the enemy's main body, which it is Rated were executed on the 6th and 7th with the bell fuccefs,by the Grand Duke of Berg, t otwithilanding that the Ruffians prefented a moll formidable refiilance FIFTY-EIGHTH BULLETIN. This Bulletin is alto dated from Pruffian Eylan,' Feb. 9. It mentions, that, on approaching that place, the enemy were found already behind it, waiting for our army, in order to commence a new battle, for which both fides prepared. In the previous affairs which took place, three Ruffian regiments were com pletely cut off, but at the fame time a battalion of the 18th regiment was thrown into diforder by a Rriftlan column of cavalry. The dragoons of Klein, however, obferved this affair in fufficient time to relieve our battalion ; but in Eylan, where the Raffians withed to maintain themfelves, but which we writhed to pof fefs before the battle commenced, the fighting was molt bloody ; it was ten at night before they could be driven out of the to wn. They bad thrown, how. ever, fume regiments into a church, where they re. mained, and which they were not compelled to aban don until after great flanghter. The night was paired by the armies under the bare canopy of Heaven in each other's prefence. On the following day, by the Ertl dim ray of the morning, the Ruffians c mmenced the attack wish a brifk cannanade The Emperor vitited the church which the Ruffians had defended with fo much ob flinacy on the day before. He made Mar (hal Au• gereau's corps advance, and the eminence upon which the church good was cannonaded. by 40 pieces of ar. tillery belonging to his guard. The armies were now within half gun fh lc of each other. The thunder of the cannon was terrible. After the firing had con tinued for fome time, the troops became impatient of fuffering fo much without any thing decifive happen ing. Some manoeuvres then commenced on both fides. in orr.er to obtain advantages over each other, and in the mean time a thick fall of fnnw came on, in confequence of which the troops could not difcern one another, at the diftance of two paces. —ln this oblcurity fome of the corps loft their way, and the columns getting too much to the left wander. ed in uncertainty. This !late of things fatted half ark hour. When the weather cleared up, the Grand Duke at the head of the cavalry, fupported by Mar (hal Beffieres at the head of the guards, and the di vifion of St. Hilluire, advanced and attacked the enemy. '1 his bold manoeuvre, which covered the cavalry with glory, had become neceffary in conic- I (pence of the circumtlances in which our columns were placed. The enemy's cavalry, who endeavoured to oppole this manoeuvre, were completely r ruted.— , The 'laughter was horrible. Two lines of Ruffian in ! fantry were penetrated, and the third only maintained itfelf in confequence of having fupported itfelf upon a wood. Same firiadrons of the guards paired twice through the whole of the enemy's army. This brilliant attack, had it not been for the wood, and f .me other difficulties of the ground,would have decided the victory. General Hautpoult was wounded. General Dahlman perithed glorionfly in the attack. For the too dragoons or cuiraftiers of the guard which lay dead on the field, there were found betide them tOOO of their enemies. Marghal Davouft, who had been de. tached to fall upon the rear of the enemy, but whole progrefs was much impeded by the weather, was at laft enabled to execute his orders, and decided the victory. The enemy, after feveral vain endeavours to repulfe that General, retreated, leaving their wounded and to pieces of cannon on the field of battle. The number of killed and wounded in thi: action was on both fides very conliderable, and it could not be otherwife witen a conftant fire was maintained from about 300 pieces of cannon • fur more than twelve hours, within a short diltance of both armies. • Mar (hal Augereau is wounded. General Desjardins, Heti dalet, and Lochet, are alb wounded. General Cor binean is killed, Its are likewife Colonels Lacue, Lemarais, and Bouvieres. Our whole lofs confifts of cagily toco killed, and 5,700 wounde ,l ., including 1090, who are very badly wounded. But we have to let againtt this lofs 7000 Ruffians, who have been counted dead on the field of battle. Thus the offenlive expedition of the enemy, which had for its objedi to bear down upon Thorn, by turn. ing the left wing of the Grand Aimy, has been of the molt direful confequences to them ; 12 or 15003 pri Toners, as many more hors de combat, 18 flandards, and 45 pieces of cannon are the trophies, for which we have paid too dear, without doubt, by the blood of fo many brave men This expedition is concluded ; the enemy beaten and driven too leagues from the Vif tula. The army is about to refume its cantonments, and is about to go into winter quarters. rtBRUARY iB. In the Moniteur of to-day is inferteJ the following article. It is extrasted frrm the German Papers, and though it turns upon fevet al objcas that have been partly mentioned before, in general throws much light up:ln others that are (till unknown, particularly forne or the moll recent events at Conflantin , sple. It is dated from that Capital, January it, and is to the following effc.M.: "On the .76th ult. as is already known, M. Italinfki, the ItaliAn Ambatrador, withdrew from hence, with all the petfons belonging to the Legation. He em- barked with them on board the Englifh Admiral's (hip the Canopus, which carried them as far as the Dardanelles, where a frigate waited to cot.vey him • to Malta. " The day before the departure of M. Italinfici, a Ruffian packet-boat coming from Stbattianople, loaded with warlike (Imes, not knowing of the rup ture, failed into the Bofphorus. While the was puffing . the forts in the Channel, feveral cann-n thot were fired at her ; fhe neverthelefs continued Ler comic, though at length the Turkifh cannon compiled her to (hike, but not before the Captain had thrown his difpatches overboard. We very tenfibly feel the loft of there difpatchcs.Upon the reprefentations of M.lta linfki, this officer and his crew were fet at liberty, and were fuffered.to depart with the Ruffian Arabatlador. I 81 The declarrlon of wat againfl R' 1 M I vcr , nounced on the nth... The refcript of the Grs Seignior to the Grand Vizier was publicly read. T. is Officer, it is laid, will not take his departure for the army before the beginning of March. 1-1; has rint yet nominated a Kaimakan, or Lotwtn4emws ; but, as according to cudom, he will be accompa.:itd by t e Rees Effendi, and theKiaga Bey, the perfons whoa c to fill the polls of the latter are already uomicat, i. Bekker Effendi is to a& as the Rees Eff. ni'i ; 1111 one Rachel Effendi is to be fubflitnte 101 B v. In confequen7e of thefe I-I tic Effttii;;, who has lately :nut ned from Paris, where he tirlaio ed the dignity of Amb tffador, has bees al,poitited Fu 11 Secretary for Foreign Affairs. " Meafures are taken for bringing a notrernue army into the field as then as poffi'ale ; but in the prefent fnuation ef affairs, the Porte has thought praper to fufpend the adoption of European 11 order to avoid giving any offence to the 11:11:'‘n. " Letters from Prince Morufi, who has ta!;,!:: his refidence at Fokfani. had given hopes ti t t • it c Ruffians cyanid retire from the Turkilh tort it n, v ' ti: inflead of fo doing, we learn that on 24.11 ul.. they entered Buchaiefl, after experiencing force 'p• polition from Muflapha Barayckrer. " The latter not having a fufficient force, retreat ed towards Rndfchuck, where he is at prefent, neco. pied in collecting troops with the view of covetittg, Widdin, and preventing the junelion of the Ruffians and Servians. A flotilla of gun boats has Idled I , r the Black Sea, and was to aft - end the Danube as far as Widdin, in order to Aid in the defence of that fort - refs ; but as Gallatz is already in the poff:flion the Ruffians, it is to be apprehended that they can• not approach Widdin without sunning the rilk of be ing captured. " It is tedorted to-day, that an engagement has taken place near Bulca, in which the 'nob hav: had the advantage, and that the gartifon of Btaila Las made a very fuccefsft 1 laity. No cot.fi , mai iln I.as yet been received of the arrival of a Ruffian fi4et at Chin and Lemnos. " The Ottoman Navy has lately received an n ee-non of more than two thnufand feamen, belonging to Ragilfa, Cattalo, and French or Italian I/alma. tia, wh- , , in confequmce of the dangers to which their fl ig was expoled, were kft live without employ. ment, and fir whom the French Ambaffador had en. gaged to make fume provifion. Tile Porte niight, in the fame manner, have obtained the fcrviccs of fe veral hundr eds of the fail )rs belonging to Cot fu, had they not been ordered off nn the eve of the rupture, as dependants up , n kufTia. Their perfons were taken under protetliun by lq.Atbutl.oct, the I. nglifh Miniiler, and (lilt ibuted on board the Englifh Ihips of war. " The Porte has finer thought proper to regard the fubjeets of the Seven !Rands in a differcnt light. It has publicly declared, that it confiders them as under the proteCßi•m of the Ottoman Porte, and as no longer fitbjeet to any other jurildiaion. It has, hi consequence of this dec!oration, ordered their vcffzl•, which were laid under en.bargo, to be reßored. But a very few fmall Ruffian vc11:1i were !cited in conk quence of this embargo, the telt having had time enough to effeEt their efcape. At Smyrna, the (hipping experienced a greater degree of indulgence, a delay of thre2 days havinA been granted for the failing of the vellals in that pct . :, from the date of the declaratii.n of war. 4 , The Ruffian frigates and tranfports bound to Corfu have alto had time to•efreit their &par ure." COPY OF A LETTER FROM MR. ARBUTHN , •T, ENGLI-14 AMBASSAD )R TO THE SUBLIME P I RTE, TO MK. HAUTZED, DROGOMAN TO THE SAID PORTE " FIR, " Pcra, Dec. 13, IS. 6. " From the few lines which I wrote to you this morning, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yeflerday evening, you will have learnt the tefult of the difagreeable intelligence which has reached on: of the circumflances which have occurred betweea the troops of the Sublime Forte and tl cfe of Rutii t Since I wrote to you, I have had a converfation o this fubjeit with Chevalier Italinfici. He regrets, as much as I do, this lamentable event ; ani of fentiment he has already given you a proof, in th: letter which he addreffed to you. 4, In the ti 'ration, however, in which we find our. felves placed, being hitherto totally unacquainted with the motives of the ir.curfi'.n of the Ruffian troops, we can at this moment, whatever he Ur n , Lure of this proceeding, do no more than lament clic interruption of the good under Handing which cxi9cd between the Sublime Porte and her Allies. We a, e too well acquainted with the fentiments of both our Courts, not to be affured that neither England tier Ruffia can be gloated by any halite intention Turkey. The entrance of the Ruff; ins mull titer: , fore, as a neceffary confequence, be re7,atded IP!e'y as a meafure direited towards the teem ity of !;.e Sublime Porte ; and the unf:rtunate event, of whi:ll you apprifed roe in the letter alluded to, can only be attributed to one of thole inftances of mifundertland ing, which no human prudence can p event. " Complete explanations may be daily expelled ; and as the Sublime Porte has done me the honour t confult me, I fhould by no means aft in contoin.i; to the fentiments with which my Court is animaied with refpea to her, fhould I not take the earlieti p portunity of declaring, that every confideration o; prudence enjoins the obfervancc of the fame uprig),• and difcieet conduit which ha , of late reflected much honour on the Ottoman hliniftry. " I have, however, no difficulty in admittinz., tfat if the Rate of things fhould turn out to he fuck as has been reprefented, it is very natural that lime Porte fhould be extremely diffati.,fi.d. Va. file muff be too well acquainted with the jiiitke of ti Ruffian Emperor, not to be convinced that hi., l i r. perial Majefly will be the firll to exprels his dir.4l) probation of any aft of hottility committed agaii.it Turkey by his Officers. The Porte is too enlightened no t to perceive, that the ffightell indicati-n of tilt. pleafure with Ruffia, can, under exiflinA circiim. . fiance., have no other effeil than that of phingini: this Empire into the midi, of th ,fe dangers in whit Prance has, for fo long a period, and from fo mar.; finifter motives, endeavoured to involve her. " I have felt myfelf highly flattered by the honottr which the Porte has conferred upon me, in applyi l y for my mediation. I confider this Rep as a conviis. cing proof of the jultice which it does me ; and rl,• mutt fupply me with an additional motive to endea. your to accomplith whatever way accord with its