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IivrALLIGEACE. SEVENTY FOURTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " Finkenfkin, May :6. 4 ' Prince Jerom-4 having difcovered that three out works i t . N•ifft, linnet& the Bielau, impeded the prig ef's of the fiege, ordered General Vandamme to occut.y 'hem lo the night from the 3oth of April to the tlf of Mar, this General, at the head of the Wuretuburgh irrop4, took the works, put the ene mYc tr ups by whom they were defended to the fword, ti.ok tso prifners, and nine pieces of cannon. The Coprain , of Engineers, Deponthou and Proft, were at 'he head of the columns, and gave flrong prr•ofs f bravery. The Lieutenants firthendorff, Bawer, and Mulher, diftinguifhed themfelves in a parr icolar manner. " On the ad of May, Lieutenant General Camrer took the command of the Wurtemburgh divifion. 44 It kerns, that a Grand Council of War was held at Barrenftein, fince the arrival in the Camp of the Emperor Alexander, at which the King of Piuffia and the Grand Duke Coaßantine of fled ; that the dangerous lituatien of the city of Dantzic was the fubjeft of the deliberations of the raid Council, and that it was found, Dantzic could only be relieved in two ways ; firft, by attacking the French army, to cm*: the Paffarge, and to take the chance of a ge neral engagement, the refult of which (provided any advaritage was obtained), would be, to compel the French army to raife the fiege of Dantzic; the fe. cond, to throw fuccours into Dantzic from the fea fide. It teem.- that the firß plan was deemed imprac ticable, milers the enemy would expofe himfelf to be completely defeated and routed. It was therefore refolved-to confine themfelves to the other plan of re lieving Dantzic by water. " In confetotenee thereof, Lientenant General Ka tnir.lki, fon of the Field Marfhal, embarked at Pillau, with two Ruffian divift ms, formed of twelve regi ments, and fiveral Pruilian regiments. On the 12th the troops were landed from fatty-fix tranfports, un der convoy of three f.igates, in the port of Dantzic, under the proteeion of the fort of Weichfelmunde. " The Emperor immediately ordered Mat ffial Lafres, who commands the Referve of the Grand Army, to advance from Marienburgh (where he had 145 head-quarters), with the divifion of General Oudinot, to reinforce the army J Marlhal Lefebvre. He arrived, after an uninterrupted march, at the very moment when the enemy's troops were landing. " On the 13th and 14th. the enemy made prepa• ra t ion, for the attack. They were fcparated from the town by the diftance of fomewhat leis than one league. but that part was occupied by French troops. On the .1 sth, the enemy advanced from the fort in three columns, with an intention to penetrate to the town along the right bank of the Vitlula. The Ge neral of Brigade Schramm (who was at the ad. wanted polls with the zd regiment of light infantry, and one battalion of Saxons and Poles), received the firft fire, and refilled the enemy at the dillance of a cann.m that from Weichfelmunde. 4 4 Marfhal Lefebvre had repaired to the bridge which is firuated below on the Vitlula, and ordered the 12th regiment of light infantry, together with the Saxons, to crofs over that way, to foppurt Gene ral Schramm. General Gaidanne, who was charged with the defence of the right bank of the Vitlula, alto preffed that way with the reit of his troops. The enemy was fuperior in numbers, and the conteß was continued with equal obtlinacy. Mat that Lafnes, with the referve of Oudinot, was placed on the left hank of the Vitlula, where it was expelled, the day before, that the enemy would make his appearance ; but when Marfhal Lafnes taw the movements of the enemy difclofed, he croffed the \Natal& with four bat talions of. General Oudinot's referve. The whole of the enemy's line and referve were thrown into confit• lion, and purfued to the palifadoes, and at nine in the morning the enemy was (hut up in the fort of Weichfelmontle. The field of battle was firewed with dead bodies. Our lofs confins of 25 killed, and :co wounded. The enemy's lofs is goo killed, Isoo wounded, and 200 taken. In the evening we could diainguith a number of wounded, which were em barking on board the veffels, the latter (peering off fucceffively to return to Koning(berg. From the town no tally was made during this affair, and no more was done from that quarter than to fupport the Ruffians with a heavy cannonade. The enemy, from the height of his demolifhed and almoa dearoyed ramparts, was nitnefs to the whole anion. He was dejected on feeing the hopes vaniffiing which he had formed of receiving fuccour. General Oudinot has killed three Ruffians with his own hand. Many Officers of the Staff arc wounded. The 12. h and the 2d regiment of light infantry have difiinguifhed themfelves. The particulars of this action were not yet received at head quarters. I , It will appear from the journal of the liege of Dantzic, that the works are carried on with equal ac• tivity, that the covered way is completed, and that we are occupied with preparations for palling the ditch. " As loon as the enemy knew that his maritime expedition had arrived before Dantzic,his light troops began to reconnoitre and alarm the whole line, from the pofition occupied by Martha' Soult, on the Pal. large, to that of General Morand, upon the Alle.— They were received at the mouth of the mulket by the Voltigeurs, loft a confiderable number of men, and retired with more precipitation than they came. ge The Roffp.ns prefented themfelves at Mal. ga, before General Zayonchek, the Commandant of the Polith corps of obfervation, and carried off one of his ports. The General of Brigade Filcher purfued, routed them, and killed 6o men, one Colonel, and two Capt4ins. They likewife prefented themfelves before the fifth corps, and infulted General Gazan's advanced polls at Willenberg. This General purfued them fors:t al leagues. But they made a more ferious attack upon the bridge of Omelew at Drenzewo.— The General of Brigade Girard marched againft them with the 88th, and drove them into the Narew. General Sucher_ arr ived, purfued the Ruffians clofely, and defeated them at Oarolenka, where he killed 6o men, and took fifty holies. Laurin, Captain of the 64. t h, who comm toiled a head guard, furrounded on all fides by the Cafacks, made the heft refinance, and deferves to be diltingnifhed. Martha! Maffena, at the head of a brigade of Bavarians, had reafon to be fatisficd with the zeal and good behaviour of the troops. ~~ • On the fame day, the f 3th, the enegy attacki General Lemarroir, at the mouth of thelßug. This General had pa ff ed that river on the toth, with a Bavarian brigade, and a Polilh regiment, who, in the .courfe of three days, had conftruted feveral teterclu• pont, and had advanced to Witkowo, with the inten tion of burning the rafts which the enemy had been at work upon during fix weeks. This expedition completely fucceeded, and the ridiculous work of fix weeks was deftroyed in a moment. i! On the 13th, at nine in the morning, 6000 Rut Cans arrived at Nar, and attacked General Lerner rois in his entrenched camp. As loon as the Gene ral faw that the enemy, who was upon the borders of the ditch, was repulfed, he made a lonic, and put.. fued him [word in hand. The Colonel of the 4th Bavarians, a brave foldier, was killed. He is uni. verfally regretted. The Bavarians loft so men, and had 6o wounded. " All the army is encamped in divitions of fqnare battalions, in very wholefome fituations. Thefe at• fairs of advanced pas have not occafioned any movement in the army. Every thing is quiet at the head quarters. This general attack upon our ad vanced polls feems to have had no other objea than to occupy the French army, fl as to prevent them from reinforcing the troops employed in the liege of Dantzic. 44 The hope of fuccouring Dantzic, by means of a maritime expedition, appears very extraordinary to well informed military men, acquainted with the ground and the pofition occupied by the French army. 44 The leaves begin to appear ; and the feafon re. fembles the month of April in France." FROM THE TURKISH FRONTIERS, MAY 7. " On the .6th of April, a bloody affair took place in the neigh bourhood of Oladowa, between the troops of the tiervian General Meiotic," Stalk, and Kufanzi Aly. The Servlans furroundsd the Turbid% entrenchments; the latter made three vigorous attempts to break the Servian lines, but without cite& At length, however the left wing of the Turks forced, and defeated one column of the Servians, and made good their retreat from Timok to Widdin. though purfued by the enemy's cavalry. The right wing gained Oladewa, where they are inclofed. The Turks 101 l 3000 men killed and wounded. " Subfequent advices fate, that on the loth of April, Kufanz• My attempted to difengage himfelf, but without the leaf draft He renewed his attempt on the 234, but was vigorously muffed! SEVENTY-FIFTH BULLETIN. " Flnkenlteln, May d. The following are further particulars relative to the affair of the isth. Marfhal Lefebvre makes a very favourable report of GeneralSchramm, to whcm he in a great meafure imputes the favourable ifue of the affair at Weichfelmunde. • • , 4 On the morning of the isth, at two o'clock, General Schramm had formed in order of battle, covered by two redoubts, thrown up oppofite the fort ef Weichfelmunde. He had the Poles on the left, the Saxoos in the centre, and the regiment of Paris in re• ferve. The Ruffian General Icamenfki fallied from the fort at day-break, and after two hours fighting, the t xth Regiment of Light Infantry, fent by Mar. I fhal Lefebvre from the left (bore, and a battalion of Saxons, decided the vitrtory. Scarcely a battalion belonging to Oudinot's corps bad any occafion to take part in the aEtion.,--Our lots is very trilling.— M. Paris, a Polifh Colonel, was killed. The loft of the enemy is greater than we fuppofed. We have buried 900 Ruffians. We cannot reckon their lots at lefs than a,soo men.' We obferved no more movements on the part of the enemy, who teemed to confine himfelf very prudently within the circuit of the works. The number of veffels fent off with the wounded was fourteen. The Emperor has iffued a decree for making every perfon who diltinkuithed hinsfelf on this occafion a member of the Legion of Honour. They are about so in number. 4, On the roh, a divifion of gOOO men, moßly Pruffians, from Koningfberg, landed on the Nebrung, and advanced againft our light cavalry as far as Kehlberg, who thought proper to fall back upon Fu r " The enemy advanced to the extremity of the Frifche Haff. We expeaed they would have pene trated from thence to Dantzic. A bridge thrown over the Vint]la at Furnenwarcler, made the paffage eafy for our troops cantoned in die iflan4 of Nogat, fo that the infantry might hail kttacked the enemy's rear; but the Pruffians were too wary to proceed.— The Emperor ordered General Beaumont, Aid-de- Camp to the Grand 'Duke of Berg, to attack them. On the morning of the 16th, at two o'clock, the Ge neral of Brigade Albert advanced, at the head of two battalions of grenadiers of the refer ee, the t a and the 3d regiments of chaffeurs, and a brigade of dragoons. He met the enemy about day break, between Paffen werder and Stege ; attacked him, routed, and clofely purf'ied him eleven leagues, made t zoo prifoners, killed and wounded a great number, and took four pieces of cannon. General Albert diflinguifhed hitts felf on this occafion, as did alfo tbeMaj orsCheminean and Salmon. The 3d and the z zth regiments of chaff - curs (hewed great intrepidity: a Capta4i,of the 3d and five men were killed, and eight or ten woun ded. Two of the enemy's brigs, ctutzing in the Haff, approached to annoy us ; a howitzer that Bruck one of them upon the deck made them get under way. 6 6 Thus the enemy has fuffered confiderable loffes at various points, fi nce the izth. 64 On the t 7th the Emperor called the fufileers of the guard to mancauvre : they are encamped near the cattle at Finkenflein, in barracks equally as hand- Come as thole at Baulogne. •' On the 18th and igth the Imperial Guard en camped upon the fame tpot. " Prince Jerome is encamped in Melia, with a Corps of Obfervation, covering the liege of Neiffe. " On the t zth the Prince learned that a column of 300 a men had left Glatz, to furprife Bream He ordered General Lefebvre to advance with the ta Bavarian regiment. and a detachment of 300 Sax ons. In the morning of the 14th the General came up with the enemy's rear neat Cauth, which he -im mediately attacked, made himfelf matter of the vii. lage with the bayonet, and took Igo prifoners. One hundred of the Bavarian light cavalry fell upon thole of the enemy, goo in number, routed and difperfed them. The enemy again formed in order of battle. and offered refillance. Three hundred Saxon. fled; this extraordinary concha& mull have been the effeas of diffaffeaion, as the Saxons have always behaved with valour ever fince they joined the French. How ever, this unexpeaed event brought the t a Bavarian regimen; into a very critical 4tuation. They loft .;, ; V 5 pen* who were made. prifoners, - 'and they very compelled to beat a retreat, which they effeeted in good order. The enemy retook the village of Cauth. " In the morning, at eleven o'clock, General Du. muy, who had advanced from Breflau with moo Yrench difmounted dragoons, huffars, and chaffeurs, attacked the enemy in the rear ; tso of the huffars reto.,k the village, after a charge with the bayonet, made too prifoners, and liberated all the Bavarians made prifoners by the Prohans. The enemy, in order to facilitate his retreat to Glatz. had feparated in two columns. General Lefebvre, who left Schweidnita on the !ph, fell in with one of thefe columns, killed too, and made 400 prifoners, including 3o Officers. A Mint regiment of lance•bearers had arrived on the preceding even ing at Frankennein ; and a detachment of there being fent to join General Lefebvre, by Prince Jerome, dif tinguilhed themfelves on this occafion. " The fecund column endeavoured to regain Glatz, by paffing the Silberberg. Lieutenant• General Ducoudrais, the Prince's Aid-de Camp, fell in with them, and threw them into diforder. Thus a co- lumn of between 3000 and 4000 men that left Glatz was Unable to return. They have been either killed, made prifoners, or difperfed. •- SEVENTY SIXTH BULLETIN. “ Flake:Mein ' May so. " A fine Englith corvette, copper theathed, having tzo Englifb for her crew, and laden with powder and ball, prefented herfelf off Dantzic, with an in tention to enter that port. On approaching near our works, the was attacked from bath the nacres, with a heavy (bower of muncetry, and forced to fur. render. A piquet of the regiment of rails was the firll to leap on board. 44 An Aide du Camp of General Kalkrenth, who was on his return from the Ruffian head quarters, and feveral Englifh officers, were taken on board the vef fel. She is called the Undaunted, and had 63 Ruf fians on hoard, betides the 120 Englifh. " The enemy'; lots in the affair of Weichfelmande on the tsth, was greater than was at fief fuppofed. A Ruffian column, which held out to the lan, was put to the bayonet to a man. There were 1300 Ruf fians buried. " On the 16th, a Ruffian divifion of 6oco men, under General Turrow, advanced from Brock to the Bug, and towards Pohulk, with a view to prevent the execution of tome new work, for firengthening the fete disponi. Thefe works were defended by fix Bava- rian battalions, under the command of the Crown Prince in perfon. The enemy advanced four limes to the attack, and were four times repulfed by the Bavarians, and covered with grape Ihot, from the batteries of the different works. _ _ " Mat fhal Maiena eflimates the enemy's Lois fat 300 killed, and twice as many wounded. And what renders the conflia ftill more glorious is, that the Ba varians were not quite 4000 prong. The Crown Prince commends', in particular, the Bavarian Ge neral Baron Wrede, an officer of confpicuous merit. The lois of the Bavarians amounted to 15 killed and 150 wounded. 64 The fame mifmanagement, as in the attack of the 16tb, at Puitu&, was difplayed in that which the enemy made on the r3th, againft the works of Gen. Lemarrois ; nor was their want of judgment lets con fpicuous in the preparation of a great number of rafts, which the enemy were preparing on the Bug for there fix weeks pall. The refult was, that thofe rafts which took them fo long in preparation, were burnt in two hours time—and that thofe repeated attacks upon works well contrived, and defended by ftrong batteries, without a chance of fuccefs, have produced them a confiderable lots. We are almoft induced to think, that the purport of thefe attacks, was to draw the attention of the French army to their right wing. But the pofition of the army was calculated, by anticipation, for every cafe, and for all chances of attack and defence. " In the mean while, the important liege of Dant zic is continued. The kfs of that important fortrefs and of the mow men (hut up within the fame, will be feverely felt by the enemy. A mine, which was contrived near the outer baftion, had the effell of blowing it up. A communication has been opened, with the covered way, by four entrances, and we arc employed in filling, up the ditch. 46 This day the Emperor reviewed the citlrProvifi. oral Regiment. The &ft eight of thofe regiments have already been embodied. The Genoefe confcripts among thofe regiments are much extolled - for the rea dinefs and zeal difplayed by them." HAGUE, MAY 26. Mr. Meyners, appointed our ambafrador at Copen hagen, and Mr. Groevinus, who has obtained the fame appointment at Carlfruhe, fet out yefferday for their different places of dellination. MESSINA, APRIL 4. Yelierday arrived here an English (agate, from London, in 34 days; fhe brought one million of franks in lava, which were landed this morning. NAPLES, MAY 6. We have received intelligence from Malta, of the 24th of April, which mentions that the Englith have landed in Egypt, but have experienced a defeat.— Among others, the Tin-kills and Albanian troops col. heed againft them. Orders have been confequently fent to Sicily by the Englifh for a reinforcement of all the Britifh troops that can be fpared from that iSland. On board of the Englith (hips, a dreadful difeafe rages among the failors.—Nambargb Correftendest. PASTEUR°, IN SWITZERLAND, MAY is. In order to increafe the number of recruits inten ded to ferve in the French regiments, the Senate bas pallid a refolution, expreffing that any perfon with out exception, who (hall propagate any rumours, the olgjeft of which (hall be to excite public dejeEtion,ap piehenfion, or fear, thole alfo who (hall direely, or indfreOly, diffeminate fentiments calculated to excite miaron relpeaing the fidelity of our great and Hint trious Ally, his *jelly the Emperor of France and King of Italy, cr expels their apprehenfions of any misfortunes attending his arms, (hall be compelled to Join the regiments railing for the French, and fern in them four years. Perim): punifbable for quarrels are alfo to be compelled to ferve the fame number of years, as are all idlers and Study beggars, toge• ther with others convided of deferting illegitimate children, &c. BAYAEUZH, MAY 19. yefierday, at nine in the evening, the Ett•preGd ent• Baron Vrm Schuckmann, was arrefted (as a steafate of general fafety), and immediately trasfpotted t o Mayence. PRESBURG, MAY se. The Utak accounts of the Servian troops in th e Hungarian Journals are as follow : On the 22d of April, the Turks furprifed the camp of the Servians, near Nitra ; but they were Co con. rageoufly repulfed upwards of a mile, that th e ground was covered with two theufand killed on both fides. However, the Turks obtaining a reinforce. ment, they gained the viaory. The battle hied from three in the morning till nine at night, when the viaory of the Turks was complete—the confegnence was, the Servians were driven nine miles back, and loft 4830 men killed, 7235 wounded, 800 prifonert, two Ilandards, and eight pieces of cannon, te nts , ammunition, &c. The lots of the Turks was alto con. fiderable, viz. 2480 killed, 3068 wounded, and iso prifoners. A part oTthe Ruffian flltilla has entered the Da• nnbe—we know nothing of its operations. VIENNA, MAY r 3. It is raid !hat Ruin' is determined to conclude a feparate peace. unlefs England makes good the pro mired landing of her troops by the end of May v be. fides paying up the fubfidies, The armed neutrality of Auftria will colt upwards of fitly millions more per annum, than the common revenue for the fupport of the army. The Emperor of Ruffia has publifited an Oider to the Minifter of the Interior, to acquaint the young Ruffian Nobility who chufe to enter into the military fervice, that, inftead of gving direaly to the armies, they (hould firft repair to St. Peteriburgh, and enter into the corps of Noble Cadets, to learn the neceary qualifications for being appointed officers. AUGSBURG, MAY H. On the Isith in the evening arrived a French eon- 1 tier, who was difpatched on the each from Finken. Rein. with-orders for the Spend!' troops, the &ft column of which arrived here to-day, immediately to proceed by way of Nuremberg and Magdeburg to the Eleaorate of Hanover, where they are to loin the Grand Army of Obfervdtion under Martha Brune. The courier then battened to Munich. FROM THE MAINE, MAYss. On the tsth of May a Turk& courier paired though Wurzburg, going from London to Con*. tinople. In the 14 fortnight abode 30,000 Pesch troops bate palled through Saxony. ' Major General Von Hirfchfeld is releafed from his implifonment 'in the Citadel of Magdeburg, and now !elides with his family in Brandenburg. STETTIN, MAY s 6. On the 24th, in the evening, Martha, Brune at. rived here to take the command of the army of obfer., vation collating in this neighbourhood. The head' quarters will be fixed here. General Thouvenot is appointed Commandant of the town, as M. Grou vel h gone to France. , ,•, COPIIIRRIAOIN, MAY to. No Englilh &lin of war have have lately paired the Sound. The (hips leen from Aarhups on the Bth intlant, appear not to have been fail of the line, but (mall [hips. According to the laR accounts from Dantzic, the nod of ammunition was nearly ezhaulled, and no butcher's peat was any longer to by got.— Haahrib Carrefitoadeta, May so. Mar 26.—The gallant Gen. Blucher has obtained the command in Chief of the PruHian army. General Lellocq is appointed Governor of Koningiberg. and Milliner at war, General Ruchel is to command in Pomerania. Letters from Semlin Rate, that Czerney George, after having trotted the Morawa on the ad of laR month, attacked the Turks near Niffa and Mafia. pah, where they were 20 / 000 firong, and defeated them with the lots of 1500 men, killed, wounded, and taken prifoners. The Servians took on thf fame occafion, eleven pieces of cannon, two mortars, large quantities of ammunition and provitions, and the whole field equipage of the Pacha of Wiffa. Certain intelligence has been received, that the Ruffian troops which trotted Obe from Pillar to the Nehrung, in order to throw themfelves into Dantzic or Weichfelmunde, have been repolfed with the lots of t goo men. Ali the Turks who refided in the liked of Tene. dos, taken by the Ruffian Admiral Siniavin, have been fent to Natolia. General Kellerman, who has hitherto been Governor of Mimi, has received orders to join the grand army with a corps of 6,000 mcn. Copenhagen Gaseue of the 251 h and 261 h May. HANOVER, MAY 26. On the nth of next month the Spanith troops from. Tufcany arrive here, and then the march of the Spaniards to the Elhe, through here, will lad till the 27th. The march of French troops from the interior to the army continues fill. It is calculated that is this laft month above mono infantry, and sooohorft have paired through Gottingen. LOWER ELBE, MAY 29, • Though from the Telegraph it teems probable that Dantzic has capitulated, no newsof its having done to, has yet reached us. The affair at Cuxhaven, which I mentioned in my bt, Teems to be pretty nearly as follows :— . llxt Englifli landed fixty men in boats and took a piquet of twelve men prifoners ; tome fay they had made figns that they wilted to be taken off ; but no - ru• turning to their boats, one was left aground by At ebb. Some Dutch now came up at their boat. The Englifh frigate then difcharged tome Ihot with a vier to difmount a battery, and alto to keep off the Dutch from the bolt. The fire unhappily did tome da. mage to the light houfe, and to tome honks at Cux haven. The boat was taken and burnt :it don ad appear whether the clew were taken prifoners, 0 ,4 taped by fwimming to the other boats. The atfairis regretted the more here, becaufe the Dutch were oil the point of entirely leaving Cuxhaven and Risebuttlxt which Puffer dreadfully by their pretence ; and it it feared they will now remain *ere,