Star. — London, England, 1815-06-24 00:00:00

MP"' Ofee hohtlitati etilosbloh _ ..#111.16. itinsttg *beet eff,ooo mei, having passed betwossilledan, Meiieres, and Charleroi. are advancing by (tweed marches into his marl to cot of his retreat.' AU the Allied troops rivalled-6mb' other in liminess and intrepidity. Our soldiers have continued to be, what they alway were: this eidogisurt is suScient.— The cavalry in particular charged With the most Ilsnc courage. Thecaribinsers were atillengaged this morning, at four o'clock, and had just taken two pieces of cannon. The Light Dragoons and the Hussars have no less distinguished themselves. The loss of all these brave regiments is considerable. Ge. neral Van Merle was killed by a cannon ball. We expect a number aides:salt, honourable to the corps r)r individuals. A fact, of which the annals of war' certainly afford few eramples. is, that a Scotch Bat talion charged 'with the bayonet a reginient of Preach Cuirassiers, and broke it. The Hanoverian troops distinguished themselves by their cool intrepidity. The corps of Lancers of the Imperial Guard has been allnost destroyed by the Scotch Dragoons.— Generals Count De Lobau and Camtwooe, who ac companied Bonaparte to Elba, are just brought in prisoners. Severed coluMns of prisoners, and three eagles, taken by the English, arrived yesterday even,- ins: We mentioned a circumstance which does . hotrod. to our countrymen. The Mayor having in vited the Brewers of this city to send water to the un fortlinate wounded who remained on the road, they immediately "sent IS waggons loaded with beer. rarrilACT or a LiTTSR 'ROM rut cyuNT 11113NNIS, AT BRUIIIIILS. 's I learn this moment that they are bringing into Brussels General Vandamnie, mortally wounded. It is asserted that Murat and Jerome are killed. News has also reached Lnicl Wellington that various regi ments of Bavarian cavalry, to the amount of between 20 and 22,000 men; are at this moment passing the frontiers, between Givet, Mezieres, &c. in order to join the left wing of the Prussians." . THE E 'ENING 'STAR. INDUN. WiivitrAkr„ JUNE 24, 1813. Joni Tut Larnrr.-4ioliday at the Bank. PRICE OF l'i4lB DAY A TWALVE O'CLOCK: saachantA Caw for apg.allt—Oauditit 141 pre aybob M. 7s. dis. free IS. Is. to ot. oft The Thattki . of Patliansest: twerelast night voted to the Doke of Ittauttiitee. Prince BLucrinn , and the beets and Men. of the Combined Army which °kidded the gloiioos victory of the 18th of Inne and a motion was agreed to for an additional grant of A2oo,bop, to provide a imitable mansion for the illgstrious Duke. The . protheditigs are highly in teresting. Parliartme•was animated with but one soul, and the only rivalry teas -to -do justice to the great Hero. Sortie interesting particulars were voted from paivate letters in she comae of the proceedings. It will be Mil from . thmethat the MKS was exposed to moth personal daggers-.the partitolars stated, as remarked by one Of the writes*, M*Ft racilelt stf rho 1604 4111111 . 04 paltitheo patches." 1 ~f i .. THE CAMPAIGN. The brunt of the action eitint * 16th, which was the first of a general nature fought, fell chiefly Opon the British tinder Sir:THOMAS Picrox, the Duke of BRUNSWICE'S corps, and use Nassah Contineen4. In ' the actida of the day before the: Prussians had been constrained to fall b l ack, so as to enable DLL'CIIER and BuLo* to join. The 17th passed without any affair of importance. The junction of the Prussians, with their reinforcements, and with the whole Allied Armies under the Duke of WELLINGTON, was effected on that day. On the 18th, in the morning, the Re bels under VANDAMIE were ;milled upon the British corps of the Duke of WELLINGTON. Every attempt made to penetrate our line failed—and after the battle had raged for nine hours, a last and desperate effort was made to tarn the left flank of the Allies. This also failed, and the Rebels then precipitately retired, broken, scattered, and dismayed. Then it was that the Duke of Ww.tmovon became the aisailaw, and the onset was furious in the ex treme. All his reserve was brought up, the cavalry and artillery were perfectly fresh, and the infantry were equally capable of achieving a glorious con quest. The rebels abandoned every thing that could' impede their flight, as at Vittoria ; their arms," ClD non. baggage, equipages, and private property at all kinds, were left oa dse field. In osairsid, JIMA. WITS has, in fact, lost every thing : In Reim Krim has also been great beyond precedent s all military discipline *as disregarded by the wretches who serve him, the instant his (online changed whole bittalioni threw down their arms. He Is supposed to have , brought into the field about 120,000 men, being his whole force, except one corps which was left in ob servation of the Prussians; and it is conceived that in killed, wounded, and prisonets, his loss has been little shoat of ss,ooo men. A. Gentleman who lift.Bros tele on the 20th saw 2000 prisoners arrive, asd 12,000 more were expected. Brusasis Is now in as great transpeets joys as k was daring the battle in agitation and alarm. Owing to the miserable state of the roads, it wat sot till • late boar that the Prussian corps, which had pee. mind to- support oat's, were enabled to come up; but when they did, their presence was most highly %mineable. Had not General Bot.ow so judiciously plated himself on the enemy's Rank, the Duke of MILLINGTON would probably not hare risked that welkiated witch which decided the fate'of the day. On an ides was 'seen a total disregard of personel dangers The leaders were mingled in the Wu 1111 the is) like the Neatest soldier. hierShol awe" it 2.*- 6 - itei s is said, *I. for : Maas liniments.* paw*: AS to BONAPAIIT4 he was more than once inelciied Mit* the British troops, mid diaeutangled, as it-were, by a miracle. He led on the guardhisself to the charge; and seehted to feel that duie coald be no hope for his . power, btit in the absolute jeopardy of his life. Report States MURAT antliseonim .have been both killed. VANGASISIR, it is Mid, was severely wounded, and carried. to Ghent. General Bounmoirr puked over to the KING with all his Staff before the first battles began. Of the loss of the Allies scarcely-any thing 'like an accurate estimate-can yet be made, hut it is lornely coojectured that the whole number put km& comble may amount to 10,000, of whom a very eon .idttable proportion belonged to that invaluable body of run, the infantry of the British line, whom his impossible to conquer without first destroying them. Without seeking to depreciate the services of our Aliies, we may surely be allowed to hold up to ad. miration the intrepidity and zeal displayed by the British troops. It was to all intents and purposes a truly British victory. The melancholy list of killed and wounded will of itself be sufficient to prove this to posterity. The free use of the bayonet, as usual, decided the business. Against a charge with thisi weapon the French peer.; ' c o uld stand, nor did the presence of their Captai e any alteration in their conduct. BONAPARTE ted the various attacks of his Guards in person. On one occasion, we believe about the period when Lord Weems received his wound, he and his Staff were intermixed tile mile with some part of the Duke of %%4.n:one's. His escape was almost miraculous. So. confident was the Duke of WELLINGTON of taking him alive, that he ordered the artillery nut to play on the eminence which was occupied by BONAPARTE andlis suite. The Dues and the Earl of Uxsamoz had precou 'carted, a's we stated yesterday,the seizureof the Leader of the Banditti's pex..sort, and the glory of the achieve ment was to have belonled to the Ist Life Guards. It failed chiefly from the confusion occasioned among the men lay ,their gallant Leader's severe wound, and by their . not gaining the' satnmit of the hill in time : the instant their project became apparent to the French, diey were charged by a fine regiment of Cuirassiers, and at this instant BONAPARTE and his Staff bustled" off. The Life Cuards were, for an in stant, checked in their pursuit. There is a report that General Warm, with the Bavarian troops, had determined to make a dash on Leon, where the great magazines, artillery, and stores at the French army were collected; and if he could penetraie•thither before BONAPARTE, it would be as effectual blow against his remaining force. General' . Warns is said to possess 65,000 men. 1 - It is said, that on the 18th, at night, the Prussian ' troops were in possession of one side of Genappe, 4 the French of dm whirr : ant we have lima et A letter, stating, -that, 'on ' the 18th, the possession of Charleroi was disputed between the French and Pm sians warmly, it being several times taken and re takr.n. This we only mention on report, as we have not seen the letter. The Duke of WELLINGTON', two Aides-cle.Camp were killed at his side. Of the twentyfour British Generals, eleven were either killed or wounded. Every Commander exposed himself throughout the whole conflict, and never w.ts firing more direct or deadly. The French cuirassiers in particular corn. miued dreadful havoc by their first attack, but when they came to close quarters, the sabre was found to be more effectual than the long spear. THE LATEST ACCOUNTS Yesterday evening an Aid.de.Camp of Prince BLUCHER arrived in town, and brought letters from the Duke of WELLiNcrow, dated Binch, June 20th, to which place .his Grace had removed his head quarters, alter his visit t Brussels on the preceding .day.—Marshal BLUCHER had then passed the Iron. tiers and entered France, in the direction of Beau- mont, and hopes wets entertained that he would be able to get round the French line of retreat, and cut off the remnant of the enemj's force. The veteran and gallant Prussian Chief continued the pursuit most closely, and almost hourly succeeded in cutting off additional numbers of the vanqui shed Tyrant's troops. Dispatches have also been received from SirCeAnLes STEWART, Our Ambassador at Brussels dated the 20th, containing a detail of all that was lumen in that capital of the result of the splendid Victory of the 18th. BOHAPANTeII retreat; o: rather tight, was of the most disorderly description. Seven thousand of the prisoners taken, inclading two Generals, one of them the Commander of the 6th corps, had been brought iota Brussels on the 20th, and more than double that number were said to be then on the road. Thy whole of the Sd corps, commended by VAEDAMMC, was re potted to have been cut off.—lt is also reported, but not Acidly, that BONAPARTiI lost-nn arm in the bade of the Illth, and that his brother, Jimmie and Marshal Sonar were among the slain. Ti* Ham. Major Piny, who brought the glorious dhpatehes of Tuesday, was accompanied from Ostend Captain Vienrs of the Navy. They crossed the water is a common row.huat. and were landed at- Broadstairs on Tuesday morning, with the Eagles and Standards taken irom the rebels. These embleins of victory belonged to the 45th and 104th French re giments: they are superbly gilt, and ornamented with broad gold fringe. The trophy which belonged to the 45th regiment is inscrifiedirith the words— * daderfets • !fagots. Zilav, Fritillap4 bye. being PIO iJena, ' the Weis in utich theregitAliik eatiiii theiatriar ibk . ss hirekeidualisied itself. Th• ether was a Pieseht from the Empiels hiatittA-LoutsA to the 106th tegirnent. One was much defaced frith Wood gird dirt, As if k lad been struggled fur. and the Eagle wits also broke off from the pole, as if from the cdt of a sabre; haft it was netertheless pteserved. This victory etceeds all former etpleits or the army, and its glorious leader. The conduct of the tfoops was above all incise,-and more partici arly as we are confidently assured that the f o rce of tt e French was nearly I $ O,OiX), whil e t h at un d er the Duke of Wu.. uNotost. immediately opposed to them, was only 54000. No computation from aut%ority has yet been published of the lots on either side, -but from the re ports-of the Staff Officers who have arrived, that of the British is estimated at 10,000, and' that of the French at 80,000, killed and wounded. The Horse Guards, it is undetstuod, Lad the ho nour of capturing the two Eagles. The charges of the cavdry, particularly of the heavy brigade, con. sisting of the Blues, Greys, &c. are represented as one of the finest exhibitions ever presented in a field of battle. After the first onset the French cavalry could not be brought to stand it, ground. b • The Greys suffered very severely ; its Colonel (HAssuros) fell gloriously at its head, and the two Majors ( Lientenaot•Colonelb CLARKS and Hams) are wounded. A letter from an Officer of the Guards, in the ad. vanced division. dated the 20th, states that on the 19th, while its progress of following up the victory of the 18th, they were attacked by a party of the French, issuing from a wood, with great fury. The assailants were received with great hrmnebs, and repulsed with considerable loss. We regret to find it stated that our lows in Officers is still greater than was at first represented. Nearly the whole of those of the Scotch Greys have, bees either killed or wounded. Of the Life Guards, Colonel FERRISR, Captains LIND and &vas are mentioned as killed. Lord UIRRIDGR, we 'are happy to be informed, was left doing well. His I Lady left town last night for Brussels. His Lord, !ship k to be succeeded in the command of the ca. valry by Lord Rossmr, wbo is to set out imtnedi lately, accompanied by Sir LOWRY COLS. " DOVER, JUNE ft es We have had no arrivals from Flanders this day: but a French boat was seen coming over this morn. ing from the opposite coast with a white flag, and was sent into the Downs by one of the cruising brigs—probably she came with officers who have de serted the cause of BONAPAItTL-By fishermen who were well over on the French coast on Wednesday and yesterday, we learn that on Wednesday the' tri coloured flag was flying on the steeples and many of ibie tortes in Cakie; bog posterday (Thus •-• was n o ir ig o f any deiettptsou to be teen—we ere fore expect every hour to bear some intelligence from thence.--The Nymph extra armed packer, Captain BLAKE, sailed this tnorning for Ostend, with Mr. HUNTER the Messenger and many passenzers. The wind has blown strong all cl.ty from the N.W. but is now got round to the Ea,tward, so that we expect a vessel from Ostend in the. course of this evening." Yesterday Order , : were issued from the LORD CHAMBROLAIN'S Office fur the Court going into mourning on Thursday next. on the death of the Duke of BiIINSWICK, for two months. The Aid-de-Camp of the late Sir WILLIAM Pow- SANDY arrived in • town last Thursday night. The body of the gallant General was found lying silty or seventy yards in advance of his brigade, and be had no fewer than seven lance wounds through the body. AU the Duke of WELLINGTON'S Aides-de-Camp were either killed or wounded, except Major PIRCT I who was assisting his wounded comrades at the time he was called upon to set off for Englsnd with the dispatches, and left immediately with only the Clothes he had am at the time. Soon after his arrival in London he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. Yesterday he waited upon the Princess CRARLOTTR of Wm.'s. to communicate the particu lars of the fall of her Royal Relative. The Earl of Livrateooc also waited upon her Royal Highness, as did Lord CAATLIIIINAGH. Her Royal Highness has not left the house since. A number of distinguished characters called yesterday to pay their respects, and leave their names. A Gendeman who paned through Colchester last night, and whuleft Ostend at two o'clock on Thurs day, states, that 15,000 French prisoners bad been •brought to Ostend, and 10,000 more seat to Ant werp ; and that MURAT and JEROME BONAPARTS fell in the action. Thursday the Eurydice, of 24 guns, Captain Goa nos, arrived at Portsmouth, from Cork, with a con voy, having on board two brigades of artillery for Belgium. , A brigade of heavy cavalry is to be placed under im tiediateorders for Belgi um,and severalentireregiments of infantry, to be sent principally from Ireland; besides the effective strength of the dep ots of the several battalions already on service. 'rite whole of the intended reinforcements will amount to 11,000 men. The Ear; of Iteast.rt, Sir H. FAY% and Sir E. PAONT. are named as likely to be sent to supply the lost of General Officers. Major WiLktor's tfoop of Horse Artillery marched into Woolwich to.day, and to.morrow they proceed thence to Margate, on their route to the Continent. The exertions at Woolwich to forward ammunition are amazing and incessant. ILLIMINATJONS.—The Illumination last night was very general and brilliant, but it presented no novelty. The Government Offices were distinguished for their splendour, and the DAMES of Wou.isorosi and But cunt shone aids by 64 4 with equal magnificence of light. , Somerset House ephilsited a very attractive spectacle; and hi the City, the Bali:: and Guildhall were beautiful ani striking rbji ct.. r ' . • ' Arickttrehmleiv-t-:‘;- FAST *DIA tiMbrittitt. •'' The following Country 8!;;ps under coniny Majeryis ship C Pnotlbexca, ORIENT, LOIAIL) LYNrucil,. • Mks LADY CAMPREI.I 4 LARD illtrotalrel rn, R Amick, MANGUM, PhyNcrss Cafant.nilfiv, t4llo%raru. and CitatiLorra, Irom India and Batavia.-.X10'.. AtC GARLAND, EAGLE, VENDF, And AlOl , :N r rttraug 511:11S 1 from the Cape and Sm n Fishery. TORBAY, JUNE 22. Bailed the PHEASANT, CAptain WALLER, on t cruiie; and the &Ream gun brig, C ipt. SLaucturka, last from Bermuda, for POrtsmouth. FALMOUTH, JUNE 211 Nothing arrived nr sailed. Order, have reached here fur the Express picket, for Serit.am. and. the Grace packet, fcr the Mecliti:franwt, tei N. light breezes, true weather. SCILLY, JUNE ?0. &the in his Nlejesty's ship PatrimeNT, Capta;n DUFF Irom a eru:ze, and is tinder quarantine the E.tiams cutzetirom a crnize. JUTE 22. S.tilel his Majesty's ships LARNE and TA on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE S 3. Arrived his Mileages ships A ncn tot aid PIONTItokr. from America $ his Majesty's Wept Pv Lavas and Mrsmroe from a smite. Sailed ills M y s ships CnNT!‘sT, ASIA. and PAc"roi.t:s. Came int) llabOtir his Majesty's ;? N.L. DOVER JUN.: el The B:tscy, Oitill,fcrildta,Chat went ($n shine yesterday, near Romney, is now NA of wazer —ths cargo is landing. The Eatt India Fltet passed by 'this morning. IDEAL, JUNE g 1 • Arrived his Majesty's ship CUSIBCRLAND, with the East India fleet under convoy, part of them remain in the Downs. This d3y at one o'clock, the men of war in the Downs fired a salute in consequence of the great victory obtained by our brave WEl.Ltucrot4 and his army. The whole of the • ships in the lii ,was displayed their colours on t i he occasion,—Wiod . W., • HARWICH, JUNE 22. Arrived the Beautoy • picket with a Mail from Holland.—..Wiod N. SHIP LAUNCII.—Yes ter_ay several thrusands of spectators assembled at his Majesty's Dock-yard, at. Deptford, to witness the launch of the CAMBRIDGE, an 80-gun line of-battiv ship. About half-past two o'clock the Commissioners of the Admiralty, Navy, I and Ordnance, arrived in their resrective har7es ; rte Mond of the Tower tiamltts Militia was in f'.mt of the Admiralty booth, and a marine baud stationed on the quarter-deck of the CAMBRIDGE. Precisely at three o'clock she went off the slips in a most majestic manner ; the two bands struck up Rule Britannia," 'and the Accl anations of the multitude rent the air. Not the smallest accident happened • She remained , in the midst of the river some time, under jury -masts, and decorated with diff4tnt colours, and aftcrlvards dripped down with the tide to Woolwich, where she is to be coppered. HANK Pipers to the ‘2.sth, nnstnn to 'h. 17els. ani New York to the 19th of Md 7, ttpve been teeriv,-.1 '• Neer You, N4AT 14 SIANISU FLtIT.•-.-We learn from Capt etwliagr, of t, he from Curacoa, that a large Spanish rce, in slI 64 sail, supposed to contain nine or 10,000 troops, under convoy of a. 74 and lave frigates, had arr;ved at M.ngaretta, orbvre tt.e Patnots capitulated. '1 he kirce procnded thence to Laguira, where a part of them had ardestl. " N►w•You, MAV 16. • a The Constitution frigate, in company wvls the dot" of war Erie, crossed the bar this day at one o'clock, and is now coming up with a favourable br:ese. The Coustnutiou toueted at S?.. 'Loads de Marrinhani ' riorth-west coast of t!.e Bruns, on the 19th of April, where Captain Srawn sr landed his prisoner,. On the 5161 b, to windward itl the West-Indies, fell in with a 71, and was induced to believe from her manoeuvres ' that a Peace had be concluded between England and the United Statrb." " MAT 17.—The squadron under the command of Commois dose DECATUR are now under sailing orders, and will proceed the Erin fair wind for the Mediterranean." Charleroi, one of the principal scenes of the late desperate struggles, although a place of no antiquity, is nevertheless as much celebrated in modern milit.iz y annals as almost any other on the Continent. It was first built in 1666. by CHARLES 11. of Spain, frOns whom it took its name : it wis always considered as the key of Namur. In 1693 it WAS taken by the French, but restored at the Peace of Ryswick, in 1697. By the Treaty of Utruht it was given to the States-General, by whom it was subsequently ceded to Austria. In 1746 it was taken again by the French, and nearly demolished. In 170 it was re stored to Austria. In the revolutionary war of 1792, it was taken by the French, but regained after two desperate actions, in which they lost 11,000 men.— In 1791 it again surrendered to the French. It is 1.5. miles from Namur. Binch, where the Duke of Wera.moroe's 11, ad. lquarters were on the 20th, is precisely twenty-eight miles direct south from Brussels. It is a small frrti. fled town, and might have kept the Allied Armies at bay . for a short time, if their victory had .6.at beta so complete as to preclude all efforts of this kind being made. Beaumont, where BLucitta was on the same day s is 1.5 miles farther south, and is within the French territory : it is also tortifiel. Some persons seem to express surprise at the small number of Eagles which have fallen into our hands, as if such a circumstance derogated from the spiels. dour of. this decisive 'victory. This matter requires explanation. In the British service each battalion has its own colours. In France there was never mote than one eagle to each regiment, consisting of five bat talions, four of which were generally in the field, so that in fact the capture of one eagle was at all times equivalent to the cgptere of four pair of English co iner:: the Ist battalion of every, French regiment of the line having the custody of that military symbol, like the Ist cohort of each Roman legion. • But tits proportion of eagles in the army of BoNANIIITI niece his return to France is, we have !vas n to beliefe, much smaller than ever, as half the regiments in his service, which were premised their colours at the Champ de Mai, have not yet received them. liistead of a Ingle eagle, therefore, being the representative, as hitherto, of t:raii battalionii, its seizure by the Bd. dsh indicates more probably the destruction of 8 .or 10 battalions, if not of a IAT), yes I er b •