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FRAn4E. H BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " Aufterlitz, Drc. 3. 27th ult. the Emperor, upon receiviwg anication of the full powers of M. M. Sta. De Guile'', offered previoufly an armitlice, spare the effnfion of blood,if any real in .a entertained of coming to an at rangement hive accommodation. A was eafy for the Emperor to perceive that ad other projells, and as the hope of fuccefs could only be derived from the fide of Ile Ruffian ar my, he eerily conjeaured that the fccond and third Armies were arrived, or were on the point of arriving at Olmu.z, and that the negnciations were only a raft de guars to lull his vigilance to peep. " On the aBth, at nine in the morning, a cloud of ObifAcks, fupported by the Ruffian cavalry, made Prince Murat's advanced poßs fall back, fnrrounded Wifchau, and took fifty of the 6th regiment of dre goons. In the courfe of the day the Emperor of Ituffia repai.ed to Witchau, and the whole Ruffian Army too': up a pofi ion behind that city. " The Emperer fent his Aide-de-Camp, General Savary, to compLment tl e Emperor of Ruffia,as loon as he knew of the arrival of that Prince in the army. General Savary returned at the moment the Empe ror was receimoitrieg the fires of the enemy's out ports at WiCcliatt. He fpoke in warm terms of com mendation of tile handfonte reception, the favours, and the perfonal fentiments of the Emperor of Raf fia, and even of the Grand Duke Contlantine, who !hewed him every attention; but it was eafy to un derriand,from the converfation he had for three days with tome 3o coxcomb:, who, under different titles, are about the Emperor of Ruflia, that prefumption, mconfideratenets, and imprudence, reigned in the decifions of the Military Cabinet as much as they had reigned in thole of the political Cabinet. " An army fo conducted could not but commit faults—the Emperor's plan was, from that moment, to wait for them, and to watch the moment for profiting by them. He immediately ordered his army to retreat in the night, as if he had been de feated, took a go .d pofition three leagues in the rear, and laboured with much orientation at fortifying it, and railing batterie:. " He propofed an interview to the Emperor of Ruffia, who fent him his Aide de Camp Prince Dol. gorucki ; that Officer might remark, that every thing breathed referve and fear in the appearance of the French army. The placing Rrong guards, the forti fications made with tech haße—every thing (hewed to the Ruffian Officer an army half beaten. " Contrary to the Emperor's cultom, who never receives with fu much circumfpeelion the flags of truce at his head quartets, he went himfelf.to the ad vanced polls. After the firft compliments, the Ruf fian Officer wifhed to introduce political difeuffions. He touched upon every thing with an impertinence difficult to be coeceived ; he was in the molt perfe& ignorance of the interefta of Europe, and of the &na tion of the Continent. In a word, he was a young trumpeter for England. He fpoke to the Emperor as he (peaks to the Ruffian Officers, whom he has long difgutled by his haughtinefs and improper con- duet. The Emperor repreffed his indignation ; and the young man, who has a real influence over the Em peror Alexander, returned with a conviaion that the] French army was on the eve of ruin. One may be convinced, above all, of what the Emperor mutt have !dieted, when it is known, that towards the' end of the converfation he propofed to him to cede' Belgium, and to place the iron crown upon thehead of the molt implacable enemies of France. All' there different Reps were attended with their due el fat. The young heads that dire& the Ruffian affairs gave themfelves up, without meafure, to their natu ral prefumption. It was no longer whether the French army thoithi be beaten, but whether it fhould be turned and taken—it had only done fo much be fore, or formerly, through the cowardice of the Auf trians. We are allured, that feveral old Auftrian Generals, who had made campaigns againft the Em peror, warned the Council, that it was not with that confidence that vac ought to march againft old Sol diers and Officers of the lint merit. They laid they had ken the Emperor, reduced to a handful of men, re-poffefs himfelf of victory under the moil difficult circumßarces, by rapid and unforefeen operations, and detiroy the molt numerous armies ; that here no advantage had been obtained ; that, on the contrary, all the afflits with the rear guard of the firft Ruffian Army had been in favour of the French army ; but to that the prefumptuous young men oppofed the bravery of the eighty thoufand Ruffians, the enthuli afm inlpired by the pretence of the Emperor, the picked corps of the Imperial guard of Ruffle, and, what probably they dated not lay, their talents, of which they were alonilltcd the Autirians would not acknowledge the power. " On the lit of December, the Emperor, from the heights, few, with indefcribable joy, the Ruffian army beginning, within twice the dittance of cannon flue from his advanced poet, a flank movement to turn his right. He perceived then to what a pitch preftimptien and ignorance of the art of war had milled the Council+ of that brave army. He fail, f e veral times, D.:fore ter-morrow night that army than he in my peeeer.' Yet the enemy's idea was far different; they appeared before our polls within pieol (hot ; they defiled by a flank match upon a Me- four leegets long. In palling the length of the French army, which teemed not to dare to quit its polltiort, they had but one fear, that the French army lhouid efcape. Every thing was done to confirm the enemy in this idea. Prince Murat fent out a (mall corps on the plain ; but all at once it feemed alto nifhed at the immenfe force of the enemy, and re turned in lia!lc. Hence every thing tended to con firm the Reilian General in the mitcalculated opera-' tion which he had determined upon. The Emperor put the an nexed P r oclamation in the Order of the Day. At night he wither] to yifit on foot and incog nito all the polls ; but he had not gone many Reps %siren he was recognized. It would be impoflible to depietethe enthufialm of the feldiers upon teeing' him. Lighted ftraw was placed in an irritant upon the tops of ihoufands of poles, end eighty thoufand wren appeared before the Emperor, (eluting him with accynatinns ; fettle to celebt ate the anniverfary cf his coronation, otters Paying, that the army would to morrow offer its bouquet to the Emperor. One ofd azonadiert.wellt 1.10 to him, and Paid, you need not expo& yourfelf—l promife you, in the name of the grenadiers of the army, that you (ball only have to fight with your eyes, and that we will bring you to-mortotv the colours and artillery of the Ruffian army, to celebrate, the anniverfary of your coronation." " The Emperor laid, upon his return to his zuard honfe, which confined of a miserable *raw cabin, without a roof, which the grenadiers had made for him, This is the fin& evening of my life ; but I regret to think that I than tole a good number of thefe brave fellows. I feel by the pain it gives me, that they are indeed my children, and I often re proach myfclf for this fentiment, for 1 fear it terminate in rendering me unfit to carry on war.' — If the enemy had teen the fight, it would have ter rified them—belt the unthinking enemy continued their movements, and battened with quick Reps to their ruin. " The Emperor male his difpnfitions for battle im• mediately. He fent of/Martha' Davoun in great Italie to the convent of Raygern ; he was with one of his divifions, and a divition of dragoons, to keep in check the enemy's left wing, in order that, upon a given fignal, it might be quite furrounded. " He gave to Marthal Lannes, the cnmmmand of the left wing ; to Marthal Soulr, the command of the right ; and to Marthal Bernadotte, the com mand of te centre. Prince Murat received the command of the cavalry, with which he was potted on one point. The left of Marthal Lannes approach ed Santon, a fuperb pofition, which had been Joni. ed and mounted with eighteen pieces of cannon.-. From the preceding evening he bad entrufted the keeping of that firm pofition to the 17th light infan. try, and certainly it could not be guarded by better troops. General Suchet's divifion formed the left of Martha Lannes ; the divilion of General Caffarelli formed his right, and was fupported at the fame time by Prince Murat's cavalry. The latter had be fore it the huffars and chaffeurs under General Keller-, man, and the dragoon divifions of Walther and Beaumont, and in referee the cuiratlier divifion of ' Generals Nanfouty and Hautpoult, with 24 pieces of light artillery. " Martha' Bernadotte, that is to fay, the centre, had on the left the divifion of Gen. Rivaud, which alfo communicated with Prince Murat's tight wing, and on the right the diviftin of Gen. Drouct. " Marthal Soult, who commanded the right wing of the army, had on his left the divifion of Ge. I neral Van Damme : in his centre the divifion of Ge neral St. Hilaire ; and on his right the divifion of . General Legrand. " Marfh.il Davnuft was detached to the right of General Legrand, to obferve the road between thei lakes and the villages of Sokolnitz and Celnitz.—;l He had with him General ,Friant's divition and the dragoons of Gens:ral Bouchier's divifion. The di vifion of General Gudin was directed to march at , I day break from Nicolfburg, to (lop the corps of the enemy, which might have outflanked the right l wing. " The Emperor, with his faithful companion in ' war Marthal Berthier, his firft Aid-de-Camp Colonel Junot, and all his Etat Major, were in referee, with the ten battalions of his guard, and the ten battalions of Gen. Oudinot's grenadiers, part of whom were commanded by Gen. Duroc. " This referee, ranged in two lines, in columns by battalion, deployed at a diaance, having in the in tervals forty pieces, ferved by the cannoniers of the uard. It was with this referee that the Emperor intended to pia forwards, wherever it would have been neceffary ; we may fay this referee was worth an army. " At one in the morning the Emperor got on horfeback to vifit the polls, reconnoitre the fires of the enemy, and get an account of what the guards had learnt of the movements cf the Ruffians—he heard that they had palled the night in drunkennefs and noife, and that a corps of Ruffian infantry had appeared in the village of Sokolnitz, occupied by a regiment of the divition under . Gen. Legrand, who had orders to reinforce it, " Day dawned at length on the 2d—the fun raft bright ; and the Anniverfary of the Coronation d the Emperor, upon which one of the greaten feats in arms of the age was to be performed, was one of the fineft-days in autumn. " This battle, which the foldiers perfill in calling 6 the day of the Three Emperors,' which others call the day of the Anniverfary, and which the Ens. peror named the Battle of Anne' lite, will be ever memorable in the annals of the Great Nation. " The Emperor, furrounded by all the Marthals, waited only for the horizon to clear up to iffue his laft orders. When the fun fhot forth his firft rays, the orders were iffued, and each Martha' joined his corps at full gallop. '6 The Emperor laid, in paffing along the front of feveral regiments—' Soldiers, we mull Was this campaign by a thunder-flroke, which !hall confound the pride of our enemies ; and intlantly hats were placed at the points of bayonets, and cries of Vine P.Enitereur were the fignal for battle. A moment af terwards the cannonade began at the extremity of the right, which the enemy's advanced guard had all eady outflanked ; but the unex paled meeting with Marthal Davoult flopped the enemy (hurt, and the battle began. " Marthal Soult put hinifelf in motion at the fame moment, proceeded to the heights of the village of Pratzen with Generals Vandamme and St. Hilaire's divifion, and cut off the enemy's right whofe move ments became uncertain. Surprized by a flank march, %Ann it was flying, believing itfelf to be at tacking, and tieing itfelt attacked, it confidered itfelf as halt defeated. " Prince Murat was in motion with his cavalry. The left wing, under the command of General Lan nes, marched forward Alb, exec/mien:, by regiments, in t he ' fame manner as Witte) , bad been exerciliag by divifions. A tremendous cannonade took place along the whole line ; two hundred pieces of cannon, and nearly two hnudi el thoufand men, made a dreadful noife. It was a real giant combat. Not an hour had elapfed, and the enemy's whole left was cut off; their right had already reached An iterlitz, the head quarters of the two Emperors of Antiria And Ruffle, who immediately ordered the Emperor of Rua - la's guard to march, and endeavour to retiore the corn munication of the centre with the left. A battalion of the 4th of the line was charged by the Imperial Ruffian Guard on horfeback, recand rowed ; but the Emperor was at hand ; p‘ived this movement ; ordered Martha' Deffieres to go to the fuccoar of h;i right with his Invinc:bles, and the two guards were loon engaged. Succefs could not be doubtful ; in a moment the Ruffian guard was routed; Colonel, artillery, ftandards, every thing was taken. The regiment of the Grand Duke Conftantine was annihilated. He owed his fafety only to the fwiftnefs of his horfe. " From the heights of Autterlita the two Empe rors beheld the defeat of all the Ruffian guard. At the fame moment the centre of the army, command ed by Marfhal Bernadotte, advanced ; three of his regiments made a very fine charge of cavalry. The len, commanded by !stadia! Lannes, made revere!. All the charges were victorious. General Caffarelli's divifion diitinguirbed itfelf. The Cuiratfier divifion took the enemy's batteries. At one P. M, the vie• tory was decided ; it had not been doubtful for a moment ; not a man of the referee was wanted, nor had engaged; a cannonade was kept up only on our right. The enemy's corps which had been furrnund ed and driven from all the heights, were on a flat, and near a lake. The Emperor battened thither, with twenty pieces of cannon. This corps was driven from pofition to pofition, and we law the horrid fight, fuch as was feen at Aboukir, of twenty thou fand men throwing themfelves into the water, and drowning themfelves in the lake. " Two columns of Ruffians, four thoufand each, laid down their arms, and furrendered themfelves prifoners. All the enemy's park of artillery is taken. The refult of this day is, forty Ruffian ftandards, amongft which are the flandards of the Imperial Guard ; a confiderible number of prifoners, the Etat Major does not yet know how many, but has already an account of twenty thoufand; twelve or fifteen Generals at kelt f i fteen thoufand Ru ffi ans killed on the fi eld of battle. Though we have nut yet the report, we may, at the Qat glance, eftimate our lora at eight hundred killed, and fifteen or fix teen hundred wounded. This will not furprife mill. tary men, who know, that it is only in a rout that men are loft ; and no other corps but the battalion of the 4th was penetrated. Amongft the wounded are General St. Hilaire, who, wounded, at the be ginning of the aftion, remained the whole day on the field of battle—he covered himfelf with glory ; Ge nerals of Divifion, Kellerman and Walther; Gene rals of Brigade, Valhaber, Thiebault, Sebaltiani, Compar, and Rapp, the Emperor's Aide de Camp. It was the latter who, in charging at the head of the grenadiers of the guard, took Prince Repnin, com manding the Chevaliers of the Imperial Guard of Raffia. With rerpell to the men who diftinguithed themfelves, it was the whole army that coveted k- W with glory—it conflantly charged to the cries of give kortereur ; and the idea of celebrating fo glo rioully the anniverfary of the Coronation, animated the foldier. 4 4 The French army, though fine and numerous, was lefs numerous than the enemy's army, which was 103,000 (Tong ; 80,000 Ruffians, and 25,000 Auflrians ; the half of the army is deltroyed ;—the Felt have been completely routed, and the greater part threw away their arms. " This day will colt tears of blond at St. Pete& burgh. May it cattle the gold of England to be re jeCteil with indignation ! and may that young Prince, whom fo many virtues called to be the father of his fubjetts, tear himfelf from the influence of thole thirty coxcombs whom England artfully pays, and whole impertinence injures his intentions, makes him hole the love of his foldiers, and hurries him into the moll ill judged operations. Nature, in endowing him ' with fo many great qualities, bad meant him to be 1 1 the confoler of Europe. Perfidious Councils, by rendring him the auxiliary of England, will place him in Intim in the rank of men who, perpetuating the war upon the Continent, will have confolidated the Britith tyranny upon the feat, and produced the mifery of our generation. If France cannot arrive at peace but upon the conditions propofed by the Aide-de-Camp Dolgorucki to the Emperor, and which M. Novofiltzoff was ordered to make, Ruffia lhould not obtain them were her army encamped upon the heights of Montmartre. 64 In a more detailed relation of this battle, the Etat Major will make known what each corps, offi cers and General, have done to render the French name Mufti ious, and to afford proof of their love for the Emperor. " On the 3d, at daybreak, Prince John of Lich. tenflein, commanding the Aultrian army, came to the Emperor's headquarters, in a barn—he had a long audience—yet we purfue our fucceffes—the enemy have retired by the road from Auflerlitz to Goding. In this retreat it expofes its flank. The French army is already on its rear, and purfues it at the point of the bayonet. " Never was there a more horrible field of battle. ' From the middle of the immenfe lakes we hear Rill the cries of thoufands of men who could not be af. filled. Three days mull elapfe ere all the wounded enemy are carried to Brunn. The heart bleed , — I May fo much blnodfbed—may fo many mife:ies fall at length upon the pet fidhins Wanders %alio are the cattle of it! May the cowardly Oligarchs of Lon don bear the burthen of fo many evils!" ORDER OF THE DAY. " On the Field, Dec. t. 0 Soldiers, the Ruffian army is before you to avenge the Aultrian army at Ulm. They are the fame battalions you beat at Hodabrun, and which you have conitantly purfurd. 0 The politions we occupy are formidable! and whilf they march to my right,they (ball prefent me the Bank. " Soldiers, I Bull diredt, myfelf, all your battalions; I mall keep at a dittance from t he firin g , if, with your accultonted bra very you carry confufioni , nd dikirder into the enemy's ranks; but if victory be for a moment doubtful, you (halt fee your Emperor more himfelf to the lira blows--for victory cannot heiltate, on this dry, in which the honour of the French infantry, which is of fo much importance to the whole nation, is concerned." CIRCULAR LETTER to the BISF ISHOPS and PRESIDENTS of the CONSORY. _ " AOSTEILITZ, DIC. 3. " Bifhop of the Dioccfc The fignal vi dory which has atter.ded our arms, over the combined armies of Rufus and Aultria, commanded by the Emperors of Aultria ind Ruffin in perfoti. is a vifihle proof of the protell ion of (ion, and requires I that folcmn Thankfgiving be celebrated throughout the whole ex- t.nt of our Empire. " We In pc that Inch marked Giraffes as thole we have obtained at Aufterlita will induce our enemies at length to giveup the per fidious mini - cis of England, the only means that can encore peace to the Continent. " Upon the receipt of there prefents, you will, according to cultom, fing a Te Dean, at which it is our intention that all the COtiltitUtet: Authorities. and our people, affilL This heilig the whole i+ et of our lector, we pray GOD to have you in his holy het picg, • ignpd) " teasruLsoN. . 4 1 " "R! THIRTIETI " On the ; he common !dion anti Ik ' in order to t Itention Were and a defini "But it v they had of 1 Y ~ )- 1 i ~'j THIRTY-FIRST BULLETIN. Aufterlitz, nee. S. " The Emperor left Antlerlitz yeilerd iy, and is gone to the advanced poll near Suruchetz, where he has fixed his night-guard. The Emperor of Germany arrived loon atter, and theft two Monarchs had an interview, which tatted two hours. The Emperor of Germany did not conceal on his own part, nor that of the Emperor of 'lonia, all the contempt which the condo& of England had infpired. They,' laid he, ate the merchants who excite the fire of difcord upon the Continent, to fecure to themlaves the com merce of the world' Tbefe two Princes have agreed upon an armi !lice, and the principal conditions of peace, which will be negotiated and concluded within the coulfe of a few days. 44 The Emperor of Germany alio made known to the Emperor, that the Emperor of Ruffia wiflred to make a fepatate peace ; and that he would entirely abandon the affairs of England, and no longer m4u tam any inter& in them. 46 The Emperor of Germany feveral times repeated in the eonverfation, that there was no doubt that the quarrel with England was jolt on the part of Prance. 41 He alto demanded a truce for the remains of the Ruffian army. The Emperor Napoleon gave him to underhand that the Ruffian army, being furroun ded, not a man of them could efcape ; but' added he, as I with to oblige the Emperor Alexander, I will (suffer the Ruffians to pals—l will order my own columns to halt; but your Majetly mug promife me that the Ruffian army ihall return to Ruffia, and eva cuate Germany, Aultrian and Pruffian That (anfwered the Emperor of Germany) I can affure you is the intention of the Emperor Alexander ; betides, in the cootie of the night, your own officers may convince you of the fad.' 44 We are affured, that the Emperor laid to tiler Emperor of Germany, when he was introduced to the fiatiohof his night guard, ' I reacive you in the only palace I have lived in Ode two months.' The Emperor of Germany replied, with a (mile, You' have turned it to Inch good account, -that you have realm to be pleated with it.' This, at lean, is what it thought to have been heard. The numerousatten (tants of the two Monarch; were not fo far diftant, but that they could hear much of their converfation. The Emperor attended the Emperor of Germany to his carriage, and cauftd the two Princes of Lich tentlein, and General Prince Schwartzenberg, to be introduced to him. He returned afterwards to fleet) at Aufterlits. 44 All the particulars are colleaing, to give a fine defcription of the battle of Auiterlita. A great num ber of engineers are taking plans of the field of battle. The lots of the Ruffians was immenfe ; Generals Kutufow and Buxhowden were wounded : ten or twelve Generals were killed. Several Aides-de-Camp of the Emperor of Ruffia, and a great number of officers of difiinaion, were killed. It was not a hun dred and twenty, but a hundred and fifty pieces of cannon that were taken. The columns of the ene my, which threw themfelves into the lakes, were fa vonred by the ice ; but force cannon (hot broke it, and two entire columns were drowned. On the even ing of the battle, and during leveret hours in the night, the Emperor went through the field of battle, and had the wounded removed ; a horrible fight, if ever there was one I The Xroperor, who was moun ted on very (aft honks, pallbd along with the rapidity of lightning, and nothing was more affeaing than to fee Chafe brave men recognize him on the field. Some of them forgot their (offerings, and exclaimed, " is the viLory quite certain ?' Another Paid, 4 I have been in torture there eight hours, and fence the com mencement of the battle I hats been deferted, but I have done my duty.' Others laid,' You ought to be well fatisfied with your foldiers to-day.' " To every wounded foldier the Emperor left; per fon to take him to the waggons provided for the wounded. It is horrible to mention, that forty eight hours after the battle, there was a great num ber of wounded Ruffians that could not be dreffed. All the French were dreffed before night. Infield of forty (land of colours, at this hour forty-five have been brought in, and the remains of many more have been difcovered. Nothing can equal the gaiety of the troops at their polls. Whenever they perceive an Offi cer belonging to the Emperor, they exclaim,' is the Emperor fatisfied with us r—ln puffing by the aBth of the line, which has a number of the Confcripts of Calvados, and the Lower Seine, in it, the Emperor Paid, I hope that the Normans will diftinguifh them felres to-day !' They anfwered his expeaations ; the Normans did dillinguifir thernfelves. The Emperor, who knows of what kind of men each regiment con- Paid fomrhing applicable to each, and this ex preffinn came and (poke to the hearts of thole to whom it was addreffed, and became their rallying word in the min of the fight. He Paid to the 57th, Re member that, fume years ago, I gave you the title of The Terrible.' We lhould mention the names of all the regiments—there was not one of them which did not perform prodigies of bravery and intrepidity.— We might almott lay that death became afraid, and I Rkd before our ranks to fall upon thole of the enemy. Not a corps made a retrograde movement. The Emperor laid, I have fought this ty battles like this, but I never law one where the vittory was In decided, and the fate of battle fu little balanced.' The foot guarde of the Emperor could not engage—they coed through fpitc, as they abfoluiely infitted upon d nag fumething. Be fatisfied, laid the Emperor, that you have nothing to do; you are to engage as the referve ; it will be fo much the better if there be no occation foryou to-day.' 44 Three Colonels of the Imperial Ruffian Guattl are taken, with the General who commanded it. The Huffars of this guard made a charge upon the drvifion of Caffarelli. They toll, in this one charge, 300 men, who remained oral the field of 'The French cavalry proved their fuperiority, and behaved nobly. At the end r.f the bottle, the Emrc: ror fent Colonel Dallemagne, with two fqnadrons et his guard, as partifans, to tcour the neighbourhood d the field of battle at difcretion, and bring back the runaways. He took many Rands of cJloor., fitiees pieces of cannon, end 15co priinuers. The guartb , regret exceedingly Colonel of the Um:. clinlreurs, who was killed by a grape that, as he %%a' charging the artillery of the Imperial Ruffian guar!. The artillery was taken, but the brave Colonel ‘v•i 6 killed. Na General oas killed on our fide. The brave Colonel Maaz, at the I.}th of the line, '‘ 3s killed. M in; Conariandei s Of battalions were wound., T t