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• _ 7 Witaltingsments=marmorsztersixersose _ Emperor was at 4rescien, and enjoyedthathest health. At that time no new event of mOkl, had 94- - curred. The army is v er y fine, and r .thVoristest clis ,cipline is soaintained. The Du kej of.r..astiglione bac' arrived at Neva with his army. The, Pitince,of theMnskwa incessantly gains over the • emir 9 1 : the enemy which had attempted to,pass the Lihe. 'T f ite ko,ison has, become very fine. The opt. iatiOrfs of the enemy in 11 , theinia are only defensive. • . i.EW IC , 13CTORER 2. Our garrison hathesome very nomerous,,, and the - reinforcements which have been collected here for the ' airsuralready fori; a itipish cOrps, *Nett seacites ge- I * ise4tlisdiniaaticirt. Oar communication with Dreiden I s. flow ripen without intern, ptton. The pipaitimtsltith . Ote array-of Marshal the .Duke of Castiglione. tapes ..#4l Mider ; . eittreMely critical that of ;Pc partifans *lid are too far advanced. • t _ - 11C.4141;1 7 QRT, OCT9pEfk S. t. • Sonle detachments of the Imperial Canard which lain/been liere eor some ditys,Ve 'received orders to begin their march. • • - • •• • INTERCEPIAD CORRESPONDENCE. • ' . The great mail of the French army.feton the 12th of Septdfltzer into 'the hands of some_ Pirthianspn the I read Leipsic and Wurzermairbeie were some thou. '• sand letters. They are so strongly marked by the-! feeling which prevails in the French army. and throw so much light on the march of the operations, that the publication of some extracts from this correspon dencitcannot fail mprove interesting : *TRACT OF A Willi 411051 MR. D. TO illS -AT MATATDICHT. C I.owestbent, August 2%lsta. " Escaped from the greatest dangers, my first thought.is to inform you that lam still well, I.am naked as my hand,, r the cloak of a gens d'arme,. which ha* been tent me, is my only covering ; bdt let us not anticipate, land do not mike yourself un easy about what I write.to yen. For three days we were in march by dreadfulsxoadb and amidst conti nual ralns,'—our single. division, with 16 cannon. Arrived within two leagues of this town, we encoun tered the enemy, who' was 4ouble our numbers, and Who surrounded us on all sides f our-only hope was in fighting with desperation, which we did ; but after the finest resistance, the greatest part-of uti were com pelled to surrender. two cf 'my comrades had the 011ie good fortune as myself, to escape the enemy, 'and we are soliciting-a* return to Maestricht, to re. cover from our miteries. The whole regiment was made prisoners, except Captain who was in thesear with the wounded of the regiment : the Co .ionel, the Command int of Battalion H—, in short, ' all were taken, not excepting my poor friend K—. B— is with the baggage, I must find him to morrow ; I have lost every thing, I am script of every thing, and--" I:ETRACT OF A LETTER WU THE QUARTER-MASTER 1;0 TO 4ADAME " Dresden, Scptemiiir 5, 1813. • 4 We were ten days of the last month without bread ; we had only potat , :es, which we boiled and me without any thing else. The water is constantly over our bodies, lying along in the mud. One ni s ht great deal of rain fell my horse could no longer • support it, and I sjil.L'ss. I swear to }ou, that nad they attacked us, they might have killed us all with out much citActilty. One poor dragoon could no longer bear up ; he blew his brains out." EXTRACT OF A'LETTER PROM N. C—. " Dresden, September 7, 1813. 14 T know not, my good friend, either where we are •or what we are doing. The day before yesterday the Emperor set out with his guards to meet the enemy, who was adrancing on I)resden. What every body foresaw h tppened ; the enemy retired, and the Em peror re-entered Dresden yesterday evening. " What does he mean to do? Whither march his . troops ? There is no time to be lost. Saxony can no longer support us: every thing is eaten cp. ' " I send you various papers, which you will place in my scrutoire. I every day get rid of some of my pioperty, and still find I have tocf-much about me. This shall assuredly be the last of my travels.- . " You cannil imagine to what a degree I am plagued. I purchase with the greatest difficulty some bottles of hay for my horses; bread becomes scarce, —meat is beyond all price; the inhabitants can no longer teed 4.1. It costs me daily from 1.5 to 20 francs for my horses, domestics, and clerks, and yet nu dinners cost me nothing. It cannot last long thus. Ottr ,c4ildren are bes* you, and lam 300 leagues off, not kn9svi9g when or how I shall rej,in yon. What a situation l But it will come to an end at last, and perhaps sooner than we .suppose,' for the excess cf happinetts or misery always borders upon its termination.' EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. f . TO MIL AT LAMB lEEE, 1N lIRITANNY. Fee den, Sertembe F. C 4 The enemy had taken up his old positions at Bautzeu, and beaten a cOrps d'arrnee which we had in the environs of that town. The Emperor se', out on the 4th to fight him. 'He was foitowed by the whole Administrative Staff—we seemed sure of vic tory—but on his arrival, the Russians and Co. made a movement towards Bohemia, where on the • if.llll ;ultimo they beat the Ist corps, and made General Vandamme prisoner, it is said. It appears that they wish to draw Mr into that country of woods and moun tains, to destroy us ; their troops being more nume rous than ours, and perfectly acquainted with *the country—we trust we sli4l avoid that snare. On the 6th, the Emperor returned thither, and the army followed. Yest , rddy he set off, and since morning they have been fighting at Pima, where we had the =ism:lune to be beattn beittre the arrival of the Em peror, who inmediately took the command., and the enemy retired. I'i.-day I have been fourde3fues on the road to Tranc4: ; 1 say notniy.g, and.. rn4rned without acci dent. On toy return I espected to learn something, but nothing is n circulation, and tt.e futile coati tits; is will probdbly continue lOratorrow agda, arid we shall not be a whit the wiser. Vat must we augur om this sile.ice? Do wp not deserve to know some thing of such imporant !AM . ? IL is now ten o'clock; they are fighting siill, and we know nothing. As tothingsertain is known, of co+. rse some people a p im , themselves with spreading different report's, 3 zpong which there are some curious enough—for instance, it is phi, that Itiasia,fru*sfa, and fraope, ira.bnit r log to. fall upon Austria. A General Order haefust beet), published . to the army. All the strageors to t* reilleated, and every tenth man upon wlenn the lot may fall is to be slot. Should this order be rigo rously executed, in another month we should no lon ger have an army. The greater part of %rt. men ;re tooiveak, and our horses too much fatigued, 4, The apparent system of the enemy will multiply the number of the wretched—hi weans to exhaust tut hy marches and countermarcheshe has a great a - vantage ; particplarly. the Ss.edeq and Austrians—..their men are strong and vigorous, and their cavalry ad mirable. Some squadrons of the Guard.of Honour have already arrived; these poor fellows knew not hOw to manceuvre. They are at Pirna ; if they have fought, how many of them will be left ? We are told that fresh levies are making in France ; indeed, every one must march, should the war last ; there will be an absolute necessity for it, should our enemies mul tiply every day ; should the Turks join them, and they talk of it, I. know not the power in Europe that will not be against us. How unfortunate and hatecl the French are 1" Prg4I7,LIP? 1100eldts, as well as rey horses, were 4ivepeein the torrents of the Bober, from which I tot out with a great deal of difficulty.' You will pro bahlrlie lead to receive some *tells with regard to that unfortunate affair, fe On the 26t 11 of August, at the same time that the A;•my of the pp ber , consisting of the 3d, sth, and 11th corps,and the 2d of cavalry, was marching upon Jauer, the 2d division of the sth corps, to which I was attached, was singly cearged to manoeuvre on the right, for the purpose of intercepting the enemy's army, which, doubtless, was pot thought to be so strong ? should it have attempted to retire upon Bo hemia. The army of the Bober had on the same day (the 26th), an affair in advance of Goldberg, the fesult of u4tialr was tho it retreated. - " The division, which was not informed of this event, continued - ha march towards the enemy. On the 28th, an Aide-de-Camp of Marshal the Duke Of Tarentum, who, with unlooked-for good fortune had traversed the whole of the enemy's line, brought Cre wel Puthod orders to retreat. Now was it pos sikile fir a division, which had lost nearly 3000 man by the heavy rains which fell incessantly on the 26tbl and 27th, to effect its retreat two days after the main army, and amidst an enemy whose force was 120 ; 000 men ? Neverthelesi, General Puthod resolved.to re. tire upon LOWenberg by ftirschberg, hoping to past' the Bober at the latter town, which turned out to be impracticable, in consequence of the flooding of the waters. After a forced' March of two days, and after sustaining several combat?, rite division, which on its march was enveloped on every side, arrived befotiil Lowenberg, without losin g , ' its artillery. Hese a Its extitecr OP L A LETTER FROM MR. TO CAMERA/. • " Dresden, Sept. 8. “ We yesterday re-entered Dresden the fourth time. The operations of this campaign appear to have a character of indecision hitherto unknown in The armies commanded - by the Emperor : but we Must suppoie that these marches and countermarches which we aro ordered to make have an object already ealcvlated. It is announced to me that we are to set auk agaid within au hour. I know not on what point we, are to lie directed ; probably towards Bohemia i I suspect in consequence of the scarcity of forage in the environs of Dresden. We had in this respect 4 piti. able Commissariat, and a most afilicting waste.' EXTRACT OF A TATTER FROM MR. LI-. TO . RARON AT PARIS. frightful torrent interdicted , : 3 passing the ilober. We immediately laboured at re-establishing the bridge, which had 4een cut down on the evening before,doubt lets from an idea that the division was captured; but all our efforts were useless. It, however, became ne, cessary to find a passage forthwith, because the. divi 'ion, Which from tiO(K? was reduced to 3000 men, was already engaged with a formidabradice both infantry and cavalry. It maintained itself ter five hours in this position, and atter haying spent our last ball, still the bridge was not re-established. Several -sqnares were penetrated': 1,500 men endeavoured to escape by throwing themselVes into the torrent; more than I ,300 perished ittthe waters ; the rest of the division. }sus killed or taken." 4 ! Dresden, Sept ? ff. send this by the estafette, to save you the anxiety , which you might have had on my account, on lapping the unfortunate events that have driven me back thus fir. I have got off with only enduring A 4 immensity of fatigue, haling been incessantly pursued Pepe dep: les reins, from three leagues on the other side of Goldberg to Bautzen." EXTRACT OF A LETTER ERQM MR. V— TO IjIS WIFE. " Torgau, September 8. 66 I hasten to write to you, in eider to set yoe s_, ease as to my personal safety, after the unlucky bat- BERI.IN, SEP tEMBER st. tle of Juterboch. ft was a *fatal• day, and may have We have just received from the head-quarters of the most terrible effect. Never was there a throw his Royal Highness the Crewn prince of Sweden the like it among us. I ceunot describe to you, my dear following Bulletins : friend, the fire, the hailstorm of chain-shot, that . ELEVENTH BULLETIN. showered upon us. In no affair that I have been in, , of Hems-quartets, at Zerbsr ? Sept. co, Ism did I ever see any thing to equal it. It took place on P General Von Nuke, who is charged with the the gist. The 23cl regiment, the 13th of the line, the I observation of M :gdeburg, is posted. at Mockern ; - Italian divisien, suffered horribly. The field of bat he has sent sever.,, detachm ents of cavalry to the lett I tle was covered with killed and wounded. I was de. bank of the Eibe. - tached near the Prince of Moskwa to carry prders for i . . 6 , TWO coMpatfes of the regiment' Joseph Nepo movement to the --corpe. The general in Chief ienn, Mt men strong ? with their ch:ef oLbattalion. had-a horse wounded: 'General 1..) a horse killed and two other t flicers,- came over to our aiivenced. under him : the Prince of Muskwa had three horses posts at Biederitz .in the night between toe 16th and wounded in two hours. A number of superior °lli -17 cers, Coiotels, etc. of the general staff, were made 17th September. fo They were permitted to ree e tin their evms,....and prisoners of war. 'We are renting ton Leilisic. •. wele tele n to the head quir t , •-: re his Morel Mei:, There is every appearance that we shall he eqmpefied ness, from whence they wi'. '0•• stet to Spain hy , the to retire even nixie the Rhine, unless some unforeseen way of Stralsund. . good fortune occur. The enemy is in force, and we.ll . " A part ot the Land seam of Ilitegnitz, lardercommanded : he has assumed a tone of asuanishing . the command of Major Woo Puttlitz, has crossed the superiority, and he successfully avails hansell of the ‘ Elbe and talc,en possession of the envirens of Sechau. stupor of our army.. I never had the confidence of leen and Asterburg. He protects the inhabitants tif our being able to resist so great an ousted force, be ! the Old March of Brandenburg against thp requisi-' cause I have seen the great cooled zeal of those who .sores made by straggling parties, and by the Govern boasted of having most, and who were best paid. On .. - the other hand, our soldiers are so small, so feeble, eo : ment of Westphalia. 1 young, so inexperienced, that more is to be teased 44 Lieuten a nt-General Count Walmoden having , received information that tee Prince of Eckmuhl had than hoped, even from their numbers. I wish to sett detached the divisieti • f General recheux to the felt Rhine, what all this will come to, should we approach thei bank of the Elbe, passed 'hat river at Dom•tz, and &C." in his march on the Mil fell in with the enemsr. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. C-.-. 5 TO MR. C-...r. AT 1 " General Pecbeux had p.sted himyll adVantage- STRASBURG. . ously on the heights behind Guerde. The cattoolieaie " Dresden, September 9. conimmickel ;—th.• attack Tattle by the sirailleurs or " Here I am, my dear friend, again returned to - Lazow and Reiche, and the- well coeibieed rri .ve .Dresden,*since the day before yesterday. These Mes ments of the. columns of intintry forced tie en my sieurs of Coalition anuise themselves by !Inking us to quit the heights, and farm en muse on the plain. - promenade, and also his Majesty's Guards, whose At the very moment %%hen eur columns had got as head-quartershi ow all the movements. While we far es the heights, the cavalry aid the Cosseeks sp are on eine side, the enemy take advantage of our ab- peal,:d on the enemy's lett fl els. Not withstending sence to alarm the point we have jus: quitted, so thet taw. tie made an ebsonate defence, supported a very we are conmelled to return on cite steps to repress brisk combat with the int entry, and repulsed severe? their audacity. This kind of tactics may be very auacks of the carrell y. - .He was, however, ;we amusing to them, but it is not the s.:me to us ; our or ught to give way by the artillery, a part of which men are fatigued by all these marches and cemitel. followed closeafter tr.e inf 'tarp. - marches, and we also. You may well suppose this et The enemy being rep e atedly attacked by the in kind of life is not much to my taste, and that all these fantry, and oo st.vetal sides, wished to hasten hie re. goings and comings very ill agree with me. lhe treat, -led from this moment, .is both the cavalry and rst time, we marched from Dresden to Goerli9, infantry tell on bun, his disorder was, complete. The and returned from Guerlitz to Dresden ; but the last enemy's corps seould. have bean totally destroyed, time we got off et less cost ; we 'bad only to go as had not night 'coming oa t and the bruken greund tar as liautzen, and then it Was full: time that saved a great part of them: we should reach Dresden again, to save it from a . Oo The field ctf hattle ;vas covered with the enemy's new attack like that of the 26th. These desperate killed and wounded.. Wi have tekea_eight. cannon, Austrians had compehed the 2d corps, which covered the capital ef Saxony, to fall back, and were not 12 ammunition waggqns, and a 'great quantity . of baggage. `1 he of Brigade Me_zieski, two i more than Iwo or three leagues from it. Fortunately of General Pecileux's Adju tants , a n d :upwards of for our dear afly, the King of "Saxony, the imperial Guard returned, and stopped the advance of IWO men, are made prisouers. Even on the fellow-. t h e . ing day prisoners were brow ht in from all *Otis, en enemy. that the whole may amount to about 180'1 men. A report is. circulated here Of a loan of 600 mil. oo General Pecheux had lost his home, and escaped lions in France, and it is added, that it is a forced on foot, being favoured hy the night end re the natu • loan. I know no[ what to th ink of such a measure, of the ground. The rem a i ns of his division. are re but I fear that it only announces and recedes one treating in disorder on Blockede, pursued by the Cos still more terrible—the resurrection of a paper-money. sacks under the command of General Tettenhorn ! The wants of the Government are great, and it would " Our loxs consists of 30 officerssnd 4410 privates :• not be it all extraordinary, should it, in order to killed and wounded. Th Major Von Ltazow, Fit ks • meet the expenditure, be compelled to resort to this and Schasser are wound ed ; .Major Drew* is killed. Teas*. . I cannot, therefore; too strongly press you, All the troops undo. Lieut.-Gen. Count Von Wel my dear friend, to have all your eyes and ears about tnoden have vied with' each other in zeal and bravery you,•and to call in betimes the sums payable on de- In . on this 'day. tnand, iceddposi with M. R. and M. Des. `` The •&I regiment of the English husears , the matters of h rt it is better to be even rether pre- first of the Legion, _and several other battalions of cip:tate than dilatory, and not to hesitate about s4cri- T the English' and Russian Le s i on s h a ve hi g hly' dis ficing some months of interest to save the capital. 1 tingnished themselves. The tirailleurs of Lutzow and trust that in this respect I may depend upon your vi. . Reiche took the first gun. The English artillery and gilance, your friendsh • ip, aqirprudence." e : rockets deserve the highest ericonniums. 94TRALT - Or A 4.2TTF1l rues( MR. C. 7C HPARCTIffa t ! " During the attack the mime' , advanced with ' ' A W AM- COM 141$iit ItY . • I some thousand Men on &it* nburg; but without any • . " Dresden • Septembrr 9. ' eft- General Waltnudeu reared . his head-quer ? a Befgrelhe bad news of the loss of t hei 2el division tees pre the 17th to Dann e b e rg, to be the . iteerer tor of the ,sth corps reaches you, I hasten to relieve you observing that part of the Marshal' 'r nicsea Eck from tears on my account. mufti% corps &armee' Which had remained on the 66 I have escaped myself, bfit that is all; my Sc. righiiiank of the Elbe ! he grandand United ;rrny 0 t BULLETINS OP 7HE CROWN PRINCE. Bohemia must have gained fresh advantages. Fh, of facial statements of which are expected, We kttote by private intelligence from Leipsic, that in the even ing of the 16th 8000 cavalry, 2000 of which were dismounted, and several dismounted pieces of artil lery had arrived there. The field hospital had been brought from Dresden to Leipsic, and a part of it even as far as Merseburg. 66 The want of forage at Dresden is to mat, that for some time past 200 hpirses have daily diecribere. 66 General Thiehnan bas made a General, 87 offi cers, and 1200 men prisoners at Weissentels. On the 14th, the Cossacks took at Wurtgen a convoy of waggons laden with corn, which was destined for the garrison of Torgau, and was escorted by a Saxon 'battalion. Colonel Von renzdorf has intr4ctrizial couriers whose dispatches expose the bad couditioa and demoralitation of the French army. " General Blocher has his head-quarters at Bata zen ; by his right wing, he combines his operations with those of the united army of the North of Ger many, and by his left wing he is connected with the Bohemian army. Oa having received intelligence that the enemy's 6th corps d'armee was marching on Grossenhayn, General Blucher caused the corps of General Sacken to move forward to Camenz. The van-guard of thi; corps disturbe4 the enemy the avhofe of the 15th and Igth. s The 6th corps d'arrnee fell hack on Dresden, and the first cavalry corps put itself in motion to fol ' low the infantry. -General Count Tauentfien was preparing to pursue them. TheWirtemburg General Franquimont had complained to General Detort, Chief of the General Staff of the 4th corps, that his tamps were always in did van when advancing, and in the rear when retreating. That General answered him— , You =lst be content with its being so ; it is our interest that your should all be killed, for other • wise you would soon be against us.' Dentpark, which had yielded to the threats and the vaunting•intelligence of Baron Alquier, has an the 3d of September, declared war against Sweden. It It is strange'that in this declaration ? the hosti lities-which had previously been committed against Sweden, both by land and sea, are passed over silence. We must hope that the Danish Government being informed of the occurrences in the progress of the war, • will at length perceive the danger it runs, compared by-the total derangement of its finames, will take its resolution, and accept ;he pr Totals which will be made to it.—ln the contrary case, and if that Court will not join the common cause until it has already triumphed, it will then be no merit, nor .be of any utility in obtaining for it such moderate conditions. The whole bil.irth sees with concern the delusion of the Danish Government. The Minirter Alcinier, who is kept there, must be himself astenich• ed at the power and effect ot his commands. At this moment when all the Princes ot the Rhenish Confe deration are preparing to throw air the yoke, it is hard matter to account for the submissiveness of the Court of Copenhagen." - TWELFTH BULLETT N. - , - • " itesdlearters, Zerhat„ September se. fl General Ilowaisky, with his Cossacks, and Ge l neral Von Dobschuts, with toqr squadrons, which made a part of g e neral COttnt Tauentaients advanc ed guard, on the 19th instant, between Borack and Schwedess, met with tie Ist, Bth, and lath French Aigirnents of hone chasseurs, and 'attacked them so 11Viessfully that scarcOv. thirty men . 5.4 these threc regiments escaped. Colonel Talleyrand.. two Li eu . Tenant-Colonels, sisteen other officers, arid five bun ! dred men were made prisoners, and the rest went either killed or wounded. A remarkable circum stance, and which can only be attributed to the want - of um. ,n which prevails in the enemy's troops, was, that nur - whole loss consisted in a single wounded Cossack. General Dobschuts has occupied Ondorf and Muhlberg.\ General Wobeser observes Torgaq.--4 Two great boats, which came down the Elbe, laden with ammunition and clothing for the garrison of the latter fortress, have been taken. pt. Von Zeuneri, iTho had been <ent with 30 men othe Landwehr cn horseback to the left bank of me Elbe, has destroyed the entrenchment; thrown up near ItisalF• The enemy sent from IVolmerstadt 100 men to prevent this, but Captain Zennert tell upon them at the held of his 30 men, and after an obstinate resistance, cut them down. Some prisoners were made, who had been all wounded. Captain Zeunert bimfulf was wounded severely in this action. " Colonel iljornstjerna having been detached with Swedish troops to the left Dank of the Elbe, marched on the 20th to Kemberg, us the h pe of s.irprising there a troop of Pots, out it had already left that place and taken the road to Leipsic. Tag ColMrel went last to reconnoitre the bridye-head near Witten. berg, and took,under the very cannon of that an advanced corps,• - and a courier with several letters upon him ' • taken among these are several fro r;; the General Lapoype, addressed to Mariiiial Ney. Duke of Elchingen, to the Duke of Reggio, to Generals fsegnier, Narbonne, and Margaron. The Icontents of these letters Mew that not only the bol , diers, hut the officers and serjeants of the weak garri son at Wittenberg, are daily deserting to the enemy. Geneurl Count Walmoden reports, under date ..of the 49th, that General Tettenborn has pursued the dying enemy to Bleckede, Brackede, LunenbUr;, Winsen, and even to Harburg ; we have every whei,: picked up soldiers that had been left hehind. General Pecheux has made his escape with 5 or 600 men winch he collected at Lunenburg, where hp arrived early on the morning of that day after the battle, end protestor!. on his march to Wilisen and Hopte, with. out stopping. The enemy's Geaeral, Osten, had gone before with a detachment froM Harourg to Winsen, but left that place When our detached party approached it. A number of woun !ed were stilt lying dispersed on the roads. Gel., ral TettenborU collected them, and sent in, b es ides, some ticm-waggons that had been lett utliind. The priv loners had increased to 1100 dui i g the pursuit ; pair tif colours bela aging the 3d regiment of :Cie line was taken. 4 ! On the 18th, the enemy made a s.rong recon noisance iron rowar Z ,remain, and at fast threw himself ha. k on isoi z iiourg wi , h his wing. Ci out W Louden ha, receiveu oriks tack the Pri::ce of Eckmuhl wont his joint, lorcL; is to be suppoitva by 13,00(5 the landsturin. under the command of the Heiedita rriime. 'pre revies.eri-Mass are urganivirg '- where on th! right bank of the Ejhe. Twa %amine