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aSADAMIE DE STALL'S POLITICAL PAUPHLIT. This day was published, Ity Y. M. RiCIIMILDioN, No. 23. Cornhill, price .AN APPEAL to the NATIONS of EUROPE, against the CONTINENTAL SYSTEM. By MADAME DE STAEL HOLSTEIN. The above is one of the most eloquent effusions which hat ever appeared against the Oppression of Bonaparte. It also contains some highly interesting and . hitherto unpublished Anecdotes of the Tyrant; understood to have been furnished by Ilse w A DOT rs, the Crown Prince of Sweden, at whose Court the elegant and .atcomplished Authoress now resides. AN APPEAL TO 7HE NATIONS OF EUROPE AC;AINST THE CONTINENTAL sysrEm. Published at Stockholm, by Authority of Bernadotte,March s l sig. BY MADAME DL STAEL HOLSTWJ. Upon travelling through the provinces newly in corporated with the French empire, or in those coun tries which have fallen - under its sway, it is easy to ; I perceive that the people have a very just sense of their situation. 'Unanimous expressions of regret for the past, complaints of the present, and anxiety for the future, are every where heard. There is no peasant so ignorant as not to know who is the true author of the evils which overwhelm his country. There is not a ceet ige in Europe, however miserable and remote, where the name of Bonaparte has not been heard ; Li bat, for many centuries, no man has acquired such "'a dishonourable celebrity.' lie France itself the public opinion, although radi cally the same, is manifested with more reserve and hesitation. In the first place, the language of the country places the inhabitants there immediately un der the superintendence of the central police, to which foreign languages still present an obstacle. Besides, they compare their present condition, not with the tranquil times of the 18th century, but with the hor rors of the revolution, which have effaced the remem branee of them. To the hopes, so frequently defer red, of a great reform in the social order, incredulity and apitliy have succeeded. Many persons, perhaps,' of honourable minds, 1 )scribe to Napoleon the restoration of order and tran s quillity in the interior: they forget that the revelu -.' urinary horrors ceased long before his appearance, ~ and that he succeeded to a government which was lather feeble and vacillating than oppressive. They ihreaten the French nation with the return of terror, if this man is not permitted to watch over their dse tinies. Strange sophistry ! By a chimerical fear, they think to convert into benefits the heaviest afftic dons. Revelittionary terror marched boldly, with stn uncovered front ; it provoked resistance, and, even from its very nature, could not endure long.— ' At the present moment it is terror, also, but it is a muffled terror which palsies the courage, while it disguises the danger. It is a chef-d'oeuvre in the policy of Napoleon, to give an air of stability to a state truly violent and insupportable. Nevertheless, in France itself, the eulogies of Bo - maparte are scarcely heard but from the lips - of his slaves—the supporters of his power, and of those who enjoy g'; eat personal advantages from him, and would tremble for their personal security if he was over thrown. He is not now reduced, as at the commence ment of his career, to purchase the silence of orators and intrepid journalists ; but he still pays very high : for a good name : that concert of high-flown praises, which he takes care to propagate from one end of his . empire to the other, - annually, costs his subjects many millions. The legislative body and the senate, ' the only remnants of republicanism, which he has alloyed to subsist, have become, literally, mere courts of roc, rd. They are the imperial conservatories of Battery ; it is, then, amid the noisy uproar of bad rhetoric, they announce to the nation every burden : some law, every aggravation of imposts, every new levy of men froal an exhausted population, every new war which desolates humanity, as an act of uni versal pacification. But the people are deaf to these fastidious voices ; they disdain the purple of false glory, with which they wish to cover their misery ; ' they are profoundly indifferent to public affairs ; and all those who do not aspire to etlice, confine them selves to the circle of their domestic affairs. In preparing to develope the nature and conse quences of the continental system, I am almost ashamed to insist upon truths generally known, if there were not nations, among whom it is still pos sible to create delusion as to their true interests, be cause they have been hitherto but distant spectators of passing events ; and because they have not yet made the woful experiment of that system, er, in other words, of the dominion of Bonaparte. Of the whole European states, Sweden alone is in this for ' tunate predicament. She has suffered great losses, but she has preserved her independence : She has - hitherto preserved the liberty of choosing her politi. cal relations. The time may come when she may to low -- have it in her power. The present mo . ;ive for her liberty, her glory, and her ity. :ain from drawing the character of that iccess has astonished the world. Elo leclamation are useful only where it is excite the passions ; but in the deliberate 4 a political subject, nothing ought to and nething advanced vaguely : the ice of facts ought to be our guide.— : the motives by which Napoleon is ac cher by unbounded ambition, or by the tecessity of his situation, which admits the results of his actions are always the .:t that he labouts incessantly for the happiness of the human race; it must, be granted, that he does not compre method of attaining these desirable ob . he has held the reins of government, de l.: have constantly raged, and the sources ;perky have been dried up wherever. his extended. Since, therefore, in spite of he has for so many years adhered to the Is, it would be absurd to imagine that he Ist. irospect of the events which preceded of Bonaparte, with a sketch of the trope at that period, will be sufficient to he seized upon the supreme authority, -es the most layour4ble for a pacific and rti3n. , provoked by the first effervescences of iun lasted but a few years : 4 coalitioa. Iced nearly the halt of Europe, was gra gently dissolved. Prussia was the first in the spring of 1795, awl save race quences of the continental s ashamed to insist upon truth there were not nations, among bible to create delusion as to t cause they have been hitherto of passing events ; and becau made the woful experiment other words, of the dominion whole European states, Swede tunate predicament. She has but she has preserved her in, hitherto preserved the liberty tital relations. The time may Ito lon . ger have it in her port meat is decisive for her liber future prosperity. I 4)41,1 abstain from drawin wan' whose success has aston • quence and declamation are t Necessary to excite the passions rxamination of a political subj be exaggerated, and nothing a simple evidence of facts oug Whatever are the motives by mated ; whether by unboundt imperious necessity of his si .of no recoil, the results of his same. .Adm:t that he Jabot peace aivJ happiness of the nevertheless, be granted, that bend the true method of attain !; jets. Since he has held the co 1 atructive wars have constantly of public prosperity have been influence has extended. Sine oxperiente, he has for so man same ma4ims, it would be ab ; • 'will ever desist. A short retrospect of the the elevation of Bonaparte, state of Europe at that perk thew that he seized upon t under auspices the most fayot co.lciliatory The wars provoked by the the revolotion lasted but a which embraced nearly the h. dissolves. dually and silently ip wit . .l4lFavf, 411 the spring oZ to the north of Ge'nitani by het line of neutrality. Holland conquered, „received, at the same mor a l: the form of government, and the conditions of which were dictated by France. The Kings of Spain, Sardinia, and the two Sick lies, followed the example of Prussia, and made a separate peace—Spain even renewed her ancient al liance with France. Several Princes of Germany and Italy were compelled to rurchase their repose at an exorbitant price, almost without knowing if they had really been at war with France. At length, in 1797, there remained no other combatants but Eng= land and Austria. England negotiated, and Aus tria concluded the treaties of Campo Formic.; but the Directory speedily conjured up new wars. They attacked Switzerland, which had been respected even by Robespierre—they drove the King of Sardinia from the States which were left him on the continent of Europe—they led the Pope into captivity, drove the Court of Naples into exile, and dividehtaly into petty republics—they consented to the expedition to Egypt, and thereby irritated Turkey, and afforded a new motive for war to England. All these aggres sifts, made in the course of a single year, broke the Congress of Rastadt. Russia, which, till then, had dealt only in promises, at length seriously entered into the coalition, and the campaign of the allied Aus trians and Russians in 1799, rescued the whole of Italy from the French armies, much more quickly than it had been conquered. Never since the commencenient of the war had the military situation of France been worse. The flat terers of Bonaparte had not failed to ascribe the sal vation of the French republic to his return from Egypt : it has been his constant practice' to appro priate to himself the successes which were prepared for him by other-a. The revolutions which took place even in the interior of the directory, had disorgauised the armies, and caused their reverses. A man, who has since been called to higher destinies, by his ge nius and activity, succeeded, in a ministry of two months duration, in reforming the disorders, the di lapidations, and abuses of every kind, which were Ott their height. The armies were reinforced, provided with every requisite, and, as it were, created again—in this man ner General Bernadotte secured, as a Minister, the victories which he knew how to gain as a soldier. As a consequence of the re-establishment of the armies, the English were driven out of Holland ; Massena resumed the offensive in Switzerland against the Russians, and Moreau made head against the Aus trians in Italy,. before Bon iparte had done any thing more for the Republic than to seize upon the su preme power. As the Emperor Paul had assisted Austria from motives of generosity, he abandoned her from ca price ; once more thrown -upon. her own exhausted resources, the brilliant successes of Moreau and Bo naparte, in 18(X), constrained her to sign the treaty of Luneville at the beginning of the following year. England, after the cession of Belgium, having lost all hopes of preserving this province for Aus tria, in pursuance of the dictates of her maritime in terests, tranquillized by her victories in Egypt, and the consequent security of her eastern possessions, consented the following year to the most extraordi nary peace which was ever made after such a war.— Always victorious at sea, always the conqueror in the East and West-Indies, she recognized all the rob beries of France in Europe, and gave back nearly all her own conquests is the other three quarters of the globe without any compensation. The fate of arms in the wars terminated by this ge neral pacification had often varied, but in the.end the result was advantageous to France, beyond even the most extravagant hopes of her partisans ten years previous. She had acquired the countries of Avig non and Venaissin.• in Italy, Savoy, Niece, and MT> naco ; Geneva, duhlhausen, and the Bishopric of Basle were torn from Switzerland. In Germany, all the states of the Rhine from Alsace and Lorraine to the frontiers of Holland ; the Austrian Low Coun tries, with Dutch Flanders, and the other possessions of the united provinces connected with it—she had the mouths of the Scheldt, the Rhine, Mount Jura, and the Alps, for frontiers. This immense aggran dizement, which increased by almost one-fourth the population of the ancient kingdom, was not the most important of the advantages which she acquired. The military consideration of - France, which had fallen in repute under the latter reigns, bad risen to an equal if not to a greater height than it had been in the days of Lewis XIV. Spain was also attached as firmly to the French Republic as she had been to the monarchy. The new governments of Holland, Switzerland, and the Cisal pine, and Ligurian Republics, were entirely devoted to the power which had created them, and without which support they would have dwindled into no thing. These Republics formed so many bulwarks around the Mother Republic. In a word, France had ail that was requisite for her glory, the corn ph tion of her wishes, and security for the future; her preponderance on the European continent was such, that it became doubtful from that moment whether any system of equipoise could exist, or if there was any other guarantee against her universal empire than her own moderation. • Ten years of fruitless experiments had disheartened the ancient governments from any attempt to repair their losses. War, since the revolution, had assumed a character totally different from that which it wore in the former century, It was, what had never been seen in Europe since the extinction of the religious wars, a war of opinion. But in the wars occasioned by the reformatipn, the two parties were inspired by an equal degree of enthusiasm, one for the defence of the established religion, and the other 'for that of the new doctrines. In tl'e wars of the revolution, on the contrary, that moral elasticity which is inspired by an implicit faith, was manifested only by the Repob lican warriors ; while the troops of the ancient go vernments fought as usual from motives of duty, and as a point of honour. Those who governed France could, in the name of liberty, command immense sacrifices; they had the entire disposal of persons and property. The governments of the coalitions had only their usual resources ; and even these they were obliged to ma. nage with caution, lest they should augment the langerous fermentation which threatened their States with the must v'olent explosions, The abolition of abisses„the reign-of jtsstioe, reason and humanity, were the imams promised by France, at first, to her ow?) pcofle, and which she afterwagda held out to •. the ethers& The people every where believed, therefore, that the time was come when they were to be released from all* their troubles ; every where phi. landiropists o badly versed in history and superficially acquainted with human nature, dreamed of a new gol den age ; every where intriguers, under the mask of philosophy, rehearsed the parts of demagogues. The Governments which had hitherto been considered as the most free, s;ere described as despotic, merely because they had been sanctioned by the hnery head of time. The known excellence of a constitution which had stood the test of ages did not save it from a revolutionary storm. Not only were Holland and Switzerland convulsed—not only did the disaffected Irish conspire to deliver up their country to France ; but in England itself there existed a friction which boldly announced the project of recasting the consti tution in the crucible of theory. And, what was most formidable, chimerical ideas and teal passions every where produced a similar delirium, at whatever period they burst forth for the first time. Although in France they had returned from their first errors, every dew republic began precisely at the same ori gin. Long after the chief actors in the great drama of the revolution in France had disappeared from the scene, in Italy and Switzerland democratic puppets strutted about on their Lilliputian stages, to perform the hacknied parts of republicans. In short, the re volutionary opinions of the age seem to have been to nations what contagious diseases are to individuals, each carrying the germ about with him, and which must go through all its stages before he can be radi cally cured. In addition to this popular opposition which the Sovereigns had to encounter, the events of the last ten years had unveiled the deformities inherent in coalitions, and disclosed their insufficiency to meet such extraordinary circumstances; the cabinets which maintained the ancient laws of nations-in Europe had also retained their old prejudices. They thought that the perfection of diplomacy consisted in finesse; they would have been ashamed not to•have always some secret mental reservations behind, or not to hive an eye to ulterior objects besides that for which they openly laboured. The system of equilibrium demanded from all na tions mutual vigilance. Petty shifts, resorted to in order to disguise views of aggrandisement from other powers, were, to a certain degree, innocent in the peaceful era which preceded the revolution, and which could never go great lengths. Every thing was changed, and yet there was no possibility of con vincing statesmen of the fact, and that a disinteres ted, open, and generous policy could alone cave the independence of Europe. The successes of •one of the coalesced powers excited the jealousy of the rest. The reverses which befel one in particular were re garded with indifference, nay, with satisfaction, by ancient rivals. They approached each other coldly, and separated with disgust. The ancient Governments of the Continent, which kept their ground in spite of the double shock of French invasion and republican principles, had there- I fore the greatest interest in the mai n t enance o f p eace , and the greatest aversion from war. For three years none of them could bring themselves to the resolu-1 tion of recommencing it, although Bonaparte, as we shall see, gave them every provocation. On the one hand, France had great reason to wish for peace with England. Her colonies were wrested from her, or rendered useless, her nationa: manufac tures and her commerce were ruined ; in fact, the so lemn acts and decrees of her own legislature had con tributed as much to her misfortunes as the maritime war. - Nevertheless, as the naval power of France had constantly decreased since the war ; as the na vies of Holland and of Spain, since they became her allies, experienced nothing but reverses, a long re pose at sea was the only method of repairing these losses. • In spite of all this, the peace of Amiens lasted only a year. The negociations which preceded the rup ture are known to the whole world : they bring to our recollection the observation of an ancient histo rian, namely, that we ought carefully to distiqguisli between the true causes for a war, and its pretexts it alledged motives. The restoration of the sterile rocks of Malta to the order of St. John, exacted on the one hand, and refused on the, other, seems of it self to have been too insignificant an object to coun t♦ rbalance the evils and the dangers of a war between two powers so formidable in every respect. But 111. terior views presented themselves in the occupation of this island. England wished to secure a station in the Medi. terranean, in the event of her ships being again ex cluded from the ports of Italy ; her Ministers suS• petted the projects of Bonaparte upon Egypt and the Levant, for both of which Malta was the requi• site place of rendezvous. We shall not decide, whe ther England was right in point of form in main taining that she had only promised a conditional evacuation; she was at all events right in the essence of her conduct. It has been remarked, that the English government, after glorious and successful wars, has frequently made a bad peace, and great haste. has been made in repairing the imprudence colt:rakes]. Hence it wa3 easy to perceive, that the dangers of England ccntisted not in war but in peace ; that Bonaparte considered the latter as an useful respite to augment and exercise his navy ; that if England prevented him, he would call forth the immense resources of France and her dependencies, with all the energies of absolute power; and, with that prodigious activity of disposition which is pecu liar to him, that he would thus create, in a few years, a maritime force capable of keeping the seas against that of England, who would then see her territories threatened with invasion. The projects of Bonaparte were but problematical as to their ultimate success ; but his actions, during the skort interval of peace, were more than sufficient to justify the resumption of hostilities on the part of the English government. Bonaparte has always boasted of his moderation in making peace, and, to a certain extent, he is entitled to this merit. It is, in fact, one of the most artful calculations in his policy. ---,conditions, too severe, might drive an adversary, when half crushed, to the resolution of perishing in the contest, a resolution in which alone there is any thing likc security from such an enemy. But when a government, after serious misfortunes, has regained a situation somewhat Supportable, the remembrance of past dangers, the conviction of its weaknesses, in duce it to consent to every thin; which does not im mediately affect ith caigeace t This Bonaparte 'reserves the richest harvests from his wars, for .period of peace.: The instant that the arms of th e soldiers are grounded (we allude to those of his one. my, for he never grounds his own), he proceeds :4 acts which, in some way or other, extend his don i. nion. He seems to say to eac h o f t h e states, whiCIL are opposed to him without success, " You are ton I fortunate in being permitted to enj 'y tranquillity ; take care bow you interfere in the affairs of ano.her, with the exception of what 1 left you by the last treaty; all the rest of Europe INS fallen to my sl.ate, and the most trifling opposition to these, my 4:coll. testible rights, will be regarded as a declaratio n cf war." The continental powers understood this Im guage well. In order to purchase a short respite, they suffered, without murmuring, Bonaparte to accumulate new means of aggres sion , and w ere crushed successively ;—such has been' the history cat the last ten years. England was far from acquiescing in this principle of perpetual aggression; she protested against the occupation of Piedmont, Parma, and Plaisance, and the We of Elba ; she considered the prolonged stay of the French garrisons in Holland, and a new mi.. sion of troops to Switzerland, as infractions upon the independence of these republics, guaranteed by the treaty of Luneville. As to Holland, the foresight of the British ministry was fully justified by posterior events. After having long harassed the Swiss, the first Consul, at length, gave them a constitution, nearly as good as any which they could have made for themselves :• but he wished that they should re. ceive it from his hands, and he assumed the title of mediator of Switzerland, as if he had prevented civil war; whereas. the whole nation was unanimous against the Helvetic government. instituted by t' e French Directors. The Valais was, from that my. ment, detached from the confederation, occupied soldiers, and marked out to be incorporated wilt% Franse,which has sine= been effze te.l —To be cant GERMAN4OAPERS. ESTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BERLIN, DARED APRIL :3. " According to authentic accounts received. a corps of 86,000 Russian troops with their artillery is in East Prussia, and on its mar - h hither. An army of 90,000 men is assembling on the borders of Rus. sian Poland. His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and likewise his Majesty our King, will in a few days review the Russian Grand Army, after which it will march for Germany. On the 28th of last month, the first Hanseatic officer, Lieutenant Meyer, arrived here, who Was dispatched by Colonel Voss Tettenborn from Hambergh to the General - of Ca. valry, Count Von Wittgenstein. This officer was presented to his Majesty the King : he returned back to Hamburgh on the 29th, and carried with him the patent of General for Colonel Von Tettenborn, which was lying ready drawn out for him at General Caput Von Wittgenstein's." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM DREiDEN, DATED MARCW29. " Early on the 19th, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, our bridge was blown up. The signal for it was by firing three guns, on which every one was to retire from the streets into his own house, and not to leave it for three hours. All the vaults were closed. When the first gun was fired, every one stood fixed, as if struck with a fit, and then ' turned back with the utmost quickness. The explo sion fortunately,. did not damage any of the neigh. • bouring buildings. The French troops having after that time daily decreased, and the Russians having already been for some time before the city, and in the New Town, these latter at length, on the 26th, crossed the Elbe below Meissen, upon which all the French and Bavarians still remainimi here left .this city in the evening; and therefore, since the morn ing of the 29th, we have been in the hands of the Russians. These troops have gained the general praise, fur their good conduct and discipline. The communication with Neustadt being immediately re stored, the utmost activity commenced on the Elbe. Whilst 1 was standing and observing the Cossacks bivotiaquing before the Back, a joyful running and shouting took place ; five Prussian hussars of the re giment of Brandenburgh being seen riding towards us on the high read. They were immediately sur rounded, and returned the joyful welcomes of the multitude in an equally hearty manner. Yesterday, the 28th, about 1.500 Prussians entered the New Town. About 2000 Cossacks yesterday took the road to Freyberg. General Blusher's Proclamation is posted up, and has created a general confidence towards the Prussians, although there are but few people here that did not entertain it before. Thmor ! talky in the hospital at Freyberg is very great ; but here we have not as yet any symptom of it." OCCLIIIRENOES OF THE WAR ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE ELBE. According to the dispositions"made by his Excel, lency Count Von Wiugenstein, the three flying corps, the first of which is under the command of General Von Dornberg, the second undtr General and Ad jutant-General Von Tschernicheff, and the third un der the command of General Von Tettenborn, are to precede the army, and to pass the Elbe between Hamburgh. and Magdeburgh. Whilst preparations were making for the passage, at Ferchland, Havelberg, Sandau, Werben, Leezen, Ste.; the French army concentrated itself in the vici, nity of Magdeburgh, and strengthened itself by a part of the troops which were in the vicinity of Dres den and Leipsic. Its left wing consisted of three considerable corps, which were encamped near Lu beritz and Stendal, in the neighbourhood of Garde iegen, and the wholo Army was under the command et Marshals Davoust and Victor. General Von Dornberg arrived first at Havelberg, and afterwards on the 26di of March crossed the Elbe at the village of Guitjdael, opposite to Werben, with his corps. On the 28th March, the enemy, fu or five thotisand strong, approached from Arneburg, and by their superiority of force, obliged that corps to quit the town of Werben, and recross the Elbe. The corps lost in this affair only one officer and I dragoons. who by their own fault had remained too long at Werben, Meanwhile the corps of General Tscherniclieff ar• rived at Havelberg from Genthin, and this General held a council of war with the other two Generals, Von Dornberg, and Von Benckendorff, concerning the future operations • in consequence of whi c h Ge nii* You TschereArl;oll first passed the gelbe with 44--04■01--e.4% the town. The commanding Generals on hastening to Luneburg, to protect bit.ints from the fate which threatened In consequence of the troops having mad march of 10 German (40 English) miles in the corps of Dornberg . ansiTschernischeff arrive at Breitenstein shad Bienenbuttal tin of April, in the morning, twelve hours after of the French -into Luneburg. Here the, formed, that on this very forenoon several d were to take piaci in Luneburg, and that of victims were again to attest the tyran Oppressors of Germany. They, therefore, ch to attack the city on the memset,, and for n made the following dispositions : The Colonel Baron Von Pahlen was or General VouTschernischeff to surround tat the left bank of the Elmenau with two rug Cossacks, and commence the attack there, the attention of-the enemy from the poi main attack, intended to be made on the r of the Elmenau. At the same time, General Twhernitcht the position of Bienenbuttel to be strongly g, it being of the greatest importance to the e surrounding the Russian corps. General bad likewise the foresight to detach a rei Cossacks to Dallenhurg to elver the roads !Isenberg, Gartono, and Lukow, and gum sage over the Netze with one company of and a cannon. Scarcely had these two • prattled the town, on the right bank of t Aau, within the distance of two cannon a drawn themselves up in order, under cov bushes and hedges, than Colonel Baron Val with great skill, commenced the attack on side with the expected success. The ern 'gams' him with two battalions of infantry pieces of artillery, with intent to cut him off road to llienenbuttel. Both parties emu this place, and charged eachother briskly. Von Dornherg, Von Benkendorff, and Von scheff, now caused on their side the cavil value in such a manner, that Von Benkendo right, and Tschernisclieff the left wing. T 1 who was in total ignorance of the strength o sian and Prussian corps, and imagined th only to deal with a few Cossackg, was hi prised : he, however, detached about a h infantry, with two cannon, and 150 caval side. This cavalry was immediately attic defeated by Colonel Von Bedraga, and the non were likewise cut off from the town and At the same time General Von Dornber Arad of the Prussian battalion of inLntry si•cl by Major Von Rorke, and cavalry cot by General Von Benkenclorff, rushed on th battalion, and drove it along the bridge, ci the town, on tLe right bank of the Elmer): Russian battalion of infantry under tl:e con Major Von Essen, at the same time attacker the left bank of the Elmenao, and Gen Tschcrnischeff s tpp orte d t h ese moveme nts Pfeces of artillerz, and made an attack at tll s cavalry. Toe Russian and Prussian found the gates, the walls, and even the hoi town, defended by the enemy's infantry. • tion of the place was favourable for ma& gorous resistance, and at this place, one of obstinate and bl oo dy engagem e nts t ook pi a( flans and Prussians emulating each other themselveswith glory, and our artillery, whit more than 100 paces distant from that of tl soused great devastation in the streets of the The dispositions made by General Dornbei the engagement, do him niltdi honour. Tschernischeff at the head of his Hussars tv the town almost at the same time with the tiraillenrs, and on this occasion the bras Count Von Pusthkin was killed by a cartrid At length the Prussians first succeeded, battle having continued with the greatest i at the entrance of the town for more than ts to possess themselves of another gate, and Avay for General Benkendorff's cavalry, ani of General Tachernicheaf's cavalry. This I enemy to quit the town, which he did in se that one of his battalions being cut off, wai to remain there. Our corps was so weak in that this battalion could not be immediately almost all the troops being employed in th of the enemy. Meanwhile, Camel Bai Palilen profited of this moment with the gre, is lity, drawing the regiments of Cossacks sen General Tettenborn to his assistance, and ma conjointly with Generals Dornbcrg and T ebei's cavalry in such a manner, that the en sloied in on all sides. They stow despairec Less, but nevertheless forma themselves it Pis corps st the 64tu!keno, and tool Seehausen and Lichterfeld, to secure the corps of Von Dornberg. Scarcely were the needful dispositions licainr Count Von Puschkin, who was regiment of - Cossacks at Lichterfeld, was three battalions of French infantry and • with two pieces of artillery. This brave ceufully kept the enemy employed, until of cavalry of the division of the Colonel Pahlen came to his support. Both th • now, on their side, attacked the enemy, back to Werbcn, and made two officers • prisoners. The vicinity of the enemy ren visable that General Von Dornberg, on river a second time, should not pass at but somewhat lower down, near Lentzen r.ccordingly did, on the Slst of March, ?Le following disposition was made: berg's infantry marched to Dannenberg, tinder General Von Benkendorff to Lucko corps of Gen. Von Tschernischeff towards last-named General had, to secure detached two regiments of Cossacks, and viand of Colonel Von Whissoff, to Seeha orders to follow the other corps by the wa see and Salzwedel, to oppose the enemy tween Stendal and Gardelegen. Scarce position taken, when Generals Von Tschernischeff were informed, that Genera with a corps of upwards of 9000 infantry, and 300 cavalry, was pressing forward b of Tottstadt to Luneburg, to punish the i of that town, for having dared to take up with the.assistance of 50 Cossacks of General Von Tensnborn, drove away a sq French cavalry, which wished to take po the town. The commanding Generals the on hastening to Luneburg, to protect the be biants from the fate which threatened then IMMOIMIN. IIII