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• Innlipiummomml , . PROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S . GAZETTE. I 1111 , CO5TilklUMION PROM THE PRECEDING FAG& • FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCTOBER IS. .• Dispatches, of which the following are Copies, have been received by Viscount Castlereagh, his Majesty's Ptincipal Secretary. t State for Foreigh ,Afseirs,• from Liemenant-General the Honourable sir Charles Stewart, ic.. B. his Majesty's Envoy Ex trao idinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia. • Prague, September 17, 1813. MY la/an—Although nothing very material has occurred in this quarter since my last dispatches, I take advantage of an opportunity that offers to state to.your Lordship a few particulars that may be in :teresting. On the 13th, General Count Bubna, who now .commands the Austrian corps lately-under General .Neipperg, which has been much reinforced; entered Neustadt and Neukirchen, and came into close Com munication with General Blucher, who had his, ; head-quarters at Hernasbutt, with his advanced posts beyond' Bautzen, the enemy having retired to Bish offswercier. :• • On the 14th, in the morning, the advanced posts of the grand army advanced again to the frontiers by tha • road to Peterswalde. The rear guard of the enemy,'cosisibting of tvio battalions of infantry, a re gime nt of. cavalry, and some guns, .*ere forced from .10/lendorf by Gant Pahlen ' • tommanding Count Wittgenstein's advance. The artillery of the Allies, and more force, were in readiness to follow as soon as the roads could be made practicable. The Fria sians,-under General Kleist and Nate Augustus, Droved to Ebersdorf and Tolsdorff. , Bonaparte assisted personally at the grand yecon4 noissance that was made on the 'loth: he bad his bead-quarters at Leibstadt on the 11th, and moved forward on the left of the Allies to Ham** Oar Altenburg, on the 12th. ' The plan of the enemy seems to have been to trove attacked the Allies if he could do so with an evi- 1 dent advantage, if nat,.so impede their advance, and by menaces gain time e ither to extricate himselffrom the dangerous predicament in which he stands, or to tnanceuvri the Allies obt of their position. On the 15th, in the morning, the enemy continued tb retire,' and Prince Schwartzenberg ordered a gene ral-reconnoissance on ail sides to be made ; Count Wittgenstein's and Count ?alien's corps fell in with the enemy near Peterswalde. Four squadrons of, Russiin cavalry very gallantly charged a French column, and cut down several hundred men. To give your LOrtiship some idea of these attacks,' from a French return which has been found of the loss of the 7th regiment of infantry, when the Rus sian cavalry in Count Osterman's *action charged, they had 820 wounded, and, 730 killed ; the residue df fugitives remaining were 600. The enemy's corps in advance, opposed to Count Pablen,.eonisted of twelve thousand men, under Ge neral Bonnet; they made a good stand near Gotliebe, Bit Russian light guns did great execution, and for ced this 'column to leave their ground. The main position of the enemy was not attacked. An. Austrian tort* of 17,000 men, under Count iquilly rectum itred the enemy on the aide of Barenstein and Breitenau. Tht, headluarters or the enemy', according to re _ portovere boil removed to Dippcldswalde. General Titlelerrian's partizan corps, which I have already mentioned to your Lordship, has had consi derable successes. He .took possession, of the town of Weisserdels, which was occupied by infantry and ar tillery, and made a General, 40 Officers, and near 1300 men prisoners. . • The Austrian Colonel Mensdorf, another partizan, took a French courier, between Leipzick and Dres. den, charged with dispatches and letters from the French army for Paris, at least five thousand ift number. These letters' give the most doleful details of the Freeelpartny,- and of their defeats. The whole are to be printed, and aft in the most despond ing gtile, Of the whole corps engaged under Marshal Ney, only 16,000 men have escaped, 10,000 have arrived at Dresden, under Oudiriot, the rest at Wittenburg and Tor au. • It is also stated, that the new guards, and particu larly the artillery, suffered dreadfully in the battle' by Dresden ; Generals Vachot and S ibier were kill ed; and,Generals Dumoutier, Dental, Gros, Boiel ,dieu, Maiscn,' Veen, and Aubert, severely wounded. Reinforceme ts, amounting.. to fifteen thousand • men, have reached Erfurt ; but they are tf a bad quality of uonps. • _ . _ Un tio. 15in, in the evening, the enemy brought up nor.: oups against Count Pahlen. and iib it was riot the intemion of ihe Allies to engage in a general • affair in the mountains and defiles of Saxony, the ad . vauced corps moved back to Nollendorf. The F rench had .two corps d'artnee supporting their advanced corps of 1%000 men. • G nral.LLucher's las t accounts werefrom Baut • ten, and his adianced pats atWeitlfelnrONWAin *m on Mile of Dresden, and he is in eh, aQMMU iiiattoll with 114'P:ince Royal's artily. • Gtheraf Weinanas coifs i= at Marienberg.• A eon . • .sidieribiectirps of the enemy are at Frey berg, and a Corps of-iheir cavalry bttwet_ii that and Nossen. • I haire the honour to h . ., Sc , . (Signed) C. S hwsRZ, Lieut.-Cieneral. Plasee, September 19. Mir I,ollD—lt appears that the enemy on the lfith oecupie4l t mountain and he i ghts, in front of Nol lendort, in considerable force. They made, in the evening, an attempt to turn the right of the 'Allies before Culm, while they also assailed sheleentre and left. bunap iTte seems to have assisted . in. ptrtiots at 1 1'6 affair. :Eifteuri thousand. men were det iched to turn the right, eight thousand advanced in front and on the • left : *bout thirty thousand men and eight thousand cavalry in reserve, formed theattack tin the part of Zile enemy. • . qtr the 17th the corps moving on our right, being siincealed.b'y an intense fog, and advancing through tfilck . woods had Succeedzdln gainink our. fl an k b e , fere' its'moviefnent Was perceived. While the enemy • forced the Russians and Prussians from the village of Nolland .rt byvet y sitperiot force, ' but . Were kept inthetk on the left. Gener-41 Jerome Colloredo, with • it sow of Austrians, fell on the enemy's advanced 'column, which had gained our right, sad trepidity, steadiness, and order that hasia*A.uni. versal admiration, compl e t e ly defeated if, toOk . I tween two and 3000 prisoners, among wlfilks is the general of Division iCreitzer, and many officers, and. ten guns : our loss may have been about 1000 killed and wounded. At the time the enemy made their attack on the centre, the Prussians were about to be relieved by the Russians; which occasioned some moineatary dis order. A very fine young man, a son of General 'Blucher, who was distinguishing himself very gal lantly in re-establishing order,* was killed. The enemy, repulsed at all points, retired into their position again on the mountains, occupying,. however, Nollendorf. The Allies took up their old ground, and extend across the plain in a semicircular position. The continued affairs and skirmishes during the last fortnight have cost many men on both iides, but there can be no doubt of the enemy having suffered in at least a double proportion. It is stated as a positive fact, that BOnaparte had ihis horse shot under him while reconnoitring on ' the hill. I enclose a detailed report received from Colonel Cooke, of the off* of the 16th and 17th. rheve the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CHARLES STEWART, Lieut.-General. Then follow a report from Colonel Cooke, detail ing the same circumstances as mentioned n Sir Charles Stewart's dispatches, and two Austrian mili tary reports to a similar effect, dated Toplitz, Sep tember 16th and 17th. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, OCTOBER 16. Copy of a Letter irorn Captaht Oliver, of his Majesty's Sbip Valiant, addressed to Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, Ban. and K.B. and transmitted by the Admiral to John Wilson Crater, Eq. His Majesty's Ship Valiant, Halifax- Harbour, June itu, 1613. _ _ _ SIR—I beg leave to acquaint you, that la Hogue sailed on the 25th, and the next day chased the Young Teazer American privateer into Lunenburgh Bay, Nova &oda, where la Hogue anchored, and sent, her boats in chase ; but before they reached the pri vateer she blew up, from what eausels not known; it is supposed about thirty men perished in her, and eight got on shore at Lunenburg (two of them badly wounded by the explosion) ; they surrendered to the militia, and can give no account of the cause of the accident.—l have, &C. (Signe.l) Ron. DUDLEY Ouvea, Captain. Copy of a Letter from Captain Sir John Poo Bereaford, of his Majesty's ship Poictitrs, addressed to Admiral Sir John War.. ren, and transmuted by the latter to John Wilson Croker, Esti Poictiers, at Sea, July 17. SIR-I beg to acquaint ynu, that to-dAy the Maid stone, in company with Poictiers and Nimrod, cap tured, after a chase of about four hours, the York Town, American ship privateer, of twenty guns, and one hundred and forty men ; she was returning from a cruize ; she is in all respects well titted, and suit-- able for his Majesty's service.-1 have, &c. (Signed) J. P. BeitLsFORD, Commodore. Copy of a Letter frogl Lieutenant Purkingttorne of his Majesty's :ship St. Domingo, addressed to C.apt^in Baker, of the Con flict Sloop, anci transmitted by Admirkl Sir John Warren to John Wilson Croker, Esq. _ His Majesty's Sloop Conflict, August 10. SIR—In compliance with your orders, I proceeded with the division of boats under my direction up the St. Michael's River. We advanced along shore close to the town of St. Michael's, and were discovered by the enemy's patrole, who fired on us r a few minutes after, a battery, mounting six twelve and six-poun den, gave us a round of grape and canister, when we immediately landed, got possession of the battery, and drtive the enemy into the town. After spiking the guns, splitting the carriages, and destroying all ,the sanmUrution and stores, I re-embarked, with the loss of ouly two wounded. By this time the *meaty had collected in consider. able numbers. And commenced firing from two field pieces in the town. The destruction of the battery being complete, and not a vessel to be seen, I deemed the o bject of the enterprise fulfilled, and returned on board with the boats. The conduct both of officers and men was exemplary and highly praiseworthy for their steadiness, in forming quickly, in landing, and driving the enemy into the town. (Signed) J. 117CRINGHORNfl • Extract of a Letter front Captain Hamilton, of cis Majesty's ship Rainbow, to• Captain Graham of the Alcmene, dated at Su, the lath June, 181$ , and trisitsmitted by Vice-Admiral Sit Edward Pellew to J. W. Crofter, Esq. This ship, with the Pylade s - in company, having sailed in search of a remarkably fast-sailing brigan tine, of one gun and forty men ; got on either side during the night, and forced her on shore under Cape Cavallo. Copy of a Letter from Captain Min of his Majellty's sloop Ce phalus, addressed to Vice-Admi ral Sir Edward Pellew, and transmitted by the lattor to. John Wilson Croker, Esq. • His Majesty's sloop Cephalits, Cagliari-Day, July 25,181 3. Sin--I beg to inform you, that his Majesty's brig • under my command, captured, on the 13th instant, FGalita bearing N.W. by W. twenty-fi v e m il es ), t h e rench xebec l'Ecoreil privateer, of and from Tou lon, out forty days, armed with one eight pounder and small arms, the former thrown overboard in the i chase, having a complement of forty-one men; made ' no captures.—l have, &c. (Signed) EDW. FUN. List of Captures made by the Channel Fleet, not already ga. zetted, between the Ist July and 30th September, 1813. Brig Mercurius, of 170 tons and 8 men, from Bourdeaux, bound to Plymouth, captured by the Goldfinch, July 7, 1813. . ' English brig Union, of 110 tons and 7 men, from Newfound land, bound to Lisbon, recaptured by the Goldfinch and Brt st squadron, July 17, 1813. I American schoooer Marmion, of 180 tons and 20 men, from Names, bound to New York, captured by the President, Bea gle, Juniper , and Urgent, August 14, 1813. I French a:ow 'twee Ville de Fecamp, of 60 tons, from Rochelle, bound to Brest, captured by the Stilton and Basque R oa d s squadron, August 7, 1813. Ship Minerva, of 5t 0 tens and 24 men, from Nantes, bound to London, capon ed by the Goldfinch, August 28, 1813. French tuner Gustave, of 82 tons, from Bourdeaux, bound to Nantes, cap:urcd by the Telegraph, September 12, 1813. French chasse maree lea T.Jois Amis, of 54 tons,Trom Bounteous, tound to Names, captured by the Telelraph, some date French lugger le Precituz of 94 tons, frOns.Bourcleaux, bound to Nantes, captured by the Telegraph, same date. French chaise mute Duaoire, of 68 tots, front Bourdeaux, bound to Brest, captured by. the Telegraph, same date. (Steed) Kalrx , Admiral.; j . (For Promotions, Bank rupts , & c . see the last page.) " . , 41PR4INCII PAM RS. ns iiTrTs To THE PROCEEDING% dl tetnea it r OP VIENNA IN TEE lIIIIECISE 07 THE MEDIA TION AND AT THE CONGRESS AT PIIAGOZ, France, allied to Austria, made it a point of duty 0 communicate to her, with the mo st ent i re con & *nee, the details of her military dispositions, and of Abe infrnetisezneans slinhad collected for the defence of the common cause : but the Cabinet of Vienna, whiCh had adopted the passions of-she enemies of 'France, paitook alsO of their delusions ; and nothing I could equal its. surprise when it was infderned that. , victory had crowned our arms at Lutzen. It sent: Count de Bubna to Dresden. The stay of the Au.: strian Ambassador, which for the moment kept the Minister for Foreign Affairs.at PariS„:, prevented him from being with his Majesty. He confided to the Duke of Vicenza the care of hearing Count Bubna, and discovering the reasons which had determined his mission. The prOtestations which the Cabinet of Vienna had sd long used, and which Courit de Bubna renewed, respecting the pacific intention; of 'Austria, and its attachment to the alliance, ill concealed the ambition of that Cabinet. It was evident that the armaments with which it supported its own, pretensions, and independent of 1 those of the enemy, bad for their object to,obtain pos session of the Illyrian Provinces.and part of the Duchy of Warsaw, the establishment of a new frontier upon the Inn, and arrangements destructive to the• Conf ederation of the Rhine. The Emperor proposed by Count Bubna (No. 1), the assembling of a General Congress. He deman ded that a Negotiator should be furnished with powers' to conclude a Convention whiCh woad regulate the acceptance of the mediation. ' Count de &bee left Dresden, and proceeded to give an account of his mission. 1 The Emperor marched against the Russian and Prussian armies, which had halted in their retreinit and taken a position at Bautzen. However grew' his confidence of victory, he resolved to endeavour to prevent a battle. He gave the Duke of Vicehza powers to propose•and conclude an armistice (2) ; but the enemies chose to try the chance of another battle ; they were conquered at.Wurtachen. ~ They then made the demand of an Armistice, through an Austrian agent, wh o res id e d at t h e head , quarters of the ca:' imbibed Armies ('.3).. This letter, on the 2 18th of May, found the Emperor in Siksia.— In the powers given by the 'General in Chief, Barclay de Toby, to the !tussian and Prussian Colnmissioners, to treat for air Aeniiitice, he openly- announced, Mat the Armistice 4044 .have for olyect.to bear the Or 104- &Is of the medialing 1 4 11 ;e144), to.hear fierAictAte the ' law. The - powers tif the Fee** . Pleniposfut,iiwiip,- more liberal, more -geriettiits; itere 2 Onirdied tb 'en nouncing the object tosiardirwhielf •41 7 .'s1WE I nVeliat's whiles avvre directed. the thsiterd,,,lrwai,naa Wets( to Plesswitz, and the Armistice was concluded (3). - '. l'he Cabinet of Vienna.was tharged with making• known the acceptance of the mediation by Rtissia and Prussia, and it remained silent;--the appointment of Plenipotentiiries on thepartnf the enemy, and it re mained silent. .. . The French Goverrm not had demanded, That hs acceptance of the mediition Should be stipulated. by criavention, and the Cabinet *of Vienna did. not ghee powers to any person tonegodiate it. • ' • • • Count - de BrihiiiLid: retisenigir tettit - linfeltal -Quarters. He was• pressed to err . Wily treat on-e . fairs of such importance: *he notified the acceptance of Russia and Prussia (6) ; . .and when it was wiateki to enter into explanations with him, he was found without authority and without power. Thus the Ca binet of Vienna allowed the month of June to be spent without the Congress being opened. The Minister for Foreign Affairs then addressed to M. de Metternich two notes, in which he explained the views of France, upon the question relative to the alliance, the mediation, and the negociations for peace (7 and 8. ). M. de Metternich replied, and brought his replies to Dresden (9 and 10). They gave rise to several notes which were exchanged during • his stay (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17), upon the question of alliance. He proposed to prejudge nothing agains!l the existence of the alliance, and to suspend the stipu lations of it, as if it could exist without producing' its effect. It was beneath thi dignity of the French Govern ment to descend to these subtleties. It declared it would consider the wish of the Cabinet of Vienna, to carry its reserves to the letter of the whole treaty, as eltdvalent to the renunciation of the alliance (16).- 1 he Cabinet oCFrance &mended, on the question of negoCiation, that it should extend to a g eneral peaee, and that it should take place in Congress, and in the forms consecrated by custom ; and that the resumption of hostilities should not arrest its course. —Upon the question of Mediation, it proposed, as a basis for the Convention to be concluded, that Aus tria, animated .by the most perfect disinterestedafrs should not present herself as an arbitrator. . -. As Wain extension of the negotiation to a gee* peace ; whiCh was always the wish of the Emperor, ' M. de Metternich desired not imMediately to ecime to an absolute engagement upon it ; but it was agreed that the Mediator would charge himself to make the . proposal of it • to all the Powers. -- A project was dawn up (18) : M. de Metternich took it with him, and charged. himself; with sounding and making known in this respect, the dispositions of Russia and' Prussia. In respect to the continuations of the nego tiation during the resurnptien of hostilities, the Aus trian Plenipotentiary preferred a prolongation of the armistice, which. Austria would undertake to have accepted, and the French Government did not refuse it. As to. the form* of the negociations, and to the ' expression of the intentions of the mediator, M. de Metternich gave all the explanations, and made all the declarations, which were demanded of him. The Emperor consented, on condition that the convention should be confined to the proposition and the accer L ance of the mediation, the assembling of plenipoten tiaries at Prague before the sth of July, aucilthe pro longation of the armistice (19). • The Cabinet of Vienna successively, *and under different pretences, deferyed the opening of the Con gress to the Bths• and then to the 12th of July (20 and '2l). It did not put itself in a condition to make 1 kossia and Prussia accede to the engagement enter ed into for the prolongation of the armistice. It was ' requisite to have recourse to a commission, charged with its execution, to overcome difficult) upon diffi cuhy (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,28,29, so; sl, and 327. i c ti l a u r d ia l w o er n e th a e s r em th bl a e t d Ne at o an n d th th e e 27 P d le l n of ipo j ten i In foe, the prolongati on o f t h e arm i st i ce Vas COG. I 1 Prague rnarke9 u Y. The choice of Russia had fallen upon a man, who,• born - a Ftenchman, and convinced of his incapacity rfor so honourable a mission, had only acquired is matters of business, the character of an agent of England, and who in 180.5 was her principal insti ment to induce Austria to war. The Emperor might have been indignant at such a choice, and rejected a tnan who had rejected the laws of the empire ( I); but his desire for peace made him pass over these considerations. He 'appointed to discuss his interests at the Congress, persons the nrea worthy of his confidence, and who, by the rank they held with him, and in the. State, as well as by their personal qualities, enjoyed in the highest degree the public esteem and consideration. Count de Narbonne had a l rea dy rere : vc d hi s f u ll powers which authorised the Plenipotentiaries to treat separately or jointly. He, in consequence, proposed to open- the - negociations. When the I)ake of Vi ,Senzi 'arrived at Prague, it appeared that nothing could oppoie the immediate opening of the Cong ress , and there was every reason for hoping the negoLa tion.s would proceed rapidly; but that system of in cidents and obstacles incessantly wising, followed till then by the Austrian Cabinet, teceived a new deve -lopemens. • The French Plenipotentiaries hastened to demand on the 26th of July of the Minister Mediator, that the opening of the Congress should ittrdediately take place by a first conference, in which they should pro ceed in the usual manner to the verification and rec. procal communication of their full powers. No ob jection could have reasonably been expected respecting an affair of form, so simple and founded on imme morial custom. Nevertheless the Plenipotentiary from the Mediating Court refused this demand.. Desired to explain himself upon the motives which at the be ginning could induce him to create an obstacle so un expected, he only replied by proposing a mode of nes' gociation which excluded all direct communication between the respective Plenipotentiaries, and confined the part of the negnciatoys to transmit by writing their propositions to the ttustrian Minister, who thus constituted himself an arbitrator. M. de Metternich forgot the Notes he bad trans mitted to'Dresden, and the declarations which had been made to him, and to which he hod acceded. that the French Government accepted a mediation, and not an arbitration, and that it did not mean to negotiate but in the usual Forms, and by Plenipoten tiartir, who should asuonhle, sith those of ether bel ligerent Powers, to enter upon explanations. The French Plenipotentiaries declared they could not consent to any other form than that of collie r!oces, in which they w )nid be held to ;be protocol, whicti:w mid unite to the incontestable advantages of verbal,discussi,..iis, those which are considered to. be found in neg -eiations by writing. Notwithstanding this evicris esti in ition. the Austrian Minister in sisted' in 11-s pretension, and founding himself upon this prppissition ma2e in the object of a note which he addreesed to the different Plenipotentiariet. In this Nike 'he suported himself by the example of Tes chin (33). .lilovefee r -no person was ignorant that nothing could be less applicable to the circumstance than that example: for at Teschen there were conferences, and the pretension had never been raised there, any more tharr at any other Congress, of hating without seeing and without speaking to e j a7c:ther, In truth, this basis had been previmisly laid down by writihg 3 a. mode then rendered obligatory, because the media tors were some at Vienna and others at Berlin. But even that proved the impossibility of following a si. milar method at Prague. Not only had no bumbles adopted, but no preliniinary explanation had taken place upon the ground-work of the negoeiationo— ? Notwithstanding considerations so striking % the gut • sian, and Prussian Plenipotentiaries agreeing with the Plenipotentiary of the Mediator, hastened to . adopt his proposition (34). Whatever efforts the French Plenipotentiaries.made in these official conferences, which they had succes sively with the Plenipotentiary of the Mediator, en the 30th of July, and Ist and sth of August, they were not able to overcome his obstinacy. Forgetting in this conjuncture whit he owed at least to circuris stances, he did not make known the motives day idledged to the adverse Plenipotentiaries, and its this discussion of a secondary order he shelved all his partiality. The French Plenipotentiaries, after having fulfilled the ditty of earnestly, and fur the dignity of,Govern t ment insisting upon what reason, custom, and the en gagement contracted at Dresden by Ihe Plenipoten tiary of the Mediator himself, gave them a right to demand. were authorised to propose a mock which would have satisfied all pretensions. They, in conse quence, declared by a note addressed to the Mediator, that they consented the mode of negotiating by writing, should be admitted conjointly with that of conferences. This -means contributed all, and was most conformable to what was practised in the mote important Congresses of Nimeguen, Ryewick, Ais le-Chapelle, 3cc. where each question bad been di , - cussed, either verbally, or by writing, according as the nature of the case required (35). The enemies' Plenipotentiaries rejected this prop - mothout giving themselves the trouble of con:- bating the evideflt reasons upon which it was roundel (36 and 37). Several notes were afterwards exchanged on eac part (38, 39, and 40). On the 10th of August, the Russian and Prussia - . Plenipotentiaries hastened to declare the Congres; dissolved (4i and 4-2). At the same moment, the. Plenipotentiary of the mediator declared war (43). His declaration was transmitted by the Ambassador from France, in the night between the 10th and 11th of August, at the same hour the Russian and Prus sian armies entered the Bohemian territory by roads upon which for more than a month preparations hid been made to receive. them. To this cry of war, Fiance replied by wishes fee peace (44). (To be continued.) ..etters from the French coast gate, that owing to the very great pecuniary embarrassments of the Go vernment, and the necessary expences'of the war. it was in contemplation to issue a paper currency, re sembling our Exchequer Bills, to the amowet of 60 oas of !rants. •••:"