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himself sttfficiantly strong, be made his tOrpi &suit* 4 , scen dz.:.he *bald have soon overhimen the enemy. in place of resentering, and again-placing himself upon the heights, be remained, and took a positio n at Kelm, without guarding the tnountiin mountain commanded the only causeway it is high. It was only on the 30th that Marshal Sts Cyr 'and the Duke of Ragusa arrived at the &hooch from Tnephts. General Vandamme only thought of clos ing the road against the enemy, and taking a 11...-. Tod flying army, a bridge of gold must be made, or a farrier of steel oft honed 1.--he was not strong enough to oppose this barrier of steel. " However, the enemy pereeiVing that this corpt i'armee of 18,000 remained alone in Bohemia, separated by high mountains, and that all the otheis were at the foot of the mountains on the other side, saw that he was lost unless he defeated it; he con. ceived the hope of successfully attacking it, its posi tion being bad. " The Prussian guards were at the head of the army, which fought in retreating ; •to than were joined two fresh Austrian divisions ; the remainder of the enemy's army joined them as it debouched, followed by the 2d, 6th and 14th corps. These troops reached the first corps. " Generallrandamme shewed a good countenance,l veptlsed all the attacks, penetrated all that presented itself, and covered the field at battle with dead.— Disorder increased in the enemy's army, and it was with admiration seen what a small number of men can do against a multitude whose morale is weakened. 66 At two in the afternoon, the Prussian column of General Kleist, cut ,off in his retreat, debonched by Peterswald, to endeavour to penetrate into Bohe mia ; it met no enemy : arrived upon the top of the mountain without resistance, it placed itself there , and there saw the affair. 46 The effect of this column upon the rear of the army decided the business. General Vandamme im. mediately marched against this column, which he repulsed ; he was obliged to weaken his line at this' delicate moment. Fortune turned, he nevertheless succeeded in overthrowing General Kleist's column, who was killed ; the Prussian soldiers threw away their arms, ittd Ofecipitated themselves into the fosses and woods, In this strife Gen.Vandamme disappear ed. It is supposed he was killed. " Generals Cerbeneau, Dumonceau and Philippon, ,determined to profit by the movement to withdraw part by the great road, and part by the cross roads, with theirdiviliens, by abindoning all the materiel, which CcinictStetar 50 pieces of artillery, and 300 waggons of all kinds ; but bringing away all the bows. Iptirositnation in which affairs were they eosit rtit l . llo6 laid' better. killed, wounded, and prisoners, may carry • Oln , lorqrthis - 'fair lo 6000 men. It k thought "Ah'at tAincmyrojoss cannot be less than from four 40. iftfeti. 4. Irlk • first. corps tallied half a league from the field of battle, outhirl4th corps. A list of the losses of this catastrophe, owing to a warlike ardour badly 'calculated,` was made out. General Vandamme merits regress:4 he,possessed a rare intrepidity. He died Uptm the field of battle . —a death worthy of envy to every brave man." Her Majesty the Empress and Queen has re ceived the following - intelligence from the army, dated September 2 : 4 , On tfie 21st August, the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian army, commanded by the Emperor Alex ander, and the King of Prussia, entered Saxony, and on the 22d marched against Dresden, with from 180 to 200,000 men, having an immense materiel and full of hope, not only of driving its from the right bank of the Elbe, but even of marching upon the Rhine, and nourishing the war between the Elbe and the Rhine. .4 . In five days it has seen its hopes confounded, 30,(1)0 prisoners, 10,000 wounded fallen into our power, which makes the number amount to 40,000; 20,000 killed or wounded, and as many sick, in con seqUence of fatigue, and the want of provisions, (it has been five or six days without bread), have weakened it nearly 80,000 men. is It does not now amount to 100,000 men under arms, it has lost more than 1000 pieces of cannon, entire parks, 1500 ammunition and artillery wag gons, which were blown upor fell into our power; more than 3000 baggage waggons, which it has burned or were taken. 46 There were 40 colours or standards. Among the prisoners there are 4000 Russians. The ardour of the French army and the courage of the infantry fixed every one's attention. The first cannon fired from the batteries of the IMperial Guards on the day of the 27th, mortally wounded General Moreau, who had returned from America, to enter the Russian service." IMPORT FROM TIIE MINISTER AT WAR TO lIIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR, EPATEb AUGUST 9. 14 SIRE—Your isfajesty, ir.formed of the events which had taken place in the North of Spain since the mouth of June last, determined upon conferring the command of your armies in the Peninsula on his Excellency the Marshal Duke of Dalmatia. As soo n as he was at their head, military affair, in the Peninsula considerably ameliorated. The enemy's audacity was arrested, and his projects defeated.— 1 orced for the moment to raise the siege of Pampa `,lna, the English lost many men io the attack they IditAttier and iVere !witnesses of Ote ,daiitetion th 4 iiol)ftd Magaiines bey htd estaldisbed near that fillet. A 'short time after the enemy re-ern barked' Ws %lining artillery, and for tome time suspended the siege of. St. Sebastian, and left at the font of that town a great number of soldiers, who in vain attempted to clear the breach. 64 Ent, Sire, notwithstanding this favourable cir cumstances and: although the armies of Arragon and Catalonias which have not ceased being victo. &us, may eltlsect fresh successes from, the concen. tration of their forces, it is impossible to dissimulate the necessity of sending to the armies of Spain rein forcements which may put them in a Condition to de feat the.designs ef the English, who can daily receive fresh recruits. The factitious ascendancy which the Ensile": have succeeded in exerting in the Pe. ninsula, will present to our troops fresh obstacles to overcome, and placing the armies of Spain in a condition to surmount them all and resume the supe. r•iority which is natural to them, can no longer be delayed. " I have already submitted to your Majesty the different denkands made to me by Marshals the Dukes of Dalmatia and Albufera to obtain reinforce ments which have become indispensible. " I now have the honour to propose to your Ma jesty to order a levy upon the last conscription in the departments ix the neighbourhood of the Py rennees. The inhabitants of those departments, animated with love for their country, and feels of what im portance, principally to them, is the defence of that frontier, will, I have no doubt, make with ardour the new efforts which circumstances demand. 44 There is no one in the South, who is not pene trated with those sentiments; and who is not ready to make the greatest sect ifices, should they be neces sary, to support the glory of France, and defend the territory—already lave the Basques, without being called upon by your Majesty, taken arms of their own accord, and marched against the enemy. 44 On all sides on this part of the Empire, the wishes of the inhabitants, executed by general inte rest, call for the measure I propose to your Majesty, and all are convinced of the absolute necessity of it— I in consequence propose to your Majesty to order that there shall be made on those departments, a levy of 30,000 men to reinforce the army in Spain. (Signed) 44 The Duke of FELTRE, 44 Minister at 'War." MdTWES OF THE PROJECT FOR Till SENATUs coNsULTUm. I 14 MONSEIGNEUR, 46 SENAToRs—When in December last, I pointed ' i out at the tiibunal, the English Cabinet as the fo menter of war, your wisdom acknowledged its truth, which later events. if possible, have rendered more evident. " Deceived in thv hopes it had conceived upon the success of our enemies in the North, frightened, as it always is, at the sight of negotiations, the thought alone of war, England has been as prodigal in that part of the world of intrigues and promises, as, in the South, been prodigal of reinf o rcements and sa crifices. . " Obliged to give way to the superiority of num ber, and to the advantages of maritime commerce, our armies in Spain have need of reinforcement% 4 6 Prudence will not admit of any alteration being i made in the imposing dispositions made on the side of Germany, dispositions upon which alone the most just hopes are rounded, and which, under the direc uon of the Emperor, guarantee the most profound security, and, if needful, the most brilliant success. 4 ‘ It belongs, then, to the Southern departments to add to the corps d'armsl which defend them, the necessary forces. " In the last war a glorious example was given, when the enemy landed upon the ancient territory of Belgium. The citizens armed themselves to admi ration, and leaving their families and their occupa tions, marched in crowds against the English, who were soon obliged to retire before this army. 44 Now the gallant Biscayans (Basques), and all the brave inhabitants of the Pyrennees and neighbour. ing departments, animated with devotion and fidelity, with zeal and courage, lave spontaneously come for ward at the sound alone of the enemy's approach to wards the North of Spain. 44 But the Emperor does not intimate that it will for a length of time be necessary to make use of this generous movement. He judges it better to take in those departments a certain number of men from the conscriptions of 1814 and previous years, to enter into the skeletons of the armies. 44 The Senatu: Cosusltum which we bring you fixes the number at 30,000. It will be sufficient to arrest the success of which the enemy has too soon boasted,. to resume with hitn that attitude proper for France to attain, and prepare that moment in which Eng land will no longer dispose for the devastations of the Spains, the treasures of Mexico, that she tears from them, and with which she feeds her commerce in both Indies, prolongs her monopoly in Europe, sup ports in it her exhausted credit s pays men whom she has corrupted, and those fatal subsidies to the Cabi. nets she misleads," REPORT MADE BY THE COFIDE Dil SORRNoNVIELIe t IN THE NAME OF THE SPECIAL CoMMINuoN. - i g MoNsniGNEuß t " MESSIEURS—The Minister at War and Orators of Government have sufficiently demonstrated by their respective Reports the imperious necessity of rsiuforc hit bat' atiliies *tilos in the Peninsula, so dill *ere remains fa me little to add to the means of ecsairic lion which have titbit to clearly developed.' 4 1 The wise pi-emotions taken by the Emperor pre vious to his departure for the Grand Army to cover all the pens and dock-yards of the Empire, have na turally forced England to give up her grand projected maritime expeditions; and in short, all those kind of attacks upon all those points of so great iMporrance. " England, which intrigues much and hazards, , little, has not dared to compromise her land troops by sending them to fight With the Russian and Prus sian phalanxes, she feared reverses which she took care to prevent, and which would have been irrepar able to her. In this conjuncture and in order to ap pear to do something for the Powers she has put in motion, the Cabinet of London preferred mixing the English troops with the Spanish and Portuguese bands, sure in being able to withdraw them without inconvenience, and according to her interest, and from that, this sudden increase of considerable forces which determined our armies to make retrograde movements of which the Minister at War basis formed you ; and those bands, encouraged by some ephemeral successes, have carried their audacity to the height of investing the forts of St. Sebastian and Pampeluna. 46 Already were parallels traced, trenches dug, ant. a breach was about to be practicable at Sal Sebas tian's, when the brave garrison by its murderous vol lies forced the enemy to disappear and re-embark his park of artillery. 44 On the side of Pampeluna if our success has not been so brilliant, the English have not been less an noyed in their works which have been filled, and the army has shewn a rare intrepidity. " But all those bands may daily be increased by others—their pretended successes, published from one end of the Spains to the other, may bring-a crowd of preselites ; the hopes of taking those two places, and making a bulwark of them for their pirates may draw all the banditti—all those circumstances. united demand the adoption of a prompt levy so as to place our armies in the Peninsula itt a situation to resume their former attitude. " His Majesty the Emperor and King, who ap preciates the generous movement of his brave subjects of the Pyrennees, does not think fit to make a too prolonged use of them, and has thought it better to take in those departments a certain number of men from the consc:iptions of IRI2, 13, and 14, and for mer years, and if necessary incorporate them into the skeletons of the army. _ " The Stnaius Cons:aunt which I have just had the honour of reading to you, fixes the number at 30,000, and your special commission unanimously proposes it for your adoption." I DRESDEN, AUGUST at. According to the report of his Valet de Chambre, General Moreau was wounded by a cannon ball neat the intrencl;ments established before Dresden. On the 27th, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, he was conveyed to Noethlitz, were both his legs were am pittated below the knees. After the amputation, he asked for something to eat, and a cup of tea ; three eggs and some tea were offered to him, but he only took the tea. About seven o'clock he was placed on a litter, and in the evening conveyed to P3ssendorf, by Russian srl•liers. He passed the night in the country house of M. Tritschter, Grand Master of Forests ; he only took in this house another cup of tea; he complained much of the pain he suffered. On the 28th, at four in the morning s he was car ried by Russian soldiers from Fassendorf to Dippos walda, where he took a little white bread and a glass of lemonade in the house of the ballet Watz. An hour after he was conveyed near the Bohemian fron tiers. Russian soldiers carried him in the body of a coach. EXTRACTS FROM THE GOTTENBURGH MAIL. GO ITENIMIRGH, sEPr. 4. 66 An official Bulletin, dated the 30th August, states, that General Blucher gained a great victory on the 26th, between Borchitelhoff and Groefch, on the Katzbatz, over Ney, Macdonald, and Lauriston. By an impetuous attack, well supported by artillery, the enemy's line was !Woken, their right wing com pletely routed, and their left, which came to its sup. port, was also defeated. At the time of the Courier', departure, fifty pieces of cannon had been taken, but the prisoners were not numerous, as orders had been given to grant no quarter. General Blucher was in pursuit of the enemy, and further details were howl)? expected." COPY OP AN INTERCEPTED LETTER FROM BUONAPART TO DATOIiST I DATED BAUTZEN, AUG. 17. a My Cousin the Marshal Duke of Reggio, with 8000 men, set out this morning from B.ireuth ; ' suppose that to-day or to-morrow you wi3 attack what is before you, if the enemy is inferior to you in force; do not omit masking yourself by a small num- , ber of troops, and by the worst, such as the Hansea tic Legion and the Walmoden troops. a There are no good troops against you, except the Swedes, and about one quarter of those that Bu low commands, which are troops of the line. " I received your letter of the 13th, I am ad vancing my head-quarters to Gocrlitz. The Empe ror Alexander is at Prague, the Russians have en tered Bohemia. The Prussians have traversed that neutral country into Silesia. We are in motion. I pray God," Ste. BULLETINS OF THE CROWN PRINCE. I • SIXTH SWELISH MILLE rIN. " Heo.9uaruns, Saarrhupd, Aug. QS, IRIS. a The Prince Royal removed his head•qi.a: ttrs to his place on the '26th of August. 4' The corps of General Hirschfeldt was posted, the 26th, between Rekahu and GOlzow, where he had., hopes of cutting off the rear guard of General Gii. ! `. 2 rard's which was proceeding . frim Ziossar to 8ru4,1„ ; hut the enemy passed inAuch baste that lie could not J effect it. " On the tt;h, two Officers and 104 soldiers of the enemy, of difrlent natioiis, were hrought to Potz dam ; %silo were wil.ingly made priSoners by '2O men of the Militia Cavalry.. They krounded their arms. They assert C.is disposition is gentral. " The pursuit of the enemy is so brisk, that on the 25th, General O'Rourke arrived at Gotten, where the* Dukes of Reggio and Padua, and General Regnier passed the preceding night with a large division of their army. " The enemy having forced C4tinel Adrianoff to retire from Juterbock,•and having taken post therein with two battalions of foot and 600 Polish Wan% probably with the view of facilitating a retreat, and keeping open his ceinmunicition with the Elbe t he was dislodged quickly, on the 26th, , by a part of the troops under General O'Rourke, and two Prussian squadrons, under Maki- Hello ig. Colonel }Craw.. ski attacked and took possession of the town. Gent* ral Benkendorf pursued the enemy with four squa• drons of Russian Cavalry. Two Prussian squadrons, and two pieces, which were in the villages of Rohrbeck and Boschav, joined him. The enemy lost in this affair more than three hundred mea killed, beside; many prisoners. Seeral French officers hate come over to us, and have been embodied with our troops. " General Czernischeff occupied Belzig the nigh; of the 26th, with his Cossacks. General Girard; who had stopped at Lubnitz in order to pass the nigh:, alarmed, on the spot, a brisk action ensued near Bel. zig. He did not, however, succeed in keeping pot. session of the town. The26th, Colonel Krds tetiwned to Niemeck with hii regiment of cavalry from his et. pedition to Dahrne, which he executed mosthrilliantly. Environed on all sides by the enemy, he was unable • long to retain his position. Neverthelss, he seized within sight of a strong column, seventy cartiaget laden with provisions, and took of their escort siz Officers and 120 men 1 the rest were either killed or dispersed. The Prince Royal has directed General Wiazingerode to express to this brave Officer his en tire satisfaction at the skill and valour he displayed on so ititeresting an occasion. " Gen. Bulow's head-quarters were on the 27tit at Elsholz ; Gen. Brrstell was in the environs of Luck. enwalde ; Gen. Tautwazien's head-quarters were at Bareuth on the 27th : his corps was posted between that city, Colzen, and Luckau. He evinced great ability in quickly collecting his reserve; and much activity in chasing the enemy from the wood. Gen. Wobeser, alter galling the left flank and rear of the enemy, collected his force near Golzen, marched upon Bareuth, eloigning an enemy's force of 2500 men. All our troops harassed the enemy in their re. treat. All the roads are covered with arms, and dead ordisabled horses. The French rear-guard de stroyed its baggage. " General Walmoden was attacked on the 21st in ti.e afternoon, between Vallahn and Camin, by g French force of 20 0 000 men, commanded by the Prince of Eckmuhl ; the battle lasted till long after night-fall—tlie positions were maintained on both sides. Our loss is about 100 men killed and wounded;-- , -that of the enemy, according to the prisoners, exceeds 500. The 23d, they concentrated themselves at Wittenburg, and after various demon& strations suddenly detached 10,000 men towards Schwerin—the remainder shortly followed. They took a strong position between the great and little Lake. General Tettenborn, with fotir regatients Of Cossacks, suriorted by the corps of Lutzen and of Reiche, observed tt.em on all sides, and cut off their communications. They have already intercepted many couriers diSpatched by the French Government, and taken many waggons of ammunition. In addi. tion, General Vegesack observes tilde motions, and takes his 'measures in consequence. General %Val.. moden feels he should not let this hazardous ma. nceuvre of the enemy pass him ; he has advanced to Gabrew ; bet the 26th he marched again towards Schwerin ; from whence the enemy have not yet at. tempted to stir. About one hundred French and Danish prisoners have been taken by the Cossacks. Count iielmansegge, or the Hanoverian Chasseurs• has passed the Elbe with his detachment, near Doi diitz, on the 25th, in the morning. He attacked the enemy in an entrenched post, and after having killed and wounded about fifty, took three Officers*ard 100 men prisoners. " Yesterday was made remarkable by the defeat of the corps under General Girard, between Lubnitz and Belzig, through the combined aborts of General Czernischeff and Herschfeld. The enemy had marched against Czernischeff, while, without beint aware of it, Herschfeld was on their re tr. He pro. fited by the situation of a world, to tall upon t hti r . leq flank. The heights in front of the viilage of lia_telsher7, and that where the enemy bed•formed, were carried by assault, and retaken several tiitirs.--4 After an obstinate resistance, all the enemy's sonny, which was greatly superior in number to coins, re.