Star. — London, England, 1813-10-20 00:00:00

FIIRTAR &%TLICTS OM TIMZ► GOMM BURGH M.4IL. BERM, OCTOBER 2. The French army commenced its retreat fiom Dresden on the 26th Septeinber, by the way of Meis- • seb. The Emperor Napoleon left that city on the 23d. All the lead and pewter at Dresden was pot in requisition for the use of the French army ; even the clock-weights have not been spared—a tertairt proof how much they must be in want of shot for their guns. • . Napoleon is retreating with.the remainder of his army tram Dresden taLeipste. To cover his retreat, Ile pushed forward about 25,000 men to Dessau, to nerve as a rear-guard to his right wing, in like manner as Marshal Augereau is to cover his left wing at Gira,lena, &c. ; that he may by this means - draw up along the Saale, or reach Erfarth, without Wag annoyed. TOPLtTZ, SEPTEMBER 22. Nothing of any consequence has tauten place wick the armies an this side. .No pen, no pencil can.draw a picture of the misery which the French prisoners who are brought in preseni, especially those of the infantry : tattered, without shoes, withott mocking', and, in the strictest sense of the word, starved almost to desperation , they come o ver to us every hour, by' 20 or SO men at a time. Although only two hours before entrusted with the French provisions, they fell on the mortal of bread offered them so ravenously, that their own assurance of having fasted for three or four days, is quite unnecessary. The most deadly enmity must die away at the sight of these poor wretches t we have seen five french Officers come to blows, because they could not agree about an equal division of a loaf of bread, which was given them bya good-natuted Cossack to allay their ravenous cravings. aOTTENBUROK OCTOBER 9. We may soon expect to bear of something grand. The whole of the Crown Prince's army was crossing the Elbe, and had joined General Blucher,whose left wing was joined.to the Austrian right. The Russians ha* been reinforced by 100,000 men. A Ukase for a new levy of eight in five hundred was issued at Toplitz, on the 2d September. HERRNMT, SEPTEMBER io. MTH ARMY REPORT. OM the Ist of September, the advanced guard of , the Silesian army passed the Queis; on the 2d, the ISTeiRRe• The army followed. On the 3d, the enemy Wes on the stream of the Lobau, and retreated ,on the 4th towards Bautzen. Hoehkirch was already eva cuated by him, when his columns halted and attacked in their turn the advanced guard. Troops, we under stood, were on their march through Bautzen ; and the prisoners said that Napoleon was come up with great reinforcements. Much cavalry made their ap-' pearance, and in the afternoon of the 4th it was con firmed that the Emperor. had arrived with his guards about mid-day. Tile General in Chief withdrew the advanced guard, under General Wasilsikoff, behied the water of Lobau; concentrated the army in a re trograde direction, in the La n d s k r o n ( a lofty moun tam ridge), waiting to see whether the enemy would hold back tis beaten army, or offer battle. On the sth the enemy deployed a considerable force in advance of Reichenbach, which commenced a brisk attack on a Cdrps of the army. The General in Chief found it inexpedient here to joinbattle with the enemy; .he, therefore, withdrew the army over the Neisse and Queis, leaving a corps on the right bank of the Neisse to watch the enemy, should he be inclined to advance farther into Silesia. The farther he should remove from Dresden, the more effective would be the ope rations of the Grand Bohemian army. In vain did the Silesian army expect, on the 6th and 7th of September, that the enemy would cross the Neisse—die was aware of his dangerous situation, and the Emperor Napoleon was already, on the 7th, on his return to Dresden, with his reinforcements, which be had advanced towards the Neisse. The Russian partizan Prince Madekiff, Colonels Rachenioff and Figner, the Prussian Majors Flacken hausen and Boltenstern, operate in the rear of the, enemy, and do him incredible mischief. On the 2d l of September, the former took in Wurschen an ene my's battalion, consisting of a Colonel, five Captains,l 18 Lieutenants, two Adjutants, and 677 men. On l the 4th he also took, at Biscboffswerda, a detach ment of 500. men, guarding a Luke convoy of am munition, aad blew up 100 animunttion-waggons.-- On the Bth, the Silesian Army put itself in motion. 4 .3eneral Count St. Priest crossed the Neisse, at Os rite.. The corps of Count Lang eron followed on the Ith. According to the dispositions made, Lieute iant-General St. Priest was to vigorously attack Kor aan, and to be supported by Count Langeron, while :he corps of Yorce was to take t he enemy ' s corps at ' :;oerlitz in flank and rear, by Landskron, and to cut r off by Reichenbach. General St. Priest fell upon the Polish corps (Par met., which was concentrated at Lobau, and drove the enemy from Mittel-Hartzigsdcrt, Ebevadot f, and Lobau. But the attack of the corps at Gocrlitz could not be carried into effect, as the enemy, aware of his danger, retreated so rapidly, that the Cossacks of General Sacken could scarcely come up with him. An Adjutant of rrince Poniatowski was take n prisoner, with a repo r t in his possession of the affair ..t Lobau, addressed to the Prince of Neufchatel. It ..ppears from it, that the enemy on that occasion lust ''3 Officers and 500 men. On the 10th of September the enemy retreated to Bautzen. Our advanced guard entered Hoehkirch, and the Cossacks are swarming before Bautzen. Five of the Capital Prizes in the last Lottery, drawn 28th of September, including No. a Prize of £20,050, were sold by RICHAnnsoN, Goon- Lucx, and Co. the Contractors for the present Lot tery, the Drawing of which will commence on the 3d of Next Month. The Scheme, with only 8,000 Tickets, contains Two Prizes of 820,000, with Four teen other Capitals. The lowest Prizes 420. Tickets and Shares are on sale at their Offices, Bank.build lags, Cornhill, and Charing-Cross. . , % .• . • • PREPARATIONS OF THE FRENCH ARMY TO RETREAT PROM DRESDE N . LONDON' , 4 - ' • In a Second Editi on o f yester d ay , we stated the - WEDNESDAY, .c5... r ..... , arrival of Mr. true, with Dispatches f rom L or d OCTOBER 1813 SO, . ra ...av arasir and Sir CRAR/116 ST/WART. He left the Puma 01' STOCKS T/116 DAY AT TWOS O'CLOCL Allied Heaktunters at Toplitz on the 26th ul t i mo . Reduced 561 57 361-1.•-GrosOlin —44 see. illefa 4 per Cr. 7101-5 per et. iluitcztUu.6s 71 0,1 pr. 14 1-rutb—lndia At the same time, Captain STEWART , Aide-de-camp Bk. L g . Aus. Chit—Bonds Pc IL do- to Genetal Giants, who commands the British nazi- Esclu:qe& Bills Ss. Se. Fern. _ liars force acting und e r the orders of the Caown Panscr., arrived with S we di s h B u ll et i ns and Di a- In the absence of intelligence from the Peninsula, .ge slather from the So u th o f F rance , w h ere t h e scene patches. A Gottenbur g h M a il C ame b y t h e same qt ,Lord WELLINGTON'S operations .is now laid. rIl• , P acket. Fr mour, and rumour only, ha s b een b usy i n c h ec ki ng om all these sources we h ave a most pl ent if u l harv . his Lordship's victorious career — t hi s i s a l ways theharvest of intelligence, and all th at we are able to On case daring the tempora r y sus p ens i on o f i ntercourse lay before our Reader s is cheering in the extreme.— the ,with .aliy part of the Conti nent , an d t h e i nterva l b e- Silesia nothing important h a d occurre d i n t h e side of the Grand Allied A rm y o f B o h em i a et the last glimmerings o f j o y f or t h e Sutter ., and rape of a hostile movement si nc e t h e a ff a i rs o f N o l, &rival of a fresh Messeng er , i s fill e d up w i t h t h e ' ' Ilendorf and Cahn, on the 17th and ]B t h u l t . B et 11111Mandings of disaster—it wa s b ut i f ew h ours since Cameral Beutiosew, with 80,000 Russians, was on his Ai slefection of Austria wa s regar d e d as certa i n , b y some 4 our contemporaries , a n d now we h ave a h ost way toToplitz to reinforce the Alli es : an d as i t i s of F rench GUerillas, and the a rme d p o p u l at i o n if announced that a grand review w a s a b out to ta k e pace, we presume that anoth er e ff ort w ill s p ee dil y France driving the victoriou s Allied Army again bite the Peninsula! ~be made against Dresden. T wo A ustr i an B u ll et i ns detail tome military events in which the Aust r i ans But let us not distract the n a ti ona l counc il s , were engaged in Italy, and in the rear o f th e F renc h damp the ardour of our count r ym en , by ec h o i ng the " presumptuous daring:" of the J ourna li st , who communications in Sax o ny. All t h ese m O vements buszes only for an hour in the morn i ng , and is num- terminated favourably to the Alli e d cause . bered with the dead at night—l e t us not question the ' Our attention is next ca ll e d to t h e d eta il s i n t h e right—the policy—the bearings—or the motives— Swedish Bulletins, and these are of the same pleasing until we see clearly the end and final developement of character. The Saxons continue to desert, not in i the stupendous and magnificent objects now pass i ng , single files or platoons, but by whole regiments ! The 1 in review before us p—in a word, let us not by pro- , siege of Wittemberg goes on most briskly, for it is 1 mulgating opinions hastily formed, or m i so bi oas o ss i y • now bombarded from both sides of the Elbe. Strong put into circulation, anticipate the results of a pro- f detachments of light cavalry, under Generals Wo ject which has 4 Wv.uanorotz for its superintendaat, i RONTOTT and Czentacnerv, have advanced into West. and which musilaave been matured by the workings phalia and Brunswick, with the twofold view of of his mastermind! His conduct, we may venture i countenancing the insurrections, or as the CROWN to promise, will be in France precisely what it has : PRINCE terms them, u the animosities" of the inhabi been in Spain and Portugal- T iool, steady and deli- tow , and of suppotting General THIELIKAN, the berate—incited, invigorated, and sustained by a ge- Salon patriotiin his efforts to spread the flame of in tons love of glory ; but informed, moderated, an d dependence throughout Saxony. The Prussian Land. directed by an enlarged knowledge of the great public storm is in motion, and every where the great mass cause which he is called upon to serve; and while of the population of Germany backs the regular ar we thus bespeak the confidence of our countrymen nelk's with reinforcements and supplies. Themire in the future services of their stoutest Champion, let correctly deseribee. as imitating the Russians and us remind them that his Genius is indeed nal' generis Spaniards in ibis respect. —having no parallel in ancient or modern times . The grails of Dessau and Oranienbaum, which Tfl t i g it acknowledges no earthly progenitor, and until PROVIDENCE in ins wisdom shall afflict the human race with another NAPOLEON BoNArnitris, this.nar row world, which he hath " bestrode like a Colossus," will riot afford roots and verge enough for the tran scendent faculties of another WELLINGTON ! His for *WON so much ♦aunted in the French Pipers, are now accounted for in a satisfactory manner. 'The troops of the Allies at these places, so far from being wor sted, retired in good order, in the fate of a superior force, and in pursuance of the express orders of the CROWN PRINCR. titude is not the alacrity of the soldier in the breach, or oldie sailor at his gun—it is not the fleeting sen timent of the'lnoinent of danger, or the spirit which evaporates in rout and revelry when a great achieve meta is attained. These are splendid but subser ♦ient qualities—they are the lesser emanations bt a great and gallant mind. But it is WaLt.nearoN alone who retains within himself.the patent fowl. tain, which “ flowing in one blended stream from the head and the heart," dispenses life and energy to the ardent spirits which circulate around him.— " Hi, is the fortitude" , —and we quote with delight the language of the Master of British eloquence, be . daute we cannot pay a more grateful homage to his maws, than by praising in his own glowing periods, one of the Deliverers of Mankind from the bondage AA snide in a Berlin Paper of the Ikt ids. states, that BONAPAIEIIei army had commenced its retreat from Dresden on the 26th nit. he having previously left it on the 23d. The former part of the report can not be true ; and on the day last mentioned, BONA• rAart merely visited Pirna on a reconnoissance...-. The report also circulated at Berlin, of Bavaria hay. ing joined the allied cause, is of doubtful authen ticity ; it is an event, however, not improbable, in the times in which we live. The distress experienced by the French army at Dresden, falls little short of the horrors inflicted by the frightful climate of Rusiia. How obstinately does BONAPARTS cling to the worship of the De stroying Angel I of France.—" His is the fortitude which unites with To the above we have to add accounts from the Grand Army at Toeplitz, dated September 29. From these it appears that the army of General ND GENT had taken the strong points of Pola Capo d'Tstria, and Monte Maggiore, with 50 pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of•ammunition. General Nuozwr was in communication with the English fleet, from which he received arms and ammunition for equip ping the Istrians. The 6th Report from the Silesiarr army, dated Bautzen, September 25, states, that on the 22d, MAC* DONALD broke up from his position at Schmiedefeld for Bischoffswerda, and was attacked on his retreat by the advanced guard of the Silesian army, who occasioned him considerable loss. the courage of the field tile more exalted and refined courage of the Council, which knows bow to retreat and how to advance—which can conquer as well by delay as by the rapidity of a march, or the impetuo sity of an Attack—which can be like Fabius, the black cloud on the tops of the mountains ; or with Scipio, the thunderbolt of was ! which, undisturbed by false htunAnity, can calmly assume that most awful moral responsibility of deciding, when victory may be too dearly purchased by the loss of a single life, and when the safety and glory of his country may demand the certain sacrifice of thousands!" If such, then, is the character which we claim for the British Hero, there cannot be a drop of British blood in the veins of that maul who would present to ,his countrymen the cup of despondency and gloom draws from the green mantle of the standing pool in Another affair took place on the 23d, in which 300 of theWestphalian guards remained in the power of the Allies : the field was covered with dead and wounded. Another successful affair took place on the 25th ; and, upon the whole, this third offensive attempt of the enemy against the Silesian army has cost him 2000 men. The people had been com pletely pillaged in these marches of the enemy, and had fled into the woods to escape their rapacity and violence. Fr trice, white their hearts are elated with the ant beverage of victory and joy from every other cei.trtcr of Europe.—Oh that we had the punishment cf these birds of evil presage !—these rogues in some- thing mote than grain—we would condemn them, like the slaves in the minarets of Constantinople, to croak themselves into a perpetual hoarseness, from the battlements of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey —we would feed these harpies with gall and worm wood.—Their matins and their vespers—their collect According to accounts from Dresden of the 25th, NAPOLEON had been two days in Harthau, by Bis. choffswerda ; but on the evening of the 24th returned to Dresden. and their litany should be the Victories of WELLING. TON, and the Defeats of BONAPARTZ I—the virtues of our Hero, and the crimes of t heir Idol I The French army appears wholly to retire upon the left bank of the Elbe. Marshal OUDINOT, with his army corps, now reduced to 10,000 men, alone remained in Dre►den. The want of provisions and forage increased in that city daily ; eight men had daily only one ration of bread ; the numbers of sick were incredible. The horses die by hundreds. On the other side the Elbe, on the Bautzen road, all the villages had been plundered, and the cattle driven away. In the night of the 25th, a magazine of oats, There is not one word of truth in the reported changes in Government ; nor has the SPEAKER the least idea of retiring. Married, on Monday, the 18th instant, at Milford, Hants, by the Rev. J. H. EVANS, EDWARD FRANCIS Courom, Esq. of Fiikin's Hall, Oxfordshire, to HENRIETTA, daughter of the late Roasnr DAWES, Esq. of Farthingville, county of Cork. straw, Ite. was burnt at Dresden ; the damage is es. cheated at 30,000 dollars. An account of the intelligence brought by Mr. Lrxr, was communicated from the Foreign Office, last night, in the following Bulletin : Mr. Lvut has just arrived At the Foreign Otter, from the head-quanersof the Allied Army, at 'rep lier, which place he left on the nth. He was de. rained on the road for want* horses o the Russians having taken up all they could get. He met on the road, within a short distance of head-quarters, eighty thousand RussiAns, in high spirits, and in the first order, under General BLOWGUN. He was else de tained at Gottenburgh two days fc.r want of a packet. Subsequent accounts to the 10th ultimo were sent qn board the packet after him. A grand Review had taken place, and the Allied Army was full of confi. dunce. By the report of primers, great ellsc(otents prevailed at Dresden, in consequence of die want of provisions, and of the privations of everyltind which MOW there experienced. BOWAPARTR had concen trated a strong force round Dresden. ** The Plums ROTA& had commenced the hau -1 bardment of Wittenberg. * The Russian Engineers and Guards burnt the bridge under the farness of Lichenstein on the EMI and 284 ult. After the reconoissaoses end actions be. tween the 18th and 17th, the enemy bad reterned to Dresden." Mr. Lynx., the Messenger, who brought the dis patches yesterday from Sir C. STIEWART and Lord CATHCART, met the Grand Russian Army of Re serve, under General Been:maw, about four German miles from Toplitz, and describes it as an extranrdi. nary fine body of men, and in the. highest state of . • equipment. • •-0 By private letters front Zest* we igens. that the utmost order and regularity psrvadss the whole of the Arm)' under the CROWN Pampa; and that it unites with one mind in executing the orders of a General, in whose talents it has the most unbounded confidence. We are extremely sorry to find that our excellent Minister, Mr. Tnoamron, has been for some days confined to his bed by indisposition. He is assisted by Mr. H. Annixarron, who lately passed some time at Prague, under the orders of Sir CHARLES STEWAItr o as temporary Secretary of Legation. Trieste was occupied by the Austrians, under Ge. Deal NUOT.NT, on the 10th ultimo. It is reported, on the Stock Exchange, this after noon, that Dresden has been taken by storm, after three days hard fighting. The French are said to hate lost fifty pieces of cannon, end BONAPARTS is reported to have been wounded. We cannot trace the above reports any &Warr dm= the essridiaft is which they were circnlatteci—we lam the Stock Es change. aii.....1........ AMERICA. The Little Catherine packet has arrived from Ha. lifax, with Letters end Papers to the 21 instant, The details by this vessel of the military events in Canada, have been mostly anticipated ; for the information of our military Readers we present them with the following list of the British corps now serving in Ca nada :—.lst (or Royals) Ist battalion, Bth, 13th, 41st, 49th, 89th, MN!, 103 th, 104th !temente, 10th Royal Veteian Battalion ; Royal Nea'W►tadland, Canadian, and Gkagary fencibles ; corps of Veld gears ; Watteville's and Matron's regiments; 19th light Dragoons ; detachments of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers ; Artillery drivers, and carps of Royal Sappers and Miners ; with an extensive Commissariat Department. By the above conveyance Government received dispatches from Sir Jour; SHILRIEROOK, at Halifax, but they do not come down later than the 26th ult. nor do they bring any fresh intelligence from that quarter. We believe that no fresh dispatches have been re ceived from Sir G. PREVOIIT. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. .....—. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, Its. TUESDAY, OUTSIDES 19. Mr. Northey's Curlew, est. 611 s. beat Mr. 1. Perren's Conceit, Est. 41b. T. Y. C. 25gs —2 to loa Curlew. Sweepstakes of 1.50g5. rub, 100611.. M. M. IA Suilield's Hounpocus 7.t 121 b - - - p Mr. 1111lierb' s Don Cossa ck, Tst 121 b . - a IA Jersey's Caterpiller, On 21b - - - 1 9 to I agn Hoeuspocus-5 to 4 oa Don Cessatk-4 es 1 apt. Caterpillar. Fifty Pounds, for Syr-cad Colts carrying sit sib, and mai, Su 21b. T. Y. C. Sir C. Buobury's b. c. Sk'pjack - . - I Duke of Rutland's ch. o. Mustspba - - - s NI:. Lakes ch. 1. Aquilino - - - . 11/ 6 to 4 apt Slipjack-4 to 1 apt Aquino'. Mr. Thorohilrs 1 - listoria, Est 71h beat Mr. Shakespear e @ Hy daspes, est. 71b. Ab. M. stgOgs.-3 to ion Historia. FIRE IN PORTSIVOUTH DOCIE-YARD.—A fire broke out about four o'clock yesterday afternoon in one of the oil-houses, at his Majesty's Dockyard, which at first threatened the most destructive consequences, but the most vigorous assistance being at hand, and the weather being extremely moderate, the fire was confined to the house where it commenced, which, however, with the contents were entirely destroyed. Friday morning, a dreadful fire took place on Up per Ormond-quay, Dublin, which entirely consumed the house of Mr. COOKE, Law Bookseller, and injured the two houses contiguous. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, OCTOBER so. We bad a large arrival of Coro the morshvg from Norfolk and Suffolk, and having but few buyers 'it Wheat, use Islas were heavy at a reduction of Rs. per quarter. The supply of Barley being large, occasions vary heavy sale tot that grain, and the little that has been disposed of was froth Is. to mt. per quartet tinder Monday. prices., Oats are Is. per quarter cheaper. in Peas, Beans, and other snicks, there is no alteration.