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other of the parties interested. their Imperial and Royal Majesties, the Emperor of the French, Stx., and the Emperor of Austria, &c. equally animated with .a desire to concur by all the means in due power to the most speedy reestablishment of pease, viz. his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, by the offer he has made of his mediation to the Belligerent Powers, and his Majesty the Emperor of the French, by his acceptance of the mediation of Austria. Their said Imperial Majesties, on the other hand, not wish , ing, by the.act of mediation, in the least manner to prejudice the existence of the alliance established be tween them ley the treaty of the 14th of March,lBl2, have mutually agreed to declare, that such stipula tions. of the said treaty as might affect the impartia lity of the. mediator, shall be suspended during the *hole cause of the negotiations, expressly reserving, to cause the said stipulations. to be revived, except the modifications, which, by mutual agreement, they may judge necessary to apply to them, after the pacifica tion which 4t the actual moment forms the first- ob- jeci of their Imperial Majesties' care. NO, 15.---Na Tr FROM COUNT DE MET, : t .: • "`" • , DUKE OF BAUAND. ' - Dresden, Jane 4,11‘ 1513. • The undersigned, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, has received the note his Excellency the Duke of Bassano . did him the honour of addressing to himyesterdayi The dispositions of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, as they are found expressed in that note, in favour of opening, in the most speedy 0. r alsaniier possible, negociations, and the desire of the Austrian . Cabinet to second the work of peace by every means in its power, has determined, the under-1 signed to address to his Excellency the Duke of Bas sano, for establishing both the offer of Austria's me diation, and the acceptance of that mediation by France, the annexed official paper, purely and simply, stating his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty's offer'of mediation. The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity of renewing, to his Excellency the Duke of Bassano, the assurance of his high consideration. (Signed) COUNT DE METTWHCH. [Here follows another note, ham the same, and' of the same date, announcing, that the Emperor of Russis and King of Prussia had accepted the Media tion of Austria, and requesting the Duke of Bassano to iniorm hirti of the French Emperor's determine.' lion.] TO TOO 16.r.NOTE FROM THE /MINISTER OF FOREIGN Al. FAIRS, EN REPLY TO COUNT DE SIETTERNICH 9 S NOTE OF THE 28TH -JUNE, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE AL. 11.IANCEr Dresden, June 29, 1813. The undersigned, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has laid before his Majesty the Emperor and King, Count de Metternich's note if yesterday. The proposal contained in that note tends to place in reservation, not only some articles of the treaty of alliance of the 14th of March, 1812, but the whole of the treaty itself, which appears in opposition to the declaration made up to this day by the Court of Vienna, and Oren to the dispositions expressed by Count de Mettetnich in his preceding note of the 224 of this month. It not in the power of any one, to' cause to exist what does not exist : thus it could not be said the treaty of alliance existed. if , all its stipulis dons were placed in the reseriations. Hi. Majesty thought that these reservations whith' were to be the object of the convention to be con. eluded, merely referred to some articles which were deemed by the Court of Vienna inapplicable to pre fent circumstances; but as they must embrace, as the note of the C.)unt di Metternich authorises to be. lieve, the very letter of the whole treaty, his Majesty can only consider the wish of the Court of Vienna as equivalent to a renunciation of the alliance. The treaty of the 14th March, 1812, had been con. eluded in the opinion of its. being favourable to ali parties. His Majesty, who does not wish to render his alliance expensive to his friends, makes no diffi culty in renouncing gat which united him to Austria, if such be the wish of his Majesty. the Emperor Francis. This change in the situation between France and Austria will mike no alteration in the friendship and good understanding resulting from the last trea ties, which established peace between the two Powers. The undersigned, &c. (Signed) THE DUKE OF BASSANO. NO. 17.—NOTE FROM THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AF FAIRS, IN REPLY TO THAT OF 14. DE METTERNICH, OF THE 29TH JUNE, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE MEDIA. MN, WITH A PROJECT FOR A CONVENTION. Dresden, June 29, IEI3. The undersigned, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has laid before his Majesty the Emperor and King, the note of his Excellency the Count de Metternich, of this day's date, relative to the offer which the Court of Vienna made of its mediation. His Imperial and Royal Majesty has charged him, in reply to the . said note, to present the. annexed. pro. ject for articles, as a simple sketch which may serve In the negotiation for which the Count de Metternich, and the undersigned, are respectively firnished with t ull powers. Count de Metternich will perceive;by the tendency of the projected dispositions, his Majesty's desire to replace on its basis, Europe, shaken by thirty years of war, and to substitute for separate Powers a gene yal peace, negotiated, not in the Cabinet, but before all Europe, and in the face of all her nations. It was in This manner they acted at Munster, at Nimeguen) at Ryswick, and at Utrecht ; the Powers were not arrested by the complication of interests, and the delays inseparable from a general negotia tion, and even at Osnabruck, where they had, besides, .to conciliate religious ideas, which are always so de limte, and from their nature so very little susceptible of modification, all difficulties were surmounted by time and perseverance. Why then, when they are certainly of less consideration, should we now de spair of attaining complete succcess ? His Majesty prefers Vienna or Prague fcr the place of Congress, as being large cities, where all the ne gociators might ir assembled. He refers to the mediator for adopting such =a rmies of policy as may enable the Plenipotentiaries to enjoy the privileges and honours which belong to 'their' character, and to the dignity of the flovereiga‘ ',Of! they represent. —The undereigued, Ice. (Signed) The Duke of_Bmwro. I * o bC COlmineed.) GOTIINBURGR g* A,;:* WLLEJYNS OF TIM CROWN PRINCE. . IMM=ME.1•11•1 ‘“ Heedlumen etSerbat, September IS, 1111 S. " On the 21st, at break of day, two Saxon Officers appeared at the Swedish advanced pats, befereWor. Eta, and informed them that their battalion would come over to our tide. Colonel Bjobsestiima, ac companied by some hussars, went to the front of the battalion to give it a reception. Its Commander, the Major Von Bunau, declared, in the name of his whole troop, that- it requested to fight under the standard of his Royal Highness, for the liberty of Germany. This battalion is the first of the King's regiment ; its force amounts to eight Officers, and 1 360 men. It entered Worlets with fixed bayonets and drums beating, and will bear the name 61 the first battalion of the King of Saxony's Legion. In three days at farthest it will be completed to 800 men. The Cossack Officer, Obrees, who was detach ed with 30 men on the 23d, near Goldwitz, took one Captain, two Officers, and 40 Saxon Dragoons pri soners, after a slight engagement. 84 Six Swedish gun-boats under the command of Capt. Kruger, have cannonaded the town of Stettin, the suburb of Dauern, gad the batteries *hit* con nect both those places, with good effect. On the 24th August, the guns at Dawn were dismounted. Lieu. tekant-Colonel Fesmain, his Adjutant, a Serjeant- Major, and several soldiers, were killed, and a great number wounded, on the enemy's side. On the 30th August the gate of Dauern was broke down by can non shot, and on the Ist of September the fire was directed against the town itself. The boats had a few men killed or wounded in these affairs. To draw oft; the attention of the garrison or Wittenberg from the side whets the trenches were opened, and therefore to lessen our loss, General Bu low received orders to bombard the place from the opposite side. At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 24th, he caused the suburbs to be attacked. The judicious disposition made by General Hirchfeldt, caused the attack to be attended with complete suc cess. The suburbs were taken, and the enemy driven back on all points; we had only a few men wounded, not a single one killed. The attack does great honour to General Hirchfeldt. The trenches were opened on the side of Luthersbrunn, in the night between the 24th and 25th. The bombardment commenced on the same night, and several places were set on fire. The fire continued from ten o'clock in the evening till five o'clock in the morning. The fire was percep tible from the steeples of Leipsick and Dresden. At the same time a second parallel was opened on the side of the Castle. Count Woronzow's cavalry keeps Halle, Querfurth, Eisleben, Bernburg, and Halber. ,stadt garrisoned. A detachment has been at Qued lenburg. A part of this cavalry has formed a junc tion with the great Bohemian Harbour, and is march ed into the rear of General Lefevre, who was skir mishing with General Thielemann. Every thing is ity the greatest confusion at Leipzick. This city can no longer raise the contributions of money, provisions, and horses, which are demanded from it on all sides. " The people ate reduced to such a degree of mi sery, that the authorities, who carry the command, have every thing to fear. The French soldiers are tired and weary of a war without an object, which they call the Cyfie aid Sugar War. " General Czerniucheti is gone with 3000 horse on a private expedition. 44 Major Helhvig, of General Bulow's corps, has, on the left bank of the Elbe, opened a communica tion with the vanguard of General Schulzenheim, at Dessau. The Field Marshal Count Stedinck causes con siderable Corks to be thrown up, above Rostau, and between the Elbe and Mulde. General Baron Win zingerode is forming the town of Aiken into a fortress. " The Military Government between the Oder and the Vistula has placed the whole of the Land strum on the right bank of the Oder, 'under the or ders of the General commanding the sieges of Stet tin and Kuitrin. This Landstrum will form a mass of about 55,000 men, in a line of about seven Ger man miles. •, The Landsturm on the left bank of the Oder will, in the same extent, produce an equal number of men. This force is certainly not necessary, in con junction with the troops of the line, to hasten the sur render of those places. Consequently, in a line of 14 German miles, there is already organized a mass of one hundred thousand Burghers, who are all ready to fight for the protection of their homes. "• When Magdeburg shall be enclosed, the Land strum of that Province will be called out; at every step that the Allied Army moves forward, it will find masses to assist it. " The letters received from Dresden state, that the Prince of Neufchatel is very much displeased, and that he has made the most urgent remonstrance to prevail on the Emperor Napoleon to make peace.— Had his councils been followed, humanity would have had less to bemoan." " Hesilloarten, &rim, Ber. an. “ On the With September, the enemy coMmeaced making his retreat from Grossenhayn to cross the . Elbe at Meissen, and it is asserted that he is even preparing to evacuate Dna*. le Deserters Mum us, that the military magazines of that city are *Wady *ray a$ that the lila- biunts. find themselves exposed to the most dreadful " General Count Tanenzien, without the least de lay, detached his light cavalry in pursuit of the ene my ; strong detachments are intended for the left bank of the Elbe. That General's infantry has hap pily joined Blucher's corps d'arrn6e. The head quarters of the latter were removed to Esterwerda on the 28th. General Bennigsen has been at Zettau since the '2sth. By the united activity of the three corps, it is hoped the enemy will soon be forced back into the country between the Elbe and the Saale. Wittenberg continues to be strongly bombarded. In the night between thi 27th and 28th the town was on fire in. several places ; a tower of the castle was on fire, and fell in. Exclusive of the bombs, rockets were likewise used, under the very able direction of the English Captain Bogue. u The garrison answered our attackit4 . ll l*, artillery, but entirely without effects dlex.2upt i f i e l : haps; attempt a sally, but General BAtowip that fortress with 30,000 tun, and if it's/maid be ne cessary, can be strengthened with upwards 0f4,000 more. The distress in Magdeburg has reached its ut most height.. Upwards of an hundred families who were totally without sustenance, have left the city. A great past of the garrison, which is composed of all nations, is sickly. The animosity of the Saxons and Westphalians against the French military has broke out into violent disturbances; they have fired on each other with small arms, and the French have even been obliged in &heir defence to turn the cannon on the mutineers. .The Emperor Napoleon has given his Generals orders to take Dessau, let it cost whit it will. Information of this was received in sufficient time to give Major-General Schulzenbeim timely notice to evacuate the place, and retire. by degrees upon the works at the tete-de-pont. This was per formed on the 27th between twelve at noon and two m. The enemy did not undertake any thing against General Von Schulzenheim. Colonel Bjorinsterna, who was at Worlitz, received orders to fall back on. the right bank of the Elbe. The day betore yester day the party covering the workmen at the tete-de pont reconnoitred nearly as far as Dessau. Those posts of the enemy who had ventured out of the city were drove into the streets, and the reconnoitring party returned behind the entrenchments. In this skirmish we had 20 men killed and wounded. W We soon after received information that the enemy at Dessau had received reinforcements, and was advancing against the tete-de-pont. Field Mar shal Count Stedingk sent Colonel Baanisterna against him with 1000 infantry, some cavalry, and two pieces of artillery. The enemy hastily retired into the town and shut the gates; a few young offieersand soldiers, led away by too much bravery, threw themselves, in despite. of the enemy's shower of ballets from the ' houses and walls, on a gate, and endeavoured to cut it open with axes, but nails and iron bands rendered this impossible ; Colonel Bjamsterna ordered hit troops to fall back to the tete-de-pont : when he had reached the distance of 100 yards, the enemy opened the gate and fired on him with three pieces of artil lery. The Colonel halted, returned the fire with his artillery, and marched on the enemy, who returned back into the town, and fastened the gates after them. Our loss consisted in two officers killed, and some wounded, and three or four privates biped, and about 40 wounded. Colonel Bjamsterna had three horses killed or wounded under him. In the evening the enemy again left the town, and tnok his direction to wards the bridge across the Mulde, which was entrus ted to a battalion under the command of Colonel Al dercreutz. This brave officer crossed the bridge, at tacked the enemy, and drove him briskly back into the town, the gates of which were then closed. At nine o'clock yesterday mornini, the enemy shelved himself with a corps of about 7 or 8000 men, in the vicinity of Oranienbaum, between the Mulde and the Elbe. As we had drawn our posts in, the enemy "I chewed symptoms of marching against the entrench ments and forcing them. “ Lieutenant-General Baron Sandals put himself at the head of three battalions. went out of out lines and straight upon the enemy : he overthrew him, and drove him briskly upwards of a quarter of a German mile back. As this General had received orders to return back to the tete-de-pont, he executed them with such precision as could not have been excelled, on the place of exercise. 44 The fire of musketry against the tirailleurs con tinued some hours, and the enemy undertook nothing further. According to the report of the country peo ple, the enemy has lost upwards of 600 men. We had one officer killed, ten wounded, and about 300 privates killed and wounded. . 44 Field Marshal Count Von Stedinck would have passed the night in the tete-de-pont ; and it required all the persuasion of hjs Royal Highness the Crown Prince to prevail on bin to abstain from that reso , lotion. 41 Lieutenant-Colonel Merevitz, who bad been de tached as a partisan to support the operations of Ge neral Tettenbons, has forced himself into Brunswick, surprised the troops there, and made one Colonel and , 400 Officers and soldiers prisons. a The Russian Captain Barotzi was attacked at Halle, by troops superior in numbers to his own, but ;that brave officer nunceuvred so well, that he drove the enemy back, and made some prisoners. 4' A detachment that was sent against Mersburg, 'found that town already evacuated by the enemy,— General Count Woronzew bavibg learnt that the enemy had turned himself towards Cothen, caused the Captains Orescott and Lowenstein to march against him with a detachment of Cossacks. They threw themselves on three squadrons of Polish Maas, overthrew them, and t 0 the Commanding Grum. and 4.0 men prisoners. " The Emperor Napoleon's cosnanosication with France is cut off to that degree, that his messengers are obliged to be escorted by whole divisions. It WAS hitherto only the light troops that carried on this bird of warfare ; but latterly the inhabitants of several di: tricts have begun to follow the ex:Ts:pie of the Sp: niards and Russians, in making common cause w the military of the Allies. " The desertion from the enemies army is re:y great-90 or 40 men daily crone over to as. •• We have intercepted several dispatches fro. Count Von Durnotb, the bauish hfusiatite at the Court of Saxony. to M. Von Roiencrants. As these were intended to give the Dan:sh Court the needfstl information concerning the state of affairs at Dresden, care will be taken that they shall crite it their desti nation." ~~ . AUSTRIAN BULLETINS. • • ticadvartees,st Toplies, Sept. 21. According to accounts received at Vienna on the 17th instant, General Count Nugent was on the .7th attacked in his position of I,ippa, by the enemy, *he advanced by the roads of Adelthers and Trieste. a The column which advanced from Adelsberg, consisting of three battalions, with two pieces of can non and two howitzers, first cornmerred the attack s in consequence of which, the advanced posts at Dor. neck retitird upon the main body of General Nugent. is The enemy immediately advanced rapidly through Dnmeck, in two columns, against our troops; but they were received by them with the greater cool. tress, and by a well-directed fire of artillery and mus. ketry, they were soon thrown into such confttion, that they fled beyond Dorneck, leaving behind them a great number of killed, wounded, and prisoners. 46-They were pursued in their flight by Major Von Gavenda, who again took post at Dorneck ; but soon after hastened with his troops to meet the enemy's division, which advanced by the Trieste raid against the position of Passtak, in front of Lippa. " Captain Von Ogumaun, of the Crentzer batta. lion, however, kept the enemy so long in check at ICastelnuovo, that General Nugent had time to strengthen the position of Pautak. Here the attack of the enemy was made with such vigour, that he had almost broke through our centre, when General Nugent, by a skill f ul alantelnle, turned the eneinh and attacked him In the rear. The effect was corn• plete : the enemy was &Wen back, and was attacked in his retreat with such vigour, that his columns fled as far as Bassavitza. The loss of the enemy, at the conclusion of the affair, consisted of SOO in killed and wounded, among whom are four officers 6 and in 450 made prisoners, besides six °Seen. More prisoners were also hourly Waging in." 44 Headequarters at Tagei, Septesebsr ft. “ General Thielmann. on the 18th September, at► tacked Merseburg. which surrendered after a sharp resistance. The Russian Colonel Orloff patticularly distinguished himself. More than 9000 prisoners is and and about the town fell into our hands. They acs on their way to Bohemia. M General Thielmatut it almost daily engaged with detachments of the enemy; and the advantage bas on all occasions been on his side. N After having had on the likh a very sharp ca- valry affair in his front, be was se fortunate as to come up with, at Kosen, an enemy's biome column, when he took 200 waggons laden with cavalry effects. and some carriages belonging to French Generals, cut down 400 men, and made prisoners four officers and 200 privates. One French General, whose name we have not learned, was killed on this occasion. " General Thielmann, while he extols the valour of the whole aphis troops, particularly distinguiibes Captain the Prince of Hohenzollern, who was amen ded in the attack ; and also-notices :be valour at Prince Biron of Cons-land, Lieutenant Colonel Gai ter, of the Hohenzollern, and Captain Wasseige, of the Mena light horse. " Colonel Mensdorf, on the 20th, in the neighbour- hood of Lutzen, fell upon an infantry column of se veral hunched men, and liberated 600 Austrian, Prus sian, and Russian prisoners; more than 150 men of the convoy were taken or cut down; and on this occasion Colonel Mensdorf took some additional di,. patches of the enemy." STRALSUND, OCTOBER S. It is stated that 20,000 Bavarians have joined thi, good cause : other accounts state that 40,000 bay:, really done so. • The Stralsund Paper of the 6th October contains the following : " It is stated in the Berlin Paper of the 2d October, that according to official accounts, an agreement h,id been concluded between Austria and Bavaria, accor ding to which a corps of 1,0,000 Austrians was to join the Bavarian army under General Count Wrede, for mutual operations ; as likewise, that according to unofficial accounts, Col. Von Colomb, with a flying , party, had appeared before Frankfort on the tiem,"