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41 - VL•- ♦♦~. .~.. den in the greatest disorder, and by every road. All the villages in the road of the army, are found full of Russian'and Prussian wounded. The Major-Ge neral Prince of Neufchatel, has given orders for the interment of the Prince of Mecklenburg Strelitz, on the morning of the 4th at Pegau, and with all the honours due to his rank. In the battle of the 2.1, General Dumontier, who commands the division of the young guards, bas sustained the reputation which ha had already ac quired in the preceding campaigns. He bestows high praise on his division. The General of Division, Bremer, was wounded. The Generals of Brigade, Cbemineau and Grillot, were wounded, and have suffered amputation. By a calculation made of the number of cannon-shot fired in the battle, it is found to be less considerable than was at first believed, only 39,500 cannon-shot were fired. At the battle of Moskwa thefe were fired upwards of 50,000. General Bertrand being arrived at Rochlitz, took there several convoys of sick and wounded, some baggage, anti made some prisoners ; upwards of 1200 cart iages with wounded had passed by this route., The King Of Prussia and the Emperor Alexander I had slept at Rochlitz. An Adjutant, sub-officer of the 1701 provisional, who bad been made prisoner in the battle of the 2d, made his escape, and gave infor :nation that the enemy had sustained great losses, and was retiring in the utmost disorder ; that during the battle the Russians and Prussians kept their co lours in reserve, which was the cause why we could not take any of them ; that they have taken 102 pri soners from us, among whom are four officers ; that these prisoners were conducted to the rear, under the guard of the detachment which had charge of the colour, ; that the Prussians treated their prisoners very ill ; that two prisoners, not being able to walk, through extreme fatigue, they ran them through the body with their swords ; that the astonishment of the Russians and Prussians at having found such a nu /perms army, and so well disciplined and supplied with every thing, was extreme ; drat there existed a misunderstanding between them, and that they mu tually accused each other as being the'cause of their losses. General Count Lauriston has out himself in march from Wurtzen, on the high road to Dresden. The Prince of Moskwa has marched towards the Elbe, to raise the blockade of General Thielman, who commands at Torgau, take his position at that point, and raise the blockade of Wittenberg. It ap pears that this latter place has made a fine defence, and repulsed several attacks, which have cost the enemy very dear. The Prussians state that the Em peror Alexander, finding the battle lost rode through ' the Rossiari line to animate the soldiers, by exclaim. . ing,, Courage ; Gon is with usl" They add, that .the Puissian General Blucher is wounded, and that ther.: were five other Prussian Generals of Division or Brigade either killed or weandtAl. • PARIS, MAY 10. Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has received the following intelligence of the situation of the armies on the evenit.g of the sth : The Empe ror's , Head-quarters were at Colditz, those of the Viceroy at Horta, those of the Duke of Ragusa be hind Colditz, General Lauriston at Wurtzeti, of the Prince of Moskwa at Leipsie, those of the Duke of Reggio at Altenburg, and of General Bertrand at Rechlitz. The Viceroy arrived before Colditz on the sth, at nine o'clock in the morning. The bridge was cut, and some columns of infantry and cavalry, with artillery, Opposed our Tassage. The Viceroy, with his division, marched towards a ford, which is on the left, passed the river, and gained the village of Kornulian, where he cansed a battery of 20 pieces of artillery to be placed ; the enemy then evacuated the town of Colditz in the greatest disorder, and in defiling- were exposed to the fire of our 20 pieces of artillery. The Viceroy pursued the enemy with vigour, it was - the remainder of the Prussian army, about 20 or f. 35,000 men strong, which took their direction partly to Lassing, and partly to Gorsdorff. Having arrived at Gorsdorff, the Russian troops passed across a reserve which occupied this pesition, it was the Russian corps of Mileradowitch, composed of two divisions, amounting to nearly 8000 men un der arms. The Russian regiments, consisting of only two battalions of four companies each, and the com panies not consisting of more than 150 men, but having at present no more than 100 men each under arms, which does not amount to more than 7 or 800 men per regiment, these two divisions of Milerado witch had arrived at the moment the battle was finished, and could not take any part in it. immediately on the 36th division having rejoined the 3.5 th, the Viceroy gave orders to the Duke ofl Tarenturn w form the two divisions in three columns, and drive the enemy from his positions. The attack was brisk ; our brave fellows precipitated themselves on the Russians, penetrated and drove them . towards Harta. 1n -this engagement we had sor 600 woun ded, and took 1000 piiscners. The enemy lost 2000, men on this day. BOXING.—A pitched battle was fought on Wed nesday, op Oakley-green, near Colebrook, for 20 guineas. between G. Schooley and J. Haans. They Tught 47 rounds, under the disadvantage of a broken one each angi the' haute was drawn, after an hour and 17 mukutes hard lighting, and the stake divided between the champions. _ . THE FAVE,NING STAR LONDON. SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1813; PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY !►T ONE O'CLOCK: Rod. 59I—Cons. 5131 59—for sec. 581 59-4 per Ct. 720 5' per Cent. 81 88—Bonds Is. es. d4.—Eseh. Bills Is. 65. pre. It is confirmed, by the arrival of Paris Papers to the 12th instant, that a battle did take place at Lut zen on the 2d, between the French and the Allies.— The enemy claims the victory, and so far as remain ing masters of the field of battle indicates superiority, their claim must be admitted; but when all the facts shall come to be known, we are confidenethat it will appear that the force of the Allies remains unbroken, and that the enemy has gained no solid advantage by the battle. It would appear that the contending armies were concentratf:d for the conflict on the Ist inst. and that the battle lasted for two days. The Emperor of RUSSIA and the King of PRUSSIA retired with their forces towards Dresden, where they will probably take a defensive position behind the Elbe. In fact, we believe that it was not expected by mi litary men, that the Allies would attempt to maintain their positions on this side of the Elbe, the French (though they affirm the rontrary) being superior in numbers, owing to the numerous garrisons left by the former in their own rear ; but the circumstances of the Allies will be improved, while those of the , enemy will'be deteriorated in the same proportion, by the approach of the Russians and Prussians to' their own supplies and reinforcements. That the enemy have gained no very decided benefit by the present conflict, appears from this circum stance :—Three days after the battle the enemy had ' only been able to push their advance about thirty miles towards Dresden, from which they were still fifty miles distant. This confirms what we stated two days ago—gnat they are extremely deficient in cavalry ; indeed, the French Reporter repeatedly admits that they were greatly inferior in this im portant species of force ; and though he boasts that with their infantry, as in Egypt, they will do all that is necessary, time will strew that the force of the Allies is of a first-rate quality. We will not occupy the time of our Readers in repeating statements of the enemy ; but one circum stance deserves particular notice. They state their own loss at 10,000 men, and estimate that of the Allies at '25 or 30,000 men. The loss which they admit is exactly what they stated themselves to have lost in the famous battle of Moskwa ; but it was fully ascertained, afterwards, that their loss on thit'occa sion was not less than 40,000. In other words : multiply the admitted loss of the French on any oc casion by four and you will make a near approxima tion to the truth. The conflict appears to have been dreadful, and the victory r.f the enemy, if it shall appear to have been la real victory, has cost them so dear, that a few such victories would annihilate their army. NAPOLEON had every thing at stake, and even firm the French accounts we are inclined to believe that in this battle he has learnt a lesson which will make him respect the prowess of his opponents and act with much cir ' cumspection. He was himself with the centre of his army, which at t l :e commencement occupied the vil lage of Kaia—which was taken and retaken several times—the French centre gave way, " and some bat talions fied." Here every thing was at stake—Moe. Mit was ordered to bring every succour to that point : 16 battalions of the young guard and 80 pieces of artillery, with other forces, turned the tide of victory, and extricated the Emperor from the peril with which he was threatened.—Such, by the enemy's statement, appears to have been the real state of the contest ; and the principal matter of exultation to NAPOLEON, his own escape from the imminent danger with which he was per sonally threatened on that memorable day. There is therefore no cause for despondency from the de. tails before us : on the contrary, the whole narrative proves to us that NAPOLEON is sick of the contest. He talks now of " the field of battle presenting the most affecting spectacle !" and remarks, that " Eu rope would at length be at peace, if the Sovereigns and the Ministers who direct their Cabinets could have been present on the field of battle !"—Hypo crite ! What Sovereign—what Ministers, poured the armies of France and Germany upon the soil of Russia, only a few months ago ?—You, yourself, sought the war—you have sacrificed already between four and five hundred thousand men ! You feel the impossiblity of bringing forward a third army if you fail in the present campaign—and now you begin to sympathise with suffering humanity ! The House of Commons last night went into a Committee on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, pro forma,vhen the consideration of the clauses was de. terred till Monday.—Mr. W. FITZGERALD brought forward the Irish Budget. The Loan, it will be seen, 1 has obtained on very favourable terms. 'Tie slyw tales are to consist of an increase of the Custom 1)u -ties to the amount of 25 per cent. an advance on the duties on Windows, Male-servants, Carriages, Horses, and French Wines. It is stated in a Dublin Paper, that a great propor tion of the signatures to the Petition presented to the House of Comm Ons, by the Lord Mayor of DUblin, have turned out 'forgeries ; and that a Committee is to be appointed to consider of the best means of in vestigating them ) and of submitting the subject to Parliament. REPORTED.ARMISTICE WITH AMERICA. 'The JAVA homeward-bound Indiaman, which ar rived yesterday at the Mother Bank, spoke, on the 4th inst. the American brig Packet," bound from New York to Lisbon, the Captain of which informed Capt. DENNISON of the JAVA, that an Armistice for three months had been concluded between this Country and the United States of America. It was signed by Sir JoitN BoaLAsE WAaaaN, on the part of the British Government, on the 9th of April, and a cessation of hostilities immediately took place. The American Captain also stated that between 2 and 300 vessels had left, or were on the eve of leaving New York for Spain and Portugal, with float., when the Packet sailed. Our Readers already know that all reports of American Captains should be received•with a degree of caution. To a certainty, Sir Jons B. WARREN would have instantly dispatched a fast-sailing vessel with the intelligence ; and the probabilities are that we should have had the news #ially before this time. The following is our Correspondent's letter from Portsmouth on the subject : " PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14. ig The JAVA East Indianian, Captain DENNISON, the only missing ship of the Fleet wh;ch passed by yesterday, arrived at the Mother Bank this morning. She parted from them,or rather the fleet parted from her, she being a dull sailer, on the 30th March, in lat. 9.. 30. N. long. 20. West. On the 4th inst. the inv.% spoke the American brig Packet, from New. York bound to Lisbon (with licence), loaded with grain; the Master informed Captain DENNISON, that a cessation of hostilities was signed by Admiral Sir JOIINWAIIREN t for three months, on the 9th of April; and that, in consequence thereof, between two and three hundred sail of ships were loaded and loading with grain for the Army under LordWiu.LiNuroN." Dispatches have been received at Lord CASTLE. REAGII'S Office from Sir HENRY WELLESLEY, the British Ambassador at Cadiz, containing some par ticulars of the victory lately obtained over Marshal SUCIIET I by the troops of the Allies in Valencia. The substance of these dispatches are communicated in the following BULLETIN DowNiNc-sTmr, 14Tn MAT, 1813. " A dispatch has been received this morhing at Lord CAS rte.. 1 REAGII'S Office, from Sir Buser WeLtesLev, dated the :loth ult. in which Sir HENRY W. transmits the copy of a dispatch front General lit.to, dated April 15, from Castalls, communicatirg the details of the different affairs between the Allied and :he French troops on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of that month, or. the ground between C..astalla and Fume la Higuera, which ter minated in the repulse of the French with very consider.ible loss, and their retreat to the last•mentioned place. " 'flit Spanish corps, under Lieutenant-General WitiTTING 11AM, and the 27th Regiment, appear to have had the principal .abare in the action of the 13th. General Etto stltes the loss a the client) , to have exceeded 200 n men in one day. No official account had been teceived at Cadiz of the British loss, but pri ve t te accounts state it to be upwards of .300 in killed and wounded. " Sir H. WXLLESLEY also states, that General MINA had, on the 31st of March, fallen in with a French corps of 1000 men, of which he had made prisoners SO Officers and 635 man; few of the remainder made their escape.—This affair took place in the neighbourhood of Lorca." The Duke of BRUNSWICK has at length embarked for the Continent. His Serene Highness sailed from Harwich yesterday, on board the ROSARTO sloop of war, for Heligoland. MIDDLESEX MEETlNG.—Yesterday, in pursuance of a Requisition to the Sheriff, signed by a number of respectable persons, a Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of Middlesex was held, at the Mer maid, Hackney, for the purpose of considering of a loyal and affectionate Address to her Royal High ness the Princess of %um, upon her fortunate escape from the foul conspiracy against her life and honour. The Address and Resolutions were put and carried almost unanimously—there having been only three dissenting voices, among whom was Mr. MELLISH. AI Resolution was moved, that the Address should be presented by the Sheriff, the two County Members, the Mover and Seconder ; which , after some observa -1 Lions from Mr. MELLISH on the aukward plight he should appear in after the sentiments he had ex pressed, was carried by a great majority.—The Thanks of the Meeting were then voted to the Sheriff; for their impartial conduct in the Chair ; as also to Mr. BYNo; and, on the motion of Mr. HUNT, a Vote of Censure was passed on Mr. MELLISH, for his oppo. sition to the proceedings of the day. The Meeting then broke up. ANOTHER Two THOUSAND The Ticket No. 16,341, a Prize of £2,000, being the largest Capital yet drawn, was shared by WEBB, in one Quarter, one Eighth, and ten Sixteenths, at his truly fortunate Office, 17, Ludgate-street, near St. Paul's. This, it is confidently hoped, is only the precursor of still greater luck that awaits those who have already given WEBB'S Office a preference, or those who, aveillinr, themselves of the present rich state of the Wileci, purchase a Ticket or Share before Tuesday next, being the Second Day of Drawing, when the fiat-drawn Prize above se2o will be entitled to £20,000. Mr. PARRY'S performance, at Drury-lane Theatres on Mr. BRAHAM'S night, was exquisite—he played a most beaUtiful Polacca on the single Flageolet, accom panied by Mr. BRAHADI on the Piano-torte—and in troduced the double Flageolet, with which he quite delighted and astonished the audience. Much cre dit ought to be given to the Makers of this little In strument, BAlsztuDcFandWOODl as well as toPamiy, who'certainly executecipassages in a manner far beyond any thing we had conceived the instrument capable of producing ; tor whilst he played a melody with one hand, he accompanied it with the other, and the effect was beautiful. We were happy to find the audience of our opinion, NAKAL nirrsturase7 EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The EARL FIOWE, APOLLO, aid MARCIiIOPIE:S 0,7 rEv, Ward bound, sailed from the isle of France the 27th Fe: os L., ...won the 7th November, the ships fell in , whit ti..e w hi c h kept company and anchored with them at Bocc;al or, 16th 01 that month. The JuLts Na and DI ANA Were 1 .L:I by ti e b e va E Beau's. The JUL:APIA was loadinz far 2urope, awl the Usat:4 was to go to Bengal. YALMOIiTH. MAY it; Arrived the Princess Elizabeth packet, fruit. bon, 1.1 , ,t (ram Kinsale, where she land,l ter Mil Arrived the Foxtrousn, from a cruize.—Wi:2 \l. fresh breezes. PLYMOUTH, MAY is. Arrived the snow London. Wm. Bacwb from I,isbort,lvith a cargo consisting of wool, ccccz, Madeira wine, &c. bound to London. &led cr, 18th ultimo, and was captured on her passap,e by American letter of marque Beliana, Captain Jet.Ltss, of 14 guns and 56 men, and, after being plundered, was suffered to proceed for her destination. The Eel- lona was from Nanta, out four days, with a very valuable cargo, bound to New York ; and had also captured a vessel from St. Übe's, with a cargo of salt, bound to the Baltic, which was ransomed. The • London fell in with, in the Channel, on the 31 of May, the ActrATEs brig of war, and both of them put into Scilly on the following day.— Arrived the brig Ajar, of and from Aberdeen, Wu. Moo; tv Master, with a cargo consisting of coils, bricks, S-e. bound to St. K;tt's, which vessel was captured on the 31st March, by the Arne:icon privateer General Tomkins, of 18 guns, 2f•pounders, and 110 men, and retaken on the 9th April, 170 miles to the west ward of the Azores, by the REVOLUTIONNAIRE fri gate.—,The schooner Equity, belonging to this per:, Inwtx Master, that was recaptUred some days sine:, in her passage from Madeira to London, by the Ito , frigate, arrived here last evening.—Came in the 131 t - TERN sloop of war, from Portsmouth.—Sailed MAosIl•;ccNT and CLARENCE men of wa'r on a cruii-. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14. Arrived his,Majelty's ship Echo, from the Down , ; SAv.vo:, from a cruize; and the Java East Indiaman, from India. The SAvAcr; is appointed to tale cor • voy for the Downs, and the IstoNsTAuT gives in. structionn for the liniz'.ls.—Wor.l. S.W. Wit., MAY 13. Arrived the !CU Fit armed cutter, with a convoy from Exmouth, which have sailed for the River; alss his Majesty's ship PHIMItOSZ, with a fleet cf trans. ports irom Portsmouth; which have sailed for River. Came down from the River, the Emma, fo: the Isle of France, and the Hope, for thz Cape.— Passed through the Downs, a Russian fr;gl:e, hem the River for Portsmouth. DEAL, MAY :4 . Arrived his Majesty's ships St:t Fa.. \,::: DUCE and HoitATio, with the Indienet. : the latter are s tiled for the River. Arrived the PROTECTOR gon brig, and ETIIAT,ION, 110 M Portsmouth ; the former with a convoy. Came down and remain, fire sallof Russian men of war. , SHEERNESS, MAY 14. The extra convoy for Heligoland sailed this day. under protection of his Majesty's ship STARLING — Wind S. W. fresh breezes. l HARWICH, MAY 14. Sailed the Rosanto sloop of war, having on board his Serene Highness the Doke of Bausswicx and suite for Cuxhaven. COVE OF CORK, MAY 10. The Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar convoys, are to sail about the 20th instant, under his Majesty's ships JALOUSE, Captain Lows, and CASTILIAN, Captain BRAIMER. Another convoy is assembling for North America.—The Lady Betsey, of Limerick, with pro. visions, R. JoNes master, the '2Bth ult. on her passage from thence for this port, to join convoy for London. about eight o'clock that morning, it blowing a gale, i perceived a schoimer standing in for the harbour, with I a view to cut them off ; they shortly after discovered her to be an American privateer, she being then oil Pcor Head, they could easily see her guns, &c. How ever, on perceiving that the Lady Betsey sailed well, 1 and no chance of capturing her, being then close to the Harbour Rock, she put down her helm and stooJ i away to the southward. Tuesday last the Thetis schooner,letter of marque, belonging to Volkestone, JOHN LADD,Carsin, passed that port for the Downs, with her prize the Amen can brig Governor Clinton, captured at the entr4oc: of the 13ay of Biscay, after a chase of six howl.—• She was bound from Charlestown to Bourdeaux, lade^. with cotton, a great quantity of which she threv: overboard during the chase ; and by her super : .o: sailing had just escaped frem nn English gun•brif:, which, previously to the Thetis getting sight of b.'. had chased her for l'2 Wednesday morning last, about a quarter r' cnc o'clock, the roof of the chapel at Sydenham, Kent, fell in with a tremendous crash. The dis.t , ::. is supposed to be occasioned by the dry rot; pv`• dentially no person was hurt. —_' - ------ --- PINE OF l. OALs—COAL MARKET, MAY 14. Ships at Market Su l 4 I)rseess 57, 4 " tt Newcastle V 63 5. o d . zo 1 Sunderland 1 4Bs. 81 to Ock E. ! HIGH WATER AC LOW/ON Minna TO-DA0 1111(". 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