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h the 4a g e ' but the enem?sreieries st av i ng adtraneea to cover the head-gdarters, Prince Moskwa was erivcri b.ck, And lost the village of Preeletz. The Duke of Dalmatia began to debouch an hour afternoon' The enemy, who coknprehended all the deger with which he was threatened by the direction t h e latter had taken, knew that the only ratans of ad caetageousli supporting the battle against the Prince o ctlaskwa was to prevent us from debouching. He endeavoured to oppose the Duke of Dalmatia's at tack. The motnent for deciding the battle had then strived. The Emperor by a movement to the lefts at twenty minutes marched with the guards, General Laren r Maubourg's tour divisions, and a great quan -6:4 of artillery, upon the right flank of the enemy's post ion, which had become the centre of the Russian army'. Mtirand's and the Wirtemberg division car ric.: the rising ground, which the enemy had made tisp;int d'amui. General Devaux established a bat tery, the fire of which he directed upon the masses whic!i attempted to take the position. Generals Du lattioy and Dronot, with sixty pieces of reserve, ad eanced ; lastly, the Duke of Treviso, with the divi. sirens Dumoutier and Barrois of the young guards took fie road to the ;nn of Klein-Baschovitz, crossing t he mad from Wurtchen to Bautzen. The enemy was obliged to uncover his right to prepare for this new, attack. The Prince of Moskwa took adVantage of it, by advancing in front. He took the village of Presig, and having come up with tl:e enemy's army, marched on to Wurtched. It was at three o'clock in the afternoon, and whilst the army was in the greatest incertitude of success, that a heavy firing was beard along a line of three leagues, and announced to the Emperor that the battle was won. The enemy, finding that his right wing 'vim turned, began to retreat, and this retreat soon became a flight. At seven o'clock in the evening, the Prince of Yoskwa aed General Lauriston arrived at Wurtchen. 'Lie Duke of Ragusa then received orders'to make ay. inverse movement to that which the guards had mide, occupied all the intrenched villages; and all t.' - ‘c redoubts, which the enemy were ofliged to eva (slate, advanced in the direction of Hochkerch, and this took the enemy's left in flank, which then fell :n unavoidable route. The Duke of Tarente, en I,is side, briskly pushed the lett wing, and did it ecnsclerable mischief. The Emperor slept on the road in the midst of his guards, at the Inn of Little Bdcehurtz. Then the enemy, being forced from all his positions, left the field of battle in cur power, covered with his dead ark wounded, and several thousand's of prisoners.— On tl'e 22d, at 4 o'clock in the morning, the French army put itself in motion. The enemy had filed the whole night by all the roads, and in every direction. We had not found his first posts until past Weissen. trg ; he did not offer to make any resistance until had gained the heights in the rear of Kerckenbac k. The enemy had not yet seen our cavalry. General Lefebvre Desnouelles, at the head of 1500 horse of tie Polish lancers, and the red lancers of the guards, charged and overthrew the enemy's cavalry in the plain of Reitenbach. The enemy, believing that these were alone, caused a division of their cavalry to advance, and several divisions were successively tegAged. General Latour Matibourg, with his 14,000 horse, and the French and Saxon cuirassiers, arrived to ther assistance, and several charges of cavalry took place. The enemy, quite astonished to find 15 or 16,000 cavalry before him, whilst be believed us tnsupplied with any, retired in disorder. Tile old lancers of the guards are, fcr a great part, composed of the volunteers of Paris and its neigh bourhcod. General Lefebvre Dcsnouelles, and Ge neral Colbert, their Cnlonel, bestows the greatest eu /-giunis in them. In this affair of cavalry Gener.tl .r.iyere, of the light cavalry, and an Officer of the fighest distinction, lad his kg carried off by a cannon Getter d Regnier, Wi at the Saxon corps, gained ^c heights i:. hind eitenbach, and pursued the enemy ;.s far as !:le village of Hoven - idol - I. Night overtook . .Is. at a league front Goez litz. Although the day had extremely lorry, .ve finding ourselves now at the dH.:lce (.1 eight le;T ues frrm the field of battle, and taat the troops lad undergone so nit;ch fatigue, the Trench army was to have slept at Goeilitz, but the enetny having placed a corps of their rear guard on rile heights front, and as it would have required half an hour more daylight to turn his left, the Em peror or:lered'the airily to take a postien. In the bat tle of the 2.J111 and f,!!-r, the Wirtemberg General Fratc:netonout, and General Doreaaz, were wounded: CY.Ir loss on thttse days may be estimated at 11 or 12 CP-Its:lnd men, killed and wounded. is! 7 o'clock in the evening of the day of the na, !!:f: Great Nlai.shal Duke de Flinn!, being on a small eni;-euce akn g with the Duke de Treviso and Gene ral all three v:ith their feet on the ground, aild at a suifizient distance from the fire, °he of the list bails fired by the enemy struck down close to the Duke of Treviso, tore the lower part of the Great 11 "shal, and killed General Kirgener on the spot. The Duke de Frioul immediately felt that he was nort,,:ly wounded, and expired twelve hours after. As s , ,on as the posts were placed, and that the army z:.ken its hivonaque, the km peror went to see Duke of Frioul. He found him perfectly master of himself, and spewing the greatest fang froid. The Duke offered his hand to the Emperor, who pressed it to his 45.—" My whole life (said be to him) has been consecrated to your service, for do I regret its LONDON. THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1313. PRICF. OF STOCKS 'MN BAY AT OW (''LOCK: Red. 51 517 H—Cons. 68 5711-6rr arc. 5141 57n• 4 per Ct. 71;-5 per Cent. shut—liorlds ss. 7s. ohs. Exch. thll us. -Is. pr.--Bank Long .n11:111101 14 7-16ths At kngth we have received the French official tie. ttils of the bsittics of the 20th and 21st t!lt. The first was fought at Bautzen, and the second, which was the most sanguinary, took place at Wurtzen, the place at which General Sir CHARLES STEWART'S last dispatches were dated. The Paris Papers, which detail these important events, come down to the, `fist ult. The fighting began on the 19th. Throughout that day the Allies had the advantage in every direction. A whole division, under General PER/N, seems to have fallen a sacrifice to what BONAPARTE calls " bad dispositions." They were assailed by a " Hurrah!" In other words, the Cossacks fell upon them and be laboured them so unmercifully, that they lost 600 men in au instant. There is magic in this word Hurrah—kng may its repetition delight our ears I The Contractors for the Loan waited upon the CItANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER this morning, the Minister said he should want 27 millions for the en suing year. The Contractors to take 8110 Red. ; Cons.—The bidding to he on the 9th inst. in Lnng Annuities. First payment, 12th June ; last ditto, 10th Feb. 181+. He stated also that he should want a Vote of Credit for 6 millions, and that he would not pledge himself that he might not want more before the last payment. Every one will recollect thst a week or two ago Monsieur the Count D'Aarors left this country and sailed for Heligoland. Shortly after the Count's ar. rival in that Island, he addressed a letter to the King of DENMARK, requesting his Majesty's permission to pass through the Danish territories on his way to the head•quarters of the Allied Armies. This request, after an unnecessary delay in answering the letter, WAS sternly refused, with only the dry observation, that it could not be complied with, is Denmark was now at was with Great Britain. L. lELIGOLAND MAILS: •••=l,••=mo.:mai Mails froth Heligoland have thrived this morning, and btaught Haraburgh Papers to the Soth, which contain some account of the operations on the 10th. It is no longer a matter of doubt, that Denmark continues her alliance with France, as the following article will prove : " COPENHAGEN, MAY is. " This days State Gazes contains the following article :—The earnest endeavours of the King to di minis!: the difficulties which his faithful subjects suf fer by the interruption of the communication between the ttvo Kingdoms, have been fruitless. Count Be: n storff, who had been sent to London with proposals for Peace, has been S2nt away by the English Govern merit without being heard : he was given to under stand that the conditions of Peace must be agreed to in another place than London, ar.d under Swedish participation ; the claims of Sweden being made the basis. It is sufficiently known these claims are con tr :ry to the securi.y of the State and the maintenance of the union betwe n the two Kingdoms—the war must therefore continue. liis Majesty relies with confidi nee on the ind p ndance and spira of his faith. ful atal his and our just cause."—A'Ama Mercury, May 25. MAY 20. " Yesterday some battalions Of Russians andAteck leeeburgliers arrive:A here, to rephice the Swcdleeia troop, who have taken' a position near Dergedirf. The works on our walls are almost finished. It ap pears to be the. intention . of Tettenlorn to make Hamburgh a place of area,. It aria so .:en be in a condition to make a most tfrzctual tcsistance in case of an attack. " The French at Williamsburg have'suffered much by the wetness of the weath:r, ,and a part of the island has been overflowed by the late high tide ; and it is to be presumed that the French will be obliged to desist from their design against Islamburgh, as the Water is certainly not their favourite element. " The Ci;rtyrfroadent of tit? 29th of May, states the whale number of Swedish troops in Pomerania, Mecklenburg, and the Elk, at (21,0p0 men. " The artillery, consisting of from seventy-Eve to ninety pieces, is landed ; and the head.rpiatters of the Crown Prince were expected to be, on the tli)th, at Wittenberg, at which place the whole Swedish force is to be collected." A le ter dated from Weinenburg, (between Baut zen and Gorletz), nt 1811 May, says:—" The Im perial Minister, Count STADION arrived here a few days ago, aid had audiences of their Imperial Rus sian and Royal Prussian M jesties, and conferences are continually held between him and the Ministers, at Head-quartvrs."—(torrvrponderri o May 23.) PRIVATE LEnta. " HAMBURGH, MAY 21. " Since my last we have passed a ve•y uneasy time. The Danes, whose presence probably pre- served us from further attempts of the enemy, left us on Wednesday evening, w.thout any one's being able to assito the cause or even to guess at it. Re. ports to this effect had been circulated the whole day, but were uniformly declared unfounded by the Danes themselves, and their having just received provisions for three days, seemed to be a pledge of their stay. " In the events;, however, M. Von Hess, Colonel of the Burgher Guard, acquainted them by a printed notice, th3t ' the Danes withdrew their assistance, which had been given from the purest motives, but that if this should Create uneasiness, it could be at. firmed with certainty, seven battalions of Swedes would arrive on the '2oth, in the evenin". That we, therefore, had only the small praise left of defending our city alone in conjunction with our first deliverers, for about Y 4 hours.' In the evening of the 19th we fired a few shot, Which visibly damaged the entrench. ments of the enemy. 66 At one in the morning a brisk cannonade was commenced on our side, which was answered by French with a shower of grenaies and a few :24- pound shot, of which last only one readied the city. 'lle French threw some hundred grenades, many of which came pretty far into the city, but not a single one occasioned fire to break out. On the Grasshr ock (the large meadow on the Eller, without the walls, where Our chief batteries lie) one burgher was killed and three or four wounded, which was all the damage occasioned by this attack. The French did not make any attempt to land, as was expected : probably they only sought to damage the city, or were in hopes of setting fire to it in several places, and then attempting to land. About four, the French firing totally ceased; partly because their batteries were dismounted, as :re could well see ; anl partly, as we presume, from want of powder, in which they are in all probability much deficient; for, within a few days, peasant wo men have been detected smuggling out powder under their clothes; and last night, as is asserted and I be lieve on good foundation, a vessel was surprised on the Elbe by our people, with barrels of powder des tined for the enemy. It came, it seems, from Altona, but the senders are not yet found out. 66 Thursday was a day of terrible confusion : the people, who found they mere in reach of the French batteries, hurried to send away their effects from their houses and warehouses." " HELIGOLAND, MAY 29. ge We have a report (which it is Loped may prove unfounded) in circulation here, that on the 26th the Swedes left Hamburgh in a considerable hurry.". I. OF THE BATTLES the' to I erir .r fte! the cant o f !ti ends t ack g ri% in tv Lz( pos . :l arm tisp t er) whi( lauii sine tOc the prer took took tl:e at tl was firin ann 'lb tIPO: lositia for tie be It Might havelein of to you cg DtitOC 1 (replied the Emperbr) there it a life to come] it is there you are going to wait for me, and , where s ihall one day meet again !" go Yes, Sire but 'hit *ill not be yet these thirty years, when you will have tfilasiitphed over your enemies, and realized all the hopes of our country. I have lived an honest man ; I have nothing to reproach myself with ;—I leave a daughtei behind me, your Majesty will fill the place of a father to her." The Emperor, gras ping the right hand of the great Marshal, remained for a quarter-of an bier with his head reclined on his right band, in deep silence. The great Marshal was the first who broke this silence. Ah ! Sire, (cried he) go away, the sight gives you pain." The Em peror, suppi rting himself on the Duke of DalmWa and the Great Master of the Horse, quitted the Duke of without being able td Say any more than these words—"" Farewell, then, my friend !" His Majesty returned to his tent, nor would he receive any person the whole of that night. On the 23d, at nine o'clock in the morning, General Regnier entered Goerlitz ; bridges wei-e thrown 0— r the Neise, and the army crossed that river. On the 23d, in the evening, the Duke of Be!lona was ni a. Botzenburg. Count Lauriston had his head quarters at Hochkvich ; Count Regnier before Trotskentrf, on the road to Laubau, and Count Bertrand in the rear of the same village; the Duke of Tarento at Cc hoenburgh, and the Emperir was at Goerlitz. A flag of truce sent by the enemy, brought several letters, from which it is believed that he vviss to negotiate for an armistiee. The enemy's army has _retired by the road of Banzlau and Laubau into Si lesia. All Saxony is delivered from her enemies, and by to-morrow, the 24th, the French army will be in Silesia. The enemy has burnt a great quantity of his baggage, blown up a number of parks, and dkri , buted through the villages a great many woundel Those whom he was able to take away in carriages had not their wounds dressed; the inhabitants state that number at upwards of 18,000, and more than 10,000 remain in our power. The town of Gaulitz, which contains 8 or 10,000 inhabitants, has received the French as their liberators. The city of Dresden and the Saxon Ministry have shewn the greatest acti vity in providing for the army, which has never had a greater abundance of every thing. Although great quantities of ammunition have been consumed, yet the workmen of 'rorgau and Dresden, and the coo eoy. which arrive, through the attention of General Sorburs, keep our artillery well provided. We have received intelligence from Glogau, Custrin, and Stet tin. ,All these places. are in good condition. This recital of the battle of Wurtchen can only be consi dered as a sketch. The General Etat-Major will collect the reports, which will point out such officers, soldiers, and corps, as have distinguished themselves. In the small cQm bat of the £2,1, at Rietenlach, we ascertained that our young cavalry is superior to that of the enemy, in equal numbers. We could not take any colours, as the enemy always carries them off the field of battle. We have only taken nineteen cannon, the enemy having blown up his parks and caissons ; and besides, the Emperor keeps his cavalry in reserve ; till it is of sufficient numbers, he wishes to spare it.— llioniteur, May 30. THE EVENING STAR OF THE 20TH AND 21ST. just as are were goitig to. Press, we rfteiied 1)4 Prussian detail*. 'they fully bear ts out in out opi nion; that the Allies have experienced nothing like a defeat: " LEMAN, MAY tS. " The following Letter, from an eye-witness of the battle of the 20th and 21st instant, bas been of& cially imparted to us : " On the 20th, at noon, the enemy attacked the . combined army in its position at B. utzen ; but his efforts, although they were directed against single points, and with a great superiotity of [nice, vier,: of oo efLct ; and the united army remained in th.ir sition during the night from the 20th to the '2 tit.— On that day, at four A. M. the battle commenced en our left wing with great spirit. B•it t!ie attack aia , :e by the enemy on this side, as it ...tier wards a:speared, was merely a feint. General ltidoradoritsch, notkr whom a General commanded the light trocps, had the command of the wing, undtr the Duke of Wirtembur:;h. " Some whil:! afterwards the battle commenced with still greater impetuosity towart!s the centr:., where the artillery in particular, had great effect, .dl the enemy's attacks were rep:6(A. Cencral Lae. riston's corps now appeared, and endeavoured to sUr. round our right wing, but wi.s de:ained .by General Barclay de Tully, who wts posted at Gottemtlde to o:.,serve tll2 enemy, till General Kiiest's corps, and K'ux and Roeder's brigades fall on the rear of the enemy, and by a close cartridge tire, caused great de struction, and forced him to retreat. But by detaching these briodes, General Von I ?.lacher's position A the heights of Krukwitz was weakened, and the moment was seized by the enemy to attack this corps with a great superiority, betore it could receive any support. General Von Blucher thereafter found himself obliged to fallback to a position a small distance in his rear, in order to jots General Von 'fork, who formed his reserve. Meanwhile, to counteract this disadvantage, our !tit in mend considerably forward, and took some cannon and prisoners from the enemy. The intended purpose was thereby attained; the enemy being deterred from pressing any further on our light wing. Cr 'Night put anietd to this battle, Which had lasted two days and cost the enemy so much blood. The Allied Army drew up again in the greatest order and ready for battle, near Weissenberg, at a small distance from the find of battle. " We have lost neither artillery nor prisoners, ceptihg a few who were severely wounded. On the ethei hand, we have taken both at tiller) , and prisonerstrota the enemy, and many of his cannnon were dismoun. ted. A batali , )n ot Wurtem%urgers, who were to have stormed a battery at Krukwitz, came over to use as likee,ise did a part of the Saxon troops. We cannot state the number of the loss on our side, or that of the ene:ny ; but the enemy has lost in the proportion of three to one more than tis, as the ground, the superiority of our artillery, and the va viur of our troops, gave is the advat.ttge over him In .11 his attacks. " Our reserves of the centre and the left wing, :mono which were rh^ fbwer of the Russian troops .nd their Raillery, did not come into the battle, and heir strength must he reserved for mere important services. Since the report we gave Iron) Wurchan if 18th May (in our last paper but one), we have It. ceived the billowing further intelligence from thence: " On the 18th General Illowaisky aga;n took pri oners another company of the Dutch lancers cf the guards, 91 men stroug, and in a reconnoisance with General Milaradovitch in the afternoon, we took 132 prisoners, and caused the enemy a loss of 106 men in killed and wounied. 4 , Deserters are likewise daily coming in from the enemy, and the loss he suffers by this petty warfare, is very considerable." • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, MAY Ct. Arrived the Nruidsor Castle packet, with a nisi! from St. Tho n.m.'s, in C.' days; and the Hind cotter ft : om a cruize. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 1. Came in the Qyzen CaneL:Erri, of 110 guns, from die Channel Fleet ; and Ana ow slo4 of war, from a cruize: PORTSMOU JUNE 2. Arrived we DraweNT, from a crulze.—SAled the whole of the outwata-bound, tinder Ir respective convoys, viz. INCON. STAN T, for the Braes; FAVGVALT I and ALSICORL, for Africa, Spain, &c.; RINGDOVL and MAJLST:C, for 'Newfoundland and North America; ARDENT and LACLPEMON:AX, fcr Bermuda and the Wcs.t India hands; FALTA , for Lisbon ; Toasoist, DOLPHIN, and AAC NDA NCI store•ship4, for the MtiIatITALCILI ; BLLLONA and EGNIOVT, 01/ a cruiz , ...—Wini S.E. DEAL, JUNE 2. Arrived the TICKLIIR cutter, from t. 5 Flushing. Sailel the RZSOLUTION cutter, for of' ditto.—Wind N.E. BARB \DOES, APRIL 25. Arrived, on the 22d ins:. Ilia Maj sty's ships SCEPTItt, Rata. MAN, and Foetus-reit, from Portsniouth acid Falmouth, in SO days, with a Beet of 85 sail uu,.!er convoy. The Ereaviaa parted with the trade bound to Surinam, &c. All the ships which sallud with the ScePret, have airiv.rd in safety. The brigs Wasp and Cockatrice were seized at Sea hy Ms Majesty's ship Set:l'7l.Z, for having arm. and ammunition on beard Sr Hayti with,,ut het nre, and are detained for adjuillca. tiOrl. A large American pi tvazeer, supposed to be the Anaconda, was HI here the orb inst. and went to the N. W. Tv.o P.M. A &et is I;valizod for , o windward, but the wind is light and waterly and they cannot get &via. WtYMOUTII arcrioN.---;:econd Day's Poll. Lord CRANBOIJAH, SO Mr. UKR, SO Mx. SIUART, 241 Mr.lins, yo J Mr.Wituams,2ll