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GO7TENBURGH 41.41 L.• EXTRACT Or AN OPTICIAL LETTER FROM TRECEN BRIETZEN, OP SEPT. S. a ' The enemy has this morning been attacked and .driven out of the pt'sition-he occupied, and as it ap- pears has thrown himself into Wittenberg.. We are as yet unini,:rined of the details of this affa;r. The town of Zahne has been burnt down. The Crown Prii ce has fixed his headquarters at Rideke, a town sii uatrd near Niemeckb, and two German miles from Treuenbrietzen." • WARSAW, AUGUST f. , 8. . Hit Excellency -General Baron Bennigsen, Com mander in thief of the Russian Army, denominated the Army 'of Poland, has issued an Order of the Day Lathe said Army, to the following effect : ORDER OF THE DAY. " Soldiers 61 the Army of Poland !—The Armis tice is at an end, and you are again to march against the enemy. New laurels call you to the field of ho ne+ on a foreign soil, and Europe again impatiently experts your most powerful exertions, that she may then with justice call yott• the creators of,the world's repose. This ished-lor epoch is not far distant, and GOD, the Protector of -the Russian arms, evidently supports the champions of the good cause, and gives the insolent and untameable enemy a prize to the vengeance of their swords. 6 4 The French army now consists only of the re mains of the remnant that fled, and which, as wit nesses of the destruction of the innumerable heaps of those killed in Russia, can only serve to carry terror into their own homes, and to inform France how detrinietaal for her, in the war against the Russians in their own country, and how contrary it is to her interest. " Powers that were in alliance with our enemy, discovered how vastly detrimental alliance was to them, and save accordingly forsaken it. Even Aus taia now combats in conjunction with us :—another victory, and the baleful influence of this proud and haughty Foe will be annihilated. " You, old warriors! your courage, so often tried -,--your attachment to religion, the love for our Mo. narcl}. .and our native country, which you have so often sealed with your blood, leave me no occasion to exhort you to new exertions ; and I have no doubt that every step you take, will lead forward to glory. Never will you fsrget what you qwe to your country, and what it has a right to expect from you. " And you, p.ting warriors ! called upon from the bosom of your happy native country, to fellow the same course, prove, by your actions, that you are worthy of bearing the name cf Russians. The first lesson of beating the enemy was learnt • by yi u last sear hi your own homes, and at the.side of all that was dear to you ; before you w.erc ac quainted with what it is to be a soldier, you already performed. his duties and, placed in the ranks of the defenders of 'our country, your blood flowed in streams. 46 I rejoice, in the army which I have the honour to command, to loci warriors who have taught• un der my command in tie last war against • France, which will for ever be Memorable in the annals of the wars .f Russia, and which then put our country iu security against the inroads of the enemy. . .66 The happiness which falls to my lot of being -• still amongst you, assures me of fresh victories. The world ha's learnt what the Rtissian can perfortn on his native soil ;—but may it again learn how unani mously he acts with his allies, aqd with what enthu. siasm he endeavours, before any thin else, to deserve the name of a true warrior ! (Signed) “ The General and ComMander in Chief of the Army of Poland, . • 66 Baron Bioisicaum." BRESLAU, SEPTEMBER 4. The army of Silesia has performed the hard duty !Matted td it with constancy and sacrifices. It has never lost sight of the enemy, and been continually engaged with him. In the spice of eight days it has had eight bloody engagements, without counting the lesser skirmishes, and given a decisive battle—and since that battle, three engagements of consequence. In the whole history of war, there appears no such period of activity as from the 18th to the 29th of Au gust. Honour to this brave army ! The Prussian and Russian corps under tile com mand of the General of Cavalry Von Blucher, have taken in the whole 103 pieces of artillery, 18,000 pri soners, and at least 15U ammunition waggons limn the enemy. WISNIAR, SLPI'. 2, As the enemy's tioops, in die night between the 31st ultimo And die lst instant, pressed forward against this place with a suited r fnice, our yagers and &hill's hussars quitted it, and fcll back half a Gehrtian mile on this side Wismar, by which oppor tunity we caused the enemy a considerable loss. On Our side we had only one yager slightly wounded. ROS 1 OCK, sgPT. 3. Vegesack's division was yesterday still at Claus dorf, Neudukow, and Croplin : the head-quartets were at geubukow. Some skirmishes of little conse quence took place, %%hid) o-r sharpshooters an noyed the en. Any wry much. Eight hundred iian, seatics who pissed through ber e e yesterday have has tened to join Vegosick's corps. According to an ordinance issued on the I.'9th ult. the Duke v. til put himself at the head of the levy en masse. The HerecEtary Prince is at present occu pied in the org n:zation of it. How much the French take care to procure spies in eve: y co-no y they occupy, we had sufficient proof within ahr.ut eight days, daring which time almost daily come rif these fellows, who certainly are neces story instruments for warriors, have been brought in. But it is a melancholy observation, that almost all these spies are established Jews, to whom our Prince not lung since ha* grantcd the privileges of citizen- , sbip. Just when clos;ng this article, we have mei. ved here cerain intelligence that the French• have left Schwerin without noise, and retired towards Zarnburgh. They have likewise left Wismar. May all our German brethren soon hare to give 41 similar information! . VIENNA, AUGUST' N. . Accordingto accutiots received from the Corn• mand tai :eneral.Bareo Hillier, the army has already al) r 404* -very consider able advantages over 'the enemy, and indeed to tech extent that we are in possession of Rastadt, Lienz, Villach, and Carlstadt; and that on the same day, the 26th instant, the van ruard of Lieutenant Field Marshal Radeosjevich will enter Fiume. Twenty pieces of iron cannon fell into the hands of Field Marshal Baron Fremont, at Villach. The enemy's position is at Tarvis and Laybach. The statements conclude with mentioning, that on the 28th the French border battalion of Szluiner de serted to us, with all its officers, and completely ar med, and en the same day took the oath of allegi ance, with military solemnity, to his Imperial Aus trian Majesty ; and finally, that the Imperial troops, on penetrating into Illyria, every where found the people ready to serve under the Austrian colours, and to join in battle for their former Sovereign. EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY AN OFFICER OP GENERAL VON PUT ELM'S CORPS BEFORE MAGDEBURG. " On the 21st August, at seven in the morning, our advanced posts were attacked by a strong corps which came from Magdeburg, under General Gir ard. This corps, as we were afterwards informed, consisted of the 18th, 19th, and 72d regiments of the line, the 26th light regiment, the 4th and 9th West phalian regiments, one battalion of Illyrians, three battalions of Saxon troops, some battalions of conva lescents from the hospital at Magdeburg, several French 'depot squadrons, and some squadrons of Saxon hussars, making in the whole twelve or thir teen thousand men, with fourteen pieces of artillery, and two howitzers. " We had only five battalions of the militia, one reserve battalion, three weak battalions of the insur rection corps, and three pieces of Russian artillery to oppose to them. 46 The French made their attack on our centre at Old Konigsborn, which consisted of two battalions and one squadron, and had one battalion and our artillery for their reserve. Notwithstanding the im mense disparity of force, our troops long maintained their position with !peat valour. 66 The brave battalion of Von Rembow (the 4th of the first regiment of reserve) particularly distin guished itself, whose tirailleurs, under the command of Captain Von Sacken, on an attack made by the enemy en masse on the bridge at Old Konigsborn, even waded thrOugh the rivulet, and fell with the bayonet on his lett flank. Nevertheless, and notwith standing the good effectsof our littleartillery, one piece of which was dismounted at the commencement of the action, we were, at nine o'clock, obliged to give way before such superior force. 66 We now retreated, continually fighting at every step, through New Konigsborn and Woltersdorff, back to the heights near Korbilitz. We fixed our selves here, to draw to us the three remaining batta lions'of our right and left wings. The latter liad re ceived orders to detach the battalion of Von SChon holz to the support of the centre. This battalion had meanwhile advanced to aerevisch and Buderita, in! the direction of Old Konigsborn, when it,suddenly perceived before it lour or live battalions of the tine in i's infant! y and a large mass of cavalry, the last of which made a motion to fall pn it With the sabre. " But the battalion passed, meanwhile, with the greatest intrepidity quick through st deep vale, re pulsed the enemy's attack, ani joined itself to the second battalion of the right wing. Scarcely had we 'received an intimation of its danger, but the centre ' was formed battalion-ways, and again pushed for ward against Gerviesch and Budcritz, to relieve our right wing. 6 6 The enemy retreated towards Woltersdorff, and we happily accomplished our junction with the two battalions, and the squadron of Erzleben. The latter had, at the very beginning of the battle, pushed for wards against Magdeburg, got into the village of Krakau, in the enemy's rear, and there, within the range cf the fortresses' shot, cut down some of the enemy, and even brought off some prisoners. 66 Meanwhile the enemy again pushed vigorously forward with a very superior force. We therefore continued our retreat on Corbilitz, which village was defended till the corps reached the heights between there and Pizpuhl. From this place we played o n the French colum n with both our pieces of artillery, as it attempted to debouch from the village, and kept it so long in respect, until the superior artillery of the enemy was brought up. 66 We proceeded on our retreat towards Jury, our rear guard, continually fighting ; and as Gen. Von Partiitz had, iu the meanwhile, received orders to earry the corps into the positions of Pleue and Bran denburg, we entered' it on the 22d, and where we had the pleasure of joining the battalion Von Streit, which formed our left wing at Puhan, and had penetrated to the enemy's rear ; but afterwards retreated in the best order by way of Mac kern. " In this manner did our troops, who were almost men that had never before seen an enemy, sustain their first battle, against a force of nearly three times their own, in the most.honourable manner, and m.ide our retreat as if they had been performing their exer cise. We hav e lo st no pr i soners , except i ng a f ew men so severely wounded, that we could not bring theM away, but, on the contrary, have brought some pri soners off with us. 66 Even Count Von Fenkenstein made a charge, with about 36 of his horse, on a squadron of the 13th French Regiment of Hussars, cut a number of them down, and took an officer and ten or twelve men pri. soners. Our loss, notwithstanding the heavy fire, was unproportionably small, as the French fired remark ably bad ;—none of our Officers were killed, and only a few wounded. Scarcely were we arrived at Brandenburg before our troops again found an opportunity of signalizing themselves. In a reconnci , ance which General Von l'utlitz, on the Roth, undertook against Zusar, when C.spt.Von Erxleben, with thirty horse of his squadron, attacked the 3d Voltigeur company of the 26th Light Regiment, which had foamed in square, on a height, broke it, cut down twenty or thirty men, and took the rest prisoners, consisting of two officers and 109 men, with their colours—he himself and six of His men were slightly wounded, and one man severely. The prisoners, as well as their muskets, were safely brought to Brandenburg, notwithstanding the enemy's columns of cavalry being so near at hand. I must de-tie giving the statement of the actions at 13iiiieritz, and Hagelsberg, till my next ktters." . - IMPORTANT commuNc4TIONS FROM THE ELBE.. ALTONA, SEPTEMBER 14. The lons of the French army on the frontiers of Bohemia, on the 29th and 30th of August, is rated at 16,000 men hole: de urvics, besides the loss of/sow:rite Vandamme and several General Officers. Between the 2d and 9th instant, there were daily bloody actions in Lower Lusatia, which cost Napo leon upwards of forty thousand of his troops, and six or eight of his best generals. He was evay where himself, and always compelled to fly. His situation is said to be now neatly desperate. The diffetini corps of his army are daily attacked by superior force, and are generally beaten. Should he concen trate his force, he might be compelled to surrender, or to cut his way through double and triple lines of superior f rce. We hear nothing of Eckmuhl. His remaining battalions are still in the Duchy of Lauenburg, with the wrecks of his Danish auxiliaries between the French and the Allies. SEPT. 16.—We are told to-day that Napoleon hav ing collected a main body of troops between Witten. berg and Berlin, a terrible action was fought at Ju terboch en the 10th, in which the French were de feated with a prodigious loss. It is presumed that the French will soon be obliged to evacuate Saxony, if they can get over the Elbe. The people of Lower Saxony begin ,to entertain some hope of relief. It is said that a corps of 14,000 Prussians have passed the Elbe at Domitz, and threaten Eckmuhl's•line of communication with the Weser. Their light cavalry were seen at Tosteda and between there and Harburg, yesterday. SEPTEMBER 17.—The battle of Juterboch is said to have been the most bloody of the campaign. The loss of the French is stated at 60,000 men hors d: service. Napoleon, they say, ran away with a few of his Guards from Dresden. The Civil Authorities are today come into Har &Kg. It is said that Eckmuhl is gone with four re giments to defend Bremen. Should the retreat of the French troops in Lauenburg and Hamburgh be cut off, it is apprehended they will throw themselves into Rendsburg and Gluckstadt. SEPTEMBER, 18, 8 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.--We are just told that Napoleon, after his being totally de feated near Berlin, fled with his then rethain;ng guards, and some of the wreck of his Grand Amy, together about 1200 men, to Magdeburg. the route to Dresden having been already occupied by his op ponents. If he has got into Magdeburg, we are not yet informed ; or, if he be in, we are not told how he is to get out again. A strong corps of Russian and Prussian troops have occupied Luneburg, and the Hanoverian hank of the Elbe, down to HArburg ; so that the French troops on this side of the Elbe may be considered as being actually cut off from the grande artne:e. The principal Authorities, Civil and Military, in Hamburgh, are at this moment in council, to delibe rate, no clOulkt, if the place is to be defended, or to be evacuated and burnt. In all probability they will de. I fend it as long as they can, and then burn k. COPY OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER DIGIT ON THE STAFF IN GENERAL BLI;CIIEIi's ARMY, DATED " Holstein, near Lowenberg, Aurrst SO. r• Our victory has been far more complete than I imagined when I wrote to you last. The day alter the battle we found in the steep and woody wallies of the rapid Neisse and Katzbach, the guns and tum brils of the enemy. as We have taken more than 100 guns, and 300 ammunition-waggons and field-forges i 15.000 pri soners are already brought in : more arrive every hour. All the roads between the KatzbaCh and the Bober shew the effect of the panic that struck our enemies, dead bodies, overturned vehicles, villages in ashes at every step. Macdonald's army is almost entirely disbanded : their retreat having been cut off by the overflow of the rivers, the fugitives wander about in thi, woods and mountains, and commit ex. cents for want of food. 1 have had the alarm-bells rung, and sent the peasants out to kill or bring them in. Yesterday the division Pacthood was annihilated in this neighbourhood. It was overtaken and forced into action with its rear upon the Bober. After some cannonading, the attack with the bayonet began : one part was killed, the other thrown into the river or taken, Generals, Officers, Eagles, &c. 4" fhe weather is dreadful; it rains incessantly— during the battle we had a hurricane blowing in our faces. The men pass the nights in the open fields, buried in mud, most of them without shoes they pursue the enemy through the overflown country, up to their necks in water, without being able to get any nourishment, as the deserted villages yield none, and carriages cannot bring it tip. 4" lhe greater part of the Landwehr hare rnly linen pantaloons, and are without cloaks; nut army having been augmented from 40,000 to 270, 1 4 X), and the resources of the country beforehand exlviii•,!ed, there was no material nor money to get clothing. The soldier has not even spirits to revive him in these fatiguing marches, because it cannot be had in any quantity ; and, nevertheless, he is content—soffers every possible hardship and privation with rttience, ancLattacks the enemy with firmness and vigour.— Our new levied infantry equa l s t h e o il l es .k s ; the Landwehr emulates :he regulars. 66 I myself have formed 69 battalions and forty squadrons, in Silesia ; of these, .1(i battalions and squadrons are in the field ; the first in the fortresie4. A battalion of the Landwehr attacked the enem% formed in a square, and killed or dispersed him. soon after the same battalion was surrounded by the enemy's cavalry, and called upon to surrender . ; the men attempted to fire, Int finding that their musket% did not go off on account of the rain (only one went off), they to o k to t h e b ayonet , drove the cavalry back, and took two fieldineces. le No infantry in the world can do more. The swollen rivers delayed our lawsuit, as the enemy het thstroyed the bridge.. Twenty thousand men of Macdonald's army, which'consisted of eighty thou. sand, may, therefore, have escaped for the present ut even these will be annihilated, if the orders that have been given can be executed. 4 4 There is a spirited action fighting just now neat Buntzlau ; they are contending for the possession of a bridge. The enemy has set fire to the village of Tillendorf ; and the Russian General Horn has given orders to make no prisoners, but drive them into the flame s . s' The division of Pacthoud wasanniltilated, as mentioned above. Even at this moment dead bodies are drawn out of The river—more than a thousand have hecn drowned. Near Goldsherg another divi sion of the enemy's rear was overtaken, and imme diately attacked—three battalions formed in a square —they were called upon to surrender, but det .rntincd to defend themselves to the last, they were cut down almost to a man by the cavalry. Prisoners are brcwght in from all sides—we have made more than eighteen thousand already, and taken 103 field-pieces, (2.50 powder-waggons, and a num. ber of other carriages. The discomfiture of the enemy has been decisive—we pu rsue hi m as f ast as t h e dread. tul roads and inundated country will let us. Within eight days, (from the 19th to the 26th of August), our army fought eight severe actions (I do nut in. elude trifling ones), in several of which we lost halls four to five thousand killed and wounded ; and we have fought one great battle and three actions since. No army ever made so active a campaign ; at least I do not recollect to have met with one in the history of wars. The great merit of this army, and its exer tions in the good cause, are undeniable. 64 We have now'ascertained, that on the 21st, neat Lowenberg, we had Napoleon's main force and him self against us. We manoeuvred aainst one hundred and forty thousand men ;w e f ought against bins during the whole day, keeping the greatest part of our troops out of action, and retreating slow for about five miles, when we formed again, and halted $ but, Bonaparte, finding that he could not induce us to en. gage in a disadvantageous battle, returned, on th, 23d, towards the Elbe." FRENCH PAPER& PARIS, SEP TEMBER 19. In the Ordinance which his Excellency the Cardi nal Archbishop issued relative to the Ti Desna which is to he sung to-day, his Eminency expresses himself as follows : The piety of our augnst Empress Queen and Regent 4141ces her wish that Religion should, on thi; day, become in our sanctuaries the organ of national gratitude to the ALL-powenrut. and the interpreter Gf the wishes of France, to obtain from Heaven the preservatiln of the Hero who govertis her with to much glory. " This double duty is equally sacred as pleasant for us to perform; never were the tribute of our th inksgivings more legitimate ; never, therefore, could public prayers be performed in our templet with more interest. " The ever-sublime genius of the Emperor was carried to the foreseeing thought of fortifying, during the armistice, the capital of Saxony, in order to make it the bulwark of the Confederation of the Rhine, and the most solid guarantee of his victories. The fat* of Germany depended upon this great miltary mea sure, which, by reducing our enemies to the defen sive, transported into their own States all the scourges of war. In effect, scarcely had they reCommenced hostilities when they hastened to assemble all their force to carry the city of Dresden by assault, the full importance of which they knew. Thanks should be returned OD Dtv.usx PROVIDENCB for it 44 An army of 20u,000 men, commanded by three S ►vereigns,• immediately give, by their defeats, a brilliant homage to the Protector of that new rampart which shuts from the enemies of France the territory of our Allies. 66 During the two entire days of our triumphs, all aggression was gloriously repulsed before that same strong place, and which the great man who had just created it, reserved to himself the defence. 66 We have no occasion to rettace the picture of those victories ; an official report has developed to you all the advantages of them. 66 Thirty thousand prisoners, 40 stand of colours, 60 pieces of cannon, and a loss of nearly 60,00 t) men to the enemy's army are the results of it. Such are the memorable blessings of the ALL-POWERFUL, which at this moment demands the gratitude of the people at the foot of our altars." FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER 14. - - _ - - The Duke of Valmy had a grand review to-day. RASTADT, SEPTEMBER 13. . The last intelligence from Leipsic and Dresden, received at Frankton, confirms the suesess which the Prince of Moskwa gained in the neighbourhood of Juterboch. We expect the details of it. The Mar. that had taken the offensive against the coalesced army opposed to him. VIENNA, SEPTEMBER S. They write from Toplitz, under date of the 1. 7 J, that the preceding evening their Majesties the Emiir. rots of Austria and Russia, and the King of Frusi , :, had joined in the camp near that town. Star. 7.—One of our rapers states, that Genera! Vandamme passed, on the ;.;;Ist August, a six in the evening, through Latin. tinder a Russian escort.-- They ate conveying him to the interior of Russia. Lord Aberdeen, Engl.sh Minister to bur Court. 'arrived on the 2d at tile head-quarters in Top 'rhe Court Gazette an: -titres thar, in the :hairs which took Alice on the and ;'?di, under the - -vans of Dresden, that we .s.• to regret tJa 1. ss of he biave General A ildr.o:iy, and of the Russian :erteral The General of Artillery Count 'uilay, and Generals Mariassy and Frienberger, of ne artillery, are wounded. Genet - 41s Mei•co aut 4 zeczen are missing, f It 7 le id of u• at ar of of as m