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U FRANCE. PARIS, OCTOBER a 9. FOURTEENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY• " Data, OR. ss, OLE. " bfarfhal Davout arrived on the :cell at Witten berg. and took by furprifa the bridge on the Elbe, jolt as the enemy were fatting fire to it. " Marital Lanes is arrived at Defgn. The bridge was burnt. He fct people to repair it imme. diately. " The Marquie Lucchefini appeared before the ad. vanced poßs with a letter from the King of Arian. The Emperor fent the Grand Marthal of his Palace, Duroc, to cooler with him. " Magdeburgh is blockaded. The General of Divition, Legrand, in his march to Magdeburgh, has made Come prifoners. Martha! Soule has his pas round the city. The Grand Duke of Berg has feat thither General Bellies& the Chief of his Inf. This General law there the Prince of Hbhenlohe. The language of the PrufGan Officers is much changed— They lordly demand Peace. What does your Em. peror want faid they to him—' Will he purfue us continually fo tai , fely? We have not had a moment's repofe fence the 'battle.' There Gentlemen were, doubtlefs, accuflomed to the manoeuvres of the Seven Years' War. They wanted to Mk three days to bury their dead. $ Think of the living,' laid the Emperor, 'leave to ns the care bf burying the dead; there is no need of truce for that.' 4 i The confttfion at Berlin is extreme. All the good Citizens who groaned nosier the faife dire lion given to the politics of their country, reproach the ire-brands kindled by England, with the tad effeas of their intrigues. There is but one cry in all the country —agairai the Illteen. The enemy appears to be endeavouring to rally behind the Oder. The Sovereign of Saxony has thanked the Em peror for the gesserofity with which he has treated him, and who is about to (batch him from the Prof &an inlitlewee. However, a great number of his fol. sfiers {save petalled in all this fighting." FIFTEENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. * Wittenberg, OR. 23. Hers lo the Intelligence we have collected con timing the eaufes of this (Irene war. " General Sehmettan (dead, a prifoner at Wei- mar) drew up a memorial, written with much force, in which be eflablifhed, that the PruliGan army ought to regard itfelf as difhonoured s that it was, notwith- Bending, in a Rate to beat the French, and that it neceffary to make war. " General Ruchel (killed) and Blocher (whoos h raved himfelf by a fubterfuge, and by abufing the French good faith) febfcribed this memoir, which drawn up in the form of a petition to the Wimp Prince Louis Ferdinand of Fru& (killed) fupiteehli l it by every fpecies of forearm. The Berne rprobil through every bead. The Doke of Brunfwiek (womb. ded very badly) a man known only,se be without 111 will, and without decifion, was enrolled in the wail brains. In fhort, the memoir, thus fopported, was pretested to the King. The Queen undertook to difpofe the mind of the King, and to make known to him what was thought of him. She reported to him that be ves go; thought brave, and that if he did not mate:War, it was becaufe he was afraid of put. Ling himfelf at the bead of his arrpy. The King, really as brave as any Pruffian Prince, gave way, without ceafing to prefervc the opinion that be com l snitted a great fault. • We lhould fignalize the ;nen who have not par. takcn of the illulions of the war partizans. Thefe are the refpeflable Field Martha! /0110f:tore and General KaWreath. " We are *Mired, that after the fine c i large of the 9th and toll regiments of hufrars, at Saalfeld, the King kid, 6 You pretended that the French cavalry was worth nothing i fee, neverthelefs, what the light cavalry is doing, and judge what cuiraffiers will do. There troops have acquired their fuperiority by is years fighting. As many ate neceffary in order to opal them t but who among us could be Co mach the enemy of Pruffia, as to defire this terrible proof " The Emperor, already mailer of the communi• cations and magazines of the enemy, wrote, on the lath of this mouth, the letter which is annexed, which he fent to the King of Pruflia, by the Orderly Officer, Monterquieu. This officer arrived at four in the afternoon of the istb, at the quarters of Gene. ral Hohenlohe, who kept him there, and took the letter of which be was the bearer. " The camp of the King of ProfCa was about two leagues behind. Thar Prince fhould, therefore, have received the letter of the Emperor at fix in the even ing at the late((. We ate, however, affured that he did not recrive it till nine o'clock in the morning, on the t4th ; that is to fay, when the battle was already begun. elf, mentioned, that the King of Proflia fa;d then—. If this letter had arrived fooncr, perhaps ws might not have fought—but thefe young men's heads are fo high, that if there bad been quellion hue of peace yeller day, I lhould not have led back it third of trie army to Berlin.' . 1 The King of Pr' fGa bad two luau Ibot under him, and received a muntet ball in his nem:. The Duke of Br unfwick has had all the blame in this war. lie bas ill conceived, and ill direeted, the movements of the army. He thousbt the Emperor ems at Paris, when he found &m on his gashivotst thous the lead in the movements, and he found i ready turned. " As for the Ten, on the morning of the bottle, confiernation was already among the Chiefs. They perceived that they were ill polled, and that they were going to play the lag Rake of the monarchy.— They ail raid, • Well !we fhall pay in pylon the common fentiment of men who prsferve little hope. The Q2een was always to bc found at the Mead quar ters at Weimar. It was necefliry at I.R to cell bet that circumftanccs were ferious, and that on the mor• row great events for the Freaks monarchy might occur. She was defirtins tha‘the Log mould bid her go away, and in effeft the was nedneed to the ne ceffity of going away. " Lord Morpeth, fent by the Court of I r ondon to buy the Prufkan blood-s—a million really tusworthy of a man like him--arrived, on the 'rib, at Weimar, charged to make (educing offers. and to peopofe con fideralie fablidies. The horisen was already very cloudy t the Cabinet was not willing to fee this En. voy ; he was told, that perhaps there was little fafety for his perfon, aad they engaged him to return to Hanaburgh, there to wait the event. " What would the Duch& of Devosilaire havt (aid, had Ole fern her )Finfman, charged with fpresd ins the flame of war, and coming to offer poifoncd gold, obliged fadly to retrace his Reps in fo'great belle ? One cannot reprefs one's indigestion to foe , _ _ England compromife the rank of refpcflable agents, and play a part fo odious. We have es yet no news of a treaty between Pruffia and Raffia, and it is cer• taro, that up to this day, no Ruffian has appeered in the Pruffian territory. In other refpeae, the army defire much to fee them; they will find anotber Act talks in Pruffia. " Prince Louis Ferdinand of Profile, sod the other generals who have fallen under the Sr* blows of the French, are at prefent mentioned as the prin- cipal movers in this incredible frenzy. The King. who has run all the chances of it, and who rapport' all the misfortunes which have been the refolu of it, is of all men who have been drown in by Nile who would hays remaiaed the molt foreign to it. I. There is at Leiplic fuck a quantity of Englifh , goods, that Guy millions have beep already offered to redeem them. It is afked what will England gain by all this She might have recovered Hanover ; kept the Cape of Good Hope ; preferred Malta; ', made an honourable peace, and reftored tranquillity to the world. She was willing to excite Prairie again* France—to provoke the Emperor and France : —Well 1 the kas condoned Proffia to her ruin, pro cured greater glory for the Emperor, and greater powers for France ; and the time approaches when we may declare England in a Rate of Continental blockade. Is it then with blood that the Eaglifh hoped to feed their commerce and re-animate their indallry; Great mifchiefs may come upon England: Europe will attribute them to the Ws of that hone* man and Miniller, who wilked to govern by great and liberal idees, and whom the Englith people will one day deplore with tears of blood. The Freneh columns are already marching upon Potfdant and Berlin. Deputies from Podslam are arrived to rcqueft proteftion. The Imperial head-quarters an now at Witten berg." jITTiII TO TUX NINO Of PRUSSIA, !AMID IT MONSMUII DI MONT/11MM carnal*, WHO HT OUT PROM OBRA TOO 113 TI Of OCTOM, 1806, AT TIM O'CLOCK IN TI! HORDING AND AIMMED AT TAB CAMP Of OCNORAA Lou 4? rola o'cLocx I N TI! •xxxxx oon. lilt, MT 110T1100, ol I have only received upon the yth year Majedy'sletter dthe esti of September. lam ferry that you have been Induced ip isa a pezipble( of that kind ( t). I only enforce your Adafeity 4 s Mum for the porpofe of aiming you, that 1 dud never attribute to your Maleity the thing' contained in it. Every thing la It is eentnry to the charadter of your Majefty, and to the honour of us both. I pity and defpife thofe who have been the authors of feels a production. I have received Immediately aftermath the Mote of your Mlolfter, dated the zit of °Reber. It has emu ate the rendezvous for the ids. As a true Knight, I ham kept my word, and am now in the toddle of Saxony. Let your Ida)alty believe me, I have fuels a force, that al3 your Majd ty's forms cannot keep the widery long doubtful. But why lboid4 we OW to numb blood ? For whet purport is k f I dull of. to your Majelty the fame language that I Ida to the Emperor Meg• ander before the Utile of Aufterikz. May H gram that corrupt mm and fanatics, who are more the mania of yep and your throes, than they can be of me and my nation, may not give you the fame advice, to being you to the:fame mink ! " Sire, l have bean your friend for there ft: years. I do am wiib to profit by this kind of vertigo which animates your Cods. db, and which has made you commit errors in politics with which Europe is quite aftonithed, and errors, in a military point of view, with which Europe will loon refound. If your Majefty bad, to your Note, demanded any things that it was polfible for me to grant, I Mould have granted them : you have alked w►at would be difhonour to me, and therefore you might be fort about what would be my reply. War is, therefore, declared between us, and the &Mame broken for ever. But wily mould we led the blood of our IC/lefts f I fet no value upon a vi dory which is purehafed by she lives of a number of my children. If l were sow beginning my military tarter. 44 U I could fear the chances of war, this language would be out of Its place. Sire, rue .AfeAy Ina da coarrraf. You will ►ave compronlifed the peace of your life, and the mittame of your (objets, without even the Ihadow of a pre teat. This day you arc unbroken, and may treat with nu in a manna Nimble to your rank : your Majefty may treat with me (t) This alludes to a kttcr of the King of Fruffia, confiding of so pages. Which wan a mere rhap(ody, that the King, moil cer tainly, could not have read our underftood. We connot pnnt it, bccaufe whatever relates to d i e private coerdpondence of Save. reigns, remains In the Port-folio of the Emperor, and does not come before the public. If we publifh that of his Matefty, it is becaofe many copies of it having been made at the ?ruffian bead quarters. (where it was much admired), oat copy has fallen taro our husk. Your hft' 4111111.1 agar, a"t ; 13 * f it : tie irrita aaoa very ditiffngeteePetp Md. lap• boa ortfulle prepared. You have told me that yeti have often radioed me &Mem Well, then, I Aral gise i Too a great prod of as reedlndtion that I hairs of them. it Is Dewitt your poorer soave yew &Neel' Onto the raver. of w*e, It bat hardly now balkos, and Tot may Aida it, and Europe will be tomb indebted to yes. If year Majefty mail liften to thole Gu de perfons, %Golsen peon ago, ?tithed to take Paris, sad who otoo) bare Induced you to embark In a war, and le °depart rrojetit equally ineopeelvabie, your Majefty will do an injury to your people, that the remainder of your life will not he able a heal, are, I have nothing to gain in a ;omit with your Majrftp s I west nothing, nor ever did west any thing from pm. The pre., lent war is e tuoft impolitic one. I feel that, perhaps, by this Its. ter, I am Irritating that fenfibility which naturally belongs to Mel Sovaplgo ; but the prcrent eireomflanees admit of po difguifa j tell your Majefty what t think.. Let your Maid)y moreover pet-' mit mete tell you, that it I/ DO Wit dikoOtry to Furope to learn, that France is three times more populous, sod as brave and war. like, as the States of year Msksity. I bays not glees you any real fubjedt for war. Let your Majefty then order this (warm nf malevolent and Inconilderate perkiest to be Meat, with that rA (pea that It doe to your thecae, thud retort that tranquillity that I. due to youdtlf and to your dootiolons. If you will never spin And OD ay r ms, you will Sad a moo who is deems of never waging any SAW that are not lodifireufable for the Interdta of my people, and a lever flteddlos Mood in a contcft with Sovereigns who hays as sippoSte nnereft to me front indailtry, commerce, and yotldeul CAM. I ?me yottr diejetty to Go to Me letter oily the kilo I ass so tare the drabs at henna bhp* and to rave s let*, their tarn its ge•rweicsi pada. mum be OD enemy 'mg". h em v i a War lelatlace Mak k !Maki have to feel, kiln= Ovirsilt* mod to di& vamaisury pet which Jar to wily mkt sad hipealiallasavag dl sagas. Sire, my Bream, i pan flop that hs nay have you in hja laurtby and iwly kealsl. " Your Majefty's good Broker. ( 81 1 0 0) PAPPIAON. Front my Impartal Camp 4 Gem p4ober La, sio4." amnion's' BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " The Duke of Brufwiefc has feat his Martha' of the Palace to the Emperor. That officer was en trolled with a letter, in which the Duke recommend. ed his States to the protektion of his Majefly. The Emperor Paid to him, s If I were to demoliffi the city of Brunfwick, and if I did not leave one Anne upon another, what would your Prince fay 1 Does not the law of retaliation anthorik me to do at Brunfwick what be would ha♦e done in my capital 1 To threaten to deboy cities may be merely the aft of macinefs; but to attempt to deprive a whole array , of brave men of their honour—to propofe to them to quit Germany at dated marches, is what pofierity will hardly credit. The Duke of Brunfwick ought not to have committed fuels an outrage. Men who have grown grey under arms, Mould rept. the he. now of military men ; it was not in. the plains of Champagne that that General acquired the right to treat the French colours with fuel contempt. Sash a Commons only difbonours the foldiet who ;pekes it. That difkonour does not belong to the King of Prof. fu : it attaches to the Chief of his Military Council —to the General to whom, in difficult eircumftances, he had confided his affairs. It is the Duke of Brunt - - wick alone whom France and Pruffia can acsufe of the war. The frenzy of which that old General let the example, encouraged a let of turbulent young men, and hurried on the King contrary to his own dif pofition and convittion. Sir, tell the inhabitants of the country of Brunfwieb, that they will find the French generous enemies ; that I with to (often the rigours of war with regard to them ; and that the iscoave niece@ which the palTage of troops may oceafion, wiU be againft my inclination. Tell General Brunfwick that he Hull be treated with all the attention due to a Pruffian officer, but that I cannot recognize a So vereign in a Priam' General. If the Houfe of Brunfwick hole the Sovereignty of its anceflors, it can only be afcribed to the author of two wars, who, in one, would have lapped the Great Capital to its foundation ; and who, in the other, attempted to diffionour zoo,ooo brave men, who perhaps might be conquered, but who would never be furprifed out of the path of honour and glory. Much blood has been fired in a few days. Great difafters pref. upon the Pruffian Monarchy. How blameable is the man, who, by a tingle word, might have prevented them, if, like Neftor, rifing in the midli of the Councils, he had Paid, •Be filent, ye inconfiderate youth ! Wo men, return to your fpindles, and to the management of your domellic concerns ! And you, Sire, believe the companion of the moll illuftrious of your prede. cams ; fince the Emperor Napoleon does not with for war, do not place him in the alternative of war or dithonour. Do not engage yourfelves in a den germ conteft with an army that boats of fifteen years (pent in glorious labours, and that riftory has accufiomed to every facrifice.' Inked of holding this language, which agreed fo well with the pru dence of hii years, and with the experience of fo long a career, he has been the &ft to raife the cry of war; he has even been faithlefs to the ties of con. fanguinity, in arming a fop againft his father ; he has threatened to place his colours en the Palace of Stutgard, and accompanying thole proceedings with inveftives againft France ;he was the declared asuthot of that frantic Manifeflo, which he has denied for 'here fourteen years, although he could not deny that fie had given it the (station of his fignature." 4t has tatren rcniarked i that during this conver ration; tb; Emperor, with that warmth with whicb he is Often animated, often repeated, to overturn And deßroy the habitations of peaceable citizens, a crime which can be repaired by time Rnd times t kut to difhonour,n army to with that it Llould By from Germany before the Prtifi - lan Eagle. is a bare nefs that nnne but the perfon who atlviieti it, Could by capable of committing." SEVENTEENTH BULLETIN UP THE GRAND ARMS' Poudon, Oetobet as. .. The corps of lelarthal Lannes arrived here no the 241 h. 44 Martini Davonfl's corps entered &A la as *a 25th, at ten in the morning. The corps of Nfarthal Prince •f Pa me corral' . at Brandenburgh. Martha! A ogereau's corps will enter 13:71in tr morrow, the 26th. fi The Emperor arrived at Potzdarn yeflerday and entered the Palace. In the afternoon he wet' to infpell the new Palace of Sans Sower, and the country in the environs of Pntzdam : he found the fituati m and the building very pleafant. He Rail fame t:rne in the chamber of Frederick the Grey, the hangings and furniture of which are the Cam; now as at the time of his deceafe. - Prince Ferdinand, the brother of the Great. Fr ederick, remains at Berlin. There are Soo pieces of cannon in the arfenal of Berlin, feveral hundred weight of powder, and a great quantity of arms. " General Hulin is nominated cpovernor of Berlin. " General Bertrand, the Emperor's aid de camp, has been fent to Spandau. That fortrefs defends it. [elf; he has invelled it with the dragoon; of Dupont's diviflon, " The Grand Duke of Berg is gone to Spandau, to follow a prufflan column which is marching from that place to Stettin, sud which we are its hopes of cutting off. " 'Flee Maras:as Lefebvre and Beira-Tea arrived at- Potsdam at nine io the evening of the asth, The Foot Guards marched fourteen hones in a day, The Emperor remained the wbole of the acth at Pot;datni " Martha' Ney's corps blockades Magdeburg, " Marital Souk's corps palled the gibe a day'; journey ft"; 142 1 4 0 01 1111 lad followed the 1 011 / 1 1 to Stettin, " The weather coatlntwe vet 4 1 1011 erilling Thir prefent ie the fneft barrel( ever leis, The Emperor, being on Airier, from Witten. berg to Potzdam, was aTettlik* by * atm*, and Ilepped into a houfe blioaging to the Geoid Hoot& man of Sunny, flip Majally was eery moils Mt prifed to hear a fiat woman soehtion his name. She was an Egyptian, the widow of a Erase* QfScer, who bad belonged to the Army of gyp le4a# been bat three months in Saxony. She lived whit the Grand Umlaute*, wbo had reaeired wed treated. het honorably. The EmPfrpt ordeld her * p Imo of taoo ranee, and praise's's° take sass of hat, child. This ie . (Caid the Eatbirttt) illy Sal that /alighted to avoid a garleallattl- had. alParaa timent that It would .be ittastithir . ll:4o/11 04 4 . . anion.' " It was remarked as a fingplerltts ,14 1 5 4 peror Napoleon arrived at Potsdam, 04 ~est into the fame apartment on-the fame day, andalosall at the fame hour that .the Emperor of Ituirsei when upon his visit to Berlin left year ; and wblcb has been fo fatal to FrofEa. From that moment the queen entirely quitted domeftie affairs, and the fe-, riuus occupation of the toilette, to meddle with thefe f the Atte, to influence the King, and by thefe means to excite every where the fame done that ani mated her own bofom. The thinking part of the Pruffian nation regard this viflt as one of the greateft calamities that could have happened to PruSa. jdo idea can be formed of the aitivity of the &Ilion to induce the King to go to war in fpite of himfelf. 4' The rank of the celebrated oath, taken npna the tomb of the Great Frederick, on the 4th of No. veutber, iSos. was the battle of Aufieslits, and tha evacuation of Germany by the Rut an army, by forced marches. Forty-eight hours after this event. a plate was engraved, and expofed in all the fhopt, and which excited even the ridicule of the peafinur. Here was ken the Great Emperor of Rnffia, near him the Q2een, and on the other fide, the King, railing his hand over the tomb of the Great Freda rick : the () s ilent herfelf, covered with a fhawl, much in the fame manner as the London engravers repte fent Lady Hamilton, rells her band on her heart, looking at the Emperor of RufGa. One cannot con . ceive how the Police of Berlin could Puffer Inch a tiful fatire to be diffeminated. At any rate the Blabs of the Great Frederick could not hut have been of. fended at fuch a fcandalous (cent. His mind, his genius, and hie willies were with that nation he had fo much etleemed, and of which he Paid, that if he was their King, a cannon (hot (hould not be fired in Europe without his permilLon." EIGHTEENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " Poczdam, Om r 26. " The Emperor has reviewed the imper , ..l r nt Guards, confiding of ten battalions, and fury pieces of cannon, (treed by the Riding Artillery. There troops. which have undergone fo much fatigue, had the fame appearance as when they were at Paris. " The General of Divifion. Vidor, received a make' shot in the battle of Jena, and was obliged to keep his bed fosny days. The General of Betides Gardannes, Aid•de•Camp to the Emperor, had a hOrfe killed e itod is (lightly woupded. Some Officers at rank are wounded; Olken Dave had Imam killed . 1 i .I , 1 1 i • 1 i I I , 1 . : . t I c , I • . .