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- - 1 • • • • : • 1 11 Ms.. • . , , • ; - .t ~-_ ,T ;. • ~ ~ 1 I. • N TIMBER P 338 • EAST-INDIA HOUSE, 11'ov. 19, 1813. . THE COURT of DIRECTDRS of the UNITED CeMPAIVT of MERCRANTS e ENGLAND, trading to the EAST INDIES, di hereby give metier, That the Court will he ready to receive Proposals, in writing, on or home Wednesday, Bth December, from any Pergon. who may be willing I.et on Freight good opPER-Bor roMFD SHIPS, of the hurthen of from SOO to ;00 'Pons, builders' mea surement, for the said Company's Service for one voyage only. The I enders, with the words " Ship 'I ender" on the cover, to be severally sealed up and left with die Secretary, 14 or before Twelve o'Cluek at Noon on the said Bth DeceMber, beyond which hour no Tender will be received. JAMES COBB, Asriitaat Secretary. 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X. 500 0,471 ftb•ittilic I 7,622 - ses9o ••• • isi•ek••• ......w. ore. es ..... • •• • ••• FROM . 144 T sisupwra :GAZETTE. . . • .~ FdREION-OFFICE, NOVEMBER 2; ISM Dispatches, of which the following are copies, have been received by Viscount Castl7eagb, his Ma. leafs Principal Secretary of State for Foraign fairs, from his Excellency General Viscount Cath cart, K. T. Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Charles William Stewart, K. B. and his Excellency the Earl of Abcrd*n, K. T. DISPATCHES FROM GENERAL' VISCOUNT CATH , CART, DATED j.EIPSIG, OCTOBER. I 9, IBIS. • ." - My lioart—Tle Allies have gained a complke tictoly, and Donaparte, who left .Leipsig at ten h'clnck this morning, is -retiring with such precipita.' Lion and disorder,. that Generals Regnier, Lauriston, Bertrand, and several others, were taken in this city, tV near it. • • The intention of the enemy being apparent, the Russian reserve, and the troops which had been least engaged, marched. at. an early hour trp the Elster to endeavour to stop Idm, Cossacks having been already detached, tti . 4.3 the Attaman Count PlatofF, to de stroy bridges, ansl to . occasion every possible difficulty and embarrassment. • General Blucher has . also detached a strong corps to jgo up the left bank of the Saale. Me operations which have led to this great event are as follows : The Emperor Alexandcr having rendcre3 the army of reserve under General Benaigsen disposable for active service, that General marched from the Saxon frontier in Silesia. into Bohemia, and arrived on the felt bank of the Elbe, by Aussig and Leuttneritz, in the first days of October, and immediately re- ! lieved the outposts of Prince Schwartzenberg's army in front of Toplitz, - towards Dresden, and occupied 1 the same pthi , ion. As General tent*;szn approached, the grand army moved to its left, reinforced its posts at Ma- vien;,erg and the mouths of the defiles in that dime.: tit" occupying Zwickau and Chemnitz; the re-; ulaindsr of the army removing by Brix to Commo- I tau, to which town their Imperial Majesties removed'i :heir head-quartAl on the sth instant, the Prince! Schwartzenberg having already moved to Marien. • On the Pith and 7th, General Count Wittgenstein advanced from Zwickaa towards Altenburg, and General Count Iclenau from Chemnitz to Penig, .here the enernY made some resistance ; but ap peared in more force upon the Hobe Nasser and River Tchoppa, where there was an affair of some imp9rtAnce. Neititt'lliit it had been concerted that General I - .4-;-. 7 r : .....6.. : . ; .:4 " . .., 4 " .. ... 14 ,•:.. 1 . : ~,,7. ..-.:„„.,:._ . 4.3 .. ..4p. .. .1--- 7, rs -, 4 , 414 -.... . - : . . ~ ...,•:•< ~„.._ ~;• .. 1 . 1 ...., . ~ ..... ~ ~ ... i. ‘ .--7‘,, : ~, , .. ~,,, ••.....„,:. :) , . cv ck ,,,,„, ( ,! . . , ...„ •• 7 . • _.•; A • • • • ...%) 't . ...0 . ' ' .' Jg. 1 4 • . 4 11' • --- .:*.. M • . ,* - . • 1"11 \•..,- .. 4101 )' I • • ''.---____,..- • ~ /•,.,-... ~ 4... 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In the afternoon of the 18th, the Emperor of Aus- • tria arrived, and joined the other Monarchs near the ' village of Probsteyda, where - their Majesti es rema in e d: '' till dark. The enemy had then been drive n fr om etery part of his position, into a circle within canarin-shot of . Leipsig, from whence a celumn had already begun 'its march towards the sorith.weit. ' ' In the night, the villa ges o f S tett ctitz and.Prob-' steyda were abandoned and occupied by . the Allies ;-. but Bonaparte continued to hold Leipsig and the vil lages connected with ilia suburbs wide a strong rear guard towards the Allies. • He seems to have counted upon the presence.ot the Saxon Electoral Family, and the solicitations of the inhabitants to preserve the city, to gain time and'. to provide for his own security, bet he was disap-: pointed. The Emperor Alexander received a flag 'of truce, seed in the name of the King of Saxony:, • offering to capitulate to save the-town. • His Imperial Mrjesty gave his answer aloud,. is • the hearing of many hundred officers, with i emarke' ••• able force and dignity : he said in substance, that ad' .; • ' army in - pursuit of a flying enemy, and in the hott* of victory, could not be stopped a moment by consi- - derations for the town ; that ther - efore_th.e gales must: _ ' I be immediately openedi and in that cas e th e Most • 1 strict discipline should be observed; that if the Ger) .. I m a n troops in the place chose to join their country 1-men in this army, they should be received as bra; thers ; but drat he considered any proposal sent white' Napoleon was at hand as extremely suspicioos, as he ' well knew the enemy he had to deal with ; that as to ' the King of Saxony personally, who had taken a line ' of determined hostility, he gave no answer, and . de ! dined Making any communication. . . ! The heavy cannon and columns of attack Were or , dered to advance. In the mean while the Prince Royal' attacked and stormed the city on the other side—a Prussian - corps being the first in &temper.. General Toll, who had beets sent with this Saxon - flag of truce to ensure the correct delivery of themes.' sage, was at that moment in the El:ctor of Sari:Me:e l apartment,' and, running out, - Called to the Saxon Guards to lay down their arms, which they immedi ately did ; their ex a mpl e being followed by the Baden and Wurtemburg troops. The action confnued some time in the further part of the town ; and, before it ceased, the Emperor and the King entered with the' Field Marshal, and met the Prince Royal at the door of the Elector of Saxon Y's quartets. General Blu cher arrived also at the same time. All the Cannon was taken, the particulars of which are not yet col lected. .. • A guard of Russian gi (nun :rs invnediately mount; ed over the Elector of son +, an.l their Majesties rode out to see the Prince Royal's army. The Emperor of Austria arri%ed during the day in Leipsig. 'rite Austrian and Bavarian army, under Genera! Wrede, will reach %Vurtzburg tl:e 2ith. The ltus. . sian reserve will get to Pegau this evening. • The extent of the resnit of this important day can not as yet be ascertained. Near half a million of sol diers fought in this battle, probably one of the most extensive and most generally engaged that ever took place, at least in modern history. The presence of the Sovereigns has certainly most animating efEct on their armies. All have be haved well : the Austrtans have had a full share; and many of their Generals have been wounded. The Field Marshal PrinceSchisartzenberg received the Grand Cross of Maria Theresa from the hands of his Imperial Master, and that of the first class of Sr. George from the Emperor Alexander. General Bar , clay de Tolly is created a Count. This is the eighth general action, seven cf them ! commanded by the Rukr of France, in which I have seen the Emperor Alexander,in tha field at the head jiff his army, as usual, unmindful of personal danger he approached every column, animating the °freers ; and men by his presence and example, and, by a few energetic words, touching the chords which produce the strongest effocts on the minds of Russian sol diers, confidence in the SUPREME BEING. resignation to His will, and attachment to their Sovereign. 1 have the honour to be, &c. (Sighed) cATIICART. Ocroara.2o.—P. S. During the action, whole bri. gades of Bavariln and Saxon troops came over and joined the Allies, some artillery and cavalry are said to hare been actually engaged the French. Near three hundred . . pieces of vliikry, s me . of which were bu r ied; Una upwards of thirty thousand prisoners. including the skk • and wrwildeCl found in I this placer, htivialteadt been ascertained to be in the I possession of the Allies. Exclusive athe King of Saxony ; and Ms family, the fallowing are among the moat distinguishedpri. siners—Comte de Hallberg, Baron de ftokorn, hussy Emile 'de Hessed, • Baden 'sad Hessian' Generalth; Generals Count Lauristoa, Dbesnais, Delmits, Reg. nier. Aubry, Cbarpentier ; General of Division Krp.- einsky ' • Prince Poniatotvsky , drpwtted : Bony, Be;. trand, Latour Maubourg, dead of his woands. The armies are in full pursuit of the enemy. The grand army to turn his lea; part of Getieral cher's army observe his right; and he is Wowed br the. Prince Royal, with Generals Bennigsen and ' Blucher. [7 iv,: per. WEDNESDAYi NOVEMBER 21, Blucher and the Prince Royal of Sweden should cross the Elbe, and that the further advance ill the Bohemian army should be regulated by their ,move ment. On the 7th. a report was received that Ge neral Blucher, 14 the most rapid and brilliant move ment that has been made during this war, marched from Elsterwerda to the mouth of the Black Elster, near the town of that name, and having crossed by the bridge which he carried with him, defeated the French corps at Wartemberg, driving its remains to Witten , berg, and immediately advanced within' reach of the Prince Royal, who had laridtes at Russian and Acken. On the Bth, accounts were received at Commotau that the Prince Royal had crossed the Elbe, and was in communication with Blucher. On that day la general advance was made from all the posts on I tlO Bohemian frontier, including General Bennig- I sea's army, who, after a serious resistance by the enemy. drove him, into Koenigstein and Dresden, opened a epinniunicition - +Atli General Bubna pear Pirna, successively occupying Dippnldiswalda and Freyberg, • placing limsen before Dresden on the left bank of the Elbe, while Prince Tcherbatoff oh- served him on the right bank. All the corps, bow. ever, opposed to General Bennigsen, and part of that which was between Dresden and .Bautzen, having ',assembled in Dresden, no farther attack in that quar ter was judged expedient. It was now evident that Bonaparte had left Dres den, and was concentrating his army at Leipsig, and at Wurzen, and Eulenburg : the Elector of Saxony following with family. The Emperor of Russia left Commotau in the night of the Bth, followed by the reserve of his army, which advanced by. rapid and successive marches to Altenburg, where the Austrian, Russian, and Prus !siah reserves were assembled on the 11th and 12th, and where the Emperor Alexander and the Field- Marshals' quarters were,established. The remainder of the grand army had proceeded down the Elster by Zeist and.Pegau to Lutzen, on its left, and to Boma and Espenheim on its right.— General Blucher having moved to Halle, a direct communication was opened, through Merseberg, with that General and the Prince Royal. The enemy :hewed a line of troops in the villages of GI oben, Golsa, StOrmentlial, and Kora, between the Pleiss and the Partha, which having been at tacked by qount .Wittgenstein and General Klenan, 'on the 13th, a considerable affair took place, in which the enemy was dislodged on his right, and it would have been more serious if the Field-Marshal who came up had not judged it premature, and put a stop to it." Orders had been sent to General Bennigsen, to leive Central Cduot Peter Tolstor with a consider able fcrce-to mask Dresden and Konigstein, and to march with the remainder of his force and General Buhna's corps by Nossen on Grimma, while Count Colloredo, who had been left with his corps to act with General Bennigsen, was to .march by Frey berg and Chemnitz, to join and support the Field- Marshal's army. During this period the Bavarian treaty was signed, which opened new lines of communication to the South ; and Marshal Augereau, who had been much harassed and impeded in his march, and had lost part of his corps, reached Leipsig with the remainder.— Bonaparte had also made a journey to Wittenberg, and sent troops to destroy, or to oblige 'the. Allies to destroy the bridges at Rosslau and Acken, pushing ! A small corps to Zerbst, by which he ga v e some ground to believe that he meant to march down the right bank of the Mulda, to pass the Elbe at Witten berg, and to repass again at Magdeburg. This feint I had the effect of inducing the Prince Royal to fall back to Cothen, where he assembled his army.— Finding, however, that the movement of the enemy on the right bank of the Elbe had no other conse quence,- he decided to return to General Blucher, and to take is post in the general action with that General. . Reports having 'been received of the march of Ge neral Bennigsen 'and Count Colloredo,t the army marched on the 15th from Altenberg to Pegaii (the place of assembly on the morning of the batch: of Lucien) ;—and it wars determined to attack the enemy thelollowing morning, without waiting for the certaihty of the arrival either of the Prince Royal, General Beningsen, or Count Colloredo, judging .that Theif forces would influence the enemy by their approach, and that they would be fresh tor the se cond day; whereas by waiting, the enemy might either improve his preparations, or escape. Accordingly the heads of all the columns advanced towards the ene my's position at day-break on the 16th, General Blucher by Schenditz to Golitz and Wetteritz, Ge neral' Ginlay by Lutzen on Lindenau ; General Count Mehrteldt between the Elster and Pleisse, on Coimexitz ; General Prince of Hesse Hombourg, on the right bank of the Elster, in the same direction, to support Count Wittgenstein -towards Wachau, with Genefal Kleist on 'his right, towards Liebert Wolke. ritz ; and General Klenau on the extreme right to wards Fuchshayn, on the Grimmal road. The enemy occupied the only ridge in this plain in front of the named places, behind the centre of which, towards Leipsic, Bonapaite's tent was pitch ed. He was also in force at Connewitz, on the side of GeneraLGittlay's advance, and towards Ge neral Blucher. At half past nine, immediately on the Emperor's arrival on the field, the cannonade began with Count Wittgenitein's corps, and immediately ex tended to both flanks on the whole position, and was continued, without any intermission, till- after dark at night. It was intended that Count Mehrfeldt and General Klenau should -turn the enemy on their respective flanks, but the French were in great force on their .left, and the quantity of water, and. the number of gardens and summer-houses near Connewitz, render ed Count Mehrfeldt's task extremely ardtious. Count Wittgenstein almost immediately. drove the enemy iVom the heights opposed to him, and the whole ridge was for some time occupied by the Al lies ; but a large force of infantry and cavalry oppos ed to General Kleist, occasioned a continual contest during the whole morning. Count Mehrfeldt, having advanced to Connewitz, beyond the 'right of the force opposed to Count Wittgenstein, repaired a bridge which had bet n de stroyed on the Pleisse at Dolitz, and was about to pass over, when; unfortunately, his. horse was kill- 1 ed, and himself taken prisoner by a column of the i enemy, which was supposed to be a division'of the , Allies retiring. At the same time Murat, rat the head of an im mense body of cavalry, appeared on the ridge on the right of Count Wittgenstein, and judging that he • had time to attack before the Russian reserve could : come up to him, he sent on the light artillery of the guard, and immediately afterwards charged with his masses of cavalry. The Russian reserve had broken l ground in its front, which r endered it impo ss ible for the cuirassiers to meet hint si%th the velocity they i desired;—but the cavalry of Count Wittgensteia's corps„ and attached to it, attacked him an flank, and he retired with as much precipitation as he advanced. During the preparation of Murat's attack, the Austrian cavalry was greatly distinguished :—they made nine charges on the enemy's right, in some of which they swept the whole front with great slaugh ter. The Russian cuirassiers having advanced, to gether with the guards and grenadiers, and the latter having occupied d wood on their right, no further attack was made ;—but the cannonade and fire of the tirailleurs continued till after dark, when the troops lay upon their arias upon the ground they . occupied. ~ . . ~ General Giulay, . opposed b y superior force, could not penetrate. General Mueller had a .brilliant action, ' and defeated the force opposed to him, taking up-, wards of 30 pieces of cannon, an eagle, and mole '. than 2900 prisoners. The next morning at day-break, Count Wittgen stein's corps appeared on the ground from whence he had driven the enemy, but the heads of columns of the French cavalry and infantry were on their right on the same ridge, the cannon on each side almost within musket shot, and the videttes within pistol shot; and in this attitude the armies remained the whole day, without firing a shot, except. some accidental skirmishing by the advanced men. Three great corps were advancing rapidly to join the Allies ; —it was therefore evidently not to their advantage to renew the attack, unless either General Blucher or the Field Marshal was attacked by the enemy, in which case, either would have advancedtimmediately to support the other. Count Colloredo arrived at the village of 4agde 7 born at noon, and in the evening relieved Count Wit tgenstein, who became his support. In the evening also part of General Bennigsen's corps arrived, and would have immediately marched upon the enemy's Rank, hid not the General been made acquainted, while framing his attack, that the action was post poned. The Prince Royal also sent notice, that he would arrive on General Blucher's left by•the after. i noon of the next day. The received disposition for troops in these plains is now to form immense solid columns of infantry and cavalry, which are denrminated classes, and which are distributed according to the ground, in one or more tines, always with reserves; in front are great quantities of artillery, within reach of support. I All villages, and broken or covered ground are oc cupied by detachments, furnished by the nearest masses sand supported by them ; and which being de- ; fended by musketry, always occasion great slaughter. Except on such occasions, and as skirmishers, the in- 1 fantry and the cavalry a re seld om se e n in li ne , b ut the masses which are usually formed behind the cen- , tie of the corps which compose them respectively, can always extend expeditiously to a larger front or into line. . Wurizen was occupied on the lith by a detach ment of General Bennigsen's army. On the 18th, the disposition for a general action ' was carried into effect ; Marshal Schwartzenberg's order of battle, from left, to right was as follows : , Count Colloredo's corps, supported •by the Aus trian reserve, and connected with General Mehrfeldt's I corps ; Count Wittgenstein and General Kleist, sup. ported by the Russian reserve ; General Klenau, his right alttle brought forward, supported also by Rus sian gMiadiers; General Bennigsen his right still more advanced towards Posa ; beyond the morass on I his right, General Bubna and Count Playoff were advanced, connecting between General Bennigsen and the Prince Royal. General Blucher was to advance between his Royal Highness and the great morass, which extends from Merseburg to Leipsig ; and General Giulay in his original direction from Lutzen upon Lindenau. The village of Liebest Wolkeritz was the point to which all the attacks under the direction of the Field Marshal were to point ; the corps advancing rowards a central point, thereby becoming gradually mere closely connected, and the more distant corps on the right advancing first. - The enemy occupied the villages with masses in their rear, but the more distant posts were carried without being -much supported, the massei retiring I with precipitation towards the suburbs of Leipsig..— All the villages, however, were d: tended with can t non, which rendered the action and the cannonade I general over the whole extent of the plain. Some of the villages nearest this city were most obstinately disputed. The whole plain is covered with bodies of dead men and horses, and the ruins of the villages are full of heaps of dead and 'dying. Every part of the combination succeeded. Gene ral Blucher's left, connected with the Prince Royal's advanced corps, consisting of the Russians and Prtts shins, came into action in the afternoon, having ap proached by Taucha. Towards the atter part .o.f