Star. — London, England, 1806-11-24 00:00:00

- FRANCE.. PARIS, NOV. 7. Twarrir•sEcoNo BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. Satin, October to. Events ( - tweed each other with rapidity. The Grand Duke of Berg arrived, on the 27th, at Hale h.r..A, with a divilion of dragoons. He had fent to is irecnbneg General Milhaud, with the 13th Regi ment of light horfe, and a brigade of light cavalry under General Lafalle, to Prentalow. Informed that the enemy was in force at Buitzeirburg, he (truck off to Wignunfdorff. Be had barely arrived there, Vile,' he perceived that the brigade of the enemy's cavalry had flruck .to the left. with the, intention of cutting off General Milhaud. To fee, charge, and drive the Kiog's Genfdartnes into the lake, was the affair of a moment. This regiment feting that all was over with it, stilted Ito capitulate. The Prince. at all times generous, granted their wills. Pin hun • • chid men alighted and delivered up their bodes.— The Officers returned home on their parole. Four Band of colours belonging to the Guards,. all of ' gold, were the trophies of the petty engagement of Wignuofiloiff, which was only the prclncle to the fplendkd one of Prentzlow. Thafe celebrated Gcnfdarmes, who experienced filch great c ommiferation after their defeat, were the fame ' ,'Who, for three months ? excited riots in the city of Berlin, II err fßrt of Provocation. They went under tbi wig I Olt y. j.aforet, the french 'Mi. k nilieri to r.,. If,littstet i lincthlc people &rugged i s up their . nitgars, i,tut.the inexperienced youth and papensate women, like the lalicco. raw In this rialtiew--1 • • lons tweggeting a fore prognoftip pf the grand deb nits which await the Pro:tian arm,. Prince Wthenlcilit. *itb the wrecks of the battle of Jens, attetrpted ii i "terteki Stettin. He had been singed to than/shier:lute, be the Grand Duke 4 Berg was at Tcshplin before him. He willed to open out from Baitzenburg to Hafleben, but he was deceived in his motetnent: The Grand Duke of Berg , irraoined t hat the enemy would endeavour to reach . . Bretstalnw ; the conjefture was well founded. The Prince towelled all night with the divi fi on of dm. ! goons under Generals Beaumont and Grottehy, which was pH:Wed Ily the light cavalry under the corn. wand oi General Lafalle. The fira polls of our buffers ' arrived at Prentzlow at the fame time as the enemy, but were under the neetffity of falling back, on the • soth in the morning, before the fuperior forces under Prince Hohenlobt. At nine the Grand Duke of . - erg arrived at Prentzlow, and • at ten taw the ene my's army in lull march. Without lofing time io wairi i motions, the Prince ordered General Lafalle to charge In ihe'fitburbr of Prentlow, and 'fent to fuppoit him Generals Grouchy and Beaumont, with their lit pieces of light artillery. He gave orders for three regiments of Dragoons to trots over the thrall riser at Colnitz, which leads to Prentzlow, to attack the enemy's flank, and gave direiftioos to his other brigade of Dragoons tp turn the town. Our brave cannoneer' on horfeback placed their pieces I fo well, and fired with fuch affiirance, that they Ten ; tiered uncertain the enemy's motions. At this tar- ment Gen. Grouchy recei"red orders ta charge, and his brave dragoons did fo with the greateft intrepi. klity. Cavalry,infantry, artillery, all were overthrown in the fubwlnt of Prentzlow. Our troops might have•enter•id the town pelr mil with the enemy, but the Pt ince preferred [petit% him a fammons by Ge. ' neral Bellard. The gates of the town were already bora open. Deprived of all hope, Prince Hohen lobe, one of the principal firebrands of this impious war, capitulated, and defiled before the French sr. try, with (lateen tholifand Infantry, almoft all Guards or Grenadiers, fit regiments of Cavalry.for ' t y-five Ilan4l cf co/oors, and fitty-four pieces of bar. 'laid artillery. All the King of Pruflis's guards who had (leaped from the battle of Jena, hate fal• 1. n into ourprtaver. We are in pofliffion of all the winds of ecintfle of the King's 'Horfc and foot Gee trds. Prince Hohenlohe, the Commander in Chief after the wound of the Duke Of Brunfwick, a 'since of Mecklenburg Schwerin, and feveral Gene t Ali. are ei9r pi ifoncrs. • .0 Bet nothing is done whilft there remains any tl.ing to be done," wrote the Emperor to' he Grand Duke of berg. " You have outßripped a column <4 eight thonfand men commanded by General Bhp cher ; let roe loon learn that they have experienced the Cure lot." i Another of ten thonfaod men has paffed the Elbe, commanded by the Duke of Weimar. According to 411 appesiranc4 both he and his whole column will be fitrronnded. - Prince AuguAns Ferdinand, brother to Prince Lours, killed at SasVeldt, and fon of fiinee Ferdi stand; brother of tbs Great Frederick, has been taken in alai: W our d, none. ' ' Thus ihis grand and ins Purees army has difsp pearsd lip an autumnal! fog al fin rife: Generals in Chief. Generals commanding the feparate carps of the mutts Pt into. lnfa6lry, Cavalry, Artillery. none remain. Our ports have entered Frankfort ea r the Oder. the Xing of Praia has gone further. He has not 's o x/amen left t and for fere a relish, we have feared! met ant ldfs. • General Clarke, Governor of &fault, has made a Setion'hattaliod eapittlinte, Which was wandering without *reedy. ) The capitulation is hereunto &g -lued: Os die &Ba, the Emperor reviewed the corps of Marthal bavoult, under the wins of Aetna; He filled isp the vacancies. and rewarded the brave. He then affembled the officers and, petty officers in a circle, and thus addr%ffel them s " °Seers And petty oaken of the sd cop of t►e army, you COl,Cfad yourCelees with glory la :be bawls of tree J fhall pre• Alleviate eternal resotkitioi of it The brave fellows who were tilled died with glory. We ought to wins to die udder (deb gla. 'bus sircumtlanece." Inreviqiiog the t eth and fifth regiments of the line, who felt the greatell lots in this battle, as it fell nn them to make the g ft efforts, the Emperor WAS aided at fesing killed ,or grievnutly wounded feve ral of his old foldiers, whore devotion and bravery he was acquainted frith for fourteen years pall. The lath regiment, 4ove all. has mown an intrepidity worthy of the highelt Today, at twelve o'clock, thy Emperor reviewed the feventh corps,icommasdcd by idarikal Augereau. This corps has (offer eel very little. One half of the foldiers have not had an occafion to Ere a (hot, but they all bad the fame intrepidity. The appearance of this torts was magnificent. " Your corps alone (laid the Emperor) is fironger than all that remains to the King of ProiliA, and you do not form the tenth •,port of my army.' All the unmounted dragoons whom the Emperor had ended to come to the Grand Army, are now mounted ; and there arc at the grand depot at Span dau icwo +mice/ (addled and bridled, "thigh we do not know what to 4o with,Jaacauk there are no hale men in want of any. We wait with impatienovfor the arrival of the depots. Prince Auguflue was prefented to the Emperor at the Palate of Berlin, after the review of the feventh 'corps of the army. This Prince was feat home to his 'tether,'*, to refl. himfel4, and get his wounds drefted. Yefterday. before 'going to review the corps of Marital Thema, the Emperor paid a vilit to the Downer Prince(' Henry, and Prince' and Prince(' ferdinend, who lope always beets remarked for the ditlinguithed manner in which thethavvreeelved the FfeticL. In the palace which the Emperor inhabits it lii. lin, lodges the King of Prufliais filler, the Eleitoral Princefs of Heffe Gaffe'. This Princiefs is in child bed. The Emperor has ordered his Grand Marlbal t•f the palace to take care the be not dithnbed with the noife aid buftle of the head quarters. The lath Bulletin relates the manner in -which the Emperor received the Prince of Hatzfeld at his au dience. A few moments after the Prince was as-relied. He w9uld have been fent-before a military commif fion, and inevitably condemned to death. So m e let ters from this Prince to Prince Hohenlnhe, inter• cepted at the advanced pofts, had given information That, altho' be laid be was charged with the civil go vernment of the town, he infortned the enemy of the movements of the French. His wife, the daughter of the Miniller Schnlenbuegh, came' to throw herfelf at thy feet of the Emperor; the thought her huf band was nulled on account of the hatred which the Milliner Schulenburgb bore to France. The Emperor loon undeceived her, and made known to her that pipers had been intercepted which proved that hei . hutband was offing a double part, and had, cOmmitted a great crime. The Ft incels attributed , to ebe impo3ure of Isis.enenties this accuLuion, Ng called . a calumny. " Yon know your hnfband's writing, laid the Epsperor, am going to MAC pia the judge." He then ordered the intercepted letter to be immediaay brought to . him, And deli• vered it to her. This woroan,up wards of eight month( gone With child, fanned at every word which difco. vered - to ter how far the accafation was founded againft her hofbandi whole writing the knew it to be -•,-Ahe Emperor was touched with' her grief and con- Winn, and with the angoillt of her foul. 's " - aid he, " you have a hold of that letter, throw it into the fire ; this document once dellriiyeil, I (hall ,be no longer abbe to get your hufbind ebnelernnedp ( l'his affetling fcene naffed near the fire-pike:sloes' Madam Hatsfeld did not let herfelf be told a fee* time to buret it. Immediately after, the Prineg of( Nenfclottel received orders to refute her holband to I her. The military eommiften was Already atiensided —the better alone of Princi Hatifeld was ettnuel* to condemn him : three hours later he hdd bean (hot. PROCLAMATION OP THE EMPEROR AND 41NO. Soldiers !—You have juflified my expeelations, and worthily anfwered the confidence of the French People. Yoa have fupported privations and fatigues with as much courage as you have (hewn intrepidity and coulnef; in the midi of combats. ' You are the worthy defender; of the honour of my Crown and of the Great People; as long as you are animated with this fpirit, nothing will be able to withfland you. Tit: cavalry have vied with the infantry and artillery : I no longer know which part of the army to givelhe preference to. You are all good foidiers. There e the faults of not lahanrs. One tit the fall ntilitAry Powers of Europe, who fn lately taateat to propofe to us a Iliarnsful capitulation, is annihilated. The forells ant defiles of Franconia, the SaaJ and the Elbe, wisich our t il efatliers would no, brie eroded irr keen' VibiPlti have eroded id fevers dart, and (might in the interval four engage ments 'and a great battle. We have preceded *at hothlat» and B:tlin the renown of our viaories. We ave toads 60,000 patters, taken 65 land of colon's. arnoligtt which are thole r,f the King of Pruiria'a guards, too pieces of cannon, three fottrefes, and] onward, of twenty Generals. Net:rthelefs, more than one half of fon regret not to h Ave 6, ed a intact flint. All the Provinces of the Pruitt an Monarchy, as far as the Osier, are ip our power. Soldiers, the Ru ffi ans bean of coming to us. We will march to meet them, and this: f,pare them half of the road; they (hal ? ! again find Auflerlits in the heart of ?rum.. A nation which has fo fonn forgot ten the generofity we :hewed it after that battle, in which its Emperor, Court, and the wrecks of :ts army were only indebted for their fafetv to thccapitolation ' we granted them, is a nation which tenant foccef fully cope with us, Neverthelefs ; whilll we march to meet the Rol ' flans, new armies, fortped in the interior of the Exm ' pire, ;pm; to take our place, in order to keep oor i l contriefts. My whole people have tifen, indignant 1 at the unworthy capitulation which the Proffian Mi nillers, ip their delirium, propored to us. Our roads and frontier towns arc full of confcripts, who borrt to march in our footneps. We oval he no longer 41.11)o'a of a area Petite, and we 411;11100‘ lay down oar [TIM onto! we have obliged the Englyh, thy; eternal enemies of our notion, to renour.te tie Jcksre of dilluelin: ikt Conti. non!, an... 1.61 tyrants of dos Slat. Soldiers, I cannot better exprefs to you the fenti ments'i entertain for you, than by telling you that I bear in my heart the love you daily (hew me. Ewer eur Insperisl Catup at Potfdam, Weber s 6, OWL By Order of the Bosperor. (*TA) , ettpot,aon. Artse Major General of the Grind Anny,and relays , , t• of Neuchatel and POMO. . ' aderfhll Astteirid 4 tellt i kit. LITTIP. FLOM H. 1. AVID C. 111 TO THE MMUS' 011 1 AN. SWOP! or vita 'retries.. . Ibion6eui VEreque, the lueetrawe have katiphilikwrii stir ' .%1 Onanks, lith the aid ot Dtiy,tui,pertetttanget Yam as iic I aoa ao our people, the Obligati's eit lining Saitgao Manila to the God of Armies. You love !call lef by WI kit Note of the King of Praia. the nceellity ondePi4di l liutk emir nor !ward, In order to defend the lion prikeillideetraiaresk peripteArilarre. Whatever repugnance are* kprenae. we have been rtlemase the lift extremity by our sanates; they beer been beaten and unfounded. On the receipt thie of the predeot. af enbk our people ht the Temples, atom a Ti Deem. and order prayers to be Pe Op to One for the prciperliy he his granted oar arm,. r Thee Lauer Wag for no tither aureole. I entreat Coo, M Varier., to have yon in WA* kergeog. " frau usir imperial Camp, at Wiener, O&. t 5. 444.. (Sighed? " MA1.044011 " His Eminence the Archbifhiop of Paris waited on hie Imperial Highnefs the Prince Arch Chancellor of the Empire, in order to concert with him on the execution'of the orders of his Majelly. Tt was de termined that the Ts Door mould be bung in the Me trizPolitan Church, on Sunday the 5911) of the prefent Tooth, at twelve o'clock ; and that the fame cere monial fhould take place as was obferved 'zit year. when Te Dewar were fling as thanks for the °VOW* ble viftories of Ulm and Aunerlitz. ...! TWENTY•THIRD BULLETIN Of THE GRAND ARMY.' the Doke of Weimar patted the Elbe at Havel berg. ' Marnsal Snult proceeded on the 29th to Rathnau, and nn the 3oth to Wertenhaufen. On the 29th the column of the Duke 'of Weimar WAS at Rhiniberg, and the Prince of Ponte Corso (Bernadotte) was •at the fame - time at Furffeuberg. There is no doubt that this corps, confining of four. teen thotifind men; hairs already fallen into the hands of the French army, or are at this moment in the aft ef . forrendering. general Blocher alio left Rhin berg in the morning of' the 19th with 7000 men, in order to proceed to •tetiin, hut Martha' Lannes and the Grand Doke of Berg lad three day, marsh in advance of hime This column is therefore now is our power, or Wit be -captured . within 48 hours. ' In the lift Bulletin we Mentioned that the Grand Duke of Berg, in the affair of Prentzlow, cklitird the Prince of Hohenlohe, and his 17,000 men, to lay down their alma. On the 29th, an enemy's corps of 6noo men likewife capitulated to General Milhaud, at ?gift walk. This gives us aOOO horfes more, with their (addles, harneffes, and }tangelo.— ' There are betides mote than &coo holfes which the grnperor has Anse Sp'andatt, after having mooned all his cavalry. filatfbal Soult having arrived at ftathnau, fell in with five fquadrons of Saxon cavalry ; they (Akita capitulation, which was granted. This pruclnFed a farther fupply of ;oo horfes for the army. We have talc," up to this perkti, Rod of plums, among which are tome embroidered by the hands of ti.e beautiful Queen lierfrlf; a beauty which has proved as difartrourete the people of Pruifla, as that of Helen did to the Trojans. The States of the Duke of Brunfwick are taken poffellinn of, and it is believed that the Duke has fled to England. Alt his troops are difarmed. Khe defel yes thelatred of the French people, he has no leis merited that of the PrniDan nation and artily...of the nation, which aCculks• Nitro of *king (info) . the promoters of the war—of the army, which complains of his m'itectivres, and all his militirY proceedings. The reliance fo improperly Aced on the young gent d'..rmes •is pardonable ; but die condua 'of this Prince, in the 7xd year of his age, exhibits an exam ple of folly. t h e necefrary cor.f.qoetice of iihich to himfelf can awaken no regret. What Indeed'is there in age to command refpeet,'when the nflentation and inefmfideratenefs of youth are joined to all the hen ties of declining years The capitulation of the 6000 men mentioned abcwe to hoe taken place on the 29th, was concludes! bi•l . lawn Brigadier Hegel, mrninding thr veg , nn• l uf frenegfell, and the coloinn detached by Pait .• Eldlenlohr, and Lieutenant Colnnel t the 13th regiment of hotfe chaffetirs.'who figned it in tie name of General Milhaud. It was Ilipulated that the whole corps fhould lay down their arms the pretence of the 13th rtenelli of chaffeurs and the gth dragoons, and futrender themfelves prifonets of war. The officas were, however, allowed to retain their bodes and baggage, and to deNt: on their par*. THZ TWEN9'Y ,FOURTH OPTRIGRANIt ARMY. Stettin is in our pogelVon—wlille the left wing of the GranA Duke of Berg's Amps, commanded by General Milhaud, forced a Prugancoltunn of f/woo men to capitulate at Paffewalk, the.rigbx wing corn:• mended by General Lafalle fummoned the town of Stettin to forrendec, which it did on eapitulatioN the terms of which are fubjoined. Stettin is t won in a gond (late for defence, well urmed, Rod provided with pallifadoes. We found in it one hundred and !Ivy pieces of cannon, and pofiderable roagaxines, with a gartifon confining of fix thoufand fine troops, and a number of Generals, rho were made ptifoners of war. finch is the refill; of the capittflation *kin, ait'event which can only be accounted for b r theftier lirMay wt*-h the deilruflion of the V:eitt r r A rd ul tinny has ProduCeil on the Odpr, over all the territory on the right batik of that Of the Witcle of thatgreatarmy, one hundred and " i iribty thnufancl !tromp not a man bag crrf t l the Mee. They sate all ether taken or killed, exiert Oink who Rill wander between tbeElbe and the Oder. but trim will within four days he Made filit°6o,‘ At wan. unneectrary to dwell on the Intportaneep of the mint:lid of stettin, which is one of the Bra commercial yawns of Pluflia, and which 6eurep to the army an eriellent lima operation. As Coon as the columns cusimanaeB by the Dillet of 'Weimar, and General Blachei,,Which are cut fle on the right s6d left, and pur'fued on thi reir, !ball furriender, the array will take a few days Nothing has yet been learned refpating the Bans. We long much to Cce one hundred thoufand of diets! arrive, but the reports of their inard;,, wF ate afraid, are mere gatconade t they clarl not mkt us. The battle of Aulleriitu is bill before their eyea —but what all intelliget;t perfons muff difpitiis'xo hear the Emperor Alexander and his directing se 7 nate declare,' that it was the allies of 'Raba who were defeated. It is welt known over all Europe that there is foyce a tetra! in Ruffle that dots not wens. 'mourning, and it is not merely the lots of - their alliee they deplore. Betides, sne hundred and ninety gya pieces of Ruffian cannon which were taken, and 'ern now at Strafburgh, were not the cannon of their. allies. The fifty Ruffian flasclards which are hung bp in the' Church of Notre Dante at Paris, are not the colouis of their allies. The crowds of Itutlians who died in our botpitiils, or are imprifpned in our towns, were-not the fordiers of their allies.' But the Emperor Alexander, who commended fo great'an army at Anfleilitz and Wifchaw, and Who now difplays fo much ()Actuation, did nor, it reins. command the allies. The Prince who capitulated. and bound himfelf tw evacuate Germany bz' 'forced marches, was doubtlefs no allied 'Prince, When mean deceptions like thefe are reforted to, It is its• poißble for one to bear them dated without a fhrug "err the Moulders. • rkfe of Prinaes, and the corruption of Miniftes7.. It . would hive been amore plain and a more heas'ouiabfe cantle fur the EMPetorAlexander had he rat) , 6ed tbs . Treaty of Peace which his Plenipotentiary 4gned , end thereby given repde to his country. In propos.. tion as the war continues, the illufion of the Power of gala will be expofed, and that falfe idea will at MR be co m pletely removed. It was the policy nal kberine to produce a great impeefOnn by difplaying her power, and the focceeded no lets in that ()Nett than the prefent Mihifters will, by their extravagant ef forts and folly, fsicceed in rendering the influence of IttifSa contemptible in Europe. Qn the at fl , the King of Holland arrived with the ndianced guard of the army of the North, at Got. tengen. On the 26th, Marlhal Mortice arrived at Fulda. with the two dwitions of the Bth corps of the Grand Army, commanded by Generals Lagrange and 150 145. At Manlier, in the county of Mel, and in other Pruffien States, the King of Holland found magli iines and artillery. At Fulda and at artintwick the armsof the Prince of Orange and the Duke have been removed. Neither of thcfe Princes will reign again. They were the principal infligatora of this new cna ' The - English would make no peace...they Stall mare is, but trance will loCludc more, COdail ettlj Rates in her federative fines,. [ rhe Capitulation of Stettin, which &Sews this bulletin, ftipulates, that the town, and ell the forth (hall be given' ty to the Conga/fors, with the Tree• fury chef*, and all property belonging to thePrefrato Goiana's:it." The girrifon are aniseed to march oot with the •honours tof war, the infeiior Mere an 4 privates to be 'tent prifoners to france, but the bificern ere diftniffed on' their parole, and' snowed ?airports to' go where they pleafe.3 ' '