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-J r 7 GRAND WESTERN CANAL NOTICE IS HER EBY GIVEN, That the next .I.N GENERAL ANNUAL ASSEMBLY of the COMPANY of PROPRIETORS of the GRAND WE'TERN CANAL, will be held at the Cy. - y or LoNoom Tlivaaw, in Bbheptigate : ; Street, London, nn Tittiasnar, the 24th day of JULY, 1813, at Stevan &Clock in the Forenoon. WARD and 11URIUMAN, Principal Clerks. Marlborough, tith June, tats. SUF;PL,EMINT TO TBB LQNDQN G 4 ET pr TUICSI)4Y 11124TH of JUNI. WEDNgSDAY, 'Ann 9*, 1813, FOREIGN O 1 ICE, JUNE fp lilt Dispatchett,of I,Chich the following are copies, were tlds day re ceived by Viscount Castlereagh, his Majesty's Principal Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs, frorn Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Charles Stewart, K. B. his Majesty's Envoy Extraor dinary an 4 Minister i'lenipotentiarnary to the Court of Prussia ? dated head-Quarters, Wurzen, May 20. MY LIRD—•I have just received the official account of the operations of the Allied Armies since the 2d inst. fri)m General Kniesback, and I endow a trans jation of it for ycur Lordship's informs - 6bn. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CHARLES STEWART, Lieut.-Gen. BULLETIN.—(Temysf.ATIoN). Head-Quarters Wurzen, near Bautzen, May 19, 1813. - - Since the battle of the 2d of May, the Allied Army has had no engagement of consequence with the enemy. Some small affairs have taken place, which have constantly proved the good conduct of the troops. The following is a short account of the ope ra tion s since the 2,1 of May in order to weaken the enemy's line of operation, ,by drawing him from his supplies, and to retire upon our own, the General commanding the Allied Army proposed to take up a position in Upper Lusatia.— The enemy did not interrupt this operation, but slowly followed the army. However, a brisk can nonade of a Prussian corps took place between Col ditz and Waldheim, but they retired in the greatest order. In this affair Lieutenant-colonel and Briga. dier Von Steinmetz distinguished himself with his brigade ; and the Prussian General St. Priest, with great judgment and decision attacked the enemy in flank, by which the affair was decided: the enemy lost 409 men, in killed and wounded. Our loss in this action was two officers and 130 men. We have to recret the loss a Major Kall, a most dinstinguish ed officor. Oil the 6th and 7th the enemy crossed the Elbe at Dresden and Meissen. Several small detachments of partizans returned to the left bank of the river to 4ppoy the enemy's rear. One of these detachments, under Lieutenant Zilmer, of the Brandenburg hus sars, tog an officer charged with dispatches of con st.eqUence, and 20 horses, near Zwekaw, and safely rejoined the army on the 10th. About this time it was ascertained that the King of Saxony had declared tor the enemy, and had given up Torgan to the French troops. This intelligence determined the Allies to evacuate the middle Elbe, and to concentrate the Army at Bautzen. The army has been in this position seven days, very quiet, and daily increasing in numbers, and a battle is shortly expected to take pjace. Our detached corps continue successfully to annoy the enemy. On the 14th General Jelowaiski sur prised a pet at Konigsbruck, and took the whole detachment pripners, consisting of eight officers and 173 'pep (fin the 12th and 15th the corps of General Mila radovitch had affairs, in which the enemy lost 1000 Men killed, and 1500 wounded, and six of zers and 306 men were made prisoners. On the 18th, Genpral Jelowaiski made prisoners.a troop of lancers of the Dutch guard ; and in the afternoon, General Milaradovitch made a reconnois sance, in which the enemy lost 100 killed, and 130 prisoners. Deserters come in daily from the enemy, and he suffers considerably by our skirmishes. Head-quarters, Wurzen, May 20. Mx LORD—The enemy detached on the evening of the 17th and 18th in the direction of LuOau and Jubben, on our right ;—thp force was stated to be egnier's corp. Intelligence tieing received that General Lauriston with nine thousand men, would march to reinforce the troops above mentioned on the 19th, General Barclay de 'folly and General d'York, with a strong corps, were sent to intercept and fall upon Gene:* Lauriston. General Barclay de 'Folly fell in with the enemy in the neighbourhood of Konigswerde, and a sharp contest et.sued, which was put an end to only by night-tall, and in which the 41lies were completely 1 successful. Toey drove back the enemy :it all point;, took upwards of fifteen hundred prisoners, a General of division, and eleven .pieces of cannon. The enemy's loss in killed and wounded was considerable. .---The cavalry were in pursuit when the accounts Came away. The loss on our side has not yet been ascertained, nor am in possession of the details of this affair. General d'York was engaged more on the right, and encountered a strong force: the support of Latt 7 riston's corps, supFosed to be Marshal Key's: He , was engaged till eleven o'clock at night against very superior numbers, with 2ncctss. Both the allied corps returned into the position this morning. Sii - o'dock am enabled, being lust re turned from Gen. Milaradotirtch's advanced guard, to report t- , your Lordship, that A vny severe attack has been made today by the enemy to possess them selves of the town of Batnn. They attempted a false attack' an our lett, but the real ta)e was ov, Ge. steral Mita; - :4lovitch's right. General Kltist's corps was roved up to his support, and the attack was sustiitted by Generals Milaradovitch an.l Kleist, with the' utmost gallantry. I wituyssed two Very g.tlLnt charges of Russian tight c tvalry, as Weil as extreme good conduct throught:ut the troops engar , ed._ General Milaradovi:eh will be drawn to.nigtit into the position. It would seem front, what has occurred this day, that the enemy intend it gteat effort here.---4 have the honceur to be, &c. (Signcd) CHARLES STEWART, Lieut.-General. Viscount Castlereagh. Head-quarters, Goldberg, Siles'a, May 24. MY Loan—l hastily detailed to your Lordship in - • my last dispatch the military movements on the 110th and the attack on Bautzen by the enemy. The imention of the enemy, in his attack on the right and left of Bautzen on the 20th, was to force the Spree River, and to pass to some heights on our right, thus threatening General Milaradovitcli's rear, and gaining advantageous ground, from which his artillery could sweep our mat position, and, under cover of whose fire, he might with greater facility make his disposition for the general attack on the following morning. The action was bravely contested ; a Russian bat talion and some Prussian lancers, under cover of a battery, boldly advanced and contested alone the heights, in spite of the enemy's powerful efforts, until they were supported by General Kleist's corps. In the mean t;me, on the extreme right, the ene my's corps followed Generals Barclay de Tony and D'York, in their retrograde movement from their expedition against General Lauriston. General D'Ynrk's corps entered the position in the evening, but the whole of Barclay de Tblly's did not effect it till the following morning. General Milaradovitch repulsed the repeated ef forts of the enemy that were vigorously made to force him on the left, and the columns of the enemy, that had attempted to pass into the mountains, were kept in check. Finding, however, late in the evening, that General Kleist had fallen back into the main position, General Milaradovitch withdrew entirely from the Spree River and the town of Bautzen. and in the night occupied the ground marked out for him in the general line. ' The severe affairs of this day reflect the highest honour on Generals Milaradovitch and Kleist, and the brave troops under their command. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CHARLES STEWART, Lieut.-General. Viscount Castlereagh, &c. &c. Goldberg, May 24, 1813. MY LORD—The Allied Army under the orders of Count Wittgenstein, in position, in advance of Wurs chen and Hochkirch, was attacked by the enemy at day-break, commanded by Bonaparte in person, on the morning of the 21st instant. It appears he had assembled all his forces for this effort, and had not detached largely, as had been supposed, to other quarters. The ground selected by the Allies to resist the enemy's approach, on the great roads to Silesia and ' , the Oder, was bounded on the left by a range of mountains which separates Lusatia from Bohemia, through which Marshal Daun marched to the battle, and victory of Hochkirch. Some strong commanding heights, on which bat teries had been constructed, near the village of Jacko. witz, and separated from the chain of mountains by streams and marshy ground, formed the appui to the left flank of the position. Beyond, and in front of it, many batteries were pushed forward, defended by in fantry and cavalry, on a ridge that projected into.the low ground near the Spree River. It then extended to the right, through villages which were strongly entrenched, across the great roads leading from Baut zen to Hochkirch and Gorlitz ; from thence, in front of the village of Bourthewitz, to three or four com manding hills which rise abruptly in a conical shape, and form strong features ; these with the high ground I of Krcckwitz were strengthened by batteries, and were considered the right point of the line. The ground in the centre was favourable for ca. valry, except in some marshy and uneven parts, where it would impede its operations. Fleches were con -1 structed, and entrenchments dr. - own up at advanta geous distances on the plain, along the front of which ran a deep boggy rivulet, which extended round the right of the position. On the extreme right, the country was flat and woody, intersected by roads bearing towards the Bo ber and the Oder. General Barclay de Tolly's corps was stationed here, and should be considered more as a manoeuvring corpse placed to guard against the enemy's attempts on the right and rear of the Allies, than as immedi ately in position ; the extent of the whole line might be between three and four English miles. The different corps occupying it were as follows : 'General Kleist's and General d'Yerck's corps in echelon, and in reserve, on the right : General Blu cher's, Count Wittgenstein's, and General Milorado vitsch's, formed on the left ; and the guards and gre. nadiers, and all the Russian cavalry, were stationed in reserve in the centre. The enemy evinced, early in the action, a determi nation to press the flanks of the allies ; he liAd thrown a very strong corps into the mountains on our left, which favoured his species of warfare; but General Miloradovitsch was prepared here, having detached Prince Carchikoff and Count Asterman with ten bat talions of light troops, and a large corps of Cossacks, with their artillery, under Colonel Davidoff, to occu py these hills. • After a very strong tirailade in this quarter, and a distant cannonading on our right, which commen menced the action, the enemy began to develope his forces, and to muve his different columns of attack to their stations. The contest in the mountains became gradually warmer, and he supported it by a very powerful line of artillery. The Prince of Wirtemberg's and Ge• neral St. Priest's divisions of General Milaradovitch's corps were here sharply engaged, and a charge of cavalry succeeded against some guns of the enemy, one of which was taken. Bonaparte was now visible on a commanding spot directing the battle. He deployed in front of the town of Bautzen his guards, cavalry, and lancers, and shewed heavy columns of infantry on the espla nade before it, bringing up besides a number of bri. gades of artillery, with which he occupied some ad vantageous I:eights between our position and Bautzen that were favourable to support his attacks. These demonstrations denoted an efort in this di rection, and a disposition was accordingly made with Central Binci.cr's corps and our commanding ca valry to meet it : but an increasing fire, and a more lively cannonade on our right, made it ultimately no linger doubtful wh ere hi s c hi e f attempt was a i me d . Columns of attack, under cover of a heavy tire, were now in motion from the er.:my's left, while others were filing to gain our right ; and General Barclay de 'roily was attacked by a very superior force under Marshal Ney and General Lauriston ; and, notwith• standing the most gallant efforts, was forced to aban. don the villages of Klutz and Cannervitz. General Barclay de 'folly had orders, if °ilium beret!, to change the ground fie occupied in front of Cannervits and Prie,litz, and to place himself on the heights surrounding the villages of Rachel and Ba riith, by which the army would change its position on the left, and cover the main roads through Wurt zen and Hoehkirch to the rear : but the enemy out flanked him on the right, while they warmly engaged him in front, and occupied these heights before him, ' which determined him to throw himself on the right 'of Wurschen where the Imperial head-quarters had been, and which equally answered his object. When it was perceived that General Barclay de Tolly was pressed by immense odds, General Blucher was or dered to move to his right, and attack the enemy in flank. General Blucher was afterwards supported by Ge nerals Kleist and D'Yorck, and here a most sangui nary contest ensued. These attacks succeeded in checking the enemy.— That of General Blucher's corps exceeds all praise : and the Prussians in this eventful day, as at the bat tle of Lutzen, again evinced what their troops are capable of accomplishing when headed by a King they love, and fighting for their country, their Liberty and independence. A charge of 4000 of their cavalry on columns of the enemy's infantry, which had carried the village of Kracknitz, completely repulsed him, and the Prus sians again occupied it, displaying the greatest order and steadiness under the most galling fire. Still these I gallant efforts were arrested by the enemy's bringing up fresh troops, and though partial successes were obtained, the general issue was in suspense. A momentary advantage being gained by the enemy in consequence of General Barclay de Tolly's movements, he lost no time in making every exertion to push it to the utmost, renewing, at the same time, 1 his attack on Oar left flank, and assaulting the bat teries that covered the conical heights, as also those of Kreckwitz on the right—he made himself master ( of the latter, and of one of our batteries, which gave him, in some degree, the key of the position, as it commanded the low ground on the right and cen tre of it. Still in every other part of the line the Allies firmly sustained the conflict—but it soon became apparent that the enemy had not only superior forces to fight us at all points, bet he had also the means of prolong ing his flank march on our right, thus threatening our communications and menacing our rear. Although it might have been easy, by a general assault of the grenadiers and guards in reseve, to have recovered the heights of Kreckwitz, still the pressure round The flank on Barclay de Tolly's corps would have again necessitated the abandonment of them, and when these trbops moved to their point of attack, the centre, where the enemy still shewed a powerful force, would have been endangered. It was only from considerations of such a nature as I have above detailed, that the Allies were induced to change their position at five o'clock in the evening, having from day-break, admirably contested every part of the field of battle. The superiority of numbers was with the enemy, but the heroism and firmness displayed by the Allies must begespected even by their adversaries. The magnanimous conduct of his Imperial Ma jesty and the King of Prussia, made the greatest im pression on all around them ; they never quitted the field of battle, and T witnessed in his Imperial Ma jesty the most ardent and anxious desire, by renewed attacks, to sustain the position, had not reasons of prudence, coupled with ti,e most important consider ations, decided otherwise. I feel I cannot do justice to the details of the bat tle, nor to the extraordinary efforts made. I have endeavoured to give your Lordship the most faithful account of what I personally witnessed. The deter mination being taken to place the army in a new po sition, the troops were in motion about seven o'clock in the evening, for the ground between Weissenberg and Hochkirch. The enemy opened immediately a tremendous fire from the heights of Kreckwitz and the village of Cannewitz, on the retiring columns; but every gun was withdrawn from the batteries, and the troops moved as at a field day. The corps of Generals Tolly, D'York, Blucher and Kleist, marched off from their right to Weissenberg—thw.e of Wittgen stein and Milaradovich fri,m their left to Hochkirch. The retreat was made in echelon, covered by the ca valry ; the enemy did not attempt to molest it, and it was conducted with the m.•st perfect order. General Kleist's corps formed the rear guard to the corps moving on Weissenberg, and a battery of 40 pieces, planted by Count Wittgenstein on the heights of Wurtzen, impeded the enemy's advance. General Milaridovitch covered the retreat of the troops on Hochkirch, and the army were in their position at night.—l have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CHARLES STEWA zur, Lieut. Gen. P.S. From the most authentic information I can procure, the force of the Allies did not exceed sixty five thousand men ; that of the enemy I estimated at least at 120,000. The loss on both sides was great. The enemy's must have been tremendous—l am una. ble to state the numbers with any accuracy. C. S. Lieut. Gen. • Head-Quarters, Goldberg, Siesia, May 24, 1813. My Lonn—The army continued to retire on the 22d in two columns, on the great roads from Bautzen to Lowenberg. The enemy made an attempt to in terrupt the corps of General Milardovitch, in which he completely failed. At Reichenbach tee rear-guard took up a position, which they defended in the most obstinate manner against the enemy's advance, led by Bonaparte in person. The enemy shewed a strong force of cavalry, and made several charges on that of the Allies, and one into the town of Reichenbach, which were successfully repulsed, with the loss of some hundreds killed, wounded, and taken, and se veral officers. By bringing up a number of guns a great force, and by outflanking our rear-guard, it was obliged to leave Reichenbach, but fell back on Gorlitz in the best order. The conduct of the troops Ibis day, after their long service and unequal combat of the 21st, has been be yond all praise. Throughout the late movements there has been no loss of guns, tumbrils, or baggage of any kind in the Allied Army. General Bulow's corps, joined by General Bondell's in 'the neighbourhood of Relitz and Trebbin, finding that the enemy had withdrawn the corps of Victor in that quarter, for the purpose of his general opera tions against the Allied Array, has renewed the of. fensive, and has pushed his patroles to Baruth an,( towards Wittenburg. The enemy did not advance above half an Engli,h mile on the side of Gorlitz, yesterday. This morn ing they have not pressed. and all retires in perf,• ; t order. The Allied Army are moving in the dircc• lion of Schweidnitz. I have the honour to be, Bce. (Signed) CHARLES STEWART, I,4eut. Cleo, .IPARLI4m:ENT 4 Rr PROCIEDINO. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE It. In the case of Toyey and I.indcay,' ft was determined, that the whole should be remitted to the Court of Session, to revi.- s , their decision. It was a case in whi c h t h e Scott:a Court hal auumcd jurisdiction to dissolve an English 'marriage which th e Twelve Judges bad lately, in Lollie s case , declared to be it dis soluble, except by Act of Parliament. It was a ease of thr ct most Importance to the farnil), relations, and even to family property, in botb parts of the Island; and It wzs therefo-e stltti to be requisite, that the case shorld undergo the fullest consi deration. In the case of ' Smith 2nd others, against thp Bank of Sent. land,' the cause was remitted to the Court of Session, w' ti;s sections to receive the proof of certain facts io the cause, of which they had rejected the proof. lu the Appeal of ' Reynolds and Woodford,' the judgment cf the Court below was affirmed. Mr. Blow:team and Mr. HOLT were lined for the deftndant in error; and Mr. GASELEC for plaindff in error, in the case Thomson and Beale.' The Emperor Paul, of Russia, had, tr. 1801, seized the British shipping in the Russian ports, and im prisoned the crew•, who, after some months' confinement, were released by his bucce,sor. They then returned to dulr tits, and brought home the ships, which were also released. Th e action was brought by a seaman against the owners of ou, or these ships, to recover wages for the time he had been confined, which the owners refused, alledging, that the seamen were en titled to no wages during the period in question. The Jud4es ett. with the Chancellor; and took time to consider the lot-stun:, and judgment was postponed. Lord LAUDERDALE expressed some doubts as to the am. racy of the opinion be had given in regard to hearing Couneloa the subject cf the Borthwick Peerage case; arAgive notice, Th.st he would call the attention of the House to it on blonday. His Lordship than moved for certain papers relative to the Commercial Affair* of the East India Company. Ordered. HOUSE OF COMMONS. There not being Forty Member• at Four o'clock i the Huutc Adjourned. FRENCH PAPE4?..f. PARIS, JUNE 4. The Empress Queen and Regent has received the following intelligence respecting the situation of the armies on the 27th in the evening: 66 On the `26th, General Count Lauriston's head quarters were in Haynan. A battalion of General Maison was unexpectedly charged at five in the evening by 3000 horse, and obliged to fall b ick upon a village. It lost two cannon and three caissons which were under its guards The division took to arms ;—the enemy endeavoured to charge the 153c1 regiment, but he was driven from the field of battle, which he left covered with his dead. Among the killed was the Colonel, and about a dozen officers of the Body Guard, the decorations of which they- wore. •6 On the 27th, the Emperor's !read-quarters were at Leignitz, where the young and old guards were, and Generals Lauriston and Regnier's corps. The Prince of Moskwa's corps was at Haynau ; that of the Duke of Bellunn manoeuvred upon Glogau. The Duke of Tarentum was at Goldberg. The Duke af Ragusa and Count Bertrand were upon the road from Goldberg to Leignitz. It appears that all the enemy's army has taken the road of Jager and bchweidnitz. 64 A good number of wounded have been collect,. ed. The villages are full of the enemy's wounded. " Leignitz is a very pretty town. The Authorities had left it by express orders, which has caused much discontent among the inhabitants and peasantry of the circle. Count Dany has in consequence been charged to form new magistrates. 46 All the people who belonged to the Court, and all the Nobility who evacuated Berlin, retired to Breslau ; now they are evacuating Breslau, and a part are retiring into Bohemia. " The intercepted letters speak of nothing but the consternation of the enemy, and of the enormous losses he experienced at the battle of Wurtschen." Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has received the following intelligence from the army, dated the 29th in the morning ; " The Duke of Belluno was marching upon Gins gau. General Sebastiani met near Sprottau an enemy's convoy, charged it, took 22 pieces of cannon, sixty caissons, and 500 prisoners. 66 The Duke of Ragusa arrived on the evening of the 28th, at Jauer, driving the enemy's rear-guard. whose position he had turned upon that point. I'he Duke of Tarentum and Count Bertrand had arrived on the heights above that town. " On the 28th, at break of day, the Prince of Moskwa, with Count Lauriston and General Reg nier's corps, had marched upon Neumark ; thus our advanced guard is within seven leagues of Breslau. 44 On the 29th, at ter( in the morning, Count Schauvaloft, Aide-de•Camp of the Emperor of Rus sia, and General Kleist, a Russian General of Division, presented themselves at the advanced posts; the Duke of Vicenza went to negotiate (fun lernenter) with them. It is believed that this interview is relative to the ;;e -gociation of an armistice. " We have accounts from our fortresses, all of which are in the best situation. " The works which defended the field of battle of Wurtschen, are very considerable ; the enemy had, therefore, the greatest confidence in those entrench ments. An idea of them may be formed, ts heti it is known, that they were the labour of 10,000 ork• men during three months ; for the Russians have been labouring on this position, which they considered un attackable, since the month of February. " It appears that General Wittgenstein has given up the command of the combined army : it is Gene. ral Barclay de Telly who commands it. " The army is here in the finest country possible , . Silesia is a continued garden, in which the army fines the greatest abundance of every thing." A letter, dated 30th May, announces that Ham burgh is in our power. Letters from Copenhagen state that the Prince Royal has set out for Norway, in order to put him self at the head of the army destined to defend ti:.rt country in case of attack. LE!PZIC, MAY 28. Marshal the Duke of Reggio's corps hAs been de • tached from the Grand Army to march directly op)'; e at 4 torn. lirec. Geo. I. dm revie w rt In! eh th e irdis- the lA- family cond. r Scot. re!! t 1;. • whirl: aen; ct * nndant se case had, tr. ant im- r, Were r stain, . Olir 01 nflned, ere en- -1,;e1 ur, and IP am:- ape! on ce, tAt to the d. Huuse ed the pi the head- .ener.d in the upon, aissons )ok to 15.3 d battle, ig the cers of - wore. i were ;were, The