Star. — London, England, 1813-09-23 00:00:00

attacks ante rebeived against Zahn!, MA in spite 'of the courage .displayed by General Dobschntt, with the troops under his orders, that position was carried. The same was the case, after an obstinate resistance, with respect to the post of Seyda, occupied by the corps of Tauentzein. The reports of the country people ) of the outposts and of secret agents, announced positively that the enemy was taking the rout. of Torgau. These ac counts came in every hour, only one single person brought word that the enemy intended to proceed to Juterboch. The Prince Royal set out on the 6th of September, at three o'clock in the mornhig, from Rabenstein, and collected the Swedish and Russian armies upon the heights Lobessen. His Royal Highness was waiting the reports of General Tauentzein, whom he thought farther advanced, when he received an account from General Bulow, announcing that the whole army of the enemy was in full march upon Juterboch. The Prince Royal ordered him to attack immediately the-flank and rear of the enemy, before General Tau entzein, who defended the approaches of the town, should be overwhelmed by numbers. The Swedish army, who had been marching up wards of two Gertnan miles, proceeded to Juterboch, which was yet ,distant three German miles, and was followed by the Russian army, with the exception of the advanced guard under the orders of Count Wor onzow, and of the corps of General Czernicheff, which continued before Wittenburg. The can nonade and musquetry began immediately between the Prussian troops and the army of the enemy. The Russiairand Swedish corps,after their forced marches, were obliged to halt a moment, in order to form in the order of ' battle. The Prussian army, at most forty thousand men strong, sustained, in the mean while, with . a 'courage truly heroic, the repeated efforts of seventy thousand of the enemy, sup ported by two hundred pieces of cannon. The struggle was unequal and murderous. The Prus sian troops, however, were not disconcerted even for one moment, and if some battalions were obliged to yield for an instant the ground which they had gained, it was only for the purpose of re occupying it the moment after. Whilst this was passing seventy battalions of Russians and Swedes, ten thousand horse of both tations, and an hundred and fifty pieces of artillery advanced in columns of attack, leaving intermediate spaces for deploying. Four thousand Russian and Swedish cavalry had advanced in full speed to support some points whi ther ibe enemy principallyidire.cted his attacks. Their appearance began to check him, and the appearance of the columns did the rest. The fate of the battle was instantly decided. The enemy's army beat a retreat, the cavalry charged them with a boldness re sembling fury, and carried disorder into their co lumns, which retreated with great precipitation upon the route to Dahme. Imperial Head-quarters, TopUtz, Sept. 1. MY Loan—The Emperor Alexander arrived at Prague on the 15th ultimo. The greater part of the Russian army in Silesia, and a corps of Prussians, moved into Bohemia on the 11th and 12th ultimo, and formed a junction with the Austrian army on the 17th and following days. On the 19th the Austrian army, except the corps already on the frontiers, passed in review before the Emperors and the King of Prussia, near Jtmgfern Tignitz. On the 22d the whole of the allied army passed the frontier into Saxony, in four columns, by Peters walde, Alteoberg, Marienberg, and to the left of the last named place. The enemy's force was composed of four corps d'armee—those of Marshal Duke of Reggio, of Ge nerals Bertrand and Regnrer, and of that of the Duke of Padua, and of from three to four thousand Polish troops, foot and horse ; the whole under the command of the Marshal Prince of Moskwa. The result of this battle, which was tough• near the village of Donne witz, by the name of which it will be called, was al ready, yesterday morning, five thousand prisoners, three standards, from five and twenty to thirty pieces of cannon, and upwards of two hundred ammunition waggons. The field of battle, and the road over which the enemy passed, are strewed with dead and wounded, and with a quantity of arms ; six thousand of the former have already been collected. Vigorously Pursued, the enemy, who 'appeared willing to pro ceed to Torgau, will not reach the Elbe before he has suffered losses yet more considerable. So early as yesterday evening General Wobeser, who had been ordered to proceed with five thousand men from Luckau upon Dahme, attacked in that town, where the Prince de la Moskwa and the Dukes of Reggio anti of Padua had taken up their quarters, part of the enemy's army that intended to go to Dresden, and made two thousand five hundred prisoners. Major Heiwig, with 500 horse, advanced upon Sweinitz and Hertzberg, and attacked a column of the enemy in the night, takin?. 600 prisoners and eight pieces of cannon. GeneraCOrouck, at the head of his cavalry, has made upwards of one thousand prisoners, and taken several pieces of cannon. The light troops were every moment bringing in more; and General Kegnier remained a long time exposed to the tire of our sharpshooters, in the situation of a man deiirous of death. We may estimate that the enemy has lost, up to this moment, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, from 16 to 18,000 men, more than 50 pieces of cannon,. and 400 ammunition waggons. The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded must have been immense; half of the escort of the Prince de la Moskwa was killed; Marshal Duke de Reggio charged hinralf the infantry of the Count de Tauent iein. '1 he loss of the Prussian troops is great, and amounts to between four and five thousand men in killed and wounded. However, the results of the day ought to contribute to the consolation of every true patriot, who o ill-find the triumph of the cause of his country insured by the death of these brave mcn. The Swedish and Russian troops have lost The corps vied with each other in courage and devotion. The heroic example shewa on this occasion by the Prussian army, is calculated to exist far ever in the annals of military fame, and to inspire all those whw fight for the independence of Germany.. The Russian and Swedish troops who took part in the engagement, have valiantly seconded the efforts of their brethren in . arms. GeneraLßulow has dis played the coolness apd bravery of a warrior, vtho has no other object than the glory of hi 3 King and the defence of his country. The officers under his command have imitated his honourable example.— The Prince of Hesse Homhourg, Generals Oppen, Borstel, and Thumen, and Colonel Krafft, have dis tinguished themselves in the most brilliant manner. General the Count de Tawenzein, has continued to give proofs of his talents, and sangfroid. He has, during nearly the whole affair, sustained most vigo tous and repeated attacks of the enemy, and has been of great assistance towards the successful.result of the Count Wittgenstein, on the right, having met Gouvion St. Cyr, and disposed him twice on the 1 frontier, attacked him with the bayonet in the lines of Perna, and seized that post the same evening. The 234 the several columns moved towards the 'right to concentrate. The Imperial head-quarters, being the 21st at Cornwall, the 22c1 at Zoblitz, and the 23d at Mit Seida. The 24th they were moved to Reichstadt, near Dippoldswalde. The 25th, at three in the afternoon, the heads of all the columns were behind the heights which sur round Dresden on the left bank of the Elbe. The out-posts were driven in and the defences reconnoitred. The city was evidently out of reach of being carried by a coup-de-main without much loss, and as there was no object to commit so great a sacrifice, it was determined not to attempt it, and the army encamped. On the 26th, the enemy, under cover of their bat teries, endeavoured to regain their outposts, which occasioned a cannonade and firing which lasted all the day towards evening thtonfkustrians stormed a redoubt and spiked the ordnance, and-some attacks were made with a view to provoke the enemy, and if portunity favoured to follow him into the town. On the 27th, the weather which had for several days been extremely wet and cold, became uncom monly thick and bad, and it rained without intermis sion for more than twenty-four hours, with many heavy showers. The enemy shewed himself in much graater force, several large masses of infantry appear ed upon his right, supported by artillery, and by at tacks from the centre, which was protected by the works. This menace, on the Austrian left beyond Plauen towards the vale of Tharaud, was not formidable, and was opposed by a sufficient number of Austrian troops ; but the middle of the day reports arrived that Pirna was re-occupied in force, and that Ge neral Blucher, who had been engaged five times In six days, two of which were general actions, one in presence of Buonaparte on the Bober, and one in which he had taken Marshal Macdonald's baggage, had fallen back to Jauer. At the same time large columns moved out of the town and formed masses to attack the right, as if to turn it, and to cover a movement to the left behind the Elbe. This had the . straggle, a nitteh le halos: he has strewn, it that trinnaki and triattAity theta it temp to hope by. the admirable choice of hi s position. his life may Ile preserved. He his been removed on The Russian General, Count de Manteath dis. men's shoulders in a litter behind the Eger. The tinguished 'himself in char g i ng at th e h ea d c d: hi s E mperor rema i ne d b y him when he fell, till he was brigade. Generals Woronzow, Czernicheff, Benck- placed upon several of the Cossack's pikes and car endorff, and Hirschfeldt, 'having been placed much ried off, and after the of w ent with the King of in advance upon the ri g ht wing o f t h e arm ", were P russ i a to see h i m, and has id him every possible not enabled to assist in the engagement, but they attention. have materially contributed to our success by the po-1 Head-quarters were that night at Iteichstadt, near sitions which they occupied. I Dippoldswalde. The 28th head-quarters were at Marshal the Count de Stedincic, and General the Altenberg, and on the 29th at Duchs. Baron de WintzingerOde, the Generals, Officers, and On *the 29th the enemy having moved in force, men under their command, regretted that the pteci. under General Vandamme, by Peterswalde to Hol pitate retreat of the enemy at their approach, did not lendorf and Culm, attempted to attack the bag leave theni the opportuity of rendering their destruc- gage and ordnance moving to Toplitz by roads which tion complete, by a simultaneous attack. The wind, unite near that place. The Russian foot guards, who and the great clouds of dust, for a long time preven- had on the preceding day cut a passage for one hun ted the Russian and Swedish armies from distinguish- dred pieces of field ordnance, not one of which was ing each other, notwithstanding that they marched in lost, stopped this attack, and, supported by some part concert, and upon The same line. of the Russian Imperial cavalry guard and cuirassiers, The Prince Royal has been constantly attended by kept the enemy in check the whole of the day, while his Staff. General the Baion de Aldercreutz, did the columns of baggage and artillery passed in their not leave him until he had received directions to pro- ' rear. In the evening they were reinforced by some teed to the right of the Prussian army with several ; battalions of Russian grenadiers, and a considerable pieces of cannon, under the direction of Colonel Car- i force Was assembled at Toplitz. Orders were sent dill. This General has entirely fulfilled the inter- f to General Kleist, whose column of Prussian troops Lions of his Royal Highness, and he daily acquires was meant to move in the night by Zinwalde upon new claims upon his esteem and friendship. !liollendorf, so as to be ready to attack General Van- He is also much satisfied with the zeal of Generals damme in the rear, when the other troops should at the Baron de Tawast, and the Count de Lowenhielm. ' tack in front. Generals the Baron de Suchtelen, de Vincent, de On the 30th the Austrian divisions Coloredo and Krueemark, and Pozzo di Borgo, have constantly ' Bianchi, were added to the troops above named, and attended near the Prince Royal's person. the command was given to General Barclay de Tolly. A solemn Te Deum has this day been chanted in The Emperor and the King were on the height near every corps of the army, for the advantages which the field, and Marshal Prince Schwartzenberg was have been gained by the combined forces since the also a spectator. The enemy was posted near Cull% commencement of hostilities. a seat of the Thun familyAand in the woods ; the Among the prisoners are a number of Saxons, who attack waS made about ten with great spirit, arid the Save requested permission to form themselves into a en my had already lost ground, when General Kleist Saxon Legion, to fight in behalf of the independence appeared. of the Sovereigns, and of the liberty of Germany. He turned against the Prussians and attempted to The Prince Royal has complied with their offer, per- cut a passage with great impetuosity, but the attacks suaded that the devotion of those brave men will of the allies were carried on with so much vigour, that prove satisfactory to the Allied Powers. I The enemy was completely beat on all points, and driven into the woods. General Vandamme and three other Generals, one of whom is General Acken, their best engineer, were taken in the evening, another was found killed either on that or the preceding day, some colours were taken, with from forty to fifty pieces of cannon, and some thousand prisoners.— Two other Generals and some thousand troops who had got into the mountains, surrendered this morn ing near Peterswalde. The Russian guards and ca valry, engaged the preceding day,lhad an opportunity of being again distinguished. Head-quarters were at Toplitz on the 30th, and continued there this day, General Wittgenstein was attacked beyond Alten burg en the 30th, and drove back the enemy. This day, it seems, the French have entirely left the moun- The defeat of the enemy by the Crown Prince of Sweden, and by General Blucher, of which accounts were received last night, will probably influence the future movements of all the armies. Sir Charles Stewart, who has been in every action within his reach, was unfortunately wounded yester day, by the splinter of a shell, above the knee ; the bone is not injured, and it is hoped he will not long be confined. Upon the whole, the gallant exploits of the '29th and 30th, near Toplitz, though they were performed by a small part of the army, have had every conse• quence of decisive victory. Te Drum was sung this morning at the head of the Russian guards. The three Soveteigns were present, and the guards marched past them in review in as complete order as if they had been in a camp of in struction, instead of having been employed in making forced marches, or engaging the enemy for eighteen days without intermission. • I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CATHCARt'. Toplitz, September 1, 1813. MY 1.6/Ib—lt is with the greatest satisfaction I have the honour to acquaint your Lordship, that at the moment of the departure of the messenger Fisher for England, a dispatch was received from General Blucher, dated Holstein, in Silesia, the 30th ult. which informs his Prussian Majesty hat he attacked the enemy again on the 29th in a position behind the Bober river, and completely defeated them, and took General Puttow, and the greatest part of Marshal Macdonald's Staff, prisoners ; also two eagles, and twenty-two pieces of cannon ware taken. From the 26th to the 29th, the corps of General Blucher has taken 15,000 prisoners, and near one hundred pieces of cannon. When the officer, the bearer of this., dispatch, left General Blucher's head-quarters, on the 30th, a re port was.received of General Horn having entered Buntzlau on that day. A great desertion had taken place in the French army, and the peasantry of Silesia began to take an active part in collecting the prisoners after the diffe rent actions. appearance of the enemy declining the combat on the j Twenty-two pieces of cannon have been collected, Leipzig or Erfurt roads, and moving to his left to in addition to the sixty alluded to, as having been gain the Bohemian line, and it was resolved to make . taken in the action . of the 30th near Culm, and several a flank march immediately, in five columns by the ' more ammunition waggons. right, to reach the important .passes in that direction EXTRACT OF I A DISPATCH FROM LIEUTENANT GENE before him, and to choose a field of battle in Bohemia,l RAL SIR CHARLES STEWART, K. B. TO VICOUNT CM instead of one towards the old ground of Lutzen, to TLEREAGH, DATED TOPLITZ, AUGUST 31. j which it was not certain that he would advance. I enclose your Lordship the only official document This day produced several severe partial actions, which I have as yet received of the late glorious suc in which the enemy had many men killed and made ceases, being a General Order of General Blucher to prisoners in charges of cavalry, and it was expensive his army. to both sides by the continued cannonade and heavy I I also annex the official Report received here from fire of musketryt The ground, which is deep clay in 1 the Prinee Royal of Sweden, on which, as well as many places, became so wet that neither infantry nor upon the other very brilliant successes of the allied cavalry could move without difficulty, and ordnance ' armies, I beg leave to offer your Lordship my sincere and all carriages sunk to the axle-trees. 1 congratulations. The Emperor was passing along the front of the (These documents have already appeared in public.] line towards the right, where an attack was ordered, 1 MEMORANDUM. By an offieWl inaccu . rac and had had stopped for a moment to direct the move- i rt, which appeared i n th e , the Dispatc Extraordin hes of Sir Charles ary Gazette of the 21st La ment of some Russian battalions, on a ground within , :tent were misdated : reach of the cross fire of two French batteries, when i That dated the 27th of August, from Zehista, should be dated General Moreau, who was speaking to his Imperial , the 26th. Majesty, and close to him, was wounded. The shot That 2a of the 29th of August, from Altenberg, should be dated the th struck one thigh, passed through the horse, and slat- That of the 80th of August, from Toplits, should be dated tered the other leg, so that the General was obliged t h e 29t h. to submit to the amputation of both, considerably' ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 91. above the knee. Rear-Admiral Graham Moore writes to Mr. Cro- It is impossible to spew more heroic magnanimity ker, from Rostock, on the 10th September, that Lieu and composure than the General has displayed in tenant-General Count Walmoden had his head-quar eyery circumstance of this dreadful wound, and from tars at Domita on the Bth. SECOND EDITION. STAR .OFFICP., TWO O'CLOCK. DEFEAT OF BONAPARTE IN PERSON BY THE CROWN PRINCE OF SWEDEN. The intelligence received by Government from Heligoland states, that a dreadful battle had taken place upon the Elbe, between Torgau and Dresden, on the 10th inst, The French are said to have been commanded by BONAPARTR in person, and the Allies by the CROWN PRINCL. The French were driven back upon Dresden with great loss. The above important intelligence is given in the shape of a report only, as it reached the Governor of Heligoland from the Elbe; but we can add, that it is generally believed to be correct in all the depatt,, ments of Government. The circumstance of the date of this Is% .tle being given, is greatly in favour of the probability of the report, and it corresponds with the preceding movements of the Allies is the same di rection. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. It has just been telegraphed horn YArmnuth, that the Officer in command of our ships of war at the Mouth of the Elbe, had received an account from Altona (the channel by which the former accounts, which proved correct, were received), that BONA• PARTE had come to the assist :nce of the Prince of MosmvA with 40,000 men, and that he had been per sonally defeated by the CROWN PRINCE . in a general battle on the 10th instant, with the loss of FIFTY THOUSAND MEN! Report adds, that BONAPARTE had thrown himself into Magdeburgh with_ 12,000 men, being the re mains of the army with which he attacked. To-day it is again and again reported, on the au thority of letters from the Coast of France, that pref s den has fallen into the bands of the Allies. The peison who brought one of these letters from Calais left it on Tuesday night, and arrived at Dover too late for the Mail, but the letter was given to the Guard, who did not deliver it until late this morn ing. The Gentleman who received it, says that the writer has never deceived him in any account which he has sent him. Letters were received in Town this day front General Sir ROBERT WILSON, who is with the Allied Armies in Bohemia. Sir ROBERT was on horseback s beside the Emperor of RUSSIA, at the moment Ge neral MOREAU received his mortal wound. The lat ter had just galloped up to make a communication to the EMPEROR, and the horses heads touched when the ball executed its fetal commission. Sir ROBERT WILSON describes the retreat tf the Allies from before Dresden as being ma:telly in the extreme, end as effected without much loss, but this he ascribes to a blunder having been committed by one of the French Generals, who took a wrong direc tion when sent in pursuit. This General, Sir Ronal. states to hare been Bratiharnoil, but this must have been a slip of the pen► Probably he alludes to the affair of VANDAMME. Letters have been received from Br:-lin of the 6th instant, which state, that the Surgeon who attended General MOREAU has written to his friends in that . City, acquainting them that the General lost one of his legs, the ball having carried away the foot from the ancle, and that the other is dreadfully lacerated, pronouncing him at the satne time out of danger. NAVAL INTALLIGENCE. DEAL, SEPTEMBER se. Came down from the River, the Arab, BROWN, for South Seas ; Hermes, MOOR, for Howtli ; Friend ship, CATTER, for Lisbon; John and Sally, for Bit. boa, and several others.—Came down PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 21. Put in here by contrary winds, the ship Ann Os borne, MACDONALD, from Bermuda and Halifax, with a cargo, bound to London.—Arrived the Deptford naval transport, from the River; the Dorothy, ASH. 'ton, from Boston ; the Venus, CHISURAN, from New. castle; the Providence, BROWN, from Newhaven and Portsmouth.; the Union, Houn, from Portsmouth ; the Vigo, TAYLOR, from Southampton ; the H.tinah, BARNS, from Newcastle; and the Dulwich, H ►xs, from Hull. Also arrived his Maiesty's ships LIGHT NING and OPOSSUM, from the West Indies, last front • St. Thomas's.—Wind E.S.E. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 22. Sailed his Majesty's ship QUEEN, of 74 guns, Capt. Lord COLVILLE ; UNICORN, 32, Captain PRCHELL ; NYSIPHEN, 36, Capt. HANCOCK ; and REDPOLR, 10 t Capt. FRASER, to the Eastward.—Came into harbour, the TORTOISE, store ship, Captain COOR. The Anni. versary of his Majesty's Coronation has been observed at this Port, with the usual demonstrations of joy. Saturday night, about ten o'clock, his Majesty's cutter the SWAN fell in with a brig off Beachy Head, which she repeatedly hailed, but without receiving any answer. The cutter's boat was then manned to take possession of her, when she proved to be the Hazard, of Sunderland, TAYLOR master, with a cargo of coals, and abandoned by her crew, not having a soul on board. When the Swan's people captured her, she was wabbling in the sea, at the mercy of the waves, and must have gone ashore, where she would have been dashed to pieces; but, in conse quence of their taking charge of her, she was carried safe into Newhaven harbour the next day. Yesterdax.a Quarterly General Court was held at the East India House, when, after the usual forms, a ballot for the restoration to the Company's service of Mr. Psraa CAMPBELL, late Commander of the extra ship Lord Keith, was fixed for the ISth Oat. next,. Captain W. Gr.urrow was sworn into the command of the ship Europe, consiguedp Madras and Bengal, 1 I ; , I 1 i . , r