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• • • • cruel example held on to them by the neued the troops of France. - • EXTRACT /ROM LORD BURGHERS?, DATED LANGRES, JANUARY 18, 1814. It is with considerable satisfaction I am enabled to date this dispatch from Langres. Your Lordship will have been informed that a force consisting of Bonaparte's guards, had occupied the important position of this lace. ph .Ipo, , The mountains of the Vosges, which form one of the principal barriers to the entry into the heart of France on this side, offered a formidable position to a defensive army in the neighbourhood of this town. From the arrival of the' guards, it heel been pre sumed, that a considerable corps of !mends would be assembled here. Prince- Schwartzenherg in conse quence, determined to advance upopit with a force which should secure him success in the attack of the position., Marshal Monier did not await the advance of the allied army. It appears that on the 16th he began his retreat front this place. On the 17th,. General Gyulay pushed forward his advanced guard. The Commandant of the town en deavoured to capitulate for it, but he was told he must surrender ; he was left without the means of resistance. The levy ex mane s which had been or dered by Bonaparte, had not been carried into effect by the people.. General Gyulay took possession of the place : 13 cannon which had been brought from Dijon, a con siderable quantity of powder, and two hundred men, have been captured by the allies. Marshal /tinier retired towards Chaumont ; hate cupied this place with twelve thousand of the, old " guards, unsupported by any other troops. At Chaumont there does not appear to be any tein forcement.arrived for him—the Prince Royal of Wur tenburg has been directed to march upon that town, and it is expected he will be in possession of it this evening.,. General Count Plato* has arrived with his Cos sacks at Neuf-Chateau; and has already pt slidd his pats-01es in- idvanceof that place. . The head-quarters of General Blucher were in have been yesterday at Nancy. The Cossacks under Prince Tcherbatoff, according to the last report from that officer, were advancing upon Toul. RETRACT FROM THE HONOURABLE Silt C. W. STEWART, • DATED BASLE, JANUARY 17. • Te details from all the.adianced corps continue to be of the most encouraging description. Marshal Blucher has taken near three thousand prisoners and twenty-five cannon since his passage of the Rhine. His last reports are from St. Arrol, gaf ' the 10th instant. -Detachments of his corps occupy' Treves, and in. a lew days Luxembourg will be in-: vesi ed. • - • Marshal Marmont has been tinder the necessity .of *taking the most rapid forced. marches. to. prevent, the Silesian army getting into his rear by the Vosges mountains. In his retreat, he has broken dowtr - aff, bridges over the Saar,' but Marshal Blucher is par.! ening him. • Your Lordship will have, front the advance of the armies, more detailed information than I can give.. Prince Schwartzenberg was still at Vesoul, the 15th. The enemy were collecting at Langrei, and the' Prince Marshal was preparing to attack them if they . remained there, which I should doubt ; he had made his dispositions for this purpose. The main Russian army, under General Barclay de Tolly, will he ready to support Prince Schwartzenberg's offensive move-. anent. General Wittgenstein's corps occupies the, country between General Barelay"de Tully and Mar. shal Blucher, and the Russian and Prussian reserves; together with his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of • Russia, have left this place to march on Veboul. • The French garrison that retired into Besancon amounts to 8000 men. • , Befort is still bombarded, and Gereral Scholia. commands the forces which it engages. General Bubna's last repiirts were from Bourg. en Bresse, having left detachments at Geneva and Fort . L'Ecluse (which was taken) and Setten : the Sim plon and St. Bernard are occupied. The Prince of Wurtemburg had advanced from Epinal, the ene my retiring after their defeat by General de Roy to. wards Charmes. The Prince of Hesse Hombourg, from Dole, and Genera,' Scheitha, surrounded the fort of &dins. General Platoff's Cossacks are heard of in every quarter. =TRACT FR& THE HON. SIR CL W. STEWART, DATED BASLE, JANUAitY 22. The details which your Lordship will receive from the advance of the grand army, will be more :ads. factorY;than any I could relate. The entry of the EmPerov pi . Russia into Vesoul with the Russian and Prussian reserves, the abandonment of Langres and Lie position around it by the enemy; the advance of she Prince Royal of Wurtemherg to Ch affront, are 'ill subjects of congratulation. The movements of 10 powerful a force as the Allies now possess.in all directions, upon any central point, render any position the enemy takes up so precarious,. that I yas satisfied (as i ventured to express in a former dispatch) they would not hold out at Langres. • Marshal Blucher's last reports are of the 17th, from Nancy*. He sent the keys of this town to the graP4 head-quarters ; the Emperor of Russia met the 0, cer hearing them, as he was on his march to Vesour he immediately sent two of the keys to the King at - 4 1 rusgi, reserving two for himself, with an appro. wiate message, which strews the anxious attention and consideration that exists between the Allied So • iereips On every occasion. . .. Marshal Blucher in communicatjpn with Gene ral Wreck's corps, and thus with the grand army.— 'this animated veteran gives a vigour ;Tad life to all his proceeding's, that affords an iityaloablik example to every professional map. ' It is with no small satisfaction I announce to your Lordship another brilliant achievement of the Pros., sail antis. 'His Prussian Majesty is again master of Wittenberg, and by no other means but the glorious va lour of his braye soldiers, The siege was begun oo Ih. 28th of December, and the place was in our possession on the 12th of tannery. No impediment of the season arrgited . the spirited satertions of the besiegers ; the enemy made a yaliant resistance. 4 breach was made on ail 11th, apd it was mica. able on the 12th, Alen . a proposal to surrender was made and refused. -At midnight the assault was de tegninad on in four coin*: ; the gallant Prussians . . '' ti.• ~_. -s °Tenant. very obstaflep and, in less than half ar hour they Were masters of the piece. Alrthe son that did not Orem/ down their arms were pAr the sword. The Governor had entrenched the c . and the Motel de Ville; the latter was carrierj ' troops, and the Governor, Ito was ip it, sweat+, • idiscretion, with the rest of the garrison. This capture would add ranch to the fame of that distinguished officer, General Teuentzien, were it Cap pable of addition-; but his exploits in this war are too well known ever to be obliterated from the records orposterity. • . The siege has cost about SOO men killed and woun ded, and the assault about 100, and *even officers wounded. The Prussians found ninety-six pieces of artillery here, and made two thousand' prisoners. In Torgau they had already obtained possession of three hundred and sixteen pieces. In these fortresses the Prussians have found considerable magazines of corn and gun powder. General Tauentzien will now proceed to Magde. bourg. It is r.ot to be overlooked here, that every fortress that now falls, by the adthirable dispositions that have been made, augments very materially the force advancing against the enemy. . -. We have thus reinforcements and three lines of reserve, as it la ere on the Oder, the Elbe, and the Rhine, from which .we constantly derive aid. ThelwaslAu.irters of the Emperor of Austria and the King of Trfissia, will be transferred this day to \resod. • • WA$ DEPARTMENT. • __ DOWNINGSTREET, rsBRUARY 8. A Dispatch, of whiCb the folltwing is a copy, has been received by Elrl BATHURST, addressed to his Lordship by General Sir THOMAS Gamuts', dated— Hcakquarters, Catruhout, January J 4. MY.LoteD Bulow, Commander in Chief of the sd•corps of the Prussian army, having signified to media in the morning of the 11th inst. he was to carry into elect:tiro, hi.; intention of driving the ene my from their position at Hoogstraeten and Wortel, oh the Merk, in order to make a reconnoissance on Antwerp, and that be wished me to cover the right fhyrk of his corps; I moved such parts of the two divisions under my command as were disPosable qorn Rosendall, and arrived here at day-break on the morning of the 1 Ith. The enemy were drivjn back, with loss, from West Wesel, Hoogstraeten, &c. after an obst:nate resistance, by the Prussian troops, to Braescfr at, Westmedle, etc. Dispositions were made to attack them again the following day, but they retired in the night of the 11th, and took up a position near Antwerp, the left , resting oh Merczam. • . General Bulow occupied Braeschat in force that evening (the 12th). I moved to Capelle, on the great road from Ber gen-op-Zoom to Antwerp, - to be ready to cooperate in the intended attack yesterday. Major. General Cooke's division remained in re serve at •Capelle, and Major-General 1 4 4‘,Icenzie's moved, by Ekeren nod Donc towards Jlerc..xem, so as to avoid both great roads occupied by the Prus sians. While the Prussians wereengaged considerably more to the left, an attack on the village of Merexern was made by olonel M•Lead's brirlle, led by him- Aelf, in the most gallant style,. and arder the imme. diate direction of Major-General MaXenzie. .The rapid, but orderlyladvance of the detachment Of the third battalion of the rifle corps, under Captain Fullarton's command, and of the 5..-cond battalion of the 78t v commanded by Lieutenant. Colonel Lind. Say, supported by the second battalion of the 25th, commanded by. Major M'DonneJl, and by the 33d, under Lieutenant. - Colonel Elphinstone, and an imme diate charge with the bayonet by the 78th, ordered by Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsay, decided the contest much sootier, and, with numb less loss than might hive been expected,. 'front" the strength of the post, and the numbers of the enemy. Colonel Macleod received, a severe wound tbrorgh, the arm, in the at:triune tu the attack, but did nok quit t' e command c6he brigade till he became faint tram loss or F)lood. • I aru happy think that the army will probably not be long deprived of the ser vices of this distingui,hed officer. The enemy were driven into A ntwerp, with consi. derable loss, and some prisoners were taken. I have the greatest satisfaction in expressing my warmest approbation of the conduct of all these troops : no veterans ever behaved better than these men, who then met the enemy for the first time. The discipline •and intrepidity of the Highland battalion, which had the good fortune to lead the attack icito•the village, reflect equal credit. on the officers and men. • s . Tbe'Sime -spirit was mapifeste&by the other troops employed. Two guns of Major Fyer's brigade were advanced in support of the attack, and, by their excellent prac tic!), soon silenced a battery of the enemy. The 52J regiment, rimier the command of that ex perienced Officer Lieutenant‘Colonel Gibbs, was' afterwards moved into the village of Mercxens, in ".) rci e r to cover the withdrawing of the troops from it, which was ordered as soon as the Ptussien column arrived by the great road, the head of which had al ready driven in 'he outposts, when our attack began. Lieutenant-Colonel Gibbs remained with the 52d, and 3d hattaliOn 95th, till atter 'dark. This reconnoissance having been satisfactorily ac complished, the Prussian troops are going into -can tonments, and this corps will resume pearly those it occupied before. The severity of the weather has been missive. The soldiers havp'borne it With cheerfulness and pa. tience, and I hope will nok suffer very materially from it. I send inclosed a return of the killed and wounded. I !eve the hpnour to be, &c. (Signed) THOMAS GRAHAM. Return Killed,' Wounded, and Mis.ing, of the Army ender 'the command of bit Baceneocy General Sir Thomas Grahatit, R. B. in the village utMeratent, connected with the Recon noissance upon Antwer?„ on the ISih January, 1914. 25th Foot, 24 Bast.-1 rank and Ole killed; 4 rank and file wounded. 3114 Foot-1 rank and Ale apbstair. pith Voce, 2d Bitt.---1 linsign; 7 Molt sad file, killed; 1 Lieu. tenant.eclonel, litii;essats, 20 rack and, fde, 3 horses, wounded. 93th Foot, Id Bets.-1 rink and file killed I rank and file wounded.' ' 'tuyol Artillery Drivers-1 rank and file, 2 horses, wounded. Total-4 Ensign, 9 rank and fide killfd •) I Lieutellaul-Colvnell flour in stork, and the squadron tinder my comment were on half allowance on many things, and when that was done there was no, more. Such were the motives which induced Major (en. Proctor twhom by your instructions, I was directed to consult, and 'whose wishes I wig enjoined tp execute, as far as /To lated to the good of the country),to concur in the no cesfity of a 4attl, being, risitede tindat the many. 4'4-- advantages which I laboured, sad it now remains for pie the most melancholy task, tb relate to you the. ' unfortunate issue of that battle, as well as the many ureoward circumstances that led to that event. No intelligence of seamen having arrived, I railed, on the 9th inst. fully expecting tp meet the enemy next morning;as they had been seen among the islands; nor was I mistaken soon after day-light they were seen vi motion in Put-in-bay, the wind then at ouch: west, and light, giving us the weather-gage. I bons up for anan, in hopes of bringing them to :woo:. arnong the Want's, but that inteetion was soon Inv.. .tmteo, by the wind suddenly shifting to the soetli. east, which brought the enemy directly to wireilwins.t. The line was formed acceirdir7 t .. ) a given plan, so that each ship might be supported against the sup...' riot force of the two brigs appoicd to them. Ahoy; ten the enemy had cleared - the islands, and imme diately bore up, under tag, sail., in a4ine 'abreast, each brig being also supported ky the small vessels: At a quarter before twelve commenced the action, by firing a few long guns ; about a quarter pap the American Commodore, also soppoited by two schooners, osie carrying four long twelxelonnders, the other a long thirty-two and ‘l4-pounder, came to close action 'with the Detroit ; the other brig of the =my ? apparently tlestilied to engage the Queer's Charlotte, supported in like manner two schooners kep' so far to windward as to retder the Quern Char t lout'. 20 pounder carronnies useless, while she vas, with the Lady Crever:, .expoted to the heavy and derructive fire of the Caledonian. and four other schooners, armed with long and heavy guns, like those I have already desci-ibed. Too soon, alas ! was I deprived of the service of the noble and intrepid Captain Innis, who, soon after the commencement of the action, fell, and with him fell my gteatest support soon after Lieutenant Stokes, of the Queen Charlotte,- was struck stout-less by a splinter, which deprived the country of his ser vices at this very critical period. • . As I perceived the Detroit had enough to contend with, without the prospect of a fresh brig, Provincial Lieutenant Irvine, who then had charge of the Queen Charlotte, behaved with great courage, but his expe rience was much too limited to supply the place of such an officer as Captain Finnis, hence she pioted of far less assistance than I expected. The action continued with great fury Until half part ' two, when I perceived my opponent drop astern, and a boat passing from him to the Niagara, (which ves sel was at this time perfectly fresh) the American Commodore seeing that as yet the day was against left *Lkosenants, 26 rank ad Se, IS Nisei isa4l4o "4 and tosoholni., . • •., • .• ' HAUL B - 01 0,2 CU paLED AVD WQpNWID• KIL1,11.1). ?Rh *4 «, 9d Ben.—Eipeign Ornisby. wowing*. Teth PoOt• gd 148L—Goloafd M'teod, severely, not dangerous 1y i Lieutenant Wm.' M'Kesak, severely, since delui ; 1 Aetna , pant Nos. Aont, ieterely ; Lieutenant/. Chisholm, bligbtly. I , 2lhoNgrus TANEN FROM THE KNEW(. Corporals, 2s privaps. (Signed) - .. MACpON /LLD, Def. 4.dj. Gea. DOWNING4TRZET, FIB. 8, 181+. A Dispatch, of which the following is an extra.. has been this day received at Earl Bathurst's addressed to his Lordship by Field-Marshal the f* quis of Wellington , dated • St. leap de Lug', Jaupary 23, tBj 4. 1 The enemy withdrew on the 21st; in the morning,' all their out-posts in front of the entrenched carnpAit Bayonne, between the Adour and the left of the' Ntve ; and at the same time, the trops-which I had reported in my last to have moved upon Bidar,ey and Baygorey,, marched from thence, apparently towards the centre of the army, which has been considerably reinforced. I have had no reports from catatonia since I addressed you last. SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO Tim GAZETIS... COLONIAL DEPARTMENT. "'' . DOWNING-SMELT, rale 81 MC Dispatches, of which the following are copies, have been this day reteind from Lieutenant-General Sir 0.- Prevost, Bart, addressed to Earl Bathurst, One 01 this Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Haatl-Quarters, Montreal, Dec. 14,1n15. . Loan—Having had the Monour to report to your Lordship, on the 30th of October and the 15th 'of November last, the affairs which took place be:. tween his Majesty's forois and the American• armies, led on by Major-General Hampton and Major-Ge:- ',neral Wilkinson ' I have now the satisfaction to in ;form your Lordship, that the signal defeats experi enced by the enemy on the Chateauguay River, in Lower Canada, and near Chrystler's Farm, in Up per Canada, have relieved , both provinces from the pressure. of the armies invading them, and have ob liged the divisions of General Hampton and General Wilkinson to retire to their own territory, and seek for winter-quarters under circumstances so. highly disadvantageous as to have produced in both of them discontent, desertion, and disease. The well-timed appearance of a small regular force in General Wilkinson's front, which I had, pushed forward from the Coteau de Lac to support and give confidence the Glen; and Stormont militia, :lesson his vanity had re observation, operated so to commence a preci . to St. Regis, and up the abandon his avowed project fontreal. :an army, upon arriving ' him, (his vessel having struck soon aftet he . . her) are situated on the Sal'. ts' and also the very defenceless state of the Detroit, man River, about six miles from its mouth, proceed- which ship was now a perfect wreck, p r incipally from ed to dismantle their river crafeeind gun-boats, and the raking fire of the gun boats, and also that the to arrange on shore, round theirblock-house, a most Queen Charlotte was in such a situation, that I could receive very little assistance from her, and the Lady combe:some train of artillery, for the pro.neation of which the whole of Major General Wilkinson's in- Prevost being at this time too far to leeward, from lantry is retained in tents and huts, at this most in- her rudder being Injured, made a noble, and, alas I clement season of the year, until the winter road , . too suecessful an effort t o regain it, for he bore vv. and supported by his small vessels, passed within pistol shall he sufficiently established to enable him to re- s tire his suns to Platsburg. shot, and took a raking position on our bow ; nor could I prevent it, as the unfortunate situation of the A rapid succession of severe frost, light snow, and Queen Charlotte prevented us from wearing ; in at sudden thaw, to which the American army has been t so long and-so much exposed, has made it impossible tempting it we fell on board her ;my gallant First Lieutenant Garland was now mortally wounded, and for me to execute any enterprise against it without risking more than my means could justify. myself so severely, that I was obliged to quit the deck. Manned as the squadron was, with not more A division of gun-boats with a detachment of than fifty British seamen, the rest a mixed crew of troops, which Ihad ordered on the first of s this month to advance into Lake Champlain, for the purpose of Canadians and soldiers, and who were totally unac quainted with such service, rendered the loss of oth burningmolesting General Hampton's division, succeeded in cers more sensibly felt, and never in any action was an extensive building lately erected near the loss more severe ; e ver y Off i cer commanding yes glftPl.x.sburg, as a depot magazine : some batteaux, to sets, and their seconds, was either killed, or wounded her with the ammunition, provisions, and stores found in it, were either brought away or destroyed. so severely, as to be unable to keep the deck. The severity of the, weather obliged Captain Pring, Lieutenant Buchan, in the Lady Prevost, behaved of the Royal Navy, under whose command I had most nobly, and did every thing that a brave and co placed the expeAition, to return to the Isle aux Noix perienced Officer could do in a vessel armed with on the sth ; in effecting which he was obliged to cut 12- pound oarronades, against vessels carrying long a channel for his boats through several miles of ice. guns. I regret to sla t e , that he was severely wounded. The enemy's troops were in considerable number in Lleutenant Bignal,' of the Dover, commanding the tl;e vicinity of Platsburg, but no attempt was made Hunter, displayed the greatest intrepidity ; but his to annoy our force employed on this occasion, guns being small, (two, tour, and six-pounders,) he In Upper Canada a conjoint attack on Burlington could be of much less service than he wished. Heights, planned by Major General Harrison and Every .Officer in the Detroit behaved in the most ;Commodore Chauncey, Isas been frustrated by the exeniplaky manner. Lieutenant Inglis :hewed such lateness of the season and severity of the weather. calm intrepidity, that I was fully convinced that, OD I have the honour to be, &c. ' leaving the deck, I left the ship in excellent bands; (Signed) GEoRC 2 PREVOST. and for an account of the battle after that, I refer yon Head-quarters, Montreal, 25th Nov. 1813. to hit letter which he wrote me, for'your information. MY LORD—I have the honour to transmit to your Mr. Hoffmeister, purser ,of the Detroit, nobly vo. Lordship a copy of a letter from CemmodOre Sir J. lunteered his services on deck, and behaved in a sou• Yco, together with Captain Barelay's official account nertliat reflects the highest honour on him. , I regret knee. of the action on Lake Erie, referred to in my dis- torrid, that he is very seve r ely wounded in the patch to your Lordship of 22d 'September, and Bth Provincial Lieutenant Purvis, and the military: October last. .tam happy to be able to add, that Officers, Lieutenants Garden, •f the Royal New' Captain Barclay is recovering of his wounds, and foundland Rangers, and o.Keefe, of the 41st regis that there is a prospect of his valuable life and set. ment, behaved m a manne r whi c h excited my warm. vices being preserved for the benefit of his country. est admiration ; the few British seamen I had behaved I have the honour to be, &c. G. Pasivost. with their usual intrepidity, and as long as I was on -. The Right Honourable Earl Bathurst, &c. &c. Sm. deck the troops behaved with a calmness and courage ' i His Majesty's Ship Wolfe, at Kingston, Nov. 15. in& worthy of a more fortunate issue to their exertions. • .Stn—l yesterday received Captain Bareay'sffi. The weather gage g a ve the enemy a prodigious aul stittement of the ill-fated action id Lake Erie, advntage, as it enabled them not only to chnnut and as your Excellency must wish to be infortned of thew position, but their distance also, which they did every particular, I have the honour to in(lose a copy in such a manner as to prevent the carronades of the ' of the same; it appears to me that though His Ma- Queen 'Charlotte and Lady Prevost from hiving jesty's squadron were very deficient in seamen,Weight much effect; while their long guns did, great exectn of metal, and particularly long glans, yet the great- Lion, particularly against the Queen Charlotte "; misfortune was the loss of, every officer, particu- Captain Perry has behaved in a most htunane an 4 Billy Captain Timis, whose life, had it been spared, attentive manner, not'only to myself and officers, IT..s Would, in m opinion, have save 4 the squadron. have the honour to he, &c. CO all the wounded. I I trot that, although unsuccessful, rut will IP' lames Lvosss YE°, • • Commod ore , prove of the motives that induced me to sail under Her Excellency Sir George Prevost,Bizt. Governor so many disadvantages, and that it may be hereafter , qad General In Chief. proved that, under such circoinstances, the honour of His Majesty's late ship, Detroit, Put-inZay, hi s m a j esty ' s flag • Lake Erie, Sept. 12, 1813. t i e list of killed and wounded. (Signed) Sett—The last letter I had the he honour of writing has not been tarnished.—l inclose R. H. BARCLAY, Commander, and late to you, dated the 6th instant, I ipfornied yo u , tha t Senior officer. unless. certain boinaation 'was received of more sea men being on- the- way to Amherstburg, I s h ou ld b e HU Majesty's late ship Detroit, Sept. 10 k Isis, obliged to sailwith the squadron, deplorably man n ed- • §ift—l have the honour to transmit to you an ac . it as was, to fight the enemy (who blockaded the count of the termination of the late aulurtunate battle part), to enable us to get supplies of provisions and with the enemy's squadron. • _stores of every description •so perfectly destittite of On coming on the quarter-deck, after your being provisions was the post, that there was not a day's wounded, thy enemy's second brig, at that time CA .k• N. confidence to the Glengarry very sho ,afe-r the scverel ceived • ,gte •s of of powerf • •e him pitate r • shore Salmon it aban of passing ht'** • Mont It appears that the America at the French Mills, which to I -• is \