The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. PRICE Ole ST CK. YESTERDAY. It per Cest.Con. .1 per Ce .t. Red. i 'l Omnivin __, _ THE NATIONAL REGISTER. • on on, •SUNDAY, OC7'OBER 24. %41.40...... EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE. The crisis of the war is at hand, if it he not -al ready consinnmated, and not many dais will now elapse crc we shall koow whether the world is rescued from the yoke of the oppressor, or its struggles overpowered and its chains riveted for a long; series of years. The operatlons of the allied armies, as detailed in the Extra• ordinary Gazette, have as-nmed a character of boldne,s and activity, and are performed w:th ma , ses too imposing, to al low the fate of the conte t to be much longer delayed ; and as the c neniv, cAecting all his force, maintains his ground wilt the tenacity of despair, and seems re , olved to meet with an unshrinking front the tempest th it bursts upon him, not only the period, but the seat of the action which will settle the d.-stinies of man'Ailid, may he levity nearly ascertained. 'even _rears have jost ela-sed, since on the 1 tth of this mon h the Pi ussian Mooarch) , was hurled to the -,!.ind by a,single blow, on the fatal field of Jena, at a short distance fmu Lvipsig. Seven years of the most humiliating v have at last been followed loy a glorious tevival o f puh'ie spirit and rdriotism, and on the same field, or it, vicinity, and ahout the same time, will that battle be fought that will confirm the dowttfal of the magnificent strocure raised by the genius of FREnt RIGI: the Great, or will bid it start in all its pristine splendour from ground. Toe day and the spot are likely to be 'elected by both parties. To the Fiench they will recal rememleances of glot y which an i, n aie them to encreased exertions. To the Prus.si ins they will teem wi!lt the memory of past injuries and ripples sion, that wi:l kind! the flame of vengeance in every breast. Whether these views be rightly atti ihuted to the respective commanders ollhe «intending armies or not. the movements of their troops have a terdencv which justifies t! c supposi tion. The,-e ate ably described by Sir CHARLF S r NV A R and `l r. Titoex . r , ‘si in their dispatches (the former dated T(,p'itz, the it,t of October, the latter Zerhst, October the 4:14) whin h cf.mpose the Exti aordinary Gazette. Thev are aiso astonishinely corrobora•ed by an article in the en( 1)0 , )ev, (hued " hotitiei sof Y4allonv. Oct. 6th," wlt ch minu , cl:s . details every movement, stated in our account to e b: en perrirnie ti by on r A flies, as only intended, attempted and fi ustiatc at 'he moment of execution. Th? enemy, it apnea's, was intimately acquainted with the intentions of the coalesced Pnwers, but that he has succeeded in. defeating them, is evidently fal•e, otherwi-4! he would have boasted of his stir cess in an offici re;Aort. and not sniugg!ctl, as it were, such important intehigence in au unauthenticated form, into one of his minor pr tits. The ioderatgal;le 13r.ucn ER, whom the French lately stated t., ha 'e tel with his army flout the ground which ( b ecni ,if d in Lusatia opposi'e Dresden. as though this movement 14.. d been the consequence of a defeat, Only re tired to advance on the left of the enemy, whom he coin- OCT. 04. eletely deceived. On the 3d Inst. be crossed the Elbe at Etster, and attacked BERT R ANWS Corps, 81101)Riy inttenched at Wartenberg, which he drove from its p o sni• n , l ow a , sanguinary ac lion in which the Prussians themselves suffered considetaLly, but took 1000 prisoners, 16 pieces of cannon, and 70 tutsdrils. On the 4th the CROWN PRINC E followed his example, and passed his whole army ever the Elbe at Acken and Rosslan, and finding that NEY bad retired from Dessau with 18,000 men towards Leipsig, immediately esta blished his head-qualiets at the former town. On the 4th General BLUCII ER bad sent his cavalry as far as 'Men, about nine miles from Leipsig, and as the Swedish ad vanced posts were at Raguhn and -Tesnitz, the junction of the two armies was expected to take place on the sth, and on the 7th it was thought they would Legit) their mat ch on Leipsig. United, they formed a total of one hundred and thirty thousand met', extending from the Elbe along the right hank of the Sante,' and threaten ing to pass into the rear of the enemy, and j'in the Austrians, Rti , sia• s and Prussians, who-were advanciag fr( Bohemia on Chemnitz, on the rear of the Fun, h right wing, preceded by the Co.sacks, under their distinguished chief. Lain Pl. A TOW. The latter had already signalized their cour age and activity, by defeating 8,000 cavalry under General LEY E lIV R at A henburgh, and taking 1,600 pt isomers, 5 guns and 40 officers. Thus is the enemy pressed on both his flanks,by an army of 130.000 men on his left, and nee of 190,000 on his right. These armies are to close in his rear, and to be able to effect this operation, they must descend on elates side as low as Weimar and Jena, as the main force of the French seems now to be assembled at Leipsig, whither N A soLeot4 repaired with his guards, and the K 'P.c.; of SA XONY, on the 7th inst. According to the position of the Allies at that time, - and in consideration of the interruptions whit h they might expect from the eeemv, it wi,ts seas cely possible that they should reach the intended ground, so as to endeavour to eflect their junction before the I:ith or I4th in,t. when they would find themselves in the vicinity of Jena. We theiefore think, that if NAPOLEON pclsi t in committing the fate of the war to the sword, instead of falling back to the Rhine, the tre mendous battle which will probably terminate the contest, will have been fought about the pet iod and the spot we have indicated. We regret to find in our dispatches no confirma.inn of, I/ nor even any allusion to, the vnion of Bavaria with the Ail:es, lately reported in the CROWN Patric Bulletins as being in 11 contemplation. FRENCH PAPERS. Paris Papers to the 17th inst. arrived on Wednesday.— They contain nn bulletin from Buonaparte, but flom a demi-official article we leant, that the enemy had not eva cuneed Dresden so late as the Bth. It is however admitted, that he left that city on the 7 ih, and proceeded, not as hereto• fore, to the light bank of the Elbe, bet to the side of Liep'ic. That city is described as having suddenly become the centre of very important mili!ary movements; that the number of troops there is so considegable. th.:t part of them are obliged to be lodged in churches ; anti that the neigh bout hood is filed wish cavalry. The principal theatre of war may the!efore be considered ac transferred to that quarter. Between Senna and Magdeburg, it is asserted,that full 150,000 French arc collected; Outliner, with ten thousand men, alone remains to cover esden, on the right iof the Elbe. The Russian General Czeinicheir, with SOO 0 car•aley, has, by the enemy's own admission, • penetrated to I Cassel, the capital of the kingdom of Westphalia, whete the