The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-31 00:00:00

. j(.',~ mtatication with France being totally destroy( d—his army in consi viable distress—his wagazines nearly exhausted, and the country in %Ninth he is utterly without the means of replenishing them, he must hot tly find it necessary to'break through the circle which has been dra ., %n around him t in this attempt he may probably succeed, but !here Is every reason to hope that it will be accompanied by the itestrn, lion ofa great part of his army. Full justice is &me to the niilitary talents and able combinations of the Prince Marshal : had he been less prudent and circumspect in his movements, we should not have -been placed in the formidable and commanding attitude which we are now enabled to assume. P. S. By intelligence received this morning, it appears that Prince s;chwartzenberg, with the main body of his army, is at Chemnitz and in the neighbourhood. Buonaparte left Dresden on the 7th, with the King of Saxony and his family, and is at Rochlitz, where his Lamy is chiefly assembled General Ilehnigsen has advanced to Dresden, in which it is said Buonaparte has left but a feeble garrison, consisting according to report, of not more than three thousand men. A. I.lxtract of a dispatch from Lieutenant.Gencral the Hon. Sir Charles Stewart, K. B. to Viscount .Castleiragh, dated Head-quarters Prince Royal of Sweden, Rottenburgh, Oct. 11, 1813. In conformity to your Lordship's instructions, being sufficiently recovered fi om my wound to travel, I left the 'mad-quarters of the allied army at Toeplitz on the 3d instant, and arrived at those of the Crown Prince of Sweden at Radegast, near Zorbig, on the tint. Mr. ; Thornton has fully put your Lordship in possession of the nterestiog military intel:igence to that period. Ukase now to inform you, that, atter C e b. iltiant passage of the Elbe by General Blucher at El ter , in which both decision and judgment have been pre-eminently displayed, and the couseque:.t passage of the same river by the Prince Royal's army at the points of Rosslan and Acken, his Royal Highness tne Clown Prince conceived a movement ut the whole allied force to the left bank of the Saale would force the enemy either to a general battle, cr would be the most effectual mode to embarra , s and La. ass his retreat, it' he should determine upon measure which the combined movements of the armies of Bohemia, Si esia, and of the North of Germany on his flanks, and on all his caommoie itions,seeined to render so indispensably necessary. Napoleon, it seems, had inancenired from Dresden, according to repot is with a large corps of cavalry on the right, and all his infantry en the kit bank of the Etbe, as far down as Archlau : a strong di.monstration of twenty or thirty thousand men was made from Torgan tow arils the Voint of Mater, on the Bth, where General pa,sed, probably with a design of menacing that General and forcing him to repass the river. The bold determination of the ats• mit, however, to be arrested by demonstration ; and the Mode io my of Mueller beinguow in close communication with that of the Prince Royal, the former marched from I)ubcn on Jesnitz,on the 9th, and past d the ; and the Crown Prince concentrated his forces between Zorbig, Radegast, and Bittartield. The enemy, aecordisig to accounts, appeared now to be collected about Eulenberg and Ost naitz, between the Nlnlea and the Elbe. On the inth, ileneral Blucher moved from Jesnitz to Zorbig, and the al mica of Sile is and the North efGermany were here assembled tie determioati n being taken to pass the Soule, orders were issued in the night, and General Blucher moved with the Silesian army to pass the river at Wettin, bridges being constructed for that pi.rrose. G. net al Bulow, with his corps Warmer, was iu like manner to pass at Wettin ; General Winzingerode, with the Russians, at Roslietibiugh ; amid the Prince Royal, with the Swedes, at AlSlebeirand Berniwrg. The whole allied force was then to place itsult in order of battle, with its lett on the Saale, waiting the development *of the enemy's movements. General Bulow's corps, and General Winzingerode's corps, after passing the river, were to fits m the rigat of the Silesian army, and the Swedes to be in reserve or second line. E tell corps Warmer is to form in three lines, General Woronsoff, who formed General Winzingerode's advanced guard at Halle, is to be regulated in his-movements by the attempts of the enemy, and fall back on the forces passing at Wettin, if he honld be attacked by ><nperior niunber, but otherwise to retain Halle as long as possible. Your Lordship will obAcrve, b', these bold and decided move rntsitts, tom the points of passage on the Etlw, by which the armies have pa.sesl,ll..ve 1)••,•t• abandoned, and are to be deAtroyed, if neces sty s ; 011111 been prepared below Magdeburg in ease • • 11••••• t. corp , ..t bservill 1011 under Gen. Thome)), before Wit t ontir:l,o. :Intuit 6,0 i PO lout), 0. !se event of the enemy forcing a passage • It ~t lite ptirpo,e °fait/tieing. the right bank of the Elbe, slid re- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. OCT. 31. tinning by Niagieburg, (in the extremity 11l which he is pieced. or in another improbable, it possible, event, el . his pushing with all his forces to Berlin), he •rders to retire on Gen. Taueezien, who, with 10,00 4 ) men, is to. remain at Dessau, and according to circum stances either to manoeuvre on the right bank against any possible effort of the enemy's, or by forced marches stengthen, in rase of need, the armies assembleu upon the Seale. Gvn. Tanenzien will be assisted by all the landsturm, and some smaller detached corps are also to join him. Information now arrived that Platow , with his Cossacks, were at Pi gait ; Generals Kleist anti IVittgenstein, with the advance of th e Grand army of Bohemia, approaching Aitcnberg; and our comm. oicat ion seem , .d to be completely established behind the rear of the French army. Information was still vague of the movements of the enemy; but accounts were brought in on the evening of the tOth, that lie was moving troops from Lutzen and Wurzen to Liepsic ; and it was added that Buonaparte was expected to arrive there on the WO, i • His force betwcen Dresden and Lnipsie, exclusive of garrisons, at the highest calculation, may be estimated at 1130,000 men; that of the Silesian army at t;5,00 0 , and that of the Prince Royal at 60,000, with t;00 pieces of artillery ; and it is impossible to see a liner army, or one more fully equipped in all its parts. By the reports received this day, Gen. Platow, with all his Cos• sacks, has arrived at Lutzen, having taken some hundreds of pri soners at Weisenfels, and is come into complete communication with the advance of Gen. Woronzotts Cossacks from Halle. Platow reports the assembling of the enemy's army round Lei p sic. We I have certain accounts that the army of Bohemia is now between Altenburg and Chemnitz ; and Gen. Bennigsen, with the Austrian division or Colloredo, which has been joined to him, is meditating a demonstration towards Dresden. P. S. General Blucher was not enabled, by the bridge not being complete, to pass at Wettin, but proceeded to Hall e, where he has passed. General Bulow has not passed this day, but the rest of the allied army is on the lett bank of the Saale. • C. S. • The following is a translation of official information communicated by the Governor of Berlin, on the I3th inst. at the mement of the departure of the officer who was the bearer of the preceding dispatches : Ber:in, Oct. 12, 1813. We have just received au account, that some of the enemy's col ps are pushing forward, by the way of I'organ and Wittenberg; and that Gen. Von Thumen has been compelled to raise the siege of Wittenberg, and to fall back to Coswig. Although every possible effort is making to prevent the enemy from penetrating to this city, nevertheless, we do not fail acquainting you, Sir, with the above, requesting you to apprise all persons attached to the English embassy, as well as all other Englishmen residing in this city of this intelligence. Military Government of the countries between the Elbe and the Oder. (Signed) L'ESTOCQ. TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. SACK. WAR DEPARTMENT, DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 25,1813. A dispatch from Lit nt.-Governor Hamilton, dated Heligoland, Oct. 21, encloses Baron Tettenborn's report of the capture of Bre• men, of which the following is a copy have the honour to inform you, that I entered yesterday morning with my troops the town of Bremen, which I had closely attacked for two days, and which the French Commandant has at length agreed to surrender by capitulation, in order to spare the in habitants, the Civil Authorities, and its garrison the horrors of an assault, for which every preparation had been made. The garrison returns to France under the condition of not serving against the Allies during the period of one year. An the military stores, a great quantity of ammunition, fourteen pieces of cannon, and two mortars, magazines of every description, and very considerable sums of publ:c money have fallen into our power, together with mote than 300 prisoners, Ns - ho had been taken on the preceding days at the close of a brilliant attack made by the Cossacks upon the enemy's sharpshooters. The cavalry are to make over their horses to us, and to set nut on foot.—This expedition has been executed with such rapidity, that, having passed time Elbe on the 9th Octo ber near Buitzenbure, I penetrated on the i3th by bye-roads and I forced marches to the Weser, and the following day I was at the