The National Register. — London, England, 1813-04-25 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. PRILA 25. tion to maintain an armed neutrality becomes everyday mere apparent. In this she is said to have been imitated by Den mat k, .whose Ambassador has at last reached our shores. Saxony too, half occupied by the allies, is represented as negociating to.become neutral, and it is even aPed'that she has withdrawn her - troops from .the French army. This, however, appears to be incorrect. Not only do the Saxons continue to disgrace themselves by their alliince, but by the valour with which they fight in the cause- of NAPOLEON, as welearn C1)1111116 Russian report of the victory gained over MoRANn at Luneburgh, where the Saxony, who com po.+ed the greater part of his division where guilty of the ob stinate resistance described, and with one of their own Generals fell into the hands of their allies. The removal of the KING to liatisboO in Bavaria, whose monarch remains faithfully a ztach cd to France, seems also to discountenance the rumour. Should it prove well founded, however, the offer might have been made at the secret instigation of RUGS AP ART E, who might think he would derive from the neutrality of Saxony at the present moment, and for a short season, greater advantages titan from the co-operat ion of her reduced military lota, These shall be explained when we come to describe the posi- tions of the respective armies. Besides the accession of numbers which . the Russians have received, daring the short suspension of important move ments, they have also cncrcased that moral strength, with which success invests armies. • In frequent skirmishes they have continued to maintain their newly acquired superiority over the enemy. In two considerable engagements, at Lu• nebut gh and at Mockern they have established it. They have made themselves dreaded, not only by their valour, but by the accuracy of their intelligence, the rapidity of their movements, and the skill with which they are conducted. The evenly now feels thole than ever the loss of his veteran cavalry, as expert at reconnoitering, as enterprising in action, and who besides, having already waged war in these coun tries, would have been perfectly acquainted before hand with the nature and strength of the positions which an antagonist could take, and would have possessed greater means of anti cipating and defeating his plans, than new levie;, however 'well-&sposed and disciplined, neither of which can, in the 'present instance, be the case. This therefore, is the situation of the allies. Joined by common kite' ests, they have united their forces iu a terri tory where every heart wishes them success, and every hand is disposed to give them assistance. The military power of Russia, Sweden, and Prussia, thus ;:ssembled on the imme diate seat of war, may be estimated fairly at 250,000 men, in the following proportions: 100,c,00 Russians, 100,000 Prussians, 30,000 Swedes, and 20,000 German insurgents. The latter may be reasonably expected to increase, should the operations of the campaign he carried into Hanover and 'estphalia. In Saxony, the people have remained, although reluctantly, obedient to the orders of their Sovereign, and no rising has taken place. The chief direction of the war is . , in the hands of Prince KuTusow SMOLENSK°, who has di vided the allied force into three armies. The first, or grand army, atttended by the Emperor ALEX ANDER in person and the Commander in Chief, marched from Kaliscb to Dresden, and flour thence descended towards Weimar, Er furth and Jena, where the tremendous battle which over threw the strength of Prussia in 18041. was fought. -Here, by the last accounts, the advanced posts of this army were placed. The second army, of pearly equal force, under the Command of WiTTGENSVEIN. after occupying the attention of the French collected in the neighbourhood of Magdeburgh, by attempting to cross the Lower Elbe, at Luneburg and Wcrbeu, thus compellin4 them to draw their troops from Dresden,'Leipsic, and Dessau, and to open a fiee passageioe the Russian grand army, suddenly marched towards the Upper Elbe, defeated GRENIER, AVi:O profiting by that move ment, had advanced to re occupy Bei lin, and rutting off all intercourse between Magdeburgh and the right bank of the Elbe, sent its advanced posts by Dessau,-across that river:- and put itself in cometunication with the grand army{ thus threatening the front and the right wing of the Freud). The third army, composed of TET T EN%O Rti'S, Do RN II CR eS4 and BECKENDORFT'S Russian and Prussian corp:, of the Hanseatic insurgents, and the Swedes, is assembling en the Lower Elbe between Hatnburgh at Boitzenburg, under the command, it is said, of the CROWN Pn IN C E of Sweden, who is well acquainted with this part of the country, which he formerly contributed to reduce under the dominion of . France. Should success attend the other armies on the 1 Upper Elbe and at Erfurth, he will then easily ad vance to l Bremen and Hanover, and from thence penetrate into- Holland. We have seen the state and positions of the allied forces, let is now consider those of their opponents. The breathing time so profitably employed by the Russians, was nut allowed by NAPOLEON to pass unimproved. He had had no sooner reached Moscow, than he had ordered a levy of 160,000 conscripts. These, with the few veterans that had survived the horrors of the campaign of 1812, formed the corps which occupied Berlin and limbo' gh, andstill garrison the fortresses on the ('der and the Elbe. lie no sooner re turned to Paris, than he was empowered by a Senatus•Con snltom, to iaise all additional force of 350,000 men. These compose the army which occnpies. Hanover, Bremen, and Minden, and extending to the heights of Eisenach, covers Westphalia, and that which, under the mine of the Army of Observation of the Rhine, is posted at Wurtzburg and Bam berg, to defend the kingdoms of \Virtemburgh and Bavaria. A large portion of this force has also been dispatched to I taly . irt case the 'l'r . olians should show a disposition to rise, or Austria should avail herself of the present opportunity to recov.et her lost provinces. The rest has been marched into Spain . to replace the veterans that have been withdrawn from that country. Scarcely bad the Prussian declaration of war been known at Park, when a third Senates Consultum directed a fresh levy of tSo,OOO, part of whom were to form a r'serve on the Rhine and the remainder.to gnat d the coasts. These, although The Times - assures us they have been iaised, clothed, equipped, and marched off to their destination in the short space of a week, may still be supposed to remain in their fa milies, endeav , uring to elude the operation of the tyranic4l law which rends %sunder every natural tie arid sends them to, perish by the hands of a dreaded. foe They will, them cforc, i for a length of time add nothing to the etiective lot ee which the enemy may britr; into the The same may be said of the local national guards, who, although called out in great numbers, are on!y intended for keeping down the peo". 1 . plc in the interior during the execution of the conscription law. From this statement it will result, that the strength of the armies which NAPOLEON, who left Paris on the 15th inst. is now leading against th.! allies, cannot amount to mere than 350,000 combatants, all French. The levy of Oct. 10 !2. and that cif Jan. 1813, would have given 510,000 men. But of the former, at least 30,000 must be deducted as having already been lost to the service, hy disease, wounds, death, and desertion. Of the latter, sent to Italy and Spain, so th will be found near the truf possesses the garrisons of the of the Ausskaps, which may r, at least 130,000 have been tat the computation of Sio,Ooo :h. Besides these, NAPOLEON fortresses in Puland in the rear consist collectively of .50,000 o r fir I