The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-09-24 00:00:00

---; - Wags on penetrating. into II ly ria, every where found the people ready to nerve under the Austrian a Winors, and to join in the battle for .their former Sovereign. .1111•0•1111. • WITR %CT FROM A LETTIR iIMITTIV IT AM OffiCtß , Of OVI&RAL YON MITILITS'S CORPS SUOMI MAO.. " On the List Augost, at seven in the morning, our advanced posts were attacked ply ! I strong eorps wriich came from Magdeburg, under Gen. Girard. This corps, as we were afterwanls informed, cow eisted of she WO, 10th, end 7'2d regiments of the Jim; theedth light regiment, the 4th mod 9th West. :jintlian regiments, one battalion of Illyrian', three •battallwes of Saxon troops, some hatiglions of con valescents from the hospital at M•sieberg, several Freock depot sonadrons, and some squadrons of 'Sallee hewers, snaking in the whale It tor 13,000 teen, with 14 pieces of artillery, and two.howitzers. • We he.d only fivelmttalions of the laud militia, one resevwe battalion, three weak bettalioos of the incur • teetioe corps, and three pieces of Russian ertiltery, to oppose to them. The French sande their' attack .lan our tviere, at Old if i ssnigsbosn, :which consisted tof two battalions and 'nee squadron, and had. one 'lsat!olion and oar artltlari far their reserve. Not. theisnwwwsel-diepirith /erre, our hooPeting maintained ibeir -pe with% /feat t for , , perk , ; 't&nkagivinp mow ligitlthali; ilea*, therefore, could public prayers be performed, in our temples with more interest: " The ever Sublime genius of the Emperor was carried to the forysieing ThoUght of fortifying, du ring the armistice, the capital ofTtaxony,:in order to make it the Wyss* of. the Confederallin of the Shine, and thtemist solid ginfrantee if fits victories. The fate of Germany depended span title great mili. Viry measure, whlch, by ridacing our ineroles to the' Vefenslie t transrlorted lotto likejiciowis 'obi all the ICOarges of var. • 66 In effect, scafiielp bed they feeommileiiced bah. Miles when they malle•hattte to aseemlifi • all their 'three to carry the city of Dresden kt issaelt, the full.' . imporraeci of which they blew: l'Unks ought to be returned lo Divine Providence firit ! Au army '0200,000 men cofounded b,# three Sovereigns, 'lmmediately giver•bykheir defeats, a brilliant !wage to the Protector of that new rampart which shuts from the enemies of PRIMP, the territory of ore Allies. During theft/4406re days of onilriumphs, all .aggression was .glorieusly • repulsed before that same strong iflnce, of which the great •mats who had Just &voted it; reserved to himself the defence. 6 ‘ We larvae , occasion to retrace the picture of 'those victories; an official report has-deVeloped to 'you all she advantages of them. .Thirty thousand prisoners, forty stands of calmly's, sixty pieces of 'cannon, and a Irlis of nearly sixty thousand men to the enemy's army, are the results of it. ' • 66 Such are the memorable blessings of • the All. powerful, whirl" at this moment demand the grati. 'tads of the people at the foot of oar Altars." ' • valoor. • " The brave battalion e( %it of the first regiment of t 4 esitive) guisheditself, whose tiriliewS4 • "Illittootatawd of Ca sin Von Secken, ightie by the, e n emy en masse on the' bridgeht OK Konigsberg" ere" waded through the rivutet, and felt with bayou/4 his 141 dank. • Nevertheless, on( 'tido withmoottiog the good effects of our little artillery, ene Pere of which was dismoituted at the commence.; swot of the action,' we smes.ar nine o'clock Obliged' to give Way- before such sapeettir force. We now-, ' retreated, cvsetintritty fighting at every step, Ihroogn New Konigtborn and'‘Vottersdorlf, buck to the 11404 *Par Korbilitl.• We fixed ourselves hlittPlo draw to us the three remaining battalions • it . our left and 'QM wings. The latter had receiv., .441 leders to detach the battalion • of; Von Schonbois to the support of the centre. This battalion bad -11•PlaWitile advanced to Geurisch anti Itudoritz, in - the dttection of Old Konig.borts, when it suddenly iiereeited ; beforo it four or five battalions of 4 the -11ey's infantry, and a largo mass of orally, tid• last of which made a uintiou tu.rall on it with the sabre. " ekt the battalion passed meanwhile with the greatest intrepidity, quick through a deep vale, re pulsed the enemy's attack, and joined itself to the Id battalion of the right wing. Scarcely had we received en jell iniatiou of its danger, but the cedtre was form ed levialinn trier*, amt aside pushed forward against G.Twisch and Liotioritz, to relieve oor right ' The enemy retreated towards Wottersdortf, and we happily accomplished our junction with the two bat. Wiens, and the leaden!. of Erxleben. 4 4 The letter had, at the very beginning of the bat. tle, pushed forwerds against Magdeburg, got into the village of rakow, theentiety's rear, and there, within the range of the fortressus,,shot and cut down some of the enemy, and even brought off same pti somiro. M7att white the enemy again pushed vigorous. Iy forward with a very superior force; we therefore semdeued nor retreat on Korhilits, which village was defended till the corps reached the heights between there and Pitafel; from this place we played on the French colnmn with both our pieces of artillery, as ft attempted to debouche from the village, and kept It so long In respect, until the superior artillery of the envoy was brought up. We proceeded on our retreat towards Jury, our eitar.guard continually Alghtleg, and as General Von Putlits had in the mean while received orders to carry the corps into the positions of Platte and Brandenhurgh,we entered It on the Itd, and where we had the pleasure of kiting the battalion Von Street, which formed our left wing at Palau, and had penetrated to the elle. • way's rear, but afterwards retreated in the best order, by the way of Mockers. in this manner did our troops, who were almost all men that had meter be. fore seen an enemy, sustain their first battle against a force of nearly three times their own 'somber, in the most honourable manner, and made oor retreat •as if they had been performing their exercise. We have lost no prisoners, excepting a few men so severe ly wounded, that we could not bring them away, but, ea the contrary, have brought some prisoners of with us. filen Count Von Finkenstein made a eharge with nhaut 36 of his horse, on a squadron of the 13th French regiment of hussars, cot a nom• ber of them down, and took au officer and 10 or 12 mett prisoners. " Our loss, untwithstanding the heavy fireormt auE. proportionality small, as the French fired remarkably . . badly; none of our Officers were 414, and only a few wounded. - • 44 Soarrety were We arrived at iVittren - irtnils be fore OUT troops again found an opportunity of sig. nalizieg themselves. in a reconpoissance which (.44.- meta, Von Vodka on the 24th undertook against Zuser, when Capt. Von Eraieheu, with thirty horse of, his squadron, attacked the 8d voltigeur company of the 26in light regiment, which formed itt square, one height, broke it, cat down twenty or thirty seen, and took the rest prisoners, consisting of two officers and 109 men, with their colliers: Ile him self, and six of his men, were slightly wounded, and ono man severely. The prisoners, as, well as 'their sitiAets, were safely brought to Brandenburgh, oot. ~sith+tendiug the euetny's columnist eawalry being so near at hand. VIZ INA, Cart. 7. —One of our papers states, that General Vandamme passed on the 31st of August, a► sin in the evening, through Laurin, *mho a Rut: slim escort ; itity are convoying hint to the Interior of Russia. RASTADT, Sure. 13,The last Intelligente from loipaic and Dresden received at frankfort, con firms the success which the Prince of Muskwa gained in the neighbourhood of JutiritoCk. We *epee the details of it. • The Marshal bad taken' the effonsiyes against the coalesced army oppoattl to him. PRIr4TE CORRESPONDENCE. st.tz' COPT OF A VCTIVI FIROIC AN OMltliit MOM *OM Tint STAFT SW OCPICZAL soncusa's AMY, OATS', not,. sum, MAIL LOWiglltlia, AVO. 30:— Our victory has been far more complete than I imagined when I write to you last. The day after the battle, we found in the steep and woody rallies of the rapid Aline and Katabsch the guns and. tun. bats of • the enemy. We have taken more than tOO guns and 300 ammunition Waggons and field.forges: 16400 prisoners are already brought in ; more arrive avery hour. All the roads between the Katxbach and the Bober show the effect of the panic that struck our enemlei,...deatl bodies, overturned vehicles, vii. loges in ashes at every step. Macdonald's army is tiniest entirely disbanded : their retreat having been cat off by the overflow of the rivers, the figitives wander about In the woods and mountains, and com.' relit excesses for Want of food. I have had the alarm. bells rung, and sent the peasants out to kill sabring them in. Yesterday the division 'of Puthaed was annihilated in this neighbeorhood. It was overtaken and forced into action with its rear upon the Bober. Aftersome cannonading, the attack with lite bayonet began ; one part was killed, the other direvrn into thh ricer or taken,—Generals, Officers, eaglet, &c: The' weather is dreadful ; it reins incessantly dining the battle we had a hurricane blowing in our faces. The men - pass the nights. in the open fields, buried in mud, most of them without shoes; they pursue-the enemy , 1 through the overflown country, up to their neck in i water withouttelng able to get any notristeetent, vas the deserted tillages yield none,- andeareiatie:catt lioj bring it otp. The greater part of the Landwehr 'rillave.only linen pantaloons, and are wiihnut clanks: our army having been augmented from 40,1100 to 4270,000, and the resources of the country beforehand .exhausted, there was no nteterial nor money to get clothing: The solder has not even spirits to min him in these fatiguing marches, because it cannot be , bad in any quantity; and, nevertheless, he is.eon.. 'tent—suffers every possible hardship and privation •with patience, and attacks the enemy with firaidells and vigeue., Our new levied infantry equals th.old levies; the Landwehr emulates the molars. 11.4117- If have formed 89 battalions attd 40 squeak . ..lA fit -Silesia : of these, 46 batt a li ons an d VI siginkdreeh are in the field ; the rest in the fortresses. A, battalion of the Landwehr attached the •owny' formed fn a square, and killed or dispersed Saga after tse same battalion was sarrOunded enemy's cavalry, and talled . open to surrenders the .FRENCII PAPERS. -men attempted to fire, but lading that theirsagskete did not go off, Am account of the rain (only. Om - lirceetA,Sirr. 7.—Lord Aberdeen, English Mi. went off), they took to the beyonotolrove the mister to our Court, arrived on the ttl iustaat, at the cavalry •back, and took two field.piehes. War • 10J-quarters in 'Poplins. 1 Autry in the would can do more. Tito swelled The Comm Gautte anaocnces, that in, the arsine i rivers delayid our permit, as the seamy bed simetinef. which took place on the 20th and 27th, under the ! ed.the bridges. Twenty thousand men of die. walls of Dresden, that we have tri regret the loss of f deleald's army, which consisted of eighty , titeneshd, the .brave General Andrsny, ,and of the Raisian I may, therefore, have escaped fee the OFOINSt‘ Gre e r e l Melealno. The Omega. of ,Artillery Coast even these will be esseihilated,'lrthe orders*" o ue l a y, and Generals Narlaser and Frienbergef, of, been given can be executed. There is a the artillery, are wunaded. Generals Mime and 'Aden - fightlegjest now. near Huntjtse; fiseeten are Wish* f contending be fin poesemiee if e btitee 6• I must defer giving the stateuktnt of theectituu $t iludJrita and Ilagelsberg till my isimakeylstA. • til‘0 1814 ! I dons (I. a), , irwhick tm lost frissrAli 11000 - billed and woandad ; ' and we biro NW,. great battle and three ac. 1 tions *me.. N 9700, ever made so, active a cam paign; at least I* net recollect to have met with !one in the IllettilyVt . win. The great merit of this • army; -and its eisortiens in the good cause, are um , deniable. , • We have now Ascertained, that.en the gist, pear Lowenberg, we had' Napoleon's main forge and Ma r:self splint us. We7.meamovred against 140,09 g, 1 men : we fought him dining the whole day, keeping the greatiii park . of liir:trooPi out of actlon,and re. treaties aloor for.about be-miles, weeny,' formed i again, and halted;, bot Bonaparte, finding , that he I could not induce as to' engage in a disadvantageous battle, returned, on the 23d, towards the Elbe. 1 _ A,LTONA, SEPT. 14.—The loss.of the French army on the frontiers of Bohemia, on the 20th and 30th of August, is rated at 16,000 men !sari de service, be sides the loss of favourite- Vandamme and several] General Officers. ' Between the 4d and 9th instant there were daily 1 accounts left them, should have long remained in a bloody actions in Lower Lusatia, which c o st N a p a - 1 st a t e of inactivity. The advance o f th e C aowx leen upwards of 40,000 of his 'troops, and sir or ' pitiNcE,_ subsequent to his victory over Nay on the eight of his best Generals. - lie was every where him- . . 6th Instil. direction of L e i self, would naturally (It self, and always compelled to' Sy. Ills situation is r , cite apprehensions in the mind of Natetrow, as to said to be now nearly desperate. The different corpi • 1 ; the safety of his position at Dresden, a n d urge hi m, of his army aro daily attacked by superior force, and are generally beaten. Should he concentrate his i in order to keep open his communications, either to force he might be compelled to surrender, or to cut : an immediate retreat, and transf er o f t h e seat of his way throegh.double and Triple lines of superior war from the banks of the Elbe to those of the force. • - Weser, or to an attack on the C ROWN P RINCE % We hear nothing o( F.ckmohl.—llis remaining . purpose of crimpelliu g it t o ret i re . — battalions are still ha the Duchy of Laeenburg, with : army, for the the wrecks of His Danish Auxiliaries between the Between these alternatives it is not difficult French and the Allies. • • to determine which BONAPARTE would be - .Tele. graphic Corms► stating, that BONAPARtt had been engaged with BEILMAIOTTE, and suff..red a loss of Sixtg► 7houtand Max, and 100 pieces of I connive. We do not find, boalever, that any Each t information was received, and the kapott or i g i. opted, probably, in the receipt of Letters from Attona, which we havc given ; and if any stedi; i ysn be attached to tbeer,it is highly probable that eft Ben oit • has takenplice between the army commanded by NA. eoLacts and the Allied Army under the Clow N arRIXOI. The itatiplatt contained in these Iltiteri, although it cannot be considered au free from m g . geratioa, derives considerable sanction as to the main fact of a battle having eaten place at or In the neighbourhood of Juterboch r about the time men. tioned, from circumstances already in oar possession, as welt as from the wiliness 414 ace of the French Press. It is quite impossible that the French at. mien at Dresden, in the situation in which our last - most Sari. 16.—We are told to-day that Napoleon hay.. Moly lb adopt. Retreat will b e t o hi m , if ever le i lag collected a main body of troops between Witten--f jshould be compelled to take it, a step pregnant with burg and Berlin; a terrible action.was fought at Juter-1 boch on the 10th, in which the French were defeatedldi m g e r and dismaY• it will be such a confession of with a prodigious loss. It is presumed that the weakness—as cannot fail to shake the fid e lit y o f hi s French will -sot* be obliged to evacuate Saxon] if dependent confederates—and thin the rooks of his they can get over the Elbe, f army by important desertion.. Th ere can h e no , • , The people of Lower Saeourbegla to eate r_ a;n tai n therefore, that BONAPA RTE w ou ld a d vance some hope of relief. It is NM that,* corps of 14,truu 1 • passed t h e gib e a t D ai w a . an vi T arnas Dres d en , in great force, to a ss i s t N a y i s th• Prossines hate to drive back the CIoWN PRTNCE; and if threaten Fekmuhl's tine of communication with the it telnPt Wein. Their. light cavalry were seen at 'rostedi, Ole latter tile not retreat to avoid an action, it is ex rand between there and Heiberg, yesterday. - ere . Mel/ probable that near the time mentioned in tl.e • Sere. 17.—The battle of Juterboch is said tohave f ',Aliona letters, a great battle must have been fought. been the most bloody of the campaign. The loss uf^',ur bess we direct our attention to the French Papers, the French is stated at 80,000 men hors de service,!-.'" ; find that, under these eircutpstances, they are Napoleon, they say, ran away with a few of his JUitegether skeet as to any events of a later date than Guards from Dresden. The Civil Authorities eta to-day coral into Her- the oth, although they come op to the 20th, and burg. It is said that Eckmathl is gone with four re- might consequently have conveyed intelligence from shouts to defend Bremen. Should the retreat of the seat of war up to, and indeed beyond the 10th, the French troops in Lauessbergh be cut off, it is ap the day on which the battle is said (and with great prehended they will throw themselves iuto Rends burg and Gluckitidt. appearance of probability) to have taken place; it is Sir. 18 , FIQUT o'cLoCK AT etosrr.—We are permitted. us to hope that the reports whi c h we ha v e ' 161 d that Napoleon, after his being totally defeated received are not altogether destitute of foundation. sear Berlin, fled with his then remaining guards, The letters state, that the consemence of the victory and some of the wreck of his Grand Army, together' was BoNA , / ANTE Sbeing compelled to fly with 12,000 'with about 12,000 men , for Magdeburg • the ro.'e , auards in the direction of Megdeburgh. If this.part to Dresden having been already occupied. by his , - of the account be corvect, it affords no very distant opponents. If he has got into Magdeburg we are sot informed ; or if he be in, we are not told how i prospect of Saxony devoting her strength to the he is to get out again., cause of the Allies. BoNAPARTE would not take A strong corps, of Russian and Prussian troops the road to Magdeburgh, if- that to Dresden had have occupied Laneherg, and the lianoVerian bank been open to him ; the Court of Dresden, whew no of the Elbe, down to Ilarburg, so that the French l onger intimidated by the presence of the French troops on ibis side of the Elbe, may be considered as being actually cut off the grande urmee. i army, will doubtless afford another ezampfe to the The principal Authorities, civil and military, in ,Nvorld of the instability of compulsory alliance. Hamburgh, are at this moment in council to delibe- I We have long since foreseen and expressed Mll A tat, no doubt, if the.place Is to be defended, or opinionto of the consequences lik e ly t o resu lt t o N be evacuated and .burnt. In all probability they' eoLzow, if the Eraperorof Auirritra should deter. will defeud it as long as they can, and then burn , it. se ine to join the cealitiori against France. We cer. TOPLITT, 31..-n•ln4l,4wittle,mithr Wiw. tOPIk did not think he would do io, end his De c la • damage, the loss i n tilled of Ale - knells,' was immeniel.,l radon evidently shows the doubts and difficulties Which lie had to subdue in his own mind before he It was a - massacre; la 'general, Asa French soldier fights well, but at the regiments are now tilted with T . olved upon the measure. The die is nom cast, u young men from 16 to IS, they art intimidated . audit is evident that NAPOLEON is surrounded by non as they are attacked with the bayonet. dangers and difficulties of a greater magnitude, than be has ever before had to encounter, arid from which his great talents and resources may not be found adequate to relieve him, without a concentration of his army to wards the frontiers of France. We had the perusal • of a letter from Vienna, a short dare since, in which ib writer asserts, that " Germany is in a flaws% en " 1 "‘"" - ,0. 4 1 . 1Agi Ow people are to much enraired against the F;enois t that not a Frenchman will be allowed to rectors the Rhine." We are not In the habit of paying much attention to private letters, as they are frequently written either by ignorant of prejudiced persons ; but, ikthe present instance, we are satis fied of the integrity of the writer, and the slaughter to some of the late conflicts seems to corroborate his opinion, of its being a war of extermination. The tardy and reluctant decision even of the Abstiia.n Monarch, we believe to hove been at length prodeted, rather by the powerful workings of the Odic mind, and the loud and awful authority of the popular voice, than by the souse of policy, or the desire of bukspendencein the Asstrltn Cabinet. Alt ceoents conspire to consists* es, that in ever, part .Gswasetty the oast tteterathted eta othetiattic • Dolmens Sen• 11/toe-Me. Lentos was summoned 'before the Provoitmarday, who iubmitted him the alternative of taking,* *me of the College Bobks, or appearing this dig to take hit trial before tin; Beard. . • A singular pheasnatmen mead/ occurred at Brot: i temiz e in France ;—A lake was soddenly formed in 6 0111 midst of a corn 04 in which there never before bed been any collection of waters. The water Is per fectly limpid, and the basin late toises in length and - sight in its greatest breadth; it is shoot three toises ' # l.ls * We are moth concerned to hear that Mr. Dion!. " 11 / of Denby's, in-Servey,, had the misfortune to break, his ates a fee; days ego, as he was riding a keno, at Scarborough, is Yorlshirit. 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