The Statesman. — London, England, 1813-09-11 00:00:00

~`"_. S ' G ' I in number, with the the Russians, who were I.ssonet. ". On the 12th, the enemy encamped at Zobten. A corps of 12,000 Russians passed the Bober, and attacked the post of Liebencken, which was defend ed by three light companies. General Lauriston eetssed a part of his corps to take to arms, left Lowastberg, marched to the enemy, and drove him • into the Bober. The brigade of General Lafitte, of the divides§ of Rochambeau, distinguished it self. " Meanwhile the Emperor arrived on the 20th at Lieban ; and at break of day on the 21st, he was at Loweliberg, and' hosed bridges to be thrown across the Bober. General Lauriston's corps crossed the iivet at noon. General Maison, with bis accus trened valour, beat doWn every thing that elide*: vcered to oppote his passage, ,e3rried ail the poll• . time:, anti drew the enemy, fighting, near to Gold. Ler::: he was supported by the sth and 11th corps. On his left,• the Prince of Moskwa caused General - Sackett to be attacked by the 3d corps in front of .',• Beetzlau,—overthrew them,—put them to rout,- - god 1 i ink some prisoners. • 'The enemy put himself in retreat. An engage ',lent took place before Goldberg on the 2al of Au gest. General Lauriston was there at the head of the sth and 11th corps. Ile had before him the es , ixsos, who covered the position of Fleusberg, and the Prussians, who extended to the right, on the road to Liegniti. At the moment n hen General fArard debouched to the kft, on Niederau, a column of 25,000 Prussiaas apiseired at this point. Ile caused them to be attacked in the middle of the bar racks of • the old camp, which were forced at all points : the Prussians attempted Co make several charges of cavalry, which were repulsed everywhere; they were driven from their positions, and left near 5000 dead on the field of battle, besides some prison ers, ire. " On the right, Fleusberg was taken and retaken several times. At length the 135th regiment threw itself on the enemy, and entirely overthrew him.— The enemy lost at this point 1000 •ltilled and .1600 • ..ounded. The Allied Army. retired in disorder and iu veat baste towards Jailer. " The enemy being thus defeated in Silesia, the Emperor took with hint the Prince of Moskwa, left the command of the army in Silesia to the Duke of Ttrentum, and arrived the 25th at Stolpen. The old and young guerds, infantry, cavalry, and artil let.%) performed these forty leagues in four days." ther was dreadful, and - he soldiers had passed At nine o'clock in ,y perceive the enemy ;ering the heights which centre by the valley of departed with the corps ' the division of cuiras i road of Frey berg to performed it with the Isions which composed scattered.---The half irg and cannon, were it.the number several Ge- innonade fixed the ene mas showed themselves with Gen. Nansonty, his left to the river, Marshal St, Cyr's corps centre, which was formed corps. the afternoon the ene retreat; he had lost his Bohemia on his left and this day is• tress SI to r. . 6 .4/4• , ,41111 walk ar• - dated the 30th August : . " On the' 28th, 29th, and 30th, we followed' up our success. Generals Casten, Doumere, and I D'Oudenarde, of General Latour Maubourg'i corps, ! have taken 1,000 caissons or waggons of ammuni= tion, and collected many prisoners. The villages are• full of the enemy's wounded. We already reckon 10,000 of them. "The enemy, according to the report of prisoners, had eight Generals killed or wounded. " The Duke of Ragusa has had several affairs eel advanced posts, which attest the intrepidity'.ot Lis ' ' troops. • • a . l . • • I " General Vandamme, commanding the Ist corps, os the 25th, debouched by Koeuigatein, and ottethin 26th took possession of the camp at Pirna, 'of thae l town, and of Hohendorf. He intercepted the grand communication from Prague to Dresden. The Duke • of Wurtemberg, with 15,000 Russians, was charged with observing the debouche. On the 28tle, General Vandamme attacked and defeated him, took 2000 prisoners, six pieces of cannon, and drove him into Bohemia. The Prince of Reuss, General of Bri gade, an Officer of merit, was killed. ".-On the 29th, General Vandamme took a post. tion upon the heights of Bohemia. and established himself there. Ile caused the country to be scoured by different parties of light troops, to obtain intelli gence of the enemy, annoy him, and seize upon his magazines. " The Prince of Eckmutil was on the 24th at Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has Schwerin. He had had no affair of conse q uence. received the following intelligence from the army, 64 The Danes had distinguished themselves in se. 'Wed August eSe— }vent trifling affairs. "On the 2611 i, at eight iu the morning, the Emej " The opening of the campaign has been most peror entered Dresden. The Grand Russian, Pros. brilliant, and allows us to form great hopes. The elan, and Austrian army, commanded by the So.: quality of our infantry is much superior to that of vereigns, was before it, it crowned all the hills the enemy." which surround Dresden, at the distance of a short ' ".,,. -- league upon the left bank. PARIS, Sm. 3.—We have this instant received the . " Marshal St. Cyr, with the 14th corps and the following letter from Dresden : garrison of Dresden, occupied the iutrenched " I cannot give you the particulars, but our sac camp, and lined with sharpshooters the fortifica. canes astonish ourselves. Almost without loss we tioes which surround the suburbs. All was trap- have destroyed, or nearly so, the formidable Aus reel at noon ; but to the skilful eye, this calm was trite army. I believe that we have already brought the precursor of a storm ; an attack appeared int. into Dresden between 30 and 40 000 Austrian pri utillene. toners. We are in pursuit of the vanquished, and " At four in the afternoon; at the signal of the I trust that they will not be let off so." firing of three cannon, six enemy's columns, each According to private letters from Dresden, dated preceded by fifty pieces of artillery, formed, and a the teth, in the evening, the result of the affairs few moments afterwards descended Leo the plain ; which have taken place einee the 26th of August, is eopy marched towards the redoubts. In less than a 50,000 men killed or taken prisoners, besides which quarter of an hour the fire became terrible. The a great number of cannons and colours have been lire of a redoubt being silenced, the assailants turn. taken. ear it, and made efforts at the foot of the fortifica. There is a talk of a train of 300 carriages of ar. lions of the suburbs, where a good number met tillery, taken by us on the road to Freyherg. death. It is said that the two roads by which the elamy " It was near five o'clock : a part of the reserves inclined upon Dresden, that of Freyherg, and that of the I lth corps was engaged+sorne shells fell Into • of Peterswalde, have been cut off by the fine ma. the town --the moment appeared pressing...the Km. • ncauvres ordered by the foresight and genius of his peror ordered the King of Naples to march with Majesty. The enemy has now, in order to retire Gen. Latour elaubrairg's cavalry upon the enemy's into Bohemia. only very difficult roads, in which right flank, and the Duke of Treviso to march against they must suffer considerable losses 4 every kind. the left flank. The four divisions of the young guard, The retreat of the enemy resembles a, flight. cormaaluled by Generals Dumoutier, Barrois, Decouz, Letters from Hamburgh, which have just arrived, and tioeuet, then debouched, two by the gate of announce some new successes gained by the Prince of Pirtle, and two by the gate of Ileum The Prince Eckmuhl, on the side of Rostock. of Mink wa debouched at the head of Barrois's dive. • PARIS, SEPT. B.—The private letters (Mtn Dresden sion. These divisions overthrew every thing before come down to the 31st of August. One of the let. them ; the tire immediately got to a distance, from ters, dated the 29th, contains the following intelli. tlhe centre to the circumference, and was soon driven genre back upon the hills. The field of battle remained " The enemy's army endeavoured in all haste to covered with 'lced, cannon, and wrecks. gain the frontiers of Bohemia : having lost its two " General Dumoutier is wounded, as . are likewise lines of operations, it was obliged to pass by cross Generals Boyeldieu, Tyndal, and Combelles.— roads, in which it auffered many losses. Its retreat The Officer of Artillery, Beranger, is mortally is not a flight, but a positive rout. -Wounded . : he was a young man of great hopes. Ge- " The Ex-General Mineau, and the Emperor neral Gross, of the guards, was the ;first to throw Alexander, were present at these last affairs.— himself into t h e ditch of a redoubt, where the ene. It is said, that it was by their advice that the enemy's toy's sappers were already at work, in cutting down army engaged in operations which have been so pre- ; the palisades : he received a bayonet wound. judicial to it. " The night became dark, and the fire ceased, the " The Army of Italy, commanded by the Prince - - - attack, and left upwards of Viceroy, is in full motion. The head.quarters were battle, which was co- already on the 25th of August, at Tartis, in Ca- einthia. The first operations of This Aritylitive beenl signalized by success, which letters from Udine. state in the following terms :—The accounts which I we have received front Tarvis 9 continue to be satis. factory. Our troops to-day terminated their move-i ment upon Gail. We every moment expect intel ligence of some important achievements on the Drave." BANKS OF THE ELBE, Au& U.—The military' preparations ire making with the greatest activity throughout all Denmark. A new and extraordinary • • levy of recruits has been ordered to be there. The corps d'armee, already very ,numerous, which is assembliug in Zealand, is continually receiving reinforcements. It is generally asserted, That the Court of Denmark will formally declare war against Sweden, as soon as the harvest is finished in Nor way, and they are able to form the magazines des tined for the support of the troops in that kingdom; when an ineasion will be made open Sweden from Norway, The corps d'armee of Zealand may af terwards assist ire this expedition by a landing in Schonen, which is untarnished with troops; the Government of that country having undertaken the impolitic expedition into Germany, against which clamours are raised in Sweden itself, and which the ''-'tors of this war endeavour in vain be Mille. This year's harvest has been roil oboodlPit both io ysaa►ark sag Nosylay. , • it .. 1 . ..... 4 ". 4 .‘r,40 6 .11•••• 4 ". tr" prisoners, -- hors , combat, at upwards of 504000. The Emperor Alex ander was an eye-witness of these disasters. " The enemy commenced his retreat yesterday at seven o'clock in the evening ; not being able to de bouch by Freyberg, he has taken the road of Maxen and Deppodeswalde. We are in pursuit of him. We do louger hear the cannon. Ilis Majesty the Em peror arrived yesterday at Pirna : he is not yet on ble return, but it is nevertheless believed that he will enter Dresden this evening." [The Moniteur of the oth contains a very long **tract of a dispatch from Sachet to the Miuister.at War, dated Vendrell, August, 19. It relates en. tirely to the marches and dispositions made by the troops under his command, for the purpose of rais. ing the siege of Tarragona. There is nothing very material in these details ; the principal skirmishes mentioned took place before Nulles, between 900 horse, under the brother of Lord Wm. Bentinck,and the van-guard of the French. General Mesclop is stated to hare routed the English, and wounded or taken twq officers and from 30 to 40 men. The enemy's loss was only two serjeants wounded and taken. This report ends with the following particulars of the de struction of Taragona :3 " At break of day, the firing of three guns an nounced that fire was about to be successively set to all the mines. The inhabitants had received orders to keep at a distance, and the troops were under arms. The► Cervantes bastion, erected on some very ancient monastery walls, of nine feet in thickne .s, and which it had taken 15 days to perforate a suitable chamber in, was the first which blew up; in all parts, the suc cessive explosions attested the talents of our miners, who, months before, had immortalized themselves by their valour, in attacking the vast fortifications of this place. " Tarragona, bombarded and burnt by the French in 1811, by the English in 1813, and utterly disman tled on the 18th of August, exhibits now nothing but an heap of ruins. • " Thus the Imperial Army, after having pos sessed Tarragona for 25 months and a half, has, by a fresh effort, saved a feeble garrison of 2000 Frenchmen, attacked by a numerous army by sea and land." HELIGQLAND MAIL. --i HELIGOLAND, SEPT. s.—lt was positively assert ed, both in Hamburgh and Altona, en the 2d inst. that Eckmuhl had again been defeated in the neigh: bourhood of Wittenberg, and that he was retreating upon Lubeck. On Wednesday last there were 2000 cavalry, but without horses, in Hamburgh ; and the tiring of guns was distinctly heard in the direction of Zollenspicker, in the beginning of the week. deploying of the other enemy's corps to attack th at the same time. Gen. Winzingerode wai at toe head of 10,000 horse, and the Count Woronzow at the head of the Russian infantry. Marshal Count Stedingk, in front of the Swedißlt line, had his cavalry in reserve. The village ~f Ruslilmdorff, situated in front of his camp, was fur. uished with infantry, in order to keep open the cow mutticatiots with General Bulow. The other cser:3 of the enemy's army not having dehouclied from the woods, the Russian and Swedish army di4l am stir. . However, the edemy menacing the vitlagoof R 4orlf, and having already pushed ht.' thailou, s against the light Swedish troops placed in front of that village, the Prince ordered some bartalilo‘,., . ported by artillery, to reinforce the advanced f,f),(v ' and Colonel Cutled was directed to push on a ' battalion of flying artillery, to take the enemy is flank. Hitherto the results of the affair of Gross Berea I are 26 cannon, 30 caissons, and much bag , t(4e, and 1,500 prisohera, among whom are 40 o:licers, the Colonel of Uhlans of the Saxon Guard, and co ' venal Lieut.-Colonels and French Majors. rie number of killed and wounded of the Plumy is very considerable, and the woods are Idled with strag glers, whom the light cavalry are bringing in every moment. • .. _......,..~.~.~..y.------~ The enemy bare retired beyond Trebbin, which is already occupied by two regiments of Cossacks. Ge nerals Bulow, Tauenzien, and O'Rourke, are in pur suit of the enemy, as well as the whole light Russian cayslryi The Prince Royal found among the prisoners, Offi cers and soldiers who had served under his orders, and who shed tears of joy in seeing their old General again. - , ,; e *rounded . : he was a young mat neral Gross, of the guards, wa himself into the ditch of a red my's sappers were already at w the palisades : he received a ba " The night became dark, a enemy having failed in his attacl WOO prisoners on the field of I trered with dead - and wounded. " On the 27th, the weathe the ruin fel in torrents. TI the night in mud and water. •ft the morning we could plain) lengthening his left, and covet were separated from his cent . Platters. " The King of Naples chip .1 rsT the Doke of Belluno, and stars, and. dehouched on the attack his left wing. He p pelves, success. The six dlvi this wing were broken and si of them, with their colours made prisoners, and amougsttl petals. • 46 In the centre a brisk can my% attention, and some colura ready to attack him on his left. " The Duke of Treviso, mausenvred in the plain, with end his right to the heights. kined our left with the cents of she Duke of Ragusa's corps 64 At about two o'clock in my decided on making his rel }valet communication with Bc 1 slight wings, The result of t - • 14* , - 'l'llE sTAT 4MANT: - ~ . . . ca. , . , , I ;;;;o= 4 ;gicammigussaaassmouninalomidaira mos . so,ooo prison Ili 40 pair of colours, aid Air . Rleeei''', . . tlepisbM4e9,,porpcits aasaally• ispeserdset est eeerivd th e front of ale Nee.' On the 1.111 • of artillery. • 1. , -v,—. - .. tryeep .piotig. We *en, thet it Ida still be t 44 6• tie moral*, the corps of Gen. Bertrand delinuchedlt .., ~. , , {4 w e may kon that the enemy has imi; 641,060 . . NMI •ay 1 61 1 61011 ' 1101616iti. It has entered the upon Gen. Tauenaien. Thelatter repulsed him, and men. Our le , iU killed, wouuded, agd takee s isf with the army of the Priam made some prisoners. amounts to 40 men. ci 'rewaCmart of Copenhagen has issued The village of Gross given, against Which the /li t for rt en n ly do w r a L s a I Bi co tte to oc ii cu es p f a n t , i m oo tho : the two fortresses of- Glecket . ade French corps, and a strong reserve, were directed, 6 ; The carat y has covered itself with glory. The eitd Vt a t.Slajor of he cavalry willk publish the details, . *lad tend' iota )1, pod state of defence. was taken by him. The ' otnheAehn Poke of Reggio's corps and mend oh 1 h 6 whoitamtdisdngelihed Silemshivem I ....initial' •ef train and }Cassia* colliers ., ', tut tr r o o c s eed s Be ed re u n p , with, --The you guards have merited the• praises of . fiequently tap' t 6 ibri o e a t ca p i n hagall. t h e w h o le army. The old guards had two battalions I PART', Set. !k- We continue to receive the crit . .. centre of the camp. General Sulow receiv e d or d ers engaged ; Its otl or battalions were kept in reserve tails of the Peadtgltiot avcoess of the French army, to attack it ; he executed it with the decision of a i n t h e village, t be at disposal. The two batta- lAs tin • loterrowro wilier( by ditleient PHSlXtes'tt , I'llkilful General. The troops marched with th e calm. lions which were ngaged Obit down every thing be- ° would be impossibla not to find repetitions, which , ness that distinguished the soldiers a the p ea t fore them. • r . i ; ' 1 O . . suffer to remain, in order to preserve the neces- I Frederick, in the seven years' war. The carottusade 16 The city of resden rangiest risks of danger. , sary connexion of the Statements. Here follows the was warm for some hours. The troops advanced i t The conduct f the inhabitants has been such ' substance of a letter, - dated Dresden, the 28th of , under the protection of the artillery, an d rot as we should expect from an allied people. The King August, in the evening : . • 4 , E , •` . 1 the bayonet upon the 7th corps, which had depl oye d of Felony and his faMily remained at Dresden, and , " The *ember of prisoners, isratantion, and co. in the plain, and which mar ched boldly upon th e have shown the example of confidence." 1 lours taken from the, enemy have augmented consi. camp. There were several charges of cavalry a ga h, st i, derablf since yesterday. We estimate the loss of the the corps of the Duke of Padua, which do great' .. . !tee Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has A llied Ar mies in the days of the 28th and 27th, in , honour t o t he Pru ss i a n General Oppen. Toe itti. received the following intelligence from the Army, prisoners, autl in men killed, and rendered hors de! sian and Swedish army were in battle, and waited the GOTTENBURGII MAIL. FOURTH BULLETIN OF THE CROWN PRINCE. POTSUAM, AUG. ( 21.-It announces the position of the Crown Prince's army from Potsdam to Treb hin and Beletz ;—that the enemy had under Oudinot 20,000 men at Luckenwalde. Some affairs of ad vanced posts had taken place. General Walmoden reports, that two battalions of Lntzow had been attacked near Lauenburg, on the 17th and 18th, by six battalions; but they had been repulsed. FIFTH BULIATI/f. RIJIILSDORTF, NOON s Atm. 24.-=-Alithe reports of the secret agents having announced that ou the evening of the 21st of August, the Emperor Napo- 1 leon was concentrating the corps of the Dukes of Reggio, Belluno, mid Padua, and of Generals Ber-1 trend and Regnier, forming more than 80,000 men, in the environs of Bayreuth, and every thing an nouncing on the part of his troops a rapid march upon Berlin, the Prince Royal made the following dispositions : The Mid Piussian corps, commanded by Eutaw, placed two divisions between Hernersdorf and Klein Beren. One division already occupied Mit ten walde, and another Trebbin, in order to mask the whole movement. The fourth Prussian corps under Tauen ziel united at Blankenfeltie. The Swedish army left Potsdam on the TM, at two A. st. proceeded upon Saarmund, passed the defiles, and took post at Ruhlsdorff. The Russian army followed the Swedish army, and took post at Gutergatze. General Czernic.heff guarded Beletz and Treunbritzen with 3000 Cossacks and a brigade of light infantry. The secret agents announced that the Emperor Napoleon was to pass by Luckau to proceed to Bay. retth. General Cxernicheff executed his orders with his usual intelligence; and carried alarm and uneasi ness to the rear of the enemy's columns. General Herschfeldt, who bad received orders to prOceed from the environs of Magdeburg to Elrandenburgh and Potsdam, and from Potsdam to Suarrnund, made a rapid movement of five Swedish miles in 10 hours. . Affairs were in this state when the enemy attacked Gen. Thumen at Trebbin, on the 214, in the morn ing. Their superiority d e termined the General to evacuate that poet. The enemy advanced sOCCes. sively, and occupied all the interval between Mitten walde and the Stare, covered by woods and flanked by raushev. Tbc advanced posts fell *back slowlj, EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER: TETLOW, AUG. 24,—'11te successes of the Crown Prince ensure the tranquillity of Berlin, and mill force the French troops to fall hack behind the Elbe. Their 'retreat will be difficult, on account of our au• periority in cavalry. The Prince watts to march to morrow, proceed to Saarmuwl, and follow the move- Meets of the enemy. Silesia is evacuated. General Benniesen is ad •vancing. His advanced guard is at Lissa, and some Cossack regiments at Crossen. Count Waltnoden ;IRS intercepted a letter from Na. poleon to Davoust, dated Buitzen, 17111 uf August. lie announces that the Duke of Reggio is to advance from Bayreuth with 80,000 men, and he orders Cle Prince of Eckmuhl to act on the offensive. ROSTOCK, Atm. t 8.-- We bear that the enemy are at Wismar, and we expected them here yesterday ; but we have just been informed that they have found it necessary to fall back. If they do, it must be in consequence of what is going on wits •h. Crown Prince or in Saxony, fur there is no force in Meek lenburgh adequate to its defence against the eiirmy. Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt is safely landed at Stralsund. The Royals will be there as soon as the wind ib fair. To rite EDITOR OP THE S I'ATES.II.IN. Sia,—The existing contest between the Publican and his Customer respecting the delivery of beer in, no vessel short of a gallon pot, - has occasioned no ordinary ferment in the public mind. You Bill per c?ive by my signature, that I do not affect to be that sort of impartial judge, whoso opinion ought to be received as decisive. I claim no such power as that of determining infallibly a disputed matter, which has divided the judgments of excellent and intelligent men. All I claim is the right of being heard, and if reason, cool calm reason, is permitted to prevail, shall not despair of success. It is true, that to de lusion there are no limi•s, and •I freely admit that we oreoll subject to prejudice and error. " . . - 1 hate therefore only to observe, .that if it can be proved, that the Public must suffer any material Inconvenience, or any thing ike tom, from the Pub licans not sending out their own pots, I should not be extremely forward !o advocate a cause, that pro priety and strict justice would not warrant. I, there fore, invite. any of your Correspondents to state specifically their objections to the proposed alters tion, but I expect them to state the particular grounds of their opposition. 1 am welt aware of the objections of M I). Giddy, of Corn Wall, but though a Publican, I must take the liberty of telling you, they are too trifling, silly, and absurd, to deserve an ins wer from your's, &c. A PUBLICAN. The detachment from the three regiments of Guards, that has been on the point of going to the Peninsula for this month past, is positively to leave are M t o o nd u a ec y o m m o pa rt iti ting: tte T 4 h ir e soght:ls under-mentioned aegi. M °tQ e i n cn t e , r" Leutenant-Celontlis CLITHIZROW nod HAN SURT ; the lion. Captain G o LEMENTS and Captain THOMSON ; Ensigns POORE, GRONOW, and BATTY. —Coldstream, Ensigns Sal.way and Moanam.-r- Third Regiment ) Captain Daumaioss• and LBSige. fIINE.I.L. .• „ 4r0t114......... L