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.111 FUNER AL 1:74 0 4 Mund n ext totbitilt,d, HE BURIAL SERVICE and ANTlik..l44. 4" &painted to be performed at St. V!.,l'.:"Cailltdral, on the Da of the to dof Lord Vi count Dolva ot !Keane. Dediteted, by lacrn li.. i -a, to the Right Ker. the Lord Riney nt Line..lt., Dean of St. Paul', .Stanesed la .1 teetik, V tea-:unorat of that Cithedt,4l. To be11...1,1A H nee, 19, Watwiek-quare ; and at At tha Mesa Stinia--rnee FOREIGN INtItI..f.IGENCE. HAMBURG} , VAIL. FROM TILE RERUN GAZETTE. - OLMUTZ, DEC. 3. Yesterday, a great battle took place between the ceMblned and French armies, in the vicinity of the villages Slapanitt, Kobelnitt, and Telnite, not far froln Turas, which lasted till to-day at noon, and was extremely bloody. The issue is still undecided, and all the accounts received here rest on mere re pokts. Our fortress, in the mean time, has been pnt into a state to stand a siege, and the !loyal Family has removed to Teschen. The two Emperors are with the army. We wait for more circumstantial patticalars. P. S. According to later accounts. the battle has, at last, been decided in favour of the Austrian and Russian army, with whops the s)iilory remains. DEELIN, DEC. 9. In the course of yesterday, and the preceding day, several couriers have arrived Inre with dispatches relative to the great battle fought in Moravia, on the td and SI instant, between the Russian and Feeneh armies. But, as the accounts received, rest only on verbal revorts, we have nothing certain on flit subje/t, extent, that a very murderous battle has taken place, and that the Emperor of Russia fought with indescribable courage, at the head of his guards. This great Monarch di4 not spare himself in the 'e.t.a, Fait led on his brave soldiers into the hottest of tae tire. On the first:Jay, the battle was extremely bloody. The Russians had missed their way, by which cir cumstance the French profited, and fell on the Russian centre, %Lich they threw into disorder; and the battle continued with various success till night. On the following morning the battle was renew ed. The Russian left wing pressed on with inde scribable bravery ; the French were entirely de feated, and the Russians resumed their fortner posi tion near Austerlitz. The loss in killed, on both sides, is estimated at 20,000 men. Prince Pangrazion distinguished himself in a very eminent manner. This is ail that is known from the Couriers that have arc ivied here 1t111.11.p DLC. 10. (FOTO., '.4 a Lest, .) We received, the day before yesterday, the news of a decisive battle, which took pl..ce near Tuns, between the Russians and the Prcnch, and which hya terminated entirely to the advantage of the 'eraser. The loss of the two armies is estimated at (25,o00; but that which caused the greatest anxiety to the Austroellessian army is, the ignorant.e in which it remained during the whole of the 3.1, of the fate of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia. It was not known what was become of this Monarch. Fortunately, yesterday, we received tranquillizing news on this subjea. Ilis Mojesty ventured too far in the crowd of battle ; but, his brave troops knew how to extricate him from danger. is is said, that he had three hones killed under him. This Mo narch behaved with such daring intrepidity, as in duced a fear for his valuable life. On the 4th the Russians repaired the check which they had received in the evening. They retook the ammunition and prisoners which had been made from them, re turned to their former position, and the French retreated. On the day when the Russians pro posed to attack the enemy; the latter anticipated thins by c 4 hours. Having been informed by a traitor, that the Emperor Alexander was in dse centre of the army, they carried thither in fatt all their forces, and succeeded in breaking it. This sews having resulted Olmutz, and the Emperor of Germany having advised his august consert to re tire, with her family, to Teschen, Prince Pangra irazion, who was with his corps at a considerable distance from the held of battle, put himself imme diately in motion, attacked briskly the right wing of the French, and effeiled a favourable diversion for the Austrn-Russian army. The Austrians fought with a valour worth of the highest praise. We now expeit the details and result of this most glorious Yesterday dispatches were received from Connt Ilaugwita ; They were dated Vienna, December 2. After the battle of the •kb, when fortune had de cided fur the combined army, it resumed its posi tion near Austerlitz, and prepared to attack the enemy again on the sth. During the battle, the neral c: y of the Russians was, Pit:tory OF neeth regiments of she guards, under the command of the Archduke Constantine, fought with heroic courage. The Austrian cavalry likewise contri ►tsted by its valour to the success of the day. h._ NIORATI A. DEC 4. lu the Wile on the 21. the I{ussian►, l 4 the ins. peruons attack of the French. hod lost a part of their artillery; but, towards the evening, General Ku. tusow retook the artillery, and rescued d_ greater part of the prisorers. On the sd, the battle was resumed, awl the fortune of arms declared in favour of the Combined Army, which reamed its position near Austerlitz, and pre pared for a new attack on the 'ith. ViSory or death was the word in the battle, which was one of the most bloody in modern history. The contest was decided by the bayonet and the sabre. The Russian guards, under the Grand Duke Constantine, fought with the greatest bravery : the Austrian cavalry likewise contributed greatly to the decision of the battle on the 3d. VIENNA, NOV. 30. (From the Vi"nna Gaiette ) Yesterday evening, at six o'clock, his Excellency, Count Haugwitz, the Pruxsian State and Cabinet Minister, arrrived here. Count Stadicn, and General Lieutenant Field- Marshal Count Ginlay arrived here the day before yesterday, and communicated to M. Talleyrand, the Mieister for Foreign Affairs, the propositions of which they were the bearers from his Austrian Im rerial Majesty. M. Von Harnier, Prussian Counsellor of Lega tion, whom his Excellency Count Haugwitz had sent before him, hasgone from hence t 3 13runn, to the French Imperial head-quarters. The French troops entered Presburg on the 27th intant. 341.1.0 CH, DEC. 2. Marshal Massena is now at Laybach, and the Archduke Charles has reached Hungary. Marshal Augereau is at Ulm, where his corps will be reinforced to 60,000 men. IR ANCONIA, DEC. 6. The first column of Prussian troops, under the command of the Prince De I lohenlohe, has arrived in the environs of Nuremberg. The Saxon army has orders to begin its march : its head.quarters will be, provisionally, at Weis senfells. CZASLAU, NOV. 28. The head-gnarte7s of the Archduke Ferdinand have been here since 01,2 'situ. The French have advanced to within three leagues of this place, and we were expecting a kettle ; but, we now learn, that the carps of the Archduke Ferdinand, which is estimated at ;iO,OOO men, will join the Russian armies of the Generals KuttLasw and Bushowden. ULM, DEC. S. Biten Thugut Las removed 12 om Preshurg. There has been published, at Munich, an ideal nrip of the new kingdom of B‘iv.ii ie ; the boundaries of which are iu it enlarged on every hide. Ltiesic, Die. 4. When the Grand Chamberlain, Count De Bosse, 'hewed, at Dresden, the wooden buwl of Peter the Great, to His Majesty the Emperor of Rutsia, he, at the same time, informed him, that there were, in the Cabinet of Curiosities of His Hi7haess the Eledor, the watch, the sword, and the spurs, which the Char had exchanged at Warsaw, with the King of Poland, Elcdor of Saxony, in testimony 04 his friendship. DLC. i h is said, that the troops of a certain power will soon begin to aft. In some accounts, the loss on both sides hi killed and wounded, in the great b..ttle en the Cci and 3d inst. is estimated at 36,000 men. CuPENNACJEN, DEC. 7. The royal family, the capital, and the whole kingdom. is plunged into the most profound grief. It has pleased Providence to take from us this day his Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince. This melancholy event was announced by the tolling of all the bells in the city. All the public spetiacles and amusements in this city ate at present sus pended. m A mauacw, ',Lc. I I. We learn, by a letter from Troppau, of the 4th, in the evening, that the battle which tuck place in Moravia, on the 241 and 3d of this mouth, did not end till the 4th ; that a prodigious quantity of blood was shed ; and that lotus:se varied us the two armies. A letter from Rvrli::, dated the 9th, received here by eitlfitte, informs us, that the battle lasted three Jays and a half. Fortune seeinel in the beginning of it, to be in favour of the French, the Russians having lost a part of their artillery ; but, on the 4th, she declared completely for the Iluseians, who fought only with the bayonet and sabre, and the French were forced to retreat upon Vienna. The enormcras loss of men, on Loth sides, is incre— dible. A person of the highest importance was, we are assured, in the greatest danger, and was only saved by the sacrifice of a part of his body guard. Such is the first intelligence which we have receiv ed ; we expel, with impatience, the official ac couots.--(44irila dm Nerd.) RAMOVCR, LIC. 6. amnia or a et tt The fihe regiment of Russian grenadier guards of St. Petersburgh, composed of 1,956 men, and of which General Count Tolstoy is the Commander, arrived in this city the day before yesterday, and will remain here some time. Preparations are ready for the reception of this General, at the hotel, in which the French Commissary, Mi. chaux, lived during the stay of the French. The General of the English brigade. Baron Von Der Decken, is also expeCted. We learn, that the lath regim •iit of Russian chasseurs which passed through this city, is already arrived in die vicinity of Ha meln. We expeit, to-morrow, still more Russian troops. These troops, vihich are under an excellent discipline, perform garrison duty jointly with the citizens. The entry of the grenadier regiment above.mentioneJ, was made with so much order, and the steadiness and martial air of the young men who composed it, all spruce and able-bodied, pre sented so delightful an appearance, that all the in habitants, as well as those who had arrived from the neighbourhood. beheld them with the greatest as tonishment. 'They condoned afterwards, from this regiment, two spies (Jews), who were arrested at Lauenburgh, and who have been sent to Egidien• thor, where they are striElly guarded. The course of the posts is not yet interrupted be tween Hanover And Hameln. It is said, that two battalions of the German Legion, in the pay of Eslg land, will be employed in the siege of that place ; and these are said to be the first battalion of the line, and the second battalion of light infantry. wiscit•u, hov 19. The Austrian Major-General Nostitz, deceived by the French General commanding at Schongra ben, who Sad succeeded in making him believe that the peace between Austria and France had been signed, refused to co-operate with the Russian army against the enemy, and by this means put the French General in such a situation. that he was enabled to fall suddenly on the troops commanded by Major-General Prince Pangrathion, and to surround him in a manner that he was in great danger of being totally defeated ; a circum stance which might, in some measure, expose the army, the advanced posts of which, for some distance further, had lost the means of wirlirawing themselves with expedition, vihilq they were skirmishing. The French had already attacked the corps of Prince Pangrathion, when a trumpeter arrived from General Murat with the proposition of an armistice. Prince Pangrathion instantly made it known to the Commander-in- Chief, who immediately dispatched his Aid-de- Camp, General Baron de Winaingerode to Ge neral Murat, to negotiate on the subjeet, and to agree with him on an armistice, if the con ditions of it were suitable. The Baron de Win- zingerode having, in fad, signed an a.l of this kind, which General Murat thought proper to send for the ratification of Bonaparte, a copy was also sent to the Commander in Chief of the Russian army ; but he returned no answer, and profited by the in terval of more than twenty hours, which resulted from all these negociatinns, to draw away the army, by two forced marches, notwithstanding the immi nent danger to which he seas compelled to expose the corps of General Prince Pangrathion. Yester day morning it was announced to the Commander in-Chief, that the enemy had made known, that, not having received an answer from the Commander-in- Chief of the Russians, on the subjc of the armis tice, he would no longer abide by it. At the same moment be attacked Prince Pangrathion, by open ing a terrible fire of batteries, which had been ereaed for this purpose. Prince Pangrathion, ever brave and intrepid, was by no means disconcerted, and quickly answered his fire ; he threw some bombs into a village, which he burned, and where a body of French troops were situated, destined to at tack his corps in flank. The enemy, obliged, by the force of the conflagration, to think of nothing but saving their ammunition-waggons, and by making a great circuit, to save themselves by the other side of the village, gave to (;.:nerAl Prince Pangrathion more than two hours time, which al- lowed him to retire. The enemy having charged anew, continued to follow them closely, and to push them so briskly, that he sometimes succeeded in separating a Nit of the troops from the main body ; but all these efforts were vain, the Russian soldiers always opened their way with the bayonet, and even overturned, in many encounters, the ene. my's cavalry. It is thus that Prince Pangrathinn gloriously effeLled a long retreat, fighting con tinually, with a body of six thousand men, au ene my of thirty thousand, commanded by many Mar shals. This Gene: al, who arrived this day, has joined the army, and has brought with him, as prisoners, a Lieutenant-Colonel, two Officers, and fifty sol diers, together with a French standard. The loss of the enemy has been very great, which the pri soners themselves allow. Arnoag the nansber of the slain is a General, whose name is unknown. - ;7` THE BRITISH PRESS., - FRIDAY. DFCLMII2II 211. DREADFUL BA ITLE. On Wednesday, we tato before onr readers the commencement of the recent dreadfel bale fought by the Russians and the French in floras ia. The Hamtaurgh Mail due on Wednesday, which arrived yesterday, has frarnished us with the confirm rtian of that great affair. The annals of modern warfare afford no instance of a battle contested with such obstinate fury ; nor dues history present a cave upon which so much depended. The French had received informatirn, from a deserter, that it was the intention of ;he Austro.Russian army, to attack them cm the J. lios •e A MTE was also aware th,it the centre would be composed of the Russians, manded by the brave and generous At EY NUE K. in person. He instantly resolved to anticipate the pm pose of the C..nrkined Army, and not to await their attack ; and, by this means, brought on the battle on the ed—a day earlier than the Allies expelled it. We stated, in a former paper, that, au the /se, the French Army had fallen behind the Sivarzach , in a line extending north and south, with their left towards Bruno, and their right upon Mcholsburg. The Rus sians, reinforced by Burrito w LP'; division, and lull of that enthusiasm which the presence of their b.lov Emperor inspired, had advanced before the wings from Wischau to Austerlitz. Ou the moniing of the rd, BON Ar A *Tat having called in a great part of his right, attacked the centre of the allies with almost hip lehole force. Two hostile armies, commanded by their respeetive Sovereigns in person, the one contending for the liberties of Euroue, and the other seeking to destroy them, afforded a new and interest ing speCtacle. The conßia was furious, obstinate. and bloody. The Russians, headed by their gallant Sovereign, fought with unexampled bravery ; but, having to contend with almost the whole of the French army, they were at length overwhelmed by numbers, arid broken at the close of the day. .V..e Ftench took several prisoners. The greater part of the Russian artillery and stores also fell into the hands of the enemy. While matters were thus going on in the centre, Prince PANG RAI-atom, who had been at a considerable distance, put himself in motion, and coming up with the right wing of the enemy, completely defeated it. This success ope rated a diversion in favour of the Russian centre. which fell back upon Wischau, while the French were deterred from pursuing it. 'I he news of toe check received by the Russian centre soot, reached Olmuta, and determined the Imperial Farad? of Austria to remove to Teschen. It was upon these grounds those reports were raised, which stated that the French had obtained the vidory on the .`?.d. l'he result, however, appears to have been nearly equal upon both sides, the enemy having to see'gh the loss upon their right against their succes, in the centre. Thus ended the business of the 2d. Several most illiberal and scandalous rcfitidit.ns having been thrown by the French prints upon the charader of the Russian soldiers, we shall stop hue. for a moment, to give the following observations 1 upon them from one of the most respectable Journals upon the Continent, which we received yesterday : •, When the Russian attacks, he must, according to his idea, either conquer or die. A skilful manoeu vre, or a good rett eat, are movements for which he has not any taste. He knows how to advance, bat not how to retreat. He shuns no danger, even though it were ready to destroy him instantaneously. But what distinguishes the Russian from the troops of any other nation is, his extraordinary strength. He is, indisputably, th.., most hardy of soldiers. No attacks, however lo:sg or obstinate, feign:: him. L'he Russian soldier dresses his seats by when he can ; he has no fixed time for meals or sleep. A Ross:an is ever watchful, when on service ; sleeps when he has time, and wherever he may happen to be. He has fewer wants than the native of any other country, and requires less expence in the field. 1 The Russian soldiers were, formerly, accustomed nei ther to g:ve nor to accept quarter. Psis habit they acquired in their tears with the Turks ; but their sentiments, on this subjed, were changed by the campaigns in Italy. As the Russian troops are used to fighting in desert regions, they ate accompanied by a great number of carriages ; but these are so light, and there a►e so many mechanics among the sol diers, that any repairs which they may want, are performed in a moment, without in the least delat• ing the march of the atmy." Sucb were the troops repulsed en the 2d. They were broken, bt.t not defeated, and lost no time to repair their dis aster. The contest was renewed next morning wish unexampled fury. The battle was general, and the Russians were led, as on the :d, by the Easperor A t.s.z A suss,. The Itus►ians having hist their artillery, rushed furiously upon the Fri nett, f itight body to body, man to m. n. We doubt : t •- . '