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they ha i ream to regret the lots of their l he sabre and the bayonet served thrill. SUWARROW'S campaign in Italy taught the to dread the aim and bodily strength of .ussian. They could not expel to find him formidable when led on by his Sovereign. gallant Prince mixed in the thickest of the , animating his troops by his voice :rad his ex ample ! It is said, he had three horses killed under him. As he could not be followed by every eye in the dreadful confusion, the greatest anxiety pre vailed in the Austro-Russian army, for his safety, during the whole of the day. When assured that he was safe, they forget their wounds and their fatigue, and indulged in the most enthusiastic transports. Torrents of blood flowed in the field this day. The accounts do not state, that either party obtained any advantage. Night only sepa rated the combatants. On the 4th, the battle was renewed again, with unabated fury. The Emperor AI.KIAAULR again headed his troops, animating them by his voice and heroic example. He charged the enemy, exclaim. ing, " Victory, or Death," which soon became the general cry of the whole. Army. The Russians proved by their deeds, that they well understood its meaning. 03 this dal►, the regiment of Guards, under the command of the Archduke CONSTAN- Tlne, distinguished themselves in an extraordinary degree. The Austrians also fought as on the pre ceding days, with undaunted bravery. \'itory at length crowned the courage and perseverance of the Allies. The French, about noon, began to retreat, and the Allies resumed their former position, near Austerlitz. The Russians also recovered, on this day, their artillery, military stores, and the prison ers taken from them on the 2d. The loss, in this dreadful battle, which lasted fur T H EN DAYS AND MALT, is said to amount to 35,000 men. This, how ever, is obviously mere conjecture, founded upon the length and nature of the action, and the probable number of the troops engaged. Upon the supposition, that the aggregate of the two forces, amounted to 150,000 men, we should not he surprised if the loss were greater, considering the fury with which they fought, and that the contest was principally by the sword and the bayonet. Some reports, indeed. state the loss of the Russian and Austrian armies to be at least '20,000 killed and wounded, and that of the French at 30,000 killed, and 10,000 pri soner,, with all their artillery and baggage: terry add, that BON AP A OTZ himself left the field with only fifty horse. 'f his last grand attack, which de cided the event, is said to have been made by the Emperor At.exasuet in person, at the head of 30,000 guards and grenadiers. The*cial accounts of these glorious and im portant events had reached Berlin and Ilamburgh. Lord HA lIROWBY at the one ts.wn„ and Mr. THORN TON at the other, together with many other persons, have sent over the news. Sir Aargau's PAO tT'S dis patches were, it is supposed, forwarded by Lord HAaaowsv, by the hands of Mr. Dor: A I,DION, the Messenger. Several reports prevailed yesterday, of military operations, subsequent to this Sth. Some stated, that the battle was renewed, and continued on the sth and 6th; and that Bow AeA is Es:, having experienced a great defeat, within 15 miles of Vienna. was pursued into that city by the Grand Duke CONSTANIINF. These, however, are only speculations; but we trust we are not too sanguine in thinking them very probable. The following Bulletin was circulated yesterday by Government, upon the receipt of the precede . intelligence : " Official advice, from Hamburgh, of the 13th, state, that an eria/ettc passed through that town on the Itlilt, from Berlin, bearing the details of the battle between the Allies and the French, in Mo ravia. The event was not accurately known to Ills MAJ may's Minister at liansburgh ; but he learned, that though the centre of the Allies was defeated on the 2d, they had renewed the battle on the 3d, and that it lasted during the whole of the 4th, and pro bably into the sth ; and that the tide of success t trned completely in favour of the Ritasians. I tang could exceed the enthusiasm of joy at Berlin, on learning that the Emperor Aix% •si out was safe, after displaying the most transcendant heroism. " Government have also received adviees from a r.upeaable quarter, detailing many particular~, the sum of which seems to be, that on the 2d the French attacked the Allies on their march ; that they direlted their whole 'forts against the centre, which, not bring formed when the attack coin. menced, they succeeded in defeating, at:cr a bloody conflie of several hours, in which the centre kit the whole of its cannon ; that the Allies retreated 4 J . :tat the field, to Wisdom, and did not seem to have been followed by the French, so that the Fm k peror ALEk4t4OZn, who had displayed the n.ost de ' termined courage on the 2d, renewed the battle on the 3.1 and &Js ; and by his ardent lortitude and example, turned the fortune of tie contest in fa% our at the Russians. tie rode thrcush the most tie . • ether tillery. well. S French the Russ less for' That g> fight, ar ample ! f : . . t 4 pi mendous ire, caning nt to the Army, ra. 7 . ,huh tens returaell ay exclamations horn his troops, that they tweet would fermis their Emperor.' ti The Russians having lost their artillery on the 2(1, were, during the following days, ordered to fight with the sword and bayonet, and the final re sult was, that the Emperor recovered all his cannon, and the whole ground he had lost. The French wore driven from the field, beyond Austerlitz, (where the battle of the 2d commenced) znd after wards retired behind the Swartz, with their lett at Brunn, and their right at Nicholsberg. Nn details have been received of killed and wounded, on either side." The first column of the Prussian troops bas ar rived in the environs of Nuremberg; the other co lumns are following with the utmost rapidity. A few days more will bring them to the seat of war. ACCEARAU is to command the army destined to prow& BUN APAR T L'S rear, and ad against the Prussians. He is now at Ulm, and his fore! is, it is said, to be increased to tio,ooo men. Archduke Cil ARLES has reached Hungary. Masssua is at Lay bath. The Hereditary Prince of Des 41 ARK is dead. Tim Bllavics Slate Gazelle, of the 14th, states, that, on the 13th, General &OCR announced, on the Parade, at Amsterdam, that the French had obtained a decisive vidary over the Allies on the 3d instant ; that they had taken and killed 40,000 Russians, taken all their Artillery, and the whole of the Russian Imperial Guards, with their Com mander (the Grand Duke Coast A NTIN E). lit con sequence of this intelligence, there were public re joicings in Holland ; but this statement is evidently an exaggeration of the first part of the battle on the 2d. So far we have the authority of the foreign journals, and we think they warrant the conclusion, that the French have sustained a great and signal defeat.— Of its value, it is impossible, at the present moment, to form an estimate. It is immense. Never were such great 4nd multifarious interests embarked in a cause, or dependent upon the issue of a battle. A new King of Bavaria, a new King of Poland, Turkey over-run, and Naples melted down into the kingdom of Italy, are only a few of the revo lutionary schemes ready for execution, had the Cor sican triumphed in this great battle. The brig Waslttnetan, of Boston, W. G SON ins. Master, arrived at Dover, on Wednesday, from the Texel, a:“.1 landed Mr. Do s A LDSON, the Messenger, arid W. I'. Swirl'. Mr. DONA LDSON seas ship wrecked, at the Texel, on his voyage to Bremen, in the Plgt.n schooner ; the disp.c.ches were lost. Two transports were also wrecked on the Ist of Decem ber, at five o'clock in the morning, on the Haack and Texel Sands. Admiral Kika SLIT pressed all the boats, and sent them off to their assistance ; an the men and troops were saved from one of them, but, out of the other, containing '279, there were only fourteen saved ; she lay in such a dangerous situation, that the boats could not get to her ; the officers are on their parole, and the men are in pri sor. at Haarlem, In consequence of orders received by the Mar quis Iref&Alty, respelling the settlement lately form ed at Balambangan. direCtions had been given to r•:linquish the p.)ssession of that island. Several ships were taken up to bring away the servants, both civil and military, with the settlers that had arrived time since the English took possession, which consisted of three or four hundred persoas, must cf wholes were Chinese. Part of the fleets from the Baltic have arrived in the Humber. Letters received by the ships arrived from Ben coolen, mention, that the natives belonging to the opposite side of the Island had made an incursion into the East India Company's territory, where they had done considerable mischief to the vine yards, besides taking and sending off several of the cultivators into slavery. This unprovoked aggres sion had obliged the Governor to send a strung force against them, which had succeeded in driving them over the hilly country with considerable loss. The I.'l/mention, Barron. from London, to the South Seas, was all well on the 18th of Oduber, in lat. se. south, lon g . 45. West. The W T )0.!4 from Petersburgh, for Mont rose, is on shore near Revel. It is nut true, AS the Frent::ivain-gloriously assert, that Vienna was never tsefore in the pu ion of a hostile force. In the year 1485, that city was taken, alter a siege of sit months, by MATIHIAS Coy vi huh King of Hungary. He kept possession of it, till the year 1490, when ht• again ceded it to the :muse of Austria. In 152:4 Stain hoc' lAN 11, foist ineffeaua! seigc to Vienna. He pitched no less thao 2ti,Coo tents before the city ; but, alter au as ' souk ot 13 jays, he was obliged to decamp in the greatest confusion, and with immense loss. A se cond attempt on this metropolis, by the Turks, was not mine successful. In 160, it was besieged by the Grand Vizier K r..r Li, with an army of 280,0n0 men, but was delivered by the celebrated Print! EU() e, and Joni. Strains:, king of Priam', who, ith a force, consisting of 55,000 Germans, and 20.000 Polish cavalry, completely routed this formidable Lost of the infidel assaikoats. The QUINN of POR7UGAL'a BIRTH-D.Y. At the superb entertainment given by his Excel lency the PoitruGuEse Ass eastanne. on Tues Jay last. in celebration of his Roir j MIST arss's girth day. a number of songs and _glees were sung by Messrs. ELLIOT, c varts. and VITZSIMIdOIIII. the gentlemen who performed the vocal parts in the celebration of High Mass at his Excellency's Cnepel, in the morning. Amongst many other pa triotic toasts were the following The King of Great Britain. with three tittles three. Song—Gial Say- this King May the prewnt Royal a id Imperial Confederacy tend to the 'steins .te and permanent ac.-urity of Einnpe. Sing—Ruin Fitennininne, wins introduced the following States, which way raptiordusiv encored : But, when the glorious chance we view, Ry Brltuth ttimrsphi, a rai.ty Tile tear of atigiush rid!! each cheek hole,. And Briton; mddrii their Nelson Wit Then :Douro B 101111141, Britannia's aunt to brave. And strew with kiiitula your Nelson. grave. May the friendship aultai.ting between Portugal a isd ;heat Britain, oast-1r be interrupted. Gl•-$.—Wheli Sappho tuned. Song—tarry Avibile..—Mr. Doet.-11se Elletterlis.—Meriss $4141 Fil/4411111110111. The Wooden W.:14 r,i Is:nri $l.l Song—When in War osl the Ocean.—Mr. Fitzsimmons. CAW—Peace to the Souls. About twelve o'clock, the company begun to re tire, highly delighted with their evening's entertain ment. POETIC Every brilliant achievement is produaive of poetical effusions. This circumstance appears to have suggested the following lines Jupitnr can jour 11.1 cea mots: Lt's tnortels somata imp la ears; II alt trop &um Werra can halos. PU111. , .,111 no ;mu la to% ire ; Lt (dole a Ines deux tonneaux Melattgeons lee Dens et les matte. Dens lee Client erne sore divine Retentit, et tornbant des 2ITS. Au Isurier brillatd, pour 'yin, Ills attache les 'llama'. tees. The last Arrivals at Bath, are, Fail and Countess of Leven and Ile, lord Prelyn, Lady A Talbot, Lady W. A. Leslie Meh dk , 11,11 Mr and Mts. Ilonria,..l, !Inn. Mrs and Miss./kn.rn , t u II Moinl, Sir Edwin and Isl:s• Jaynes Sir WSliaru AVi:.irt, Sir Duo and Lady Sin% U,, Vice-Admiral and Mrs Tn. nub 11th, Dean of Cninael •trirt Mrs Carnegie, Major Hrowis Majrir KII:f011111, Ada,or Analirison, Majnr and Mrs. Al. sion, and Dr Gabbott. The last Arrivals at Clifton are, _ The Earl and C osioots Charleniont, the Countess of King ston, Lot Ihic.a , Lord Raver.daln, I lotiourahle 111 r. King, Sir Thome< Wi.mington, G•ninul CrehAni, Colonel Mom iron, Channel ...s, Mr. and Mrs. Gunning, Mr and Mrs. Smith, M,s.and valtdetata. Last night. Master RST T Y again performed Nur. Cal, in the Tragedy of Ifhnsitat, at Drury-Lane Theatre, and received much applause, from an ele gant, hot not crowded audience. A Miss en asea, not six years of age, prf‘armed Derflar, At the Greenock theatre, on and was received with great applathc. Lady s sus will give a gra...i bail, on Frith) , next, at her seat, near Ncv•at k ; and Lord tiot.)‘‘ Low Itas announced Itt, ball fur the 3.1 of next mouth. Died, on the 3d lust. At. the Isle of Man, Aged 3S years, the Right Hon. Lord Hsvev Muitaar, brother to his Grace the Duke of ATHOL. Mr. Ki'n, tilt' late Comedian, will be interred nn Sunday next, iii St P.:ors, Covent Garden : the Per formers of both Theatres will attend. The Hon. AUGUSTUS BA it lir, encouraged by the success of Mr. Sit ErrINGTOI4, will eert.iinly bring forward, early in spring, The Ca4llo of raingen, a Musical After-piece, written and composed by him. Lady Hammitt . Cntrworn, and NVii.LI AM Ctiv►, Esq. will preside at the next Drayton Card and Dancing Assembly. The Earl of Weir most sr. AND has taken the house lately occupied by the Earl Uf LUC EST I it, its Grin venor square. Lord AST GUT Sorasiteftsur left Blandford Park yesterday, for All-Sinils College, Oxford, to he present at the Latin Orations that will be spoken by the scholars. The Marquis of Aaeacoasr is in treaty for a house, in Charles -street, S . The Karl of Wlll'5lOllEl. ND'S home, in Berke le .square, is going to be 6:led up in an elegant stile, for the recept.on of the Countess of Jeans. The Countess of BERKELEY arrived yesterday, at her house, Spring-gardens, for the season, from her seat, near Hounslow. Viscount CR•FIL EY drove his phaeton and set of beartiful bays, through Bond-street, yesterday. The Marchioness of AIIICRCORN'S first grand theatrical pert. e,hince, will take place this evening, and the second to-morrow. Noteithstanding the severity of the season, one day last week (at Carlisle) there were ne less than four Gretna-Green matrimonial parties at one inn. At Padiham, near Burnley, on the Thanksgiving Day, Le GLNDIC PILRCE SIARICIN ES4:I. of the Hiintroid, gave to one thousand and thirty-six poor persons of the neighbourhood of Padiharn and Sy mondstone, one pound of solid beef each ; and, to those who attended Divine Service, each one quart of ale. added, to regale themselves with. ai Tuesday, the Odd Fellows in North Shields bespoke a play for the benefit of Mr. M'Gi etws, when the Members of the different Lodges assem bled at Mr. SANDeIteS, the Hope and Anchor, and marched in precession to the Theatre, preceded by the Band of the Sussex Militia, and a number of boys with lighted torches. The number of Odd Fel lows was between one and WO, and the benevolence of the design did than ►onour 1 for, hearing that Mr. M•Gtasoss had been used ill by the Manages, and that his benefit was fixed on a night when little could be expelled, they generously came forward, and mad* him the best benefit that has been there this season, exceeding even that of the Mawr, by ten pounds. .fLDERM4N LE MESURIEW. Set IL -•-••••••-- Ye,tel,:•y, the tetra 4... • 01 the, 1,.e kljettast ., L E Ltt:et Eft were interred with tune; al sr asp ••••si .titlirtty hot:rem, in Christ Chur h, .. o tri!ele',l4; "f he late worthy Alderman having brsn ~ ;(11twei rf the Royal Artillery V lunteers, in order • 74i every respell to their departed CoMmentie . whole of that respe.l ibis corpt. with their full 'rat. t• mustered in the Artillet y Ground, by ten whets they marched to Hornerton, near Hackn ty,, the cmt.try retdence of the late Alderman, tram which they retu t ne i l to Christ Church, in the follow\ lag order, about three o'clock :-- A party of the S..wirsheesers, two and two, with arms tarveres-d. Twe Mooroing Coatt:les and F 611•11 with (Slicer., &c. es.• follow. d try the whole wet+ of the Regiment, with thew arms ravened 10 I The Colours, with a crape toed at tilt top. The Awl, with the drums inAlled The Horse, led; catrytog tae C: bat, sword, Mk and 1, 0 , ,te • THE HEARSE, Followed by four Mourning Coryiies. an d tie, with the kile !derma% CtleCti, and sit: ether Crude MM . / C.JICIIOII. I he field pieced of the Coinpiany continue.t in fire minute guns, in the Artillery Ground, ter above se I hour. , '40 14 :111 1 .11T. upwarh dis- PO LW X. ....1.........11• arsW4 T ' On Wednesday evening, Ale, ltwerd, of 60 yeard of Age, was charged with keeping a orderly house M I,ricester-street, Leicrater-square. The prisoner has occupied the house for above thirty years and has carried on these pradices, tor which she has been several times indi3ed. The lest time, the parish did not press fora sentence, in con sequence of her S. ; ell.llg All agseement to d;scmtintie bee praftices, but which she had not adhirresi tn, pleading, that she had no other means of getting a living. She set up this Ora again on Wrj:orsd evening, stating,that it was the t.aly husinrss she t . .. 4.1 been brought up to ; and, in joistifi , Ation, said, she WAS not hound to ask every man and woman, veils, came to lodge at her home, whet/I-sr they were win and wife ? She was admitted to ha,l, in tv o menace or 501. each. and herself in 1001. to :truer the corms plaint the ensuing Sessions. eassi•)e-staase Yesterday, Mr. Moseley, a Singers:, in the City. brought his apprentice before Inc Loy r) MAY striking him, and running away. The yomg man alleged in defence of his comlua. that be bed n .1 struck 114 muter, but had merely lilted his hand to defend himself. He also stated. that he was wit i•i strueled in his business, but kept to clean knives. shoes. &c. with other work, disgraceful to him as the pul•il of a surgeoe. His usage, in other iespeets, he de scribed to be s•o bad, that he ran away to serve in the Navy, which he preferred to his master's we. vice. The Complainant denial the assertions of the appren; ice, an.l requested the Lull') MA vets to punish him ; who, the b-tier to do sniff justice to the parties. ordered them to attend a lu.th• r heariog„ and to produce witnesses of their hell.- viuur towards each other. A confulenthl clerk to a wholesale house, let Watling -street, is said to hive absconded on Wee ms33v bias; that * emssiderable deficiency appears in h s accnents; and that he is supposed to have carried with him 3,0001. Tuesday night lest, 4.1 extraordinary high tide took place at Shields. and the tea being ye; y high, faece s o tel the waves to break with great fury against the stone q say at the foot of Tynemonth Barrio ks. built by ord Tot His Royal Highoe... the DA , . of YORK. Several of the wooden-heads, or break waters, 6tiished in the most .distentiol maoeer, ,V( le torn from their places, on front of the wall, and dashed to pieces. The tide washed dome t:ie centry box, near Ciefard's Frat, although placed where tee water seldom ipproaches. hire old 04t lanher was carried adrift, and, by dr; virg up and sown, damaged and sunk several heats. On the late Thanksgiving-day, the choir of singers, in the parish of ataultoti, in Lincolnshire, who have been associated during 55 yeera. atlenetd divine service there, and sting the these first verses of the 9th Psalm. and tee four first and rise seventh verses of the 9tidi ; after whicn. the Rev Wit.- , Lieu NIAUGIIAM (iii the 80th year of his age). preached an excellent sermon irom the first verse of the 98th Psalm, and the clink sang, fie/ ,are the Kemp, in full chorus: they diem attinaled ny the principal inh,i4itants of the vill age, retiree to the Carpeieci'. Arm, to dine, and celebrate their annual feast; when ihe 55th rump of beef was served os on the occasion. The leader of the choir has sung ti 3 years, uninterruptedly, in the above church; and the spe9ators of this festive scene had the nn usual a : d gratifying sight i,f four generatiams Of the same family, e..joying and promoting the inno cent merriment of their companiens. the old man led the band ; bei son sung the counter-tenor ; his grandson, hiss; and lour great grandsons, treble 1 —The afternoon passed with the utm st convivi ality, and Cie village bells in the evening Added to the harmony of—a well ,pent la ', 1 The Hear, 4 Capt. Bruce, of North S iields, from Riga. bound for London, with m flits, Sec for Gov re .. meet. put into Hull on Monday 31ri.fooeso et.:i fly full of water, having 'thick i ii the cast Pear Dinlinetoa ; she lately came nut of Noi way, and reports that three fleets, bound from ti.e different ports in the Baltic, to van us parts of England (tinter convoy of the Cher::.. -W,rwator, &c. arms 1 ships,) were then under wets!, . A SCASOF•AILI Ili ivr.— i he sale for Tickets and Shares in the present Grand Lottery, that h4i al., ready taken place, beyond ail prece 'ent at so early a period, must be obvious to every adventurer; for, as the first 5,000 Numbers will be entitled to 221. each, consequently, every ticket purchased at the present puce must prove an ablnicite gain of more than Two Pounds each ficket, if drawn with a that period, independent of the chance of all the great Capital Prizes with which theeesent Rich Scheme abounds. So seasonable a kilt it well worth the attn. Lion of adventurers, who, in former Lotteries, hay* &treed purchasing tin near the curnmencensent of the drawing i and the low prizes being then only 20k. they were sure to lose. Early purchases should. therefore, not be negleeted i • the present Lottery, especially 45 tickets .re now rising is price. and will no doubt increase rapidly as the drawing approaches. I