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own soon.; and as lilicitet:ou was .advancing rapidly to join it, HOPAPArTE was deterred I:turt farther pursuit, and began to retreat in his two. F On the 26th ult. the Archduke CoNsr aetriti t's fine corps of Cavalry filed or to the Russian head-quar ters, which were at Oltscliau. On the :nth, the French continued their retreat, and the Austrians rod Russians advanced; their lie.atriarters were at Crosniiz, and Prince Partortazi UN, with the ad vanced guard, was at Witaltau. On the 27th, the Lest column of the 31 Russian army, under M - enttsora, arrived at froppan, and was expeeted at Olmutz on the same day. The French were on the same day between Bruno and Austerlitz. On the 29th, the Emperor of Gtata•tot's head-quartets were at Wischau, and were to be removed to Kremsir. On the Sods, their left wing was at Xtemsir, and their advanced guard near :Ladish. On the Ist, the head-quarters of Their Islets IA L MAJESTIES were at Ktizarowitz, two leagues in ad iance frog Austerlitz. The French, upon the same 'day, on the Scnwizach, in a line extendin7 North and South, with their right wing near Nichols burgh, and their left towards 13runn. Such was 'the position of the French army, on the day pre 'ceding ,he battle ; and this also accounts for its left win. ; having suffered so much, as the main body of the 'sine's was on that side. From tile commerce. meat of Boa A IPAITE'S retreat from Olmutz, tip to the .d, on which day the battle of Wischau was fn nen. the tw.) armies do not appear to have come in comae!. except on the 27..1, when the Rus•aat. TA E H ird had a very warm adi• - •1 with the enemy's rear, in which the French Cavalry suffered severely, bu: the particulars are not stated. This affair must have taken place between Wischan and Olmutz, as the head-quarters of the Allied Etseccoas were at the former place on the 26th. It is strange; how ever, that the accounts from Olmutz, which are dated the e9th, do not nol e it. Vie fear that we were 'ed too an error yestetd ty, in common with our contemporaries, by the Mail, which stated, that Count Hauosvirz had faired in his mission to BOP AAAAA Z. This account was c n taiaed in the Hamburgh Papers of the 6/11; but letters from Berlin of the 7th, positively assert, that no acconata had been received from H A IiGWITZ, since his art ival at Vienna, an the 23111 last. Dispatches, we understand, have been received from Lord Hatt ROW EY, dated Berlin, the °tit, which state. that the Prussian troops were advancing with groat rapidity; and that, iti-sti ad ut marching into Frarconia, they had changed their route, and meant to enter Bohemia, in order to support the Allies, and attack BONAPARTE. The latest accounts from the Archduke CH A s L cc, in the foreign Papist, are of the t 7th of November. His bead-quarters were then at Adelburgh, in Styria. The Archduke Josta was at- Clagenfurth. It eras rumoured yesterday, that an at ion had taken place between him and a division of the French spiny, in which the Latter was defeated, with the lons of 3,000 killed, and 7,000 prisoners ; Lite, we do net know what degree of credit is doe to this report. The Anglaise Corps, which capitulated to Ayr:c actuses the 14th, on the side of the Tyrel, we now 'Gad was that of the brave WOLTSKEHL and JELL E coca. It amounted to only 6,000 men. The ca pitsdatioe is given at length, in the Hata/urge Coe resposidenise of the Loth, with the names of Aunt mash Woarsaaut, and JELEECIIICII annexed.— Ibis is a very extraordinary circumstance, as other *musts state, that WoxrSIECHL had cut his way through AUGZISAU'S army, on the preceding day, and 'foiled his escape. ssomesmens Yesterday amain. His M A.l IST Y. accompanied by the Duke of CA at saiDGe, walked to the Cavalry itarraitks, ilrmdsnr, and inspefted the Royal Horse Curds. Yesterday, about three o'clock, Lord CASTLE" imams had anaudience of the Duke of Yon", at his Office. His Royal Highness afterwards held a public day, and saw a number of Officer s. The intelligence (tom the Continent, ma k. yester day a favourable impression upon the Funds.— Cinsols rose Iper cent. The ed of December, the dry of the battle of Wischau. is the anniversary day of the Coronation of Box APAITE. A Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall, yes. terday, at which were present the LORIS Mayon, Thirteen ALDERMEN. Recount", and SHsut rrs. The Court, after having examined the Meal weighers' Returns, ordered the pre. of Bread to. be /eked one attire and an half, or three-pence in the pea- inaf, to take place to-morrow, the (11 incnt 104 wheaten, will then be 111 d. and 101 d. A divillend of 21. per cent. due the .sth January next, to the Orphans, &c. was ordered to begin raving on tl.e 1 ash January. The fleas of the Court were voted to the Rey. A. na ew HA r,A.M.Chaplain to theßight Hon. the Lupo MAYOI, for his excellent sermon, preached at St. P:uPs, on Thanksgiving Day. I,l'ardurne Prir.:^pts were ordered to be issued for • the el4tin of Ward Officers for the ce.tr ensiling 1 he Searchers and brAlers of Leather were sworn :for the 4111.1 tx:ctition of their several Dike,- for the year ensuing. No c.ar of public intereut, occurred yeatettlay itboither of the Courts of Law. 1 FIREICN TNTSLLTGENCv . nom THE PARIS PAPERS. TWENTY-SEVENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND FRENCH AkMY. POHOkI.II2, IN NOR AVIA, NON. 19. " After the :talon of Guntersdorff th^ enemy pursued Ho retreat in great haste. General Sebas tiani wllowed hint with his brigade of dragoons, with drawn sabres. The extended plains of Mora via facilitated his pursuit: on the 18th of Nov. he cut off several corps in their flight, and made 2,(0 JO prisoners. Ptince Murat entered Bruno on the 18th cf November, in constant pursuit of the enemy, who immediately evacuated the town and'the fortress, which is witll built, and in a state to stand a regular siege. The Emperor has taken up his head-quarters in Pohoslitz. Marshal Soult is stationed with a body of troops at Messeritsch. Marshal Lames is or, the other side of Pohorlitz. Moravia is much more fertile than Austria.— The Moravians are astonished in the middle of their widely extended plains to see the people of the Uk• raine, of Kamschatka, and Great Tattary, fight with the Normans, the Gascuns, the Bretons, and rite Burgundians, and destroy each other, without tueir country having any thing in common, or any immediate political interest ; and they have sens enough to say, in their writtclic 4 Robemian dialed, that human blood is bec ime a Taerchandise in the hands of the Eagli,h. A 1 4 re.st Moravian farmer, said lately to a French officer, speaking of the Em peror Joseph 11. t*Jt he was thefiiend of the pea sants, and, that had he lived, he would have freed them from the feudal dues which they pay to the Convents of Nuns. "The Emperor of Germany has retired to 01- mut' ; our posts are within a day's march of that place 6. We found at Brand sixty pieces of cannon, 3,000 cwt. of powder, a great quantity of corn and meal, and considerable magazines of clothing " (3landeur, Not,. 30.) TWENTY.fIGHTII BULLETIN OF THE GR %ND FRENCH ARMY. atusN, soy. 21. " The Emperor arrived at Brunn on the 20th November, at ten o'clock is the morning. A depu tation of the Moravian State', with the Bishop at their head, came to meet him. The Emperor took a review of. the fortress, and caused the citadel to he Liken possession of, in which he found 6,000 stan i of arms, a greaiquantity of ammunition, and, among other things, 400,000 pounds of gunpowder. " The Russians had collefted all their cavalry, which formed a corps of 6,0 W men, with a view to defend the paint of junaicn of the roads leading from Bruno and Olniotz. Gen. Walther opposed them the whole day, and fOreed them, at last, to abandon their ground. Prince Murat caused Gen. liautpoult's division of Cuirassiers, and four squad rons of the Imperial Guard to advance. Though our horses were extremely fatigued, the enemy was turned, and driven hack. He left upon the field of brttle more than COO of his best Cuirassiers and Dragoons; 100 Cavalry remained in our hands. Marshal Bessieres, Commander of the Imperial Guard, has executed a brilliant enterprize, at the head of four squadrons of Guards, by which the enemy has been completely routed. Nothing could form a greaser contrast than the silence of the Guards and Cuirassiers, and the cries of the Rus sians. The Russian cavalry is well mounted, and well *quipped; it da,plays intrepidity and resolution, but the men do not seem to know bow to make use of their sabres, and in this respell our cavalry had a great advantage. We had some men killed, and about sixty wounded, among whom were Colonel Duiosnel, of the Itith Cbasseurs, and Colonel Bourdon, of the II th dragoons. The enemy re treated several leagues."—( Mot:dear, Der. I.) AIt:NICH, Nov. 30. TWLNTY-NINTII BULLETIN OF TOL' GRAND Ursa Quarters, Sturm, Nev. 25. " Marshal Ney caused Brixen to be occupied, after having taken many prisoners, and found a great number of sick and wounded in the hospitals. On the 17th of November, Le took Clausen and Baum,. Marshal D,rnadotte occupies Iglau : divisions of his great corps have advanced into Bohemia Gen. Vrede has liken an Austrian company of artillery, 100 horses, 5) cuirassiers, and many officers; as alto a considerable magazine of eorn, and a great number of waggons, with the baggage of several regiments and officers. The Adjutant-Commandant. Malson, made some prisoners on the road to Iglau, and, at Brunn, took 200 dragoons of Latour and Hohenlohe. He ►ikewise surprised another corps of 200 mon, and took ISO prisoners. The country, as far as Olmutz, has been reconnoitred. " The winter begins to be severe. The French Arany has taken a position. The van is supported • , • by the strosng fortrost al• Ininst, 'which they have begun to strengthen. and to put into a state of de fence." viessa L NOV. O. The Imperial head-quarters were yesterday still at Brur.n. His Majesty, notwithstanding his fa tigues, ar.d the rigours of the season, enjoys the best health. the French army has taken a positron. The Russian army is retiring into Poland. Brune is fortifying and piuvisioning; it wir he a very good place: in it are every day discovered new magazines of ammunition, artill.ry, and clothing. The Tyrol is entirely evacuated by the Aus trian troops. Marshal Ney, who commands the (th Corps of the Grand Army, after having forced the passage of the Scharnitz, and made pris , errs from the corps commanded by the Arthdet John and the Prince de Kollar', established his head quarters, on the 20th Nov. at Botzen, having pus':- ed his advanced guard as far as Trent, where it still was on the 2)d. The carp; of the enemy, under the command of the Psi. cede Rohan, amounting to about four or five thousand men, dire led its flight across the mountAins towards Bassano, to endeavour to gain Venice; but Lieutenant-General St. Cyr, who is informed of this, is manta ivering to cut off the communication. A division of the corps of Mar shal Nyy pursued, sword in hand, the corps of the Archduke John, and drove him, briskly, upon Klagenforth, where the corps of General Marmont may be expeott d to be, as he was, on the 10th of November, at Leohen and Ju , lenherg. Marshal Augereau having received information that General St. Julien, who defended the Brenner, had been forced, by a brigade of die corps of Mar shal Ney, to evacuate that pe.sition, approached Feldkirk, and forced the Generals Jellachich and Volfskeol to cipittilate. The capitulation ren dered the corps ourler the command of these two Generals, prisoners of war, amounting to about eight or ten thousand men.—(Monitear, Da. 2.) ' iikMBURG4-1 MAILS . XSAD-Sit/ARTERS. STRALSUND, DEC. 8. BULLETIN. His Majesty set out, on the 7th instant, by way uf Barth, Dammearten, Rostock, Dobberan. Butlou, Wismar, and Gadebusch, to Ratzeburgh, where his head-gleaners are provisionally established. His whole army has, this day, receive.'. , rders to march. The brigides which were hitherto cantoned in Pomerania, will break op to-morrow and the two fallowing days, and will prooceed through Meck lenburg, to the Elbe. The van, which has already passed that river, will be reinforced; and will be divided between Hamburgh and Uelzen. Lieutenant-General Count Gustavus Wachtmeister is appointed to con:maid it, and will fix his heed-quarters at Luneburg. The second line of the army will, for the present, remain on this side of the Elbe, and take a position between Donuts and the Hamburgh frontiers.— Colonel Count Hampus Morner has been assigned to it, as its leader. His Excellency the Imper;al Marshal Count Von Fersen, and Mr. Pierrepoint, Ambassador of the King of Great Britain, wiU set out, on the 10th, from this place to Molin. In the retinue of His Majesty are Count Stenbrock, First Lord of the Bed-cham'aer ; Lieutenant-General Count Horn ; Count Frolich, Master of the Horse ; M. von Platen, Marshal of the Court : and for ju dicial, military, and foreign affairs, Count Gyllen berg, Auditor-General ; M. von Hedenstierna, the First Secretary of Expedition ; and M. •on Wet terstedt, the Principal Cabinet Secretary. The preceding Belletie is printed in the Swedish language, in the King's field-press. •araovxe, DEC. 3. Yesterday, his Excellency Count Munster, the litatit and Cabinet Minister of the Eleaor of kla. ;river, arrived at this place. After his Excellency's arrival, the following Royal Proclamation was pub lished : " We, George the Third, by the grace of Gad, King of the Us toil Kingdom of Gust Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunorick ant Luneburg, Areli-tomaturer aa.lElether of the Holy Roman Empire, &c. "Cu.ifurotalsly to arlent wishes for the dolivorasee of out beloved Getman dominions, we I,eve at length %owing zd, by means of the *sections of our high allies, in compelling this smarmy to evecuate them. We had, ittslool, hoped to 11114 effected this long ago be our nun troops y but tin execution of tiara design has bee., delayed by contrary winds ; and, in the mess time, His Penman Majesty tnak pommies a our pital, Hanover, forsaken by u,e enemy, nth the OHM mai. cable entireness, till the arrival of the !Lunen Imperial Army, required by at for that purpose. •• p.. the re-establishment of a regular government, es make it our hen ►usiness to make known our jny at thif ham change, and to testify Is cur servants, and Meerut to our faithful •übjees is general, that the numerous proofs of en shaken attachment aqd fidelity which have defied the pr.. traded oppreniust ul the enemy, Mee not remained naulatery- WI by sr, but that, OA the ether hand, ere have otoened and acknowledged them with petuland maintain eari satiefattion. Our next objett will be, to heal as court. as poemilsie the VOUIMIS inflicted on the counlty, and to contribute all that hes in our power to cause the calamine• eider al, to be Cordell in resweed prospesity. Rut we coofte dentiy expert that ail and each of our faititful subjects will co-Operate its this purl:ewe, according to the mee.ut• of their abilities, and that they wilt newer l.wc sie , si of this/ carcutastancr, that the country 'oath-ea wen hr tit: ioaensy, in a war, whien re wires the is order te ermine surcesa, though, at the 1:14110 titia?, ws shall endeavour to MOM,: the burtheo, as wilco as poebitdc, front the country. " We a•+ convinced that it will he agreeable and gratifyini IS the , uruntry to be oilman& that we iatend In rivet .mir 014 . the 1)oke of Ca•olu:dg., as loco as he is aisle to .at out, the elir , rtion of all that reLtie, to nolvary affair- in G^easais dominions. W.. ba a hlteu'ae though. it .oseeratrv, th gar Bard civil matt , re, to send over the , 'oo,t Von qulutte►, NIT Mtrl;lte: of Sin*, c". , rted with ration. commissions, - the "4 7 a which is to ellA,ll..tltTl . .e Is.etheii.Clevlties or the country, and the wean% of aui• dying them and we hereby order all the Mlllo.lllltft is the country to sired hit. :very iin.sible facility and a•istaace in the corn?'-ten 1,1 sW petpeos. " Gives at our Place at St. Jarnees, the 14is of November, 1805, in the Forty-fi,t Year of our Reign. " GIEA)RGF Nov. 30. A column of Spanish troops has arrived in the vicinity of Toulouse. Genera! ChaSain, *hi) etins minas there, insfe public, by a .ieelarstion on the 20th, that the Emperor desired; that the Spanish troops should receive the same treatment se soldiers, and that the French , isCers and wsl,:ters should pay these allies that attention and respect which are due from military men to each other. BAYREUTH. HtC. I. The following notification has appeared here:— " as the French awl It ur .,; a , l h gee , sc . :so oti n g to ter•nrt, lev,e4 enlitributi , fits wg state. of the circle of Franconia, ell and etch of the subjerts and resident* in stn territories of the Xing, are he-ehy emphatically required to ob. wigs trri:n furiathine any portion towards to - se levies a,,d contributins, and to piy atte.itioil su the retintvitions of their M . - ia' Lor 1., ur other authorities ; but to smoke therm known to the K.tig'i Office of Justice., which will spaedbli receive directions cmcerning thews, from ibis College al Gue. comment, at Anspach. This applies, aelt4se„ to such pla , ws °rot which other co-estate> possess anther.. st, besides He at , - jcity, as those places likewise olfoy bertn-At al the KWIC* protectton, and ate comprehetnied iu his Ns 2, " By the spacial command a the K nes MoaiG-Itious Ms tY • " lIARDBNIBERG:" WA itSAAV, NON'. V. The army of reserve, ro or 70,000 strong, is as. sembling on the frontiers. The General in Chief, Von Michelson, who concluded the first columns which marched through Silesia, has received direc. tions from His Majesty the Emperor, conveyed in the must Nattering terms, to return to Erzese, to• expeifte the organisation of the army colleeNAg ota the frontiers, that it may be ready to march at the first notice. General the Baron Von Benni . takes upon himself the command of the tr which were under the orders of General Von chelson. • •s r esi . starve, nee. The garrisons of Berlin and Potsdani will set out on their marsh to-morrow, and proceed to Saxony,. ander the command of Field-Marshal Moellevidorf.!, Lieutenant-General Count Scaureltau, will lave the command of the army in Westphalia, under the Ficetor of Hesse, and Lieutenant-General Rachel, the corps which goes to Silesia. Dec. S. Great changes have been made in the arthies, and the three sorps do reserve, with respell to the num bers, and the distribution of the regiments; changes have likewise bees made in the destination of the Generals. The Generals Blucher and Ruche! are appointed to the first reserve, and the Prince of Orange Fulda, has also orders to join it, Frit ce Louis Ferdinand has the command of the advanced guard of the army of Hohealohe. DEC. 1. The day before yesterday, the guards stationed here and at Charlottenburg, marched to Potsdam yesterday they, together with ti . e other regiments of guards, and the garrison of Potsdam, set out for Satotty. Ti.-day, the garrison, gots d'arwses, and battalions of grenadiers, arrived in this city. It was a highly imposing sW:tack to behold this mass of warriors, courageous, well-disciplined, and prepared for conflia, who compose the ROW,' of_ the first army in the world, assembled or pass. in through, William'a•square, before the sta tues of the Generals, who once obtained immor tality at the head of these same hosts, now led on by a hero of eighty, animated with ell the fire and aflivity of youth; who was the constant companion in Milli if the great Fredetie, sad who recoiled', with pleasure, that he once before took the field in the meath of December with that monarch, in the year 1740. We cast a look, it is true, on the assembled concourse of specs. tarors ; we beheld the meagre, perwi 'feels, mai the swola eyes of mothers, of •isters, of oil. drier ; we observed the look, rapist* With 111111bair emulation, with which these sturdy warriors. es se. —....0111111111