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the height of his demolished and almost destroyed ramparts, was witness to the whole anion. He was dejettk d, on seeing the hopes vanishing which he had formed of receiving succour. General OUDINOT has killed three Russians with his own hand. Many Officers of his Staff are wounded. - The 12th and the 2d regiment of light infantry have distinguished themselves. The particulars of this at tion were not yet received at head-quarters. " It will appear from the journal of the siege of Dautzic, thaLthe works are carried, on with equal a&ivity, that the covered way is completed; and that we, are occupied with preparations for passing the ditch. ‘f As soon as the enemy knew that this maritime expedition had arrived before Dantzic his , light troops began to reconnoitre and alarm the whole, line, from the position occupied by Marshal SOULT, on the Passarge, to that of General MoRAN - p, upon the Alle. They were received at the mouth of the musket by the Voltigeurs, lost a considerable num ber of men, and , retired with more precipitation than they came. " The Russians also presented themselves at Malga, before Gen.' ZAYONOIisEK, the Commandant of the Polish Corps of Observation, and carried off one of his posts.. The General of Brigade FISCHER put sued, routed t hem, and killed 60 men, one Colonel, and two Captains. They likewise presented them selves before the sth Corps, and insulted Gen .GA zAA's advanced posts atWillenburgh. This General piirsned them several league'. But they made a more serious attack upon the bridge of Omelaw at Drenzewo. The General of Brigade GIRARD marched against them with the 88th, and drove them into the Narew. General SucuET arrived, pursued the Russians closely, and defeated them at Ostrolenka, where be killed sixty men, and took fifty horses. LAURIN, Captain of the 64th, who commanded a head-guard, surrounded on all sides by the Cossacks, made the best resistance,' and deserves to be distinguished. Marshal MAssENA, at the head of a brigade of Ba varians, had reason to be satisfied with the zeal and good behaviour of the, troops. "'On the same' day, the 13th, the enemy attack ed General LEMARROIS, at the mouth of the Bug.— This General had passed that river on the 10th, with a Bavarian Brigade, and a Polish regiment, who, in the course of three days, had constru&ed seveeal totes-du-pont, and had advanced to Wiskowo, with the intention of burning the rafts which the enemy had been at work upon 'during six weeks. This expedition completely succee&d, and the ridiculous' work of six weeks was destroyed in a moment. On the 13th, at nine, in the morning, 6,000 Russians arrived at Nar, and attacked General LE MARROIS in his entrenched camp. As soon as the General saw that the enemy, who was upon the bord l ers of :the ditch, was repulsed,. he made a sortie, and pursued hiM sword in hand. The Colonel. of the 4th Bavarians, i a brave soldier, was killed. He is universally regretted. The Bavarians lost 20 men, and had 60 wounded. " All the army is encamped in divisions of square battalions, in very wholesome situations. These affairs of advanced posts have not occasioned any movement in the army. Every thing is quiet at the head-quarterS. This general attack upon our ad vanced posts seems to have h'd no other obje& than to occupy the French army, so as to prevent them from reinforcing the troops employed in the siege of Dantzic. • The hope of succouring Dantzic, by means of a maritime expedition, appears very extraordinary to well-informed military men,' acquainted with the ground and the position occupied by the French army. " The leaves begin to appear; and the season resembles the month of April in France." SEVENTY-1II•TH BULLETIN. FINCKENSTEIN, MAY 18.—The following are further particulars relative to the affair of the 15th, Marshal LEFEBVRE makes a very favourable report of General SCHRAMA4, to - *horn he, in a great mea sure, imputes the favourable issue of the affair . of Weichselniunde. " On the morning of the 15th, at two o'clock, General SCIIRAM AI had formed in order of battle, co vered by two redoubts thrown up opposite the fort of Weichselmunde. He had the POles on the left, the Saxons in the cen tie, and the regiment of Paris in reserve. The Rusian General KAM ENSKOI sal- lied from the fort at day-break, and after two hours fighting, the 12th regiment of light infantry, sent by Marshal LEFEBVRE from the left shore, and a battalion of Saxons, decided the vilory. Scarcely a battalion belonging to OUDINOT'S corps had any oc casion to take part in the anion. Our loss is very trifling. M. PARIS, a Polish Colonel, was killed. The loss of the Enemy is greater than we supposed. We have buried 900 Russians. We cannot rc t kon their loss at less than 2500 men. We observed no more movements on the part of the Enemy, who seen;ed to confine himself very prudently within the circuit cf the works. The number of vessels sent off with the wounded was fourteen. Tfie tmperor has issued a Decree for making every person who distinguished himself on this occasion a Member of the Legion of Honour : they are about thirty in number. " On the 14th a division of 5000 men, mostly Prussians, from Konigsburgh, landed on the Neh rung, and advanced against our light cavalry as far as Kahlberg, who thought proper to fall back upon Furstenwerder. " The Enemy advanced to the extremity of the Frisch Half. We expected they would have pene trated from thence to Dantzic. A bridge thrown over the Vistula at Furstenwerder made the passage easy fur our troops cantoued in the island ofNogat, so that the infantry might have attacked the Ene my's rear ; but the Prussians were too wary to pro ceed. The Emperor ordered General BEAUMONT, Aid-de-Camp to the Grand Duke of BERG, to at tack them. On the morning of the 16th, at two o'clock, the General of Brigade ALBERT advanced at the head of two battalions of grenadiers of the reserve, the 3d and . the Ist regiments of chasseurs, and a brigade of dragOons. He met the Enemy about day-break, between Passenwerder and Steele, attacked him, routed, and closely pursued him .11 leagues, made 1 . 100 prisoners, killed and wounded great number, and took four pieces of cannon. Ge neral ALBERT distinguished himself on this occa sion ; as did also the Majors CEIEMINEAU and SAL . MON. The 3d and th th regiMents of chasseurs shewed great intrepidity : a Captain of the 3d and five men were killed, and eight. or 'ten wound-M. — Two of the Enemy's Brigs, cruizing off the Haff, approached to annoy • us ; a howitzer that struck one of them upon the deck made them. get under way. " Thus the Enemy has sufired considerable losses, at various points, since the I 2t11.. " On , the In th the Emperor caused the Fusileers of the guard to manoeuvre : they are encamped near the Castle of Finctenstein in barracks equally as handsome as those at Boulogne. " On the 18th and loth the Imperial Guard en camped upon the same spot. Prince JEROME is encamped in Silesia with a Corps of Observation, covering the siege of Neisse. " On the t(.2th the Prince learned that a column of 3000 men had left Glat 7, to surprise Breslau., Ile ordered General LEFEB VIIE to advance with the Ist Bavarian regiment, and a detachment of 300 .Saxons. In the morning of the 14th the General came up with the Enemy's rear near Cauth, which he im mediately attacked, made himself master of the vil lage with the bayonet, 4nd took 150 prisoners.. One hundred of the Bavarian light cavalry fell upon those of the Enemy, 500 in number, routed, and dispersed them. The Enemy again formed in order of battle, and offered, resistance. Three • hundred Saxons fled ; this extraordinary conduEt must have been the effeols of disaffealion, as the Saxons have always be haved with valour ever since they joined the French. }:lowever, this unexpeacd event brought the Ist Bavarian regiment into a very' critical situation._. They lost 1 , 50 men, who were made prisoners, and they were compelled to beat a retreat, which they tiffeaed in good order. The Enemy retook the • village of Candi. In the: morning, at eleven o'clock, General Dt/MAY, who bad advanced froth Breslau with 1000 French dismounted dragoons, hussars, and chasseurs, attacked the Enemy in the rear : 150 of the hussa rs re-took the village, atter a charge with the bayonet, made locrprisonetcand - liberated all the Bavarians made prisoners by the Prussians. " The Enemy, in order to_facilitate his retreat to Glatz,.had separated in two columns. General Le- FEBVRE, who left Schweidnitz on the ist'hy fell in with one of these columns, killed ton, and made 400 prisoners, including 30 Officers. A Polish gin - let - it of lance-bearers had arrived on the preced ing evening at-Frankenstein ; and a detachment of these being sent to join General LEFEBVREi by Prince JEROME, distinguished themselVeS on this occasion. " The second column endeavoured to regain Glatz by passing the Silberberg. Lieuienant-Ge neral DUCOUDRAIS, the Prince's Aid-de-Camp, fell in with them, and threw theM into disorder. Thus 'a column of between 3000 and 4000 men, that left Glatz was unable, to return. They have been either killed, made prisoners, or .dispersed." SEVENTY-SIX - CH BULLETIN. PIticKENSTEIN, MAY 20.—A fine English. cor vette, copper-sheathed, having 120 English for her crew, afid, laden with powder and ball, presented: herself off Dantzic, with an intention to enter that port. On approaching near our works, she was at tacked from both the shores with a heavy shower of musketry, and forced to surrender. A piquet of the regiment of Paris was the first to leap on board. An Aid-de-Camp of General KA.Lx.riEuTH, who was on his return from the Russian head-quarters, and several English Officers, were taken on board the vessel. She is called the Undaunted, and had ,t3O Russians gn board., besides the 120 English: The Enemy's loss in the affair of Weichsel munde, on the tth, wag greater than was at first supposed. A 'Russian column, which held out to the last, was put to the bayonet to a man. There were 1300 Russians buried. On the 16th, a Russian division of GOOO men, tinder General TURICOW; advanced from • BrOti to the Bug, and towards Pultusk, .with a view to prevent the execution of some ne* works for strengthening the ttte-du-poet. These works were defended by six Bavarian battalions, under the' corn 'nand of the Crown-Prince in person. The Enemy advanced four times to the attack, and were four times repulsed by the Bavarians, and covered with grape-shot from the batteries of the different works . Marshal MASSENA estimates the Enemy's loss at 300 killed, and twice as many wounded. And wha t renders the conflict still more glorious is, that the Bavarians were not quite 4000 strong. The C,rown- Prince commends, in particular, the Bavarian Ge neral WREDE, art OtHcer of conspicuous merit. The loss of the Bavarians amounted to 15 killed, and t5O wounded. " The same mismanagement as in the attack of the iCith, at Pultusk, was displayed in that which the enemy made on the 13th, against the works of General LEMARROIS ; nor was their want of judg ment less conspicuous in the preparation of a great number of rafts, which the enemy were pieparing, on the Bug for these. six weeks past. The resul t was,, that those rafts which took them so long in preparation, were burnt in two hours time and that those repeated attacks upon works well contrived, and defended by strong batteries, without a chance of success, have produced them a considerable loss . We are almost induced to` think, that the purport of these attacks, was to draw the attention bf — the French army to their right wing. But the pOsiti-on of the army was calculated, by anticipation, for every ease, and for all chances of attack and defence. " Tu the mean, while, the important siege of Dantzic• is continued. The loss of that important fortress, and of the -20,000 men shut up within the same, will be severely felt by the enemy. A mine, which was contrived near the outer bastion, had the etre& of blowing it up. A communication has been opened with the covered way by four entrances, and we are employed in filling up the ditch. " This day the Emperor reviewed the gth Provi sional Regiment. The first eight of those Regi ments have already been embodied. The Genoese Conscripts among those Regiments are much ex tolled for the readiness and zeal displayed by them." TURKISH FRONTIERS, MAY 7.—On the 16th of April a blOody affair took place in the neighbourhood of ',:fladowa, between the troops of the Servian Ge- ' neral MELENKO STOW., and ICUSANZI ALL The 'Servians surrounded the Turkish entrenchments; ,he latter made three vigorous attempts to break the Servian lines, but without effe6t. At length, how ever, the left 'wing of the Turks forced and defeated one column of the Servians, and made good their retreat from Timok to Widdin, though pursAed by the enemy's cavalry. The right wing gained Gla dowa, where they are inclosed. The Turks lost . ' • 3000 men killed and Wounded. Subsequent advices state, that on the epth of April, KUSANZI Ati attempted to disengage himself, but without the least effect• He renewed his at tempt on the 23d, but was vigc,fiusly repulsed. • EXTRACT OP A LETTER. " BANKS OF TOE ELBE, MAY 30.—YOU will see in the Papers of yesterday; that the fate of Dant , zic is drawing to a close. The fall of that forttess will probably be the signal for offensive operations' on the part. of. the French.. There are persons who believe that this event would rather accelerate nego ciations, than precipitate a general engagement. In spite of contradiaory, assertions i l l ,our Prints, in the farm of letters from Austria, is ascertained at length, that the Court of Vienna haSa&ually propos ed a general Congress, and that the Court ,of St. James's has been invited to send a Plenipotentiary hither. But itis - much . doubted whether, should a Congress even .take place, it will have any results whatever. We are, too well acquainted with f.YRTE'S charmer, to - ,suPpose be will suspend his operations for a morner:t during the Congress, should it be his interest to proc , eed; and-we trust the Allies will be persuaded, that any syniptom of a disposi tion on his part to halt in his career, will be a proof that it is their interest to urge him to a quick deci sion. Our hopes and our fears of peace are equally faint. " In the mean while, the important post of Stral sund continues to receive reinforcements. Letters of the,..nd, announce the debarkation of 5000 Pfas— sians ; and add, that the Prussian soldiers, who had joined. the Dutch'army, desert thither in crowds. 'On the 19th; . there Arrived 157 with arms ; but it is' still not ascertained whether or not the Armis tice remains in full vigour. We have not beard of any notice, having been given of a resumption . of Hostilities ; nor has any Declaration on the part of Sweden been made public, concerning the supplementary clause 'extending the Armistice to one month." , •• FRANKFORT, MAY 16.----Morp Frena troops have arrived at Augsburgh. They are not going to the (-; t ;d Army, tint,are dcAtined to reinforce the gar of Brannan. MAILS. • Alta vtu—l Dublin. Dux-1r Gottenburgb, a Lisbon, z Dublin, - 2 Watcrionl. PR SV , CKS THIS AT TWELVE. O'CLOCK. Otnnium -- - Red. Ann. - - 63 THE SUN. BOLA'S QUIS DICERS- rAtsum AUD-xxr ? L 0 1V D 0 N, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1.307. AT a very early hour this morning . Paris and Dutch Papers. arrived, the former to thO Opth ult. and the latter to the 3d inst. They contain the 74th, 75th, and 76th Bulletins of the French Army. The date of the last Bulletin is the Loth of May, conse quently they do not contain any account of the surrender, of Dantzic; they merely give, the details of a number of skirmishes between the advanced posts, which the French have magnified into serious • anions, and in all of which they of course claim the advantage. The obje& of the Russians, in making. these-attacks, was not with an intention of bringing on a general a&ion, but merely to alarm the Enemy, and to facilitate the efforts that were making to throw some succours into Dantzic. It appears from the French Bulletin that one of our Praams, the Dauntless, was taken by the French in making a gallant attempt to pass their batteries, in order to tiirow into Dantzic a quantity of An'- munition, of which the Garrison was in the greatest want. She was commanded by Capt. STRACHEY. , There is little doubt of the success of Sir EDWARD PELLEW'S attack on the Shipping in the Bay of Batavia; and it is equally probable, that having heard of Admiral HARTSINCK'S SpaCll^oll - to Eastward of Java, he proceeded in quest of it, and the result of the meeting may be easily anticipated. AN express' arrived in town this morning from Yorkshire, with an account of Mr. WiLßEtironcs and Lord MILTON haviug' been returned Members for that County. Mr. LAscELLES, we Understand, declined ou Thursday night. `Thu ,Morning Paper that has so illiberally at tacked Mr. WA RD on "account of the.peitsion which. W 39 settled on him when he retired from office, has • very wisely forbore to take any notice of what we stated respeEting the pension which Lord GREW' . VILLE procured fox the late Mr. FISHER, who had . . been only a few months in office. This silence on' the part of the Paper in question is a proof of its cun ning; but what must be thought of its candour, when it perseveres in its rancorous attacks upon Mr. , Waas upon the very same grounds on which it is 'discreet. ITsilent respeling Mr. Fisiign A But Loid Mut- GRAVE, too, is to be the object of party malevolence, because he was instrumental in procur ugthe,pension for Mr. WARD. We again remind theM that Lord GRENvitax did the same for Mr. FISHER, and if they return to the attack upon Lord MULGRAVE, it will become them to, say something about Lord' GRENVILLE. Bar our part, we do not censure Lord GaviviLLE, for , his londuEt on the occasion, but WG - think that Lord MULGRAVE is more entitled 01: 'praise,: as he had originally introduced a Gentleman. into office. whose talents are far superior to those which Mr. FISHER posiessed, and who has no fault in the estimation. even of his political adversaries but what arises from his ability to serve the public. Yesterday being the Anniversary of his Ropti , • Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND'S Birth-day; • it was observed with every token of loyalty among his Royal Highness's Trades-people, at Vie West end of-the town, who exhibited several beautiful illuminations at night on the occasion. Her Royal Highness the Duchess 'of YOWK 'Wore at Court, on the Birth-day, a. ver y e l egant pa i r of • white silk shoes. richly embroidered all over with .silver spangles, and trimmed with, spangles; the ro settes were•likewise of silver. • The following Ladies exhibited bandeaus of ostrich feathers at Court On Thursday :—Duchess of YORK, the Princesses AUGUSTA, ELIZABETH, SOFIA A, MARY, AMELIA ; Duchesses of LEEDS, RUTLAND, and Moly- TROSE; Countesses of ELY 'and EUSTON; Ladies HARRINGTON, BERKELEY; RADSTOCK, eC.- :Mss COURTENAY'S plume w as uncommon l y elegant. and entirely original. The Hon. Miss DRUMMOND, of the House of PERTH, wore on His Majesty's Birth-day a diamond necklace•and ear-rings, the most brilliant of the kind displayed on that occasion. The valueof both these articles is estimated at upVvards of 25,0001. Intelligence was received in town this day; _of the sudden death of Sir HARRY VANE TEMPEST; S. Gentleman well known in the fashionable world, and who was recently returned a Member for the County of Durham. .... • Mr. HENRY MELLISU, it is said, is likely Jo lose his'aria, in consequence of hiS duel with. the,Ha notirable BLADE HAWKE. They were travelling:lo - in the same chaise, and in supp or t of the same Candidate, f u r Yorkshire, when the misunder standing „arose, which some say proceeded to the length of blows. Extra& of a ietter from Vigapatam, dated the 6th of November, t BQCi :—" There is adreadful prospe6 for the natives this year, no rain having fiillen in this) distrit'it, nor so far to the northward as my in formation reaches. What paddy was planted 15 burnt up, and the cattle are driven into the fields to eat the wretched remains. The inhabitants have flocked to the banks of the Kestnah with their c attle, but the river is nearly dry.- May Providence relivve us." The favourable rains have redncel the greea pease' in Covent-garden Market, from 9s. to 4s. the cilkuu.