The Sun. — London, England, 1807-04-02 00:00:00

~~: THE CAMPAIGN IN POLAND. tThe Accounts hitherto received have been of so very clefee - tivc a description as. to afford no salisfaelory idea of the celual State of AffiUrs at the„Theatre of War. We are, therefore, happy to announci% that we have receivedfrorn ou'r most valuable and intelligent Correspondent, a variety, of Documents, from which we are enabled to gratify the Public with the followipg authentic and interesting Nar rative. 3 The Russian Army having failed in the attempt un der KAMINSKOY, to diSlodge the enemy upon the East Bank of the Vistula, had received orders to retreat to the Niemen ; and BENNIGSEN having, at the head of some few corps, succeeded in repulsing a consider able body of the enemy in the neighbourhood of Pill tusk, was obliged .for want of. support to fall back upon' Rozan:, Ostrolenka, and along the line of the left bank of the Narew but his position' having been ren&red, uselessby:the- weather, he was obliged to make a considerable 'detour .to effea a junetion with. BU.4IIIOWDEN; who had retreated upon the right hank, but 'which he at length cffeEted at Biala, near J9bannesburgh, Upon theSpiiding Lee. _ _ It was in file course of 'tiris march that BENNIG.• SEN received from the Emperor the' Commission of Comtnander.in..Cliief- of the Russian army, in s'uc• cession. to KAN.I.I!•iSKOY. Having .4eCterl this juttaion, he determined to •advance towards the enemy, keeping irr view the protection of Jonigsburgh ; with this intent,-he retied his march through' Rein Russel,' Bischoptin, Heilhberg, Gutstadt, and Leibstadk having frequent skirmishes with detachments of the division under BEE NAttOTTE at Mohrungen, howeVer, the advanced guard had to - encounter the whole corps of BERNA:- DOTTE, in which a6, - tion, after a very short eonteo, they' wire repulsed; and the enerny rms . ter,: of the field; from which . they retreated on following day; on the arrival Of. the :main body of the Russians ; and: here B cti NIGSEN established his head-quarters. During this movement on the part - of the Russians, the Prussian General L'EsToco., with 14,000 Men, of r which . 4000 were Russians, had advanced from the neighbourhood of Konigsburgh,alOng the shores of the Frische Haff, in the direction of Brotnsberg, Eibing, and Marienwerder, and had aattally coin pelled the enemy to raise the siege of Graudentz. Gen. ESSEN had the comma-ad of 35,000 men on the Narew, and a Corps of Reserve of ahout t 2,006 remained at a considerable distance in the rear, int 7 *ler the command of Gen. ZADMORATSKI. In this position the Allied Armies remained on the of January, their force aiiiounting nearly as fall° ws B:N . qIGS/14 , L'e.STOCQ Esseu A&DMOkATSKI BD,ooo 1 4,ut0 35,000 iz,opD !4t1, , ,1p0 These MOveni3tits; on • the part of the Allies, 'had compelled the enemy to coucotrate himself in the neighbourhood of Warsaw and on the Ist of Fe bruary.the Rias.sian General .vv.rts informed, that the army was - in full _march on the road to Kh nigsburgh, and'had :044 reached Allenstein, on the riverAlle, with the evident intention of, inter posing between the Allied-Army and:Konigiburgh. In thiii - sltuation ci thin4Y.s, it -tv'as_no 1 0 41g-er-ret oible for Br:l: . ;sn'N to abide by his declared deter mination. of avoiding a general 'akliOn, and he accord ingly approached the enemy on the 2d, in the di .rection of Jankova, a few 'miles to the westward of 'Allenstein, and on the left of the Allp. From this position he was repulsed on the 3d, and pursued by the enemy to Wolsdorff;.from I heoee lie was again driven on the 4th. to Ft:atnsdoitf, tuid on the sth, to LausbUrgh ; from whence he was, on the night of the 6th, alter somp harcl i ting, again compelled to retreat ; and 'on the 77tli;ji9 ,tlie morn 7 ing, having marched four sacCessive nights, his rear guard continually fig4iting, he :took up a position within a few hutidi•eci yards of Prussian Eylau, on the Kouigsburgh side of that town, determined to await the enemy, and engage him ,in a general 2aiOn. 2_ to strengthen the centre of the Russian tirmy, was accordingly done- by several regatents drawn from the right and left. At day-break, .0n the sth, the-anion recommenced by the Tirailleurs of 'the enemy epoa the, centre, and by a d fire from Muir batteries and mortars, which did great execution to the Russian limes several columns of infantry also pushed for ward, which were.vigorously charged, both by the Russian infantry and cavalry, and repulsed - with enor mous losS : about this peridd the French cavalry came on, and had aanally pierced the front" line, from whence it was driven, with dreadful slaughter. While these ,operations were going on in • the centre, the enemy bad got round on the left, and began to shew himself on different points, but 'with out opening his fire, and the several Russian corps, both of cavalry and infantry, were observed to te trograde towards' the centre. About one o'clock be opened a well-direaed fire from a battery on one of the hills in rear of the left, which contributed much to - the diSorder, that continued to prevail there, and in a short time he appeared in great strength on the crest of the hills, and, in the woods ?Pon the left, while his cavalry again attempted to penetrate the centre,. and again -failed with consider able-loss. The enemy had already made some progress froth the left toWaids.the rear, when, about four o'clock, General L'Esroca appeared adrancing in that di recaioii, and finally compelled the etieniy,'after sus taining a smart cannonade, to abandon the posts he_ had previously occupied. Nightput an end to the aelion, and General . BetsT7 NIGSEN scion afterwards resolved to fall . back:upon konio - sburgh, and iii the course of the night retreated, by, Atalliausen to Wittenburgh, three German miles from the field of battle, and twe from Konigshurgh.. The following day,..the gth, the cne;Tay. pushed his 4dvanted posts to Malhausen. The litisivn army fell back close to Konigsburgh, and took op a posi tion near the Friedland Gare, under the ram parts of the town. This battle, taking into consideration the numbers engaged, the'skill and fury with which it way cony- tested on both sides, may be•considered as he . moa severe that has been fought since the Revolutionary War,. aid the. first great check that BOUAPARTE I)zs received since the, commencement of his: career in• 1796, and ,the .whole action might be seen 'in one view,. the tielci of battle. not - Oftending above one square league; and the few prisoners that were taken on either side prove the determination of .both par ties to conquer or perish. _ _ The cool, resolution of the ilustfian soldiers is be yond all`praise,-neither the 'weight of the cavalry, or the.destruttive fire' of the artillery; wade the least impression of fear upon them. BOth armies appear to be using every effort to strengthen themselves, and if the enemy thinks him= self it) sufficient farce to maintain his pOsition on the East Bank of the Vistula, another great action may be immediately expected. MAILS. ARRIVED -2 DUKIIII, Duz-1 Gott;u -bog!), I Lisbon, z Waterfura. PRICE t)1 STOCKS TIO9 D4l: AT TWELV 6 o'ctocn. Consols • bz* Phu THE SU N. SOLIM QUIS VISCERA FA,L - SVM Alipr.tr? L 0 D N, THIJR*DAY, 1807. BATTLE OF PRUSSIAN EYLAU. The ground occUpied by the Russian army coin-. rnanded the road- along which the eneiny must ad.. vance as he approache(rfronv Landsburgh. Th e woods, with ,which that country abounds, surrounded them at some distande, except on the left, Which, rested upon the acclivity of' a woody range of stiel: Leis. • _ The army was drawn up in three lines; the bri gades which composed the second and third remain ed in columns; the cavalry were principally On wings .the front Hoe; several scrandrons posted in the rear of the centre of the - 11;;e. The ‘viaple front, was: de,in . Lted by Xteia? pieces of ordnance, and considerable reserves if firtnicry were attached to the second and third The right of the army extended' to the village of SchoModsten„ through, which a road passes to• Ku nigsburgh. The towit Of PrUssian.,Eylau was nearly in the centre of the , front, Which,, together with two small neighbouring villages, was occupied by • Russian cdrps. The ex-tent of the position, from right to 14, about a-mile, and-nearly the same in depth. - In front of the town of Eylau there is a ravine, which, though not of any depth, was yet of consi derable ad% antage to, the Russians, in consequence of 'the ascent from it to -the Russian position. This raVine extended from the'town to the extreme point of the left ofthe_ltussian line. Thus the whole of the Russian front- was placed , upon a. considerable elevation. , , • ; , • The Prussian General VEsroco, was expe6ted hourly. He had been ordered to Osterode,• from the . neighbourhood of Graudentz, when the army moved forward on -the Ist:to Jaokova ; and it was known that.he had reached Zanter, a few nines distant, the night before the action. The enemy was chiefly posted on the hills and ra vines opposite. to the Russian left; having softie corps on theplain, in front pf the right. • His strength could not, from the nature of his attacks, be accu rately ascertained ; but he• was so stationed as to ICCtiVe considerable protedion from the ravines and woods. In the afternoon of the 7th, a strong corps pushed forward, • and klually gained po'ssession of Prussian Eylau, which,, by some mistake, had been abandon ed by the 11us:•iaus it wai however quickly re-oceu pied, but, after some severe fighting in the streets, finally abandOned to the enemy. u coasequet,Fe of .his loss, it was found necessar THis morning two Gpticnburglit - 4 1 11 - ai4 arrivol. They bring no intellig - enee of great e impor4ixe., ex - cept an account. of a Peace haying been concluded between Russia, and Turkey. We shall be. lilvpy .to c.Qufrrin this statement, and the variable ,13Yiticsof the Porte make it by no means improbable. ports df - the retreat of the French are still n eircula _tion;-and it is said their Head quarters will soon be at Berlin. is with much 'concern that we see the public Journals so strongly atfeiled by the zeal of partY, whether that zeal iscmploYed f n or againsythe Tate or the present Administration. The Pree;loin the Press is one of the 'most valuaoe Privilege* that the People of this * Country enjoy, ahel while this privile - ge . remains in their hands, they will be cer tain of preStkving the blessings of civil liberty under th e best Contitntion in the W Orld.. At present it iS too ObViOilS that the Press is used by political par ties oh both sides lather for the purpose of oOnvey, - nig personal inveclives than- for the support of ptiblic principles. FITS MAJESTY,. with a rezard to his sa, cred obligations; And what ;le conceives to be his ~ ~ duty to the Constitution, in the highest d egree h o nourable to the Royal character, has exercised his undoubted prerogative in removing Mini sters who brought forward a measure which his conscience could not approve, because they were not satisfied with having. attempted to carry that measure into execution, but Voluntarily and uuL. necessarily recorded their determination tG revive that subjea - whenever they 'should think pro 'per, however repugnant to Uis MAJESTY'S senti-- 'Aleuts, resolutions, and .duties. This unnecessary , a6l on their part naturally induced His MAJESTY: to demand, front them a pledge that the subje& should not be revived, though if His MAJEiTY had been less indulgent to them, or less disposed to re tain them in his ervicc, be would doubtless have dismissed them the mot.%- At he beheld that ofFensive 'record. So far from presuming to suppose that' - His ILIA) cs - ry has been even tasty on this very im portant point, involving the happiness and security of the Constitution, as . well is his own peace pf mind, it is evident (bat' be has acted with , 'forbearance, mildness; patience, and 'Leahy, throng!! the Whole of the proceedings ; ,and still more: to evince his kindness,. condescension, and liherality, assented to the unprecedented:application : ofhis late Ministers - for permission to State their case to the National Representatives, and to vindicate their condild to the world at large. ft must be acknow ledged by every 'candid and refleding ralnd, that the statement they have given is a full testimony in fa . vonr of their Royal Master, and by no means 2 jus tification of themselves. But we are tar from being disposed "to add weight to the stone of SIS - PIIIIS :" we, lament that they should, by their own mistakes, have deprived themselves of an opportunity of exerting their talents for .the advantage of their Country ,at the most awfial crisis of affairs in which that Country and all EUroPe are involved. But our regret, we confess, is chiefly direded towards Lord GILENVILLIti and his old-poli tical connexions, for they have been exercised_ in the true school of Legislative wisdom, that which was conduded by the talents and virtues of the immortal WIL LI AM PITT. We therefore deeply regret that the Party we allude to shOutd have entangled them ielves in the feelingS, wishes and principles of men. whose political education was so entirely . different from their own. We gave aCtr huMble support to Lord Ga ENV iLLE, while he was in office, con:- ,deiitig that it Was ithpoSsible for his peuetrat ing.Mind to be deceived by any persons with whom • -lie might enter into new connexions, and rather 'indulging the .hOpe, however fallacious it might be, that his judgment, sagacity, and. experience, would wean them : from their errors, and in duce them cordially to unite with.. him . in . every. measure. that might tend to discourage thelialeftil principles' of Political Latitudingians, to . give them a, milder title tlttley may be thought to deserve.- -- Unhappily: our hope did indeed .pone 'fallacip'us, and they have brought even those to whom we looked - 'with confident expedation; to engage in their - own adventurous speculations upon a point deeply interesting to the security of our Con stitution in Chnrch and State. But the firm ness of His *MAJESTY. has frustrated all those adventurous, speculations.; and as far as our ob servation has reached, we have the - fullest reason to believe that His MAJESTY has the. decided and the ferrent concurrence of a very large majority of all Englishmen, who are capable of understanding the value of that System of Goveroment which is equally remot.. from licentioonees. in Politics, and fanaticiwn in Relfeion. Some uneasiness has recently beetit • ivit in the cOnrnercial world 01:4 account of, the Mase re - cently published by the Emperor of RUSSIA, which was suppoFcd to contain some regulations un favourablo to the British Merchants residing in that Empire.. The regulation which is likely to affea strangers most, is one by Which all the Old Guilds or Fraternities of 'Merchants are abolished, and;new Companies ordered to beformed.To these certain com. mercial privileges and facilities are anuEried, frorp which 6traegers are excluded, unless they become Metnbers of some one of these Gutilds.Gret objeaions :have bean made to this regulation, on aecount of a condition contained in it, which direas; , c. th at eac h *Member shall be responsible, colleaively and indi vidually, for the debts of the Whole Company. yestnday, at twelve o'clock, His MAJESTY came to town from Windsor, to the Queen's Palace.— About half past one o'clock his MAJESTY gave an tidience to the Lord Chancellor . EßSKiNE, when his Lordship delivered to Hts MAJESTY the Great Sea! 0 -England, and other Seals of Office., At two o'clock. His MAJESTY held a private Levee, which was attended by The Arel;hiii } o ' paCartte.rbury, the Lord President of the Council, the First. I.Ortrof the Treasury, the Secretaries of State tort he kionn and Foreign Dep:crtments, the First Lord of the Adniiclty, the Ma:3ter-f.leneral of the Prrinance„ the, 1:114: , e Advi.' Qtte, the.Dtces'cif Richmond and Montrose , Earl 01 , 17yleS1011 . 1; Lords Eldon,..Heatlitield, . St. Helen's, Stop lord, Sydney, and St - . - John; Sir S. Cotterel and (; .I)sborne ; Athifiral Gatitbier, Geneiai Aberctoinby ; Messrs. Faulkner, Bourne, • and- Ward. • • The follovhr , e had the 1 - a - our of havitig.pudienee:l, being pre - ientesl,- kissing 14 _is MAJESTY'S IIaLILL twon their several Appointments : • Lord F.ldim, upon his being appointed Lord Chancellor, and His Majesty delivered to him the weals. . Mr. Robert iVard, upon his being appointed a Lord of the Admiralty; . Mr. S. Bourne, upon his being appointed a Lord of the Treasury. The Duke'of Richmond,. upon liis Majesty having declared him his Representative in I rela.nd,as Lord - Lieutenant of that part of the United Kingdom. Lord Sydney, upon his being appointed Ranger of Hyde and St.. fatties s Parks, in the room of Earl Euston, resign e d. Admiral Gambier, upon his being appointed a Lord of the Admiralty. Major General the Hou. loon Abercromby, upon his be ing appointed to the command of the 53d Regiment. Lord St. tohn resigned to His Majesty his Srallot Office, as Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. EIS MAJESTY held a Privy Council, when Lord ELDoN was introduced, and sworn in Lord, High , Chancellor of Great Britain. .\ The Duke of RICHMOND was introduced and sworn in a Merpber, aucttook his seat at the Hon. Board accordingly. • Hii MAJESTY gave audiences to the Duke of PORTLAND, Earls CAMDEN and CHATHAM, Lord HAWKESBURY, Mr. CANNING, and Mr. BOND, the Judge Advocate, who laid before His MAJESTY the prticeedings of several Courts Martial. So)n after five o'clock His MAJESTY set off on his return to Windsor. The Right Hon. GEORGE ROSE is appointed Trea_ of the Navy, ill the place of Mr. SIIER,IpAN. NAVAL N I s yV S. PLYMOVTII, MARCU 31.--Arrived the Prieto; Charlotte Frigate from a Cruize in the Irish Chag nel ; and the Alligator, of 28 guns, armed en flute, from Liverpool. Sailed L'lmpelueu,x, of 78 guns, Montague, of 74 guns, and Jupiter, of 50 guns for Portsmouth ; the latter has had a thorough refit at this Port, and 14 supposed to be destined for the East Indies. .Arrived the Meiji Frigate from a Cruizo iu flap Channel. PORTSMOUTH, ArtlL I.—Arrived the Montagur, , of 74 guns, Capt. OTWAY, from Plymouth. Sailed the Sharpshooter Gun-vessel, Lieut. GOLDIk with a Convoy of Transports for Guernsey. . Went out of Hubour the- Herald new Sloop of War. FALMOUTH, MARCH 30.—Arrived this - dal!, His' Majesty's Gun 7 bri e g Peher, 14 guns, Lieut. ' EVELYN, with a Convoy from Belfast for London k the Resolution, PERRY, from Chester ; Miry, REVETT, and the Eliza, OWENS,, from Youglill. ; the carnarvan. Castle,' Jorms, from Caraarvon ; and - Friends' Endeavour, . ITicgs , frOm Swansea. . Appeared off this day a Fleet consisting of about 6o Sail, from Portsmouth, bound to the Mediterrane an, and were joined from hence by His Majesty's ShiV;S'eakorse, 38 , guns, Capt. STEWART, and the , Brig - giiabeth, Capt.i-CooK, for Malta. Also. sailed the Ninceis Elizabeth, Ktnn, with Mails of thii` tpth and 24th'inst. for Lisbon 5 Passengers, Messrs. BROWN, PARKER, and PARKER i and Diana_Schoo, ner for Plymouth.. HARWICH, APRIL I.—The Auckland Packet, Capt. HANIMO&D, arrived this tnorning- from Got teahurgh, with a Mail, and a Russian Messengez 'with Dispatches fof his Ambassador at London. The Packets with the outward Gottenburgh and. Danish Mails of to-day are' prevented from sailtus by a - strong East wind. Remain the Dauntless and Valorous Praams, with the'ii*Voie Cutter, elrgus,, :Baiger . , Viper, and Iris Revenue Cruizers. SHEERNESS, Arlin. . —Tile Spy Sloop of War, Capt, HUDSON, with a very large Convoy for the' Baltic,, got under weigh yesterday afternoon., but have brought up again just without the Nor Light, the wind having shifted to the Eastward, Sailed the Leveret Sloop of War for the Downs. The wind being now., S. by E. the Baltic Fleet are preparing to sail again. Half-paq Five : the BA-% tic Convoy remains about ten mires belpw the Nora Came down troll - ) Chatham His Driajeity's Brigs Sapphire and Alacrity. DEAL, Apnit. 1.---Arrived the Devastation Bomb. from 'ortstricuth, with a Convoy of Transports, &c . which are sailed for the River; the Ilaille,ur Sloop of War and the. Flamer Gan-brig from a Cruize. 'Came down from Sheerness and sailed throuzbi the Downs the Bonetta *op of War: . Came down from the River the Modfbrd 'and Duvonshire East indiamen, the Litter sailed fo r Ports mouth, the f f. , rtn er remains. Sailed the B/az,cr*Gun,brig .for. Sheerness. The Zebra onlb and the outward-bound are pre-. paring to sail. Th e m r . ALEXANDER yesterday,DAVlSON, wh om we men- ondas the Prosecutor s petling the sale of seats in P ar li ament, i s not Mr. g. tramadion re otif.:_e in A o lid ru re P‘avis)e s, for a..swi:dcin ALEXANDER DAVISON, of St, James's . Square, but a Major DAI . ,IsoN, some time since in the service of the East India Company, It . Was' not the Right Hon. C. LONG who 'was overset in his curricle on Tuesday, in Piccadilly, but a Gentleman of the same name, residing in Gros venor-place. r' • On Monday evening as his MAJESTY was leaving, the Queen's Palace for Windsor, the carriage, AS usual, went very sloW till it got upon Constitution Hill. As the carriage was passing near the entrance to the 'kitchen' *of :the - Palace,' 'a - )`Tbung - than genteelly dressed attempted to force open one of the blinds of His MAJESTY'S carriage, to put in a paper. Sayers, the Pollee Officer, was in attendauce,near the spot, and immediately seized the young man ; and on ex amining him, he discovered that he was a foreigner, that he was not conscious he was doing wrong, and unacquainted-with the proper course to take to pre sent a Peitimiko -His MAJESTY. Sayers, in cause quence, 44-tattlkeep him in custociy, but took his Petition,. and,told him he would deliver it to the KING, and appointed him to attend next. day be tween tWelve•and one o'clock at the Queen's Palace for an answer. Sayers took the . Petition to the Secretary of State's Office, and he was direeted ,by Mr. READ to bring the'young man to the Office, when he came for an answer. Yesterday•Ahe young man attended at the .Rilace, agreeably to the appointment of Sayer,, for . an answer to the Petition, and Sayers took him before Mr. READ, who sent him to the Alien Office, where, we understand; he was ordered to find sureties not. to be guilty of :_itnilar condlia, or he should he sent out of the country. He is a native of Germany, and the Petition was written in the German language. Besides the Scots Royals and other Regiments or , dered immediately to proceed to India, the 2d Batta lion of G'enerat FrrittpY's Regimf n', the 34th, also received orders to enabark and proceed with the Fiect. for India,