The Sun. — London, England, 1813-05-17 00:00:00

HELIGOLAN AN c I lAMBUhGFI MAILS. BERT.TIC, MAY 4.---Aeroi to official accounts whirl. h.sve arrlved here, the advanced guArd of the thti a , I Prussian army, commanded by Ge net nnit IViii7inzerode,, had on the Ist in ! sta , t a s cccssful eultagement with the enemy. On the mnor ,, ing.a the day before yesterday (the the t- , etny, 'who had occupied Halle, was, after . a o) , tinafe action, driven out of that place wit conii , lerabh! loss, compelled to ,crops the Sant, and pursued nearly four miles. The cir cumAtantial de:aiLi are hourly expected from bead quarto's: HANIEURGIT, MAY 7. We have just received iriteiligerire that - Nem>leon has been defeated by the Prussians, under the command of his Prussian Majesty. A second edition of our Paper, an, nom - Icing this important fact has jug been pub lished. [SECOND EDITION OF THE lIMV/BURGH CORREB. FONDFNTEN.] OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. TIAMDU Ft , MAY 7. We have . itisz.t received the following important intelligence by a cornier "E,Friin:May b. " A cornier has just brought Its the official in telligence, that the great battle fought on the 2d instgnt between Leitzen and Pegan, lasted from ten in tits: morning till twelve o'clock that night. " Scarcely any but Prussians were. engaged. His Majesty the King commanded in person. Providence protected him amidst heavy showers of bullets. We have lost the Prince of Hesse. General Hunehein had an arm broken. General blucher, notwithstanding his wound in the left arm, remounted his horse,•and.General Scharn horst was shot through the loins. " Our cavalry did not once attack, the enemy's lines being too thickly planted with cannon ; but Our infantry and artillery alone defeated the enemy. , " The Emperor Napoleon commanded in per son, and bas lost two Marshals. We remained Masters of the Field of Battle, and fired a round for victory. " Three places were set on fire, viz. Naum burgh, Leitzeu, and Weissoufels. The enemy had earlier endeavoured to push a reconnoitring party of GOO men to Leipsic, but which is now cut off, and must surwender. _ . On the id inst. Lieut. General Von BulOw defeated the Viceroy of Italy, at Halle ; who lost . three, pieces of artillery, with a number of powder watrizous, 1500 wen killed, and Aix hundred' prisoners. The. King had made dispositions for attacking the eletity on the following morning." Haatainlow, MAY 7.—Early yesterday morn ing, a division of the 2d Hanseatic battalion, cross ed the Elbe to reconnoitre the enemy, who had,a considerable strong post at the place of debarka tion. / The young men, impatient to Meet the enemy, jumped into the water' and waded to the 'dike. The enemy could not withstand such.a 'courageous-attack ; he fell hack with precipitation on his Et-serve. The engagement' became sharp; the Flange:4les proved themselves brave and no. daunted, notwie,standing ell the eneMy's mine- riority, nor did they Nimbi); k until after having been engaged an hour and a half and spent all 'their ailltritillitiol). ,The enemy lost many in killed end wounded, our loss consista in two killed and ten wounded. BANKS 01 , THE ELBE, AMT., 29.-,-;01 the 26th, 27th, and 28th, the French attacked oar troops at several poil;ts, from Witten dm.vit to the Elbe, a nd took a position on the hithur - side of. the Saale.— They have already been driven back with lois,•on the 20th and .27th at Witten. Oa the 28th, our troops, under I.,:ettlenant-c3eneral Von Kleist, gained a victory of consequence at Ilernherg, the details of which are hourly expected. The capture of 'Wittenberg, where the French liave fortified themselves very strongly, will take place in a very. slimt MAY 4.- 2 --His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Pruisia died in the night :between the , 2tl and 3d of May, - after a short ill ness, at the age 0f.83. 'He was the youngest son of Frederick 'William I: the brother of Fretle rick ii. and great uncle to the present reigning Monarch. RosToex., May 5.---This afternoon 2000 more . Swedidi troops nrrived here, with a train of fly ing artillery, eight pieces of cannon, two how itzers, and twenty powder . waggons :- it is expect ed they will to-morrow proceed on their march Iris reported the Crown Prince of Sweden has arrived at ,Stralsund ; he is soon expected here. • COPENHAGEN, MAY 1.--Though, by the arrival ltere at the beginning of the week,, of the'Danish Envoy at the Court of Stnekholitt, the Chamber ' lain, Count Bamiesson, and the return of the Swedish Cabinet Secretary Hauscheld, all custo mary communications between the two neigh bowing Courts have ceased, the posts will con , tinny to. puss through Sweden, and the.eommer cial c o nnections of the two, nations suffer. no in terruption. 13rtat.IN, .4.---The latest accounts from Leipsic and Dresdat, the confirmation of which is expected, say that on the Ist of May a consi th:i•ahle engagement took place. near ‘Veissenfels -and Pegan, to the ath n of the Prussian arms. General Blucher advanced front Grimma, ked th e ;F r ench right wit h ,; and drove it hack three leagues. 'he French i n then! retreat set ' fi re.to all the viliages. A letter froin a Prussian officer , dated Gropzig, April 9-9, says, '' Vesterdayafternoon the French att:teked General Kleist, in the bridge-heal near lidie;wiTh 8000 .Inoll, and 2:? pieces of cannon. The action It r iteti till half-Past Bin the evening." lit the same leiter, mention is likewise made of a iort,inatt7 hatch: hErvir.; taken place on the 27th, bet w,:en Wettin and Isl:tehwitt. On the '2oth, 27th,, o a nd 28th of i April, ronti 'mat and brisk engtir,:ments took.' (dace W e ttin ann oCong the river Sa,Z the greatest efforts were made on boll tines. tieraf Kkist j l l tureit)gthe at catry;ng Ole hr,hig , ..!-hyad,.and t)st:!trli art- ing is the place; itc atIV4IIL!C ft to Haile, viat'it ate lads ref. `'l with t!:"! greates , t joy. V';:il43,i(io4sst &spa tiOn b- • , In at to the Prussians and Russians., :Buy on the 27th and 2Sth, the French, who were assembled in great numbers near Halle, where (Aeneral . 'Srorck had -passed on the 27th, endeavOured to force. that point, but in which, the Prussians maintained •themselvei, and although they sUffered considera ble loss, they-caused the enemy a much greater. BERLIN, MAY the'3oth April the Prus sian and Russian' troops had concentrated on the plain, two or three German, miles on the other side of Leipsie, from Zwenckau,. Pegan,,Weissen, fell, and Lutzen, for the purpose of giving battle to the French, who were at • Naumburg, under Marshal Ney. On the Ist of Miy, the cannon ading continued from morning•till evening. An engagement took place near .11oeninclsen, he tween Lutzen,and Weissenfels, in which only the left wing of tl - e Russian and Prussian array , was concerned. The French were driven three Ger man miles back, and lust 15, (other accounts say 40) pieces of artillery ; and a considerable number' of prisoners. All the accounts which have come to the 'Magistrates of Leipsic up , to ten o'clock in the evening of the Ist of May, leaVe, no doubt of the decisively victorious conclusion of this battle, on the part of the Russian and Prussian troops...— . The details were hourly expected. The most uni versal joy prevails at Leipsic, and on th'' next day many thousands of the inhabitants resolved to g o to the field of battle on foot,. all the horses having been required tor the service of the ar my. The official accounts of this affair arc hourly expected. LIEGNITZ, ArraL3o.---:An official account has' been received here of the death of Prince Kutusoff Smolensk°, on the 28th itist. Buntzlaw in the 70th year of his age., lIELIGOL.tND, MAY 1 1 .—On the 7th the French pushed forward their advanced post, consisting of • 'Lanus, within gun-shot, of the battery at Cuxha ven, and obliged our picquet4 to retire within the gates. On the Sth, about twelve linndred, men; in fantry, cavalry, and artilkry, with two pieces of cannon, advanced, and as the battery was nearly demolished by pur troops, and 'only one 12 pounder mounted, Major Keatzinger, seeing that all resistance, would he useless, resolved to evacuate it. The embarkation was covered by 2 six pounders, brought on shore from one of our vessels of war. Reports from the Elbe state, that the French had succeeded in getting their men Berm' from Harburg to iirilhelmsburg '(a small island belong , ing to Hamburgh, and opposite to it), upon %villa General Tettenborn proceeded across that river with all the disposahle.force be could collect, retook the island, and even advanced as far as Harburg. Much speculation prevails here respecting the measures Denmark will adopt on the return of Count Bernstorf. The Duke of Cumberland arrived off this island on Sunday morning; his Highness proceeded in the.Nymphen frigate for Cuxhaven. c Royal Prussian Guard s no hmgcr-exist— . imliceri of this guard have been seen to traverse alone the town of Pegau. The three regiments • of enirassicrs, General Kleist, who 'commands the blockade of Wittenberg, gave u fresh assault,' to obtain possession of that place, commanded' by General Lspoypc. The Itußsian and Prussian troops were repulsed at every point, and lost many men. Lieutenant-General de Thumen directs thesiege of Spandau. lie established several works, which were destroyed by the French garrison. 'l'humen, in his turn, caused the fortress to he bombarded. On this occasion several buildings in the town became a prey to the flames. The Prussian ar tillery destroyed some works of the besieged, they were (pOrkly repaired. An assault which the Prussians attempted, vas very fatal to them ; they lost many men, and have in part gone to a dis tance from it. . . Lmuncr,G, APRIL 20.—The Russian General Rath blockades, it is true, the fortress of Za • :nose ; but he cannot besiege it, because he has not.a sufficient miniber of troops, nor any heavy artillery. The French General Haucke defends that - fortress with 3.0 r 4000 men. • PEoAu, MAY Vii- Wittgenstein's, Winzingi rode;s; and Blucher's corps passed through Pegau, marching towards Lutzen. We have seen many Russian Generals . ;—Miloradowitch, Onwaroff, .Markoff, Valkouski, Merlin, &c. are mentioned. It is said Tormazow MO expected on the 2d.— The Prussians ' o n passing reckoned on the most complete. success. On the 2d, at two p. in. the first wounded were seen to arrive in ten or twelve carriages together ; but hi a quarterof an hour afterwards it file of them WM established, and not again discontinued. From 31) to 40 wounded were placed in every house , in the town. On the 2:1 of May, between 10 and 11 in the morning, the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia passed through - Pegan on horseback ; they again passed through it on the morning of the 3d, accompanied by: Generals Wittgenstein and IVinzingerode. • On the 2d, at six o'clock, they began to talk about a retreat, and fugitives were seen. The same men 'rho the preceding evening and in the morning were, so arrogant, had a. dejected air ; they said all had been loft, because all had been risked. The Prince Royal or PrUssia had been wOnnded by a hall whilst endeavouring to rally some regi ments whiciLgave way. • The hereditary Prince of •Mccklenburg Strelitz brother-in-law to the King of Prussia, wai killed with two halls ; he commanded a regiment of tht body guards. I►i.an order of the .day issued before the battle, it was announced, to animate the courage' of the soldiers, that all the Royal Family would be with, the army. Prisoners assure us, seven Princes of the blood were actually With it. The regiments of Russian Guards have been almost 'entirely destroyed. The Royal Prussian Guards no longer exist : officers of this guard have :been seen to traverse alone the town of Pegan. The three regiments of enitas , qrß, corps were engaged in the eveiiing of the battle ; there no longer remain but the wrecks of them, The grenadier battalion of the first Eastern Prus sian Regiment, twice retook the village of Kaia ; on the third attack, it was entirely dispersed. General Blucher and Prince William of Prussia, with several Generals, arrived on the 2d, at 11 o'clock: in the evening, and set ou t at t h ree o'clock the following morning; they lodged at the Post-house. VIENNA, Aram 27.—1 t appears that their-Ma jesties the King and Queen of Saxony, will return to Dresden as soon as the Russians and Prussians shall have been forced to withdraw from thence. The Archduke Charles also intends to proceed to Bohetnia ; we know that he iw Captain-General of the kingdom : he is to inspect the . troops assent bled there. No son of a citizen can now be ex empted from the recruiting which is going on in this town and the suburbs. A great number of students have enrolled themselves in the chat - sours. Artists, and the sons of merchants are al lowed to choose the regiments in which they like to serve, and, as private soldiers, enjoy privileges .Which have hitherto been reserved dor Gentlemen 'Cadets, or the sons of officers. • MAT'S. haniveo-1 Heligoland, I Jamaica, I Dublin, Waterford Due-1 Cadiz, R Gottenburgll,- 1 I . letigublud, t 1)t0)1in. FRE>: CII PAPERS. Nitta, M",it.l 1 pains Of Lutzen, already famous' tn the military annals of Europe., have just receivedlresh celebrity. • It is there that the united Russian and Prussian armies haVe been completely beatco 'on the 2d of May by a portion of the French army. The superiority of their cavalry—the presence of their , Siwereignss—the . desire of effacing the shame of their preceding de could not resist the courage of the sol:. fliers, the. skill, the devotion of their officers, the . genius of a Captain greater than Gustavo% Adol phus, and also more fortunate. It there that the projects of our enemies, and the hopes .of the Cabinet of St..James's, have expired. What lan guage will the latter hold in their Parliament ? t'Vliat new delusions will these Ministers present in their high wisdom , ' to the .English nation, to whom they announced that our armies •were annihilated, and our resources exhausted ? At the very moment in which they were in dulging Ft hope Which" will never be fulfilled, the songs of triumph are heard ; the star of France shines with more eclat than ever ; and All the echoes of the North repeat- the coup-de-ton nere, which will , resound to futurity. What Frenchman has been able to read without emo tion, without experiencing a just'sentimen: - of na tional pride, the recital of the brilliant feats in arms Which illustrated the day of the 2d of May, which will have the same rank in history as the great clays of the Pyramids; Mafertgo, Auster litz, Jena, Friedland, and Moskwa ? Who, will refuse a tribute, of praise to those valOrous youths, who, scarcely exercised in the manage ment of arms, have rivalled, under their Sove reign's eyes, our old warriors , and proved them selves equal in love of glory and contempt 'of dans gers ? Two months have scarcely elapsed, since we saw these young soldiers depart for the field of his 'iota, and a single, day has been sufficient to give :them the experience of several yehrs. - If our, ene-• ruiesattriboted to themselves Advantages for which ther were indebted alone to the - intlemeney of a rigorous season, to the irresistible hardness of an unheard-of told, they must now be thoroughly undeceived. Never did they fight under more fa vourable circumstances. 'A vast plain was open to their cavalry ; their immense numbers obscured the horizon ; and yet half, of the French army pined a complete victory over them. Geimany has been- witness of an Egyptian battle. But whilst our young warriors' support with so much eclat the splendour of the French name, a new elite, anxious to partake of their exploits, are voluntarisy forming themselves. The eagerness CI of themselves as gnards of honour is general throughout all parts of the empire,' and we have published distinguished proofs of it. The (curiouso intelligence: we have just receiVed will still More awaken the enthUSIASM Of young French men, a nd add powerful motives to their mills tion. They Will - be fearful of arriving too late to participate in the triumphs- of their compa nions in arms. Impatient to distinguish them selves, and draw upon them the attention of a Chief whose look makeS heroes, they willhasten by their free will that signal - which is to call,thein hisseolinirs, acid place them in a community. uf glory with our invincible. legions. err ttt OF Ss.x.priT, `MA}' 4.---The Russian Fri IE SUN. 81/LeM Qt/13 IJICEHE FAI.StiM AtIDEA'f LONDnV, MONDAY, MAY 17, ,1813. A Lisbon Mail has just arrived ; its contents are not important, as will be seen trom the fol lowing extract oi , ottro, NAY 4,--The whole of the isttlicision of cavalry, consisting of five heavy and two light' regiments, have passed throng!) this place to oc cupy,for a few days, the villages round Braga.-- Both 'men and horses ere in the finest condition. It is'generally believed, that the Allied Army will move on or aboutlhe 14th inst. The troops are now remarkably healthy, The only other t►rtiele'is a mention of Sucnres defeat. • . Government have this day received Dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON', dated Freynada, May sth, up to which period nothing O importance had occurred, nor bad any great movement taken f place. By a Heligoland Mail which arrived yeqterday, we have adviees front that island'to the I Ith, ind from . ilambitrgh to tbe,i3th inclusive. The intel ligence thus receivt.ul will be found, so far as' it frnES 9n41 the calletwort. of official dislatcbes , to ben:. tl3 fully • ~,, and Saturday of the in tiFlerenit_elltv tl'evceotti6o°t"elro; kilolryooutn opinions ai t , l: i a t t h t it he tii en e enemy saff et'el °lt. querurs, rially on the Ist; that he bad obtaineil fie be has to expect firini , ' ' lieu de Jaye in tokea of victory oat though they deens;;liiites•;:tenricentl:e battle) , to fall back upon their ample re' tisfied with having ei vets the tyraufa for_ n comparatively fore, according bitted with Russian,. valour.- It, ap.peais tla brunt of the day was borne by the forces, and that the Itusiatt to', from Geritla9 pariotism, self, brought the issue of his fortunes tn little engatred in an actio desperate stuggle. What cheering to the confession of the envoy may we not ca:ertain, when the reinforcements hastening up or jai" til' t 0 shall have actually united tiltselres stupendous array o f the friendly fr I, i —wheu to the cavalry, Brio,/ l,'' ul -as to render defe at to t i l e fee i, '.".1., e cot , . while it would preven t his rc apino '. victory, is added new hands of h e ' ll' Don and Volgti,—,lien the e(inceennine 401, from Sweden and Hanseatic l'atriot' ''',,i t ciP4ne e q ual to their ardour, 11 011 /11" ; dangerous to BUONAPAIrkt: tO retreat 0 Taw:C—when the hot" flame o f lert --shall lc` , to a braze throughout Gertnreiv an({ ticipate triumph in the good C 311.0; our country to rejoice with • us io th e r:: 1r1 is presented of that,trintnpli beingsr:cm,,,b thisT The French Et silaesrup.ietlts thiriittial 9f(iiiiti:svi4illj'fltjell ..:00,-,,,,. a eoeinson stake. This read;lF a l . " ,tty 1 tt Ot le " the retrograde snovernent of the ,3-- e l clot cl victory, . which not being a. that le , .„ f i roil; , i ," racter to induce them to encoilitt‘'e it it o loy..ing it op too far, they, for suf l !'' ~,itiol, marched to occupy new and be tter r t " tor c s every step acquiri n g strength, 'Y'lliclttit' i• their opponen ts became more tuft` 111 t he ' 6' We have reason to believe, that ing which has taken place sobser the Allied arms have !NCR Crollo4 Another great battle . may ,be ' short time, on the event of vilt' dePead , and though We look wit look without apprehension t`).' '-•lVe,_ • hopes o f . _ ° DPW ,„ Arein a; , c,, • - - -Itais ot - the or Letzeu, lars o f h ; 1 -- vv-..C.1 nothing more Mail eommunleates is MOO, Fit val yesterdv • of dispatclie, front . 0 si ln H. arnbargh, or by letters receiv; oi e 90, KERIAR, of the Calliope, dateci ti ►kiliel iiiv haven, which merely state• that th ' ' l ' twined a ivi great victory on the 2( ' i .. 1 0 ;1 11 The whole of the. accounts bY t'''' 06°' ' ,' TO ,46 react with considerable Wells- ltw' ar r ive d tit more ' Swedish troops have . 80 rOO • e Of O r d thaa , on their way to the thea tr- ' r ocl CROWN I) ' RINCE is stated to ha ve sand. z ~,. our fat° The Ireligoland l e tters cone . ' kve m p:ootall o oTtisrti l ririg i lhei s tisneo,glm l lge l cg a : 1 i s l i t ; e t f li t si b i c i:e i y oc e t t el : r .t t l;j a An r: cv ) , : n i t: C r b : T y libt: o ti ell i i ' ' l ' el' l ltil;lci i r j's. t cc ; " 5:11' 1 ' ii:11:e : 11' e ; ( " ' e ° f i te Ilot" ir it Pp . 0 , ,(01PAg. i ill it to a divison, '''•l o r' f t desperate than :qr. Vll' l. erii , j ear ° o UPPer House ventured on' 9° e%1),1,, s trLt a p bat ‘,"- i t' sort last Friday, in the hope t d til .1 1 ' the 10 5 ' ►; 01 I he had to - state, (relative to .. / tr ic .• y tish frigales to Antericuit ;go e' ibi I,,i§r`,ii ~ r a ce - ,„ , j • the same untie); with tit - * • ce av", I,rr ing' anti the irresistible ti.erstl"'' ,f; , i i .vista .1 0 eloquence, SYould have ,the . it , tut - Os P ilia aver a • majOrity of - . - --r % ,of; ~, inquiry into implying-,'•(:,,,ift,'/i, ::::: 1 1) .Lordship had, however, ny e ' i ,..- ; .'',.!.• Adiniinistratiou of t"' ~. ''•':' ' and with a motion (frpro these .Its 1 and ianiented, and their eans'''' `,.`":, , '' ,',l ), the MOM f°!lVar(l,l he nod 11'14 coadjato.;,, GaENVII.Lt., &e: were overil,?::` "fling and clear stateine.nts, 11,10, debate, and by an- ovitov,he. i• it, sf.rty-si.r - Peers, at the eno 0 d ly,! , and satifactory argatoents ,ttrg,,,,,.„, ii) ~,,;,4 vs L eE, and I'm they insistoi ." 1 ; i(e o fil) TilußsT and Lord Lis' r j .: A 1.() , , , 'pOilliiit V i,) little to add • but there is :!,,,, 09'111.,.'d popalar t.at ati,,, .. ~, which, it stri'kes us; the (Ittes`3,-.4„.i1s ''reist'ji repress if not to all theci`i),itril'ot,ilit sition. The ground of . 1 -' ° ' : „ore voiii( was, it is well known, t he '' c t, tlit et i 00 but with their usual consistctelii•cloen_e; (14 cloned it. 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