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1. to the 1.0.,,JJ0N JUNE 8, 1813. Foreign-Office, June 9, 1813. Dispatches, of which the following are copies, were this day Teceived. by Viscount Castlereagh, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of 'State for Fo reign Affairs, from Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Chas. Stewart, K.B. iris Mtijesty's Envoy Ex traordinary -.and Minister Plenipotentiary to, the Court of Prussia, dated licad-gnarters, Wurzen, MY LORD, May 20, 1812. I have just received the offigiat account of the operations of trio Allied Armies since the 2d inst. from General Knieseback, and I inclose h transla tion of it for your Lordship's information. 1. have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CHAS. STEWART, Lieutenant-Gen. • BULLETlN.—(Trunstation.) flead,quarters, W'urzen, near Bautzen, May 19, 18 0. Since the battle of the 2d of. May, the Allied Army has had no engagement of cOnsequence With the enemy. , Some small affairs have taken place, which have constantly proved the good conduct of the troops. The following is a short account of the opera tions since the 2 d of May. In order to weaken the enemy's .1 ine of operation by drawing him from his tuppheS, and toyetire upon our ,awn, the Ge neral commanding the Allied Army proposed to take up a position in Upper Lusatia. The enemy did not interrupt this operation, but slowly follow ed the army. However, a brisk cannonade of a• Prussian corps took place between Colditz and Waldheim,but they retired in the greatest order. In this affair Lieutenant-Colonel and Brigadier Von Steinmetz distinguished Itimself..witb his bri gide ; and the Prussian General St. Priest, with great judgment and decision attacked the enemy in flank, by which the affair was decided ; the enemy lost four hundred men killed and wound ed. Our loss in this action was two officers •and one hundred and fifty men. We have to re gret the loss of Major Kall; a most distinguished officer. On the 66 and 7th the enemy crossed the Elbe at.Dremlen and Meissen. Several small detach ments of partizans returned to the left bank of the river to annoy the enemy's rear.- One of these de tachments, under Vent. Zihner, of the Bran benburgh hussars, took an officer charged with dispatches .of consequence, and 20 horses, near Zwekatv, and safely rejoined the aptly on the 10th. About this time it was ascertained that the King of Saxony had declared for the enemy, and had . giyen up Torgau to the French troops. This in telligence determined the Allies . to evacuate the nqdle Elue, and to concentrate the army at Baut- Zen. The army has been in this position seven days, very quiet, and daily increasing in numbers, and a battle is' shortly expected to take place. Our detached corps contimie successfully to an noy the enemy: On the 14th General jelowaiski surprized a post at Konissbruck and took- the whole detachment prisoners, consisting of eight officers and one hundred and seventy-three men. On the 12th and 15th the Corps of - General Milaradovitch had affairs, in which the enemy lost one thousand inen killed, and fifteen hundred isnimded, and six . officers and three hundred mess were made pri viners. On the 18th General Jelowaiski made l'aisoners a troop of 'mincers - of the Dutch guard, and in the afternoon, General Milaradovitch made a reconnoiisance, in which the enemy lost one lntudred killed, and one hundred mid thirty pH . - sonerd ; deserters come in daily from the enemy, Rita he suffers considerably by our skirmishes. Bead-Quarters. Wurzen, MY LORD, May 20, 1813. The enemy detached on the evening of the 17th and 18th in the direction of Lucknu and Lubben, on our right ; the force Was stated to be Regnier's carps. Intelligence being received that Gen. I.,euriston, with 9,000 men, would march to reinforce the troops a bove-mentioned on the 19th, General Barclay de Tally and General d'York, with a. strong corps, were sent to intercept and fall upon General Lewiston. - General Barclay de 'folly fell in with the enemy in the neighbourhood of Konigswerde, and a sharp contest ensued, which was put an end to only by night-fall, and in which the Allies were com pletely successful. They drove back the enemy At all points, took upwards of fifteen hundred pri boners, a General of Division, and eleven pieces of cannon, The enemy's loss in killed and wound e I was considerable. The cavalry were in pnr s tit when the accounts cam e dway. The loss on our side has not yet been ascertained, nor am 1 in possession of the details of this affair. -General D'York was engaged more on the right, and encountered a strong force ; the support of •Lauriston's corps supposed to be Marshal Ney's. Ile was etiv:;:ett till eleven o'clock at night, vcry superior number, with success. Both tile tilltect cory4 returned into the position this morning. Viseuupt t3at4tlpreaglt. Six o'CloCk P. M. 1 am enabled, being just returned froin General Milaradovtell'd advance&guard, to report to your Lordship that a very severe attack has been made to-day by the enemy, to possess thetnelves of the town of llautzen. Ihey attempted a false attack oa our left, but the real one was on General Mi. hradovitch's right-. General Kleist's -Corps was moved up to his support, and the attack was sus tained by Generals Alilaradovitch and Kleist, with the utmost gallAntry. I witnessed two very gal lant charges of Russian light , cavalry, as well, as ex t rem e good conduct throughout the troops en gaged. General Milaradovach will be drawn to night int . () the position. , Would : , eem, from what has,occurted this day, tuat the enemy intend a great effort here. I hove the honour to be, &c• (Signed) • CHARLLS sTuiwART, Lieutenant-General. ters, Goltiberg, SiLeila, MY )401113, Mitt' 941 181 a. j hastily dt,tta4ti to your Lordship lit my. last umit)ori; m 1: At tioo SUN •OFFI dispatch the military movements on the 20th ) and the attack on Bautzen by the enemy. The intention of the enemy, in - his attack ofi the right and left of Bautzen on . the 20th, was to force the Spree River, and to pass to,some.heights on Our right, thus threatening General Milaratio vitch's rear, and gaining advantageous ground, from which his artillery could sweep our mtlin po-, sition, and under cover of whose fire, he might. with greater facility make his general attack on the following morning. The action was bravely contested ; ,a Russian battalion a:nl some Prussian lancers, under- cover of a battery, boldly advanCed and contested alone the heights, in spite of the enemy's powerful ef forts, until they were supported by General heist's corps. in the mean time, on the extreme right, the enemy's corpvfollowed Generals Barclay de Tolly and D'York, in their retrograde movement from their expedition against General Latiriston. General D' York's corps entered the position in the evening, hut the whole of Barclay de 'l'oily's did not effect it till the following morning. General Milaradovitelt repulsed the repeated Karts of the enemy that were vigoroivily made to force him on the left, and the'eolturns of the ene my, that had attempted to paves into the moun tains, were kept in check. Findhig, however, late in the eventug,,that,General.KleiSt baq fallen into the main position, General 11'Warado- Vitch withdrew entirely from the Spree River, and the town of Bautzen, and in the night ocdu iiied the ground marked out for hint in the general line. The severe affairs of this day, reflect tbehigheit honour on Generals Milaradoviteh and 'Kleist, and the brave troops under their command: • • have the honour to be, &c. • (Signed) CHARLES tlyalwArer, ' Lieutenant-Gement'. Viscount Castlereagh, &c. Szc: MY LORD, Goldberg, May 9. 4 , 1818. : The Allied Army under the orders uIA Count AVittgenstein, in position, in advan‘a , of Wurschen and llochkirch, was attacked by,tlre - yurmy at day-break, commanded by Buonapat te in person, on the morning of the 21st instant. It appears he had assembled all his force for this awl, and had not don( hed largely, as had lie - en supposed, to Other quarters. • • 'The ground selected by the Allies to resist the enemy's _approach,. on the great roads to, Silesia and the Oder, was bounded roil the left by. a range of mountains which separates Lusatia. from Bo hemia, through which Marshal Dann marched to the battle andjvictory of Hochkitch. Some strong confinanding heights, on which batteries bad keen constructed near the village of Jackowitz, (and separated front the chain of mountains by streams and marshy ground) formed the appui to the left, flank of the position. Be yond, and in front of it, m any batteries were pushed forward, defended by infantry and cavalry on a ridge that.projected into .the low ground near the 'Spree River. It then extended to the right, through :illages which were strongly entrenched, across the great roads• leading trout Bautzen to flochkirch, and Gorlitz ; from thence in front of the village of BourtheWitz to three or four very commanding hills which . rive abruptly its a conical • shape, • and fortis -strong features; the.se.witb the high ground of Ereckwitz were strengthened by batteries, and were consideredllie right" mint of the line. The ground in the centre was favourable for cavalry, except in some marshy, and uneven parts, where it would impede its operations. Fleches were, constructed, end entrenchments thrown up at advantageous distances on the plain, along the front of which ran a deep boggy rivulet, .which extended round the right of the position. • On the extreme right the country was flat and woody, intersected by roads bearing towards tic Bober and the Oder • General Barclay de Tolly's corps was stationed here, and should be considered more as a ma ncetteeting corps, placed to pard against the ene my's attempts on the right and rear of the 'Allies, than as iminediately•in position ; the ext ent•of the whole line might be between three and fonr Eng lish miles. The different corps occupying it were as follows : General Kleist's and General d'Yorck's corps in echelon and in reserve on the right Ge neral 431k:her's Count Wittgenstein's, and Gene ral Miluradovitch's formed on- the left ; and the guards and grenadiers, and all the Russian cavalry, were stationed in reserve in the centre. The enemy evinced, early in the action, a de termination to press the flanks of the Allies ; he had thrown a very strong corps into the moun tains ,on our left, which favotired his species of warfare, but General ;Ililaradovitch was prepared here, having detached Prince Garchikoft and Count Asterman with ten battalions of light troops, and a large corps of Cossacks, Witb their artillery, under Colonel Davidoff, to occupy these hills. After a very strong tirailade in this quarter, and a distant cannonading- on our right, which commenced the action, the enemy began to deve lope his forces, and to move his different columns of attack to their stations. The contest in the mountains became gradually wat met', and he supported it by, a vei y powerful line of. artillery. The Prince of Wirtend4erg's and General St. Priest's divisidns, of General INE laradovitch's corps, were here sharply . eirgiged, and a charge of cavalry succeeded against some pits of the enemy, one of Which was taken. Buonaparte was now visible on a counnituding spot, directing the battle. Ile deployed in limit of the town "of Bautzen his guards, cavalry, an d lancers, and shelved heavy colututis *of infantry on the esplanade before it, bringing tip hesides a ntimber of brigades of artillery, with which he occupied some advantagedus heightS,'betWeeit o ar position and Bautzen, that were favourable to support his attacks. • These-demonstrations denoted an, efFort in tlik direction, and a disposition was accordingly made with General Blucher's corps and our command ing cavalry tO meetbut Eth increasing Made fire, and a more li v ely cannonade on our right,. .doubtful where his chief iatittetlitnipintatwelays naoinlioedn.ger Columns of attack,. under ratAl y,v 'II.IO"AIAg.IV(X)I), of No. 114, Strand; and Publish 112, Strauf.l, where ridkertii.emintY, Orde'r4 eater of a iteAiy gri, were now in Motion froin the enemy's left, while others were filing to rain our Tight ; and General Barclay de Tolly NtriiS at , `tacked' by a very superior force under Marshal Ney and General banriston ;' and notwithstanding 'the most gallant efforts, was forced to abandon the villages of .Klutz and Caintervitz.• General Barclay de Tony bad orders, if outnumbered, to change the ground he occupied in front of Can- • nervitz and•Prieslitz ) and to place himself on the heights surrounding the villages...of Rachel and liaruth, , _ by which the at•my would change its po sition 00 the I vit, and cover the n►rtin roads through tVuutzen atul Iluchkirel= to the rear : I)llt.the ene- my ru►tflanked him on the right, while they warm., ly engaged him in front, and occupied these heights before:hiM, which determined hint to throw I►imself on the right Of Wurschen, where the Imperial head-quarters had been, and which, equally.answered ti►e object., When it was per ceived that 'General .Barclay de 'Tilly was pressed by immense Odds, General Blucher was order ed to move to his right, and :attack the enemy in flank. . . General Blucher was afterwards supported by Generals Kleist and P'York, and here to most sun- guinary contest ensued. These attacks succeeded in checking the-ene my. That of Geiteral Blucher's corps exceeds all praise I and the Prussians in this eventful day, as tit thq battle of Lutzen, again evinced what their troops are capable of ac'eoalplishing when headed by King they love, and lighting for their Coun try., their liberty; and indepinience. A charge of four th,, , usand of their cavalry on columns of the enemy's infantry, ,which had car ried•the village of Kracknitz, completely repnl3ed and the Prtisian . s again ocenpied it, di play- ing the ;;neatest order rill,l steadiness under the most galling fire. Still these gallant efforts.were arrested by the enemy's bringing up fresh troops, and though partial successes were obtained, the general issue was in suspense. A momentary advantage being gained by the enemy in conseiptetice of General Barclay de rolly's movements, he lost no time in making every eXer tion. to push it to the utmost, renewing, at the same time, his attack .on our left flank, and as ; saulting, the batteries that covered the conical heights, as also abase of Kreckwitz on the right. lie made himself master of the hitter, and of one of our batteries, which gave him, in some degree," the key of the position, as it commanded the low ground on the right and centre of it. Still in every other part of the line the Allies firmly sets tamed the conflict ; hut it soon became apparent that the enemy had not only superior forces to fight us at all, points, but he hod also the Means of prolonging his flank march, an our right, tints threatening our comumnications and menacing Our rear. Although it might have been easy, by a general assault of the grenadiers. and, guards in 'reserVe, to have recovered the heights of Kreckwitz, still time pressure round the flank on Barclay de Tolly' corps would have again. neceSs'tated the abandon ment of them, and when these troops moved to their point of attack, the centre,'where the enemy still sheaved a powerful force, would have been en dangered. It was only from considerations of such n na ture as I have above detailed, that the Allies w ere induced to etiinge their p...,sittoo at five o'clock in the evening, having from day-breake admirably contested every part of the field or battle. The superiority at numbers was with the enemy, but the heroism and firmness displayed by the al lies must be respected even by their adversaries. Thu magnanimous conduct of his Imperial Ma jesty and tire King of Prussia, 'made the greatest impres! , ion.on all around them ; they never quitted the field of battle, and I witnessed in hit Imperial Majesty the most ardent and anxious desire, by renewed attacks, to sustain the position, had not reasons of prudence, coupled with the most im portant considerations; decided otherwise. 1 feel I cannot do justice to the details of the battle, nor to • the 'extraordinary efforts made. I have endeavoured to give your Lardship the most faithful account of what I personally witnessed. — The determination being taken to place the army in a new pOsition, the troops were in motion about seven o'clock in the evening for the ground be tween Welssenberg and Hochkirch. The enemy opened immediately a . tremendous fire from the heights 'of- Kreckwitz and the village of 'Canne witz; on the retiring columns ; .but every gun was w ithdrawn from the batteriei, and the troops moved as at a field day. The Corps of Generals Tolle , D'York, 13lueber, and Kleist, marched off from tmmeir right to Weisseuberg ; those of Witt genstein and Milbradovitch from their left to Hoch hitch.. The retreat was made in echelon,* . covered by the cavalry.: the enemy did not attempf. to mo lest it, and it was conducted with' the mast pm tect order. General Kleist's corps formed the rear guard to the corps moved on Weissenberg, and a battery of forty pieces, planted by Count Wittgensteio on the heights of Wintzen; im peded the enemy's -advance. General Milarado viteii -covered the retreat of the troops on lioch 7 kuch, and the 'army were in their position at night. I have the honour to he, &e. (Signed) CHARLF,S STEAVAUT, Lieutenant-General. r. S. From the most authentic information I can procure,the force of the Allies did not exceed sixty thousand men ; that of the enemy I es timate at least at one hundred and twenty thou sand. The loss on bOth'sides was great. The enemy's must have been tremendous. I am unable to slate the numbers with any accuracy. C. S. Lieut.-Gen: Maki-Quarters, 000beig, MY LORD, May 1813. The armreoritinued to retire on the ::2d in two columns on the great rOad*from Bautzen to Low enberg. The enemy made an attempt to lam ropt the corps of - General Milaradoviteh, in, which he completely tailed. At Reiehenhaeh , the rear guard took up a position, which•they defended in the most obstinate manner against the -enemy's i i dcatwe, led by Buonaparte in person. The ene ray-silewed a strong force of cavalry, and Made se- I'd ARMInEiI SCI IPM South Moltorl-strect, rit(lvtatot-square, '.6r the Parier, L.Ctters for the Editor, &c. (post paid), twist he adtitessed, ver,ll charges. on t tat of the aiites, and 0 1.! l uta the town of Reichenbach; the . Were success fully replied, with the lose of some hundreds killed, wounded, add taken, and several officers. *.britrging up a number of guns anil a great . to - me, and by outflanking our rear-guard, it mlil obliged to leave Reichenbach, but fell back ori Gorlitt in the best order. • after The conduct of the tr oo p s this day, their long service and aniequal combat of t he 21st, has,. been beyOnd dm pillse. Throughout the tame. mov em e nts there has'been n o loss of guns, brils, or baggage of any kind in the allied eral li on ' G en eral Bulow'a corps; jo i n ed by Gen dell's in the neighbourhood of Relitz and I erebbin,. finding that the enemy had withdrawn th core . of Victor in that uarter, tor the purpo se of his, q general operations against the allied army, has t o-' newed the offensive, and has pushed his parole to Baruth and towards WittenbOg• The enemy did not advance abov e half an tot , iish mile-on the side of . Gorl itz y esterday morning they have not. rrhig'' perfect order. The al lied b army are moviuff in the dire c tion of SChWeitlilitZ . pressed, raid a ll retires in I have the honour to be, Sce: (Signed) - CHARLES. ST WART' • Lietenant-fieneral. - . On iirednestlay setoright a 4hocking aII . CSY ti " )l‘ place at the fair. of Cavrokeel, county Doavg3lli between . a .party of• Or:Mgt-Men and a 4 1 ,,,Y e , Itthbomnen, in which a number of lic° -.,:: Last. The origin of the -quarrel does oot m':,..,.. 1 to be well understood, it haying •been relee' valiotis - ways, but the contending parties ill,'" pear to have nr..t wit b intentions deterfaiactliy milrilerous; each ' having su pplied t hemselves with arms and aniumnitiou. The Ontagcale.at having been -worsted it) the onset , .retreate( to 'a Village where they took shelte r la angle houses, which their pursuers s: ton fire. P ricc l '. to desperation they fired . out of the ‘rimlows, ant' sii ,,,, a fter. : killed two of their opponents on the wards they sallied 0t4 , : , sitit ihe intentina or s ,"'i ing thentst.lve , by retreat, when theY “' U '' le i t ,, ar.other, who is noW'clead, but being d'verPl e !7 t h three of them were killed. . Thai, three °` c party have been killed, and, we understand,..3.. great number have been wounded. Aloc b P rat't* is due to Captain Smuts for his exertions iirtire preh nd m ending a comitting to jail mall °`rill°- c . principals in this shocking and diabolical t . tion. On Friday last, Mr. Lowe , on e of our Co l tig it te r f 1)1e, i , Jut.. log ascertained that som e premises is oceupied by a person, of the name of lj".c b "i A t Freeman-street,.and who was lately Co"vi" le Warwick, for coining, were inhabited' by .r e° ,, P ,i i , who were eruployed, in making Counterte't - l i r . , and forged liank 7 notes, he : roceeded Keith accost ' Payn and assistants to the house, which vili;,,,b, strongly barricadoed ; in about five adu ates t" I 'l " made their way ' into the lower rooms, b "d 1 ;11 3,1, e 1(1" the.trap doors so secured, that they Iv; :b e se ' to make use of a ladder, and to force oue -. t ea r oond lights, from whence one of the row el .' p a d eel at the upper window, and with his left ....i n catching hold of an iron bar, . with a liatante.,„,. his right hand broke the barricadoes, t'orced I►if., s'l'lltof.4pliunatihlit'ethir":°r:P•oe°ll;el:.efariollUttlidinlette:vi:oiw e c t il t i r '; pit t : ibt i chftera. :istfincies" i t ,; which the men threw a quantity of tlllll, parer, blanks, dies, &c. In 15t minutes trom rue time Ina commenced their operations, the whale ,V ijc , G i. ; :er John .11enshall,' Thomas Iladley and t' l2 1 , 1,e4 • Ann tiOiey, Thomas Whitaker, ,and.Wil,terialt. tiler, with all the presses, and vari° Lis r n .,,i01 1 a t for witting and forging -were in the Pos t s 'i - d e pre 4. the o ffi cers. The detection of this hat° o ~,,a n ia: .• datorS is of the utmost i m p o rtance to the c"' the I c l l i r t i Y er promoters la'geit' ' aismslu_istetcr7CirotrbseYof bp4:oeobet,3'oerfl,ettilteis, description fia. many years.—Birminghtio ' a " i',*''' fo ll ii.fibili l itusrlris a l ihoeiti l illg'molsdittlitgi3itile.glteirnlloo:et brought Brighton eolba t irn i iymse a gfhin s iatri:oca n riagkrunt o e;fis i iireol been vlsi‘,anei ibca,s:osscitiuvoliaii k elirrlidaiele n diya o ntnaalgo ‘ oylp v llstk: n otis, pi:of.paitt pound, oeistittv r irchs.et y toeinL e r,yie,eg a ic: l l‘ ' s., s ,6:lll:fit: s leistist i .rs ' ert,e c iej :,. 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