The Sun. — London, England, 1813-10-12 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. COPY or A LETTER FROM GENERAL- cIITIZE OF BLOCHER'S STAFF. " We have gained a very splendid victory on the titer Katsbach over rite French. The loss of this nettle has been ac, decided as any they have ever sustained. The enemy intended an attack on tbecorps of theßussian General Count LAN GERbII, whirls was several 'miles. front us. We bad made dispositions for the combined army to pass the river Katshach to attack the enemy. We were, therefore, two miles nearer to him than he ex pecte(' I. head.quarters bad advanced to Breehtenshort, to receitt our recruits. A few hours afterwards a very heavy firing bean be tweet% the enemy acid the Corps Langeron. We ordered our troops to halt. Some time after wards see received accounts of the enemy's ad vancing upon us in a strait line. We put our troops in motion, and halted behind hills. _Col. Altssumgalloped with ate to the vanguard, to observe the movements itt the enemy anti the ter rein. We made our disposition. The 'enemy 'was tbe point of attacking 'the Corps - Langeron, which was now abont half a mile 'from us, in their right flank, as be bad done 'with its left. He was:. on the point of 'overthrowing the few battalions composing 6or vanguard, %Wen we advertised General li t ,o atm of this, who ordered . the troops to advance front :heir position. Three brigades opened the attack, another remained as reserve-. ambascude. Four batteries were judiciously posted, and fired with effect. Our infantry marched upon the enemy without firing, and at 'tided him with the bayonet. A great savalry fight began soon after, in a long line, with various soccess. The fete was Undetided for a moment. New squadrons advanced ..to assist the cavalry; Others to make an i attack on their infantry. Our infantry, which had halted to "await the decision of the cavalry fight, now attecked'the enemy's in. (awry ; and at lust the enemy, whose rear was posted on the steep edge of the foaming rivers Neisse and Katsbach, was thrown into these rivers, after having first been greeted with grape shot. Atter the work of this day, the infantry, which remained in the greatest order during the whole of the battle, stood in well-formed squares. This day is the triumph of our new-formed in fantry. " A brave East Prussian beltalion of j..,and- Webr attacked a great mass of the enemy's infan try, 41411cta down the whole of them, excepting only inteutred men. 'The battedlors of Land Wehr Ural afterward& surrounded by the cue sisy's cavalry; and called upon to surrender, " No, no!" cried these brave men, and tried to diseharge their guns. One only was discharged, on account of the heavy rain, nevertheless they held the ca: - wiry in check with their bayokts. After the cavalry had left them again, they immediately as- sailed a few pieces of cannon, anti took them.— This is the highest trial for old accustomed sol diers, and so much more honourable for this young infantry. " The results of this battle are 103 pieces of cannon, 400 baggage waggons, 20,000 prisoners, &c. Ate. The battle lasted until one hour after it was dark, which did not allow, us to know the whole extent of our victory, for which reason the army account which was dispatched one hour afterwards, only contained those prisoners taken until then. The roads between the' rivers Bober and Katshach, prove the terror of the enemy since the battle, Dead bodies are every where found in the mud. This battle will }.)e called the battle of theltatsbach, in honour oldic brave anti wise General Baron VON SACULW, who with his Russian corps turned the right wing on that river, while we kept the left on the Neisse. These two rivers join in front of us, and behind-the enemy's position. In consequence of this victory, the icorps of the Russian General Count Lamoruorr, is freed from danger. of the axistur army there is but very little remaining, tsull all those Frenchmen who are co t off from passing the rivet 3, and who run about in the woud4, will be either killed o r t a ke n by t h e pe;tc a nts, We expect that the measures whieb }lave been taken wilt put the whole of the re •sn' ainder of MacDorprALD's corps into our pos- Ao‘sion. " The army of Silesia has well deserved of their country. It eight days they have had seven gi eat fghts ithei one battle, not coanting the inferior one% a timse . fights cost us Prussians from 1800 to 2000 men l‘illed and wounded. " The French ttt,iperot wished to draw us into, battle at Lowenherg on the 2ltt Qt August. We retired, and the trots?), fought in beatitifill order. Only the vtinipiurd anti part of a brigade were op posed to thu enemy; the ten - n - 13)4(1er retired slowly , lutlf n allowing tlmtn the track. The.enerny 140,000 wun esuinut us. Wise* ttmy touud with 60,000 men, and left Ali , eilo'N'A'Ll) aPPosed. ts) us. I look on this INlathal Lis a guisbe4 crOterai; he hai:inanctuvred with the greate3t art, '" The '3.ltcklenburg brigade had a very hard con.; tent at Goldberg. 'f 1 3 rince ha.; conducted him • self exceeding'y well . Lcver a l of has battalions have suffered severely hy,a very hear:, fire . , and by the attacks of superior numbers : of cavalry. ".Out 'army 1s :In great tvant of eitl' thing-1 by the swelling of the rivers the soldie . rs ate in water aboVe: their knees.. The: vijlages which have been nearly destroyed by the enemy; and left' by the inhabita»ts, (10 not Offer 4ny comforts, — We cannot get any provisions, 'on account of tie want of carrittgeS and the' very 'bad roads, which arc nearly itnpassahle. A great many soldiers are . without ;mops ; however, ourhrave soldiers beat:: all this without frowarfinc4,s, with patience, ,and even with gaiety. Is there Any thing more ho;• nourahle than such sufferers.with so much brave-' nes: ? In such moments the soldier is highly ele vated before his brothers, that stay at home." cpmte to repel the enemy's fortes .then,ht.fore that Place, and no danger for the safety of the town sn'l shipping - was enterfaitted when our informant left that place ou Tuesday„morniug. The fleet Was at rt loss for seamen.:--(,:aptain . Dobbin hid NVeat dOWli with the boats to Buffalo, to nwet them and hurry them on. The stamen are on their way from New Vork, - and bast been del: layeil in their journey which has been a very ma terial injury, and has protracted the'operatio&, of the new Erie fleet. A London Morning Paper, however, mentions (we k n9w not ou what authority),'' that Commo dore Perry, having been joined by a body of 300 seamen, which had been sent hint from i'New York, sailed with his flotilla from P or t E r ie, on the Lake o f that name, on the Bth of August, with intent to seek mid engage the British flo tilla." - Of miscellaneous matter, all that seems- worthy of extract is the following : Aft A severe law has been passed against iicens ing American vessels, subjecting the party offend . - lag 'to the loss of double the value of the ship. and to a discretionary fine not exceeding 10,000 dol hrs.—The Government of the Milted States Las isrued a Proclamation for a General Fast. Considerable uneasiness had been occasioned among the coinmercial inhabitants of Bahia by the opposition given to the prosecution of the Slave Trade, in which they are very largely inte rested ; and it is said that at Rio Janeiro a very urgent 'remonstrance has been presented by Lord Strangford, ter enforce the limitations of this ape des of intercourse; assigned in the late Treaty between Great Britain and the Portuguese ;lo vernment. The citizens of the United States, it . seems, have endeavoured to give an impulse •to the friends of insurrection in Curaccas, among whom inaction and discouragement had been pro doced by .the sweeping calamity which some time 'since laid their princip a l c ity in ruins, and de stroyed so large nyart of their population. MAILS. AftnivED-.4 Guernsey, 1 Jersey, 1 Dublin. Doc—l Lisbon, 2 Gottenburgb, 2 Heligoland, 1 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS Tilts DAY AI Twgtwit o'ct.ocK. Consols.... 58/ 57.1 I Re(l.4nu, if j Ornniugst..ei 61 HIGH WATER AT LONDON .BRIDGE TO-MORROW: Morning, .22 inineteskafter 4. 1 Evening, 47 minutes after 4. THE SUN. QV 13 DICIAIL YALWM Al111gAT? AMERICAN Nk:WS. We yeitertlay noticed the principal features of the American intelligence which had reached.this Conntry. ',We now proceed according to our . , pro mise and digest as many `particiderS as our limitspermit. The - infernal and . treachero4S Egplosion by which Lieut. GEnnes and ten of our gallant tars were rnurdcred, is,. thus described in . a let ter :from Sir THOMAS 'HARDY', elated off New London, 14th July, " On friday,the',Oth of June, a master's mate Of that 'ship Was 'sent in a boat to cut off a schooner which was making for the -, harbou r o f New London, which he "soon 'effected, and took possession of her about eleven o'clock, the people Wing deserted, and let go her ontranchor and table. The master's matt bronglirMe schooner . near the /2amitia; and informed Sir' T.: Hardy she wasloaded with provisions:and naval stores,-'-Sir 'Thomas directed her to be taken alongside a sloop which had .been captured a few (lays before. Mr. Geddes,Voliinteered his services ; and to : put Sir Thomas's Orders in execution, took a fresh boat's crew: 'Whilst they were in the nerd securing her, about balf-pastg o'clock, horrid to relate, she blew up, with a most tremendous explosion, and poor Geddes and ten Valuable seamen lost their hies ; three seamen escaped much scorched, bUt are doing well. We since learn,..this schooner the Zggle, of New-York, was fitted out by two merchants of that place (induced by the American Government offering half the Value of the British men of war so destroyed), for the express pur pose-of blowing up or burning the Ea/allies; and bearing tbet Itanii/los was short of provisions and stores, .placed sonic on the hatchway as anindUce• Bacot for taking her alongside. Under the pro visions (it since • appears) were deposited several casks of gunpowder, with trains laid to a maga- • zinc, which was "fitted upon the name mechanical principles as clack-work. WheriAt ran the time given to it by the winder-up, it gave force to a sort of gun lock, anti .the explosion of the vessel, and the destruction of all thaC- might be near it; vas thereby accomplished." The distribution of part of our naval force on this station is given as follows, in a letter dated " Sept. 4, 1 fil3. " Sir John Warren continues in the Chesapeake, and has taken posSessiOn of Kent Island. He keeps all the Southern States on the alert, and by that means act as a powerful di version in favour of our troops in Canada. Captain Oliver, with the Valiant, Belvidere, and Statira, is off New York ; Sir Thomas flartly, with the Ramilles and Orpheus, is off New London ; Capt. Epworth, with the Nymph(.. and Majestic, is ott Baste), Commodore Sir John Beresford,' with the Maid. Stone, is in search of Coomiodore Rogers ; us is . Capt. C a pe', with the Tenedos. Captain Gordon, in the 'tattler, with the Emulous, Bream, PictOst and sev e ral sm a ll vessels, ar e in the Bay of Friends. The Th i listle, Capt. White, off Cape Briton Recruit, Fontome, and Curlew, oil ,Caite Sable. The Con stitution is at Herron, and cannot ;et manned. 14 Capt, Graha m , of the Laurestinus, is appointed to com mand the Chesapeake t and Copt: (fordo!), of the Rattler, 0 the Laurestinus. The Rattler being nearly worn out will ha made into is prison or receiving ship ' both being ;ouch ,want ed. Tmi The Narcissus, Capt. laley (Whe is ressyvred of his wound) sails to-day to join the New York siuddron, as the . Valiant is suppos e d t o 'h ave haw s d et a c h ed . • There are up wank of taw) prisoners at Melville Island Prison, near Holi. fax. : Major-General Sir Thomas Saumerez has taken ,the command of New Brunswick, vice General Smith, whit, bas areas from very had health. C o l one l D oug las , of the !Nth regiment, regiment, to be Commandant of lialifax,..vice Sir Th 04 1 , 0, Slsionarez. 'Die brave Capt. Broke, 'of the Shannon, is re covering rapidly!of the desperate', aoatid in his head, , The Sltannon, Capt ain' Senhousc (acting), CtilS sopa cruise for montlr.'! • • _According to District Orders, of the sth A Aug. at Montreal, it appears that our little I. , :xpedition Oa 'Lake Champlain bas been com ,- - pletely saccessfol in carrying terror andeonfusion line of It Consto,- lAet Wetli the' States' of Vermont and New York. These ere the brilliant details-- - The enemy's arsenal, block-house, Comtnis sary.'s buildings, stores, and sotm! boats at Platts burg, with the extemive barracks of Saranac, ea pable of containing 4000 troops ; the barracks and stores at Swanton and Missitsquir iioyi and %eve yat at the landing place ; the public buildings, barracks, block-house, &c. apt Clawnplain Town Were destroyed; and some stores, particularly naval stores, shot, and equipttielitil fur great number of hatteatnt, were brought away ; vessels were taken,, one of which war ,StrOyett. Capt. Everard, with the dauntless spirit which charactetizes. British sonnairs, presented `himself before Burlington with two sloops and at gun-bout, and offered battle to the enemy's flotilla, which, thongb apparently superior in force, de clined quitting the protection of hatterics, and sub mitted to the min titicatiQll anti disgraea of sating several vessels captured close to their own shore,'' • With regard to the enemy's efforts On Lake E r ie, ntelligence front • that the 41410 wing is the bitet i tioActer , - After noticing the menacing switep of the -British' flotilla, the Aincriaati aceonut states„ The f o r e* at L I R!, will vansiderad fully tide. LONDON, ruEsn.iv, ocroilElt ig, 1813. SLIN-()J:FICE, frill.F-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. We have just beard that French Papers to the 9th inst. are come to hand. Our informant assure; us:that they contain nothing important, otcCpt that the Fiench 5 per cents. lava fallen within a few days from 60 to ; slx weeks ago they were at 70. ,Our own funds are also drooping a little . to day.-om-nium and 3. . In another part of our Paper will be found Ex tracts from a Letter written by the Chief of -Iku, Staff to a Noble Lord in this country, with the perusal .of wide' bwe h a ys been kindly favoured.: The British pubticare as yet but indistinctly ac quainted with the series of glorious achieveintnts which have on thi.tside of, Silesia so prominently . contributed to the general successful result of the allied exertions ; unilVve a're,.therefore, happy to have it in ourpower to 14 before them these very interesting particulars relative to the Victory of the Katzbach, which, as we yesterday stated - , we trust has Jed, to still niore signal advantages on the Spree and in the neghbourhood of Dresden, whither MAc4aot4Al4.) and his Master have been pursued. Under the head of A Inericat!.. News, we have given a digest of every matter possessing inters t, brought by . the last arrivals from the St. Lawrence. Theinext wilt, probably possess us of the details of a decisive victorYonLake Ontario, aS we know that Sir.J. YE() (from whom and from Sir E. ret,Law dispatches were yesterday received) had sailed on the 30th Jniy from K ingston, with the avowed de sign of fighting CoMmodore CIIAUNCEY, who had also quitted Sacket ; s harbour, for the second time, about a . week before. On this action much depends. The American army at Fort George, consisting of four thousand men, ►nd two the)" - 'sand at Niagara, - have little chance of escape but through the etructs of a naval triumph, which .we liave too much confidence in the heroism of British sailors 't;)suppose they will be abk to - achieve. Our army, ‘vhich was in considerable fitter on the Niagara frontier, had, (as was yetiterday minoitneed In the Bulletin frau , the War DepartMeeit, which occupied the first place in our -leading article) straitened the block .atle of the enemy by pressing our lines wore closely round him. :•they were' edgcd pp into corner bounded on the South by the Lake, and on the - East by the Niagara, and the Blitish,ad vancing from Queenstown hemmed them in oh the North and West. So -Completely .were they in ialttid that dn. durst net tveniend oat iiatrqiet to any (Ifttance beyond their tartuloam,.., they were suffering greatly front diseas e. Kingston, whence Sir 3. 1 . !?.o on toe 30th, aiui Sackett's Harbour, whence Commodore C HAUNCE Y sailed on the 23 d or 2.lth, 40IY, Itre nut more than 30 unites distant. We this day continne from the French pseeri the publication of tboz . ,e documents % vide!) PO . KAPARTR 1( t,, thought fit to - Offer by w a y of exPo' sition to.the.peOple of Franec, previow 1 0 call in g upon tbemlor some neW ,Sat..•rifice. They ` lre lin) ovoflaulti;intohliins:sliiv:laLdaesq t i l i t l i t t i e lo o r r t att. tl:lbl:l:47i:ceup.itsiii:: Ay : A:Lilo Newspaper' litnits—,an analysis o f ;0 0 t p t prominent o p i u n b ts , lic i a s .tit(1)11li otifutitviciaicubbseol,oiktorligeedttiorior: tion is necessarily devoted to the passing the day, -• ' t) On entering upon these Papers it strikes si , inquiee, why they have - been so loug w ilbtf . from France ? 111101tIONAPARTE cherished lO2'' of being able tocajule and dupe any one of l' . , ' Allied Powers, anti was it only tit the beginnio,o • IV October that he discovered the fallacy et,.- - 4,•, 1 1, pectation ? There seems to be great probalgo ,_ e this suspicion. •PressingaltiliMminen tdangigsl" forced the unwilling Tyrant to appeal agaill ° Delloi chivalrous spirit of the i'rench•people• of threatened destruction has braced tip in ' 'l,t, • to this dreaded measure, wl ich ,rettders an ''' ,1 , eventsth" sure of his condition absolutely indispenssbi, had to brave opinion,. Or peris h for m llic I.°olt c'frio/' ttt,nl like all desperate felons', • he chosel eeturse,, when he became convin ced that 3 011 !: e andutirestraineth . and lion'eat 'intercourse 1,5; his "PP9nesies„,•hatl so opened the eyesstal inflifaS'' the judgmeuts of them all, as to" leive l'c ic t or i'' of- his *being again successful tlirtiugh Vic joi• fication, intrigue, and deception. l'iri; with %vied - this'truth seems to have cou )e .)l ,l t. er l peril l h i ' e t ' :o f has, d h o i c s it s m u i tPeunadoubt, materially sugn" chit.fiy to remote ca u t b t . s l e is t? je o d f ) ;h c e ste ‘ r%"l:b4B: l: F oi r : attceand SWeden and Austria. 111°1e .1 : 1 : 11 , 0 last page to-day embrace the ittuediso Tv hostilities between Austria and Vrsoe''' . lua e rsi x gi a ) te s :is p lt e :ls r i a t: t i.. l l. ( t i l, n otitis a ste n r i t o, l lf : taunt spews tott.viti >i t : l : i 1: :; .t : fir c e: : :::: , i , : : : fNttl).,triPle:::::f)i i 0, his feelings tt).Vitl%k that Power - . In they oi. t t i i n o . r n a , gainst the Usurper, .deep h 'l )° r''etill:l 'PlasiNcts.must :feel that he l. 01 dan4hter bythe,iMmolaiion of w h,.':' , rib' i3 BuoNArAnTE. should - BOoxitpitiff . 1 ,,1 Iliv a Conqueror, ami d . firmly os'. ~,1 more no I', vo ' ever that noti►' • • ally . t rii; t ° ~,f t , ling can ally tins ic , ' bonds that may be depended uPoa '' , l ,' O'''' Austria, therefore, haying buckled 01l '-!.. 0: 4 e t 0, must fight the battle out•-:.-Convioedgt.°' -I) , iv' there is not one of the combined ° v g -re o f tl;t Nations so obnoxious to the hate lal ' l' l t : trY' d t l.lO Petptit as is the people of Attitriit sl' 1 ~ _ difo E ,.lloc l or l r ,te l av i i : .(ei e ttr i b : ' e . i t a r ' ir d l r ,tp ' i ti n oss t , b - roto.,have throughtel:easy tyi that decidel i e :I massiwec; I f : . :fill: Cr;tpll ' 0 ' ,i 1 : 1 ; e 3 ir c .e l ki I fil 1 ) si to r re:43 m usß ay euo n: Ar l A ia rt s: E been faults 4 fa t t u e l n j t spOtti l• t il:i i : s i t aC il l . r .: l , e charges others with crindunlitY i d ,. no answer to the. heavy, tl' e ' 9 ; 1 1 3 iges Laid against his own nefo i°° . is all c that A community nejnudnelatlvoQuirsbta:cels' etrblainslt, II il d It ; 1 wick e ; Cords 'us most untniited pleastire to ob3er ve ' ! t h ill , W w o rie p t tii t 't g o te f il t ii h: s a e transactions bave the 131.ith 1, Vi beolues iiritisi:vastyattehsaint4c4o:_uhtl)prtelenrintil:.:ll,, to be even. implicated in anruntleiliand or 191 1 Haus dealings. 'ilieir CondUc't h as heel) 5t1( 1, ligent, scorning disguise, and spurning at chi ° :, and dishonour. , When offered' the i netlia tip to; Austria, they tell that Power, in honest Pl'inP.4; arc , . ,• .. ' , .1, Ipfr ' i you acting in this instance muter the To , influence of ,a• base Usurper I we will tie 0 4 into terms which under 001 tniSPiC° ! II" t i : 1"d to the comprotiiise of our own inter , li r .1 01 weaken the c; Ii of Europe.,"—;rovr,"- 4 11 , inSidiulls propositions of Denmark their defile' ) ti t ir tilts marked by the same simplicity aw l . ,_. Le ap iiity. They were aware that we wcreouual'" , o p co 19 moo entie, anti that SinCerity V 5.35 flit' (1 ,,,,ii link' rind could bind all together iil tho fil o siti li:: lininn oli.wilieli tlie welfare of rnankio4l '141.°,,,; `lit. .IliCy,ac:ed aceord;ogly, and they ,Int:;;;:. thanks of their country for their cond'l6` t i le ,r liashatl the effect of consolidatingheY"ti 00:d forts of treat to shake of ifijaever div kilt ~..f. , 1e1.,= • • .. „tu t of Litrope against thc Op int', ~f , Ol old o fe I Ve have only'got to the :iircihohli 1)4 ' ~I.ooroil , servations suggested by these. Paper•?, '''' ' oif i O d u r r ir i prin us diet we must postpone. lot— to Preient. We will re , ,ittne the obj" r j• diem, . ''' '' ' - '. • ' 1 o '4r the k tc g4r I~ln ~b~ int. tile Of I TOt ill I ~ 1 ~~~ lq i ~lic Ittai tli, L k itt