The Sun. — London, England, 1807-03-25 00:00:00

the battle, there were still upwards of . 600 wounded Russians whom we had not been able to carry off. Brandy and bread were carried to theni, and they were successively conveyed ro the hospital.. c' Let any one imagine to himself, upon the space of a square league, g or 10,000 dead bodies, 4 or 5000 horses killed, whole lines of Russian knap sacks, broken pieces of muskets and sabres, the ground covered with cannon balls, howitzer shells, and ammunition ; twenty-four pieces of cannon, near which were lying the bodies of their drivers, killed at the moment when they were striving to carry them off. All this was the more conspicuous upon a ground covered with snow : this speaacle is calculated to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and an abhorrence of war. " The SOW) wounded whom we had, were all con veyed to Thorn, and to our hospitals on the left Bank of the Vistula, in sledges. The surgeons observed with astonishment, that the fatigue of this convey. ante did no harm to the wounded. " The following are some details of the engage bent of Brannsburgh : Gen. Durotn marched against the enemy in two columns. Gene BRU .Vgaz, who commanded the right column, fell in with the enemy at Ragarn, and drove him towards the river which runs before this village. The left column drove the enemy towards Villenburgh, and, the whole division shortly after stretched out of the Wood. The enemy, being driven from his first posi lion, was obliged to fall back upon the river which covers the town of Braunsburght he at first made a resolute stand, but General DUPOIiT marched against him, overthrew him by a charge, and entered with him into the town, the streets' of Which were chock= ed with the Russian slain. " The gth of Light Infantry, the Scd and the p6th of the line, which compose this division, dis tinguished themselves. Generals BARI(OIS and LA- NOUSSAYS, Colonel Sums, of the 24th of the line, Colonel MEUNIER ) of the gth Light Infantry, the Chief of Battalion ROUGE, of the 32d of the line, and the Chief of Squadron HuBINET, of the gth Hussars, are daerving of particular encomiums. Since the arrival of the French army upon the Vistula, we have taken from the Russians in the engagements of Pultusk and Golyrnin, 89 pieces of Cannon; at the engagement of Bergfried, 4 pieces; in the retreat of Allenstein, 5 pieces ; at the engage• tent of Deppen, 16 pieces ; at the engagement of RCA; 12. pieces ; at the battle a Eylau, 24 pieces; at the.engagetnent of Brauttsbutgb, I 6 pieces, and at the engagement of Ostrolenka, 9 pieces.. -total, pieces of cannon. " It has been remarked upon this subjeti, that the Emperor never lost any cannon in the armies which he has commanded, either in the first cam paigns of Italy and Egypt, in that of the, Army of lieserve, in that of Austria and Moravia, oi iu that of Russia and Poland." [The substance of the 634 Bulletist was yesterday given in the Husum Mails; • PARIS, MARCH 11.--The British Frigate the Blanche was wrecked in the night bet Ween the 4th and :it h, upon the Coast of Plongernand, near Brest She carries 48 guns, I 7•pounders, and six icarroll ides. Her crew consisted of 284 30,qf 'whom were drowned. The Captain, Sir TilomAs UAV E, and all the Officers, are saved. The Frigate is much damaged, but it is thought the guns will be saved. VIENNA, MARCH 7.—At length we have,received dire ft intelligence from Constantinople, which Then tinns that the Porte has declared War againSt Eng land, and that the English Ambassador, had much difficulty- in escaping from that city by night, and getting on board an English Frigate, in which he passed the Dardanelles. The circumstance which gave occasion to the Porte to take this step, is 'thus related : An English Frigate (that in which the :Ambassador escaped) had passed the Dardanelles, and sent an express to Constantinople to declare, that Admiral Louis would certainly approach the capital and lay it in ashes unless the GRAND SIGNIOR would Con sent to renew the ancient Treaties with England and Russia. This declaration did not- produce the effea intended. The Divan inuxtediately resolved upon War with England, and, to get possession of the Am bassador's person ; and at the same time sent orders to the Commandants of - the,,Dardanelles not to suffer the• Ambassador to pass. Mr. ARDOTNNoT, not withstanding, contrived to mislead:the Turkish Com mandants, and to pass the Dardanelles, -in .conse quence of the frigate fuing- a saline ofseventeen guns, were returned by , the Turks, who could not imagine this was the Frigate with the Ambassador on lt d• It is added that Mr. AiwurHNo? carried 111 his Property away with him ; and.that besides the renewal of the treaties with England and Russia, he demanded that al} the French ibould„be sent away from Constantinople. to Con n% 11A4444Qt7SLY. Extrail from the Dispatches of ipencral Essair, dated 3rst lan.—f 13 th Feb 189 7.—Reueived bth Feb.— festh.) " r hasten to communie;te to your Zxcellency the happy intelligence which I nave just receirtiti ,I ; torn denerat B ECI4I4IGStiI. BO)iAi'ARTE * Ca ' him on the i Bth instant (N 5..) with ail his force, near Eylart ; but I* met with so obstineue resistaoce, that he was obliged to renounce his purpose, with a loss which is estimated at 25,000 men. General IiENNIGSEN has marched to Wittenberg, in order to replenish himself with ammunition. " Oti my part, I aitacked on the 3d iiistabil7.3.) the corps opposed ter Me. They were defei'ded On the whole line. The 'Enemy, having been reinforced afterwards by the Army of Reserve under Otriii NOT appeared desirous to attack me ; but I shall do this myself to-morrow, and I hope that God will bless our arms." NO. Z. —E xtras &Int the Report of General Etwzvtcsen, dated the ttth Feb. (N. S.) 1807, received iSth Feb. (N,S) WITTE!vaURGN, FE*. 11. " Having been informed that the enemy had col leaed all his forces at Allenstein, I ailvaaced with all mine. Being arrived at Jankow, I was attacked there on my left wing s And drove the enemy back. The same was done also in every dire&ion on my right wing. Howe Vet, the en g agement was pre vented from becoming general by the approach of night. I them resolved to change my direEtion, in or der to cover the city of Konigsburgh ; Which was the point at which all the endeavours of lioNAPAIcre were aimed. I thus drew the enemy along by my side s and my rear continued fighling Six days suc , . Cessively, " At length being arrived on the 7th inst. (N.T.S.) at Preussisch-B;lau, I halted and' waited his ap proach. He attacked me, and enter--d into the town, which was in my trout. As our torccs Could no longer resist those opposed to them, I dispatched a part of my reserve against them, and advanced my self to the attack. " The town was re-taken in an instant, :and two battalions of the Enemy, which had not tithe to escape, were in part cut to pieces or taken, together with two colours. In the evening I evacuated the town secretly, in the expedation that the EIWIlly wohld send a body of troops on the other side of it, in order to attack my centre ; which, in fact, took place during the night. At the break of day I direded a part of my ar tillery against the French. column it was thrown into disorder, and forced to draw 13 , 3C1 BO APARTH himself then attacked me on all points,. at -the head of four corps of his army and of his Guards. He was every where repulsa. and completely beaten. He renewed his attack with his Guards repeatedly ; but whole columns of infantry, and regiments de Cuirassiers d'Elite, were nearly antsihilated_ by the fire from our line, charges from our cavalry, and at thepoints of our bayonets. " I estimate the loss •of the enemy at more than 25,000 men. We have captured 20 stand of co lours, and made woo prisoners. I shall cause this preliminary report to be followed by a'detailed re lation of this battle, which I shall lay at the feet of his Majesty the Emperor." MAILS. Aattvia —l . Waterford. Du E—3 Gottetiburgh, t Li,bori. t Dublin, z t‘'aterfurd. 'l"' HE SEAN. SOLZM QUIZ DlCltta iALSUM w U9K ? LONDON, IntINESDAY, MlllCil 1807. W E r e ceived this morning French and Data: Pa pers, the former to the 18th inst. and the latter to the 2I st. They contain the Sixty-third and Sixty-- fourth Bulletins of the French Army ; the substance of the former we gave in our Paper of yesterday, un der the head of a Letter from Berlin ; the latter is of very little importance, and. seems to have been pub lished merely to remove the doubts which appear to• be very generally entertained on the - Continent re tipetling the Glorious Viaory obtained by the French at Eylau. BONAPA RTE lately seems to have conceived a great horror for War, and to regret very deeply the number of lives sacrificed to gratify the ambition of individuals. The 64th Bulletin, after giving a dreadful description of the scene of carnage which the field. of Eylau presented immediately after the battle, contains the following observation : " cc speekele est fait pour inspirer crux Princes l'amour dc ltz pain et l'horrear de la glleire."—lt is singular that BONAPARTE never ,should have enter-. tained this horror of the slaughter of human beings until his career of conquest was stopped, and he had began to experience the vicissitudes of fortune. Th e R uss i aas as we expedted, have not permitted BONAPARTE to retire quietly into Winter Quarters on the commencement of Spring. General BEN • NIGSEN having been joined by the expeaed rein forcements, again advanced, and some Anions took place on the Banks of the Passarge, on' the tsth and 26th of February, in which the French of course claim the advantage. It does not appear however, that any thing like .a general engage ment took place j they were probably nothing more than skirmishes between the advanced guard of the Russians and the rear guard of the French. We know not whether it proceeded from BONA liars's sudden horror of the r:Efusion of human blood, or whether, after his late disasters, he wished to gain time to receive reinforcements, but he cer tainly did apply ,to Gen. BENNIGSEN,the defeated General BEtortasert—for a Suspension of Arms, and to the K p-ING of PRUSSIA to open a Ne gotiation for a Peace. In both instances, how ever, the attempt failed, and General BEA.. TRAND, who was sent upon this mission to General 13eNtmts.er.q, returned with this. laconic answer— that. belGeneral BliNsiosui) came to fight, and not to negotiate:". • It h probable that tOiciiittrt waA in a great 'degree induced to adopt this huiti:- tineistli'e by the discontent' which has begun to, rHullifeSt itself openly in his,Army. 'We stated yes trdAY; upon an authority in whic h We placed great rcliance l that the French Troops openly expressed their indignation against Mur AT, who was supposed to have -advised BoNA.PA'aTE to reject ilte. Overtures for Negotiation which were made by - .! - te KING of PRUSSIA immediately after the. Battle of AuerStadt ; and this attempt at Negotiation was. very likely made in the hope of appeasing them. We are extremely sorry to find that the Porte bas so far suffered itself ki be influenced by French Councils as to declare Wi* against Great Britain. 7 = The British Minister, Mr. ARBUTHNOT, *as fortu nate enough to make hIS - *escape in the 'Endymion- Ftigate. 'The. Menneur, of the 15th inst. announces the capture of the Aolive : , of 200 tons, and the Science, of iso - tons. Another ilevobation has taken place in the new Empire or Hayti. It happened on the itth . of last month, and vas not accomplished Nv i t 'rout those horrible massacres which nm.;t natUrally,be expetied in Governments founded upon such principles, and hastily put together. Citalsl'ohts fell in this dread- 7 fill contest, and the Government was vested in Ge neral Pictiisr, on the day when the Vessel which btought . this intelligence left the Island: An American Paper was received this day, con=' tainino- the Mesage of the. President of the United States respeaing Colonel BURR'S Conspiracy, as well a 3 some letters from one of his Associates in the Plot, to deneral WILKINSQN. We have not room for these Articles . _ to-day, but shall insert them to morrow. It appears that BURR'S aterprize was by no means well devised or formidable in its nature. The Royal Assent was given this morning by Commission to •all the. Bills 'which had passed both Houses of'Patliament: His MAJESTY, who was not expeEted in town till this day, arrived yeAerday afternoon, about five ,;clock, as we mmtioned in last night's SUN. Soon after His MAJTSTY'S ' arrival at Buckingham House, the Duke of PoRTLAND and Lord lIAwkESBURY tended him, with a List of the New Ministerial Arrangements, which are expecled to, receive the Royal approbation this day: The foll Owing is given , as the new Arrangement, aud it is probably the most . correct that has hitherto appeared. First Loiti of the Treasury - Duke of POR TLAND. Lord Chancellor - .. Lord Secretary of State for the Forei g n ? Marquis Wx LLEs LEy. 1)C 1 ).4. - - 3 Secretary of State for the Home horn , TT f. A \V K ESBUR Y. Department - - Secretary of State for the War and Lord LASTLEREAGIi. Colonial D.,partrnent - Chancellor of the Exchequer - Mr. PERCIVAL. First Lord of the Admiralty .. Mr. CA N:4 INC. President of the Council - - Earl of C A :,I DE N. Master-Generell of the Ordnance Earl of C t ATHAid. Lord Privy Seal - - • - Earl of WEs . rmoß L AND President of the Board of Controul I-lon. R. S. 1)0 As. Attorney-General - - Sir Vrelz EtrY G 1 EDS. SUliCitol%.(3CD?liti , Mr. PLomER. L , rds Ct{ICHESTER., tr;anv zlitttine DLlke of MoN. 1 p, 0.; E, it is expe.tic.l, will also have scats hi the Cabinet. Tuts morning the LORD CHANCELLOR ERSKINE attended in the Court of Chancery at ten o'clock, for the purpose, as it was u n d erstoo d , of giving judgment in the else of Purcell v. M`Nacnaimra, bet his Lordship stated, that he \%:as obliged im mediately to attend h is MAJESTY.—His Lordship then took leave of the Bar, and return e d hi s warmest period he h a d t h an k s f or t h e attent i o n an d ass i stance he had re ceived during the tilled his high sta tion. The ATTOR N EY-GE NE It A L expressed the re gret every Gentleman of the Chancery Bar felt at his Lordship's retirement. Yesterday, at the Annual Meeting of the ,Board of Agriculture, Sir JoilN SINCLAIR, Bart. was unani mously re-eleaed President ; the Earl of GA L LOW A the Lord Bishop of Lt.AtsinAfT, the Hon. GEORGE, VILLIERS, Colonel BEAUMONT, M. P. and DANIEL GILEs, Esq. M. P. were ele&ed urdiwiry Members; GEORGE SMITH, E4q. M. P. Treasurer ; and AR THUR You o, Esq. Secretary. INDIA HOUSE.—Yesterday a Court of Dire&ors was held, when JOHN ALLAN GILMOUR and CHARLES MORTIMER, Esqrs. took the usual oaths, on being appointed Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer to the Company. A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at at which were present, the Lord Mayor, fourteen Aldermen, the Recorder, and other City Officers. The Court examined the Mealweighers' Reports, and ordered the price of Bread to be continued at Is. and oLd. the Quartern Loaf of Wheaten, and td. Household. Several persons were admitted into the employ meat of Stock Brokers, &c. and were'sworn for the due execution of the same. Messrs. Smrrit and PoYNr.ER were admitted, and sworn into the office of Coal Meters in trust for the City, for four yeats. The Seal of Emanuel Hospital, of which the Court of Aldermen are Governors, .was affixed to several Lenses of Estates (belonging to the said Hospital), at brandsburton, in Yorkshire. • SECON;D _44 js, ivy SUN-0 FRC E, HALF-PAST TWO o'cLocn, P. M. IT is with the most sincere smisfaetion that we botnrnunicate to the Public the guitifyiug intelligence whkh has just reached us, of the sorrel-I'd& of soore Coips of the French Army, 'and the retreat of the remainder out of Poland. The iteact-quarters of the French Army were about to be' transferred to-Berlin, and BONAPARTS was expL-,aed in that City at the end of last week. General BLUCHER, who has been exchanged for General VICTOR, was about to set off to take a command in the Prussian Army. The Prussian Insurgents on the, right bank of the Oder are become so formidable, that the com- munication between.Stettin and Thorn is almost en- tii‘ely cut' off. Several Corps of French, worn down by famine and fatigue, among the rest a considerable part of OUPINOT'S Division, are reported to have laid down their arms. General BENNIGSEN, subsecpient to the battle of Eylau, received a reinforcement of sixty i!,ousand Regulars, and 30 Pulks of Cossacs, of 500 Inca each. On that memorable occasion the, Russian Army, according to the official statement„ was only seventy thousand strong. The French were calculat- ed at one hundred thousand arleast. The want of forage is so great in that part of Po- land occupied by the French, that they have been under the necessity of taking the thatch coverings off the houses to supply their horses with provender. PLYMOUTH, MAitci 23'.—The Woolwich, of 44 guns, which arrived here yesterday, 'came last from St. -Helena, and brought passenger the Captain of His Majesty's Ship Samps on , w hi c h Ship she left . at St.',Helona•; he is stated to have brought intelligence of importance relative to our Posses ions in India ; the Woolwich left lying at St. Helena the following homeward-bound East India Ship; ; Phamix, Pitt, Streatham,'Europe,`Pultiney, Northampton, Glory, Comet, linion, Diana,. Pt:mon, Gordon, Ti gress,, Cakiitta, Ann, and Georgina Packet, all which were to sail on the Ist February, under Con vny of the Sampson, of 64 guns. The Greyhound Frigate and Harrier Brig are the fortunate Vessels that latelycaptured, in the Indian Seas, the Dutch Frigate 'and two Dutch - spice Ships, of which mention has been formerly made. The Caroline Frigate has taken in Batavia Roads a Dutch Frigate, which she carried by boarding; there were two Frigates in the Roads, but the other cut her cables and drifted on shore on seeing her companion captured. Arrived the Foudroyant, of 74 guns, from the Chmnel Fleet, and Eurydice: Frigate from z Cruize. Lieutenant TROUBH IDGE is made Pot C:iptain in India, and supposed to be appointed to the Caroline Frigate. PORTSMOUTU, lARCH 23.—Arrived the Diamond Frigate, dapt. ARGLES, from a cruize off Havre; the Liberty, Gun-vessel, Lieut. CODD, from a cruize; and the Fury Bomb, Capt. Ginsos, wiih four India- - men, the riVily.de, SANDILANDS„S'/Vrey, CUMBER - D E, Lord Hawkeslary, SMITH, and Jiirt.ry Castle, But( aEss, with 30 Sail of Transports, ugder her convoy. F.NLMouTrt, i'vt.titon 2t?..—Arrived lili I..l.te3ty's Ship L'lmpeinenr, 7 guns, Itcar-A.dwiral E, FER- N - Ey, from oft* Cape Finisterre : left the ST.ladron on the tbth inst. all well, consisting of His 2,laj est y' s Ships Hero, Tfrarriar, CoiGssus, and Mag.wikent,-at 74 guns,.,Tribune, Revolntionaire, and inne:e gates. They liav experienced a tong cant i nu a n( of north-cast and east winds. The bnpe`z:.!ax is in a very leaky condition, making- e. inches water an how- ; also arrived the Brig Malvin°, Capt. SMITH, from London, to load goods fur Gibraltar. Sailed ,the Scorpion Sloop of War andqnsoh.vzt Gun on a cruiz& the Francis Freelin,g Packet, BELL, with Mails of the 18th instant, for the Lee ward Islands. Rear-Admiral HARVEY has been superseded in his Command by the Hon. Capt. DE COURCY. Died, in December last, at Fairfield House, Ja maica, FAIRLIE CHRIsTIE, Esq. a leading. per sonage and Member of the Insular Assembly for Port Royal these last thirty years ; a wan,,h o , :; many virtues, attachment to the best of Kings, un wearied attention to promote the comforts of naval and military men on that station, will be long and deeply regretted, in proof of which, and as a tribute to his worth and memory, the Squadron and Military on that Station went into mourning on the occa sion. CORN EXCHANGE, MiRCH (25.---To-day there are very few fresh imports of Wheat, good samples. support their price, and but few buyers of other qualities, which are lower; there are some further arrivals of Barley, sales of which are heavy ; Mast likewise; but few White Pease, and little-demand 3 Beans of each kind off heavily ; Oats are in mid dling supplies, and ordinary samples hardly keep their prices ; Flour as our last—nue Atuericau.4Ls. to .50s, par barrel,