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.. . , ELEVENTH .13331.,,EETR4 OF THE GRAND ARMY. • ' '`l Meoelibergt, Oct. " The nom if ritosters diode at Erfurt is much greater than at first supposed:-The passports granted to the Officeis, by virtue of ,pate of the :mines of capituLstiost,_to release thertgeou their arnouneicisix hundred. lintshor Dav teases tetwps stock possession . Leiptie on the 18th. •• The Prince of Pontetoivo, WISP was at Effre ben on the I7th, to cut off the enehry's columns, having learned that the reserve Of 'His Majesty the King of Prussia, commanded' by Prince E ug en e to of Wi rt emberg, was at Hallo, immediately reire that place. " After having made his dispositions, he ordered the attack to be made by General Dupont, while the division of Drouet took a swam 'to the left, as a reserve The 31st and 9th regiments of light M.• fantry passed the bridge s v. ith a storming pace, and beinn supported by the 26th, they advanced into the city. In less than an hour's time, all the Prus i a Its were defeated. The 2d and 4th regiments of hussars, with the whole division under General Ri wand, passed through the place, and drove the '1 len listemy from cavalry deavoured to cut down the T let and fah regiments with their sabres, but .hey were received and repulsed with firmness. " The Army of Reserve, under the Prbtee of Wittenberg, was thrown into a complete rout, and pursued to a distance of four miles. " The result of this fight, which demands a cir cumstantial and copious detail, consists of 5000 pri soner'.' includb.g too Genesis , three Colonels, tour standards, and 34 pieces of cannon " General Dupont emulated himself in such a roamer as to merit considerable distinction. " The General ea Division Rotiyer had a horse shot under him. The General of division Drouet Made the whole regiment of Troskuw prisoners of soar. " The loss nn our side does not exceed 40 killed inn' 400 wounded. The Colonel of the 9th infantry arpog the latter. General Leopold Berthier, ditr of the Staff under the Prince of Ponte-Corvo, distinguished himself by his behaviour. tlftentrfrence of the battle of Halle, there are troops of the enemy that have not been defeated. - SeMlle ?Milian General Van Blucher. with 5000 men, has.eecaped, making his way through the di vision of General Klein's. dragoons, who had cut hint off, in couicqueme of his na - al.ing Gm. Klein bettevt: tit it an armist.ce had been ctnicluded for six %scat. • " The O‘ficer, M o ntesquieu, whom the Emperor had sillat.h.-.1 with a flag of truce tb t'.-.e King of Russia, .two d tys before the great battle, has re- tinned. He was several days with the flying enemy. According to his account, the confusion in the Prus sian astute is indescribable. In the mean while. their boasting the day before the battle was beyond all example. l'h • y flattered themselves with nothing less than cutting off the whole French army, and n, surprising toluenes of W.OOO men ; JAW the Prunia Ge imt t• nerals, us tar As lay in flair power, endeavoured to ate the tunic of Frederick th e Great. - - 4 NOtWlthStarldtug we were so far swanned into 000. - . 41).W-country, the Generals seemed to be completely ignoramt of our motions; they imagined that we bad .• sot above men upon the small level near Jena.. k wbile ase greatest part sit our army defiled irODS that heiight.. - . e The enemy's army is -snatching, with great baste, towards Magdeburg. It is probable that ... w. ei :41 columns wiU .be cut off before they reach lop- - that place. We lame bad no accounts from Mar . , slial Soisit for UMW days past; who has been de. cached with 40,000 awn in pursuit of the enemy. . - " The Empires has passed over the field of battle at Rosback..and has given orders for the columtt. sidled there to be removed to Paris. " Übe Etnperor's head-quarts were at Mer seuburw tut the 18th. On the 19th, they were re moved to ilalle where considerable maga zines of all loss have Ilea iiv,a our lauds." TWELFTH BVI.LETIN. " thole, Oct. 19. Marshal Soult pursued the enemy to the walls of Magdeburg. the Prussians made many efforts to retrieve themselves, but were 'always J.:teated. • Large magazines have been found at Nordhau sen, and even a chest What with gold belonging to the King of Piussia. • In the cause of five days employed by Marshal Honk is rurwiit of the enemy, he has made 1200 prisoner., taken A reces of cannon, and between I f and 309 caissons. " 'rho principal iihjea of the campaign is obtain ed Sawsy, Westphalsa, and all the country on the left shore of the Efbe, are freed twin the presence ipf the Prussian a: my. This army, beaten and pur led for the space of 50 miles, is, at piesent„ t cannon, withont baggage, and Officers, and a re ed to less than the third of its eumter eight days ago; and, what is more than all, it has lost its Courage and confidence. Two French corps. Ire iimpleyed in throwing bridges over the Elbe. The Isead-quarters are at Halle. the following letter .contains an accurate pidture of the condition of the rrassian army. 1 "My I)esa Stet:lg.-4 am still alive and well, after having assisted in so fatal a campaign ; but, alas! I Miltt inform you, that we have lust nttfre than hall our army, and the best of our Generals.— My battalion has b e haved re markably well us the battle; but, notwithstanding, they lost their canntm in the retreat. My company alone have lost forty men, together with Lieut. S c hweri.z. If I y;rre ail k to re c ount all our mistottunes, I should never ma e at and. The whole of our baggage was tak . ..::l Weimar. Even our a ttendants could not save tl,eni. • selves. On the liftli, I arrived at Nordhausen with out my hrise, and dviived of every thing. The army is in 101 l vett est to Madgeburg. I fis Majesty Las received a severe contusion; however, I ant still her un h ur t. You may tell Mrs. Schubert that eldest son is .lead, and that we do not know what is two= e 1 the other, no more than we t:. of darsiseli, N:ichelsolso, and Joseph 'Firalla. AtAl, tesideses:, we have still five stibaltetns four muthsicians, three artillery-men, and all the grenadiers. .Ishlownsky has also lost all his people. Ft:mai:tilts is in thz saute situation- They are eh as 1 gee .1 AS mother naked , as naked as they were born. 1 The Major only saved his home. • Several General s i are killed.. innitz and Melanie are still missiV. I The" Duke of '.Biunswick lost b o t h his eyes by a oseasket-shot. Ruched aod Winnig. are dead. Several iregiments are without officers: others have officers 'without MCA. Our loss is unspeakable. We can no 'Wive distinguish the different corps of the army, • they are so intermingled, with each other. The bittalions of Lotten, Bork, and Grodatte, exist no more ; they formed a part of the rear guard, which is entirely cut in pieces. You can form no idea of tie fury with which t:ie Frinch pursue us. Di re& your letters 6 the corps of the arrdy at Madge burg. ' Needhausen, Oct. t: .' ._.—.....-- THiRTEENTH BUI,LETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. ----- • " Halle, Oct. 20. 44 General Macon, who commands at Leipsic, has published .the following notice to the bankers, mer chants, &c. of that city:—' As the Sovereigns of the Sea pay no regard to any colours, it is the will of the Emperer that their merchaneize shall be every whtre detained. The Elland is therefore declared in a slate of aEluel blockade.' " Fifteen thousand quintals of meal have been found in the magazines at Lcipsic, and a great quan tity of other provisions. . On the t9th the Gran d Duke of Berg arrived at Halberstadt. On the 20th he covered the whole plain of Maedeburg with his cavalry. Several de tachments of the enemy's troops, and a number of stragglers, fell into our hands, at the moment they attempt d to enter the fortress. 44 A regiment of the enemy's hussars, thinking that I lalberstadt was in the hands of the Prussians, wer e attacked by the Yagets of the 22d Regiment, and lost SOU men. " Six hundred of the King of Prussia's Life Guard, and all the equipage of that corps, fell into the hands of General Beaumont. Two hours before, two companies of the King's Foot Guards were taken by Marshal Soult. l' Lieut. General Schmettau, made prisoner, is dead at Weimar. 44 Thus this numerous and excellent army, which a few days since threatened to overpower the Con federation, and which bad expressed its confidence to their Sovereign, that he might give orders to the Emperor Napoleon to quit Germany before the Bth of OCtober, unless he meant to be compelled so to do—of this numerous and excellent army, nothing but a confused heap remains, and which rather do serve‘that name, than that of an army. 44 Of 160,000 men, of which the Prussian army consisted, it would now be difficult to calk& more than 50,010 men ; and even these are without can non, baggage, and half of them with, and the other half without arms. All these circumstances justify whet the Emperor said in his first Proclamation, ' Let them learn that it is easy to obtain increase of power and territory, by friendship with the Great Nation, bitt that its hostility it more dreadful than the storms of the ocean.' 44 In fa*, nothing resembles the I nt state of the Prussian army snore than the remains of a ship wreck. That army appeared like a beautiful and none:Das fleet, claiming nothing less than the sole driminion of the seas. The burricaie of the North impelled against her the waves of the Ocean, and now she is returned into port, with Only a small part of her crews, and these s aved with difficulty Irons the dosteoying element . . 4 4 The following letters paint the situation of af fairs consistent With truth. They strew how far the Prussian Cabinet has been misled by false appear ances. They mistook the moderation of the Em peror Napoleon for weakness. Because this Mo narch did, in feet, every thing in his power to pre vent the war, they inferred that he was unprepared for it, and that he stood in need of 400,000 Con scripts to complete his army. . The French army was no longer confined with in the camps of Boulogne: it was in Germany. This is well known to M. Ch. Van Hesse and to M. Haugwitz. Thus men must acknowledge the will of Providence, who has neither giien our enemies eyes to see, ears to hear, nor understand ing to But 44 it seems that M. Ch. Van. Hesse was only pleased with Mentz. Why not also with Meta? Vs by not with all the rest of the fortresses of the western part of France ? Say no longer that the, ambition of France compelled. you to take up arms : acknowledge that you were driven to them by your 1 o we crooked policy. Because one French army was in Naples, and another in Dalmatia, yon form ' ed the prep& of attacking the Great Nation ; but in seven days time all you: projeas are annihilated. Yoa thought of falling upon France without ex posing yourselves to any risk, and already you have! ceased to exist. s• We are assured, that before the Emperor left Paris, having assembled his Ministers, he spoke to 1 them as follows : . I am by no means chargeable with the present war. I have given no occasion for it whatever. It was not amoag any of my calculations. May Ibe defeated, if I have been the case of it ! One of the principal grounds of my confidence, upon which I reckon that my enemies will be annihilated is, that in their comma& I can trace the finger of the• Almighty, who wills the punishment of traitors. lie so far ex:lided wisdom from their councils, that in she moment they chose to attack me, they thought I was the weakest, when I pessessed the greatest strength." --ow-- • Lamm, ore. IS. NOTIFICATION. " GENTRAT. AC CON, DEPUTT.GOVIIINOIt Of TNt THUMLCAIES. &C. COMMANDANT Of 1.C1P..1C, TO AIL SANICIALI, MIRCIIANTS, AND 11101 , 11ELFSIIS OF Tlitt CITY. " GEnTLekaps—The fortune of war has put Lcipsic into the hands of Nip°lcon the Great. — Your City is *celebrated in Europe, as the grand staple of English merchandize, and is in that re. bilta t dkiIIK,FOOS mousy to France. ' Article I. the first twenty-four hnivi alter this Notif.cztion, cash Banker, Merchant. or 1) ruler, having Eng lish property, to .ney,cr, ao..xLi, in their ii,sc,sion, shati enter a ilaselasativ, •.: tite um.: in writing, in a R.-sister opened fin that n.nwv kir the Coiatua.olaiit of the "aka. rosaa strolasati )))) ovt.le l it an aothentie nutn•tot,tWe w etsioss who tuti:lts t o e stectatativo, mud those wt., do tint, ) ha.Fbe solhje.a to' dtoit,eitaty vit•its, in antis to I intpcct bolts their hooks and their good., and taus to obtain ' ieS assurances of their g.rld faitk_or to punish any dzcinitlon, at eurdirrg tolhe laws of ' 77 ' ' Art.ll6 Tee Mag are also elpCied upon their re sponsibility, to melte la - All circumstantial return of the contents of the inagazielit.'botp Prttatan and S.lxon, and even the powd -r magazines liitirch bAonlg to theltlerchants. " An IV. A Commission shall he name oes or I, who call be es e ttAtpd to impose seals up on gll use magazt whous wh:clt may be &stowed, the day afterto mutest " kr. V. All contributioac Uf parti c ular revisitions, whe ther id-cloth, money, or horses, Itt Stria iy lllllhi'llteli, LI nims merle by the above mentioned sothrstity. The Inhabitants, et the Mn,bers of the Adavnistrationv, who may be weak enough to submit to any such renitiiitions, ',liana informing the Commandant of the place of the acme, _halt be subject to hf , teen days imprisonment. " Art VI. fire present notification sh t'l its read in all the public places, and_ at the corners of the streets. (Sigoed) "MACON." " iLeipsic, 041. 18." • BAN ZERO, OCT. 19. We have been occupied i n removing the grand Prussian magazine at Hoff ever since the 13th. A great number of carriages are employed on this oc. elision. The loss of these magazines i s immense, and irreparable by the Prussian a rmies. Yesterday afternoon 2S pieces of cannon and an , howitzer were brought here, which had been taken in the affair of the 9th, near Neustadt upon the On la. Today they have been transported to Vorscheim. This afternoon 3 or 400 prisoners arrived, Prussians and Saxons ; three Colonels are among them, and more prisoners are expelled. HAMBURGH MAIL. --- I HA:491112014, OCT. Sr. The posts from Prussia, Russia, and Austria, are not yet arrived ; but we learn, by an Estafette, that part of Murat's division entered Berlin on the 24th instant. However disastrous the campaign may have been to the Prussians, it is certain that several corps of their army have not been in aillion, and are now assembled en the other side of the Oder. par ticularly the corps of Prince Hohenlohe, the Dukes of Saxe-Weimar and Brunswick•Oels. The day before yesterday, the Duke of Brunswick arrived at Altona ; he was carried in a litter by his servants. his proposals for the neutrality of his States were refused in the most haughty manner. We are in expeldation of hearing of another Little= having been fought near Magdeburgh ; a few dal will, in all probability , relieve us from our anxiety : , General Wartenileben is Governor and Comman ant of that fortress, the garrison of which consists of 12,000 men ; but the works are said to require a much greater number for their defence. As the magazines are not supplied for a long siege,.appre hensions may be entertained for its safety, unless soots relieved. Devastation and cruelty mark the footsteps of the French wherever t..ey so. Weimar was nit oidy given up to the plunder of a brutal and fero cious soldiery for two hours, but was afterwards set as fire ; as were also Jena, Halle, and Naumburgh. It is reported here, that General Moreau passed through this place last Saturday (the 25th); on his 1 way to join the Russian army, in which he is to have a chief command. Jerome Bonaparte, it is also said, will accompany the army destined to ad against Poland. Osnaburgh is occupied by 4,000 French troops, and is taken possession of in the name of the King of . Holland, as is also East Friesland. MINTZ. OCT. 22. The day before yesterday, in the evening, the late French Envoy, General La Forest, Arrived here, and the next morning, General Von Kno belsdorff left this tity. ERLANGEN, OCT. 24. Business here has again resumed its regular course, and the teachers in the University will be gin, on the 27th, their lectures as usual. The Dow ager Margravine of Bayreuth is still here. Yester day, and the preceding day, the army of the King of Wirtemburg, amounting to 10,000 men, marched through this place. According to the latest advises (says Tile Netrem. burg Gautte of the 23d) iteld Marshal Mollendorf is dead of Ms wounds. ■awLIN, OCT. 24. This day, at noon, thel,French entered this city, they are consmanied by General Hulin. SAXONY, OCT. Poles are now ereaed along frontiers of Saxony, with the inscription, Saxe EleNoralt, paps attars. Eleaoral Saxony, a neutral territory. The Minister at War, Berthier, has published an Ordinance, direaing, that the inhabitants of the Merseburg territory shall, in particular, be spared, on account of their good behaviour. Napoleon was at Merseburg. The merchants from the Aus trian States have been permitted to depart from Leipsic, with all their wares, without molestation. Several houses have been burnt at Jena, and the greatest excesses committed there for three days.-,--' Weimar', Gera, Naumburg, and several other places in the Saxon territory, have suffered much by fire and otherwise. Above 60,000 French troops have marched through L.ipsie. Contributions have been levied in the city to supply them with necessaries, s'lirts, shoes, ice. Above 3,0')0 ien:igncti have apell.d to the commission estahlished there for pa-,es, but only about 100 are made nut in a day, andeone are granted to Englishmen, Ru,,ians, or Prussians. oleasaucs, 0cr.16. Thic morning, alsont 10 o'clock, General Grata. j e an who held Hameln at the time of the occupe tion'of th, Hanoverian territory) arrives here with about tiO Catarrian dragoons. Heiromagiokaw4eat, a declaration to the Regency, announcing that he took possession of - the principality of Osnabtuck t in the name of His Majesty the Ling of 1-talland. Four thousand pu.ch troops areeziseiftedto-raorrow., stat.ta, OCT. General Davoust has his he td-quarters at Pots dam. General Huhn, who now commands here, was • .last year French Commandant at Vienna.—(fim.;. burg* Corrtlonditetn, Nov. 1.) AUCLAUC, OCT. ?S. The Theatre of War, which was hitherto in the _ Mark, advances continually nearer to the Pomeranian frontiers. An aEtion has taken place near-Templin a cannonade tvas heard here to day.--t flawbusg4 Correspondenten, Nov. 1.) SETUN, ocs. ftr — An aftion, as we are assured, took place yasteer, day, near Neustadt Eberwalde, between the carpi of Hohenlohe and the French; of which we cape& soon the parti:ulars. French troops are expelled to arrive here to-day OT to Morrow. •LTOlgt.• ccr. rot. On Sunday the Nth instant, the Dukes of Wei mar and Brunswick-Otis, passed the Elbe at Sandas, near Havelherg, with 30,000 men. The dispersed soldiers of the Prussian army ars not permitted to enter or remain in the Eleilorate , of Hanover. THE BRITISH ViIESS. LON DON, TEURSDIV, Nevacrean 6. The Hamburgh Mail, due yesterday, arrived last night, wit't letters and papers to the 24 Instant. — Part of M e ear's division, commanded by General Hutto, entered Berlin on. the 24th. It is not stated in what manner the French concluded them selves in that city, but we lament to find, that cruelty and devastation have marked their footsteps in their route to it. Weimar was given up for two hours to the plunder of a brutal and ferocious soldiery, end was afterwards set on fire. lens, Halle, and Naucnhurg, have shared the lame fate. The account of the Prussian troops having crossed the Oder is repeated. Tkey are said to coosist of the corps of the Prince of Heruesseme, and some others, which were not in the anion of the 14th. A battle is said to have taken place on the 27th, near Neustadt Eberwalde, in which tionzsLoves warps was engaged ; but the result is not mention ed. Neustadt Eberwalde is about 25 miles north east of Berlin, and not far distant from the Oder. The French probably meant to cross that river to the north of Custrin, at which place the last ac counts left the King and Queen of Pavast A. We have also received French papers to the ‘-'9:h, and Dutch to the 2d inst. but they do not carry down the military operations farther than the 20th, being eight days behind the accounts brought by the Hamburgh Mail. From the four Bulletins of the grand army, vie.. the 10th, 11th, 12th, end lath, we find that BONA P ARTE had his head quarters on the '2oth at Halle ; and the divisions of NEN, &AULT, and MURAT. having formed a jundion, had arrived at Magdeburg, for the ear pose of attacking the part of the Prussian army, which had fallen back upon that fortress, in which objet it was disappointed, the Prussians having previously withdrawn beyond t he Ode* The gar rison of Magdeburg, according to the accounts by the Hambut gh Mail, amounted only to 12,000 men. a number inadequate to the defence of the place. and the magazines were not supplied for a long siege. The report of the Kiag o 1 PROALIA having demanded an armistice for six weeks, is asserted At a fad in these Bulletin* ; and, thotagir the denote: was refused, it is gravely stated, that the Prussians had the address to persuade the sevoral French carps which they met in their re treat, that the propos el was accepted, and that the latter became the doper of this artifice, and permitted the Prussians to pr'' teed without molestation. One of the minor PAI;S Papers, of tire 47th, states, that the 14th Bulletia had arrived at Paris; that the King of Paws: was wounded; and that the Emperor NAPOLEON was at Berlin ; but as the Monitears to the 29th do iu.t notice it, we may presume that the 14 h Bulletin either has not been received, or does n contain an account to that cffed. Such being the iubstaitre of these Bulletins, we cannot waedit sl that the French Go vernment has herow t p ublish them . Any little interest, Is e t which they were calculated to RECites away by the recentness and invert:ince of news brought by the hamburg ' Mail. An a ai was fought on the gith, at Teinplin, 3$ miles not of Berlin, but the remit had net tr inspired. 1t vri probably betwcen the same corps were g