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divitions of A I lett-r1 t-e dituter istons rf infont l y. t. asst Upon in the • • • serletAlt, enterti en the coittcnc- As the art .vsl sied the battle of nsent of 10,000 aye; the viapry. particular among dispos4;on of • utterly impos .was still farther haillry,ehi c h' the Crime(o ll ie 'dad It to the Ist..? eisoners, use pair of claim, se magazines.— itry. which au the namber of , at 40,000. A se slain lay piled ▪ •illages were had chased the ens ol Ca - many. which is one of history. In the .r the tote f head -quarters; it the battle of Astable with re. sian monarchy t powerful- in.- ie countries is to have formed tition to that of aiu.l situation of only to relate 4th of Oaober, in, and to any Napoleon said terminated the lays. The first tober ; and the 'test pan of the bulwarks and ;he succeeding teeropted pro. by the ria.sry, r.ipidiry which spuleon, before sellable, before different dime- The left wing right and the umburg. The ruse of Prussia. set at !iberty ; n this moment of the Rtsznish the Is:h of .Ihich had I to surrendee s non, to Prince mid Marshal r, and several s of the Pros. Ruche!, •ho ,uring village, e he expired. of the cefe ra the 10th of a, a life that the happiness r tht fruits of ; he ►ehelh CPltotll, al a the Freneh. aforeed I 1' tenure o f mr ved u a pre_ tte of flute. pc. Martha. Was aceom- )Yer, of which , proceeding took pow.- rancing, And antagonists. es in Up t -ser 'wee &tinny. tot!' shoe, s of , whieh were tor mail mo ds. Oae of !ndeavottrin; at N..r,tt.►o it ,r.'7l) pit - It A y • events and capitulations belong hot to this piefert which comprehends only the four principal corps of the Prussian army which were left after the battle The 0 se, i s which were the King and General Count V n K olkreuth, reached the Oder, and with drew amass it to Grandeur., in West Prussia. Lew fortunate were fie three other corps of Prince lionenlolte, Duke Eugene of Wirtemherg, and the Duke cf Size-Weimar. Those Generals were un able to gain the river. The first of them, who, even in misfortune, maintained the military honour he had acquired on issuny occasioni, conduCted his troops, that had formed the left wing in the battle of Jena, by forced matches, by way of Boizenbnrg and Schunermark, yowled. the Oder. He was not far from it, when . attack-d on the heights of Prenzlau, by a :auperioi force, which drove him back from the bank of the 'rivet, and forced him into a situation in which a longer defence, on the part of himself and his brave followers, who were quite exhausted, and without ammunition or provisions, would have been total}, hair ailicable. Duke Eugene of Wittemherg was, Ise!: re the • babble, advancing in all haste, by way or Halle and Meraelaarg, to the support of the main army. He arrived two days too late. Napoleon's sagacity had struck the decisive blow before this corps of reserve, -020,003 men, could join the Prussians. The Prince .of Ponte Corvo now marched against the Prlo-e of Wirtemberg, took Halle by ratm, and drove the Prussians out of the city, who the.. lost 5000 men and S 4 pieces of carmen. After this aftion, Lieur..Gen. Blucher assumed the command of the Wlrtemberg corps, given to him on the 24:h of aßober by the Prince of Hoheolohe. His intention, which he pro seemed in spite of continual engagements, was like wise to reach the Oder, and to join the Prince ; but bearing on his march, that the latter bad been obliged to capitulate at Prenslaa, he, with extra ordinary resolptioe and presence of mind, changed plait;his the sole obje& of which now was to draw off, 'by his movensents, the French force from the Oder, and to remove them from the heart of the Prussian Monarchy, in order to gain timer for the supplying of the fortresses with provisions, for the approach of the remaining Prussian troops, and the arrival - of the Russian army. With this view he marched of with his corps, 19,510 strong, to the left, through the duchy of Mecklenburg, where he was joined, quite unexped , edly, beyond Swett*, by thefoarth division, which bad previously Dews eontraanded by tke Dative of Weimar. After this junefion, he proceeded rapidly throng's le whole of Mecklenburg, towards the H, was closely followed by the Grand-Duke of Berg, the Prince of Ponte Corvo, and Marshal Snult, with a great force dispatched in pursuit of Sucher by Napoleon, indignant that Gen. Klein's division of dragoons had suffered him to escape.— Prince Murat was on his left flank, Marshal Seult On the right, and Bernadotte in front. Ir. this cri tical situation, which forbade him to hazard a battle, General Blucher threw himself, on the sth of Nov. into Lubeck, where, supported by the Trave, he hoped to make a stand for a few days. On the following day, however, the French forced a passage into Lu beck, through the Burg Gate, took the city by storm, and after a tremendous carnage, drove out the Prussians, who there lost 6000 men. After this dente:live conflid, the gallant General Blucher, Who, with the 9,400 men he had left, after fourteen days incessant fighting, now saw himself surround ed by a force many times superior in number, was unable to m eke any further resistance. The capi tulation was concluded at Rotkau, a village in the principality of Lubeck. It surrendered to the French a corps, which, according to their statement, amounted to 14,000 infantry and 4,000 cavalry, and had AO pieces of cannon. These, said Napoleon's Order of the Day, were thb last Prussians on this side of the Vistula. The fortresses which they intended to rescue fell im me hate)! one after the other. Spandau capitulated sin the 25th of °Robes; Cuorin on the 31st ; Mag deburg on the sth of November ; and the. formal surrerraer of Hameln was at hand. In Spandau sere were 1200 men, and great quantities of mal t try stores ; in Custrin 4000 men, 90 pieces of can non, and considerable magazines; in Magdeburg 20,C00 men, IS Generals, a park of artillery of more than Soo pieces of ordnance, ltc. The unexpoSelly rapid fall of these fortresses, some of which were considered as impregnable, se cured to the French army the possession of the states of the Prussian Monarchy. Its elegant cApi -1461, the in:teal:mats of which were, on the 19th of Oaoiper, prepared for the event by a public Pro clamation of the Prince of Hatzfeld, witnessed, on the 27th, the splenitd entry of the Emperor Napoleoa. Meanwhile, Marhals Davi:oust and Lannes edoarized into the Palish provinces, beyond Posen, toward the Viotti', where the Proclamation ot the eatinguit'l..3 nation of the Poles, justifies the - speaatsoa of imp..at.tnt cream - . • - THE BR4TI - Ski PRESS. LON DON, TUESDAY, Drcam eta 30. We have received the Haidurgh Corrtrpordesten of the 17th, from which we have made a few ex tracts. They shew that Denmark begins to feel a considerable degree of alarm. We have also ex tradted from a Getman Paper, an account of the celebrated battle of Auerstadt, on the 14th of Oc tober. It cwitains many important particulars of that great day, hitherto unknown in this country. — We have reason to believe that this interesting Me moir was drawn up under the eye of some distin guished officers in the Prussian service. Nine sail of the line, and three frigatesiwore ready for sea, at Brest, on the 9th instant. Testes day, we received a new set of American Papers, hut none of them are of a later date than those of which we gave the substance yesterday. Mails from Jamaica and the Leeward Islands arrived yesterday. The intelligence from Jamaica is to the 15th ult. inclu,ive. The Ele,,innt, 74,. Captain DUNDAS, and the Verret's, G 4, Captain EVANS, lett Port Royal on the 3d ult. on an expe dition against Curacoa, which, from the dissatis fanion of its inhabitants, was expo led to prove an easy ccnquest. The Custom ftigate, with a con voy from Cork, had arrived at Barbadoes, having lad two of her convoy captured by a French priva teer. The sailing of the convoy from Jamaica for England, which had been appointed for the 12th inst. had, by an arrangement between Admiral Meets and the planters and merchants. been postponed to the 13th of January. It is stated, to Me authority of an Anteri• an Centro% that the crews of two English sloops of war had landed and stormed a fort " near the Diamond Rock."— The Haddon; schooner had destroyed IS small camels on the coast of Cuba. Eleven of the prin cipal mutineers, who lately attempted to murder the Captain and Officers of the Fern', and carry that ship into an enemy's port, have been executed at Port Royal. The Peiercll, of IS gins. Captain LA/4110111111, has had a smart anion with three of the enemy's gun-boats near Rosario, but they escaped in a calm; the Pcterell has had five men killed and four Wounded; among the former was Mr. GtOROZ Roseanne, Midshipman. The Lieutenant 'Gavel , - ' nor haling reviewed the Militia throughout the Island, many of whom he found deficient both in discipline and arms, has recommended to the Le gislature of the. Island the proper means to be adopted to remedy defeat so essentially eonnened with the defence of the island. The Loess frigate, with convoy from Cork, arrived at Jamaica on the 16th of November ; and on the 19th the 9itii of .rent packet, Capt. LAWS ANCI, was seen going into Pert Royal. . ...• A Council of the Cabinet Mini , ters was held yes terday afternoon, at Lord Howices Office, in Downing street. ea the intelligence received on Sunday from the Continent; it lasted till near six o'clock. Three or more colliers were captured, on Sunday night last, by a large French lugger privateer, off the North Foreland. The John end Jones, Wtscims, from Demerara (or Liverpool, has been takes, retaken, and carried into Antigua. The Strnagor, Kowloon, from Philadelphia for Jamaica, is raptured and carried into St. Domingo. The Fortin, ' CORNIELSON, from Lisbon, is put in to Dantzic distrusted. A French lugger, with wine and brandy, captured by L'insporinue, Capt. Lord Cochrane. has arrived at Plymouth. She was one of a convoy of 200 soul, laden with various articles, going coastwise from Bourdeaux to Btest. and other ports on that part of the coast of France, under convoy of a gun-brig ; they hugged the land for fear of out cruizers, but on their passage they experienced a terrible gale of wind, which dispersed the whole convoy, and the master of the above lugger saw forty sail founder' and go on shore, out of which he only saved one man. 1 The Pro;iJenee, Captain Pescara., from Cork to Portsmouth. with 120 soldieri, was taken of the Wight, a few days ago, by a'J'i each privateer, which, on boarding the Proecknce, cut off the Mate's arm, and anually threw overboard eleven soldiers, eves y one of whom perished. They then took out the Mater. the wounded Mate. and about sixty soldiers. While they were conveying them on board the privateer, a heavy squall coming on, the people who were on board the Providence filled her sails, and got off i the Master, Mate, and soi -1 diem are carried to France. The Laurel, 24, Capt. Woozzcostae. arrived at Plymouth on the 27th, trom the westward ; she sail ed same time since with further dispatches for Gen. Ceauruen's Expedition ;.and also carried out the Brittade-Major sod Ids StaG, who were left behind, having aft ived too - late to embhrk. The Learn beat for to the westward in search of the men of war and aloavoy, bat sheataperienced such terrible weather, led such dreadful storms, that after beating about several days, and rot having kcy intelligence of the - Expedition. Capt. W. thought It tn..st advikable to sap la Plymouth. The LAwri had her dead f loe stove it, by 4 heavy sea that struck her, but ly received 110 other damage. 6 41 . ,t , • : • . , - at. • H g4(7'R E. • ,„eorrvv.c.xamte. After the Tragedy of Geer:a Runawil, the only novelty in which was Miss Slattn's a new Pantomime was produced, last niczlit, the j AMMO' Juaion of Mr. T. Di rime and Mr. FA 'ILLY. The changes were numerous, and admirshly executed. Miss SEA a r.e was an excellent Columhine. The house overflowed at an early hour, and this inge- nious Pantomime prornisp to have a very long run. RACZ 111111 S BIEIVEPIT. - - The Sacred Oratorio of The Iteesinh was perform ed on Christmas-Eve at Bath, to a brilliant and over- Rowing company. BRAMAN gave the opening reci tative and air in a highly finished and animated manner; and in the pathetic song of " lie was des. pared," with that versatility of tone and reediest so peculiar to himfelf. Srost ace had been starling under a severe cold and hoarseness several days. in consequtenceof which RaUrLI N t had prevailed on Mrs. Awe to defer her journey to London. Anxious, how. ever, to nbl:ge h:•' Bath friends, in spite of her me dical advisers, STORACI attended the performance, and sang the accompanied recitative, "Mere were Shepherds," and " I gnaw that 11110 Redeemer liretA." very effeaively. Mrs. A•ua took the remainder from her afflided Sister Warbl.-r, and received, as she deserved, unhounded applause. Miss SHARP, M ACK ATM, &nom, and Meta, were par ticularly suceessfil in the sang: allotted them ; little G AT ri E again altonisl'ed the al:di-rime with a beau fu) Concerto; and Dr. HAIIIINGTQN%AdbIitIIe com position, the " ties," was given with the happiest elle% by Mrs. Asti e, Beets** and DOYe.r. In short, the performance altogether was a stilly rich harmnaious feast; the guests were perfeCtly satisfied.; and the wortay provider amply rewarded fur 'his attention and trouble. - --- Capt. WA cam of the Mafia frigate, is safe ar rived at his beautiful villa near Southampton, from the River St. Lawrence, after a boisterous passage of 23 days. The Prize Medal, Riven by Trinity College, Dublin, for the 'best Poem on the death of the gal lant, hut unfortunate Captain WRIOIIT, has been adjudged to :Master TisomAs }Unitise ROBINSON, Belfast. On Wednesday last,'a Sweepstakes of 25gs. each was run for nn Norbrook Downs, Oxfordshire, by Mr. Havres's grey horse Country Lad, and Mr. No a TOP'S Blozhein Lam, by Critic; Mr. kra UMW ea's I Single Peeper paid forfeit. The distance Was viz miles. carrying 12st. each, which was won easy by the firmer. Mr Curvets oRPL and family have quitted South ampton, and embarked for Antigua, to which island he. generally goes once in two or three years. His mansion, it is said, is taken by the much respeded Count Woacrozow, late Russian Ambassador to this Court, who, in a former absence of te r. Gus' ruosre, became his tenant. His Grote the Duke of RICHMOND Still cond.. saes indisposed at his seat at Goodwood. Sir Cumuli Moacsa, son of the late deceased Baronet, wick his Lady. came to their town house in Downing -street, yesterday, from Ealing. (heat rejoicings took place at Patlingtort, near Aberford, Yorkshire, the seat of Sir loot/AS Gall. comet e, Bart. on Friday last, on the occasion of Mr. CASCOIONZ, his only son, attaining the age of 91 years, On Monday se'nniglst, the different inns and public-houses in Oxford, were opened for the en. tettainment of Mr. Busies and Mr. WRIGHT'S friends. Some of the Papers have published an epistolary correspondence between Mr Wait AAAAA o and Mr. Hswt nos, commonly called the beathsr•ntan.— Mr. WHIT BRCAD could have no chance in wielding theeen with the retailer of. feethees, from the Paradiae plume down to the grey goon The First Part of King Henry Ir. and the farce pf Raising Me Wind were performed, on Friday evening last, by the young gentlemen of Mr. Dow's Academy, at Cardiff, The Town•haft was com modiously fitted up on the occasion, and it is com puted that about 400 persons were present. Lady Centre was waited on, last week, at the George Inn, Sandbach, Cheshire. as Lady Patroness of the Female Friendly Society of that town, by the Honorary Members and Stewardesses, who laid before her Ladyship the rules and regulations of that Soaiety ; and, after a conference of two hours, she expressed her petted approbation of their pro ceedings. The Marquis of H•aztsurnn returned to town In Sunday, trom a visit to the Dowager Countess of -- S►ENCER, at her seat at St. Alban's. Lord and Lady CAST I Zit tAGH returned tn town yesterday, from the Earl of CA unties seat in Kent. His Lordship entertained a seleet party of friends at dinner, in the evening, at his house in St...Lime:l - We are extremely concerned to state, that 'the Earl of GOSVORD lies dangerously ill at Bath. Lord ACIIIIOII, with his sister Lady (hives StAIROW, his Lordship's son and daughter, set off express to visit him. The infant daughter of Sir Hither FITZUtiv aim, Bart. was baptized on Saturday last, at his house in Montague street, Russel-square, where there was a grand entertainment given on the occasion. Mrs. }haunt., who succeeded Madam Scnwet ttaatita, as principal attendant upon Her MA• Jesry, died suddenly yesterday morning, at Wind sor Castle. Mr. TRONA, Wiff IN, formerly one of His MA , . itSTIOS Messengers, died yesterday se'nnight, at Hammersmith. His remains were yesterday depo sited in Hammersmith Church-yard. The Lord Bishop nf St. Day in's has been pleased to collets the Rev. W. J. Rees, M.A. Curate of Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, and late of Wadham College, Oxford, to the Reaory of Cascob. ia Rad norshire. It is much to the honour of his Lordship, that Mr. Rua was known to him only by his writ. ings and chara:lcr. . • ' POLICE. • .; evrteree ite.torday, .11 marl was brought hetore S Pares, 'the sitting Alderman, charged wid feaudi.ig the Patriotic Fund, at ling "Coffe e _ of 301 opens the pretence of Iwirg one k 'wounded seamen in the L`ritish 4e,•% in dr ;04 battle of Trafalgar. The Pfisoner had ore *mined at Greenwich, where it Was avfertsinel he had not been w.ainded, and sent- in Cii,to Londirn., The offence alleged, having been mitted•within the jurisdiaion of the Loco M. the Prisoner war remanded for further examir boiure his Lordship. . ItAILLISOIVIIJOH SYS! FIX %MIN TION OF THE SWISS: BUTLER. Juba Lno r BaoriAta Harrienire det-de-,ton Lord Caledon) who standscharged with rabbit Lordship of plate, linen, apparel, &c. tan eon able" annaint, yesterday underwent an eranaiii at this Office. The-Prisoner, it w;11 be remembered. it eh; with having conarn•tied this robbery, by o ho packages from the Portsmouth waggon Ina, , had heea sent thither by order of Lord Calel be forwarded to Portsmouth. where they were shipped for the Cape of Good Hope, wl his Lordship is about to depart as C. iv, His Lordship had gone to behind en take lea his friends, and had left the Prisoner, who was sidered a confidential setvadt, in care of his in town. Lord CaleiOn had not arrived in yesterday, but a part of the property stolen be ad to Colonel Alexander. who is appointed ei camp to his Lordship, and the Colonel having ed from Portsmouth to attend the ezamiaatit was entered into. Some articles of linen, I were sworn to by this gentleman. were prom have been packed is one 4 the eases delivered ; inn, and atterwards sold 'to Myers. a salsas Swallowati get, by the Prisoner., On ezarniuin of the fibres, Cal. Alexander missed some :pro one of which WAS the uniform of an Aid-del-C, which, with uiashionable blue coat, were fvo the house of a celebrated miniature painter 1111 street, Portland place. The Prisnoer. it apps had taken the uniform coax tanner to have his ness drawn in a superb dress, and be- aadally it whilst he sat for that purpose. Lord C.'s c man, who had observed the Prisoner bring the package which contained' • a p a r t o f C c Alexander's linen, after it had been tato, Inn, preyed this fag, as well as others, MI to criminate the Prisoner. lie also, date him -as having seed in the most ineoll rieinner, in several instances. He, in one intt insisted on going to the Opera, is his ma carriage; and, on being refused, be pros a written paper, purporting to be the sat of Lord C. for such a step. The carriage was, ever, rendered unfit for use, aod.dse Pristine disappointed. In all the transatftione cf sonar, he seems to have been particularly ittl se the fair-sex, insomuch that he watkoawn am them by the watch-word "bandy ;"and-lse see have devoted the fruit of his daily pursuits, to rate their charms. His new name, however peals to have been only a burlesque; for thoui is genteel in appearance. his persoo. ati far being imposing or bewit-hiag, is rather digits although ,it never wanted decorating 111 travagance of fashion. The lady wtiO had treated him, proved him to have posies considerable share of ta.tx I she is young, I some, and posseoies many atzrations, lady, whose name is C. re, unfortunately ft Pit:once, was a very material Witness. She SAW him at the Theatre, wlien 'he was dress the 'extreme of fashion, with an ationclanqe of jewels, Sec. He was known to some of the ; chiefly ladies, who were with Miss Cafe, and quassa him, by observing he had got his wife' on his watch chain. The Primmer isenrsesliatel sister!, that as it was a lady's estal..be should it a present to Miss C. and also the chain. first refused to accept it, but at 'length did it; the next morning, however; whets the seiner. whom she had never seen until the me of his generosity, called on her, she gave bark his present, fearing some ill mil* come She saw bun several inner afterwards, and I ways represented himself as a Nobkran. breakfasted with him at Lord C.'s house in Seri street, which be represented as his own and Mewed her a considerable quantity of tic', niture, &c. Miss Care perceiving a Coronet linen, asked him how a foreigner could wear tish Coronet ! which he was at a lass to explain then said he would tell her the truth, which err he was a Swiss Noble, and was going ont to the with Lord C.as his Lordship's aiJ•du-camp. hi was accommodated with a quantity of wine, she took home in a coach with her, in a box, it appeared had originally been packed' with Cc Alexander's property. He had often thaw. superbly rich gold-mounted snuff-bo= o which to have been mounted at-Lord Caledon's tote Miss Cate considered' him an extremely polite denim, and an admirer of the ladies, to ma whom lie was well Icemen in her cucle. She al supposed him I. be a geratevnaa, because he foreigner. Mr. Smith, a linen draper in Piccadilly, to I be had °feted to dispose of tAble•latian,,all peered. He had represented himself co Mr. I as a nobleman who had ten Moamarl pounls of property to dispose of, as he WO Omit to the country. He has endeavoured to impel tradespeople, by hit assumed cotudgeence, be stratagem invariably failed. The duly person, have suffered by his pradices are his Noble It' and Col. Alexander. The packages retrain in Lord Caledon's house, with the doors of the ; menu secured, until the arrival or his Lon The Prisoner was remanded till next Monday. rmessemeraelee A Ma-ins was yesterday evening brought to from Deal, and lodged in thelilt-yard Guard-i charged with being one of the mutineers of the neon. frigate. He is to be examined this day. Orders were teceived at Plymouth, durin prise sales of notes, of cordage, cables. &c. to chase all the iwo latter articles which were in siceablz state, to b.: converted to the use navy ; a measure iispisky medicaid* to the it and Nary Boards, in the present convulsed at tine Norui of Europe. +' 1