The Sun. — London, England, 1807-02-26 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, LaEBAI.T, JAN. 27.—" At the moment when the Emperor's .orders were issued for the first corps of the Army to go into winter, quarters, between the Rissarge and the Vistula, .Marshal BERNADOTTE re ceived -intelligence that the Russians were-on the march. with a considerable *corns , to attack and sur prise him in his cantonments. it seemed to be their °tiled to 'advance *against OsterOde; "and; by that mesas, to cut off all communication betWreen the first corps and the rest of the Grand Army ; and with this view they attacked and carried' our 'post at Liebstadt, - consisting of about €2OO men, on the day already occupied Stargardt. My left wing, at Stolpe, cuts off the communication between Col berg and Dantzic. We - have not yet seen a single patrole of the enemy. &they defend Dantzic with the same courage with which they .have defended this' province; that ancient seat of -the Poles will soon have its brothers in arms in its bosom. All this, my dear General, belongs to the wonders of the age in which we live. The genius. of Nnret.coN pre cedeS his standards Ikherever he sends them. ". Thick forests separate , inc from General Da DOI+;iI3ROWSKI., but to-morrow I. shall certainly join him behind Stargardt.. All the inhabitants of this country, and 'parti cularly the Germans established here; were in great anxiety previous to our arrival. Thjy feared to find us cruel and vindictive but they have only found brothers, and . they forget that tliey were born Ger mans. The town of Conitz, .against which there has been so many complaints, certainly gave a fine example of patriotism after they had experienced our kindness--I demanded e of them uniforms and other necessaries, with the exception of horses . ,,offerino' b to pay for every thing, but the town promised to deli ver every thing gratis, and is seriously employed in performing this promise. Judge of what will hap pen at Dantzic, &c. 23d instant. . , . -" As soon as Marshal BERNADOTTE received cer tain advice:of . the Enemy.'s intentions, he did not lose a 'moment :'he immediately called in the troops posted at Ming - , and gave orders for those a Christ burgh to draw towards Mohringen Without delay, where they found the .81h. regiment ; and . theugh the Marshal . had troops at Lolkemis and Praunsberg, on the Passarge, he succeeded in colle6ting them all on 'the 20th at Mohringen. The Marshal arrived in person about two in the afternoon, just as the Enemy shewed himself upon the heights. He seemed at first. to have had a line of cavalry, and manoeuvred in such a manner as to make it appear that his object was only to reconnoitre.. Hte wished to gain time, in order to bring up' troops against our right wing ; but Marshal BERNADOTTE • perceived Ins dcrign, and immediately forined in. crder of "battle, while he' ordered a battalion of the gth light infantry to arll.'anee against - the -of Pfarrer fel:lst:hen, which was 'defended by several battalions 'of Russians and six pieces of cannon. This batta lion-advanced with ail the courage', and impetuosity that clesskinguiSh the French soldiers ; and notwith standing the murderous fire and the warmth of the action, in which the Eagle of this battalion was . taken and re-taken, the battalion. succeeded in de feating the Eneniy, and gaining .possessiOn of the village. . " The Russians, who .defended themselves va- • liantly, again attacked, the village with three bat talions; but the - Bth regiMent coming to the as sistence of the French battalion, they were driven Lack. «:1; fug i•ompelled to retreat,. 'they formed be hind the village, while their right and• left extended towards the cods and frozen lakes ; (hey oc-, aaipied both sides of the road between Mohringen Liebstadt: • " Our line of ir!antry, consisting -of the nth, 27th, and' 94th regiments, immediately •advanced against the Enemy's front, upon the heights,. which was provided .with a formidable artillery. A very beavY fire of small arms took place. -- General Du• FONT; in the'meanwhile, bad orders to move frbin Neuhoff to Wiese and Georgenthel, for the 'purpose of turning the fight wing of the Russians. At the ..sauce time the troops arrived that were to a& against the :Enemy's front. A battalion 0t the 323 was the first that advanced. The Enemy were driven back, and very .roughly handled, and a very great car riage took place among them ; 'they were pursued more titan two leagues, till' night put an end to the afFair. " The Prince of POIsTTE CORVO was not engaged in the pur-uit, because about 2000 Russian infantry - and cavalry, cut off from their main body, forced themselves into Mohringen, which they found without defence : the troops that had defended that place kad eualied on, and were busy in plundering the carriages left behind by the Russians. A lantalion of , the Sib, which was seleled to drive the Russians out of ATohringen, advanced with fixed-bayonets, and overthrew all that opposed thtatn. The sth Chasseurs followed the remainder, killed a great. many, and made a number of prisoners, and, among.the rest, the Colonel who commanded'the " DE 'Cot Liam." GRAND ARMY.-GOVERNMENT OF POSEN. ORDER di , THE DAY. " For some time past 'malignant persons have been suffered to spread reports as disgusting as they are false,' respeeting the army commanded by his Majesty the Emperor and King in person. Persons accustomed to judge of- events with coolness, do not stiffer themselves to be taken in such obvious snares, btit credulous people aro d e ceived, and the tranquillity and security in which they have hitherto lived is disturbed. In order - to . put • an end to the audacity of these malignant 'persons who employ themselves in _deceiving other indivi dualS, the• ,Governor-General of the Department of Posen orders all the Military and Civil Authorities, as. well French as Polish, and also the Imperial Guards,.and all persons in the employ of the Police throughout The Department of Posen, to arrest and bring .to the Head-quarters all individuals ,who. apread, circulate, or repeat false intelligence, con-, trary to tht interests of the Grand Army .as wellas the security of the inhabitants and their property. TO make known at the same time to ,such that it is no justification to theM that they heard such intelligence from others, and that they must. remain in prison until his -Majesty shall have pro nounced respelling their fate.. This Order shall be inserted in the Gazette of Posen, and the Chambers of c .War and . of Administration will take care that it shall be published in' the French„ Polish,- and German twig - nacres throughout the Department, and that it shall be posted up the towns. " LTEEMIT." The Emperor, it appears, is about 'to march to wards Kunigsburgh with his whole, army. . expedition. << This Arair is so much the more glorious for the fist corjls, bec:tuic the troops began their march of 16 I , ?at:es - vt midnight, to arrive at the tell of bat tle, where the Marshal Prince of PosTE Coxvo had 8000. men, against 14,000 of theEneMy's t c,;opi. The Enemy's loss is considerable, ex- L ; (eon() o)en ; ours .is reckoned at 7s or 800 J and,Woun . :led, . 5 " Tho French infantry have this day given fresh fteir urar 4 g-e and uncomitSon intrepidity. t :.e fatigue of a long #nd tiresome" ;.,—.;;cii:d the tic..i ± !lits where the Enemy w•a:.; poi!ed, v-!1; djended himself with great obsiinaey. Ofea;i:Lil :1; :'.;23 of r 6 _or 18 pieces" of Caniion could not resti - ..iA them , for, a moment. The cir.Talry, dislinguished itself by the fine charges it repeateulyt made upon a superior number, and thus claim a part of the glory. in fine—Generals, Officers; Priv3tes, all did their duty : they all vied with each Other in courage and devotion. - liVf: 'have made four hundred prisoners, and taken two pieces of cannon. The prisoners assure. us that (.3cnrai AUREPP and Prince Dot.Goavciu ere woun , _!e.:l. • " The rei:it of this glorious day has been the checking of the tnemy•ln his rapid . march, - and" astonishing him by a display of valour almost Un exampled ; besides" preventing the execution of his project, which was to snrprise the Grand Army, and compel it to repass the Vistula. " The Prince of PONTE CORVO remained upon the field of battle till fi.o o'clock next day, and made many excellent but slow.movements to Cover the left flank of the Grand Army, while he gained ,time to-carry off the wounded.: 1-le retreated . - but three leagues on the first clay after the affair ; he rtinaiaed 24 hours at Liebemull, and arrived at Loe bau, on the 27th; when. he took a position behind 41:e place, there to wait. for the enemy, who did, not make his appoarance. " This long and tedious march gave the Grand Army time to colleen itself. The - Emperor put himself at its head, and has since recommenced operations. The enemy is taken in his own snare, cud will soon repent the imprudent step he iias taken." . . POSEN, FEB. 6.—Exitraa of a letter from the General - of Brigade KOSINSKIi Commandant. of-the advanced guard of the Polish division under the "command of the General of. Division M. DP. DOMi'diOWSKI: which is On its march towards Dantzic. " Head-Quarters, Conitz, Tan. '27. "- The Prussians fly before us. We have this . • , iris . for.s.lions as Governor-Gem - La of Livonia , and Couriand. MECKLENpURGH, `FEB. s.—No Country has suf fered more by the present War than Mecklenburgh. • Three French armies have alternately been quarter= ed upon those unfortunate Provinces, viz.. those of Marshal BERNADOTTE, the Grand Duke of BLaG, and Marshal SOULT, exclusive of the Prussian army, which-has traversed the whole country between this place and Lubeck. Besides these, Marshal Molt . TIER'S Corps has cost the Dutchy of Mecklenburgh two million of crowns,- exclusive of a contribution of one million of crowns in hard cash. ERLANGEN, FEB. 3.—The Austrian' regiments in Bohemia,haVo received orders to put themselves in motion.; among these are the light-horse of Rosen berg, and . the Uhlans of Schwartzenberg. LEMBERG,' JAN. 18.---General KAMENSEGI, with the main body of the Russian,Army, is posted be • hind the River Narew. The Head-quarters are in a , small village of,the same name, Auxiliaries arrive for the Russian Army from the farthest parts of the Empire in Asia. The first Corps of Reserve is near Byalystock,where there isalarge magazine ; a second Army of Reserve is at Grodno, and a third at Dubno. The - recruits,. who are numerous, are trained and exercised, fit for.the ranks, in fourteen days. Dubno and Niesewiess are both strongly fortified. In the former place the Fretich prisoners are kept, previous to their being carried thrther into the interior. To animate the courage of the Russian soldiers, the Em peror has promised to prOmote every Officer who shall distinguish.himself, besides,;t, grant of crown lands, &c. , The wounded privates Xi:also to receive pensions, and their widow.s and orphans to he pro.: vided for. , . • , • [FROM THE COURT GAZETTE.) " VIUNNA, JAN. 28.—The Austrian Prisoners of War who - have returned from France have given their Sovereign a striking proof of their attachment; for in spite of all they have suffered on the road, and the sedu6tions to ..vhich they were exposed in all the States thrOugh which they passed,.. particu lady on the borders of the Rhine, where they were obliged tb remain some months, out of 36,930 'men who wept to France, 36,000 have a6tually arrived. Upon the Austrian Aerritory. 'These faithful soldiers chaunted hymns of joy upon their arrival in Austria." PRIVATE LETTERS. BANKS OF THE ELBE, FEB. 7.—ln all probability you are at - this - moment 'better informed concerning the state of aft:airs in Poland than we are who are so much nearer the scene of action. The French Bulletins on the one side, and the Official Statement of General BENNINosEN and the concurrent flying reports from dil - Tere.nt (luarters on the other, are so centradiaory, that We know not on which side there is most truth: The better opinion seems to be, that at least the hitherto victorious French Army has,received a signal Check, and that on particular occ\lsions advantages were pined by the. Russians which might have been improved into" a vi6tory. FlIo: , ,I THE BANKS OF THE MAINE,' FEB.-7.—A It. seems probable that the deciSiee ' blow is at this moment struck "i for it is certain that BONAPARTE few days ago an escort of Prussian plisonerS attired at Frankfort, guarded by seventy Wirtembargh set out for the Army from Warsaw 'on the e7th ; and it is believed also that the E t inperor ALEXANnen. troops, and after, resting for one, nigh-I -proceeded tor has taken the field. kis this engagement Which Mentz, where they were delivered' over to the Na tional Guards, as usual, and sent forward to the place will shew the world , .whe t h e r the p resence . of ALEXANDER, at the , head of his oWn troops, .in Of their destination: The Wirtembureh c ar p s, after his own dominions, may not avail more than taking a night's rest, set out on , their return for the main body, to -which they belonged, FRANCIS at Austerlitz, and •FREDERICK of Frankfort, ice. When they had got to the diS- , WientAm at . Auerstedte There are • a number of by the w ay . 1 that of F tance of about obe mile, from Mentz, they were king reports, e:llich • May be • worth, repeating, overtaken by an express'on horseback , w ho request- ! though they nioy not e be relie d upon: - Tra ed the Officer at their head to return to Mentz, . Yellers coining from Posen .relate , .that 1-ri that . town all sorts of workmen and labourers. have been as. the Governor of that City desired him to take a dispatch for the Governor commanding at Frank- .put in requisition; to furnish in.haste 7000 bedsteads fort.' The Officer accordingly entrusted, his set._ for the wounded French brought. in. Persons who and Ordered haVe recently left Hessia - say , th at the French Offi jeant with the command of his corps; him to march on at a slow pace, io hopes of saver- ‘ eel ' s- there betray great discontent and!apprehensien, taking the detachment as soon as his business should ' In the mean time the French ate said to p raolise all nsiness with the Governq of Mentz ! l s i . .inds of artifice in order to sp read the belief of their be done.. His b was over in a quarter of an hunt-, ;,:ii."l - the 'Officer _ uccess. • It is stated that they dressed u p lar g e bo dies of French soldiers in itussian unitbrms, and hastened to come up with his corPs„ heft' in vain. Still he supposed' they had got the start of hum : Sever Marched, them through the towns in Pol and. al families ofdistinEtion are at Altona, the but how great was his surprize, when to his principal of whom are the Duke arid Dixhe ss of enquiry at the gate of Frankfort , of, how . lon k M E c K LENBuBoIt SCH . wEitiN .. it was since his corps passed that way, he received fer answer, that it had not been heard of. -He FEB. 10.—Our hopes and fears are directed to hastened to the Governor to deliver his dispatch, wards Poland, though our attention is somewhat di and then in qu ir e d again ;_ but was informed that no vented towards the, less ImMediately interesting, yet report had been received of any detachment having still very significant Military operations in, Turkey. entered. 'He returned to the ,gate, thinking that his On the-Dniester, welearn that the two brothers • Men might have missed their way.'; and alter wait- of the King of PRUSSIA are raising Volunteer Corps; ing a good while, he, saw ten men coining in of the and we -are "persuaded, that whatever the ultimate hole corps; who reported, that their comrades, from.perseveringofSerjeant resistance which theit adversa arms 'and equipage ; that they were also desired to IT has not hitherto experienced. The battle of go with the others, but did not chuse. The Officer Mehringen,. though the French boast of another returned to - thte.Governoreand told into : What had, J vie - tory, shews how much is yet to be done before happened, when the, latter immediately sent all the Konigsburgh can be attacked, which is obYibusly the - . Gens d'Arines that. were •at Frankfort to -scour the .oblecl of this detachment from the main army. country ; and also sent expresSes : to all the Corn-, FEB. 13.—That the French are on the retreat, mending OtEcers in the environs ; but every and inquiry - •have repeatedly suffered great loss, may be in roved fruitless. • • ferred from their own statemen ts, on a com p arison VIENNA, JAN. 28.-4 is . said there is a continual • with the map of Poland.; and that reports on losses correspondence between the Russian . General w ho have been. prevalent, in countries subject to the (as we had already heard by letters irnrn Bucharest) enemy, is evident from th e severe. measur es taken had: eriteredewith a body of troops into the town a against those who should be guilty of doubting the Kraiowa, the capital of Wallachia, and the Pacha o f invincibility of the Great Army, directed by the ge- Widdin, PASSWAN OGLOU : but it is merely c o njee. nins_of the Great Hero. Even in Jena, a threaten ,ture—when it is added, that the objeO•of thii cot- inn BrOclamation, was published by the Commandant respendence is ;,he admission of the Russians i n to' of town, against the propagatorS of • reports. dis-• that place. As PASSWAN OGLOU has always been advantageous to the French; and that, ton, on the considered as a rebel by the Sublime Porte , i t is said 4th of January, though the Treaty of Peace be he is distrustful of the measgres and eitgigements. tween France and the, King of SAXONY was signed which that Power has taken, and that hence he is on the tMb December, • and. was to he .ratified fearful of receiving these new guests, who, as he I within fifteen:days, after which the regal authori , 'thinks, might send him in chains to Coestantinopie. ties of the Sovereign would be' of course restored On the other hand our Journalists nseent, that PAss- to him. , . '. w OGLot , will have to contend'-attains against The French `Papers have briefly noticed the cap two Armies —that is, ! against t h e 'l ldsii an Ar rnyy and ! ture of General VICTOR. l'lliS is kik! to have been that of CZER N I GEOEc:ES. ~ • Ai fy. ! attended with some unusual circumstances. Lieut. ttOt had been P : I:NH :IGEN, Fe. I 0.- 11 -.-A e Vessel friim sigs- ' dismissed the Prussian service for va- CO rious exce;sses and irregularities, which the severity burgh, which entered the Sound on the,"3 thAriri , Y:i .e of ,Prussian discipline . could not toirate. He rc intelligence that evvrvy hi n g I.vas quiet at Kolligsbitrgrii: d t hat there were ti ) French troops in that neieief- sided . near Colberg, in Pnmerania Posteripr ; and an bourhood. . ° when the general disorganization o f the Prussian ar bour . • • ! My tonic place, animated by a warm love' for his • Des..izic, JAN•, 31.---The rumour that C.,,unt country, he on his own authority, collated from CERN STOIiFI , has received a drawl 'Cross of the,LeL . t ee peasantrY'around him a- troop amountine' to near gion of Honour, is, according to the latest intelli- 2OOO men; which he armed as well as he could, and ,genre, unfounded., - ,i employed in scouring the country and watching the Cunt I.3t7xnovDEN has left the army to resume ' enemy. It was in one of these excursions he met with Gen. VtcTor, in whose possession he found 20,00 . ducats; with which the General, it was supposed, was going to same fortress, which he hoped se cure:in this Manner, as has been often done before. The Lieutenant immediately transmitted his booty to the King of PRUSSIA, who, however, returned it to him, saying, that he had already sheen he well knew: how to apply his resources in the defence of his Country, and that he might expend this sum in the establishment of his corps. He at the same time conferred upon him the rank of Colonel. I send you the substance of a Proclamation of General BENNINGSZ*, addressed to the people of Germany. It announces the Emperor of RUSSIA'S desire to recover the liberty and independence of Germany. " The Enemy (it says) is at a consider able distance from his own frontier, in a country, and at a season, in which he is in want of the ne cessary means of subsistence, and where he meets with impediments at every step. Although it is probable that the French will be routed, this will not satisfy the Emperor ; the Enemy must be driven beyond hi own frontier; this is the only means of saving Germany. The Emperor, therefore, hopes, that the Germans, under these circumstances, which will decide their fate for ever, Will not lend any assistance to the Enemy's troopS; but, by a general resistance, render it impossible for therr to prolong their stay, and also harass them in. their ,retreat. Finally, the Einperor promises to restore the ancient Constitution of the German Em pire." FRANKFORT, FEB. 7.—Our fancied happiness on the removal of the troops that were tivartered in our city, , has been of short duration ;. as the French garrison, which had marched out some days ago, made its re-appearance in this city on the sth in . stint, . in the evening, with a reinforcement. These troops had' been no • farther. than Mentz, where they were diVided into battalions and, as soon as their organization was completed, they marched back to Frankfort. We have now here four battalioni, viz. one of the 9th light regiment ; and of the 27th, 57th; and ti 1 st-infantry of the line, one battalion each, which, however, are nor complete, amounting to about 1500 or 1600 men. On the following day they . occupied every post where the citizens had lately mounted guard. .The time of their stay is not fixed, but it is thought that it. will be of short dura tion. Last night eight French couriers, from the Grand Army, passed thi - ough this place. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PRUSSIAN POMERANIA, JANUARY 24. " The winter-quarters promised to the French Army do not appear likely Io be of long dumion. It seems that the Russians want to occupy the po sition which the French hold at present, between the NareW, the Bug, and the Vistula, in order to the re-commencement of actual hostilites. There is no longer any probability that the French can advance into Eastern Prussia without corning to an a&ion ; and it is probable, that, before they can reach Ko nigsburgh, they must fight the Combined Russi ans and Prussians in the environs of that City." MAILS. D u Gottenburgh, i Lisbon, t Dublin, 21 ti•aterfort3, PRICE OF STOCKS l'itts DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consuls - 62 THE SUN. SOLZIK QUIS DICERS FA:ltiNt AUDZAT? LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1807. Notice was► this day given at the Stock Exchange, to the Gentlemen who tnwn to Bid for the Loan, and they were requested to attend at the Treasury, at, twelve o'clock to-morrow, for that purpose. WE this day submit to our Readers some further Extrads from the Foreign Journals which ar rived yesterday, all of which tend to confirm the tat of the defeat of the French at Mobringen. It is singular that the French should have thought it necessary to publish two accounts of that Battle, and that these accounts should be, in .:otne particu lars, essentially different from each other. The 55th Bulletin begins abruptly with an account ;of the Battle of Mobrincren without stating what , were the causes that led to it. A vidtory, of course, is claimed on the part of the , French ; but no notice whatever is taken of the Capture of Gen. BERNA DOTTE'S Baggage. In the account published in the Hamburgh Correspondenten of this Battle (which we must consider .as official, because 'no ,article is inserted in that Paper, particularly if it relates to the Armies, without the permission of the French Com mandant), it is fairly admitted that BERNADOTTE • was in danger of being cut off from the Maio Body of the French Army. A part of his Army had ad vanced as far as Elbing, which is near one ot the Mouths of the Vistula. This movement was dangerous ; but if it had 'peen successful it would have been attended with incalculable ad ' vantage to the French. The right of the Russian Army would have been turned, Konigsburgh and the remainder of the King of Prussia's dominions' would have been exposed, and the Allies would have cut olf from all communication with the Baltic. Such were the advantages which were likely to result.from- this movement of BERNADOTTE'S, if it proved successful. On the °thir hand, he was completely separated from the mail • body of the Army, and exposed to the datr;er of being entirely cut off by a rapid advance of the Russians. The declaration made by 'MoNa.rARTE of his intention of phicinz 11;.c Army variers, was obviously