The Sun. — London, England, 1813-11-04 00:00:00

r i The passage was effected without much opposi tion, General. IVinzingerode took about three thousand prisoners at Faucha, and sonic guns. General Blucher put his army in motion as soon as he found-the grain! army engaged very hotly in the neighbourhood of the villages of Stollintz and Prohestheyda, ,and the _infantry of the Prince Poyal's army hail not sufficient time to make their flank movement before the enemy's infantry had abandoned the line of the river, and retired over the plain in line and coltnuni towards Leipsig, occupying Somerfelt, Pannsdorff, and f.ichonfeldt, in strength, protecting their retreat. A very heavy' cannonade and some brilliant per formances of Gen. WinzingerOde's cavalry marked chiefly here the events the day, ext-ept towards tite elt.,e, when Gen.. Langeron, who ,had erbsted tip", river; attllektid the viii uc of ::ieornhit, met with eow:iilerable resistance, and at first was not able to loyee !Ili way. Ile however . iook 'it, but was driven hack, :when am most positive orders Wert! sent him by Gen, Blucher to re-of:copy it at tne point of the Liayoriet ; which he aecompliSltert before dark. Some Prussian battalions of Gen. corpl' were warmly engaged, also at Paumdorff, and the t!nemy were retiring from it, wheu the Prince Royal directed the rocket brigade under Captain togue, to loon on the le f t of a Prtissian battery, and open ttpon the columns re Congreve's formidable weapon had scarce accomplished the point of paralysing a Solid square of infantry, which after one fire delivered them selves tip (as if panic-struck), when that gallant ruin( deserving officer Capt. Boggle, alike an orna nletil to his prOfesion.and to his friends and eountry, teeek(,:d a ihot in the bead,, irliteli fleprivvti 111,L; army of his services. 'Lieut. Strang ways who succeeded' in the command of the brt ga4l42., received the Vrinee Royal's thanks for the serVices they rendered. i) lo ing the action, twenty-two gitrot of Saxon art iik r y joined us from the enemy, tuni.two 'West yintiion iegiments Of hussars awl two- battalions o f ,s ax r m s : the former were opportnnely, u s e of i t) , th e instant against the enemy, rte our ar- soners, the desertion of the whole of . the Saxon . 1111)1V, also the Bavarian and Wurtemberg troops. consisting of artillery, cavalry, and infantry, many Generals, ilia/tag w horn are Regnier, Vallery, Brune, Ilertratul, and Laut'iston, are some- of the first frets of this glorious day. The - capture, by assault, of the town of •Leipsie this morning, the natgazines, artillery, stores of the place, with the Ring of Sallony, all his Cottrt, the garrison . v and rear-guard of the French army, all the enemy's wounded (the number of which exceed 30,000), the narrow-esettpc of Buonaparte, who fled from Leipsic It,t tine - Welock, the lithe& entering at ele ven ; ;the Jcomplete deroute of the French army, who , are endeavouring to escape in 'all directions, and who4re:still surrounded, are the next ob jects of exaltation. The further result your Lordship can hest ar r'ice at front an account of our military position. ;t will be my endeavour,to give as-succinct and . elear account as. tam able, first, of the general and combined operations determined upon by the Urand Army • and, secondly, to describe what int •' meth:ad).- came_ under my own observations, • namely, the movements of the 'Prince Royal and General Blucher.' My dispatches, up to the lith, have detailed the bosition of the Allied Armies u p t o th a t d ate . I t eing annottneed by Prince Schwattzenberg that it was the intention of their Majesties,. the Allied f•overeigns, to renew the attack on the 18th, 'and the Armies of the North and Silesia being directed to co-operate, the following general disposition was made • I must here observe, that the attack on the lfith, by the grand army, 'occurred iu the neigh . bOurhood of Liebert Wolkowitz. The country being particularly adaptad for cavalry, a very sap- j gainary and hard combat ensued with this arm, ' atfd an artillery, exceeding in number six hundred pieces, between the opposed armies. Two soli.. tary buildings, %%ilia' the enemy had ocenpied with several battalions of infantry, and which formed nearly the centre of the enemy's position, were attacked by the Russian infantry, and at - ter several repulse 3, carried with amazing carnage. The whole of the.enenty's cavalry under Murat, were then brought forward ; they made a .verydes perate push at the centre of the allied position, which for a: short period they succeeded in forcing. Ta oppose this powerful cavalry, six regiments . of Austrian cuirassiers charged in columns. No. .thing could surpass either. the skill or the des perate bravery of this movement : they overthrew all before them ; destroying, I am told, whole • regiments", and learned to their ground' with , many prisoners, having left seven hundred dra goons. within .the enemy's line., Many' officers were killed :and wounded. (rn. f4;it our Alitubourg, ,who commanded the enemy's cavalry, wider Murat, lost his leg. Both armies, renmaitted nearly on the ground on which the con .' test: commenced. While the Grand Army was to commence their attack Jon the morning of the 18th, from 'their • 'different points of assembly, on the principal .Vil lege" situated on the great roads leading to Leip-• sig . , the Armies of the North and Silesia were jointly to attack from the line of the hale, and . upon the enemy's position along the Partha river. (;cranial Blucher gave to the Prince Royal of Swe don 30,000 men, infantry, cavalry, and artillery, his army, and with this formidable reinforce ment, the Northern Army was to attack from the heights of •Fattelot, while General Blucher was to. • retain his position before Leipsig, and use his ut most efforts to gain possession of the place. InAlte.event of the whole of the enemy's forces being carried against either of the armies, they were reciprocally to support each other and eon. eert further movements ; the part of the enemy's force which for some time had been opposed to the Prince Royal of Sweden and General Blucher, had taken up a very good position upon the left bank of the Par/ha, having its right at the strong point of Faucha, and its left towards Leipsig: To force time enemy's right and obtain posses-. • sion of the heights of Rumba, was the first °pc - ration of the Prince.ltoyal'a army, Tke corps of kussians• tinder Gen, Winzingerode, and, the Pros sialls under Gell• mlow, were destined for this purpose, and the Swedish army were directed to force, the passage of the river at Plosen and Mockau. LONDON, THURSIMY, NOVEMBER 4, rll3. Theexult&ion of our country at the resplendent tidings which yesterday reached the Government, and emanated from the Metropolis in rays of ra chance to cover this rejoicing island, cannot yet have subsided into any thing like a quiet feeling. — So stupendous and wonderful is the extent of the triumph achieved by the Allied arms, that even We can scarcely be reconciled to Its decisive and mighty effects we, who have looked with a steady eye and an unchanged mind to the deliverance of Mankind from the odious tyranny with which they Lava been borne down :—we, who have never ceased to john the animating cry which cheered the close of every victory ;—we, who, when the cloud of adversity has somethnes passed across us, and overcast the splendour of the horizon we had in prospect, have never omitted to point the view to that bright re ward which awaited perseverance, when the , shadOws of the hour should, be dissipated ; we, who, through good and evil report, have stedfastly vonounced that this happy per i o d would arrive,—now that it has arrived can hardly bring our senses to entertain the present and com plete realization of that which we have been so long able to contemplate in anticipation and in th e di s t ancc ,—!f personal feelings could add to the gratification we enjoy on public grounds- our pride in the sliAre this. Journal hnt taken through the •storrq and diflicuft p:ith of which the termi nation is now before us, ill giting its hurobie sup port to the good tame, *onid greatly enkume that delight we experience in agd,inatul again congratu lating the people of Oreat Britain °if the auslitcious COnsuimmation which is now crowning all (heir Ta bours for the Welfare of the world—repa y ing all the noble Sacrifices they have made—and proving to them that the fruits of a liberal, gentrons, and upright policy, are to be reaped in individual and tnational advantages infinitely superior to any be nefits which a narrow-minded, calculating,, and selfish system could promise to its adherents. — What would England have been bad she (as, ad vised by one class of her politicians) abandoned the Spanish cause, and withdraWn herself from Continental alliances ! ! I What isEngland now that she has lavished her treasures and shed her blood in these immortally renowned contests !: The honoured—the exalted among nations—the legi timate boast 'of her children—the Empress of one of the elements—the pride 'and glory, as "she bas been the stay and anchor of the world !"! ! The Extraordinary Gazette, in our preceding columns, more amply unfolds the 'details of those splendid events, which have so perfectly destroyed the already broken strength of the Tyrant - , than it was yesterday in our poWer to ilt.ttail them, though we were liapy enabled to lay a correct statement of the principal facts before the public. The victory, or rather yktories, which have re duced BITONAPARTE to `` (*.epode(' Throne, and a Crown without glory," are of such magnitude as to be without parallel in micient or modern history. There never occurred in the annals of war an ex ample of the utter overtbrow and signal ruin of so immense an armed mu:titude as the Usurper hal' brought into the field, to play for his last stake in that marvellous game which made him an Em peror, and has, we trust, by reverse equally; astonishing as suddenly, reduced hirn to his ori ginal insignificance—for the lesionS of ages passe are vain, if we may not expect that there is no middle course !:ctween the extreme exaltation and the perdition- . of a Despot and Usurper. Though Sir CHARLES • STEW ART'S tlispatCliCS breathe not only the soul of a soldier, but display the clearness cud accuracy of a comprehensive and fully informed mind, it may not he reckoned 'useless labour to condense the information of the, Gazette, and place' it in a single point of view., The hero who had toiled through these bloody days could have little time Tor the balancing of . periods, or addressinghlinself to the itteidus crdo in his admirable letters. it appears from the first Dispatch, dated Sken- ditz, about ten miles'North of Lei',Og, 17th Oc tober, that &yenta on the preceding day . 01)- . Liined t most brilliant Victory overate •ftli, Gth, and 7th corps of the Enemy; together with a part of.the Guards, hi the neighbourhood of Rade : Feld and Lindetithal. The Northern Allied Army were on the 14th on both banks of the Saale but chiefly on the right.; liximuLfeivas ne?ti.c , t Leipsig, and on his rear amf-lefr; the PfrtlNE Occupying whole country iron* -the wale to the Mttlda.. The Veteran ptished, on from 'Halle towards 'Leipsig, his head-qnarters being on . the 14th at Gross Kugel, between the former. pFace - and - Skcmlitz, and his parties occupying all the villages around Leipsig.— The enemy Ittts in force on his front, in po sitions from Debitsh to Bitterfeld ; conse quently spread out towards the south and east, and covering. not only Leipsig, but also the three great roads leading thence to Dnben, Eilemberg, and 'Wurzel), and having the Mulda in their rear. Here they were assailed, and vangnished on the 16th, as narrated in the Dispatch, the CROWN PRINCE having previously n laved up to Wettin, Petersberg, Oppin, Zorbig, &c. by which means he supported littictiEri, and in - case of a reverse would have been able to take the enemy on his right flank, and prevent him from following up his advantages'. Thank Heaven, however, there was no event of this kind to call his force into action—BoJettea \l i ras completely victorious —drove the French from their whole line,: and by this gallant achievement opened Leipsig and the main force to the assault which anni hilated them on the 18th. Mockern is on the Southernmost of the three roads held by the French, so that by the hatt4 of the 16th, they were driven frran positions many miles to the North and North-east of Leipsig to a line barely parallel wiih that place. On .the Sallie day liuoNnealurs Was beaten back on the hither side Of Leipsig, after an ineffectual attempt to cut his way through the Bohemian army, to wards the South-west. Of the particulars OH this quarterit unlit to be observed, that . our ittioratation i$ not so eopeaus as it is with repril to the CROWN PRINCE'S Army, with which Sir C. STEWART was n ill person. r • ce SCIIWARTZ EN kW tiffS iitaiu force being at Alta& 'Unstuck,, about tea wiles' west of I teipsig, on the road to Tautien; Nreissedds is a prof that every t hin g bail prosperet, "'l'' the Allies up to this ditte %Olen prepitatiora ....i. i r r die were made for the grand attack. vie lea 0 Bohemian Army w as in commun i ca tion Oh, B LU CHER ; i 4 right'vvith igaltEVELOT,Stre(Chilli up the Pleiss, Which was to be crossed above lir; sig, at Connewitz. Still further and In advance-towards, the east, were the lid! shin and Prussian guards iti . reserve at Rutile' and, all these, in the event of failure, werelo l' tire on Zeitz, or Chemnitz, thereby still het:Pig possession of BUONAPARTE'S 180 St 01)600 Jil3 to Fr-dila. On the Sonth-east of oli co' tot he rigitt,l 1 the veteran l'lniliostm, marching - from 64; Glitz down the Multla on Gramma and WOO, thus taking the Enemy on his left, while tile il d. 0 hemian Army was .on bis.frent, and the en°, -- : Lei#lti PRINCE OH his right, almost on his rear formed the centre of BIJONAC.II,TE'S opi:ration'j The lith WAS spent in preparations, 0 111 ..) attack Only deterred till the following 11#;:, afford time for the CI PatNce to brW rear up nearer Halle, and B ENNIGSEN 10 r ;0 0 ~ • to the foe at Grinnua. io .0 , We now arrive at,the second and glort) 0 patch, which chews us the Tyrant elitirel)'o,',. ---tleserted in his utmost need by all his car ikl. rates—flying, discomfited and disgraced, flij sonal sa f e ty.--his remnant force still WO' 1, 0 1 and attempting to escape in all d i rect iaai. Su c ' io o the great outlines—need we dwell an lie , vr eti : touches ? Beaten in every quarter, lb' 4 ' fled first to Lcips i g , but Leipsig olfeied ti ' ll, secure retreat. !'he Allies,whosc victoriouiiii jo b/s' f r. r , :n y i t t o lie ur N l toitrit;loinant:_litShoittlitalif l en, 1 cut their g i ' Ito 18( .. 0 ! that city, forced them from Somerfehl,ry dorti, Schonelield, and within two ha rd. the Corsican ran away from his ,• - 1 Crowned Heads of the Allies flier 11 1 , o l restored hini to in the grand square—rest:tied the Saxon i 1 ... , 0 1 1 7,, vv i a r o il ' I : ( t i n t l c i N i , l se s l p e l a ' s s t tc n i i e s i t e t l a ili c ln e itt a c iii tine,_ closed this ever-memOrable day le 1 , ' i li) . .- 1 independence and Iris pel'' ~(. tor'aitimei (1 i We 10 - , 'to, The rumours, of which t hese Cone' ° l.e 4 01 Ile S C ', we have scarcely a wish to n oti:e• 1 ..,,p , victory over DAVOU,sT' i s , we le;;r, 0 11 0 1 . " 03 , 3 1( only, The telt.. • 7 ' 0 1)t 11 ‘°' . '' t 1 graph from 19 0 .. 1 s p,l 4 to convey the same intel4-eirce (P t `' l , by Air. SoLf.y. . 1 0; / be' ;,.. ~dt , (0 Dresden is 'said to have, been , ..: ao' t-'c we suppose it must hiiVe fia : i iv course: , --..........„..„,,,,, ~,,, 13 0 . 6 tit ~ The fate of sn[ , -.c ,:)!' the I - ' ' t3 6' .I ' l'-' •illero ( 1,10 , 1 , tioned is still ( t ull 'atitil ye° c ' ..i' • , but bet% 7 Ai ‘ 1 killing, and c3pturirig, 'we bel' cc4 named are' pretty well accounted fe l. , vas t t ': As for the Master MOns ler, 1, , i , fa ce v; i s cannot cannot escape—the. superiority Of ''' . tl l4 l' f rlii M lie is ' • ' - now , pressed o.n every side , '° s ' ~.1 11 0 ' cif aillonstkild men's escaping- to t I''' -' , ........ - li ' i i . .V. , ... op , r Illuminations - for - three nifilits, it l ' 1 tu 0 act' commence this evening. The Gove rlit 0 „ cri are Inelmtiog ; arid never was there that' more deserved rejoicing. deliveredt;:ltt:oli (aisEeptsti:Lii,irri(c:,i,es':'l.si eitittil.Siorosa:sl:ll:);ttiiiil,crf; il, ' j t 1, There are rumours afloat borgi'' Pinllpluna, and the liberatio n of 1 / 8 !ic e, events we must speedily h ave to we do not underitand that any acco nots° have yet been received. of the sotto) «'e lament to say Twee have n o g r°'w impeaching the a uthority of the poit li t ter we published yesterday' respecting •0 113 feat on Lake 1 -, rie, GOVernment `.° : tied, telligence lute enough to enable i is It) 0 0 tradict it, The flotilla hi question tva 6 , branch of the British navy, but vviis Fo/o,i exertions of certain Canadians, who litid cquipecl, and managed by the roll., themselves intnia kind of Lake Feucibl° shall publish further particulars toorrO' ---040-4 , -- - . „..v Letters from I'lyrnouti t, dated the 2t l '" ' i ceivcd in toWfl to-, make rto atenti" 9° '' bustle at that port in consequence. of t consequence. he-, fleet being at sea ; We are therefore o f o' ~ that the report of yesterda'y is unfounded. -----a5...---- ~ f We should have been highly graitifica i',1,1. seating to our Readers, as usual, the S-P c `, t livered from the Throne on the .Alectino 1) ' 0 or hlic , Barnett this day, but we Cali assure the Pt': o ,l' , by the positive Order oftlie Harl'of .I)lvPsr° , :,fi, account Of it IS to be given beforc it b t lic:il;,' lOa , ,bvcien uttered by the Pa Is cult Erte,NT.llll‘ 04 t io tateNer.sketches our confeloperaries r.. .. p proper to promuh4iite, must be coniee°,,,:los,°l3l cab .. ' ‘`liiuss that from the recent olori‘°e :et'', " oe Or. d the "Pll embefittences which ililO r sy tOf • 1 , 1 De e$ 1011 as the infallibl e r esult, it I"°' ii bt 0 Cii o ta co „, - - kuse a speech wllicli Poo 4 . , nnitiittnitlon *etc tint till rorivarti ; and the Prince Royal addr4...ssed the litter by au offer., that he would head Ahem l immediately aviioat the enemy . , which they.tti a man accepted. - Tire c:orniiittnicatton,teilig huts estabii § tied 4 tWeen the grioul nttnetis and that of thee two ar mies) the (.Irand Duke ConAtintine, Genetais and other oflicets' 91 distinc tion, joined the Prince Royal, communicating the eventi carryin;.;• on that direction. ' It seems, the limit desperate resistance '‘iras made by the enemy at Probethede, .`.',l4;ileritz, and Connevitz, but the different: eoltuttn , ,, hearing, on these points, as detailed in my fornior dispatch t finally carried every thing before tip.m. General Bennigsen•taking the vilb,ges upon the right batik of the Heutschove, having been joined by General Bubna front Dresden, General Tolstoy . ,, liar tug _come pp - and relieved the former in the blockade .of that city, and General rittilay mini (Y.!, u VVlin V.; lvith `24;000 ty usti inns upon the left bank of the Elster. : Generals Thielentan and Prince Maurice Lichten stein's corps moved upon the saute river ; and the result of the dar'Was,..tbat the enemy lost above 40,000 men in :killed, wounded, and prisoners, sixty-five pieces of artillery, and seventeen batta lions of German infantry, With all their stair and generals, which came over en masse during the act ion. The armies remained upon the ground on which they had so bravely conquered this night. The Prince Royal had his bivouac at Patmsdorff; nem' Blucher's remained at Witteriti, and the Empet•or's and the King's at Roda. Mont the close of the day, it was understood : • the enemy were retiring by Weissenfels and Mun burg ; General Blucher rt-ceived an order from the King of Prussia, to detach in that direction. The - nmeeMent of the Prince Royal's army completely excluded the retreat on Wittenberg ; that upon Erfurt had long since been lost to them ; the line of the Skate alone remains, and as their flanks and rear will be operated npon during their march, it is difficult to say with ‘vhat portion of their army they may get to the Rhine. This morning the town of Leipzig Was attack ed and carried, after a short resistance, by , the armies of General Blucher, the Prince Royal, and General 13ennigsen, and the grand army. Mar shals Marmont and Macdonald commanded in the town ; these, with Marshals Angercan and Vic tor, narrowly escaped, with, a stiiall escort. Their AL9esties, the Emperor of RIISII3, and the King of Prussia, and the Crown Prinee of Swe den. each heading their respective troops, en tered the town at different' points,• and Met in the Great Spun e. The acclamations and rejoicings of the people arc not to be described. The multiplicity of brilliant achievements, the impassibility of doingjustice to the firmness that has been displayed, the boldness of the concep tion of the Commander in Chief, Field Marshal the Prince Schwartzenberg, and of the other ex perienced leaders,. together with the shortness of the time allowed me for making up this dispatch, will plead, I hope, a sufficient excuse for my not Sending a more acemate or-perfeet detail, which I hope, however, to do hereafter: , I send this dispatch by my Aide-de-Cam, Mr, James, who has been .distingnished for his ser vices since he haS been with this army : he has alSo been with me in all the late events; and will be able to give your Lordship all further par ticulars. i . have the Tumour to be, ix. (Signed) CHARLES S'rE.W.AIi,T, Lieut. Gen. P. s, On the held of battle this day an officer arrived fron► General Tettenhorn, bringing the information of the surrender of Bremen to the corps _under his orders;and the keys of the tots!), ivhich wereprosentcd by the Prince Royal to the Emperor of Russia. C. S. ?TAIL,. NARIVED-1 Lisbon, 1 Guernsey, I Jersey, I Dublin, I Wo.- terford. Dtrx-1 Cudiv., 1 Ltsbun, 1 Maltu, •9 Gotten burgh, 1 Corunua, 3 licligolund. KING WILLIAM LANDI:D.--Hoirtay at the Exdieritter, Bank, aitd.South-Sea Ilo“se. . HIGH wATEn :yr LONDON 1311IDC/E TO-MORROW. • Morning, 13 minutes after 11. Evening, 49 minutesafter 11. THE SUN. Stit.EM QUIS 1/I . CEIM VALSI/M AIMEAT ?