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tstad it ill 1Y reEt4 in 114 )oCell )Lt n3~ oqi. giog 4 for tlirce , 1041' , f ! e l; nn . l' E ' r ith t' 4'editoro fel Pt' No m -~. FR 'NCH PAPERS. ' llll ls, INtAR 7.—Her Majesty-the Empress and 6 411 has recei ve d t h e f o ll ow i ng intelligence V i c tim; the-sit uat i on o f th e i rm y•on the Ist! ' • Emperor had removed • his head-quar ' to Weiss en f e l s . , the Viceroy his to 'Merse g, General Maison bad entered Halle, the 40 1 Ra gusa h ad his head-quarters at Nailin g, Coant Bertrand was at Stolissen, the Duke , R , e ,Ygio had his head-quartefrat Jena. acre was mach rain on the 30th of April ; 'the itt of May the weather was better. Three bridg e s had -been thrown across, the Gaut at {l'eissenfels ; campaigr works had been tit Naumburg, and three bridges had }.: - ,,, tot •own over th e Saale. • 'ifteen :grenadiers of the 13th line, between i;;;',4lal•Saalfeld, were surrounded by 96 Puts timasars : the Comniandant, who was a Colo i •- , ',i t ady.„need, •saying, Frenchmen surrender ! fa l sZleant killed him. The other grenadiers 4 t b u s a platoon, kill e d seven Prussians, anc, 1 1• 1 41 ,Went off,faster than the came. lecteei: . Liferent parts of the old guard are Itogb, •t weissenfels ; the General of Division , ltil - I C ° Omani's them. The Emperor visited 469 of ad vanced posts notwithstanding the bad leti I t h weather. Ills Majesty enjoys excel ! • t ) e , fives of}, first blow w ith th e sa br e ' w hi c h w as jxk , s „, the r enewal Of this campaign at Weimar, !t ilea lt the ear of Alajor-General Blucher's son. lar k, t , Nlares e b a l d es Logis, of the 10th tins ! ofiv''e,llAt this Mow was g i ven . The inhabitants it 0 , "'ar remark, that the first sabre blow given }dl r ca mpaign of 1806 at Saalfeld, and which liatelivi;'‘i'iiiteie Louis of Prussia,' was given by .. a k/ et0 .',, 411 nes Logis of the same-regiment. „ 8 u vr • , tti v , (i ti ll , l ,lesty the Empress and Queen has re ! tt th e l e following intelligenc e of the situation I 'ayy army at ni ne i n t h e morning -of the 2d 0 • 1 )1 4,6 1 _ 1 _, t ( l'e Ist May, the Emperor Mounted: On , Nos4,cl, nine in the morning, with the Prince ttlf itt"a• General Solthanals division put it tlenees!ntotion towards' the fine plain which cora 11Pott the heights •ot ‘Vtissenfels and ca -Irto th e I; . $ll l . O . li .. 'llns division was formed in so„ ”..of four battalions each, ttni fie • e s from th ces of c „, tltl tot ler, and each square Naving'tour Aneral Behind the square was placed Tc.,'„aor'itlien't*,4Vaitai4ya,(l:vh°ol. bcavalry; a r!uriilvd6edr‘ riscirelen, and for en ' lilt 's divisions came behinfl, 1134 ' 11 ,, I r e d• i. l l the same manner as Son.. 111 th e ri g h t ' t -tars,lial the Duke of Istria was h: C At elev en l o tliall the 1 of the g uard. Lava Prin t clock this disposition was mane. th e „,, "" of Moskw a • I . '"cloy's cav , i in of a cl . oud of itta se i f cavalry, which covered the plain, put se i. z r tmOoti ed II • upon the defile of Poserna.— lulow, Pon sever a l villages without giving a 1 4 4 1 1'11e ener nrocean• o ne of th. r , upon tlieheights of the alai six . idlest positions that can be seen ;. , iae s of Pleces'ot carmen, and presented three ~ cavalry, • de 'ne first 2' ehar,e,''hare-passed the defile at the pcjs . co7it. arAIRISt cries of 1 Nye l'Empereur ! "'tit! lotted throughout the line. It seized 1.11, th e heigh t pp, 1 s1( he tour' squares of Souham's: 1 i .P" P a ssed the de fi le to '''"° oth •• • , tei afo (-1 I VISIO . IIS of cavalry then ; caMe 411 110 4. t ee the enemy, with twenty piecei, of 11 1 Ore I,, e l it c annanaile - became lively, • The enemy b i t ! Eir cite r t t e gave ground. Souharn's division th e 1 Lutzen ; Girard's took the direction cc eft— e, 4 , the t„iii road. tes. Emperor, wishing to 'reinforce the bat ` - 'the tl / 4 t his kst division, sent twelve pieces of Itt nuclei the orders of his Aide-de 'encral Drouet, and thi s ' re i n f orcemen t Llt'g q ie l ( ! Prodigie s . The ranks of the enemy's. i t ! - 4a tt eve.overthrown by grape-chqt. At the 4 i 11,iietit the Vi ceroy deboucliedfrom Merse e 6 1I 'V k lq ! t h e elevenih corps ; coininandeci by clle of Tarentuin and the fifth, commanded s l rag Lane. G • AL' corps !sum. user,' antis , the left, upon the high road from iNat a Rit to - Leipsie ; that of the Duke of v i n'i where the Viceroy 'was,' on the tright. t e i ., er y, hearing the brisk cannonade to 4 - , 9 ", Place' at• Lutzen; made a more, 1 'lle right 'al i d the Emperor, almost at the ,thine 4 Nonie nt a ' • k, . at the village of Lurzen. • litm and, in succession, .Bremer IL r sd}i and .04 4 tv uivisto os , 1,0002_4 settled when they . passed the defile ; but the bp- , t t Sl 44, ' l) o alry entered in line were therefore. driVen frinu these gteWas j nearly the same number of infantry. tl ir neral • winzingeiode who commanded' ' 6 4 , 4l ltk„ i e s ‘ divisions, one of which was General of ita'„ lttr The enemy displayed but One-division a l , ! I t eis se Y n ' t * liceome more prudent by the battle con k , and astonished at the fine order ( ' I l l toa t i i ' ll ';' 1 1 (/ of our march, the enemy dared not b Y our P3rt of our infantry, 'and was crush killetil,"Pe-shot. Our loss-amounted to 33 65 wounded, one a Chief of Bat ialCist°34 may be considered as extremely th ree ,(,)11tparisors to that of the enemy, who t l 4 4.! vOlo .414, or w o • ue.s, 39 officers, and 400 men the hilt ;4"d'td,tihesides great. number of sq l .' l ist ort , r tY one of those fatalities with which ,t}, t l w as ' war is _full, t he fir st cannon-bal l hi tti atik e „,;.'l*.i.ed on this d a y str u c k t h e wri e st of '•-•nt g i i i : 144 141, 1 . ti v i r a I pie rce d hi s gro i n, and Wed ti•t 1 e ° f t( ue had a d vance d 56 paces f rom ~Plitt. tirailleu rs , i n order to reconno i tre ti 14 4 114 Atti I ' Bo 4, who has a j ust t i t l e to ni . be na 4ild juit, 'was equally recommendable for • )t , la 4. 1 ~~ his military coup &wit, by his great experience in managing 'cavalry, as by his civil totalities and his attachment to . the Emperot. Ilis death upon the . field of honour is the more worthy of envy, it was' so rapid that it inust have been without, pities. 'There arc few losses which could, have more sen-• sibiy affected the Emperor's heart ; the army and all France will partake of the grief his :Majesty felt. • " The Duke of Istria, since the first Italian campaigns, that is,- for. sixteen years, had always, in differentranks, commanded the Emperor's guard, which folloWed him in all his campaigns and bat tles. " The sang fibid, good-will, and- intrepidity of the young soldiers astonished the veterans and all the officers. It' is a proof of the saying, that to souls well born, virtue does not wait- a number of years.' • "-His Majesty bad, on - the night between the Ist and 2d of May, his head-tivarters at Lutzen ; the Viceroy is at Markrandstedt ; the Prince. of Moskwa is at Keya ; mid the DAC of Ragusa is, at Poserna. Generalliertrand was at , StohSsen ; the Duke of Reggio in march upon Naumbui'g. " At Dantzic, the garrison has obtained- great advantages, and made so successful a sortie, that it took prisoners a corps 0f*3009 Russians. " The garrison of • ‘Viteenberg.also appears to have distinguished itself, and to have, in a sortie, - caused' considerable injturto_the enemy. A letter in Cyphers., 'which has this momeet arm ved from the garrison of Glogau, is; conceived in these touts : " All goes on well, the Russians have. made se veral attempts upon this- place ; they have been always repulsed with much loss, three or- four thousand men blockade us, sometimes leSs, some- times. more. The trenches have been opened ; (hiring two days the fire from our batterlei forced them to abandon their project. (Signed) - General. LAPLANE. , ' '" Glogau, April 13, 1813." ' Her Majesty the Empress and Queen Regent litho received news from the Emperor, from the field of battle, - two leagues in advance of Lutzen, the 2d, , of May, at ten o'clock inthe-evening, at the mi . )- went when , the Emperor had thrown himself utidli a. bed to take some hours sleep. " The Emperor informs ber.Majesty, that he has gained the most complete victory overthe Rns sian and Prussian army, commanded by the -Em peror Alexander and King of Prussia, in person ; that in this battle more than,lso,oooeanuon-balls ballbeen fired; that the troops covered themselves • with glory in it ; and that notWithstasuling the immense inferiority of cavalry which the Frenth,. army had,-that goirdwill and 'c oura g e„ inherent iii Frenchmen, supplied every thing. The enemy was briskly pursued. • " No Marshal, no person composing the house hold of the Emperor, was killed or wounded. MAY ,9.—The Empress Queen and Regent has received the following intelligence from the ar my, .dated the 3d of May, nine o'clock in the " The Emperor at.break , ot dity . of the 3d tra versed the field of battle., At ten o'clock lie put himself in motion to follow the enemy. His head-quarters, were on the 3d, in the evening, at , Pegau. • 7 The 'Viceroy bad his at Wichstanden, half way between Pegatt and Borne. ' •"" Count Lauriston, whose corps had taken no part in the battle; set out train Leipsic, to . march upon Zweinkaw, where.he 4ad arrived. The Duke of Ragusa bad passed the Elster, at the village of Lcitz-Kowitz, and Count Bertrand had passed. it at the village of Gredel. The 'Prince of Moskwa was. in a position upon .the field of battle, The Duke of Reggio, from Nattibtirg, was marching upon Zeist. "The Emperor of Russia and King of Prussia passed through. Pepin, in the night of the 2d, and - arrived in the -village of. Loberstedt; at eleven o'clock at night. They reposed there four hours, and -set ;. out on the 3d, at -three o'clock in the morning, in the direction of Borna. " The enemy has not recovered, from his, asto nishment, at finding :himself beaten on so large a plain, by 'an - army so greatly inferior in • cavalry. Several Colonels and superior pincers, taken pri soners, assure us, that at the enemy's head-guar tens, they had eat learned of the hunperor's pre sence at the afmy, till the battle had commenced they believed the Emperor to be at Erfurt. • ". As idway,s happens in ,similar eireumstarcee, , the Prussians accuse the Russians of 'not having fought well. The greatest confusion prevails in their retreat, several of those pretended volun teers which 'were, raised in Prussia have been made, prisoners ; they cause- pity. All declarethat they west enrolled by force, and on pain of seeing their property and families.' confiscated. The. country people say that a Prince of Hesse Hom burg was killed ; that several Russian and Pmtss' sian Gentrals -have been killed or wounded:— The Prince of Mecklenburg Strelitz is alto re- Atoned to be killed ; but ; this intelligence is yet but. the reports of the country. 'The joy of these countries at being delivered from the Cossacks is indiscribable. The haa . bitants speak with contempt of all the ICroclatua lions and attempts which have been acute to tempt them to insurrection. • . " The Russian and Prussian aimy was composed of the corps of the Prussian Generals Yorck, eller, and Billow, and those'of the Russian bene rals Wittgenstein, Winzi ngerode, Miloradowitsch, 'and Tortiatzow; The Russian and Prussian 'guards' were likeWisi there. The l'ilmperor of Russia, the K i ng - o f issessiti, the Prince Royal of Prussia, tind all the Princes Jt the Royal House o Prussia were in the battle. . , - The combined. Russian and Prussian-army is estimated - ut from ,11:40 . . tO-200,Q00:Inen. Alj . . o , • f it 1 ,e4, - 4.110 • % ek. I /1116" act° • . 4,3 AL X9i,"O,I 4•. , (TiN r" *, • _ - •v. .1, x.J ,Ll, • ,„ • ~\ • •/11r i i\\ ' SAT U DA Y, MAY 15, 1813. [PIZSCt the Russia; cuirassiers rere there, and have s.uf fered greatly.“—rillonitew, 10:.) • Her Majesty the Empress Queen aTkr Regent has received the thllowing intelligence of the Si tuation of the armies, • on the 4th of May,. in the evening " Emperor's head-quarters were, on the evening of the 9th, at Boma. "'Those of the Viceroy at .Cplditz. Those of. General Count Bertrand at.g.roh,; burg. " Those of General Count Lauriston at 11M al- bus. .“ Than of the,Princeof Moskwa at Leipsic ; and those of the Duke of Reggio'at Zeitz. The enemy is retiring; .on Dresden, in, the greatest disorder, and by every. road. " All the villages in th road of the army are found full of Russian and Prussian wounded. • " The Major-General Prince of Neufchatel has given orders for the interment of the Prince of Meeklenburgh Strelitz, on the morning of the •lth, at Pegau, with all the honours due to his rank. • In the battle of the 2d, General Damoutier, who commands the• division of the young guards, has_sustained the reputation which he had already acquired in the preceding campaigns. lie bestows high praise on his division. The General of Di vision, Irenier, was w.finntled. The Generals of Brigade, Chemineau and Grillot,, Were wounded, and have sutler - et' amputation. " By a calculation of the number' of cannon shot tired in the battle, it is found to be less con siderable than was at first believed ; only 39;600 cannon-shot were fired. At the battle of,Alosk wa there were fired ppwards 50,000." Max 8.--Her Majesty the Einpress Queen and Regent has received the following intelligence from the army The battles of Weissenfels and Lutzen were but the prelude -of events at the highest Impart- The - Emperor Alexander and the King of. Prussia, who. : had arrived at . Dresden, with their fortes, the latter end of April, learning that the French army had debauched from the-Thuringe, adopted the plan of giving battle on the plains of Lauzeu, and put themselves in motion to occupy the' position, but they were anticipated by the ra pidityvflt4 Moveindats of the French array; they, however, •persisted in their projecti, and resolved to attack the army to drive it from the positions it had taken. • • " The position of, the French army was nd the 2d. of May, at nine o'clock in the morning, .as fol. IOwS :--4he left of the army leaned npoo. the El;• - , ster ; it was formed by the Viceroy., Gavin under his orders the sth and Ilth. corps.. The centre was .commanded by the Prince 'of Moskwa,-- in. the village of Kira. The Emperor, with the_young aid old guard, was at Lutzen. The Duke ofilii; gusa was at the defile of POS2lllo,.and formed - the light with his three di vicious, General Licr valid, commanding. the 4th 'corps, marched ,to proceed,-to this defile. The enemy t debouched fluid passed the sister, at the • bridges of ZrVenkakti, Pegau,, and Zutz. The Emperor, hopiwg to anti.! cipate him in his movement, and thinking that he could not attack till the, sth, advanced. \General Lauriston, whose carps formed the extreme of the left, marched upon Lcipsic, in order to disconcert the enemy's projects, and place the drench' army, for the day of the ad, quite different to that upon which the enemy had calculated to find it, and in which it was, in reality, ,on 2d; and by this Means carry confusion and disorder into their co ition's.. At nine in the morning, his Majesty, having heard a cannonade from the side. of Leipsie; pro,- ceeded there at full gallop. The enemy defended -the` small village of ..testeaan, - and the bridges, in advance of Lcipsic. His Majesty only waited the moment when these gst positions should be car ried to put .in motion . all his army in that direc tion, make it pivot on Leipsic, pass to the right bank. of the Lister,- and, take the enemy a revers ; tint,.ut ten o'clock, the enemy's army debauched towards Kira upon several columns extremely deep; the horizon was obscured by them, "The enemy .prescnted , forces which appeared immense. " The Emperor immediately made his disposi tions.. The Viceroy received orders to march upon the left of the Prince of Moskwa hut three hours were necessary to execute this movement. The Prince of Moskwa placed his men under anus, And with five divisions supported, the battle, which, at the end of half an hour, became terrible. " ilis Majesty himself marched at the head of the list guard, behind the centre of the army, sup. Dorting the right of the Prince of M os k wa . Th e uke of Ragusa; with'his three divisions, occupied the extreme right. General Bet fraud had orders to debouch upon the enemy's rear, at the thoment in which the lineshould be most strongly engaged. Fortune was pleased to crown with the most bril liant success all these dispositions. The enmity, who appeared certain of the •success of his enterprise, marched to reach our right, and gain the road of Weissenfels. Gen .Compans ,Gen ,of Battle of the first Merit, at the head of the first division of the Duke of Ragusa, stopped him. quite short. ,The marine regiments supported several charges with sangfroid, and covered the fiehl ot battle nub the best of the enemy's cavalry. But the great efforts of infant r y, ea,valry, and artillerv, were directed against the venue. Four of Vrinee Moslva's five divisions were already engaged. The village of Kaia was taken and retaken several times. This, village remained in tide enemy's power. Count de Lobau Airected Gen. Rican' to retake the vil lage—it was retaken. " The battle embraced a line of two leagues, 'covered with tire, smoke, and clouds of dust.- The Prince of Moskwa, Generals Souham, and-Gene.. ral Girard; were every iviter% making head again:A every thing; the 'hitter was wounded with sevewl balls. Gen:Girard wished to remain on the field of battle ; hedeclared he wished to `die comntand ing and directing his tvoops, as the moment bad arrived for ail Frenchmen, Who' possessed any heart, to-conquer or perish: However, he began to perceive from afar the dust and first lire of Get!. Bertrand's corps ; at the same moment, the-Vice - roy entered in.line npon the left, and ,the Duke of Tarentum attacked the enemy's reserve, and reached, the village, upon which the enemy rested his right. tit this moment the enseny redoebled his efforts upon the centre ;, the -village of Baia was again taken, our centre gave (flechet). soma. battalions fled (se deband derinf ); but these valorous youths, at the sight of the Emperor, rallied, ex claiming Vice I'Empereur •His Majesty jutig,t;d that the critical moment which decides the gain ing or losing of battles had arAed: there was, no longeret moment to be hest. The Em‘peror or dered the Duke of Treviso - to march with sixteen, battalions of the young _guard to the Village ,of Kaia, overthrow the enemy, retake the rillage,and overcome every thing he met with there:, " At the same moment hisMaiesty ordered his Aid-de-Camp, General Dronet, an Artillery Officer of the greatest distinction, to form a battery of. 80 pieces, and placeit in,advance of the old Guard, which was formed in echelyns, as 'fimr redoubts to support .the centre, all orir cavalry ranged in battle/ behind. Generals, Dulauley, Dronet, and Devaux, sit out at full gallop, With their 80 pieces of artillery in the same groupe. " The fire becatne dreadful. The enemy gave way on all sides. The ,Duke of Treviso obtained possessiOn of the Village of Kahl, ovei threw the enemy, and contioned to advance, beating the. charge. The enemy's cavalry, infantry, and ar tillery, all retreiited. Gen. Bonnet, commanding one of the Duke of Ragusa's division, reeeivedPrders to make- a move ment upon Kahl, by his left to support the isuc cess of the centre. lie sustained , several charges of cavalry, with the enemy, nevertheless,'General Count Bel.tranzi - advanced awl entered the line. It was in vain that the enemy's cavalry capered about his s9uares, Ids march was not relaxed by it. To rejotn hinf the sooner the Emperor order ed a change of direction by pivoting Ott :Cala. The whole of the right made a change i r front, the "right wingforemost. " he enemy then fled, and We penned him for a league ati'd a half. We soon, arrived 'at the heights whieb had been occupied by the Ruperor A.lexatuter, the King of Prussia, anti the Branden buTh family during the .battle. Ail Officer who was , token prisoner there informed ,its of this cir cumstance. . • " We have guide several thousand prisoners. 'l'he Number could not be more considerable, con sidering the inferiority of our cavalry and the de sire the Emperor had shown of sparing it. '' At the commencement of the battle the Em peror said to the t'Voops-- 3 It is a battle like thos* in Egypt, a •good infantry;supparted by artillery, should be sufficient for it.' ". General. Gourd, Chief of did P ince of Mosk. wa''s Staff, was killed ; a death woi,thy of so good a soldier Our loss amonnts to 10,01)0 men killed and wounded ; that of. the enemy may be - esti mated at 25 or 30,000 men. The Royal Prussian Guards are destroyed: The Emperor of Russia's Guardslhave witfered considerably, and the two divisions of ten regiments of Russian cuirassiers are destroyed. Ills Majesty cannot pay a sufficient euloginm to the good will, courage, and intrepi dity of the army. 'Our young soldiers took no danger into, conSideration; They have in this great instance shown all the nobleness of the French bluod. " The Chief of the Stair in his relation 'men tions the fine actions which'have shed a lustre on this brilliant day, which, like' a clap of thunder, Fins pulverised the chimerical hopes and all the calculations for, the destruction and dismember ment of the Empire. The cloudy train collected by the C Willa' of St. "James's during a whole winter is in an instant destroyed, like the Gor. than knot by !he sword of,Alexamkr. " The Prince of Hesse Hombiwg was killed; _ the ,prisoners say,' that the Prince Royal of Prus , na is 'wounded, and the _Prince -of Meek leuhurgh Strelitz • " The infailtrpor the oltt,guarils, bnly six bat talions of which arrived, by their presence kept tip the affair with that sang froia with which they nit, characterisetiHthey girl not gre a musket.--- L itlf the artily was nit engaged : for the four' divisions of General Lattriston's corps have tiott nothing but occupy Leipsic—the three divisions of the Vake of Reggio woe still two days' march froin r the field of battle—Count Bertrand .did not tharge but with one of his division;', and so light lv that it did not lose 50 men • his 2d,and 3d &Ni t sions did not charge at all. "'The 'second division, of the young Guarik,, cOmmanded by General Barfois; Were :still five &lays' march oV,. it \vas the same with hail the oh'l Guank,Curnmandeol by Gencral Decuti!e. ! •skll44 .was.thcn only at Erfurt. "The Doke of I.3ellunO's corps vi as ai - So throe r;. :tiflVS' from . the field at baffle, Ger ,bia:iti,runt t,he iuc i : scor 4 i so c , f of the Elbe, • ;4 The allied army, 150,000 to 200,000 men st rCing j COlMr i . tr Iltle4 t il i y i e t I . l , e ti t o w c o es S o o f t veti ie eiginisous„et with ,f ii great mn o Pru Asia, lif)s thus been defeated and put to rout by less than the half of the French army.' • • ‘‘ The. field Of battle presenter `the uniSt affect ing spet;taele. The young soldiers, on seeing !,he Emperor, forgot their sufferings; and exelainied, (# Vivo l'Empereur P'--", It is now 20 years (siiiit the Emperor) that I have eommiinded the French I. armies, but I have never yet lvitnessed soinuelx brovery and devotion !" [For the isteinsintie'e See the . Lust Perise,l ~`: