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calculated to make iii , te.perusal of his work. The he insists, namely, theft: r must have been hero) Rhine by the Ifteieb accomplished at the e Ever since the peaa/" remained in the heart alb. part of the Grand Arran seven corps, had, the preceding Austrians and Russians, was 'rancon;s, and on the I of Otiober, Napoleon soul that animated this which thronged numberless France, from the states Confederacy, horn Holland, and --: formed seven corps, to advancing under Marshal impetuous torrent that kept nearer. the forest of Thuringia progress. The army of the , itself upon it. was di. . corps. The left wing, who had his head-quar of Silesian and East strengthened by 20,000 SilXoilS were the King and the the regiments fr m the Halberstadt, the Circle Mark, and the recently together with the garrisons of ewer of the troops, who men from the left wing. Saxons. The right wing Lieutenant-General von wn together from Lower I " . ..ner al V.)12 sing with a distiat corps, corps of 14,000 Hessians coy fidently calculated on. 120,000 men. covertd a miles, along the frontiers of Werrathal, beyond Eisenach. It secure all these frontiers by , front Ash, and the itordele I side, to Fulda on tike ith extraordinary estsstrs; y concentrated Werrathal to Ms. Thou,. \ y advanced Am* and to the centre. At Eilkt j erince of bkeptigse bit sg those of Genera .RuChel, to moment. irresolutirso para. Prassians ; they Iknew not ,nr themselves, await !uisked Prussian General host i di • 1 of operations, which attended with more sue. which was adopted, and of success. to push foe _ Eisenach t. - 1 Fulda and beyond Gotha, to Wait sburg, Coburg, to Bamberg. prejudicial consequences. The Tatienzien, posted too far exposed, and an oppor enemy to turn the left of army. adversaries escaped not the pen.- ' - position of the Pru.sians which was deemed invin nature, was soon turned. !tench Emperor was ac advancing of two colums. The Prirce of Pont. COTVO, ilnder Marshals Ney and Soult, 9th of ()Bober, from Bay- Lobenstein. and Schleis. and the possessions of the d.s,nay in all direaions. detachmeuts ut id/4.41411M, and light country AS far as Leipe , g. 'auenzien, who thus found him from the main army, sue , fighting his way through the obliged to leave his baggage, too-moch-esposed magazines the French. of this corps, the Prince I the van of the Prussian It was lcd on by Prince Prussia, a nephew of the great who had gained laurels in french. On the loth, near the other French column, , under the Marshals Auge were hastily advancing from Coburg and Gratent° al. regiment and a half of Pius ' Saxon infinity, and two Princt Lzuis, with his I rite 1 ehameteristic inteepidfty l attacked the superior fmree 1 of the French. They sustained some lost, and a Saxon 'Misery dettroyed the bridge across the Saale. ken content with this, Prince Louis, with his 6 or , 7000 brave followers, resolved to obtain still greater advantages. Regardless of the great superiority of the enemy, and the destrudive fire, which made , great havoc among the Saxons, he repeated his at. tacks till he himself and his corps fell vidlims to his temerity. A French subaltern °Ricer of hussars struck the royal hero from his horse ; he died a glorious death, which spared him the pain of the subsequent untoward events. The French took en this occasion 30 pieces of cannon. General von Trutzsehler, with a few of his men, were alone so fortunate as to cut their way through the enemy. These losses, sustained on the very first day on which the curtain of the great military drama was drawn up, had a very unfavourable influence upon the Fate of the Prussian army. They diminished the confi dente and ardour of the troops, deprived them of the means of subsistence, and placed the army in a very critical situation. For, in proportion as the two wings of the French advanced, Napoleon had push ed f Itward the centre beyond Gera. The Marshals Lannes and Augereau occupied, with the left wing, the ground, quitted by the Prince of Hohenlohe. While they were at Jena and Kahla, the right wing of the French inundated the ►eauttful plains of Saxony, which were completely expo►ed to the very gates of Dresden, covered the whole road from Gera to Leipzig with hus sars and chasseuis, and extended its advanced posts to Weissenfels and Natimburg, wliere another ♦aluable magazine fell loth the hands of Marshal Davoust. This rapid progress of the right wing of the French, forced the Prussian army into a situation, the perplexities of which are thus described by Napoleon in his third bulletin. dated the 13-h of °Rohm :—"• The Weser, whore the Lenemy had ereled batteries, the Saalo , which he likewise designed to defend, arts) all the other rivers. have been turned nearly in the same manner as the Iller last year ; so that the French army is posted at the SaAle, having the Elbe in its rear, and is march ing against the Prussian army, which, nn iii part, wises back towards the Rhine ; a sing • rl,tr position, ifittitkmust be produftive of important ereots." - -114tst a were soon developed. Thema of the following * !n ty :toscl the Feld of battle, in which the horrors lo ar 'tined with infinitely greater fury than in the neiileitaring field& of Lutzen, swims, fell Gustavus .Adoteh . M, the great Monarch of Sweden, and of —..en, where the founder of It e military glory of Prtiala totally Toitad the French army MOW the Prince do Swims*. on the sth of November, 1757. The beies who tell on that day slept too soundly to be atvaktirod by the thunder of the artillery, or to again to eaUst the present deint4or of toe Prus sian ttanda • The ardour which th e v i c i n i ty o f Hoshach. an phiesformeily won would have ea cited, Cited, was, and t the present circumstances, extin guish •d. 'foe Prussians, suirounded and cut off from Dresden, began to be greatly in want of dro • visions, and what was wore, of ammunition and military stores. Cooler observers likewise disco vered a want of that steady unity of plan, by which alone a mau can be moved and guided. It is also said, that, on the moron% of the battle, when a 4hick fog favoured the attacks of the French, the i plan was essentially altered by the Doke of Bruns ' wick, and thus, in the very first instance, confusion was inevitable. So much t h e greater was the unity in the move ments oldie force under the diredion of Napoleon. He formed the design of terminating the war by a tingle blow. At Marengo he conquered Italy 1 at Ulm, Vienna:: and now a single day was destined to open to him the gates of all the fortresses of Prussia. Whether a less powerful military state. a General not so inexhaustible in resources, should have adopted such a plan. and have placed the fortune of the whole campaign on the uncertain re sult of a few house, is. aWyenftiOn, which it belongs not to an historian to resolve. Humanity must re. joke when one battle drills what formerly was the result of many bloody engagements. With this mode of fighting, peculiar to the Emperor Napo leon, none of the destruflive battles of the seven years war can be compared. Every campaign war then produaire of several others, which were at fart without any decisive issue. Antiquity alone affords circumstances for a parallel. Thus Cyrus. in the single battle of Sinope, conquered the kingdom of Cretins, in Asia Minor; thus Cambyses, at Pclu sium, subdued Egypt, and the whole known pot. Lion of Africa; thus Philip of Macedon destroyed, at Cherenea, the liberties of Greece ; thus Alex ander, at Gangamela. overthrew the' Persian Mo mently of Darius; and thus Oaarius. at /idiom, secured the dominion of the world, the sove reignty of which he contested with the unfortn nate Anthony. The t a•h of Ofloiser is an extremely unpropitious ' s day in she annals of Prim'. On this day s is the kirch,, which deprived Vat of the deft Oil of Itis . • army. Far more severe was the lass sustained by ' the grandson of Frederick's brother, on the 14th 91 Dauber in the present year. His army, after it had I been turned, had adyaneed in a different direaion towards the' French. The King's head-quarters, which had proceeded from Erfurt to 13Iankenhein, were removed north Ward to Auerstadt ; the right wing, commanded by Lieutenant General Von Rachel, supported itself ttpon Weintar, and on the left was the Prince of Hohenlohe. Thus the i Prussians formed a line from Hassenbausen, op posite kfaumburg, by Auerstadt and Weimar, to I Capellendorf, the strength of which was certainly 1 otter-rated.by the French, it nearly 130,000 men. ; The matelial force on each side was nearly equal, but nor so were circumstances and positkrnt. 1 On the 14th, before the morning dawned, the French rushed forward to take possession of all the eminences in the vicinity of Jena. They hid taken advantage of the ipg, and meted covered batteries, under the proteltion of which they extended over the plains, the approaches to which were occupied 1 by the Prussians, with a view to make an attack on that quarter. About six (English) miles from Jena the two armies met. A most violent attack on the Pru-sian left wing, under the Prince of Hohenlohe, commenced the engagement, which became genera) when the fog dispersed. Immediately afterwards the centre was likewise attacked at Camellendosfe la the plain between the first Saxon post-town, Auer staia, and the village of Dornburg. 'Twas here that the reigning Duke of Brunswick commanded. T•is heroic General led on his troops in person, re eardl.-as of his venerable age, his high station as Commander-in-Chief, and the importance of his safe.y for the whole army. At seven in the morn ins, before he could complete the regulations for he bloody day, he received a musket-ball, which J. priced him of his sight fur ever. He had, it is said, the plan of operations in his pocket, and took it away with him, when he was carried senseless .tom the field of battle. The early I , )SS of the unfortunate Prince who bad the direettun of the Prussiao forces, produced a con fusion, the consequences of which the venerable Field Marshal vuu Mollendarf, by whom he was re laced, was utterly incapable of preventing. The Prussians now fought without plan, according to the jud.ment of the individual Commandors.. Such A mode of resistance was not calculated to with stand the regular attacks of the French army...- The centre of the Prussian army was thrown into confusion. and the Prince of Hohenlohe was obliged to give way with the left wing, whose retreat was covere I by the brave Saxon cavalry. Marshal I . ) 4.. 'IOUS' , On the right wing of the French, eontrihuted the most to the viaory, occupying the defiles of Nannthurg, making himself master of the narrow piss of K•isen. advancing and pursuing, for hours. the corps of the Prince of Hohenlohe. The flower of the Prussian and Saxon cavalry was driven into the hollow of the Muhl valley, near Jena, and suf fered so exceedingly from the unfavourable nature of the ground, and the general disorder, that it was almost totally cut in pieces or taken prisoners The engag recent was particularly bloody in the vicinity of the village of Capellendort The French ha)l crated a masked battery on an eminence on. the other side of the villan-, and while the burning houses aft forded them pr tnnion, they attacked with musketry the line which remained, for some hours, in the midst of this fire. The cannonading was heard throughout a circumference of nearly 100 miles; it was continued from early in the morning till even ing, and was dreadful beyond description. What an effea must have been produced by the 7 to 800 piece. of cannon, which, supported as the French account states, by between 230 and 300.000 men, dealt destruCtion over every part of the narrow and intersected ground! The Prussians had ear ., tautly more artillery than the Freneb, but their am- , munition soon failed. Their powder is said to have been wet through, and of such bad quality. that the balls had no force. The French, nevertheless, fell in whole ranks, especially before the eminences snrrounding Jena. which were obstinately defended. In the defiles, at the foot of them. were posted Prussian Jagers, while the middle and summits were occupied by a numerous artillery, which kept • up an incessant fire. The French grenadiers, how ever,•fastening their knapsacks to their hats and helmets, ascended these eminences. If they mani fested a cool contempt of death, the Prussian army also exhibited many instances of heroism ; of which Frederick William the 111. himself, set a brilliant example. The Monarch manifested the greatest personal bravery, amid the hottest fire; and after severa l horses bad been shot under him, he plated himself at the head of a brigade of cavalry, for the purpose of making a new attack. With thew exertions, especially of the Pntssian cavalry, the issue of the crinflia could not have been the total iniu of an mellow army. had not the onexPeaed arrival of twit fresh divitious of corps .under Marshal Key, completed Ye dissint of the Prussians. 1 hese two divisions of infanti y, which had seen marching ell r4ht. and ....Lose vancing htd not been calculated Upon in the of .operations of the Pronian General, , ente re d about noon into the ranks, when the contend. ',iqg..parties,were already fatieued. As 11,e wheal of Dessaix, with 10,000 men, docitle4 the bathe of Marengo, so this new reinfoaaentent of 10,000 fresh troops, on this ',cession, gave the via..ity. The; disorder which prevailed in particular among s the Prussian' infantry, rendered the dhpn.4t;n n retreat, according to the rules of art. utterly impos sible. It was a total rout, welch was still farther increased by the attack ot the Frenas cailthji which now fist came into anion, under the Grand Doi.: of. Berg, and was necessarily attended ;;th 411(11 ' : Isms. These consisted, according to the report, of between 10 and 40,000 prisoners, Whom Were twenty Generale, thirty pair of OP pieces of,calinon, and immense magazines.— Accounts from the wretched country, which was tits scene of these horror., estimate the number of killed and woonded, on both sides, at 40,000. A foresight afterward', the bodies of the slain lay piled ill beeps : the adjacent towns and villages wire bertwd and destroyed. Bellona had chased the *id Muses from Weimar, the Athens o! C,rrosny, birch we, the i.one of a battle, which is one of sliii most memorable in all modern history. In the Berlin Papers it was named After the rout f Anerstadt, where the King .tail his head -quarters; but the conquerors denominated it the battle of Jena. Its consequences are incalcslable with re sp;i4l to the future fate of the Prussian monarchy , hitherto numbered among the most powerfoli en.- litary states ; to the relations of the countries la the North of Germany, which were to have formed with her a Confederation in opposition to ihst of the Rhine ; and to the altered form Ind situ a ti o n of all Europe. In this place we have only to relate the immediate consequences of the 14th of 08ober, which succeeded in rapid suet's-S.4in, and to any extraordinary extent. The Empreor Napoleon said in one of bin Bulletins, that be had terminated the campaign against Prussia in seven days. The int blond wan spilled on the lith of ()etcher and the 14th put him in possession of the greatest pan of the Prussian monarchy, together wish her bulwarks and fortified places. The history of the succeeding d.iyi is only a narrative of the - uninterrupted pro. secutioa of the advatstages obtained by the viaary. Dame were followed up with the rapidiey which charaaerises all the operations of Napoleon, before the dispersed fugitives could reottoenable, before one of the three corps retreating in different direc tions could gain a firm footing. The left wing took the way to Weimar, while the right and the centre retreated from Weimar to Naumhstrg. The Saxon:immediately abandoned the cause of Prussia. on which condition the prisoners were set at liberty ; their hitherto happy country was from this moment to be considered as owl of the States of the Raids Confederacy. The day :slier the engagement, on the 13th of Oltober, a corps of 14,000 Prussians, which had thrown itself into Erfurt, was obliged to surrender. with magaaises and 123 pieces of cannon, to Prince Murat. With this corps were held Marshal von Mollendorf, the Prince of Orange, and several Generals. Thus fell the first Generals of the Pr.is. sian army. Lieutenant General son Ruche'. who was in the agonies of death in a neighbouring village, likewise shared the same fate before Ise expired. The inexpressibly unfortunate Noce of the cele brated race of the Guelphs, enda, on the 10th of November, at Ottensen, near Altona, a life that had been devoted to the promotion of the happiness of his adoring sulle&s. H. now saw the fruits of his long exertions suddenly Wasted ; he beheld the Duchy, inherited from his ancestors, as a conquered country, in the hands of the French. —The same priut:iple as was enforced will-. respell to Brunswick, namely, the tenure of mi litary rank in the Prussian service, served as a pre_ text for the occupation of the Eleflorate of Hesse. and the disarming of its brave troops. Marsha: Mottier was the officer by wooin this was accord plhbed ; on this he proceeded to Ilatiover, of which she troops of the King of Holland, proceeding through Westphalia, at tl:e same time took pour.- sion. New corps kept continually advancing, and even the Italian guards from Milan. Overwhelmed by their vi.. 4 toriota antagonists. who extended themselves on all sides in 1.1,1,-.er Saxony, as well as in the circle of Lower Salons% along the Oder and Havel, and ott both shoe sof the Elbe, the detached Prussian emps, which we' endeavnuting to escape them, fell, after mail OS' a vailirg heroic exertions, into their hands. Oa* of these, 13,000 in number, which was endeavourier to reach Magelehargh, was overtaken at Nor.itirio ten. by Mailbal S"oft, who took from it 1 ~2.)0 pry' loners and SO pieces of cannon. Th 4 many Lai:Cf:'," fasten ash Sot, es account of a winter campaign, are now c deep impression, on a re•perul previous condition on which hi to command success, the war I •• before the crossing of the I 0 troops, could out be accost tnencemest of this contest. E • Freiburg, the French had ret Germany. The greatest part which, divided into seven con; year, vanquished the Austria still .ip Suabia, Bavaria, Fr Saxon frontiers. On the $d appeared at Wurzbarg, the sr prodigious force, to which Warriors from the interior of . 440.11; Rhenish Confederacy, Beim Italy. These again fo which an eighth was ;dear 3Eortier: Such was the impet approaching nearer and neare was intended, that the should set limits to its propel of Prussia, supporting ii trided into three principal cc ender Prince Holienlohe, whc tars at'Gera, war composed Prussiro regiments, stresithet In the centre, at Erfurt, wei Daus of BrunseriA, with the provinces of Magdeburg, H of the saale, the Middle MN acquired Ihuringa, together Berlin and Potsdam, th. goer wieie reinfirced by 10,000 tar after the juns9ion of the Saz,] was formed at Eisenach, by L Tiuchel, With the troops draw Sunny and Hanover. L's Blocher supported this sing and the co-••peration of a co wigs it, seems to bare been cm Thus, this fine army of it lino of twenty German miles, Voigtland. to the \Verrathal, vhs at first designed to seem ate uninterrupted cordon, frau of Ifohcasia, en the one side, Nu►t the danger of this extra( 'doe apparent. The army c tte iipprnoches from the We gran bills, were occupied by the two wings drew sever to se— racircrepaiters of the Print removed to Jena. and those c Gelb.. In the decisive mom fist:Elbe energies of the Pr■ whether to attack the enemy, die assault A distnguisbed proposed a different plan 'lipoid, perhaps, have been at sinful results. That whirl which calculated, in case o Ward the right wing beyond Frankfort, the centre beyond and the left wing beyond I produced two highly prejudic corps of General ('ount t•at in advance, was left totally 44 tunity was afforded to the ens tie concentrated Prussian *err . ibis error of his adversarie nation of Napoleon. The r in this hills of . Thuringia, whi cable, and was defended by tat This great objed of the Fri nomplished by the advancing se condulled by the Prirce ileum commanded the Mar • platted cm the eth and 9th Ntlrs, by way of Hof, Lot Into Saxon Voigtland, and I I • Counts Runs, and spread di, by means of detachments ul troops, who scoured the cost The Count Von Tauenzien, self suddenly cut off from seeded, it is true, in fightin, enemy ; but he was obliged sad the impni Lint and too-mr at bier, in the hands of the F To facilitate the jurftion of of Hohealohe bad ordered rio left wing to advance. It Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Frederic ; a young hero, who the first war with the french Saalfeld, it fell in with the dispatched by Napoleon, unde rau and Linnet, who were h Schweinfurt, by wiy of Coh At the head of one regiment sian, and four regime• ts cf Sa Saxon reginuats of cavalry, r