The Sun. — London, England, 1805-12-28 00:00:00

,FliO2ll THE ROTTERI3,4M 'COURANT. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17. The Hamburg and other German leitersreceivd yesterday contain only a short account of the import ant battle which has taken place to the advantage of the French. From the intelligence written by Mar shal BERTRIER, on the field of battle, to Stutgard, and announced in the Moniteur of the 1 ith (that Paper of the 12th not being arrived), we gather only the following TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. Srt 4SBU . It p DEC. 9.—The Emperor has de- feated the Russians at Olmutz : half of their Army is annihilated, and - the rernalnder is in full flight." This day, however, we have received the follow ing account, published in the Vienna Court Gazette . • of the 6th inst. ; and also, from a respedahle quarter, the subjoined Order of the Day, dated on the 3d, and issued by the Einperor.l\7AkmEoN, from his. Head-quartrs, at Austerlitz. We haVe, besides, received ce' gain information that the 'Empe ror of 'the French and the EMperor of Austria had • 211 Juterview near the . field of battle, and that an Armistice was concluded bet Ween the •two Sore reigns. • • VICTORY. OF:AUSTERLITZ, • 9 314 thiEb BY Tim FRENCH ARMY ON THE 'D 0V DECEMBER, 1805. Front the 27th of November to the Ist of Decem ber every effOrt was Made to bring the Russians to a general engagement, and the measures taken to pro-. 171 9te.that object have had the most favourable result. • Indescribable was the joy with which the Freneh . • • from the heights on which NAPOLEON, in the, :,OPeo field, was posted, beheld the advanced posts of th e Russian Arrnyaivroaching, and a movement iutte from their flank, with the view of surround ' -I nt the French right wing. The ...Russians march ed irt column, in one line, to the length of four French miles beyond the French Army,which, mean - *i blie, remained immoveable in its position,. in 'order that the enemy,.. Who hastened with rapid steps to meet cicstruetion, might advance so near as to ren der it impossible, for them again to. escape. The French Emperor made - his dispositions for battle in the following order : Tie,gave to Marshal LANNES the command of the lef .wino ; to Marshal SOULT the command of the fight; and to Marshal BERNADOTTE the command t4e centre. Prince MURAT received the command 61 the cavalry, with which he was posted on a par ticular point. The left of Marshal LANNES ap *ached St. Anton, which , had been fortified - and n lounted With 18 pieces of cannon: .. SUCHP:T'S division formed the. left .of Mar , 3 hal I.4zo3es's ; the division of Gen. CAFIERELLI formed his right, and - was supported at the . same time by Prince Mu R AT'S cavalry. , • The van of this CaValry consisted of Gen.,KEL- . LERMAN'S HOssarg and Chasseurs, and of WALTHER and Br: AUMONi`'S divisions of Dragoons. The division formed of Generals NANSQVTI and HAUTrOULT'S Cuirassiers, with 24 field pieces, Was posted'as a re., serve. Marshal BERNADCi - rE, that is to say the• centre, atd on the left the division of Gen: RWAUP, Whiell also communicated with Prince RAT'S right wing, and' On the right the .diYision of General - PaotTET.. MarshalSout. T, who commanded the right:wing • of the Arn - iy, had dn. his left the division of General VAlrl)Amme, in,his centre the diYision of. General HiLAiRr., and on his right the cfnisidn of General Marshal •D'Avetisp Was detached. to the . right of GeneralsLaenAtqn to obsen'te the road between the lake - s'and the villages of Sokolnitz and Felsnitz.• , -. Be'll/t1 with him General FttlANi's division and the brageons Of.Gencral BOURCIER'S division. di • vision of General Gubtto was 'diteCted to march at 4,aY-I?reak from Nicelsburg, to stop the' corps of the ti'ernY, which was endeavontitt.g to turn the rid; it wing. The EmPtior Nnrcir..E6N, with his whole : General Staff's ten 'Battalions of the Imperial Guard, and tcn Battalions of GeneraiOnDtwoT's Grenadiers, finaned .• the reserve of 'the Army. 'These troops were dis, .Posed in column, in, a doable line, and drawn up in battalions, but placed at such a distance from each other that stifficient space . was left for deploying. ititert4ls forty pieces of Cannon - were placed. 'whic4 were • served by the artillery of the guard. This Corps was intended to advance,with the greatest "PeclitionlO any quarterin which its presence might be necessary. The mernin, lenreth to ippear, dawn 6 . • • but seemed to approacittoo slov:orly_far the wishes of. both Art . -Wes. Surrounded .b y all his ,Marshals; the tmperor. NICOIJ4OI4 SV;.ilteci 'nutil Om iiorizon 'was' PerfeCtly clear hefore - .be COMM finall in 111 116t1011S. When the sun shot forth his first rays the last order \: as t.,;iven, and the Marihals rode off at full gallop to their reSpe4tive Corps. ''The cry of e‘ Lonif Live tiie Emperor'," c . choci aioi g 'tile whole line; was, the 'signal fc: a i w riTtztl 7j. t this nieinent the , • cannonade became travy ,1:1 the extreln;!,- o: right wing,' which the advanced guard of the Hui iians• had already reacted. howor, they fell in quite unexpeaedly witti Manlshal D'AvotisT, who made them halt, and the battle immediately began. At the same time Marshal SOULT put himself in motion, and advanced with the Divisions of General.; VANDAMME and ST. HILAIRE towards the heights of the village of Protzen. In consequence of these operations the right wing Of the Russian Army found itself completely turned —all its plans were deranged—surprized by a mov& ment on the flank, the Enemy endeavoured to re treat.—While they would attack, they found them selves suddenly attacked. From that moment' the Enemy's right wing was considered half defeated. The Cavalry under Prince MuRAT now began to move. The left wing, under the command of Ge neral LANNES, marched forward 'also ; the Troops drawn up in the form of Regiments,• in the ,Same Manner as if they had been exercising by divisions. The centre under Marshal BERNAbOTTE likewise ad vanced, and instantly a terrible cannonade resounded along the whole Two hundred pieces of cannon, and nearly 204,000 Men, all engaged 'at one time, produced a most tremendous and awful noise. This was truly a giant conte,; . t. The battle lasted only two - hours, when the left wing of the Russians was cut off, and their right driven. back to Atisterlitz. • The head-quarters of the two Emperors were at Austerlitz, and they were obliged to give orders to the Russian imperial Guard to advance to re establish, if possible, the junetion of the left wing and the centre. Marshal BESSIERE3 moved forward with his Invincibles, 'and immediately the French Impedal and Russian Imperial Guards were engaged. The Russian Guard was driven back in disorder. Its Commander, Artillery, and Standards, were all In the poWer of the victors. Even th© Grand Prince CONSTANTINE, whose regiment was entirely cut to pieces, has only to thank the fleetues of his horse for his escape. • The aaion was still obstinately maintained by the remaining part of the Russian Army. ' The centre of the French Army withstOod the well direaed at tacks of the Cavalry. The French left wing also continued its attacks, in all , of which it was viole- rions. At one o'clock, P. M. the vi dory, which neve was for a moment doubtful, was decisively OA the side of the French, , The cant.onade was still constantly maintained on the French right wing. The Russian corps which hid been cut off, was surrounded, compelled to abandon its position ; forced back into a 'hollow, and dri‘Tn up aglinst a lake. Hero a most dreadful speaacle presented itself. Twenty thousand men spread themselves, over the icy surface of the lake, only to,be drowned. - • , "'At the same time two Russian Columns of four thousand men each laid down their arms, and the whole . of the Artillery, at least 120 pieces, fell into . onr hands. On this .day we had the wbple of the Russian Army Co encounter. The half (if it is destroyed, and the remainder has taken flight in the greatest confu§ion. The greater part threw al,vay their arms. Of the whole French Army, the Reserve was the only part which was not engaged, and the Reserve alone is equal to an Army. - The French Army, though strong, was not so numerous as the Enemy's, which . consisted. of 105,000 men, viz. 80,000 P.usF t ians, and 25;000 Austrians. The result of this viaory placed in the hands of t he French Army 46 Russian standards,. including the colours of th Einperor ALEXANDEI:'S Life guard, (.1;1 12to 15 R45513P Generals made pri soners, :.ttriong whom are the Princes. GALLIT: VIN and RZiNiN ; and, finally an immense number of Russian prisoners. The Vrench General Staff' does not yet know the number, but returns of nearly 20,000 are already made; The Ilussians have be , Si deS left 15,000 dead on the field. Though exa4 acedinitsare not,yet received of the loss of the French, it appears to be only about 800 killed, and froni , tsou to 0 - H -wounded. This can not astonish tacticians, for every one knows' that gr eat numbers are seldom lost but by those who take fli6ht.. Besides, - not one corps of the French Arley was penetrated, except a single Battalion of the 4th Regnuent, which bad to sustain the whole of the first attack of the aussian Imperial Guard. The French Generals: of Division Si'. KILAARB, • KT;LLERMAN, and WAI:THER ; the Generls of Bri ffacleV.“:llElty, THIEBAUT, SEBA.STIANI, and Cost- PANS, and, finally, General Rxrr i his Imperial Ma jeaty's Adjutart.,;nre among the wounded. The last General headed the Grenadiers of the; French Ghard in the attack, and 'Wok piisoner ririnee REPNIN, WllO commanded the cavalry' of the Rua sian linpurial Guard. . *,* The Order of the day referred to by the Rot tera'ani Courant, and added'to the above detniii, is the yrnelattiation of Bo NA PA T dated at the ilead quarters, Austerlitz, December 4*, which was re ceived bv the 1-at: Hamburg% Mail, and has boen al ready vu'blishedi CIE 8R1T0,",(11.2,L0. • • . SUNG BY MR, oicsusti The Seanianthinlts that,ey'ry.l34li A certain iii let hears, That whetherdown".l to stand cr fall; Dishonour's all. he feais. TO Serve his Country's all his Plan ; Unaw'd and undisinay'd He tights her Battles, like, a man, A rut by her thanks is To Forcign - Cliinos he chcerly goes, 1.1)., duty only drir'n 4 • And, when he falls, his Country knows For whom his life was giv'n. Recorded on the front of day, The Warrior's deeds appettrA "• For hint the Poet breathes his.lar, . The Virgin sheds her tear.. Regardless of each hostile aim . Thus NILSON'A godlike - Absorb'd, and full of England's lame, To England was confin'EL No selfish views could share a part, Or add one private care; The Ball that 'struck his dauntless heart, Found England seated there, THE TITEATIM—The double attraction or Master BETTY, in Romeo, and Miss .Szrrn, iii Juliet , 'dre - w wvery numerous audience . last tight.to Covent-gar den Theatre. There was nothing in Master BETTY'S perforniance of Romeo th: t rendered it otservably different fret-a his representation of ;Iris charaaer last season. If he was rather languid in the:tender scenes, he, .hdivever,- exerted hiinself resolutely, and with good effed, in these that demanded spirit . ; 'and though he certainly docs not appear to the same advantage when employed on Stikßset:At it as in the works of inferior writers, he does not deserve that harshness and severity with Willa he:is now treated by :his quondam admirers. But while he appears in charaaers adapted to Iris years, and the pro bable extent of his conception, he 'may bid deli- : ance to splenetic caprice. Miss SMITH desents . ,a very favourable report in Juliet.; • There was an evi dent display of judgment in the conception, and of inthe representation 'of this arduous part, in some passages:she threw forth touches ofenergy and emotion that produced novelty of effea; as well as excited strong interest. Lnwls had all' his usual playfulness, gaiety, and force, in illei-cutio. To the honour of female genius, The School for TrionLs last night had even amore crowded auert me at Drury-Lane Theatre than attenddthe other house. Indeed this Comedy promise 4 to be a very great favourite through the season. Mrs. SIDDONS has been some days at Bath, and of. coirrse had very liberal otters from, the Theatre, to which she had assented. It seems, however; that any engagem-nt for the Bath Theatre must extend to that at. 13,i,t01; :Ind as Mrs. SWOONS lost her daughter at the lalitr place; her feelings ,will not permit her, to exnibit 4‘ Fabled sufrerings and delusive woe," where she endured the reality of atiliCtiotr. It is, however, very probable that the Managers will not be requireeto abide stria!) , by " the bond," to the exclusion of the Bath audience from the gratification of seeing the greatest Aelress that t'ver adorned the Stage. • Btaial.---A.Clcrgyman was reading the Burial Service over an Irish corpse, and hay Mg for got which sex it was, oil coining to that part of the ceremony that reads 'thus, " our dear (brother or sister)," here the worthy Gentlermin stopt, and sce in Pat stand by, stept back, and whispering to him, said, Is it a Brother or a Sister ?" Pat says '' by 'tis neither, 't*4 only a relation." The Honourable. Artillery Company asseMble on Sunday Morning, at twelvo o'clock, fly th!, , pUrpose of hearing a Funeral Sermon on their late worthy Colonel. On Saturday setnnight Mr. C. Clarke, of Black ney, near Lincoln, farmer and grazier, went out to shoot rabbits, and having put the gun under coat, it unfortunately went off and shot him throngit the head, when he instantly expired. The Public must deeply sympathize with the Loan CHANCI.I.I,OI; in the lois of his eldest Son, who promised to be a striking ornament to Ais fa mily, and to inherit the virtues and talents, as much, as he did the fotures, of his venerated I Wier.— This is a heavy loss indeed, but we hope the Noble Lord will be able to bear it with manly tbrtitude, and, what is a surer reliance, with Christian resigna tion, EMPEROR ALEXA E NDR..- 7 Mr. CARR, iri his W rthern Tour, gives 'the felloWing beseription of this gallant Hera The present Estrintott ALEX. As:nna is about 2i4 years of tfige • his face is full, very fair, and his complexion pale; . Iris eyes blue; and ex.•;, pressive of that beneficent Mildness which' is one of the prominent features of his charaaer : his person is tall,. lusty, and .vvellpteportiond ; but, being, a little deaf, to facilitate his hearing, he stoops: his deportnient is condescending, :yet dignified. In the discharge of his august duties. he displays great . ac tivity and acuteness, but without: show or bustle the leading featUres of his Tina are sound discrete tion and s humanity onalities which cannot fail, to render an EMpire ioutishing, - and 'a . People happy He is so much an enemy to parade, that he is fre quently seen wrapped 'up in his , regimental Cloak, riding about the Capital alone upon a little cointilon drbsk ka : la this manner he has been known to ad minister to the wants of the poor. It is his Wish, if he shonld be recognized in this .state Of privacy, hat no rnie will take otE.their hats ; but the gracious ness of Ins desire 'ptits the - heart. in the hand as it uncoVerslhe head. .. . The Emi , imoit is tery much attached to the, English, numbers of whom have settled in . the l'_ , :rnpire, and have 'formed, under the auspices of the Covcrnment, , a sort of Colony., The ExPEROR lias . often been heard to say; The man within whose reach Heaven has 'placed the greatest muteriali for tuaking life. happy VA';, itt his_ opinion, an,English Country Gentle - num." On Saturday sennight the' body of G : orge Para.. -more; of Stannington, Was 101.410 in the River bon, near Atterclifie Bridge, much traised, pl'obably with being dashed over the 14 sir,, &C, In the 'stream. His Oath is supposed to . have been net ' dental, 'l' . ' r . ,i il ;. the . C.P..,1% . 0 .ill G ...- . 1 2 . ..; .IE . T7 E , .111: i• c Intelligence beetteisted, ;that ;et,: r.-.y was coile&ing in , 2.lorce, at ,Itoottucliee, and its i.eightiourliociiiMajoi!. - ,f)e - aKtistipe ilt Majet,ty',.; 5 Ist Regitnent, Av:IS ~.ikp4tchei.l to th'it 'place, on S.!. the'f..),'2Jit. with, a tore of f.r...0 I.vithl-proportionOf,artilli4rk. Efigade Alajot CoLE:futooN,, of the 11c.lyi.d. Arta lery, drew up the at t the smile time two Glin boa(s, catfryitig * llle one . nve.anda ll iit lit ll ho'w itzer, and: the (A,lier'a tbree,pounder. i The Cutnntar.:ler of the Forces being - desirow to sec th,lt'part ()Olt° Frontier, left Cqltunbo, attendf2d by hi stair; on Mondak- tote 15th nit. and joined Major DilltKLN'S Detachtnent at Sellarvack:, on the ( 2 4th ult That Detaelnpent reachedlionanelice without op. ; position, on the 2.stlvult. and the Gun-boat. , ,, wit!, out any molestation from the Enemy, but cons id,f.rable. impediments _from the lowne.ss of the water in tha rtiver, :on the ,V3t.ll;at night. . : The Candians had alreadrevlcL:atu-1 'Boom: a lid . fallen back;:tiY- the mountains. bci,w;.,'en that place and Candy; but Major DurcklN:, by a nit(lit march, "sUcceededin surprizug.an advanced post of. the Enemy, at the distance of about ten, wiles iron) Rooanellee. . . Mr. EWER, Governor of Fort MarlhorOugh, was cxpe&ed to be recalled from that Settlement, the last .Ships left that Island, as: ' Mr. NPR a Civil Servant ott time r Bengal .Establi:4lnlont, ha], was reported, been appointer to that stetics; The Spice Plantatioui at Fort Marlborough, by the Jaunt accounts, wern in a Irighstate of cultiva tioa and luxuriance; and it was expected that' iii two years at farthest there would be 'll sutildent quantity of nutmegs, &c. lit pertation to ex from- thence to this country, which might be sok', or *very moderate price, and • prevent so necessary an article froth being monopolized by fol;eigners, with a view of enhancing its value; in case the Banda Islan& should ever be continued in 'posstision of the Dutch. - • The obje& -of the Expedition being thus an swered, by driving the Enenty from our frontiers,. the Army returned without any loss to Columbci ; on the 2d instant ; ,and we Art4t, from the excel] lit care taken of the Soldiers, anl their healthy p pearance, that few of them will suffer-froM the fever which is prevalent at this schein in the interior of the country, but pot by,any means with the same violence aS in the two la:A years. We find that • the Marshals Of the Empire are much more careful of themselves than the Genera under the Republican Regime.. Marshal MottTaa find General GA,ZAN: r eseaped in a Olin be Datinhe with whole skins, while.. `their Division of tlic Army was cutting to pieces at Sternitz. We do not rec.:one& any French-Getreral,having beenkilled, killed, or even wounded,' sin c e' th e eompiencement of this War; eicept.OomNOT,,, and 'he is not yet a Marshal,--These Gentlemen, having arrived at the height of their protirotion,' and tiOr dreading the ,axe of the guillotine, or imp e lled by th e spirit ofen .thusiastn, are, become very: iparing of 1: heir persons. They wish, like their 'Master, to continue lonk iii the enjoyment: of those dignitics which they have u 6 hyped. Last week a large cask . ftill of gin was liri111) CM shore near Collete.bat, Northumberland. Th0 , ..4,?. who timind it h•noekectout one: of, the ends, every one welcome to drink what they plelsed, and served it out p;ctitifully to thoe who carried Itess,ds to carry it away. Numbers were lying drunk, and others realing about the cask, the greater part of th day. One young mail who had anioncrst tho gioupe went into tin - adjoiningl eld,-,vbere lice had fallen ageep, and was fotind (Lad next inornii. The fqllowing instance of suspended als,rciation perhav,i ono of the most. remark able. in the an. nals of the Humane Society. • e. Mr, W. H. ....dtowv 001, ~,nrgeon of callelprofessionally to KesOugland, on •.l. lit 17th instintthlKl lOU ilccidenpiflly c.c..,•t, • „- • 'as ne VVaR. ho 3y . of a history of the stlppo;;;ect , , ,:.; this-:—That on the prQCO:ling day :11,, t; , , , sofit t ii ng shipyrctelt. with part of meat of foot) he sunk in a SUttp of ii itaility. upitt the deck of the Ship, where be 1,1,...!ined .tibia.;; the night, and was said to h tllrbit9h the inclemency of the weather. '„ ;ht ashore between ten and ch:\ eu o'clock he and was left upon the beach tbr more ;Ilan an Lour, under a convition that he was, as represented by the .4-st;inders, a lifeles3 corpse. Mr. C. aL,ii i -cd to examine the hotly, and rercyivcd, lip thuti : , ; ht, rema'roing warmth ' about the. heart ho resol7ed to his endeavours to t'estore. the man. To the astonishment of those pres Ont ,it very . tbrtnnately succeeded, after three hours unwearied. Lapplication in - the Meahs 1 II lily ernplo)ed iall Sttell Thi3..ptrsoll.sav:.•(.l is a Seljei.tut,; his,,ntuue : . 15'131.1h5. , Yesterday se' n i•:!;h nTS tl.re ettr4V.O.USAI led With Male COliViaS, on their way ifrom London: to Portsmouth, werepalsing through Peterstield r the fore-wheel cf one of the Caravans, containing 13, pL'arson:.; ) tell . of by which •weans -, the caravan ••vets overtumA, some `Of the untbrtunate, pairf.engers were severe; y bruised, hut none seriously tout. ilkivt'g properly secured with iron chains, none of them made Lhe,ir Yesterday se nnight a Post As!4embly NV:tS -at the F 4 xhibitionAlootn, in William-street, for the purpOse of voting..arrAddr(..ss to the .ord Lieutenant, upon his rt.t.agw . ,aion (.4 the governm ent of .Ireland. The address was.moved by Mr. Su t\\. - ; Me: PT the City ,Nletubersr atler which, the tiou put' by the . sheritf, the Addre , ,f,S livas car with a most, cordial timinitnity, and votea , th: it sitotati he presented to' ilia; .F.,' in the tn(sc respe&ful" and distinguish:• mil' In the epidemic ‘ . 41 prevalent at this time, the is tat .1 to be It4rtiCularly ci : , of t 782 and 1.7:; -- .glyen on the •,. bout ~, for a day or two, it !'' out Stpkr tiliside, In the ~ avt Cough ni,iy be allayta hj . ;t ~r . of poppies, at by ten or tifteen drops of occasion may require, Thc early Powder will not only efrit.t aspeedy cure, 1. ) ,' , 1 prevent _those dangerous and long-protr,...tc,! which often arNe from: and F , , aid whnt neglel'Acd, 4r injudicine4