The Sun. — London, England, 1805-12-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTEELIC,;I4IC.E. PARIS, pcc. 16.7—The Empercif of GERMANY de manded an Armistice for his Troops, which was griult ed liiru..Au Amlistice was demanded for the Russian Troops who were at the Battle of Austerlitz. Of mooa Russians, 40,000 exist no more : the rest, without artillery or baggage, and surrounded by the French Army, could not escapewithout an Armistice. His Majesty the EMPEROR Lad the generosity to grant it, upon condition that the Russians shotald evacuate, by easy marches, Germany and the two Gallicias, and return home. The seeming negotiations by which it was hoped to surprise the vigilance of the Emperor of the French, will be succeeded by real negotiations, the result of which will be a secure and honourable Peace—Oloniteur THIRTIETH BULLETIN or THE CR.AND ARMY. ihattrlitz, Deconber 3. On the 27th ult. the Emperor, upon receiving the communication of the full powers of M. M. STA.* ruots/ and Dv. GUIL. Y, offered previously an Armis tice in order to spare the effusion of blood, if any real intention were entertained of coming to an arrange mcnt and a definitive accommodation. But it was easy for the Emperor to perceive that they bad other projeas and as the hope of success could ,only he derived :from the side of the Russian Army, he easily conjeaured that the 2d and ad A.rtnies were arrived, or were on the point of arrive ing, at Qhnutz, and that the negotiations were only a ruse de guerre to lull his vigilance to. sleep. On vs th, at nine in the morning, a cloud of Cossacks,. supported Russian Cavalry, made Prince Mott.vr's advanced posts fall back, surrounded Wis dun, and took bo of the 6th Regiment of Dragoons. In the course of the day the ,Emperor of RUSSIA re-* paired to Wischau, end the . whole Alissian Army took up a position behind that City. The Emperor cont his Aid-de-Camp, General &WARY, to compliment the Emperor of 4tOssiA, as soon as he knew of the. tirriyal of that Prince in the Army. General SAvAny returned at the moment the Emperor was reconnoitring the fires of the ene my's out-posts at \Vischaz. He spoke in warm terms of ewinneadation of the haudSome reception, the favours, and the personal sentiments, of the Em, peror of RUSSIA, and even of the Grand Duke Cotg- STANTIVE s WhO skewed him every attention ; but it was easy to understand, from the conversation he Lad for three days yvith some thirty coxcombs who, under different titles, are about the Emperor of Rue, SIA, that presumption, inconsiderateness, and im prudence, reigned in the decisions of the Military Cabinet as much they had reigned in those 1.4 . the .rolitical Cahinet. Ail army so cenduaed, could not but commit faults—the Emperor's plate was, from that 'moment, to wait for them, and , to watch the moment for pro fiting by there. Ixe irrun.diatefy qrclered his army to retreat in the night as if he had berm defeated, took a good position three leagues in the rev, and laboured with much ostentation at fortifying it, and raising batteries. He proposed an interview to tbe Emperor of TIAT- aIA• who sent hitp his Aid-de-Camp,' p r inei; Dot,- posucm ; that Officer might remark, that every tl.lg breathed reserve 'and fear in the appearance of the French Army. The placing the strong guards, thq fortifications made with such liSste--every thing shewed to the Russian Officer an Army hall beaten, Contrary to, the Emperor's cnitotn,'Who never re ceives with so much circunispe6tion the FlaliS of Truce :It his head quarters, he went himself to the posts, 'The Russian discussed every thing with an Impertinence difficult to be conceived; he Was in the most pCrfra ignorance of the interes'ts of` Europe;, and of the situatiflt Of the COntinent. ,In a word, he was a young truer peter for England. He Spoke .to the Emperor as hd speaks to the itussian ()ices, 'v ho has long diSgustcd by his 114ughtines4 and f.nproper conduct. : The Emperor and.the young man, who has a 11 . :Ji iiilluenci over the Emperor AtAxtamot, rcturne,l with a Coil- Vi..tion. that thu,Srench Army was (I the eve of rain; Otte may be convinced, above all, of what the I;4yetor have suffered, wlicni it is known'that toward the close of the oCtivf:/-atio;, ho propoa:d to hirillOcede LeigVnin, lind to 11,13(...c the fi-on Crown II port the head 'of the implacable to itties Of iFt'ance: All different, steps are: Atotided with • their diie The young 11t.achi that the tussiatia,ff.,tirs gave up witheift measure to, their ndtural"projumption. 'lt iMiS no longer \Vbeth'Qr ihe French Artily shall be beat,. -.1, I>i<t whether it ihali be turnea and had Only ione so much through the cow.4rdice of the Austrians. We are iiss‘ured that seVerat old Atttrian Generals, who bact rna46 oat-4414 aq . siest the Emperor, warned the council 'that it 'wag not with' that confidence that n e 01414'0 m irca against to otoieis and Officers 1)f the OrsCriterit. They said they.' hail seen the trltperol . , 04004 0:4 4apatull ttf mi!O, re-possess .of *decry tinder the most difficult actual . . • _ stances, by rapid and unforeseen operations, and de .stroy the most numerous Annies ; that here no ad vantage had been obtained ; .that, on the contrary, all the affairs With the'rear-guard of the first Russian Army had been in favour of the French Army— but to - that fife presumptuous young men opposed thtt bravery of the MOO Russians, the enthusiasm inspired icy the presence of their ,Emperor, the pick ed Corps of tilt Imperial Guard of Russia, and, what probably they dared not say, their talents, of which they were astonished the Austrians would not ac. knowledge the power. On the Ist of December the EMperor from the heights saw, with indescribable joy, the Russian Artuy beginning, within twice the distance of can= non shot from his advanced post, a flank movement to turn his right. He perceived then to what a pitch presumption and ignorance of the art of war had misled the Councils of that brave Army. He said, several times, " Before to-morrow night that Army shall be in my power." Yet the Enemy's idea was far different ; they appeared before our posts within pistol shot they defiled by a flank march upon 4 line four leagues long, In passing.the length of the French Army, which seemed not to clam to quit its position, they had but one for t that the French Army should escape. Every thing was done to confirm the Enemy in this idea. Prince MURAT sent out a small Corps on the plain ; but all at once it seemed astonished at the immense force of the flatly, ;Intl returned „in Hence every thing tended to confirm the Russian General in the miscalculated operation which he had determined upon. The. EMPEROR put the annexed prochupation-in theQrder of the Day. At night he wished ,to Visit on foot and incognito, all the posts ; but he had not gone many steps wheim he was recognized. It would be impossible to 4cpid the enthusiasm or the soldiers upon seeing him. Lighted straw was placed in an instant upen the tops of thoUsands of poles, and 80,000 men appeared before the ENleanon, saluting him with acclarnaticins ; some to celebrate the Apvi versAry of his coronation, others saying that the Army would to-morrow offer its.ou4llei to the Erni ! perer, One of the eldest grenadiss Went t4p to him and said, .Sire, you need net expose yoursplf---4 promise you, in .the name of the grenadiers of the Army, that you shall only have to fight with your eyes, 'and that we will bring yew, to-merrow the co,: lours ancl artillery of the Russian Army tfacelebrate the anniversary Of your coronation." The Eniperor skid, von his return to his guard, house, which consisted of a ruipeiable straw cabin, without a roof, which the grenadiers had mad© for him, " This is the finest evening of my life ; but I regret to think that I shall lose a good number of these brave fellows. 1 feel by the pain it gives me that they are indeed my children, and I often re proach myself for this,sentiment, for I fear it will terminate in rendering me unfit to carry on war." If the enemy had seen the sight, it would have ter rified them—but the unthinking enemy contir:•.;c:l their movements, atol hastened with quick r-tei. , .; to their ruin. Th e E rni - 411;0 i m u l e hi t! ..attle im mediately. Ik sent cltiMarsh t''OTIST in great haste to the •Convent (,f „ 14! Ivas, with cite of his divisions, and a jivision of Dragoons, t.) keep in check the EnLauy's left wing, in order that, upon a given signal, it might be quite surrounded. Ike gave ict Mar i:4 PAN es the command of the left wing; to Marshal Sotwr the command' of the right ; and to Marshal EtuartAnoTTa the command of the centre. Prince MoRAT received the command of the Cavalry, with which he was posted on one point. The left of Marshal I,ANNES approached Santon, a superb position, which had been fortified and mOunted with eighteen pieci!s oft annon. Fron t the preceding evening he had entrusted the keeping of that firm posipn to the 17th Light infantry, and certainly it could not be guarded by better Troops. General suottrr's Division formed the left of Marshal LAtftzits ; the Division of General CA- • . t .1 lEHELL 1 foinw4 his right, and was supported .at the same time by Prince l' , ltinAT's Cavalry. The latter hal btrfore it the Hussar:i and Chasseurs qnder Gcn, I.'IIi:LLEMON, and the Dragoon .clit~isious off' i;ruErt and 11EAl”to. , . , tr, and in re:; rye the Cni. rasier divisiqn of Generills NANSOVT V and liAtjT:. rot),.', with 24 pieceg of light irtillery. Marshal BERNAtIOTTE, that is ,to say the centre, had on the left the . division of. general ItlvAun, which also communicated with Prince IVfuttAT'll right wing, and on the right the division of Oenerai DitOttET. Atarshni SCIIILT, who commanded the right wing of the ../trniy, had on his kft the divisiqn otGeneral VAN DAMNIE ill his centre tie diVision of General Sr, Hit,AlnE j 410 CAI 11i3 right tiie division of Ge , • • neral LEG li AND. Marshal tYAvobsr lralt detached to the right of Gen. LEG Ft AND, to observe iqe mad betweeh the hikes and the villages of 861i014iii arid Celitftz. Ike had with him Gen. mud the Dr - goons of Ceti , Ratuatitat's ciiviiion, The 'division of Gen, Citjuio . was diteded to match at day-break from Nitolsburg, to stop - the corps of the enemy which might have outflanked the right wing. - The Emperor, with his faithful companion in War, Marsha' BERTHIER, his 'first Aid-de-Camp Colonel JUNOT, and all his Etat Major, were in re serve, with the ten Battalions of his guard, and the ten Battalions of General Ono NOT'S Grenadiers, part of whom were commanded by General Duaoc. This reserve, ranged' in two lines, in columns by battalion, deployed at a distance, having in the intervals 40 pieces, served by the eannoniers of the guard. It was with this reserve that the .Ernperor intended to plish forward wherever it would have been necessary ; we may say this reserve was worth an Army. At one in the morning the Emperor got onliorse back to visit the posts, reconnoitre the fires' of the Enemy, 'and gct an account of what the guards had learnt of the movements of the Russians—he heard that they had passed the night in drunkenness and noise, and that a Corps of Russian Infantry. had ap peared in the village of Sokolnitz, occupied by a Re giment of the division under general LEGRAND, who had orders to reinforce it. Day dawned at length on the second-the sun rose bright ; and the Anniversary of the Coronation of thP Aniparor, upon which one of the greatest feats in arms of the • age was to be performed, was one of the finest days in Auttlam. This battle, which the soldiers persist in calling the day of the Three Emperors, which others call the daY of the Anniversary, and which the Emperor named the Battle of Austerlitz, will be ever niemor. able in the annals of the Great Nation. The Emperor, surrounded by all the Marshals, waited only for the • horizon to clear up to issue his last;ordPrs. When the sun shot tbrth his first rays, the orders were ;slued, and each Marshal joined his Corps full gallop. The Emperor said, in passing along the front of several Aegiments—" Soldiers, we must finish this campaign by a thunderbolt, which shall confound the pride of our Enemies i" and instantly hats were placed at the point' of bayonets, and cries of rive Z'Empeceur were the signaller battle. A moment afterwards the cannonade began at the extremity of the right, which the li;nemy's Advanced Guard had already ma :inked, but the unexpeacd meeting with Marshal PAvoysT• stopped the Enemy short, and the battle began. Marshal Spurt. put himself in motion at the same moment, proceeded to the heights of the village of l'ratzen with Generals VANDAMIE and Sr. HI LAIRE!S division, and cut Of' the Enemy's right, whose movements became uncertain. Surprised by a flank march, whilst it was , fiying, believing itself to 130 attacking,' and seeing itself attaeked, it consi dered itself aa half defeated. Prince MURAT was in motion with his cavalry., The left wing, under the command of Gen.LANtiES, tnarched for Ward also, 6i,echeluns, hy regiments, in the same manner as if they had been exercising by divisions. 7 A tremendous, cannonade tool; place .• along the whole _line : . 203 pieces of cannon, and nearly 200,900 men; made a drea . dful noise. It was a real giant combat. Not an hour had elapsed and the enemy's whole left was, cut off; their right had already reached Atisterlitz, the Head-quarters of the tWo Emperors, who marched immediately to the Emperor of Russia's Guard, to endeavour to restate ,the communication of the centre with the left. A bdttalfOn of the 4th of the line was charged by the Imperial Russian Guard on horseback, and touted; 'bat the Emperor was at hand ; he perceived this Movement ; ordered Marshal BESSIERES to .ge to the succour of his fight with his Invincibles, and the two guards were soon .engitgetl., Success could npfbe doubtful ; in a moment the Russian guard was routed ; Colonel,' artillery, stand ards., every thing was taken. The Regiment of the Grand Duke cONSTANT;NE was annihilated. He owed his sakty only to the swiftness of his horse. l',can the Heights of Austerlitz the two Emperors beheld thiniefeat of all the Russian guard. At the same moment the centre of the Army, commanded by Marshal Dittisnuorrrs, advanced ; three of his Regi- Meats made a very flue charge of cavalry. The left, commanded by Alar,hal LAN NES, made several. All the charges were vitorious. General CAI'I , 4IIELLI's Division distinguished itself. TheCuirassier Division took the Enemy's 13atteries. At one p. M. the riaory was decided ; it had not been doubtful for a moment; not a man of the reserre . was wanted, and had assisted no where ; a cannonade was kept up only on our right. The enpmy's corps which had been surrounded and diiven from all the heights, were on a flat, and near a lake. The Emperor hastened thitfier, with 20 pieces of cannon. This Corps was driven from position to position, and we saw the horrid speaaele,' such as was seen at Aboukir, of 2p,000 men-throwing themselves lute the water and dYe nine themselveqlti the lake. . Ty tu 0 eauns Aussiaßs, 4009 each, laid doum their 'aims, And surrendere'd' theMselves piisoners: AU the E'nextly's park Qfarti)lery is takett. The re. suit of this, day is -I'l3 Rust'an standards, amongst which are the standards of the Imperial Guard ; :considerable number of prisoneri ; the Etat Major doesl east not yet know how many. We haVe ready an account of f 20,000, IC or 15 Generals ; igsh, eve have h l a t v u e s s i i l a o n t s y k e til the on report,the oi nfay,.,at bathe t . e first coup-d'ceil, estimate our,lOss at ikou killed, and, 15 or 1600,,wounded. This will not surprise mili tary men, who know that it is only in a rout that men are lost; and no other corps but the battalion of the 4th was penetrated. Amongst the wounded are, General ST..IIII.AIitE, who, wounded at the beginning of the battle, remained the whole day on the field of battle—he covered himself with glory; Generals ofDivisiocn,KP,LLERMAN and WALTIIEIt; Generals of Brigade, VALIIABERT, Ttrinvit3r, SEB.tsTI.tNI, COMPAIt, and RAPT, the Einveroeri Aid-do-Can lp It was the latter who, in charging, at the head of the . grenadiers of the guard, took/ Prince It EPNIN, Captain of the Chevaliers of the im- Petial grnard of Russia. With respea to the men who% distinguished themselve.i, it was the whole army that • covered itself with glory --.-:t constantly charged to • the cry of Vice Emperor, and the idea of gale brain& so gloriously the anniversary of the Corona fiat], animated the soldier. The French Army, though fine and numerat4,. was less numerous than the Enemy's Army, which was 10.5,000 strong; 80,000 R us sians, and 25,000 Austrians ; the half of this army is destroyed' the rest has been completely routed, and the gr eater part ,throw away their arms. This day will c(i,stlears of blood at S t. Petersburgh, May it cause the gold of England to be rejected with indignation! and may that young Prince, whom •so many virtues calle d t o be the father of tlis, subjeas, tear himself from the influence of those 30 coxcombs whom England pays, tinepce injures his intentions, makes him lose the love of his soldiers, and hurries him into the roast ill-judged operations. Nature, in, endowing bin; With many great qualities, had nae,ant Hui to be rendering him the . auxiliary the consoler of Europe. Perfidious Councils, by apd Aitose hoper him in history in the rank of men who, perpetuating the War upon the Continent, will have consoli' dated the British tyranny - upon the seas, and pro cl ut'eu the misery of our generation. if Prance Cialo of England, will place , not arrive at Peace but upon the conditions prol3os'd by the Aid-de-camp Doeooltuolit to the ElPercT! and which M. N'eviasioloki was ordered to tO ke ! tissia 'should not ohtain them were her APPY en. l camped upon the heights of Montmartre. In a more detailed relation of this MO, the Et° Alajor will make known what each Corps, and G t mesa', have done to render the &etch n.ane illustrious, and to. afford proof of their we the Emperor. 4511 the 3 4/ at 4v -break. Prince ;torts of LW% TENSTnIX, .corTimanditig the Anstrian Army, call% to the Emperor's head-quarters ip batnt 4c 1 . a long audiente—yet we pursue 014- successer:tl.7. ,Qfficel Enemy have retired by the road of Austerlitz co "`: ding. The French Army is already ea oriFrei' and fellows them sword in hand. a ide r „ hexer was there 3 more horrible field of • the cries . • From the mtddlet of the immense lakes we he'r, a I sisted. ...ref kiaya ffniSt dense CM a ll the W a r: Of thogsands of men wh o could not enemy ark carried to . Brunn. heart —; ,2 le; t 3 '' May so much bloodshed, trey so man y ale at length upon the perfidious Islanders who 4 ,ono :0, cause of it ! May the cowardly digarotts Q f beg the burtben of many evils ORDER; 91 , DAY. fi e ld, Po. 1, 1 0 ) Soldiers, the Rusin Army, is befbre Yo 4 t° avenge the -Austrian Arles at llltn. 'They ar e tb ! w hich same battalions you'beat at Ifonabruci•, you have constantly puriued. ' . 114 The positions we occupy are formidable ; 2, r esent whilst they march to m) 'right, they Oval 'P I shall keep me the flank. Soldiers, I shall dired myself all your B attall°llsi your accustomed bravery you carry at a distance from the tiring, if w ith , disorder into the Enemy's ranks; ' but if vieory , for a moment doubtful, you shall see yoUr .Efulos: expoKe himself to: the tirst.hlows---fa viet9rY " n t . . not hesitate, •on this day, in which the aeon °! the French Infantry, which is of so Much i.n10.6- mice to the whole Nation, is concerned. • Let not the ranks be thinned under pretest ti ca ; tying off the Wounded, and let each be well Pe nttla „ , confusion 0: eci that we must conquer ,these hirelings of Elite who are animated With so deep a hatred to our 03' Con. This vi&ry will finish ou r cam p aign, and v/6 shall psum6 our winter quarters, w here we shall bo kilned l* the new arrnies farming in France; thell the Peaces which I will make•will pe worthy' of ro • roPle, of you, and of me. (Signed, 144 ? °1-I°. I