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‘ircs,•en ; they received it firmly, and kept up HI col and well-directed fire upon the as ^iiant that they soon retreated. This description of Trench forces aeled most successfully against the Prussian cavalry throughout the whole pursuit. Ti:e 1), - usians lost seven pieces of cannon, and about 1001 men ".Bu on the evening of the 4th, the Grand • IYke of BERG, who was advancing on the right, arrived with his cavalry against the enemy, whose tiziaLite objet seemed, as yet, uncertain. Marshal SOC LT advanced by Ratzburgh, and the Prince DE Povro Coavo by Rena. They lay from the night nf'the sth to that of the 6th, at Schoenberg, whence the Marshal retired at two o'clock in the morning. The Prince advanced to Schlukup, upon the Trave, and came up with a corps of 1600 Swedes, who, at err - Tll, thought proper to retire from Lauenburgh, in or:lLn- to embark upon the Trave. A few dis ehkges from our cannon, however, disabled the vcs.sels intended for their embarkation. The Swedes, after a slew of resistance, laid down theii arms. A convey of 300 vessels, which General SAVARY had traced to Wismar, was attacked in the river by the column under the Prince DE Pox ro Coavo, and ,:aptured.. " In .th.c mean time the• enemy fortifiedi them in Lubeck. Marshal SOULT advanced with sut,i) rapidity, that he arrived at the gate of Mullen av•sodn as the Prince was before that of the Trave. The Grand Duke of BERG; with his cavalry, was between these posts. The enemy endeavoured has tily to strengthen the old walls of Lubeck, and placed same guns on the bastions, hoping, by these means, to pia at least a day upon us ; but he was mistaken, as the reconnoitring and the attacks were almost at the same moment. General DROUET, at the head of the 37th light infantry, and the 94th and 95th of the line, carried the batreries wish that coolness and intrepidity which peculiarly distinguishes the French troops ! The gates were speedily forced, the bastions esca laded, the Enemy put to flight, and the corps of the lirince of PONTO-CORVO entered by the gate of the Trave. The chasseurs, Gorses, the tirailleures of the Po, and the 26th light-infantry, composed the ad vanced guard of General LEGRAND, which had not, as yet, been engaged, and who were impatient to attack the enemy, advanced with the rapidity 'of lightning ! Redoubts, bastions, ditches, all were cleared; and the corps of Marshal SOULT entered the town at the gate of Mullen. In vain did the Enemy attempt to defend the place, in the streets, the squares, Sre. they were driven back every where, and those places were covered with the dead ! The two divisions of the French troops, which had entered at different gates, joined about the mildie of the town. Scarcely had the Grand Duke entered the place than the Enemy were put to flight. He pursued them-4000 prisoners, 60 pieces of cannon, several Generals, a great number of Officers killed or taken. Such were the results of this brilliant viaory. " Before day-break on the 7th, the - cavalry were mounted, and the Grand Duke of BERG surrounded tne Enemy near Schwartau, wit► the brigade of LASALLE, and the division of cuirassiers of HAITI-- rouLT. General BLUCHER, Prince FREDERICK of BRUNSWICK GELS, and the other General, then Came forward to the viaois, and desired to capi tulate. The troops were defiled before the French army. These two days' work destroyed the last corps which remained of the Prussian army; beside the remainder of the artillery, we have taken a n. tuber of standards, and 16,000 prisoners, of whom 4050 are cavalry. liras the Prussian Generals, who, in the deli ri'un of their vanity, indulged in all sorts of sar, against the Austrian Commanders, have the f urtli time renewed a cntastrophe similar to that of Uhn—first, in the capitulation of Erfurtll‘; the se a'on:l, by that of the Prince HoHENLowe ; thirdly, tri 'the rT-cluecion ,of Stettin ; and the fourth, in the recent c.:.pitulation of Schwartau. The city of Lil t Leek has suffered considerably : taken by assault, its , streets, its squares, have been-scenes of carnage. 'nese calamitieS she attributes to those who drew the perils of war towards her Walls. i\lechlenburgh has been equally ravaged by the French and Prussian Armies. A great number of troops traversing it in ,various dire&ions, of neces sily subsisted at the expence of the country. This irate is in close alliance 'with Prussia, and will, in spine uneasure, prove an example to those Princes of (-;eim:iny, who seek for alliance with a far-distant rower, which is perfealy safe from a participation in those evils it draws upon them, and which makes effort to support those who are attacjied to if by the nearest tits of blood, or by the closest diplomatic ye irons, I.),Kar, an Aid-de-camp of the Grand Duke's, olAigt:d a corps to capitulate villich escorted a con-, 6CRI - ab=;ct wantity of baggage, and had' got beyond the Veene. Swedes hid paid the fUgitives for car`-'rei wagons. ThL 4a4if pioduced 1500 Fl - *Cinr.trs,• and a great quantity of baggage and car- riages. Some of the regiments of Cavalry have ! gained, in specie and booty, to the amount of seve- ral hundred thousand crowns. " Marshal NEY, who was charged with the siege of Magdeburgh, bombarded that town. A number of houses were burned, which caused the inhabitants to murmur greatly; upon which the Commandant desired to capitulate. A great number of cannon were found in the Crtress ; extensive magazines ; 15,000 men drafted from more than 70 battalions, and military chests of several regiments. " During these important operations several corps of our Army arrived on the Vistula. The Warsaw Mail brought many letters from Russia, which, of course, were intercepted. From these we perceive, that the fabrications of the English Journals meet with much credit in Russia. For instance—that Marshal MASSENA has been killed ; that the city of Naples was taken and occupied by the Calabrians ; that the King fled to Rome ; and that the English, with 5 or 6000 men, were masters of Italy ! How ever, a little refle&ion would enable them to dis cover the fallacy of these reports. Has not France increased, not diminished, her military force in Italy ? The King of Naples is in his capital ; he has 80,000 French troops at his back ; he is master of the Two Calabrias ; while at Petersburgh they ima gine the Calabrians are at Rome ! If a few Galleys, armed and trained by the infamous SIDNEY SMITU, the most worthless among the brave English sol diers, killed unprote&ed individuals, and massacred wealthy, unoffending, and, peaceable proprietors — the gendarmerie and the scaffold have done them justice ! The English Navy disavows not in the least the epithet of infamous bestowed upon SIDNEY SMITH. Generals STUART and Fox, and all the Of leers of the Army, are indignant at beholding the sEnglish name as ociated with such brigands ! The brave General STUART has even publicly protested against these outrages—as unavailing with respe& to their objects, as they are atrocious in themselves, and which tend to exchanp the noble science and business of war fora system of robbery and assas sination ! But when SIDNEY SMITH was selected to execute the sanguinary suggestions of the Queen, we can only perceive in him one of those unprin cipled instruments which Governments do often em ploy, but whoM they always abandon to that con tempt which they are the first to feel for them ! The Neapolitans will one day be informed in detail of the letters circulated by SIDNEY SMlTH—the corn, missions he has authorised—and of the money he has expended for the execution of atrocities, in which ' he is himself the chief agent. " We also see, by the letters from St. Petersburgh, and even in the official dispatches, that they imagine there are no French'troops in Upper Italy : Thtse persons, however, ought to be informed, that in dependent of the Army of Naples, there are more than 100,000 French troops in Italy, ready to punish those Who should dare to attack it. They expca also every day at St. Petersburgh to hear of the sue, cesses of the division of Corfu—but, they will short ly learn, that the division had scarcely landed at the Mouths of the Cataro, when they were defeat ed by General MAI6IONT, that a part of them have been captured, and the remainder re-embarked and fled. It is a very different thing to fight against French from what it is to engage with the Turks, whom they hold in fear and partial subje&ion, by artfully fomenting discord and insurre6tions in the Provinces. ReSpeeting these, however, the RussianS are not at a loss for means to shift the opprobrium from themselves. " It is declared, by a Decree of the Senate, that at Austerlitz, it was not the Russians, but their Allies, who were beaten and should a new battle of AuS terlitz take place upon the Vistula, it will even then be others than the Russians who shall be conquer ed ! Although now, as then, their Allies had not a sufficient number of troops to form a junEtion with theirs ! The plan of the movements, and chat of the march of the Russian army, have fallen into our hands. From these, it is evident, that nothing can be more ridiculous than the plan of operations of the Russians, except their vain hopes of success. General LAGRANGE has been declared Go vernor-General of Cassel and' the territories of Hesse. " Marshal Moanutt, with the troops under his command, is on his march for Hanover and for Hamburgh. " The King of Holland has blockaded Hameln. a It is necessary that the present war should be the last, and that its authors should be severely pu nished, in order that those who may hereafter take up arms against the French People should b,e well aware of the peril of such undertaking, and of its inevitable consequences !'' OI{DEI OF THE DAY OF TILE EfCHTH NOV, " The Emperor hereby expresses his satistadion at the condua of General Si.VARY, and also of the Ist ilegiment of Hussars, and of the 7th of Chas- sear; under his orders, which have captured near Wieniar General livslausNß, Witt two Regiments of;liussars, and 4000 !louses, two battalions of Gre nadiers, and two pieces of cannon." ORDER OF THE DAY OF THE NINTH NOV. " The Emperor hereby expresses his satisfaClion at the conduct of the Grand Duke of BERG..--of the . Prince of PONTO-COHVO—of Marshal S,OULT, and of the Corps of Infantry, Cavalry, &c. under their com mand, in the brilliant victory at Lubeck, and for the a&ivity with which they continued the pursuit of the Eneiny. Closely pressed, constantly opposed at all points where they endeavoured to elle& a re treat, the army of General BLUCHER, upwards of 16,000 Foot and 4000 Cavalry strong, provided with eighty pieces of cannon, have been compelled to surrender prisoners of war, in order to be conducted into France, and, in consequence of which there no longer remains any of the Enemy's troops on this side the Vistula !" PROCLAMATION OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO HIS ARMY. " Every effort of His Majesty, as well as those of his Allies, to preserve Peace, has been fruitless ; and unless by abandoning the North of Germany, and perhaps all Europe, to the tyranny of an Enemy, who knows neither check nor repose, and to give them up as a prey to the destroying armies, war is inevitable. His Majesty has resolved upon war ; because the honour and the safety of his States were in danger. He would have esteemed himself happy, had he been able to maintain peace without spilling blood ; the army, the nation, the world itself knows it; and it is with the greatest confidence that he goes to lead his troops to battle, to defend the coun try and the national honour, for justice declares for us. " It has not escaped his Majesty, that the Army has long desired war ; and if from considerations ne cessitated by circumstances of the moment, he has not sooner complied with their wish, he did not the less attend to it ; because he is convinced that it is nothing but the voice of honour and of the country, which have inspired them with sentiments which they have always publicly manifested. The whole nation has already shewn the lively concern it takes in this war; and it is a great consolation for his Majesty, that the events which are about It, take place, have been not only inevitable, but that they have besides the general assent of his people. " His Majesty i 3 convinced that the spirit of ho nour and of glory, which the genius of FREDERICK impartedlo all Prussians, will give to the army its natural ilaravery, and make it better support the un avoidalple-fatigues of war. But there are in this war, yet, ebjeds and considerations more important.— We have to struggle with an enemy who has around us beat numeraes armies, who has humbled the most powerful States, destroyed the most venerable constitutions, and cloprived more than one nation of its independence and its name. Behold the fate which was reserved for us I _Already numerous armies menaced our frontiers, and daily were reinforced. The Prussian Monarchy was tq have disappe, red, to become even the booty of a stranger; and our proud and greedy enemies already divided in imagi nation the spoils of the Noah of Germany. We fight, therefore, for our independence, for our homes, for every thing that is dear to us ; and if the Omni= potent grant the victory to our just cause, to our arms, and to the courage which doubtless animates every Prussian, we shall be the saviours of millions of oppressed people. " There is certainly no individual in the army, from the Field Marshal down to the private soldier, who can retain his coolness in such circumstances - . Every soldier who falls in this contest dies for the holy cause of humanity, and all thbse who survive him acquire, along with immortal glory, their share in the gratitude, the happiness, and the joyful tears tlf the nations saved from general calamity. Which of us could support the idea of seeing our country delivered up to the rapacity of a stranger ? But let us consider still, that in fighting for ourselves, and repelling the most shameful degradation that could assail a nation, we are at the same time the saviours and deliverers of Germany. The eyes of all nations are fixed upon us as upon the last stay of their liberty, of the existence, and of the geed order of Europe. The vidory, which is the objet of our vows, is not an ordinary vietory. The'eed that we propose to ourselves is great, but the means of an enemy, intoxicated with his vic tories, is great also. Our efforts must then be stre nuous and decisive. His Majesty will with joy partake of the dart. gers and fatigues which his troops shall have to un dergo. He knows all that he may expect from his valiant soldiers. .He knows that their zeal is unex tinguishable, their vigilance indefatigable, their in trepid firmness, and their Unchangeable constancy cannot one instant desert them, and they will not forget, in any chance, the elevated destinies which will put the seal upon their glory. The fate of na-• tions and of armies, is, it is true, in the hands of the. Eternal ; but he almost always grants the vialory to the just cause. The confidence which it gives is within us ; our cotemporaries applaud our zeal, and. the most fortunate succeres will trown our taking." Done at Head-quarters at Erfurth, the 2d of O-- tuber, 1806. HUNGARY.—SemLIN, OCT. 21.—The Congress assembled at Setnlin, for the conclusion of peace between the Porte and the Servian Insurgents, con tinues its deliberations. The last Courier who ar- rived from Constantinople, was immediately sent back with dispatches for that capital. Immediately on his departure, CZ/Mil-GEORGE repaired to the Camp before Belgrade. He sent to KUSAxzr• ALI, chief of the Kersales, a letter, in the Illyrian language, to the following effe& : KUSANZI•ALI, " I am arrived here in the name of the Sultan thy Master, whose numerous troops have been beaten in Servia, in Bulgaria, and in Wallachia, by my viaorious armies. The following declares the object of my coming. Having quitted my new head quarters at Samkai, after the armistice concluded with the Commander in Chief of thy Sultan, in order to repair to Semendria, there to assist in Council; I have received, by a Courier, a Erman - from the Porte, in which I am solicited to stop the effusion of blood by a suspension of hostilities, and at the same time engaging, by the vows of peace and amity, to deliver up the fortress of Belgrade. Should' you not conform in this respell to my will and to that of thy Master, he has assured me, that he shall not in any manner impute to me the fresh disasters which must ensue, and the farther effusion. of blood which an assault of the fortress must oca casion. " I charge thee, therefore, speedily to evacuate the fortress, and I promise to thee a free and safe egress. from Belgrade and Servia to thee and thy Kets , sales, and to those Janissaries who have entered the fortress subsequent to the Peace concluded with the Germans, i. e. in 17g e, with the exception soleirof the zerties (burgesses) and the spahis (landed pro. prietors). Thou may'st be assured, that during thy march thou shalt not experience the least ob. stacle or hindrance on the part of my troops, at the inhabitants of the country; and ill-betide thos, who offer thee the least harm. I givetbeellfteen days for consideration, and hold myself bound neat to commit any adt of hostility against.thee in :that in. terval, and from which I expo d though wilt also ab. stain. Ponder well upon the consequences. Flat ter thyself not with being able to resist my vido. rious troops, should I order the assault of the for. tress; and still less that any who oppose me shall escape. in• expediation of thy categorical answer, " I am, " GEORGE PETTIOWITZ, Commander in Chief of the Servian Insurgents-it As yet there has been no answer to this letter,-- In the mean time the different columns of the Ser. vian army remain in their former positions. On the other hand, the Ottoman army is considerably reinforced. The Turks have strongly fortified • the town of Sophia, and ereded several new batteries on the works. All the Commanders in the pro. viuces of Bulgaria and Wallachia have received orders to levy troops, and make every preparatic etredually to resist new inroads. Four distinet corps have been particularly ordered, which it is pro. posed shall be commanded by the Pacha of Nissa, Sophia, Widdin, and ,Orosover ; the several Com manders have also been desired to keep a watchful eye upon the Greek inhabitants in the respedive distri&s. CASSEL ) . Nov. 7,-,General LAGRANGE, Governor General of Hesse, has published the following Pro clamation, dated on the 4th instant :, " INHABITANTS OF HESSE, " You now know the causes to which you have ib attribute the events which have happened. Circum• stances, I venture to believe, will not bring with them the misfortunes which are almost inevitable in the midst of such changes. War and its disasters will not ravage your plains. Remain tranquil, con tinue your labours and your speculations in trade, give yourselves up to your industry and your mai. vity, and be without fear, for your laws, your cus• toms, your religion, your persons, and your proper ty, all shall be proteaed. Named Governor-General of Hesse, by His Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, I will do all that depends upon me to preserve order, and cause the scatty to pros. per : such is the end I propose to myself ! Happy if I can attain it ! Your duty, Inhabitants of Hesse, ia obedience to the orders and dispositions of Govern. ment, and absolute and punEtual execution of all it shall prescribe to you. This is all I require of you to attain the end which should be th• common aim, and from which your happiness and tranquillity are inseparable. The Governor-General ordains as fol lows : Art. I. " The colle&ing of all the revenues of the Eledorate of Hesse, and the Administration of Jus• tice, shall henceforward be done in the name of his Majesty the Emperor and King. IL " All the country shall be disarmed. When ever retains arms after the order given for disarm. ing, will put himself in - the predicament of Wog