The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-03-14 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

G Mescu At, the Mary, Janie;
from Memel Adeu a, Wilson, from Dantinc , Reliame,
Elleiby ; and the Annabelle, Lune, from Chn.tiana —Sailed,
the Cumberland, Gooding, fir Barbadoes; and the London,
Agnew, (or Jamaica.
A IC MD.
Off P,ntance—The Richard Brecklmby, from Lisbon.
At Livervol—Ann, Campbell, from Tortola ; and the
Caroline, Ccott, from Virginia.
At Teneriffe—Minem, Hall, from London.
At Surinam—Jessie, Harvey, from the Clyde.

BATTLE uF AUSTERLITZ.
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THE RUSSIAN OFEICI‘L ACCOUNT OF TILE
BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ.
(From the Petersburgh Joumal, of FI iday, Feb 2 )
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TROPPAU, JAN. 25.
The issue of the Mule of Austerlitz has been so
well confirmed by its consequences, that is is almost
incredible how France could publish such extrava-
gant and untrue relations of that affair. All Europe,
and the Russian nation in particular, justly cape& a
relation on our par t. The love of truth alone, and
the wish to adduce none but welhauthenticated
fats, have hitherto prevented the appearance of
this relation. In the mean while, it is necessary to
entree some of the statements of the French Bul.
letins, particularly the 30th, and to lay them before
the public.
General Savary spoke with two persons only be-
longing to the Emperor's suite ; and, excepting
these, he only saw some Field Ai,jutants, who had
brought dispatches from their Chiefs, or were in
waiting to transmit orders to them.
The Chief of the French nation might not have
derived any pleasure from the conversation of Prince
Dolgorucky ; but he at the same title forgot, that
the Russians did not belong to those nations who
sought his protection.
The number of the Allied Army, as stated in the
Bulletins, so, was 105,000 men, sir. 10,000 Russians
and 23,000 Austrians, and the French much infe-
rior." But why were their numbers not given ?
Besides the Reserve, which alone was said to be
equal to an army, the enemy's force consisted of
four large divisions, of 20,000 infantry and 3000 ca-
valry each, commanded by a Marshal and two Ge-
nerals of Division. The Combined Army, on the
other hand, consisted of 32,000 Russians, and 17,000
Austrians.
But this inferiority in number was the least mis-
fortune of the Russian army; the scarcity of provi-
sions was so great, that for nearly two days preced-
ing the battle, they had nothing to eat. The horses
were famished to such a degree, that those belonging
to the artillery could no longer draw. Of course, in
the battle, the artillery was of little use, excepting
in those stations where it was first planted. The
total failure of provisions and forage was alone suf-
ficient to prevent our maintaining our post any
longer at Olmutz, or to take another station further
in the rear. These circumstances urged the neces-
sity of the battle, the happy result of which could i
only be expeeed from the valour of the troops.—
'I he Imperial Guard, of which it is said in a Bulle-
tin, that it lost all its colours, are still in possession
of them, and have taken one pair from the enemy.
The Combined Army, it is said, lost 15,000 killed,
and 20,000 prisoners. Do they include among these
the 20,000 said to have been drowned ?
After so many forced marches, and so much fa-
tigue and hunger as had been sustained, with the
sickness consequent thereunto; after the affairs upon
the Danube and in Moravia; of the whole Russian
array, there is not a deficiency of more than seven-
teen thousand men. But, were the less as consider-
able as the Bulletin has pretended, why was not the
Russian army pursued, as that Bulletin falsely as-
serts? On the contrary, the Russian army kept the
field till the next morning. The armistice was not
concluded, but with the Fmperor of Germany, at
whose particular desire the Russians first commenc-
ed their retreat, and which was also effected in good
order, and without loss, notwithstanding the French
pisitiy assert, that during the negociations with
Austria, the French army prosecuted its vieories.
To enhance the glory of this day, the French Bul-
letin says, that the French Guard (the reserve corps)
took no part in the battle. The same Bulletin, how-
ever, afterwards asserts, that when one French bat-
talion was broken by the Russian Guard, Bona-
parte ordered Marshal Bessieres to advance, and
that the Imperial Grads as befit siike immmimidy came
Is oboe.

The French Ritlletias abound with false state-
ments, over which the pretended noise and distrac-
tion, occasioned by the discharge of 200 pieces of
cannon, and a conflid between 200,000 men, throw
but a flimsy covering. Can it possibly serve the in•
taws of a great General to santlion such reports'
Can he really stand in need of such T71.`:111% as these
t, increase that military glory which is not skim.:
his Peoirri!" rd. do "dove to he tt Veto