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ELEVENTH .13331.,,EETR4 OF THE GRAND ARMY.
• ' '`l Meoelibergt, Oct.
" The nom if ritosters diode at Erfurt is much
greater than at first supposed:-The passports granted
to the Officeis, by virtue of ,pate of the :mines of
capituLstiost,_to release thertgeou their
arnouneicisix hundred.
lintshor Dav teases tetwps stock possession .
Leiptie on the 18th.
•• The Prince of Pontetoivo, WISP was at Effre-
ben on the I7th, to cut off the enehry's columns,
having learned that the reserve Of 'His Majesty the
King of Prussia, commanded' by Prince Eugene to of
Wirtemberg, was at Hallo, immediately reire
that place.
" After having made his dispositions, he ordered
the attack to be made by General Dupont, while
the division of Drouet took a swam 'to the left, as
a reserve The 31st and 9th regiments of light M.•
fantry passed the bridges v. ith a storming pace, and
beinn supported by the 26th, they advanced into
the city. In less than an hour's time, all the Prus-
i a Its were defeated. The 2d and 4th regiments of
hussars, with the whole division under General
Ri-
wand, passed through the place, and drove the '1
len listemy from
cavalry deavoured to cut down theTlet
and fah regiments with their sabres, but .hey were
received and repulsed with firmness.
" The Army of Reserve, under the Prbtee
of
Wittenberg, was thrown into a complete rout, and
pursued to a distance of four miles.
" The result of this fight, which demands a cir-
cumstantial and copious detail, consists of 5000 pri-
soner'.' includb.g too Genesis, three Colonels, tour
standards, and 34 pieces of cannon
" General Dupont emulated himself in such a
roamer as to merit considerable distinction.
" The General ea Division Rotiyer had a horse
shot under him. The General of division Drouet
Made the whole regiment of Troskuw prisoners of
soar.
" The loss nn our side does not exceed 40 killed
inn' 400 wounded. The Colonel of the 9th infantry
arpog the latter. General Leopold Berthier,
ditr of the Staff under the Prince of Ponte-Corvo,
distinguished himself by his behaviour.
tlftentrfrence of the battle of Halle, there are
troops of the enemy that have not been

defeated. -
SeMlle ?Milian General Van Blucher. with 5000
men, has.eecaped, making his way through the di-
vision of General Klein's. dragoons, who had cut
hint off, in couicqueme of his na-al.ing Gm. Klein
bettevt: tit it an armist.ce had been ctnicluded for six
%scat. •
" The O‘ficer, Montesquieu, whom the Emperor
had sillat.h.-.1 with a flag of truce tb t'.-.e King of
Russia, .two d tys before the great battle, has re-
tinned. He was several days with the flying enemy.
According to his account, the confusion in the Prus-
sian astute is indescribable. In the mean while.
their boasting the day before the battle was beyond
all example. l'h• y flattered themselves with nothing
less than cutting off the whole French army, and
n,
surprising toluenes of W.OOO men ; JAW the Prunia
Geimt t•
nerals, us tar As lay in flair power, endeavoured
to ate the tunic of Frederick the Great.
- - 4 NOtWlthStarldtug we were so far swanned into
000.
- . 41).W-country, the Generals seemed to be completely
ignoramt of our motions; they imagined that we bad
.• sot abovemen upon the small level near Jena..
kwbile ase greatest part sit our army defiled irODS
that heiight.. - .
e The enemy's army is -snatching, with great
baste, towards Magdeburg. It is probable that
... w. ei :41 columns wiU .be cut off before they reach
lop- - that place. We lame bad no accounts from Mar-
. , slial Soisit for UMW days past; who has been de.
cached with 40,000 awn in pursuit of the enemy.
. - " The Empires has passed over the field of
battle at Rosback..and has given orders for the
columtt. sidled there to be removed to Paris.
" Übe Etnperor's head-quarts were at Mer-
seuburw tut the 18th. On the 19th, they were re-
moved to ilalle where considerable magazines of
all loss have Ilea iiv,a our lauds."

TWELFTH BVI.LETIN.
" thole, Oct. 19.
Marshal Soult pursued the enemy to the walls
of Magdeburg. the Prussians made many efforts
to retrieve themselves, but were 'always J.:teated.
• Large magazines have been found at Nordhau-
sen, and even a chest What with gold belonging to
the King of Piussia.
• In the cause of five days employed by Marshal
Honk is rurwiit of the enemy, he has made 1200
prisoner., taken A reces of cannon, and between I
f and 309 caissons.
" 'rho principal iihjea of the campaign is obtain-
ed Sawsy, Westphalsa, and all the country on the
left shore of the Efbe, are freed twin the presence
ipf the Prussian a: my. This army, beaten and pur-
led for the space of 50 miles, is, at piesent„
t cannon, withont baggage, and Officers, anda re-
ed to less than the third of its eumter eight
days ago; and, what is more than all, it has lost its
Courage and confidence. Two French corps. Ire
iimpleyed in throwing bridges over the Elbe. The
Isead-quarters are at Halle. the following letter
.contains an accurate pidture of the condition of the
rrassian army.
1 "My I)esa Stet:lg.-4 am still alive and well,
after having assisted in so fatal a campaign ; but,
alas! I Miltt inform you, that we have lust nttfre
than hall our army, and the best of our Generals.—
My battalion has behaved remarkably well us the
battle; but, notwithstanding, they lost their canntm
in the retreat. My company alone have lost forty
men, together with Lieut. Schweri.z. If I y;rre
ail k to
recount all our mistottunes, I should never ma e
at
and. The whole of our baggage was tak...::l
Weimar. Even our attendants could not save tl,eni.
• selves. On the liftli, I arrived at Nordhausen with-
out my hrise, and dviived of every thing. The
army is in 101 l vett est to Madgeburg. I fis Majesty
Las received a severe contusion; however, I ant still
her
unhurt. You may tell Mrs. Schubert that
eldest son is .lead, and that we do not know what
is two= e 1 the other, no more than we t:. of
darsiseli, N:ichelsolso, and Joseph 'Firalla. AtAl,
tesideses:, we have still five stibaltetns
four muthsicians, three artillery-men, and all the
grenadiers. .Ishlownsky has also lost all his people.
Ft:mai:tilts is in thz saute situation- They are eh as

1 gee .1 AS mother naked, as naked as they were born.
1 The Major only saved his home. • Several Generals
i are killed.. innitz and Melanie are still missiV.
I The" Duke of '.Biunswick lost both his eyes by a
oseasket-shot. Ruched aod Winnig. are dead. Several
iregiments are without officers: others have officers
'without MCA. Our loss is unspeakable. We can
no 'Wive distinguish the different corps of the army,
• they are so intermingled, with each other. The
bittalions of Lotten, Bork, and Grodatte, exist no
more ; they formed a part of the rear guard, which
is entirely cut in pieces. You can form no idea of
tie fury with which t:ie Frinch pursue us. Di-
re& your letters 6 the corps of the arrdy at Madge-
burg.
' Needhausen, Oct. t: .'
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THiRTEENTH BUI,LETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
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" Halle, Oct. 20.
44 General Macon, who commands at Leipsic, has
published .the following notice to the bankers, mer-
chants, &c. of that city:—' As the Sovereigns of the
Sea pay no regard to any colours, it is the will of the
Emperer that their merchaneize shall be every
whtre detained. The Elland is therefore declared
in a slate of aEluel blockade.'
" Fifteen thousand quintals of meal have been
found in the magazines at Lcipsic, and a great quan-
tity of other provisions.
. On the t9th the Grand Duke of Berg arrived
at Halberstadt. On the 20th he covered the whole
plain of Maedeburg with his cavalry. Several de-
tachments of the enemy's troops, and a number of
stragglers, fell into our hands, at the moment they
attempt d to enter the fortress.
44 A regiment of the enemy's hussars, thinking
that I lalberstadt was in the hands of the Prussians,
were attacked by the Yagets of the 22d Regiment,
and lost SOU men.
" Six hundred of the King of Prussia's Life
Guard, and all the equipage of that corps, fell into
the hands of General Beaumont. Two hours before,
two companies of the King's Foot Guards were
taken by Marshal Soult.
l' Lieut. General Schmettau, made prisoner, is
dead at Weimar.
44 Thus this numerous and excellent army, which
a few days since threatened to overpower the Con-
federation, and which bad expressed its confidence
to their Sovereign, that he might give orders to the
Emperor Napoleon to quit Germany before the Bth
of OCtober, unless he meant to be compelled so to
do—of this numerous and excellent army, nothing
but a confused heap remains, and which rather do-
serve‘that name, than that of an army.
44 Of 160,000 men, of which the Prussian army
consisted, it would now be difficult to calk& more
than 50,010 men ; and even these are without can-
non, baggage, and half of them with, and the other
half without arms. All these circumstances justify
whet the Emperor said in his first Proclamation,
' Let them learn that it is easy to obtain increase of
power and territory, by friendship with the Great
Nation, bitt that its hostility it more dreadful than
the storms of the ocean.'
44 In fa*, nothing resembles the I nt state of
the Prussian army snore than the remains of a ship-
wreck. That army appeared like a beautiful and
none:Das fleet, claiming nothing less than the sole
driminion of the seas. The burricaie of the North
impelled against her the waves of the Ocean, and
now she is returned into port, with Only a small part
of her crews, and these saved with difficulty Irons
the dosteoying element..
44 The following letters paint the situation of af-
fairs consistent With truth. They strew how far the
Prussian Cabinet has been misled by false appear-
ances. They mistook the moderation of the Em-
peror Napoleon for weakness. Because this Mo-
narch did, in feet, every thing in his power to pre-
vent the war, they inferred that he was unprepared
for it, and that he stood in need of 400,000 Con-
scripts to complete his army.
. The French army was no longer confined with-
in the camps of Boulogne: it was in Germany.
This is well known to M. Ch. Van Hesse and to
M. Haugwitz. Thus men must acknowledge the
will of Providence, who has neither giien our
enemies eyes to see, ears to hear, nor understand-
ing to But
44 it seems that M. Ch. Van. Hesse was only
pleased with Mentz. Why not also with Meta?
Vs by not with all the rest of the fortresses of the
western part of France ? Say no longer that the,
ambition of France compelled. you to take up arms :
acknowledge that you were driven to them by your
1 owe crooked policy. Because one French army
was in Naples, and another in Dalmatia, yon form-
' ed the prep& of attacking the Great Nation ; but
in seven days time all you: projeas are annihilated.
Yoa thought of falling upon France without ex-
posing
yourselves to any risk, and already you have!
ceased to exist.
s• We are assured, that before the Emperor left
Paris, having assembled his Ministers, he spoke to 1
them as follows :
. I am by no means chargeable with the present
war. I have given no occasion for it whatever. It
was not amoag any of my calculations. May Ibe
defeated, if I have been the case of it ! One of
the principal grounds of my confidence, upon which
I reckon that my enemies will be annihilated is,
that in their comma& I can trace the finger of the•
Almighty, who wills the punishment of traitors.
lie so far ex:lided wisdom from their councils, that
in she moment they chose to attack me, they thought
I was the weakest, when I pessessed the greatest
strength."
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• Lamm, ore. IS.
NOTIFICATION.
" GENTRAT. AC CON, DEPUTT.GOVIIINOIt Of TNt
THUMLCAIES. &C. COMMANDANT Of 1.C1P..1C, TO
AIL SANICIALI, MIRCIIANTS, AND 11101,11ELFSIIS
OF Tlitt CITY.
" GEnTLekaps—The fortune of war has put
Lcipsic into the hands of Nip°lcon the Great.—
Your City is *celebrated in Europe, as the grand
staple of English merchandize, and is in that re.
bilta t dkiIIK,FOOS mousy to France.
' Article I. the first twenty-four hnivi alter this
Notif.cztion, cash Banker, Merchant. or 1) ruler, having Eng-
lish property, to .ney,cr, ao..xLi, in their ii,sc,sion, shati enter
a ilaselasativ, •.: tite um.: in writing, in a R.-sister opened fin
that n.nwv kir the Coiatua.olaiit of the
"aka. rosaa strolasati )))) ovt.le lit an aothentie
nutn•tot,tWe wetsioss who tuti:lts toe stectatativo, mud those
wt., do tint, )ha.Fbe solhje.a to' dtoit,eitaty vit•its, in antis to
I intpcct bolts their hooks and their good., and taus to obtain

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assurances of their g.rld faitk_or to punish any dzcinitlon, at-
eurdirrg tolhe laws of '77' '
Art.ll6 Tee Mag are also elpCied upon their re-
sponsibility, to melte la- All circumstantial return of the
contents of the inagazielit.'botp Prttatan and S.lxon, and even
the powd -r magazines liitirch bAonlg to theltlerchants.
" An IV. A Commission shall he name
oes
or I, who
call
be
es
ettAtpd to impose seals upon gll use magazt whous
wh:clt may be &stowed, the day afterto mutest
" kr. V. All contributioac Uf particular revisitions, whe-
ther id-cloth, money, or horses, Itt Stria iy lllllhi'llteli, LI nims
merle by the above mentioned sothrstity. The Inhabitants, et
the Mn,bers of the Adavnistrationv, who may be weak enough
to submit to any such renitiiitions, ',liana informing the
Commandant of the place of the acme, _halt be subject to hf,
teen days imprisonment.
" Art VI. fire present notification sh t'l its read in all the
public places, and_ at the corners of the streets.
(Sigoed) "MACON."
" iLeipsic, 041. 18."
• BAN ZERO, OCT. 19.
We have been occupied in removing the grand
Prussian magazine at Hoff ever since the 13th. A
great number of carriages are employed on this oc.
elision. The loss of these magazines is immense,
and irreparable by the Prussian armies.
Yesterday afternoon 2S pieces of cannon and an ,
howitzer were brought here, which had been taken
in the affair of the 9th, near Neustadt upon the On la.
Today they have been transported to Vorscheim.
This afternoon 3 or 400 prisoners arrived, Prussians
and Saxons ; three Colonels are among them, and
more prisoners are expelled.

HAMBURGH MAIL.

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HA:491112014, OCT. Sr.
The posts from Prussia, Russia, and Austria, are
not yet arrived ; but we learn, by an Estafette, that
part of Murat's division entered Berlin on the 24th
instant. However disastrous the campaign may
have been to the Prussians, it is certain that several
corps of their army have not been in aillion, and are
now assembled en the other side of the Oder. par-
ticularly the corps of Prince Hohenlohe, the Dukes
of Saxe-Weimar and Brunswick•Oels. The day
before yesterday, the Duke of Brunswick arrived
at Altona ; he was carried in a litter by his servants.
his proposals for the neutrality of his States were
refused in the most haughty manner.

We are in expeldation of hearing of another Little=
having been fought near Magdeburgh ; a few dal
will, in all probability, relieve us from our anxiety:,
General Wartenileben is Governor and Comman
ant of that fortress, the garrison of which consists
of 12,000 men ; but the works are said to require
a much greater number for their defence. As the
magazines are not supplied for a long siege,.appre-
hensions may be entertained for its safety, unless
soots relieved.
Devastation and cruelty mark the footsteps of
the French wherever t..ey so. Weimar was nit
oidy given up to the plunder of a brutal and fero-
cious soldiery for two hours, but was afterwards set
as fire ; as were also Jena, Halle, and Naumburgh.
It is reported here, that General Moreau passed
through this place last Saturday (the 25th); on his
1 way to join the Russian army, in which he is to
have a chief command. Jerome Bonaparte, it is
also said, will accompany the army destined to ad
against Poland. Osnaburgh is occupied by 4,000
French troops, and is taken possession of in the
name of the King of . Holland, as is also East
Friesland.

MINTZ. OCT. 22.
The day before yesterday, in the evening, the
late French Envoy, General La Forest, Arrived
here, and the next morning, General Von Kno-
belsdorff left this tity.

ERLANGEN, OCT. 24.
Business here has again resumed its regular
course, and the teachers in the University will be-
gin, on the 27th, their lectures as usual. The Dow-
ager Margravine of Bayreuth is still here. Yester-
day, and the preceding day, the army of the King
of Wirtemburg, amounting to 10,000 men, marched
through this place.
According to the latest advises (says Tile Netrem.
burg Gautte of the 23d) iteld Marshal Mollendorf
is dead of Ms wounds.