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which has suffeued on this occasion. BUONAPARTE says ex-
pressedly, previous to mentioning the arrival of General
KLEIST on the mountain in the rear of the French, that the
2d, 6th, and 4th corps, commanded by AI A RMONT and Sr.
CYR, had joined the Ist, commanded by VANDA WINE. We
find besides, that the remains of the Ist corpr rallied on the
14th (NIA RMONT*9) half a league from the &Id of battle;
and no man, who knows the rarge of a gun and the rate of
'the marching of troops can possibly suppose that a corps at
half a league from the scene of action has not been in the
action itself. W e think ourselves
.1 as. (cJ. therefore, in in-
ferring that Buos Ap A RTE has sustained a signal defeat in
Bohemia; and thi-. epinion is streng•hened by the glaring
and contradictory fdschoods of that Bulletin, which asserts
in the beginning, that the very same V aNDAMME was at Pe-
terswalde on the 2(,th, the day of his defeat at Culm ; that
the Allies kit a thousand cart lazes on the road of Freyberf,7,
which it states before they could- not Oce ; and in which, in
short, the account of the marches of the Allies and the
French are so perplexed that it is both useless and impossible
to attempt following them on a map.
Whilst the efforts of the enetr.:,-- were thus et ippled in Bo-
hemia, • the armies destined 'to seize Breslau aad ac-
cording to the original plan of Buosa ?MIT E, felt them elves
too much weakened by large drafts to undettake tine arduous
task, or even to resist the attacks of the Allies in those var-
let-3. General BLUCHER, whom Buos APARTE pretended
to have driven flom his advanced positions on the Bober,
returned and on the river K.ttk.-hach defeated Ai AC-
isoNa LD, NET, and SEBASTIAN!, with the loss of sixty
pieces of cannon on the 26th of August. It appears that
he followed up his advantage ; for Paris papers to the
14th, which bring the news flom Dresden to the 7th, claim
Ito other military success than that of driving BL
across the Ncisse, which is near sixty miles fioni the Bober,
and about an hundred from Breslau ; that river flows into
Sallony,—and, whether or no, MACDONALD will, as it i%
asserted, be able to maintaill itself on its western batik, it is
evident that the whole of Silesia, which BUONAPARTE be-
fore the At mistice represented as a perfect garden, and in
which his troops found every thing in plenty, is now com-
pletely evacuated by the enemy.
BUONAPARTE'S plans have not been more successful on
the Lower Elbe, and from the same reason, the divelsion
from Bohemia. Oum NOT, who connnanded the prircipal
corps, attacked the ('tows PRINCE of SWEDEN at Gross
Bcren on the iSd rf Augnst, but \i'as repulsed with the loss
of twenty-six pieces of cannon, and obliged to fall ly!el; to-
wards the Elbe. In subsequent actions, from that day to
the 30th, the corps of Gt it ARD was completely routed, and
the enemy in that quarter has, since the renewal of

tics, -ristained, in the whole, a loss of 12,00 Q men killed

and wounded, 7,000 prisoners, and a considciable propor-
tion of artillery. In the mean time Da vonsT, who ad-
sauced towards Berlin from llamburgh, after some trilling
success over the corps of General \VALMODEN, composed]
of German patriots, finds himself shut up in SchWerin, and,
a; report says, cut oft from Ilamburgh and the Elbe ;--at
any rate, it does not appear that the corps he commands
can, in its present situation, have any influence on the
general military operations.
Such is the view, and we trust an impartial one, we have
taken of the present state of the campagn. From these
statements, drawn from official documents, and from the ac-
counts Of the enemy himself; it will be seen that notwith-
standing the failure of the attack on Dresden, be has, upon
the whole, been successfully checked in his career,—that
the plans of he loudly proclaimed the exceution, have

SEPT. 14.

been defeated,—that part of his conquests have been wrest-
ed flout him,—and that a rational hope-may be at last en-
tertained, that, by persevering in the same line of conduct,
(he Allies will ultimately succeed in insuring the repose of
mankind.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

Pants, SVPT. 1.-41(1' ntjesty the Empress and Quern !lac re-
ceived the knowing intelligc:iec fecitti ti:e Army, dated the Ist
September !
" On the Anzns.: the Kim.: of Naples and Duke of Bellunc
slept at Frryberti, at Lichtenberg, on the :30th at Zillion,
the 31st at Say(lo.
" 1)::ke of Ravise, with the Gth, slept on the 28th at I)ip-
poldeswai(:‘,. where the enemy abandoned v-400 wounde,i, on the
29th tit Foll.etillnin, and the at Zeiiaald.

" The 14th Corps, under the orders of Marshal St. Cyr, was on
the at Maxeo ; the :9th at Reinhordz Cirieuma, the 30th at
Dilh•rsilorr, the 31st at Lie Lilian.
" The 1-1: corps under Gen. Vandatnme was on the nth at
Flollendolf, and the 09111 at Peterswalle, occupying the toonntains.
" The 13o1:e at Treviso was in position on (Ike vtlth and otly
at Pirna. Gen. Pagol, commanding the cavalry, has made some
prisoners.
" The enemy retire:l to the poititin of Dippoldeswalda and Al-
truberg ; his left felloucci the Platt en road, and fill back by
Tharatult upon Dippoldeawalda, not being able to retreat by the
Frey berg road.
" His right could neither retire by the causeway of I'irna, nor
that of Dednia, and therefore retired upon Maxen, and from ience
upon DippoldeswaLla. All that there were of partizan: or detached
were cut all. The Russian, Prussfan,. and Austrian baggage got
entangled upon the causeway of Frey berg ; sererd thousand car-
riages were taken there. Arrived at Altenburg. where the road
from Toeplib. to Dippoldeswalda became impraetieable, the enemy
took the resolution of abandoning more than thio carriages of ant-
munition and baggage.
" the 29th Gen. Vandamme passed with eight or ten bat-
talions the neck of the grand chain, and marched upon Kuhn. Ile
there met the enemy eight or tel thousand IttrOne ; he engaged his; ;
not finding himself sufficiently strong, he made- his corps d'arince
descend ; be would have scion overthrown the enemy. Ili place of
re-entering and again Waring himself upon the heights, he remaioed,
and took a position at Kuhn, without guarding the mountaia. This
momitain commanded the only causeway ;it is high. It was ooly
on the 30th that Marshal St. Cyr and the Duke of Razu.e arrived
at the debouch frOm Toeplitz. Geo. Vaud:mime only thought of
closing the road against the enemy and taking all. "'lo akin,T
army a bridge of gold must be wide, or a barrier of slug opposed." lie
was not strong enough to oppose this barrier of steci.
" However, the enemy perceiving that this corps d'arrnee of
F 3,000 remained Alone in Bohemia, separated by hir.di monntaios
and that all the others were at the- foot of the ml ifinitaitis on the
other side, saw that he was lost unless he defeated ; concuivtd
• the hope of successfully attacking it. its position living had.
a The Russian guards were at the head of the army which fought
in retreating ; to them were joined two fresh Austrian diVI-ions.
" The remainder of the enemy's army joined as it debouched,
followed by the td, 6th, and 14th corps : these troops reached the
Ist corps.
" Gen. Vandamme chewed a good countenance, repulsed all the
attacks, penetrated ail that presented itself; and covered the field
of battle with dead.

66 Disorder increased in the enemy's army, and .it was witk
admiration seen what a small number of men can du against a mul-
titude whose monde is weakened.
" At two in the afternoon the Prussian column of Genera) Kleist
cut oil in his retreat, debuuched by Peterswalde, to endeavour to
penet ratc into Bohemia ; it met no enemy ;Arrived upon the top of t!.e
mountain without resistance, it placed itself there, and there S:1 tY
the affair which was going on. The effect of this coinnin upon tl:a
rear of the army decided the kusiuess.
''NT' General andamme immediately marched against thiA eqll:ntr,
which he repulsed ; he was obliged to weaken hi!; line at this delicate
moment.

" Fortune turned. Ile nevertheless succeeded in overtlire,ring
General Kleist's column, who WWI kiled ; the Pros,ian withers
threw away their arum; alid precipitated tiwniselvcs into the Tossed