The National Register.
London, England, 1813-04-25 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

PRILA 25.

tion to maintain an armed neutrality becomes everyday mere
apparent. In this she is said to have been imitated by Den-
mat k,
.whose Ambassador has at last reached our shores.
Saxony too, half occupied by the allies, is represented as
negociating to.become neutral, and it is even aPed'that she
has withdrawn her- troops from .the French army. This,
however, appears to be incorrect. Not only do the Saxons
continue to disgrace themselves by their alliince, but by
the valour with which they fight in the cause- of NAPOLEON,
as welearn C1)1111116 Russian report of the victory gained
over MoRANn at Luneburgh, where the Saxony, who com-
po.+ed the greater part of his division where guilty of the ob-
stinate resistance described, and with one of their own Generals
fell into the hands of their allies. The removal of the KING to
liatisboO in Bavaria, whose monarch remains faithfully a ztach
cd to France, seems also to discountenance the rumour. Should
it prove well founded, however, the offer might have been
made at the secret instigation of RUGS AP ART E, who might
think he would derive from the neutrality of Saxony at the
present moment, and for a short season, greater advantages
titan from the co-operat ion of her reduced military lota,
These shall be explained when we come to describe the posi-

tions of the respective armies.
Besides the accession of numbers which. the Russians have
received, daring the short suspension of important move-
ments, they have also cncrcased that moral strength, with
which success invests armies. • In frequent skirmishes they
have continued to maintain their newly acquired superiority
over the enemy. In two considerable engagements, at Lu•
nebut gh and at Mockern they have established it. They
have made themselves dreaded, not only by their valour,
but by the accuracy of their intelligence, the rapidity of
their movements, and the skill with which they are conducted.
The evenly now feels thole than ever the loss of his veteran
cavalry, as expert at reconnoitering, as enterprising in action,
and who besides, having already waged war in these coun-
tries, would have been perfectly acquainted before hand with
the nature and strength of the positions which an antagonist
could take, and would have possessed greater means of anti-
cipating and defeating his plans, than new levie;, however
'well-&sposed and disciplined, neither of which can, in the
'present instance, be the case.
This therefore, is the situation of the allies. Joined by
common kite' ests, they have united their forces iu a terri-
tory where every heart wishes them success, and every hand
is disposed to give them assistance. The military power of
Russia, Sweden, and Prussia, thus ;:ssembled on the imme-
diate seat of war, may be estimated fairly at 250,000 men,
in the following proportions: 100,c,00 Russians, 100,000
Prussians, 30,000 Swedes, and 20,000 German insurgents.
The latter may be reasonably expected to increase, should
the operations of the campaign he carried into Hanover and
'estphalia. In Saxony, the people have remained, although
reluctantly, obedient to the orders of their Sovereign, and
no rising has taken place. The chief direction of the war is.,
in the hands of Prince KuTusow SMOLENSK°, who has di-
vided the allied force into three armies. The first, or grand
army, atttended by the Emperor ALEXANDER in person
and the Commander in Chief, marched from Kaliscb to
Dresden, and flour thence descended towards Weimar, Er-
furth and Jena, where the tremendous battle which over-
threw the strength of Prussia in 18041. was fought. -Here,
by the last accounts, the advanced posts of this army were
placed. The second army, of pearly equal force, under the
Command of WiTTGENSVEIN. after occupying the attention
of the French collected in the neighbourhood of Magdeburgh,
by attempting to cross the Lower Elbe, at Luneburg and
Wcrbeu, thus compellin4 them to draw their troops from

Dresden,'Leipsic, and Dessau, and to open a fiee passageioe
the Russian grand army, suddenly marched towards the
Upper Elbe, defeated GRENIER, AVi:O profiting by that move-
ment, had advanced to re occupy Bei lin, and rutting off
all intercourse between Magdeburgh and the right bank of
the Elbe, sent its advanced posts by Dessau,-across that river:-
and put itself in cometunication with the grand army{
thus threatening the front and the right wing of the Freud).
The third army, composed of TET T EN%O Rti'S, Do RN II CR eS4
and BECKENDORFT'S Russian and Prussian corp:, of the
Hanseatic insurgents, and the Swedes, is assembling en the
Lower Elbe between Hatnburgh at Boitzenburg, under the
command, it is said, of the CROWN Pn IN C E of Sweden, who
is well acquainted with this part of the country, which he
formerly contributed to reduce under the dominion of
. France. Should success attend the other armies on the
1 Upper Elbe and at Erfurth, he will then easily advance to
l Bremen and Hanover, and from thence penetrate into-

Holland.
We have seen the state and positions of the allied forces,
let is now consider those of their opponents.
The breathing time so profitably employed by the Russians,
was nut allowed by NAPOLEON to pass unimproved. He had
had no sooner reached Moscow, than he had ordered a levy of
160,000 conscripts. These, with the few veterans that had
survived the horrors of the campaign of 1812, formed the
corps which occupied Berlin and limbo' gh, andstill garrison
the fortresses on the ('der and the Elbe. lie no sooner re-
turned to Paris, than he was empowered by a Senatus•Con-
snltom, to iaise all additional force of 350,000 men. These
compose the army which occnpies. Hanover, Bremen, and
Minden, and extending to the heights of Eisenach, covers
Westphalia, and that which, under the mine of the Army of
Observation of the Rhine, is posted at Wurtzburg and Bam-
berg, to defend the kingdoms of \Virtemburgh and Bavaria.
A large portion of this force has also been dispatched to I taly.irt
case the 'l'r.olians should show a disposition to rise, or Austria
should avail herself of the present opportunity to recov.et
her lost provinces. The rest has been marched into Spain.
to replace the veterans that have been withdrawn from that
country. Scarcely bad the Prussian declaration of war been
known at Park, when a third Senates Consultum directed a
fresh levy of tSo,OOO, part of whom were to form a r'serve
on the Rhine and the remainder.to gnat d the coasts. These,
although The Times-assures us they have been iaised, clothed,
equipped, and marched off to their destination in the short
space of a week, may still be supposed to remain in their fa-
milies, endeav,uring to elude the operation of the tyranic4l
law which rends %sunder every natural tie arid sends them to,
perish by the hands of a dreaded. foe They will, them cforc,
i for a length of time add nothing to the etiective lot ee which
the enemy may britr; into the The same may be said
of the local national guards, who, although called out in
great numbers, are on!y intended for keeping down the peo".
1. plc in the interior during the execution of the conscription

law.
From this statement it will result, that the strength of the
armies which NAPOLEON, who left Paris on the 15th inst.
is now leading against th.! allies, cannot amount to mere
than 350,000 combatants, all French. The levy of Oct. 10 !2.
and that cif Jan. 1813, would have given 510,000 men. But
of the former, at least 30,000 must be deducted as having
already been lost to the service, hy disease, wounds, death,
and desertion. Of the latter,
sent to Italy and Spain, so th
will be found near the truf
possesses the garrisons of the
of the Ausskaps, which may

r, at least 130,000 have been
tat the computation of Sio,Ooo
:h. Besides these, NAPOLEON
fortresses in Puland in the rear
consist collectively of .50,000
or
fir
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