The National Register.
London, England, 1813-10-31 00:00:00

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mtatication with France being totally destroy( d—his army in consi-
viable distress—his wagazines nearly exhausted, and the country in
%Ninth he is utterly without the means of replenishing them, he must
hot tly find it necessary to'break through the circle which has been
dra.,%n around him t in this attempt he may probably succeed, but
!here Is every reason to hope that it will be accompanied by the
itestrn, lion ofa great part of his army.
Full justice is &me to the niilitary talents and able combinations
of the Prince Marshal : had he been less prudent and circumspect in
his movements, we should not have -been placed in the formidable
and commanding attitude which we are now enabled to assume.
P. S. By intelligence received this morning, it appears that Prince
s;chwartzenberg, with the main body of his army, is at Chemnitz
and in the neighbourhood. Buonaparte left Dresden on the 7th,
with the King of Saxony and his family, and is at Rochlitz, where
his Lamy is chiefly assembled General Ilehnigsen has advanced to
Dresden, in which it is said Buonaparte has left but a feeble garrison,
consisting according to report, of not more than three thousand men.
A.

I.lxtract of a dispatch from Lieutenant.Gencral the Hon. Sir Charles
Stewart, K. B. to Viscount .Castleiragh, dated Head-quarters
Prince Royal of Sweden, Rottenburgh, Oct. 11, 1813.
In conformity to your Lordship's instructions, being sufficiently
recovered fi om my wound to travel, I left the 'mad-quarters of the
allied army at Toeplitz on the 3d instant, and arrived at those of the
Crown Prince of Sweden at Radegast, near Zorbig, on the tint. Mr.
;
Thornton has fully put your Lordship in possession of the nterestiog
military intel:igence to that period. Ukase now to inform you,
that, atter C e b. iltiant passage of the Elbe by General Blucher at
El ter, in which both decision and judgment have been pre-eminently
displayed, and the couseque:.t passage of the same river by the
Prince Royal's army at the points of Rosslan and Acken, his Royal
Highness tne Clown Prince conceived a movement ut the whole
allied force to the left bank of the Saale would force the enemy
either to a general battle, cr would be the most effectual mode to
embarra,s and La. ass his retreat, it' he should determine upon
measure which the combined movements of the armies of Bohemia,
Si esia, and of the North of Germany on his flanks, and on all his
caommoie itions,seeined to render so indispensably necessary.
Napoleon, it seems, had inancenired from Dresden, according to
repot is with a large corps of cavalry on the right, and all his infantry
en the kit bank of the Etbe, as far down as Archlau : a strong
di.monstration of twenty or thirty thousand men was made from
Torgan tow arils the Voint of Mater, on the Bth, where General
pa,sed, probably with a design of menacing that General
and forcing him to repass the river. The bold determination of the
ats• mit, however, to be arrested by demonstration ; and the
Mode io my of Mueller beinguow in close communication with that
of the Prince Royal, the former marched from I)ubcn on Jesnitz,on
the 9th, and past d the ; and the Crown Prince concentrated
his forces between Zorbig, Radegast, and Bittartield. The enemy,
aecordisig to accounts, appeared now to be collected about Eulenberg
and Ost naitz, between the Nlnlea and the Elbe.
On the inth, ileneral Blucher moved from Jesnitz to Zorbig, and
the al mica of Sile is and the North efGermany were here assembled
tie determioati n being taken to pass the Soule, orders were
issued in the night, and General Blucher moved with the Silesian
army to pass the river at Wettin, bridges being constructed for
that pi.rrose.
G. net al Bulow, with his corps Warmer, was iu like manner to
pass at Wettin ; General Winzingerode, with the Russians, at
Roslietibiugh ; amid the Prince Royal, with the Swedes, at
AlSlebeirand Berniwrg. The whole allied force was then to place
itsult in order of battle, with its lett on the Saale, waiting the
development *of the enemy's movements. General Bulow's corps,
and General Winzingerode's corps, after passing the river, were to
fits m the rigat of the Silesian army, and the Swedes to be in reserve
or second line.

E tell corps Warmer is to form in three lines, General Woronsoff,
who formed General Winzingerode's advanced guard at Halle, is to
be regulated in his-movements by the attempts of the enemy, and
fall back on the forces passing at Wettin, if he honld be attacked
by ><nperior niunber, but otherwise to retain Halle as long as
possible.
Your Lordship will obAcrve, b', these bold and decided move-
rntsitts, tom the points of passage on the Etlw, by which the armies
have pa.sesl,ll..ve 1)••,•t• abandoned, and are to be deAtroyed, if neces-
sty s ; 011111 been prepared below Magdeburg in ease
• • 11••••• t. corp, ..t bservill 1011 under Gen. Thome)), before Wit-
t ontir:l,o. :Intuit 6,0 i PO lout), 0. !se event of the enemy forcing a passage
• It ~t lite ptirpo,e °fait/tieing. the right bank of the Elbe, slid re-