The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-29 00:00:00

neINAPART AIRAIOI iIS
OF THE HUNDRED MTS.
We yesterday gave extracts fri4n this work,
stating Bonaparte s opinion of the talents of the
Generals by whom he was opposed and defeated,
is. evinced in their coeiliscit on the memorable 18th
of June, 1815, and throughout else short c.inpaign.
O'er extract of to.day precedes that of yesterday.
The d. tails of the grand engagement are familiar
to err(' one ; yet it may be well believed flint 80.
sinivisii-'s account of St materially differ* from that
tel mews.: we. therefore, here present it without
Girdles inemnble :-
1,4 Devisee.; the Hight the Emperor gave lei: tier °Men Illatth
very fur the beetle of the neat day, although every thing in-
/Nerd him to belly. that it wool.' not take place. le font
da). from the comnieseentest of hostilities, be land ►y the
14.0.1 skilful manmuirm surprised his enemies, gains el a aphis.
di•l victory, and separated the English and Ps teatime armies.
In cluing this, ►e hail done much for his glory, bat Not enough
fur the security of hi. position. The delay of three holm,
which the left wing of hie army had sustained in 'litterbug its
operaieutes, had peeve rated him (nem mak lag the at ‘44 ► which
he had issieneleent to leave made upon the Aoglo Dutch army,
and which, if made, world at once have put an end to she
whole camp sign. It was smelly preamble that the !take of
K•rllington and Maraud Blocher a••nlel have availed them.
at lees of that very night to mom the forest of Soigsier, anti to
juin the. foie". before Wessels. After that joaction, which
might have hero sea& by 'slue u'cluck is the worming, I be posi.
lion of t he Fe reach army I/011141 hive beets rc naered very delicate.
The two armies opposed to it would have bees strengthened
by all the force wheels they hail in their rear. Six tlionessaid
English politicos had been lauded at °Nerd fur some few
days, and formica only part of the troops who were return-
ing from America. It would have been impossible fur the
Frstsetsinisy to risk the danger of crussiog the forest of
tioignes, i.e tenter to light on leaving its defiles (as
boucke wills troops more than double their numbers. sod
draws up in strong positiou; and, besides, is a few weeks,
the limisiati. Austria.. Bavarian, Ike. armies would hate
passed the Rhine to establish themselves upon the Marne.
The tiflb corps, which was rated in Alsace as ■u army of
observation, aid not consist of more than 20,000 me a.

" At one o'clock in the morning, folly occupied by these
important considerations, the Emperor left his teat us foot,
attendedd artily by his Graud• Marshal ; his inteutien was to
follow the 'weal of the English tinny, sod to endeavour to
make a dash at it, notwithstanding the darkness of the
night, as WWI as it should have commenced its isiarili.
He travelled through the liue of main petrel". The fo-
rest of Soigne* appeared like a grand cuellagratioe ; the
horizon between that forest" Braine•la.Litud, the farms
of IA Belle Alliaece and La Haye, chime with the fire
of the bivouacs: the inost profound silence every where pre-
vailed. The Angle-Date's army was buried in deep sleep,
oa cousequrace of the fatigues which it had soseleigose salt
the precedieg day. Oa reaching the woods of Hougotninet
he heard the sowed' of a cultism in march : it was them half.
past two o'clock. At that hour decreer-guard was to runs-
MIMIC! leaving Its position, if the enemy were to be on the
retreat : the idea that they were so was, however, abort.
The sounds ceased : the rain fell ism torrents. Differeut
officers also had bee. seat net to rectossuoitre aid ether per-
golas on whom reliance could be placed, retuned at
half-past three o'clock, sail confirmed the intelligence
that the English mid Dutch were rut Reeking any
movements. At four o'clock the paroles brought to
hiss a peasant who had acted as guide to a brigade of
English cavalry, which had takes up its peeilluds ora the ex.
tame left of the village of ()hats. Two Belgian deserters,
who had just quitted their regime's., informed him that their
army was preparing fur battle, that so retrograde noovenerat
had takes place that Belgium effaced up prayer, fur the
soiree's of the Eloperver, and that its inhabitants equally de-
tested both the English and the Prussians.
" The enemy's General could nut have taken any step
more contrary to the juicers.* of his 'Renaud of his nation,
to the general plan of the campaign, need eyrie to the rim-
plest rules of war, than that which he took when he deter.
Mined to mouths in the parishes which he thee occupied. lie
had behind him the Mlles of the forest of Soignee, so that,
if he had hoer Wades, he would have found it isepoesible
to retreat. The French troop" bivouacked in the amidst
of the dirt; the Officer" deemed it impossible to give
battle that day; the artillery and cavalry could not ma.
eiseuvre ea the grimed ea account of its extreme wet.
etas and it was reckoned that twelve hours of hoe wide.
Hoer would he waisted to wake it again dry. The day
began to dawn; the Euipetur returned to his mealier*,
extremely n joked Isy the peat blunder which this enemy's
General had committed, but s xtremely chagrined that the
bail weather prevented him from twain it to his own ad.
varier.. But already the atmosphere was eleariag up aal
five o'clock lie perceived Geese weak rays of that sae, a hien
ought, before its setting, to have shone upon the deeirection
of the English army. The oligarchy of &Hain would them
have bete overthrown fur ever, seed Treace ovoid have reit.
ed her head um that slay mare peal, more glaciers, and more
powerful than ever.
"The Amite- Dutch army was drawn op isi line of battle
epee the high mail flume Charterui to Be tassels, ie trout of
the forest of Soignee aced crowned a very noble platform.
The right wing, consisting of the lint and emend English
divisive% am. the divisioeserf Bienswick, cumena•ded by
Generals Cook and Chalon, rested epee a revise ea the
other "idea the road to N ler Ile, and occupied with a detach-
meat the eheiects erlianigessont as an "deuced post. The
teistre,conopused of the third English, and the Int sad
mecum' Belgian divisive, cornumeded by Generals Alien,
Collate*, and Chasse, was in ash f Moat St. Jean : its
left rested en the high road to Clearlaroi, sad occupied with
one of its brigades the farm of La Hayes Seiete. The left
wing, reasposed of the bth and 6th English, sad the 3J Bel-
gian divisive, rooentanded by Generals Fitton, Lambert,
sad Perchaiseiter, had its rigs.s rested ten the high road to
Clsarkrui, sad its left misted behead the village of La Hoye,
which it occupied with a swag detachment. The re-
serve was at Moat St. Jean' which is the twist of Mier.
section of the high roads from Charleroi and Nivelle
to Benmels. The cavalry, formed in three lines us the
heights of Moat St. Jess, was draws up in the rear of the
but of battle, the length of which was about 5,400 tosses.
The frost of the away woes defended by the Patera) diffsewl-
ly of the grossed. The platform woe se its entire slightly
concave, sad after a putty declivity ended M a revise of mule
cuissiderahle depth. The 4th English division, contasaaded by
Gee. Colvilleopeenpied as Hankers on the right the mouth of
every delis (fear kr debauches) from Hal to Braise la
Lend. A brigade of English cavalry vecimirel se dashers on
the len the mouths uf all the defiles from the village of
Obsin. The forces which the enemy displayed were comsat-
ml at diffeieut ~undress: but the °dicers must reeved Re the
estimate sat slumbers, reckuteed them, with the Baskets, at
90,000 men, which leveed with our previous isfunnatum.
The Freest. army re:Jenard of way 6O,Otet met; bet the vies
tory dial suit appear on that acemiest to helms ref IMO. Them
60,01.10 user were good treetops; and in the earmy's army it
w. 5 only the Euelish, a ear did Net amongst to 40,000 Rico at
must, that could, hey any 101.11611, be moldered as such.
" At 0 o'clock hie breakfast was served up Its the Eon.
parer it the prewar, of weeny general officers. Ile said,
• The eseney•is army is supernal to our emu alluvia by sane.
fourth of eta numbers. We have mut lees 1161451 90 Chaser!.
for, and scarcely lo against us:•—• Doubtless, said Mar-
shal Ney, who meted at the muusent, • if the Duke
of Wellingtwe is simple enough to watt for your Majesty;
but I rouse so Mimes you that his CUISIIIHRS are aterady
IY Nell reheat, amd arc now disappearing 114 she furese•—e
You have not sere rightly,* replied the Emperor to
him; • the time for his leirestiiig has passed: if he were
to attempt it, he would s epees bowed/ to certain Jnirrr
lion : be has already throw. shadier, nod they have tweed
tip is our koduisr.• At this sows emus sawn idartellesy,
Irbil had beets gallopmeg over the firld,broagest isformatame
that the artillery coseild vaaadeouvra, although with arose d.di..
culty, which stewed likely to undergo greet diminishes it
the oeuvres cif an how. Immediately afterwards the Empe-
ror arm oat borerhark : he nide N Ihe torailleors peeled up.
poetic hi La Hope Vallee. rmosoutiuml ahem the eseloy's
line. sad commardtd Gemini Halm. as Mime I. whom he
placed coaldroce, he approach it and s.e "Airtime any re,