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-K (!it,tory of Buonarette, continues from Page 174 lay. M.ashal Grouchy must have detached from Wavre 6.000 DEATiI OF HIS ROYAL HIGHYES3 Tilt.' DUE'S
•-•". •• alarm disis aaaa sof artillery anion; which weer three or 7.000 tins towards St. Lambert, *hose safety might be en OF If PNT.
• • ' ' • dangered, since the corps of General Below amounted to 30000
0. i di s ismas of lie pool:der,. Is ere collected, their left resting at --
men. Thus the wbole of General Meow's- coups would be mot-
,l tta iiigh road or Charleroi, on toe
Unlock beyond Belle Willi deep regret we n nominee to the public the death
promised and lost, if at the moment when it was attacked in the
! Alia.. e, and in front of the division of the left of the Ist 'Foe isitelliewiee arrived in town on
rear by six or seven thou:and men, it stele likewise attacked in ,of this Prince.
roots. 'fury wear intended to support the attack of las front by an officer of Count Lebau's character. Seventeen or Olotiday forenoon, that his Royal Highness expired at 11
Have Sainte, o Melt ail', to belo.l4e by two divisions of the eighteen thousand Frenchmen, disposed and commanded in this tett o'clock on S lay enorniitg. lids complaint was an
Ist corp.., and two divistous of the tith, tit the Sallie lime manner, eould be tar superior to 30,000 Prussians ;. but thole •itillaination of the lungs, sip violent as to baffle the
. that toe other 100 divisions of the tat corps should p tweed events effected a change us the first pia, of the Emperor ;he ~,,,5,0,„
to.
ass
i of medical skill. The bleedino and other •
tin Ls Doer. Uy this means the whole left of the cuemy found himself weakened on the field of battle by the deduction ."""
remedies imav (MI ibly remitted to •on such occasions are
• would be turned. The division of light cavalry of the 6.it of the 10,000 men whom he was obliged to send against Bulow. '
corps, inclose column, and that of the 10,1 corps, whisk was lie had only therefote 30,000 against 90,000 ; thuethetex of calculated to reduce the strength of the patient, if they
on its wing, were to take past hi that attack, which the the enemy ugainsewhich he had to contend had heenMet '. Iby 'to not Femme the disorder. he the present instance,
unfortunately, they failed of giving relief; and the to-
rte land third lines of cavalry were to suppoto as well Ws Mootto men already arrived. on the field of battle.. It
,how
amounted to 120,000 men legume 69,1i00, or nearly two reeunst
guards:
all the foot traid.liorse bust frame °I- his Royal Highness sunk into complete
one. •We had in the mooring.' said the Emperor to the Duke •
• " The French army in posscation of La liaye and Mont of Dalmatia, • ninety chances of victory in our favour ; the ar- exhauation, from which the resources of art, and the
I. Jean, cut oil' trout the high road of Brussels the tight of rival of Bulow has lost us thirty of them ; but we have still 60 powers of a naturally fine constitution, were alike unable •
the hatgliso army, winch secluded its principal tortes. 'flue against 40; and if General Grouchy repairs the horrible fault he to restore him. ,e
Emperor had preen red tur. . g the left of the enemy rather yesterday committed,. by amusing himself at Gambleux, and His Royal Highness was tall in stature, of a monly.
than his right, Mot, iii older to cut off its commuoication sends a detachment with rapidity, the victory will be more deci. anti noble presence. His manners were affable, con-
with
the Prussian,. wasp were at i% issue, and to oppose their sive, for the corps or Bulow wilt be entirely destroyed.'
descending, dignified, and engaging ; his conversation
jutietina if they should have kneaded it i. but even though “No anxiety was felt for larstial Grouchy. Alter the de-
animated ; his itilormatioo varied and commis ; his
they should not have intended itof the attack had been made tachment which-he would be able to. send to St. Lambert. lie
ou the right, the English :limy, iii cam: ofa repulse, would would still have 27,000 or eadext men, awns he
three corps memory exact autl retentiveintellectual povier
be in bock on the Pinesian army ; whereas, the attack which Marshal Blucher had at Waivre, and which ethos before quick, strong, and masculine; he resembled the King in . •
being made ou thel.ft, ,eparated theta front the l'i-Ulisialls, Ligny amounted to 944000 men.. tad Wee reduced to-44.1,000 ; .
-many of his tastes and rropensities; he was au early ,*
tit' otootxt which he bad experienced in bat- riser, a close roonatitisrot his time ; temperate in eating; .1
* and drove them in the direction of the sea : secondly,
itle rot obnuitylibkyestllsee irysthat of 20.000 men who hod deserted. and
because the left appeared much the weakest : thirdly,. were'
pluntleing the banks of the Meuse, and by some detach- itiddrerent to wine, though a haver of society; and heed-
becawe the Empesest expected every oarsmen( Mt arrival td menu,. with. which that Marshal was obliged to protect these less of slight indisposition, front confidence its tint gene- -
, Marshal Grouchy ors his right, and would nut rust the risk of districts. as well as his baggage. which lay in the direction of cal strength of his.constittition ; a kind master, a pone- •
being separated Own it." Namur and Liege. Now etoooo or 45,000 Prussians, beaten tual and courteous correspondent, a steady friend, and an
•• While every thing was preparing for this attack and disheattened. could not overawe 28,000 Frencomen well
affectionate brother. . .
O. Priuce Jerioe'odivision out the left commenced an attack posts:dune! victorious." We extract the following from a biographical sketch
of musketry /11l the 'roods re Hougomitait, which soon became (To 14 continuo?. )
of his Royal 1 lighness, published by his !mods when a
very brisk. Toe enemy having uumasked neatly forty pieces • --- • - -
of artidery, Geuerul Bettie advanced the artsllery uf his INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. recent application was-made to Parliament for pertnia-
second division, and tile Empt oar sent orders. to General By accounts received on 'Monday (rout the Peninsula, sion to relieve his embarrassinenta,. by disposing of an
estate he owned in the neighbourhood of the oopital by
Kellersuatt.to advance hits tsetse p;.•ces of light artiliery.-- there appear strong grounds for believing that an alanio
The cowme...me soon b• came very Heavy. Peltier Thome lottery : . •
iet insurrection has arisen in the heart of Spain. It was
carried the wmel of (lout-miout several times, mill was as" Edward, Doke of Kent and Strathern, fourth sun of s
in
its the city early in the day, that the French
often drivoll out of it. It nos defendrli by a divisiou of the ascertained.
snail, which usually conveys the Spanish letters, had George 111., was born on the 2d November, 1767. At ,- :
Euolish guards, the enemy's best troops, which we saw with eighteen. y• ars of age he was sent to Germany by hitt.
pleasure on. their right, as it eentlesed e easy the great brought none from Cadiz, ai..; very few from Set Ole or
Majesty s command, and resided successively at bitten-
utta, kon the left. k'uv's thvislun supported Pirate Jeroo Madrid; and that these latter appeared all to have been
Mug and Hanover until he had olinost completed his
rue's division, and each petrol used potholes of valour.— opened ; tiny were confined in general to the mere
The bodies of tae English guards covered the wood mod the details of Mono:lsomd contained scarcely a hint of what 20th year. During this period his " whole cocaine ,
avenues of the clonstrau d'Hougum iiiii , but not without was passing in the interior. '!'his absence of all infor- consisted ofon allowance of 1000 f. per annum, of which
dearly 'elite; sh. it Wood. After didereet vicissitudes, a hush ination•from Soak', excited a strong sensation among his Governor had thence
sole disposal, except of toot eititiel
occupied oeveral hours of the day, the wood remained coin- the merchants comieeted with that country ; the arrive and a half per week allowed to his Royal Highness for ,
pletela hit poocosiou of the Fieuch: but the chateau, which of a Lisbon mail, however, which sailed on the 15th, pocket-money. His Royal Highness then passed two
had tern bortitied, and had been occupied by several nue- . years more at Genera, without any further increase of ;
sosiolied in some measure the desired inf Irma i i tttt
dreds isf crave men,,uppesseel an Sue incible, resistance.— though nicotine. He was an enthusiast to the prolession of a
the details are still imperfect. It is booed in
'fie Emperor ordered up a battery of f 0 huoitzeis, which .soldier, for which lie was destined from early life. With
letters from Badajos, of the lath, that the. insurrection
set Bre to lie b,trais and the roofs, and made the ['fetich the rank of Colonel, lie commanded the 7th Fuzileers,
masters of this position. Marshol Ney had the
tint of broke out on the Ist among the troops Stationed in the
Gwllich frmed part of the Gurrison of Gibialtar tinder
directing toe grand au:.ek of the. centre. It could be neighbourhood of Cadiz, amid that their first step was to
Gen. O'Mara, in 1790 and 1791, some time before the '
' intrusted to a man uf inure bravers;.or inOre accustomed to secure the person of Calderon, the Commailder-io-Chief..
this kind of operation. He sent one of his Aides-de-Camp 'lair number of the Patriots is variously stated ~'some breaking ow of the revolutiooary war with France. In ~
to give uutiee Out all was ready, and that he only waited letters computimt them at 15,000, and others at 3,000 that sithordinate military station, his Royal Hiahnees '
for the signal to engage. Bet oe giving it. the Emperor men ; tletie is hole doubt that their force is extremely soon became remorkible for the diligent dischargeof•his o
. wished to east a took ewer all the field ot Mane, and perceived formidable. On the Od inst., a large body of them owioduttes, and for exacting a similar minctliality from
is the dire. tem .11l St. Lambert a speck, a Inch (immured to marched to Pori St. MaryOo. of whicat they took tpiiet every man and officer under him. His attention to the ;
hint to he trooits, he said to his Nlojor 'General, • Marshal, appearance and discipline of his regiment was altogether i
masesoion • they afterwards proceeded the lit 01 St.
what do you see towards St. Lambert 1' 'l think I see live orexemplary and tturemitt!itg; but as lie could not inspire ...
and a bold maneetore succeeded in taking
six thousund oleo. It is probably a detaelimmt from Cisneros,Leon,all the military world with an equal tease of the solid
soi. the by
ft. I inister of Moline, into custody. This
Grouchy.' All the glasses of the *tali were then tiled upon
this point. TUC weather was hazy. Some cuistended, as it Minister, it will be recollected, repaired to the Isle of value of those dry, homely, and uninteresting duties - •
.which might to employ so Large a
of
of military life, •
usually happens no such uccasi tttt a, that it wits not croups Ss. Lena immediately on his no ttt i t 'anon, to meant tend
or those mintaiar.of the service, of which, nevertheless,
but trees; others that it Wll4 irlops ill position ; .nuit others the fitting out of the grans expedition. The following
that it was troops to march. In this uncertainty, without day vvas employed in an attiek on the True:Wet°, or when considered in the agoregate, the correct perfor- -0 •
• further delibera..on, lie culled fur General Daumont, nod naval aisenal 01. Si. Leon, which, According to some mance adds so nitwit to the precision and efficiency of a
military machine, the Colotiel of the 7th Fuzileers was
ordered him to advance with his lieht cavalry. and that of accounts, a ter a slight resistance, fell into their hands.
GrencralSubervie to seour his right, to communicate pr tttttt itty During these three days, it is not stated that any for sonic Mite an unpopular Commander. Every milt-
is oh the troops a high bad arrived at St. Lamb. rt. to edeet a measures were adopted by the authorities at Cadiz to nary man is not capable of discovering iii the bra-con-
junction with them if they belong. d to Marshal Grouchy, ceived order or the wisest rule laid down for his
check the progress of this alarming revolt. On the
and to hold them iii cites k if they belonged to tile en. Uly.
4th, the lsoiritits attempted Cadiz itself, with about observolice by superior authority, the direct relotion of
These 3.000 cavalry had only to indite as turn to the right to 2tooo men ; hut the Gmern„• with a fort* of 1,500, the means to the end. It may not he thought, at first
bet esond tbe hises.of the army.. They advaured.- rapidly,
soldiers, the ee„,ainiteg. w„,0,,,e„, sight, of serious importance, that ith.oliker s coat, or
and wstitout cosalusiou, 5,000 moo, awl there formed a late 01 whom 250 were so
of bairie, el potence, on the is bole right of the artily. received them-s 0 warmly, that :hey fell back -with tar 11001, or pautaloon, snook!• be of a specific fashion,
a A quarter of an hour alter, au otheer of (Masseurs loss of seven men killed, Some accounts state, that this height, or colour ; limit-let us cotiaitler that the excellence
• lasostolit to aPs u•stan hussar, who had Just been made repulse was effected by the blowing up of the bridge.— of an army consists ill its susceptibility of collective and .
prisueet by the scouts of a flying toil of 300 eltesseors The next day, which is the luest intelligence from imilOrin iiiiptilses, and we must admit that unili ttttt ity `
who wai e 11'0Itlitsg the road bets...en Wavre and Plain he- Cadiz, the Patriots renewed their attempt wii it a force ill smaller things —hi hourly occopations, and objects 01
nu& leis litissar was the beater of a letter. lie was of 5,000 men, the issue of what) is not certain, though attention—nay, its the fortn of hats or epaulets, will
very intelligent, and comi ttttt 'mated an the information contribute to enforce upon common minds the main
one account states it to have loen successful. At the
that could or desired. The volition which was perceived same time, so complete a state of organization had time Prim .iple of harmony in action. As harmony otiolit to
at St. Lambert was the advanced guard of the Prussian
insurrection assumed, that the P.driots were enabled to be the characteristic of every military movenieitt, so the
General Bulovt, oho was approaching with 3 ;,00 it 0 tac,
send oft wormer detachment, also consisting of 5,000 spring of it must be subordination. The Duke to Kent
who composed the four Poissiou corps which had not
fought, at Liattev. The letter V/1111.111IVII, in feet, a uotice
„ oh the %trivet of this cotes; and setinested, on the pal tof .ten,thn for Seville, in order to attack that city, and to
tem to their party the reeitnert of Royal Carabiliecrs, laboured to communicate these two great 'towels to the
troops, for whose qualities he was responsible. He Ire- '
-• Gen Bellow,
id orders truth mite Duke or Wenington who were soppused to be imbue! with the same spirit fluent!), jostled orders on points which acre of inferior
the way or moment, and enforced them rigortmely, because he had
. The hussar said lie Nail .been that mot 0,,,tt at Was re ; that of disaffection to the Goveruitent. By
• the other three corps of the Prussian molly were these Portstgal, intelligence (root Sevlle to ilie gilt has been 'issued them. By tbis system, by a conscientious fulfil-
Iv encantped t that they had there eas•ed the night of the received ; it does not appear frowthem that the Potoots mem of his own duties, a firm requis lion of the like
,
" i o l7th; that there was nut a single Flcuelimiii before have actually entered the city, btu were w ohm eve propriety from others, and an anxious iiiterpresiticm on -
them ; that he imagined the Frelielt had marched upon
behalf of :every individual who had wrongs to be re- o.
leagues' march, and were expect item day :no oppo.
1 Pleneheituii aril cleat a
r , . petrel tit hit segiment hail been, sition was contemplated. It is remarkable Moves er dressed or claims to be recommended, he at length
chitin • ~
g thi. motto viable two leagnea of %Vetere, without .ti i three ~
Id . i.re are l I items trout Sevite which sta'te ' 'carried the I- f 1 ••ito t' - highest
, io,o a le discip me o his regiment .te
li • metimg ally blench corps. The Duke et Dalmatia iin• provisional junta had been fooled, and the constitution pitch. and established for himself the most resoectable
inediatel,t droptitelied the intes cev red letter of the hussar
's . to Marshal Grouchy, retie issuing o.e (sides to March stonet the lini" '
I • Irons ws•ence it waist he inferred, that military repittation ; hot, In sus prioress towards this so?
"a" the movements Irmo CAI?. Wilk Jadrifl is completety cod, 'tie encountered ls dor:gentile cousiderobre oh- •
4 4. diets by
on St. Lambert, and to take the ~...1111114 of Gem, Ai
1. Nllloel ill Ille teal/ It was now Il ieviiick; the officer cut off, audit steins probable &attic Soaiiisii Govern- haply, and sonic resistance. Complaints were. made,
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0.,,, had only blur or five trawls to go, the 0 :,ole way on good mem, thermals said to be aware if the iusurret•tionary which Mowed his character at home, and mutinies were
.''ii load, ill orsls rto meet MaiShal Uproot:by. lie proillisett top spirit that eAistrd Jotting the troois, is ignorant ot me Prepared by the troops, which threatened it a authority,
.e erelatigeted his
5,... be. tip with him in an hear. Ily the last ititettigt ace re consequences oleo have ft.,,lted 'rout it. Ali eeiraor. and more thin o"person. Fr
I- Y. ' eeived ft um Ow Meoltio, ii tons known ;hat tie would at Amory courier from Cadiz to the (aerial was intercepted Gibraltar his II
__oyal. Highness was ret ttttt ett to C mats,. '
;.• break, of day pi aired to Wavrie Joel trims II citivoise to on the 3ul, and, because he resisters pm milt:m.lo Among 111 1791, thence to Halifax, in Nova Scone, where, as
B ii% I e the ie.t mire is 0..1y nit tor leagrus. Although he several persmis of ett i t ience wire loul fdlit'll 111(0 -the- Corn mender of the forces, lie acquired movers:it esteem
,;# bed nut theft fore 114-will lilt 1,1,11111 i tie/p4lolrd In tilt' bands of the Patriots.. was Maisel, the co,„„iiss.,,,, for the justice and inteorify of his demeanour. During
sight from the Imperial throsl-spists tura, he silo t iniliiiiiia
of the Nary. No Haloes of 'idiots rottlilli .* ' • tiding the di' N•C in British Amer led, he reeeived orders to sail
Is Ser I r
.; buy have been sise•t Wok When iieline %3 Ayres. Glattieet„
insurrectionary army have riot:hat us iti an tutiquestiou- for Me West Indio', and join in the attack on the FrtIICII
. used tow:ails that point 'l...riled uuthing , nut even
able slope, boo from the getwal diseoittetit ariemo istolniss "der Sir Chalks Grey-
o time report of a estown was heard. A little afire watch
- Geo. D. tttttt ont :watt t.) larlltiou lh it S•otte scams, aril them, it is believed tory are numerous, and cal (Oat this expedition the impet bros'ery.of his k. .
we:ousted, had eiet the entaity's patrol hi the direction of rank. Their movements, mileedishow all the regularity 1-11Ohness was inaudiswil at St Lu ooh cis k.
,SI L 0nt0..., t , that it lillte.t he rollSiarted as certain Ilial Of an army in 3 Complete state tf. oriaiiiioatom, The consideration li,ir his owtt Safety, atol too moth disregard
• - our , i mops olio., Ole, sae, were encore.; that lie had svitt above is. the substowe of the letters trestsmiiitol by way fur the eneiry s position, Tile trotip• o ere repulavd ,
i,. toter, pal rii•e- i:, so, rid' directioes to (volume Witte olio tit Portugal, One letter Iron. Scone has this remarkable hot the Onto- sit Ken''s hitch Pot°""ol tooteoße °Motto .
... • Ma. h./I (iri,t,c :, . ~.01. to tail) ('or him isilelllgVllCC 11111.1 11-Xlifet41;:ill:•••••1. Yuu will shortly arrive most importaiii hint the eietidaves al the hitch
allO a liatterino •/*•`l.. . •
• ..." omelets news from this quarter ~but we cloud at present convey from tli•• C.llllllllllllla in Churl. '!'ln mutt ineato •.. .1.
',- •• The Emperor immediately ordered Count Lchau torts% the 4„ itim „f is maine.o We iv h •e it toe titiporiont Royal Hialmess'a mottle Isle was at 6!ilf liter, tan ,cam.
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1\ Charlene road, by a ehaeoe wt' directiot to the r glit :u t ivisien, Y
are• to proceed In support
-tit me moo cavalry towards the talc dewier
. entirelyt
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-"of Si iounbert, to cows:: .1 goad intermediate position whoever al on iauthority -1
he hi titers. The difficulty
cul:eciiiig inwrittatiou 111 a petthi ul Keileral COW I
a ilhilined Governor to
,- he ste„d, and welt tt,,00 •• own to cite.. .50,1100, if that beeiaine litsion and alarm may nave renderer them itiaceurate iii of abuses here waiters
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50... nee.: son, ; to ottoce eiooroindy the ottooetta, os mem as he some poilitS; lnit the coincidence rf so loony accounts
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bet correct itig nand. The • •
t0t0„„,..„t of wilieolooso, oir the sale of liquors to
row Its, llu/.1/311/Ilicil Mil/bll4l heaves little room for duithititz that 1,, s 1 rim of time,. tosops had been encourage.: .roin slummed . tv. ,
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