The National Register.
London, England, 1813-09-12 00:00:00

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divided into three armies. The one in Bohemia 200,000 men

strong, was under the Emperor ALEXANDER, and the King !I
of PRUSSIA, assisted by Generals Motteau, BA RCL AY DE
TOL LY, WITTGENSTEIN, Al ILA RA DOWITCII. KLEIST,
and Prince SCliiv Alt TZENI3 ERG, at the bead of the Aus-
ti inns. The nest, 100,000 strong, was collected near Bres-
under Generals cu a, YORK, Rest, and
LANG ERON, and the third, which covered Berlin, and
whose commander (the CROWN PRINCE) is not named, con-
sisted of 110,000 men, forming a gaud total of 400,000 •
combatants.
The lirst operations took place on the frontiers of Bohe
mia, where BUON r A fITE in person directed the Poles and
Frit of his plaid. The latter entered Gabel and Homburg,
ANbil.st the Polish Genet al Itemtsts,Kr took Fi iediand and Rd ii
-
chenberg and pushed his light scoops to withio about 15 1!
leazues of Prague. 1:
I •,tving increased his troops in that ..quarter by the addi•
tion of the Ist and 2,1 corps under VA N MNI E and VicTo 11
NAPOLEON repaired to Silesia, where he forin4 the
had driven in his advanced posts and crossed the Bober. Ile 1
iminedia!elv threw blidges over th:it river, which LAU
troN and Nest ~as-rd at different points and compelled the it
Allies to retire. On' the 23d they WM! overtaken by Lae-1
n LSTON, MACDONALD, and. CILIA no, near Goldberg, where),
an action occurred, in which the enemy boasts he killed ij
5,000 Prussians and took some prisoners, whilst at Flensburg, 1,
which was taken and retaken several times about the same
time, the Russians lost 1,000 killed and 4,000 wounded.
The' Allies then arc stated to have retired in disorder towards ,
. .
P Janer, 'and BUONAPARTE having witnessed their, retreat,
!_ left the command in Silesia to MacooNat.D, took NEY and
his old and young guard, infantry, eavally, and artillery
with him, and on the morning of the 96th entered• Dresden,
baying marched one hundred and tw:mty miles in four days.
•The second_ bulletin is dated August 28, and details the
attack made on the 26th on Dresden and the battle of the
27th. At four o'clock in the afternoon ofthe 26 h, six columns,
• each preceded by fifty pieces of cannon, descended from
the hills to storm the redoubts and fortifications erected round
the suburbs of Dresden. In a short time the file terrible; •
one of the redoubts wels carried, the enemy approached, and
aorne shells fell into the town. The moment, says NAPO-
L EON, was pressing. The King of SA XO NY and his family
Fad remained in their capital, probably in obedience to his
commands, and defeat would have been doubly gratieg,
when experienced in their sight. Ile sent out Me! AT with
I~AToUIt U SOUR. G'S cavalry to act on the right flank of
the Allies, whilst MO RTIER attacked their left, and the
four divisions of the voting Guard debouched in their front,
supported by Nice at the head of BA Rao's' division of the
fold Guard. The united attacks of thee troops prevailed
over men who were already worn out by long and severe
lighting, and the Allies fell back, lea in; two thousand
prisoners behind them, ar.d the field of battle covered
with their killed and wounded. Early . the next moreing
BUON AP ART E having now more space to act in, for the
Allies hemmed in the city close the preceding day, moved
out with his whole army. The Allies had extended their
eft wing on some hills separated from their centre by the
valley of Plauen. Lie perceived this error, and directed
his chief attack on that point. MURAT, with Vic-roof.;
harps and the Cuirassiers,. turned it, whilst a brisk can-

S ET 12. THE _NATIONAL
that the Allies denounced the Armistice on the 1 i th, and
that at the same ►ime Austria declared war, in a note ad- II

&Med 167 Mr. DE •METT ERNICH to Mr. DE NARBONNE.
After describing the positions of the French army. composed
of 14 corps, it states the force of the Allies to have been