The National Register.
London, England, 1813-10-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Hes e, sivetelY.—Vth taitt, Ist • !fail. Captain
rtly.--Broinswick Light Inthittry, Major I.'atastein,
kai a Wolfradt, seyerely ; Captain ViTaeklinlz, slightly ;
'beide and Grei.lteirn, slightly ; Lirutt. Hants Schneider
un (ifl) severely.
Officers svoundal.-17th Line, Lien, errant John A.
Cacatlores, Major Antonio Loho Te.ix. 'Hams,
tenant M. J. Antonia Sohral, s,ightiv Elsien M.
; Ensign Dom. 11.1. Co, Iho. E.,sign Joao.
.vetely EutAgn Frahei,o) Tiirt ira,
Jc.aq. Sevin), severely ; Ensiatt itu. Martino,
sevt relY.-Bth Cac4tiures, Capt. Jose Valley, ann P. J. P. Sirre
verely.

LONDON GAZFITE FXIRAOI2DINARY,
FRIDAY, OCT. ,22, 13:3.

FOREIGN on ICF, oCTORER 22, 1013.

I)i,patelles, of which the foll,,t‘ing are copied. have been this flay
rectivi tl f•rnio Lietit.-Gener.il the H..nourable Sir Charles William
Stewart, li. B. front Ellt% Thornton, :
Toplitz, October 1.
_ . _

hltt Lone—The affair I mentioned in my dispatch of the 29th
tilt. near Altenberg, has turned cut to be cfniore importance than
avas at first ima;..itied; and the iletnum with his usual abi-
lity anti gallantry, has accontiSliAled a vet y hrilsiant exploit against
a cotisio,i rable body of the enemy.
The corps was under the orders of Gereral Lefehve Desnotiette.
and consisted of some French light cavalry, the Polish ntilans
the guard, and a In Lade of Hula -iiragootis, tinder the orders of
Geoet al Pirot. Gencr..ls and Krutot ks mere also in Coto

The fewer, consisted of 8000 cavalry and 700 infantry, ore squa-
dron of Mainehikes, and a •mall patty of. Tartars of the guard,
under the orders of Colonel Maria. glue whole were attacked by
Platow, and completely put to the route.
General Keiseiski is n ported by the prisoners to have been
killed. Ffteen hundred piisouees, five runs, and forty officers
(three of the stain, Fre the fruits of this victory.
t he :limy has broken up from hence, and is in movement to the
left. The corps of Gentral ('ount Wittgenstein was yesterday at
Cemmetan, and that of General Klei•t near Crux.
The A ustriaas arc marching upon Chemnitz. There is a'report
from the enemy, that Narolt. on, attended by the King of Saxony
and si:t out for I.cipsie upon the '.:8111 ; the head-
quarters are said to be removed there. •
The French corps inaler Marshal Amverean have marched from
Minburg to Cobmg, having left a considerable force at ‘Vurzburg.
I have ueason to believe the Russian and Prussian army excee.l
80,Nr men. wi.ich will now be assembled on the Chemnitz and
Freyburg line to these may be added the corps of Kleivau, of
10,000 men, together with all the Austrians.
General Ilennite:sen's coups, which has been reviewed this day, is
in a very illicit nt state as to appearance ; but I have no exact
infiamation as to the 'numbers arriving.
reinforcement of 7,000 men. cf the Pi ussiati cores of General
is upon the road from Mayne.
I have the honour to be, ke.
(Signed) CHARLES STE WART, Lieut.-Gen.
Viscount Castlerea4l &e.
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Zvi IM, October :I, 1813.

My Lonn,-- I have the honotir to acymaiot your Lordship, that
Genera! Pozzi di 'forgo has received intelligence from the head-
ipiarters ot the armies in Bohemia, tinder date of the Qlth tilt. stat-
ing that tlw eorp4 of General Bennigsen haviet joined the Grand
Army, the Allied Sovereigns had come to the resolution of maki::g
a tivisement by their lift from Bohemia, and that this movement
rhen:d he executed on the first of the present month.
This intt IlLenee (lett:mined the Mince Royal to attempt the
pas-age of t',e Elbe. The briAge Rosslon !IA been already com-
pleted, -the works of the tete-de-pont on the left bank had
been traced nut, and were in a sthle of progress. Detachments of
Swedish treops were in porsession of Dessau; and the town of
Acken, on the left hank, a little down the river, was fbrtirying,
under the direction of Cehot Woronzow, in such a manner as to ren-
der it a ph.ce of considerahle strength, while preparations were
accelerated for constructing; a bridge there. •
In the mean time, tie enemy. who appear to have had no idea of
the passage at the Elbe, at Acken, sent strong detachments of
*clops to oeelipy DPssan and the line of the Mulds, and employed
thcnisolvcs tlacwieg rp works, as well I;c:fine that town) as iu

front of tftetett44,c'nf et ilOsstatf, iriltialiderit to stn tai T►c pas.
sage there, and to obstruct the movements of the army after the
passa,e. This gave occasion to skirmishes between the enemy mod
the Swett's!' advaneed-gnard, which was obliged to relinquish Des-
sau, and retire to the neighbourhood of the tete-de-pont at Roulet),
and indeed to the titan bank of the riser.
U o'er these circumstances, the Prince Royal eceived intelligence
fawn Ge;ieral Blucher, on the Ist instant, intinneing his Royal High-
ness that he should, on that day, make a n'iovement with his whole
,irmy on the right towards Hertzberg t
.that on the following day he
snonlil he at Jensen; on the 31 at Elster, and on the following day
(to-day) would effect the passage of the Elbe at slier, proceeding
upon Kembere agmnst the French corps stationed there. -
The bridge at Acken hatl just been completed, and yesterday, to-
day, or perhaps to-mot row I Was each spoken of us the ',rubel& day
for repassing the river.
(i.'neral Blucher crossed the Elbe at F.lster yesterday,. with some
opposition, and attacked the vintage of Wartenherg on tlne opposite
bank, which he carried alter an obstioate resistance, mak it:g him-
self master of 16 pieces of cannon. It ii understood. that this vic-
tory, w Well was earried against a corps commanded by Re-fraud,
was not obtained without considerable loss, particularly awns( the
troops connnanded by General D'lurek ; but the pat ticulars have
not yet been received.
The Prince loyal received this intelligence yesterday evening,
while he was at Rosslan, or immediately on his return here, and
took the resolution of crossing the, whole army today over the
Elbe at Acken and at Rosslam, the Rnssialn at the former...and the,
Prmisians and Slvedes at Rosslan, somewhat later or otherwise, ac-
cording as it should be understood whether the French ttould make.
a stand at Dessau. This. however, was not-to be expected, when'
once the passage of the Russians was completed at Acken,
Mat r the position t.f General Illneher'a army ; and in ttiect it
was learnt this morning. that the French had retired from Dessau,
where, consequently, I learn that the herd-quarters of the Prince
lloyal will he e-tablished this evening. His Royal Highness left
this place about nine o'clock this .morning.
Yeste.flay evening Mr. Adlercreutz, a son of the Genera], and an
dirt-de (7ituip of the Prince Royal, returned here from the Imperial
Head-quarters. to whit It he had been ss tit alter the battle of Donne-
witz. lie brings intelligence of the actual movement of the Grand
A,mv, as was projected on the lirst instant ; and it was calculated that.
it would be advanced as far as Chemnitz, fill yesterday, the 3d.
I am as vet without details of the affair .of General Blucher ; but
Baron De I%.'ctterstedt has engaged me to detain this messenger until I
shall receive a dispatch trim hint this evening for 111. de Rehausen,
:end lie promised nee, (for he went tenday to Dessau) to transmit to me-
at the same time the same particulars, if he should obtain diem. It
si ill keep this dip etch open for them.
IVe have indirect accounts of General Caernitscheff ha, its; takers
possessi, n, with !is corps of Cossacks, of the %4 hole city of Cres.ech ircervic:
which Jerome Uuonaparte had fled ; but nothing has yet been received
from himself. I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) E. THORNTON.
P. S. Ten p. have the h nom of transmitting to your Lordship
inclosed, a letter which I have just received from Baron de IVetter
merit. (signed) K T.
Head-quarters, Dessau, Oct. 4.
According to reports received flout General Blucher, he has beets
encaged with the 4111 French coil's, commanded IT) General Bertrand,.
The. Isitte:r was strongly t:ntrenclivd in a village betweeli Wartenbeez
and Bledie.
General d'Yorck's corps dislodged and overthrew the ereroy, 1111(44
above 1()00 prisoners ; 16 piece, of ealmon, 70 tumbrils, with tl.uir train*
were' captured. A body of two thousand men threw themselves hen
Wittenberg; the remainder of the enemy's fell back upon Kt :abet -4.
General Blucher pursued them, and his head-gimlets will be trill
cue iing at the latter place. His eatery is at Pubtn.
By five o'clock this morning, the enemy's troops, under the ore, ra
of Marshal Ney, which were in this town, amounting to 18,000 net Ft,
had begun their retreat towards Leipzig.
Our advanced posts had, in the course of this evening. pushed on
as far as Ragulm and Jemitz, and to-morrow the junction with Circe-
ral Blucher will take place.
The van-go:ad (.1 the Russian army, under the order of Count Wo.
ronzifT, occupies CoLlhen. Br-Tilburg is garrisoned by Itussian cavah y.
To-inorrow the two armies of the Prince Royal and Genera: Blucla-r.
will make a combined movemee.t in advance, proLahly jn lie directi
of Leipsig. They form urged
seven thousand, or one hundred
flightless will, without doubt, t
I have the h
(Sighed

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leer a total of one hundred anti osele v
d and thirty thousand men. flis
his head-quarters at Regulni
amour to he, Ike.
I) • DE WEITERSTED'{tr.

IVILIT IS' TO COME?

OR,
1814.

Earti► !shaken beneath them ; anti the plain,
Is dreneli'd witl► blood, and hc•ap'd with alaiii!—FEMOWS.

• FORTUNE, luck, and chance.' says an acute writer,
• are the trinity of fi)ols: were all men wise, they would
look higher r —Twenty-four years of revolutiot,ary devasta-
tion and unsparing war, almost unexampled and altogether
hopeless, have not yet instructed the major ity of men,
whether as govei ning or governed, to trace (fleets to their
causes, and bow, with subjected hearts, to the great DIS-
POSER of EVENTR! Every where ale otherwise rational
men still talking of the fortune of war, hoping that swne
lucky draftee will tutu up in then favour, and alter the cha•
ratter a those circumstance; which infinte power has evi-
dently ordained, and of which infinite wisdom can alone te-

veal the result.
Who among us could foresee (and, even had it been
foreseen, who would have believed it?) that an individual of
Ho importance at first, emerging horn the despised island of
Corsica, was to become an Emperor over Frenchmen ; and.
taking the eagle for his enskin rise, like to the eagle which
the prophet taw coming up from the sea, overflow and pass
over many countries, intermarry with royalty, and erect a
new dynasty on the ruins of that throne which had laboured
most to oppress and degrade his native land ? Corsica is
avenged, however, v.vhile Frimce is enslaved ! She who once
oppressed her most, now lies bleeding at her feet.
What is, nevertheless, to come ?—W hat is, immediately,
at hand? The present times ant be found still trying times.
Peace, like the dove sent forth from the ark, finds no rest for
her feet. Woe unto us. "Or the tlny p;oct/i. away; JOr sha-
dolts of the evening are 611 i lehed out !
The ensuing year, assuredly, will develope much. Fiance
still boldly preseuts her front. N.,poicari, al:11,110i latterly
somewhat thwarted, is yet confideot at heart, and will re-
double his ardour to complete the work for the execution
of which he was originally raised up. and irreversibly destined.
lie cannot stop. What his hands find to do, he must do out
offhand. Europe, therefote, should not be so: prised to see
beg interests betrayed, her sons immolated to war, her coun-
cils divided, and even her valiant defenders committing
themselves in imprudent and calamitous exploits. Alen in-
deed may talk about peace. Congresses will, in all proba-
bility, be convened, tending to amity, but, amidst such op-
position of inlet ests, :tun the din of arms, there seems no
likelihood of any thing being seriously attempted by way of
pacification. This does not fuem the set time for peace.
Parliament, of 4:ourse, will be occupied with weighty con-
cerns, when once it procee(!s to the dispatch of business.
111ussi ions personages must carl:• engross its gravest attention.
Great projects ate now braoching out. Elevated characters
seem, as they are wont to do, whether male or,/; wale, soon
about to force themselves into consideration, and excite.
unusual attention Religious intercession should be renewed
on behalf of our ted So.:ereign !
While we hear of eminent fcaonanders, both by sea and
land, being slain by the edge of the sword, we must be pre-
pared to see dvainguished Slate ,men meet their cud by the or-
dinary scythe of time. New men are revited for new

laiitr;oti.na loolis to tliuniph in the Peninsula. Spain has
to la ware. however, civil tli.• tat's, traiterous inAchina-
ti,o,s, and ill- id •-scd cute' pi isei. Malpractices are being
e‘tly ‘vnere de.ected.

Germany and Italy/ may expect to be greatly a4,itated;
Russia to find distraction in her councils; and e% etl.lloL'auei
to exceed ail her sufferings !
Atreiica—where our kindred still dwell—why has• Ame-•
rice, in an evil hour, departed from the paternal admoni-
tions of her Washington ?
What of France ?-I.ler portion of misery is assigned her.
A etichristian France has been scourged by infidel France,
infid4 by inili!ary, and military Franco %.:t remain; to he
.conned in due time by revolutionary. France must drink
the vial of wrath to its eery dregs t ller eagles will one day
devour her.
ENG!. A ND-4 with all thy faults, I love thee still !'—is
Vet " lord of the ascendant." lYserted though she has been,
and distressed as she is, England still rises superior to her
enemies, and, rounding in Providence, may defy both their
threats and their attacks. Complaining there may be, for
some time to come, in her streets ; nor is her sister cottony
entirely safe from the designs of the foe ; but she stands
uu
an enviable eminence, alsof from the te:npest, and ought to
esteem herself as incomparably happier than any of the
states with whom she is connectedu Let her devoutly ap-
preciate her Tot. Affluence worild thus distribute of its 641-
siwys those ho need them, kindness be cherished by all classes
Aocietn, and handr and hearts be confederated for the pur-
petuation of our constitution !
.00. 'll, 1813. PROM ETH EUS.
•„* Exactly eight years have elapsed, this day, since Ad-
' mirai Lord .Nelson was killed in the glorious engagement of
Cape Trafalgar. England lost, in him, the hero who bore
her name in thunder round the globe; who struck terror
into the very hearts of her enemies ; and who, were he now
living, ::null hue' made America repent • in dust and ashes;
of her subservicncy to the Thuilleries ! The patriotic reader
must allow me this observation.

compAßATtvn sTATEmENT 01."1111r, PHYSICAL, ECO.
NOMICII„ AND MORAL FORCES OF NAPOLEON, IN
TliE YEARS itiP2 AND 1313.

--
JANUARY, 181'2. -
AUGUST, 1811.
1. Napoleon was in alisolnte 1. Napoleon hi lost a part ni
possession of the FrNieli Empire, the rivd Mills:11y diyibion, a part
the kitit:dom of Italy, Illyria, and of Illyria, :d. :vain, and the ital-
the not hero par! of tipain. mat lan i.lnuls.
I. Ile was indirectly master '2. Prus,ia, Mecklenburg, awl
of the states of the Uonfeduration the Grand i)orhty of 11'ar,ior al e
of the Rhine, of V ussia, of the now no longer his dependencies ;
kingdom of N-iples, and the Pius is and NleeklPunisrg art., on
Grand Imehy of Warsaw ; he the contrary, in auli against him.
had possession of the fortresses
on tl,e Oiler, and a limited alli-
ance with Denmark.
3. Au-tiia dreaded him power ;
her military system was reduced ;
circumstances rendered her his
;illy ; she consented to give him
139,000 men.
4 Russia kept her ports shut ;
!the 11,811 I 1.0.000 men upon her
frontier to defend Iter independ-
ence : hot she was at war with
England, :11Id the Porte, and soon
after with Sweden,.

S. Austria has an army of up-
wards of •I1)o,000 men ; she is no
longer allied to France, but has
acceded Its the new alliance
again,t her.
4. Russia has beyond her fi.on-
tiers ;!()0,000 men ; she ocenpit s
the Grand Duchy of Warsaw ;
her ports are open, she is united
with England, Prussia, Sweden,
and Spain ; she is at peace with
Tin key, winel. considerably in-
(leases her moral force, and it
has been proved by facts that
she cannot he completed.
5. Sweden liming entered into
the new %% ar, furnishes more than
:.0,000 men, who iirc acting Op
the Continent.

5. Ilk latter Power was in a
state tir tieutiality with France ;
4iiti Napole9ti 441.4 re4l her ,nti,-i-
-,Ves to induce her to &dare her-
fur him.