The National Register.
London, England, 1813-09-05 00:00:00

GOTTEN BURGH MAIL.

SECOND 111 LLF,TIN OF THE COMBINED ARMY OF
THE NORTH OF GERMANY.
Readvarters, Potsdam, August 16.
Tlte Prince Royal removed his brad-quarters to this city last

-ifhe avmy is concentrating.
At the expiration of unavailing negociations entered upon at
Plague, the Armistice was denounced on the 10th by the Allies, so
that hostilities may be renewed to•morrow. On the' 11th, at one in
the morning, Count Metternich delivered to the Count de Narbonne,
at Prague, the Declaration of War by Austria against France.
His Royal Highness has just addressed to the Combined Army
under his orders, the following Proclamation :
COMBINE]) ARMY OF THE NORTH OF GERMANY.
THE PRINCE ROYAL, GENERALISSIMO.
TO THE ARMY.

SOLDIERS !—Called by the Confidence of my King, and of the
Sovereigns his Allies, to lead you in the career which is about to
open, I rely for the success of our arms on the Divihe protection,
the justice of our cause, and on your valour and perseverance.
Had it not been for the extraordinary concurrence of events
which have given to the last twelve yeari a dreadtiil celebrity, you
would not have been assembled on the soil of Germany ; but your
Sovereigns have felt that Europe is a great and that none of
the States of which it is composed can remain indifferent to the evils.
imposed upon any one of its members by a conquering power
They are also c uvinced that when such a Power threatens to attack

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and subjilEate cftiery other, there ought to exist only one will among
those nations" that ate determined to escape from shame and
oavery.
From tLat monitilt you were called from the banks of the Wolga
and tlic bon, trom the shor(s of Britain, and the inbmitaitts of the
North, to mute -.pith the German warriors who defend the cause of
Eurnpe.
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I.las, then, is the moment when rivalry, national prejudices, and
antipathies, ought to disappear before the grand object of the inde-
pendence oh nations.
The Emperor Napoleon cannot live in peace with Europe, unless
Europe be his slave. His presumption carried 400,000 brave men
700 nAles from their country : misfortunes against which he did not
dei!.;n to pro.:ld? fell upon their heads, and 3f43,000 Frenchmen pe-
ri'ihed on t.ie territory of a great empire, the Sovereign of which
dad mad': every effort to preserve peace with France.
It was to he expected that this terrible disaster, the effect a
Diy;:ae vengeance, would have inclined the Emperor of France to
a • less murderous system; and that, instructed, at last, by the
example of the North and of Spain, he would have renounced the idea
of subjugating the continent, and have consented to let the world
be at peace : but this hope has been disappointed; and that peace
which all Governments desire, and which every Oovernment has
proposed, Las been rejected by the Emperor Napoleon.
Soldiers I It is to arms, then, we must have recourse to conquer
repose and independence. The same sentiments which guided the
French in 1792, and which prompted them to assemble, and to
combat the armies which entered their territory, ought now to
animate your valour against those who, after having invaded the
land which gave you birth, still hold in chains your brethren your
wives. and your children.
Soldiers! What a noble prospect is opened to you! The liberty
of Europe, the re-establishment of its equilibrium, the end of that
convulsive state which has had twenty years' duration; finally, the
peace of the world, will be the result of your efforts. Render
yonrgelve4 worthy by your union, your discipline, and your courage,
of the high destiny which awaits you.
CHARLES JEAN
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From my Head-quarters at Oranienburg,
Angust 15, 1813.

THIRD BULLETIN OF THE COMBINED ARMY OF
THE NORTH OF GERMANY.
Head-quarters, Charlottenburgh, Ang. 18.
The Prince Royal left Potsdam at three o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, and transtei red his head-quarters to this place.
Repeated advice have been received that the enemy's troops
were assembling in force at Bayreuth, and in the direction of
Trebbin, to make a push on Berlin. His Royal Highness con-
centrated the combined army between that capital and Span-
dau. Nearly 90,000 combatants have arrived in that posi-
tion since yesterday evening. Some corps have marched ten
German miles in 36 hours.

Lieutenant Baron de Winzingcrode a reconnoisanee on the rigid
with it or 9,000 cavalry. He pushed forward as fir as Wittenberg
and Juterbock, on the left flank of the enemy, and made some pri-
soners, two Of whom art Captains. The Bavarian Colonel Count de
Sessel has been taken, with some cavalry. Lien t. tie Vins, of the Regi.
anent of Hussars of Pomerania, attacked the enemy at Zesch, and
took 32 men men and 21 remount horses belonging to a regiment of
'Hesse Darmstadt Cavalry.
The enemy, as fdi as it is yet known, has not passed the frostier
• except with reconnoitring parties.
The French General of Division tie Jomini, Chief of the Staff
of the Army commanded by the Prince of Afosktca, came over on the
15th to the Allies, and, passing through the arbuy of General Blucher,
proceeded to the Ruessian head-quarters. , He has confirmed the
intelligence of the Emperor Napoleon's project to attack the army
covering Berlin.
General Blucher occupied Breslau on the 14tL.