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IRISH ROIIAN CATHOLIC ADDRESS TO THE PRIM ESE

OF WALES.

The following Address was voted by the Irish Catholics to her
Royal Highness the PRINCESS of:WALES on the 10th inst.—
May it please your Royal Highneas,
We, the Roman Catholic people of Ireland, beg leave to offer
env tinfoigi ed congratulations on Your providential eseape from the
conspiracy which An lately endangered both your life and honour—
s conspiracy unmanly in its motives, unnatural in its object, and
sow rtf y in its means- a conspiracy, combining so monstrous an
union of turpitude and treason, that it is difficult to say, whether
Ro,altv would have suffer-d more from its success, than !mean
nalort lre• from its conception! Our allegiance is not less shocked
at the infernal spirit w•iieh would sully the diadem by breathing
on'its ino-t nrecionsornameot —TII E VIRTUE OF ITS WEARER ; thsn
en, best feeliogs are at the inhospitable baseness which would betray
the innocenee of A FEMALE -in a LAND OF STRANGERS !!
Deem it not disrespectful, Illustrious Lady, that from a people.
proverbially ardent in the cause of the defenceless, the shout of vit.-
broil erni 'ratulation should receiver a feeble echo. Oar HARP has
been !nog unstrung to tones of gladoess, and our hills but faintly
an wer the lime:nal accent. Your heart. however, can appreciate
11 e Vence inflicted by suffering ; and awes, alas! feels but too acutely
tta. the comnaisseration is sine. re which flows from sympathy.
Let na hope. that, when congtatula ing virtue in your Royal Per-
son, on your signal triumph over the perjured, the profligate, and
the corrupt, we may also rejoice in the completion of its rouse-
glances. Let us hope, that the society of your ONLY CHILD again
solaces your eiienified retirement, and that to the misfortune of
being a WIDOWED WIFE, is not added the pang of being a cIIILD-
LIMP MoTDER !
Rut if Madam, our flora are not fralled,—if indeed, the cry of
an indign.nt and unanimous people is disregarded—consee your el 4
%cid' the etlection, that though your exiled Daughter may not hear
the peer, t, of virtue fr m your lips, he may at least study the
i.ctice of it in your EXAMPLE.
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TUESDAY'S LoNDoN GAZETTE.

FOREIGN OFFLCF, JUvE 29.

' 'Dispatches, of which the foll.,wirg are copies and extracts, have
been received by Viscount Castlerearli, from General Lord Vis•
'mint Cathcart. K.T. and Lienterant-sleneral Sir Charles Stewart,
R.B. dated the 2ulh and 31st 4,f May, and Ist of June, 1813 :
Head-quarters, Janer, May 26, 1813.
MY Lnnn,—An opportnuity offering for England, I avail myself
or it t 6 acquaint your Lordship, that the enemy has neither followed
ti e rear.gnard of the Allies with vigour nor success. The corps of
Generals Barclay de Tully, Blncher, Yorek, and Kleist, have moved
el! ; those of Count Wittgenstein and General Milorado-
vitA in the direction of this place : but the latter has his advanced
posts on the Buiier river; the enemy occupying Lowenbnrgh.
The Allied Army appear moving on Schweidnitz, thus having
communication by Czenstocliatt with the Vistula, and being enabled
from its immt diate position, to take every favourable advantage of
viliatP% er way occur.
Considerable rei tbicements are arriving daily. I have the ho-
llour to lee, &r.
(Sll:ued) CHARLES STEWART, Lient.-Gen.
Viscount Castlereagh, &c. &c.

Head•quarters, Sehweidnitz, May 31, 1813.

MY Lonn,—The Allied Army has continued to retreat on Bres-
-Itu nil the Imperial Bead-quarters removed from
it.iler to Stri' gait on the ?7th ; and on the Vith, to this place.
C n..t -Vittgeosleiti He resigned the command of the Allied
Aril c', wl.leti, lie held after Marshal Ksitiisott's death, until detini-
ti.,. Arr.iiigenients wi.re made. General Barclay de 'Folly has been
assmiisted to the c. Dim And of the same by his Imperial Majesty.
Coma Wittl;ei-tein will now command the Russians, and a new
di location will tale plain.: General Blucher i% to command al;
the Prussians. Guiana' M I..radovitch ha,, for the present (being
in,lispose,:), given up Isis command to C. mit
It k with much satisfaction I acquaint your Lordship, that the
co.ps mistyr the order% of General Blucher has had a inwt brilliant
&Nair. • Is their eavalrv, ar iv tiq the division of General Masson.
&bone; s g from Ilayn..ii. From the details which I have received
of this ac..ou. it appears it should he justly celebrated as one of
the most distinguilltd cavalry.ettacksa against solid sluares of ix-

JUNE 27.

Pantry, that has been known in this WHIV . The Prussian cavalry
ere dexterously concealed behind favourable ground to acconivlish
their object. The impetuosity to attack was so great, that the
signal was given before the enemy were sufficiently advacced, and
the result was not so decisive as it otherwise would have been; but
twelve pieces of cannon. and 1300 prisoners fell into the han►ls of
the Allies. I refer your Lordship ti►r more details to the official
acconut, which I have the honour to inclose.
On the. 27th, eight squadrons of Rus,ian cavalry, half Cossacks,
attacked, near Goldberg, twelve squadrons of the enemy's Cuiras-
siers Napoleon ; made 400 men and several officers iiii•oners.
A partizan corps also captured a large ammunition park, and se.
venal prisoners.
General Blucher's corps d'arnwe retired on the 28th to Preseton,
on the Striegan river, while the main army t►.ok tip a position near
this place.
'fiw enemy, since the affair of Haynan, have not pressed General
Blucher, nor have they attempted any thing in front of this part of
the army : it is thetefme conjectured they are minim: in force on
our right, to put themselves in communication with Glogan ; their
advance, it is said, has reached Newmark.
t omitt•oti mentioning to your Lord-hip, that report states the
Grand Marshal Duroc to have been killed in. the affair at Reichtn-
back
The headluarters of Buonaparte are at Leignitz.
The head-quarters of his Imperial Majesty moves this day to Ober-
Groditz, and Reichenbach. The enemy continue their march on
Breslau.
I regret to acquaint your Lordship, that a reinforcement of se-
veral hundred men, with a battery of artillery, on march from the
...der, to join the main army, ha 4, it is feared, fallen into the hands
of the enemy. I have, &e.
(Signed) CHARLES STEWART, Lieut.-Gen.
Viscount Castlereagh, &c. &c.

Translation of the official account of the affair between the corps
tinder the command of General Blucher, and the advanced guard
of the enemy, near Haynan, on the 26th of May.
The Prussian army, united with the corps of the Russian General
Barclay de Tully, had their bivouac near Haynan on the 15th of
May. On the 16th, they marched in two columns towards Leig-
nitz. The first column was composed of the corps of Barclay I.
roily and D'York ; the second, of the corps of General Blucher.
The rear-guard halted on the other side of Haynan, in order to op-
pose the enemy, who usually pushed on from eleven o'clock iu the
morning till night.
As the enemy advanced, General Blucher ordered his column to
retire through the plains of Ilaynan to Steudetitz and Goldsdorff,
leaving 21 squadrons of cavalry, with vt pieces of flying artillery,
under the command of General Von Zietheo, in the enemy's rear.
General Von Kiethen observed the strength of the enemy from the
windmill of Bandinanstbrff. which was orlered to be fired, as
signal for the Prussian cavalry to attack, and for the rear-guard to
halt and oppose the enemy.
At t t o'clock, the enemy appeared from Haynan and began a
cannonade against the Prussian rear-guard a der the command of
Colonel Milling, which took a position on the of Haynan.
It was nly a reconnoisance of Marshal Ney. About 5 Weiork in
the evening, the enemy defiled from Haynan, and attacked our
rear-guard, which retired, according to the preconcerted dispositions
General Von Ziethen, seeing a French division following out
rear-guard, resolved to strike a great blow, and, trusting to the
gallantry of the troop", gave orders to Rifler the enemy to pass on,
and to attack him in rear ; but our cavalry had already quitted theft
ambuscade, and advanced against the right flank of the enemy.
The windmill was fired, al:el the whole of the rear-guard made tiont
against the French, who formed themselves in squares.
Dispositions had been made for the horse artillery to throw the
matey intd disorder, at which time the cavalry were to have at-
ticked them ; but the impatience bf the latter allowed no time tor
We artillery to produce the desired effect. After one discharge of
cannon, the cavalry rushed in upon the enemy's squares, which
were successively destroyed. His firing ceased, and a battery of
tv enns, with Isoo prisoners, fell into our hands. When the dust
which had concealed him cleared away. we saw the remainder cf
General Maison's division retreating on Haytiatt.
The battle lasted only half an hour, and not a single man of our
.I:t4..try was engaged, it having marched towards Leignitz.
The Inigm'e. of General Von Zietlten slope rentAintd on the
• heights behind GolAjottli