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

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the war ceased to have a national object,
Bested the measure of chaining the Conscripts till they were
arrived in the foreign countries, where they were to be slaugh-
tered. The south of France is peculiarly favourable to their
concealment, and between 5 and 0000 of those unfortunate
youths had at one time taken refuge in the Lunde' between
Bavonne and Bourdeaux.
As to the in .ral effect likely to be produced by the inva-
sion of the south of France, VE YU% slurs it over in a few
words, and by reverting to his former conclusion, " that
public sentiment would receive, from an invasion by British
arms, a new impetus, fatally decisive of the contest." We
are of an opinion directly contrary. We do not pretend
to say that the French people would receive the British as
their deliverers, unless indeed they entered their country as
the allies of the Bourbons ; but we think we have the best
authorities to assert, that the defence would be, by no means,
national. The time is past when Frenchmen would eagerly
and spontaneously fly to arms to repel an invading enemy.
Their country is become the property of a foreigner. to
.whose insatiable ambition they have been sacrificed by thou-
sands; national spirit, and national antipathies, have merged
into hopeless apathy; the tidings ofa victory no longer excite
exultation in their bosoms, and the triumphs of the British
arms are exaggerated tin oughout France, from enmity to the
tyrant, and rather with complacency than dread or hatred
On the other hand it is well known that several young men
of the southern provinces: of France have joined the Spanish
Guerillas, rather than serve in the armies of BUONA•
PA 11,T E ; their number is even so considerable as to have at-
tracted the attention of Lord %V ELLINGTON ; surely those
are not symptoms which should make us apprehensive that
an invasion by British arms would unite in one irresistible
spit it, a population already drained of its principal strength.
But V ET us totally overlooks another moral consideration ;
the . effect which the invasion of France would naturally
produce on the minds of our Alija, and of the vassals of
Buonaparte. And what could more forcibly animate them to
persevere In the glorious struggle, than to see the tyrant
driven fioun Spain, and unable to protect the sacred ground
of France from the just retaliation which the crimes of the
'evolutionists so loudly call for? • We are not, however, so
ten ible as V ETUS in our ideas of vengeance, it is not against
the French nation, so much, as against the revolutionary
doctrines by which it has been misled, that our enmity is
directed. The entrance of Lord WEL LINGTON in Beam,
might, if combined with other means, accelerate the return
of that unfortunate People in the bosom of the. European
Society, of which they have been the scourge since the ex-
their legitimate Sovereign...

‘'isions between Hernersdori am! Mein Berm. 0..
occupied Mitteewalde, and another Trebbin, m order in nia-k the
whole moven:cut. The (*twit!' PrIiSSLII CUPII)... lindur "U))tlelae
uscited
41 Blank, &Ode. Swedish army lett Potsdam ant the t2it at
proceeded upon Saarientid, pass( d the defile:, mid ha, no •i ut POW.
riora: The Russian army I,4lowed the Swedish utmy, and look post
at Guteroutze. General Czernicheff guarded Belem sect Treinibrit.
zen 3(100 Cossacks, and a bril..ade or light infatriry•
" The secret agents announced that the Emperos. Napoleon was to
pass bv Luckau to proceed to llaruth. General Czerniehett executed
hie orders with his usual intelhgeece, and tarried alarn, and uneasi-
ness to the rear of the enemy's columns General Ilinchiridr, who
had received orders to proceed from the enviromi of Maidebureh to
Brandenbure aed Potsdam, and from Potsdam to Saarsound, made a
rapid movement of rive Swedish miles in t• a biers
" Adair)) were in this state when the enemy attacked General Thu.
men at Trehhia, on the V2d, in the morniag. Their superiority deter-
wdoed the General to evacuate that post. 'the et clay advanced saC•
cessively„ and occupied ull th. interval betweii 1%141cm/raid and the
Site, rein eird by woods and flunked by marches Thin advance. posts
fell hack slowly, and covered the 'ruin of the line. On the 231 ill
the minas,. the corps of General Bertrand debouched upon Wirral
Tauenzen. The latter repulsed him and made wine prison rs.
" The ,illage of Gross !krill, against which the 7th French corps
,nd a .trong reserve. was directed, was taken by him. The Duke of
Reecio's corps proceeded memo Ahrestdorff By the occopatiou of
Gross Ber)n the enemy was at 1(x00 wises hum the centre of the camp.
General Bulow received orders to attuck it ; he executed at with the
decision of a skilful General. The troops marched with the calinhess
that distinguished die soldiers of the Great Frederick in the stein
years' war. The cannonade was warm fur wine hnurs. Ine troops
advanced under the prntection of the artillery, and sell with the ba)o-
-! ner upon the 7th corps, which had deployed in the pipin, and %lila
marched boldly upon the camp. There were several "charges of ca-
valry against the corps of the Duke of Padua, which do great humat
ter the Prussia4General Oppen. Tile Russian and Swedish army were
in the battle, mid waited the deploying of the other enemy's corps to
attack them at the same time. General Winzingerode was at the head
of 10,000 horse, and the Count de Wormizow at the head of the Bus-
Sian infantry. Marshal Count Stedingk, in the front ot the Swedish
line, had his cavalry in reserve.
" The village of Rhulsclorti, situated in front of his camp, was fur-
nished with infantry. in order to keep open the communication with
General Bulow. The other corps of the enemy's army not having
debouched from the woods, the Russian and Swedish army did nut
stir.
" However the enemy menacing the village of Ruhisdurff, and
hag already pushed his Tirailleurs swank the light Swedish toms
placed in front of that village, the Prince orders i some haitaliials,
supported by artillery, to reinforce the advanced posts, and Colonel
Cordell was directed to push on with a battalion of flying artillery to
take the enemy in flank.
" Hitherto the results of the affair of Gross Beren are V 6 cannon, SO
caissons, and much baggage, and 1500 pri.cners, among whom ate
40 Officers, the Colonel of Ui.lans of the Saxon Guard, and several
Lieutenant-Colonels and French NlajinS. The number of kitten ::n4
wounded of the enemy is very considerable, and the woods are tilled
with stragglers, whom the light cavalry are Whoring in .tver3 moment.
" The enemy have retired beyond Trebbin, which is already oven-
' pied by We regiments of Cossacks. Generals 13.d0w, Taucuzern, and

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tien of 1814. which comprises ytiung men.lghn have iiii . BULIATIIVS OF I'll it CROWN PRINCE.- •
Completed their nineteenth year,,,has been raked 4y antiewa-'s - --re.....
tion last year ; that all those who had fot meity iiseaped its FOURTH 11.11. LE IsIN.
-rigour, even married men, have been
.embodieck under tbe " Potsdam, AllgUM 21.
6. rt anrotinceit the poeition of the Crown Pi:rice's :.I in% Iron, 1301.
name of Bans, Arriere-Bans, &diaries, pis** el/tom:eta and ,
d •rn to Trebbin si d berlitz—thut the enemy had under OuninCt
garde* die., and marched to the armies ? Does he not know,
‘203,, (Jo men lit kesui.buro
_I, on the 1711 s bud 1811, by SIX 1)41116_16.5o
in short, that such is at present the thinness of the male iv 'hey load been repulsed."
population fit for labour in France, that even the trades, " Cenerul Waloroden reports, ilia. tvio hattilion. of Lotzi.o, had
been mar..cLed near Lintoriburifli, on the 17th ar;cl 18th, by tix bath.
which seem exclusively ieserved for that sex, such as those
lions, but they had been repulsed."
of barber,plastenr,tirc are now, in a great measure, exercised _
by women? We are ready to admit the d fficuities attendi lig nit- . FIFIH BULLETIN.
illarymperations cal tied on in an enemy's country, even with ... . Ruhl,dorff, Atienq ‘)/1.
such a population ; but is not VE*l us aware that this additional '' All the repoits of the secret agents leaving annotoß ed, oil the tven..
inconveniency will lw more than counterbalanced by the.de- ing of the 4/14 Allow, that ti e Eiiiiretta Napolells w:ls if tin tit:Ming
t e corps of the Dukes ot. Reppiu,. Belton), and Podua ar d ot 6c-
m-tint] of the Conscripts, dragged to the armies, who will 1
nerals Bounty! and Reoner, forming Wore Ilitin 80,01.0 en, In the
have an oppoitunity of regainicg their homes, or of hiding environs, of Baron!), foil every thine atinoute buy., . n 110 pint of bis
in thc country. This species of desertion, which the Fiend] troor, 4trapi : snatch upon Berlin, the Prince Rip made the fuli..w.
called "a l'intericur" has been so prevalent in France since Mg disposi:ii•ns :
411 la unt- restsPa to have a national obiect, that it has sug- ." Ihe third l'rte•sion corr, commanded by 11111.,%. idaeed fw,, di.
...-t..... t,,,,,....e0 liernersdorl and Klein Bents. 0: e dive‘ii-ii tilrt ride