The National Register.
London, England, 1813-05-30 00:00:00

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The ea% alry corps commanded by General Latour-Manbitorg 01.
. tie nth crossed by the bridge ot.Dresden, at three in the afternoon.
Tile King ..f 84xony slept at Sedlitz. All the SAXOIi cavalry ma.t
rejoin 4)n the 13th at Di esden. General Replier has resumed tit%
command ov the 7th corps at Torgan : that corps is compuStd of two.
Sam))) divisions, c:ol..iiting of '2,000 men. •
Hl4 Majesty spent the whole day on the bridge to see his troops
defile.

rue Colonel of Engineers, Bernard, Aide-decamp of the Em
perm., has exerted great activity in repairing the bridge of Dresden.
Geltral Rogniat, Commander-in-chief of the Engineers of the
army, has traced out the works which are to cover the new town,
and to serve as a tete-de-pont.
We intercepted a courier from the Count de Stackelberg.
Ex arnhassadm from Russia at Vienna, to- the Count de Nesselrode,
Secretary of State, accompanying the Russian Emperor at Dresden.
We have also intercepted a number of estafettes front Berlin and
Prague.

Her Majesty the Empress
.Qneen and Regent has received the
following account with regard to the situation of the armyon the
evening of the WO of May :
On the 12th, at ten in the morning, the Imperial Guards were
drawn up in battalion on the road from Pirna to Gross-Garten. The
Emperor reviewed them. The Ki►►g of Saxony, who slept the night
before at Sedli tz, arrived at inithday. The two Sovereigns alighted
from hor,eback, embraced each other, and then entered Dresden,
at the head of the Guards, amidst the acclamations of an immense
population. It formed a very fine s►ght.
At three o'clock the Emperor reviewed the division of cavalry of
G. ntral Fresia, consisting of 3,000 horse from Italy. His Majesty
was extremely sati•fieel with this cavalry ; the good condition of
which is owing to the care and activity of Fontanelh, the Minister
of War tin Italy, who spared no pains to pia it in a good state.
The E►eperor has given milers to the Viceroy to repair to Milan.
there to fulfil a special mission. Hi 4 Majesty has been extremely
t►ati•fied with the eowiuct of that Prim* during the whole cam•
pain ; that cooluet has acquired ti►r the Viceroy a new title to the
em.fiiener of the Emperor.

to the welfare of Europe, and to religion, which lie Im/4.1;1i-eel up,
41.1 which lie is called to rt -establish.. He is the most sincere and
•altliful protector of it. This lett'r having nu other object, we pray
God, M. Bishop, to have you in his holy keepi,.e.
Given at our Imperial Palace at St Cloud, this I Ith May, 1913.
(Signed I MARIA LOUISA.
By the Einprew.-Rekent.
The Due de CA DUKE, Secretary of Stilte.

VIENNA, MAY 5.—A French cone:el., from the fe dof bat le v s-
terday brought intelligence ola great victory gai!iett oy the Frencti
army, commanded by the Emperor Napoleon, over the eomui►►ed
Russian and Prussian armies, commanded by the E►nperor A .exandee
and the King of Prussia. This battle, which appear. decisive. «as
fought on the id, on the plains of the Sa••alc. This news has eatied
a great sensation here : it was not believed that the Emperor of the
French have been already able to collect all his forces, and be in
readinefs to fight a gt-aleral battle.
F eld.Marshal the Prince of Schwartzenberg, who arrived here
on Sd, will forthwith set out for Bohemia, there to take the
command of a corps d'armee.
Lieut.-General Hiller has, it is said. been appointed to the com-
mand of an army corps which is assembling in Upper Austria.
The Malan tegiments of the Arch :like Charles, !Ind the Hohenlohe
dragoons hare received orders to join the corps which is in Styria,
and the head-quarters e which are at Pett.►a. Alagazines are
fw•n:ing at Raab and Radkersbnig.
AUGSBURG, MilY he Vienna public are extremely im-
patient to learn the purport of the new imperial Declaration hich
i• now in the press. and the publication of which is momentarily
es pt c ted.
We learn from Vienna that the Count de Metternich, Anstrian
Minister fin• Foreign Affairs, has frequent colder's:nets with the
Count de Narbonne Ambassador from France.

RELATION OF THE RETREAT.
The Bth and 9:11 of May were very remarkable days for the inha-
bitants of Dresden,
some days previous we could collect that the Allied Army was
te!reating, because we witnessed the arrival of baggage, of the park
of artillery, and many Prussian. and Russian Generals. with some
truops who returned front Pegau ; but in the triad of the 7th, all
doubt was removed of the retreat of the Combined Force:;; and on
tne morning- of the Bth the troops were hastily ietiriug t ► the right
oahk of the Elbe. By four in the morning of that day the Emperor
Alexander had retired to the right bank, and about Dine was bil-
lowed by the King of Prussia. At last, about 11 o'clock, when the
A:lied Army had crossed the Elbe, the bridge was bursted, by which
means alt communication was interrupted.
About 11 o'clock in the forenoon the French Hussars entered
Dresden, accompanied by inany other troops, who pursned the Rots=
sans to the points where they crossed the Elbe. The Russians de-
fended the hies-de-pont erected on its banks; there was a gooll deal
of connonading, awl tire of musketry; but the Russians having all
crossed the Elbe by mid-day, set fire to the ly idge s, which were
seen floating down the river, on fire, and continued to float duwu
in that state as far as the great bridge.
After dinner, the Emperor Napoleon entered Dresden with his
army. accompanied by the Viceroy of Daly, a number of Marshals.
Berthier and Macdonald. He is lodged in the same palace which
he formerly occupied. During the night, and next day, the neces-
sary preparations were made for establishing a bridge over the
Elbe. The Russians endeavoured to oppose this, and did not cease
firing on the left bank both with cannon and tunketry. 'they bad
placed a cante.n at the bridge, and occupied the homes acljrinitig
the Elbe. from whence they directed their tire, to which the French
did not cease teplying, so that there was a continued engagement,
which lasted from tour in the morning to eight in the evening. Two
inhabitants of this city were killed, and between Z) and 40
wounded.
A number of balls fel on the houses, and in the streets, bat did
no damage. Thus the inhabitants of Dresden spent this day in tear
and alarm. Scarcely had we reposed a few hours, when at one in
the morning of the inth, the cannonade and tire of noisketry rs com-
menced, and lasted till four o'clock. The Russians en... tell the New..
Town, and a Freneh garrison WV immediately placed there. Pro-
bably, the new bridge of boats will be forthwith re—established.

PARic, M tir 19.—Her Majesty the Empress Qneen and Rezent
hag reeei% ed the following intinm ition respecting the situation of
the armies on the morning of the 13th :
The fortress of Spandau has capitulated ; ibis event astoriAes all
nailitaq men. His Majesty has ordered that General Lit nub the