The National Register.
London, England, 1813-11-14 00:00:00

NOV. 8.

of Witched, and the third against that of Laier %Volkoaitz. 'lleac
three CJiIiIUDS were preceded by YOO pieces of caution. The
Emperor immediately made his dispositions.
At ten o'clock the cannonade was must violent, and at eleven
the two armies were engaged in the villages of Doebiz, Wachan.
eel Liner Wolkowitz. These villages were attacked six or seven
times ; the enemy was constantly repulsed, and covered the
appro .ch with his dead. Count Lewiston, with the sth corps,
defended the village on the lett (Liter Wolkott itz) ; P. Puma-
towski, with his braise rules, defended the village on the right
Dot-iitz) ; and time Duke of Braun° defended Wachau.
At 'loon the sixth attack of the enemy had been repulsed ; we
were masters of three villages, and had made Wan prisoners.
Nearly at the same moment, the Duke of Tarentnen debouched by
Holzenhamen, marching urn an enemy's redoubt, which General
Clmrpentie carried at the pas de charge, st izing the artillery , and
making some prisoners.
The moment appeared decisive. The Emperor ordered she
Duke of Reggio to auafeh upon %Vachan with two divisions of th
young altars'. fie etitedly ehrseted the Duke of Treviso to march
against Libel- Wolkowitz with two other divisioas of the youne
guard, and take possession ofau extensive wood which is upon the
left of the village At the same time he caused to he advanced
upon the centre, a battery of one hundred and fifty pieces of
cannon, which General Drourt directed. The whole of those
dispositions had that success which was expected from them. The
_enemy', artellery- went to a distance. The enemy retired, and the
%thole field it. battle remaived in our possession
It was fitter o'clock in tile afternoon ; all the en !niv's troops Imam
bee,' eeessael ; he had ireonise to iti• reserve. Count Nleerfeldt,
who commanded in Chief the Austrian reserve, supported ith
dis 'slows all the troops in all the attacks ; and thel Imperial Russian
Guards, who .orated the reserve of the Austrian army, supported the
centre. The cavalry of the Russian guards, and the Austrian cuir.ts-
siers precti:el,ted themselves, by their fait. upon our right , thee
seized upon Doelitz, and came prancing ebout the Duke of Bellime's
squares. The bang of Naples marched with Latour Metubontlf
culassiere, and charged the enemy's cavalry by the left of %Vedette ;
at the twine time the Polish cavalry, and dragoous of the guard,
commanded by Gen. Leto' t, charged by the right. The enemy'.
cavalry were def-ated ; two entice regiments remained upon the
field of' battle Gen. Let art made 300 Austrian and Russia., prisoners.
'Gen, Latour Maubourg took some hundreds of men el the Russian
guard The Emperor immediately oreered Curial's division of the
guard to advance to support Prince Poniatowski. Gen. Curial
marceed upon the village of Doelitz, attacked it with time bayonet.
carried it without firing a shot, and made 1100 prisoner's among
mitten was the General-iu-Chief Meerfeldt.
Affairs beiog thus re-established on our right, the enemy put him-
self see retreat, and the field of battle wee no longer disputed a ith us.
The reserse of artillery of the guards which Gen. Drouet commanded
were with time tiraillems: the enenty's cavalry came and charged
them. The artillerymea formed their pieces in a square. which they
bad had the precaution to load with grape shot, and fired with so
Kutch dexterity, tqat in an instant the enemy was repulsed. Upon
these events the French cavalry advanced to-support these batteries.
Maison, commanding a disfsion of the sth corps an officer I,
of the greatest distinction, •was wounded. Gen. Latour Mauhoure,
commanding the c leaky, had his thigh carried off by a ball. Our
loss on :Ilia day has been .1,500 men killed and wounded. It will not
be exaggeratiug to estimate that of the enemy at a 5,000 men. One
• cannot too much eulogize Gen Lauriston and Prince Ponintowski's
goad conduct during this day. To give the latter a proof of his
satisfaction, the Entror appointtd him, on the fiield of battle a
French Marshal, an granted a great number of decorations to the
regiments of his corps.
Gen. Bertrand was at the same time attacked in the village cf
Liudenau, by Gens. Gulley, Thiehnan, and Lichstenstein. They
deployed from different parts about 50 pieces of cannon. The combat
laved six hours, without the enemy's being able to gain an inch of
groused. At fit: w the evening, Gen. Bertrand decided the victory
by making a charge with leis reset ve, and not only rendered vain ta.
enemy's designs, who rushed to seize upon the Misters of Liudenan
and the suburbs of Leiric, but even constrained him to evacuate his
field of battle.
Upon the right of the Partha, a league from Leipsic, and nenrly four
leagues from the field of battle where the Emperor was, the Duke el
Ragusa was engaged. By one of' those fatal erecountances which ottt.t.
have an influence over the most important affairs the 3rl cores, e lath
Wee to support the Duke of R.tgusa, hearing nothing on that side at ten
in the morning.. .rid, on the contrary, hearing a terrible cannonade amt
that side where the Emperor was, theeght ptoper to ingeli thither, amid
thus lust the day iu marches.

The Duke of Raenaa, abandoned to his own lerces, defusteled Lein-
sic, and maintained his positiou donee the day ; but he suffered tomes,
which were not rem' pensated by these he itilitetel
•upoe the enemy,
however great tney wr re. Some buttalions ,f marine artillerymen cone
Jutted themselves hut indillerenti,s . Generals ('ompans Will Fredetieli
we,e wounded. In the evening, the Duke of Raettaa, himself •lightly
w.•mled. was obliged to take a pusition upon the Partha. He also
vas ohliged to nbamtem in this movement sesetat dismounted canntes
and severt,i witetons.
. Her Majesty the Empress has received the following intelligence
respecting the situation t I the armies on the e4th of October 1813:--.
The battle of Waehau disconeeited all the enema's p; oiecte ; but his
army was so nurse-rote; that he bad still resources. He hastily culled
.
tie during the night, the corps which he had kb upon his line of opera.
tieno and the divisions which remaitued upon the Suede ; end he pi esatet
the march oh General Bennigseu, who was coating up with .10:000 men.
After the movement in retreat, which he made on the tOtle in the
evening, and during the night, the enemy occupied:a fine position two
leagues in the roe. It was requisite to employ the 37th itt reconnoiter-
ine and fully determining upon the puitn of attack. T lint clay was be-
sides necessary tr allow the parks of reserve to orrice, and replucv the
80,000 cannot -balls which had been expended in the battle. The ene-
my had therefore time to re-assemble the troops which he had scattered,
when he delivered himself up to his chimerical projects, aod•to receive
the reinforcements which he expected.
;hiving received information of the arrival of these reinforcements.
.rid knowing that the petition of the enemy wit, very strong, the Ent-
eror resolved to draw them upon 'mother ground. The 18th, at two
, •,'clock in the mornine. he approached Leipsie within two league*, ford
formed his army with the right at l'e'entiewitz, hie ceiere at Prebstlieyde,
erd the left at Stoetteritz, placing himself at the mill of Ta. The Prince
of Nies!, wa, on his part, had p!aced his troops in front of the. army
•1 Silesia, on the P.m?. a; the Oh corps at Schoenfeld ; and the ;Id and
7t:i along the Partha, itt Neroseh and at Tea la. The Deice of Padua,
e ,th General Dombrowski, eeerded the position and the suburbs of
e re, ipsic, on the reel of !ladle. At three o'clock in the meeting, The
Emptier was at the village of Lireeetian, and entered General Bertrand
et match opt iaitzen nod ‘Vets‘eitiels. to sweep the plain, and secure
the debituches of the Sallie, aed tie' late of communication wish Erfurt.
4 The light troops of the• enemy dispersed, and at moon General Bee.
(rand was master of Weissenfris and the bridge on the Scale. flaying
thus secured his communicutions, the Emperor waited the approach of
e 'lie et emy with firmness.
At nine o'clock, the scouts announced that they were marching on
all the line. At ten o'clock the cannonade coma-eased. Prince Po-
ina'owski and General Lesol defended the bridee of Connewitz. The
King of Naples, with the e'd corps, was at Probstheyde, and the Duke
(,1 Terentum at Holzhauzen. Ad the t fforts of the enemy, dutiog the
day, against Connewilz and Probstheyde, felled. The Duke of Tart tie
(ton Was ou'firriked at Holzhauzen. The Emperor ordered hint to take
a position at the village of Stoetteritz : the cannonade was terrible. The
Deke of Castiglione, who defended a wood in the centre, maintained
himself there the whole of the day. The old guard was drawn up in
reserve, on a rising ground, in four massy columns. directed towurds
the four principal points of attack. The Duke of Reggio was sent ter
support Prince Pomatowaki ; end the Dike vf Treviso to guard the de•
bombes of the city of Leipsic. The yr:wile-3 success atilt. battle was
I at the village of-Prebstheyde ; the enemy attacked it lour times in con-
• aiderable force, and four times they were repulsed with great loss. At
five o'clock in the evening, the Emperor caused the artillery (tithe re-
serve to advance, and drove back the fire of the enemy, who withdrew
to the distance of a league front the field of battle.
In the mean time the army of Silesia attacked the suburb of Halle.
All it: attacks, repeated a number of times during the day, failed. lt.'
attempted, with the g-eater petit of its l'erce, to pass the Partha at
Schoenfeld and at. Teckhe Thrice it succeeded in gaining a footing
' on the left bark, and thrice the Prince of the Mirskwa repulsed nod
overthrew it at the point of the bayonet. At three o'clock p. no the
• victory was our's, as well on this side against the army of Silesia, as
on the side of the F.mpetor against the grand army.
But at this instant the Saxon army, infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
and the %Vurtentberg cavalry, passed over in a body to the enemy. 61
the Saxon army there remained only General Zeschau, the Commendere
in-Cliiel, and 500 men. This act of treason not oulyeaused a vacancy
mu our lines, hu also delivered up to the enemy the important dehouche
confideal to the Saxon army, who carried their infamy so far as inetantiv
to tarn their 40 pieces of cannon against the division of i)urutte. A
moment of disorder succeeded; the enemy passed the Partha, and
marched upon iteidnitz, which they occupied : they were now, there-
fore, only half a league from Leipsie. The Emperor sent his horse
i ,1 rr guards. couanded by General Nansouty. with V4)m
pieces of ulles
i to take in flank the troops that were advancieg along the Pertita ta at-
tack Leiptie. lie proceeded iii perm with a LOviaiuo of the paerdsie