The National Register.
London, England, 1813-04-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, APRIL s.—His Majesty the Emperor set out this morning
At one o'clock for Mayence.

SITUATION OF THE FRENCH ARMIES, ON THE FIFTH OE APRIL IN

TILE NOllllf.

The intelligence from Dantzic is satisfartory. The numerous gar-
rison has tormed.eamps within the city. The enemy keeps at a dis-
tance from the place, and does not appear inclined to attempt any
thing. Iwo English f, igstes had appeared before it.
At Thorn, nothing new had occurred. Proper. advantage of the
time had been taken to improve the fortifications.-
The enemy has but,very trifling forces before Modlin. General
Dsendds taking advantage of it, made a sortie, repulsed the enemy's
corps; and seized upon a large convoy, in which, among other things
there were 500 head of cattle.
• Tlie garriSon of Zamose are ma;ters of the country for six leagues
round : the ciirmy observes that place only with some light cavalry.
General Frhnont and Frince Ponaitowski were still in the same
position upon the Pelica.
Stettin, Curstin, and Glogau were in the same state. • The enemy
appeared to have designs upon Glogan, the blockade of which had
been straitened.
The enemy's corps that, on the II th of Macch, passed the Elbe at
Werlten, and whose rear guard was on the 28th dthated by General
Montbrim, and driven into the river, marched towards tamenbitrg.
On the ' Moraml from Bremen, ausl marched
the Ist April.. The inhabi.
light troops, attempted to
ipy caution some 30 of
;Wetted. On the tl, an
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artillery, presented itself before LunedJurg. Genera! Minim' mar-
ched to meet it, with his column, composed of 800 Saxons, awl 00
French, with. about 30 horsemen, and four pieces of cannon. The
cannonade began ; the enemy was forced tii abandon s..veral po-ittons
when General Mor,,iit was killed by a baH. 'the Command devol-
ved upon a Saxon Colonel. . The troops, agonistic at the lois of
their chief, fell back ; and after haying defended themselves for half
a day, in the evening capitulated : the enemy thus made 700 Saxons
and 20J French prisoners : a part of the prisoners have been re-
taken.
The follow ing day, General Montbrun, Commandant of the nd-
vanced_guard of the Princ of Eckinuld's corps, arrived at Lunen.
burg. The enemy informed of his approach hastily evacuated the
town and re-passed the Elbe.
The Prince of Eckmuhl arrived on the 4th, and obliged the enemy
to withdraw all his forces from the left bank of the Elb, and ordered
Stade to be occupied.
On the sth, General l'andamme joined, at Bremen, St. Cyr and
Dufour's divisions. General lltunonceau, with his division, was at
Marden.

The Viceroy, on the d of April, inet a Prussian division in ad-
vance of Magdebourg,
.up the right bank of the Elbe, overthrew,
and pursued it for the:pace of several leagues, and took several bun-
dreil prisoners.
The Bavarian division, which formed part of General Durette's
division, had on the 29th of March, an affair at Colder, with the
enemy's light cavalry. This infantry repulsed all the charges the Ca•
valry made upon it, and inure than Ur men, among whom
were a Colonel and.several officers. The I.l;tvarian loss only amoini-
ted to 16 men wounded. Since this time, General Durette has con-
tinued his movement to march upon the Saale to Bernburg. Au ene-
my's detachment of cavalry on the 3 tit entered Leipzlc.
• The Duke of Benno° was, in observation At Calbe and Bernburg„
upon the Seale.

SITUATION OF THE ARMIES OF THE NORTH ON THE 10TH APRIL.

On the sth, the 35th division, commanded by General Grenier,
bad au affair of advanced posts, upon the right bank of the Elbe,
four leagues from slagdehourg. Four battalions of this division
only were engaged. The inte,itry displayed its usual intrepidity,
and the enemy were repulsed.
On the 7th, the Vlonroy being informed that the enemy had
passed the Elbe at Dessau, sent the sth, and part of the 11th corps,
to Slippert the 2d corps, commanded by the Duke of Bellow,. The
Viceroy himself took post at Stassfurt, where, on the 9th, his head.
quarters were, and he has collected hiA army upon the Saale,--tho
left to the Elbe, the right leaning on the mountains of Hartz, mid
his reserve at Magdebourg.
The Prince of Eckmuhl, who on the Bth had his head-quarters at
Luneburg, had put himself in motion to again approach Magde.
bourg.
The artillery of General Vandamme's division had arrived at
Bremen and Minden. _ _ _

The head of a corps composed of two divisions which were to
take a position at Wesel, under the orders of General Lemaroa:‘,
had begun to arrive.
On the loth, General Sonham sent a regiment to Erfurt, where
no account bad been received of the enemy's light troops.
'l,he Duke of Ragusa took a position upon the heights of Eise-
nach. The French army of the Mein appears in motion in ditkrent
directions.
The Prince of Neufchatel was expected at Mayence. A part of
the Emperor's Staff had already arrived there, which gave reason for
expecting the speedy arrival of his Majesty.

APRIL 16.—His Majesty the Emperor passed through Mentz this
morning, 27 hours after his 41 cpartu re.
APRIL 13.—Prince Schwartzenbcrg hail the honour of being pre-
sented to his Majesty the Emperor, and delivering him a letter
from his Sovereign.
APRIL 15.—His Majesty the Emperor set out from St. Cloud at
one o'clock in the morning. He is going to take the command of
the Armies. To the immense administrative labours which have
uninterruptedly occupied Isis Majesty's thoughts, since the epoch of
his arrival until that of his departure, are going to succeed warlike
works, mid these grand military combinations whicli command vic-
tory, and decide the fate of Empires. That indetiLtigable activity-
which only reposes by changing objects ; that force uf min:l always
the same under every circumstance, in council equally as in the
geld of battle; that noble anchicit# which no reverse can shake, .and
which commands events, lcmcs uo doubt as to the issue of this new
campaign.
Etabeidkned by-the uttfomscen calamity which struck the frenrok

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