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abled him to resume the offensive, may therefore be consi-
dered as a great fault on the part of the Allies. They seem to
have thought it impossible for him to bring up fresh troops,
and to have believed it would at any time be in their power
to overthrow those which he had left behind him. When
they heard that BUON 4-PARTE himself was approaching at
the head of a new army, they perceived their error, and en-
deavoured to repair it; but it was too late. They crossed
tie Elbe, and moved- their whole force towards the source
of the Saale, to turn Beatntaallots's right, and prevent
his junction with NAPOLEON; but it was already effected
They fought the battle of Lutzen to defeat the ends of this
jenction, and drive the French armies to the Rhine,
but were themselves compelled to abandon Leipsic and Dres-
den, and tor-repiss the Elbe; on the right bank of which it
'Would .have been more advantageous to have awaited the
enemy, as soon as they found it was too late to destroy
BEAUHARNOIS'S separate army. In that case, the Saxons
would have hesitated to join the French, even though these
should have re-occupied Dresden ; as no advantage would
have been gained by either party in the field, and they only
waited, to declare themselves, the example of fortune. The
retreat of the Allies, after the battle of Lutzen, leaving
the fame of victory in the hands of the Ftench, re-
vived the hopes') of their dependent Monarchs, and
once more secured their assistance. Hence, whilst only
French trooes were engaged at Lutzen, we find that at
Bautzen and Wurtchen, Saxons, Bavarians, Poles, and Wur-
ternburghers, fought under NAPOLEON'S banners. Hence,
too, Denmark, who bad boldly opposed the entrance of the
enemy at Hatnburgh, placed 5000 of her troops under French
command, and t-ok possession of it in BUONAP Awn.% name.
This compaign has hitherto been, and will continue to be,
a war of men, rather than of manoeuvres, and be who can
'Afford to spend a greater quantity of human lives, must ulti-
inately ti

PARIS, MAY 21.—Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent
ha• received the following intelligence respecting the events which
bare passed at the army, during the days of the 19th, 20:14 21st,
end 'led ; and of the position of the army on the 23d :
The Emperor Alexander, and the King of Prussia. attributed
The loss of the battle of Lutzen, to the faults their Generals had corn-
tnitted in the direction of the combined force, and particularly to
the difficulties attached to an offensive movement of from 150 to
180,000 men. They revolved upon taking the position of Bautzen,
and Hochkerch, already celebrated in the history of the seven
years war; to unite there all the midi); cements which they ex-
pected from the Vistula, and other points in their rear ; to add to
that position every thlug., which art could fiirnish the means ; and
there run the chances of a fresh battle, of which all the probabilities
tippeared to them to he in their favour.
The
.Duke of Tarentum, commanding. the 11th corps, left Bis•
Chofswerder on the 15th; in the evening of which day, be found
himself within cannon-shot of Bautzen, where he found all the ene-
my. Ile took a position : from this moment the French artuy
marchr,d upon the camp at Bautzen.
The Emperor lett Dresden on the 18th ; tie slept at Hada ; and
on the 19th, at twin thuanorning, arrived before Bautzen. He
employed all the day in reconnoitring the enemy's positions.
We learned that the Russian corps of Barclay de 'Folly, Lange-
ron. and Sass, and Kleist's Poissian corps had rejoined the combined
army, acid that its force might be estimated from 150 to 160,000

the evening, the enemy's position was as follows:
)ortetl by mountains covered with wood, and per-
conrse of the Spree, nearly a league from Bautten
his centre. nits town had been entrenched and
.sots; the tight of the enemy leaned upon tbrt&tird
which defended the debauches from the Sprees fee

the side of the villaee of _
the Spree; this very strong position was but a first position.
We distinctly perceived at 5000 tiiiaes distance in the rear, the
ground newly dug up, and wen ks which marked their second poai-
tion. The left was still supported by the same
.mountain at WM
toises in the rear of those of the first positions and considerably in
advance of the village of Hochkerch. The centre leaned upon
three iutrenched villages, where so many works had been erected
.that they might have been considered as strong places. A marshy
and difficult ground covered three.quarters of the centre. Lastly,
their right leaned in rear of the fist position upon villages and rising
ground, likewise iutrenched.
The enemy's front. either in the first or second position, extended
about a league and an half. After this reconnoissance, it was easy
to conceive how, notwithstanding a lost battle like that of Lntzeu,
and eight days retreatieg, the enemy could still have hopes in the
chances of fortune. According to the expression of a Russian offi-
cer, who was asked what they intended to do, " We neither wish to
advance or retire." " You ere master; of the first point," replied a
French officer. " the event in a few days, will prove whether you are
masters of the other." The head-quarters of the two Sovereigns
were in the village of Natscher.
On the 19th, the position of the French army was as follows :
Upon the right was the Duke of Reggio, leaning upon the monn-
tain4 to the lett of the Spree, and separated from the left of the
enemy by that valley. The Duke of Tarentum was before Bautzen,
on horseback, upon the Dresden road. The Duke of Ragnsa was
upon the left of Bautzen, opposite the village of Niemenschutz.
General Bertrand was upon the left of the Dukes Ragusa, leaning
upon a windmill and a wood, and appearing to intend dehoudiing
from Jaselitz upon the eurmy's right. 'The Prince of Moskwa,
General Lauriston, and General Reynier, were at Hoyerswerda,
out of the line, and in the rear of our kit.

The enemy having learnt that a considerable corps twat to arrive
by the road to Hoyerswerda, was doubtful that it was the Emperor'
intention to turn their position by the right, to alter the field of
battle, and to cause all his entrenchments to fall which had been
erected with so much pains, and the objects of such great trouble.
Not being yet informed of General Lanriston's arrival, he did not
suppose that this column, could consist of more than 16 or 20,000
men. On the 19th he therefore detached against them, at four
o'clock in the morning, General Yorck with 11,000 Prussians, and
General Barclay de Tolly, with 18,000 Russians. The Russians
posted themselves at the village of Klix, aid the Prussians at.the
village of Weisbig.
Count ilertrand had in the mean while sent General Pery, with
the Italian division to Koenigswerda, to keep up our communica-
tion with the detached corps. Being arrived there at Doan, Ge-
neral Perin made bad dispo.itions. He did not cause the magi'.
homing forest to be properly reconnoitred ; he placed his posts
badly, turd at four o'clock he was assailed by a Iwurra, which threw
some battalions into disorder. He lost 600 men, among whom was
General Balathivr, of the Italian brigade, veonrided ; 2 cannon, and
3 caissons ; but the division having taken to dieir arms, kept them.
selves to the wood. and fixed against the enemy.
The Count de Vainly having arrived with the cavalry, put himself
at the head of the Italian division, and retook the village of Koe-
nigswartha. At this very moment, the corps under Count Latnis-
ton, which marched at the head of the Prince of Moskwa's, to turn
the enemy's position, and had departed from Hoyerswerda, arrived
on Weissig, The battle commenced, and the corps of General
Yorek would have hecu destroyed, bad it not been for the circum-
, stance of the troops having to pass a defile, which caused that they
could come up only in succession. After • a battle of-three bourse
the village of Weissig was carried, and De Yorek's corps, being
overthrown, was driven to the other bank of the Spree. The battle
of Weissig was in itself an important event. A detailed report will
shortly make known the particulars concerning it.
On the 19th, Count Lauriston therefore remained in the position
of Weissig; the Prince of Moskwa at Mankersdorf, and Count
Reynier at the distance of a league iu the rear. The right 44* the
enemy's position was evidently in disorder.
On the tOth, at eight o'clock in the morning, the Emperor went
to the heights in the rear of Bantzen. He gage orders to the Duke
of Reggio to pass the Spree, and attack the. mountains which Amp.
ported the enemy's left ; to the Duke of Tareetten, to throw a
bridge oe chevalets over the Spree! between Bautzen and the mute
talus ; to the Duko. of Ragusa, to throw another bridge on chevalets
1 across the Spree, in the turn which that river takes to the left, at
• half a league from Bautzen • to the Duke of Dalmatia, (to whom
his Majesty had given the Command in Chief of the centre), to pass
1 the Spree, and disturb the enemy's ,right i and finally, to the Prince

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