The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-30 00:00:00

POLICE.

ARLSOII6I7OII-STREET,—John Lewis Biz' ptisla
Zurrieulet (valet-de-chambre to Lord CatedooY,
stands charged with robbing his Lordship of -plate,
linen, apparel„ 8:c. to a considerable amount, yesier•
day underwent an examination at this Office.
'Tice Prisoner, it will be remembered, is charged
with having committed this robbery by obtaining
back packages from the Portsmouth Waggin inn,
they having been sent thither by order of Lord Cale,
don, in order to be for Warded to Portsmouth, to be
shipped for the Cape of Good Hope, whither his
Lordship is about to depart as Governor. His Lord-
ship bad gone to' Ireland to take leave of his friends,
and had left the Prisoner, ‘Vho was considered a con-
fidential servant, in care of his hons-e in town. Lord
caledoti had not arrived in town yesterday; but a
part of the property stolen belonged to Col. Alex-
ander, who is appointed Aid-duL,Camp to his Lord-
r:ship, and be having arrived from PortsmOuth to at-
tend the examination, it was entered intO. Some
articles of linen, which were sworn.to by. this Gen-
tleman,
.were proved to have been packed in ot'e
of the packages_ delivered at the inn, and afterwards
sold to Myers, a-salesman in Swallow-street, by the
'Prisoner. On examining one of the boxes, Mr.
Alexander found some garments. missing, one of
WhiCh 'was the uniform of an Aid-du-camp, which,
with a fashionable blue coat, were founds at the
:house of a .celebrated miniature painter in Duke-
street, Portland-place. The Prisoner, it appeared,
had' taken the uniform coat thither to' have
likeness taken in a superb dress, and ',enc.:Many wore
it whilq the limner took his likeness.

_ Lord C.'s coachman, who had observed the. Pr-
isoner bring back the package which contained a'
part of Mr. Alexander's linen,'after it had been taken
,to the inn, proved this fact, as well as others tend-,
iu to critninate the Prisoner. He also described
him as having, in one instance, insisted on going to
the Opera in his master's carriage, and on being re-
f Used, he produced' a written paper, purporting to
be the satiation oti Lord C. for such a step. The
carriage was, however, rendered unfit for use, and
the Prisoner was disappointed. A Lady, whose
name is Care, was a very material ‘yitnesl against
the Prisoner: She first saw him at the theatre,
When he was dressed-in the extrem&of fashion, with
a superb abundance of rings, jewels, &c. He was
known to some of the party (chiefly Ladies) who
was with, Miss Care, and each quizzed him, and so
did Miss C. in her turn, by observing. he had got
his .wife's seal on his watch chain. 'l'he Prisoner
immediately
,insisted, that as it was a Lady's' seal he
would make it a present to her, and also the
She at first refuSed to accept it,' but at length did
take it, and the next morning,- when the Prisoner
(whom she had never seen until the moment of his
generosity) called on her, she gave him back his
present, fearing
~some ill might come of it. She
saw him several times
.afterwards, and he alwayS
represented himself as a Nobleman: She break
fasted with him at. Lord C.'s house, 'in Stratton-street,
Which he represented as his own mansion, and he
sheaved her a considerable quantity of rich furniture,
&c. Miss C. pereeiving a coronet on the linen, asked
him low a foreigner could wear a'Bi-itish coronet ?.
which be was at a loss to explain. He then said he
would tell her the truth, which was, that he was a
Swiss Nobleman, and was 'going to the Cape with
Lord C. as his Lordship's aid-du-carnp. Miss C. was
accommodated with a quantity of wine, which she
took home in a coach with her, in a box, which
bad originally been packed with Colonel Alexander's
property. He had often shewn her a superbly rich
gold mounted- snuffbox, which, it.' aPpeared, bad'
been Mounted at Lord Caledon's expellee. Miss,
Care considered him an extremely polite Gentle-
mtm, and an admirer/ of the Ladies, 'to many of
whom he was well known in her circle.

Mr. Smith, a linen-draper in Piccadilly, to whom
he had,otrered to dispose of table-linen, stated, that
he had represented himself to him as a -Noble-
man, and that he had ten thousand pounds worth
of property to dispose of, as he wa'about to leave
the country.
The packages remain opened in Lord Caledon's
house, with the doors of the apartmentS secured,
Until the arrival of his Lordship.—The Prisoner was
remanded till next Monday.

GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday a man was
*brought be-
fore . Sir. C. PRICE, the , Sitting Alderman, charged
with defrauding the Patriotic' Fund, at LLOYD'S
Coffee-house, of 301. upon the pretence of being one
of the wounded, Seamen in the British Fleet, in the
glorious Battle of Trafalgar. The Prisoner had been
examined at Greenwich, where it was ascertained
that he had not been wounded, and sent in custody
to' London. The offence' alledged having been
committed within the jUrisdiaion of the LORD
MAYOR, the Prisoner was remanded for further
examination before his Lordship.

LONGFORD, DEC. 23.—0n1y one Thrasher, Peter
Morris, has been capitally convidled under the Com-
mission here : orders .were issued for his immediate
execution, but the Sberitf received them too late on
Saturday last, and, .in consequence, he has been re-
,spited for three days past. The addresses of the
judges and Counsel for the Crown were awfully elo-
quent,- and Made a salutary impression on all who
heard them. From the dreadful examples already
;made, we hope for aperfe6.l restoration of good order.

FIR E.---Thupday morning early some of the out-
houses belonging to Mr. Hope, 'of East Sheen, Sur-
yey, were discovered to be on fire. Being'woode3
buildings, and .filled•with timber for improving the
villa, they presented a.scene, of terror to the country
found but by the a&ivity of the neighbours, and
the Mortlake Volunteers, in pulling down several in-
tervening buildings, the dwelling-house was pre-
served, and the destru6tive element was confined to
a large barn and granary, which were consumed,
with., their before-mentioned contents. The fire, it
is supposed, was occasioned by a plasterer slaking
some lime.

The transmutation of inferior .Metals into Gold,
was long the hilJoriou's and Vain attempt of ancient
Alchymists. But notwithstanding their absurd ef-
forts, it is a po fernptory fait, that at the present
sera, nay, almost at the present moment, Twenty-
six Shillings will be found capable of being converted
into nearly Two Thousand Golden Pounds. If any
doubt this, let them view' the unparalteled, Lotie•ry
Scheme, that, begins •drawing the 13th January, to
be convinced of'the fact.

113,ITTLE. OF AUEASTADT

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O JNA, CT. 29.-7 m tiT'uubjic acconnts di*rAo
\vitt*, re4peting the :flernr.cnces on the kin 9f
Oaober, I atil induced the ,
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pritculars, which may bt.: relied upon as' au-
thpnt

, • 00. !Ile I.4th of Oelobc.tr two dist'inc't. battles were
"fought between the French and Prussian Armies—
r,
.with the latter' of which the Saxons were incorpo-
rated ; the one near Jena, the other near Auerstadt.
The space between the two sfi'elds's'of battle is sixteen
(English) miles. ThefesUlt of both was favourable
to the arms of France. :
• The battle of Jena began 'arliall past sit, in the
morning, between Lutzerode and .Closewitz ; it
then moved off to Vierzehnheiligim and KripPerl-
dorf, and terminated at three in the afternoon at
Capellendorf, nine (English) miles from ;Weimar.
The FrZ‘nch were commanded by IS:apoleon in per-
son, and under him fought th,..! Marshals Lannes,
Ney, Augcreao, and Soult, with their corps.—
LanneS made the first attack, between Lutzerode
and Closewitz, where the Saxons maintained their
position two hours with the greatest intrepidity.—
The PrOsialls, were commanded by Prince Ho-
hsenlphe, under Whoni were Count Tauenzien and
the Saxcul Generals. General iluchel, with a re-
serve of fifteen thousand then, was engaged at Ca-
pellendorf.

- The batik 'or AuerstAdt, nine' (English) miles
fforn Naumburgh, commenced at six in the morn-
ing of the same day. The King of Prussia and
Duke of-, Brut with their Army, occupied
the space between the villages of Poppelt, Truch-
wrti, find Itebliausen. Early in the, morning Mar-
shal atvonst had marched with his corps from
Kosen to the 'heights of Hessenbausen, where he
posted himself. The right wing of the Prussians,
under Count Wartensleben, made the first attack
with success ; but was Soon obliged to relinquish
the advantage it had obtained, on Which it retreated;
first to Greustadt, and then to Eckartsbausen. In
the evening- MarNhal Bernadotte came up to thile sup-
port of MarShal Davoukt.

_.
It was remarkable, that' the French centre, under
the Emperor .Nap.oleon, was engaged at Jena, and
that of the Prussians, under the King, at Auerstadt,,
or rather. at - fiessenhauseu.

,
In the past year, the eleven days of October,
from the 7th to the 17th, decided 'the fate of the
Austrian ar:ny. In less, than .the same number of
days, in. October of the present year, the formida-
ble force of Prussia was annihilated. 'Yhe differ-
ence consists iu the, time, and also in the circum-
stance that General ,Mack was overcome without
any important engagement. In the situation, in
the faults of the, positions, in the sagacity with
whiCh Napoleon availed, himself of these errors, in
the turning of his Opponents,- there is • a striking co-
incidence. Contemporary history points out these
obvious causes of the disasters of Prussia; but the
disclosure of the secret., agents that, may have con.-
tribmed to produce them is reserved for futurity.
A complete, minufe, and substantiated account, is
as yet , a problem, that admits not -of solution ; as
no reports of the principal events have appeared on
tfie part of Prtifisia, as we have, only heard the
statements of the..conquerors, whose rapid exten-
sion over all the Countries between the Eibe and
the Vistul.ir sufficiently attests the magnitude of
their successes.

A celebrated military writer, the author of the
Campaign of 1805, has, asserted, that if Prussia
was resolved to go to war with France, she must
Commence her operations before Napoleon should
have crossed the Rhine.. Many of the opinions of
this writer, as, 'for instance, that the Prussian in-
fa!:'-ry are not, on account of their clothing, fit for
a winter campaign, are now calculated to make a
deep impression, on a re-perikal of his work. The
previous condition on which he insists, namely, that
to command success, the waf must have been begun
before the crossing of the Rhine by the French
troops, could not be accomplished at the, coin—
mcincement of this Contest. Ever since the peace of
Presburgh the. French had remained in the heart of
Germany. The greatest part of the Grand Army,
w,hich divided into seven corps, had, the preceding
year, vanquished the, Austrians and Russians, was
Still in Suabia, Bavaria, Franconia, and on the
Saxon Frontiers. On the 2cl of OaoberNapoleon
at peared at Wurtzburgh, the soul that animated this
prodigouslorce, to which thronged numberiesS war-
riors from the Interior of France, from the States
of the Rhenish Confederacy, from Holland, and
from Italy. These again formed seven corps, to
which an eighth was advancing under Marshal Mor-
tier,: Such was the impetuous torrent that kept ap-
proaching nearer arid nearer.

It was intended .that the forest of Thuringia
should set limits to its progress. The Army of the
King of Prussia, supporting itself upon it, was di-
vided into three principal corps. The left wing,
under Prince Hohenlohe, who had his head-quar-
ters at Gera, was composed of Silesian and East
Prussian.regiments, strengthened by 20,000 Saxons.
In the centre at Erfurth, were the King and the
Duke of Brunswick, with the rigimenis froM the
Provinces of Magdeburgh, Halberstadt, the Circle
of the Saale, the Middle Marck, and the recently
acquired Thuringia, together with the garrisons of
Berlin and Potsdam, the flower of the troops, who
were reinforced by 10,000 men from the left wing,
after the junction of the Saxons. The right wing
was formed at Eisenach, by Lieutenant-General Von
'Rnehel, with the troops drawn together from LoWer
Saxony and Hanover. Eientenant-General Von
Biucher supported this wing with a distinal corps,
.and the co-operation of a corps of fourteen thousand
Hessians with it, seems to have been confidently cal-
Culated on.

Thus this fine army pf 120,000 men covered .a
4e. pf twenty German miles, along the frontiers of
Yotitland, to the Werrathal, beyond Eisenach. It
wasat first designed to secure all these frontiers by
an uninterrupted cordon from Ash, and the borders
of Bohemia, on the one side, to rulda on the other. •
But the danger of this 'extraordinary extension was
soon apparent. The Army concentrated itself—all
the-itpproaches from the \Yerrathal to the Thurin-
gian Hills were occupied by advanced posts, and
the two wings drew nearer to the centre, at Erfurth;
the head-quarthrs of the Prince of Hohenlohe being
removed to Jena, and those of General Ruchel to
Gotha. In the decisive Moment irresolution para-
lysed the energies of the Prussians—they knew not.
whether to attack the enemy, or themselves to await '

• ,'L:•-;,;•.: L.' f; -1 Pr ;;n2
tiLe-aFs:lctit, .distinguished. Prussian qe-tic;:al
proposed a. shtlizent of operations, whit,;l4
perhaps, have been attended witt~..in~ttY sea
1 Jesuits., TliA, which was adopted,.
which calculated,. in: case of .soccess, to push
!.vard their right wing•heyond.Eisenach to Fulda art
Frankfort, the centre beyond Gotlia,.to -Wort z buo.h, •
and the lett wing beyond. Coburg!), • to Bamberg,
produced two highly prejudicial consequences.. '1
corps of General Count Tauenzien, posted too far
inadvance, was.left totally exposed, and an opp( r,
amity was arThrded to the enemy to turn the left of
the concentrated, Prussian Army. •
This error of his adversaries escaped not thepen
tration of Nai.ioleon. The position of the PruSsians
in the hills of ThUrins'ia, which was deemed in,•oi-
cible, and was defended by nature, was soon turned.
This great obje& of the French Emperor was:ac-
complished by the advancing of two columns. -T
.oneconduded by the Prince of Ponto Coro, undti
.whom commanded the Marshals Ney and Sonar,
plashe4 on the Bth and gth of OStober, from B '
rem()) by way of Hof, Lobenstein, and Schleiz,
into Saxon Voigtland and the possessions of the
Counts Reuss, and spread diSmay in all diredions,
by means of detachments of tzrailieurs, and light
troops, who scoured the Country as lat. as Leipzig.
The Count Von Tauenzein, who thus found him-
self suddenly cut off from the main army, suc-
ceeded, it is true, in fighting his way through the
enemy ; but Was obliged to leave his b,:00.,,e
and the important and too•-much-exposed magazines
at Hof, in the hands of the French.
To facilitate the junfdion of this corps, the Pi ioce
of Hohenlohe had ordered. the van of tire Pra:siii7l
left wing to advance. It was led on by Niue
Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, a nephew of the C mat
Frederick ; a young hero, who had gained laurels in
the first • war with the Frencla., Ors the wth, near
Saalfeld, it fell in with 'the other Frc-ricii column,
detached by Napoleon, under the Marshals Auge*
reau and Lannes, who were hastily advancing from
•Schweiofurth, by way of Coburgh and Gratzotlial.
At the head of one regiment and a half of Prus-
sian, and four regiments of Saxon infantry, and, two
Saxon regiments of cavalry, Prince Louis, with his
charaaeristic intrepidity, attacked the superior force
of the French. They sustained some loss, and a
Saxon battery des:royed the bridze across tire S-aaie.
Not content with this, Prince Louis, with his six
or seven thousand braVe followers, resolved to ob-
tain still greater advantages. Regardless of the
great-superiority of tire enemy, and the destruEtive
fire which Made great havoc among the Saxons, he
repeated his attacks till he himself and his corps fell
vidlitis to his 'temerity. A French subaltern Odicer
of Hussars struck the Royal. Hero from his horse ;
,he died a glorious death, which spared him the
pain of the subsequent untoward eveti'S. The
French took on this Occasion 30 pieces et.
General Von- Trutzschler, with a tew of his men,
were alone so fortunate as to cut their way through,
the enemy.

These losses, sustained on the very first day on
which the curtain of
_the grcat military drama was
drawn up, lad a very unfavourable influence upon
the fate of the Prussian Army: They diminished
the confidence and ardour of the troops, deprived
them of •the means of subsistence, and placed the
Army in a very critical isituation : for, in propoi-
tion as the two wings of the, Vrench advancei,
Napoleon had pushed lbrward the centre beyond

The Marshals. Lannes and Augereau occupied
with the left wing the ground quitted by the Prince
of, Holienlohe. While they were at Jena and
Kalila, the right wing of the French inundated the
beautiful plaids of Saxony, which were complete-
ly exposed to" the very sates of Dresden, covered
the whole road from Gera to Leipzig with hus-
sars and chasseurs, and extended its advanced •
posts to Weissenfels and Naumburgh,• where ano-
ther Valuable Magazine fell into the hands of,
Davoust. This rapid progress of 'the right
‘.ving of the French, forced the Prussian army
into a situation, the perplexities of which are thus •
described by Napoleon in his Third Bulletin, dated
the 13th of Ottober :—" The Weser, where the
Enemy had erected batteries, the Saale, which
he likewise designed to defend ,and all the other rivers,
have been turned nearly in the same manner as the-
Iller last year ; so that the French army is posted at
the Saale, having the Elbe in its rear, and is march-
ing against the Prussian army, which, on its part,
has its back towards the ,Rhine; a singular position,
which muSt be productive of important events."
These were soon developed. The sun °idle following
day 'illumined the field of bat tle,in which the horrors
of war raged with infinitely greater fury than in' the
neighbouring fields of Lot zen, where fell Gustavus
Adolphus; the. great Mon-arch of Sweden, and of
Rosbach, Where the founder of the military glory,of
Prussia totally 'routed the French Army under- the
Prince De Soubise, on the sth of November, 1757.
The heroes who fell on that day slept too soundly to
be awakened by the thunder of the artillery, or. to
rise again to assist the present defender of the Prus-
sian standards. The ardour which the vicinity of
Rosbach, add trophies formerly won,-would have ix,-
cited, was,- under the present circumstances, extin-
guished. The Prussians., surrounded and cut otf
from 'Dresden, began to be greatly in want of pro- •
visions, and, what was worse, of anmmnition and
military stores. Cooler, 'observers likewise disco-
vered a want of that steady unity of plan, by which
,alone a mass can be --moved and guided. It is also
aid, that, on the morning of the battle, when a
thick fog favoured the attacks of the French, the•
plan was -essentially altered by the Duke of Bruns-
wick, and thus, in the cry first instance, confusion
was inevitable.

So much the, greater was the unity in the move-
ments of the force under the dirOlion of Napoleon.
He formed the design of terminating the war by s
single blow. At, Marengo he conquered Italy ; at
Ulm, Vienna; and now a sitigie day was cicsti'ne.d
to open to him the gates of all the Fortresse of
Prussia. Whether a less powerful military State, a
General not so inexhaustible in resources, .Shoidd
have adopted such a plan, and have placefl the f7.4'.
tune of the whole campaign on the uncertain result
of a few hours,- is a laehtion which it belongs not
to an historian to resolve. Hin:Htmity must rejoice
when one battle etreas what formerly was the re%ctit
of many' bloody engagements. With this mode cf
fighting, peculiar to the Emperor Napoleon, none
of the destruaive bat les of the Seven Years' War cal,
be compared. Every campaign .was then produaive

of several others, which were at last without any
decisive issue. Antiquity alone afford- circumstances
fir a parallel. Thus Cyrus, in the single; battle of
Sinn e, conquered the Kingdom of Craesus, in Asia
Minor ; thus Catilbyse.s, -at Pelusium, subdued
Feept, and the whole known- portien of Africa e thes
Philip of Macedon..destroyed, at. Cheronea„ the li-
berties of Greece ;' thus Alexander, -at Gangolineln,
overthrew• the Persian .Monarchy of Darius ; and
thus 06tavius, at A6liurn, secured the dominion of
the world, the Sovereignty of which he contested
with the unfortunate Anthony.
The 14th of Oaober is an extremely unpropitious
dny in the annals, of Prussia. On this day, in the
year 1758, Frederic H. lost the battle of Hoch-
kirch, which deprived him of the best part of his
Army. • Far more severe was the loss sustained by
the grandson of Frederick's brother,' on the 14th of
OQober lin' the present year. His Army, after it
had been turned, had advanced in a different direc-
tion towards the French. The King's head-qUar-
refs, which had proceeded from Erfurth to Blanken--
bane, were removed northward to Auerstadt ; the
right wing,commanded by Lieutenant-General Von
fluchel, supported itself upon Weimar, and on the
left was the Prince of Hohenlohe. Thus the Prus-
sians formed a line from Hassenhausen, opposite
Naumburgh, -by Auerstadt and Weimar to CapelletO.
dorf, the strength of which was certainly over-rated
by the French, at nearly 150,000 men. The ma-
terial force on each side was nearly equal,:--but not so
were circumstancesrand positions.
On the •14th, before the • morning dawned, ,the
French rushed forward to take possession of all the
eminences in the vicinity of Jena. They had taken
advantageof the fog, and erected covered batteries,
under the protetaion of which they extended over
the plains, .the approaches to which were-occupied
by the Prussians, with a view to make an attack on
that quarter. About six (English) miles from Jena
the two armies met. A most violent attack on the
Prussian left wing, under, the Prince of Hohenlohe,
commenced the engagement, which became general
when the fog dispersed. Immediately afterwards
• the centre was likewise attacked'at Capellefidorf,
in
the plain between the first Saxon post-town, Auer-
stadt, and thevillage of Dornburg. 'Twas here that
the reigning Duke of Brunswick commanded.—
This heroic General led on his troops in person, re-
gardless of his venerable age, his high station as
Commander 'in Chief, and the importance of his
safety for-the whole army. At seven in the morn-
ing,_, before-he could complete the regulations for
the bloody day, he received a musket-ball, which
deprived hint of his sight for ever. He had, it is
said, the plan of operations in his pocket, and took
it away with. him, when he was carried senseless
from the field of battle: -
The early less-of the unfortunate Prince NA ho had
the dire&iou of the Prussian forces, produced a con-
fusion, :the consequences of which the venerable
Field Marshal Von Mollendorf, by whom he was
replaced,' was utterly incapable of preventing. The
Prussians now fought without plan, according to_
the judgment of the individual Commanders. Such
a mode of resistance was not ..calculated to With-
stand the regular attacks of the French Army:
The centre of the Prussian Army was. thrOwn, into
confusion, and the Prince of Hohenlohe was obliged
to give way with the left wing, whose retreat was
covered by the brave Saxon cavalry. Marshal Da-
roust, on the right. wing of,the French, contributed
the most to: the victory, occupying the defiles of
Naumburgh, making himself master of the narrow
pass of Kosen, advancing and pursuing, for hours;
the corps of the Prince of 'Hohenlohe. , The flowei,
of the*-Prussian and Saxon cavalry was driven lute
the hollow of the Muhl valley, near -Jena,, and suf.,
tered so exceedingly from •the unfintourable nature
. of the ground, and the general disorder, that it was
almost totally cut to.pieces or taken prisoners. The.
engagement WaS particularly bloody in.the vicinity,of
the Village;of Capellendorfi The French, had erected. ,
a masked, battery on an emidenc'e on the other side
ef the c illage, and while the., burning houses af-
forded them proteetiOn, they attacked with musketry
the line which remained for some. hours in the midst
of this lire. The cannonading was heard through-
out circumference of nearly, IN mikes ;it was
continued from early in the morning till eyening,.ana
was dreadful beyond description.
What an effect must have been produced by the
7- to 800 pieces ,of cannon, which, •supported, as the
French nucount states, by between esn and 300,000
men, dealt- destru;tion over every part of the narrow
and interseaed ground'. The Prussians had cer-
tainly mote artillery than - the French, but their am-
munition soon failed. Their powder is said to have
been wet through, and of s.rich bad quality, that
• the bails had no force. The French, neverthelesS,
fell in whole ranks, especially before the eminences
eurrounding Jena, which were obStinately defended.
In the deities, at the foot of them, were posted
Prussian Jagers, while the middle end summits
were'o.ccupied by a numerous artillery; which,kept
,up an incessant lire. The French grenadiers, how-
ever, fastening their knapsacks to their hats and
helniets, ascended these eminences. If they mani-
fested a cool contempt of death, the .Prossiati Army
also exhibited many instances of heroism ; of which
Frederick William the 111. himself set a brilliant
example. The Monarch _manifested the greatest
personal bravery, amid the hottest fire ; and after
'• several horses had been shot under him, lie placed
himself at the head of a Brigade of cavalry, tor Ulu
pureosteof making 'a new attack.
With these exertions, especially of the Prussian
the issue of the conflid could not have been
the total ruin of an excellent ermy, , had fl-cit the
onexpeded arrival of -two fresh divisions of the
corps under Marshal Ney, completed the, disaster
of the preissiaos. -These two .divisions of infantry,
Which had been-marching all. night, and whose ad-
. vaneing.hiid not been caiculated upon in the plan
of operations of the- Prussian Generalse entered
about noon into the ranks, when the ;contend-
itig parties- were, already fatigued. As .the atrival
‘,5; Dessaix
.with 10,000 men decided the 'battle-of
M aeenvo,o this new reinforceineittof 10,000 fresh
- s
• ' troops oo this occasion gave the viaory. The dis-.
-*der which prevailed iu p irtieular among the Prus-
sian infentry, rendered. th',2 disposition of a 're-
. -.treat, ..according to. the rules of art, utterly impos-
,
: It was a total rout, which*as still Other in-
c; eased by the attack of the Freitch cavalry, which
no-N first came into salon, under the Grand mice

of Ilerr„ and Was "neáenrally attencW With gretit
losses. These consisted, according to the French
report„of between 30 and 40,000 prisoners, among
whom were twenty Generals, thirty pair of colours,
300 pieces of cannon, and immense magazines.—
Accounts from the wretched country, which was
the scene of these horrors, estimate the nuniber,of
killed and wounded, on both sides, at 40,000.
fortnight after cards the bodies of the slain lay piled
in heaps : the adjacent towns and villages were
burned and destroyed. Bellona had chased the timid
Muses from Weimavethe.Athens of Germany.
Such was-the issue of a' battle, which is one of the
Most memorable in all modern history. In the
Berlin Papers it was named after the town of ,
Auerstadt, where the King had his head-quarters;
but the conquerors 'denorninated it the battle of
Jena. Its consequences are incalculable with re-
spect to the future fate of the Prussian Monarchy,
hitherto numbered among the most powerful Mi-
litary States ; to the relations of the countries in
the North of Germany which were to have formed
with .her a Confederation in opposition to that of
the Rhine; and to the altered form and situation of
all Europe.' In this place we have only to relate
the immediate consequences of the 1 -Ith of OEtobcr,
which -succeeded in rapid succession, and to an
extraordinary extent. , The Emperor Napoleon said
in one of his Bulletins, that be had terminated the
campaign against Prussia in seven days. The first
blood was spilled on the sth of 06tober ; and the
14th put him in posseSsion ofthe greatest part of the
Prussian Monarchy, together with her bulwarks and
fortified places. The history of the succeeding.
days is only a narrative of the uninterruptedo-07
I secutiOn of the advantages obtained by the viCtery.
These were f9llowed up_*ith the rapidity which
elaaraaeriseSall the operations of Napoleon, befOce
the disperSed fugitives could re-assemble, before
one of the three corps retreating in diatrent direc-
tions could gain a firm footing. The left wing
took the way to Weimar, while. the right and' the
centre retreated from Weimar to Nautnburgh. The
Saxons immediately abandoned the cause of Prus-:
sia; -on Which condition the prisoners were set at li-
berty—their hitherto happy country was from this
Moment to be considered as one of the States of the
Rhenish Confederacy. -
The • day after the engagement, on the 15th of
October, a corps of 14,000 Prussians, which bad
thrown itself into Erfurth, was obliged to surrender,
with-magazines 'and 120 pieces 9f cannon, to Prince
Murat. With this corps were Field Marshal Von
Mollendorf, -the, Prince of Orange, and several
Generals. Thus fell the first Generals of the Prus.,
sian'Army. Lieutenant-General Von Ruche), who
was in the agonies of death in a neighbouring village,
likewise
,shared the -aame, fate before he expired.—
The inexpressibly unfortunate Prince of the cele-
brated race of the Guelphs, ended,. on the idth of
'November, at Ottensen, near Altona, a life that
had been devoted to the promotion of the happiness
of his adored subjeas. He now saw the fruits of
his long exertions suddenly blasted ; he beheld
the Dutchy, inherited from his ancestors, as a
conquered country, in the hands of the French.
--The same principle as was enforced with re-
sped to Brunswick,. namely, the tenure of mili-
tary rank in the Prussian service, served as a pre-
text for the occupation of the Electorate of Hasse,:,
and the disarming of its brave troops. Marshal
Mortier was the Officer by whom this was accom-
plished; on this he preceeded to Hanover, of which
the troops of the King of Holland, proceeding
through Westphalia, at the same time took posses
, sion. New corpS kept continually advancing, and
even the Italian guards from Milan.
Overwhelmed' by their vV.torieus antagonists,
who extended themselves on all sides in Upper
Saxony; as well as in the circle of Lower Saxony,
along the Oder and Havel, and on both shores of-
the Elbe, the detached Prussian. corps, which were
endeavouring to escape them, fell, after many .un-
availing heroic exertions, into their hands.. One of
these, 15,000 in number, which was endeavouring:
to reach Magdebtirgh, was overtaken at Nordhau-
sen, by Marshal Soult, who took from 4'19.00 prl
soners and 30 pieces Of cannon. Tile many inferior
events and capitulations belong not to this .piaure,
Which comprehends only four principal corps of
the' Prussian army which were left after the battle.
The one, in which were the King and General
Count Von Kalkreuth, reached the Oder, and with-
drew across it to Graudenz, in West Prussia. Less
fortunate were the three other corps of Prince Ho-
henlohe, Duke Eugene of Wirtemberg, and
the
-.Duke of Saxe-Weimar. Those Generals were un-
able to gain the river.
The -first of them, who, even .in misfortune,
maintained the military honour he 'had acquired on
many occasions, ,conduaed his' troops, that had
formed the left wing in the' battle of Jena;by forced
marches, by. way of Boitzenburg, and. Schoncinm:k,
towards the Oder. He was not far from it; whinbewas attacked on the heights of Prenzlan, by A
superior force, which drove lim'back from thetank
of the river, and forced him into a situation in-
which a longer.defenCe on the part of himself :la
his grave followers, who were quite exhausted, and
Without ammunition or provisions, would have been
totally. impra&icable.
Duke Eugene of Wirtemberg, was, before
battle, advancing in all haste, by way of Halle and.
Merseburg, to the-support of the main army. He
arrived two days . too late; Napoleon's sagacity had
stmck the decisive blow- before his corps of reserve,
of 20,006 men could join the Prussians. The Prince
Of -Pont° Corvo now marched against the Prince of
Wirtemberg„ took Halle by storm,
,and drove the ,
Prussians out of the city).'.vho there lost 5000 men
and 34 pieces "9f cannon. After this action,' Lieu-
tenant-General 'Blucher assumed the command of .
the -WirteMburgh corps, given to him, on the 24th
,of Oaober• by the, . Prince of Hohenlobe. His in-
tention, which he prosecuted' in spite of continual
engair,e'nents, was likewise toTreach the-00er, and
to join the Prince : but hearing on his march; that
the latter had been obliged fo capitulate at Prentalan,'
he, with extraordinary • resoluiltn and preSettee of
mind, .changed his plan ; the sole obje& of which
now was to draw off; by his Movements, the French
for from- the Oder, and to• remove them from
the heart of the Prussian Monakby; in order to gain
time for.the supplying of the •fortresses with .pro 7.
visions; fur the apprvach of the remaining Prussian
troops,,ind therrival or the Rusin army.

With this vieW vitliN his corps; !,
10,:if.30 strong, to the. lefr, Through -the duchy of
Mecklenburgh, where lie -was quite uneX-
peCledly, beyond Strelitz, by the. fourth division,
which had previously been coninianded by the Doke -
of Weimar. After this jun&ion, he-proceeded
pdly through the -whole of Mecklenburg!) towards
the Elbe. ilewas closely tollowed by the Grand
DUke of Berg, the Priuce of Ponto-Corvo, and Mar-
shal &lit, with a great force dispatched in pursuit
of Blucher by NapOleori,• indignant that General
-Klein's division
.of dragoons bad suffered lam to
escape. Prince _Murat was on his 'lett flank, Marshal
Soult on the right, and Btrnadotte in front. .In
this critical.situation, which krhade him to hazard
-a battle, General Blucher Threw himself, on the sth
of November, into Lubeck, .where, '4upported by the
Trave, he hoped to make a stand for a few days.
• On the following day, however, the French forced
a passage into Lubeck, throngh the Bing Gate, took
the city by storm, and after tremendous carnage,
drove out' the Prussians, who there lost GOOD men.
After this destruCtive cunt-het, 'the gallant General'
Blucher, with the 9,400 he had left, after fourteen
days incessant fighting, now saw himself surrounded
by a force many times superior in number, was un-
able- to make any further resistance. -.The capitula-
tion was concluded at Penkau,-ei village in the Prin7
cipality of Lnbeck. It surrendered to the French a
corps, which, according to their statement, amounted
to I 6,009, infantry and 4000 cavalry, and had 80
fi pieces of cannon.
These, said Napoleon's Order of the Day, were
the List Prussians on this side of the ViStula. The
fortresses which they intended to rescue fell im,
mediately one "after the other. Spandau capitu-
lated on the c.5-,th of October ; -Ctistrip on the 31st,
Magdeburgh on the Bthfoc. November and the
formal surrender of Hameln' was at hand. ,In
Spandau there were 1200 men, and great van,
tities of .military stores ; iii cptrin 4000 men,,
go pieces of cannon, and Considerable magazines
in Magdeburg!) 20;000 men, eighteen Generals,
a park of artillery of more than 800 pieces of ord-
nance, &e.
The unexpeEtedly rapid fall of these fortresses,
some of .which were considered as impregnable, se-
cured to the French Army the possession of the
States of the Prussian Monarchy. Its elegant capi-
tal, the' inhabitants of which were, on the 19th of
06lober, prepared for the event by 'a public Pro,
elamation of the Prince of Hatzkld, witnessed,
on the th, the splendid entry of the Emperor
-Napoleon. Meanwhile, Marshals Davoust .and
Lances advanced into the Polish provinces, beyond
Posen, tOwardS the :Vistula, where the Proclamation
to the extinguished nation of the Poles, justifies the
expectation of important events.

KINGSTON (JAMAICA), Nov. 12:

The American Schooners Piper, RIDDLE, and
Exchange, Govtii, from St. Thomas's to New
Orleans, were on Friday se'nnight captured off
Cape Nicholas Mole, by the famous French Pri-
vateer Schooner Superb, Capt. DOMINIQUE, of 14
'guns, viz..? nines, 4 sixes, and 8 4-pounders, and '94
men. • The crews of both Vessels, with the excep-
tion of two men belonging to the latter, were all
A,,tained on board the enemy:. The three Schooners
having been decried in. the offing by t!'e Pitt
Schooner, of 10 guns, Lieut. FITTON, which was at
anchor at the Mole, she. immediately weighed and
proceeded in cbace of the largest of them, then lying.
with her fore-top-sail aback, as if waiting to meet
the Pitt, while the others were making sail to escape;.
n the Pitt nearing the enemy, she set sail, and
endeavOured 'to get away, when she -was pursued,
both Vessels sweeping, until Saturday evening, at
five o'clock, at -Ivhierl time the Pitt's bow chacers
reached her ; the firing then continued on both sideS
till ditsk ; at eight o'clock they approached so near
that tho Privateer pia about with an intention to
board : howeVer, not relishing the well-direaed fire
from tile Pitt's ta-pounders, after half an hour's
warm engaging,- she tried 'a second time to make off,
but was prevented, and they continued at long shot.
all night until nine the subsequent morning; a close
.engagement then took place, and lasted an hour and
an hall, after which the Privateer got farther off, and
both Vessels were again at long shot till three that
-afternoon, when the Pitt once more came up, and
kept at warm work with her until her Commander
run her ashore at •Ocho Bay; forty of her crew are
said to have been killed, the remainder escaped on
shore, except the wounded, who took to a boat, and
made for thG Drake Sloop of war, which at that mo-
ment came in sight. The Superb was shortly. after
got afloat, acid arrived on Wednesday at Port Royal,
very much injured in her bull, upwards of two hun-
dred shot-holes in her sails. Two men belonging to
the Pitt were wounded, her 'main-beam shot away,
• and several holes in her sails. The two Americans
captured by the Superb have arrived at Barracoa ; all
their • people who were on board the Superb duririg
the at-tion were. in the hold. The Pitt was left cruiz-
ingoff CoMberland Harbour.

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one of the crew- who mutinied, and, after massacring
the Officers, took possession of the Vessel, was
brought.to town last night from Deal,_ and lodged in
the Tilt-yard guard-room, for examination touching
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