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atesf).s ulster at Det,ii, whem the Emperdr had confided the. coil-it-hand of
eiura rep -
sate the preparations' carried thisvard—arrogaite the Allies, and of a corps of Baeerians, has arrived
increased, provocations tmetiplicd, in ,rlroporti(ti :. at Scitleitz, after having blockaded the fort of Culen-
as your Majesty sheaved more moderation and bach with one of his regiments.
impassibility Criepassibi/itt). But if be asked what The enemy, cut off from Dresden, was still at
could be the'ciunplaints of Prussia ? none were spe- • Erfurth on the th, and endeavouring to colleCt his
cified, no explaration was given to him; solhat column 4 that he had sent towards Cassel and Wurtz-
his presence became uselessett• Berlin ; and lie was burgh-to act upon the Offensive, wishing to open the
there on the. witness of Proceedings and measures, r campaign by an invasion of Germany. The Weser,
contrary-to the dignity of France. upon- which the enemy had raised batteries, the
“: In supposing that absurd rumotits, spread with Saal, which he also made a slim of defending, and
an inconceivable credulify, ,had inspir'ed •into the the other rivers, are- all turned much in the same
Prussian Cabinet %%ail alarms, your M.ijesty, who Manner as was praelised upon the Tiler last year ; so
had done every thing to 'prevent them, had also that the French army line the Banks,of the Saal;
done every thing to di'Ssinate• them. nigh Whet with their rear towards the Elbe, at the same time
dangers was ,Prnssiadegirous of -guaranteeing her- than they march against the Prussian army, which
? ' France, far from menacing her, lead e'er has its rear towards the Rhine; a position so whim-
given her-prods the mdSt signal Of her friendship.— sical cannot fail in producing events of great int-
-From what sacrifices did she wish to save herself ? portance. .
Your Majesty has asked nothing.from her :of what. The weather, since we commenced the present
denial ofjtstice had she'to complein ? All that she campaign,',has been excellent, the country plenti-
asked, that was just,. your Majesi'v was' disposed to and,the soldiers full of vigour and health. We
*gent her ; but she had made no demand, 'because • make eparches often leagues without having e single
she had none to make. • , .straggler ; and never was the army in.afiner condi-.
-ef Is it the existence of the Confederation of the -Kowever, the .Kine -of Prussia's intentions
t • •
Rhine ? Is it the arrangements • that have taken have been carried into efie.cl : he wished that the
'place in-the South of derMeny, which have ioduced French army shoeld evacuate• the territory of the
PruSsia to take up arms ? One cannot even suppose. Confederation on the sth 'of Odtober, and they have
it. The Court of Berlin has declared, t hat she had evacuated it; but instead of re-passing theilliine, they
nothing to Object against these arrange meats. She have passed the. Saal
,has recognized the Confederation.; ;it has endea-
voured to unite with herself, j 0 a sinsitar Confedera-
tion, the States in her neighbourhood. .
C't Your Majesty has declared, it is tree,• that the
Hanseatic Towns should remain independent and
isolated from any Confederation whatevor. You have
farther declared, that the tother States in the North
of Germany should be free to consult only their own •
pOlicy •tnd their" own convenience : tint these de-
clarations, founded upon justice, and 'Upon the ge-
neral interest of Europe, could not furnish Prussia
with a motive for war, nor even with a pretext
which she dare avow.
" The war, on the part of Prussia,- is,- therefore,
without a real cause.
" Nevertheless the Prussian armies have pass-
ed their boundaries ; they have invaded Saxony ;
they tneeace the territory of the Confederation
of the Rhine, of the inviolability of which your
Majesty is the • guarantee.. Even your Majeste,'s
troops are Menaced : hardly arrived before our
out-posts, the. Prussian troops :have entered on
the service of war. They have refused French
Officers to enter into Saxony, and war is fotind in
its commencement, without the Court of Berlin.
having made known what causes of discontent
she pretends to have—without having tried the
means of conciliation—without having done any
thing to avoid a rnpture. A silence. so obstl-
mate, so unnatural, so incomprehensible, -on the
one Part-;--on the other, a precipitation no less in-
conceivable, prove, that it is not necessary to seek
for even an apparent motive, for what is only the
result of a deplorable intrigue. .
" Two parties, of whieh the one desires war,
the -ether peace, have for a long tithe divided
Prussia. The first, whose attempts have been con-
stantly expoged, feeling that it could only succeed
through artifice, had only one thought, one design,
oneend ; ' it was, to excite mistrusts, to make mea,
sures.appear necessary which should force France to
adopt similar ones, to set aside all explanation, to pre-
vent the two Governments from being able to under-
stand each other, and to place them in such a situae
tion that *War should become the inevitable conse•
quence—un fortunate projeal executed with a success.
that the authors themselves will one day be able to
call fatal
" No : :the present-war has no other cause.—
There does not exist any other than the blind pas-
sions that have so much misled Cabinets; from
which Prussia was long preserved, but of which it
seems, that Providenee has condemned it also to
be the viitn, in giving ,it up- to the counsels of
those who count for nothing the calamities of war,
because they are net to partake of its dangers, and
who are always ready to sacrifice to their ambition,
to their fears, to their 'prejudices, to their weak-
nesses, the repose and the happineS's of the people
If these' pas;lons are riot only the, leading
Motive of the Cabinet of Berlin, aihcl if sol-ne'vno-
tive of personal interest has 'led it to take up arms,
it is unquestionably, the desire of enslaving Saxony
and 'the .Hanseatic Towns, and of setting aside 'or
surmounting the obstacles which your Majesty's
Declaration has rendered it fearful of meeting,in
the execution of its designs. The war thenl- what-
ever may be the regrets that your, Majesty feels*
in having been unable to 'prevent it; 'Will offer to
you 'a prospe& worthy of yourself ; since, in de-
fending the rights and the interests 'of your people,
you will preserve from an unjust domination States'
whose independence concerns not only. France and
its Allies, but even alleEurope.
(Signed) •: ," C. M. TALLERYANI
" Mentz, Oct. 3, . Priuce of Benevento,"

lOURTI-1 BULLETIN.

Cerait,:oe. 13, ten in the morning.
Events succeed each Otherwith rapidity. The
:Prussian army is taken by surpriSe, its magazines
carried off, and it is turned._ -Marshal DAV° us•r ars-
-rived at Nauinburgh on the 12th, at nine in the cven-
ing; where be seized the magazines of the enemy,
Made some prisoners, and got possession 'of a superb
train of 18 .copper pontoons with their appendages.
It appears that the Prussian army is marching to
gain Magdeburgh ; but the French army has gained
three Marches Upon them. The anniversary of the
affair at Ulm will be celebrated in the history of
France.
The lett& annexed, which has been intercepted,
will inforni you of the real state of the public mind
but the battle of which the Prussian.Otficer speaks
will take pike in the course of a few days, and the
. result of it will-determine the fate cif the..war. The
French should have no Uneasiness respecting -the.
result.

LETTER FROM A PRUSSIAN OFFICEE, TO ONE OF,IIIS

FRIENDS AT j3F.RLIN.

" Nuremburgh, Oft. '2.

MINISTRY. OF RELIGIOUS WORSIIIP,
THE'mxsisi-hR GI! RELIGIOUS WORSHIP, GRAND OF-.
FICF.R OF VIP. LEGION OF HONOUR, TO M. M...THE.
RISHOPS'CIF..FRANt,'E..

THIRD. BULLETIN.
GERAtt, OCT. 13. The- battle of Schleitz, with
which the campaign opened, and- which has been
veryfatal to the PrUssians, and that of Saalfeld,which
folloWed on the next day, have spread eUnsternatiOrt,
among the Enemy. All the intereepte4 letters say*
there was much alarm at ErfUrth, •where the' King,
the Queen, the Duke of BRUNSWICK, Re. were con-
sulting upon the measures that should be taken;
'without being able to agree.
But while they are deliberating, the French 'army
continues its march. To this spirit of effervescent
and excessive boasting, critical observations begin to
succeed upon the inutility:of the war ; the injustice
of breaking witlFrance; the impossibility of being
assisted; the rdisaffe&ion of the soldiery; upon what
they have not done, together with a thousand other
observations which are always in the mouths- of the
multitude. when Princes are weak enough to consult
them upon matters of great politisal hitetest, which
are above their reach.
However, on the evening of the 12th, the scouts
' of the French army were at Leipsic ; the head-
quarters of the Grand Duke of Berg are between
Zeist and Leipsic ; , those, ot, the Prince of Ponte
Corvo at Zeist; the Imperial.head-quarters at Ge-
ran,- w.th the Imperial Guards; and the corps of the
army der Marshal,Soe LT, are at Pent: Marshal
,k 3
NEY'S c .1s is at Neustadt. In the first line is the
corps of he army . under Marshal DAVOUST, at
Naumburgh ; tlyt of Marshal LANNEs is at Jena.--
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" The commencement of hostilities against the
French has taken place in a manner very unfortinalez
for the German troops. They have, forced a post
belonging to the left wing,,under Prince H,okir,-:
Lour., and a .dreadful contest has taken.place with
TAUENZEIN'S corps, when Prince,Loufs'F.Etimwi'li
was killed on the spot. Not only the regiment of
ZASTRAn, and one of BELLET battalions; the
Greed Hussars, the Brown, &c. but' the, Saxon re-
giments of the Princes JErj, XAVIEIt, and BECIII
TEII, have suffered terribly since yesterday.after2
noon, and fugitives have been 'coming-in- all night
who are following their
.regimentS. It is..thoug4
the French arc moving in force against our left,' ley
cut off the communication with Leipsic.
force is stated at 400,000 men, commanded by, the
Emperor, who' is: now supposed to be at Gerau,
about four miles diStant., We already perceive some
patroles ,we have immense . Magaziues , here, and
without the means of saving them. We are under
dreadful alarms': GOA grant that the King, who.will
very soon be attacked, may not. be beaten, for ,that
calamity would be.irreparabler,
" According to the last leter§, the aqvanced guard;
under General BLUCH,4R.„_,bas.iparched for ,Hesse,
Where General RUCHEL'S Stall has also arrived, so
that, excepting at Harheln, there is n'ot a single' sbit.
dier ,the Hanoterian territories. in fad, there is
no resouyce now left us but the •deci-slyk battle
which it will be necessary to give to &trot:sort,
Id;this forlotnFituation my tate is of no consequence,
provided the issue of the attual'crisiS be fortunate;
and I repeat it, my friend, that our atfitirs,are'of the
most bloomy and .unComfortable cast."
The Courier, 'who, has- brOught these Bulletins
a:rived this evenitx..about eight. In the course
of an hour he was followed by a second Cotirier,-
charged with two dispatches from the Prince of
NEUFCHATEL, for his Serene Highness the Arcb,4l
..Chantellor of the Empire.
TheSe dispatches announce, that on the 14th his
Majesty the Emperor add Kipg has gained near
Weimar a complete victory over the Prussians.
The details of 'this memorable day will shortly be
published. . .

",Monsieur Bishop. Paris, Off. “, 1806.
" After the glorious events which produced the .
Peace of Presburgh, his Majesty the Emperor and
King; occupied solely about the internal prospe-
rity of his States, 'and the repose of the-world,"had
turned all his thought's to the re-establishment_ of
a general Peace. His 'AlajeSty Pletised lkimsel(
with the thoughts that there did not , remain a
single Cabinet in Europe which past experience had
0,„. ,
not emigntenea as to its real interests, -and{ which
•
did ,not wish to put at length a period to that
scourge, . perpetually renewed, of a devouring
the re-action of which: was always felt by those
who provoked it, and which always' confounded'
by its results the frantic hopes' of eri,iy and the
deep calculations of, hd. -How far was he
from foreseeing that theatre Sovereign. who was, ene7
my enough to his own glory to embark first into
the .war, would be that :Prince, who, haying en-
joyed a constant Peace amidst the long tumult of
our latter wars, :had obtaitipd by the good Offices of
France a remarkable increase of power and terri-
tory ! Nevertheless, this spirit of vertigo and er-
ror to which Providence sometimes abandons Kings,
got possession of the Cabinet of Berlin. In, vain
aid. the Emperor oppose moderation, and even
tienc?, to severe provocations ! In vain has he de-
manded those explanations that the intimate rela-
tions which formerly subsisted should have rendered
loyal and sincere ! In vain has he delayed even the
preparations for just detente, hi order to give to the
Kim, of Prussia time and means to return to the on-
.lv system compatiOle with his true interests ! The