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corps: was -4.#lder the
.tlecessity of finding itself very 1
near the first. Near tiadr.a.o,- 6000 of the
.first
cOrfisA brew themselves into the midst of the enemy,
who nni'tedrhis. columns, and, notwithstanding the
formidable superiority. of the Prussians, and the ad-
vantage -
of theiF•rposition, General, BLUCHER retreat-
ed-behind CreWiti with
.precipitation. -Ile Gene-
ral's own report proves that he had colletled all his
forces.—lt i the.truth,- that the enemy were not
attacked by more than Gym nien.
" On 'the Ist NoVeinber, my rear was attached .hear Wah-
.ren the enemy penetrated to Old Schwerin, where my head-
quarters were. The corps had gone into quarters, between
Kuppentin and Serrann.. As the .eneiny knew, from the
that he could not proceed through Old Schwerin, I,
considered their advancing'as a false attack, and expected the
real one between the Lakes of Krakow and Schwerin. A
great part of my troops assembled h&e at the rendezvous
which -had been previously fixed upon. The enemy, mean-
while, turned-towards the.T.lbe; and I marched MI, some -
hoins betiueday-lit;ht, for the' environs of Prestin and K la-
drum. My corps was here dispersed- over a dist tied twenty
miles in circurnter rice ; I was urlder the necessity of
tributing them' in many villages, ti'lat they migin.obtain pro-
visions. . Many of the soldiers dropped down dead trout
hunger..
of. the id I marched to the environs -of Schwerin. I 1.
hoped-here to be covered on both wings by the Morass' of
Lowitz, and the Lake of. Sch we, in, and to
pe able to procure
my troops some' read and brandy to o-m•the town. Atter this
I intended to march' with the corps the next morning to
Latienburgh, or to attack the corps of SOULT or hr.xrr A-
DoTTE."

Which each of the hattalions.,Were ',bilged to ieave .0 or 5o
men behind them every day. Lastly, General VoN
tour squadrons of Bavarian dragoons, and General YON
Us ElYON,.with ten squadrons of hussars, had been separated
from -the army sever: days ' • consequently the troops belong-
log to Cie ti divan/ corps of Wirtemburgh, suffered severely
at Halie.'; •

_ .
The Generals VON PELET and Usuom were both
captured one after the other, before the capitulation
was entered into \vial Gttleral BLUCHER.
" On the ;tit of November our march was happily conti.--
tmed. The gates of LubeA, and the Trave, from Trave-
munde to that place, were all occupied, as far as the DaniSh
frontier. The Army, in thiS position, would bave.been in a
condition, in the course of a few days, to, have resisted the
enemy's prodigious superiority, supposing that every one had
done his'duty ;.-• but this, alas ! was' not the case. The ene. .
tny, on the 6th, at noon, forced their way through the Burg
gate of Lubeck, upon which 16 pieces of cannon were plant-
ed, and which w•asASo defended by three battalions. Thp
enemy would not have succeeded in forcing
.the gate if the
cannon Itad.not been partly withdrawn, contrary to orders,
and, just at the decisive moment, ceased to d& any fUrther
execution among the enemy's troops.' •

- •
We are ignorant whether the Duke of Batric-s-
-wIcK•OELs, who Nyas posted at the Burgthor, did
his duty or not. This, however, is certain, that the
fight Was continued there a considerable time ; that
the French troops were obliged to advance, 'exposed
to the fire of case-shot .from the bastion of I.3c.Alizvue ;
that the greatest part of the Prussian artillerymen
and the horse were killed, and that out of the 16
pieces of cannon mentioned by Gen. BLUCHER,
1.4 were taken. .
" ck., soon as 1, was apprised of No 'uneipeded event, I
att..c.keth,: enemy hi t;i‘i streets, with as many'of the troops
as I still could Col he cont,sflasted a considerahielime,
:Aut with inc,h ik,:ed,Wed. The city w;.is at lencah tilled
-wan the ei,ern:,'s ihrces, and it v. as wiry no longer po.,sible to
sal ericr The regintyia:.; or—fsch-
aminci the gfe.r,r part of the •rtganentt. of 13runs-
wkk-Oei. the 1-)rigade of Fus)lecrs, and a party
of I vern.,AJ arid t'usilecrs, were.almust antirely cut to
pi0...c.4, or linshi.ers

: If General BLUCHER had any real intention of
attacking Marshals SCULT or BE RN A Doi7, he
had freiluent opportunities Of doing so, particularly
at Kladrurn.and in the defiles near Crewitz, where
he had his whole force at hand, and where he was'
brought to an aalion with only 6000 men of the
first corps. -

" uring this march, a warm alibn took place with the
rear near Crewitz, which ended in the evening at the village
'of Fahre. The detachwent of Col, VON OEN kisrEr,,, at
lyittenburAlt, had marched from that pi:We without orders ;
consequently 1 was ignorant of vhat ,%% as passing un my right
wing, Bad the enemy attacked me on this side; titile I was
,engaging hint between the villages of Value-and' Plate, 1
shotild hoe _penetrated to the' Lake of Schwerin;
obliged to anticipate :a design of this kind on the part of the
enemy so-much the more; as, in cas.: he should att,inpt to
harass my rear, his march and -in attack ‘vir.:id nave b,, en
far more prudent at Plate than at Fahre., An attack at h.dre
appeared only to be a demonstration to drawlity attention to
my right wing, while he turned the •

General 111,u(.•-ng,N. was followed to Lubeck step
by. stop, rnongl:t the French art»ywas-still at
the distance 'of t kiLl's march; when they were al-
Most at, the of Lubeck. . The General also
th .nght himself so safe, that he gave orders to his
to b exeet.ited the nett day, at the instant
heql he was in tOrtned' that the enemy had forced
the Hurgtnor-gme, not above' 300 paces front his
lodgings. He had then scarcely time to mount an
orderty•horse and ride, to the Market-place, where
he collected some squadron-s,, and Made them attack
the sharp shooters of a French column which had
nearly come op with the Prussians. The French
were driven baCk, but not 'beyond the General's first
quarters, where his Etat-Major, was already made
prkoner.. Soon after' the 'General and his cavalry
were forced'in their turn, but.they gained the gate
of Holstein, and escaped. • •

The affair near Crewitz must, prove to General
BLUCHER how little the French infantry regard the
,Prussian cavalry, when twelve cotupanies of the
27th regiment, and the bth of the line, wei• at-.
tacked by nearly •2000
_men, whom they defeated,
and even pursued. Then• vitas the time for General
BLUCHER to have shewn that, he had no apprehen-
sions for his right wing, It was then his duty to
hav'e defended the tbrmidable defiles of Menz and
Fahre. •

"At them r:.7tent of capitulation,-the senior Officer on the
Statlcommitted the mistake of stating, in the general abstra,A
he gave in,, the etfezlive strength of the regiments as
much greater titan it realty was, and also to include the
troops which had been previously detached, or which had the
day betilre been killed or made prisoners in Lubea'. 7 The
French Generals, however, in mustering the troops which'
have capitulated, must have been convinced' that their num-
ber did not exceed what I have above stated." • ,

• " The bloody engagement with 'the rear terminated near
the village of_ Fahre, an hour after. dark. The two Head-
quarters were not more than two miles distant each
other; mine were in oSdorf.• Marshal HERA:I6O7TE sum.
moved me a second time to capitulate. 1 per‘mptoriiy re-
jet34l this requisition."
When Marshal. BERNADOTTE found that General
BLUCHER would not defend the defiles of Fahre,
notwithstanding the number of troops he had brought
upon the spot, he made him proposals for a capitu-
lation. He then begged General BLUCHER to ob-
serve,. that his: escape was impososible; and that
within ••three days he must- either hazard a•battle,
or be driven into the sea ; that it wouid be of. no
avail to prolong the calamities of the inhabitants of
the country over which the war had spread. To,.
this General BLUCHER replied, he would never ca-
pitulate. . •
Such an answer seemed to indicate, that.he would
certainly avail himself 6f his formidable cavalry, and
maintain Gadebusch. From this position, however,
he retreated as be bad done from other places, 41nd
with more precipitation than even': -He took his
route for Lubeck ; his cavalry were almost useless,
owing to the nature of' the ground about. that city,
Which 'would not admit of manoeuvres. In these
affairs Gen.,BLUCHER sustained a loss.of to pieces.
of cannon, and 2000. men were made prisoners.

'We don't know that the Chief of the Prussian
Etat-Major committed any error in the return of the
number of troops : this, however, is certain, that
the whole of the battalions and squadrons stated in
the above-mentioned list Were found efficient.

• The result of the -affair of Lubeck-, and its capitu-
lation, Was 21,200 prisoners, consisting of infantry,
cavalry, and artillery ;. 63 coiOurs'and standards 5 103
pieces of cannon; upwards of SOO Officers, inclu,
Sive of 14 Generals. -

The PRTNCE of -WNLES, we understand, slept, for
the first time, in the new apartments at Carleton-
HOuse, during his late short stay in town, and with
the appearance of which he was highly' delighted.
The residence of the Heir Apparent may be consi-
dered, at this time, as the most perfea thing of the
kind, perhaps, in Europe.
The suite of rooms on the ground floor are already
known fo the public ;. but the bed-chamber to which
we immediately allude, has, we believe, been seen
but by very few, and could only be said td have been
completed,' within a few boUrs of the PRINCE'S arri-
val in town. •

" To proceed with jhe execution of my plan, namely, to,
withdraw the enemy's troops as far as possible from the Oder,.
and to fight when I could retreat no farther, 1 marched from.
the environs of Schwerin to Gadebusch and Roggendorf ; my
troops were disturbed in the night, on the side of C rest Salitz,
and consequently on my right wing. 1 was able, it is true,
to,turn towards the Elbe, in the environs of Lauenburgh, but
I had not time to cross the river. I had no other alternatiVe,
therefore, than to retreat to flambdrgh or Lubeck ; or to
fight the next day. My troops, both men and horses, were
,so exhausted, that I could expel no success train a battle
with a. force six or seven times superior. The Grand Duke
of Ileac was on my left flank ; Marshal Fitx NADOTTE in
-frontl Marshal Sou t..r on the right wing. In this critical
situation I resolved upon marching for I übeck, and to pre-
serve the Trave in,my front." •
In answer to the General's repeated assertion,
that he had au enemy before him six or seven times
his number, I reply, that the whole of the French
troops'in and about Lubeck, on the day of battle
and the day following, did not exceed 66,000..; and.
that he never had to contend with the sum total of
the army, but only with a part of each of the cores.

- This apartment is. entirely hung with drab-colour
broad cloth, "cAii'cli'admits Of being drawn aside at
every apertme, such as the doors, windows, looking-
&c. &c. The whole-• produces altogether
ttle -most navel -.and singularly pleasing coup d'a'.ii
imaginable. The bonne graces are of a cinnamon
colour, adorned with pelniet of black velvet; which,
suspended from a richly gilt cornice, composed of
the oak leaf and apple branch, harmonize; and add
greatly to the grandeur of the general effed.
At the two opposite extremities of the room are
tWo projecting domes,. with curtains of the same
materials as the bonne graces's, ; the first forming a
kind of anti-room to the bed-chamber, in which is
suspended a magnificent vase, containing the night
1 ighti and in the other is fixed th© bed. The latter
i s certainly the most elegant and appropriate piece of
furniture, perhaps, ever attempted in this Country.
The form . of this superb article is wholly after the
Grecian costume. It is.of black. and gold, ele-
vated upon a platform, the ascent to which is by 'a
flight of three steps. The latter are covered with
a light blue velvet carpeting. The, curtains which
are attached to the bed are suspended from a golden
'eagle, placed in the centre ; they are of a light sky-
blue silk, dotted over with silver stars. A laic
ror, tea feet in height, which fOrms the back
ground,of the bed, refleas the whole interior of the
room, and produces the finest perspeaive that judg-
ment and taste could devise. The whole of the
room is covered with .a rich mazarine, or garter-
blue, velvet-carpet, ornamented with gold rosettes.
The latter adds •considerably to the richness of the
chef d'reuvre. This beautiful apartment is lighted
up by four superb Grecian candelabras, placed in the
I four corners of the room. This admirable apartment
is surrounded by rooms, emineotly well calculated,
and immediately necessary, tbr the accommodation
of so distinguished a persbnage as the Prince of
WALES.

" The remaini►tg troops which still consisted of 9003 and
between z and 300 men, had not rallied during the night ; and
Our principal want was Ammunition. I had now to resolve
upon risking a doubtful attack, and rushing upon a the at
least eight times my strength, or upon violating the Danish
territory. The latter I deemed imprudent, as it was-protect—
ed by a Danish corps, and the violation 'of its neutrality
might be inconsistent with our political relations. The con_
sequences of the former must have been, that the whole
corps would have been destroyed or taken, a circumstance
.wh►ci► would have been much more to be deplored than that
of surrendering upon certain conditions. On the 7i oof No-
vember, therefore, at the moment when three French armies
were on the point of attacking me, I resolved to capitulate.
A copy of the Artick:s of Capitulation is subjoined."

General BLUCHER was attacked in the night. at.
Schwartau by the 54th regiment, and forced to lent
that place with the loss of several standards, cannon,
and I QOO prisoners. -.He.did not only quit the place,
trat gave up • his fine position behind the. river
Schw•artau. He had only to contend with, the
demi division of RtvAun, and a few squadrons of
cavalry'. • "
On the following day General BLucurn sent his
son to .Pritke -PONTO Coßvo to offer conditions, who
sent him back to inform his father, that he would
attack him immediately, unless ,he surrendered his
army prisoners of war. ;On this occasion the capi-
tulation before mentioned took place.

There are dressing-rooms, and anti-rooms ; the
latter for the -pages in waiting. In the centre of
7these has boen•ereded a maltniticent bath; the -walls
of which are composed of vinie amtique, and the
bath itself is paved with the most beautiful white
marble. In the eight-nicheg, or recesses, in the bath,
are to be placed the beautiful. and invaluable statues
which were sent over from Italy_ by the Duke of
SUSSEX some years'siuce.

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N. B. General BLUCHER had a force of, more
than 20,000 men in and about Lubeck, and was
supported by the city, the river Trave, and the little
fortress of Travemunde, the whole fortuing•a very
strong posiCvn.
" The wtakness of ray corps arose partly by the losses
shstained in the bkirinishes which succeeded each other, the
affair of Lubeck,
.auci partly from the fatiguing marches,

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