The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-05 00:00:00

LETTER FROM A Q.ENDA,EME OF THE KINGS HOUSE.

• HOLD TO AM .war,.
(Likewise referred to in the 13th Bulletin.)
`• Klosterteib, Ott. 17, 18s6.
c.c For live days we have had nothing to eat but
bad bread. All the horses which remained to us
.hav6 fallen through fatigue. There remain only
sixteen men of the Queen's Regiment, the regiment
of Carabineers, and the regiment of Aschersleben.
Prince LOCH FERDINAND is dead, the Prince of

HORENLOHE mortally wounded, the King twice
wounded, Pfince WILLIAM Of IhtuNswic.K., and the
Duke of BauriswicK wounded. All our baggage has
been taken, We have not been paid for eighteen
days. The _French are still behind us. It is said •
that Peace will be soon trade. We march from
hence to Magdeburgh, where we shall be perhaps ,
again defeated,"

NOTWER. LETTER REFERRED TO IN THE 13TH aULLE.

To his. Excellency the Count De Haugwitz, Minister of
State and of the Cabinet to the King of Prussia, Knight
cf. his Order, at the Head-quarters of tne King.
" Louisenlunn, Oc3. 12, Igo6e
" SIR—I always receive with real pleasure the fiat-
tesing. renewal of your Excellency's regard towards
me; preserve them fur me, as for a friend whom you
have., and always unalterably, cher.shed, and who
is tenderly attached to you. I did not fail to lay t);-.
lure the Prince Royal the .cu;: rii )c.rEXcellency,
but I could obtain nothing but an e:aiive answer.—
The Prince` prefers the Ministerial .•iews, and I am
not in a co; itioh to point out .0 you Ws Seuti-
ments---;is for mine, you know the,. most dear
friend, and cannot doubt them.

I

. . .
I do not permit myself. to return tb' a subjeA.
Which'you have treated, in the letter which you did
me the honour, to write to me,. so luminously, and
so entirely at heart. God grant the happiest success
to the King and to his armies. He is at present the
true-champion of universal liberty: Ido not think.
that. NAPOLEON, at the present moment, .will corn-
bat with'the Prussian 'Forces, and those of almostall Enrope united agaidst him without a Coalition;
by the imptilsion alone the individual security of
each State, fighting in its oyqi cause, which is 'at the
same time :the general cause,' but that be will
prefer to negotiate, and even to sacrifice, per-
haps; some Provinces to Prussia,- gaining by that
means the time necessary for the, formation of
200,000 conscripts. Rut 'next year, after having
carriedinto execution his other views and vast plans,.
he will endeavour to make us pay- him with usury,
when we expect him least, after' having taken this
year to make his preparations. For this reason it is
that we should absolutely have Wesel at the peace,
and also that the present Grand Duchy of Berg should
be compensated for in Anspach. Mayence will -al-
ways serve, as well as Wesel, for the assembling of
considerable bodies of French troops, which will
inundate Northern. Germany when we least think
of it. ' _ .. •..

" If the Rhine and the. Maine are not decidedly
the frontiers of the Northern Confederation, it will'
not be in a state to resist any unforeseen aggression '
of the French, who can be always armed. if Frank-
fort 'with its territory, Hoelst and Konigstein,. do
pot become Hessian, with all the intermediate coun-
try, Hesse will be eaten np, without power of re-
sistance, sooner or later,
.and the situation of Prus-,
&ia become very precarioUs. By indemnifying the
Primate in Franconia, by means of Bamberg, As-.
Chatfenburgh may indemnify Darmstadt. for all its
POssessions. on this
.side, the Rhine; the entire course,
of the LOwer Rhine from .Lahti will then belong to
Prussia.
,Any other arrangenient is without con-
sistence, and war would be at this moment much,
preferable.
" Pardon me, my dear friend, for my raveries.;.
but as you wish to place in, me some confidence, I
should .myself culpable if r did not open my'
Mind to you without reserve : it is, perhaps,
,the last
moment in which we can prevent the total ruin of
Europe, by placing some bounds to that devastating
torrent which is about to.overvehelni it. Besides, if
lie can succeed in forming again a Kingdom of Po-
land, the
universal
objet of his present Negotia-.
iidn, An Universal monarchy will shortly be creaed.
I fear I have already said too' much ; but, if you,
permit me, I will not leave you ignorant 6f any
thing, persuaded tbat.yOu. not.compromise me.
• " CH. L. DE HiSSE."

becree issued by the Emperor from the Inv-
Aerial head-quarters at Halle, the JOthof gabber;
contains the followinb-,plispositions : M. DARY.T, In-
teridant;getieral of tOeliousehold, is
,appoiuted
ten'clantlgeneral of the Army. The Intendant-
gerleral of. the'Army will organize and dire& the
4drriinistration'"of the conquered Countries. He will
Oreterit to ustoersons to execute the Functions of the
intendants of the Provinces.
MILAN, Oc+. 20.—Th the course.ofthe last month
the Russians, learning that the Treaty signed at
Paris by M. IYOUBRIL had not been ratified at
Et. Peterslotirgh, continued their manoeuvres for
the purpose of raising the inhabitants of Monte-
rieuTo and the Mouths of. the Cataro. They suc-
ikc7ded, towards the latter end of the •month, in
assembling 9000 armed peasants; to whom were
invited nearly all the Russian Troops who were at
Corfu, amounting to about 6000 men. The Army,
thus composed, was commanded by General • PAN-
TALOKOFF; haVing tinder his orders General 'Prince
WismlNsxy, who had recently arrived at Corfu
viith reinforcements. The Enemy; notwithstand-
ing,l6pt either on board his vessels; or under the
*kills Of Castelnuovo. The general in Chief MAIt-
IviONT; did not wish to attack them; but being de=

skons heVertheles td meet the ardour of our
soldieiS, he made a retrograde march of two days, in
the hope of drziwing the enemy from his entrench-
ments. The blind confidence of the latter induced
him to consider this movement as a retreat, in CQh-
Aequtnce of which, on the" egth of Septerriber; the
60x0,- Russians,' and the 9000 peasants, were en-
damped on the hill of Biliblick. The General in
hies' advanced in the morning of, that day with
600*. men, to attack the Enemy. At ten the
combat commenced, and after a brisk fire of .rnus
ketry, the MontenegLins were chased from theft
poiiCon, and they were• seen to retreat from Moun-
tain to mountain, in order to join the I.ussiaas;
who formed a , secand line. The Oerieral in :Chief
Ceased the pursuit of theth, and detached two bat-
. talions to turn the position of the Enemy. On the,
morrow, at byeal: of day, we had a new attack, and
we this' time waited for the ituss4ms. Our soldierS
precipitated themselVes on the Enemy, bayonet in
hand. Although both parties were defeated with.
great slaughter, the victory was note for an instant
doubtful. The Enemy retreated in the greatest dis-
order, and. left the field of battle covered with
"killed and. wounded; those who could not regain
Castelnuovo, iled on board Chaloupes sent by the

Vessels to receive them. The suburbs of Castel-
' nuovo, as well as the provisions collected by the
Russians, have become a prey' to the flames. The
results of these two days to the' Enemy, *ere 850
killed, of whom 350 were Russians ; More than
1000 Russian and Montenegrins Wounded,, twenty-
one standards taken, and some hundred of prisoners.
The French army had not more than -25 killed, and
130'whunded. The General in Chief has trans 7
mitted to his Majesty the most satisfa&ory ac,
taint of the conduct of the troops. in these dif,
ferent actions.

140)4 iHZ GAZETTE ROYAL of HOLLAND.

" In the present situation of affairs, and after the
recent events which, in conjun&ion with those that
have passed, fix irrevocably the ascendance of France,
every thing gives reason to hope, every thing pre-
sages happiness to 'the Dutch. They are allied to
the most powerful Nation in the universe—their
dearest interests unite them to France--,they may
partake of her prosperity without ever fearing that
she Will abuse her power over them. ' When they
see the strength of the tie Which exists
_between 'the
two States, the dynasties of which are united by the
ties:of blood—the Chiefs of which haVe only one
mind. and
,one bean., and whose .splendid qualities
4re reco&bizedi not by their enemies, (this cannot
•
C:117

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICER?. FALSUM AUDEAI ?

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1806.

WE received last night Paris and Dutch Papers,
the former to the 28th ult., and the latter to the 2d
inst. In the Moniteur, of the. 27th, we find the
details of the operations of the French Armies down
to the 20th 04.iober. 'lmmediately after the deci-
sive Battle of the 14th, the French Army was divid-
ed into several corps, to pursUe the Prussians. ,DA
VOUST, Who commanded on the right of the French,
adtanced towards Leipsic; which plaCe the French
took possession of on the t Btti, a nd a Proclamation was-
immediately published; calling upon all Merchants;
Bankers, and Traders, immediately to give an ac-
count of all the,Engli§h Property, Money, or Goods,
in their possession, the rdiale of which will of course
be confiscated. It is probable that it is a part of
DAVOUST'S Corps that pushed for Ward to Dessau, and
afterwards to .Berlin ; but this fact is not mentioned
in the French Bulletin's. It is generally supposed
that they entered that Capital on the 24t1) or 25th.
BERNAIiOTTE, with the centre of the French Army,
advanced-towards Eisleben, but finding that Prince
EUGOIE of Wirternburgh was at Halle with ,the
Reserve of the Prussian Army, he turned to the
:right and attacked him,. The amount of their re-
speetive force is not Mentioned, but the French are
represented as having obtained a completd,viCtory;
and taken 5000 Prisoners. It is very much' to be
regretted that the 'Reserve of the Prussian. Aany.
should have been so far in the rear Of the
Main Army. If it had been near' the' scene of
action on the 14th, the result of the battle
might have been 'different;; or at least it would
have been enabled to cover the retreat of the Main
• Army, arid thereby have prevented' that total rout
which tool: place. On, the left of the Frenc'e. Army
Generals, NEY, • SOULT, and MURAT, advanced in
three Divisions ; the latter is stated to have defeated.
General KALKREUTII, near the village of Greussen.
Those Divisions afterwards formed a iinaion, and

d'•t7anced by tray of 'Nortithangen to. Magdeburgh ;
but. it,does not appear_that they have yet attempted'
to infest that place. The- Prussian Army.isrepre-
sented sometimes as being wholly dispersed, with-
o'ut arms, ConinianderS, Or confidence •; at other
times it is stated, that it is rechiced, to one-thil'cl of
its original numbers. Eyed the latter,' we have no
doubt, is a most gross exaggeration. We have hi,
therto had no accounts of the disastrous events 'of
this short campaign, except through the French
and Dutch Papers, or the vague and unofficial
reports in German Papers : that the Battle of
the 14th, and its results; have been, most unfor-
tunate for the Prussians there Can be no doubt ;
but, on the other hand, after the specimens we have
had of the accuracy of French Official Details; it
would be absurd to plaCe implicit confidence in
thern. It is stated in the toth Bulletin, that the
KING of PRUSSIA had, after the Battle of the 14th,
demanded an Armistice of six_ weeks, to- which
BONAPARTE replied, " that he :.could not think
of giving an Enemy time to recruit himself
after a Victory obtained." It appears, how-
ever, that the report of an Armistice was circu-
lated, and some of the Prussian Generals took ad-
vantage of it to etie6ltheir retreat.. The remainder
of the Bulletins are filled with intercepted Letters,'
giving a description of the distressed state of the
Prussian Army. Whether they are authentic or
fabricated, it is impossible for us to ascertain.

Yesterday morning early Mr. MILL, a King's
Messenger, arrived with dispatches from St. Peters-
burgh. A Council was held yesterday at Lord
Hol,,y.l'cles Office—present, Lord GLIENVILLE, Lord
Howicx, Lord SID:MOUTH, Lord H. PETTY, Lord
HOLLAND, and Mr. T. GiIENViLLE. The Council
sat till near five o'clock., Their deliberations are
supposed to have related to the intelligence brought
by Mr. MILL from St. Petersbutgb and Mr. KAY 4,
from the. Prussian head-quarters.. .
The Dukes of KENT and CAMESIDGE left Wind-
sor on Monday evening, where they have been on a
visit to Their MAJESTIES.

Mr. and Mrs. SHERIDIN are .both very ..much
indiSpOed; and thelatter alarmingly so, as her dis-
order is a violent fever.

An over-land Dispatch reached the India House
yesterday. 'A letter from BoMbay, of the 2d .of
June, states, that the Fleet from China, 'consisting;
of eleven.Sail,,topther with the Frederick and Duii-
thn, sailed from thenCe on the 25th of May, under
convoy of His Majesty's Ship Terpsiclwre, The
Fleet from Bengal, consisting of six Sail, may also
be looked for daily,' as they were to leave that place
on the 10th of June:

One of the Paris Papers (Me Publicists) mentions
the arrival Le Gus. sart, one of 'VIM:EA UMEZ'S Squa-
dron, at Brest, on the 14th ult. This is the Ship
which was supposed to- have been lost ,in the hurri-
cane by which that Squadron was dispersed.

PORTSNOUTH, NOv. 4.—Sailed the Santa Cruz,
with fruit, from Lisbon, for London. ,

BRIXIIAM QUAY, Nov. 3.-Put into Torbay yes-
terday, after'Post;,the Channel Meet; under the com-
mand of Sir CHARLES COTTON, consisting of fps
Majesty's Ships London, San Joseph, Glory, 'Prince
George, Princess,ROyal, Prince of Wales, St.Georvi
Bellerophon, and Pluto ; also the Bark. Duke, LIN-•
DE4, from Honduras, with several other Merchant-