The Sun.
London, England, 1806-08-28 00:00:00

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ACCOVNT OF TI:II7,,,nATTi:E OF AtTSTFItLIV6 A7I
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(Coyinuediroin our Paper of Saturday.) •
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The regiment...of the Qrand Duke NV a s the first.
deulned • bin: hurried on by the ardour
of the brave General who lektheni, these
Huliins did net wait till the rest of the line was

formed, and rushed:.without, support on, the Nhi
cavalry of the, Enemy, which retreated
.within
the -intervals between their infantry, and 'was

.pursued with too much warmth
.even throbgh
these, bapalions. The liulans wished, to attack
the stolid line Of French cavalry ; but
,by the fire
which they had suffered they arrived in. disorder;
and were steadily received by, the French 6Vairir.—
The.division of CAPFARELLI formed one line upon

their right, that of RIVAUD upon their left, and
the Hukms, thus placed•.betweett two 'fires; lost
more than 400 men; General EsseN was.severely
wounded and slain. The regiment of
.the Grand
Duke, which .made this fine charge, attacked'foo
soon, and with,too„ much vivacity, and became
the viaims of Aniill-direaed courage. It was com-
pletely routed, and regained by .its right the corps
of BAGRATHION, behind which it agaM formed.

'that General bad then -advanced before the post
of rosorsitz, to oppose the left of J-,ANNE,s, which
supported itself at Kovalovits Prinee 13AGRATAION
11a.I caused•to be occupied the villages Of Krug and
:171olubitz by General ULANIUS wrthstbree batta-
lions of ehassenrs:

We are now, come to the centre of the army;
where the fate of the day was decided. - It Was too
weak to resist the attacks of the enemy. Aban-
dohed by thead-cOlumn, and ;the whole. of the left„
and :the extremity of the right making no 'diversion
suAiciently powerful i'o‘ divide the French force; the
centre saw. itself attacked or menaced by four di-
Visions; to which it could
.only oppose, without the
help of succour, 27 very
.weak battalions. t Thq
Russian regiMents Wh.ich had made the retreat from
Brannan were of
,the minber, and had scarcely
400 men each, There were also six Austrian, bat-
talions. It may be computed; without exaggera-
tion, that , 12,000 men were here attacked by
24,000; and while-, the' Frehch thin), not.on
the whole equallynuincrouS as that of,' the Allies,
by a CalculatiO6 amore happy than that. of th 6
ter, the enemy's: forcer ;more coheentrated and bet-
ter direEted, was 'double that of 'the . Allies on. -the.
most, important point. Tho Cenxre of
.the
was nearly , insulated- upon all points, by the *dis7
tance at which the different columns were mutually
placed. . .
The Emperor of Russia, 'with the General. la
Chief, arrived at the head, of ithe 4th column at the
moment when it was to itc.l-ance. For the purpose
of. giving time to the columns of, the reft to '.ad-
vance, General Who commanded
that 4th column, received, orders not to put himself'
in motion till about s o'clock: The combat near
Tellnitz was already begun, and the left on its
march, when the centre was formed and broke up
by platoons. by the left. The Russian infantry,
commanded by General MmoßADowicn, was at
the head of the column. TWo of
.his battalions,
and some Austrian dragoons of the regiment of the
Archduke JOIOT, formed the advanced guard of the
column, aid marched at a little distance before it.
It was- about nine o'clock- when: the ad column
quitted the height of Pratzen to march according
to the plan .against SokOlnitz ; the 4th arrived
upon the ground which had keen occupied by Ge-.
neral PR-IBISCHENA'SKY during the night, when it
all at once perceived a large mass of French infan-
try in the bottom in front of Pratzen. When these
columns of the enemy were perceived, the-y put
themselves in motinn, at the moment when the-
Russian advanced guard approached the village:—
The French columns on the right consisted of
VANDAM3.IE'S division, and those on the left of St.
However, the advanced guard. of the
4th column hastily occupied the -village of Prat-
zen, and reached' a little bridge,beyond it, before
the enemy's sharp-shooters : it then passed the
bridge, and placed one of its battalions on a height
jti front of the village, where the tear of the ad co-
lumn still was ;' the 2d battalion of the advanced
guard occupied the village itself.
General KUTUSOF, surprised by this movement of
the Energy, believing that he was to attack, and
seeing himself attacked in the midst of his combi7
nations and his movements, perceived all the
portance of maintaining the heights of Pratzen,
towards which- ihe French were marching. These,
heights were commanding, and alone could secure
the rear of the ad column,
.which was always ad-
vancing,' and imprudently-exposing itself, forgetful
of the - Enemy, li;;;;;Thg- only: to the :original
;den. The height
,of Pratzen decided. the battle ;
it 'had been. the key of the position which the Allied
Al-my had-just quitted, and by the perplexed situa-
tion of the different columns, their fate depetided.
upon him who was master of that height. When
.the General in Chief, who WAS at the head of. that
O4lumn, wfas inforthed .by his advanced guard that:
the `Enemy .was so near him, he gave orders to
face them, and to occupy the height ; at the same
time, the Prince of LI,cIITEN3TEIN sent to him.
four Russian regiments from the column of cavalry'
under. his command. The French dire6ted„with
great calmness, the two masses of infantry, which
advanced at a slo-,xe pace. A third column of 'the
Enemy, belonging to
_the division of Marshal 'BER-.
NADOTTE, then appeared upon the. right of Pratt
zen, and threatened to pass
,through the interval
between the 4th column and the cavalry
.of Prince
JOHN. The. Russian infantry of the 4th column.
immediately marched upon the right of Pratzen,
and sent are inforcement to the battalions of the ad-
vanced guard, who-mere already, upon the height
which they were to maintain ; but' this advanced
guard, being attaeked by superior force; abandoned
it after a very short resistance.
'The bathe then became lively. was
,wished
to regain the ground that the advanced guard: had
lost. The RuSsians attacked, but fired at too-great
a distance.; and witbddt much effe&. The French
incessantly advanced, without returning
this fire but, at the distance of about a hundred
paces they opened a fire of Muscrietry,_ which then
became general, and extremely destructive. The