The Sun.
London, England, 1813-05-15 00:00:00

casions on which more spinal adyantages have
been asserted, and most disastrous results to the
pretended conquerors ,ensued, we see many
reasons for being confirmed in our opinion, -that
with, all his boastings' BuosAPARTE has hail Cause
to exclaim
,with PYRRHUS--" Another such victory
and I am undone !"

The French corps, after crossing the Saale,
marched up the river In a northerly direction, till
they concentrated near Lutzen, ;where•! a pretty
general .fiction (represented by these accounts' as
mere skirinishing) seems to have beenfought oh
the Ist. Of this affair the details are very meagre,
and all we know of it is, 'that Marshal BESSIERES
was killed at the bead 'of bis;men. Onithe 2tlthe
combined armies, attacked the enemy sooner than
Was expected by three days, and a dreadful con-
flict took place, which terminated in the Allies
drawing off towards Dresden, and the French
remaining on the field of battle. The battle is
represented as.onc of the most stubborn and des-
perate that can be . conefved. The village of.
Kaia was repeatedly taken and retaken, and the
centre, where BUONAI'ARTE was in person, is con-
fessed to have been completely beaten, till a last'
despairing 'effort was made, 'by the reserve of
(ivatqls, under Mot-men, and a- battery of eighty
pieces of flying artillery; and
,by their means the
fortune of the day in some measure retrieved. Of.
the peril to which the enerny.was here exposed,
some idea may be formed by the devotedexclama-
tions attributed to:General Go; IRD, who, in coin-
-111011 with the Prince of MosKsWit, Generals BEEN-
,
NIER,• :URI Wll5 IV01111(1Cd,
while Gen. Gounm's death was added to that of
)3ESSIERES. Time words inWhiell BIiONAVARTE
scpbes the issue of this sanguinary struggle are
worthy of notice, as cnnVeying an, accurate per-
ception of the real state of 'the case at its close.-
-We have nothing, of- battalions put .' hors de
combat,"-or of whole regiments being taken, 'or lay-
i.ng down their arms, of cutting off from thelhain.
body, confusion, or disorder—but it is-coolly stated
that " the enemy's cavalry , infantry and artillery;
all retreated." The superiority 9f the Allies in
cavalry seems indeed to have been felt at every.
point, during the battle; and after it was conduct•.
ed. On the sth, the French van had not.
advanced more than. thirty"miles; and BEAMIAR,
slots pushing rather too far forward, experienced
a severe check front irfitcritanovirrcit, near Col-
ditz, on the Mulda, which maybe taken as the
utmost progress of the enemy. The perfect order
in. which the retreat has beers conducted is to-be.

chiefly attributed toy the covering of the' int.
mense cavalry; and we Dave to add this important
consideration to the reasons which present them-
selves to us :for holding, that while a defeat would
be fatal to the Tyrant,. the severity of the, effect
'of such a disaster on the AllieS would be felt in
the least possible. degree.
. .
• Upon the whole, there is no cause for despon,..
dency in the intelligente•hOw before our Readers.
The game of last campaign seems so far to be
playing over again, that the Russians, by a'systere
of cautious and certain raperations, falling back,
on their resources, and not putting the whole of
their prosperous fortunes on the event of one day,
are likely to exhaust and ultimately to destroy the
levieS brought up by their opponent as his latest
stake for the restoration 'of his lowered pride and
fallen power.
The Allies are stated to have lost the Princes.ot
MiCKLSSIBURG STaat.tTz and flcssit llostanno,
killed ; the latter is, however, doubtful. General
lILUCIIER is also said to be wounded.

We have this day to notice a report brought by
the Java indiaman and communicated to herby sir
American brig off the Western Islands, that an
Armistice for three months had been conclud-
ed by Sir ,J. WARREN On the 9th April. Upon
this we have barely room to observe that we
attach no credit to the fact. The accrnacy of in-,
fornistion obtained from American ve!stils is too
well known not to ,intluee u to taVe
al l
they say,. cam grano siilis; but when we add to
the known character of such informants as in
the present instance, that to have been able to
bring the news from New, York to the Western
Islands, the Packet must have run at the rate of
220 utiles a day for 10 days together, there will
be tmall reason left for believing the report, Sir
J. WARaeN, too, was in thelehesapeake at the be-
ginning of the month in which the armistice is said
o have been concluded on the 9th, F.

Yesterday the CHANcELLoyi of the • hid, Ex_
cuElatmt, proposed intim Committee of Ways and
Means the different taxes which will be becessuryfor
the serviOe of Ireland this year. They colisist of an
increase of the •Cuatotns, with seine exceptions.
an augmentation to the amount of about 25 per
cent. of the duties on Horses, Carriages, and Mal.
Servants, and an additional duty upon Malt and
Wine,