The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-14 00:00:00

This. tnin,• whoSe daring, bat unrorturate enter.-
prise in the present eimpaign, has madedlis name sal
well known in • this coantry,, was i.re: iouly a ton-
spicnous.charaCler in• Germany. The following par-
ticulars revealing hi's conduct 'in the war between
France and Pi ussia, are extra led from a work pub-.
lished some time ago at Berlin :
Lieut. Schill, born of an obscure, and by no means
wealthy family, in Silesia, served as an otficer in the •
Queen's regiment of dragoons. He was very little
noticed, as he spent no money, contra6ted no debts',
did not play, and paid attention to nothing but mi-
litary matters. He was in the battle of Auerstadt
with his regiment, on the 14th of Oaober, and was
wounded in the head. In the general contusion, lire
escaped being taken prisoner, got his wound bound
up, and went to Colberg, where he effeeted his
cure. During his stay there, repeated intelligence
was received of the rapid approach of the French(
also to Colberg;
.on which, though not 'perfectly
recovered, he took horse with his servant, and lett
Calberg ; -he tell in with some dragoons of his own .
regiment on the way to Stargard, who joined him.
Several'other volunteers having also joined, he made
some small attempts on the French forage and pro-
vision transports, which they , brought from the
Right to the Left Bank. of the Oder. These at-
tempts succeeded, be aspired to still greater; he ex-
tended hiS attacks. also to the convoys,of money,
and now endeavoured to reduce Ins operations to
some order and plan.
Napoleon had direaed his line of principal Opera-
tions above Berlin and Custrin, along the Vittila to
Thorn and Warsaw. The light corps wasao o‘er- -
run Silesia, and another from Stettin to at against
Swedish Pomerania and Stralsund. Upper and Lower
Pomerania, and the coasts of the Baltic, appeared at
first to have escaped his notice, and probably he by:-
beved that these provinces would 'naturally kill' into
his hands the moment he should make himself tnas-
ter of the Vistula from Warsaw to Dantzic anti 81-r
hing. Satin observed this, and a: ailed himatif-
'this extensive field that was opened to him. .Entirely
cut off from the Royal Army, from his,resocite3
alone, he formed a corps composed of volunteers
and other young men, who wished to form them-
selves for a military life: By means of the money;
provisions; and horses, &c: 'which he had taken from
the French, he formed an independent corps of from
800 to woo men, which consisted mostly of ca-
valry. The infantry in linen frocks, barefooted, and
half naked; the cavalry moqly without saddles,
their swords hanging by a cord round their slionl-
ders ; he now carried and extended his ravages, and
kept the right bank of the Oder from Stutgard to
the sea-coast. The French Commander, weakened
by the great distance of his main army, and -com-
pelled to reinforce his bead-quarters on the left bank
of the 'Oder, could nor make any impression •on
Schill, and his ravaging 'corps ; wherehae be ad-
vanced without interruption, provided, Colberg suffi-
ciently with provisions, brought over from Sweden
arms and ammunition, sent the Royal army
several,
thousand guilders, -of which he had not immeditelY
needs anti was thus enabled to rely always on Col-
berg in his rear as a sure depot.
By his exertions the obtaining of provisions, for
the Prussian and Russian armies from the Baltic, .anti
of course to make a strong diveision, inorder to sup
press the Silesian insurrection under Pless, were re'
dered unnecessary. At last, the Italian regiments
that had arrived in Berlin, wet e sent againstCol-
berg there by the way of Stuigard;• another corps
from Stettin by Wollin, and another by Pornmeril-
ion, in order to put -a final stop to Schilt's operation`'
•and to reduce •Colberg. Schill was now obliged 50.
retreat -by Stargard, Naugard, and Wollen, and to
retire under the. cannon of Colber-g. Here it wt's
his first care to fortify the villages of Sello, Hohen'
berg, Schans; and Maykuhil, and to put theM iii 3 •
proper state of defence, which beliid in spite of all
'the unfavourableaarentustances, as well as the short
time 'would permit him. Schill then went to Sweden
to procure intecouts, and . if' possible ro relieve:Col-
berg. The-King; however, -ordered blip, leis
corps, to go to Stralsiind. With a design to carry it
of, he appeared before Colberg with eight v2sse)''
but only carried half a squadron of cavalry, as the
Commandant refused him the rest, while tie him-
self had so much need of them. • Schill thus Came
to Stralsund, and at last joined, the corps of Blucher,
to which he was appointed Major. When Major
Schill, after the evacuation of Berlin by the French,
on the loth of December, arrived with
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On Monday se'nnight Mr. John Whittatn, d i''
Skipton, attended the annual'meeting of the trades;
man's society : on Tuesday, he was married; I.lil.
~,.
On Wednesday he was a corpse. .
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