The Sun.
London, England, 1807-06-09 00:00:00

GOTTENBURGH MAIL.

GENERAL BARON ARMPELDT'S. REPORT TO BARON
'ESSEN, GOVERNOR-GENERAL or POMERANIA, RE-
LATIVE TO THE ACTIONS BETWEEN THE SWEDISH
AND PRENCII TROOPS, ON THg 16TH OF APRIL,
'1867. ,

" As early as the 12tii of April I received intelli-
gence that the siege of Cdlberg was raised, and Ge-
neral MORTIER was marching to Stettin, to form . a
jun,..ion with the garrison of that place, commanded
by General GRATI.DJEA N. _ •
"On the~«tsth, in the morning, Colonel CARDELL
-reconnoitred, from Neakong to Passewalk:: he
was attacked by the Enemy, and fell back to his po-
sitioni. AU reports agreed, that the Enemy was
from 12,000 to 45,009 men strong. In this,situa-
tiim I had no other choice than either try fall' back,
behind the river Peene, and abandon the, magazine
in Anclatn, or, Co endeavour to tepulse'the Enemy ;
and
_if this could not be.done., tomalseaultortourahle_
__retreat, clispl'lting with the Enemy,-every -inch of
ground he -had to traverse. I thought it Tight to
prefer the latter measure.
" As the French were assembling in considerable
f-oree, I found it also . necessary to concen•tral4 the
troops finder' mysicomMand.. Colonel VE6ESACtes
position could bot:be altered but Col. 'CARDS
received `i)rders to take a position hear the rivulet
Zarow, pushing his advanced posts as far as Uaker-
munde and 'Sargalow. • • • • . - • • ;.
• " Onsthe utith,, at six'o'clock in the morning; -I.
received Brigadier-General VE6E:s A cn's- re-•
port; that; hiN out-pbsts near'Belling had been driven
in by the Enemy, and that the French were march-
ing in -cansidenkle • forcer to Ferdivandshoff and
Sprengenfeldt.. I. immediately sent orders to Col.
CAR DELL, inicase that
.he-should not be attacked, to
seila socCours to Sprengenfel4 by wayof Blumenthal.
At seven o'clock I .received a report. that .Colonel
Cuip.ELL was. severely
_attacked b_y_lhe.Enemy. .1
iminediately proceeded with ttiy escort to Sprengen-
feldt. In Old CO3CUOW, where the roads of tic-
ket-Wm-de, Zarrowmill, and Pas4ewaik meet, .17-lEfr
one battalion of foot, and my. Aid de Camp ABLER
BAUM, with orders to halt there .until farther orders.
I ,kid not yet advanced beyondflatiber, when re-
ceiVed the report tit Sawn Vluo.EsAc.a. was badly
wounded,. and had transferred
.the command to:
Lientenant-Colonel Posse. '; Year Old Vigshngen
met the head of our retreating Fel.,:m-n, and, soon,:
after- found Colonel Passe~ closely engaged with'the
Evenly.
_ .

" The lossofthis coin= was_not ineonsiderable:..
Baron POSSR was slightly wounded in the hand and .
Itneel The battalion of Suderrrniand, which drove •
the Enemy back with fi*ed.bayptiets, had abo,Ut
or i.. wounded. .
Io the mean time I sent an
,Aid de Camp. to..
Co) GUTS-Koi.V, in BaldekOw; with" orders to fall back
t6.stolpe,.which he.tiid. ' •
In Cosenow, of.which the Enem.y.endeavoured
to, render himself master., the condi& was uncont-
monly severe. • My six, pieces of cannon compelled
the 'Eneiny't..4'ice to fall-back. We had sixlgieces
of cannon and three howitzers, which tatter, by the
numeiolis grenades they threw, caused more confu-
sion than mischief.

" Finding that the Enemy was turning 'my left
wing, and erecting a battery against it, I fudged it
necessary to retreat to Hohenstein, where I had the
honour to ,make my report to your Excellew-y;
through' the rnecliUm of iVidior Susßoci;::xot.rus,
and at. the' same time required sorn
brandy for the troops, ,:vbb had n.-A. taken the )east
food or refreshnient "since three o'clock in the
morning.
In this position I remainecluntil night-fall, with,
out,being attacked by the enemy, and then fell hack
to 'my. former position, near' Zietin, lest myltinii,
should be turned, :during the night, by the nu-,
merousiliorse of the Enemy.
From -Anclain I received the report; that, with
the e:xeption, of some sick, who co- ildnot be re-
moved, and. a,fe.w pipes of spirits,, every thing had

been sent off irorp that city.
" Near Stollie, I \vas joined -by two -battalionSi,
and at Zietin by tour battalions of foot; about Go
chasseurs, two squadrons, of dragoons, and one squa-
dron of hussars; with founsix-pounders. With these
.troops I hoped I should be able successfully to de-
fend, the strong .of Zietin, as I receLved se-
vet al reportS that the Enemy had barricaded himself
on the Anclam road, and. taken up a defeniive po-
_
sition.

" Not .being attacked by the enemy, nor seeing
any probability.of
_being so in that position, I left
there all the horse and two pieces of cannon,• and
sent the infantry to Scblatite •arid Itaugien, where
the), could obtain the provisiort*hich could, not be
had at Zietin. • , .
. _ •

.Ipyself rewaineti in the above position, until
the arrival of Cololvel Baron STAEL VON HOLSTEIN,
who, by your .Excellency's order,, assumed t tae com-
mand. of my corps, in Consequence of the severe con-
tusion which 1 received the preceding day, and
which disabled me from continuing any longer at the
head.of that gallant column, which, composed of two
weak squadrons, four battalions, and four pieces of
caunon,.disputed with the elletilyi who was 19,000
men strong, with 15 pieces of cannon, for several
hours, an extent of ground of four German miles,
aPd there gloriously upheld the military fame of the
7.5 wedish army.
..,G. M. A RMFE L DT, General of Infantry."
",Stralsund, April 24."

"HotsrEttc.--,-This little Province is rendered so
'interesting by, being the only neutral frontier of the
`Continent Co the' North, and stands in so close a
conneaion with our Continental intercourse, that
the foll Owing circumstances will .be found worthy
attention. We know from very good. authority,
that last winter this small territory was on the
pent of being sieud by the French. Marihal MOB-
TIEIVi who, it will be recolleaed, was theckat. Lubec,..
bad received orders to take possession cif this coun-
try. His army was to have been divided into three.
columns ; one !SOS to enter at Altona, and maid"
down the right shore of the Elbe, towards,Toimity-
gen ; _another to go direaly from Lubec to Kie;l:;
and a third was 10 take the high road, which cut.i.j
the province in halves, and lea& to Rendsb.argh(f
The military stationed at Altona had'ordeys
treat into Schleswig : and, it is said, that, for want
of a good military station in Holstein, the whole of
this country (with the exception, of course, of I

Gluckstadt) would have been abandoned to its fate.
-lint the
.Eycfer, which' separates Holstein from
Schleswig, 'furnishes a good position. The fortress.
ott• Rendsburgh is very strong ; and Kiel was the
4ad-quarters .of the Hereditary Prince. The
military, force which the 'Dana would have op•
posed to the French ..arnotinttO to about 30,000
men ; but, within two days of the execution of
this plan, the order was Countermanded, and 1.116 a,
VIER Warched into Pomerania, a land- less produc-
tile, but nearer the scene of aetion. The reason of
this change , was the battle Pultusk, which the
French-still affekt .to mention as a vi&ory, but
infact, first: rrf.a..:te SONAPARTt sensible' of
'the magnitude and his enterprize, and
,compelled him to adopt -tieasures of petcaution and
decency. But 1-4Thilt 1.1:d nearly taken place before,
may at last • 1-.2pp(.n. We, wish our commercial,
friends and.countr, Alen to beprepared. A , Word is
enough to the wise.' . ' 2

TO COR-XESPONDEIVTS

4%* Ja-ookr; lint Cannot venture to
mien[ -what it contains upon an alwiejmouS authoriy.

ERRATUM.7Itictne of our leading articles of yesterday,
instead of " Ennis, County," read,. '" Enniscorthy. "—This,
though an obvi,gus error of the,Nress, -has Peen,trcated with
ludicrous gravity in a Morning Print. . , , ,

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WE' received last night "some more Paris Papers,
put they contain no intelligence of importance. The
Alaniteur boasts nidch of the alacrity with which
the Conscripts bavaiately) come forward, but it is

obvious that they are . great difficulty.
The praise' -which th& itruniteur :bestows upon the
DistriOsin which the Conscript 3 have.been embodied
without resistance, is an acknowledgment I.lidt in
others the levy has experienced consid;.-3, ;e ob-
strutAions; It is candidly admitted; areritq
of the Tribunals has contributed ve I-ti to the
alacrity which has been manifc.....c Y the Con-
script,s.
~•

There were no arrivals tb.- • from the:Con-
tinent ; but we have lit : that-we-shalkhort-
ly hear of ..some .vements Of the hostile
Armies. It is the. French Army now
amounts to .12.:si_cloo men r but, it must be re-
,
colleaed that ,a, very cousidemble ig)rtion -of
that number consists of Bavarians, &c.
upod sbom BO&APARTE certaiuly cannot
place any, great reliance, .and.he.will be under
the necessity of at,acking the Russians in their
strong position ; is now obvious, that. General.
BENNIGSEN. Will iiPt quit his position "for'thepurpos6
of attacking the French. We Mentionedyesterday,
.
a report that was current when the last Messenger
cams?;•awayt, that MASSENA had been defeated, tti an
attack apart of the Russian Line: we hope
very shcirtly.to be able to confirm this intelligence.,

It is confidently, reported that I;JNArnitT bad
sent Proposals for ah Armistice to the EmPettott
of Russz& and the KING of 'PR' us.stA, bat that

no answer, was to be g;Ven till the sentiments of
the British Government could be known, and that
.Lord HUTCHINSON' had 'transmitted
,a copy of
the proposed- terms ,to• His Majesty's
We have'before stated the repOrts which have pre-
vailed respeding a Negotiation, but nothing has'oe-
curred that will warrant is In speaking on this stib7-
jea- with confidence.

His Royal Highness the Duke:of Yoult entertained
at dinner yesterday a large' party of military and
other Gentlemen, at his house in the Stable-7yard,
St. James's. . •

YestiTuay morning His MAJESTY, Princesses
AUGUSTA,'SOPHiA, and AMELIA, accompanied by
L idv A. COMEERLANb, sir= H. B. NE.ALE,.Connt
MUNSThR, G(;'.nerais G4I4TH and FiTzRoY, and Co-
lOnel TAYLOR, took an airing in wiudsor.
HER MAJESTY and Pruicew ELIZABETH ,took: an
airing to Frogniore, &c. • •
On Siinday Sir FT. B. NEALE arrived. at Windsor;
on a visit to Their MAJESTIES.

Lieutenant HANc'nerr, who commands asmail
cutter, arrived at the Secretary at Stme's.Ottice,. yes-
terday, with dispatches'trom Lord HUTCHINS/34.

Lord PEMBROKE and Lord G. L. GOWER were-at
Copenhagen on the. 28th of last month:

Yesterday morning Capt. TINLIG, who 'com7
matids the Sea Vetkibles at.. Aldborougb, arrived at,
the Admiralty Office, with dispatches,. which had
keen picked up 'at sea. They 7 ere taken to Mr. Se-
cretary CANNING, and proved to „be dispatches which,
had been entrusted_ to a Russian.o;ficeri and it is,
supposed the vessel that Conveyed him has been,
lost. A box of clothe's, supposed to belong to the
same officer, was also found, 'and has been.krought
to town by'Captain TINLING. ' • .:`• d••
The Duke. and .buches:4 of RICHMOND' have
kade their appear:ince in the Dublin Theatre,-where
hey were recei%•vil with:theTmost
iies.pl,rgsped iy the audience. The Play was. The
7-ionty, Moon, and the\ Elem. Of Age 7:o-morrows.
rificip;dl i.vere sustained by ..H-ot.:%{&-.
hod Mis, EDWIN Wtic) were both much applauded.
Th'erq was 'lferation, made in the
,pries;. of
Bread to-clay. •