The Sun.
London, England, 1813-10-23 00:00:00

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Lt) ND ON GAZETTE ,F.:..K;ritsor.trii:;sLartY,
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biTatches, of whieh the followidg tife FripiO, hate Ifen this
(hty receivre. f Tin Litut.7otheral the 14ml Sir rtalia
N'. Stewart, K. 13. and :front Ed*ard Thornton, Esq.
Oct, 1, 1s1:4.
Lorn—The nffair I fueutioried in my dis
patch-Or-the 2fith'hit. near Altenbing, has ttirnetl±
Out to be of mop, importance than 4i4l3,tit: first
imagined;-and the Heiman -Viatow;:with Itas usinii
ability and gallantry, has aceomplished a very
liant-eXploit a eorisiderable body •of the
enemy. ,This corps Was under the ordersof Gen.
Lefebvre benotiette, and consiSted of somc Vreitch
light cavalry, the Polish Uldansfrif then guard, and
a brigade of light drtigoons,'under tite orders n! •
Gellyrai Picot. General's ICeiseleki and' kentecks
were also in, command. The fOrcliZevniststed.. of
eight thousand cavalry and Sevenlitnittred
infati-
ti•.y, one squadron of Mainelukes,- and. small
party of Tartars of t:.e guard, under tire orders of
Colonel ..Marot. The whole were attacked by
Platow, and 'conipletely.pot to the ratite. Gen..
Keiseiski k reported by the prisonets tohave been
killed. Fifteen hunched prisoners, five guas,,and:.
forty officers (thtce of the stall), are the fruits of
the victory. .
The army has broken' up from hence, and is in
movement to the left. 'The corps of General
Ctnint 'Wittgenstein was yesterday -at Kommatau,
and that of General Kleist near Brox. The Aus-
trians are marching' upon Chemnitz. There is a
report from the enemy that Napoleoti, attended
by the King of Saxony and family, set, out for
Leipsie upon the2Bth inst. the u'ters said
to he removed 'there. •
The Prench corps under the Marshal A ugereau,
bare marched fronrßaniberg to Coburg, having
left a considerable force at Wurzburg.; •
I have reason to believe thellussititnand • Prus-
sian army* vxcecd eighty thousand'reen, vAieh will
now be assembled 'on tht3Pbeinnitrand Freyberg
hue ; to those may be added the curb 9f Icleinau
of ten thou Sand men, together *Rh, 411 the
Austriart§l.
General nenningsen's corps, which, has been
reviewed this day, k in a 'very efficient state as to
appearance ; bent Vhaveno exact information as to
tl.e ninnheis arriving.
A reinforcement of seven thousand men of the
Prussian corps 'of .General Kleist is upon the road
from Prague.-7-I have the honour to be, Ste.,
(sighed) CHARLES STEWART, Lieut.i.Ge u.
Viscount Castlereagh, tsc.
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• Zerbst, OA. 4,. 1813.
MY LORD-1 hare the honour to mart:it:A your
Lordship„ that 'General nizza di Borgo has re-
eeivtd:intelligettee from lit.
the_ail.ouarters. of 'the
armies iii l lrctuia, tinder date of the 24th ultimo,
steal*, that the corps Of General Benaigsen hav-
ing joined the Gratid Army, the Allied SoVereigns
had conic to the resolution of making a move-
ment by their left from Bohemia, ;l el that this
Movement should be executed o,: :he Ist of the
present mouth.
Intelltp„,wv .ILtormleical Prioce Royal
to utteno the passage of the 'Elbe. The hriage
Moths lau had been eomplc.ted, while the IN OAS
of the tote-de pout On the left hank had been
traced out, and were in a state of progress. De-
tachments of Swedish troops Were in possession
of Dessau, and the town of Acken, on the left
hank, a little lower (town the river, ;Was fortify-
ing, under the direction of Count \Voronzow, in
such a manner avto.rc;nler it a place of consider-
We strength, while preparations. were accelerated
for constructing rt bridge there,
In the mean time, the enemy, who appear to
have had no idea of the passage of the Elbe, at
Acken, sent strong detach minus of troops to oc-
enpyDessan, and t he line of theMulda,amfemploy-
ed themselves in throwing up works, ac well before
that town, as in front of the ttte-de-pant, at 'Ross-
tett with intent to impede tire passage there, and,
to obstruct. movements of .the army after the
pas,age., This gave occasion to skirmishes he..
ttrcirn time enemy and the Swedish advanced guard,
vvhich was:obliged to relinquiill Dessau, and to
retire to the neighbourhood of the tt,te-de-poet
att. Rosslau, and indeed to the eight, bank of the
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river.
Under these circnmstance9, tln 'Prince Royal
received intelligence from General Blucher, on the
Ist inst. informing. his Royal 11;y;h:a •,:s, that he
thonhi, on that day, make a movement with his
uhole artny on his right toWards Hertzberg ; that
on the iolloWing day he should he at Jensen ; On
the :3d at Oster, and on the following day, (to
day) would elrect the passage of the Elbe at Es-
ter, pyoceeding upon Newberg a4ainst the French
corpsotationed there. •
The bridge sae Achen bad just been completed,
and yesterday, (to-day, ,perhaps to-morrow,) was
. each gpolten of as the probable day for paskiing
the vi
Illucller crossed the Elbe at Elster vester-
fl:ty wlth some opposition, and attacked 'the en-
tveoehed villa:r,e of Warteuberg, On the oppositr
ii .c, which he carried, after an o'hstinate re-
atoilaoee,: making himsclt master Of pieces of
cannon. It is understood that this victory; whieh
was carried agaiwt the corps cominanthfl by Ber-
ttand,, was not obtained without epAsi‘lentble lOss,
particularly among the troops commanded by Gen.
Vorck • but Ow kittleidart have not yet been
recd wed.
'l bee Prince Royal received this -intelligence yes-
terday evening, while he was at. Rosslan, or im-
mudiately on hit return here, and took the reso-
int ion 161 crossing t lie whole achy to-day of the
.131ie,• Aeken and at Rosslau, the ;Russians at
the former, and the Prussians and Swedes at Ross-
lan, 'somewhat Inter or otherwise, according as it
should he undeistood whether the French would
naihe a stand at Dessatt, .This, however, was not
expected, when once the passage of the Bats-
shtos was completed at Aeken, particHlarly under
the o.f General Blucher's ttrmy, and in
e:leet it was learnt this morning, that the French
bad retired, from Dessatt, where consequently
learnt that the head-tinarters:of the Prince .I{(;,yal
will established .this ...kir ening: His ,Roval
flightiest left' tons place,. ahwot nine :o'clock
zuorniug.
Vrsterday evening Mr. Aldeverentz, a son of
the, 6rll;tr4ti, and an Aid-dc-eamp of the. Prince