The Sun.
London, England, 1807-04-02 00:00:00

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THE CAMPAIGN IN POLAND.

tThe Accounts hitherto received have been of so very clefee-
- tivc a description as. to afford no salisfaelory idea of the
celual State of AffiUrs at the„Theatre of War. We are,
therefore, happy to announci% that we have receivedfrorn
ou'r most valuable and intelligent Correspondent, a variety,
of Documents, from which we are enabled to gratify the
Public with the followipg authentic and interesting Nar-
rative. 3

The Russian Army having failed in the attempt un-
der KAMINSKOY, to diSlodge the enemy upon the East
Bank of the Vistula, had received orders to retreat
to the Niemen ; and BENNIGSEN having, at the head
of some few corps, succeeded in repulsing a consider-
able body of the enemy in the neighbourhood of Pill-
tusk, was obliged .for want of. support to fall back
upon' Rozan:, Ostrolenka, and along the line of the
left bank of the Narew but his position' having been
ren&red, uselessby:the- weather, he was obliged to
make a considerable 'detour .to effea a junetion with.
BU.4IIIOWDEN; who had retreated upon the right
hank, but 'which he at length cffeEted at Biala, near
J9bannesburgh, Upon theSpiiding Lee.
_ _

It was in file course of 'tiris march that BENNIG.•
SEN received from the Emperor the' Commission of
Comtnander.in..Cliief- of the Russian army, in s'uc•
cession. to KAN.I.I!•iSKOY.

Having
.4eCterl this juttaion, he determined to
•advance towards the enemy, keeping irr view the
protection of Jonigsburgh ; with this intent,-he
retied his march through' Rein Russel,' Bischoptin,
Heilhberg, Gutstadt, and Leibstadk having frequent
skirmishes with detachments of the division under
BEE NAttOTTE at Mohrungen, howeVer, the advanced
guard had to-encounter the whole corps of BERNA:-
DOTTE, in which a6,-tion, after a very short eonteo,
they' wire repulsed; and the enerny rms-
. ter,: of the field; from which. they retreated on
following day; on the arrival Of. the :main body of
the Russians ; and: here B cti NIGSEN established his
head-quarters.
During this movement on the part-of the Russians,
the Prussian General L'EsToco., with 14,000 Men,
ofrwhich .4000 were Russians, had advanced from
the neighbourhood of Konigsburgh,alOng the shores
of the Frische Haff, in the direction of Brotnsberg,
Eibing, and Marienwerder, and had aattally coin-
pelled the enemy to raise the siege of Graudentz.
Gen. ESSEN had the comma-ad of 35,000 men on
the Narew, and a Corps of Reserve of ahout t 2,006
remained at a considerable distance in the rear, int 7
*ler the command of Gen. ZADMORATSKI.

In this position the Allied Armies remained on the
of January, their force aiiiounting nearly as

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These MOveni3tits; on • the part of the Allies, 'had
compelled the enemy to coucotrate himself in the
neighbourhood of Warsaw and on the Ist of Fe-
bruary.the Rias.sian General .vv.rts informed, that the
army was- in full _march on the road to Kh-
nigsburgh, and'had :044 reached Allenstein, on
the riverAlle, with the evident intention of, inter-
posing between the Allied-Army and:Konigiburgh.
In thiii-sltuation ci thin4Y.s, it -tv'as_no 1041g-er-ret
oible for Br:l:.;sn'N to abide by his declared deter-
mination. of avoiding a general 'akliOn, and he accord-
ingly approached the enemy on the 2d, in the di-
.rection of Jankova, a few 'miles to the westward of
'Allenstein, and on the left of the Allp.

From this position he was repulsed on the 3d,
and pursued by the enemy to Wolsdorff;.from I heoee
lie was again driven on the 4th. to Ft:atnsdoitf, tuid
on the sth, to LausbUrgh ; from whence he was, on
the night of the 6th, alter somp harcliting, again
compelled to retreat ; and 'on the 77tli;ji9
,tlie morn 7
ing, having marched four sacCessive nights, his rear-
guard continually fig4iting, he :took up a position
within a few hutidi•eci yards of Prussian Eylau, on
the Kouigsburgh side of that town, determined to
await the enemy, and engage him ,in a general
2aiOn. 2_

to strengthen the centre of the Russian tirmy,
was accordingly done- by several regatents drawn
from the right and left.
At day-break, .0n the sth, the-anion recommenced
by the Tirailleurs of 'the enemy epoa the, centre,
and by a d fire from Muir batteries and
mortars, which did great execution to the Russian
limes several columns of infantry also pushed for-
ward, which were.vigorously charged, both by the
Russian infantry and cavalry, and repulsed-with enor-
mous losS : about this peridd the French cavalry
came on, and had aanally pierced the front" line, from
whence it was driven, with dreadful slaughter.
While these ,operations were going on in • the
centre, the enemy bad got round on the left, and
began to shew himself on different points, but 'with-
out opening his fire, and the several Russian corps,
both of cavalry and infantry, were observed to te-
trograde towards' the centre. About one o'clock
be opened a well-direaed fire from a battery on
one of the hills in rear of the left, which contributed
much to -the diSorder, that continued to prevail
there, and in a short time he appeared in great
strength on the crest of the hills, and, in the woods
?Pon the left, while his cavalry again attempted to
penetrate the centre,. and again -failed with consider-
able-loss.

The enemy had already made some progress froth
the left toWaids.the rear, when, about four o'clock,
General L'Esroca appeared adrancing in that di-
recaioii, and finally compelled the etieniy,'after sus-
taining a smart cannonade, to abandon the posts he_
had previously occupied.
Nightput an end to the aelion, and General .BetsT7
NIGSEN scion afterwards resolved to fall.back:upon
konio-sburgh, and iii the course of the night retreated,
by, Atalliausen to Wittenburgh, three German miles
from the field of battle, and twe from Konigshurgh..
The following day,..the gth, the cne;Tay. pushed his
4dvanted posts to Malhausen. The litisivn army
fell back close to Konigsburgh, and took op a posi
tion near the Friedland Gare, under the ram parts of
the town.

This battle, taking into consideration the numbers
engaged, the'skill and fury with which it way cony-
tested on both sides, may be•considered as he.moa
severe that has been fought since the Revolutionary
War,. aid the. first great check that BOUAPARTE I)zs
received since the, commencement of his: career in•
1796, and ,the .whole action might be seen 'in one
view,. the tielci of battle. not- Oftending above one
square league; and the few prisoners that were taken
on either side prove the determination of .both par-
ties to conquer or perish. _ _

The cool, resolution of the ilustfian soldiers is be-
yond all`praise,-neither the 'weight of the cavalry, or
the.destruttive fire' of the artillery; wade the least
impression of fear upon them.
BOth armies appear to be using every effort to
strengthen themselves, and if the enemy thinks him=
self it) sufficient farce to maintain his pOsition on the
East Bank of the Vistula, another great action may
be immediately expected.

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