The Sun.
London, England, 1809-05-16 00:00:00

FROM ,THE GERMA N PAPERS:

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AusTatit, APRIL 26;---.fter grossing the iser,
the Nrthdoke.Charle.i br6Ne up, by forted martlies,
with the 34 and bth-torps.ot t4e...a.tztry, and the- Ist
torn! of Reserve-tor :llatishorf„ in the straight road
leading to this place; • while ...the Archduke'Lewia,
with the °c:orps'`,! took the road, to Neustadt, on
the Danube.' The desikn of. •t:hose ditierent forced
marches seems to have-been-Rl:prevent the enemy
from drawing up his' wholy force on the heights be-
'tweet., Pkatistion and, Said,: hut ov..ing to the
enemy's teiriiy, 'could not unfortunately he exe.;
cuted. The latter' liad tirawn up hia main forte,
consisting of the ltiViSidtl3 a flavorist; Cludinot, and

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Letitbre, and another, and ,as tlia wood in front

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completely 'nilisk(•4 I,is whole force, the enemy
could arranini-tlieir ciPerations agreeably .to circurn-
stances. „ •
" Oh the''-tOth the Archduke Charles arrived in
ECkrutatfl, and the Archduke ,Lewis tteSuggburgli, ou
Of Alen and Bohr, where he was attacked with
the utmost fury' by the enemy. Both parties stood
the conflict with equal fury, without losing an inch
of grotind ; the enemy strained every nerve td keep
'off the '3d corps in its progress against,Ratisbon.
" The Archduke Charles had his head-quarters at
Ehlofsliagen on thti 20th. Batisbon capitulated, by
which the Archduke Charles, was able to join the
2d Corps, which came from Bohemia, and took post
between Ehlotsbagen and Ratisbon. The enemy
set no value on these advantages, probably in the
Lopes of taking a heavy revenge, being master of
the heights, and having in some degree separated
our army, attacked on the same day the bth'corps,
tinder the Archdtike Lewis, near Sugsburgh ;
.yet
this attack on the Whol& line, would have made no
impression, had not 'this corps taken the unfOrtu-,
nate resolution to retreat, upon Which being vigo-
rously pursued by the enemy, it was obliged to leave
its artillery behind, in the defiles of Landshut,
throUgh which the great road leads. The retreat of
the sth corps necessarily occasioned that of the 6th,
which suddenly hastened to its assistance from Mu-
nich, to prevent. greater miJortunes. The next day
the Duke of Auersiadt (Marshal Davoust) attacked
the 4th corps near Eckmuhl, probably to prevent
the Archduke Charles front hastening to the assist-
ante of t Archduke Lewis; but the Archduke
wag d..uermined‘to venture a great blow.
" On the 23d a battle began with irresistible fury,
and every thing promised a fortunate issue, when
at five o'clock in the evening a, considerable corps of
cavalry returning horn the pursuit of die Archduke
Lewis, attacked the left 'wing, so that the Arch,
duke Charles, at a Moment when, be was attacked
by far superior nuMbers, and 'part:tcularly by fresh
troops, and as he had now al,o against him that force
. which had been dire&ed against the bth' and 6th
corps, he saw himself obliged to cross the Danube,
and effed 'a Jun6lion with the bth, and 6th corps, in
tiu.llnn. The whole mi,fortune must be attribined
to the'retreat of the sth corps. General Hiller has
now the:command 'of the '5lll and 6ill'corrs, which
are expeaed-at Brannaq tnd Scitarding. They talk
of 'new'engagenietitS which General Hiller has toad,"
(Correspandenten.)'
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CAS Lit6tonix, ..krutt, 28.—T‘ko•Syte'diih frigates
sallea-this•morning trOrn port;'pr:eotided.by two
gun-brigs, their cietitidticiti is'n'ot known, but there
is no doul)t of their beii4;destited to crnize in the
Baltic. Two 74 gun shipS' have been-aimed as block-
L'ilirips, and now warping out,' in order to. be laid
:betweetrthe• two Castles, at the entrance of the
harbour.
Last .night a fleet of 40 'to 00 sail, was seen off this
port, supposed to be the convoy from Gotten 7.
burgh.
STocKitor.m, MAY ;—T-iis Royal Highness "the
Duke Regent ordered, this day, Ole Peputies of
the Clergy, Burghers, and peasantry, after the
Diet Had iit.tM proclaimed with the found of trim).
pet, to assemblebn the 3d-,inat. at the Otliee of the
Counsellor of State," Adlersparra, Secretary of ;the
Archives, to deliver their pos.veis, and inscribe theii
names on the list of Depiniii, and to proceed, on
the 4th, to the office of his Excellency the Chancel-
lor of the Realrn,
..Whose funaions are performed by
the Grand Senescal, in order duly to. verify their
power's, and take their seats as states of the realm.