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London, England, 1813-12-16 00:00:00

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elettnarfes, were devoured by them with indescriba-
ble avidity.
At the battle of Henan the French fought with
deSperation, because they considered that field of
slaughter as the bloody threshold of their native land..
They haa herkonly to choose between death. and the
Rhine. Many thousands fell in the arms of ibeformer,
• were Diver destined.ajain to see the latter.
• Had -the Lanctsturin been orgatilfed in the country
tureen Leipsic and Frankfort, as it is in Russia,
'Mecklenburg, and Prussia, not a man of the French
,crould ever have crossed the Rhine. Here the Land.
'Muth would have had a glorious field. They
lltive carried off all the provisions, and driven off ali
the cattle from the villages on both sides of the road ;
and the consequence must have been the utminut!,%,
of the retreating army, by hundreds at every.mile.
According to accounts frorn varincs sources, betweel,
(10 and 70,000 men, with lou pieces of c.'nr.on re.
crossed the Rhine ; but the half them were sick or
slightly wounded, so that 30,000 fit foe service may
be reckoned the whole residue of an army which en.
tared the field in the spring 35Q,000 strong, and with
such lofty hopes. Of the 15,000 Poles whom Por.i.i-
Sowski,during the armistice, brought through Bolic •
IniA, about 1400 reached the Rhine. The passi.ig
over of General qulkowOci to the. Allies so enraged
Napoleon, that he issued *in order to dismiss the re-
inammg Poles ; but the. want of cavalry, of whom be
bad only 6000 mounted, indup•ed him to alter his or-
ders, and be haraavuFd the Poles at Frankfort, with
General Dombrowski at their head. Among other
things he said to them, 44 The present situation of
the Ring of Saxony-most not induce you to be faith.
lots to my eagles. I ant your mater ; and will re-
main so. The Germans are now ina fever ;'lriftliink
not that 1 have lost courage,4 am unmanned, &a." •
The famished French soldiers sixotaged toar.ard
Frankfort- with Indescribable:anxiety. '!'here they
hoped for Wine repose and refreshment fbut Napo.
loon either 'train* it danterous in rFst there, of
was unwilling that the' inhabitants, who
,tad ceirmr-
madame With all parts bf the v•orW, Sb&ld witness
the 'frightfully caanitous .state• of his army, He
therefore placed Some 4attalions at the gates, to pre.
vent the entrance of his'famished troops, whO woe all
driven back with.pitilesi barbarity.
P. 13,414 .341TEa...
, BREMEN, Dec. 8,
" The artily-4
the Pante Royal of Sweden con.
sists of about 2.5,000 Ruisians, an equal number r‘f
Swedes, and..several regiments of rrogians, corn.
posing in the Whole (independent of the cretarbruentir
under ulow, Scci sent tq Holland), a force of about
60,000 wen. •
44 His'Royealligligess arrived or; the 26th ult. at
Bremen, and on the' 29tit he left at fur Luneoburg.
Wherever be appears, heistweervadmader triumph
arches, .and by all ranks and
,claps p he is hailed as
the creliverei pf the country, •
From Lunenburglie was tOilifYatige to the &dig.
nits, where Count Walmoden, With about cn or
12,000 men, was espec6ng.him, and having on this
opposite shore. the-Gallo-llapish army under Idarstal
Davoust. Tba forges of the latter were Fomposed
of 11,000 French, and 17,000 panes under biiowd
orderi. Ab'ont 20,000-Danes constituted a separate
naps; and would not act with him, and on that ac-
count they had takep up their quarters within the in-
terior of Holstein,
Davoust being placed in this critical situation
bad applied for permission (should the events of war
feeder it expedient) to withdraw; towards the Nord}
of the Duchy, and . the apswer given is reported to
be—that the defence of Hamburgb was necessary to
the protection of the Danish territory, and that haw:.
ing undertaken that ditty, it limald not be MlTered
that be should abandon it. 1
," it is added, that a distinct declaratiop was =4
by duitommanding (Acer of the Ipantsh arnifisf
teserve, that should the French Marshal not co-ors.
tate for the defence of Alone and the sootherpboun. •
Ailey of Holstein, the Danes, who compose the, pri!t-
iip!irl
csotrength afahnict
toariprtvwe
Zeld he orris
French 80 their owa
's to esopunter 84111 tpcir enemies.tt
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