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the time, to place itself in position against this corr.

The cavalry which was in the rear of this body,
soon after discovered to belong to the army of Inarshi4l
Blucher, which had been pursuing it during the great r
part of the day. Prince pchwartzenberg immediately
brought up ;A conziderable portion of cavalry frui;
the corps that were pursuing Mirshals Marmunt and
Mortier ; the .Emperor of Russia directed the at'.

vance of the Russian guns, the whole body cf. French
infantry was surrounded, they were charged on ail
sides, under the immediate direction of the Emper(

of Russia, the King GE Prussia, and Prince Schwan-
7.enberg ; after a rebistance which does honour to thl
enemy's troops, the whole of his two masse;, amount-
ing to four thousand eight hundred infantry, r.-4!
twelve pieces pf cannon, were taken.
Such have been, my Lord, the triumphant result!:
of yesterday. The troops ar' already in advenct.
this morning, the cavalry will arrive to-day at L
Ferte Gaucher. General Winzingerode, with tvi
thoyand cavalry, is in observation of Benaparte's
army, on the of St. ll4ier ; its direction is not
yet known.
It is with the greatest regrets have to announce to
your Lordship, that Colonel Campbell was yesterday
most severely wounded by 4 Cossack. Colonel Camp-
bell, continuing that gallant distinguished course
which has ever markol his military career, had
charged with the first cavalry which-pinetrated the
first masses ; the Cossacks who came to support this
cavalry mistook him for a Trench °fiver, and struck
him to the ground. From the appearams Pig more
ing, I am however in considerable hope of his reco-
, very. Colonel Rapatel, late Aid-de-t`,ainp of Gene-
ral Moreau, was also unfortunately killed.
I have the honour to be, &c.
BURGERSII, Lieut.-colonsl Pcl Regt.
1 Viscount Castlereagh, &c. ?cc.

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Headquarters, Ferre Climpspetae,
March '26,1814. •
My Lone—Bonaparte having failed in his attern:t
to dehouche from Planey and Arcis, across the Aube,
..nd having abandoned his idea of attacking Prince
Schwartzenberg in his. position at Menil-la-Comtese,
seems to have been guid4si in his next operations by
the desire of preventing the ;unction of the armies of
Prince Schwartzenberg and Marshal Elucher. ad
he not succeed to the utmost in this object, it was
evidently his best policy to force their union, and
their communications n:; far to the rear, •
and to make
it as circuitous as possible. I: is further manifest,
by intercepted letters, that Eueapatte was rat npinie:l;
that the movement he determined on, on the right ef
Prince Schwart:senberf,s, might induce him Ea fill
back towards the Rhine, for fear of losing his core
munications—that lie thus would be able to relieve
his placer, and be in a better sttsation to cover Pat is.
It generally occurs, that math ssavres are made tri:!:,
the advance, or the head of an army ; but Bonaparte.
in his present underteskiaz, seems so have pashed his
object so far, by the pasi,alse of the Aube with his
whole army nietT ItTitry, as 'so Ave kit himself eel!•
pletely open to that bold and masni!icent decision
which.was immediately adopted.
Bonaparte put his whole army in motion on the.
evening of the '2lst for Vitry. Th it night he re-
mained at sommepuis ; on the following day the
advanced corps of his army arrived at Vitry, and
stmenonell the place. It had been placed by Colonel
in a very tolerable state of defenCe, and it
had a garrison of between three and four thousand
Prussians.
Marshal Ney endeavoured, 4y every menace, to.
obtain a surrender ; bct the brave Prussian Colonel
resolutely refused, and held the town}, which re.*
duced the French commander to cross the Masre by
bridges constructed near Frignicourt. JlOnapartc
bete passed his wirle army on the `2`3d and 2-ith, .1.
was immediately ascertained to have taken the di:
•
rection of St. limier.
Three objects might be now in his view, by tha
movements round our right—to force us back—if this:
failed, to operate upon our communications, and
even proceed to form a junction with Marshal Auge-
reau ; or finally, by mitring to his fortresses of :Metz,
&c. prolong the war Ly resisting on a new line, wb
le
he placed us in the centre of France, having taker)
the best piccautions in his power for the defenFe of
the capital.
The Aloes on the 22d having crossed to the right
of the Aube, lost no time in adopting the bold reso-
lution of forming the junction of the two armies to
the westward, thus placing themselyes between this

French army and Paris, and proceeding with a United
force of at least two hundred thousand men to the
capital of the French empire.
In order the better to mask this movement, the
inarch of the Allied Army was made from Pougy,
Lesmont, and Arcis, on Vitry, and'his Imperial Ma-
jesty the Emperor of Russia, by two extraordinary
marches of 18 and 12 leagues, established his head-
quarters with those of the Field• Marshal at Vitry, on
the 24th instant.

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A very brilliant capture of several pieces of can.
non, 15 hundred prisoners, and a large number of
caissons, was made by General Augerauski, of the
cavalry of the Russian guard, on the 23d, and on this
day and the preceding, several advanced-guard affairs
took place between General Wrede's corps, the Prince
of `.Virtemberfes, and the enemy.

So soon as the Marshal took this decision,be Made
his 'dispositions accordingly, by forming a corps on
the Bar-sur-Aube line, which he has committed to the
care of General Ducts, to prOtect the headquarters
of the Emperor of Austria, his supplies, &c. and
carry theM, if necessary, towards the army of the
south, atl.d also, by, vigorously pressing forward in his
operations towards the capital, to secure his rear,
while he pursues his objects in frost.
The combined armrmarched in three columns to
Fere Champenoise on the•2sth. All the cavalry of
the army formed the•advance' and were to push for-
ward to Sezanne. • •

The 6th and 4th corps formed the advance of the
centre colUmn. The sth was on the right, and the
third corps, and :the reserves and the guards, on the
left. Marshal Blucher was reported to have arrived
with a great part cf his. army at Chalet*
General Winzingerode and General Czernieheff,
with all their cavalry, entered Vitry on the '23d, and
were immediately detached to follow up Bonaparte's
march to St. Dizier,.threatening his rear. General
Winzingerode's• infantry had remained at Chalons
with Marshal Blucher, together-with GeneralWoron-
aoff's iend 'Sachen's corpe. •
Gederial. Bulpw. liad there:lied to attack Soissons,
and-Generals welt and Kleist had moved on the line
of Montratirails . . • •
By these.generil movements yoir Lordship will
percei* that, had Bonaparte even not crossed the
Aube, and passed betweett.oisr• two armies, he pro:-
bably would have found hiniself in a similar Position
to that cif Lelpzie, and the iieult would have been,
I have.no doubt, of the same nature.
The army was to have biersuacked on the 25th at
I'm Champenoise: -. •
It appe. arv;'the corps .of Marshals Marmont and
Mortiei-i WhOid liftiri reticing from before Marshal
• Blucher, 4ictE4 maing.down towards Vitry, to coa-
t 'beet themselves. wig. Bonaparte's operations, igno-
! rant of hisiptentions, which May not haVe been fully
formed Aititil 'he fotind..hiniself too far committed
these corps pf his army were much perplexed on find-
ing tliceselies close to Prince SChwartzenberg's army ,
when,theyzepected to meet their own.
It is, a singular bat a curious fact, that Marshal
Marthent's adv.ance was within a very short distance
on the niglitbf the.24th to Vitry, without the enemy's
knowing it was in the occripation of elle Allies.
On the morningsof the 25th, the 6th corps,. under
*General Reusske, fell .in with their advance,-drove
them back to Connantry and through Fere Chartipe-
noise ; in the former place a large ritihiber of cais-
sons, waggons, and baggage, were taken ; in the
b•t mean time on:the left, the Russian cavalry of the re-
serves, serves,. under the Grand Duke Constantine; was
equally successful, Charging the enemy, takhig eigh-
teen cannon and many' prisonert. But the principal
brilliant, movement, of this day occurred after the
Allied troops in advanee had pasied through Cliam-
penoise; a. detached column of the 'enemy, of 5000
men, under the command of General Ames, had
been making its way under the protection of Mar-
Mont's imps, fit:4n the neithhotirtood of Montmirail,.
to joie Napoleon with his grand army. This corps
had in charge an inimense convoy, with 100,000 nu%
tions of bread, and ammunition, and was of great'
impoitances by the force attathed to it. It had left
i Paris to proceed to Bonaparte', and the cavalry of
1 Marshal Blucher's army were the first to dikover and
observe this corps on :their march from Chalons. My
Aid-de-Camp, Captain Harris, was fortonateenough,
looking out with ronte Cossacks, W. give the first in-
telligence to Marshal Blucher of their position.
The cavalry ef Generals Kort and Basitshikors
corps, were immediately detached after them, and
they were driven. upon Fere Champenoise, as the ea-
valry of the grand army was advancing. Some at-
tacks of the cavalry were made cn this corps, who
form, :%1 theme:lvei in squares, and it is but justice to
;ay, deCended themselves in the. most gallant mar-
ter, although they
,were young troops and garda :4-
!ixierla ; when they were =II:lett:1y surrounded by
Cie cavalry of both armies, some °facers were sent
to demand their surrender, but they still kept march-
ing on and firing, and did not lay down their arms+
t battery of Russian artillery opened upon them, and
renewed charges of cavalry completed their destrde-
tion ; and Generals Ames and Pathod, Generali.of
Division, five Brigadiers, five thousand prisoners, and
twelve cannon, with the convoy, fell into our hands ;
Marmont and Mortier's rear-guards seem to have
drawn off in the direction of Sezanne, and it is dif-
ficult to say whether they will be able to effect
their escape. Every disposition is making to harass
and swround them. But the moment is so eventful,

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and every. intelligence gives rise to such new conjec-
tures, that I can only beg Tour Lordship tp excuse the
very impeafect manner in which I am obliged to detail.
The grand army marches to-day to Maillelet :
head-qtlarters at Treffau, and the advance is to push
as far as La Ferte Gaucher.
Marshal Blucher, who was lasi night at Ernes,
is to advance against Montmirail.
Your Lordship will, I am sure, lament to learn,
that that very deserving officer, Colonel Neil Camp-
bell, was unfortunately wounded bf a Cossack, in
the milk of the cavalry, not being known ; the pike
was run into his back, but he is doing well.
I am also particularly sorry to report the death
of Colonel itapatel, who was shot going tip to one
of the colimns with a flag of truce. The loss of an
officer, so much and so-justly beloved in this army,
from his attachment to General Moreau, his excellent
qualities, and his devotion to the good cause, has oc-
casioned a general regret.
(Signed) CHARLES STEWART, Lieut. Gen.
Viscouut Castlereagh, &c. &c.
Headquarters, Colomiers, March 27, 1814.
MY LORD—The reports from the different c.a-ps
not having been received when I sent off my dispatch
of the 26th, added to the hurry of the riomeit in
which it was written, must be my apology for hav-
ing much under-rated the successes of the 25th inst.
Upon the retreat of Marmont's, Monier's, and
Arrighi's corps before the several columns of the
armies, whose junction had been effected between
Fere-Champenoise anti Chalons, above eighty pieces
of cannon, besides the convoy alluded to in my dis-
patch of the 26th, and a great number of caissons,
fell into our hands. The guns were abandoned in
directions by the enemy in the rapid retreat, and
were captured not only by the cavalry of the Grand
blike Constantine and General Count Pahlen, but
'alio by the corps of General Reifsky, and the Prince
Royal of Wirtemberg.

Generals D'Yorck and Kleist, who had moved
from Montniirail on La-Ferte-Gaucher, where they
arrived on the 26th, very greatly augmented the ene-
my's discomfiture ; General D'Yorck's was very
seriously engaged with the enemy, and took fifteen
hundred prisoners at the latter place ; and it may be
fairly estimated that this part of Bonaparte's army
has been so roughly handled as to have lost one third
of its efficiency in point of numbers, with nearly all
the artillery belong;ng to it. Nothing but continued
Forced marches could have enabled any part pf the
corps above alluded to, to elude their victorious pur-
-1 suers; and when I detail to your Lordship. that Mar-
shal Blucher's army was at Fismes on the 24,th, and
was fighting at La-Ferte-Gaucher on the 26th,making
a march of twenty-six leagues, it wilt be evident that
no physical exertions can exceed those that the present
unc•xaampled crisis brings into action.

The grand army was in position at Mailleret on
the D3th. The Mara was continued in three columns

from Fere Charopenoise; the head-quarters of the

Emperor of Russia and Prince Schwartzenberg wen:
at Treffan : the cay.ilry of Count Pahkn were push-
ed on beyond La role Gaudier, joining Generals
&etc and Kleist; the cavalry and the reserves
were bivouacked at La Vergiere, on the if the
great road; the 6th and 4th corps were in the cen-
tre ; the sth on the left ; and the 3,1 remained in the
rear to cover all the baggage, artillery, parks and
t!ain, and to make the march of the whole conqract.
Generals Kaiseroff and Ledavin's partiz in corps oc-
cupied and observed the country about Arcis and
Troyes, between the Marne arid Seine rivers.
Intelligence waS received from Generals Winzin-
gerode and Czernicheff, who continued following Bo-
naparte's rear with ten thousand cavalry and forty
pieces of cannon, that he was marching by Brienne to
Bar-sur-Aube and Troy( s, hastening back to the ca-
pital with the utmost plecipiotion ; a plain demon-
stration (if any were wanting) that superiority of ma-
nceuvring, as well as superiority of force, were in his
adversaries' scale.
The Prince Field-Marshal continued his march this
day without interruption ; the head-quarters were es-I
tablished atColomiers ; the 6th corps arrived at Mon-
son; Count Pahlen's cavalry, and the Prince Royal
of Wirtemberg, who were sent to turn the enemy's
right, followed one part of the corps before us, which
seemed now to hive separated to Crecy ; while Ge_
nerals D'Yorck and Kleist pushed the other, by ad-
vancing from La Ferte Gaucher to Witte, where
they will secure the passage of the Marne for Mar-
shal Blucher's army ; the sth corps took up its ground
near Chain), ; the 3d at Meveillon ; and the cavalry
of the guard, the guards, and reserves, in front of this
place.
Marshal Blucher's bead-quarters are to night at
La Ferte-3ouarre, and to-morrow his army will pass
the Marne ; which I apprehend the grand army will
do at Lanny ; thus concentrating nearly their whole
force on the right bank of the river, and taking posi-
tion on the heights of Mont-Martre.
I am as yet ignorant of the motives that may have
directed the corps of the enemy in our front; whether
apart has fallen back to form a noyau to the national
.guards, at Paris; and whether with some of thew
they w.ll dispute momentarily the passage of the
, Marne to-morrow ; and whether the other part. is
moving by Provins-to join Bonaparte, remains to be
seen, but in neither instance to be apprehended.
.Wilativer may be the ultimate result of the opera-
Lions is progressrhowever brilliant they appear, the
Sovereigns who arc present. and the Prince Field-
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