Star.
London, England, 1806-10-15 00:00:00

IRANCKFORT, OCTOBER 4.

Our Sovereign, the Prince Primate, returned frisk
Afchaffenburg yelerday. The paffage of troops,
ammunition, &c. feems to be redoubled. Yellerday
the Emperor of the French, followed by Idarfhal
Augereao, puffed through this city, no his way to
Franconia. Marital !Armes, the Commandant of
the Imperial Guard, puffed through on the fame day.
According to come accounts, the King of Pruffia has
strived it Gotha.
VIENNA, SEPT. 14.

The Emperor departed yeflerday for Upper Auf.
in order to japed the meafures taking for the
defence of the country near the city of Ems, and the
borders of the river of that name. The Arch4Org
Charles um alma Ihrwtly met out for the fame placer
and with the fame views.

The Emperor has come to the refolution of main-
taining an armed neutrality, during the prefect cir.
cumflances of Europe, and the North of Germany in
particular.
Orders have been iffued for ftroogly occupying
the Auftrian (rattier', particularly thole parte of
.them where the war is mnft likely to rage ; and we
we hear that the Archduke Charles will in the vivre
of next week reach the frontiers of Upper Atpfltia
And Bohemia.

It is aerted that General Mack has been (sweated
to death by the Court Martial appointed to try him ;
but that the execution of the Giateocedtpettds ou the
Emperor's ratificstims of it.

LITTLE OF MAIILII.

SZVILACT Of a LITTER FROM r‘s orrsCal Owitais,
• DAVID
• Nun**, Agave r, dog%
• You will, probably before you receive this, have
heard the official accounts of our brilliant vjaory over
RlGN,sa'a army in the plains of St. Euphonia, oa
the 4th ult. It may not, however, be unacceptable
to yotr to learn a few particulars of the action, which
I had a mod favourable opportunity of feting from
the.tornmencement to the end.
• Ike landed on the ill, we were Ewa grofsly
inifitAinsed refpedlng the nature of the country
and Rsanita's force, which we were affured did
not exceed two thoufand men, and that the coun-
try was Co mountainous, that hardly any thing but
a goat or a mule could pats ; we were alfo affured
that all Calabria would rife to krin us in mall the
intent our difembokation was known. The very
reverie of all this turnerA out to be the fad—We
found a fine open champaigne country, where you
might have drawn up fifty thoufand men in order of.
battle : not a Calabrian joined us till they law us
vidorious, and inftead of two thoufand men, whom
we expelled to attack when we marched towards
Maids, we Caw about eight thoufand of the enemy
drawn up in a moft advantageous politico.
Rsoatia, from his fituation, could diftindly
count every man of our force as we advanced, and
feting us fo much inferior in numbers, he ordered
his army to move forward into the plain to Utack
us, in full confidence that our defeat and ratiOrould
be more complete than if he had waited tq 'receive
our attack ; and, certainly, had we been worded on
the open plain on which we engaged, very few of us
could have efcaped from their cavalry. • ••• •
On finding the enemy advancing to inlet us,
and their force fo much greater than cilia.* 'lmped-
ed, there was, for a few minutes, a Wes, and Come
indeciGon and confultation on our part,what was mail
advifable to be done to have retreated would have
been fhame and defeat, and even to wait theft attack
would have been extremely dangerous, whiriiirehat
expelled to be the affailants.
" Our light brigade, and the 78th and Bed regi-
ments, which were in advance, were therefore or•
dered to attack tbe,Opopeig,, and by them the action
was commenced. The Light Brigade was oppafed
to the celebrated fine regiment of French Infantry
Leger, which bore as high a charaderid their ter.
vice as General Moore's regiment doeCitsoitri.:.After
firing two rounds, they ceafcd firing, ported their
arms, and advanced upon us to the charge, whilft
our gallant fellows immediately did the fame to meet
them. - It was the mod awful and anxious moment
I ever experienced, as I beheld thefe two corps ap
proach each other, with a firm and rapid pace, to the
work of deftrudion, and we could plainly fee a finile
of confident prefumption in the faces of the enemy,
as if they were certain of overturning us at the firft
charge. The French, however, on feting the on.
daunted refolution with which our oleo moved for-
ward,' began to (laden their pace and fa waver in
their ranks, when we bad got within.,about -fifty
yards ofAen: ; and as we Rill pufhed qiisp'cluty Loon
halted, as if afraid to advance farther cluidtalamed '
to Ay. When within a few paces of ebidirtat Igen
came to the charge, and deduct at theme Toll "itseed
with their bayonets ; and in ewe iodine afterwards the
enemy were routed, and every scan who could run,
took to his heels, though we had the bayonet fo clofe
to their bread before they broke, that more than half
of them were killed or mortally wounded, nearly on
the ground where they were drawn up.
" Never perhaps was the firmnefs and courage of
the two nations with the bayonet more fairly put to
the tea, than on'this oceafion, and after this proof,
let no Britiffi Regiment ever hefitate to meet a French
one at that weapon, for you may red affured that

they will not (land the nand charge from us, what-
ever they may threaten. 1 was in a fituation to fee
the condud diftindly of every man of both Regi-
ments as they advanced upon each other, and I fn.
leranly affure you, that no part of the britilh line for
one moment hefitated, or bung back, and that the
whole of this French boafted Regiment, when we
came within a few yards of them, either halted,
wavered, or fled ; and in no one point of their whole
line could they properly have been Paid to And or
lAA our charge 1
Whila this was going on, the 78th and 8 tit at-
tacked that part of the French line oppofed to them,
with the moll determined bravery, and, after giving
and receiving two volleys, they alfo advanced upon
the French, to charge them, but they immediately gave
way, from the effets of their fire, before they got
within two hundred yards of them. They made feveral
attempts to rally afterwards, but they were foclofely
lusted that they were foon totally defeated. Thefe
three corps bote the chief brunt of the battle, which
hardly lafled an hour 'before- the French army flew in
all direflions, and was focoMplettly routed, that I fin-
cerely believe, if we had had five hundred cavalry,
not fifty men of them could have- efcaped.
The French cavalry had the fineft ground in the
world to at upon, had they been inclined to charge
in good carnal ; but, on part of the a7th regiment
wheeling backwards to receive them when they at-
temptedto outflank us, tleir courage failed them, and
they &runk from the trial.
4, It is impoeble to do ample plaice to the cool
intrepidity widph the whole of ourlcoops Owed on

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Ithis occafron = and the 78th regiment in particular,
which is entirely compofed of young Highlanders,
(hardly a man of them above twenty years of age),
advanced to the attack with an enthufsafm that aflo.
niffied and delighted every Bt itifh Officer, as much as .
it appalled the enemy.
" We had but few guns on either fide, the French
had four, and we ax. Their gnus were •ery ill
managed, and pointed—ours admirably well.
" Our lots in killed and wounded is twelve officers,
and Soo men. We buried upwards of goo of the
enemy on the field, and about ifioo more were
wounded or taken prifoners.
4' From the returns of the French Regiments,
which we have obtained from General COMMIS, it
appears, that the enemy had 7553 rank and file in
the *Elia°, exclufive of officers, whilft our whole
army, including officers, did not caceed 4950,t0-tbat
the enemy outnumbered ns by nearly sOOO men.
" We are doubly pleafed to think, that the brags.
docio Rcomlllt fhould have commanded the army we
fo complete!y defeated with fuch inferior numbers;
and in his account of the battle of Maida, we fancy
he will hardly venture a fecond time to afert, that
the Englifh difplayed neither ' terrege, introtirk, er
talent:, is at AU, as he vaunted in his blatant One
Egyptian campaign.
" After the anion, the Calabrians, teeing the
French no longer invincible, every where conk arms,
end all the French outpofls in the country have been
Ant off, and in general they have been literally tut to
-Sifter by the juftly enraged natives. Roosts aa's army
fince the battle, been reduced to lets than 3000
men, and they are fo difpirited and panic Bruck,
that they now By even before the Calabrians, whom
Sir SIDNeY SMITH is arming and organizing with
wonderful effeft ; and I am convinced that it will
require at leap forty thoufand men to fuladue that
country again."
THE EVENING STA*P

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• ( •
A veiy heavy firing commenced off Boulogne yell
terday morning a little after twelve o'clock, which
continued for two hours, but no particulars had
reached Deal or Doves when the mails came away.
Commodore Owen, lo _the Ciao' frigate, accompa-
nied by therneiranst Soap of war, and feveral
gun brigs gone frees theDotrns the day before
for the Fre,. coalt: it is therefore probable that
anotbir atteek Isas.bset? Rocket boats,
the particallowno erhiskonigilliseesine-eapeacd to be
made how
vi Slily von, -ri
,stoles
In a Hattabarglli
. .
the head of Parlt,' Ina the fol-
lowing paragraph hieu -
N It is reporteillbitittrifeiege.lowe expel ienced
a check in Italylland. that kraal krtewn and dif-
N tinguifbed Cienerale have perifhedmifrrably ; but
this news requires eftiltritation."
7‘.1,
.An article, demi:l4ga*, apth September, in
the fame Paper, fay**.

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44 There is a very general report that the French
" have fuflained a great defeat in Italy, and which
•• has colt Madbal MAMMA his life•"
From this it is evident that the report of the. French
having been defeated in Italy was current at Paris,
and silo in Germany, though it has appeared in none
of the Paris Journals. It is the fame report that has
been circulating here for fume days, and we fhall be
extremely happy if it fhall turn out to be well kap-
ded ; but we are not without our fears, that it wiU
prove to be only the echo of the Battle of Maids,
(of which we have this day given a very particular
account,) changed a little in its paffage. We know
that much pains were taken by the French to prevent
the account of that battle from being publifhed on
the Continent, and particularly in France ; but as
no care could entirely prevent it, it is not wonderful
that mutilated reports Ihould reach France, and
thence find their way in private letters to Germany.