Star.
London, England, 1813-05-15 00:00:00

PARIS, MAY 7.

Her Majesty the Empress and Queen has received
f 'Bowing intelligence of the situation of the army
at aline in the morning of the 2d of May : On the
lst of May the Emperor mounted on horseback at
eine in the morning, with the Prince of Moskwa,
and General Sotitham's division put itself in motion
morels the fine plain which commences upon the
heights of Weissenfels, and extends to the Elbe.—
This d vision was formed in four squares of four bat-
talions each, each square five hundred toises from the
other, and having four pieces of cannon. Behind
the squ.ues was placed General Laboissier's brigade
of cavalry, under the orders of Count Valmy, who
had just arrived. Girard and Mat-chant's' division
came behind in echalons, and formed in the same
manner as Souham's division. Marshal the Duke of
laia was on the right, w:th all the cavalry of the
gsard. At eleven o'clock this disposition was made.
Ti:e Prince of Moskwa, in presence of a cloud of the
enemy's cavalry, which covered the plain, put him-
self in m..tion upon the defile of Poserna. He seized
upon several villages without giving a blow. The
enamy occupied, upon the heights of the defile, one
of the finest positions that can be seen, she had six
pieces of .:annon, and presented three lines of cavalry.
Tice tit st square passed the d. file at the pas de charge,
amidst cries of " Vive I'Empereur," long continued
throughout the line. It seized upon the height. The
four squares of Souham's division passed the desk.
Two other divisionsof cavalry then came to reinforce
the enemy, with twenty pieces of cannon. The can-
tnnade became lively. The enemy every where gave
round. Souham's division marched upon Lutzea;
Girard's took the direction of the Pigatt road. The
Emperor wishing to reinforce the batteries of this last
d.vision, sent twelve pieces of the guard, under the
eaters of his Aid-de-Camp, General Drouet, and
this reintOrcement performed prodigies. The ranks
of the enemy's cavalry were overthrown by grape-
shot. At the same moment the Viceroy debouched
from Merseboutg, with the II th corps, commanded
by the Duke of 'Parente, and the sth commanded by
General L suriston. General Lauriston's corps was
on the left upon the high road from Mersehourg to
Leipsic ; that of the Duke of Tarente's, where the
iceroy was, on the right. The Viceroy hearing the
17:sk cannonade which took place at Lutzen, made
a movement to the right, and the Emperor almost at
the same moment at the village of Lutzen. Mar-
chant's division, and in succession Brune and lticard's
i:misions passed the defile ; but the business was set-
Ilod when they entered in line. Fifteeen thousand
cqv,lry were, thersfore, driven from these plains by
7w•oly the came number of infantry. It was General
\Vn.zingrrode who commanded these three divi.ions,
oleof which General Lanskoi's.

The enemy dig layed btit one division of infantry.
Lecome more prudent by the battle of Weissentels,
and astonished at the ene order and sang froid of our
mach, the enemy dared not approach any part of
cur intarrry, and was crushed by our grape shot.,—
Our h,ss amounted to 33 men killed and 55 wound-
ed, cne a ch'et of battalion. This loss may be con-
s:dered extremely trifling in comparison to that of
the enemy, who had three Colonels, 3b Oillers, and
4 )0 men k llyd and v‘orinded, betides :4 great number
tt ltrastA; by one of these tataliLies
the history t,t the war is hill, tht• first cannon ball
Was fired oil this day struck the wrist of the

Duke of Istria, pierced his groin, and killed him in-
stantly. lie had advanced five hundred and six paces
from the side of the tirallieurs, in order to reconnoitre
the plain. This Marshal, who has a just title to be
named brave and jest, wis equally recommendable
for his military coufs d'ail, by his great experience in
managing cavalry, as by his civil qualities and his
attachment to the Emperor. His death upon the
field of honour is the more worthy of envy, it was so
rapid that it mustilave been without pain. There
are few losses which could have more sincerely
affected the Emperor's heart: the army, and all
France, will partake of the grief his Majesty felt.
The Duke of Istria, since the first Italian cam-
paign, that is, for sixteen Tears, had always, in the
different ranks, commanded the Emperor's guard,
which followed him in all his campaigns and battles.
—The sang froid, good Will, and intrepidity of the
young soldiers, astonishes the veterans and all the
officers ; it is in proof of the saying, “ that to souls
well born, virtue does not want a number of years."
His Majesty had, on the night between the Ist and
2d of May, his head-quarters at Lutzen, the Viceroy
his at Markrandstedt, the Prince of Moskwa his at
Kaya, and the Duke of Ragusa his at Posirna. Gen.
Bertrand was at Stohssen, the Duke of Reggio in
march upon Naumbourg.

At Dantzic, the garrison has obtained great ad-
vantages, and made so successful a sortie, that it took
prisoners a corps of 3000 Russians.
The garrison of Willenberg also appears to have
distinguished itself, and to have, in a sortie, caused
considerable injury to the enemy.
A letter in cyphers, which has this moment arriv-
ed from the garrison of Glogau, is conceived in
these terms :
" All goes on well ; the Russians have made seve-
ral attempts upon this plate; they have always been
repulsed with much loss. Three or four thousand
men blockade us, sometimes less, sometimes more.—
The trenches have been opened ;—during two days,
the fire from our batteries forced them to abandon
their project. (Signet) " GENERAL LAPLANE.
" Glogau, April 13, 1813."

Her Majesty the Empress and Queen Regent has
received news from the Emperor from the field of
battle, two leagues in advance of Lutien, the 2d of
May, at ten o'clock in the evening, at the moment
when the Emperor had thrown himself upon a bed to
take a few hours sleep. The Emperor informs her
Majesty, that he has gained the most complete vic-
tory over the Russian and Prussian army, comman-
ded by the Emperor Alexander and King of Prussia
in person ; that in this battle more than 150,000 can-
non balls had been fired, that the troops covered
themselves with glory in it, and notwithstanding the
immense inferiority of cavalry which the French army
had, that &pod will and courage inherent in French.
men supplied every thing. The enemy was briskly
pursued. No Marshal, no person composing the
Household of the Emperor, was killed or wounded.