Star.
London, England, 1813-06-03 00:00:00

PARIS, MAY 29.

Her Majesty the Empress queen and Regent has
received the following intelligence respecting the
events which have passed at the Army, during the
days of the 19th, 20th, '2lst, and 22d, and of the
position of the Army on the 23d. The Emperor
Alexander and the King of Prussia attributed the
loss of the battle of Lutzen to the faults their Gene.
rals had committed in the direction of the combined
forces, and particularly to the difficulties attached to
an offensive movement of from 150 to 180,000 men.
—They resolved upon taking the position of Bautzen
and Hochkerch already celebrated in the History of
the Seven Years War; to unite there all the rein-
forcements which they expected from the Vistula,
and other points in their rear, to add to that position
every thing for which art could furn;sh the means,
and there run the chances of a fresh battle, of which
all the probabilities appeared to them to be in their
fa TOW.

The Duke of Tarente, commanding the 11th corps,
left Bischofswerder on the 15th, in the evening of
which day he found himself within cannon shot of
Bautzen, where he found all the enemy. He took a
position. From this moment the Ptench army
marched upon the camp at Bautzen. The Emperor
left Dresden on the 18th, he slept at Herla, and on
the 19th, at ten in the morning, arrived before Rant-,
zen. He employed all the day in reconnoitring the
lenemy's positions. We learned that the Russian
corps of Barclay de Tolly, Langeron, and Sass and
Kleist's Prussian corps, had rejoined the combined
army, and that its force might be estimated from 150
to 160,000 men. On the 19th, in the evening, the
enemy's position was as follows : his left was sup.
ported by mountains covered with wood, and perpen-
dicular to the course of the Spree, nearly a league
from Bautzen. Bautzen contained his centre. This
town had been intrenched, and covere:l by redoubts.
The right of the enemy leaned upon fortified rising
points, which defended the deboucbes from the Spree,
from the side of the village of Nimschet ; all his front
was covered by the Spree. This very strong position
was but a first position.
We distinctly perceived at 5000 toises distance in
the rear, the ground newly dug up, and works which
marked their second position. The left was still sup-
ported by the same mountains at 2000 toises in the
rear of those of the first position, and considerably in
advance of the village of Hochkerch. The centre
leaned upon three intrenched villages, where so many
works had been erected, that they might have been,
considered as strong places. A marshy and difficult
ground covered three quarters of the centre. Lastly,
their right leaned in rear of the first positic.n, upon
villages and rising grounds likewise intrenched. The
enemy's front, either in the first or second position,
extended about a league and an half. After this re.
eonnoissance, it was easy to conceive how, notwith-
standing a lost battle, like that of Lutzen, and eight
days retreating, the enemy could still have hopes in
the chances of fortune. According to the expressions
of a Russian officer, who was asked what they inten-
ded to do ? " We neither wish to advance nor retire."
" You are masters of the first point, (replied a French
officer) and the event in a few days will prove whether
you are masters of the other."
The head-quarters of the two Sovereigns were in
the village of Natchen. On the 19th the position of
the French army was as follows :
Upon the right was the Duke of Reggio, leaning
upon the mountains to the left of the Spree, and sepa-
rated from the left of the enemy by that valley. The
Duke of Tarente was before Bautzen on horseback,
upon the Dresden road. The Duke of Ragusa was
upon the left of Bautzen, opposite the village of
Niemenschutz. General Bertrand was upon the left
of the Duke of Ragusa, leaning upon a windmill and
a wood, and appearing to intend debouching from
Faselitz upon the enemy's right.
The Prince of Moskwa, General Lauriston, and
General Regnier, were at Hoyerswerda, out of the
line, and in the rear of our left. The enemy having
learnt that a considerable corps was to arrive by the
road of Hoyerswerda, was doubtful that it was the
Emperor's intention to turn their position by the right,
to alter the field of battle, and to cause all his en-
trenchments to fall, which had been erected with so
mush pains, and the objects of such great trouble.—
Not being yet informed of General Lauriston's ar-
rival, he did not suppose that this column could con-
sist of more than sixteen or twenty thousand men.
On the 19th, he therefore detached against them, at
four o'clock in the morning, General Yorck, with
twelve thousand Prussians, and General Barclay de
Tony, with eighteen thousand Russians. The Kus-
sips posted themselves at the village of KHz, and
the Prussians at the village of Weissig.
Count Bertrand had, in the mean while, sent Qt.
send Perin with Op Italian division to Koenigswerda,
to keep up our foinunupicatlon with the detached

cups. Being arrived there at noon, General eery
made bad disposiifons. He did not cause the nt;gh.
bouring forest to be properly reconnoitreti; he plved
his posts badly, and at four o'clock he was assailed
' by a hourrah, which threw same battalions into cris.
order. He Jost 600 men, among whom was Getz.
ral Balathier, of the ItAlian brigade, woundet!,
kcannon.:itid three caissons, but the diviaionll7..-.(
taken to their arms, kept thenaselres to the e5.L.(,,.
and faced against the enemy.

The Count de Valney haring a
cavalry, put himself at the head of the Italian i•
sion, and retook the village of Koenigswerda.
At this very moment, the corps under Count 1,16.
riston, which marched at the head of the Prince
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Moskwa's, to turn the enemy's position, and had dr.
parted from HoyersweVela, arrived on Weissig. 11,
battle commenced, and the corps of General yt:k
would have been destroyed, had it not been for V..,
circumstance of the troops having to pass a (idle,
which caused that they could come up only in sue-
cession. After a battle of three hours, the village of
Weissig was carried, and D'York's corps 1)&1v,
thrown, was driven to the other bank of the Spree.
The battle of Weissig was in itself as irnpiatang
event. A detailed Report will shei4l7 make knout%
the particulass concerning it.
On the 19th Count Lauriston therefore remained in
the position of Weissig, The Prince of Moskwa at
Mankersdorf, and Couni Regnier at the distance of
a league in the rear. The right of the enemy's pp.
sition was evidently its disorder. On the 20th, at
'eight o'clock in the morning, the Emperor went to
the heights in the rear of Bautzen. He gave order/
to the Duke of Reggio to pass the Spree, and attack
the mountain which supported the enemy's left; to
the Duke of Tarento to throw a bridge on chevalets
over the Spree, between Bautzen and the mountains;
to the Duke •of Ragusa to throw another bridge ee
chevalets across the Spree in the turn which thatriw
takes to the left at half a league from Bautzen ; to
the Duke of Dalmatia (to whom his Majesty had
given the command of the centre) to pass the Spree
and disturb the enemy's right and finally to the
Prince of Moskwa, under whose orders were the 3d
corps, General Lauriston and General Regnier, to
push forward on Klix, to pass the Spree, turn the
enemy's right, and to carry his bead-quarters Iron
Wurtchen to Weissenburg.
At noon the cannonade commenced. The Dula
of Tarente had no occasion to throw his bridge of
Ichevalets across the river, as he found a stone bridge
before him, over which he forced his passage. The
Duke of Ragusa threw his bridge across, and the
whole his corps passed over to the other bank of
the Spree. After six hours brisk cannonade, and
several charges made by the enemy without success,
General Compans caused Bautzen to be occupied.—
General Bonnet occupied the village of Needkayn,
and, by a running charge, took a plain which ren-
dered himself master of the whole centre of the ene-
my's position. The Duke of .Reggio got possession
of the heights, and, at seven o'clock in the evening
the enemy was driven back on his second position.
General Bertrand pissed one of the arms of the Sprees
but the enemy kept the heights which supported his
right, and by this means maintained himself betweea
the Prince of Moskwa's corps and our army.

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At eight o'clock in the evening the Emperor ens
tiered Bautzen, and was received by the inhabitants
and the Constituted Authorities, with sentiments due
from Allies who were happy in finding themselves
delivered. from Stein, from Kotzebue, and the coos-
sacks. This day, which, Were it single, might be
called the Battle of Bautzen, was merely the prelude
to the battle of Wurtchen. However, the enemy be.
gan to comprehend the possibility of being forced is
his position ; his hopes were no timber the same, and
he must, from this moment, have had the pi esage d
his defeat. Already were all his dispositions changed;
the fate of the battle was no longer to be decided be.
hind his intrenchments. His immense works, :.nd
SOO redoubts, became useless. The right of his piisi-
tion, which %as opposed to the Fourth Corps, became
his centre, and he was obliged to offer his right, which
formed a good part of his army, to oppose the Prince
of Moskwa, in a place which he had not studied, and
which he believed beyond his position.
On the 21st, at five in the morning, the Emperor
marched towards the heights, three quarters of a
league in advance of Bautzen. The Duke of Reggio
sustained a lively fire of musketry towards the heigi;s4
which defended the enemy's left. The Russians,
who felt the importance of his position, had rlaced a
strong part of tke army, in order that their lett should
not be turned. The Emperor ordered the Dukes of
Reggio and Tarente to keep yp this combat, to keep
the enemy's left from disengaging itself, and to hid:
from him the real attack, the result of which could
not be Celt before noon, or' one o'clock. At eleven
o'clock the Duke of Ragusa advanced 1,0(K) toises
from his position, and engaged in a dreadiui C3n•
nonade betore all the enemy's redoubts and iimench.
menu. The guard and the reserve of the army, con.
sealed by rising ground, had easy debouches to asi•
"ranee, by the left or right, according as the virisil•
utdes of the day might require. The mum) w'=
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thus kept in uncertainty resreciing the real pout of
attack. During this time -he Prince of Moskwa
overthrew the enemy at the village of Kb:, pasae,l the
Spree, and led fighting what he had bet' 'e trim to
the village of Preeletz. At ten o'clock he eau

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the 4age' but the enem?sreieries staving adtraneea
to cover the head-gdarters, Prince Moskwa was
erivcri b.ck, And lost the village of Preeletz.
The Duke of Dalmatia began to debouch an hour
afternoon' The enemy, who coknprehended all the
deger with which he was threatened by the direction
the latter had taken, knew that the only ratans of ad-
caetageousli supporting the battle against the Prince
octlaskwa was to prevent us from debouching. He
endeavoured to oppose the Duke of Dalmatia's at-
tack. The motnent for deciding the battle had then
strived. The Emperor by a movement to the lefts
at twenty minutes marched with the guards, General
Laren r Maubourg's tour divisions, and a great quan-
-6:4 of artillery, upon the right flank of the enemy's
postion, which had become the centre of the Russian
army'. Mtirand's and the Wirtemberg division car-
ric.: the rising ground, which the enemy had made
tisp;int d'amui. General Devaux established a bat-
tery, the fire of which he directed upon the masses
whic!i attempted to take the position. Generals Du-
lattioy and Dronot, with sixty pieces of reserve, ad-
eanced ; lastly, the Duke of Treviso, with the divi.
sirens Dumoutier and Barrois of the young guards
took fie road to the ;nn of Klein-Baschovitz, crossing
the mad from Wurtchen to Bautzen.
The enemy was obliged to uncover his right to
prepare for this new, attack. The Prince of Moskwa
took adVantage of it, by advancing in front. He
took the village of Presig, and having come up with
tl:e enemy's army, marched on to Wurtched. It was
at three o'clock in the afternoon, and whilst the army
was in the greatest incertitude of success, that a heavy
firing was beard along a line of three leagues, and
announced to the Emperor that the battle was won.
The enemy, finding that his right wing 'vim turned,
began to retreat, and this retreat soon became a
flight. At seven o'clock in the evening, the Prince of
Yoskwa aed General Lauriston arrived at Wurtchen.
'Lie Duke of Ragusa then received orders'to make
ay. inverse movement to that which the guards had
mide, occupied all the intrenched villages; and all
t.'-‘c redoubts, which the enemy were ofliged to eva-
(slate, advanced in the direction of Hochkerch, and
this took the enemy's left in flank, which then fell
:n unavoidable route. The Duke of Tarente,
en I,is side, briskly pushed the lett wing, and did it
ecnsclerable mischief.

The Emperor slept on the road in the midst of his
guards, at the Inn of Little Bdcehurtz. Then the
enemy, being forced from all his positions, left the
field of battle in cur power, covered with his dead
ark wounded, and several thousand's of prisoners.—
On tl'e 22d, at 4 o'clock in the morning, the French
army put itself in motion. The enemy had filed the
whole night by all the roads, and in every direction.
We had not found his first posts until past Weissen.
trg ; he did not offer to make any resistance until
had gained the heights in the rear of Kerckenbac k.
The enemy had not yet seen our cavalry. General
Lefebvre Desnouelles, at the head of 1500 horse of
tie Polish lancers, and the red lancers of the guards,
charged and overthrew the enemy's cavalry in the
plain of Reitenbach. The enemy, believing that
these were alone, caused a division of their cavalry
to advance, and several divisions were successively
tegAged. General Latour Matibourg, with his 14,000
horse, and the French and Saxon cuirassiers, arrived
to ther assistance, and several charges of cavalry
took place. The enemy, quite astonished to find 15
or 16,000 cavalry before him, whilst be believed us
tnsupplied with any, retired in disorder.

Tile old lancers of the guards are, fcr a great part,
composed of the volunteers of Paris and its neigh-
bourhcod. General Lefebvre Dcsnouelles, and Ge-
neral Colbert, their Cnlonel, bestows the greatest eu-
/-giunis in them. In this affair of cavalry Gener.tl
.r.iyere, of the light cavalry, and an Officer of the
fighest distinction, lad his kg carried off by a cannon
Getter d Regnier, Wi at the Saxon corps, gained
^c heights i:. hind eitenbach, and pursued the enemy
;.s far as !:le village of Hoven-idol-I. Night overtook
..Is. at a league front Goez litz. Although the day had
extremely lorry, .ve finding ourselves now at the
dH.:lce (.1 eight le;T ues frrm the field of battle, and
taat the troops lad undergone so nit;ch fatigue, the
Trench army was to have slept at Goeilitz, but the
enetny having placed a corps of their rear guard on
rile heights front, and as it would have required
half an hour more daylight to turn his left, the Em-
peror or:lered'the airily to take a postien. In the bat-
tle of the 2.J111 and f,!!-r, the Wirtemberg General
Fratc:netonout, and General Doreaaz, were wounded:
CY.Ir loss on thttse days may be estimated at 11 or 12
CP-Its:lnd men, killed and wounded.

is! 7 o'clock in the evening of the day of the na,
!!:f: Great Nlai.shal Duke de Flinn!, being on a small
eni;-euce akng with the Duke de Treviso and Gene-
ral all three v:ith their feet on the ground,
aild at a suifizient distance from the fire, °he of the
list bails fired by the enemy struck down close to the
Duke of Treviso, tore the lower part of the Great
11"shal, and killed General Kirgener on the spot.
The Duke de Frioul immediately felt that he was
nort,,:ly wounded, and expired twelve hours after.
As s,,on as the posts were placed, and that the army
z:.ken its hivonaque, the km peror went to see
Duke of Frioul. He found him perfectly master
of himself, and spewing the greatest fang froid. The
Duke offered his hand to the Emperor, who pressed
it to his 45.—" My whole life (said be to him) has
been consecrated to your service, for do I regret its

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At kngth we have received the French official tie.
ttils of the bsittics of the 20th and 21st t!lt. The
first was fought at Bautzen, and the second, which
was the most sanguinary, took place at Wurtzen, the
place at which General Sir CHARLES STEWART'S last
dispatches were dated. The Paris Papers, which
detail these important events, come down to the,
`fist ult.

The fighting began on the 19th. Throughout that
day the Allies had the advantage in every direction.

A whole division, under General PER/N, seems to
have fallen a sacrifice to what BONAPARTE calls " bad
dispositions." They were assailed by a " Hurrah!"
In other words, the Cossacks fell upon them and be-
laboured them so unmercifully, that they lost 600
men in au instant. There is magic in this word
Hurrah—kng may its repetition delight our ears I

The Contractors for the Loan waited upon the
CItANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER this morning, the
Minister said he should want 27 millions for the en-
suing year. The Contractors to take 8110 Red. ;
Cons.—The bidding to he on the 9th inst. in
Lnng Annuities. First payment, 12th June ; last
ditto, 10th Feb. 181+. He stated also that he
should want a Vote of Credit for 6 millions, and that
he would not pledge himself that he might not want
more before the last payment.

Every one will recollect thst a week or two ago
Monsieur the Count D'Aarors left this country and
sailed for Heligoland. Shortly after the Count's ar.
rival in that Island, he addressed a letter to the King
of DENMARK, requesting his Majesty's permission to
pass through the Danish territories on his way to the
head•quarters of the Allied Armies. This request,
after an unnecessary delay in answering the letter,
WAS sternly refused, with only the dry observation,
that it could not be complied with, is Denmark was
now at was with Great Britain.

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lELIGOLAND MAILS:

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Mails froth Heligoland have thrived this morning,
and btaught Haraburgh Papers to the Soth, which
contain some account of the operations on the 10th.
It is no longer a matter of doubt, that Denmark
continues her alliance with France, as the following
article will prove :

" COPENHAGEN, MAY is.
" This days State Gazes contains the following
article :—The earnest endeavours of the King to di-
minis!: the difficulties which his faithful subjects suf-
fer by the interruption of the communication between
the ttvo Kingdoms, have been fruitless. Count Be: n-
storff, who had been sent to London with proposals
for Peace, has been S2nt away by the English Govern
merit without being heard : he was given to under-
stand that the conditions of Peace must be agreed to
in another place than London, ar.d under Swedish
participation ; the claims of Sweden being made the
basis. It is sufficiently known these claims are con-
tr :ry to the securi.y of the State and the maintenance
of the union betwe n the two Kingdoms—the war
must therefore continue. liis Majesty relies with
confidi nee on the ind p ndance and spira of his faith.
ful atal his and our just cause."—A'Ama
Mercury, May 25.

MAY 20.

" Yesterday some battalions Of Russians andAteck-
leeeburgliers arrive:A here, to rephice the Swcdleeia
troop, who have taken' a position near Dergedirf.
The works on our walls are almost finished. It ap-
pears to be the. intention.of Tettenlorn to
make Hamburgh a place of area,. It aria so .:en be
in a condition to make a most tfrzctual tcsistance in
case of an attack.

" The French at Williamsburg have'suffered much
by the wetness of the weath:r, ,and a part of the
island has been overflowed by the late high tide ; and
it is to be presumed that the French will be obliged
to desist from their design against Islamburgh, as the
Water is certainly not their favourite element.
" The Ci;rtyrfroadent of tit? 29th of May, states the
whale number of Swedish troops in Pomerania,
Mecklenburg, and the Elk, at (21,0p0 men.
" The artillery, consisting of from seventy-Eve to
ninety pieces, is landed ; and the head.rpiatters of
the Crown Prince were expected to be, on the tli)th,
at Wittenberg, at which place the whole Swedish
force is to be collected."

A le ter dated from Weinenburg, (between Baut-
zen and Gorletz), nt 1811 May, says:—" The Im-
perial Minister, Count STADION arrived here a few
days ago, aid had audiences of their Imperial Rus-
sian and Royal Prussian M jesties, and conferences
are continually held between him and the Ministers,
at Head-quartvrs."—(torrvrponderrio May 23.)

PRIVATE LEnta.
" HAMBURGH, MAY 21.

" Since my last we have passed a ve•y uneasy
time. The Danes, whose presence probably pre-
served us from further attempts of the enemy, left
us on Wednesday evening, w.thout any one's being
able to assito the cause or even to guess at it. Re.
ports to this effect had been circulated the whole day,
but were uniformly declared unfounded by the Danes
themselves, and their having just received provisions
for three days, seemed to be a pledge of their stay.
" In the events;, however, M. Von Hess, Colonel
of the Burgher Guard, acquainted them by a printed
notice, th3t ' the Danes withdrew their assistance,
which had been given from the purest motives, but
that if this should Create uneasiness, it could be at.
firmed with certainty, seven battalions of Swedes
would arrive on the '2oth, in the evenin". That we,
therefore, had only the small praise left of defending
our city alone in conjunction with our first deliverers,
for about Y 4 hours.' In the evening of the 19th we
fired a few shot, Which visibly damaged the entrench.
ments of the enemy.
66 At one in the morning a brisk cannonade was
commenced on our side, which was answered by
French with a shower of grenaies and a few :24-
pound shot, of which last only one readied the city.
'lle French threw some hundred grenades, many of
which came pretty far into the city, but not a single
one occasioned fire to break out. On the Grasshr ock
(the large meadow on the Eller, without the walls,
where Our chief batteries lie) one burgher was killed
and three or four wounded, which was all the damage
occasioned by this attack. The French did not make
any attempt to land, as was expected : probably they
only sought to damage the city, or were in hopes of
setting fire to it in several places, and then attempting
to land. About four, the French firing totally ceased;
partly because their batteries were dismounted, as :re
could well see ; anl partly, as we presume, from
want of powder, in which they are in all probability
much deficient; for, within a few days, peasant wo-
men have been detected smuggling out powder under
their clothes; and last night, as is asserted and I be-
lieve on good foundation, a vessel was surprised on
the Elbe by our people, with barrels of powder des-
tined for the enemy. It came, it seems, from Altona,
but the senders are not yet found out.
66 Thursday was a day of terrible confusion : the
people, who found they mere in reach of the French
batteries, hurried to send away their effects from
their houses and warehouses."

" HELIGOLAND, MAY 29.

ge We have a report (which it is Loped may prove
unfounded) in circulation here, that on the 26th the
Swedes left Hamburgh in a considerable hurry.".

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