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• ITOREIGROPPICE, NOVEMBER 6, 1613.
Disfutelies, bf wMch the foUireVilikarechpies, have
keen 'this day ceetived from the lionrLietitentnittese-
iieral Sir ct,r.: Stewart, at the • Officedf Viseetnt
Cantereagh : , •
" —Prism Rovarsitieitiearters, Cease, October 14.
Mfr tottli-2-1 Write nit ti ew lines, as from our
peegent situations, I am uncertain ifthis dispatch may
arrive.
I acquainted your Lordship, in my dispatch of the
I lth, that the Army of Silesia and that of the Prince
Royal were d chrual on the Saale, on the 11th inst.
On the 12th, it appeared that the enemy had col-
lected considerably on .the right bank of the Mulda,
betwien Doben, Enlenberg, and Jesnitz, while at the
same time it was believed he remained in force
against the Grand Army; but all his forces seemed
to be concentrated between the Mulda, Leipsig, and
Torgau. •
The Grand Army, on the 12th, according to ad-
vices received here, was posted, as follows: the maid
body at Altenburg ; General Wittgenstein's Corps,
at Borna, where it appears he had a successful affair
with the enemy ; Genefal Kleinau, at Frahm; Ge-
nerals Guilay and Thielman, at Zeitz ; Prince Mau-
rits Lichtenstein, at Pegin ; General Benningsen had
advanced froth Peterswalde, and Dohna to Wald-
beim ; and General Bubna had a very brilliant affair
before Dresden on the 10th ; he also succeeded in
carrying the tete-deponi at Pirna, destroyed the
boats, and took cannon and prisoners. The enemy
has only left, according to report, 12,100 men as a
garrison in Dresden.
To this general information was added the report,
that the enemy had 'debauched from Wittenberg, on
'the right bank of the Elbe, and had forced the corps
of General Thumen to retire on the 11th.
It became now of the greatest importance to ascer-
tain the amount of the enemy's force passing at Wit-
tenberg.
That Bonaparte should adopt a measure, passing
with allthiis army at Torgau and Wittenberg, which
. abandons all his communications, and allows all the
Allied Armies to be united and placed betweeu Him
and France, seems so desperate, and so little in mili-
tary calculation, that until this interesting crisis de-
*elopes itself, it is ittwissible to pronounce an opinion.
The Crown Prince, upon the above state of•affairs,
recrossed the Seale on the 18th, and marched to Co.
then, where he has taken post. Being thus within
march of General Blucher at Hall each army can
l'eciprocally support each other, and combine their
Inovements ; and the Grand Army may be expected
emery hour at Leipsig,
The news of this day is, that six divisions of the
enemy's army and the Guards have passed at Wit-
tenberg, and are directing themselves on Berlin.
Our communications across the Elbe at Rosslau
and Acken have been attacked, and the former given
up by General Tauentzien, who, to avoid being taken
In the rear by the enemy, who had passed at Witten-
berg, has joined General Thumen, and is falling
back on Zerbst, and towards Poticlam.
-This momentary loss of our communications across
the Elbe, except below Magdeburg'', may be a tent-
porary inconvenience ; but the annihilation of the
French army being the sole object, the Crown Prince
has allopted the resolution of marching to Halle and
- joining the corps of General Blucher and the Grand
Army, and when all the armies shall be united, it
will be indeed strange if your Lordship does not re-
ceive a good account of the enemy.
The intelligence of the treaty being signed with
Bavaria, has arrived from the Grand Army.
General Wallmoden's carps, as well as General
Tauentzien's must act according to circumstances ;
it is difficult, decidedly to say, what line they will
adopt.—l have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) • CHARLEA STEWART,
Lieutenant-General.
Halle, October 15.
Div Lonn—Ttre accounts transmitted in my dis-
patch of the llth instant, founded on the informa-
tion then received, of six divisions of the enemy's
young guards having debouched from Wittenberg,
as also troops from Torgau, on the right bank of the
Elbe, likewise his having taken possession of Dessau,
may cause a momentary anxiety in the public mind.
I aril anxious, therefore, as early as possible to re-
move it ; and i now have the honour to inform your
I.ordship, that, according to later intelligence recei-
ied, the enemy is recalling his troops from the direc-
tion of Wittenberg and the Lower Muld, and seems
to be iisembling them in the neighbourhood of Leip-
'etc, Taitcha; and Eulenberg. This intelligence is in
gut 'derived from a Lieutenant-Colonel of the French
.81.aff, taken prisoner, on whom was found a letter
addressed to Marshal Marrannt, enjoining him to
put himself in march for Leipsig, and to place him-
self under the orders of Murat.
The enemy's furies that have been manoeuvring
. on the right bank of the Mulda, and that crowd the
Elbe, are cantina:AO& by • Marshals Ney and Mar-
snodt ; and they have so studiously concealed their
movements by marches and counter-marches, and the
country is so enclosed and difficult near the conflux
of those rivers, that the information is not precise.—
The intelligence, however, from the grand army is
positive as to the enemy's assemblage in the neigh-
bourhood of Leipsig:
On the 14th he retired from Zerbst, and withdrew
from Acken, where he had shewn himself ; having
eestrnyed our tete-de-pont at Rosslau he abandoned
it, and the Cossacks of General Wintzingerode's
corps of the Prince Royal's army drove him from
Dessau, which was re-occupied.
These different events confirmed the other intelli-
gence, and appearances denoted the movement from
Wittenberg to have been undertaken with a view of
alluring the northern army to repass the Elbe.
Upon general military principles, to have crossed
that river without possessing. Wittenberg may be, by
many, a doubtful, if not an injudicious undertaking;
but on the other hand must be balanced the advan-
tages derived from the union of about three hundred
thousand men, surrounding the enemy on all points, '
the state of demoralization in his army, their distress
for provisions, which, hemmed in as they are, must
*Winker/ incrOusei and loaf, the advantage of re,
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