Star.
London, England, 1813-04-26 00:00:00

WARSAW, APRIL S.

The fortifications of Praga have been dismantled
by order of the Russian Commander; some thou-
sands of labourers have been daily employed for that
purpose. In one of the works a great quantity of
ammunition was found, which the Polish troops had
left behind them at their departure.

Tkidter of A LETTER FROM THE LOWER IjlsTUl44,
DATUD APRIL '2.

44 Yesterday Russian troops occupied the camp be-
fore Thorn. Prussian Engineer Officers, detachments
of the artillery and pioneers, have likewise arrived
there, with the heavy besieging artillery t=om Grau-
denz. The General of Artihery, Count Langeron,
commands the besieging corps. Some flat-bottomed
vessels, equipped fur the purposes have anchoied
half a German mile below Thorn i and a mile and
an half lower downs a bridge has been thrown ovcr
the Vistula,

is The French Governor of Thorn, Brigade-General
baron Mauvillon, has made cycry preparation fgt. an
9bstiaate &tepee) and grengthened the weakest carts

mridt nines. The garrison ku been much weakenei
by ner►ous fevers, and a home-sickness; which tatty:
has carried off a number of the young Bavarians.
u There is no want of any thing in the city, except
beef, medicine, and firewood ; the latter of which
supplied by pulling down those houses which are de.
sated by the inhabitants."

PROM SAXONY, APRIL 4.
Saxony, although not actually the seat of war, has,
navertheless, suffered more now by the measures taken
for the defence of the banks of the Elbe, by quartering
of troops, and supplying of provisions of all kends,
and by the dreadful contagious sicknesses, and the
rapid spreading nervous and hospital fevers, than she
did in the wars of 1807 and 1809. The two valuable
bridges over the Elbe, at Meissen and in Dresden,
which ware destroyed amidst the lamentations of the
inhabitants, cannot be restored at a less expence than
150,000 dollars.

The whole navigation of the Elbe, from Scand.,u,
where it enters Saxony, to Wittenberg, is destroyed ;
for not only the small boats, but likewise the
craft, by which the navigation and commerce wAi
carried on as far as Magdeburgh, ore rendered Ili:.
less. This destruction will for a length of time
jure the trade on the Elbe, which supported gre,.t
numbers of people, and will bring tl4ousands to p(
verty and distress. No. branch of manufacture or
commerce can in the present state of things at: ',t
the least degree of vigour. Every thing is depre.,A,
even agriculture every where suffers. The winter,
which set in an early and severe, prerenthi many
thousands of acres from being sown with win.
ter corn, and likewise great quantities of the latto
kinds of fruits from being gathered. But since Feb-
ruary last, the occurrences of the war, the transport.
in so many thousands of sick, and the supplies of
' all kinds throughout the whole country, have kept
the peasantry continually occupied. The consequence
was, that there not only appeared on all sides symp.
toms of scarcity, but likewise distempers among tho
cattle, the draft cattle being worked much harder
than they could bear.
Such vast contributions of grain and forage liars
been required in the circles of Leipsick, Thuringen,
and Wittenberg, that the amount was some week;
ago calculated at upwards of half a million of dollars,
lhe greatest supplies are demanded for the troops iii
the territory of Magdeburg; and for effecting them
in the speediest manner, a Privy Counsellor pf fits
nance has been sent from Dresden,
The great hospital in the metropolis was cleared
out with all speed, and the sick, among whom were
many dying}, were sent in part to Freyberg, part to
Augustenberg and Hubertsburg, others te-Weissent
fels, and further on to Weimar, Erfurt, and Gotha.
The mortality at Wittenberg and Freyberg, was there.
fore very considerable. At Leipsick alarming symr,
toms of contagion were again observed. At Weimar
the sick strangers were carried by hundreds to the
house for shooting exercises, at some distance from
the city. At Gotha, likewise, it was necessary to
prepare a place for them with all speed. If we coin.
pare the notifications of deaths is the weekly papers
with those in the Leipsick political paper, it will be
found that Saxony has this year already lost slum
excellent and greatly deplored physicians, who have
Callen sacs ices to their professional duties.

_THE:IVEXING STAA

LONDON.

MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1813.

Two Gottenhurgh Mails arrived yesterday, and;
Heligoland Mail arrived law on Saturday night.—
By all these conveyances we continue to receive the
most flattering accounts of the progress of the Allied
Armies, which will be round in the following Official
Bulletin :

4, WAR DEPARTMENT, APRIL '2 4 , 1813.

" Government have received advices from Hamburgh of the
17th, and from Cuxhaven of the 19th, atating the arrival, upon
the Elbe, of General with the vanguard of the Swedi-h
army, amounting to 6000 num. This corps was to be followel
immediately by the main body, commanded by the Cann x
PRINGe of Swinton, for whose reception preparations were
making at Lanechurg.
" The allied force upon tke right bank of the Elbe bad serf
detachnassas, which had penetrated within ton miles of Zell,
and to tSe neighbourhood of Verden. They were cheerfully our.
plied with provisions by the inhabitant., who gave them accurate
information of the strength and movements of the enemy's Corot
The French skewed no intsnrion to advance. A part of DA.
roost's Tr, was at 2.11 and Smuswlck on the loth, in coat
municatloti with the Vfccaor. They appeared to be appreher
she of an attack from the combined Ruseians are! Prussiapi.6
the Pbe, and of an attempt to get into their rear .
" wan beUevecl he Hamburgh chat General Kleist had ob
rained possession of Wittenberg—whether by capitulation of
storm was not known,

" The advice. from Prussia concur In stating, that up to tts
14th inst. the army under count Wittgenstein, and that undtt
Gerseral Blucher, were ;viewing without the enemy being able
to check their progress. On the contrary, his forces were tallinf
back upon the Maine. At Dubien, the Russians bad takes; cou.
siderable magazines destined for the supply of Magdeburg.
The Senate of Hambsurgb bad received an soutane* &lel
the Emperor of Russia, that the whole military force of ltis WI"
vire Mould be employed in restoring the independence of Ge:.
•many, whilst his own frontiers would be left its defence of the
Militia, which bad been called out and encamped. By the Ist of
May there would be soopm Russians engaged iv Gcrniany, in.
chiding Cossacks.
" Reg'mentc ti Oidenhurgkers, !Ingsswlckers, and other Ger-
mans, were raising at 13,oitzburgh.

'• '1 he object of the expedition agaiust Cuahaven was to cif
of all consmialisatiou with England by the way of the Elbe, ilia
to Intercept the traegports, with the supplies of arms, whit.*
were kpoven tq lke elestiped for Hamburgh."

By the same conveyance, we have received the
following snosk important communie Ation
4. HAMBURGH, Apitil. 16.
(PIIIVATIL ILLI Tilt) .4
The following important intelligcnc- I have the
plealure te communicate, upon authority wbich
46ert1 unquestionable. .4 friendinforn,td me, this 111
morning, that he hack seen a letter ko the folloaing
effect ;—The King of Denmark has signified oirk-
ciall7 W tie of Ackilitub.l4 pig as no milit.sty

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tines. The garrison has beet much weakenei
Toes fevers, and a home-sickness; which tatty:
cried off a number of the young Bavarians.
here is no want of any thing in the city, except
nedicine, and firewood ; the latter of which ,c
ed by pulling down those houses which are de.
by the inhabitants."
FROM SAXONY, APRIL 4.
oily, although not actually the seat of war, has,
beless, suffered more now by the measures taken
e defence of the banks of the Elbe, by quartering
)ps, and supplying of provisions of all lands,
y the dreadful contagious sicknesses, and the
spreading nervous and hospital fevers, than the
the wars of 1807 and 1809. , The two valuable
es over the Elbe, at Meissen and in Dresden,
were destroyed amidst the lamentations of the
itants, cannot be restored at a less expence than
00 dollars.
e whole navigation of the Elbe, from Scand.,n,
it enters Saxony, to Wittenberg, is destroyed ;
rt only the small boats, but likewise the
by which the navigation and commerce v..4i
d on as far as Magdeburgh, are rendered ttiz.
This destruction will for a length of time
the trade on the Elbe, which supported gre,.t
ers of people, and will bring thousands to p(
and distress. No. branch of manufacture or
scree can in the present state of things att,-.',1
.ast degree of vigour. Every thing is depre.,A,
agriculture every where suffers. The winter,
set in an early and severe, preventtd many
ands of acres from being sown with win.
rn, and likewise great quantities of the 'atm
of fruits from being gathered. But since Feb.
last, the occurrences of the war, the transport.
o many thousands of sick, and the supplies of
Inds throughout the whole country, have kept
easantry continually occupied. The consequence
that there not only appeared on all sides symp.
of scarcity, but likewise distempers among tho
!, the draft cattle being worked much harder
thou ,nlalA

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road passes throrgh liambargh ind this pirtt of ON-
many, the French troops having once abandoned the
right bank of the Elbe, can have no ream for return-
ing to it, unless to take revenge on Hamburgh for
what has lately happened there; that he (the King)
has, however, too much friendship for the Hansea-
tics ever to suffer them to be so treated ; that he has
therefore a body of 12,000 men ready at the first re-
quest of the Senate of Hamburgh, to cover the right
bank of the Elbe, and oppose all attempts of the
French to recross that river, and he shall authorize
Mr. Rist, his Charge d'Affaires, to communicate this
to the Senate. In order to be more sure of this, I
went to a Senator who is intimately connected with
Mr. Rist, and, telling what I had heard, asked him
hat he thought to which he replied, that he did
not at all doubt that this was really so as I had
heard it.

,g It is reported here that the French have left that
part of the city of Bremen which lies on this side of
the Weser, and that the Russians have entered it :
this seems, however, to be questionable, though there
is every appearance, from the motions of the troops,
as far as we learn them here, and from the general
report, that something serious will shortly be done to
deliver Bremen.

a Every day prisoners are brought in here, who
are well treated. Of the Germans a great number
enlist, particularly, as I learn, in the English Legion
of Colonel Estoff. The douaniers, however, and
gens d'armes, who are brought in, particularly the
former, are generally ill-used by the mob, who, in
spite of the escort, pelt and beat them without mercy.
;One Lieutenant of the Douane was brought in to-
day by some Cossacks from the other side of the
Elbe, and delivered to a corps where I was on duty.
The Cossacks had found 900 Louis d'ors upon him,
and he being notorious in Hambargh for his brutality
and rapacity, did not escape pelting with dirt and
stones on his way to prison. This moment I see
some Cossacks bringing eight douaniers in irons, fol-
lowed by hundreds of the mob, by whom tiley are
severely used, the Cossacks not interfering.
" Indeed the accounts we read every day in the
papers of the depredations committed by the French,
particularly in their sallies from Magdeburg, and in
their retreat through Saxony, contribute very much
to keep the minds of the people inflamed against them.
The Electorate of Saxony is ruined for years to come.
The bridges of Meissen and Dresden cannot be re-
paired under 150,000 dollars, and it is doubted
whether wood is to be found in all the neighbouring
forests sufficient to rebuild the former. AU the ves-
sels on the Elbe, great and small, have been sunk or
burnt—all traffick on that river ruined, and thousands
reduced to misery.

" The early winter prevented the sowing of the
corn, and destroyed many of the latter fruits ; and
the continual requisition of the peasants in the begin-
ning of the year, for transporting the sick, &c. has
hindered them from attending to agriculture; so that
all things rise in price : and the overstraining of the
cattle produces signs of murrain. Such great requi-
sitions have been made for the Prench Army in the
circles of Leipsick, Thuringen, and Wittenberg, that
already some weeks ago they amounted to half a mil-
lion of dollars. The lazarets in the capital were
cleared, and the sick and half-dying transported to
Frey berg, A ugustenberg, Hubertsberg, Weissenfels,
and farther to Weimar, Gotha, and Erfurt. In Wit-
tenberg and Freyberg the mortality was therefore
alarming. In Leipsick there were more alarming
appearances of contagion. At Weimar the sick were
brought by hundreds into a house removed from
the city. On comparing the bills of mortality, we
fi:d that Saxony has lost this year sixteen excellent
and much esteemed Physicians, who fell a sacrifice to
the performance of their duty !"

Letters received this morning from Yarmouth
state, the arrival then/ of the PniNcit of ORANGE, in
a King's vcssci, from t!-.e Peninsula. From his having
proceeded dilecc to that place without coming to
London, it may be infertA, that it is thought his
presence on the oppo.ite coast is likely to be of singu-
lar advantage at the present crisis.

Yesterday morning the PRINLE REGENT left town
for Windsor, to be present at the celebration of the
Princess hlAßy's birth-day. Her Royal Highness
completed her 37th year yesterday.
The Duke of YORK left St. James's about eleven
&clock for•the same parpose.
On Saturday Lord SIDMOUT/I had an audience of
the PRINCE REMIT.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES has
appointed to rccetve the Address of the Borough of
Southwark, at Montague-house, on Friday or Satur-
day, as may be most convenient to the Deputation.
The City of Rochester in Common Hall assembled,
have voted an Address of Congratulation to her
ZZoyal Highness the Princess of WALE&
The Don Cossack appeared in one of the private
boxes at Covent-Garden Theatre, on Sawirday even-
mg, a tended by a Russian Officer and his Interpreter.
The audience, pointing to him, greeted him with loud
clapping of hands, at which he expressed considerable
surprise, until the Interpreter informed him that it
was a mark of popular respect ; on which he rose,
and made several obeisances to the different parts of
the house, which were returned by general plaudits.
In addition to other arms and accoutrements, Mr.
ACKERMAN has presented the Cossack with a very
handsome Sabre; and on Saturday he was visited by
a party, end had presented to him, by Captain HAW-
KER, the full dress of a Light Dragoon Officer.—
He will visit Drury-lane this evening, and Covent-
garden next week, being on the eve of returning
to Russia. -

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