Star.
London, England, 1813-04-24 00:00:00

PROM THE ELBE, APRIL 7.

General Morand, who was severely woundecirand
made prisoner at Luneburg, and brought from thence
on the 3d inst. to Boitzenburg, where he died, was
yesterday buried at that place by the Russians, with
great pomp.
A bridge of boats is throwing over the Elbe, at
Domitz, under the protection of the guns of the fort,
which is to be completed on the Bth, when a consi.
derable corps d'armee of the united Russians and
Prussians will cross the Elbe, to Marshal Da-
voust out of the Old Mark of Er anaenburgh.

HAMBURG', Ai'.::;2ic
troops
had
their the Gth .of April, the iia
their first engagement with the IftNench, Twenty
Lubeck sharp.shooters, acid 10 dragoon foot, had
passed over near Zollehspicker, to obtaitiVelligence
of the enemy. They fell in with a post of L',4) of the
enemy, and a.brisk skirmishing began, which ioted
'half an hour, and in which the young Lubeektrs
displayed much bravery, and presence of m:: 1. The.
enemy, though nearly three times their force, could
obtain no advantages over them ; and the whole de:
tarliment embarked and reached the right bank
without . any loss :—only two of the Lubeekers were
slightly wounded.

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

DEFEAT OF GENERAL WINCHESTER.

The official dispatches relative to the above event
did not reach Government till yesterday. The fol-
lowing Bulletin WAS immediately issued from the Co-
lonial Department, and appeared in our Second
Edition :
" COLONIAL DEPARTMENT, APRIL 23.

" Dispatches have been received from Lieut.-Gen.
Sir G. PREvosT, dated Quebec, Feb. 8, containing
an account of the total defeat of a part of the Ame-
rican army, under the command of Gen. WINCHES.
Tea, at French Town, on the river Raisin, 26 miles
to the south of Detroit, on the 22d January. The
enemy's force engaged amounted to upwards of
men, of whom above 500, including the General and
two Field Officers, are prisoners, and the remainder
either killed or wounded. Colonel Pam-roil, who
commanded the British force engaged, speaks very
highly of the conduct of all the troops engaged in
this affe.ii, both regulars and militia.
66 The loss sustained by the British troops was se-
vere, owing to the enemy's being posted in houses
and inclosures ; it amounts to 21 killed, and 158
wounded. Among the latter are the following officers:

Lieut.-Colonel St. George, Capt.Tallen, and Lieut. Clemow,
of the 41st, Lieut. Franzhton, of the Royal Artillery, Ensign
Kerr, of the Newfoundland Fei.cit lee, Capt. Mills, Lieutenants
M'Cormick, Gordon, and Garvin, of the Esser Militia, and
Lieutenants Rolette and Irvine, and MELl.ipman Richardson,
of the Marine Department. No Officer was killed.
At the same time also was received the inclosed
General Orders, issued by Sir J. PitEvosT on the Bth
of February, relative to the conduct of the American
Government with respect to the exchange ofprisoners.
GENERAL ORDERS.
44 Adjutant-General's Office, Quebec, Feb. 8.
44 His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir G. Pre.
vost, Bart. Governor in Chief and Commander of
the Forces in British North America, having seen
in the Boston Gazette of the 28th of January last, a
publication, pui porting to be a copy of u General,
Order issued by the Americans, in the following
terms, namely—

66 Yesterday, at about one o'clock at noon, the
Brigade of the Prussian General Von Roder, to which
the regiment of Foot Guards belongs, entered this
city. We had made a march of five German, (about
20 English) rniks, in rainy weather and dirty roads,
since two o'clock in the morning, We could not pass
along the bridge of the Elbe, but instead cf it, we
crossed by a bridge of boats, which was extremely
well laid. We can yet see some of the defences
thrown up by the French ; but they are not of any
consequence. " GENERAL ORDERS.
66 The King of Saxony has left Plauen, and gone
"Ad jutant-General's Office, Washington City, Jan. 18.
to Ratisbon : until he has'fully declared himself, ,i
Th
his
ne
de followingpii .onera Officers
atDetroit, Queenstown,
of the army and militia ot the United
State,, censtown, and elsewhere,
subjects likewise refrain from expressing the semi- have been duly exchanged for the Officers, Non-commissioned
inents of their hearts." Officers, drums and privates, taken on board his Britannic Ma-
jesty's transport Samuel and Jane, on the 11th of July, 1612,
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 6. viz. Brigadier-General W. Hull ; Colonels D. M'Arthur, James
On the Ist inst. M. Clos de Signeul, Swedish Con- kindly, and Lewis Cass; Lieutenant-Colonels James Miller,
sul.General, passed the Belt, as a Swedish courier John K. Fenwicke, WinEesid Scott,
t aandd John
j Christie;
hitl Major
from Stockholm to Paris; and M. Louis du Sable, as Iner:ZOlit, riusi apisattineuing t
Roberte Lucas, nAbrah riz. Hun,
a Swedish Cabinet courier, from Stockholm to Paris. P. Ogilvie, W. King, J. Cook, and Return B. Brown ; First
DRESDEN, APRIL 6. Lieutenant C. Larrabe, Second Lieutenants James Dalhba and
Daniel Huguning; and each and all of the aforesaid Officers are
Since the day before yesterday,'we are become here hereby declared exchanged, and as free to act against the United
more Prussian than ever ; all the streets and houses Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dependencies
are thronged with Prussians, and we are exceedingly thereof, as if they had nert.t
the r been
S.ecretary of War, captured.
well satisfied with them. We have but few Russians "By Order of
left here ; all take the road to Freyberg or Nossen. "'l'. H. CUSHING, Adjutant-General."
es His Excellency considers himself called upon in,
—The French in their retreat have taken the road
the most public manner, to protest against the pre-1
through Wilsdruff and Nossen; and likewise towards
tendely.' release of the above-named Officers from their
the Katzenberg. At all three places skirmishes took t
Parole of honour, given under their hands while pri.
place, in which they came off with the worst. There p .
goners of war. His Excellency having expressly re-
are certainly but few people in Saxony, and finedespe-
to accede to the exchange of the Of f ficers above
cially here, who do not participate in the Prussian.
lumen, as proposed to him by Major-General Dear-
sentiment ;• but the absence of our King places us in
born, in his letters of the 26th of December and 2d
a very disagreeable predicament. Our soldiers burn
with van still
eance a ainst the common enemy of January last, under the authority of the American
gg , Government, upon the identical terms contained in
more than the citizens and peasants: the joy is, there-
, indescribable among the troops stationed here,
the order of the 18th of January before referred to, his
fore,
previous to the entrance of the Russians, re-
Excellency feels himself compelled hereby to declare
who
that he still considers those Officers prisoners of war,
ceived orders from the King to quit the French, and
on their parole ; and that, should the fate of war
to niaryir to Torgau, with the exception of those
again place any of them at the disposal of the British
which accompanied the King. Our bridge will be
Government, before a regular' and ratified exchange
fit for passing to-morrow. All our Saxon troops are
now stationed in and near Torgau. In place of the of them takes place, they will be deemed to have
pillars to our bridge, there is now fixed a large wooden
frame, on which round spars are laid. consequences sanctioned by the established usages of
war in the like cases.
P. S. The Prussians are all gone to-day, and, as "The detachment of the Ist regiment of Royal
they say, to Leipsic. To-morrow more of them are Scots, captured by the United States frigate Essex,
expected, and likewise some Russians. Every Prus- b
onboard the Samuel and Jane transport, who are
sian has received a pound of rice on his march. stated, in the said order of the 18th of January, to
FROM SAXONY, APRIL 6. have been duly exchanged for the Officers of the
Letters from.Leipzic, of the 3d inst. contain the in- American army therein mentioned, had been pre-
formation of the King of Saxony being gone to Prague. , viously, as far back as the month of September last,
Others say, his Majesty will go from thence to Lintz. regularly exchanged for the crew of the United States
The first Cossacks appeared at Leipsic on the 31st of sloop Nautilus, and a sufficient number of other sea-
March, at hall-past seven o'clock in the evening, quite men belonging to the United States navy, as appears
unexpectedly, whilst the theatres were fsull. They were i by an official communication to his Excellency of the
received with joyful hospitality. They bivouacqued 17th of September last, from his Excellency Lieute-
on the Bruhl, and went further on the same night. It t nant-General Sir J. C. Sherbrooke, K.B. cowman-
is a pity (as they write) that they went so soon; they '. ding the forces in Nova Scotia, confirmed by a letter
might have picked up a good many stragglers here, 'from Mr. Mitchell, the American Agent of Prisoners
that now Steal away in silence. They were continually lat Halifax, to the lion. J. Mum Aluericau Sege-

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taty of State, dated the 288 of November last, try
refitted to his Excellency by Major-(;eneral 1)e::
born, in his letter of the :Id of January last.
" The release of the s.:id detachment by sucl,
exchange, was published in Geaeral Orders on
29th of September last, at Montreal, and also co.):.
municated to Major-General Dearborn, in his Excel.
lency's letter of the 11th of Jan. list, as the grnur.d
of his refusal to accede to the beforv•mentioned
posal of that Officer.

46 To avoid, however, every posi:il-.ility of mistake
Or error on th:s subject, and to prevent any fiirtkr
misunderstanding respectin it, hi:: Excellency LA,
thought proper to direct Major Murray, Agent
the Exchange of Prisoners of War, to proces.l
with a flag of truce to the American ficad-flu;, .
ters, and should he be satisfied, up:in enquiry, tha•
the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and inc
thedetachment of the Ist Regiment, or Scotch R07:1,,
have not been considered by the American Gov.:.
ment as regularly exchanged for the crew of t!..
United States sloop Nautilus, and ot7;er seamen, Le.
longing to the United States navy, as before stated,
Major Murray is then authorised to release from pa.
role an equal number of Officers, Min-commissioned
Officers, and soldiers of the regular troops of ti:k
A'rnerican army, made prisoners of war at Detm,
Nieghra, or elsewhere, as may be agreed upd;
tweenp him and Major-General•Dearborn.
.". But Excellency canaot admit the sight
=led 11 th American Government,
befdrp., ttrxd to.l. to larAnge and ciass.lir ..zchave
•ef prisoners of we Triatonqr A's my best su:t
their convenience or ..4.itatar-` Ail exchanges (4
prisoners of war mug lier.W"ed by both parties before
the release a them becomes valid ; and, whenever it
is practicable, the Lzchange. is to be conducted on the
scale of parity of rank and service. Officers grade
for grade, Serjeant for Serjeant, Solslier for Soldier,
Regular for Regular, and Militia for Militia ; and
the tariff adopted for the exchange in the foregoing
order, can only be admitted in casd where the regu-
lar exchange by parity of rank and service cannot,
take place, and then only by the mutual concurrence
of both parties. (Signed) Eby,. klavNes,

-Adjthant-G,Leral, North Azietke
" GENERAL ORDER.

Adju tant-dener:l"3---Uffi Ftb. a, i
" His Excellency the (:ommandcr of the r crces
has the highest satisfaction in announcing to the
troops under his command, another brilliant action,
achieved by the gallant di►ision of the army at De•
troit, under Colonel Proctor.

Information having been received that an ad.
vanced corps of the American army, under Brigadier
General Winchester, amounting to upwards of 1000
strong, had entered and occupied French Town.
about 26 miles south of Detroit ; Colonel Proctor did
not hesitate a moment in anticipating the enemy, by
attacking this advanced corps, before it could. receive
support from the forces cn their march under. en.
Harrison.

44 At day-break on the 22d January, Colonel Proc.
tor, .by a spirited and vigorous attack, completely
defeated General Winchester's division, with the loss
of between 4 and 500 slain ; for all who attempted to
save themselves by flight, were cut off by the Indian
warriors : about 400 of the enemy .took refuge in the
houses of the town, and kept up a galling tire from
the windows, but finding further resistance unavail-
ing, they surrendered themselves at discretion.
64 On this occasion the gallantry of Colonel Proc-
tor was most nobly displayed, in his humane and un-
wearied exertions in rescuing the vanquished, from
the revenge of the Indian warriors.
" The prisoners at the close of the action amount-
ed to 1 General, 1 Colonel, 1 Staff, 1 Major, 9 Cap.
tains, 20 Subalterns, 27 Serjeants, and 435 rank and
tile. But the Indian warriors were hourly bringing
in prisoners, and had taken a strong escort of the
enemy with five hundred hogs.
64 Colonel Proctor reports in strong terms the gal-
lantry displayed by all descriptions of troops, and
the able support he received from Colonel St. George,
and from all the officers and men under his com-
mand, whose spirited valour and steady discipline is
above all praise.
44 It is with regret that Colonel Proctor reports,
the British loss amounts to twenty-four killed, and
one hundred and fifty-eight wounded.
(Signed) 44 EDW. BAYNES.
• Adj'utant•General, North Aoserica."

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