Star.
London, England, 1807-01-16 00:00:00

*A camp Medina in the line hole We;Mat to leba tt
and Auerßadt. A topply of brandy sodas& came,
indeed, the day before the battle, but it was too late, tt
for the greaten part of it fell into the bands of the
French. As on the t•lth and 12th of Oftober nothing
was provided, the il•ldier was forced to take whatever
he could get. Not only all the vegetables in gardens
or in fields, either above ,or below ground, were
Bolen, bog all the villages were dripped, even the
Rabies *nd cow bodes were broken into, the cattle
driven out, and the untlirethed corn thrown before
the horfes. A Pruffian General who is now dead of
his wounds; had, indeed, made itia maxim to permit
the pear-ante horfes, cows, (beep, and ptovitione, to
be carried off, and the country dripped to an extent
of three or four leagues, that the enemy might find
nothing left.
The tithe' and mod decifive error lay in the falfe
calculations that were made refpeaing the movements
of the enemy, and the unfortunate choice of pofitions.
The Prufian army loft time at Erfurt, and when the
French firft began to frarround the Thuringer Wood,
the Pruffians belly employed themfelves at the head
quarters at Erfurt, with the extravagant pro eft of
falling upon the French ariny in the rear, at Frank-
fort, Vortzburg, and Bamberg. The pofition of the
Preffian army on the left bank of the Seal was in every
refpelt difadvantageons. Thereby the road so the
Capital, and to the chief fortreffes (the protellion of
which ought to have been the firft objeh) as well as
to the whole Eleaurate of Saxony, was thrown en-
tirely open. By this pofition the army was alto cut
off from their retreat to Magdeburg, afterthe battle,
and they were forced to march in a crooked line by.
Erfurt towards the Elba, while the French followed
them in a dii ea line, and anticipated every advanta-
geous pofition. The Referve, under the command
of the Prince of Wurtemberg, was potted, without
any ohjeft, at Halle, in place of its keeping the corps
of Marthal Nay from falling upon the rear (Attie main
army.
Thai bulwarks of the Pruffian Monarchy, the rnoft
important fortreffes, which would have greatly ob-
(hulled the progrefs of the French army, were in an
untenable condition and without provifions ; and in
the event that the battle was to have been loft, there
was no placeof affembling made known—no rally.,
ing point fixed upon.. The difcomfited corps there-
fore retired in quite different ditedlions, and were al-
ma all made prifoners. •
On the decifive day, the lath of Oltober, the left
wing was not formed in the fame line, nor united with
the centre. This want of unity bad this effed—that
Iwo feparate and Mina battles were fought at one
and the fame moment, and upon ground not very ex-
tenlive. After the Duke of Britannia was wounder',
there was no Commander in Chief to direa the Prat=
fiat army. The corps fought tingly, withouteda
and without concert, and many regiments d
engage at all—very little of the flrength or petition
of the enemy was known. The Saxons, who fought
on the left wing, generally alert, that on the day of
battle they either received no orders at all from the
Officers under whore 'command they were, or that
the orders they did receive were inch as could not have
been executed. They were (con obliged to deliver up
their remaining ammunition to the Pruffians, and
they loft their cannon when the retreat began ,in con-
fequence of having no cavalry to cover them.,Laftly,
the Pruffian army was detained and hindered in its
flight by the crowd of waggons and horfes, and their
unufually great quamity of baggage. This complete
overthrow and deftruaton was not owing, however,
to any want of bravery, That the Pruffiaos, under
all there difficulties, fought with courage and perfe.
*stance, is teftifilid by thi French theenfelves.
The viaoriods Emperor Napoleon condated the
events of the Lath of 011ober with fleadinefs and
the keened prudence. He lodged the night before
this eventful day in the cattle of Jena. and on the fol-
lowing morning, as is alerted at Jena, he reeonnoi.
tred from the top of the old obfervatory (commonly
called the Fox Tower) the oppofite heights on the road
to Weimar, and witneffed the bloody battle that took
place between the French that were marching thro'
the Mtthlenthal and the Saxons and Pruffians polled
on the Sneckenberg. Nut far frOm this (pot is the
chain of randy hillocks, which prefent, as it were, a
deep wall on the heights of the Saal. There is here
a coppice, known through the whole neighbourhood
by the name of the Ranhthales, a place celebrated in
the annals of the Jena Mules, on account of the coin.
bats that ufed formerly to take place between the
Students at that Mot. This is the pats which the Em-
peror Napoleon fortified fo -nrongly, and in fuch a
mafterly manner with heavy cannon, and which is
fpoken fo highly of in all the official accounts of the
battle. It is incomprehenfible to the Cighteft °bier.
ver, how this place was not cccupied by the Pruffians
—and yet it was ftrongly recommended to them by
the Saxon officer of engineers, Lehman who knew
the ground well. So Par was this eareleiners carried,
that the outpofts, confining of Pruflians and Saxons,
which were driven in by the French, from Jena to
Camburg, in confequence of the above petit being left
open, had no knowledge whatever of what was going
on within a league of them.
The gout-ea/de Pori, informs us, that a young Prof-
flan Adjutant, who was taken prifoner in the battle
of Jena, afcribes the unfortunate Me of that battle
to the neglea of the fuperior officers among the Prof
flans, in not occupying in good time the narrow
pales of Rofen. Marthal Davouft anticipated them,
and eleven fucceffive attacks afterwards made againfl
hitu, could not drive him ens of there pales. Betides
this, the rapidity of the evolutions of the French army
altorrifhed thePrußlan Genet als. In every manoeuvre
attempted by the latter they were anticipated. What
however molt Iltrprifed this officer, was the French
artillery. The molt courageous foldiers could not
approach the fhowers of ball* which preceded the
march of the columns without trembling. The re-
giment of Larifch, for example, was above aOOO men
bong, and in a few minutes only 150 men were left
Hendon., having been Rationed opporne to a battery
of eight field pieces.

Some years ago, a molt curious notice was pot tigi
at the corner of, aminekitre near Aberdeen. Of its
rstaniag the ,leartieslersfles_,to judge
No painge rovattlas likvallis,ec if found will be
'as breaking throstenelafenraaavediag to LAW.
The General Court, Martial, which taicly fad tQ
Celleife a Hofpital on -Captain Dirk. bas clnfe4.
'proceedings. The fentence, 'however& willaos
ptres until fanitioned by his Isbjefly.

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