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London, England, 1813-10-20 00:00:00

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PREPARATIONS OF THE FRENCH ARMY
TO RETREAT PROM DRESDEN.
LONDON' ,
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arasir and Sir CRAR/116 ST/WART. He left the
Puma 01' STOCKS T/116 DAY AT TWOS O'CLOCL Allied Heaktunters at Toplitz on the 26th ultimo.
Reduced 561 57 361-1.•-GrosOlin —44 see. illefa
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14 1-rutb—lndia At the same time, Captain STEWART, Aide-de-camp
Bk. Lg. Aus. Chit—Bonds Pc IL do- to Genetal Giants, who commands the British nazi-
Esclu:qe& Bills Ss. Se. Fern.
_ liars force acting under the orders of the Caown
Panscr., arrived with Swedish Bulletins and Dia-
In the absence of intelligence from the Peninsula,
.ge slather from the South of France, where the scene patches. A Gottenburgh Mail Came by the same
qt ,Lord WELLINGTON'S operations .is now laid. rIl• , Packet.
Fr
mour, and rumour only, has been busy in checking om all these sources we have a most plentiful
harv.
his Lordship's victorious career—this is always theharvest of intelligence, and all that we are able to
On
case daring the temporary suspension of intercourse
lay before our Readers is cheering in the extreme.—
the
,with .aliy part of the Continent, and the interval be-
Silesia nothing important had occurred in the
side of the Grand Allied Army of Bohemia
et the last glimmerings of joy for the Sutter., and rape
of a hostile movement since the affairs of Nol,
&rival of a fresh Messenger, is filled up with the ' '
Ilendorf and Cahn, on the 17th and ]Bth ult. Bet 11111Mandings of disaster—it was but i few hours since
Cameral Beutiosew, with 80,000 Russians, was on his
Ai slefection of Austria was regarded as certain, by
some 4 our contemporaries, and now we have a host
way toToplitz to reinforce the Allies : and as it is
of French GUerillas, and the armed population if
announced that a grand review was about to take
pace, we presume that another effort will speedily
France driving the victorious Allied Army again
bite the Peninsula! ~be made against Dresden. Two Austrian Bulletins
detail tome military events in which the Austrians
But let us not distract the national councils,
were engaged in Italy, and in the rear of the French
damp the ardour of our countrymen, by echoing
the " presumptuous daring:" of the Journalist, who communications in Saxony. All these mOvements
buszes only for an hour in the morning, and is num-
terminated favourably to the Allied cause.
bered with the dead at night—let us not question the ' Our attention is next called to the details in the
right—the policy—the bearings—or the motives— Swedish Bulletins, and these are of the same pleasing
until we see clearly the end and final developement of character. The Saxons continue to desert, not in i
the stupendous and magnificent objects now passing , single files or platoons, but by whole regiments ! The 1
in review before us p—in a word, let us not by pro- , siege of Wittemberg goes on most briskly, for it is 1
mulgating opinions hastily formed, or misobioasossiy • now bombarded from both sides of the Elbe. Strong
put into circulation, anticipate the results of a pro- f detachments of light cavalry, under Generals Wo-
ject which has 4 Wv.uanorotz for its superintendaat, i RONTOTT and Czentacnerv, have advanced into West.
and which musilaave been matured by the workings phalia and Brunswick, with the twofold view of
of his mastermind! His conduct, we may venture i countenancing the insurrections, or as the CROWN
to promise, will be in France precisely what it has : PRINCE terms them, u the animosities" of the inhabi-
been in Spain and Portugal-Tiool, steady and deli- tow, and of suppotting General THIELIKAN, the
berate—incited, invigorated, and sustained by a ge- Salon patriotiin his efforts to spread the flame of in-
tons love of glory ; but informed, moderated, and dependence throughout Saxony. The Prussian Land.
directed by an enlarged knowledge of the great public storm is in motion, and every where the great mass
cause which he is called upon to serve; and while of the population of Germany backs the regular ar-
we thus bespeak the confidence of our countrymen nelk's with
reinforcements and supplies. Themire
in the future services of their stoutest Champion, let correctly deseribee. as imitating the Russians and
us remind them that his Genius is indeed nal' generis Spaniards in ibis respect.
—having no parallel in ancient or modern times . The grails of Dessau and Oranienbaum, which

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it acknowledges no earthly progenitor, and until
PROVIDENCE in ins wisdom shall afflict the human
race with another NAPOLEON BoNArnitris, this.nar-
row world, which he hath " bestrode like a Colossus,"
will riot afford roots and verge enough for the tran-
scendent faculties of another WELLINGTON ! His for-

*WON so much ♦aunted in the French Pipers, are now
accounted for in a satisfactory manner. 'The troops
of the Allies at these places, so far from being wor-
sted, retired in good order, in the fate of a superior
force, and in pursuance of the express orders of the
CROWN PRINCR.

titude is not the alacrity of the soldier in the breach,
or oldie sailor at his gun—it is not the fleeting sen-
timent of the'lnoinent of danger, or the spirit which
evaporates in rout and revelry when a great achieve
meta is attained. These are splendid but subser-
♦ient qualities—they are the lesser emanations bt a
great and gallant mind. But it is WaLt.nearoN
alone who retains within himself.the patent fowl.
tain, which “ flowing in one blended stream from
the head and the heart," dispenses life and energy
to the ardent spirits which circulate around him.—
" Hi, is the fortitude",—and we quote with delight
the language of the Master of British eloquence, be-
. daute we cannot pay a more grateful homage to his
maws, than by praising in his own glowing periods,
one of the Deliverers of Mankind from the bondage

AA snide in a Berlin Paper of the Ikt ids. states,
that BONAPAIEIIei army had commenced its retreat
from Dresden on the 26th nit. he having previously
left it on the 23d. The former part of the report can-
not be true ; and on the day last mentioned, BONA•
rAart merely visited Pirna on a reconnoissance...-.
The report also circulated at Berlin, of Bavaria hay.
ing joined the allied cause, is of doubtful authen-
ticity ; it is an event, however, not improbable, in
the times in which we live.
The distress experienced by the French army at
Dresden, falls little short of the horrors inflicted by
the frightful climate of Rusiia. How obstinately
does BONAPARTS cling to the worship of the De-
stroying Angel I

of France.—" His is the fortitude which unites with

To the above we have to add accounts from the
Grand Army at Toeplitz, dated September 29.
From these it appears that the army of General ND-
GENT had taken the strong points of Pola Capo d'Tstria,
and Monte Maggiore, with 50 pieces of cannon, and
a great quantity of•ammunition. General Nuozwr
was in communication with the English fleet, from
which he received arms and ammunition for equip-
ping the Istrians.
The 6th Report from the Silesiarr army, dated
Bautzen, September 25, states, that on the 22d, MAC*
DONALD broke up from his position at Schmiedefeld
for Bischoffswerda, and was attacked on his retreat
by the advanced guard of the Silesian army, who
occasioned him considerable loss.

the courage of the field tile more exalted and refined

courage of the Council, which knows bow to retreat
and how to advance—which can conquer as well by
delay as by the rapidity of a march, or the impetuo-
sity of an Attack—which can be like Fabius, the black

cloud on the tops of the mountains ; or with Scipio,
the thunderbolt of was ! which, undisturbed by false
htunAnity, can calmly assume that most awful moral

responsibility of deciding, when victory may be too

dearly purchased by the loss of a single life, and

when the safety and glory of his country may demand
the certain sacrifice of thousands!"
If such, then, is the character which we claim for
the British Hero, there cannot be a drop of British

blood in the veins of that maul who would present to

,his countrymen the cup of despondency and gloom
draws from the green mantle of the standing pool in

Another affair took place on the 23d, in which
300 of theWestphalian guards remained in the power
of the Allies : the field was covered with dead and
wounded. Another successful affair took place on
the 25th ; and, upon the whole, this third offensive
attempt of the enemy against the Silesian army has
cost him 2000 men. The people had been com-
pletely pillaged in these marches of the enemy, and
had fled into the woods to escape their rapacity and
violence.

Fr trice, white their hearts are elated with the

ant beverage of victory and joy from every other

cei.trtcr of Europe.—Oh that we had the punishment
cf these birds of evil presage !—these rogues in some-

thing mote than grain—we would condemn them,
like the slaves in the minarets of Constantinople, to

croak themselves into a perpetual hoarseness, from
the battlements of St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey

—we would feed these harpies with gall and worm-
wood.—Their matins and their vespers—their collect

According to accounts from Dresden of the 25th,
NAPOLEON had been two days in Harthau, by Bis.
choffswerda ; but on the evening of the 24th returned
to Dresden.

and their litany should be the Victories of WELLING.
TON, and the Defeats of BONAPARTZ I—the virtues of

our Hero, and the crimes of their Idol I

The French army appears wholly to retire upon
the left bank of the Elbe. Marshal OUDINOT, with
his army corps, now reduced to 10,000 men, alone
remained in Dre►den. The want of provisions and
forage increased in that city daily ; eight men had
daily only one ration of bread ; the numbers of sick
were incredible. The horses die by hundreds. On
the other side the Elbe, on the Bautzen road, all the
villages had been plundered, and the cattle driven
away. In the night of the 25th, a magazine of oats,

There is not one word of truth in the reported
changes in Government ; nor has the SPEAKER the
least idea of retiring.

Married, on Monday, the 18th instant, at Milford,
Hants, by the Rev. J. H. EVANS, EDWARD FRANCIS
Courom, Esq. of Fiikin's Hall, Oxfordshire, to
HENRIETTA, daughter of the late Roasnr DAWES,
Esq. of Farthingville, county of Cork.