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• OH TUB 14TH OF 0CT031114 18°6.
66 The, unfortunate confequences of the battle of
the 14th of Taft Odober have hitherto prevented any
official account froth being laid before the Ott;lie.
" The Pruffian army, under the Duke of Bronf-
wick, was rnoftly collated on the sth of Oftober, in
the neighbourhood of Naumburg ; the corps of the
Prince of Hohenlohe was in the vicinity of Altenburg
and Pennig, General Ruchel's Corps was between
Mulhaufen and Gottengen.
66 As the enemy's principal farce was expected in
the neighbourhood of Wurtzburg, it was thought
proper to fend about 8000 men through Smallkalten
and Eifenach ; while a fmall corps under Count Tanen-
zien was to ad as a corps of obfervation on the road
to Hoff, follow the referee, or ad againft an enemy's
corps on the fide towards Saxony.
" On the 7th both armies were between Eifenach
and Rudelfiadt: then we learned that the enemy had
turned the greateit part of his force towards Bay-
reuth, and was in greater force than we bad reafon
to expect."
" Since the theatre of war in Pruffia afforded no
natural means of defence, on the Bth we marched to
Lae left, in order to pats the Saal. The army of
Prince Hohenlohe moved towards _Jena and Kahle,
and the Duke of Brunfwick to Blankenhayn. The
Prince of Hohenlohe had already paled this river on
the gth, with a part of his army; but the Duke did
not wdh him to have paled till he had arrived upon
the banks with the troops under his command, as he
did not want to combat the enemy tingly. He there-
fore ordered the Prince to fall back. This circum-
fiance gave nccafion to the unfortunate affair of pops
near Saalfeld on the soth, in which the gallant and
heroic Prince Ferdinand of Pruffia did not engage
reiLly, as has been fuppofed.
44 The Duke's army arrived on the fame day at
Blankenhayn. He now learned that the enemy was
advancing through Hcff, and that another column
was proceeding along the Saal by Saalfeld. He
found the ;mirage over the Saal 'would be attended
w;th difficulties to him. To prevent being cut off
from the Elbe, he marched on the t rth to Weimar.
Here the Duke's army encamped on the right bank
of the lime, and the Prince of Hohenlohe at Kapel•
lendorf, not far from Jena. General Kuchel's corps
took a ;Aldan near Erfurt ; and the advanced guard
under the Duke of Weimar, which had previoufly
advanced through the foreit of Thuringia, in order
to alarm the enemy in his flank and rear, had orders
to return and approach the grand army by the road
through Arnaadt.
" On the 12th, the Duke of Brnnfwick had a eon
fereoce near Jena with Prince Hohenlohe; the Duke's
plan was then to pats the Saal higher up, in cafe the
enemy fhould attempt to turn the left of the Pruffian
army.
" This took place on the nth, isth, and 13th,
without our obtaining any certain knowledge of it ;
and through a miftake the detachments belonging to
Prince Hohenlohe, who were ordered to obferve the
enemy, did not march at the proper time.
" On the t 2th, we learned that the enemy was in
poffeffion of Naumburg; hill this intelligence was in
Come meafure uncertain ; however, late in the even-
ing, it was confirmed beyond a doubt.
" On the 13th at noon, the Duke's army marched
to Auerftadt, to make head againft the enemy, who
was endeavouring to turn the Po uffians. Towards
ievening the Duke arrived near Auerftadt, within two
_miles and a half of Naumburg. We learned upon
the march, and in Auerftadt, that the enemy was Hill
in poffeflion of Naumburg, and that fome regiments
of French chaffeurs were potted on this fide of the
Saal, on the road to Ane;fladt. It was determined
to drive thefe regiments back again over the Saal,
and then to proceed through Unttrutt, near Frichurg
and Leucite and to attack the enemy's corps en the
other fide of the river. The Duke of Brunfwick
wrote to Prince Hohentohe, late in the evening of the
-13th, to inform him that he occupied the pafTage
over the Saal, in great ftrength between the armies,
and that the Prince fhould by no means fuffer bimfelf
to be cut off from the Duke's army.
66 The army of the Duke commenced its march'
early in the morning of the 14th, and fell in with the
French corps under Martha' Davoufi. Notwithftand
ing this meeting was not expected, and that a very
heavy rain had occafioned great inconveniences, the
advanced guard under General Blucher made a
vigorous attack upon the enemy's chaffeurs, which
formed Martha! Davoull's advanced guard, and
drove them back upon the main body. The three
other divitions of the army under the Duke of Brunf-
wick marched in order againft the enemy, and enga-
ged him from one wing to the other. The infantry
of thefe three divifions formed a column, and main-
tained their fire from nine in the morning till three
in the afternoon. About noon our right wing began
to gain ground. The enemy, however, obtained to
inforcements from his referee, and now commenced
An attack upon the defile of Kofen. Our left wing
had driven the enemy out of his firll pofition, jut as
our right wing began to give way. The left was the
firft to follow, as loon as the enemy was in motion
in their rear. The remainder of the two divifions,
the flower of the army, or the referee, was, for the
molt part, about 3000 paces in the rear, upon the
heights of Auerftadt, and only a few regiments of
theM took part in the action. •
" The army of Prince Hohenlohe was attacked at
break of day by the corps with which the Emperor
was prefent, from the fide of Jena, whilft the corps
of Bernadotte paled the river Saal, advancing from
Dornburg and KaMborg, and took the Prince in the
rear ; the corps of General Ruchel battened to the
Prince's Alliance paled through a dangerous de-
file, and attacked the enemy. The army of the
Prince; as well as the corps of General Ruchel,
fought with great bravery; but were at fail obliged
to fubmit to the fuperiority of the enemy, whole num-
bers were three times as great as theirs.
A; he Prince's corps retreated to Weimar, which
town was occupied by the enemy the fame evening.
The (mall corps of Lieutenant General Ruchel (who
bad already received a wound) which was not quite
ten thaufand ftrong, retreated only through the defile
as far as Capeldorff, where the General again
formed in line, and advanced in a Ilium column to-
wards the defile. A brilk cannonade now commenced
on both fides ; but the enemy did nut pals the de-
file, and the firing ceded. Hereupon General Ru.

the! transferred the command to Lieutenant General
ordiring him at firft to retreat en echequier,l
to cover the retreat with a batalflon quarri, and to con-
tinue drawing back on one fide of Buttelliadt, to
reach the King's army, upon which the left wing
as alfo inclining, whilft the right had joined Field
Martha' Mollendorf. The greateft misfortune to
both thefe corps was, that the paffage of the Saal at '
Darnburg and Kamburg was not properly guarded
and defender!. It wal owihg to this circumftancee
that the army of the Prince was taken in the rear,
and its communication with the Duke's army cut off.
When the King ordered the army of the Duke to
mareh forward upon the heights of AuerQadt in the
evening, after the retreat of the *three fit II divifions, I
thereby preventing the enemy from advancing, he
did nor know that the army of Prince Hohenlohe,
and the corps of General Ruche!, had been unfortu.
nate in the engagement. Had he "been informed
thereof, he would have renewed the atlion, and
cleared the way to the Unftrutt.
" On the fuppbfition that the army of Prince Ho-
henlohe was Aill at Kapcllendorf, and that the corps
of General Ruehel was at Weimar, the King order-
ed the Duke's army to go and join that corps, and to
tette* the engagement the next day. General Count
Kalkreuth was ordered to form the rear guard with
the referve (which had not then been engaged), and
Meld Martha' Mollendorf took the command of the
other troops. The King intended (as the aftion was
ended, and the enemy purfued no further) to go to
Weimar in perfon, to fettle with Prince Hohenlohe
and General Ruche' the proper difpofitions for exe-
cuting the Paid plan. But, on the road from Auer.
lladt to Weimar, he met with the enemy, and was
therefore obliged to return to the army. The King
placed himfelf in front of the army, and marched
from Wickerflacit to Sommerda, leaving Weimar on
his left hand. In the night, when the King was
fucceffively informed by the fugitives of the cnndi
don of the army of Hehenlobe, and of General Ru-
chel's corps. he determined that all the troops fhould
retreat by Nordhaufen, and took his way for the Paid
place through Sommerda. As the retreat for Wei-
mar had originally been refolved upon, a divifion of
the troops marched thither; but, on finding the ene-
my there, they returned towards Erfurt, anl made
a long detour. On this occafion General Molten-
dof, with about 5000 men, were taken prifoners at
Erfurt.
44 On the 17th the army marched in three co.
lumns from Nordhaufen to Magdeburg, through the
Hatz.
66 On the fame day the Wurtemburgh corps was
attacked near Halle, by the corps of Marthal Berna.
dotte, and defeated. It trotted the Elbe tat Deffau,
burned the bridge, fent a detachment of thirty men
to Wittenburg, to dettroy the bridge at that place,
which, however, was .prevented by the inhabitants,
and then proceeded to Magdeburg. The enemy re-
noted the bridges, paffed the river at Dellitu and
Wittenberg, and thus reached the Oder before the
Prulllan army under Prince Hohenluhe, Which was
retreating by the way of Magdeburg. This General,
who had always diftinguithed himfelf by his bravery
and refolution, was obliged to fign an unfortunate
capitulation for !lateen thoufand men at Prentzlow,
on the 28th Otiober. The fame day a corps of ten
thnufand men, under General Blucher, which had
followed him, got as far as Boitzenburg, where it
efcaped the purfuit nf the enemy (who was coming
from every fide), by bending towards Strelitz, and
a few days after joined another corps under the Duke
of Weimar.
" Both there corps, under the enterprifing and
brave General Blucher, after four engagements, did
at laft, on the 7th of November, fubmit to the lupe
rior numbers of the enemy,when they had only 9,400
men lett, of whom there were only about 7,500 able
to bear arms ; though they kept three corps of the
enemy (thole of Prince Murat, and of the Martha's.
Soult and Bernadotte) for three weeks at a difiance
from the Oder and Vittula ; for the latter were ten
days in marching back to Frankfort.
6' It will now be proper to nate the force of the
army which fought againft France on the 14th.—
According to a ftatement delivered to the King by
the Duke of Brunfwick, the Pru(lian army, which
' was put in motion to oppnfe the enemy, could not be
computed to exceed the following numbers :
Effective. Batteries.
The Corps of Blucher in Weaphalia 11,532 3
The Hanoverian Corps 33,688 4
The Magdeburgh troops 9.820 3
The troops from Potfdam, Berlin and the
Mark ItJ2O
The Corps of General Kslkreutb 13,980 4
The troops from Melia and South Prullia 23,940 I t
Thole from Welt Prutha 11,720

Saxon troops

96,840 35
10,000

Total r 16,840
-41 In this Ratement each battalion is reckoned al
600 rank and file. Probably no regiment was flronger,
and many of them confifted of fewer effedive men.
" The Saxon forces are but fuperficially Rated,
and a coffee lift would thew, that the effedive num-
bers of this corps, both of the infantry and cavalry,
are rated rather too high than too low.
" On the 14th Odober the following deduEtion ap-
peared from the above, viz.:--
g. The troops from Weft Pruffia,beeaufe they reached
*e Elbe later, and only arrived at Halle on the 15th
2. A fmall corps in Weftphalia,in two detachments
3. At Hameln and Nkoburg
4. At Hanover
S. Under the Duke of Weimar and General Win.
ning, a Corps of Obfervation to watch the enemy's
corps in Franeonis, and on the Lower Maine IsAto
31,6601
whiclaeing deduded from t 16,840, leaves the total
effedive force of the Pruffians, which fought on the
14th °dotter, 85,180 men, inclufive of the Saxons
from which the fmall corps of Prince Louis Ferdinand
is Rill to be deduited, which was routed at Saalfeld.
" We are not accurately acquainted with the force
of the French army. Some time previous to the
battle, the different French corps which were engaged
were Rated as fellows :
The Corps of Marthal Bernadotte -- 16,8c0
Davouft 36. E
Souk 311,0: o
Larne' ••••• 40,000

Augerela 14,400
Nay 18,200
The Refcrves of Cavalry zooloo
--‘
Total 193 Soo

22,720
4,620
2,800
ijoo

41 It is probable that the corps of Martha) Lafnes

was the weakell of any in the action; however, sect
know for a certainty, that thole of Bernadotte and
Augereau were the ttronged. The enemy was at
leatt 200,000 llrong.
"The Pruffian armies fit flained a great lots in killed
and wounded. The Royal Houle has fuisported, by
its perfonal bravery, the heroic charadier of its an-
cellors. The King had a horfe thgt under him with
a mufket ball, at the moment when he was leading at
regiment of cavalry sigaina the enemy. General
Zaftrow immediately gave his Majeity the horfe he
had rode, to facilitate Iris Majetty's efcape, and pre-
vent him from being made partner. In chi night
between the 14th and ;Stn, his. Mrjelly likewife put
himfelf at the head of a regiment of cavalry, and
rode through the enemy fword in hand. Prince
Louis died the death of a hero, when he found he
could not b.: a conqueror. Both his Majeay's brotheri •
were wounded : Prince Henry was with the latt of
the troops which remained upon the field of battle;
and being hurt in confequence of the fall of his horfe,
which seas thot, he was only fived by receiving that
of Colonel Scharnhorfi. Prince Aurift us Ferdinand
is wounded, having continually fought at the head
of his grenadiers with great bravery.
The enemy's Princes may have the advantage
of the ?ruffians in military experience, but certainly
they are not fuperior in valour; otherwife wounds
and death are no longer certain proofs of the (hare
they took in a dote and continual engagement,
" Not one of the three commanders of the Prnlnati
army has efcaped unhurt ; the heroic Doke of Brunf-
, wick was mortally wounded, .and has died of hii
wounds; the brave and n,ble Prince Hohenlohe re•
' ceived a violent contution upon his arm ; the valiant
and determined General Ruchel is badly wounded ;
and there are, betides, eleven Prullian Generals partly
wounded and partly dead.
" The Pruflian army may OM be fubjea to f-ut.r.
failures, when oppofid to an enemy formed for war,
and matured by 14 years experience. Our c:•tcrn-
poraries may flill bring forward their obje6.ions in
many relpetts, but the blood the Prullians have al-
ready flied, and molt probably their future conduer,
will juflify them to polltrity."

AMERICA.

PROCLAMATION.

4 Whereas by an Adt intituled," An Adt to fufpend theopera.
tion of an Adt, intituled, An Mt to prohibit the import. t'on of
certain goods, wares, and merchandize, and to remit the penalties
incurred under the fame," the PreSdent
sof the United States is
authorized further to fufpend the operation of the faid Prohibitory
Adt, if in his judgment the public interest &mild require it ; pro-
vided, that Inch fapenfion gull not extend beyond the fecund
Monday in December next. And whereas, it is judged for the
public intercit that fuels fapenfion thould take place : now there-
fore Ise it known, that I Thomas Jefferfon, Prefident of the United
States, by virtue of the auhtority aforefaid, do hereby fufpend the
operation of the Art kidded " An Mt to prohibit the Importatfon
of certain good., wares, and merchandize," pare.' on the 18th day
of April, z Sob, until the fecund Monday of December next.
" In testimony whereof, I have caufed the feal of the United
States to be affixed to there prefents, and figned the fame with,
my hind. Done at the city of Wallington the 24th day of
March, in the year 1807, and of the Sovereignty and Indepen•
dence of the United States of America the 31f.
" TKOS. JETTFASON.
" JAKIS searnsoir,
" Secretary of State."

(IF; the Piefidetit)

NL•W YORK, APRIL 4.
Aarnn Burr, Zx Vice Prefident of the United
States, is now in this city, guarded as a Rate pcifoner.

RICHMOND (VIRGINIA) MARCH :7.
Colonel Burr was apprehended in the Tombigttee
country, in the fiat days of March, perhaps the 33,
in the following manner :
A Gentleman, whore name is reprefented to us td
be Perkins, was at a pnhlic houfe in a village in chit
country, a few miles (perhaps t 8 or so) from the
Spanifh line. He was in company with the Sheriff
of the county.
About eleven o'clock at night,' a gentlemen rode
up to the door; and enquired for the houfe of a
Major, who lived in the neighbourhood. He was
followed by another, who turned out to be his com-
panion. The grangers were told, that the bottle of
the Major they enquired far, was at Come dittance
from the tavern ; and that they would have to crofa
a water entitle which had been (welled by the waters,
and might be dangerous of acccfs. The arangers,
however, perfevered in their intention ; and left the
door of the tavern. _

--
Mr. Perkins was furprized by there fingular move-
ments. It naturally led to Come (peculation upon
the charaiters of the (bangers, and he could not Bart
any rational explanation of their myflerious tondua.,
but that, they were robbers, who intended to pilfer
the Major's houfe. He determined, if poffible, to
prevent their drfign ; and prevailed upon his com-
panion (the Sheriff) to accompany him to the fcene
of meditated tobbery.

When they arrived, the Major was from home.
One of the Gentlemen was in the houfe ; the other
had retired to the kitchen, to warm his flittering limbs:
The firil glance which Mr. Perkins caught of this
vifitant of the kitchen, convinced him that the myf-
terious granger was no other than Col. Burr.
Mr. Perkins determined to arrcft him. He re-
paired to Fort Stoddart on the Mobile, and prevailed
upon Lieutenant Gaines (the Commandant of that
fort) to accompany-him with a finall file of foldiers.
In the mean while, Colonel Burr had fent back his
companion (named Afhley) for fome purpofe un-
known ; and requefted his new companion, the Sheriff*
to thew him on the way to the Spanifh line.
On the road, they met the file of foldiers, accom-
panied by Mr. Perkins and Lieutenant Gaines.—
" What (fays Colonel Burr, or in words to this effeet)
do foldiers travel here in this Ryle, on horfeback ?"
" No," anfwered his companion. Colonel Burr is
Paid to hare immediately dropt his bridle, and
clafping his hands together to have uttered forte
ejaculation of vehement emotion. Lieutenant Gaines
advanced up to him, and interrogated him, whether
he was not Colonel Burr ? The fcene doled by
Lieutenant Gaines' ominous words : 44 You arc my
prifoner, Sir."