Star.
London, England, 1813-12-24 00:00:00


GBRlfidiN PAPERS.
TWENTY-EIGHTH BULLETIN OF THE
CROWN PRINCE.
" Flead•cparters, Lubeck, December 6, 3813.
dg General Bulow, with his troops, has cieriecrby
assault the fortress of Arnheim, a place of the great-
est importance for the defence of Holland. It had a
garrison of 4000 men ; the works were in a very good
state, and mostly armed. On this occasion the Prus-
sians gave a new proof of the intrepidity which cha.
racterises them. The loss of General Bulow, in killed
and wonnded. was 300 men ; that of • the enemy
must have been considerable. Some hundreds of pri-
soners were taken.
" Major Marklay, with a detachment forming part
of the advanced guard of General Winzingerode, en-
tered Amsterdam on the 24th of November, amidst
the acclamations of the inhabitants. He was followed
by General Benkendorff.
" On the 27th of November, General Gagarin,
with 300 dismounted_ Cossacks, attacked the garril
son of Deventer, who had sallied out for the purpo
of burning or occupying one of the suburbs., and after
a very übstinate combat, he drove back the enemy as
lay as the bridge, killed a -numler, arid toolrixty.
prisoners.
"On the -28th Colonel Natischkin occupied Arners-
fort, the garrison of which retired upon Naarden.
" The two forts of Cuxhaven; Faro and Napoleon,.
are taken. The garrison are prisoners of -war.
" We are improving the fortifications of Doesburg
and Zutphen.
" General Winzingerode has sent to the Crowa
Prince the keys of the city of Utrecht, taken by the
troops of Colonel Narischkin. Tne Prince Royal trans-
mitted them to the Emperor Alexander.
"Count Strogonoff is charged with the blockade

of Marburg.
•
" The Swedish army having approached the Steck,
ritz, with the corps of Lutsow, occupied the points
`froth the moith of the river, to the environs of Buchen.
Diipubitions were made hit att:iCking the enemy on
the 2d of December. General Count Woronzow,
and General Tettenborn, had received orders to cross
the Elbe at Buitzenburg. The Marshal Prince of.
Eckmuhl abandoned his position in the night, and
retired behind the Dille. Major Ct derstr•zn, with a
flying corps, at the same time 'passed the Elbe at
Geschstadt. The troops crossed the 3tecknitz, pur.
sued the enemy's rear-guard, and took some prisoners.
" The left bank of the Stecknitz presents, at cer-
tain points, heights anti positions which .appear unas-
sailable. The borders of the river vAiciti the tawny
occupied are very rugged, and fhe other bank is a 1,7
tuctst every where 'mari.hy. The accessible pats
display. entrenchments constructed with great care,
pel6sticieCl and:friezed, in a way that might have
stopped. for many days] the progress of the most in-
tepid. and most warlike troops.
" The army made a movement on its right ; Ge.
sseral WortinzoW. *Oilseed upon Lauenburg : the
Swedish army sponidollra sat Ratzeb,urg. On the
Sd General Woronzow marched' upon Schwartzen-
beck, aid curried Bergedorf by assault. The cavalry
Audi-some Prisoners. 4
44 General T.ettenborn advancerupon Arnfelde, and
-tittemegting himself vgith Count Wdronzow's cavalry,
cut .of the communication between Hamburgh and
Labeilt. .
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"Oa the 4th; General Walimoden passed the
/*chits, and Collected the greater part of his corps
at .I(liukrede. His advanced guard encountered the
•euerny at the villageof Sievenbaum, and drove him
from it,. aiatr taking somesprisoners.
." :The swedtsb aialy rharched.between the Wack-
,nitz and the Stecknits, pushed its advanced posts
.uPon the 'left bank of the latter fiver, and drove away
the enen y.

K General Vegesack crossed the Wacknitz at
Grun .u, and re-established the bridge at Ctumessen ;
he took, the leit of the Swi.dish army. A strong Je.,,
tathtnert of all arms, cotmnanded by Lieutenant Co.
lone:_ Anckarsa?hrd, remained between the Wacknitz
and thelTrave, to observe Lubeck on that side, and
to collect materials for the construction of a bridge
opposite Schwartau.
" On the morning of the .sth, General Posse caused 1
a division of the brigade of Ge►►eral Sthnitzenheim
to attac►s the enemy's, position upon the Landvehr,
and after a short musketry fire, he carried the re-
doubts, and re.establizhed the bridge. Some men
were killed and wounded. The Baton de' Melin, of
the lst regiment of guards, a distinguished officer,
was killed in this affair.
a General Vegesack passed the Stecknitz, in order
to j in Count Waiknoden, who was to advance upon
1t:n(1,514e. It being intended to carry Lubeck by
tde, Marshal Count Stedingk caused the
.Swe.
dish army to advance. When arrived at half a league
from the town, he ordered a halt, to wait for the lad.
ders ; during the interval he engaged in parleys with
the enemy.
" It was already three o'clock, the ladders were
not yet cc.tre up ; the knowledge which he bads& the
fortress of Loheck, and el the means of defence
which it..iffordt•tl to a man of skill and resolution, in-
timed Mar ,hal Steding.k not to reject proposals.-
9eneralloall:rnancl signed with Colonel Biorustierna,
Creel ~t-tt.e stag of the
.4,, ei.l.sh :-tioniy, a capitula-
tion, importing that the enerty's troops should eva
cuate the town at ten at night, give up at five in the