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London, England, 1813-09-14 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, SEPTEMBER 7.

Het Majesty thiampress and Queen has received
the following intelligence from the Army, dated Ist
September ;

44 On the 28th of August the King of IsLiples and
Duke of Belluno slept at Freyberg, the 29th at Lich...
tenberg, the Stith at Zittau, the Sist 4t Saydo.
44 The Duke of Ragusa, with the 6th, slept on the
`?Bth at D;ppoldeswdlkta, where the enemy abAndoned
1200 wouncki ; on the 29th at FAlkenhain, and oft
the 31st at Zinnwalti.

The 14th corps, under the orders of Marshal
St. Cyr, wls on the 2ath at Mazen ; the •29th at
Runhar.its Grimm, the Stith at Dellersuorf, and
the Slat at Liebanau.

" The Ist corps, under General Vandaznme, was
on the 28th at Hohendorl, and ute 29tii at Peters.
walda, occupying the mountains.
" The Duke of Treviso was in position on the
28th aid 29th at Pirna. Gen. Pajol, commanding
the cavalry, has made some prisoners.
" The enemy retired to the position of Dippnides-.
walda and Altenburg, his left billowed the Platten
road, and fell back by Tharandt upon Dippol•tes.
walda, not being able to retreat by the Frt•yherg
road. His right could neither retire by tht• cause • ay
of Pirna nor that of Dohna ; and, therefore, r-tired
upon Maren, and from thence upon Dippoldeswaltia.
All that there were of psi tisans or detached were tut
off. The Russian, Prussian and Austrian b .it age
got entangled upon the causeway ot Frey berg. sevw
ral thousand carriages were taken there.
at Altenburg, where the void Toepli'z te) Otp.•
poldeswal to became impracticable, tit.- enemy 'ouk
the resolution of abandoning more than 1. it • car.
riages ot ammunition and baggage. This graad
army re-entered lliftemia, atter having lust part of
its artillery and baggage.
" On the 291 h Getieral Vandanime passed with
eight sir ten battalit•iis the neck ot the grand ...:ain,
land marched upon Kuhn. lie ili..re met the en-my,
eight or lU,OUO strong, he engaged him; not hutiatg

himself sttfficiantly strong, be made his tOrpi &suit*
4,scendz.:.he *bald have soon overhimen the enemy.
in place of resentering, and again-placing himself
upon the heights, be remained, and took a position
at Kelm, without guarding the tnountiin
mountain commanded the only causeway it is high.
It was only on the 30th that Marshal Sts Cyr 'and
the Duke of Ragusa arrived at the &hooch from
Tnephts. General Vandamme only thought of clos-
ing the road against the enemy, and taking a 11...-.
Tod flying army, a bridge of gold must be made, or a
farrier of steel oft honed 1.--he was not strong enough to
oppose this barrier of steel.
" However, the enemy pereeiVing that this corpt
i'armee of 18,000 remained alone in Bohemia,
separated by high mountains, and that all the otheis
were at the foot of the mountains on the other side,
saw that he was lost unless he defeated it; he con.
ceived the hope of successfully attacking it, its posi-
tion being bad.
" The Prussian guards were at the head of the
army, which fought in retreating ; •to than were
joined two fresh Austrian divisions ; the remainder
of the enemy's army joined them as it debouched,
followed by the 2d, 6th and 14th corps. These
troops reached the first corps.
" Generallrandamme shewed a good countenance,l

veptlsed all the attacks, penetrated all that presented
itself, and covered the field at battle with dead.—

Disorder increased in the enemy's army, and it was

with admiration seen what a small number of men
can do against a multitude whose morale is weakened.
66 At two in the afternoon, the Prussian column
of General Kleist, cut ,off in his retreat, debonched
by Peterswald, to endeavour to penetrate into Bohe-
mia ; it met no enemy : arrived upon the top of the
mountain without resistance, it placed itself there,
and there saw the affair.
46 The effect of this column upon the rear of the
army decided the business. General Vandamme im.

mediately marched against this column, which he
repulsed ; he was obliged to weaken his line at this'
delicate moment. Fortune turned, he nevertheless
succeeded in overthrowing General Kleist's column,
who was killed ; the Prussian soldiers threw away
their arms, ittd Ofecipitated themselves into the fosses
and woods, In this strife Gen.Vandamme disappear-
ed. It is supposed he was killed.
" Generals Cerbeneau, Dumonceau and Philippon,
,determined to profit by the movement to withdraw
part by the great road, and part by the cross roads,
with theirdiviliens, by abindoning all the materiel,
which CcinictStetar 50 pieces of artillery, and 300
waggons of all kinds ; but bringing away all the
bows. Iptirositnation in which affairs were they
eosit rtitl.llo6 laid' better.
killed, wounded, and prisoners, may carry
• Oln, lorqrthis- 'fair lo 6000 men. It k thought
"Ah'at tAincmyrojoss cannot be less than from four
40. iftfeti. 4.
Irlk •
first. corps tallied half a league from the
field of battle, outhirl4th corps. A list of the losses
of this catastrophe, owing to a warlike ardour badly
'calculated,` was made out. General Vandamme
merits regress:4 he,possessed a rare intrepidity. He
died Uptm the field of battle.—a death worthy of envy
to every brave man."
Her Majesty the Empress and Queen has re-
ceived the following -intelligence from the army,
dated September 2 :

4, On tfie 21st August, the Russian, Prussian, and
Austrian army, commanded by the Emperor Alex-
ander, and the King of Prussia, entered Saxony,
and on the 22d marched against Dresden, with from
180 to 200,000 men, having an immense materiel and

full of hope, not only of driving its from the right
bank of the Elbe, but even of marching upon the
Rhine, and nourishing the war between the Elbe and
the Rhine.

.4. In five days it has seen its hopes confounded,
30,(1)0 prisoners, 10,000 wounded fallen into our
power, which makes the number amount to 40,000;
20,000 killed or wounded, and as many sick, in con-
seqUence of fatigue, and the want of provisions, (it
has been five or six days without bread), have
weakened it nearly 80,000 men.

is It does not now amount to 100,000 men under
arms, it has lost more than 1000 pieces of cannon,
entire parks, 1500 ammunition and artillery wag-
gons, which were blown upor fell into our power;
more than 3000 baggage waggons, which it has
burned or were taken.

46 There were 40 colours or standards. Among
the prisoners there are 4000 Russians.

The ardour of the French army and the courage
of the infantry fixed every one's attention. The first
cannon fired from the batteries of the IMperial
Guards on the day of the 27th, mortally wounded
General Moreau, who had returned from America,
to enter the Russian service."

IMPORT FROM TIIE MINISTER AT WAR TO lIIS MAJESTY

THE EMPEROR, EPATEb AUGUST 9.

14 SIRE—Your isfajesty, ir.formed of the events
which had taken place in the North of Spain since
the mouth of June last, determined upon conferring
the command of your armies in the Peninsula on his
Excellency the Marshal Duke of Dalmatia. As
soon as he was at their head, military affair, in the
Peninsula considerably ameliorated. The enemy's
audacity was arrested, and his projects defeated.—
1 orced for the moment to raise the siege of Pampa-
`,lna, the English lost many men io the attack they

IditAttier and iVere !witnesses of Ote ,daiitetion
th 4 iiol)ftd Magaiines bey htd estaldisbed near
that fillet. A 'short time after the enemy re-ern-
barked' Ws %lining artillery, and for tome time
suspended the siege of. St. Sebastian, and left at the
font of that town a great number of soldiers, who in
vain attempted to clear the breach.

64 Ent, Sire, notwithstanding this favourable cir-
cumstances and: although the armies of Arragon
and Catalonias which have not ceased being victo.
&us, may eltlsect fresh successes from, the concen.
tration of their forces, it is impossible to dissimulate
the necessity of sending to the armies of Spain rein-
forcements which may put them in a Condition to de-
feat the.designs ef the English, who can daily receive
fresh recruits. The factitious ascendancy which
the Ensile": have succeeded in exerting in the Pe.
ninsula, will present to our troops fresh obstacles
to overcome, and placing the armies of Spain in a
condition to surmount them all and resume the supe.
r•iority which is natural to them, can no longer be
delayed.

" I have already submitted to your Majesty the
different denkands made to me by Marshals the
Dukes of Dalmatia and Albufera to obtain reinforce-
ments which have become indispensible.
" I now have the honour to propose to your Ma-
jesty to order a levy upon the last conscription in
the departments ix the neighbourhood of the Py-
rennees.

The inhabitants of those departments, animated
with love for their country, and feels of what im-
portance, principally to them, is the defence of that
frontier, will, I have no doubt, make with ardour
the new efforts which circumstances demand.

44 There is no one in the South, who is not pene-
trated with those sentiments; and who is not ready
to make the greatest sect ifices, should they be neces-
sary, to support the glory of France, and defend
the territory—already lave the Basques, without
being called upon by your Majesty, taken arms of
their own accord, and marched against the enemy.
44 On all sides on this part of the Empire, the
wishes of the inhabitants, executed by general inte-
rest, call for the measure I propose to your Majesty,
and all are convinced of the absolute necessity of it—
I in consequence propose to your Majesty to order
that there shall be made on those departments, a levy
of 30,000 men to reinforce the army in Spain.

(Signed)

44 The Duke of FELTRE,
44 Minister at 'War."

MdTWES OF THE PROJECT FOR Till SENATUs coNsULTUm.
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14 MONSEIGNEUR,
46 SENAToRs—When in December last, I pointed
'i out at the tiibunal, the English Cabinet as the fo-
menter of war, your wisdom acknowledged its truth,
which later events. if possible, have rendered more
evident.
" Deceived in thv hopes it had conceived upon the
success of our enemies in the North, frightened, as
it always is, at the sight of negotiations, the thought
alone of war, England has been as prodigal in that
part of the world of intrigues and promises, as, in
the South, been prodigal of reinforcements and sa-
crifices.
. " Obliged to give way to the superiority of num-
ber, and to the advantages of maritime commerce,
our armies in Spain have need of reinforcement%
46 Prudence will not admit of any alteration being i
made in the imposing dispositions made on the side
of Germany, dispositions upon which alone the most
just hopes are rounded, and which, under the direc-
uon
of the Emperor, guarantee the most profound
security, and, if needful, the most brilliant success.
4‘ It belongs, then, to the Southern departments
to add to the corps d'armsl which defend them, the
necessary forces.
" In the last war a glorious example was given,
when the enemy landed upon the ancient territory of
Belgium. The citizens armed themselves to admi-
ration, and leaving their families and their occupa-
tions, marched in crowds against the English, who
were soon obliged to retire before this army.
44 Now the gallant Biscayans (Basques), and all
the brave inhabitants of the Pyrennees and neighbour.
ing departments, animated with devotion and fidelity,
with zeal and courage, lave spontaneously come for-
ward at the sound alone of the enemy's approach to-
wards the North of Spain.
44 But the Emperor does not intimate that it will
for a length of time be necessary to make use of this
generous movement. He judges it better to take in
those departments a certain number of men from the
conscriptions of 1814 and previous years, to enter
into the skeletons of the armies.
44 The Senatu: Cosusltum which we bring you fixes
the number at 30,000. It will be sufficient to arrest
the success of which the enemy has too soon boasted,.
to resume with hitn that attitude proper for France
to attain, and prepare that moment in which Eng-
land will no longer dispose for the devastations of the
Spains, the treasures of Mexico, that she tears from
them, and with which she feeds her commerce in
both Indies, prolongs her monopoly in Europe, sup-
ports in it her exhausted credits pays men whom she
has corrupted, and those fatal subsidies to the Cabi.
nets she misleads,"
REPORT MADE BY THE COFIDE Dil SORRNoNVIELIet IN THE
NAME OF THE SPECIAL CoMMINuoN.
- ig MoNsniGNEußt
" MESSIEURS—The Minister at War and Orators
of Government have sufficiently demonstrated by their
respective Reports the imperious necessity of rsiuforc-

hit bat' atiliies *tilos in the Peninsula, so dill *ere
remains fa me little to add to the means of ecsairic-
lion which have titbit to clearly developed.'
41 The wise pi-emotions taken by the Emperor pre-
vious to his departure for the Grand Army to cover
all the pens and dock-yards of the Empire, have na-
turally forced England to give up her grand projected
maritime expeditions; and in short, all those kind of
attacks upon all those points of so great iMporrance.
" England, which intrigues much and hazards,,
little, has not dared to compromise her land troops
by sending them to fight With the Russian and Prus-
sian phalanxes, she feared reverses which she took
care to prevent, and which would have been irrepar-
able to her. In this conjuncture and in order to ap-
pear to do something for the Powers she has put in
motion, the Cabinet of London preferred mixing the
English troops with the Spanish and Portuguese
bands, sure in being able to withdraw them without
inconvenience, and according to her interest, and
from that, this sudden increase of considerable forces
which determined our armies to make retrograde
movements of which the Minister at War basis-
formed you ; and those bands, encouraged by some
ephemeral successes, have carried their audacity to
the height of investing the forts of St. Sebastian and
Pampeluna.

46 Already were parallels traced, trenches dug, ant.
a breach was about to be practicable at Sal Sebas-
tian's, when the brave garrison by its murderous vol-
lies forced the enemy to disappear and re-embark his
park of artillery.
44 On the side of Pampeluna if our success has not
been so brilliant, the English have not been less an-
noyed in their works which have been filled, and the
army has shewn a rare intrepidity.

" But all those bands may daily be increased by
others—their pretended successes, published from one
end of the Spains to the other, may bring-a crowd
of preselites ; the hopes of taking those two places,
and making a bulwark of them for their pirates may
draw all the banditti—all those circumstances. united
demand the adoption of a prompt levy so as to place
our armies in the Peninsula itt a situation to resume
their former attitude.

" His Majesty the Emperor and King, who ap-
preciates the generous movement of his brave subjects
of the Pyrennees, does not think fit to make a too
prolonged use of them, and has thought it better to
take in those departments a certain number of men
from the consc:iptions of IRI2, 13, and 14, and for-
mer years, and if necessary incorporate them into the
skeletons of the army.
_ " The Stnaius Cons:aunt which I have just had the
honour of reading to you, fixes the number at 30,000,
and your special commission unanimously proposes
it for your adoption."

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