Star.
London, England, 1813-05-06 00:00:00

fiBLICOLAND MAILS.

HELIGOLAND, MAY 2.
The French are at Harburgh. General Sebastiani
is it Laneburg. The Russians and Prussians are on
this side Elbe.

The iall Dantzic has not yet been confirmed:
G. neral Tluelman has, with 10,000 Saxons, left
)r.lati, and joined the Russians, to support the cause
ot country : his example will, no doubt, be foi-
1, weJ by all the Germans. The Weimar and Gotha
roops hive alie,cly done the same. Bavaria wishes
wi
rnain neutral ; but it s not supposed she will be
allowed to do so by Russia.
A Saxon Prince was expected to meet Frederick
Wallin', and Alexander, at Dresden.
Dav,:ust, with 9000 men, Sebastiani with 7000,
and Vandamme with 5000, advanced towards the
Elbe, and obliged the Russians and Hanseatic legion
to cross the river. They all got safe off: .50 Cossacks,
v.hich were cut off, succeeded in getting to Cuxhaven,
and were there embarked through the assistance of
Major Kentzinger. At Hamburgh, every prepara-
tion has been made to give a warm reception, should
the French attempt to cross. They are at Harburgh,
opposite Hamhurgh. They succeeded in capturing
a cutter belonging to Hamburgh; but in attempting
to get her off, she was sunk by the batteries of Wil-
lensburg, belonging to the Hamburgh territory.
The Dsties have sent gun-boats up the Elbe as far
as Zollinspecker, and have voluntarily offered food,
and their troops, to assist Hamburgh.

BERLIN, APRIL SO.
Spandau has capitulated, and the garrison engages
r)t to bear arms against Prussia, or her allies, for a
certain time. All property belonging to the French
Government must be left, and the garrison is only
permitted to carry away their private property. The
baggage in consequence is strictly searched. The
articles of capitulation will hereafter be communi.
cated to the public by the Commander-in-Chief.
In the capitulation every thing necessary has been
observed that is requisite to the honour of the Prus-
sian arms, and the general welfare of the State; but
more particularly to the peace and security of the
capital, and the free communication by water.

BERLIN, APRIL 27.
The following letter from the bead-quarters of his
Excellency the Imperial Russian General to Count
Von Wittgenstein, has just been communicated to us:
I have .he honour of informing your Excellency, that the
garrison of Thorn has made a capitulation with the Russian
ttoeps, according to which the place is to be surrendered on the
6th (loth) of Aptil ; the garrison to lay down the .r arms, and
oblige themselve, not to bear arms against Russia and her allies,
within the space of a year. And in giving your Excellency this
agreeable information, I have to request that you will give orders
to give public thanks to GoD for this happy event, by celebra-
ting aTs Deem. (Signed) " Prince W o man N S
" Lieut.-Gen. and Adj.-Gen. to his Imperial Majesty."
The English Envoy, General Stewart, the English
Secretary of Legation Jackson, and the English.Cou-
tier Ruff, have arrived here.

•According to several accounts, the Polish troops
stationed near Cracow did not wait the attack of Ge-
neral Von Sacken, but concluded a convention with
the Austrian General, in consequence of which they
are to be disarmed and conveyed thither, to wait the
decision of their fate by the general negotiation.
II: Bohemia, especially in the Western Circles, a
numerous army of observation has been assembled,
and according to appearance, the Hungarian Regi-
ments have broken up.
In the Tyrol, Carinthia, and Croatia, the people
are in a state of insurrection against the French, and
in some of these countries they can scarcely be with-
-11:1d from breaking out upon them.
The head-quarters of his Excellency Count Witt-
•gensteii , according to the latest accounts, are at De.
loch, near Leipzic.
The Russian and German roll:Rag of this day
contains as 1. Mows :

" The hopes of seeing Austria assist in the libera-
tion of Germany, continue to increase. Not only pri•
vate accounts from Vienna speak of it as a certain
fact, but the proclamation issued by his Majesty the
Emperor of Austria; concerning a loan of forty.five
millions, although not very clearly expressed, is, ne-
vertheless, given in such terms as to leave little doubt
of its meaning; as it appears certain, that if this
money was to be employed in raising an armament
for Napoleon, they would have given him the satis-
fdetion of saying it openly ; but the very circumstance
of its not being openly so said, is sufficient for us to
jude of its intent.

Ai cording to p.ivate intelligence received, the for
tresses c,f Nlodlin and Zamose have likewise surren
(feted to the Russian arms.

By the latest accounts, Bernburg and Calbe are
7.0 w in possession of the Prussian and Russian troops.

ALTENBURG, APRIL 20.

The battalion, consisting of the combined troops of
Saxe-Weimar, Gotha, and Hilburghausen, which sur-
rendered by capitulation to his Prussian Majesty's
hussars, in the vicinity of Eisenach, is this day ar•'
tived at Head-quarters. They have entered into his
Prussian Majesty's service, and will fight with us in
the general cause of Germany, and for the liberation
of their native country from a shameful foreign yoke.
The battalion will this day have their arms and field-
Oeces restored to them they are to remain united,
and under the command of their Major, Baron Von
Lineker, in the Duke of Weimar's service, will, from
this time forward, form a part of our army.
U?RACT OR A LETTER FROM THE ViCINI/rTY OF DANTEIC,
APRIL 13.

The Governor of Dantric, General Rapp, upon
hearing of the commencement of hostilities between
l'TllssiA and France, arrestel the Prussian post-master
a;hi his clerks. The army before the place limit
their operations to a strict blockade, being fully COll-
- that it must speedily surrender; as, on the one
hand, the diseases that have broken out there rage
with such violence, that those who are compelled to
leave it have in their mouths a piece of spunge, or
carry before them a cloth, dipped in vinegar; and, on
the other hand, there is a total want of medicines and
fresh provisions, which are indispensable to the re-
establishment of health."
DEssAtt, APRIL 20.
General Von Kleist's army continues to march
through this place, being relieved in the siege of
Wittenberg by the Russians, or, according to other
accounts, by Saxon troops. The Commandant of
Wittenberg has offered to surrender it in 14 days, if
be should zeceive no succours before the expiration of
that taw.

THE EVENING STAR

LONDON,

THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1813.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
Red. 584—Cons. 591—for ate. 594-4 per Ct. 724
S per Cent. 881 H—Bonds Is. Ls. dis.—Eich. Bills ss. ils. pre.
Dank Long Annuities 141S-16ths

Two Mails arrived at a late. hour last night from
Heligoland, with Hamburgh Papers to the Ist inst.
Their contents, as might be expected, are impor-
tant. The surrender of Thorn is confirmed, and
Spandau has at length capitulated. The fortresses
Modlin, Zamose, Wittenberg, and Glogau, are so
closely pressed, that they cannot hold out long, but
Dantzic has not yet fallen. The surrender of Thorn
gave rise to the report which reached us from Ham-
burgh.

The garrison of Thorn consisted of 400 Poles,
3500 Bavarians, and only 90 Frenchmen. The fruits
of the capitulation have been two hundred pieces of
cannon, and the besieging army is now at liberty
to proceed to Dantzic. Nearly the whole of the Ba-
varians and Poles have since enlisted under the Pa-
triotic Standard.
With other misfortunes under which the French
labour in defending the Prussian fortresses, it is but
rarely that they can send out any sallying parties, de-
sertion is so general among the various troops which
compose the garrisons.
Among the reports raised by the sanguine Pa-
triots of Harnburgh, it was said that the King of
SAXONY had escaped from his keepers, and was on
his way to join the insurrection of his subjects !
An enterprising Prussian Officer (Major BLU-
CHER) has had some most dashing affairs with the
French at Gotha and Weimar, the details of which
will be read with interest.

In general, every German who is taken prisoner',
by his countrymen or who has an opportunity of de.
serting from the French, declares for the common
cause, and is allowed to retain his arms. Of this cir-
cumstance there cannot be a doubt, so far as indivi-
duals or even whole battalions are concerned, but we
are inclined to think that the rumour echoed from
the Elbe, that the Saxons in Torgau, under General
Thielman, had in a body joined the Russians, is an
anticipation of an event by no means unlikely. As
lan alloy to all these agreeable circumstances, we are
I sorry to state, that the French have again threatened
Hamburgh—they now occupy Harburgh, on the
opposite side of the Elbe, in great force, under the
command of DAVOUST.

We fear that the Russians have been too precipitate
in their advance. The whole line of the Elbe ought
to have been cleared of the enemy before they pushed
onward to the &tale. The details of the occupation
of Haiburgh are given at length in the subjoined let-
ter of our Private Correspondent.—There is a con-
siderable degree of mystery in the conduct of the
Austrian Cabinet. The following article from the
Hamburgh Correspondent of the 30th ult. hints at the
co-operation of Austria against France. We must
caution our Readers, however, against reposing too
implicit credit on the statement :

" BRESLAU, APRIL 24.

tg We have certain news that a Courier arrived at
Vienna from Paris on the 6th of this month, has
brought Napoleon's entire rejection of the proposals
for peace made by Austria. The Austrian Govern-
ment has since resolved to employ an army of 130,000
men in Germany, and one of 50,000 in Upper Italy.
An ultimatum of the French Emperor on the whole
business of the peace, will be presented by the Prince
of Schwartzenberg. Bavaria, it is said, absolutely
insists on remaining neutral."

PRIVATE LETTER.

" HAMBURGH, APRIL 30.

" Since my last we have been here, though not in
continual fear, yet in continual alarm. The French
have occupied the other side of the Elbe, and are in
possession of Harburg, Luneburg, &c. It is not easy
to ascertain theirlorce ;—it is reported to amount to
18,000 men. Certain it is, that in Luneburg there
are from twenty to forty in one house, as letters from
the wives of several Captains, who are here, declare
to be their own case. We do not even know for
certain who has the chief command, whether Van
Damme or Eckmuhl ; the former of whom is said
to have received 6000 fresh troops from Wesel, and
to have left only 2000 at Bremen, to join with the
rest, amounting with those already there to 8000
men, the corps of Eckmuhl. It seems that they have
much artillery with them at Luneburg. _

" A great many persons have fled to this side of
the Elbe. The French, it is said, have issued a pro-
clamation inviting them to return, and promising
them security ; but it is not likely that any will trust
to the word of Vandamme, who proceeds in the most
arbitrary and oppressive manner, and in a proclama-
tion from Bremen declares, that though mild by na•
cure, he is terrible in the execution of his duty, and
that he shall spare nothing when the commands of
the Emperor and the honour of the French arms call
on him. It was said at first, that the French plun-
dered at Harburg : this, however, seems not to be the
case; and perhaps it is not true, what is asserted, that
they drive away all the cattle and all the young men
they can take.
64 Our troops still occupy Wilhelmsburg, and the
Laucnburg chasseurs WPM in the castle as tiarburg,

whether they tae flow left It 1 know tot, hut they
are at bast not returned to tlamburgh. A part of
our troop of the Legion, and the Burgher guard,
who have now received arms fm an England, are upon
constant duty on the islands in the river. If there
were any danger, which there is not, the Burgher
guard of 6000 men, sow of the Hanseatic legion,
2000 Cossacks, 400 of the Duke of Mecklenburgh's
guards, 400 of the German legion from England,
and the Hanoverian regiments, in English pay, now
raising here and which increase rapidly, would form
a force sufficient to repulse the few French who might
be able to pass the river at one time, almost all the
boats having been prudently secured on our side, and
besides we have some armed vessels cruizing on the I
Elbe.

le Since this Morning all possibility even seems to
be cut off from the French of passing the Elbe, for
several Danish gun-boats and cutters have placed
themselves in the Channel to guard the passage, and
orders have been sent to Gluckstadt, as I am assured
from good authority, for some cutters to come up.—
We have had the misfortune to lose an armed cutter
yesterday, by the folly or ffeachery of the Captain,
who went on shore, and left his vessel so stationed,
that at the ebb it remained nearly aground. At first
it was said, the French had gone on board and taken
out the cannon, but it seems that they have destroy.
edit by a battery on shore.

gg It is said, and I believe on good authority, that
the Danes have sent a flag of truce to the French at
Harburg, declaring their intention to support Ham-
burgh against all attacks ; and a reinforcement of
1200 chasseurs and 1$ pieces of cannon advanced to-
day towards the frontiers, at Wandsbeck and Mot--
den, to be at hand, if it should be necessary to de-
fend the banks of the Elbe. Advices have been re-
ceived here to-day, but their truth cannot be warran-
ted, that the Saxon General Thielman, with 8000
men, has left the fortress of Torgau and joined the
Prussian army."

" Prussian Head-quarters, April 22.

46 On the 18th General Souham suddenly advanced
from Erfurth towards Weimar, probably wish the
&sign to reconnoitre our advanced posts. He was
at the head of 8000 men, including the greatest part
of the enemy's cavalry, viz. a regiment of Baden,
and a regiment of French, together 1600 men.
Behind Weimar we had a post of 80 lins;ars,
under Major Blucher. The enemy's cavalry intended
to take this detachment, but failed. Major Blucher
advanced to meet the superior cavalry of the enemy
just as they were going to pass the defile of the town.
He fell on them with his 80 hussars—a warm skit..
mish took place in the streets.
64 The enemy was driven four times again out of
the town, and Major von Blucher, after having re.
called his detached posts, retired without being pur-
sued, with the loss of five killed and six prisoners,
who were thrown from their horses in the town. The
enemy had 16 killed, and above 20 wounded. On
the 20th, General Souham, without having done any
thing further towards attaining his purpose, retired
back to Erfurth.

46 Major Blucher praises the extraordinary bravery
of Captain Hoeckritz, of Messrs. von Rothkitch, von
Bonin, and Count Solms, the three last of the Volun-
teer Chasscurs.

" Another letter says t—tducher had already taken
.50 prisoners when he met with the enemy's reserve,
and could not penetrate because hi shussarswere furious
in pursuit ; he was wounded in:the cheek, but had in-
Tired the enemy with so much respect that he conti-
nued his retreat quite slowly to the Saale. He went
till beyond Jena, but has advanced again, and is said
to be now anew in Weimar."

" ALTENRITRG, APRIL el.

• General Lanskoi, having learnt that the Westpha-
lian light horse of the guards intended to attack the
Prussians at Nordhausen, marched with a pulk of
Cossacks, and attacked and defeated the enemy, kil-
ling a number, and taking prisoners three officers and
102 rank and file."