The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-10-21 00:00:00

ORNIRAL BLUCHER.

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Bittitz It. Sept. 'is.
Alreetit,' ea the 10th of Septembr, the Silesian..
Army had Athited itself to the Austrian corps of
Count tlubea. On the 11th, _Generals St. Priest
and Kiptesrich crossed the Spree at Schirgizwalde
and Posteirli ; General Count Bebna advanced to•
wards NPottittlt. On the 12th, before day-break,
the enemy evacuated his position at Beliteen and
Neustadt, and retired behind Bischofswerda and
Stolpen. Hera he•was one day's tnercli from Dres-
den, and in immediate counattalcatkon With ids right
wing, by Pima. .
On the 141 h, Geniial St. :P4it etheneed.--7
His cavalry entered DrebnitS, whets a Met et Bat-
talion, and several hundred men) were taken pri-
soners.

The enemy was more and more etraitened iu his
position at Dresden, where, according to ,the reports
of prisoners, and of deserters, Who came over in
troops, the want of forage and provisions was every
day more severely felt.
On the 21di.Nenliall Macdonakl. broke up from
his positiotrit Schtniedefeldt, against Bischofswerda.
The advandlsd-guard under the Russian General Rude
tewitz, and the Prussian Colonel Katzler, wide
him march every foot of ground fighting ; but I.ii
superior force enabled him to occupy Bischofswerda
in the evening, after having suffered very consider-
able loss from the attacks of our infantry. Our ad-
vauced guard had twelve officers and 300 men killed
or wounded. On the 23d, the enemy continued his
attack. The advanced guard yielded to tarn the
wood of Bischnfswervia ; but as soon as be debauched
from it, they turned about, and the Russian cavalry,
under the Russian Generals Witt and Emanuel, with
the Prussian cavalry under Colonel Katzler, drove
the enemy back into the woods. Ten officers and
more than 300 men of the Westphalian Guards re-
mained in our hands; the field was covered with-AO
killed and wounded.

The enemy, however, who was very superltir in
- force, pushed forward to Godau. Here the ground
opens, the thick woods cease, and towards Bautzen
there are plains where masses of cavalry can act with
effect. The General-in-Chief placed the corps of
Von Sacken in a concealed position, to fall upon
the enemy in flank and rear, on-the 2fth, when he
should attack the army. As the enemy remained
tranquil till mid-day over against oar advanced-guard,'
the General-in Chief ordered Baron Sackett to post-
pone his attack : his column. debauched towards the
left wing of the enemy, and the night prevented the
effecting of any movement in his rear. The decisive
attack was, therefore, fixed for the 23th, at day.
break ; the enemy, itowever' did not await it, but
retired in the night to Bischofswerda.
Thus has his third offensive movement against the
Silesian army totally failed, with a loss of 7000
men.
The country ilea suffered excessively Crow, these
marches of the French army. The corn4iwal 'Army
found the inhabitants of all the towns on the road
from Goerlitz to Schmiedefeldt, driven onkel their
habitations Iv the barbarity of their allies, and fled
to the interior of the Woods.

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TOPLITZ, SEPT. 29.—Accounts front Dread** at
the 25th state, that the Emperor Napoleon had been
two days in H.arthau, near Irischofswerda; but that
on the evening of the 24th heagain returned to Dreg.,
den. (This coincides with the accounts contained in
the 1?•- from Blucher's army). The French
holly withdrawing to the left
Marshal Ossdinot had arrived In
, whirls new scarcely amount-
The want of provisions and
day in that city ; eight men
radon of bread ; the number
le. Horses were constantly
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