The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-06-21 00:00:00

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bravery ; and our gillant liigmetiders erhO are ewer
fore Most in danger, suffered greatly. The Bruns-
Stickers dick honour to their country.
Thin morning, 17th, at three o'clock, I started

again towards the field of battle, and Lam this in.
scant returned. I learn that some distiuguished per-
• sons have bile!' gloriously on•the side of the Allies,
and that Bertrand, and some other Generals, ha►e
been taken prisoners. I shall, however, in this un-
certain state of things, avoid particulars, lest I
rhombi mislead you.
I ascertained near the plain that the French had
retreated about one league from the field of battle,
and were supported by a wood: our army is in pos-
session of the plain of Fleurus, in the expectation of
renewing the conflict tomorrow, unless the enemy
deem it more expedient to retreat. The stragglers
that come in inform us, that the French army con-
sifted of abort 90 or 100,000 men, with Bonaparte
at their head. There have not, been more than 4or
5000 killed and wounded on either side. Even now
oar fresh artillery is proceeding to the army, and
the finest I ever saw. The wounded are continually

coming in ; but as to prisoners I believe few have
been made, as I met none on the roads, nor are there
any arrived here. Congreve's rockets in great abun-
dance are sent off to the army, and I conceive they
will soon he in use. I am once more of to the
neighbourhood of the army, and hope soon to see the
oteak of the Russians tried.

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21) 1815.

We regret we Cannot yet tranquillize the public
mind as to the result of the dreadful struggles which
now interest all feelings, and engage general anxiety.
No dispatches had arrived from the Duke of Wes.-
lotwevoe, and no communication from office on which
we tea rely had been made when we sat down to give
tb• Wit account we could of the sanguinary engage-
swats In which• our countrymen have had such a
large share in Belgium. it is true, that a kind of
-Bulletin was issued last night, purporting to come
from the War Department, and we copied the'arti- ,
cle in a Third Edition of onr Paper to show what
sort of stews were in circulation. This Bulletin was, we
believe, originally published by the Star Newspaper.
We could' not believe that the British Government,
.which bad all day long refrained from
.pelstishingelsei
advices of which it was known to be in possessiont,
would, at the close of a day of the greatest and p.
neral anxiety, send forth such statemeets as this
Bulletin, contained on the authority of the Captain of
an Ostend packet! The British Government publish.
Bulletins on the authority of the Captain of an
tOstend packet I Commendable attention to our anx-
ieties, tile) 1 The heads of the War Department
—those who are now entrusted with the conduct of
this ear which is to give Europe peace, or clothe it
with the hue of mourning, be so ignorant of geo-
graphical position as to talk of the French Wee
pursued 66 across the Sambre, even to Charleroi,"
when, if the Bull..tin writer' bad turned foi .a mo-
ment to hislinp or his Gazetteer, he would have
found that Charleroi is situated upon this very same
river, and on the north aide of it, and that for that
reason has the additional description of Sur Sambre.
But the Ostend Captain and the Bulletin writer, it
seems, did not know any better. This notable
publication too was also math, at the very mo-
ment Lord CAO67LTRZAGH was declaring that ac-

cording to the bthices he had received nn, decisive
affair had taken place—that there had, indeed, been
fighting, that the armies were, at the date of his
accounts, in sight of one another, andthat the Allies
were acting purely on the defensive, and had not en-
tered France. The poet town of Charleroi also was,
by this Bulletin, given to the flames. This statement
proves to bets accurate is the rest of the assertions in
this inconsiderate fsbricatLon.. The latest accounts in-
form es that Charleroi was in possessinti of the French;
and that the Duke of WELLINGTON and DLUCIIFIL,
instead of penetrating into the French territory in
pursoit of the flying enemy, had retreated and taken
trp • position at Watertvo, where they are concen-
trating their force with the view of again giving bat.

tte. .Though this evidently shows, if the statement
be *toe, shit the Allies have lost ground, and that the
advantage has not been iu their favour, it affords sa-
tisfactory ground of congratulation, for by this we
said that the. object which the enemy in unquestionably
hartinilesv, namely. that of separating the English
mod evessiarts, and cuffing them up iu detail, has not
~been efected. We sincerely grieve, however, to
hear from ail qoattersl on too good authority, that
our brave coootrytnen have been dreadfully cut up.
We refer to due copious and various extracts we have
made frogs the Bross& G melte: and private communi-
tisk
,cations for the easy( the slaughter that has taken
place. Some of t POI time shocking to contemplation.
In one of the @Haat Lord FITIMOT SOUERSIer Sep

ev quarter vas given on either side. The French
have beers found to be much stronger than the-va-
pouring hireliogsof those who have plunged es into•
this hur►id state of warfare, would allow them to be,
stud they are inflamed against their. Invaders With eh
the eaterminating passions. and fort With which they
•hive beeu gAreateued. T►e lkitieb sad Prussians