Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-12-17
BY THIS DAYS MAIL.
NEW YORK, December IS.
Continuation Of advices DiG amsterdam. ]

Continuation Of adyiees viG Amsterdam
Prince LeWis of Prussia, who on the 1ss
commanded the advanced guard OF the
corps unoer primes Honenlohs, fougn,ilke
q hero, Wasn he discovered his troops "a
be thrown int confusion by the French
cavalry. He fought single handed against
. French pst,y officer OF me 10Th reg meet
of hussars. Ins officer called 70 elm -
$ surrender yourself, colonel, or yeu are q
dead man" lhe prince answered BY So
bte cut ID return for when the officer
stabbed him, aud pfoslrased him dead on
The ground.
Intercepted letter zoritten By Prussian Of.
fee, to hts friend at Berlin dated Naum.
burg, October IL.
The commencement Of hostilities a.
gsinst the French has turned out very I'M
fortunate for the German troops. A dc.
tachmsas OF the left wing Of the corps un-
der Hohealohe, has been forced, aud a
murderous battle has been foughs by ths
corps under Iauenz!en and prince Lewis
oi Prussia, who is killed. The .egimeass
Zas,ram, Won Ballet, the gtees and
brown hussars, as vel! as the Saxon regi.
enents prince John, Xavier and Rechtea,
have suRered severely. Since yesterday p,
NJ aed dufiog,h whole night, we have
seen nothing bat the fugisi,es going TO join
shsir regiments; 1t is supposed that the
French are d,fectiog their main strength TO
our LET. sying TO CT, off our communications
with Leipsig. Their army must amount
TO 800, 600 wen, commanded by the empe.
ror whom suppose to be at this moment
al CeYa, foar German miles from hence.
We have very large magazines here With.
Out any mcans OF holding them; we are
drea6tu!Iy embarrassed here. God forbid
that the king who will probably soon be
attacked, should risk battle, as thar waald
be aa irreparable loss"
It appears very extraordinary that,
though The Amsterdam Conraut of the
2ssh acknowledges ;he receipt of letters
from Berlin and Magdeburg down 10 the
10 h of October, it contains no official bull.
le,ns of the French army of a later date
sha0 ,ac iOsh, from Jena. This circum.
stance is rendered still mere extraordinary
as, the distance from Amsterdam TO Berlin
is about 50 English miles more than from
Amsterdam 20 Iena, and TIE above letters
from Berlin aud Magdeburg are stated 70
have been received by the crrcuitous way
OF Hamburg, and the accounts extracted
from ,aem do not by soy Neans correspond
win ,heletssr from Jena Of ,he 18th, In
this letter the duke OF Brunswick Is stated
TO have been killed, and the decisive battle
to have been fought on the 14:h- The let.
Ter from Magdeburg we now insert IN tull
length and verbally .ranslased.l
Magdeburg, Oct.LS-6 o'clock P. NJ.
The battles which our king lost on the
14th, 15sh and 10Th near Weimar, Kcsin
and Naumburg against marshal .Lannes,
have been very decisive.
The reserve under the duke Eugene Of,
Nuremberg was yesterday defeated by
marsha! ,pavoust. and has been obliged TO
.retreat with considerable less.
Halie has been taken by the enemy, aud
probably he will be before cur gates to
asorrow. Prince Lewis is killed, ADD ,he
duke of Brunswick lies In Biankeuburgh
badly wounded, Our frat generals are
killed, aud with them upwards of $4,000
of our b,zvest soldiers.
Had Bonaparte gained any victories
on the dates mentioned 10 the letter. il Is
exceedingly improbable tina, he would sai'
communicating the same officially to ne
secretary of state, who was 10 possession
Of dispatches from him as early as the17,h,
relating his successive engagements.
The above letter leaves US great hopes
thai We shall find the dixie Of Rrrnswick 70