The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-04-24
LONDON, March 9.

lranilation of a letter from General the Ia.
ron de Remington, to his MajeEy the Emperor
OF kutiia, delivered by Lieutenant-C Colonel Sta.
'tzk'' Aid.de-camp to his Imperial MsieRy.
On tie FIELD IF battle, PreuAek Eyau, Feb. ..
y" SIRE-I am trNIy happy to have il in INV
power 20 inform your Imperial Maief,. thar
the army, the command of which your Maietv
has deigned to coHide in me has teen AGAIN vic,
tor1ous. The battle which has jut taken place
mas been bloody and deitruetivc. 1t began on
the Goth Jan. 9th Feb.) at three O'Clock in the
afternoon, and lated until fix O'Clock in the
evening OF the 27th Jan. 18th Feb.)
" The enemy was completely defeated /. orr
thouiand prifoners, and twelve fand of colours
which have the honour herewith to trsufmit TO
your Majety, tell into the hands of the concu..
rors. This day Bonaparte attacked me with his
oeH troops, on my centre, and or both wings.
but were repuifed and beaten on all fdes. His
guards repeatedly attacked my centre without
the imalieh fucceis. After a very brik fire. they
were rePuiied at all points by the bayouet and
oy charges OF the cavalry. Several coIumns of
infantry, and picked regiments of curraG;er,
were deftroyed.
maii not fail to tranfmit to your Maiefy,
as loon as pofiblc, a detailed account of the M
morabie battle of Preuiiich Eylau.
think our lois may perhaps exceed Ak
thou.and men, and | certainly do not exapoer.
ate' when l fate the iofs of the enemy at Conf.
derabie more than twelve thoufand men"
Addi,lonal inltructions have been ifIued fro,, m.
Ao"hr&l'y, dated the 18th ut. authorizing the fhips
snu soUHS psi0ng'ng to Hamburg, Bremen, and other
ports OF the North of Germany, ,radiue fro,, ,hs
United hingdom't to pats unmoleied.
general idlutc was fired from the bat.-r;.,
a'ong the french coat on Thurrday. II la mn,
unlikely but the falute may have been location.
co ny the return OF Bonaparte to the capitol.
MARCH IL.
Three foreign gentlemen arrived in TOWN rsc
terday from Meligoland, after a paIape of fnur
days lhey Rate, we underRand. that tbev
leit."o courers there who were waiting for q
Packel ; one IRON the court of Vienna, the
0tuer WIN overland diipatchcs from India.
DE Auitrian melleCger, according to The renor,
of theie gentlemen, publicly afirmrd, ,bot hi.
court had declared war againa France and
that a force much fronger than anv emn,ov,d
latt war had taken the field. They aIGo mrnt;
on that they had converted at Hamburob with
%ieVeTal French officers who were enraged ar the
battle of Eylau, which they reprefented "a "a,
more'fanguinar than it has been detailed TO ~,
Iheie Officers did not claim a victory ON the
SID, out rePrefent It as drawn battle. The
French army has fuffered exceedingly from a
co,ho'nation OF cauies principally from lofe:
IN battle, and much from ficknefs and fcarcitv
'Ho idl luiSIOTluHC, we under
Rand, is acknowledged, in an official documen,
rem the army; and a fupply is earneRIy requef
ted from various quarters,
a letter from Rotterdam, oftte date of Wed.
neiday Ian, ftates, that Bonaparte was daily ex.
peeted at Paris, having left the command Of the
armyto MAIZENA,. HIS imperial maie1y is faid
to be feverely indifpofed. A report alfo pre-.
vailed at Rotterdam, that an AuRrian army
was ~ iull march towards Saxony.
The following is a copy ofthe ~fentence of the
court MARTIAL on Sir Home Popham The
court ls OF opinion, that the charges have been
proved agalnf the faid captain Sir Home Pc.
Pnam That the Withdrawing, without order,
10 to do, the whole os any naval force from thc
place where it Is directed to be employed, and
the employing it in difant operations arain0
the eHeny, more Especially If the f~accefes oI
tnch operations mould be likely to prevent it,
Peedy return, may be attended with the mof
ieTious inconvenience to the public f~eryice "a
the iucceis OF any plan formed by bis maiea v,
m,n'ters tor operations aeaina the enemy, in
"n'ch iuch naval force might be included, may,
oy iuch removal, be entirely prevented. And
the court is further Of opinion, that the conduA
Oh the laid captain SIR Home Popham, ia the