The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-06-17
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SALEM, June Son "Wednesday laft the
Hopcwell, Capt. Rea, arrived here from Ham
burgk, which place ihe left en- the 18th OF A.
pril. The lait sews received there reflect
ing the war was iim;lar to what we have
had here-ihat Mafiena had made move
ment which it was expected would immediate
ly bring on another general battle. As to peace,
though there had all winter been fome talk of
IF, yet 1t was m event that in Hamburgh was
not expected foon to take place.
With refpe6 TO the events of war which
had taken place between the French and Ruff
fans, it was difficult TO Judge of the truth
from the Hamburger papers, as they are iiiued
under the INFECTION OF French intendant. OF
public and official ftatements there is generally
ditrst, from the fupPofed policy ofcach par
ty to conceal its own difafters, and exaggcrate
thofe ofits enemy: private information is there
fore often more relied on.
From psrIons who had been at the theatre of
war, and from the COMMUNICATIONS of the
French officers themfelves, it was well known,
that though the French had main,si their
military reputation iii all the battles they had
fought, yet that Bonsparte had at length met
with an enemy that required the full exercfe
of all his genius and energy, and had rec eived
fuch check as he had never before experience
ed. Perions who had viGted both the French
and Rufiiau armies, allowed that TIE former
were vatt'y fuperior TO the latter in military
icience and experience bur yet Bennington
had managed his means with fuch fkj and
Judgment as greatly to harras and ftraiten
the French, and to make them fuffer feverely
from the rlgours of the climate and the want of
rrSvihons, as well as from his arms.
The dreadful accounts we have had of the
battle OF Eylau appear to hcve been no Getions {:
the deitru6tion II human life in that awful!
icene has hardly been equsled in modern war
fare. Benningien's Raiement of the French lols
in this affair feens not to have been far from
the truth for French officers who were in the
battle acknowledged that they had between so
and 10000 killed and wounded the Ruiiian
lofts they aate to be equally great, and it was
confidently iaid that there was not lefs than
10000 wounded Ruihans in konigibers: the
concIuhon was, that neither fide could boat of
having gained any diftnguiihed advantage over
the other in the action, though it was acknow-
iedgsd that the RufIians iaved Kongfberg by it..
The account we have had of the dettrutlion of
Benaparte's guards was ,rve Augereau being
wounded, AVID 80 men diicouraged by repeated
IrepniieS, Bonaparte ordered his guards to TIE
charge; they obeycd, and were all cut TO pieces,
faying about hxteen rlen, the Ruliians giving no
quarter After the battle, nc, itls than 5 900
dead hortes were coupted upon the field. A
French officer, in letter 10 a friend, fays, that
Two more tuSn hattiSs WOuIQ aHuIhIIate the
French army. 1t was evident that the impreti-
OH OF BoQaparte's inviucibiiity was 10 fome de-
gree etfacsd, and the hopes of thoie Rrengthen-
ed who wiihed to fee bounds fct to his triumphs
The greateit exertons were making on both
ihdes to repair their lofies by recruits. Wait
numbers were pouring into the French grand
army, from all parts of Germany, as we'll as
from France, thoulands of wretched creatures
being obliged to eulif, to get bread and e.
ven ma6Y of the PrulIian prioners had entered
among The recruits. The ihocl, from the next
meeting of the two armies was expected to be
even more terrible than that of the former.
1t ieems the good geDeral;liip of Bennington
had not prelerved him from the jeaIonfy of the
other. officers of the Rulian army, who think
themleIyes dlihonored by having foreigner
placed over them. The emperor Alexander
had arrived at Revei, on his way to the army,
with view PROBABLY OF competing the diff
cuIties.
There are now no French troops in Ham,
burg ; the place is garriiNied by the Dutch,
the river is bockaded by the Brtiih, and it's
trade has ceaied.