Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-11-15

way, Prussian division under gen. Kiest tool,
possession OF the pass and occupied the com
handing height infee licinty. Thus was gen.
| Vandamme placedhet ueen two fires and al
though he fs$d 1aAis broke The Prussian
division, yethtwas ensprisoncr and lis
| corps was disrerse3.H Ne French lost about
5000 men by vasdamm - fidisere ION /; but tia,
did not AFFECT ,hg generaikrsult of Their viclo,
ry before Dresdd Cen y best was killed.
When Napolcont left siesia,and Marshal Mac
donald IN command OF his amy there, the alice
forces under Gen Butcher had fallen back upon
Jauer, after having been beaten atGoldsberg.
On the "a, of August Macdonald made a sue.
cessful attempt TO drive his enemy from Jauer,
and on the 18th was prepared, in the military
phras 4, To turn him But on the Goth and eth
OF August, the rain descended in torrents, the
Bober and neighboring streams overHowed,
bridges were carried away, and the roads rem.
dered 'lm1st impossible. This deluge dscon
certed the movements of MacGonald's troops,
and the allies profited of his cmbarra sSment.
The French, instead OF advancing, enteavored
to collect their columns at Bunslaw, which they
effected, with the exception of general Pull
haud's division, which all to seven or eight
hundred, who could swim, were taken by Gen.
Hncher The freItch :Ict knowledge loss of a
bou 1000 on this occasion but the allies claim
lSoOO pri oners, besides agrrat quantity Of
camp equipments We are inclined to be
lieve that the scverest blow which the French
sustained, MAS at this point for Macdonald,
after gaining the left side OF the Bober, eontin
ued his retreat over the Quiess and the Niesse,
and never stopped till he reached the heights
OF flochklrch On the Sd OF September Bona
pa:ie left Dresden and took the road to Silesis
lie arrived ON the 4th at Hochkirk, on the
evening of which day he attacked Gen. Butcher,
compelled the allies, in turn, TO retire, aud on
Tie oh OF September they recTossed the Mics
Sc and TIE Quicss, and the French army took
post on the heights of Gorlitz, beyond the Mes
Sc. On tie 9th Napoleon set ont for Dresden,
and reached that place on the 9TH of Septe mber
in the evening. Although Bonaparte stopped
the advance OF Gen Bluclcr, ii is evident he
did not retrieve the ground lost by Marshal
Macdonald from the 25th of August to the oh
OF September that is to say, all the interval
ot country between the Bober and the Niessc,
which lie occupied at the former date.
The French, al the opening of this campaign,
had large army, commando by Marshal Da-
vou,t, prince Oh Eckmuhl, posted for the de-,
fence OF Hamburg and the protection of the
Danish territory. The Danes acted in COMFORT
with him. To DsHpuStNtwas opposed Belna
dotte, crown prince % sweden, with corps
ct about 100000 TDA,l.amade up of Swcdes,
Prussians and Russf.ths. Nsbe"nadotte, AT the
same time that he watched Davoust, was charg
ed with the covering OF Berlin Leaving de-
lachments of his army to obAerve the move
nents Of the prince of Eckmuhl, the crown
prince pushed with his main force, for the
Eibe In advancing several severe affairs Of
posts took place, and Bernadotte's detached
parties had, by the first days ofSeptember, took
positions at Jutesbock, Seyda, and near to Dab
me. The Al, 12ih, and 18th corps of the
French army, under marshal 0udinot, duke of
Reggie, were at Dahme on the 18TH of August
As Bernadotte 4dyauced, oudinot feigned to
c. oSs 20 the left si&e ofthe Elbe hut when the
| crown prince had reached Dabenstein on the
4th OF September, .lnarsll.d Ney, who had as
sisted at the bait 20 Dresdes, had joined ou-
! dinct, and direetsS the whole of his division
upon Jutesbock, wi.ha demonstration for Ber-
liz. Bern ID tic was at that moment prsp aring
70 cross TO the ieii bank of the Elbe at &oss'au,
between -Magtie burg and Wittenber& but the
| movement Of Ney, clearly designed 10 prevent
that crossing, compelled the crovT prince to
fight the battle OF Donnewitzf ION the 9Th OF
september. This hattie, Ia whgch the French
defeated in their object, Wis chiefly sustained
ny a Prussian division 10000 strong, which
would have been eHtit.y cut up had The Rus
SLAMS ard Swedcs 30 swarm,d TO their aid.
Tile Prussisn los yalone, as confessed by the
| allies, was 500QSn killed and wounded and
Rernadoue w9fso crippled. that at the date of
| his twelfth Bulletin, the 10Th of, September,
1 tOui N."t , SitcE lHG Bdltle OF DONi6WltZ, his
| headquarters were stu az I,uerbock. Tie
allies aliedee the French loss 10 be about Is, 900
men, IN killed wounded, and prisoners. The
1 French account Of ths acton has not been vet
received. There had been some petty affairs
| in tiie direction Of Luheck, but nothing of i'm
| portances
In reviewing ibis brief historical ANALYSIS,
we drav this cknclusion, tina, the operations OF
/ Gen BlucVef itsIlesia were meant as diver,
| sion, in ain OF ~ attack upon Dresden and
that Berpadotte's attempt to cross the Elbe, was
in the confidence ofthe attack on Dresden DC.
| ing succesSful, so that union of the crown
| princes army ard tina. Of Bohemia might be ef
| fected m the heart of Saxony, This would have
| put to hazard the safety Of the French armies
! OF Silesia and of Hamburg. Blu, ON the whole,
II may he safely affirmed, that t,p 10 the 9th OF
| September last, with the exception of some po-
stions in Silesia, lost by Macdonald, Napoleon
| mad defeated the allies in all their designs, aRd
| had trmly maintained bimself on all his lines
| otCeience, particularly the important line OF
! the Eibe We make no estimate of the sggre-
| gaze losses OF men on either side, because, from
the partial mode Of statcuCt;Rl by both the
French and tie allies, it himbgAsible even to
guess At the truth in thaapartieulsr.
w,
! We understand, that shout ono or two o'clock in
! the morning OF Saturday last a fire broke out IN q
snail house, the Waslingto, Bridge over the Pc.
tomae, stustcdmear the principal draw, which house
| was appropriated 10 the residence of the person
| who attends the draw aud that the fire commun-
| eating 10 he Bridge, consumed considerable ex.
tent OF b., CroD seven TONNE pers) IN the direc
| ton Of Ire Nrghia Shore. The commencement oi
NE sonhagration was, it is said, accidental Every