Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-11-04
EUROPEAN ADYICEs.

EUROPEAN ADVICES.
BY the arrival at Boston of the ship Erie,
we have London dates to the 9th Sept 90
days later than those yesterday, received BY
the Minerva 1t appears from the bullc-
tins Of the Grown Prince, that he has sue
cessfully resisted the. attacks made upon
him by the french& over whom he has OBJ
tanned advantages Our readers will not
fail to remark aNthe accounts have many
chasns and are therefore IN many particu
lars unin.elIigible. Although we have &C
counts from The continues sdlr;e as the goth
Sept. yet have We noeone Engle line, either
from the British, Russians, Prussians, or
Austrians, respecting tie Great Bnttle fought
OF the Goth and S7th Aug near Dire sden in
which battle Bonaparte commanded in per-
son. We consider all the acccusts of VIC
tories obtained by the Allies to be much ex-
aggerated, and that every one of them have
been what Bonaparte VIII regard 10 affairs
OF out posts, and that they are so regarded
even in England, by the government, and
the thinking people, is pretty evident from
their having had no rejoicings, 10 tower guns
fired, no letter to the Lord Mayor, and the
funds being much depressed
Not only are the English accounts abso-
Miely silent as to 1.-the Great Battle" near
Dresden, but they dOnOt even refer to it nor
give any Information respecting the grand
armies which werethere engaged, nor therein
rs any of the published accounts brought by
the Eric, any mention made of Bonaparte
or the army Immediately unded his COM
mand. We have received no republican
paper to day from Boston, but we learn Nv
private letters thatf,passengers in the Erie
8 ate that in "the gseat battle" B napar e
had defeated the Ahies with the immense
slaughter of sixty thousand men.
twas in this battle that g ep. Moreau was
mortaly wounded, and ~ 1.-THE Austrian
Court Gazette published att Vienna, Sep.
70 we are informed that two ether Generals
were killed three others wounded and two
missing. We look with unusual anxiety
to the receipt Of French Bulletins whichewe
may daily expect. Dem. Press.
,Jonli'Ii, who is said to have deserted from
the French army to the coalesced powers,
is a Swiss, young man, and of fine militia
~ talents (; he distinguished himself under
the eyes of marshal Ney, in the second war
on the Danube, and obtained the rank of
colonel in the line he was subseauently at
tacbed to the staff Of thatsgeneral he re-
tired for campaign through bad health,
during which he devoted his leisure to the
study of the military scjence (; and he laid
the plan of most important military work,
unfolding the spirit and theory of modern
war, by comparison of the campaigns of
Frederick of Prussia with ihose OF the
French rsvolution.-SINs work BE accom-
plished as far Al the fifth Volume octave
only FIVE ont of the seven parts into which
he had distributed his subject, were COM
pleteG in those volumes but it presents o
the military reader, a rich tr, asury OF science
ard military discussion for he examines
with bold hand the characters Of generals,
the plans of campaigns, and writing of mill
tary men on both sides TemplehofF, Lluyd.
and Bulow, the best modern writer's after
Guilbert, and Grmoard, are examined will
dignity and justice.
his work II appears, he revised and re
published in four quarto volumes in 1912.
and was appointed by the emperor Napole
on, military historiographer; he accompa
MED him in the Russian campaign last yeai
in that capacity.---The' motives of his de
sertion, iiRe those 6fMoreau, remain to b
discovered, since nothing but inlatuaton ca,
at present account for them.
The works Of JomiHi were consulted free
ly by the author Of the American Militar
Library, and add much TO the usefulness &
that work "A trans alton OF the work,
far as It has appeared, is already made am
may appear, when thetrue value e milt;
~ knowledge comes TO be properly under
stood and appreciated, period more rapiC
ly approaching than coug0 have been hope,
only year ago.
In the stan of Ney is col. La Vaysse
whom the British would not permit TO re
main az PLANTER at Trinidad, where n
had sat down after devoting his studies to
the practice Of medicine the British go
vernment dreaded his talents, and La Ways
sc. plundered Of his fortune and plantation,
injured in he personal and family affairs. re