Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1813-06-21

his force was dttdChSu " Wy ~
r;or divifiop of the enemy, and was
obliged to fall back to Ned'ltz' and
afterwards, on the sth. to CLONE, on
the road to Gortze Beauharno's, Ill
confeq ence of this fucoels, conceiv-
ed the proicd of making an attic mPt
aeainft Berlin. OF Wiugenttein's
near approach he feems 10 have been
ignorant, and putting himlelf at the
head Of $4,000 men, with 40 piee-
es of artillery. he marched againlt
the Prufian Generals Won Boriteil &
Bulow. Wi,tgenitein had arranged
his plan for falling with his whole
force upon him. The battle took
place upon the 9Th, and was ooit'nate
iy contefted, but the ensmy were at
length defeated, and nigh, alone Ia
we'd them from experiencing more
feverc lofs than they did experience.
However, they LOFT 1000 men IN Kill :
ed and wounded. and II officers and
900 men made prifoners Generals
Grenier and Grundler were wound
ed On the next morning Wittgen-
fiien prepared to follow up his advan
taee, but Beauharnois had retired
in the night. abandoned the defles of
Walhitz and Alien Cluis, deitroyed
the bridges, and crofed the Elbe
Wiftgenltlen Immediately threw up
intrenchments at cluss, and other
parts 10 enable Gen Hulow to block
ade Magdeburgh more clofely on the
right bank Of the Elbe. Wittgen-
ftein's head quarters were on the 9TH
at Zerbaf, midway between Dehan
and Magdeburgh.
OF this battle Of the 9Th and the
fubfequent movements of Beauhar-
nois, the 1onitew gives the follow
ing account -
"On the 9Th the 35th divihon,
commanded by Gen. Grenier, had
an affair of advanced potts, upon the
right bank of the Elbe, four leagues
from Magdebureh: four battalions
of this diviGon only were engaged
The infantry difp!ayed its ufual in
rrepidity, and the enemy were repul
fed.
Con the 9TH, the Viceroy being
informed that the enemy had pahed
the Elbe at Defau, fent the 9Th ard
part of the nth corps to fupport the
2d corps, commanded by the Duke
of Beluno. The Vieeroy himielf
took poa at Stopfnrt, where on the
9th his head quarters were, and he
has collected his army upon the Saale
=. the left to the Elbe, the right lean
ing on the mountains of Hartz, and
his referve at Magdeburgh."
The effra of the defeat of Beuhar-
noife has been felt in other parts.
Davouit who had remained at Lune
burg iill the 9th, on that day evacuat-
ed it in great hate to return to
Magdsburgh.
This may be con6dered as the
firlt blow ofthe campaign 1.-The Grit
conhid in whice the Pruilians and
Ru1iars have been engaged againit
the French, and has been glorious to
the allies. May it be he forerunner
of many more gloIies ! The blow
has been itruck too in that part Of
Germany where every man is eager
TO manifelt his hatred and wresk his
vengeance upon the French. ], can
not therefore but give to the princi-
pie of inlurre6tion a ipread and fpir
it in the highea degree beneficial to
the great caufe.
Not lefs cheering is the afpcet of
affairs in every 0 her part Of Germa-
ny. The saxon troops haze Operated
tram the French, the cavalry retiring
to lorgau, and the infantry to
Plauen, by order otfke King If Sarony
This is a manifestation Of a change
of fentimen,s and policy on the part
of Buonaparte's hitherto mott devoted
vaf1als The King of Saxony fees
the general haired of the French that
prevails throughout Saxony, and the
perfons he left behind to adminiiter
the Government have addrefed TO
him ieveral approximations on the
neceihty of total change of policy
and neafures. 1t is probable we
ihall foon have to announce on his