Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1813-11-01
Despatch from Lord Cathcart to
the Britilh Government.
Imperial Head GARTER
2soiisz kSsof I,I3f9

timo. The greater part OF the Rus.
fan army in Sileila, and corps of
Prufbans moved into Bohemia on
the nth and i2ih ultimo, and form.
ed a junction with the Auifrian ar
my OH the 18th and following days.
On the 10Th the Auftrians, except
the corps already on the frontier,
paGed in review before the Emperor,
and King of pruilia near Jungfern
Tigni,z
On the 22d the whole of the al
lied army paiitd the frontier into
Saxony in four columns by Peters
waldo, Atenberg, Marlenberg, and
to the left of the laft named place.
Count Wittgenitein on the right
having met Gouvi9n St Cyr, and
difpof fled him twice on the frontier,
attacked him with the bayonet in the
lines of Pereua, and feized that poR
the fame evening.
The oath, the feveral columns
moved towards the right TO concen-
trate The Imperial head quarters
ben the 2rit at Comotau the 22d
at Zubiitz. and the 23d at Nit Seid.
The 24th they were moved u Reich
fadt, near Dippoldiwalde.
The 2srh, al three in the afternoon,
the heads of all. the columns w-re
behind the heights which furround
Drefden on the left bankof the Ebe.
The outpolts were driven in, and the
defence accommodated
The city was evidently GU. Of reach
Of being carried by coup de main
without much lofs, and as here was
no Object to commit 70 great 4 fac.
ri6ce, ii was determined not to at.
tempt it, and the army encamped.
On the a6th, the enemy under
cover of their batteries, attempted TO
regain their ou,polts, which occa-
Toned cannonading and firing which
lated all the day (; towards even
ing the Auftrians formed a redoubt
and ipiked the ordnance, and Tome
attacks were made with view to
provoke the enemy, and IT an oppor-
tuniiy favored, TO follow him into
the town.
On the 77th, the weather, which
had for feveral days been extremely
wet and cold, became uncommoDly
thick and bad, and it rained without
intermiilion for more than ID hours,
with many heavy fhowers. The enc
my flowed himfelf in much greater
force, feveral large MATES of infantry
appeared upon his right, fuPported Dy
artillery, and by Attacks from the cen.
ire which was protected by the works
This menace, on the Aultrian left
beyond Piauen, towards the vale of
Tharaud, was not formidable, and
was cppofed by fufiicient number
of Auirian troops; but in the mid
die of the day reports arrived that
Pima was reoccupied in force, and
that General Butcher, who had been
engaged FIVE times in Tx days, two
of which were general Actions, ore
in the preftnce Of Bonaparte on the
Bobr, ,and one IN which he had ia
ken Martial Macdonald's baggage,
had fallen back to Jauer. At the
fame time large columns moved out
of the town and formed ma1es to at
tack the right, as if to turn it, and
to cover a movement to the lett be-
hind the Elbe. 1 his had the appear
ancc of the enemy's declining the
con bat IN the LEIPZIG or frturt
roads, and moving to his left to gain
the Bohemian line, and ii was reiol-
we'd to make flank march immedi-
ately, in FIVE columns by the right, to
reach the important paiic in tina; di-
redion before him, to choole field
OF Battle in Bohemia. initeaj of one
towards the old ground of Lutzen,
10 which il was not certain he would
advance.
Ibis day produced feveral fevere
partial Actions, in which the enemy
bad many men killed, and mary pris
oners in charges of cavalry, ard IT was
expeniive to both iides, by the contin'
ued cannonade and heavy fire of
musketry. The ground, which is
deep clay, in many places became 10
wet, that neither infantry nor cavalry
could move without difficulty. and