Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1813-08-06

communications with the detached corps
Arriving at midnight, gen. Perry made ba'
arrangements he did not cause the neigh
bouring forests to be secured lie posted
his men badly, and at four o'clock he wa
assaiied by a hourrs which threw severa
battaiions into confusion He lost coo men
among whom was the general Of brigade
Balathier, wounded two pieces Of cannon
and three caissons but the division having
taken arms, rested upon the wood, and faced
the enemy.
The Count of Valmy (Kellerman) having
arrived with cavalry, put himself at the head
OF the Italian division, and retook the village
Of Konigswartha. the same moment the
corps OF Count Lariston, which marched a
head of that of the Prince Of Moskwa, in or
der to turn the enemy's position, departing
from Hoyerswerda, arrived near Weissig
The action began, and the corps of Yorck
would have been destroyed, had it not been
for dehle, which was to be passed, and by
which means our troops only arrived sue
cessiveiy. After three hours of fighting, the
village OF Weissig was carried, and the corps
OF Yorck overthrown, was forced on tht
other sideaaf the Spree.
The action of Weissig is of itself very
important event A detailed report of ii
will be given.
On the 18th slept at the post Weissig
the Prince of Moskwa at Mankersdorf; and
Count Regnier league in the rear The
right of the enemy's position was evidently
uncovered
On the Goth at o'clock in the morning
the Emperor proceeded to the height behind
Bantzen. lie ordered the Duke Of Reggie
to pass the Spree, and to attack the noun.
tains which supported the enemy's left he
directed the Duke of Tarentum to throw a
bridge over the Spree in the bottom which
this river forms upon the left at half league
from Bautzen the Duke of Dalmatia (Soult)
TO whom Ii. M. had given the supreme com
nand of the centre, to pass the Spree in
order to harrass the enemy's right; lastly
he commanded the Prince # Moskwa, I'M
der whose orders was the Sd corps, Count
Lauriston and Gen. Regnier to approach
Xix, pass the Spree, turn the enemy's
right, and to march upon his head quarters
at Wurtchen, and from thence upon Yves
senburg
At noon the cannonade began the Duke
of Tarentum found It unnecessary to throw
over his bridge he found before him stone
bridge, of which he forced the passage
i'he Duke OF Ragusa threw over bridge
his whole corps darmee passed on the other
side OF the Spree After six hours Of smart
cannonadng and several charges which the
enemy maze without success, Gen. Com
pans occupied Ba1tzcn, Gen Bonnet occu-
pied the village of Niedkayn and carried at
quick step plain, which rendered him
master OF the whole centre of the enemv's
position the Duke of Reggie possessed him
self of the heights and al seven O'Clock in
the evening. the enemy was thrown back
upon his second position. Gen Bertrand
passed one of the arms Of the Spree; out the
enemy preserved the heights which support
cd his right, and by this means maintained
himself between the corps of the Prince of
Dioskwa and our army.
The Emperor entered Bautsen at eight
O'Clock IN the evening, and was received by
the inhabitants and the authorities with
those sentiments that allies ought to feel,
who have the happiness to be delivered from
Stein, from Kotzebue, and from Cossacks.
This day, which, we're it connected with
another, might be called the battle of Baut
zen, was only the prelude to the battle of
Wurtchen
In the mean time, the encn1y began 20
realize the possibility of being forced in his
positions his hopes were no longer the
same, ard he must from this moment have
felt the presage Of his defeat Already were
all his positions changed The fate of the
battle was no longer to be decided behind
his entertainments. His immense labours
and his three hundred redoubts became use
less The right of his position, which was
opposed to the 4th corps, became his centre,
anu he was obliged to throw his right which
formed a great part of his army, in order
10 oppose the Prince of Moskwa, into place
which he had not studied, and which he be-
heved out of his position.
The 2lst. at 5 in the morning, the Empe-
ror proceeded to the heights, three quarters
of a league in front of Bautzen.