Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-07-29

important event. A detailed report of
will be given.
On the 10Th slept At the post Of Weissip
the Prince of Moskw7 at Mankersdorf; &
Count Regnier league in the rear. rh,
right OF the enemy position was evidently
uncovered.
On the Goth, at O'Clock in the morning
the Emperor proceeded to the height be.
hind Bautzen. He ordered the Duke of Reg
| gio 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 Bautzcn; the Duke of Dalmatia (Souit)
to whom II. n. had given the superior com
mand OF the centre, TO pass the Spree in
order to harrass the enemy's right; lastly,
he commanded the Prince of Moskwa, un>
der whose orders was the Sd corps, Count
Lauriston and General Regnier to approach
Xix, pass the Spree, turn the enemy's rjSht
aud to march upon his head quarters at
Wurtchen. and from thence upon Wcissen-.
berg. y
At moor ne 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
The Duke of Ragusa threw over bridge
his whole corps d'armee passed on the o
Their side Of the Spree. After six hours of
smart cannonading and several charges
which the enemy made without success
Gen. Pompass occupied Bautzen, Gen. Bon
net occupied the village of Ne.dkayn and
carried at quick step. plain which render
ed him master of the Whole OF the centre of
the enemy's position the Duke Of Reggie
possessed himself of the heights, and ut
o'clock in the evening, the enemy was thrown
back upon his second position. Gen. Ber
trand passed one OF the arms of the Spree
but the enemy preserved the heights which
supported his right, and by this means MAIN
tanned himself between the corps of the
Prince of Moskwa and our army.
The Emperor entered Bautzen at o.
clock in the evening, aud was received by
the inhabitants and the authorities with
those sentiments that allies ought to feel
who havethe happiness to be delivered from
Sfein, from kotz6ne, and from CossackS.-
This day, which were it connected with an
other, might be called the battle of Baut-
zen, was only the prelude to the battle of
Werizchen.
In the mean time the enemy began to real
ize the possibility of being forced to his POI
siiions. His hopes were no longer the same,
and he must from this moment have felt the
presage of lis defeat. Already were all
his dispositions 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
ess The right of his position which was
opposed to the 4th corps, became his cen
| ire, and ne was obliged to throw his right,
which formed good part of his army, in
| order to oppose the Prince of Mosk wa, into
place which he had not studied, and which
| he believed out of his posi- ion.
| The Dist, at S o'clock in the morning, the
| Emperor proceeded to the heights three
quarters of leagueia front of Bau, zen.
The Duke of Res Eio ssistained a b, isk fir
ing Of musketry upon the Tx lights which de
Tended the eneny's left. The Russians, who
felt the Importance of this position, had pla-
ced there strong division of their army, in
order that their LEFT might not be turned
The Emperor ordered the Dukes of Reggie
and Tarentum to sustain this action will,
the view of preventing the enemy's left from
uncovering itself, and to mask him from the
true attack, and of which the result would
not make itself be felt before twelve or one
o'clock.
At eleven, the Duke of Ragusa marched
a thousand toises in front of his position, and
commenced a frightful cannonading before
the redoubts and entertainments of the enc.
my.
The guards, and the reserve of the army
infantry and cavalry,tfhus masked, had o.
penings, from whiclIsthey might easily adj
vance forward upcnEthe lett or the right
according to the vicissitudcs Of the day
The enemy was thus Held in state of un
certainty as to the true point OF attack.
Whilst this passed, the Prince of Moskws
overthrow the enemy at Xix, passed tn,
Spree, and drove all before him To the vii
lage OF Preilitz. Atten O'Clock he Carried
the village; but the Nreserve of the enem,
having advanced to- eever his head quarters
the Prince of Moskwd was drove back ans
left the village of Preiitz. The Duke O
Dalmatia began to de6ouche at one in thu
afternoon. The enemy comprehending tn
danger with which he was threatened b.
! the turn the battle had taken, felt that tn
only means of sustaining with advantage thu
} action against the Prince of Mosk wa, wa
to prevent US from de6oucbing. They wish
} ed to oppose the attack of the Duke of Dial
malta. The moment for deciding the bat
: tie was then precisely Indicated. The En-
peror, by movement % the left, passed il
20 minutes, with the guards. the four divi
sions of General Latodr Maubourg and
great quantity OF artillery, upon the flank @
, the right OF the eneny's position, which Ina,
become the centre of the Russian army
The division of Morand and the Wurtem
berg division carried The hillock which tn
} enemy had made the point of support.
Gen. DcYaux established battery, an,
directed its fire upon the masses whicl
sought to resume their position. The Gene
rails Dulauloy and Druot, with go pieces n