The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-01-27

largest depots. The Emperor decided FOR
mat OF Srturt for the same reason which
in4ueed him to come to Le,psic, to enable
him to appreciate the detection OF Bava-
ria.'' OI
he Emperor Immediately gave oriers
Tat tue baggage, the parks, ard the ar,l,-
iery, shoald pass the defiles NJ Lndenau. he
gave similar orders with respect 30 the ca
va'ry. and the dif.eren. corps Of the army
and then repaired 10 TIE Pfussian Hotel. ia
the suburbs OF Lepsic, where ne arrived at
nine o'c'ock in the evening. 7 his circum-
stance obliged the French army to renounce
the fruits OF the two viCto,ies in which they
had. with so much glory, beaten trotns
greatly superior in hunters, aad the armies
OF the whole Continent.
=" But this movement was not without diff
hcuity. on Leipsic to L'ndenan there i.
Gene III two leagues with five or six
oridses On the road Ii was proposed e,
place thousand men ana GO pieces of can
non IN Leipsic. which is a walled town; to
occupy mat town as tete dc Il. tie, 70 burn
Its suburbs, in order to prevent the enemy
from effecting lodgemen, therein. and 70
give fuii scope TOR orr artillery on the ram
paris to play. However odious the treason
oil tn Sax army was. the empev6r could
nOt resolve to destroy one of the finest cities
I Ia germany to deliver it up TO the disor-
oersIf every kind inseparable from such a
oeiencc-and that too under the ewes of the.
Ming VINO mad been pleased to accompany
the emperor from Dresden, and who was
so Sensioly attic ed with the conduct of his
army. he emperor chose rather to ex
pose himself to the loss of few hundred
Wagons, than co adopt this barbarous mea-
sure.
At break of day all the parks, the bag
gage, the whole of the artillery, the cavalry.
'ne guards and two thirds of the army had
aireaoy passed the deEle. The duke OF
larenum and prince P niatowski were
charged to hold the suburbs and to defend
theli. Kong enough TO allow the whule to de-
0ouche, aud then 20 execute, themselves, the
passage 81, the dc file towards eleven o'clock.
NJ "'cit ck, IN the morning, the lnaeis
ua'eS OF LeiPsic sent deputation 10 the.
prince or ',chwsrtzenberg, 10 beg that ne
would Dot make this Cit, the scene of an
action than would occasion its ruin.
o'cIock the emperor mounted his
morse, entered Leipsic & paid visit To the,
king. He LEFT the prince at filll liberty to
90 as he pleased and not quit mis- -dominions,
leaving hem TO be exposed to that sedit.ous
| SPIRIT which, had been fonenteCi amougsr
ere soldiers n Saxon battalion had zen
iormeo Al Dresden, and Joined the young
guards. The emperor caused it to be drawn
up AT Leipsis, in from, of the Kings palace.
20 serve him as guard and protect him
nan an hour after the emperor repaired to
L''ndenan, there to await the evacuation of
Leipsic o see the last troops pass the bridg-
es before Pntting himself in march.
meanwhile the enemy was speedily ap-
pTised that the greater part of the army had
evacuated lAeipsic, and that there remained
there only strong rear siiatd. They
orisSiy attacked the duke of 'Farentum and
prince Roma towski they were rspeatedly
rePuised and in the act of defending the
suburbs, our rear guard effected its rcJreat.
But the SaXonS that remained in the CITY f
req on the troops from the rsmparts, which
oohsed them to accelerate their retreat. Sc
occasoned some disorder.
ne emperor had orderedthe enpiDeere
70 form tougades under the grand bridge
winch is between Leipsic and Lindenau. IN
order 10 blow It up at the latest moment, 8.
mus to retard the march OF the enemy. and
70 give time to our baggage to file off Gen.
DGlauioy mad entrusted this operation to
COL MoHttoTt This colonel, instead of re-
naming on the spot to direct il, ordered a
corporal and four sappers to blow Mp the
orIage the instant the enemy should appear.
Inc corporal, an ignorant fellow K but
Ill compromising the nature of Re duty
with which he was charged, upon hearing
the hrs shot discharged from the raolpatts
vi the city, set fire to the fougadas & blew
up tie bridge. Il part of the army was still
on ne other side, with a pa X of 80 pieces
OF artillery, and some hundreds Of Wagons,
line advance Of THIS part OF the army,
VINO were approaching the bridge, seeing il
dow up, conceived it was in the power oe
the enemy. A cry of dismay spread from
rank to rank" The enemy are lose upon
our rear, and the bridges are destroyed!''
L he unfortunate soldiers dispersed, and
endeavored to <effert their escape as well
as they could. The duke Of Tarentum
swan across the river; Count Lauriston,
less fortunate, was drowned Prince Pcni-
atowski, mounted on a spirited horse, darted
INTO tue water, and appeared no more,
lhe emperor was not informed Of this dis
aster, until it was too late to remedy it,.
In tact no remedy would have been posi-
bic. Col. Moniort, and the corporal of sup
.peTs, nave been handed to a court martial.
It's impossible as yet to ascertain tho.
losses occasioned by this unfortunate event,
but they are estimated at IL, 900 men, and
several hundred Wagons. The disorder il
mas occasloned in the army, has changed the
state OF affairs. The French army, though
victorious, is arrived at Erfurt as a defeat
ed army would have arrived there. 1t is
imp ssibe to describe the regret the army
reefs for prince Poniatowski, count Laurie
ton, and all the brave men who persisted ia
consequence ofthis fatal event. We have no
accounts of Gen. Regaier; it is not knoaH
whether he was taken or killed. The pro-
tounc grief OF the emperor may be easily con-