Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-01-27

DEAR SRA letter from an Old feJlo,-
traveller may not be unacceptable. a.
opportunity offers for Boston, and CAM
ret it 60 without giving you a brief y i.
count of the impovtant events thai bay
just taken place in Europe. They will no.,
probably reach yoa from England belof1
my letter; but it is possible may be The
first TO communicate them.
Bonaparte was completely defeated =,
Leipsic on the fSth October--On the lotb
he escaped from that city, and took the
road for Erfurt, where he arrived. 8. H.
expresses it in his letter to the empress 20
gent, with :" defeated army Ike furtbe-
adds, that it is no longer in a situation /,
maintain a victorious attitude Whe,
such confessions are made, you nav Wal
imagine his sufferings. lie lost at Leipsi,
10000 men in killed, wounded and prison.
ers. Since his retreat from thence, the mr.
suing armies have taken many thousand
prisoners The King Of Saxony, with HI,
whole court, were made prisoners at Lem.
sic Regnier, Laurston, and 81 other gene.
rails were taken prisoners Poniatowsl.i was
drowned in the Elster; Augereau, Macdon.
aid and Ney are said to have been wound.
ed Seventeen battalions of Saxons came
over to the Allies during the battle on the
18TH The Davarians and Wurtemburgasr.
have Joined the Allies-the former afe
40, 900 strong under Wrede. The Head
Quarters of the Crown Prince were at Han
over on the 5th Of this month. Bremen
and Cassel have been taken by the Rus.
slams. Davoust is still at Hamburg, but
he must either be taken, or cut his way
through Walmoden's army, which is twice
his strength. Denmark must make peace
or be annihilated as kingdom she came
in at the eleventh hour 1t is said the
crown prince is pushing into Holland
There is nothing to oppose his going there
Whether they will rise and throw off their
yoke, or not, | cannot say; but | should
suppose they wonld not let so favorable an
opportunity escape. The great bulwark OF
France, the Rhenish confederation, has fall
len to the ground The materials of which
it was composed viii be employed against
her. While these great ard glorious events
were achieving in the north, the allies were
equally successful in the south Pampeuna
has capituated. Lord Wellington is in
France. Beauharnois has been obliged to
retreat to the Tagliameato, and must fall
back still further. Y
"Ths prevailing opinion is thai there will
be an European peace in the course of the
winter. If SO Bonaparte, contrary to the
declaration in the empress regents speech
must submit to sit on a degraded throne,''
" and under crown without glory howe
YER grating to his feelings. The allies will
no doubt insist on the emancipation of Ita:y
and perhaps Holland. The Rhenish con-
federation is at an end, and my uncle Car
dinal Fisch, must seek for other quarters
Little Jerome's kingdom exists no longer.
The Tyrolese have an old and bloody ac-
count to settle with the French in Italy
Switzerland too will have word to say
for past barbarities There is every where
in the north, particularly in Russia, a re-
vengeful hostility to France-every indi-
vidual has some horrid outrage to revenge.
They have fought like lions-Blucher who
had the honor to be prescribed by Bona
parte, has done wonders. The crown prince,
| suspect. has been the protector of the
campaign, in conjunction with the never
sufficiently to be iamented Moreau, Pre-.
vious to the battle of Leipsic, he took bold
position---he crossed the EIbe at Dessau,
and placed himself on the Saale directly be-
tween him and Magdeburg. Bonaparte hos
ped to brighten him from it by detaching
Ney towards Berlin He was not to be.
cajoled in that way, knowing very wells
that if Ney should go to Berlin he would
not get back: besides, he was too well
acquainted with the strength of Bonaparte's
army, to believe he could either spare Ney
or his army Consequently, the moment
Bonaparte moved from Dresden (Which the
want of provisions soon compelled him to
do,) the Russians and Austrians pressed
on his rear Butcher who had been watch
ing Ney, made rapid march as had been
previously concerted and joined the crown
prince on the Saale Thus hemmed in.
both in front and rear, the would-be con-
queror of the world was completely bea-
ten, and obliged to run on in the greatest
disorder.
" In little time the continent will be.
open from the Weser to st. Petersburg.
What an opening for colonial produce