Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1815-08-10

81 reported that Gen. Wrede, with the
|Bayarians amounting to 60, goo, had de-
termined tomake dash upon Laon, ~
miles,) where the great magazines, ar
ltiIIery, and stores Of the French army
were collected; and doubtless could he,
or any other general Of the allies, Fens5;
[trate SO far before Napoleop,it wonld be
an efectual blow to his remaining
strength. Some part of the melancholy
troll of the killed, wounded and missing.
may be expected to be gwen in the ga
lzette of this evening, for we hcarthe re-
lrimental returns have been received. 1t
lis stated, that the number ct Officers
lost exceeds 100. It is consolipg, how.
lever, to learn. that many Of the wounded
are doing we'll. Great efforts are max
| ing to send out reinforcements. A fur
Their draft was made yesterday iroEa tie
Life Guards.
The taking of prisoners seems not to
have been thought Of in the engagement.
Never was mercy less sought or gwen.
Before the opeaiag IF the cGaraign, the
:. LIST and Sd corps of tle Frertil had con-
/ federated and hoisted the Hack flag
They openly avowed, that they would
:: gre no qlafrerte the Prussians, and IN
general they Kept their ,eord-The Prus-
sian loss, in all the affairs together, -
calculated at 2O,OG0 naen ours cannot
be less.
I The eth regiment lost in killed and
wounded forty-two officers cut OF forty
-four.
! We understand the Duke of Yelling
Iton is yet far from being able to be pre-
cisein the specification of his loss. He
appears to have made good many pri-
soners after the great struggle. lie de-
sires that vessels may be sent to convey
I 10000 to England.
Among the prisoners, whom private
letters say have fallen into our hands.
we find named the count of Lobau, Der
trand) who commanded the 9th corps,
and yandamme, who commanded the
/! Sd; Compans, who commanded diyi-
t sion of the guard; Cambrone, who was
with Napoleon at the island Of Elba =.
Mouton, a general of division, and that
liable general Lefebyre Desnouettes. tits
Iaaso reported, that Bonaparte himself lost
an arm in the battle Of the 18th, and that
his brother Jerome and marshal Murat
were among tie slain.
1t is said French papers of the eoth,
were received in town last night, COR
tanning Bonaparte's account of the bat
tie, but we have not been able to get
sight Of any such journals. In fact we
do not believe that any Paris papers of
THAT date hare been received in town up
to the moment We write this, & still less
that paper, which IS published in Paris
on the morning of the Goth, cauld con-
tain any authentic account Of L battle
(which lasted till the close of the 18Th.
land was fought at the distance of leo
miles. TIE account is said to be dated
(! from snsA village near GenapDe. and
Iadmits q loss of $1,000 men and Hu.n-
Der OF cannon; but tie French emperor
says, he himself first took them from the
allies, who lost eo:GG0 men in the seye-
raj a:tairs from the commencement on the
l5th--that tire French army had covered
Itself with glory, but that he had thought
1T proper to fall back upon marshal Nor
|tier, who had two co ps d'armee, con-
|sisting ct $1,000 fresh troops, with which
me would renew the attack the next day.
The information communicated frcm the
duke of Wellington. gives no reasen to
believe that the attack Nas renewed tie
next cay, Chat is Oh the loth,) & there
fore we have no credit to place in his.
The prince of Grange was not so well
as could be wished, the ball not having
been extracted.
All the duke of N'ellingtun's a:d-de-
camps were either killed or wounded ex-
cept major Percy, who was assisting his
wounded comrades at the tine h. was
called upon to set off for England, with
tie dispatches, & left immediately With
on!y the clothes he had ON at the time.
Soon after his arrival in London. lie was
promoted to the rank Of lieutenant colo |
mel.
Several regiments of Bayarian cavalry.
to the number Of 60 to s2,eGo men. are
said to have passed the French frontier
on the 10th iDstan!. between Giyet and
Mezieres to unite with the left wing of |
the Prussians.
Fron. tie London Courier.
I.oNDoN. June 25,