territory, and the honour of its laws.Thirst of glory, love for the country, and the wish for its prosperity, are passions which never become extinct in generous hearts.-They are a guarantee of the zeal with which you will associate yourselves, Gentlemen, in the efforts of the administra→ tion, to support, by powerful means of de fence, the negociations which are going to be opened. Less powerful, less strong, less rich, less fruitful in resources was France in the year Eight, when threatened on the North, invaded on the South, torn in pieces in her interior, exhausted in her finances, disorganized in her administration, discouraged in her armies, the seas brought her hope, the victory of Marengo restored her her honours, the treaty of Luneville brought back peace to her. I describe this picture, Gentlemen, but for the purpose of again calling back, within and without, the energetic sentiment of our dignity and of our power; only that our friends and our enemies may, at the same time, understand the thoughts of the Monarch, and the force of the nation, the moderation of his wishes, his ar dour for an honourable peace, his horror of a shameful peace." the first, and was the consequence of its origin.To see to which must be im puted the misfortunes and the duration of this war, it will be sufficient to refer to its cause, and to recollect that the intervals of peace, or rather the short truces, during which nations have breathed, have been owing to France.The aggression did not proceed from France, neither in 1792, when she was invaded; neither in the year Seven, when the treaty of Campo Formio was broken; neither in the year. Eight, when the Russians came across Germany and Italy, to menace our frontiers; neither in the year Ten, when the treaty of Amiens was violated; neither at the epoch of the invasion of Bavaria, when the peace of Luneville was disavowed; neither at the epoch when the treaty of Presburg was placed in oblivion; neither when the engagements of Tilsit were abandoned, neither when the treaties of Vienna and of Paris were torn in pieces. And was it not on the contrary, France, who, victorious and conquering, consented to the armistice of Leoben, and the peace which followed it: who vanquished at Marengo only to treat at Luneville; at Austerlitz, but to restore the greater part of her conquests, or to endow thrones with them; who has not refused an armis tice during the war, peace during negociations, neither before the treaty of Presburg, nor before that of Vienna? At this moment have not the preliminary bases, proposed by the coalesced powers, been adopted by His Majesty, who declares to his people, to his allies, to his enemies, that, on his side, there are no obstacles to the re-establishment of Peace. These truths, Gentlemen, as far as relates to pre ceding wars, bare consecrated by monuments already become the immutable patrimony of history; in what relate to more recent events, they will be proved by the documents contained in the port-folio of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, of which His Majesty calls a Commission, named from among you, to take cognizance. Whilst negociating, the coalesced powers wished the continuance of hostilities. By that they have shewn us the measures which the safety of the State and the honour of theIn the mean time, the enemy, who Empire prescribe. Her Majesty has said to you, Gentlemen, nations cannot treat with security, except by displaying their whole strength. But already the energy which manifests itself in all parts, the numerous levies which are in motion, sufficiently make known the resolution of the French nation to maintain the safety of its " The Legislative Body gave an authenti cated copy to the orators, from the Council of State, of the Imperial Decree, of which it had just received a communication, as well as of the speech of Count Regnaud St. Jean d'Angely, and ordered that the whole be entered in the minutes, and six copies printed.After the departure of the ora tors from the Council of State, the Assembly adjourned till eleven of the clock to morrow precisely. LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1813.3 11 (Gontinued from page 816. of Acken, on the left bank, a little lower down the river, was fortifying, under the direction of Count Woronzow, in such a manner as to render it a place of consider able strength, while preparations were accelerating for constructing a bridge there. appear to have had no idea of the passage of the Elbe, at Acken, sent strong detachments of troops to occupy Dessau and the line of the Mulda, and employed themselves in throwing up works, as well before that town as in front of the tete-de-pont at Rosslau, with intent to impede the passage there, and to obstruct the movements of the army and it was calculated that it would be ad after the passage. This gave occasion to skirmishes between the enemy and the Swe-vanced as far as Chemnitz on yesterday, the dish advanced-guard, which was obliged to 3d.I am as yet without details of the relinquish Dessau, and to retire to the affair of General Blucher; but Baron De neighbourhood of the tete-de-pont at Ross- Wetterstedt has engaged me to detain this lau, and indeed to the right bank of the messenger until I shall receive a dispatch river. Under these circumstances, the from him this evening for M. De Rehausen, Prince Royal received intelligence from Ge- and he promised me (for he went to-day-to neral Blucher, on the 1st instant, inform- Dessau),, to transmit to me at the same ing his Royal Highness, that he should, on time the same particulars, if he should obthat day, make a movement with his whole tain them. I shall keep this dispatch open army on his right towards Hertzberg; that for them.- -We have indirect accounts of on the following day he should be at Jessen; General Czernitscheff having taken posseson the 3d at Elster, and on the following sion, with his corps of Cossacks, of the day (to-day) would effect the passage of the whole city of Cassel, from which Jerome Elbe at Elster, proceeding upon Kemberg Buonaparte had fled. But nothing has yet against the French corps stationed there. been received from himself. I have the honour to be, &c. -The bridge at Acken had just been completed, and yesterday, to-day, or perhaps to-morrow, was each spoken of as the probable day for passing the river. General Blucher crossed the Elbe at Elster yesterday with some opposition, and attacked the entrenched village of Wartemberg, on the opposite bank, which he carried, after an obstinate resistance, making himself master of sixteen pieces of cannon. It is understood that this victory, which was carried against the corps commanded by Bertrand, was not obtained without considerable loss, particularly among the troops commanded by General D'Yorck; but the particulars have not been received. The Prince Royal received this intelligence yesterday evening, while he was at Russiau, or immediately on his return here, and took the resolution of crossing the whole army -to-day over the Elbe, at Acken and at Rosslau, the Russians at the former, and the -Prussians and Swedes at Rosslau, somewhat later or otherwise, according as it should (Signed) E. THORNTON. P.S. Ten p.m. I have the honour of transmitting to your Lordships enclosed, a letter which I have just received from Baron de Wetterstedt. (Signed) E. T. Head-quarters, Dessau, Oct. 4, 1813. According to reports received from Gen. Blucher, he has been engaged with the 4th French corps, commanded by General Ber trand. -The latter was strongly entrenched in a village between Wartenberg and Bledin. General D'Yorck's corps dislodged and overthrew the enemy, taking above one thousand prisoners, sixteen pieces of cannon, and seventy tumbrils, with their or trail, were captured. A body of two thousand men threw themselves into Wittenberg; the remainder of the enemy's troops fell back upon Kemberg. General Blucher pursued them, and his head-quarters will be this evening at the latter place. His cavalry is at Duben. -By five o'clock under the be understood whether the French would this morning, the enemy's tro were in this orders of Marshal Ney, which make a stand at Dessau. This, however, was not to be expected, when once the passage of the Russians was completed at Acken, particularly under the position of Ge- Our advanced posts had, in the course neral Blucher's army, and in effect it was of this evening, pushed on as far as Raguhn learnt this morning, that the French had and Jesnitz, and to-morrow the junction retired from Dessau, where, consequently, with General Blucher will take place. -I learn that the head-quarters of the Prince The van-guard of the Russian army, under Royal will be established this evening. His the orders of Count Woronzoff, occupies Royal Highness left this place about nine Goethen. Bernbourg is garrisoned by Ruso'clock this morning. Yesterday even-sian cavalry. To-morrow the two armies ing Mr. Aldercrentz, a son of the General, of the Prince Royal and of General Blucher and an Aid-de-Camp of the Prince Royal, will make a combined movement in adreturned here from the Imperial head-quar-vance, probably in the direction of Leipters, to which he had been sent after the zig. They form together a total of one hunbattle of Donnewitz. He brings intelli- dred and twenty-seven thousand, or one gence of the actual movement of the grand hundred and thirty thousand men. His army, as was projected, on the 1st instant; Royal Highness will, without doubt, esta 1 LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, "Foreign Office, Nov. 5, 1813." Mr. Solly arrived this morning at the Office of Viscount Castlereagh, from Leipsig, with duplicates of dispatches from Licutenant-General the Honourable Sir C. W. Stewart, K. B. of which the following are copies. The originals, 'by his 'Aid-deCamp, Mr. James, are not yet received. - strong in front of a wood of some extent, near Radefeld: and behind it the ground is more intersected; generally speaking, however, it is open, and adapted to all arms. The disposition of attack of the Silesian army was as follows;The corps of General Langeron was to attack and carry Freyroda, and then Radefeld, having the corps of General Sachen in reserve. The corps d'armée of General D'Yorck was directed to move on the great chause, leading to Leipsig, until it reached the village of Sitzchera, when, turning to its left, it was to force, the enemy at Lindenthal. The Russian guards and advanced guard were to Skenditz, Oct. 17, 1813. press on the main road to Leipsig.The My Lord, The glorious army of Silesia corps of General St, Priest arriving from has added another victory to its list, and Merseberg, was to follow the corps of Gethe brow of its veteran leaders is decorated neral Langeron. The formation of the cawith fresh laurel. Forty pieces of can-valry and the different reserves was made non, twelve thousand killed, wounded, and on the open ground between the villages. prisoners, one eagle, and many caissons, It was nearly mid-day before the troops have been the fruits of the victory of Rade-were at their stations, The enemy, soon feld and Lindenthal.To give your Lordship the clearest idea in my power of this battle, I must revert to the position of the armies of Silesia and the North of Germany on the 14th inst. When we received certain intelligence, that the enemy was withdrawing from the right bank of the Elbe to collect in Leipsig, at this time the Prince Royal was at Cothen, and General Blucher at Halle. The former occupied with the advanced guards the left bank of the Mulda, and the latter Merseburg and Schenditz. General Blucher moved his head-quanters, on the 14th, to Gros Kugel, pushing his advance on the great road to Leipsig, and occupying the villages on each side of it. The enemy was in force in his front, still holding Deblitsch and Bitterfeld, with some troops along the Mulda. The Crown Prince of Sweden issued orders to march to' Halle in the night of the 14th, but when his troops were in march, he took up his head-quarters at Sylbitz, and placed the Swedish army with its right at Wittin, and the left near the Petersberg. Gen. Bulow occupied the centre of his line between Petersberg and Oppin, and the corps of Winzingerode was on the left at Zorbig.rived from the neighbourhood of Duben. General Blucher found the enemy's forces, consisting of the 4th, 6th, and 7th corps of the French army, and great part of the Guard, under Marshals Marmont and Ney, and General Bertrand, occupying a line with their right at Freyroda, and their left at Lindenthal. The country is open, and very favourable for cavalry, around these latter villages, but the enemy was posted after the first onset gave up the advanced villages, and retired some distance, but tenaciously held the woody ground on their right, and the villages of Gros, and Klein Wetteritz, as, also the villages of Mockern and Mokau, on their left. At Mockern a most bloody contest ensued; it was taken and retaken by the corps of Yorck_five times: the musketry fire was most galling, and this was the hottest part of the field; many of the superior officers were either killed or wounded; at length the victorious Silesians carried all before them, and drove the enemy beyond the Partha. In the plain there were many brilliant charges of cavalry. The Brandenburg regiment of bussars. distinguished itself in a particular manner, and, supported by infantry, charged a battery of eight pieces, which they carried. The enemy made an obstinate resistance, also on their right, in the villages of Great and Little Weteritz and Ilchausen, and in the woody ground around them; and when they found, we had forced their left, they brought an additional number of troops on Gount Langeron, who was chiefly engaged with Marshal Ney's corps, which ar However, the Russians, equally with their brave allies in arms, made the most gallant efforts, and they were fully successfulnight only put an end to the action. The Russian cavalry acted in a very brilliant manner. General Kolp's cavalry took a battery of 13 guns, and the Cossacks of General Emanuel, five. The enemy drew off towards Siegeritz and Pfosen, and passed " ८ C 1 ます sian and Prussian guards were to move on...... Rotha, where they were to pass the Pleisse, and form in columns on its right bank. The reserves of the Prince of Hesse Hom berg, Generals Mereveldt 'and 'Wittgen steing were also to take post at this station. the Partha river. General Sachen's corps, forward on Leipsig keeping up the com who supported General Langeron, very munication on one side with General Bhi-12 much distinguished itself in the presence of cher's army, and on the other, these corps Buonaparte, who, it seems, according to were to detach to their right, to facilitates the information of the prisoners, arrived the attack of the corps of General Mere from the other part of his army at five veld, and the divisions Bianchi Weissen o'clock in the afternoon. The corps of worf, on Zwackau and Gonnewitz, at which... General D'Yorck, which so conspicuously latter place the bridge across the Pleisse distinguished itself, had many of its most was to be carried. General Nostiltz's caur gallant leaders killed or wounded; among valry were to form on their right. In case the latter are Colonels Heinmitz, Kutzler, of retreat, these corps were to retire to Bouch, Hiller, Lowenthal, Laurentz; Ma-wards Zeitz. The reserves of the Rus jors Schon and Bismarck. The momentary loss of these officers is serious, as they nearly all commanded brigades, from the the f reduced state of General Officers in the Prussian army, and I have sincere regret in adding, that his Serene Highness the Prince of Mecklenberg Strelitz, who was distinguishing himself in a particular man ner, having two horses shot under him, and whose gallant corps took five hundred prisoners and an eagle, received a severe, but, trust, not a dangerous wound. Among the Russians are General Chinchin, and several officers of distinction, killed and wounded and I average General Blu cher's whole loss between six and seven thousand men hors de combat. can add little to the catalogue of the merits of this brave army in endeavouring feebly, but I hope faithfully, to detail its proceedings. Your Lordship will, I am persuaded, justly appreciate the enthusiasm and heroism by which its operations have been guided. It has fought twenty-one combats since hosti lities recommenced. Your Lordship' is so well aware of the distinguished merit and very eminent services of General Gneisenau, that it is unnecessary for me on this fresh occasion to allude to them.I attached General Lowe to General Blucher in the field; and being absent in the early part of the day with the Prince Royal, it is due to this very deserving officer to inform your Lordship I have derived every assistance from his reports. -My Aid de-Camp, Captain During, an officer of merit," has, unfortunately, I fear, fallen into the enemy's hands. I shall now put your Lordship in possession, as far as I am able, of the military movements of the grand army up to the 16th, and the disposition for the at-day on General Bulow's left. General tack which was sent to the Prince Royal of Winzingerode's cavalry and artillery had Sweden and General Blucher by Prince moved forward in the night, near the Schwartzenburg, and which was to be made heights of Faucha. No cannonade being this day. The corps of General Guilay, heard on this side of the grand army Prince Maurice Lichtenstein, Thieleman, (though General Blucher's corps was under and Platoff, were collected in the neigh arms), and as it was also understood Gen. bourhood of Märkrasted, and were to move Bennigsen could not arrive until this day at 2 General Barclay de Tolly to command all the columns on the right bank of the Pleisse, Generals Wittgenstein, Kleist, and Kleinau, were to advance from their respective positions on Leipsig, the Russian guards forming their reserve. General Colloredo advanced from Borne, as reserve to Gene ral Kleinau. The retreat of these corps was c to be on Chemnitz. Generals Wittgen stein, Kleist, and Kleinau's, on Altenberg and Penig. The army of General Bennigsen from Coldlitz was to push on Grimma and Wurtzen. The corps of Count Bubna had been relieved before Leipsig by General Tolstoy,Avery heavy firing continued all the day of the 16th from the grand army, A report arrived late at might to General Blucher, that Buonaparte had attacked in person the whole line of the Allies, and forming his cavalry in the centre, succeeded in making an opening in the combined army before all its cavalry could come up; he was, however, not able to profit by it, as it appears he retired in the evening, and the Allies occupied their position as before the attack Of the details of the above I'am as yet wholly ignorant. On the 17th all were ready to renew the attack on this side. The Prince Royal, who had his head-quarters at Landsberg, and his army behind it, marched at two o'clock in the morning, and arrived at Brittenfeld with General Winzingerode's and General Bulow's corps towa corps towards mid 1 Grimma, and part of the Prince Royal's vouring to escape in all directions, and who I am, &c. (Signed) CHAS. STEWART, Lieut.-Gen. of the Prince Royal and General Blacher. My dispatches up to the 17th have. detailed the position of the allied armies up... to that date. It being announced by Prince... Schwartzenberg that it was the intention of their Majesties, the allied Sovereigns, to renew the attack on the 18th, and the armies of the North and Silesia being directed to co-operate, the following general disposition was made:I must here observe, that the attack on the 16th, by the grand Leipsig, Oct, 19, 1813. army, occurred in the neighbourhood of... My Lord, Europe at length approaches Liebert Wolkowitz. The country being her deliverance, and England may tri- particularly adapted for cavalry, a very umphantly look forward to reap, in con- sanguinary and hard combat ensued with.. junction with her Allies, that glory her this arm, and an artillery, exceeding in unexampled and steady efforts in the com- number six hundred pieces, between the mon cause so justly entitle her to receive. opposed armies. Two solitary buildings, -I wish it had fallen to the lot of an which the enemy had occupied with several abler pen to detail to your Lordship the battalions of infantry, and which formed splendid events of these two last days; but nearly the centre of the enemy's position, in endeavouring to relate the main facts, to were attacked by the Russian infantry, and send them off without a moment's delay, I after several repulses, carried with amazing L shall best do my duty, postponing more de- carnage. The whole of the enemy's catailed accounts until a fresh opportunity. valry under Murat, were then brought forThe victory of General Blucher, upon ward; they made a very desperate push at the 16th, has been followed, on the 18th, the centre of the allied position, which for by that of the whole of the combined forces a short period they succeeded in forcing. over the army of Buonaparté, in the neigh-To oppose this powerful cavalry, six bourhood of Leipsig. The collective loss regiments of Austrian cuirassiers charged. of above a hundred pieces of cannon, sixty in columns. Nothing could surpass either thousand men, an immense number of pri- the skill or the desperate bravery of this soners, th the desertion of the whole of the movement: they overthrew all before them; Saxon army, also the Bavarian and Wur destroying, I am told, whole regiments, temburg troops, consisting of artillery, ca- and returned to their ground with many valry, and infantry, many Generals, among prisoners, having left seven hundred drawhom are Regnier, Vallery, Brune,, Ber-goons within the enemy's line. Many trand, and Lauriston, are some of the first fruits of this glorious day. The capture, by assault, of the town of Leipsig this morning, the magazines, artillery, stores of the place, with the King of Saxony, all his court, the garrison, and rear-guard of the then French army, all the enemy's wounded (the number of which exceed thirty thousand) the narrow escape of Buonaparte, who fled from Leipsig at nine o'clock, the Allies entering at eleven; the complete deroute of the French army, who are endea 3. officers were killed and wounded. General Latour Maubourg, who commanded the enemy's cavalry, under Murat, lost his leg. Both armies remained nearly on the ground on which the contest commenced, While the grand army was to commence their attack on the morning of the 18th, from their different points of assembly, on the principal villages, situated on the great roads leading to Leipsig, the armies of the North and Silesia were jointly to attack from the line of the Saale, and upon the ג' |