a solid square of infantry, which, after one fire, delivered itself up as if panic-struck. Captain Bogue, the commander of the rocket brigade, here met the death of a stood to be unable to arrive in his ľ position at Grimma before the 17th, the renewal of the general and decisive grand struggle was, by all parties, deferred till the next day. Bonaparte, who could well anti-hero. As soon as the discomfiture cipate the fury of this second attack, and who must now already have despaired of extricating himself and his army, without the loss of a great proportion of it, thought it high time to open himself a vent, by which he might at least escape with the remainder, in case he should be worsted the next day. Accordingly, on the 18th, in the morning at three o'clock, he detached General Bertrand towards Weissenfels, to open the road to Erfurth; and, from subsequent events, we are inclined to credit the assertion in the French papers, which states the full success of Bertrand's expedition, and his being in possession of Weissenfels at noon. of the enemy rendered the patriotic resolution practicable, a large force of Hessians and Saxons went over to the Crown Prince, with 22 guns. The latter were immediately directed against the French, and the brave Germans themselves led against their oppressors. Gen. Blucher, in the mean time, having crossed the Partha lower down, forced his way close to Leipzig, notwithstanding the desperate and for some time effectual stand which was made against General Langeron at the village of Schönfeld. Thns, on the north and northeast of Leipzig, the armies of the Crown Prince and of Blucher had gained a complete victory at the close of day. Bloody, however, This judicious and most neces- as their laurels were, the simultasary precaution taken, Bonaparte,neous battles on the south side, at sun-rise on the 18th, arrayed his devoted armies around Leipzig, to resist the tremendous onset of the allies on every side of the city. The Crown Prince having now moved up his army, and taken 30,000 men from that of General Blucher (who was to maintain his position in front of Leipzig, and use his utmost endeavours to gain the place), attacked the enemy at Taucha, où the Partha. He effected the passage of the latter river with little opposition; but afterwards encountered serious resistance at the village of Pauns-the Elster, assisted by the corps of dorff, where, however, the British rocket brigade was brought into such effective play as to paralyze were still more desperate and murderous, although not less decisive. The most determined resistance was made by the enemy at Probstheyda, Stelleritz, and Connewitz; but the different columns of the grand army bearing unremittingly on these points, finally carried every thing before them; General Bennigsen having been joined by General Bubna from Dresden, taking the villages upon the right bank of the Reutschove, and Gen. Giulay manoeuvring with 25,000 Austrians upon the left bank of General Thielmann and of Prince Lichtenstein. The result of the victory on this side, was, that the enemy lost above 40,000 men in The magazines, artillery, and stores killed, wounded, and prisoners, of Leipzig, with the King of Saxtogether with 65 pieces of artillery; ony, all his court, the garrison, and and during this battle, too, 17 bat-rear-guard of the French army; all talions of German infantry, with the enemy's wounded (the number all their generals and staff, came of which exceeds 30,000); the narover in a body. row escape of Bonaparte, who fled from Leipzig at nine o'clock, the allies entering at eleven; the complete deroute of the French army, who are endeavouring to escape in all directions, and who are still surrounded in all directions, are the next objects of exultation." All the victorious armies bivouacqued on the ground their valour had wrested from the enemy. In the night, Bonaparte directed the remains of his army to commence a retreat upon Weissenfels; which was continued till the morning, when Leipzig was attacked and carried, after a short resistance, by the armies of General Blucher, of the Prince Royal, of General Bennigsen, and of Prince Schwarzenberg. Marmont and Macdonald commanded within, and, together with Augereau and Victor, narrowly escaped with a small escort. This enumeration, given in the moment of the event itself, may contain some trifling errors; but the balance of future emendation will probably appear in our favour. Bertrand, we find, made good his escape; but Prince Poniatowsky, created a marshal the day before, was drowned in endeavouring to avoid the bayonets of the conquerors. The French accounts of these disasters are truly diverting. Although Bonaparte has the impudence to tell his dejected adherents in France, that he gained a The Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, and the Crown Prince of Sweden, at the head of their respective troops, triumphantly entered the town at different points, and met in the great square, amidst the acclamations of the inhabitants---a scene worthy the pen-great victory on the 18th, yet his cil of a great artist. very own tale belies him."He The trophies and immediate fruits would have pursued this victory of these victories of the 18th of on the 19th, and renewed the conOctober, are thus enumerated by test, but for want of cannon-balls." Sir Charles Stewart :-" The col---We think he had quite enough lective loss, on the part of the enemy, of above 100 pieces of cannon, 60,000 men, an immense number of prisoners, the desertion of the whole of the Saxon army, also o of the Bavarian and Wirtenberg troops, consisting of artillery, cavairy, and infantry; many generals, ... among whom are, Regnier, Vallery, Brune, Bertrand, and Lauriston. of them." He would have brought his army entire to Mentz, but for the stupidity of a poor corporal, who blew up a bridge by a few minutes too soon; by which contretemps, his whole rear-guard remained behind, and the French victorious army arrived at Erfurth as a beaten army should have arrived:" and a few more of the like Napoleonnades, which, thank Hea- | source, which, for want of any ven and his own folly, all the world are at present up to. other information, we are compelled to resort to, give an account of the river Kintzig, near Hanau, the That the losses of what remain-a great battle which took place on ed of the French army subsequently to the date of Sir Charles Stewart's last dispatch (19th Oct.), and even on that day, must have been immense, is almost a matter of course. But the want of any advices of a later date, from either British agents or the allies themselves, leaves us totally in ignorance of the extent of them. French accounts, how-majesty, far from attaching any ever, of very fresh dates, add the following few isolated facts to the history of this devoted army. importance to it, could only have seen with regret the destruction of 4 or 5000 Bavarians, which would It is officially known, that Ba-have been the result of that purvaria (as we confidently surmised suit:" so that, according to the in our last Retrospect) joined the succeeding bulletin, this sparedallied powers, or the Continental army had the ingratitude to cross System, as a British statesman hap- the Kintzig again the next day, pily termed the grand coalition, by and to attack General Bertrand's a treaty concluded between the corps; in which ungenerous act it Bavarian General Wrede and the is natural to suppose, that it must Austrian General Prince Reuss, on have met the punishment due to the 8th October; and that, in con- its oblivion of the favour of the presequence of that treaty, the Aus- ceding day,and to have been driven, trian and Bavarian armies immedi- l'épée dans les reins, across the river ately coalesced under the supreme with a further diminution of 3000 command of the Bavarian general, men. In the battle of the 30th, and instantly broke up by forced General Wrede is stated to have marches from Braunau to the the-received a mortal wound. We shall, atres of war. The energetic pa- know more about these matters by triotism which has burst forth our next Report; but we are quite throughout Germany, must have content for the present with the marvellously speeded the steps of intelligence Bonaparte gives us of this army; for, in the latter days the arrival of himself at Mentz on of October, we find part of it at the 2d November, and of his releast, as by magic, transported to maining troops, which he rates at the vicinity of Francfort (a distance 100,000 (out of 350,000 at least of upwards of 300 miles), with the which he had on the Saale exactly noble and daring resolution of in-six months before) on the two or terposing itself right across the line three following days. It is no less of Bonaparte's retreat to Mentz. satisfactory to learn from him, that, The French bulletins, a miserable on the 7th Nov. he had signed, I with a stroke of his omnipotent become insulated through the battle pen, the reorganization of the army, of Leipzig, we hardly think he will and had nominated to all the vacant be silly enough to shut himself up situations; that the artillery was in a city like Hamburgh; and reorganizing, that the cavalry was therefore confidently hope, that all reorganizing; in short, that all the northern sea-coast and rivers was reorganizing. A Leipzig re- of Germany, will immediately be organization nine months after the abandoned by the French, and the Moscow reorganization! All the direct communication with Engstrong places on the Rhine were land be restored. arming; Macdonald was sent to Cologne, to organize an army on the lower Rhine; Victor to Strasburg, to organize another on the upper Rhine; and Marmont remained at Mentz, to organize an army of the middle Rhine; while Kellermann had been ordered to Metz, to organize an army of reserve in the interior of France. Except at Hochheim (two miles from Mentz), where Bertrand, with 40,000 (?) men, is stated to occupy an entrenched position, no French are left on the right bank of the Rhine; and Bonaparte himself, after seeing the wrecks of his second army safe over the bridge, left Mentz on the 8th Nov. and arrived at Paris on the day following. That councils of finance, of state, and of other denominations, have unremittingly been held since his return, we need not be surprised at, for if ever he needed good councils it is at this period. In regard to the operations on the side of Italy, the length of the preceding narrative, as well as the still existing want of authentic and precise information, compels us to great brevity. The French papers (our only source) mention several affairs that have taken place in the course of October, in all which the troops of Beauharnois are stated to have been victorious in a mi litary point of view; but, geogra phically speaking, it is confessed, that all these victories have been followed with successive retreats, first to the Isonzo, then to the Tagliamento, and next to the Piave. On the 30th October, Eugene's head-quarters are said to have been at Bassano. That the Austrian army under Gen. Hiller is consequently in possession of a great part of the ancient Venetian territory, may be assumed as a fact;" and it is equally probable, thats Trieste has returned to its old so vereign. A fresh conscription of 15,000 Italians has been decreed; but supposing the call to be effectual, the addition even of that force will not retrieve Bonaparte's affairs in Italy, especially now that, by the defection of Bavaria, ans: other Austrian force has been en On the lower Elbe we have to record no event of great moment, except, perhaps, the capture of Bremen (15th Oct.) by General Tettenborn. The French commandant, Colonel Thuillier, being killed the day before, his successor thought proper to capitulate for a safe evacuation, not to serve dur-abled to come down from the Ty ing one year. This conquest may rol direct upon Verona, in the rear be transient, but, as Davoust has of Eugene's position. 1 Although the extent of our nar- || over, will, now that the war is to rative almost forbids our indulging || be transferred within his frontiers, in any but matter of fact statements, paralyze his exertions; while, on yet we cannot repress some of the the part of the allies, not only the most obvious reflections which pre-means of many countries are called sent themselves on the survey of forth in competition with the ex-i the great events we have just rehausted resources of one; but Great: cited. The fairest prospects at Britain, the agis, the sheet-anchor: length exist of Europe returning of European freedom, lends her: to the happiness which it enjoyed powerful aid to all. With inward before the hydra of Gallic anarchy || pride may hereafter the British bisand ambition began to rear its de- torian tell posterity, that there was: structive head. As far as the glo- a period when his country had three rious work of universal emancipa- armies of her own carrying on war. tion has proceeded even now, we in distant regions (France, Canaare justified in looking to a compa- || da, Hanover), at the same time that – rative state of ease and a preponder- she subsidized all Europe against ance of the good cause for some France: for at this moment Briyears to come. But it would be||tish subsidiary aid is flowing to Sivain to hope for a radical cure, un-cily, to Portugal, to Spain, to Swetil a thorough excision of the en-den, to Prussia, to Russia, and to venomed canker be effected. This Austria. Besides the treaties by... excision, we have more than once which our pecuniary assistance is maintained, and now are not shy afforded to the latter three powers, in repeating, consists in nothing and, which will be noticed below, short of the head or the abdication these powers have entered among^) of the monster, to whom the world themselves into treaties of amity.") owes all its woes. "Feri tyrannum" and defensive alliance (9th Sept.):3 ought to be the motto of the va- by, which they reciprocally gua.... lorous champions of European free-rantee each other's dominions, and dom, in their prosecution of this pledge themselves to succour each holy war. That the tyrant, in the other with 60,000 men, to be furcontemplation of the intended de- nished by cach, in case, even after, struction of his usurped crown, will a peace, any one of the parties be make stupendous and speedy efforts attacked, to avert the doom which threatens him, his character and recent experience warrant us to expect. But even supposing the spell with which he holds the sway over the lives of the French people, undiminished, the more numerous veteran warrjors of the allied countries, and - more so the spirit which animates - both the leaders and the men, leave no doubt as to the final result. The want of financial resources, more SPANISH PENINSULA. The quly intelligence of moment, from Lord Wellington's army, is, the fall of the fortress of Pamplung, The garrison, to, what amount we', are as yet uninformed, surrendered themselves as prisoners of war on the 81st October, to Dou Carlos Espana, whose conduct during the arduous blockade is highly extolled by his lordship. This bloodless and important acquisition of the 111 eh |