dent to oppose this determination; the King appeared in public at Palermo, and the populace, whose minds had been inflamed by the previous representations of the Queen's emissaries, that the high price of provisions and the scarcity of corn were owing to the exportations to support the English at Malta, in the Mediterrancan, and in Spain, tlew to arms, and insulted and pursued our countrymen, who sought shelter in the barracks.

To quell the insurrection, Lord Bentinck put himself at the head of the troops, marched out, and dispersed the populace. It is not said whether any lives were lost. The King, who had taken no share in the disturbance, and whose name served the discontented as a pretext, escaped to Freuzza, and afterwards retired to his Country-house at Colli. The Queen, on the tamult being suppressed, removed to Cas telvetrano, opened the public prisons, liberated and armed the prisoners, and calling to her assistance the discontented Barons, shewed a disposition to oppose force to force. Affairs, however, did not proceed to the utmost extremity. The appearance of Lord Bentinck at the head of 3000 troops, induced her to renounce further resistance. She consented to quit Sicily; and was immediately embarked on board the Polacca St Antoine, and exiled with her son Prince Leopold, to Cagliari. The King remained at Colli. The Hereditary Prince Francis had resumed his functions as Vicar-General. Among those arrested as partizans of the Queen are the Marquis of Artala, Prince of Trabbia, and the Fiscal Advocate Feuire. The Prince de Butera escaped to the mountains. The French account, which is probably exaggerated, concludes with mentioning, that apprehensions prevailed of fresh disturbances; that the English troops were under arms night and day, precautions taken that neither officers nor soldiers should go to any distance from the barracks, except on duty-and that violences were daily committed by the peasantry in the country, upon small isolated English detachments.

Government require 40 millions of dollars for the service of the year, 16 millions of which was to be raised by way of subscription loan. Only four millions had been subscribed for, and the remaining 24 millions was to be provided for by direct taxes on imposts.

The Americans, while they are sustaining defeat upon defeat in their attempts to reduce Canada, are at present in great alarm from the apprehension of an attack upon their coasts by the blockading fleet under Admiral Warren. The Congreve rockets had made a deep impression on the minds of the people; and in place of thinking about the extension of their territories by conquest, are busily employed in preparations of defence.

All the British subjects in America, not naturalized, have, by an order of Government, been marched 250 miles into the interior.

Sir George Prevost, it is stated, had arrived at Kingston from Quebec, at the head of 8000 troops, and it was expected would cross, and attempt to destroy the flotilla at Sacket's Harbour.

The following account of the defeat of another American army in Canada, has been published by the British Government.

"Colonial Department, April 23. "Dispatches have been received from Lieutenant-General Sir G. Prevost, dated Quebec, February 8th, containing an account of the total defeat of a part of the American army, under the command of General Winchester, at French Town, on the river Raisin, 26 miles to the south of Detroit, on the 22d January. The enemy's force engaged amounted to upwards of 1000 men, of whom above 500, including the General and two Field Officers, are prisoners, and the remainder either killed or wounded. Colonel Proctor, who commanded the British force engaged, speaks very highly of the conduct of all the troops engaged in this affair, both regulars and militia.

"The loss sustained by the British troops was severe, owing to the enemy's being posted in houses and inclosures; it amounts to 21 killed, and 158 wounded; among the latter are the following officers :

"Lieutenant-Colonel St George, Captain Tallow, and Lieutenant Clemore, of the 41st, Lieutenant Froughton, of the royal artillery, Ensign Keir, of the Newfoundland fencibles, Captain Mills, Lieutenants M'Cormick, Gordon, and Garvin, of the Essex militia, and Lieutenants Rosette and Irvine, and Midshipman Richardson, of the marine department. No officer killed.

Sir George Prevost, upon the defeat of

the

the American force under General Winchester, appointed (until the Prince Regent's pleasure was known,) Colonel Vincent, 49th regiment, and Colonel Proctor, 41st regiment, to the rank of Brigadier-Generals in Upper Canada; Lieutenant-Colonel Pearson, inspecting Field-Officer, to the rank of Colonel in Kingston and the Eastern District; Major M'Donald, Glengary light Infantry, to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the

same.

THE NORTHERN WAR. COMMENCEMENT OF THE CAMPAIGNDREADTULL BATTLE BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND ALLIED ARMIES.

Our last number contained an account of the operations in the North of Germany, up to the date of the 2d April, on which day a French division, under General Morand, sustained a severe defeat, and the General himself was killed. From the accounts since received, it appears that a severe battle was fought on the 13th at Nicuberg, on the Saale, in which river, it is said, 3000 of the French were drowned. On the same day there was also a battle near Biederitz. In consequence of these actions, in which the French were worsted, the Russians occupies the course of the Saale from its junction with the Elbe, as far as Nicuberg, Bernberg, and Asleben.

The Russian and Prussian armies, however, met with a severe check on the 2d of May, in a sanguinary engagement with the French army, commanded by Buonaparte in person.

The French emperor set out from Paris on the 18th April, to assume the command; and seems to have lost no time in concentrating his forces and commencing active warfare. Accounts of his operations down to the 5th instant, have been published in the French papers, in letters addressed to the Empress Regent.

The Saale being the boundary of the two armies, the first offensive movements were of course made with a view to obtain possession of the opposite bank. An attempt to force the passage of the river was accordingly made at different places by the French, which, by the retreat of the Russian corps, they appear to have effected by the 29th, after some partial actions; after which, on the 30th, their position seems to have run along the course of the Saale, from its junction with the Elbe at Berneburg, to Cobourg, near the source of the Maine, through the towns of Eisleben, Merseburg, Naumburg, and Weimar. Marmont occupied Gotha with the 4th corps, and General Bertrand was at Saalfelde.

The French papers contain also an ac count of the Russian positions, by which it appears that Leipsic was occupied by Generals Winzengerode and Wittgenstein; the Emperor Alexander, with the Russian guard, and General Kutusoff, were on the Oder: General Barclay de Tolli was upon the Vistula, observing Dantzic, and General Sacken was before the Austrian corps, in the direction of Cracow, upon the Pelica. Thorn had previously surrendered to the Russians by capitulation.

The details of the battle of Lutzen, will be found in the following extracts from the French papers :

Paris, May 9.

"The Empress Queen Regent has recei ved the following report from the army:"The combats of Weissenfels and of Lutzen were only the prelude to events of higher importance. The Emperor Alexander, and King of Prussia, who had arrived at Dresden in the latter days of April, with all their forces, had debouched from the Thuringe, and, adopting the plan of giving bat tle in the plains of Lutzen, marched to occupy that position, but the rapid movements of the French army anticipated them. Still they persisted in their projects, and resolved, by a general attack, to dislodge the army from the positions it had taken.

"The position of the 2d May, at nine o'clock in the morning, was as follows:The left of the army leaned on the Elster. It was formed by the Viceroy, having under his orders the 5th and 11th corps.The centre was commanded by the Prince of Moskwa, at the village Kaia. The emperor, with the young and old guards, wa at Lutzen. The Duke of Ragusa was at the defile of Poserna, and formed the right with his three divisions; and General Bertrand, commanding the 4th corps, marched towards that defile.

"The enemy debouched, and passed the Elster, at the bridges of Zwenkaw, Pagou, and Zeitz. His Majesty expected to prevent those movements. Thinking they could not attack him until the 5th, he or dered General Lauriston, whose corps formed the extremity of the left, to proceed to Leipsic to disconcert the projects of the ene my, and to place the French army, for the 3d, in a position quite different from that which the enemy expected to find them in, and to carry confusion and disorder into their columns.

"At nine o'clock in the morning, his Majesty having heard a cannonade on the side of Leipsic, went there in full gallop.The enemy defended the little village of Listenaw, and the bridges in front of Leipsic. His Majesty only waited the moment

when

when these latter positions should be carried, in order to put in movement his army in that direction, to move on Leipsic, and to pass on the right of the Elster, to take the enemy in the rear; but, at ten o'clock, the enemy's army debouched near Kaia, with several columns, in profound silence.

"The horizon was extremely darkened. The enemy presented forces which were immense. The Emperor made dispo sitions immediately. The Viceroy received orders to move on the left of the Prince of Moskwa; but it required three hours to execute this movement.

"The Prince of Moskwa commenced the battle, and, with his five divisions, sustained the combat, which in half an hour became truly terrible. His Majesty himself went personally, at the head of the guards, behind the centre of the army, and sustained the right of the Prince of Moskwa. The Duke of Ragusa, with his three divisions, occupied the extremity of the right. General Bertrand had orders to debouch on the rear of the enemy's army, at the moment when the line found itself generally engaged.

"Fortune was pleased to crown, with the most brilliant success, all these different dispositions.

"The enemy, who appeared certain of his attempts, marched to surround our right, and to gain the road of Weissenfels. General Compans, an officer of the first merit, at the head of the first division of the Duke of Ragusa, immediately checked them.. The regiments of marine sustained several charges from the enemy's light cavalry with the greatest bravery, and covered the field of battle with the dead. But the great efforts of the infantry, artillery, and cavalry, were at the centre; four of the five divisions of the Prince of Moskwa were already engaged. The village of Kaia was taken and retaken several times. The Count de Lobau sent General Ricard to retake the village, and it was retaken.

"The battle embraced a line of two leagues, covered with fire, smoke, and clouds of dust. The Prince of Moskwa, General Souham, and General Girard, were present every where, and braved every thing. General Girard, wounded by several balls, wished to remain on the field of battle, declaring he would either die or command his troops, as the moment had arrived for all Frenchmen to conquer or to perish.

"We perceiving at a distance the rising of the dust, and the first fire of the corps of General Bertrand, the Viceroy entered the line on the left, and the Duke of Tarentum attacked the reserve of the enemy,

and carried the village where the enemy's right was posted. At this moment the enemy redoubled his efforts on the centre; the village of Kaia was again taken, our centre gave way, and several battalions retired; but these valiant youths, at the sight of the Emperor, rallied again, and cried Vive l'Empereur.

His Majesty judged that the critical moment, which would decide the fate of the day, had arrived; there was not a moment. to be lost. The Emperor ordered the Duke of Treviso to move with six battalions of the young guard to the village of Kaia, to assist in the overthrow of the enemy, and to cut down all they found. At the same moment the Emperor ordered his aid-decamp, General Drouet, to assemble a battery of 80 pieces of cannon, and to place them in front of the old guard, which were disposed in four redoubts to sustain the centre. All our cavalry was arranged in the rear, in order of battle. The Generals Dulauloy, Drouet, and Davoust, set off with all haste with the 80 pieces of cannon. The fire was tremendous-the enemy gave way on all sides. The Duke of Treviso carried, without firing a gun, the village of Kaia, overthrew the enemy, and continued to advance, charging the cavalry, infantry, and artillery of the enemy, all in full retreat.

"Bonnet, commanding a division of the Duke of Ragusa, received orders to make a movement by the left on Kaia, to support the success of the centre. He sustained several charges of cavalry, in' which the enemy sustained great loss. The enemy did nothing but fly; we pursued them a league and a half.

"We soon arrived on the height, which the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia, with all the family of Branden burgh, occupied during the battle.

"We have made several thousand prisoners, the number could not be more considerable, seeing that our cavalry was inferior in number, and the desire the Emperor had to spare them.

"At the cominencement of the battle, the Emperor said to the troops, "This is the battle of Egypt,-a good infantry, supported by artillery, ought to be confident in themselves."

vance of fresh troops from all quarters; while the western Russian army, stated at 30,000 men, had arrived at Posen, and begun its march for the Oder on the 3d inst. The King of Prussia also, seeningly aware that this is the last struggle for his existence as a monarch, has called out a levy en masse of all his states; and Berlin alone it is said will furnish 40,000.

In the present eventful crisis, the policy of the other Continental powers seems altogether enveloped in mystery. Notwithstanding the failure of a negociation for peace between Denmark and Great Britain, it is still confidently stated, that the intentions of the former are decidedly hostile to the French; they are said to have moved an army of 8000 men to protect Hamburgh, and the other Hanse Towns, from French invasion; and even in a recent attack of the French upon Hamburgh, the Danes seem to have joined in defence of the place. Suspicions, however, are at the same time hinted, that they mean to seize it for themselves, or hold it in pledge for Napoleon, should his arms prove victorious.

Although there is sufficient evidence in the documents referred to in our Number for March last, of the determination of the Swedish Court to resist the yoke of France, its intentions with respect to the present struggle seem exceedingly doubtful. The troops which had been marched into Mecklenburgh and Pomerania, are now said to be living there in a state of inactivity, while other accounts say that the Crown Prince has arrived at Stralsund, with the intention of proceeding to the head-quarters of the Emperor Alexander.

A promise is said to have been made on the part of Great Britain and Russia to guarantee Norway to Sweden, besides payment of a subsidy from Britain of £50,000 per month, as the price of her alliance, and a compensation for her Finland territory occupied by Russia. Denmark, on the other hand, was to be recompensed for the loss of Norway by the possession of the Hanse Towns. The other demands made by Denmark, however, not being listened to by the government of Britain, her ambassador left the country after an unsuccessful mission. The recent conduct of Denmark with respect to Hamburgh, and a proclamation issued by the Crown Prince of Sweden, asserting some pretensions of his government to the kingdom of Norway, may perhaps have some relation to these transactions.

Austria, in the mean time, appears to maintain a strict neutrality.

May 1813.

Downing Street, May 13, 1813. "Major D'Aguilar is arrived with dis patches from Lieut-Genera! Sir John Murray, the first dated Castalla, 14th April, the second dated Alcoy, 17th April.

It appears that Marshal Suchet had collected his whole disposable force, for the purpose of attacking the Allies. Upon the 11th of April he drove a Spanish corps with some loss from Yecla, and having ad vanced to Villena, he made prisoners the Spanish troops left to garrison the Castle by General Elio.

"At noon upon the 12th, the enemy attacked the advance of Sir John Murray's army, posted at Biar, under Colonel Adam; this officer, with the 2d battalion 27th regt. the 1st Italian regiment, the Calabrese corps,.and two companies of German riflemen, maintained his post five hours against five or six thousand French, and at length retreated only in consequence of orders from Sir J. Murray.

"Upon the 13th, the enemy advanced with three divisions of infantry and 1600 cavalry, to the attack of the position at Castalla, occupied by Sir J. Murray. The attack was made by the French troops with great gallantry, but they were repulsed at every point, and in some parts of the line by the bayonet.

"The enemy was driven down the hills with very heavy loss; and upen his attempting to form again in the plain with the aid of his cavalry and reserve, the allied forces advanced from their position to attack him. Margual Suchet, however, declined a renewal of the action, and retreated hastily under cover of his superior cavalry by Biar and Villena to his fortined position at St Felipe, which he reach-1 befor Sir J. Murray, who marched upon Alcoy, could intercept him.

"The brunt of the action fell upon Col. Adam's corps, and General Whittinghain's division of Spaniards. These troops bchaved with the most exemplary gallantry.

"The Allies have buried above 1000 of the enemy's dead. The prisoners taken are almost all wounded.

"The loss of the Allies amounts to 139 killed, 449 wounded, and 42 missing. Of the killed 73 were Spaniards, and 183 of the wounded. No British reginant sustained material loss, except the 27th, of which 18 were killed and 98 worded.

"Lieut. Thompson of the 10th veganent was killed, and Lieut. M'Dougall of the

75th