But the moment was not without difficulty. From Leipsic to Lindenau there is a defile of two leagues, crossed by five or six bridges. It was proposed to place 6000 men and 60 pieces of cannon in the town of Leipsic, which has ramparts; to occupy that town as the head of the defile, and burn its vast suburbs, in order to prevent the enemy lodging himself in them, and to give scope to our artillery placed upon the ramparts.

However odious the treason of the Saxon army was, the Emperor could not resolve to destroy one of the finest towns in Germany, and deliver it up to all kinds of disorder inseparable from such a defence, and that too under the eyes of a King, who from Dresden had been pleased to accompany the Emperor, and who was so deeply afflicted at the conduct of his army. The Emperor rather chose to expose himself to the loss of hundreds of waggons than adopt this barbarous plan.

At the break of day, all the parks, the baggage, all the artillery, the cavalry, the guard, and two-thirds of the army had passed the defile.

The Duke of Tarentum and the Prince of Poniatowski were charged to guard the suburbs, and defend them sufficiently long to allow the whole to debouch, and to execute themselves the passage of the defiles towards eleven o'clock.

The Magistrates of Leipsic sent at six o'clock in the morning a deputation to Prince Schwartzenberg to request of him not to render the town the theatre of a combat, which would cause its ruin.

At nine o'clock, the Emperor, mounted on horseback, entered Liepsic, and went to see the King. He left that Prince at liberty to do what he liked best, and not to leave his states, leaving them exposed to that spirit of sedition which had been fomented among his soldiers. A Saxon battalion had been formed at Dresden, and joined by the young guard. The Emperor made it form at Leipsic before the King's palace, to serve him as a guard, and protect him from the first movements of the enemy.

Half an hour after he went to Lindenau, to wait the re-evacuation of Leipsic, and see the troops pass the advanced posts, and put themselves in march.

However the enemy was not long in learning that the greater part of the army had quitted Leipsic, and that there only remained in it a strong rear guard.

He briskly attacked the Duke of Tarentum and Prince Poniatowski; he was several times repulsed, and all in defending the suburbs; our rear guard operated its retreat; but the Saxons who remained in the

town fired on our troops from above the ramparts, which caused the retreat to be accelerated, and a little disorder.

The Emperor had ordered the engineers to form some mines under the bridge which is between Leipsic and Lindenau, in order to blow it up at the last moment, thus to retard the enemy's march, and give time to the baggage to file. General Dulauloy had charged Colonel Montfort with this operation. The Colonel, in place of remaining on the spot to direct and give the signal, ordered a corporal and four miners to blow the bridge up as soon as the enemy should present himself. The corporal, a man

without judgment, and badly comprehending his mission, hearing the first fire of musketry from the ramparts of the town, set fire to the mine, and blew up the bridge. A part of the army was still on the other side, with a park of 80 pieces, and some hundreds of carriages.

The head of that part of the army which arrived at the bridge, seeing it blown up, believed that it was in the enemy's power, a frightful cry propagated itself from rank to rank" the enemy is upon our rear, and the bridges are cut off!" These unfortunates disbanded, and endeavoured to save themselves. The Duke of Tarentum passed the river by swimining; Count Lauriston, less fortunate, was drowned; Prince Poniatowski, mounted upon a fiery horse, plunged into the water, and appeared no more. The Emperor was not informed of this disaster till it was too late to remedy it; no remedy could even have been possible. Colonel Montfort and the corporal of miners have been transferred to a council of war.

We cannot yet calculate the losses occasioned by this unfortunate event, bat by approximation we carry them to 12,000 nien, and several hundreds of carriages.

The disorders which it has carried into the army have changed the situation of things. The French victorious army arriv ed at Erfurt as a beaten army should have arrived. It is impossible to describe the regret which the army feels for Prince Poniatowski, Count Lauriston, and all the brave men who perished in consequence of this fatal event.

We have no accounts of General Regnier; we are ignorant whether he has been taken or killed. One may easily conceive the profound grief of the Emperor, who sees, by an inattention to his prudent dispositions, the results of so many fatigues and labours vanish.

On the 19th, the Emperor slept at Markreustaedt; the Duke of Reggio remained at Lindenau.

On the 20th, the Emperor passed the Saale at Weissenfels.

On the 21st, the army passed the Untreet at Freyberg, General Bertrand took a position upon the heights of Coesen.

FRANCE.

Paris, No. 9. Discharges of artillery have announced this evening to the inhabitants of Paris, the return of his Majesty the Emperor and

Further official accounts from the French armies, bring down the account of military operations to the 7th instant. The Bavarian army, in consequence of a treaty signed on the 8th October, joined the Austrians under General Hilier, to which it had been opposed, when the two armies, between 60 and 70,000 strong, made an attempt to cut off the French retreat, and for that purpose, by a rapid march, posted themselves at Glenhausen, blocking up the road to Hanau and Frankfort. Bonaparte left Erfurt on the 25th, and arriving before Glenhausen on the 29th, found there the Austro-Bavarian army, commanded by General Wrely, ready to dispute his further progress. After some unimportant affairs, a battle took place on the 30th, which lasted nearly the whole day, at the end of which, according to the French account, the allies had lost 10,000 men, 6000 of whom were Bavarians, taken prisoners, while the loss on the side of the French is stated at only 500. Gen. Wrede was mortally wounded in the action. After this engagement the French army continued their retreat to the Rhine, which they appear to have effected without any further serious opposition; and on the 7th their whole force, with the exception of 40,000, under Bertrand, stationed in an intrenched camp, in front of Cassel, had crossed that river, and were posted in the following manner.-Macdonald at Cologne, defending the Lower Rhine; Marmont at Mentz, whither also Kellerman was marching with such reserve corps as could be collected; and Nirtor at Strasburg and Kehl. Bonaparte here.left his army and arrived in Paris on the 9th,

His Majesty left Mayence on the 8th, at one o'clock in the morning.

Paris, Nov. 10.-St Cloud, Nov. 10His Majesty the Emperor to-day, at 11 o'clock, held a Council of Finances, at which assisted the Duke of Gaete, Minister of Finances, Count Mollien, Minister of the Imperial Treasury, and Count de Lussi, Minister of manufactures and commerce, and to which several Counsellors of State were called.

At two o'clock his Majesty presided at a Council of Ministers.

Twenty colours, taken at the battles of Wachau, of Leipsic, and of Hanau, arrived on the 7th at the Minister's for War. They were brought by M. de Couteuls, Aide-deCamp to his Serene Highness the Prince of Neufchatel. The Minister at War will present them on Friday next to her Impe rial Majesty.

These colours had been announced to her Majesty the Empress by a letter frota his Majesty the Emperor, dated Frankfort, 1st Nov. 1813, and thus conceived :

"Madame, and very Dear Wife,

"I send you 20 colours, taken by my armies in the battles of Wachau, Leipsic, and Hanau: It is an homage which I love to render you. I desire that you may see in it a mark of my great satisfaction with your conduct, during the Regency which I confided to you."-(Moniteur, Nov. 11.)

SPAIN.

Pamplona surrendered by capitulation to the Spaniards on the 31st October. This important fortress, whose strength is said to defy a direct attack, together with St Sebastian, will form a strong barrier against any new irruption of the enemy into the country, supposing he were in force to me ditate such a movement.

"War Department, Oct. 31. 1813 "Dispatches have been received from Lord Wellington, dated Vera, October 18, from which it appears, that, on the night of the 12th, the enemy attacked and carried the redoubt in the camp of Savre, which was held by a piquet of forty men of the army of reserve of Andalusia, who were taken, together with an hundred prisoners. There is reason to believe that they were surprised. After having obtained posses surprised.

HOLLAND.

RESTORATION OF THE HOUSE OF ORANGE.

The defeat of Bonaparte at Leipsic, and subsequent retreat of his troops within the Rhine, has been the signal for the people of Holland to throw off the yoke of France, and return to their former government under the House of Orange. On the 15th November, the French authorities in Amsterdam were dismissed, and a temporary government established in the name of the Prince of Orange, to whom deputies were immediately dispatched to invite him to resume his ancient authority in the Republic. This example had been followed by the other towns of the provinces of Holland and Utrecht; and the French troops, unable to hold the country, were evacuating the principal places. The fortresses of Bergen-opzoom, Breda, and Neineguen were in the hands of the revolutionists; and Maestricht was held by the burghers, until a regular government should be formed. This important counter-revolution has been effected without bloodshed. The Prince of Orange is about to leave Britain for Holland immediately, accompanied by the Dukes of Cambridge and Brunswick, and a force of from 5 to 10,000 men.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. CAPTURE OF TWO FRENCH FRIGATES.

Extract of a Letter from Captain Sir Christopher Cole, of his Majesty's ship Rippon,

to Admiral Lord Keith, dated Oct. 21. 1813.

"I have great satisfaction in reporting the capture of Le Weser, a French frigate of the large class, mounting forty-four guns, and having three hundred and forty men, commanded by the Captain de Vaisseau Cantzlaat, Chevalier de L'ordre Imperiale de la Reunion, by his Majesty's ship under my command, in company with the Scylla and Royalist brigs.

"She left the Texel on the last day of September, and had captured two Swedish vessels in the North Sea, and lost her main and mizen-masts in a gale on the 16th of this month.

"Captain Macdonald's letter, which I have the honour to transmit, will acquaint your Lordship with the perseverance with which he had watched this frigate, which he fell in with four days ago, sixty leagues to the west of Ushant, and of a gallant joint attack made by the Scylla and Royalist on the frigate yesterday, in sight of the Rippon, and upon her weather-beam.

"About ten, the frigate bore up towards the Rippon and struck her colours, having exchanged two broadsides with the Scylla, and just as the Rippon and Royalist were within reach."

Extract from Captain M'Donald's Letter above alluded to, dated Oct. 21.

"I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at one A. M. the 18th instant, in long, 9 deg. 10 min. W. and lat. 47 deg. 30 min. N. I fell in with a French national frigate, under jury main and mizen masts, apparently making the best of her way for Brest, and judging it not prudent to attack such superior force, as (in the event of our being crippled) I should not have been able to have kept sight of her, from the severity of the weather, I had the good fortune, on the 20th inst. to meet with his Majesty' sloop Royalist, when Capt. Bremer, in the handsomest manner, volunteered to join me in attacking her. Past three P. M. we bore up in close order, the Scylla on her quarter, and the Royalist on her bow, and commenced the action nearly at the same time, which continued for an hour and a half, when our sails and rigging being very much cut, and main-mast severely wounded, the Royalist nearly in the same predicament, we hauled off to repair the damages, the weather being very squally, so as to endanger our masts. A man of war appearing to the northward, I ordered the Royalist to apprise her of our situation; at day-light this morning, I observed a large ship to leeward, which proved to be his Majesty' ship Rippon, and as you, Sir, were

an

an eye-witness of our proceeding this morning, I beg leave to refer to you for the subsequent events.

"I am happy to say, that we have only two seamen slighted wounded; the Royalist, I am sorry to add, was not so fortunate, having two killed and nine wounded.

Copy of a Letter from Captain Tobin of the Andromache frigate, to Admiral Lord Keith, dated Oct. 25.

"MY LORD,

"As the day opened on the 23d instant, the Andromache gave chace to a frigate under jury masts in the N. E. quarter; about four P. M. (the Saintes bearing E. by S. fourteen leagues) she opened a fire on us from her stern guns, which was not returned until a position was taken on her weath er quarter, when, after a feeble resistance of about fifteen minutes, she struck her colours indeed such was the disabled state of her masts previously to our meeting, that any further opposition would have been the extreme of rashness.

“She is La Trave, of twenty-eight French eighteen-pounders and sixteen eighteen pound carronades, only nine months old, with a crew of three hundred and twentyone men, (nearly all Dutch,) one of whom was killed, and her commander, Jacob Van Maren, Capitaine de Vaisseau and Member of the Imperial Order of Reunion, the second Lieutenant, Oxholme, two midshipmen (one of them since dead) and twenty-four seamen wounded.

"The Andromache has received no injury in her hull, nor aught to mention in her sails or rigging, while I lament to say, that Mr Thomas Dickinson, the first Lieutenant, is severely wounded, and one seaman slightly.

"

"I have the honour to be, &c.

"GEO. TOBIN, Captain."

"P. S.-It seems that La Trave had two men wounded by an English brig of war, on the 19th."

The Weser and La Trave sailed together from the Texel a few days previous to their capture, and were carried into Plymouth together as prizes.

By the Lady Wellington packet, arrived at Falmouth from Halifax, after a passage of 14 days, we learn, that the Morgiana packet, from Falmouth for Surinam, was taken 26th September, off the Banks of that place, by the American privateer Saratoga, of 22 guns, and 200 men, after a very gallant action (by the American's own account) of one hour and ten minutes, within pistol-shot, in which they were repulsed twice in attempting to board, but

were unfortunately, carried the third Captain Cunningham, the master. Mr Danstan, and eight men were wounded; and two killed. The Americans lost their first Lieutenant and two killed, and several 12verely wounded. The Morgiana mounted 18 guns, and had 40 men, officers included

Accounts have reached the Admiralty of the loss of his Majesty's ship Laurestinus, Captain Graham, on the 26th August last, off the Bahamas. The crew, with the exception of one man, were saved. A dreadful hurricane prevailed on the above day, and considerable damage was done to the other shipping at the Bahamas.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Copies of the treaties concluded between Great Britain, Russia, and Prussia, have been laid before Parliament. They are both signed and dated at Reichenbach, the 14th and 15th June. 1813, and stipulate that Russia shall bring 160.000 men into the field, and Prussia 80,000; for which they are to receive the following subsidies in money, viz. to Russia, £1,384,334 Sterling, for the service of the year 1813; and Prussia £.666,666-both subsidies to be paid monthly, and all arrears discharged by the 1st Jan. 1814. Besides this money, the three Powers, to supply the want of specie, guarantee a Federative Paper, to the amount of £5,000,000 Sterling-two millions and a half of which are to be dischar ged by Great Britain, by the 1st of July 1815, or six months after the condusion of Peace. Great Britain, in addition, undertakes the maintenance of the Rusica Fleet, and the crews thereof, to be employed in the European Seas, and the expence of which is estimated at half a million Sterling In return, both Russia and Prussia enge to co-operate towards the restoration of Hanover and the Hereditary States, to his Britannic Majesty, and the Ducal House of Brunswick.

Besides the above Treaties there is a Convention between his Britannic Majesty and the Emperor of Russia, dated at Peterswaldow, July 6, and by which this country engages to take the German Legion (which is not to exceed 10,000 men), into immediate pay, according to its effective strength, as reported from time to time, by Col. H. Lowe. This corps is now serving on the Continent, under Count Walmoden. The recruiting of the Legion to be provided for by the Emperor; and the arms, clothing, equipment, &c. to be at the expence of England; by whom the General Officers are to be appointed. The annual pay of each soldier to be £.10 » 15s.

SCOT

CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.

West. Lord JUSTICE CLERK and LORD SUCCOTH.

Inverary, October 9.

ON Thursday last the Circuit Court was opened here by Lord Succoth. There being no business, his Lordship, after the necessary forms were gone through, addressed the Sheriff and Jury, congratulating them upon there having been no crime committed, in so extensive a district, of sufficient magnitude to be brought before the Circuit Court. He also expressed his satis faction at the measures which the gentlemen of the county of Argyll had signified their intention to adopt, for the better accommodation of the judges and the jury, as well as for the safe custody of prisoners. His Lordship then, after an address of some length, in which he took a review of the present political state of Europe, dismissed. the Court.

Glasgow, Oct. 13.

The Circuit Court of Justiciary was yesterday opened here by the Right Hon. the Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Succoth. The Court was held in the elegant public buildings which have just been completed, and which, we are proud to say, will bear comparison with any of a similar kind in the united kingdom. After the Court was fenced, the Lord Justice Clerk, in a short and appropriate address, expressed the satisfac tion he felt in seeing the elegant and commodious Court-house, and other requisite apartments, which the new buildings contained for the administration of justice. His Lordship observed, that nothing so complete with regard to magnificence and accommodation would probably be found in this country; and that certainly it was the most complete public building in Scotland.

He

congratulated the Lord Provost and Magis trates on these spacious structures being finished during the time they were in office, and concluded with a highly merited coinpliment to the Committee under whose care and auspices they had been erected, observing, that they had deserved and would obtain the thanks of all classes of the community, for the important services they had rendered to the public.

Lord Succoth said, he concurred in every
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thing that had been so ably stated by the Lord Justice Clerk.

James Jackson, accused of murder, was then brought to the bar, when the Advocate for the Crown deserted the diet pro loco et tempore, and the prisoner was re-committed

on a new warrant.

William Muir, servant at Mains of Gilkerscleugh, parish of Crawfordjohn, charged with the murder of Margaret Hamilton, his wife, by putting arsenic into a basin of meal, of which she made porridge, which she ate on the morning of the 8th September 1812, in consequence of which she died a few hours after. Sentence of outlawry and fugitation was passed against him, at the last Glasgow Circuit Court, for non-appearance ; but he was since apprehended at Kirkcaldy, where he had assumed the name of William Moffat. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty; and, after a long examination of witnesses, the Jury were inclosed, and this day returned a verdict of Not Proven, when the prisoner, after a suitable admonition, was dismissed from the bar.

John Geddes, charged with assaulting and throwing down, on the 8th August last, John Porter, weaver, Drygate Street, and robbing him, in Tradestown, of a shilling, and five pence halfpenny in copper, and with again knocking him down and robbing him of a silver watch, when he called for the assistance of the police, being put to the bar, pleaded not guilty.

John Porter, the first witness, gave his evidence in such a fashion as to provoke the incessant merriment of the audience; and the Depute-Advocate, after regretting that he had not known better the worth of his testimony, abandoned the prosecution.

Lord Justice Clerk said he would not hang a dog upon such evidence; and the jury, after being charged in a very able and judicious address, delivered by Lord Succoth, found, by a great plurality of voices, the libel not proven.

Thursday.-William Muir and William Mudie were indicted for robbing, on the 31st July, 1813, on the Kirkintilloch road, Mr William. Peebles, manufacturer, Glasgow, of a metal watch, having a gold seal and key appended thereto by a ribband; a stick, nine shillings in silver, and a beaver hat; on the 3d August, 1813, on the banks of the Monkland Canal, near Garteraig

Bridge,