states, that in consequence of advantages | ceived at 3,000 toises distance in the rear, gained the preceding day, a second battle the ground newly dug up, and works which took place on the 21st, in which the most marked their second position. The left complete success crowned the Emperor's was still supported by the same mountains arms; our loss, in the two days, has not at 2,000 toises in the rear of those of the been considerable.-The Emperor was first position, and considerably in advance in perfect health. of the village of Hochkerch. The centre leaned upon three entrenched villages, where so many works had been erected that they might have been considered as strong places. A marshy and difficult ground covered three-quarters of the centre. Lastly, their right leaned in rear of the first position upon villages and rising ground, likewise entrenched.The enemy's front, either in the first or second position, extended about a league and an half. After this reconnoissance, it was easy to conceive how, notwithstanding a lost battle like that of Lutzen, and eight days retreating, the enemy could still have hopes in the chances of fortune. According to the expression of a Russian officer, who was asked what they intended to do, "We neither wish to advance, nor retire." "You are maslers "of the first point," replied a French officer; "the event, in a few days, will "prove whether you are masters of the "other." The head-quarters of the two Sovereigns were in the village of Natscher. On the 19th, the position of the French army was as follows: 66 Paris, May 29.-Her Majesty the Empress Queen and Regent has received the following intelligence respecting the events which have passed at the army, during the days of the 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22d; and of the position of the army on the 23d: The Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia attributed the loss of the battle of Lutzen to the faults their Generals had committed in the direction of the combined force, and particularly to the difficulties attached to an offensive movement of from 150 to 180,000 men. They resolved upon taking the position of Bautzen and Hochkerch, already celebrated in the history of the seven years war; to unite there all the reinforcements which they expected from the Vistula, and other points in their rear, to add to that position every thing for which art could furnish the means, and there run the chances of a fresh battle, of which all the probabilities appeared to them to be in their favour.- The Duke of Tarentum, commanding the 11th corps, left Bischofswerder on the 15th; in the evening of which day, he found himself within cannon-shot of Bautzen, where he found all the enemy. He took a position: from this moment the French army marched upon the camp at Bautzen.- The Emperor left Dresden on the 18th; he slept at Harla; and on the 19th, at ten in the morning, arrived before Bautzen. He em-posite the village of Niemenschutz. Geneployed all the day in reconnoitring the enemy's positions.We learned that the Russian corps of Barclay de Tolly, Langeron, and Sass, and Kleist's Prussian corps, had rejoined the combined army, and that its force might be estimated from 150 to 160,000 men. Upon the right was the Duke of Reggio, leaning upon the mountains to the left of the Spree, and separated from the left of the enemy by that valley. The Duke of Tarentum was before Bautzen, on horseback, upon the Dresden road. The Duke of Ragusa was upon the left of Bautzen, op ral Bertrand was upon the left of the Duke of Ragusa, leaning upon a windmill and a wood, and appearing to intend debouching from Jaselitz upon the enemy's right. The Prince of Moskwa, General Lauriston, and General Reynier, were at Hoyerswerda, out of the line, and in the rear of our left. On the 19th, in the evening, the enemy's -The enemy having learnt that a consiposition was as follows: his left was sup-derable corps was to arrive by the road of ported by mountains covered with wood, and perpendicular to the course of the Spree, nearly a league from Bautzen; Bautzen contained his centre. This town had been entrenched and covered by redoubts; the right of the enemy leaned upon fortified rising points, which defended the debouches from the Spree, from the side of the village of Nimschit; all his front was covered by the Spree; this very strong position was but a first position. We distinctly per Hoyerswerda, was doubtful that it was the Emperor's intention to turn their position by the right, to alter the field of battle, and to cause all his entrenchments to fall, which had been erected with so much pains, and the objects of such great trouble. Not being yet informed of General Lauriston's arrival, he did not suppose that this column could consist of more than 16 or 20,000 men. On the 19th he therefore detached against them, at four o'clock in the morning, General Yorck with 12,000 | mand in Chief of the centre), to pass the Prussians, and General Barclay de Tolly, Spree, and disturb the enemy's right; and with 18,000 Russians. The Russians finally, to the Prince of the Moskwa, unposted themselves at the village of Klix, der whose orders were the third corps, and the Prussians at the village of Wessig. General Lauriston, and General Reynier, -Count Bertrand had in the mean while to push forward on Klix, to pass the Spree, sent General Pery, with the Italian divi- to turn the enemy's right, and to carry his sion to Koenigswerda, to keep up our com- head-quarters from Wurtchen to Weissenmunication with the detached corps. Be- burg. At noon the cannonade coming arrived there at noon, General Perin menced. The Duke of Tarentum had no made bad dispositions. He did not cause occasion to throw his bridge of chevalets the neighbouring forest to be properly re- across the river, as he found a stone bridge connoitred; he placed his posts badly, and before him, over which he forced his pas at 4 o'clock he was assailed by a hourra, sage. The Duke of Ragusa threw his bridge which threw some battalions into disorder. across, and the whole of his corps passed He lost 600 men, among whom was Gene- over to the other bank of the Spree. After ral Balathier, of the Italian brigade, wound-six hours of a brisk cannonade, and several ed; 2 cannon, and 3 caissons; but the di- charges made by the enemy without sucvision having taken to their arms, kept cess, General Compans caused Bautzen to themselves to the wood, and faced against be occupied; General Bonnet occupied the the enemy. The Count de Valmy hav- village of Niedkayn, and by a running ing arrived with the cavalry, put himself charge took a plain which rendered himself at the head of the Italian division, and re- master of the whole centre of the enemy's took the village of Koenigswartha. At this position; the Duke of Reggio got possession very moment, the corps under Count Lau- of the heights, and at seven o'clock in the riston, which marched at the head of the evening, the enemy was driven back on his Prince of Moskwa's, to turn the enemy's second position. General Bertrand passed position, and had departed from Hoyers - one of the arms of the Spree; but the enemy werda, arrived on Weissig. The battle kept the heights which supported his commenced, and the corps of Gen. Yorck right; and by this means maintained himwould have been destroyed, had it not self between the Prince of Moskwa's corps been for the circumstance of the troops hav- and our army.At eight o'clock in the ing to pass a defile, which caused that they evening, the Emperor entered Bautzen, could come up only in succession. After a and was received by the inhabitants and the battle of three hours, the village of Weis- constituted authorities, with sentiments due sig was carried, and De Yorck's corps, from allies, who were happy in finding being overthrown, was driven to the other themselves delivered from Stein, from bank of the Spree. The battle of Weissig Kotzebue, and the Cossacks. This day, was in itself an important event. A de- which, were it single, might be called tailed report will shortly make known the the Battle of Bautzen, was merely the preparticulars concerning it.On the 19th, lude to the Battle of Wurtchen. HowCount Lauriston therefore remained in the ever, the enemy began to comprehend the position of Weissig: the Prince of Mosk- possibility of being forced in his position. wa at Mankersdorf, and Count Reynier at His hopes were no longer the same; and the distance of a league in the rear. The he must, from this moment, have had the right of the enemy's position was evidently presage of his defeat. Already were all in disorder. On the 20th, at eight his dispositions changed. The fate of the o'clock in the morning, the Emperor went battle was no longer to be decided behind to the heights in the rear of Bautzen. He his entrenchments. His immense works, gave orders to the Duke of Reggio to pass and 300 redoubts, became useless. The the Spree, and attack the mountains which right of his position, which was opposed supported the enemy's left; to the Duke of to the 4th corps, became his centre; and Tarentum, to throw a bridge on chevalets he was obliged to offer his right, which over the Spree, between Bautzen and the formed a good part of his army, to oppose mountains; to the Duke of Ragusa, to the Prince of Moskwa, in a place which he throw another bridge on chevalets across had not studied, and which he believed be the Spree, in the turn which that river yond his position. -On the 21st, at five takes to the left, at half a league from in the morning, the Emperor marched toBautzen; to the Duke of Dalmatia (towards the heights, three quarters of a league whom His Majesty had given the Com-in advance of Bautzen, The Duke of Reggio sustained a lively fire of musketry towards the heights which defended the enemy's left. The Russians, who felt the importance of this position, had placed a strong part of their army, in order that their left should not be turned. The Emperor ordered the Dukes of Reggio and Tarentum to keep up this combat, in order to prevent the enemy's left from disengaging itself, and to hide from him the real attack, the result of which could not be felt before noon or one o'clock. At eleven o'clock the Duke of Treviso advanced 1,000 toises from his position. and engaged in a dread ful cannonade before all the enemy's redoubts and entrenchments. The guards, and the reserve of the army, concealed by a rising ground, had easy debouches to ad vance, by the left or right, according as the vicissitudes of the day might require. The enemy was thus kept in uncertainty respecting the real point of attack. During this time, the Prince of Moskwa overthrew the enemy at the village of Klix, passed the Spree, and advanced, fighting what he had before him, to the village of Preilitz. At ten o'clock he carried the village; but the enemy's reserves having advanced to cover the head quarters, the Prince of Moskwa was driven back, and lost the village of Preilitz. The Duke of Dalmatia began to debouch an hour after noon. The enemy, who comprehended all the danger with which he was threatened by the direction the battle had taken, knew that the only means of advantageously supporting the battle against the Prince of Moskwa, was to prevent us from debouching. He endeavoured to oppose the Duke of Dalmatia's attacks. The moment for deciding the battle had then arrived. The Emperor, by a movement to the left, in twenty minutes marched with the guards, General Latour Maubourg's four divisions, and a great quantity of artillery, upon the right flank of the enemy's position, which had become the centre of the Russian army. was obliged to uncover his right, to prepare for this new attack. The Prince of Moskwa took advantage of it by advancing in front. He took the village of Preisig, and having come up with the enemy's army, marched on to Wurtchen. It was at three o'clock in the afternoon, and whilst the army was in the greatest incertitude of success, that a heavy firing was heard along a line of three leagues, and announced to the Emperor that the battle was won. The enemy, finding that his right was turned, began to retreat, and this retreat soon became a flight. At seven o'clock in the evening, the Prince of Moskwa, and General Lauriston, arrived at Wurtchen. The Duke of Ragusa then received orders to make an inverse movement to that which the Guard had made, occupied all the entrenched villages, and all the redoubts, which the enemy were obliged to evacuate, advanced in the direction of Hochkerch, and thus took the whole of the enemy's left in flank, which then fell into an unavoidable rout. The Duke of Tarentum, on his side, briskly pushed this left wing, and did it considerable mischief.--The Emperor slept on the road in the midst of his Guards, at the Inn of Little Baschwitz. Thus the enemy being forced from all his positions, left the field of battle in our power, covered with his dead and wounded, and several thousands of prisoners.On the 22d, at four o'clock in the morning, the French army put itself in motion. my had fled the whole night by all the roads, and in every direction. We had not found his first posts until past Weissenberg; nor did he offer to make any resistance until he had gained the heights in the rear of Reickenbach. The enemy had not yet seen our cavalry.—General Lefebure Desnouttes, at the head of 1,500 horse, of the Polish lancers, and the red lancers of the Guards, charged and overthrew the enemy's cavalry in the plain of Reitenbach. The enemy believing that these were alone, caused a division of their cavalry to advance, and several divisions were successively engaged. General Latour Maubourg, with his 14,000 horse, and the French and Saxon cuirassiers, arrived to their assist The ene Morand's and the Wurtemberg division carried the rising ground, which the enemy had made his point d'appui. General Devaux established a battery, the fire of which, he directed upon the masses which attempted to take the position. Geance, and several charges of cavalry took nerals Dulauloy and Drouet, with sixty place. The enemy, quite astonished to pieces of reserve artillery, advanced. Last-find 15 or 16,000 cavalry before him, ly, the Duke of Treviso, with the divisions Dumontier and Barrois, with a detachment of the young Guard, took the road to the Inn of Klein-Baschwitz, crossing the road from Wurtchen to Bautzen.- -The enemy whilst he believed us to be unsupplied with any, retired in disorder. The red lancers of the Guards is, for a great part, composed of the volunteers of Paris, and its neighbourhood. General Lefebure Desnouttes, your Majesty will fill the place of a father and General Golbert, their Colonel, be- | nest man; I have nothing to reproach mystow the greatest eulogiums on them. In self with. In self with. I leave a daughter behind me: this affair of cavalry, General Bruyere, of the light cavalry, and an officer of the highest distinction, had his leg carried off by a cannon-ball.General Reynier, with the Saxon corps, gained the heights behind Reitenbach, and pursued the enemy as far as the village of Hotterndorf. Night overtook us, at a league from Goerlitz. Although the day had been extremely long, we finding ourselves now at the distance of eight leagues from the field of battle, and that the troops had undergone so much fatigue, the French army was to have slept at Goerlitz; but the enemy having placed a corps of their rear guard on the heights in front, and as it would have required half an hour more day-light to turn his left, the Emperor ordered the army to take a position. In the battles of the 20th and 21st, the Wurtemberg General Franquemont, and General Lorencez, were wounded. Our loss on these days may be estimated at 11 or 12,000 men in killed and wounded. At seven o'clock in the evening of the day of the 22d, the Great Marshal, Duke of Friuli, being on a small eminence along with the Duke of Treviso and General Kirgener, all three with their feet on the ground, and at a sufficient distance from the fire, one of the last balls fired by the enemy struck down close to the Duke of Treviso, tore the lower part of the Great Marshal, and killed General Kirgener on the spot. The Duke of Friuli immediately felt that he was mortally wounded, and expired twelve hours after. As soon as the posts were placed, and that the army had taken its bivonaques, the Emperor went to see the Duke of Friuli. He found him perfectly master of himself, and showing the greatest sang froid. The Duke offered his hand to the Emperor, who pressed it to his lips. (6 My whole life," said he to him, "has been consecrated to your service, nor do I regret its loss, but for the use it still might have been of to you!"` "Duroc !" replied the Emperor," there is a life to come: it is there you are going to wait for me, and where we shall one day meet again!" "Yes, Sire, but that will not be yet these thirty years, when you will have triumphed over your enemies, and realized all the hopes of our country. I have lived an ho -The enemy's army has retired by the road of Branzlau and Lauban, into Silesia. All Saxony is delivered from her enemies; and, by to-morrow, the 24th, the French army will be in Silesia. -The enemy has burnt a great quantity of his baggage, blown up a number of parks, and distributed through the villages great quantities of wounded. Those whom he was able to take away in carriages had not their wounds dressed; the inhabitants make their numbers upwards of 18,000; and more than 10,000 remain in our power. The town of Goerlitz, which contains 8 or 10,000 inhabitants, has received the French as their liberators. The city of Dresden, and the Saxon Ministry, have shown the greatest activity in providing for the army, which has never had greater abundance of every thing.Although great quantities of ammunition have been consumed, yet the workmen of Torgau and Dresden, and the convoys which arrive through the atten(To be continued.J Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent-Garden. COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER. Vol. XXIII. No. 24.] LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1813. [Price 1s. 833] -[834 he believes in the redemption; why he beSUMMARY OF POLITICS. lieves in the resurrection. Ask him this; THE TRINITY.- Having lost sight of and what is his answer? Does he show the progress of the Bill upon this subject, you, or pretend to show you, how nature I do not know what state it is in; but, in or human reason led to the circumstance of the meanwhile, we have forced out the the fall of man on account of his eating of UNITARIANS to an open avowal of their an apple? Does he pretend to show you creed. The author of the anonymous the necessity or justice, upon any princiessay, noticed in my last Number, has, in ples of our feeble human reason, of a most an article, which I insert below, given us virtuous man being executed as a malefachis name and place of abode. This is tor, in order to appease the wrath of his right, and, though he affects to treat the own father towards those, who, in addition request lightly, I continue to think that it to their other manifold sins, were guilty of was quite proper.However, what is that of murder, and that, too, of the most more material, is, that he has come to the atrocious kind, being veiled under the garb open confession, that he does not believe, of legal justice? Does he go to nature, that the Old and New Testament are the does he attempt to show you facts or human Word of God.Very well, this, so far, reasoning, that dead bodies will re-assemis manful. But, then, what does he mean ble their scattered dust, re-assume corpoby calling people infidels? What does he real shape and substance, and be re-animean by his charges against me of craftily mated with life? -Does the believer in attacking all revealed religion, by saying original sin, in the redemption, and the rethat we must believe the whole or none? surrection, do any of this? -No, he atWhat does he mean by talking about hosti-tempts no such thing. He tells you that lily to Christianity? He says, that the frail human reason is out of the question. writers of the several parts of the Scrip- He tells you, that it is above the reach of tures were not inspired; except, perhaps, the human mind to know how things are in certain cases. That is to say, I suppose, thus. But, he says he believes they are when they wrote those parts of the book thus, BECAUSE THE SCRIPTURES that it suits him to believe. The rest he SAY THEY ARE THUS.————And, then treats as the offspring of the brains of mere ask him, why he believes what the Scripmen, unaided by any single ray of divine tures tell him. His answer is, that THE light.In short, this is his creed: that SCRIPTURES ARE THE WORD OF the Scriptures are not the word of God; GOD, and, therefore, what they contain that they were written by men, as other must be true.- Now, then, is it not a books have been; that they were a parcel necessary conclusion from these premises, of histories, moral essays, poems, and let that, if the Unitarians believe, that the ters, the mere offspring of men's brains, Scriptures are not the word of God, they and which have been collected together are not, and cannot be, Christians? and published in one velume; and that, of They cannot believe in original sin, in the this volume, we ought to regard as true redemption, or the resurrection. I say, only those parts which the Unitarians be- they cannot; because they have no foundalieve to be true.-Did I not say, that tion for such belief other than the word the Bill which would give a sort of sauc- of God; and as they deny there to be any tion to this creed, would strike into the word of God, they cannot entertain the bevery bowels of the Christian system; and lief necessary to constitute a Christian. what becomes of that system, if the Scrip- -These opponents of mine treat my tures be not the word of God? What other Theological knowledge with great contempt; foundation than this has the Christian sys- and I am very glad that they can do it with tem? Ask any mau, why he is a Chris-justice; for, I should think my time very tian; why he believes in original sin; why shamefully wasted, if I had spent it in |