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BRITISH ACCOUNTS
O'? THE
Continental War.
Extracts from London taper t
to Ncv. 6th, jumifired by
IS hr. Rich of Baltimore,
who landed at SJnuapoiis
loth Dec. from on beard
the British flag jhip Bam
bra.
FIRST BATTLE.
After a hard ami fan&iun.
, o
ary action which continued
for tome houss, Key was de
f ated with (helots of 12,c00
men.
SFCOND BATTLE.
This battle was fought on
the' fame dav as the firtr, was
equally well comedlcd and
bloody, but at length Bn*
aparte succeeded in break
ing the centre of the Prince
of Schwartfenburgh’s armv,
•*
by cringing up Pie whole of
his c ? .vairv under Murat j
The allies then brought up
tlicir refer ye and drove Bon
aparte hark upon the point
he had occupied before ; e
had rierced the Prince of I
SchwartfenburgVs centre. 1
1 'he bt'dc terminated at!
night and’ both armies re- *
ma ned in fight of ejeh 0-1
ther, without either
ing gained any material ad- \
vantage. On the 17th Oc
tcher they prepared for the/
nu re important barrle which
was to take place on the next
day. - j
THIRD BATTLE.
On the 1 Br'h October, the !
allies having collected-and [
concentrated ail 1 iseir fa
ces under the Crown Prince,
BJucher and Prince of
Schwcrt fen burgh, attacked
B mpparte, in ail his poii•
lion' ; he fought with the
determination and d^fpera
tion ih t a man nv-y be dif
poled to have, who feels
that hi< crown depends on
the ifiueof the conduit, but )
his obstinacy, his talents,'
Ins skill, w as unavailing— lie j
was defeated \vi,h the loss 01
40,600 men and nearly* 200
cannon.
IEIPHC STORMED.
Without giving the ene
my a day’s respite, the al
Its advanced to Leipfic the
d y after their glorious vic
t ,j , ..n.i after u molt nloo*
dy refill,* nee took it by Rorm
vvi.h 3000:) prif. licrs, &
great ini: her or cannon,
ammunition, fee.
Thus in f ur day’s Bona
party’s army was ieduced
one I)-if, a mere. rapid and.
enormous loss than he fofJ
ta* ntd in the 'ame fpr.ee o j
time even in he calamitous
campaygu m Kudip
ix is on the i 6ih
V>* 12*oo >me h
do. I hit) by
‘ ] t
„ #do. 19slat «■.r.
-‘li'iic 30,000
gL"",T ' !
. o .. ,0 j 0
"i f«>i | . r, I
• ■ * 1 1 , -JO • I
til* OH? , r .. „
; !V .“ 11 > r
.!frr
Wr n
\
.to the Rhine. Ha, failed
I the,road was already occu-
I pied bv his conquerors.
'His retreat, to Erfurth was
j cut off; He then with the
wreck and remnant of his
I army took the road towards
\ Brunswick, thus removing
I further from his resources
and reinforcements. The
nldes were in purfuif of him,
and Be is destined, we trust
to frefh difaltcrs and defeats.
Ex trails from London papers
of later dates.
Bivaria has declared in
favor of Rafik.
Papers on board the Dra
gon to the 14th■ November,
mention the tall of Dresden.
There wais a grand illu
mination throughout Eng
land between the 6th and
10th November.
Iho l ift difnatch from
c ir Charier Stewart is dated
at Leipfic, October 19th,
i from*-which the following
a>e extradt :
Mv Lord —Europe at
length approaches nor deli
verance ; and England may
truimphaivly look forward
to reap, in conjunction with
her allies, that glory her
a 4
unexampled and ef
forts in the common cause
so j idly entitles her to re
ceive.
I with it had fallen to the
lot of tome abler pea to de
tail to your lordship the
splendid events of the two
lad days, but in endeavoring
to relate the main fads, to
fend them off without a mo
ment’s delay, I (hall hi t do
my duty, poftponiug more
detailed accounts until a
frefh opportunity:
The victory of General
Bl ocher upon the 16th has
been followed, on the iSfh,
by that of the whole of the
combi ied forces over the
army oi Bonaparte. in the
, neighborhood of Leipfic.
1 The collective loss of
| hove one hundred pieces or
cannon, tixty thouiand men
an irmnenfe number of pri .
foners, the detertion of the
j whole cf the Saxon army ;
also the Bavarian and ■ Wer
temberg troops confining
artillery, cavalry and in
fantry; and many Generals
among whom are Regnier,
Vallory, Prune, Bertrand
»»d Lartiiiton, a.c feme of
the firft ftuits of this glo
rious day.
The captu'e by a (fault of
die town of Leipfic this
morning, the magazines,
i artillery, (tores of the place,
j* with the King of Saxony
and all his court, ,the gam
ion and rear guard of tlie
brtnch army, ail the ene-
I a.*y’s. wounded (the n imber
|of which exceeds. ;0,000
j me><) »hs narrow etc.ape of
I>>;.ar»of te; who fie s ir«<n
( -e pfjc .ut aoh lock, the al
j lire Cl tering nt 11 oßlock~
j T o'*t Complete (dero-ute) of
j t ’ L c nen army who a.re e.n.
p’ iC «o elcain: in a-1
• . 1
| furroutrled, are the next ob
j of exultation.
The further refifft your
Lord 111 Ip can hut arrive at
irom ai\ account of our mil
iiarv portions.
[Here follows an account
; of the situation of the allied
i armies in aP.S. to the a
ffieve dispatch .
• On the held of battle this
day an officer arrived from
Gen. Tottenbord, bringing
the information of the bar
ren Jer cf Bremen to the
town which were presented
by the Prince Royal to the
Emperor of Raffia.
(Signed) C. STEWART. :
1 From the London Globe, cj
October 1 3.
Letters nave been receiv
ed from Halifax ot the i i th
• eji 0.. rj enclofmg lome j
further accounts of the na
vrd operations in the Chefi
peake. Ihe British sq jnji
ror, under Admiral War
ren t had tak?n poffcffion of!
S .vsn lilmd, which had j
been fortified. From this 4
point and Kent Eland, the!
Bncifh had fern the (hips’ I
barges up Chester & Chop- j
thank rivers, and aided by a
- body of troops
(Soo), had vifl cd the towns')
of Cheßcr, Cambridge and
Oxford, and lent parties to
Ea:ton and CeutreviJle, At j
mod of these places they ■
had burned such (lores as <
they could not carry off,
took abundance of cattle 6c
provisions. Whilfl the par- 1
ties were thus proceeding!
j fuecefsfully on the eatlern j
| ffio.es of the Chesapeake, !
j some small veffds had been
j employed to take soundings
! of the river Chaptaco, on
the northern bank of which
(lands the City of Biltiint re. j
Great alarms had in confe. !
quence b *cn excited amonp p
the inhabitants, and under!
-an impression that an attack
as in contemplation, troops
had been fen* to that place
from YVafliington.-—The en
tiance of Baltimore barber
it defended, and indeed com.
tnanded, by V/hetflone* Ft.
which it would be difficult !
to storm. Perhaps the, ob- J
jedtof our fquaciron would.!
be anfwcred by a mere de
monilratipn : and of inter- |
j-r.upting the trade aid navi-i
j. gat ion of the fouthem pro
vinces -keeping the inbub-j
itants m a date of alarm -•
and .efFeeling a diveriian in !
b half of toe forces in Can- •
ada—-were the leading o b~j
jeifls if) the naval operations
traderu.ken by Affinirff Vvffr
iv n : they Fern to have been
completely fuccefsful - f nce
wc find by a Lte. number of
j tne Fictional lntciujencei ,
th«t a great part of the re
! gular a run, and not a small
j number militia, w hich
J had been ordered to the
| neighborhood of the Lakes
! <»ave been countermanded,
in eider tn.i(i,bey may be in
, read ihe Is .a defend ff cirown
—S b •'» :> . I- ->'■ „
alarm at one time reached
eten Waffiington ; within
70 miles «f which city our
parttes had approached, and
j occasioned much temporary
;huftle, snd the packing up
of the papers at the public
| offices, in case removal had
been rendered necessary.
From the Same.
On Tuefday, 52 Dutch*
men, volunteers for the yth
! battalion of the 60th regt.
; marched into the caltle of
- Edinburg, from the depat
at Penneycurk. Ihis bat- 1
talion, which is to serve in
i Canada, is to be augmented
!to t 500 men, and Govern
me it, we underpaid have
given orders to eniiff Dutch
men, as well as Germans,
| for it, at ail the different
j depot- in the kingdom.
F om the Bjfton
the north of Europe .
Paffcngers in* the Maria
| Helena, arrived here from
; Got ten burgh, inform, that
| sh? sassed on th? 22d Octo
j ber; that several couriers had
; arrived at the head quarters
|of the Crown Pffrice, the
I Lil of which left them about
the 16th October; that there
had been no great battle re
cently ; and that Bernadette
was on the weil fide of the
Elbe They aifo mention,
; that it was reported Lord
Walpole had visited the
Emperor Alexander, and
; after waids proceeded to St.
; Peterfburgh to confer with
j the American Envoys, who
had remained in that city ;
and that the fliip Neptune,
which carried our Commis
sioners to Russia, was to de
feend the Baltic to Gotten
brugh the latter part of Uc. j
tober.
Capt. Bond, one cf the
■ P-iffengers from Gotten
huigh, is the bearer of def
! patches irom Mr. Adams for
: Government.
■wmck!» 1• <> -
Washington City, Jan, t.
From Britain.
Various rumors were in cir
cuia i .n dining the whole of
| yeUnd .y relpeßing propofi*
lions which a. e laid 10 have been
made or «ur government, by
the government of G eat Bii
| tain, renting 'o an accommo.
• daiion ol differences be ween
'he two countries. We h*ve
rrwffejr qiiry into the founda.
’ t:on of these repo ts, in the
I hope of he’og able to pre'ent
| to the public a correct account
l of them. We tegret that it is
rot yet fu-ly irj our power. The
following facts we believe may
( be Tciied oiv, (hat s flag of sruce
i bus arffv cd from Lngiand, at
, A . nnapt lis, with a Jelpatch from
he iiri'ifh tninifter to 'he Sec
retary o! Sta r, bearing date ear.
ty in November, which,
ibotigh it con’iins no di'dinct
propofi ion, may. be confidced
as rather of a pacifi : cbaracte-'.
It is laid 1 hat (he iiiitidi mir i
iicr 'n this defpatch of a
coaiitiuniration to the Ruffian
goveinmenr, and, through it,
with our Envoys at St. Peters
burgh, reiariny 'o *. i'-c’auon
\*
w
fcni-HSutej and Great R,i
j| am for peace; but mat nodoc-
Aimenr, either from the R„(|iar>
knvernmentor our E„v„ v , (
| fcOiV II ereto, has been for »ard
j| d - Under such circumilances
I would feemto be imooflibli
fir our government juflly to
fP !ec w* the real objed or i O .
tjntions of the Bri.ifh govern
ment. Envoys might have been
vtrstten on the preemption that
•Hole dispatches ha* airily
reached our government, We
tb 'refo e await further ar
rita.s before we can fonn an-'
j Correa id*a of *h ir ionpa M
I has we hive re a (on to believe
jtM Neptune, winch took our
j mihitaers to S:. Petersburg, wss
i lO L Ba,cic iB ,he
i c «'\ of with dispatches
j forlthe Urmed State-, all doubt
! or t nC u en i In, y import,
1 an. fubjed Wi i soon be remo
ved
L New-Tork, DjcrmbrrSl.
Fi-OM NIAGARA.
[DIRECT ANI) IMPORCANT.]
M e h * v e an account by a
gentleman which we arc bap™
to hid confide? ably alleviates
jour Anxiety. The Brhifli and
fndii na hr<d been fern in f«erce
; at b < ft George for feveraldays,
j, an( l 1 inhabitants on our nde,
appnh-nding attack, had
genet ally prepared for (l.ght.
Ovjr informant was in the
Tort in Saturday nigh?, and
on Sunday morning a liule be
lore day light, it was taken by
r u’prifc:, as he was told by per*
lons woo est aped from it after
it was truered and in full pc fief,
lion by .he Briiifh. About
j four cannon only were fired
! atid a roair offmall arms for
| two or three minutes (ucceed.
j after an interval of to
j 01 20 minutes a royai faluie of
i 22 gun* wa» heard. The Bii
-1 r,, h eroded in boats hey bto’t
j I °na Bhrli gton bay*
ihe inhabitants evaruated
the country tor a diHance of 14
n*i es on the rtver, with furh of
! ‘heir effects as they could bring
1 off and tneir houles wete burnt
! hy <he enemy ?o the extent of 7
miles back hom the river, widi
out .ha. Igerieial abu'e of the
inbabk which was at fi (t re
port’d.
We are particularly hsppy
to e*>n by our info.mant, who
is a gen demand intelligence j
and had been an officer in the
j detached militia, that no rn if
crimina e oaaflaerc o: the inbab.
iiams took place to his know- f
;l< dge. Mi, Mullencux, one
! 0} .he persons said to be l.ilied,
• was in his sleigh : *ndhe s»w
\ Mr. Barton and .he son of his
; who was reported <0 be killed:
| the other f>n was in the fort.
The exp rtfs which fit'll bio’t
! .he news greatly exaggerated the
mifehie, and danger. Our iniot-
I mam ftaiea, .hat the ton was
1 taken by (urp;ize, and not bv
: dorm, ai d hat no idea .hat the
garriion wa s put to .he (word.
Captain Leortartj /lepi at his
j hotj(i,'a mile or two ddia nt
from the fort* tha. night.
G r eat nuepbets of citizens
I were met on Ihe icati to Buffa
-1 10, for ihe defence of th*t
| place. The Tufcarori IndH
1 ans biaveiy Hpulfeda party of
| the enemy. Ihe number of
I butidmgs bum’, may poflibly
j amount in the knole to an hu? «
| dred. "1 he garilon of the fc»rf
coiTiffed of abjut 270, nearly
one humltedol them fi k,
bv Hairtfon tl: e»
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