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FOREIGNNEWS!
From Lrsidon fi afters of the 27th March }
(received fit New- York.
or THK ELBE, March 18.
the lofty language
stiff held by the French in their Bulle
tins and reports, it is generally believ
ed here, that we shall soon be convinc
ed of their falsehood, ami indeed, ohe
Or two circumstances already intimate
as much. That the Corps Diploma
tique has left Warsaw is now admitted,
and we are assured, from good author
ity, that at Stettin the General Post-
Office has refused to receive any more
letters for Thorn.
According to letters from Berlin,
Bonaparte is expected this week in that
city, together with his guard. It is
supposed that he will have no ftirther
object than to support himself during
the rest of the winter on the Oder, the
military position of which is also inter
esting as it respects Austria.
A variety of reports, concerning the
real issue oft! k various engagements
since the buttle ot Eyluu, are in circu
lation ; the most plausible of which is,
that 12,000 ol the French were induc
ed by hunger to lay down their arms
and beg for bread. This news is
brought from Kiel. General Blucher
is said to have confirmed it, adding,
that it was the corps under Oudinot.
But I call not pledge myself for the
truth of it.
It is further said, that the French
have been trying to persuade the Em
peror of China to declare war against
the Russians, but without success.
HAMBURGH, March 18.
Extract of a private letter from Altona,
dated the 1 7th March.
The situation of affairs in Poland
and East Prussia has assumed a more
favorable aspect; the French have found
it necessary to retreat, and are seek
ing safety in Brandenburg and Berlin;
where the head-quarters of Napoleon
are said to be transferred. If report
speaks true, in the memorable battle of
Eylau, Bonaparte was wounded in the
back ; and although his quarters were
pretended to be at Osterodeon the Bth,
there are persons here who actually
saw him at Thorn. He is said to be
at variance wittf"'nibsT of his general
officers, several of whom have left the
army in disgust with his proceeding.
On the night of the 9th instant, a close
carriage passed through Magdenberg,
which it is reported contained Marshal
Duroc, whom the Emperor Napoiebn
had accused of truiterous practices
with the Austrian General Baron Vin
cent.
This evening private letters have
been received, which state that the Rus
sians have advanced posts at War
saw, and that the French have been
completely defeated near Thorn, by
the combined Prussian and Russian ar
riy ; the latter is said now to consist of
. 100,000 men.
It is reported on the authority of pri
vate accounts from Berlin, that Gen.
CfiJfti.not, commanding a corps of gre
nadiers, has gone over to the Russians,
Hear Ostrolenka, with 8000 grenadiers,
having .been peremptorily oidered by
Bonaparte to make an attack at a time,
when neither he nor his corps had any
sustenance for thirty-six hours.
The Russian army has, since the bat
tle of Eylau, been increased to near
300,000 men.
LONDON, March 26.
1 he Mail due on Sunday, arrived
yesterday evening, and brought intelli
gence of great importance -Reinforc
ed and supplied with every necessary,
the Russians are again assuming the
offensive, and advancing aghinst the in
vincible Bonaparte—who no longer find
ing his season of repose on the Vistula,
is falling back to Berlin.—Though his
head-quarters were stated to be at Os
terode on the Sth, he is said to have
been seen on that day at Thorn. The
foreign ambassadors at Warsaw—The
whole tribe of envoy’s and Ministers
from the subject princes and allies of
have been ordered to follow
- -Talleyrand to Berlin. It is said even,
in private letters, that the Russians
have pushed their advanced posts to
Warsaw, and that the French have sus
tained another defeat near Thorn.—
Want and disaffection are also operat
ing in support of the Russians and a
whole division of grenadiers, said to be
Oudinot’s is stated to have gone over to
the Russians. They had been peremp
torily ordered by Bonaparte to make an
attack when they had not iiad any sus
tenance for 36 horn’s.
The action of Braunsberg, on the
25th was followed by others most ob
stinately contested—the town was often
taken and retaken—it was at last burnt;
it covered the. left wing of the French
and prevented it from being turned.
These actions are said to have taken
place on the 27th, 28th and 29th. The
Cossacks did eminent service. On one
of those days they cut to pieces a whole
division of French cavalry of 4000 men.
Magdeburgh is to be immediately
supplied with provisions and necessaries
for a long siege... Does this look like Bo
naparte’s being at Pttersburgh by May
day ?In the veal’too of the French posi
tions, insurrection is gaining strength
and confidence daily. The communi
cation between Stettin and Thorn is al
most entirely cut off.
When tyrants meet with a reverse of
fortune, suspicion always haunts them.
Hie invincible Napoleon imputing his
want of success to his is said,
to hrj,ve accused several of them of trea
son—lfis former favorite Dufoc is re
ported to have incurred his displeasure,
and to have been sent back to France
under an escort of gens H’armes.
It is imagined in the best informed
naval circles, that the French squadron,
of three sail of the line and a frigate,
full of troops which escaped a few nights
since out of the outer road of Brest, are
gone to the East-Indb s.
Mari h 27.
Two Gottenburgh Mails arrived this
morning, and two bags from Husum.
They have brought great and most fa
vorable intelligence.
Fresh Victories over the French .
Altona, March 20.
[Extract of a private letter.']
“ The advices that have been receiv
ed here since my last, from the com
bined Russian and Prussian armies, are
of the most gratifying nature. The
French, if things go on as they have
begun, will have no further occasion to
issue tiieir bulletins, to impose on the
credulous part of the public, as they will
be obliged to retreat much quicker than
they came.
“ On the Ist inst. General Btnning
sen’s head-quarters were at Heilsperg,
the chief town of Ermcland, in East
Prussia, situated on the river Allee,
where he had received the insignia of
the order of St. Andrew, as a token of
the great satisfaction that his Sovereign
feels for his signal services, and this
mark of distinction was accompanied by
an addition to his salary of 12,000 rou
bles. He had broken up from Konigs
berg already on the 24th ult. The
Prussians under Gen. Lestoco’s were
on his right Wing. General Lestoco’s
head-quarters were at Peterswald. On
the 26th ult. the French gained an ad
vantage over the Russians, and occupied
the town of Braunsburg on the Baltic,
from whence they dislodged the Rus
sians ; but the latter returned to the at
tack on the 27th ult. when both parties
became alternately masters of the place,
and alternately lost it again. Those
conflicts were most bloody; and the
bravery and lion like courage, and per
severance of the Russians, after daily
battles with the enemy, from the 26th
ult. to the Bth inst. maintained the field
of Braunsberg, which was seen in flames
on the Bth inst. In this place and near
Heilsperg, the French left near fifteen
thousand dead on the field. Near the
latter place, the French General Lefeb
vre is said to have been taken prisoner
with 6000 men. Napoleon’s head-quar
ters were expected at Thorn on the
9th inst.: and though the French had
a considerable force, consisting of their
own troops, and the German and Pol
ish troops at Elbing, yet, by the latest
accounts, they have been driven back,
and Gen. Benningsen kept continually
advancing. The Russians are about to
receive two great reinforcements, each
of 80,000 men, one of which will be un
der the command of the Grand Duke
Constantine. A private letter from
Berlin, of the 14th inst. says that Tal
leyrand, besides a great number of the
diplomatic corps, returned thither via.
Breslaw, in Silesia, thinking the other
no longer safe. Bonaparte was daily
expected.” i
A letter from Thorn says the French
lost 13,000 men, five Generals, 47 pie
ces of cannon, and 15 eagles.
An article from Berlin, however, of
the 15th, in the Hamburgh papers,
mention nothing of any battles, and
says the French Head-Quarters and
Bonaparte, were still at Osttrode on
the Bth.
•
GOTTENBURGH, March 16.
Letters from Copenhagen received
by the post of to-day, states that anoth
er severe battle, took place of
last month.
New-York, May 14.
The brig Aljnzo, which arrived at
this port yesterday, left Bordeaux on the
4th of April, and the River on the Bth.
It was currently reported that she
brought Paris papers containing Bulle
tins from the Grand Army to the 73d,
and they announced the complete over
throw of the Russians under Gen. Ben
ningsen, who was represented to be a
prisoner. We do not learn, however,
that her Paris papers are later than the
30th of March. A file of these is in pos
session of the Editor of the Mercantile
Advertiser. It furnishes us with tvvo
additional bulletins (the 65th and S6th,)
and these are the only articles of suffi
cient interest to be worth translating.
Gen. Benningsen, according to our
‘i last accounts of him, was sick at Kon
ingsberg-
Translated Jar the Mercantile Adver
tiser.
SIXTY-FIFTH BULLETIN of the
' * Gft.\NC> ARMY.
ost erqcle, 10 th March, 1807.
The army it cantoned behind the
•Passai’ge. T[ie Prince of Ponte Corvo
at Holland and at Brautnsbevg.
Marshal Soult at Leibstadtand Moh
rungeh.
Marshal Ney at Gustadt.
Marshul,»Davoust at Alhmstein, Hoh
enstem, and Dieppon.
The head-quarters are at Osterode.
The Polish corps of observation, com
manded by general Zayoncheck, is at
Neldenburg.
The corps of Marshal Lefebre before
Dantzic*
The sth corps on the Omulew.
A Bavarian division, commanded by
the prince-royal of Bavaria, at Warsaw’.
The corps of Prince Jerome in Sile
sia ; the sth corps of observation in
Swedish Pomerania.
The places of Breselau, Scftweidnitz,
i and Brieg are demolishing.
Gen. Rapp, aid-de-camp of the Em
peror is Go. of Thorn*
We have thrown bridges over the
Vistula at Marieuibourg and Difschau.
Having been informed, on the Ist
March, that the enemy,*encouraged by
the position which the army had taken,
had shewed themselves all along the
• right bank of the Parsarge, the Empe
• ror ordered Marshals Soult and Ney to
reconnoitre, and to advance to repulse
them. Marshal Ney marched on the
Gutstadt, Marshal Soult passed the Pas
sarge at Wormditt, The enemy imme
diately made a general movement, and
retreated towards KonningsbeVg. There
posts, which had -retired in great haste,
werejpursued 3 leagues. Seeing that
the French did not make any other
movement, and that they were pursued
only by the advanced guards who had
1 ft their regiments, two regiments of
Russian grenadiers returned back, and
in the night approached the cantonment
of Zochem. The 50th regiment re
ceived them with the bayonet. The
J 27th and 30th behaved in the same
manner.
In the little combats the Russians
’ have had one thousand men killed,
wounded or prisoners.
After being thus assured of the move
ments of the enemy, the army had re
turned into its cantonments.
The grand Duke of Berg, informed
that a corps of cavalry had approached
Willemberg, caused it to be attacked
by Prince Borghese, who at the h.ead of
his regiment, charged eight Russian
squadrons, overthrew and put them, to
the route, and made about lOjp prison- 1
ers, amongst whom are 3 captaihs <tnd
8 subalterns. * *
Marshal Lefebre, has entirely
rounded Dantzic, and has begun at that
place the works of circumvalatioQ.
t * t
SIXTY-SIXTH BULLETIN of I the
GRAND ARMY. .... ,
». v
Osterode March f4i^
The grand army continues in
ments where it is taking repose. Little
combats have taken place between the
advanced posts of the two armies. Two
regiments Russian cavalry came on the
l2thto disturb the 59th regiment of in
fantry of the line in its catonments of
Lignan, and before Gustadt.—One ba
talion of that regiment took arms, am
bushed themselves, and fired close to
• the enemy, vvholeftßo men on the field.
Gen. Guyot, who commanded the ad
vanced posts of Marshal Soult, has had
several engagements which have termi
nated to his advantage.
After the little battle of Willemberg,
the grand duke ofßerg has driven all
the Cossacks from the right bank of the
Elbe, in order to assure himself that the
enemy was not concealing some move
ment. He came to Vartembourg, See
♦j>urg, Meusguth, and Bischoflsbourg.
''He had pome engagements wiUi the en-
erny’s cavalry, and has made about 100
Cossacks prisoners.
The Russian army have begun to
Coasl of Barter.stein on
the jXk’" -Russian division on the
coast o£ Crenfcsbourg.
The made a movement of
one day’s m arc» to wards Koningsberg.
The whole oftfte French army is can
toned, and is supplied with provisions
from the cities of Libing, Braunsberg,
and from the resources which are
brought from the isle of Nogat, which
is of every great fertility.
Cen. Teulier has invested Colberg.
A division of 12,000 Bavarians com
manded by the prince royal ot Bavaria,
has passed the Vistula at Warsaw, and
has just rejoined the army.
SHIPWRECKS
At the liajjls of Ohio.
Louisville, (Ken.) April 21. .
A spectacle so distressing to the gen
erous heart, was never presented in the
western country as that of yesterday, in
front of Louisville. On Saturday four
large ships, all new, and bound for Ne -
Orleans, lay in a line in the bason above
the rapids, waiting,.the rise of water,
which was then on the swell, and pro
mised a safe passage over the obstruc
tions, so that all calculated on passing
by on Sunday. Sunday was a
ous day, which prevented a possibility
of managing a ship in so straight a pas
sage. The water, at a stand during the
day, began to fall in the evening. Mon
day the water had fallen two or three
inches, and very little hope obtained of
its swelling to that height again during
the year. The owners of the ships who
were present, felt the consequences too
sensibly to remain idle a moment, if a
possibility existed of passing—sound
ings were made and hope revived.—
Col. Lord owner of the ship John At-
down for the head grand
shoot, and passed handsomely by, rub
bing the rocks two or tb'Kfce times, and
anchored below. By tbkrtime the
wind had increased a little, in a direc
tion somewhat unfavorable, Gut not suf
ficiently to prevent to the attempt by
the Tuscaiora, who got under way,
and the Rufus King followed her wake.
At ibis moment the shores, terraces,
and windows were filled with anxious
spectators,enjoying a doubtful pleasure,
but in a few minutes their suspence
was decided with the fate T>f the srtltpS,
which lay wrecks upon the rocks, until
they filled with water, which was in a
short time after they struck. The ap
parent perilous situation of the crews
and gentlemen on board was dreadful
in ships without rudders or keels, tum
bling from rock to rock, and roling from
side, in a current which rates ten or
fourteen miles an hour, without a possi
bility of being relieved from the shore.
Fortunately for the lives on board, the
ships filled on the rocks without going
to pieces.
The Rufus King endeavoured by
casting her anchors, after the Tuscaro
ra struck, to avoid the like blow, but the
Strength of the current was too pow
erful, she struck near the same place,
and, drawing a few inches less water,
past the bow and carried *nvay
tfie.head of the Tuscarora and part of
her railing, and lodged about her length
below. . _ .
Colonel Lord had returned from his
ship with the pilot and was on board the
Rufus King. During this time, his ship
which had passed without damage,*
dragged her anchor or parted with it,
,knd in spite of the exeytions of the
hands on board, stranded on sandy Is
land shoal, which will be perfectly dry
in a few days', if the water continues to
fall at the present rate—’fi-s presumed
slveumay be got uftHln*next rise of the
water without sustaining much dam
age—these % three ships drew nearly
, about the same* depth of water; the
•pgirose, draws more, made
l ■ attetflpt to pa*S» -and now lies safely in
the bason, where she has already weath
ered out one year.
To close the misfortune, up to this
evening, of those gentlemen, whose en
terprise entitles them to the extreme
reverse of what has befallen them, and
to the best wishes of their countrymen,
a large covered boat (a lighter) belong
ing to the owner of the Rufus King, and
lying in the bason, laden with tobacco
and cordage took fire and was destroy
ed. The flame spread so rapidly that
the only alternative was to extinguish
it by sinking her—what part of the car
go was not entirely lost is very much
damaged. The place was crowded with
small crafts, some of which received in
jury.
*One Solitary cosolation is that no
livesjhave been lost—a manofthe Rufus
King was severely bruised with the til
ler, perhaps mortally.