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SIRF,—I ati truly happy to have it in my power, to inform your Imperial Majesty, that the army, the command of which your Majesty has designed to confide to me, has been again victorious. The battle which has just taken place has been bloody and destructive. It be gan on the 26th Jan. (Th Feb.) at three o’clock in the afternoon, afitl lasted until six o’clock in the evening of the 27th Jan- {*tb Feb.) “ The enemy was completely defeated ; one thousand prison ers, and twelve stand of colours which I have the honour here, with to transmit to your M j sty fell into the hands of the conque rors. This day Bonaparte at tacked me with his best troops, on my centre, and on both wings but he was repulsed and beaten on all std s. His g ards re- at'acked my centre W tliout tbe smallest success. -After a very brisk fire, thrv were repulsed at all points hv the bay onet and by charges of the ca valry. S’ vcral columns of in fantry, and picked regiments of cuirassiers were destroyed. *• I shall not fail to transmit to your Majesty, as soon as possi ble) a detailed account of the me morable battle of Preussich Ey lau. “ I think our loss may perhaps exceed six housand men, ands certain y do not exaggerate, when I state the loss of the ene my at considerably mote than twelve thousand men.” LONDON, March 17. The following is the abstract of the inti lligencr wl *jh has been brought by Mr. Fieri . point, (t is from the Court of Prussia, at Memel. Mr Pierrepoint like wise brings letters from Lord Hutchinson ; but the immediate object of Mr. Pierrepoint’s re turn is, that he is the bearer of a treaty offensive and -defensive between tbe Courts ot Memel, Stockholm and London : “ The Russians, on the 10th, two days alter the battle of Eylau were encamped within two miles of the *ceice of action—the Pre gel was bat ‘yeen the two armies. r L he FreiTew--•*- re in retreat; the Russians remained stationa ry ; but from the barren vtate of the country, and tiie total want ol every thing, orders had been given to fall back. The garri son ot Konigsberg had paraded, tv ith drums beating and colours flying, to a distance of twelve miles from the city, and flanked by the army ot gen. Benningsen, bad driven in an advanced post ot the French main armv, and returned to K migsberg with an eagle and five hundred prisoners. The spirits of the Prussian army nnd the loyal part of the people, had been much elevated by the complete success ol.Gen. Ben niugsen. The King and Queen c f Prussia were ttr excellent health ; the. latter was as indefa tigable and undaunted as ever— Every hour in the day she pas sed in writing letters, or giving audience to tbe Minister'-. She permitted the King to set- no one alone and had induced him to dismiss the late Minister ol \Var_ and to supply his place by gene ral Golz, because the lormcr had advised an attempt at peace. From the line of retreat ot the French it was believed at Memel nd at Komgsberg, that they were about to abandon Warsaw, and to establish themselves at 1 horn. Ail their outposts on t:te IS are w were already called in ; i ut tt was supposed, at lire period oi the dcpariute of Air. Fiei repoiiV, that troru the num ber ol sick and woon-ted in tiie hospitals at Wat saw, the French would be compelled to retain a powerful garrison m that city. On Saturday, a number ot letters iron) Holland, the lail and tied the rub iiiilant, were received at the Poli-Oiltcc. T terc fi no acount oi any lane engagement, in thole papers, nor any thing nvoia material than the detailed pe titions of the French Grand Army, as it is termed, which, it is now evident, Hands, after all its boasted victoiies, in a defenlive attitude. 1 he French have fallen back, it appears, not upon Warsaw, but upon Thorn, in the vicinity of which they have fixed their head cjuaiteis. — Wat (aw, and the laborious woiks at Praga, have been abandoned. ‘I he diviiions of Ney Sf Angereau lu.ve occupied Bom berg, I fill ets, Podgut ze, and otl er places on the left bank of the Viltula, keeping that river be tween them and the Ruffians. The division of the right wing ol the enemy, which had ad., yancedtothe Narcw, has also fallen hack to Sicrock—a dis tance of mote than 30 miles. The captain of a velfel ar rived on Friday in the river, in ten days, from Dantzic, Hates, that a (hort time befote I e failed, accounts had been received, that the French had been again defeated by the Ruffians, with a ’very great lols, and that a great number ol prifonu* had arrived at Konigfbetg ; in conltquence of the above news, tiie rejoic ings at Dantzic had continued fi 1 thiee day -. A Gentleman just arrived 110 m Hotnbuigb alio reports, that the French ate >n iuil retreat, anti arc al ready ico Eiig ifh miles this fide of Piuliicm Eylau. A letter from Rotterdam, of the date oi Wednelday fail, Hates, that Bonapattc v.a 3 daily expected at Pat is, having Sell the command of the at my to Massena. His lmpctial Majett) is laid to be ievetely indilpoted. A report also prevailed at Rottetdam, that an Ault nan army was in full march towards Saxony. Some firing heard on the Fiench coals on Tluirfday, is supposed to refer to the firlt part of the above intelligence. A genet al discharge of ar tillery was heatd on the whole of the French coafl, so late as Tbuilday. There ate differ ent conjectures as to its cause. It is imputed by iomc to a re cent victory ; but the more piobabtc oeuef is, that it was the annunciation of the re turn of Bonaparte to the ca pital. We arc tbe more in clined to refer it to the latter, because Maficna had been fuiiunoned hum Italy to take the command of the armies in Poland, aiid had arrived at Wat (a for this purpole on the 1 2111. lire juno, Thomson, mas ter, which has arrived in the liver from Memel, has broug t a copy of the public, notificati on ot tire battle of Eylau, which was polled nr that town, announcing the reluit to the public. ‘1 fie following is a tiamlation ; PROCLAMATION. “ 1 fie Governor 6c Cham ber of Magtllt acy have to con gratulate tlreir fellow-citizens, that official accounts have this day been received, that after repealed battles liom the 3d all the yih, the combined a:- tides ol Ruiiia and Prulfia had obtained a complete victory overtire French. The reluit ol the victory bad been twenty Eagles ; ioui teen of which IraU been awarded to General Pe nn.glen, and the kuHuti army ; the remaining fix trad been prelented to ins Majclty the ktn oi l s rullia. ‘Pile French O had loft ?o ; oco men, who were dead on the field of bat tle. “ The contest had been so obfiinately maintained on both sides, that both French and Ruffians had rtfufed to accept of any quarter from each o thcr. A body of 1,500 French, who had been cut off during lire battle of the 7th, had been (unrounded on tie Bth by the whole of the miffian army — thty refufed to lay down their arms, or acccept of quarter ; hut General Beningfen, after a fhaip attack, made them sen sible of their fiuitlefs refiftancc, atid ruinous desperation, ar and induced them to surrender at rliferetion. These are ffie on ly piiloncrs taken. ‘lire auf fians remained encamped on the field of battle on the tOth ; the French had retreated two leagues. General Benningfen expcßtd a Hrong re-iniorce ment of Colfack , and the Junttion of the Stiefian Levy; when, it is supposed, that he wi I put sue Iris victory, “ By Order of tiro Chamber of Magistracy. “ H. KLOPSTOfK” The above notification ac counts for the dreadful (laugh ter on that day, by fta’.ing, not that neither anny would give, but that both reluled to take quajier. That is, they bo h fought with such desperation as to preclude all thoughts of fu; rendering. French Accounts. PROCLAM A II ON. “ Prvjfian E)lcu , Id. 16. bournas, £< We had begun to enjoy a little repoie in our winter carters, when the enemy at tacked the fi ft corps, and fhewt and themselves on the low* at Villula. We broke up Sc matched against him. We have purified him, sword, in bald, eighty miles. He has fled to his Hrong holds, and rt - tired beyond die Pregel. In the Battles of Beigfiied, Dep per, Hos, and E\ 1 11. we have taken from him 65 pieces of cannon, ard t 6 ftandatds, be’ sides the loss of mo;e than to, coo men are killed, wounded and taken pi ifont rj. The he roes, who, on out fide, rema-in in me bed of honour,havc died a glorious death. It is the death of a true soldier. Their rela tives wifi always have a just ciaim to our care and benefi cence “ Having thus defeated all ihe enterprizes of the enemy, we Hr all retuiu towards the Viliuia, and relume our win ter quarters. ‘1 hole who ihall date to diiturb these quarters, shall have realon to repent; for whether he)middle Viltu la, or on the other fide of Da nube; whethet in the middle of winter, ot in the beginning of Autumn ; we Hill will be found Fici.ch ioidiers, atid loitiiei sos the Giaud Aryiy.” Fifty-Sixth Bulletin. ‘Phis Bulletin, which is dat ed from Arenldorf, February 5, Hates, that after the battle ol ivlohringen, in which the tuis 1 fiatt advanced guard was de feated, the enemy retreated.up on Leopltadt;buuhat the coips ol Gen. Ellen which was at Hr It belittled for Moldavia, A: alto a number of frefh regi ments itoui diffeient pans oi the Rullidti empire, having joined die Kuiiian anny in Po land, the enemy agsin, To car !y as the 27th, advanced in great force, with tire design oi ts moving tbe theatre of the war 10 the Lower Viltula. Ihe Emperor being informed of thcle events,ordered the Piince of Ponte Corvo to retreat, and alfoto favor the oftenfive op eratiens of tl e enemy, in or der to draw them towaids the Lc wet Vistula: His Maje H-y at the fame time ordered the whole a tiny to break up ftoui winter quarters, He also left Warsaw hitnfelf, and arrived rn t!ie evening of the 3 iff, at Willenbeig, whither the Grand Duke of Berg had alieady col leficd all the cavalry. On the tft of February we began to advance. At Paflenheim we fell in vvi.h the enemy, who constantly aflutned the often five ; but here the Grand Duke fell upon them with several col umns of cavalry, and enteitd the town fwotd in hand. By three in the morning the ene my was on the Lowet Villul, l , which he had detetmined to pafi, but where he nu\v found his left wir.g furrounjded.— ‘1 he Ruffians, however, form, ed in older of battle, and now commenced the haule of Berg freid, whete the emperor at tacked the enemy with the coips of Key, Angereau and Soult, at 0 Its life guards as a coips of rebelve,. ‘lhe con test was for a long time severe; at last, however, the enemy having been completely de feated on several points, and having loft four pieces of can non and 1700 prisoners, a handoned ail his positions and night put an end to the fight. On the following day ihe attion was ic r umed, hut ihe enemy had employed the night in retreating, and had left behind only the rear guard, whchwas endeavour ing to follow, and which was fie rcely pursued, fi Hiring ail the time, for 6 hours. ‘1 he difficulty of the ground pre vented our cavalry frpm doing the enemy much injury. On the 5 h, ‘he whole French ar my was rgain in motion, ad vancing, ard the enemy con fiant'y tetreating, except one column, which was (till on : this fide of the little river A lie —The Emperor ordered Mar shalls Soult and Davoust, and I the Grand duke to follow the ; enemy’s main body,and Marshall 1 N*y, joined by a division of Dragoons, to attack the cut off | column.—-While, in consequence ’ of these orders, the Giand Duke j atWaldeid< ff, after some attacks ! compelled £ or 9000 Russian ca valry to retreat ; Nev came up vvitli the head of the befoie men tioned column, which finding it self surrounded tor a moment adopted the bold resolution of cutting its way through our coi ps Gut met death and destruction on the points of our bay onets. De feated and thrown into confusi on, tiie enemy abandoned their cannon, colours and baggage,and the oilier part of the column, on learning the fate of the advanc ed guai and, retreated. In all these actions our loss was very little, not more than 80 or 100 killed, and !rom 3 to 400 wounded. ihe loss ot the ene my consisted of sixteen piece# cl camion, several thousand pii soners, and a great number of killed and wounded. I ifty-Fuv; nt u Bulletin. 1 he Bulletin is dated Ptufi iian Eyiau, February 7. It mentions only kune attacks on the tear oi the enemy's main body, which ii is Rated were executed otl the 6tfi and ;tb itift. with the fir ft fuccefi ; ihe Grand Duke of Iw’J with Handing that the ‘ prelented a moft form! ; i a uj finance. “'“ 5 FIFTY EIPBTH BUUETw. This Bullet.n is also t ] at , from Prussian Eylau, Ffi < It mention*, that on approach's that place, the enemy were s ou already behind it, waiting f, our army in order to comm\n, anew battle for which both sid prepared. In the previous j fairs which took place, thr ( Russian regiments were con ‘pleiely cut < ff, hut at the taiß time a battalion of the* 1 8th r s giment was thrown into disorcle hv a Russian column of cavalry ‘I he dragoons cf Klein, howni observed this affair in surticiet time to lelieve our battalion hut in Eylau, where the Ru v ans wished to maintain then stives, but which we wished t possess before the battle com tneticed, the fighting was mot blot dy ,it was ten at night be tore they could be driven out 0 die town. They had thrown however, some legfinenK into i church, where they remained and which they were not com pelled to abandon until after great slaughter. The night t\j pus6ed by the armies under tb bare canopy of Heaven, in cad othets presence. On the following day, by tb fi. *t dim ray of ihe morning,ih Russians commenced the jitac with a biisk cannonade. Tb Emperor visited the chute which the Russians had defend ed with so much obstinacy tb day be fore. He made Marsha! Angereau’s corps advance; am the eminence upon which th church stood was commamledbj 40 pieces of artillery brlongm to his guard. The armies wet within half gun shot of each 01b er. “I he thunder of the artilie rv was terrible. After the firin had coniinutd fiir some time the troops became impatient < suffering so much without ml thing decisive happening. S<* mai ot arts then cmmencrd 1 both sides, in o.der to obtain id vantages over each other, and l the mean time, 3 thiik fall 0 sn r w came on, in consequenc of which the tioops could notihs Cern one another, at the distanc of two paces. In this cb-.curi’ some of the corps lust their *’<)’ and ihe toll,n nt> getting too unit to the left, wandeitd in one*r minty. 1 his state oi tnf>g‘ h l ’ ed half an hour. When the “ , ' f3 ther cleared up,ti c (Aand Uj" 11 at the head ot the cavalry, sup poritd by Ma. shall j the head of .he guards, and and division of St. Hilaire, atlvantc 1 andattaikfd the enemy. I" 1 bold matceuvre, which ceve< e the cavalry with glory, bad ccnie necessary in con'f(|'’* l,c of the circumstance in which ou columns were placed. Tbc cM my’s cavairy, “ho endcaviiei 1 oppose this mai mtivre wtrei>i pietety routed. ‘The was horrible. Two lines ol • ,JI sian infantry were peneiraj- 1 the- third only ma ntained n sell const cjutnce ot tiavii g Mip!'° ,u itself upon a wood. S 1 me :q u ‘* ions ot the gtiauls passed oj ilirotigh tiie whole ot the ehtu'J am y. r i Ins brilliant attack , 1 j it ni<t been for ihe some oilier difficulties ground, would have cUfidec victory. Gen. Flautpo ll * 1 j wounded. Gen. Dot.ln I , ed gloriously in the ?■ tJicMOO dragoons or curassi- n the guard, wlnch lay dean t [ 11 tieid, the re w ere them 10C0 of their eiu anf>. ■ ■ ‘ .dial Da'vcust, who had ladled to fall upon the, rear - enemy, but whose prog'*^ 5 much impeded by t! lc “J’j 1 was at last el.iabh and to ext ‘“j orders and decided tlie V,L ” j The umim afid sivc-ra ‘ a ‘ deavors to repulse m> ll j r retreated, leaving thv ir “ Jl ’ ,| and 10 pieces ut caimo. , u ticld oi batik. I *‘ e