1806.] 



Invafwn of Prujfii. 



405 



every thing with a kind of religious venera- is brought forward, haG inflamed the public 



tion w'liich belongs to one of ihe greateft Gc- mind agaiiift its uuthor, a needy fcribljl^r of 



nerals in the annals of hillory. the name of Gentz ; one of thofe men devoid 



" Lord Morpeth, the I nglifh Envoy to the of honour, who fuft'er therafelves t > be bought 



Prulliun Court, was only fix hours diftance with j.'old. 



from the field of battle on the 14th. Ke "The whele of the world is witnefs, t!at 



heard the firing. A Cornier informed him that 

 V'.ie battle was loft, and in a moment after he 

 v,as furrounded by fugi'.ivcs polling in u;>o.t 

 him on all fides. He ran away exclaiming, 

 " / muft not ht taken " He offered Jixty gwi- 

 neas fur a hurfe : he obtained one ajwi fled. 



" The citadel of Spandau, thiee rruies from 

 Berlin, and .'our from PoCzdam, l\mng by its 

 fituation, In the midfl. of v/ater, having a gar- 



the 2.ueen has been tiic caufe of all the 

 verfes to which the i rulliins have been ex- 

 pofcd. Every where wc hear it faid, * A year 

 ago lire was fo good, fo kind ; but how is fl:e 

 chang.'d fuice tlie fatal meeting ustwsen tbe 

 Ecnpeior Alexander and his Pruliian Ma- 

 jefty ?' 



" In the Palaces there was not the leaft 

 order obferved, fo tliat the fivord of the Great 



rifon of IviOO men, and a great quantity of Fredericic was eafily found at Potzdam, toga- 

 ammunition and (irovifions, w.is furrounded ia tber wfth the fcarf whicti he wore during the 

 the night of .the '24th. Gciural Bertrand, {i:<,-zi\ year's V.'ai ; aifo the infignia of the 

 the Emperor's Aid-de-Camp, had previoully Black Eagle. The Emperor took ■L';.-:ie ^ro- 

 reconnoitred tlie place. The cannon was phies with tranfpoit, faying, ' i v.ould ruber 

 ready to open upon it, and the garriion began have t.hefe thi.n twenty millions :' then paaf.,. 

 to be alarmed, when Marfr.al Lannes propofed ing a little, he added, 'I ihall fend thffe to 

 .a capitulanon, to b; figned by the com- my old fuldiers, who f?rved in the war of 

 manJant. Hanover — I fliall prefent them to the Cover- 



" Large magazines of tents, cloathing, Ice. nov of Invalids: in tliat Hotel they j!;itil re- 

 have been found at Berlin j we ate employed m.iin,' 



in taking inventories." . "After the Queen withdrew from Potz* 



Nineteenth EuUetin. dam, the portrait or the Emperor of KiitTia 



"Chailotteniui-g, Oc}. '■27. w.a3 fou.id, which ihe had received from th.it 



*'The Emperor left Potzdam at twelve Monarch. At Charlortenbuvg was found the 



o'clock toinfpeftthe fortrefs of Spandau. He Correfpondence between the Ernperor of Kuf' 



has charged General Chafleloup, Commandant li i and the King for tliiee years paft, together 



of the Engineers, with improving the lortifi- witli fome Memorials writ-en by Engliih au- 



cations of that place. This is a fine piece of thors, to prove that nat:ons were under no 



work: the magazines are magniticeni;, and obligations to obierve anv Treaty made \rith 



meal, oats, &c. have been found In tiieni fuf- 

 ficient to ferve the army ibr two months ; be- 

 fides ammunition fufficicnt to double the pro- 

 vifion for the whole artillery. This fortilica- 

 tion upon the Spree, t.-.o miles from Berlin, 



the Emperor Napoleon, that it was necellarw 

 for every power to range itfelf on the fiae of 

 the Emperor of Ruilia. Thefe documents 

 ought CO form hiffoiical records : they fhew, 

 it it was neceiTary, how unfcrrunate Princes 



Is an incalculable advantage. In our bands, are when they fufter wonie.i to interiere iii 



it would have furtained a iiege of two months 

 alter tht trenc.'ics had been opened. Tlie 

 reafon why the Pruflian Coromaiidant did not 

 cefend it, was becaufe he had not received 

 any orders; and tiie Fiencli having arrived 

 before he had received information of the de- 

 Icat of tlie PrulVians at Jena, the baticrics 

 were not in readincl's, and the place, in a 

 manner, difarmcd. 



" To give an idea of the uncommon confu- Berlin, and pretended to cut 

 fion v/bith prevailed in tiie Pruliian Monar- oppoicd tliem. 

 shyt-Iris fuihcient to lay, that the (^ueen, ''General Savary, fent oft' wiiii a detach*. 



upoi{ her return irom her ridiculous and la- ment of cavalry to feek the en^'my, has ini. 

 mcntable journey to Erfurt and Weimar, formed us that Prince Hohenli)lie, comijellcd 

 palTeJ a whole night at Btrlin without feeing to leave Magdeburg, was on the 25th be*. 



itate aiiairs. The N'otes, Reports, and ijtat?- 

 papers were fcented with mufii, and lay 

 minified together upon the Green's toilette. 

 This Princels had turned the heads of all tl;« 

 won. en in Berlin. But now another chang« 

 has luccecded. The firft fugitives that took 

 refuge there were received with contempt, 

 and they v.ere reminded of the day whell 

 they iiourifiied their fwoids upon the jilalns of 

 vn ail that - 



a fmg'le perfon ; that the people were, lor a 

 long time, v.itiiout knowing where the King 

 was i that no perfon Cook any care tor the 

 (atcty of the capital ) and that the citizens 

 were compelled to unite, in order to form a 

 Provifional Governmei t. 



"Conte.'npt for the authors of the war has 

 reached the highcit point. The M.inife!to, 

 which the people of Bcilin call a fca.adalous 



tween Rathenau and Rupin, letreating 

 Stettin. 



"Marllial Lannes is already at Zehdenick •. 

 and it is prob.ible that the lemainS of ti:.e ene- 

 my will not efcape witiicut being attacked. 



" This :Tiornini;a corps o. Bav.irians were to 

 enter \)ri;U\::n j hut we have not yet received 

 any advices upon the fuliject. 



<' i'rince Louis lerdnnud, who was killed 

 iibel, and in ivnich nut one lin^lc co;j)pUint t^ the opening of tiic tanipaign, was publicly 



^ ^ '■i niciiuamod 



