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posted on a chain of heights con- 

 nected with the range of moun- 

 tains separating Lusatia from Bo- 

 hemia, which bounded them on 

 their left, whilst their right termi- 

 nated in a flat and woody country ; 

 that the enemy's first attack was 

 directed on their flanks, but soon 

 became general ; that the line of 

 the allies resisted in every other 

 part, but the right flank, under the 

 command of Barclay de Tolly, be- 

 ing urged by a very superior force, 

 was obliged to change its position ; 

 and though supported by Blucher, 

 Kleist, and D'Yorck, and recover- 

 ing part of its ground, was at 

 length 80 much outflanked by the 

 enemy, that at five in the evening 

 the allied army found it necessary 

 to retreat. The loss of the French 

 during these two days, is stated by 

 themselves at 11 or 12,000 men in 

 killed and wounded, and the duke 

 of Friuli (Duroc) was among the 

 former. The allies also claimed 

 the capture of 3,000 French prison- 

 ers and 12 pieces of cannon, and 

 asserted that the enemy had no 

 trophies of war to show on their 

 parts. It is almost needless to say 

 that the French statements gave a 

 very different view of these re- 

 sults. The general event however 

 was, that the allies continued re- 

 treating, but in good order, and 

 intent upon taking every opportu- 

 nity to check the impetuosity of 

 their advancing foe. A brilliant 

 action in which the Prussian ca- 

 valry under Blucher defeated, on 

 the 26ih, a French division of in- 

 fantry marching from Haynau, 

 under general Maison, is men- 

 tioned with distinction in the dis- 

 patches of sir Charles Stewart, 

 • he British resident with the allied 

 army. The diflcrcnt French corps, 



however, gradually advanced with 

 no effectual opposition through 

 Silesia towards the Oder, and Na- 

 poleon established his head-quar- 

 ters on the 31st at Neumarkt, not 

 far from Breslau, which capital 

 was entered by Lauriston on 

 June 1st. 



During the course of these oc- 

 currences, important transactions 

 were taking place in the north of 

 Europe. Sweden, whicii, under 

 the dictates of a cautious policy, 

 though obviously liberating her- 

 self from all the restrictions im- 

 posed by her connections with 

 France, had hitherto only asserted 

 an independent neutrality, was in- 

 duced by the lurn which affairs 

 had taken, openly to join the cause 

 of the allies. Of this resolution 

 she gave a publi-c declaration by 

 forming, in March, a treaty of al- 

 liance and subsidy with the court 

 of Great Britain. Its terms will 

 be found in the State Papers, and 

 have also been already mentioned 

 as a subject of debate in parlia- 

 ment. It will be sufficient here to 

 notice that they refer to engage- 

 ments already subsisting between 

 the courts of Stockholm and Pe- 

 tersburg, and that they bind Swe- 

 den to employ a force of not less 

 than 30,000 men, under the com- 

 mand of the Crown Prince, in a 

 direct operation against the com- 

 mon enemy upon the continent, 

 in conjunction with the Russian 

 troops. They also stipulate the 

 union of Norway with the king- 

 dom of Sweden, as the result of 

 a co-operation of the three powers. 

 From the time of the signature of 

 this treaty, the preparations of the 

 Swedes to fulfil their part of the 

 conditions were carried on with 

 vigour; and (hough their accession 



