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were many other oflicets of distinc- 
tion. A park of 120 picces of 
cannon, with all the requisite imple- 
ments and ammunition, and maga- 
zines of great value, fell at the same 
time into the hands of the French. 
Mollendorf, when taken prisoner, 
was dangerously ill of his wounds. 
A marked degree of attention was 
shewn to him by the French, as one 
who had done all that lay in his 
power to prevent the breaking out 
of hostilities ; while the duke of 
Brunswick and others, whom they 
denominated of the war faction, were 
treated with the coarsest scurrility 
and abuse in their official gazcttes, 
and with extreme rigour when they 
had the misfortune to fall into their 
hands, or were reduced to the neces- 
sity of soliciting their clemency and 
indulgence. 
‘Another division of the Prussian 
‘army, under general Kalkreuth, at- 
tempted to escape in a body over the 
Hertz mountains ; but was overtaken 
at the village of Greusen, and defeat- 
ed with loss. Magdeburg was the 
“quarter to which the fugitive columns 
of the Prussians chiefly directed their 
flight; and prince Hohenlohe,though 
wounded, having reached that for. 
“tress, a considerable army was col. 
‘ected there under his standard. 
“The garrison of Magdeburg amount- 
‘ed to 12,000 men; but the place 
was ill adapted for Sustaining a 
‘siege or maintaining an army ; its 
‘magazines having been emptied, with 
4 fatal improvidence, to supply the 
“grand army when it took the field. 
Marshals Ney and Soult, and the 
grand duke of Berg, followed the 
Prussians tx their Hight to the walls 
ef Magdeburt; and, in the total 
seonfasion and disorder into which 
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they were thrown: made a number 
of prisoners, and got possession of a 
great part of their artillery, baggage, 
and ammunition. 
On the other side of Weimar, 
prince. Eugene of Wirtemberg, who 
was advancing with the Prussian 
reserve from *Custrin, instead of 
falling back on the news of. the 
battle, continued his march to Halle, 
where he was attacked by the prince 
of Ponte-Corvo *, and defeated with 
considerable loss. In this engage- 
ment, which destroyed the last entire 
corps of the Prussian army, the 
French took 5000 prisoners and 34 
pieces of cannon. ‘The Prussians, 
in their retreat, burned the bridge at 
Dessau over the Eibe; but it was 
quickly re-established by the French, 
An attempt was also made to destroy 
‘the bridge at W ittenberg, which the 
French arrived in time to prevent.’ 
Previously to the battle of Auer- 
stadt+, a proclamation had been is- 
sued by Bonaparte, adilressed ta the 
Saxons in the Prussian army, with | 
the view of detaching themfrom, or 
at least of rendering ‘them suspected 
to, their allies; and, immediately — 
after the battle, 6000 Saxon pri- 
soners, who had been taken in the 
action, were set at liberty on giving 
their parole not to serve against the 
I'rench; whose sole object, they - 
‘were assured, in taking up arms, 
had been to preserve the independ- 
ance of the Saxon nation, and to 
prevent it from being incorporated 
with the Prussian monarehy. These 
measures were accompanied’ by a 
fricndly message to the elector at 
Dresden, in consequence of which 
that priuce, who had been preparing 
to fly from his capital, remained 
there, withdrew from his connection. 
+ On the 11th, 
with 
