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Nearly the whole of the Bavarians and Poles afterwards 
enlifled under the victorious ftandard. 
Meantime Bonaparte, whofe prudence in defeat was 
often as great as his moderation in victory, vigoroufiy 
exerted himfelf to repair the incalculable Ioffes he had 
fuftained. The difpofable army which he now fecured 
for his future fchemes, amounted to 400,000 men to be 
employed on the Elbe, 300,000 for fervices in Spain, and 
200,000 partly on the Rhine, partly in Holland, the Low 
Countries, and in Italy, It is wonderful to obferve how 
much the zeal, activity, and perfeverance, of this man 
achieved in a few weeks. He really aftonifhed the whole 
of Germany, nay, all Europe, with the wonders he per¬ 
formed in fo fhort a fpace of time. It certainly fhows 
■what great talents and energy of mind he has received 
from his Creator, and how guilty he has been in tiling 
thole gifts for the deftruction of his fellow'-dreatures ; but 
his ambition was above big good qualities, and made him 
the fcourge of Europe. 
We mull confider now the different French corps 
inarching towards Jena, for the commencement of the 
campaign. The plan of operations being fully deter¬ 
mined on, Bonaparte quirted Paris, and arrived at Mentz 
on the 20th of April ; on the 25th at Erfurth ; and on the 
29th he moved his head-quarters to Naumburg. His pro¬ 
ceedings, however, were marked with the greatefl degree 
of caution. The gallant veteran, prince KoutoufofF-Smo- 
lenfko, was left ill on the march at Buntzlaw, where he 
died ; and the letter addreffed to his widow by the be¬ 
nignant and feeling heart of the emperor of Rulfia is one 
of the belt proofs of the warmth of his affeftions and the 
purity of his mind. General Witgenftein was appointed 
to the chief command of Use Ruffian army. 
The movements of Bonaparte announced his immediate 
intention to aft on the often five; and therefore the com¬ 
bined Ruffian and Prnffian armies united between Leipfic 
and Altenburg, a central and advantageous pofition. They 
endeavoured, it feems, to be beforehand with him in oc¬ 
cupying the plains of Lutzen, a fpot which is celebrated 
by the fall of Guftavus Adolphus, and to which perhaps 
they had direfted their choice on that very account, in 
imitation of Bonaparte himfelf, who, in his knowledge of 
human nature, always endeavoured to take advantage of 
every thing in the fhape of an omen againft his enemy. 
He prevented them, however, and feized the favourable 
ground himfelf; and here the battle began on the ad of 
May. The accounts are various. That given by the 
French is by far the molt favourable, being dated from 
the field of battle, and laying claim to a decided victory. 
The report publifhed at Berlin, on the contrary, by the 
military government, is dated from Pegau,a village about 
fifteen miles diftant from the field of battle, the day after 
the aftion and only afferts that a molt fanguinary co'n- 
fiift had taken place, in which the allies had occasionally 
had the advantage, and which only ceafed when night 
rendered it impoffible to fight any longer; that both armies 
remained on the field, and the French made foine attacks 
the next morning, which were repulled by cannonading, 
but followed by a retrograde movement on the part of 
the allies ; who, in order to take reft and refrelhment, re¬ 
tired to Borna and Rochlitz, whence they expected to 
break up immediately to refume offenfive operations. 
The lofs of the Ruffian and Pruffian troops is acknow¬ 
ledged “very great; not overrated at 8 or 10,000 men in 
killed and wounded.” The prince of Hefle-Homburg was 
amongft the former; and generals Blucher, Scharnhoft, 
and Hunerbein, on the fide of the Pruffians, and generals 
Karowinzen and Alexief, on that of the Ruffians, with 
an unufual number of officers, are among the latter. The 
lofs of the French is confidered double or treble their 
own; but only 1000 prifoners, with 10 pieces of cannon, 
and 23 powder-waggons, had been taken during the ac¬ 
tion ; and in an affair at Halle, from whence the French 
had been diflodgcd ; “ the aniniofity in the fight being too 
great to give much quarter.” 
DON. 
We fit all now confider the Ruffian account, which, 
though it only appeared in the Hamburg Correfponden- 
ten, feems entitled, from the manner in which it is writ¬ 
ten, and the details which it prefents, not only of move¬ 
ments, but of the intentions that gave them birth, to be 
confidered an official document. It was publifhed under 
the unaffuming title of “ Particular Statement of the Bat¬ 
tle at Grofs-Gorchen, on the 2d of May;” and ftates, that 
the arrival of Napoleon, and the junction of his army 
with that of the viceroy at Naumburg, as well as their 
paffing the Saale in force, being known at general Wit- 
genftein’s head-quarters, he refolved to anticipate him, 
and by a bold attack “ to obftruft him in his difpofitions, 
and to reftrain his offenfive operations.” The emperor 
Alexander and the king of Pruffia repaired to the army, 
to animate their troops by their prefence ; and on the rft 
of May a reconnoiftance made by general Winzingerode, 
brought on “a very fevereengagement,” which confirmed 
the intelligence of the main force of the enemy being in 
the vicinity of Weiffenfels and Lutzen. The allies then 
refolved “to fall on fucli part of his force as was, on his 
fide, confidered to be his belt troops; in order, after fuels 
a Itroke, to give larger fpace for the operations of the fly¬ 
ing corps, over whom the enemy had latterly acquired a 
fuperiority.” The intentions of the allies, in attacking 
Napoleon, are therefore clearly given. They were, “to 
obttruCt his difpofitions,” reduce him to the defenfive, and 
enable the Ruffian and Pruffian flying corps to harafs 
him on a greater variety of points.” How far the)' were 
realized, neceftarily gives us the meafure of their fuccefs, 
or of their failure. The Ruffian account then deferihes 
the aftion as molt o'oftinately contefted. Some of the 
villages in which the French received the attack, were fe- 
verai times taken and re-taken ; and for feveral hours both 
parties fought at the diftance of only one hundred paces, 
with alternate advantage. At laft, about feven o’clock 
in the evening, the French brought a new corps on the 
right of the allies, and the Ruffian referve was advanced 
to fuftain the fhock. “ The molt defperate engagement 
was now continued till night came on, and put an end toi 
the battle.” Both armies, it would appear, according to 
the report, flept on the field ; the allies ltill occupying the 
villages which they had ftormed, and the French in pof- 
feffiou of Leiplic, which they had taken during the aftion. 
The reft is involved in obfeurity. The ailies, we are told, 
manoeuvred in confequence of the enemy being at Leip¬ 
fic ; but afterwards learnt that he had quitted it, (which 
does not feem to have been the cafe,) as w-ell as Halle; 
that he had loft 15,000 killed and wounded, and that 
many of his cannon were dilinounted, and a number of 
his powder-waggons blown up—then, that their light de¬ 
tachments were again at liberty to harafs him, and to pro- 
fecute the ad vantage gained; that they conlequently kept 
the field of battle ; and that the victory was their’s, and 
their intended purpofe accomplifhed. “The enemy was 
to be attacked the following morning, the 3d of May;” 
but no reafon is given why that attack was not made, or 
why the allies retreated, inftead of profecuting the advan¬ 
tage gained, efpeciady as the corps of Miloradovitch is 
Hated to have arrived at the dole of the aftion, and 50,000 
of their belt troops not to have been engaged. The French 
papers fiupply this chafm ; and inform us, that Napoleon, 
after fome trifling aftions with the rear of the allies, en¬ 
tered Drcfden on the 8th at noon. 
It is acknowledged by every one, that, in the battle of 
Lutzen, Bonaparte had the greatefl number of men; the 
allies were fuperior in cavalry; in artillery both fides were 
equal. The advantages of a doubtful contefl muft be 
judged of by the confequences that enfue. Thus Bona¬ 
parte took and kept pofi’effion of Leipfic, and gained pof- 
ielfion of Drelden, the king of Saxony as yet proving faith¬ 
ful.— On the 3d of May, Napoleon addreffed the follow¬ 
ing proclamation to his army: “Soldiers! I am fatisfied 
with you. you have fulfilled my expectations. You have 
iupplied every thing by your good will, and by your va- 
Jour, 
