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The denouncement of the armiftice was officially noti¬ 
fied by a letter from the Ruffian general in chief Barclay 
de Tolly, to the prince-of Neufchatel; and that hostilities 
would commence on the 17th of Auguft, on the part of 
the Ruffian, Pruffian, and Swedilh, armies. 
The crown-prince of, Sweden, having received formal 
intimation of the ending of the armiftice, and of the at¬ 
tendant Auftrian declaration of war agaitift France, put 
his army in full motion, and concentrated not lefs than 
90,000 men between Berlin and Spandau. He had pre¬ 
viously addrefied to the combined army under his or¬ 
ders, the following proclamation:—“Soldiers! Called 
by the confidence of my king, and of the fovereigns 
his allies, to lead you in the career which is about to 
open, I rely for the fuccefs of our arms on the Divine 
Protection, the juftice of our caufe, and on your va¬ 
lour and perleverance. Had it not been for the extra¬ 
ordinary concurrence of events which have given to the laft 
twelve years a dreadful celebrity, you would not have been 
aflembled on the foil of Germany; but your fovereigns 
have felt that Europe is a great family, and that none 
of the Itates of which it is compofed can remain indiffer¬ 
ent to the evils impofed upon any one of its members by 
a conquering power. They arealfo convinced that when 
fuch a power threatens to attack and fubjugate every other, 
there ought to exift only one will among thofe nations 
that are determined to efcape from fliame and flavery. 
From that moment you were called from the banks of the 
Wolga and the Don, from the Ihores of Britain, and the 
mountains of the North, to unite with the German war¬ 
riors who defend the caufe of Europe. This then is the 
moment when rivalry, national prejudices, and antipathies, 
ought to difappear before the grand objed of the inde¬ 
pendence of nations. The emperor Napoleon cannot live 
in peace with Europe, unlefs Europe be his Have. His 
yftefumption carried 400,000 brave men feven hundred 
miles from their country -. misfortunes, againlt which he 
did not deign to provide, fell upon their heads, and 300,000 
Frenchmen perifhed on the territory of a great empire, 
the fovereign of which had made every effort to pre- 
ferve peace with France. It was to be expected that this 
terrible difaller, the effed of Divine Vengeance, would have 
inclined the emperor of France to a lefs murderous lyltem ; 
and that, inflruded at laft by the example of the North 
and of Spain, he would have renounced the idea of fub- 
jugating the continent, and have confented to let the world 
be at peace. But this hope has been difa£>pointe‘d, 
and that peace which all governments had defired, and 
which every government nropofed, has been rejeded by 
the emperor Napoleon.—Soldiers! it is to arms then we 
mult have recourfe, to conquer repofe and independence. 
The fame fentiment which guided the French in 1792, 
and which prompted them to alfemble and to combat the 
armies which entered their territory, ought to animate your 
valour againlt thole who, after having invaded the land 
which gave you birth, (till hold in chains your brethren, 
your wives,, and your children.—Soldiers! what a noble 
profped is prefented to you! the liberty of Europe, the 
re-eltablilbment of its equilibrium, the end of that con- 
vullive ftate which has had twenty years’ duration ; finally, 
the peace of the world, will be the refult of your efforts. 
Render yourfelves worthy, by your union, your dilci- 
pline, and your courage, of the high delfiny which 
awaits you. From my head-quarters at Oranienburg, 
Aug. 15, 1813. Charles Jean.” 
The following order of the day was ifiiued by the prince 
of Schwartzenberg on the 17th of Auguft, letting forth 
the grounds on which Au la had been induced to go to 
war:—“The great day is arrived! Brave warriors! our 
country relies on you. Hitherto, every time that file 
has called upon you, you have jultified her confidence. 
All the endeavours of our emperor to reftore the long- 
wanted peace to Europe, and to lix the peace and welfare 
of the empire, which is infeparable from the peace and 
welfare of our neighbours, on. a folid bafts, were in vain. 
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Neither confiant patience, nor pacifie reprefentations, nor 
the confidential relianceof-the other belligerent powers in the 
emperor’s councils and meafures; in ihort, nothing could 
bring the minds of the French government to moderation 
and reafon. On that day on which Auftrialoudly declared 
herfelf for the caufe of juftice and order, file likewife took 
on herfelf to combat for the grenteft of all bleliings. We 
do net fingly undertake this Combat. We (land in the 
fame rank with all that Europe has to oppofe of greatnefs 
and activity againft the powerful opponent of her peace 
and liberty. Auftria, RulTia, Pruffia, Sweden, England, 
Spain, all join their united endeavours for the fame end; 
for a well-founded and durable peace, a rcafonable dijlribution 
of Jlrength among the different fates, and the independence of 
every fmgle power. It is not agaitift France, but againft the 
domineering power of France out of her own borders, that 
this great alliance has raifed itfelf. What may be performed 
by the refolution and conftancy of nations, has been proved 
to us by Spain and Rufiia; what may be performed by 
the united force of fo many pow-erful Itates, will be Ihown 
in the'year 1813!—In fuch a holy war, we mutt, more 
than ever, preferve thofe virtues by which our.armies have 
rendered themfelves confpicuous in fo many former wars. 
Unconditional vvillingnefs to facrifice every thing for our 
monarch and native country—great equanimity in good 
or unfavourable times—determination and conftancy in the 
field of battle—moderation and forbearance towards the 
weak—thefe qualities mull: always be found in ns. Bro¬ 
thers in arms! I have lived in your ranks all thofe years 
which I have devoted to my country’s fervice. I know, 
I honour, in you, the brave men who conquered a glo¬ 
rious peace, and thofe who are following their footfteps. 
I rely on you ! I am chofen from amongft you by our 
monarch ; and his gracious favour has placed me at your 
head. Ills confidence, jointly with yours, are my ftrength. 
In what manner every individual is to be ufeful to the 
whole, will be fixed by the fphere of adion allotted to 
him; but, in every appointment—in every fituation—in 
every decisive moment—always to do bis duty, and to the 
utmoft of his power-—fuch is the determination which 
mutt make us all equal, and elevate us all to the fame 
glorious point. The emperor will remain with us, for he 
has confided the utmoft to us—the honour of the nation 
—the protedion of our native country—and the fecurity 
and welfare of pofterity.—Be thankful, warriors,-that you 
are going into battle before God, who will not forlake 
the juft caufe, under the eye of a paternal and feeling 
monarch, under the eyes of your grateful fellow-citizens, 
and in the fight of.all Europe, which expeds from you 
great deeds, and great ha'ppinefs, after long fufferings. Re¬ 
member, you muft conquer, that you may juftify this ex¬ 
pectation. Combat as it becomes Au(trials warriors to do, 
and you will conquer. Charle'S, Pr. of Schwartzenberg.” 
The-armiftice, as we have laid, ceafed on the 17th of 
Auguit. On the 18th, Davouft attacked, with French 
and Danifh troops, the entrenchments which covered Lau- 
enburgh, and carried them with'the bayonet. The allied 
force liattoned there was computed at 1300 infantry and 
fome cavalry. The French eftimated their own lefs at 
100 men wounded; and that of their opponents they,-of 
courfe, reprefented as more considerable. However, as 
things began from his- time to go againft the French, it 
is not from the bulletins of Napoleon that we are to col¬ 
led the hiftory of the fecond part of the campaign. Ber- 
nadotte, the crown-prince of Sweden, now in battle-array 
againft his friend and patron, began to iflue bulletins 
precifely in the fame ftyle. 
The third of thefe bulletins notices the defedion, on the 
15 th of Auguft, of one of Bonaparte’s generals, who thus let 
an early example of leaving this man to his falling fortunes. 
His name is Jomini, by birth a Swifs; and no lefs an of¬ 
ficer than the chief of marlhal Ney’s ftaff. He had ferved 
under general Moreau, and was deemed one of the belt 
engineers the French had. He palled through general 
Biucher’s army, on his way to the Ruffian head-quarters. 
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