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The fourth and fifth bulletins flute, that Napoleon 
paving Concentrated, on the 2tftof Auguft, an-army of 
8o,oeo men in the environs of Bayreuth, under the com¬ 
mand of Oudinof, to make an attempt on Berlin, they ad¬ 
vanced by way of Trebbih on the day following, attacked 
the Pnifiian general Thutnen with a fuperior force, and 
obliged him to evacuate the poll. The next morning the 
French attempted to follow up their fuccefs; and the corps 
of general Bertrand debouched upon the PrulTian corps 
of Tauenzein at Blankenfelde, but was reputfed. The 
yth French corps, however, fucceeded in taking the vil¬ 
lage of Grofs Bercn ; and Oudinot advanced upon Abren- 
dorff. An attempt to drive the French from Grofs Be- 
ren brought on aievere action ; and in the courfe of the 
day, they having menaced the village of RuhlfdorlF, the 
crown-prince font a force to take them in flank. The 
refult of theft- operations is laid to have been 26 cannon, 
■30 chefts, much baggage, and 1500 prifoners taken, and 
many killed and wounded. 
From the fixth and Seventh bulletins we learn, that the 
crown-prince was following up his fuccefles againft Oudi- 
mot’s army. Girard, who had a command under Oudinot, 
was defeated on the 27th, between Lubnitz and Belzig, 
-by Czernicheff and Hirfchfeld, with the lofs of 3500 pri¬ 
foners, eight pieces of cannon, feveral waggons of ammu¬ 
nition, and all the baggage. Girard was killed. The 
French retreated to Luckau, which city furrendered the 
next day, with nine pieces of cannon, 1000 prifoners, and 
a coniiderable quantity of ammunition and (tores. The 
French continued their retreat towards the Elbe, purfued 
by Winzingerode with 8000 cavalry. The whole of the 
.French lofs in this quarter, from the opening of the cam¬ 
paign, is eftimated at upwards of 12,000 men. 
The eleventh bulletin, dated Juterbock, Sept. 8. gives an 
account of the battle of Dennevitz.—While Bernadotte, 
with the Ruffian andSwedilh corps under his command, was 
moving on the 4th upon Rolla, in order to pafs the Elbe 
there, and march upon Leipfic, intelligence was received 
that the French army, coming from Wittenberg, was pufh- 
ing forward on Znhne, with the view to flop his farther 
operations by a movement againft Bodin. As the French 
had fucceeded on the 5th, notwithftanding the reliftance 
oppofed by 4pe PruIlian army pofted between Zthne and 
Juterbock, in penetrating as far as juterbock, Berna¬ 
dotte, early on the 6tb, haltened with feventy b.attalions 
of Swedish and Ruffian infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and 150 
field-pieces, to aflift the Pruftian army, which, confining 
of about 40,000 mery, had held out, without yielding, 
againlt the repeated attacks of the French, 70,000 ftrong, 
under the command of the prince of Molkwa. At fight 
of thefe frefh troops, the French fled, purfued on all fdes 
by the cavalry and light-infantry, and retreated towards 
Torgau and Drefden. From 16 to 18,000 prifoners, more 
-than 60 pieces of cannon, and 400 ammunition-waggons, 
were the fruits of this victory and the fubfequent actions. 
The twelfth bulletin gives a minute and clear account 
of the military operations of the northern army. The 
intention of the crown-prince of Sweden to crofs the Elbe 
after the defeat of the French corps under Oudinot, was 
dictated by a knowledge that the allied armies were pre¬ 
pared to advance from Bohemia ; while Bonaparte had, 
for the fecond time, quitted Drefden to fly to the affift- 
ance of Macdonald in Silefia; but the movements of the 
combined army obliged him to return to Drefden. Af¬ 
ter the victory obtained at Dennevitz, the French were 
purfued by Dahtne to Torgau, where, at the tele dc pont, 
800 prifoners were taken. To prevent the allied troops 
eroding the Eliter, the French had broken down the 
bridges. The total lofs of the French in the battle and 
retreat is now boldly laid to be 20,000 men, including 
10,000 prifoners, 80 pieces of cannon, and 400 ammuni¬ 
tion-waggons. 
Bonaparte’s communications were now, not in the form 
of “ bulletins,” but of “ intelligence from the army,” for 
the information of his emprefs. As long as his allies re- 
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mained faithful to him, he uiftained no very material re- 
-verfes, but rather the contrary. In one aCfion, however, 
near Culm, his general Vandamme was defeated with great 
lofs, and fuppofed to be killed, but was taken prifoner, 
and is now at Mofcow, unlefs lie has been fent, as threat¬ 
ened, into Siberia. Bonaparte’s head-quarters were at 
Drefden ; and he fummed up the hiftory of the firft few 
days of the campaign in the following terms: “On the 
21 ft of Auguft, the Ruffian, Pruflian, and Auftrian, army, 
commanded by the emperor Alexander and the king of 
Pruffia, entered Saxony; and on the 22b marched againft 
Drefden, with from 180 to 200,000 men, having an im- 
menfe materiale, and full of hope, not only of driving us from 
the right bank of the Elbe, but even of marching upon 
the Rhine, and nourishing the war between the Elbe and 
the Rhine. In five days it has feen its hop.es confounded ; 
30,000 prifoners, 10,000 wounded fallen into our power, 
which makes the number amount to 40,000; 20,000 killed 
or wounded, and as many flek in confequence of fatigue 
and the want of provifions, (it has been five or fix days 
without bread,) have weakened it nearly 80,000 men. It 
does not now amount to 100,000 men underarms; it has 
ioft more than too pieces of cannon, entire parks ; 1500 
ammunition and artillery waggons, which were blown up 
or fell into our bandsmore than 3000 baggage-waggons, 
which it has burnt, or we have taken; there were 40 co¬ 
lours or ftamlards. .Among the prifoners there are 4000 
Ruffians. The ardour of the French army, and the cou¬ 
rage of the infantry, fixed every one’s attention. The 
firlt cannon fired from the batteries of the imperial guards, 
on the day of the 27th, mortally wounded general Mo¬ 
reau, who had returned from America to enter the Ruf¬ 
fian fervice.” 
With fuch exaggerated ftatements on both fides, the 
reader is at a lofs which to believe : he will probably be¬ 
lieve neither; and there had been as yet noaftion of fodv- 
cifive a nature as to fpeak for itfelf. We (hall therefore 
take this opportunity to fay a few words upon the fate of 
"general Moreau.—We have feen, underthearticleFRANCE, 
vol. vii. p.859,60. that Moreau, in the year 1804, was impli¬ 
cated in a plot to niurderBonaparte and reftore the Bourbons, 
and that firs fentence of death was changed into a permif- 
(ion to tranfport himfelf to America. He had remained 
there ever fince, very comfortably fituated at Morrifville, 
below theTall of the Delaware. At the beginning of the 
year 1812, a Ruffian meflenger, an officer, was deputed to 
invite him into the Ruffian (ervice; but found the greateft 
difficulty in moving him from his retirement, though he 
was authorifed to offer him any terms. In fa£t, he pre- 
fented him with a carte blanche from Alexander. For lix- 
teen months did this gentleman remain in America with 
peremptory orders to accomplilh the object of his miffion. 
At length the fatal moment arrived: Moreau, although 
he had often been heard to declare, that he never would 
lead foreign troops into France, determined to lend his 
aid to the allied powers; and left his abode of quiet and 
fecurity. On the 2d of Auguit, 1813, he landed at Stral- 
funcf, where he was received by the crown-prince of Swe¬ 
den, and paffed two days in concerting.the plan of tire 
campaign. On the 10th of Augull he arrived at Prague, 
and the next morning was vifited by the emperor Alex¬ 
ander, who, on the 18th, introduced him to the emperor 
of Aultria and the king of Pruffia. At this momexjt he 
was the firft man in Europe, confulted and clofeted daily 
with thefe fovereigns, and nothing feemed too high for his 
ambition; but it was faid to be his intention, if he had 
lived to fucceed againft Napoleon, to retire again into 
private life. On the 25th and following days, he accom¬ 
panied the emperor Alexander and the king of Pruffia 
in reconnoitring and directing the attacks on Drefden ; 
and his zeal led him much to expole himfelf. On the 
27th, towards noon, he was communicating fotne obfer- 
vations to Alexander, when a bail f rom one of the French 
batteries, which was aiming to difmouni;a-Ruffian battery 
behind which they were, (battered to pieces the right 
