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STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; 
In March, 1806. | 2 
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RUSSIA. 
‘PASHE Court of Peterfburgh has judged 
it proper to pudlith the fellowing 
account of the battle. of Aufterlitz, with 
a view to refute the gafconades of the 
French Emperor: 
_ (From the Petcrfburgh fournal of Fcb. 2.} 
The iffue of the battle cf Aufterlitz has 
been. fo well confirmed by its confequences, 
that it is almoft incredible how France could: 
publith fuch extravagant and untrue relations 
of thataffair. All Europe,-andthe Ruffian 
nation in particular, juftly expect a relation 
on our part. The love of truth alone, and 
the with to adduce none but well authenti- 
éated fa@s, have hitherto prevented the ap- 
pearance of this relation. In the mean 
while, it is neceflary to corre& fome of the 
ftatementsofthe French bulletins, particularly, 
the joth, and to lay them before tne public. 
General Savary fpoke with two perfons 
only belonging to the Emperor's fuite ; and 
excepting thofe, he only faw fome Field Ad- 
jutants, who had brought difpatches from 
their chiefs, or wer€ in waiting to tranimit 
orders to them. 
The Chief of the French nation might not 
Rave derived any pleafure from the conver- 
fation of Prince Dolgerucky; but he at the 
fame time forgot that the RufMiars did not 
belong to thofe nations who fought his pro- 
_ tection. 
The number of the Allied Army, as ftated 
in the Bulletins, ‘‘ was 105,c00 men, viz. 
$c,cco Ruffians and 25,c0o Auffrians, and 
he French much inferior.’—But why were 
their numbers not given?—Befides the re- 
ferve, which alone was faid to be equal to 
an asmy, the enemy’s force confifted of four 
large divifions of 20,0c0 infantry and 3000. 
cavalry, each commanded by a Marfhal and 
two Generals of Divifion. The Combined 
Army, on the other hand, confifted of 52,000 
Ruffians and 17,000 Auftrians. 
But this inferiority in number was the leaft 
misfortune of the Ruffian army: the fcarcity 
of provifions was fo great, that for nearly 
two days preceding the battle they had no- 
thing to eat. The hories were famithed to 
fuch a degree, that thofe belonging to tne 
artillery could no longer draw. Or courfe, 
in the battle, the artillery was of little ufe, 
excepting in thofe ftations where tt was at firft 
planted. The total failure of provifions and 
forage was alone fuificient to prevent our 
maintaining our poft any longer at Olmutz, 
or to take another ftation further in the rear. 
Thefe circumftances urged. the neceflity of 
the battle, the happy refult of which could 
only be expected from the valour of the 
troops. The Imperial Guard, of which it is 
faid in the Bulletin that it loft all its colours, 
are fti!l in poffeffion of them, and have taken, 
one from the enemy. "The Combined Army, 
it is faid, loft 15,000 killed and 26,000 -pri- 
foners. They do not include” among thefet_ 
the 20,cc0 faid'to have been drowned? ' . 
After fo many forced marches; and'fo much 
fatigue and hunger as had been? fuftained, 
with the ficknefs confequentthereuntos after 
the affairs upon the Danube and in Moravia 5. 
of the whele Ruffian army there was-not a> 
deficiency of more than 17,000:mens But, 
were the lofs as confiderable as the Bulletin, 
has pretended, why: was.not the Ruffian ar- 
my purfued, as that Bulletin falfely afferts ?: 
On the contrary, the Ruffian army kept the 
field tili the next morning. The armiftice 
was not concluded but with the Emperor of 
Germany, at whofe particular defire the Ruf- 
fians firft commenced their rétreat, and which” 
was alfo effected in good order and without’ 
lofs, notwithftanding the French partly af- 
fert, that during the negociations with Auf 
tria, the French army profecuted its viéto=> - 
ries. To enhance the giory of this day, the» 
French Builetin fays, that the French Guard =. 
(the referve corps) took no partin the battle. 
The fame Bulletin, however, afterwards af-, 
ferts, that when one French battalion -was - 
broken by the Ruffian Guard, Bonaparte or- 
dered Marfhal Beffieres to advance, and that 
** the Imperial Guards on both fides immedi- 
ately came into adtion.” 
The French Bulletins abound with falfe ' 
ftatements, over which the preteided’ noife * 
and diftraction, occafioned by the difcharge of: 
200 pieces of cannon, anda confi between” 
200,coo men, throws but a flimfy covering. 
Can it poffibly fe: v2 the interefts of a great 
General to fanétion fuch reports? Can -he 
really ftand inneed of fuch means as thefeto . 
increafe that military glory which Is-not de-_ 
nied him ?—Pofferity will do juftice to the 
truth. 
PRUSSIA. Fi: 
The policy of Pruffia during the late 
crifis has not been fully underitood. The 
views of that Court are fully developed in 
the fcllowirg State Pape? ; and although > 
they do not accord with the wifhes of the 
people of England, yet it muft be allowed 
that they have been dictated by prudence _ 
and good fenfe: me, 
Memorial of Baron Von Hardenberg, Minifter 
of State tothe King of Pruffia, to Lord Har- 
rowby, the Britifo Ambafjedor at the Court - 
of Pruffia. 
s¢ My Lord, 
‘¢ Conformably to the anfwer I have ala 
ready had the honour to tranimit te your Exe * 
cellency, to the queftion which you addreffed 
‘¢ Berling Dec. 22, 1805. 
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