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THE BAITLE OF WORTCHEN.
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OFFICIAL NEWS FJtOM Tllfc GRAND
. Alt. MY.
pai. x ay29, 1813.
Her Majesty the Kmprcss, Queen
snd Kcgent, has received the foltow
isg accounts of the events which hpye
kmptned at the army" on the 19ih,
!X)h, 2 1st anri 22 Jf and ot the posu
lions of the army on the 23U. .
The Emperor Alexander and the
Kia; of Prussia' attributed the loss of
ihc battle of Lurzcn tr the errors
rctnmitted in the direction of the
combined force, and above all to the
(!:&:uUies attendant on the operations .
of from 150 to 160 000 men, acting j
cn the ofTensive. They resolved to j
tike up the position of Ihmzcn and
Hochkirch already celebrated in the
history of the seven years war ; to
concentrate there all the reinforce
ments expected Irorrt the Vistula and
cher points ia the tear ; to strength
ea this position by every mrans that
art cr.uM furnish and there to encoun
ter the rik of another battle, of which
a".l the probabilities appeared to be in
their favor.
Th Duke of Tarentum (Macdon
S commanding the ilth corn?, de
noted front Bfshonswcrdcn cn the f
15.h ; and tn the evening of that day,
v-s within caoncn shot of Dmtzcn ;
th:re he rcconnoiticd the enemy's ar-
t i ' . .
n. ne toos up a p muud
From this moment rh
c. umerem
corps oi the rrencn Army were
mirched upon the camp of Uaulzen.
Thr Emperor led Dresden on the
18th ; he slept at Haita nad oh the
lSih, he arrived at' 10 Vdock in the
coraicg before Bautarn. a He em
p eyed the whole of 'the clay in 're coo
cstcriDg'the enemy's positions.
We learnt that the Hussian corps
udcr ltarcU) de lolly, de Laugn
rca and de Sass, and the Prussian
urps cf Kleist, had formed a junc
tion with the combined army, and
thit its force m ght be estimated at
frcra 150 to 160 thousand men.
On the evening of the 19d? the e
rfmj's iosition tra-i as follows :
' Their left rested upon mountains
cvtred with wo ds, and perpendicu
!r to the course of the Spree, abnut
a Icipue from Bautzen. Bautzen sus-
tilled their centre 'lhis town hacj
iern intrenched ar und, and covered
Hh redoubts. The light of the c
r.rm) rested upon some little fortified
wrhich de!ended the openings of
t-c Spree. This very strong position
but a first position,
VV perceived distinctly at 6000
JircN in the rc r, earth freihly thrown
C7. and works which designated the
iftond position. The left again rst
on the same mountains, at 2000
x ,"y in the rear of these of the first
ration, and considerably advanced
atetof the village of H chkirch.
centre rested upon three in
lcnthed villages, where so many
had been thrown up that they
he consiclerecf as stronc? nlaces.
irr.2nh diflictilt croupd covered
l:"rtf i urths of the centre. Lastly.
rlr lirht rested behind the first no-
1 1 m aw mi
r4' nrcil in the same manner. f
ht front of the enemy's army in
e f.rt and sreonci nosition. stretch.
l'r their reconnoisancr, it was
; :n conceive how, notwithstand-
. we loss of a battle like that pr
-tt"C. and nfrr MrrVr Havit rf r-
the enemv micht still have
iCs chances of fortune,
jjctcrding to the expression of a
w 1 , imiw, nutu tiftbu
2t 1 "l - .. a
n' 3 'Dicnueti 10 no, replteti,:
'c net&rr intend t7 advanvt nor 'to
0 -to whith o French officer
ercd : At hr. x,r .. :L
'rcrrooo thr first, in a"fcw
Wrcwr, xViu hoiu whether uqu
are masters cf thelattet. :The head
quarters of the two aHicd;sdyereigns
was at the village of Natchen. .y'-v:.
Ori the 19th, the position of the
French army was'as follows t'
Upon the richt was the! Duke, of
ntrggio v ictor ; resting , upon . me
mountains, on the .left baak of the
Spree, and separated from the, ene
my's left by the valley. . .The Duke
of. Tarentunv ("MacdonaldY was "in
front of Bautzen, on the road from
Dresden. The .'Duke of Ragusa
(Marmoot) was on the left of Baut
2cn, opposite to the village" of Nic
rac'nschurz." deneral Bertrand was
upon theleit of the J)uke of Ra'gusa,
supported by a windmi'l and a wood,
and threatening to debouche from Ja
aelitz upon the righVbf the. enemy, i
The. prince of Moskwa (NeyJ Ge
neral Iauriston, and Gen. Regnier,
were at Hayerswerda, upon the Ber
lin roaJ, out of the line and behind
our letL "
Threenemj being informed that'a
considerable corpj'hnd ani'ed by
the way of Hoyerswerder, douhted
whether the Emperor's intention was
not to turn the position of 'the right,
to change the field of battle, and to
cause to fall all these entrenchments
raised with so much labor, and the ob
ject of. so .many hopes.' Being only
aware of General Lauriston'a arrival,
the enemy did not suppose this co
lumn consisted of more than 18 or
20,000 men. " He, therefore; detach
ed against it, at four in the morning.
Gen. York with 1 2 JJ)00 Prussians ;
and General Barclay de Tolly with
: 18,000 Russians posted themselves at
j the vilhgt of Klix, and the Prussians
at veisig.
In the mean time count Bertrand
had sent General Pcrr with the Xta
; lian division to Konigswarthain or-
' der to maintain our communications
j with the'detathed corps;
! at midnight; Gen. Pctry
Arriving
made bad
arrangements ; he djd not cause the
neighboring forest to be scoured. He
posted his men badly, and at 4 o'clock
he was assailed by a hourra which
threw , several battalions into confu
sion. He lost600 men, among whom
was the General of Bngade Balathier,
wounded ; two pieces of cannon, and
three caissons ; but the division hav
ing taken arms, rested Upon the wood,
and faced the enemy. .
The Count of Valmy fKellerrrian)
having arrived with cavafry, put him
self at the head of the Italian division,
arid re-took the vilbge of Konigs
wartha. . At the same moment the
corps of Count 'Lauriston; which
marched ahead of that of thePice
of Moskwa, in order to turn the cne
mv's position, denartinir from Hoy
j erswerda, arrived near Wessig. I he
' action laegan,. and the corps of.Yorck
I would have ;been destroyed, had it
not Decn ior?a aenie, wnun waso De
passed & by which means our troops
only arrived, successively. After 3
hours of fighting, the village of We is
sic was carried, & the corps tVbrck
ovetthrown, was forced on trie-other
side. of the Spree. '
, The action of Weissig. is of.itself
a ;very important event, ' A'-detailed
report of.it will be given. ' . .; .
On the 19th slept at the post Weis
sig ; the Prince of Moskwa at Man
kersdorf ; and Count Regnier a
leiigue. in. the rear; " The right of the
en'em)'s position was. evidently un
covered.. ' '
On the 20th; at eight o'clock in the
morning the ' E mpe ror proceeded to
the height behind Bautzen. He-orl
dered the Duke of HeggtO to' pass
the Spree; " arid to attack' the tinoun
left; he directed the DufceTareptum
to throw J a bridge over the Spree, in
the bottom, whicbrthis nye formi up
on the left at half a teagtj?.frbm .B iut
zen ; the - Duke of Dalmatia (Soult)
to whom - H. Ma . had i given the su
preme command bf the centre; to pass
the Spree in order -to . harrass -the e-1
nemy s pghtj. lastly ; he comrnanded
the Prince of Moskwa, under whose
orders was the 3d corps: Count Lau
riston and ficsu Rcgnier.to approach j
; Klix, pass" tht 'Spree, .turn the erieijj
rays, right; and to march: upon hisj I
thence upon Wassenburg. . ' : j
At boon the cannonade began ; the
Duke of .Tarentum found itGnneces
cary vto throtir- over his , bridge; .v he
found before him a stone bridge i of
which he forced ihe "passaged ; The
Duke of Ragusa threw over a bridge ;
his whole corps 'd'armee passed ori
the other side of the 'Spree. After
six hours of.smart' cannonading and
j several charges which i the ;enemy
madf without success, Gen. Compans
occupied "Baiitzen, ' General1' Bophet
occupied the village of Niedkayn and
carried at; quickstep a plain, which
rendered him master of "the whole
centre of the 'enemy's position ; , tl?c
Duke of Reggio possessed himself
of the heights ; and at teveo'ociock
in th evening, the enemy was thrown
back upon his second position; Gri;
Bertrand passed on'e of the arms of
the Spree ; but the enemy preserved
the heights which supported his right,
and by this means maintained him
self betweebthe corps of the Prince of
moskwa and cur army,
. The Emperor entered Bautzen at
8 o'clock in the evening, and was re
ceived by the inhabitants and the Au
thorities with -those sentirnent3 that
allies ought to feel,. who havcthe hap
piness to : be delivered from 'Stem;
from K'.)tzebue and from Cossacks
This day, which, were it connected
with any . other, might be called the
battle of Bautzen, was only the pre
lude to the battle of Wurtzchety
In the. mean time, the erierny be
gan to realize the possibility of beingi
forced his positions his hopes were
oq longer the same, and he must from
this moment have felt the presage ol
his defeat. Already were all his po
sitions changed. The fate of the bat
fte was no longer to be decided be
hind his entrenchments. His im
mense f.ibors arid his three hundred
redoubts became useless. The right
of his position; which was opposed
to the 4th corps, became Jfis centre,
and he was obliged to throw his right
which formed a great part of his ar
my, in-order to oppose the Prince gf
Moskwa, into a place which he had
not studied, and which he believed
out of his position. ' Vf
The 21st, a five in the morning,
the Emperor proceeded to theheights,'
three quarters1 of a league io front or
Bautzen. ; .
The Duke of Reggio sustained a
brisk ring of musketry "upon th
heights which defended the enemy's
left. ' fhe Russians, who felt the im
portance of xhis position, had plared
there a strong division of the armys
jn order that their left might not be
turned. The Emperor ordered the
Dukes of Reggio 2nd Tarentum to
sustain this action with the view of
preventing the. enemy's left from un
covering itself, and to maskfromjhim
the true attack, and of which the re
suit would not make itself be felt-before
12 or' i ociock. i '
At 11, the'Duke of Reggio march
ed'lOOO toise's io front of his posl "
tion, unci commenced a frightful can
nbnading before the redoubts'and en--tfnchments
bfthe enemyv '
The guards, and hereserve'bf'ihe
army infantry & cavalry , thus mask
ed, had openings from which' ihey
mirr ht eaail v 'advance forward tb the
rignt or.ieic, accoramg tonne vicis3i-
cuues oi ine uvy, i enemy; was
thus held in a state ofjuricertainty as
to' the true ppintpf attack. .' l, -: ri C
Whilst this pas?ed, therPrince4 of
Mosk wa overthrew theenemy at
KlijtJ passed the Spree, and 'cjfoyeall
before himto the vilage,ofEreintz,
At, 10 o'clock he. carried the illage-r-butthe
reserve of ,the:enemy having
advanced: to cover his head -quarters:
the.. Prince of 'Moskwa '- was - driven
back and left the village' of 1 PreflitzT
The Duke brDrnatiaeri'tb
Boitcfie it i in' the afterocwn.We e-,
nemycompreKwdirigth danger fvitn
which he, was threatened by? the turn
the battJe hacl tf
means of sustaining with 'advantage
the action against the Prince of Mbsk
wa, - waijto; prevent us. rfr6mVebotech
;p-.y ? The wishe4 to oppose :s $ib atr
tack of the Duke 6f pajmatia.4 "The-
inomcui lor ucciuiug iuc j.wuc was
picisely:indicaled."J
by a movement on the left; passed in
Smiriutes whhthe ; guards, the four
divisionsrVbf GehiiiatouT Maubpbrc.'
and a reat quanatybf artille'upcV
the ttanic, bf the richfipf the 'eneibv!?
pbsi ti oq, ythi c h h acl hjcb me the ten
tre p f the Russian AfmV,.v. '"" V"
The division bPMbrand andnriei
Wurlembufg . division, carried -the. J
hillock ' which the enemy had made
his point of supporU 1 r '
GenD? vaux established a b'atteVv.i
and directed ft s:fTrelipptsx the masses
which sought to resume their position.
The Gens. Dulauloy arid Drput, with
60 pieces of cannon, advanced in front.
Lastlv, the Duke of Treyisb; (Morti-
er) with two divisions of the ourfger!
guards, marched upon the Inn of
Kliec Baschwitz,UttintofT the road
from Wurrchen toBautzen. H
The enemy was)liged to'ii'ocbv
er his right in order to parry this new
attack. The prince of Moskwa took
advantage of this and marched for
ward. He took the village o Preisig i
Lncmy s quarters upon WurtchenV It
j Avas 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and
whilst the arjny wasju the greatest
uncertainty as to its success, the em
peror announced that
the battle iva?
won.
, The enemy seeing his right turned
commenced his retreat, and this re
treat soon became a flight. '
At. 7 in the evening, the Prince of
Moskwa and gen. Lauriston arrived
at Wurtchen.- The 'duke of, Ragusa
then received orders to make a move
ment the reverse of that which the
guards had just made. He occupied
all the entrenched villages an'riaBxhe
redoubts which the enemy was oblig
ed to evacuate advanced m the direc
tion of Hochkirck, and theb ; outflan
ked the enemy's left,, which then fled
in the greatest disorder. ' The duke;
of Tarentum, on his side, assailed yi
dentlv the encrily and did him much
injury, . .
The p'Higeror slept upon the Vpad
in the midst of his gdards at the Inn
of K.iem-Baschwitzr Thus the ene
my, forced from all his positions, lft
in our,p6wer the field pf battle . cov
ered with His ciead arid wounded, and
several thousand prisoners. ... . ' )'Lf -:f
On the 22!, at '4 "o'clock in the
biorning, the French army pnritsejf
into motion. The enemy hadfled ihe
whole night by all'the roads-arid iri e
very direction. His first posts were ;
encountered beyond Veisseribiirg, he j
did not make any resistance until wej
had reached the heights7 behind Rei
chenbachlCr -The enerny had not yet
seen our cavalry.' .- ..:'',-
r General ; Lebrend; Desrioueties,? at
ihe head of 1500 horse, Polish Ian,
cers ; & the red lancers pf the guards
chargedvin the, plain pf Reichei.bch
the-cneiTtyV cavalry, and bverthrew
Fit. - ihe enemv behevinff-that thev
were aloneused a division pfravaJ-
gajcd successi vel vs 1 Gnei jatbb?
MunburgWlth his 14 00b hbr arid
the French a rid ' ,Saxo c ui rr a ssi ers,
came to their succor, and many .'char
ges of cavalry took place; -jThe eriei
myr quite ' astonished tcA find before
them 15-or ;i 6,000, when they! beli e vj
ed we were entirely destitute pf it re
tired indordertTe jrebiancers
of the." guard - were corbppsed ' chiefly
of volunteers from Paris arid its envi;
rons. ; Gen Ifebie Desrionettes, 85.
Gen.' Colbert; theif Colonel, i bestow
pn them the 1 greatest praise -Inithii
aflfair of cavalryiGen. 'j9rnyeTein-0n?4
.itrbf the light 'tat'ryofih'cje;
Saxon cbrpVtb.theofeighta beyond lle-
ichenbach. v and pursued;; the Hcnemt
quite to tnet yi" age. 01 ;s nprtenqoi
Vigh't-foindW
fiiVr:Al though tifedayrhad beettvef
,ry iongjirice Jwe ixund, bureelvei 8
leagues' from thcr field of batdey and
the troops had experienced so nittch
.A tki. L'..,k A.mn Wtlnhf KnltO - '
.slept at uueriitz-f Du; tne cncqaVinaav ac-.p;
a Dpay or tneir nuarcpypon a ncignc
town; andanhalf hour
of day fight would have been necessa
ry to have turned it by the lVfC " The
sfioiild'taiylip'O
in front or this
x i. ia ine oatues,, oi me .xvtnR ana,
21st;, they VartmburghGery caji'4.,.
cjuembn)t.Aan ":
wpUnriefi; ;f CIlOss JZil?1? . ''djiya-, '
may be estVniated ;t i 1 2,XXX
killed 6i-rtuaded. The:
thel22d, at: stVenoVlpc he v;grand '
M arshal, iDiiictr of rioulfDurbc) .
beihg utPh' a srhall ern?nc!nce, con-
versing wun inc uukc oi ;ieyioanav
GeqfKjrgenerV.;:M -U
i iopt: ana sumcientiy aistani irom-ine.
lire, uuc ui ii ic ;iasv cauuuuuiiua.ui.iucj
enemy passen near the, Duke pt lre
viso, struck: the - crand marshal, jand
kirlMbWichrGeb
Dukeffioul rived
m 0 rcairy wqunue u nc i cxpireu 1 2
hours aitervardsv:T
posts ,were piacea antKtne army , naa
takeniib its uarters theEmperbr ;
'wenttBeethe;
Totind. him tnperfei;1 ?
mind, ancl -1 ex.KiiDiBnl!t v
coropbsuf 'e5e-P .
4iand pf the EmpoFandixarHtd it
hisiips.
been cUVbtetTtavbur serSriceVandxT 1
only regret i'accqiwt'pFtne,utiltjri
hich it still mjght hay (jbeenaMft, ;
Duroc J said theE
therfiasmpheJifc ...
shall gbctChawaU "ine; jartheTe wev
shall one day-meet agairiy Yes, sire, '
hut it shall be, in thirty years'; when . ; -
you shall havettrium1 -over your-- . 1
enemies; arid realized all the hbpes of J
oUr counti I havelived an hotiesli v .
maii;' 0
' I reproach myself wun tgifigi;
Heave a daughter ; bur thajesty8 will
feteafaaert'.N . '
Vhe:iEni;pressifi ( V
right hari the" larsial,' remained a
iquarterpf an hov;UhQi8c.near4 sup'r -.
por ted j nhj ieft hanpV wl tt theoit J
profound .ilenc
tfiis?sighistrispe$t .
4eror leaning uponrmDukepfDalvt.
matia arid thGranbl5quir f
Duke pf Frioul, without heing able to $
uxter any imng;Dut tneseworas, -i-jFare-
weus taenftny fmtra! tiw? sn$tst t
entered his tent and, received no one V
Id'uririg- thenight, rW'
X 7The 2.3d Vclock in (the .trior
ning, Genjgmerut)4
Bridges wejrd thrown pyer the NeisSf r
nd thq army passf d4hisriver? , : ,
On the 23dintheeVeiiirig :
Thike bflunrpyasf uatze'
burg'; Count iiaurjsfcnjhad His Ked
iar.tesaociarvC
irifront offtfeitifcn
road bf LabDarianaGbun
in the rear of the Jine lage The
Duke of Tarentum was Upon Schber- '
hurg The Empcr
A flag of truce tbithe gpoy; f
brouhtdetterswl
treated of a prisitibP fbrSnti
iscevv - ;i;: A'" ' .'uufJ:
felThc ehemVfetiredby1Sr
arid' L'abau' into Sifesia. AH Saxony
is ucuvcrea 110m cs enemies ana op
the mhiiriofthet
army wiHbefibSiliai
C ' The ene my has burnt m uch bf his
vaggaolm up miuay parks of ar-
tilleryaitcl e w4lne;yiliageiC
.agaumMr
w hi chhe yVwer6- blej to carry off in
Uieirwanfcfead jnot their Wdundi
dissejd.iThiinhabitarils climated
I the numbet' ap roOre than 1 1 Qidooy
iTiuiciMi" iu,uw wqupaearetnam in
Tht town of iGuerfitz; which con
tains ti'om 8 to tO.OOO inhabitants, re
ch'as thc!r cleliyerers.
setfanoth'Sai,: :
on :minisry-hetr the greatest
activity in prpy idrdfbr the army. :
whichSen
lthbugha weat qoantify0mu
nitipns h s been consumed, the work-
hops of Tbrgaii arid Dresden, and :
the convoys which arrive by the care . ;
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