the two sovereigns were in the village of

-Natscher.

On the 19th, the position of the French army was as follows:

Upon the right was the Duke of Reggio, leaning upon the mountains to the left of the Spree, and separated from the left of the enemy by that valley. The Duke of Tarentum was before Bautzen, on horseback, upon the Dresden road. The Duke of Ragusa was upon the left of Bautzen, opposite the village of Niemenschutz. General Bertrand was upon the left of the Duke of Ragusa, leaning upon a windmill and a wood, and appeared to intend debouching from Jaselitz upon the enemy's right. The prince of Moskwa, General Lauriston, and General Reynier, were at Hoyerswerda, out of the lime, and in the rear of our left.

The enemy having learnt that a considerable corps was to arrive by the road of Hoyerswerda, was doubtful that it was the Emperor's intention to turn their position by the right, to alter the field of battle, and to cause all his intrenchments to fall which had been erected with so much pains, and the objects of such great trouble. Not being yet informed of General Lauriston's arrival, he did not suppose that this column could consist of more than 16 or 20,000 men. On the 19th he therefore detached against them, at four o'clock in the morning, General Yorck with 12,000 Prussians, and General Barciay de Tolly, with 18,000 Russians. The Russians posted themselves at the village of Klix, and the Prussians at the village of Weissig.

Count Bertrand had in the mean while sent General Pery, with the Italian division, to Koenigswerda, to keep our communication with the detached corps. Being arrived there at noon, General Perin made bad dispositions. He did not cause the neighbouring forest to be properly reconnoitred; he placed his posts badly, and at four o'clock he was assailed by a hourra, which threw some battalions into disorder. He lost 600 men, among whom was General Balathier, of the Italian brigade, wounded; 2 cannon, and 3 caissons; but the division having taken to their arms, kept themselves to the wood, and faced against the enemy.

The Count de Valmy having arrived with the cavalry, put himself at the head of the Italian division, and retook the village of Koenigswerda. At this very moment, the corps under Count Lauriston, which marched at the head of the Prince of Moskwa's, to turn the enemy's position, and had departed from Hoyerswerda, arrived on Weissig. The battle commenced, and the corps of General Yorck would have been destroyed, had it not been for the circumstance of the troops having to pass a defile, which caused that they could come up only

in succession. After a battle of thrée hours, the village of Weissig was carried, and De Yorck's corps, being overthrown, was driven to the other bank of the Spree. The battle of Weissig was in itself an impor tant event. A detailed report will shortly make known the particulars concerning it.

On the 19th, Count Lauriston therefore remained in the position of Weissig: the Prince of Moskwa at Mankersdof, and Count Reynier at the distance of a league in the rear. The right of the enemy's po sition was evidently in disorder.

On the 20th, at eight o'clock in the morning, the Emperor went to the heights in the rear of Bautzen. He gave orders to the Duke of Reggio to pass the Spree, and attack the mountains which supported to enemy's left; to the Duke of Tarentum, to throw a bridge on chevalets over the Spree, between Bautzen and the mountains; to the Duke of Ragusa, to throw another bridge on chevalets over the Spree, in the turn which that river takes to the left, at half a leagne from Bautzen; to the Duke of Dalmatia, (to whom his Majesty had given the command in chief of the centre) to pass the Spree, and disturb the enemy's right; and, finally, to the Prince of Musk wa, under whose orders were the third corps, General Lauriston, and General Reynier, to push forward on Klix, to pass the Spree, to turn the enemy's right, aad to carry his head-quarters from Wartchen to Weissenburg.

At noon the cannonade commenced. The Duke of Tarentum had no occasion to throw his bridge of cheval to cross the ri ver, as he found a stone bridge before him, over which he forced his passage. Tue Duke of Ragusa threw his bridge across, and the whole of his corps passed over to the other bank of the Spree. After six hours of a brisk cannonade, and several charges made by the enemy without suecess, General Compans caused Bautzen to be occupied; General Bonnet occupied the village of Niedkayn, and by a rumming charge took a plain which rendered himseif master of the whole center of the ene my's position; the Duke of Ragusa get possession of the heights, and at seven o'clock in the evening the enemy was driven back on his second position. General Bertrand passed one of the arms of the Spree; but the enemy kept the heights which sup ported his right; and by this means maintained himself between the Prince of Mosk wa's corps and our army.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the Em peror entered Bautzen, and was received by the inhabitants and the constituted an thorities, with sentiments due from allies, who were happy in finding themselves de livered from Stein, from Kotzebue, and the Cossacks. This day, which, were it site gle, might be called the battle of Bautzen,

Wartchen.

However, the enemy began to comprehend the possibility of being forced in his position. His hopes were no longer the same; and he must, from this moment, have had the presage of his defeat. Already were all his dispositions entirely changed. The fate of the battle was no longer to be d ided behind his entreuchments. His

immense works, and 300 redoubts, became useless. The right of his position, which was opposed to the 4th corps, became his centre; and he was obliged to offer his right, which formed a good part of his army, to oppose the Prince of Moskwa, in a place which he had not studied, and which he - believed beyond his position.

On the 21st, at five in the morning, the Emperor marched towards the heights, three quarters of a league in advance of

Bautzen.

The Duke of Reggio sustained a lively fire of musketry towards the heights whi h defended the enemy's left. The Russians, who felt the importance of this position, had placed a strong part of their army, in order that their left should not be turned.

= The Emperor ordered the Dakes of Reggio and Tarentum to keep up the combat, in order to prevent the enemy's left from disengaging itself, and to hide from him the real attack, the result of which could not be felt before noon or one o'clock.

At eleven o'clock the Duke of Treviso - advanced 1000 toises from his position, and engaged in a dreadful cannonade before all the enemy's redoubts and entrencliments. The guards, and the reserve of the army, concealed by a rising ground, had easy de. bouches to advance, by the left or right, according as the vicissitudes of the day might require. The enemy was thus kept in uncertainty respecting the real point of attack. During this time, the Prince of Moskwa overthrew the enemy at the vil lage of Klix, passed the Spree, and advanced, fighting what he had before him, to the village of Preiletz. At ten o'clock he carried the village; but the enemy's reserves having advanced to cover the head quarters, the Prince of Moskwa was driven back, and lost the village of Preiletz. The Duke of Dalmatia began to debouch an hour after noon. The enemy, who comprehended all the danger with which he was threatened by the direction the battle had taken, knew that the only means of advantageously supporting the battle against the Prince of Moskwa, was to prevent us from debouching. He endeavoured to oppose the Duke of Dalmatia's attacks. The moment for deciding the batfle had then arrived. The Emperor, by movement to the left, in twenty minutes marched with the guards, General Latour Maubourg's four divisions, and a great

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quantity of artillery, upon the right flank of the enemy's position, which had become the centre of the Russian army.

Morand's and the Wartemberg division carried the rising ground, which the enemy had made his point d'appui.

General Devaux established a battery, the fire of which, he directed upon the masses which attempted to take the position. Generals Delauloy and Dronet, with sixty pieces of reserve artillery, advanced. Lastly, the Duke of Treviso, with the divisions Dumontier and Barrois, with a detachment of the young guard, took the road to the Inn of Klein Baschwitz, crossing the road from Wurtchen to Bautzen.

The enemy was obliged to uncover his right, to prepare for this new attack. The Prince of Moskwa took advantage of it by advancing in front. He took the village of Preisig, and having come up with the ene. my's army, marched on to Wartchen. It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and whilst the army was in the greatest incertitude of success, that a heavy firing was heard along a line of three leagues, and announced to the emperor that the battle was

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The enemy finding that his right was turned, his retreat soon became fight. At seven o'clock in the evening, the Prince of Moskwa, and General Lau riston, arrived at Wurtehen. The Duke of Ragusa then received orders to make an inverse movement to that which the guard had made, occupied all the entrenched villages, and all the redoubts, which the enemy were obliged to evacuate, advanced in direction of Hochkorch, and thus took the enemy's left in flank, which then fell into an unavoidable rout. The Duke of Tarentum, on his side, briskly pushed this left wing, and did it considerable mischief. The Emperor slept on the road in the midst of his guards, at the ion of Little Baschwitz. Thus the enemy being forced from all his positions, left the field of batthe in our power, covered with his dead and wounded, and several thousands of prisoners.

On the 22d, at four o'clock in the morning, the French army pat itself in motion, The enemy had fled the whole night by all the roads, and in every direction. We had not found his first posts until past Weis senberg; nor did he offer to make any resistance until he had gained the heights in the rear of Reickenbach. The enemy had not yet seen our cavalry.

General Lefebvre Desnouettes, at the head of 1,500 horses of Polish lancers of the Guards, charged and overthrow the ene my's cavalry in the plain of Rettenbach. The enemy believing that these were alone, caused a division of their cavalry to to advance, ad and several divisions were successively engaged, General Latour Maubourg, with his 14,000 horse, and the French and Saxon cuirassiers, arrived to their assistance, and several charges of cavalry took place. The enemy, quite astonished to find 15 or 16000 cavalry before him, whilst he believed us to be unsupplied with any, retired in disorder. The corps of red lancers of the Guards is for a great part composed of the volunteers of Paris, and its neighbourhood. General Lefebvre Desnouettes, and General Colbert, their colonel, betowed the greatest eulogiums on them. In this affair of cavalry, General Bruyere, of the light cavalry, and an officer of the highest distinction, had his leg carried off by a cannon-ball.

General Reynier with the Saxon corps gained the heights beyond Rettenbach, and pursued the pursued enemy as far as the village of Hotterndorf-Night overtook us, at a league from Guerlitz. Although they had been extremely long, we finding ourselves now at the distance of eight leagues from the field of battle, and that the troops had undergone so much fatigue, the French army was to have slept at Goerlitz; but the enemy having placed a corps of their rear guard on the heights in front, and as it would have required half an hour more day-light to turn his left, the Emperor ordered the army to take a position.

In the battles of the 20th and 21st, the Wurtemberg General Franquemont, and General Lorenzez, were wounded. Our loss on these days may be estimated at 11 or 12,000 men in killed and wounded. At seven o'clock in the evening of the day of the 22d, the Great Marshal, Duke of Frioul, being on a small eminence along with the Duke of Treviso and General Kirgener, all three with their feet on the ground, and at a sufficient distance from the fire, one of the last balls fired by the enemy struck down close to the Duke of Treviso, tore the lower part of the Great Marshal, and killed General Kirgener on the spot. The Duke of Frioul immediately felt that he was mortally wounded, and expired twelve hours after. As soon as the posts were placed, and that the army had taken its bivouasque, the Emperor went to see the Duke of Frioul. He found him perfectly master of himself, and showing the greatest sang froid. The Duke offered his hand to the Emperor, who pressed it to his lips. "My whole life," said he to him, "has been consecrated to your service, nor do I regret its loss, but for the use it still might have been of to you!"-" Duroc!" replied the Emperor, "there is a life to come: it is there you are going to wait for me, and where we shall one day meet again!""Yes, Sire, but that will not be yet these thirty years, when you will have triumphed over your enemies, and realised all the hopes of our country. I have lived an honest man; I have nothing to reproach myself with. I leave a daughter behind me;

your Majesty will fill the place of a lather to her." The Emperor grasping the right hand of the Great Marshal, remained a quarter of an hour with his head reclined on his right hand, in deep silence. The Great Marshal was the first who broke this silence: "Ah, Sire," cried he, "go away: this sight gives you pain!" The Emperor. supporting himself on the Duke of Dal matia, and the Great Master of the Hone, quitted the Duke of Frioul, without being able to say more than these words, "Fare well then, my friend." His Majesty re turned to his tent, nor would he receive any person the whole of that night.

On the 23d, at nine o'clock in the morn ing, General Reynier entered Goerlitz. Bridges were thrown over the Neisse, and the army crossed that river.

On the 23d, in the evening, the Duke of Belluno was near Botzenburg; Count Lan riston had his head-quarters at Hochkerch; Count Reynier before Trotskendorf, on the road to Lauban; and Count Bertrand in the rear of the same village; the Duke of Tarentum at Schoenberg, and the Emperor at Goerlitz.

A flag of truce, sent by the enemy, brought several letters; from which, it a believed that he wishes to negociate for an armistice.

The enemy's army has retired by the road of Branzlau and Lauban, in Silesia. All Saxony is delivered from her enemies; and by to-morrow, the 24th, the French army will be in Silesia.

The enemy has burnt a great quantity of his baggage, blown up a number of parks and distributed through the villages great quantities of wounded. Those whom he was able to take away in carriages had not their wounds dressed; the inhabitants make their numbers upwards of 18,000; and more than 10,000 remain in our power. The town of Goerhtz, which contains 8 of 10,000 inhabitants, has received the French as their liberators. The City of Dresden, and the Saxon Ministry, have shown the greatest activity in providing for the army, which has never had a greater abundance of every thing.

Although great quantities of ammunition have been consumed, yet the workmen of Torgau and Dresden, and the convoys which arrive through the attention of Ge neral Sorbier, keep our artillery well pro vided.

We have received intelligence from Glogau, Custrin, and Stetting. All these places are in good condition.

The recital of the hattle of Wurtchen can only be considered as a sketch. The General Etat Major will collect the reports, which will make known such officers, sol diers, and corps, as have distinguished themselves.

In the small combat of the 22d, at Beib enbach, we ascertained that our young ch yaky