this part of Saxony, extending from Dessau to Marienburgh on the Bohemian frontier. In the mean time gen. Bennigsen, with the corps of Colloredo, has driven the enemy from his entrenchments at Gieshubel, and has advanced towards Dresden on the great road from Toplitz. The actual position and intentions of Bonaparte are entirely unknown. A strong force, not less than fifty thousand men, is opposed to prince Schwartzenberg; and the general belief is, that Bonaparte himself has made a rapid movement with the mass of his army to attack gen. Blucher before his junction with the prince royal is completed. Be this as it may, it is not likely that any partial advantage will materially improve his prospects, or render the ultimate success of the allies more doubtful. His communication with France being totally destroyed-his army in considerable distress-his maga zines nearly exhausted, and the country in which he is, utterly without the means of replenishing them, he must shortly find it necessary to break through the circle which has been drawn around him: in this attempt he may probably succeed, but there is every reason to hope that it will be accompanied by the destruction of a great part of his army. Full justice is done to the military talents and able combinations of the prince marshal: had he been less prudent and circumspect in his movements, we should not have been placed in the formidable and commanding attitude which we are now enabled to assume. P. S.-By intelligence received this morning, it appears that prince Schwartzenberg, with the main body of his army, is at Chemnitz, and in the neighbourhood, Bonaparte left Dresden on the 7th with the king of Saxony and his family, and is at Rochlitz, where his army is chiefly assembled. Gen. Bennigsen has advanced to Dresden, in which it is said Bonaparte has left but a feeble garrison, consisting, according to report, of not more than three thousand men. Extract of a dispatch from lieutenant-general the hon. sir Charles Stewart, K.B. dated Head-quarters prince royal of Sweden, Oct. 11, 1813 In conformity to your lordship's instructions, being sufficiently re covered from my wound to travel, I left the head-quarters of the allied army at Toplitz on the 3d instant, and arrived at those of the crown prince of Sweden at Radegast, near Zorbig, on the 8th. Mr. Thornton has fully put your lordship in pos session of the interesting military intelligence to that period. I have now to inform you, that after the brilliant passage of the Elbe by gen. Blucher at Elster, in which both decision and judgement have been pre-eminently displayed, and the consequent passage of the same river by the prince royal's army at the points of Rosslau and Acken, his royal highness the crown prince conceived a movement of the whole allied force to the left bank of the Saale would force the enemy either to a general battle, or would be the most effectual mode to embarrass and harass his retreat, if he should determine upon a measure which the combined movements of the armies of Bohemia, Silesia, and of the North of Germany on his flanks, and on all his communications, seemed to render so indispensably necessary; Napoleon, it seems, had manœuvred from Dresden, according to reports, with a large corps of cavalry on the right, and all his infantry on the left left bank of the Elbe, as far down as Archlau: a strong demonstration of twenty or thirty thousand men was made from Torgau towards the point of Elster on the 8th, where gen. Blucher passed, probably with a design of menacing that general, and forcing him to repass the river. The bold determination of the allies was not, however, to be arrested by demonstration; and the whole army of Blucher, being now in close communication with that of the prince royal, the former marched from Duben on Jesnitz on the 9th, and passed the Mulda; and the crown prince concentrated his forces between Zorbig, Radega-t, and Bitterfeld. The enemy, according to accounts, appeared now to be collected about Eulenberg and Oschatz, between the Mulda and the Elbe. On the 10th, gen. Blucher moved from Jesnitz to Zorbig, and the armies of Silesia and the North of Germany were here assembled. The determination being taken to pass the Saale, orders were issued in the night, and gen. Blucher moved with the Silesian army to pass the river at Wettin, bridges being constructed for that purpose. Gen. Bulow, with his corps d'armée, was in like manner to pass at Wettin; gen. Winzingerode, with the Russians, at Rothenburg; and the prince royal, with the Swedes, at Alsleben and Bernburg. The whole allied force was then to place itself in order of battle, with its left on the Saale, waiting the further de. velopment of the enemy's move ments. Gen. Bulow's corps and gen. Winzingerode's corps, after passing the river, were to form the right of the Silesian army, and the Swedes to be in reserve or second line. Each corps d'armée is to form in three lines; gen. Woronzoff, who formed gen. Winzingerode's advan ced guard at Halle, is to be regulated in his movements by the attempts of the enemy, and fall back on the forces passing at Wettin, if he should be attacked by superior numbers, but otherwise to retain Halle as long as possible. Your lordship will observe by these bold and decided movements, that the points of passage on the Elbe, by which the armies have passed, have been abandoned, and are to be destroyed, if necessary; and other bridges have been prepared below Magdeburg in case of need. The corps of observation, under gen. Thumen, before Wittenberg, of about six thousand men, in the event of the enemy forcing a passage there for the purpose of alonjéing the right bank of the Elbe, and returning to Magde. burg (in the extremity in which he is placed, or in another improbable but possible event of his pushing with all his forces to Berlin), has orders to retire on gen. Tauenzien, who with ten thousand men is to remain at Dessau, and, according to circumstances, either to manœuvre on the right bank against any possible effort of the enemy's, or by forced marches strengthen, in case of need, the armies assembled on the Saale. Gen. Tauenzien will be assisted by all the landsturm, and some smaller detached corps are also to join him. Information now arrived that Platow with his Cossacks was at Pegau; generals Kleist and Wittgenstein, with the advance of the grand army of Bohemia, approaching Altenburg; and our communication seemed to be completely established behind the rear of the French army. Information was still vague of the movements of the enemy; but accounts were brought in on the evening of the 10th, that he was moving troops from the different points of Lutzen (13) and 1 and Wurzen to Leipsic, and it was added that Bonaparte was expected to arrive there on the 10th. His force between Dresden and Leipsic, exclusive of garrisons, at the highest calculation may be estimated at one hundred and eighty thousand men: that of the Silesian army at sixty. five thousand, and that of the prince royal at sixty thousand, with six hundred pieces of artillery: and it is impossible to see a finer army, or one more fully equipped in all its parts. By the reports received this day, gen. Platow with all his Cossacks has arrived at Lutzen, having taken some hundreds of prisoners at Weissenfels, and is come into complete communication with the advance of gen. Woronzoff's Cossacks from Halle. Platow reports the assembling of the enemy's army round Leipsic. We have certain accounts that the army of Bohemia is now between Altenburg and Chemnitz, and gen. Bennigsen, with the Austrian division of Colloredo, which has been joined to him, is meditating a demonstration towards Dresden. P.S.-General Blucher was not enabled, by the bridge not being complete, to pass at Wettin, but proceeded to Halle, where he has passed. Gen. Bulow has not passed this day, but the rest of the allied army is on the left bank of the Saale. NOVEMBER. BOW-STREET POLICE. C. S. 1. For some time past a great number of letters have been complained of as not coming to hand, and particularly those which contained notes and bills remitted from the country, and directed to the Mile-End district. That district being divided among seven lettercarriers, who deliver the letters, and no suspicion falling on any one of them in particular, whilst the robberies still continued to be commit ted, it was at length determined to have a general searching of the seven letter-carriers, and Monday morning was the time appointed for the search. Just after they had made up their different parcels of letters for delivery, and were about to leave the post-office, Lavender and Taunton, the Bow-street offi cers, were introduced to them; the officers informed them the cause of their visit, and that they must be under the disagreeable necessity of searching their persons and their letters. The first man Lavender commenced with was John Plumer, and he found among his letters a double one, directed to Mrs. Davidson, in Mile-End Terrace, on opening which it proved to contain a 107. country note, and which let ter he had no right to have in his possession, Mile-End Terrace not being in his delivery. In his coat pocket was a letter very much tumbled and dirtied, dated from Newcastle, and purporting to con tain a bill of exchange for 201 105. and the bill of exchange answering that description was found in his waistcoat pocket. On searching his residence, about 200 letters were found, some opened and some not, but none of them in his own de livery. It is therefore supposed, that when double letters, believed to contain notes or bills, passed through his hands in the deliveries of the other six men, he detained them. He is only about twentythree years of age. Tuesday morn ing he underwent an examination, and was committed for further ex amination. On Thursday, a female who had lived in high life was brought to this office on a charge of stealing silk stockings, and was locked up in the strong room which has lately been built adjoining the office. Soon after, some dreadful cries were heard, which induced the gaoler to ascertain the cause, when he found the woman extremely ill, and that the dreariness of the place, and the circumstances of her situation, had brought on a premature labour. She requested to have assistance: however, she was with the greatest care and tenderness removed to a private room in the Brown Bear public-house, and an accoucheur was procured. On the medical gentleman's arrival, he gave it as his opinion that it would be twelve hours at least before her delivery, and that she might be removed with safety. A hackney-coach was procured, and she was conveyed to her residence. Monday morning, some of the pipes for conveying the inflammable gas near the reservoir, in Great Peter-street, Westminster, blew up with a great explosion. Engines arrived immediately, and no serious injury occurred other than the neighbourhood and parts contiguous being shaken by the concussion. On Wednesday last, Mr. Ferrier, nephew to Mr. Sandeman, a respectable merchant, having some business to transact at the Londondocks, unfortunately fell between two vessels, whilst in the act of stepping from one to another: he rose several times, and in the space of about eight minutes he was got into a boat, but it was too late to save his life. A surgeon was sent for, and it appeared that he had received various contusions on his head and body by coming in contact with the mooring-chains in his fall. But it was the opinion of the surgeon, that even had the bruises not taken place, the youth could not have survived, since it has been proved in numerous cases, that from the pernicious copperas quality of the London docks water, it never fails to prove fatal to such persons as have the misfortune to be immersed in it. LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. Foreign Office, Nov. 3, 1813. Mr. Edward Solly, of the house of Isaac Solly and Co., arrived this morning at the office of viscount Castlereagh, from Leipsic, with duplicates of dispatches from lieut.-gen. the hon. sir C. W. Stewart, K. B. of which the following are copies. The originals, by his aid-de-camp, Mr. James, are not yet received : Sebenditz, Oct. 17, 1813. My lord. The glorious army of Silesia has added another victory to its list, and the brow of its yeteran leader is decorated with fresh laurel. Forty pieces of cannon, twelve thousand killed, wounded, and prisoners, one eagle, and many caissons, have been the fruits of the victory of Radefeld and Lindenthal. To give your lordship the clearest idea in my power of this battle, I must revert to the position of the armies of Silesia and the North of Germany on the 14th inst. When we received certain intelligence that the enemy was withdrawing from the right bank of the Elbe to collect in Leipsic, at this time the prince royal was at Cothen, and gen. Blucher at Halle. The former occupied with the advanced guards the left bank of the Mulda, and the latter Merseburg and Schenditz. Gen. Blucher moved his headquarters, on the 14th, to Gros Kugel, pushing his advance on the great road to Leipsic, and occupy(I 4) ing ing the villages on each side of it. The enemy was in force in his front, still holding Deblitsch and Bitterfeld, with some troops along the Mulda. The crown prince of Sweden issued orders to march to Halle in the night of the 14th; but when his troops were in march, he took up his head-quarters at Sylbitz, and placed the Swedish army with its right at Wittin, and the left near the Petersberg. General Bulow occupied the centre of his line between Petersberg and Oppin, and the corps of Winzingerode was on the left at Zorbig. Gen. Blucher found the enemy's forces, consisting of the 4th, 6th, and 7th corps of the French army, and great part of the guard, under marshals Marmont and Ney, and gen. Bertrand, occupying a line with their right at Freyroda, and their left at Lindenthal. The country is open, and very favourable for cavalry around these latter villages; but the enemy was posted strong in front of a wood of some extent, near Radefeld; and beliind it the ground is more intersected: generally speaking, however, it is open, and adapted to all arms. The disposition of attack of the Silesian army was as follows:The corps of gen. Langeron was to attack and carry Freyroda, and then Radefeld, having the corps of gen. Sachen in reserve. The corps d'armée of gen. D'Yorck was directed to move on the great chaussée, leading to Leipsic, until it reached the village of Sitzchein, when, turning to its left, it was to force the enemy at Lindenthal. The Russian guards and advanced guard were to press on the main road to Leipsic. The corps of gen. St. Priest, arriving from Merseberg, was to follow the corps of gen. Langeron. The formation of the cavalry, and the different reserves, was made on the open ground between the villages. It was nearly mid-day before the troops were at their stations. The enemy soon after the first onset gave up the advanced villages, and retired some distance, but tenaciously held the woody ground on their right, and the villages of Gros and Klein Wetteritz, as also the villages of Mockern and Mokau, on their left. At Mockern a most bloody contest ensued ; it was taken and retaken by the corps of Yorck five times; the musquetry fire was most galling, and this was the hottest part of the field; many of the superior officers were either killed or wounded, at length the victori ous Silesians carried all before them, and drove the enemy beyond the Partha. In the plain there were many brilliant charges of cavalry. The Brandenburg regiment of hussars distinguished itself in a parti cular manner, and, supported by infantry, charged a battery of eight pieces, which they carried. The enemy made an obstinate resistance also on their right, in the villages of Great and Little Weteritz and Ilchausen, and in the woody ground around them; and when they found we had forced their left, they brought an additional number of troops on count Langeron, who was chiefly engaged with marshal Ney's corps, which arrived from the neighbourhood of Duben. However, the Russians, equally with their bravę allies in armis, made the most gal lant efforts, and they were fully successful-night only put an end to the action. The Russian cavalry acted in a very brilliant manner. Gen. Kolp's cavalry took a battery of 13 guns, and the Cossacks of gen. Emanuel, five. The enemy drew off towards Siegeritz and Pfosen, |