New York, March 4, 1813. lency of the happy occurrences of the 5th April, with the intent of relieving the good citizens of Berlin from the dread and fear they entertained of possibly again seeing the enemy within their walls.- -General Von Borstell, with his detached corps, had already advanced as far as Wahletz, for the purpose of surrounding Magdeburg on the right bank of the Elbe; but, on the 2d of April, being attacked by a superior force, he, according to his previous instructions, retreated back to Nedlitz, but covered the roads to Burg and Gominern by Cossacks. -On the 5th of April the enemy obliged General Von Borstell to fall back to Gevena (on the road to Gortzke), and forced the Cossacks past Lutzkau and towards Burg. As I had received certain information that the Viceroy of Italy commanded this expedition in person, with a corps d'armee of four divisions, about 22 or 24,000 men strong, among which were 3,000 cavalry, 40 pieces of artillery, not only causing the country round Magdeburgh to be plunder Marshal's Office of the United States of America for the District of New York, at the City of New York, March 4, 1813. By virtue of the power vested in me, and special instructions from the proper authority, all Alien Enemies, engaged in commerce, and residing and being within forty miles of tide-water, or the margins of the Hudson and East Rivers, and Long Island Sound, in the district of New York, and particularly those in the City of New York, are hereby required forthwith to retire beyond that distance from tide-water, and the margins of the Hudson and East River and the Sound. Passports for their departure will be given at the Marshal's Office, and the places of their residence therein designated. Persons of the above description, who refuse or neglect to comply with this requisition, will be immediately taken into custody.And all alien enemies, not engaged in commerce, and re-ed (on the right bank of the Elbe), but siding and being within 40 miles of tide- likewise, not knowing that my corps was water, or the margins of the Hudson East so near him, intended making an attempt Rivers, and the Sound, in said district, are upon Berlin; I determined on attacking required immediately to apply to the Mar- him with my whole strength, to drive him shal for permission to remain where they back with my whole force.- For this are, which permission will be granted purpose, on the 4th April, I concentrated when it satisfactorily appears that their in- the force of General Von York, near Zorest, tentions towards the United States are that of Lieutenant-General Von Berg, at friendly, and that the indulgence and hos- three German miles from thence, in the pitality which have been extended to them village of Lietzo, and fixed my head-quarhave not been abused or misapplied.- ters at Zorest. I directed General Von Also, Alien enemies, of every occupation Borstell, and likewise General Von Bulow, or profession, who have arrived in the city who had, so early as the 4th April, arrived of New York, from a foreign place, since at Ziesa, to push as far forward as the enethe declaration of war, are required, with- my would permit; but that they should on out delay, to retire into the interior of the the 5th, when they would be informed by country, beyond the distance above-men- a cannonade of my having commenced an tioned. If the different requisitions re- attack, fall on the enemy with the greatest quired by this notice are not uncondition- impetuosity. -On the 5th, in the mornally complied with, vigorous measures willing, Lieutenant-General Von York's corps be taken against all those to whom it has reference. PETER CURTINIUS, NORTHERN WAR. Head-quarters, Zubst, April 7, 1813. 1 hasten humbly to inform your Excel advanced to Leitzkeu, and that of Lieutenant-General Von Berg to Ladeburg. Lieutenant-General Von Borstell had advanced towards Makun, and LieutenantGeneral Von Bulow to Hohenzias. At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lieutenant General Von York was obliged to send a van-guard towards Gammern, and Lieutenant-General Von Berg to do the same to this place. (To be continued.) Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent-Garden. COBBETT'S WEEKLY POLITICAL REGISTER. VOL. XXIII. No. 21.] LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1813. 737] most [Price 1s. [738 about after "THE COSSACK," and after his spear; that identical spear, fourteen feet long, with which he killed thirty Frenchmen in an hour, and which, as we were told, the Cossack brought up from Yarmouth or Harwich, sticking out of the window of the post-chaise? And the "DON COSSACK," too? Where is he? -Oh! what a wise, what a "thinking "nation!" These destroyers of our enemy may now hasten back again; for there appears to be business enough for them to perform.And, how unfortunate that the Duke of Cumberland did not set off a little sooner! If he had been present at the battle of Lutzen, the result might have been different. However, he is on his way, and, in all probability, we shall soon hear of the effect of his presence with the armies of the allies.- One thing I must stipulate for beforehand with my readers, and that is, that if His Royal Highness does not beat Buonaparte, he shall not, for all that, be supposed to be inferior to him either in skill or courage; but, then, I am afraid, that we shall have to allow, that there is a superiority in the French troops; for, unless we allow this, I do not see how we shall be able to deny, in case of Buonaparté's beating the allies with the Duke along with them, that the Duke is not inferior to him either in skill or in courage. SUMMARY OF POLITICS.. NORTHERN WAR.-BATTLE OF LUTZEN. -This battle is the most fatal that has taken place since the beginning of this twenty years' war. It has not been the most bloody; it has not ended in the most signal triumph of the French; it has not spread so much havoc and so much disgrace amongst the enemy; but, still it is the fatal; because the result was less expected than a defeat ever was, upon any former occasion. I have been, for nearly four months, a most mortified spectator of the delusion practised upon this "most think66 ing nation," who have been made to believe, as firmly as they believe in their existence, that the Emperor Napoleon was down for ever; that it was impossible for him again to collect an army in sufficient force to dare to face the allies in the North; that, in short, he was about to experience the fate of a rebel and an usurper; and that, in a few months, we might expect to hear of his having suffered an ignominious death.I endeavoured to put the public on their guard against being the dupe of these delusions; but, I must confess, that, even amongst persons usually rational in their way of calculating, I found very few indeed to coincide with me in opinion. It was manifest, I thought, that the whole question turned upon the success that Na- --The Morning Chronicle, whose busipoleon would meet with in raising an army ness it is to work the Ministers out of their in France. That he appears to have done; places, and to put in its own party, takes and, having again an army of Frenchmen, this occasion of blaming the Ministers, all other things he will obtain.I do though it is not very easy to perceive what not see what is now to arrest his progress, they can have done to cause the Russians unless, indeed, the people of Germany can and Prussians to be beaten by the French; be roused against him; and, I must, from or, what they could have done to prevent what has passed, greatly doubt of that. what has happened.The offer of terms There are now the same motives to oppos- of peace might, indeed, have had some efing him that there were before, and I fect on the minds of men on the Continent; cannot see why they should now be more but, can any one say, that the Whig Party efficacious than they formerly were. A have shown any desire to see such offers people, and only a people, can, in my opi- made? Where is the record of any motion, nion, effectually resist his power; and, any speech even, to that effect? Nay, have until I see a people hearty in the cause, I they not abetted the Ministers in all their shall continue to believe, that he will ulti-warlike projects, and even gone beyond mately succeed.- And now what do them in expressions of exultation at what those persons think, who have been running they all appear to have deemed the fall of elevation in his service. It is, therefore, no wonder that he succeeds, and less wonder that he is admired by his army and by the people, seeing that he can have no temptation to promote an unworthy person. Napoleon?--But, besides this, will Mr. | sist him, is the only recommendation to Perry undertake to show, that, in the present internal state of this country, peace with France is possible? If she be left in possession of Holland, I defy the Ministers, under the present system, to reduce by peace the expenses of the country; and, if the taxes cannot be reduced, peace would only have the effect of sending out of the country many of those who now smart under the taxes. Are the Whigs ready to give us a reform of the parliament? If they are not, to talk about peace is a mere mockery. -The hireling prints are, as usual, making great efforts to cause the public to Believe, that Napoleon has, upon this occasion, gained no victory. He has advanced 50 miles, however, according to their own acknowledgment. But, this thinking people have long been in the habit of regarding his advances as no proof at all of triumph; while those of his enemies are decided proofs of triumph.-—It is useless, however, to make these observations for about the thousandth time. They do, perhaps, but little good. The public ear is filled with the falsehoods of the hired press; and suffering alone can make way for a belief of the truth.- What is most worthy of remark upon this occasion is, that the people of France seem to partake, as much as ever, in the feelings of the Emperor. That is the main point; for, after all, France herself, that fruitful source of military talent and military courage, is what he must depend upon. When the French people resolved, that the Rhine and the Alps should be the boundary of their territory, how soon they extended their sway to the Rhine and the Alps! It is the genius and taste of the people of France, which do every thing. It is not on brute force that Napoleon depends. It is on the skill of his officers; their genius for war; their quicksightedness; their ability in turning every circumstance to their advantage; and the great mass of like ability, though in a different way, amongst the ranks of his army. -Then, he has the vast advantage of being disembarrassed by aristocratical and oligarchical interests. No family influence prevails with him. He is not, by any such shackles, confined to a few, out of whom to select his officers. He has a whole army; he has all France, to choose out of. All the youth of France are brought, as it were, one after another, before him, for the purpose of giving him an opportunity to select the fittest persons to command in his armies. He chooses, too, after experiMerit, real merit; real ability to as ence. -The COURIER and TIMES news-papers, especially the latter, has, for many months past, amused their readers with accounts of insurrections in France. We now know, that these were falsehoods hatched by themselves, or by others for them, who had their views to answer. Indeed, all men of any political information knew, at the time, that they were falsehoods; but, the mass of the people believed the accounts; and, as the accounts have never been contradicted, they do still believe them. The people in this country, in general, think that Napoleon is hated in France as much as they hate him. If you were to tell them the contrary, they would either not attend to you, or think that you were ignorant of what you were talking about. They believe, alınost to a man, that Napoleon is held, in France, in deadly abhorrence; that he is obliged to resort to all sorts of precautions to prevent himself from being assassinated; that he has spies in every hole and corner; that no man dares open his lips without danger to his life; that there are soldiers every where to shoot at the people, and that these soldiers, having been forced into the service, hate him even more than the rest of the nation do; that France is filled with Bastiles; that any man may be clapped into prison, or shot, or hanged, at a minute's warning, without any trial; that there are no laws in France except military laws; that there are no courts of justice; and, in short, that the people are the most wretched slaves, the most miserable, starving, bare-boned creatures that imagination can trace.And, why do the "thinking people" believe all this? Because there are a hundred or two of news-papers to tell it them, once every day, or, at least, once every week, all the year round. Burke said: "let a man tell you his story once a-day for a year, " and, at the end of the year he is your "master. -The Country-papers are, for the most part, the mere echoes of the hired prints in London. They are, in general, even more dependent. They depend for existence on their advertisements. These follow the politics. The magistrates, the Clergy, the Sheriffs, the TaxCommissioners, the Navy and Transport Boards, the Barrack-office, the War-office, and the numerous other sources of adver find, in such men, soldiers ready to risk their lives for him, soldiers to beat his enemies: if you were to put these questions to the good thinking country people in England, they would first stare at you; they would then grin; and they would, if they gave you any answer at all, say that Bony was a scoundrel, and that they hoped that the Russians would finish him. While the more cunning and wicked part of them would call you a friend of Buonaparte. tisements, all dependent on the Ministry of the day, draw almost the whole of the Country-papers into the Government vortex. So that, if the editors were, as some of them are, well-informed men, the interests of the concern must be attended to; and thus are the Country people, who read only the weekly abstract of the London papers, kept in as complete ignorance of the truth, as far as relates to Napoleon and his subjects, as are the people of Otaheite. In short, it is impossible to form an idea of -This is the answer you would get. ignorance more complete.It is thus You would get no other; and on they would that they are always found on the side of go again to call him a butcher and a robber, those who are for war with Buonaparte. and speak of him as wishing to get hither They are made to believe, that he is a mere to rob and murder us.Were it not for devil in human shape; and, that it is his the base press of this country, the people serious intention to come here with an army never could have been so deceived as they to murder all the people. They believe, have been and still are. Nine out of ten of that he is a sort of wholesale murderer; them never read the official accounts from that he delights in the shedding of human France. They read only the abstract of blood; that he has butchered thousands the editor; and this he knows very well, with his own hands; and, looking upon otherwise he would not venture to make him in this light, how is it to be expected, that abstract, as he generally does, and say that they can ever think of peace with him? just the contrary of what the accounts con-If you were to tell them about the tain. He knows, that men of sense and incodes of laws that he has formed and put in formation will express their wonder at his force; about his institution of schools for impudence, and their contempt for his vethe education of the children of labour-nality; but, he also knows, they are a very ers and mechanics; about his vast improve- small minority; that his endeavours will ments in roads and canals; about the flou- generally succeed; that he has the fears rishing state of agriculture since his exalta-and the hopes of the herd with him; and, tion; about his unbounded encouragement of the arts and sciences; about his infinite pains to enrich the public libraries and seminaries of learning; about all, or any of, his acts of this kind, they would, if they believed you, let your statement in at one ear and out at the other.. Their minds are choked up. They cannot, and they will not see in him any thing but a ferocious, a bloody tyrant, hated even more in France than he is in England.If you were to ask them how it happens, that, if he be so universally hated in France, he can leave France for so long a time as he does without risking his throne; if you ask them how he can take away so many soldiers, if his government at home depend wholly on soldiers; if you were to ask them how he trusts himself with an army, composed entirely of conscripts, whom he has forced, in chains, as we are told, to form themselves into regiments; if you were to ask them, how he could force them, if all his soldiers hated him; if you were to ask them, how he comes to find, in those men who so hate him, and whom he has collected by the means of chains; if you were to ask them, how he comes to which is the main thing, the falsehood is profitable to him; more so than the truth would be.--When one considers, therefore, the means that are made use of, one ceases to wonder at the delusion which prevails at the end of twenty years. One ceases to wonder, that the same nation, who were so long persuaded, that they could not preserve their property or their religion while France was a Republic, are now persuaded that the danger is not less imminent when France is become again a Monarchy. One ceases to wonder, that the same nation, who cried out against liberty and patriotism while the French cried out for them, should now think it wise and just to carry on a war for what they are made to believe are liberty and patriotism.- The whole lies in these few words: the people of this country feel most grievously the burdens they have to bear; but, the press makes them believe, that, unless Napoleon can be overset, they will have to suffer more than they now suffer.- So long as this belief can be upheld, the majority of the people' will be for the war; and, it will be upheld until their suffering shall be so great as to 66 shake this tenet of their political faith. "discussing that point we must make our -If Napoleon succeed in reaching Pe- stand upon this never to commit our tersburgh, which I think not impossible, it "naval rights to the mediation of any powwould make an impression on the merchants er. This is the flag we must nail to the and manufacturers; but, very little upon "national mast, and go down rather than the farmers, whose corn would sell the "strike it.. -Before the war commenced, higher, and who would still see the war concession might have been proper; we carried on with pleasure. There are some "always thought it unwise. But the hour few of them, who calculate upon better" of concession and of compromise is passprinciples; but not many; and the majo-ed; America has rushed unnecessarily rity would still cry, war! --It seems to me, that the burning of Moscow and the consequent retreat of the French armies will have been the cause of adding some years to the length of the war upon the Continent; but, I do not think, that either that or any events now to come, upon the Continent, can have any effect at all as to the producing of peace with us. My opi-" nion is, that, unless we have a reform at home, we cannot remain at peace while Napoleon retains any power at all; that we must reform, or overset him, or that we cannot have peace. "and unnaturally into war, and she must. 66 be made to feel the effects of her folly "and injustice. Peace must be the con"sequence of punishment, and retraction "of her insolent demands must precede ne"gociation. The thunder of our cannon must first strike terror into the American "shores, and Great Britain must be seen and felt in all the majesty of her might, " from Boston to Savannah, from the Lakes of Canada to the Mouths of the Mis"sissippi.And before this article goes forth to the world, her cannon have "been heard and her power felt. The "clamorous demagogues of America, the AMERICAN WAR.- This war, as ap"turbulent democrats, the noisy advocates pears by advices from America, has been "for war with us, the pretended patriots further marked by our success by land and "of America and the real partisans of our failure by sea. I will not call it dis- " France, assume now another tone. Their grace, or defeat; but, an American Sloop" papers no longer speak the language of of War has now defeated an English Sloop" boast and menace. Fear pervades their of War for the second time. So that," towns on the sea coast-Alarm prevails owing to some cause or other, the Ameri- "in all quarters. They are more intent can Navy, upon equal terms, really seems upon removing their property than in to have gained the superiority.- -In the "making head against the danger; and mean while, however, it is stated, that," though they boasted that they would supthrough the means of the mediation of port Government with all their means Russia, an opening for a negociation for and resources, with their treasures and peace is likely to take place. But, from "their blood, the Government cannot, in the language of our vile news-papers, the "the first year of the war, raise a loan of editors of which appear to hate the Ame- "Four Millions sterling! These are the ricars for no other cause than that they are "immediate consequences of a war entered not slaves, little hope seems to exist of a "into to gratify the passions of hatred and happy result. The article, to which I al- "envy of England, and to propitiate lude, was in the following words: "France."And, this is the language "Captain Bedford, as we stated yester- of peace, is it? It would seem, that "day, has brought the official notification writers like this feared nothing so much as of an offer on the part of Russia to me- an end to that war, which has already "diate between this country and America. brought more disgrace upon the British "We hope it will be refused; indeed we Navy, than all the wars in which we were "are sure it will. We have the highest ever before engaged. It would really seem, 66 respect for the Russian Government, the that these men were paid to endeavour to "warmest admiration of its prowess, but cause an American Navy to be created. "we have a love for our naval pre-emi- What other object they can have in view, 66 nence that cannot bear to have it even in thus goading the Americans on to hos"touched by a foreign hand. Russia too tility and hatred, I cannot conceive.I "can hardly be supposed to be very adverse am sure, that the Times news-paper, by "to the principles of the armed neutrality, its senseless abuse of Mr. Madison and the and that idea alone would be sufficient Congress, and its insolent and contemp"to make us decline the offer. But without tuous language towards the American peo |