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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR The Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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Events since our last have crowded on us in such a manner as strike with awe an 4 astonishment both the worldly politician and the sincere Christian . The glory of the mighty conqueror is cast down to the ground . His armies have been defeated , and lie is returned to his capital a second time to appal
his oppressed subjects with the heartrending intelligence , that the armies of the enemy are approaching their territories , and that they , in their turn , will have to fight for their country and their independence . All Europe bowed not long ago 16 the nod of tbis mighty sovereign . He himself at last proclaims from his throne—All Eu «
rope is now against us : —and the bold language is held that France and himself would rise superior to every attack . France is likely indeed to see again upon her own soil the troops of a great confederacy , and it has no longer to resist them the mighty energy of soul , which arose from the feelings of liberty and independence breathed into her by the , revolution .
Buonaparte was fixed in Dresden , making this place the point d ' appui of his armies . The main force of the confederates was in Bohemia , and in tfce North the . Crown Prince was at the head of a large army protecting
Prussia , and threatening the country ou the banks of the £ 1 be from Leipsic to ; Hamburgh . Instructed by former disasters the qonfederates moved with a u > ci 4 ed pjan ^ to bear down with all their force upon the French in such a
manner , as to surround them , and to compel them to fi # bt under every disadvantage . The ; trench , Emperor * &w through their plan ^ and was conscious , at the same time , of his own incapacity to render it in effectual To remain at Dresden was impossible , &ud lie bad already staid too long to five him a chance of extricating himself without immense loss . If be
moved . forward into Rohejuja , the Crown Prince would gain the command of the Elbe , and cut off his retreat . If he marched against the Crown Prince , the confederate eropeperors would press upon him . To
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evacuate Dresden , and forsake the line of the Elbe , and march back into France without a battle , did not suit his lofty spirit , or the difficulties in executing such a plan might appear insuperable . On reviewing the whole there seems to have been vacillations *
in his mind , and to them probably he may now attribute the extent of hi » losses . He staid too long at Dresden , either to ensure victory or to make a safe retreat . If he could not fight the battle in Bohemia , it was in vain to expect success , when he was compelled to fight one in Germany against the united armies of hi& opponents .
On leaving Dresden , Buonaparte took the direction of Leipsic , carrying with him the King of Saxony and his family . The confederate emperors immediately inarched their troops after him , and it was soon seen , that the neighbourhood of Leipsic would be signalised by a bloody field , to
determine the fate of Europe in this mighty conflict . It is now said , that the arrangement of his troops was not such as might be expected from so experienced a commander : but this question must remain undecided even among military men , till a clearer account is given ^ of the relative position of the armies before the horrible
days of combat . Napoleon quitted Dresden on the 5 th of October , and after various marches and countermarches , the armies on both sides found themselves in the neighbourhood of Leipsic on the 16 th , when the sanguinary battle began , which wa . s completed on the 13 th , with the total
overthrow of Buonaparte ' s army , ancfe the loss of an immense number of men , with nearly all his ammunition , guns and baggage « He is supposed to have lost sixty thousand men in these fatal days , and with the wreck of his army , between seventy and eighty thousand men , he made the best of his way back towards France .
So complete a defeat excited an expectation , that the retreating army might receive considerable molestation in its retreat , and . hopes were entertained of the capture of the general-
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or The Christian's Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR The Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .
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VOL . VIII . 4 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 749, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/57/
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