Produced by Thierry Alberto, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net. * * * * * +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | A number of obvious typographical errors have | | been corrected in this text. | | For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document. | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * NARRATIVE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EVENTS WHICH OCCURRED IN AND NEAR LEIPZIG, IMMEDIATELY BEFORE, DURING, AND SUBSEQUENT TO, THE SANGUINARY SERIES OF ENGAGEMENTS BETWEEN THE ALLIED ARMIES OF THE FRENCH, FROM THE 14th TO THE 19th OCTOBER, 1813 Illustrated with MILITARY MAPS, EXHIBITING THE MOVEMENTS OF THE RESPECTIVE ARMIES. COMPILED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY FREDERIC SHOBERL. "Suave etiam belli certamina magna tueri Per campos instructa, tuà sine parte pericli." LUCRET. Lib. ii. 5. EIGHTH EDITION. _LONDON:_ PRINTED FOR R. ACKERMANN, 101, STRAND, _By W. CLOWES, Northumberland court, Strand._ 1814. [Price _Five Shillings_.] PREFACE. After a contest of twenty years' duration, Britain, thanks to her insular position, her native energies, and the wisdom of her counsels, knows scarcely any thing of the calamities of war but from report, and from the comparatively easy pecuniary sacrifices required for its prosecution. No invader's foot has polluted her shores, no hostile hand has desolated her towns and villages, neither have fire and sword transformed her smiling plains into dreary deserts. Enjoying a happy exemption from these misfortunes, she hears the storm, which is destined to fall with destructive violence upon others, pass harmlessly over her head. Meanwhile the progress of her commerce and manufactures, and her improvement in the arts, sciences, and letters, though liable, from extraordinary circumstances, to temporary obstructions, are sure and steady; the channels of her wealth are beyond the reach of foreign malignity; and, after an unparalleled struggle, her vigour and her resources seem but to increase with the urgency of the occasions that call them forth.