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waymifer ....v.... agar ME:GN INTELLIGENCE. TOIITY-trIFTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. Paluky,Deeeinber s 7. " The„Ruflian General Benningfen had the corn vnand of an army which was eltimated at 60,000 men. At firli he intended to cover Warfaw; but he took a leffon from the intelligence of the occur rences which had t.tken place in Prali2 s and deter mined to retreat towards the Ruffian frontiers. With out having been compelled alma to fight a Cagle battle, the French entered Warfaw, paired the Vif tula, and occupied Praga. In the mean time, Field Martha' Kamenlkoi joined the Ruffian army, rift at the moment when Benningfen's corps formed a junc tion with that under Buxhovden. He was indignant at the retreat of the Ruffians, conceiving that it tended to fully the honour of his country's arms, and he accordingly made a movement in advance. " Prutlia remonßrated with the molt earner im. portunity, and complained, that after all the pro. mites of fupport made to her, the was abandoned ; reprefenting that the way to Berlin was not by Grod. no, ()Ina, or Brafc ; that 'her fubjefts had begun to abate in their zeal for their Sovereign ; and that the habit of beholding the throne of Berlin in the poffef lion of the French, was dangerous to him, and fa. vourable to the enemy. The Ruffians not only ceafed their retrograde movement, but they again began to advance. On the sth of December, General Ben. mingfen moved forward his head quarters to Pultufk. ft-The orders iffned were to prevent the French from pairing the Narew, to retake Praga, and to oc cupy the banks of the Viltula, untigthe moment when more important offenfive operations could be adopted. " The illation of Generals Kamenikoi, Buzhov. den, and Benningfen, was celebrated at the palace of Sierock with rejoicings and illumination), which were defcried from the tteeples of Warfaw. NeVerthelefs, at the moment when the enemy were cheering them (elves with feflivals, the Narew was pallid. Eight hundred Frenchmen, having fuddenly croffed that river at its juntlinn with the Urka, entrenched them (elves the fame night ; and when the enemy appear ed next morning, with the intention of forcing them hack into the river, they found themfelves too late. The French were fecure againft every event. " Being informed of this change in the enemy's operations, the Emperor left Pofen nn the 16th. At the fame moment he put his army is motion. Every report which had been received of the movements of the Ruffians gave him to underhand that they de figned to refume offenfive operations. " Marfhal Ney had been for feveral days mailer erf Thorn. He united the different craps of his army at Gallup. Marfhal Beflieres, with the fecond corps of the cavalry of referve, con fi ning of the divi fi ons of dragoons of Salt uc and Grouchy, and the divilion of Hautpoult's cuiraffiers, marched from 'l'horn to proceed to Brczun. The Marfhal Prince of Ponte Corvo marched with his corps to fupport them.— Martha) Sunk patted the Vittula nppofite Pluck ; st)d Marfhal Augereau pallid at Zackrocyn, where. the utmolt exertion was made to etiablith a bridge.— ' The fame atlivity was excited in conttrutting that on the Narew. 66 On the 221, the bridge on the Narew was com- 1 pleted. All' the referve of cavalry pallid the Viltuta at Praga, on their march to the Narew, where Mar fhal Davoult had collefted the whole of his corps.— At one o'clock in the morning of the 23d, the Em peror let out from Warfaw, and paired the Narew at nine. On reconnoitring the Urka, and the confider. able entrenchrrents thrown up by the enemy, he or dered a bridge to be thrown acrofs at the confluence of the Narew and the Utica. By the zeal of the Ge neral of Artillery, the bridge was completed in two hours. BATTLE DURING THE NIGHT AT CZARNOWO. " The divifion of Morand immediately paffed, with the intention of carrying the enemy's entrench• anent. near the village of Crarnowo. Brigadier Ge neral Macular. fupported him with his light cavalry. General 13eaumont's divifiun of Dragoons paired im• ntediat el y after. A cannonade commenced at Czar nowo. Marfhal Davoua ordered General Pettit to pals civet t, - .ith the t 2th of the line, and to carry the tedoubts. Night came on. AU the operations had to be carried on by moon light, and by two o'clock in the morning the objea which• the Emperor pro poled to himself was attained. All the batteries of she village of Czarnown were carried. Thole of the bridge were alit occupied. Fifteen thoufand men uho defended them wete routed, after an adlinate refinance. A few prifoners and fix pieces of cannon remained in our hands. Several of the enemy's Ge net als were wounded. On our fide, we had but few killed, but nearly zoo wounded. At the fame time, at the other extremity of our line of operations, Mar. !hal prey totally rotrted the remains of the Pruffirtu at my, and drove them, with very confiderable lots, into the wood of Lauterburg. Marfhal BefEeres had a brilliant affair of cavolry, furrounded and made pt 'loners three fquadrons of huffars, and took leveral pieces of cannon. BATTLE OF NASIELSK. " On the 24th the referee of cavalry and the corps of Mat fltal Davoull began their march to Nafielfk. The Emperor gave General Rapp the command of the advanced guard. At the dinance of a league from Nalieltk they fell in with the enemy's advan ced guard. General Lernarois was detached with two regiments of Dragoons to turn an extenfive wood and furround this advanced guard. This move ment was' executed with promptitude : hut the ene my's advanced guard finding that the French army made no motion in advance, fufpeeted fome marten are, and did not keep their ground. Some charges, however, wete made, in one of which Major On warrow, aide de camp to the Emperor of Ruffle, was made prifoner. Immediately after, a detachment reached the little town of Natielfk. A brine car.- tionaae enfued. The enemy had a good polition, his entrenchments being fecured by moralfes and woods. Marflotl Kamenflcoy commanded in perfon, and thought he might pals the night in the polition, to await the arrival of ether columns to juin him.— Vain calculation f He was driven out. of it, and compelled to retreat feveral leagues, though fighting all the way. A few Ruffian Generals. wets, (woun ded, feveral Colonels made poifoners, and Several pieces of cannon taken. Colnnel Bekler, of the gth Regiment of Dragoons, a brave Officer, yartaw 'silly wounded." 4.llLielt OP rem Mt& " At the fame moment General Nanfoaty, with divifioa, and a brigade of light cavalry, to tally routed, in front of Kurfeomb, the Cofacks and enemy's cavalry who had crofed the Urka at that point, and then defended the pillage of the river.— The 7th corps of the army, commanded by Martha) Angereatt, effeaed its palrage of the Urka at Kurf• comb, and routed the is,ooo men who defended it. The pelage of the bridge was atchieved in the mon brilliant (Lyle. It was performed by the hith of the lin; in clofe column, while the i6sh light infantry kept up a brifk fire of mufketry on the right bank. Scarcely had the tath formed on the other fide of the bridge, when they had to meet a charge of ca valry, which they fullained with the inttepidity ha bitual to the French infantry. But a pikemin unfur tunately forced his war to the head of the line, and plunged his pike into the Colonel, who fell dead on the (pot. He was a brave foldier, and worthy of commanding fo brave a corps. A slifcharge of mai ketry by his regiment, in the very faces of the enemy, and which threw their cavalry into the greatell &for der, was the &ft honour done to his memory. 46 On the 25th the third corps, commanded by Martial Davouft, marched for Tykocyn, whither the enemy retreated. The sth corps, commanded by Marlhal Lannes, took the road to Pultufk, with the divilion of Beker's dragoons. The Emperor, with the greatefi part of the cavalry of referve, proceeded to Ciechanoy. PASSAGE OF THE SONNA. " General Gardanne, whom the Emperor had fent with thirty of his Guards to reconnoitre the enemy's motions, reported that they were paffing the river Sonna at Lopaczyn, and direding their march to Tycoczyn. The Grand Duke of Berg, who had been left ill at Warfaw, unable to refit} the impatient defire which he felt to take a part in the events which were in preparation. fet out from that city, and has jut} joined the Emperor. He took two fquadrons of the Chaffeurs of the Guards with him, to obferve the motions of the enemy's column. The brigades of the light cavalry of referee, and the divi fions of Klein and Nanfouty, made all fpeed to join him. On reaching the bridge of Lopaczyn, he found it guarded by a regiment of Ruffian huffars. This regiment was inflantly charged by the Chaireurs of the Guards, and driven into the river, with no other lots on our fide than that of a quarter mailer being wounded. The half of this column has not yet paired ; it was attempting a ;mirage higher up the river. The Grand Duke made Colonel Dahlmann charge it at the head of the Chafreurs of the Guards, who took three pieces of cannon, after putting feve. ral fquadrons to the rout. Whilit the column whicfi the enemy had fo im prudently thrown upon the right bank were endea- vouring to gain the Narew, in order to reach Ty. coczyn, their point of rendezvous, Tycoczyn was already occupied by Martini Davouil, who took there zoo baggage carts and a great number of fledges, which had been colleined from all quarters. 44 All the columns of the enemy are broken, and wandering about in a Rate of diforder difficult to imagine. The Ruffian General committed the error of polling his army fo as to have the French army on his flank, feparated, it is true by the Narew, but having a bridge acrofs that river. Had the feafon been favourable, one might have predided that the Ruffian army could not have retreated, and that it would have been dellroyed without a battle ; but at a feafon, when it is dark at four, and where it is not light until eight, the enemy we are purfuing has every chance of efcape, particularly in a country na turally difficult and interfeded with woods. Betides the roads are four feet deep of mud, and the thaw continues. The artillery can no longer advance more than two leagues in a day. It is therefore eafy to forefee that the enemy will effea his retreat from the embarraffing fituation in which be is placed ; but be will lofe all his artillery, waggons, and baggage. 6 6 In the evening of the nth, the following was the po fi tion of the French army : The left, confining of the corps under the Martha! Prince of Ponte Cor vo, and Marffials Ney and Beffieres, were marching from Biezun on the road to Grodno. Martha! Soult was entering Ciechanow. Martha! Augereau was marching for Gulyenin and Pultulk. Martha! Lan nes was at Pultulk. 66 In there two days we made from fifteen to fix. teen hundred prifoners, and took from twenty.five to thirty pieces of cannon, three pair of colours, and one Ilandard. 64 Ihe weather here is extraordinary. It is warm. er than in the month of Oaober at ?ads; but it is rainy ; and in a country where there are no regular roads, one is in the mud at every (Lep." FORT Y-SIXTH BULLETIN. " Golymin, Dee. 22. " Marfhal Ney, charged with executing the ma nreuvres by which he was to drive the Pruffian Lieu. tenant General Leaocq from the Urka. to outflank him, and, by thefe means to cut off his communication with the Ruffians, has executed thefe movements with his accuflomed ability and intrepidity. Oa. the 23d, General Marchand's divifion moved to Gurrzno. On the 24th the enemy was purfued to Konzbrock. On the 25th, the divition came to an a&ion, by which the enemy's rear (offered fome lots. On the 26th, the enemy having collated at Soldau and Miawa, Martha' Ncy was determined to advance and attack him. The Pruflians were in poffeffion of Sol dau with 6000 infantry, and about tOOO cavalry, and, being defended by morafres and other obflacles about the place, they thought themfelves fecure againft any attack. All thefe difficulties were fur mounted by the 69th and 76th tegiments. The enemy defended himfelf in all the Itreets of the place, and was every where driven with fixed bayonets. Gen. Leftocq, übfetving the (mall number of the troops that had attacked him, walled to retake the place.— In the cootie of the night he made four fucceffive at tacks without effect. He afterwards retired to Nei denburg. Six pieces of cannon, fame colours, and a great number of prifoners, are the effects of this affair at Soldau. Martha' Ney praifes General Von der \Veldt, who was wounded. He alto makes par ticular mention of Colonel Bruno of the 69th, whofe behaviour was highly encouraging. " OD the fame day, the 59th marched to Lauter berg. " Dating the attion at Soldan, General Mar eband's devil - ton drove the enemy from Miawa, where alto a read adion took place. " Uarflral Beffieres had already taken poffellion of Bieznn, with the fecund corps Of cavalry, on the tq h The enemy feeling the importance of this pgia, and obferving that the left wing of the French army wifhed to cut the Pruffians of from the Ruffians, made an attempt to retake the plane ; this gave rife to the engagement at Bieztm. " On the a3d, at eight o'clock, the enemy' ap proached by various ways. Marlhal Beffieres had placed the only two companies of infantry he had, upon the bridge ; when Peeing the enemy approach in great numbers, he ordered General Grouchy to advance, with his chvifion, to meet them. The ene my had already made himfelf mailer of the village of CarmeJen, into which he had thrown a battalion of infantry. 41 Being attacked by General Grouchy's diolfion, the enemy's line was loon broke ; the Pruffian in fantry and cavalry, 6000 prong, were thrown into confufion, and driven into the moraffes. Five hun dred prifoners, five pieces of cannon, and two fiand ards, are the fruits of this attack. Natant Beffieres bellows the higheft encomiums upon Gen. Grouchy, General Rouget, and the Chief of the Staff General Rouffel ; Renie, the Chief d'Efcadron, of the 6th Dragoons, diningnifhed himfelf. M. Launay, Cap , lain of the fele& company of that regiment, is killed. gg M. Bqrrau, aide de camp of Marfhal Balms, is killed. In general our lofs is of (mall confeqnence it confias of eight killed, and about twenty wounded. The dragoon Plat, of the 6th, and M. Jeffroy, of the 3d, took two fiandards. " His Maje fly, wifhing to give Prince Jerome an opportunity of obtaining military knowledge, had ordered him from Silefia. This Prince has been prefent in all the affairs that have occurred, and has frequently been at the advanced polls. " His Majefty is highly pleated with the conduCt of the Artillery, for the firmnefs they have difplayed, in various affairs, and for their activity in laying bridges, and concluding the cannon along bad roads. " General Marulaz, Commandant of the cavalry of the light cot ps ; Colonel Ezcelmans, of the 111 Yager. ; and General Pettit, have difplayed marks of courage and military (kill. " His Majefty has given particular orders, that in the official details of the different affairs, no trait, be paired over which deferve to be conveyed to future ages ; as it is on that account, and in order to live for ever in the memory of pollerity, that the French foldier braves every fatigue and danger." FORTY.SEVENTH BULLETIN. 0 Pultufk. " The affair of Czarnowo, thatof Natiel(k and Kur fomb, the cavalry affair of and Lapoczyn, have been followed by that of Pultufk, and by the complete and precipitate retreat of the Ruffian army, which has finifhed the prefent year's campaign. 41 Marfbal Lances firft arrived on the morning of the 26th, direely oppofite to Pultufk, where during' the night, the whole of General Benninglen's corps had affembled. The Rufilan divifion, which had been defeated at Nafielik, had arrived about two in the morning at the camp at Pultufk, with the 3d di vilion of Maribal Davouff's corps dole at their heels. 41 At ten o'clock Marfhal Lannes began the attack having his fiat line compofed of the divifion of Su chet, the fecond of Gazan's ' and that of Oudin, of the third light corps under the command of General Dauttane, on his left wing. The engagement was obffinate • after various occurrences, the enemy was completely routed. The 17th regiment of light in fantry, and the 34:h, covered themfelves with glory —Generals Vedel and Claperede were wounded.— General Treilhard, Commandant of the light ca. valry ; General Boullard, Commandant of a brigade of dragoons under General Becker. and alto Colonel Barthelemy, of the Isth dragoons, were wounded with grape-fhot. Voifin, aid de camp to Marthal Lannes ; and M. Curial, aid de camp to General Sucher, were killed. and both have fallen with glory. Marthal Lannes waslikewife grazed by a muf. ket ball. The sth corps of the army gave a proof of every thing that could be expelled from the ruperio rity of the French infantry over that of other nations. Marthal Lannes, though he had been for fix days indifpofed, per fi lled in following his corps. The 85th regiment futtained feveral charges of The enemy's cavalry, with great coolnefs and fuccerz. During the night the enemy beat a retreat, and reached Ofirulenka. uArriat OF GOLYMIN. 46 While General Benningfen's corps was beaten at Pultufk, that of General Buzhovden affembled at Golymin about noon. The divifion of Panin, be longing to this corps, which had been attacked the evening before by the Grand Duke of Berg, and another divifion already beaten at Nafielflc, arrived by different routes at the camp of Golymin. Martha! Davonfl, who purfued the enemy from Nafiellk came up with them, charged them, and took poffeffion of a wood near the camp of Golymin. At the fame time General Augereau arriving from Golaayma, took the enemy in flank. The General of Brigade La piffe, with the 16th light infantry. carried with the bayonet a village, which ferved for a point of fup port to the enemy. The divifion of Hendelet formed in line, and advanced againft the enemy, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon ; the fire was extremely hot. The Grand Duke of Berg made feveral fuccefsful charges,in which Klein's divifion of dragoonsdiftinguithed them felves. Night coming on too loon, the battle con tinued till eleven o'clock, when the enemy retreated in diforder, leaving behind his artillery, his baggage, alma all his knapfacks, and a number of dead. All the enemy's columns retreated towards Oflrolen ka. General Feneroilles, Commandant of a bri gade of dragoons. was killed by a cannon ball. The intrepid General Rapp. the Emperor's aid de camp, was wounded by a vitae, fhot at the head of his di- Tifton of dragoons. Colonel Sensele, of the brave 24th regiment of the line, was wounded. Marffial Augereau had a horfe Thin under him. " In the mean time, Marffial Soult with his corps had arrived at Mofatl, two miles from Makow—but the horrible Houghs, the confequences of rain and thaw, arrelled his march and faved the Ruffian army, of which not a man would have ntherwife efcaped. 'The dettinies of the army of General Benningfen, and that of Buzhowden, feemed as if they would have been completed on this fide of the little River d'Orege—but every plan was thwarted by the effed of the thaw, and that to fuch a degree, that the ar tillery could not move more than three leagues in two days. The Ruffi.sn army loft eighty pieces of eannen, all his ammunition wagzentlonor e t i, ar I 206 baggage carts, and ta,coo men in kill e d, wounded, and prifoners. The movements of t h e F rench and Ruffian ctilumns will fur hifh a fubjat of real curio fit, for military men, when traced up on a map. They will then fle that the whole Ruirian army wasn' t t h e point of being annihilated in the coutfe of a f ew t i ns —and that in confequence of a finglc oyes - fight in the Ruffian General. K We have loft eight hundred men kill e d , and two thoufand wounded. Matters of the greatenpast of the Ruffian artillery, of all its potatio ns ; and having repulfed the enemy near forty le agues , the Emperor has ordered the army into v inter quart er ,. Move this expedition, the Ruffian Officers fay they had 150,000 men, new they fay they had but half that number. Which is to be believed, the Ri(Gan Officer, before, or the Rudi 40 Officers after the battle? 4' Petfia and the Porte have declared war again!! Raffia. Michelfun attack, the Porte. There two great empires, neighbours to the Ruffians, are kept in continual au; iety by the fallacious policy of th e Cabinet •)f St. Pete: (burgh, which for ten years p a n had aged by them in the fame manner as it conduitei itfelf for fifty years, wills refpea to Poland. " M. Philip Segur, Camp Marfhal to the Emperor on his way to Nafielfk, fell into an Asnbufead e Coffacks placed in at woccien houfe behind that place He killed two of them with his own hands, hat v a . made prifoner. The Emperor claimed him immes diately, but the Ruffian General bad already fati , him off to St. Peterfburgh. FORTY-EIGHTH B ULLETIN. " Warfaw, jap. 3. " General Corbineau, Aide•de•Camp to the Em. peror, had fet out horn Pultufic, in put Ink of the enemy, with three regiments of Light Cavalry. After occupying Brok, he reached (Movie', on the tit inft. On his march he picked up ,}no Ruffian fol. diers, feveral Officers, and a great quantity of bag. gage waggons. " Martha! Soult, with three brigades of light horfe, part of Lafalle's divifion, has taken a pofition along the banks of the little river Orcyc, in order to cover the cantonments of the army. " Mat fhal Ney, the Prince of Ponte Corvo, and Martha! Barterer, have cantoned their troops on the left bank. 66 The light corps under Marthals Soult, Davnufl, and Lannes, continue to occupy Pultufk and the banks of the Bug. " The enemy's army continues to retreat. The Emperor arrived at Warfaw on the zd of January. .. We have bad !now and !roil for two days in con. tinuance ; but it has begun again to thaw, and the roads, which were becoming fomewhat better, are now as had as before. "6 Prince Borghefe has inceffantly been at the head of the tft regiment of Carbineers, which he corn. mands. The brave Carbineers and Cuiratners tea& ed the molt anxious defire to meet the enemy; but the divifions of Dragoons which came fir 9 into adios, by carrying every thing before them, left the former no opportunity of attacking the enemy. 44 His Majetly has appointed General Lariboi here a General of divihon, and given him the ens mand of the artillery of the Guards. He is an officer of the higheft merit. " The troops of the Grand Duke of Wurtaburg compote the garrifon of the city of Berlin. They conlift of two regiments, which make an excel/as appearance. " The corps under Prince Jerome continues to be. liege Bream That beautiful city is in aches. A difpofition to wait the murk of events, and the hops of being relieved by the Ruffians, have prevented the garrifon from furrendering, hot the liege makes pro grefs: The Bavarian and Wirtemberg troops hare merited the praife of Prince Jerome, and the elite ; of the French army. " The Governor of Silefia had colledad the gar rifons of the fortreffes not yet blockaded, and formed out of them an army of 8000 men, with which force he had commenced his march to interrupt the opt, rations of the army befieging Breflau. 44 Againfl this force General Hednuville, the Chief of Prince Jerome's Staff, detached General Mont brun, Commandant of the Wurtemberghers, and Ge• neral Minucci, Commandant of the Bavarians. They I came up with the Pruflians at Streblen, put them to flight, and took 400 men, boo hones, and feveral convoys of provilions, which the enemy imended to fend into the fortrefs. Major Herfcher, at the head of ryo of Leiningfen's light honk, attacked two Pruflian fquadrons, and completely routed thew, making 36 of them prifoners. •' His Majefly has ordered a part of the colours taken at Glogau, to be fent to the King of Wine& berg, whole troops made themfelver mallets of that important fortrefs. His Majelly being farther dea rous of rewarding the good condruft of rhefe troops, has appropriated for the Wirtemberg corps, ten of the infignia of the Legion of Honour. 66 This day were prefented to his Majefly a dere. tation from the kingdom of Italy, connfling of M. ca, Minitler of Finance, a man of the greater merit, Renier, one of the Magiftrates of Venice, aid Guaflavillani, a Member of the Council of State. " The fame day his Majefly gave audience to all the Conflituted Authorities of the country, and the different Foreign Miniflors at prefent in Warfaw." BERLIN, JANUARY to. It is enimated that 71,000 men have paired through Berlin within a Mort period, on their way to Poland, inclu five of soo Hdians and soo of the Imperial Guards. General Polenz commands the Saxon con tingent. The Governor General of Berlin has re ceived a letter from General Lagrange,dated January 3, in which he informs him that tranquillity rc• itored in Hare. An Italian regiment has arrived at Cal Tel, and the meafuros which have been taken are a fufficient guarantee for the perfeet enjoyment of fu ture tranquillity in that country. The 19th regiment of Yagers, which General Clarke bad difpatched to. wards HelTe Calla from Putzdam, has returned. The Porte has fent orders for the army under Pi wan Oglou and fslullApha Barrajetat to enter we lachia, and thete troops are encamped very near each other. Among many other unfounded rumours, that of a change in the Miniary at retetiburg may be rcckns• ed. fhe union of the Turks and PerGans apunit RuOla is a novelty not unimerelling at the ref* timo. T