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I It • N THE EVENING-STAR. LONDON,. T ISATI7II.DAY, NOVEMBER 2). P ick oP STOCKS MIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Reduced 117• I 51— . 4 per Cent. 531*-5 per Ct. 9u 4 i .Cons.l4 ss--4,..c.59-oroe. Spr—flotis 2s. is. Bank Steck S 16.1.0ng Annuities 14 15-16* 1$ Lull. 111114..(3V.) 2a. pr.—Do ? (544.) 41. 6s. pr. • The celebrated BIININV4iN is the General who commanded that part of the Russian army which had she honour of totally defeating the advanced guard !el the French. under MuRAT, on ;le 113th ult. His ;Upon to General .I.ITUSOFIP has now reached us, and we subjoin it as another most valuable and inte. **Sting document ? on the subject of Russian affairs. 'The egregious falsoehoods of the 25th yrencb 'Lin are thereby made most palpable. It is evident that this battle was most disastrous to the French army. for it has, in all probability, corn iselled its leader to change hi; whole line of retreat, sad thus A ctin farther to increase his difficulties, by greater distance he lLs to travel before be can reach Poland; his original intention seems to have t been to force his way to the Duna by the route of Smolensk and Witepsk. At Smolensk he expected es fall in with his reserve, under Vicvost, (of whom 1 pLATOW ancj his brave Cossacks will give an ',account by and bye) and there he might have made :sOmething like a struggle for q a few moments repose." To §nlpleiht he had previously (if we.can believe the Fm.ch statements) sent off his wounded,l Tl.ss of humanity seems to have been mentioned, Sowever, merely with a view to quiet the apprehen inns of the Parisians, with respect to their Unfortu-j pate fellow Countrymen ; for we know, upon better autlu than that of BOXAPARTE, viz. from Lord CATHCART% diTaidip t that the retreat from Mor ow was not so deliberately rut in mention as to admit of a single sick or wounded man being re moved, Desides, we have yet to learn that the Cor- Sites, or any of his satellites, ever advanced or retired II step in their hires to save their sick and wounded. In General polmszN's narrative we have another prcol of the efficacy of the bayonet: the tide of for ..ne %sac not completely turned against the French, ;mail the Russians broke into their entrenchments and ;presented this formidable weapon at their recreant breasts. It was then we may presume that the cowa rdly yell of terror-struck savages echoed through jhe Trench ;Asks, and the Russians carried all befOre them. A very gallant British Officer, who has seen Pearly twenty years hard service in the field, has more li t an epee assured us e that be has had 'a share in up- Lards of a hundred brilliant victories achieved by the bayonet alone. lie never yet saw a French column stand even lentil this formidable weapon came in con' t with their bodies : he has seen a British regiment 200 strong reduced, by a distant cannonade, in a few i : o t ies, to 200, and he has afterwards seen this hand, irol of men intrepidly ;barge and put to flight 2000 ehosenlrench troops, when by the issue of successful nesuvres they werf.brought in cont .ct. But we have a still morg remarkable fact to inentioa,as a proof that the antipathy of the French troops to cslld iron is' ormountable—of 10,000 wounds inflicted upon by the bayonet, not one, perhar s, has been given • front—an inspection of the field of battle, from mo of - humanity orcpriosity, must have frequently ;civet' this to thousands of our military readers. We ve most anxious, therefore, that the Russians .uld obey the it-junctions of the worthy and patriri "e Governor of Moscow—that modern Caro, who as beep so infamously libelled by BPNAPARTE s be anie he sought to souse the enetgies•of his country. • p against the countless swarm of robbers and as. using which has been led across the Duna. There sno occasion fur ammunition,—if there is not a sup. of hiyottets (and we learn with satisfaction that le re are ten candidates fur every spare weapon) I. arm yourselves, heave and injured Russians, with ythes, pitch-forks, and the usual implements of hus. ndry Is a Frenchman more than a sheaf of corn • the hands of a robust husbandman ?" As long as a French invader remains to the North • f tliR Puna, %hp ancient and prescriptive boundary the Russian Empire, we arp for g wgr cf exterrni. ation. Ihe French tactics hive entirely changed I e. modern art of war, but we have another set of • tics in reserve which they cannot resist-•-•We Mean e tactics of Nature—ma most infrllible General he Romans overcame their enemies by thp in. cduetion of short weapons, which brought them in •adtet, foot to foot, with their opponents—it was • en that the moral and physical energies pf the man race were first embodied for the attainment I • one object, and they were uniformly triumphant. ' 'hose are the tactics which wp wish to see introduced • ainst modern Frenclinten-a close personal corn. • t will bring their courage to the test. On the sys m by which Op Itts,ffian, whom they call Emperor, .11 cts his terror r bound columns, THERE C4NAOT /111 TRULY .440 MIN ANONO Tien t We are not fearful of being driven from this oer vouri:e position, while the monstrous system to • wt.ith we hAite just ajlucicil t is continued. We • 'Mc with hori or from the recollection of their atro ities in every country which the French soldiers ire visited. There never yet existed a truly brave an who was not a pattern of mildress and hum , *ty in his intercourse with the uaaymed and de. fentdass et his PellowAstaturesawSneh of or brave fellow ceuetrytneo as have followed the track of the bloo4hounds, is hern4 shape, let loose by France upon the inh4bitanta of the Peninsula, will ♦ouch for the accuracy of these opinions Once more we appeal to the Russians—let their Generals continue to imitate recent examples—let them manccuvre so as to bring their gallant troops into person,' contact with their hinders—let it be a contest of hai l " to hand, eye to eye, foot to foot, heart to heart—and H;AKT will carry itl OFFTVAL. RUSSIAN BULLETIN. REPORT FROM GENERAL 11ZNINIMEN TO 1115 EXCELLENCY PI ELD-Z4 A lISIIA L pouNCE KIITIAInFF, COMMANDER INr pH [EP, ETC, DATED OCTOXER 19. " I have the honour to acquaint you with the par ticulars of the battle of yesterday, in which I had three corps under my orders. " In consequence of the plan arranged with the Prince Marshal, I left my position on the 17th of this month, at seven in the evening, when the 2d, Sd, and 4th corps were thus situated :-10 regiments of Cos sacks under Major-General Count Orloff Denisoff; 20 regiments of the Yagers, and four regiments of the first corps of the Guards, under Major-General Baron Muller Zakominskoi. We marched in three colnmns, the first consisting of the Cossacks under Count Orloff Denisoff, and the 20 regiments of Ya. gers under Baron Z“kominskci, which division was di-1 rected to penetrate the left flank of the enemy. The scc column consisted of the first corps of infantry followed by a brigade of Yagers, under Colonel Pil and, with four field-pieces from the second corps, under Ventenant-General Bakavute. The third co lumn was under the command of Major-General Count Stroganoff, and it had two battering trains, and two companies of horse-artillery, under Count Osterman Talstoy. " The enemy's videttes were at a short distance, when I ordered Colonel Pilland to leave the woodi in which he was posted with a brigade of hussars, with the view or protecting the four pieces of artillery which were with the column of infantry. At the same time I gave orders to the Officer commanding the tattering train, to fire, as a signal to General 0. Denizoff, to attack the enemy in his rear; at the same moment Count Talstoy had instructions to leave the wood with four regiments, for the purpose of joining the troops under general Doctproff, the duty assign. ed for which was to assist in the attack which I had commenced on she enemy's left flank: We have already noticed the great secession of numbers which the Russian armies have recently re ceived. We have since received the following nu merical estimate, in which we place unlimited con fidence ; • 50.000 • 6 SOL 0 • 13,000 • 18,501) 1(6,01 Effective strength of the Army Immediately after the battle of Borodino - - - Brought from Moscow, by Count Ristoptisla Militia of Kalugs and Tula - Zaporavlan cossacks, lately joined - - Total, (besides armed Peasants) The Zaporavian Cossacks include the Calmucki, Kepis, and others. Of these, thirty-seven regiments have been ordered to j in Kutusoff, to replace the Don Cossacks detached under Platow towards Smo lensk. As all these tribes hold their lands by military tenure,. they are always trained and ready for action. That ...he armed peasants forin no incons 7 derable ac cession to the active force, is attested both by Ku tusoff's own words, and by the intotn•ation of err. sons who have recently armed direct from Russia. —Marshal Kutusere, the gallant Chiet of the Rus sian Armies, we understand, is in the 75th piar of his age, and has lived from jiis infancy in camps. He has lost an eye, and received musket balls through both his cheeks, and from other wounds, in former wars, is scarcely able to mount his horse ; but akl his bodily infirmities are ciimpensated by the greatest mental activity, and tlx most unconquerable spirit. Lord MMIRA will not take his departuie far India before February. Mr. Ttiompsots, lately one of the Deputy Commissaries General under tLe Marquis of WELLisGroN, is the Gentleman who will accompany his Lordship, as Private Secretary, k and Superintendant of his domestic ccvicerns. He is a native of Glasgow, and not an Irishma,n, as has been stated, —Captain the Honourable LEICESTER STANHOPE, second son of the Earl of HmintNoToN, goes out as First Aide-de-Camp to his Lordshi,.. The youngest of the DoYLE'S also accompanies h•rn, as Second Aide-de. Camp. The Third Aide-de-Camp is a Mr. MACRA, of the 79th regiment,and who served with it during the whole campaign in Egypt; this Gentleman is , also from Scotland, and a near relation of the Countess of .LoupoN. The complement 4 , 1 Aides-de-camp is thus made up, as the other three officers must be selected from the army in India, viz. one from the King's Troops, and one from the Company's Service.' 'toe other appointments have not transpired. Saturday evening, in consequence of the death of the Mayor, a meeting of the Freemen, or a Common Assembly, was holden at Sand*ich, Ashen Rieman])' ESISIERSON, Esq. who was deputy to the Lute Mayor, was elected to fill that office. A Card to Ladies of Eashioti and the Fatiiionaile World at lorge.—The inimitable Low STAYS, invented and manufactured by MansTos, 24. and 25, Holy. well street, Strand, have oc:asioned considerable astor nishment in the circle of Fashion. Thy unique pro. perties of the invention, the superlative depot style in which they are executed, the matchless taste and beauty of the article, have excite(' general atten. tion.—Ladtes about to leave Town arc reque.ted to nonce especially an invention highly worthy of their notice. 44 We found the enemy in battle array, in an ad vantageous position, ju►t before the village of Mil. rofEcks, under the command of his Majesty the King of Naples, and perfectly prepareU to receive us. I then ordered one of the batteries to take possession of the adjacent heights, and for this purpose, sup ported by two detachments, the artillery advanced• As soon as we had formed the line of battle, the can nonading on both sides took effect, and we had the misfortnne to lose, at the onset, our gallant comrade, Lieutenant-General l3akavute, and his detachment devolved under the command of Lieut,-General Altu floff, who was second in rank with that detachment. " In the mean while Count Ostermarl kit the wood with three regiments, having orders to tale pos session of the second height on the left, supported by the battering train under the command of General Talstoy, from which the discharges had taken gre.►t effect. But this did not continue more than half an hour, before I observed in the ranks of the enemy a considerable movement. This movement, I found, was designed to bring into action their troops from every direction, for Count 0. peniaoff having pressed upon the French towards the left flank with ten re giments of Cossacks, had excited much alarm acid trepidation. •' At this favourable interval I ordered my divi, sion to advance to the attack with peat rapiclit y, and the result was, that the enemy was driven from every position he had occupied at the commencement of the action. Under these circumstances I continued my approach to the left flank of the enemy, in order to join the force with General 0. Denizoff. ' During these operations I had learnt nothing of the progress of Count Osterman, but I presumed he was with General Doctoroff, as the infantry of the enemy still kept possession of the verge of the wood which we had passed. In this uncertainty I ordered the infantry jo charge with the bayonet, when they ' rushed into the intrenchments, and both the columns of which the euemy's force consisted took flight, and not one man would have escaped if the cavalry could have been at this time engaged in thepursuit. , 4 I now hastened to the division of General Doc toroff, who, as I supposed, was with Count Oster. tnat, and I ordered him to take possession of a third height, which enabled us to molest the enemy by a cross tire. Count 0. Denizoff at this time attacking the left`flanic of the. enemy, the fortune of the day was complete, so that with the small number of troops I have described, I had the honour of forcing the army of the Nes.pplitaa King to a disgraceful flight, taking one stand of colours of the Cuirassiers, 38 pieces of cannon, a great quantity of arritylmition, the equipages of the King, ail the Acere baggage, aR4 a prodigious booty. 44 We captured 1100 men in the pursuit for 14 worsts, and among them is one General and 12 Offi cers of the Staff. Two thousand were kilted, end the field was strtwed with the insignia of Noble:rex.— ceaeral Crsti, Ca stain of tLe Lao Guards, was I amongst the ;lain, lind his Majesty sent to teCt est NAVAL INTEL itGANCL NI his body. ,e11•11p== r 10, M AIM. " The intrepidity set the troops is beyond all praiee ; mut. pet ale, too I tom& received a ontusion, whi:h obliged me to Dsiwatllist rt • • 0 0 Deemlw e. 1 , Lisboa A • • 110•10‘104 . p 0 : leave th e field, but not pntil the enemy was in flight, cots - -. 1 0 l a hein : : ; i but this circumstance renders me unable from my i was dischirged Malts v - o o metenbee t e .„ a • own personal knowledge to state the sequel. X shall : VALMOUTH, tfOVltynna IL - inform you as soon as possible of the merits of the I Nothing arrived orseeiled t v but officars under my command, but I cannot, at present, -, as net been a m e omit to mention with applause, Major-General Deni- ' to join the Mediterranean couray, her being leaky 4 part ;I* her carg, ie consequence of The ibrig Duke of York, S eem .. 'h t "! mom. scoff, whose bravery confers the highest honouron the 104alr o and proved very Dolph dama ged. Russian arms, and also Prince Holstein Oldenburg, who conveyed my orders amid the deathful shower ; PLYMOUTII, NOVEMBER Is. of the enemy, and under his own immediate inspec- Sailed last night the Got Arley, of 16 . Corunna, with dispat c hes ;. and the h'el, g41 100 7:1; lion, constructed a battery, which eminently contre. gu ns, on a cruise.—Arrived the Noting, 7t guns, bated to the success of the day." ; nt Portsmouth, end anchored in Cawsand hay, The Ramp schooner is appointed convoy to threat, ward..--Arrived the SPF434/LATION logger, fee s; t h e Downs. —Wind E. Remain la liatnopze-1 he Foudrosysnt, of no gunsa Cearear and Hannibal, of 74 - guns each g Revolutiopegre, abi t ,l . (new), Syhplie, Bellepoole, Doris, and Formate frigates ; A D . 1 dromeda, Femora., Pelican, 4marauthe. Sparrow, Shars apta. • In Stonettonse Post—The I audrail, of In gum. Between the Island and the Afaierland—The Helicon, Sem i & Conquest, Intelligent, Arrow, Alpitea, Sylvia, and Speseh ger , ' i In the Souitil—Tbe Growler, Daphne v and Rap 4. I IdCawsand Boy—The San beset, of 112 guns. PORTSMfJIJTH, NOY/MIER SO, Arrived the following West-Indiasee, from the Downs, part of the convoy :—Centurion, Prinzess i fvfary, Dominica, Fleetwood, Nelly, Elzab et o, e a . : phia, Fife, Loudon, Hope, Ann William, and the Livonia ; also, his Msjesty's brig Itovetper, Captain Dowxte ; and PARTIIIAN, Captain GARIISTTS, front a cruise.—The West-India couvoy g.n under weigh ! this nenniug, but a resince brought up at St. Helen's, Should the wind be fair they will sail eatly in t h e 1 snornirg.,—Wind N.E, 1 " A vely serious fire broke out at the Weevell Coo. perage on Wednesday night last, which, from its 1. proximity to the tn.xnense magazine in PRIDDY'S Hard, caused a great alarm among the iii bitauts of Gosport, till they ascertained the wiwi blew in a direction ne.rly from the magazine to the fire; the barracks atijoining went in immense danger, and must have inevitabiy been burnt, but for the prompt assistance of the whole of the Officers and men sta tinned in, them. The Magazine attached to the Ite l giment v‘ as rolkd into the middle of the yard, amidst Ilekes of fire. The damage sesteined is supposed to amount to about 4600 or teBoo. The only probable cause of the fire is ;aid to be, that the sawyers drop ped a snuff of a candle into the pit, which compo nicated to the stave stack, DEAL NOVEMBER. ie. Arrived his Majesty's ships Tmertt and ?teem from off the French coast.—His Majesty's ship Cost- DELIA will sail this evening with the ships bound to Portsmouth, itc.—Wind 1.,;.5,E. YARMOUTH, NOVEIyIII,II h€l. Arrjyed his Majesty's ships ACMY sod SIIIILDIAIII, i from the Baltic. Sailed the PiriNcess or Watascua , I ter, with North Sea Pilots, for Gotteebtugh ; rod I his Majesty's ship Ponta*, captain Tutoetipote, on e cruise.—N. B. Hia Majesty's ships that sailed et above, have brought up Again. ....11r el e The following is a copy of a letter feet interior to Looyobs, from the A.da}lralty, sower:ling the shipping in the Baltic : (cost) " ADMIIIALTT-Orate, NOY. 9,111 " In *fa% ace to my fetter of the 16th inst. acqoali.ting that as Ins Majesty's ships had been detained atHano•hay b. the time originally Liettfor the departure of the lain homeward, bound convoy, directions were given ;.• the Admiral comsear,da fug at Hano-bay, to protect the notneward-bound vestals which may be collected at the time of it a departu.-e; I am cosstnaodei by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint Toe, that their Lordshtps Love caret had croon to suppose that the Admiral, considering on the one band the great risk of edit vourin to conduct thruaids the telt, a large convoy at ibis ad vanced ratipd of the year; and on the able ASA tilvProbibb security which the ports of Sweden will afford to the trade WS° taring fie tliv Baltic, is on the whole out Waned to attospt to A female in the service of Mr..Tohn King, farmer, I brill " me apo*er convoy this season. at it iskney, Lincolnshire, last week undertook for a i " Whether, ireconsequenee of favourable weather, or of aft trifling wager, entered into with her mistress and il' cal circumstances, pr of the receipt of the additiona l ! &attics fellow -servant, to eaca roasted goose whole, svei-h -1 may be h t i o du i e n ett m st e*id uode!• r a t it te e r t o h f e u b in ne l e g l h h ig in h A rni t e i tofet:aM in' ' , in g above s lb e. together with a sufficient 'quantity 4 1 their Lordships cannot derisively polo, though they hope it ts*/ potatoes ; which oct of gorniandization she perfortll- have barn fuund proper so to a,.• tb.,r Lordship., bowsaw, ed with case in less than three quarters of an hour, aware of the extensive interests wh'iFh are soncerned,aod eolith, drinking up the remaining part of the gravy, con? Ito give them all uttormai ion cm the subject, would not de lay tons the n ta. sisting of nearly a pint, to boot. She afterweuds ! accraintirg you with the rmibil.ty t h at e tap a 1 4 I out in any letter of the I fith atiltant may not be fuillii4or-1 tin e went about her daily work, and• took tea in the eken- , I s m (Signed) " J. W. Calmat.' 41 as usual. It sltould.obe obserired, that she Pad 1 The fate of Lieut. Rictoinn Siewaet Gamin* agreed to pay for the goose it she did' not Perform iof the Gtorroe sloop of war, fqr the murder of a the wager, which idea had, no doubt, tended to whet ! serra • .nt of Marines of that ship. is d e cided; and he her appetite n I :hot a little, , is to suffer the sentence of the Court - martial, .10 the A young span, of the name of Fowler, undertoo k, . Downs, •n board the MONMOUTH. The greatest pi' yesterday morning, to go on foot from London to i tercess:ons were made in his behalf,and aletter OA Tatting End, on the Oxford road, and return, the ‘ whole being 36 miles front the place orstarting, in the whole of tile ship's company of the Gierroe s,w six hours, for a wager of 120 guineas. The pedes- sent, praying a pardon, but without effect. The oar. , for his execution was sent late on Thursday fogh4 trian performed 12 miles within the first two hours, and lie is to suffer on Monday next. and increased his speed the next hour ; but lie was ! We stated some time ago the circumstances at' beat at the end of the fifth hour, having more than ' eight miles to pprform. tending the apprehension of eight French °Seers, , A toot race *as run in the afternoon of Tuesday , who, in breach of their parole, left Andover on the last, on Shorne Cliffe, between S. Warner, the noted . first of last month. 131 the skill of their guide) t it Brighton pedestrian, and a Serje ant of the 3d Rifle . reached the coast between Christ-church and LynOttr Corps, named Deaman. The distance was 150 yards, ton, without interruption ; but were compelled 1 1 for 8150. Deaman was backed by a Gentleman at stormy weather to reland Pear Christ-church, on tot Sandgate. Soon after three o'clock a great number 12th, after having embarked from that aeighboo . r" of spectators from Hythe and Sandgate assembled • hood in a Weymou th smuggling boat. Firm t he betting sto 2 and 3 4 t0 lon Warner. They starlet.' exactly at four, Warner taking the lead Jill within examination of the persons engaged in th ie nefantnis transaction, it appears, that a system was establish e d. 40 yards, when Deaman leaped by hint, and avian by of British subjects going to five or six depots of about three feet. . s French pris liters, from time to time, to oira to ego! Thutsdar, about two o'clock, as th e proprietor of 1 the escape of - such as could raise money enough le theTavistock lintel, Covent-garden, was sitting down : defray the expences and rewards payable in :hi, not to dinner, he was disturbed by an unusual noisy 01.7 -Many. officers have thus been enabied to break made by a quantity of fancy pigeons he had on the . • their parole, and have got safe to France, %heather top of the !tattoo On, his going up stairs with 4 have been received by public o ffi cers friend, he saw hawk of extraordinary size seize upon i a who paid the sums agreed upon far th al the poo h eir air faufit' one of them, and fly away with it ; they watched the —Beiges Culliford, a desperate smuggler, sit other direction he took, ,pied saw him alight on the steeple of . the New Church in the Strand. Mr,.•l). (the friend coneptracy, in different parts of the efailotrY , wie hst person, have been apprehended as principals in tot of the hotel-keeper) teok his gun, and was permitted , hoed committed toWiuchester gaol. by a housekeeper in the Strand to go on the top of ; A duel was fought, on Wednesday morning, °° his house; whence he fired at the hawk, and it'. Hounslow Heath, betwi;t a Gentleman of ihe.fianl fell into the chureh-yard, .It measured three feet lof Ms:et:teat and a Capinin Lowstet, in consequence from the tip of ooe wing to t)se other, 22 inches from ! of a dispute respecting a, Let. The fot merGeodoman. the beak to the Op of the nil, aad sixteen incises us was severely, Moog)? iii'flangeoseVt 'foun ded ' IP the girth. - . -Ilse thick ;art of the altp t . ' • . ..