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vr c onceive what greg and general Interest h attadist To every thing that comes to us from the Grand*: psy.— (formal tie Parity Dec. 19.) • ' II VIENNA., DECEMBER 6. A courier dispatched by Prince Schwartzenberg a rrived here to-day, and has brought that General's Reports of the battles that have taken place in the environs of Wolkowick. • The head-quarters of the Prince was en the 22d st Dwir Sachetz. The Austrian auxiliary corps has • o w ed very little in the engagements which it has b a d with the Russian troops under the command of General Sacken ; it bad nothing to do but to pursue the enemy, who was already routed. Most probably the first number of the roma Gazette will contain the g rits and details of those events. Grand concerts ate given every fortnight in this apical, the produce of which is to be thrown into the box of the Ladies of Benevolence. The police of Vienna last week discovered a se cret society, the members of which assembled with but the barriers. Among them were several public functionaries. As the functionaries in general, on en tering into the service of the State, engage on oath pot to be members of any secret society, these have been dismissed. Such strangers as had been.admit ted into this secret society have received orders to leave the capital. His Majesty's indisposition having ceased, the cus tomary audiences will recommence, and will begin on Wednesday next. LEIPZIC, DECEMBER S. The passage of troops coming through Saxony to oin the Grand Army, always continues. The 3d ,attalions of the Sd and 105th regiments of French infantry, forming a corps of more than 1000 men, ar rived here the day before yesterday, and this day pursued their route. The Saxon Lieutenant-General M. de Thielman, has been nominated commandant of the legion of honour. Nineteen individuals of the brigade under his orders have been knighted. A regulation has been published at Konigsberg, relative to the lodg ing of the troops. It is believed, that in the begin ning of December there was in this city a garrison of 10,000 men. •, • Wilna, and f r om t h ence , di sgu i se d and incognito, he proceeded through Poland in a sledge—a fit vehicle for the living epitome of all that is foul and unna tural in human shape. May it be ominous of the speedy deliverance of Europe !—Of his reception in Paris we know as yet little or nothing : there is an article in the Journals, however, from which some thing may, perhaps, be gathered. There was a seri ous riot at one of the Theatres on the night after the publication of the 29th Bulletin—are we to ascribe this to the indisposition of an actor, or to the secret workings of that spirit of gloomy discontent and dis affection, which the perusal of that document pro duced ? Those who are in the habit of watching the statements of the French Journals can best answer the question. Laying aside for an instant the consideration of what is personal to the Tyrant himself, let us examine the state of his army, if that can be so called, which " stands in need of re-establishing its discipline, of re freshing itself, of remounting its cavalry, completing its artillery and its material."—We have marked.the last expression in Italic:, because it conveys a most extensive meaning—it tells us in one word that his army is gone, lost, annihilated.—The material of an army we know to be men—and although the number of horses which died are carefully enumerated, there is no attempt at giving even round numbers to those miserable human beings, whom the snows of Russia have long since enveloped in one vast winding sheet. It was when the French army arrived at Smo lensk°, and not sooner, if we are to believe the vile editor of the Bulletin, that all its misfortunes began. The Umperor left Smolensko because the right wing of his line of operations left the Minsk and took the Warsaw line. This is a gentle way of reproaching the Austrian army for its defeat or inactivity. Thus r deprived of a point d'appui at Minsk, he put himself in motion at "• a most cruel season," and thought to arrive there before the enemy. On the 13th, he quit- I Smolensko—on the 16th, he slept at Krasnoi.— Not a word of the battle in which DAVOUST threw away his Baton de Marechal, and the affair in which 12,000 men of Nev's corps threw down their arms is passed over by telling us, that he was surrounded, but that he extricated himself with his usual intre pidity ! On the I9th, the French crossed the Borys thenes at Orsha, and the Russians gave up the pur- • suit ; but their invaders were destined to run the gauntlet through a new succession of horrors. TSCIIIISCHAGOFE had most opportunely taken up his ground at Minsk on the 16th, and sent forward his advanced guard under General LAMBERT to Bori-1 sow, where he defeated General Dosianowskr, the Commander of the French corps d'armee, once station ed at Mohilow, and purposely called to the aid of the Ifugitive Emperor. We always said that BONAPARTE would owe his personal safety to Vic-roes corps; and ' this was actually the case. This GeUeint bore doWn from behind the Oula, with WITTosnrrEIN close at his heels upon the Minsk and,Borisowroads—Bo- NAPARTE'S rear-guard was thus composed of com paratively fresh troops, and accordingly we hear nothing more of the prowess of his escort. On the 24th, 25th, 2Gth, 27th, and the 28th November there was constant fighting, uniformly to the advantage of the French, if we caa believe their statements, for they took many thousand prisoners. On the 29th they remained masters of the field of I battle, and they pretend that they had their choice between two routes, and that the roads of Minsk and Wilna lay open to them. They asiign a curious rea son for preferring the Wilna road—the Minsk route lay through a forest of uncultivated marshes, where it was impossible for the army to subsist itself. • Not a word is here said of TISICHAGOWS main body being at Minsk, in such force as to present a more formida ble objection than even forests or uncultiv,ated marshes. To Wilna, therefore, the broken and discomfited fu gitives shaped their course, and the once mighty hero there exchanged his Imperial barouche for a humble sledge, and, thus reached the territories of his tributary Sovereigns in safety. Amid the painful truths, which this vain glorious boaster is compelled to tell with an appearance of can dour, which would do honour to any other man, we I discern his usual propensity to falsehood and exagge ration. We are eager, therefore, for the details of the honest Russian Generals. We firmly, believe that the ; situation of BONAPARTE was for many days perilous beyond any exatstple in ancient or modern times. WILNA, DECEMBER 5. The cavalry belonging to the corps of Marshals Reggio and Belluno have not suffered in proportion to the which has arrived from Moscow; it was this cavalry that made such brilliant charges against Tschitchagoff's corps. Prince Schwartzenberg and Marshal the Duke of Tarento hve also a very fine one—these different united corps still offer an im posing aspect. We daily see reinforcements of men, as well as transports of ammunition, and remount horses arrive, destined for the Grand Army, which, thanks to these succours, will be completely re-established before the end of winter. _ _ Prussia, Saxony, Mecklingburgh, France, Italy, Poland, Bavaria, and the whole Confederation of the Rhine, united in, the same political system, present such a mass of resources of every description, that feeble efforts only are requisite to collect all the means necessary for decisive operations against the common enemy. Besides, we have with us where with to supply our immediate wants ; the magazines lad arsenals upon the Niemen and Vistula are filled. Poland is going to make all the efforts her honour and salvation demand. A Confederation of 24,000,000 efEoropeans has sent us its legions, to free us from* yoke of the Muscovites—we are ourselves 15,000,W0 of Poles—how then doubt the issue of a contest, in which the most just of causes is supported by superio rity of forces, and talent the most decided ? THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24. PRICIIi OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Red. 59H-3-4 per Ct. 76 754—Cons. for ac. 614 60i 61{ Bonds 7s. 83. dis.—Lg. Anns. 154 7-16ths—Exch. Bills Is. 43. pre. In the Twenty-ninth French Bulletin, which we yesterday laid before our Readers, we are presented with the last document of the kind which will be issued for many months. Our predictions are veri fied. The French army which invaded Russia is an. nihilated, but the wholesale dealer ,in human car cases, who led it into the field, has returned to Paris in safety. Unhappily for mankind the Emperor of the Incendiaries, the King of the Robbers, and the Piotector of the Confederation of Assassins, has again reached the foul den in which his atrocities have been hatched, and is busily Occupied in forging fresh in struments of torture with which to continue his de solating career. The precautions which he took to secure his personal escape, strongly mark the charac ter of the man : When the moral energies of his sol diers were palsied by the tremendous physical cala mities which hourly thickened upon them—when those whom nature had not steeled against the chances of fate and fortune ; in other words, when all but the iron-hearted savages of the blood-royal of NAPOLEON, all but his Generals, his minions, his Catamites, and A Corunna Mail arrived this morning. The intel his Mamalukes, had lost their gaiety and good hu- ligence brought by it is of a promising description. mour, and had abandoned themselves to despair—in I The French are evidently aware of the disasters in a moment full of horrors like these, any other mill.. Russia, and are preparing to retrace their steps to tar) leader would have been occupied on horseback, France in consequence. We present our Readers with won foot, in flying from rank to rank, to animate, . the following extracts : by his presence and his persuasions, the miserable FROM THE CORUNNA DIARY, DEC. It. •ictims to his ambition, or tcyrouse their torpid ener- OFFICIAL DETAIL. pies by his personal example. But BONAP4RTE is no ge The enemy, as I informed your Excellency in such man—instead of rallying his discomfited troops my anterior of the 30th tilt. continue in Benevente, at the battle of Krasnoi, he fled from the field like in number 1200 infantry and 40 horse, collecting traitor and a coward—he placed himself in the men- provisions, and are, as lam informed, fortifying tre of his Imperial Guards, who (in confirmation of themselves at the la idge of cistio Ooncalo. - Lord CATHCART'S dispatches) we learn fromthe French 44 These accounts I have just been put in possession Bulletin, were expressly exempted from all military of by the daily journal which I receive from two daties. But even then they had merely the care of sur- Officers, who, with eight horse, had advanced three rounding his hated person ; and it was never necessary leagues beyond Bantza, and whose spies extend even for them to charge, for they were in theirturn protected, to Benevente ; the latter confidently speak of the ,by asacred squadron of six hundred mounted Officers. speedy retreat of the enemy to. Rio Seco. 1 ° this way this most sanguinary felon reached 44 . P. S. This moment (11 o'clock at night) a se- ,~;~~. . coed dispatch has reached me, stating, that the spies know that the English have entered Salamanca." " SANTIAGO, DECEMBER 4. " Lord Wellington has his head-quarters at Ciu. dad Rodrigo, in the vicinity of which place his troops are encamped. The great scarcity of provi sions, in a country entirely wasted, has obliged our armies to divide themselves, and take positions in which they can find subsistence. It appears, that, except the cavalry, the whole Sixth Army is march jog upon the town of Sanabria and Orense; and the Fifth, under Senor Castanos, with all the cavalry of the Sixth, has taken the road to Estremadura, and will establish its head-quarters in Caceres. For the same reason, we are assured that the French have not left Salamanca, but have seemed to manifest an intention of turning back upon Valladolid and Se govia." " SANTIAGO, DECEMBER 11. " The supposed expedition of the Frehch to San tander was only a false alarm. Instead of 10,000 men proceeding to that town, there were only 1000, who came to Reynosa from Burgos in search of what cattle they could find, and who appear to be part of the 6000 who with Caffarelli advanced to Vittoria." The Lady Arabella Packet has arrived at Fal mouth from Lisbon, in twelve days, with Mails and passengers. The Marquis of WELLINGTON'S Head quarters were at Cuidad Rodrigo at the date of the last accounts ; but it was reported that he was pre paring to re-advance upon Salamanca, in eonse quence of the retreat of the French. The following are extracts from the Lisbon Papers : " LISBON, DECEMBER 5. 14 The head•quarters of the Grand Lui d still re , maii:ccl, on the ;;Oth of November, in Freynada, and the army was cant , ned in its neighbourhood. Ge ner,l Hill had his head.quarters in Coria, and the Conde de Penne and Morillo had their's in Plasencia. The army of Gallicia marched towards Astorga. The retreat of the combined armies from the Tor mes to the Agueda, passes among military men as a chefid'iruvre in the art of war, 90,000 French, among whom were from 10 to 11,000 'horse, could not intercept our army in its retreat to Ciudad Rod rho, although the grand Lord was in Salamanca when Caffarelli, with his corps, was near the banks of the Tormes. The French for the third time sacked Salamanca, { !in the last King Joseph h a d th e h onour o f b e i ng pre sent. They imposed 'upon Valhtdolid a contribu tion of 600,000 reals, for having received and well entertained the English. 7.—Head-quarters continue at Freynada. General Hill's division is going South. Our last in telligence from head-quarters is dated the 2d inst." The Marquis of WELLINGTON'S dispatches by the Lislran Mail are dated Freynada, on the 2d but they contain no intelligence of interest. We have received New-York Papers to the Bth, and Halifax to the 28st November. We are still ig norant of the intentions of the American Government respecting Peace or War. We are however made ac• quainted, through this clunnel, with the result of the negociationsopened by Sir G. B. WARREN, and which totally failed. The Halifax Papers contain the cor lrespondence at full length.— A large naval force has been created by the Americans in the Lakesof Canada. At the mill of Elrick, near Edinburgh, on Tuesday se'nnight, the miller, of the name of Walker, his wife, and a child, were all found dead in their sleeping apartment. The-preceding evening, in a small bed room in which they slept, a quantity of wet shellings of corn, 'had been put on the fire, for the purpose of preserving it during the night ; and the fire being opened partly, the smoke thereby occasioned spread ing through the room, proved fatal to this unfortu nate part of the family. ELECTION or THE COMMON COUNCII.—The polling finally closed yesterday in the several contested Wards: Those marked thus • are new Candidates. FARRINGDON WITHOUT. Messrs. Waithnisn 575 I Messrs. Griffiths Quin - 542 Hedges Herring - 5281 Pontifex W. J. Reeves 5151 Harper Crook - 500 'Blacken Bardin - 471 Young - 449 T. Reeve - 444 Murrell - 440 Dawson - 440 The first Sixteen Candidre FARRINGD4 Messrs. Pinder - 302 Cook - 288 Dunnett - 387 Winter - 256 Daw - 284 Cadwell - 278 Pntchard *- 276 Lewis - 275 Wheeble - 273 Crowder - 273 The first Seventeen Ca BROAD. Wellies. Marriott - 161 Blaxland 155 Crokact - 148 - Hearn - 141 Patterson - 127 Clark - 126 The first Ten Cain LANUS -43 s - 4SY • Marriott - *Robins Brewer • •Rosser Mesas. Phillips Ayres Wiltshire - 407 - 380 556 418 - 313 - 192 were declared duly elected. IN WITHIN. Mews. Roberts - 267 Pearsall - 267 Scatcherd 264 Walker - 263 Stokes - 243 Leigh - 231 •Blackett - 175 •Case - 152 •Oklkam - 111 were elected. r ICJISZ 1 M essrs.• Foster - 119 'Deahone 'll7 • Peppercorn 111 Atchesoil - 99 Patience - 86 •]upp - 79 were elected. lURNL Messrs. Rankla - 199 Dimon - 190 °Carter - 146 •Parader - IN •Aaania 101 Elliott - 1104 Stubbing - 197 Wetberby Tbs fairst Ten Cant:um. _ V11 0 (171tY. mom Wbhby - 71 Mara }Win - • SS Pions* . 71 Spear - 63 Mania 70 *Curran - Gatty - 70 °Combs . 4S Conway - 6$ 'Crook . 46; The first Niue Caadidates were elected. ~, NAVAL IN77ILLMENCI. FALMOUTH, DECEMBER tl. Arrived the Mary-Ann Packet, with M Dispatches from Corunna, in fbur days.-IPe com munication between that place and the AlliM Army was cut off.—Left lying there the Speculapr cutter of this port.--His Majesty's ship VANE! 4nus, Sir Home POPHAM, was lying at Santander.—Passengers in the Mary-Ann are, an English Messenger, and Captain RICHARDSON and his aFprentices, late of the transport ship Lady Johnstone, of London, which ship sailed from England on the 9th November, with ordnance stores, for Bermuda—on the 16th parted company, with three others, from her convoy, in a gale ; from these she also shortly after separated:— On the 25th November, off the Western Islands, in lat. 35. N. long. 23. 30. W. was captured by the Comet privateer, of Bourdeaux, armed with ten 18- pound carronades, four long-sixes, and 135 men She had previously (20th Nov.).captured the Portu guese brig Calypso, Captain ANT. Jose DA SOUZA, from Pernambuco for Gibraltar; also a Spanish ship and schooner, the former from Havanna, and the latter from South America, both bound to Cadiz, which she sent for BOurdeaux.—The Lady Johnstone was sent for New York, where the privateer was fitted out.----Two days after the capture of the latter, they captured a Spanish brig, in ballast, on board of which they put all the prisoners, and permitted her to proceed for Spain. - Arrived also, the Lady Arabella Packet, from Lisbon, in twelve days, with Mails and Passengers; and the WIZARD sloop of war, from a cruize. Put in, by contrary winds, the VENCE, 74, and PARTRIDGE brig, with 28 sail of vessels for Porto al , Spain, and the Mediterranean. Sailed the brig ZEPHYR, with her prize Antelope, for Portsmouth ; also several coasters.—Wind S.W. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 22. Arrive'd the Ku\ PEEN of 18 guns, from a critize • the LANDRAIL, of 16 guns, from Jersey ;; and the STat•xcous, of 16 guns, from Brest : the latter has captured two French coasters, laden with salt, and sent them into Penzance. Came in the American brig Colombia, Dixox, from Philadelphia for Bour deaux, prize to the BRITON and Aatnaustamta. Also • arrived the Americaa brig Stephen, from New. York in 31 days, bound to Bourdeaux, with cotton, &c. also captured by the Batrox and ANDIO , MACHE. There are now lying at New-York upwards of 100 sail of vessels, laden with corn and flour, bound to the Peninsula, nearly the whole of them are vessels of great burthen.--The Nrastex, of 38 guns, went from Barnpool to the S.'aind. The ROVER, of 18 guns, came from the Sound to Stonehouse Pool. Went from Hamotize to the Sound the MARTIAL gun-brih. The DANEMARK, of 74 guns, is docked. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 23. Arrived the TORTOISE store ship, from Gibraltar, and is put under the restraint of quarantine. A convoy sailed from Gibraltar for Ergland four days previous to the TORTOISE sailing, but pit back in • consequence of a gale. Also arrived his a' ajes!y's ' ships TrnraN and SAVAGE, from a cruize. Came into harbour the American schooner Antelope, front New York, bound to Bourdeaux, laden with coffee, &c. prize to his Majesty's ship ZEPHYR.—The East India fleet still remains. • DEAL, DECEMBER 23. " Salle! his Majesty's ship Pcmannat, for Ports.. mouth; and the SPECULATOR lugger, with a convoy • for ditto. Arrived his•Majtsiy's ships BERMUDA and DECOY, from a cruise.—W ind N.E. YARMOUTH, DECEMBER Arrived his Majesty's ship Svoctss, with French . prisoners of war, bound to Leith. She has stopt xt this port to land part of her crew who are sickly.— • . His Majesty's ship FREYA, with a few transports • with prisoners of war, also for Leith, has passed at.. the back of the Sands. BELFAST, DECEMBER is. • Thursday morning, about three o'clock, the new. raised men on board the Neptune tender, lying in the Lough, broke through the - I:mess-room, and took pos session of the vessel. After confining the crew of the tender below, and securing the hatches, they lowered down the boats, and 26, chiefly impressed men, effec ted their escape, and proceeded towards tfle Owing, however, to the tempestuous weather, or theitqa ignorance of the Channel, it is supposed the boats struck on the banks, and the men attempting to *ads • to the land, it is feared, have all perished, as at day. '•-• light one of the boats was found near Mr. Grrre's b -' • and two dead bodies lying near it. One of the bodies .. • only could be got at, the other was too fir in the mud., Six hats and several bundles of clothes were also picked up. The body pf the man was brought up to town, but has not yet been owned ; he is rotor. . nized, however, as one wbo entered regularly as a seaman. The CUMBERLAND, 74, Captain &tate, arrived at the Cove of Cork, the 16th inst. i to take charge of the convoy assembled in that harbour for the West Indies. The CUMBERLAND is to be assisted in this ' charge by the SYBILLE, 38, Captain UPTON, and IN DIAN, 18. The FORTUNES, 36, Captain G. Slot- MOUR, is t? accompany them as far as Madeira.,. The CUMBERLAND and STELLA, after seeing the con voy safe, will - proceed to join Sir J. WARREN, on alms • Halifax station.' By a letter from Portsmouth, of the 21st, iustant, we learn, that the Fortune cartel had returned to that port from Morlaix, having on board an interest- , • ing woman, a native of Ireland, of 22 years of age, who, having been married to Colonel Botarsoit, a French officer - of artillery, lately on his parole at Chesterfield, received the permission of this Govern atient to follow her husband to France, and embarked for that purpose at Portsmouth, .on the 17th ut Au. - gust last, has now been cruelly driven back, together with her sop, an infant of 19 months old, by order of the French Authorities, and is arrived at Portsmouth, as above mentioned, in a state of the greatest misery and distress, destitute of the means of subsisttnce for an hour, until relieved at the •charge of this Govern- - went, as is done in all cases of English women arriv. log from France in a state of distress.—The conduct of the French Government tow irds this unfortunate young woman affords an additional pro ,f of.a tact 'which cannot be too publicly known, namely, th it all marriages contracted by French subjects dttai ied is foreign countries as pri.oners If war, are consid ere d by the present Freach laws, as totally invalid. 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