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berg, and minds kitirag .• , fee titkoperi' of bd+eii. log th e enemy of all Means of cdtmfrprovisions ; at, according to accounts received, the enemy is &left in corn of different kinds. Admiral Tsc)iitschagoff states, that on the 3d of iaivary his headmost troops entered Insterburg ; Liencenant-General Tschaplitz's vanguard entered aunibinnen, and Major-General Count Woronzow Marched into Nemendorff. . Lieutenant-General Tschaplitz informs, .that Ma jor-General Count Orurk was, on his entrance into the Village of Stalupenen, received by the inhabitants there with iindiuenibled joy and transport ; they all Cried unanimously- 4, May the Emperor, Alexander be the protector of the innocent suffering nation I" and immediately went to work to procure provisions and forage for our troops. Jitn. 6.—Adjutant-Gen. Wassiltschikow reports, hnder date of the 2d of January, that according to bertain intelligence obtained from the inhabitants, The whole French army has passed through Inster borg, on its retreat ; there was not at that time left, of the whole French guard, more than 1500 men. i JAN. 9.—General Count Wittgenstein reports, un der date the 7th of January, in completion of his for mer statement concerning the taking possession of the city of Konigsberg, that the enemy were driven out of that city by the four regiments of Cossacks, viz. that of Major-General Radienow, (2d) ; of Lieute bann-Colonel Tschernosubow, (8) ; Loschtschilin ; and of Major Seliwanow, all under the command of Colonel Riediger. They had observed the enemy's motions from the commencement of the evening, and notwithstanding the darkness of the night, took ad- Vantage of every step he made for his retreat. On the 4th of January, at two o'clock after mid night, Colonel Riediger, with the Cossacks before mentioned, pushed vigorously forward, and after an obstinate fire of musketry, entered, on the enemy's shoulders, into the city, in which about 1300 men were made prisoners. The quickness with which our troops forced their way into the' city, obliged the enemy besides this to leave about 8000 of his exhausted troops behind him, and to sink in the river about 30 pieces of artillery, with the cartridge-boxes which belonged to the be'. sieging train that was in Courland, and which the in habitants are now employed in getting out. Besides this, several Russian Staff and other Officers and pri vates, who had at different times been made priso ners, were again restored to liberty, and a considerable quantity of provisions and forage were likewise found in the magazines. ' After taking possession of the city, Col. Riediger again set out with the aforesaid cavalry, without making the least delay, in pursuit of the enemy. In the course of our pursuit of the enemy, from Tilsit to Konigsberg, and after taking possession of that city, he has lost 51 pieces of cannon in the whole. Adjutant General Wassiltschikow states, 'Under date the sth •of Januarys that the Austrian troops, after strengthening their advanced posts, had drawn themselves towards Warsaw. The head quarters of his Majesty the Emperor, and of the Field Marshal, arrived this day in the village of Meretsch. GOTTENBURGH, FEBRUARY 9. The Austrian Ambassador, Count Nupping, passed Helsingburg on Bataday last, on his way to Stock bobs!. ' • ELSINEtiIt, FIBRUAILY 7. An arrangement is likely to take place between this country and Russia, by which it is expected tha t the trade between Denmark, Norway, and Russia, ' will be permitted by the British Government under certain restrictions. ELSINEDR, JANUARY so. Private accounts from Hamburgh state, that Dant xic is inves;ed by the Russians. Jr• appears the latter are marching along the shires of the Baltic, and not towards Berlin. The Emperor Alexander has con ferred new and gteat honours upon Prince Kutusoff, and made him a Prince of the Royal Family. Ge- nerals Platoff and Wittgenstein have also obtained large shares of Royal favour.. lc is said a convention has been concluded between Prince Kutusoff and Prince Schwartzenbseg, in con sequence of which the latter withdraws his army through Poland and Galicia. When the last post left Vienna, it was currently reported that a Minister was to be sent from thence to Wilna, and a mission to London. Macdonald had left the army and gone to Cassel. COPENHAGEN, FEBRUARY 4. • Bcinaparte has taken possession of the Hamburgh bank. He has defnanded 60,000 cavalry horses of the Danish Government ; to which they replied, that they will only furnish 15,000, which they even will !•.ot suffer to depart till the stipulated payment has been made. They have declared their determination, in the event of the French employing force, to remove the Court to Norway, and deliver up Copenhagen to Abe. English. The Russians have entered Warsaw, and the Emperor has declared his btother Constantine King of Poland: WILNA, JANUARYI ti: On the day , before his Majesty the EMperoris de- pasture from this place, namely, on the 6th of Ja ntiary, the follotvirig Order was issued from his Ins-. petial Majesty to the troops : " Soldiers ! Your •alour did persevetatice have been rewarded by a renown which will never die among posterity. Your names and deeds will pass from mouth to mouth—from your sons to your grand children and great grand-childre9, to the latest pos terity. '" Praise be to the Morr HIGH ! The hand of the Loan is with us, and will not forsake us. Already there remains not a single. enemy on the face of our country. You have reached the borders of the em pire over their dead 'bodies and bones. It still se mains for you to go forward over the same, not to make conquests, or to carry the war into the coun.l tries of our neighbours; but to obtain a wished-for ' and solid peace. You go to procure rest for your selves, and freedom aad.indepcndence for them. May they become our friends.! The acceleration of peace will depend on your conduct. You are Russians I You are Christians ! It is necessary, in addition to these names, still to put you in mind, that it is. a sol dier's duty to be valiant in battle, and peaceable on the march, and during your 'residence in peaceable centuries. I do not threaten you with punishment, because I know that none among you will ldeservelt. " You tare seen la our ow* country, the robbers • that "pinuellied thi Wad of the Ira your just modals of tevenim egainst mem. you have punished those villains. Who ironlal *swigs them Should Itch as one, can to expjetetion, be found, he cannot be a R • will be litivim from among youl.-Soldiers, this is clenslanded sot expected from you by your true religilin, your Dative country, and your Cuss" •411 LETTER PROM FIELDWARMIAL PRINCE ICOTITIOFF:0* SMOLENSIC k TO HIS EMINENCE AMBROSIUS, METROPDIsk TAN OF NOVOGOROD AND BT. PETERSBURGH, DATER , JANUARY 4 : 44 Bestow your benediction on this present offered by our warriors to the GIVER OF VICTORY. The brave Don Cossacks restore to GOD the treasure plundered from his temples. They have entrusted me with the duty of transmitting to your Eminence this silver, which was once the ornament of the images of the saints, afterwards the prey of barbarous robbers, and at length wrested from their gripe by the brave Don Cossacks! 4g The Leader of this corps of Cossacks, Count Matwei Iwanowitsch Platoff, all his brave warriors, land myself, wish that this plate. which, in weight amounts to forty puds, shall be made into images of the four evangelists, and adorn the church of the Mother of God of Kasan, in. St. Petersburgh. All the necessary expences' of casting these holy images we take on our accouat. Your Eminence will have the goodness to order that able artificers may be em ployed to fulfil the pious wish of our warriors, by casting these images of the Holy Evangelists, which they offer in their zeal for the temple of GoD. As soon as.you shall inform me what the expellee will be, I will remit to you the money. It appears to gee, that these images would be appropriately placed close to the door of the. sanctuaty, and before the great communion table, that they may strike the eye of the devout when they enter the temple. On the pedestal of each of the images must be engraven the following inscription The zealous offering of the Corps of Don Cossacks." 66 Hasten to erect in the temple of Goo this monu ment of battle and victory, and while you erect it. say, with thankfulness to PROVIDENCE," the ene mies of Russia are no more : the vengeance of GOD has overtaken them on the soil of Russia ; and the road they have gone has been strewed with their bones, to the utter confusion of their frantic and prolad am bitioo." INTERCEPTED LETTER. THE FOLLOWING IS FROM A PETERSBURGH PAPER. The comparison of dates is the greatest enemy which the Emperor Napoleon has to dread. It is the triumph of truth ever falsehood, and the destruc tion of the system of deceit which has so long deso lated humanity. On comiltring the intercepted let ter of the Emperor Napoleon, (which we are about to present to our readers), with the twenty-ninth Bul letin, we shall perceive what we ought to think of the iO,OOO remount horses which General Bourcier had collected on the 3d December (N. s.), at the dif ferent depots, and of that artillery whicff'then, ac cording to the same Bulletin, had already repaired his losses. The following is the letteroi 44 Sotolensio, November I ltb, 1812." " MONSIEUR DUKE DE Bassano —Your Estafettes have come to me at once, so that I have all your letters to the 7th. I approve of your bringing tip the 34th division to •Kowno. The principal consi deration is, that it may be well supplied. General Loison writes, that he had made• bargains for 600 horses for his artillery, and that the same dealer pro. posed to him to bargain for 10,000 other horses. Send this proposal to General Bourcier, that he may make this bargain if he thinks proper. 'l'elllGeneral Bour cier that it is necessary, he should immediately in crease his order by 6000 horses of all kinds, and 6000 artillery horses and for military transports. " Every day our losses are very considerable from the frosts, and the cold of the nights. I have no oc casion to impress on you the importance of making these purchases ; General Bourcier ought to go as high as thirty thousand, or perhapi beyond that num ber ; his limit ought only to be what it is possible tof procure of good quality—horses! horses I And horses tnr Cuirassiers, for Dragoons, for Light Cavalry, as well as bit Artillery and military equipages. This, in the greatest of all our wants, ten thousand ca valry on foot are soon to march upon Minsk. " It will be necessary that General Boarder should direct them upon Konigsberg and Warsaw, according to the places where they may Wive horses. —Take care that there be no delay or hindrance. Write Prince Schwarteenburg to hasten his move ments, and make him sensible of the importance of so doing. " I have received an Aid-de-Camp from the Duke of Belluno, who left him on the 9th, I have sent him positive orders.:—l pray GOD to have you in his holy keeping. t (Signed) gi NAPOLEON. _" THE EVENING STAR. LONDON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Red. 5811} .z-Cons. 59 51111-.-for se. 0 8811-4 per Ct. 76* 78 S per Cent. 8811—Bds. Ss. 7s. dls.—Ortudurn 7 Bank Ltltts Anns. 15 3-18ths--Exeb. Bills 4s. ss. pr. Yesterday we bad the satisfaction to relieve the Public anxiety, in some measure, by announcing the arrival of a Gottenbtrgh Mail : in the course of the afternoon, three more arrived ; they, were brought by the Lord Duncan and Auckland packets, which ar riv ed at Yarmouth late on Tuesday night. The in telligence brought by them is precisely of that de scription which Me warmest friends of Russia and suffering Europe could wish.. AU is over with the French army in Prussia—nay, we may add, that the whole of the North of Germany is now freed from the French yoke: The Twenty-ninth!tilletin contained the expi.ing groans of the Tyrant ; his Speech to the Legislative Body may now be regarded as a mere brown fulnies6 To the Official details from the Mullah Generals I we refer our Readers fot a suscinct account of their victorious career, since the date of the last advises.--r I The private aocounts from the. shores tithe Bahic .• 164 Jowl the tellistiee inch Wei r Might ieasonibli be expiated. are intladated to 's ine still most sankoise bipectatiotis respecting the Csnttnent. The *Nun of these &adonis may, kiln their honest zest id a good cause, be subject to the charge of exaggeration, but the maid outlines df their communications are unquestionably correct. Upon their authority rests the report of Danttic hairing stir: rendered, on the 27th of January, after a short bombardinent. This fact seems probable; when me !recollect that the Russians entered Elbing, which is only 27 miles distant, on the 12th. They would be able to bring up their battering train in about tea days at the farthest ; and, indeed, that they did beed . td invest it about the 22d, is evident from the French papers. On that day, one gate only was open. We ought however to state, in contradiction to the report of its having surrendered on the 27th, that there are letters from Carlscrona in Town, which. mention, that ien that day the bombardment continued. The anxiety with which the dispositions of Prussia and Austria hate been watched by all good men I during the recent crisis of BONAPARTE'S affairs, is I now gteatly relieved. Every where throughout Prussia, the Russians have been hailed as deliverers. -In public, the populace uniformly shout, Long live ALEXANDER and FREDERICK WILLIAM !" Similar manifestations, if we may credit the same authority, have teen made by the Austrian Guiernment. A Convention is said to have been signed between the' Austrian General SCHWARTZENBIZEG and the Russian General opposed to him, by which the former obtains permission to take home his troops, to await farther . erders.. One fact is, however, certain,—an Austrian rAmbassador has arrived at Stockholm : his name is Count NEUBERG, and he is reputed to be the personal friend of BERNADOrfE, and a sworn enemy to BONA PARTE. His reception, immediately after the dis missal of the French Ambassador, speaks a volume on the subject of what may be expected from Austria in support of the common came.—Such are the Al lies with whom BONAPARTE, in his Speech to the Le., gislative Body, declares himself to be well satisfied! Lord CATHCART is understood to be now with the Emperor ALEXANDER at Wilna, or on the road to Warsaw, where rumour adds, that the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE will be crowned King of Poland. We trust, however, that this spectacle will be deferred until the wishes of the Poles are more unequivocally made known en the subject than they have hitherto been. They ought to be declared a free and inde pendent nation in the first instance—now that they have seen the effects of French regeneration. Next to the mild and conciliatory tone of the Ras.; sian Proclamations, on their entering Poland and Prussia, nothing exhibits so legibly the characters or l true wisdom, as the line of militat y operations which they have since adopted. Their great object was, , 4 to secure the Sea Coasts of the Baltic,"—in cem parison with this, all other projects, even th pursuit of the Austrians, and the emancipation of the Poles and Prussians, were secondary. It is with pleasure, therefore, that we see them pushing hair main armies along the coa - st . , • Dantzic, when in their possession, is the key of the Baltic, for Hambnrgh, Bremen, and the Hanse ToWns; must speedily open their gates to receive them: In Ham- burgh, according to private accounts, the greatest consternation already prevails among the French fac tion, and they are preparing to decamp. Connected with the same subject, we have a rumour that the ' Danes have decidedly declared against France, and threatened to throw themselves under the protection of Great Britain. The latter part of the retort is, we think, at least premature. On the whole the intelligence from the North is highly gratifying, nor have we any thing to regret' but that the Courts of Austria and Berlin should have as yet adopted only that hesitating kind - of policy which leaves them the power of still professing at .tachment to the destroyer of Europe The very cir cumstance to which we allude, chews that the same debility and indecision, which have been among the principal causes of the disasters which have phrsued the old dynasties, still predominate in these Courts. Till this is counteracted by that bold energy which has at tithes characterised some individuals, and even made Generals, from pure loyalty, put their own So vereign under arrest, till the enemy was crippled or defeated, temporising policy will probably continue to characterise the conduct of such Courts. They fear to be decisive. They would gladly see the Tyrant destroyed by any other Power, but they will not thetineltet let the at fall, dreading that they may miss their blow. We have every reason to be lieve, that the recent and glorious successes of the Russians would never have been gained, had the conduct of that Power been dictated only by the Head of the Executive. If we are rightly informed, the Emperor ALEXANDER sent his brother on a mis. sion to Moscow, after that placti was in the bands of ' NAPOLEON. We need not enquire what was the ob ject of his journey ; fo r it Was defeated. One of the Russian Generals hinted to CONSTANTINE, that he was out of his way, and that to find the right road it. would be necessary, in place of travelling South East; that he should travel Nortk West, exactly the same diitance he had already travelled ! An accident, not quite unusual in the history of Rus sia, might have befallen ALEXANDER, had he persis ted in the object of CONSTANTINE'S journey.—A dif ferent policy was pursued from that moment, and chi 4i t afigt;, aft la lONA hive elreadY &Wired fbi. bold *44 i *he ark have been lepeatiSi, hid Anserlai Pittisiir wit the other Powers which have io ges4 updif. French tyranny, instantly jollied their fecti tti of the conqueror,. and foilOired op the blows Usti these Powers hate the Tyrant, Mid diet diet kyik td insist in•giving him the coesigleireler, their temporizing policy leaves tfieiii cipolied to IA acted upon by any paroxytin of float which iliac gi excited by an inipttdent aid daring mosetMent on ibi part of the enemy: tHE ARMt teiterday 45f3 of the Third Iteginient bf Guard! 'reitiiied orders to hold themselves in readineis to join the artery tinder bird WELLINGTON; Other re: giments of the line are ordered to embark with the s. division of the Guards for the same destination. The detachment of the 3d Guards March on Non; • day neit from Portman•street Barracks for Porti; thOtith, to embark for Cadiz. The whole of the fine Hussar Brigade; ikw ate happy to announce, landed safely at Ltiben after tt fine passage , and without the lost of.a sin gle horse. We are happy to learn', that the report of the Houser hold brigade having lost many horses, is ?old of foundation. This !Foe brigade, commanded by Sir ROBOT HILL, has marched f6r the Alentelo,. and will be in Sir RoVrtuttith Hugs army. Sir GitANII CALCRAFT commands the Hussar Brigade i the were to be immediately marched of td the arm , when our letters left Lisbon. NAVAL INTELZIGENC . E. . • „ The following wastftis day poital at 'LL0:111;91 " In consequence off co:madcation front the Lords'Cont: mluiestars of the Adfpralty, - - stating, that a coming up Channel; was captur on the leth instant, Brighton ; and that another brig was taken the followlog day 6N Shoreham, by French privateers, owing to their being too far from the shore be benefited by the sigrnai made to them; the Committee are "'dueled to repeat their recent request, that Owners of ships wN particularly and strictly enjoin the Masters to keep yitar the English coast in proceeding (q) Channel, otheryrbe the Leine =nu at the Signal Stations cannot make known to nierr.hant. vessels the appl-oach of any enemy's cruisers. " /ono BLIIIIZTT, lute FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY so. A riived from the Westward a sloop of war, ittO• posed to be the MYRTLIC I from Lisbon ; in conse quence of the wind blowing hard, no boats have beeti nff to her. The Nocton .and Montague packets or, now° due from the Braiils ; also the Chesterfield packet from Bermuda. • TORBAY, FEBR.t.TARY 24. • Sailed his Majesty's chip Puma-Mum Citptai Ro nkorsoN, bound to Cape do Verds. —Wind N. N. E. and (Air weather. , . PLYMOUTH, PRBP.I7AftY Arrived his Majesty's ships Acitarat, Ramona. Maim, Foanounn, Scusta, and St*Alusnoarttni separate crnizers; Pyßamos, Carainrr, BRITON, and ANDROMACHE, from the West ward. • PORTSMOU 112, FEBRUARY 2: Arrived his Majesty's ship ALI:ZANDER, Milt tie Downs; and la Pious, with a fleet of, transports from Lisbon. Among .them are the.foloiving Fanny, No. 98, Bellona 942, Venus 473, Majestic 93, Crown 16, Canal G, Richard 19, Agamemnon 47?, Clifford 468, Hope 475, Bilmer 400, Beres 398, I,on. don 267, Ides 252, Lord St. John 46k, Meabutn 234 Neptune 433, So*eteign 58, Xenophon 473, COlum bine 474, Mary V, David P, Beresford 333, William V, Barkworth 470, Benson 469, Xanthni 160, Lord Wellington, 326, Latona 363, Juncit 0, and the Mary H. Arrived the WIZARD, frotia Plymouth. DEAL, FEBRUAtV RC , • But back, by coatrary winds, the Widmer Outte, Hope, and Cumberland East lndiamen.--;-Arrived and sailed.for the River the Cornirallis, DzitSAil tied ' Arab, BIAT/I ' in 14 days from Mogadore ; and lire Spanish ship Mentor, Troth COruntsa.Cattle down from the River the Sir William Pulteney, Ciintro- PH ER, bound to India, and several other ithips..Tbst Sinclair; PEAT, is not put back. The Paril Jones American piliateer, of 14 guns and 90 men, has been captired by la PIQUN frigate, and stilt for Gibraltar. The Thetis, from Carmarthen ,to Lonacin 3 Dart, FULTON, from St. Michael's for ditto ; and the An telope, of Newcastle, are taken and carries! into Ca- lais. The Traveller, from Lishori ko London, is taken and carried into ooulogne ,• and the %T ire's de , Rosario, bound to Cadiz, is taien and carded into: Corsica. • In the Hotise of-Commons lait night, Mr. Coca. RARE JOHNSTONR gave notice of his intention, on Monday nett, to inbniit a motion to the House, relative to the pitceedingt instieuted by the command of his MAJESTY, ,ielatiie to he! Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES. The following particulars respecting the boy called', 4 c BILLY- FAwcrr," who has been patronized, and we believe educated, by the Princest of WALES, may! be relied on. They tend still farther satisfactorily to, elucidate circumstances which were once artfully! clothed with much mystery, and formed the basis of charges of the most serious magnitude : In the Ordnance Department at Plymouth Dock there is now a peison of the name of WILLIAM BARS. lILOCIC, who formerly resided at No. 7, New Road, Deptford. This person states, that Mrs. AvrTrat o (whose child, afterwardi named BILLY Fawn?, wig' patronized by the Princess of Wat.rs), lived at his house, and when in the last stage of pregnancy, in July 1802, obtained a ticket of admission into Brown. low-street Hospital, where she was delivered of a child. Shortly after its birth, her husband, who had a relatiin residing in the Royal Household, applied to the latter, requesting him to solicit the patronage of the Princess of WALES, which was graciously as ceded to. The Princess of WALIES took the child away from the Hospital, provided a nurse, and has am. tinned . to bestow the most generous attentions ever since. After her delivery, Mrs. &WWI returned toe 'the house of Mr. BARIIIILOICE.