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;~: FUNGI PIPERS. day *al Pasted In reeoaceitriag ; and ____ keeping his position *it* Borodino, it wall die that pla.ce on the itle the battle should take ... . ANNEXED TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH instructions which your Majesty addressed to me on. BULLETIN, the morning of the 7th imOrted, that I was to keep the centre of the battle ITTLZ OF 31091[WA--moRT or THE =GOT NAPUtIi with the Sd and Bth corps, it THE MAJOR-GENERAL. • which the Emperor would put under my order, with my right supporting the Ist corps, and my kit the is In thinight between the 6th and 7th I received 4th. I likewise had at my disposal the 3cl corps of e general dispositions for the battle, . which I or- the cavalry reserves. The Emperor ordered that the *rat to be carried into execution ;—and at five Ist corps should commence its attack the whole lehgth • clock in the morning, the Ist, 2d, and 4th corns of the wood, under the protection of the batteries of le reserve of the cavalry were brigade 4 in columns the 12th, which had been constructed in the course a the foot of the redoubt. The Ist corps of reserve of the night. His Majesty ordered me to make the was to support the attack of the Ist corps of the attack at about seven o'clock in the morning. irnsy, the 2(1 that of the * Sd corps of the army if ere- . 4th marched in resereita the centre, and was,ere-I " I immediately assembled the Generals tb renew m them verbally the instructions which they had al, :entry, to sustain either Me one or the other. His ready received in writing. I caused his Majesty's Wajesty has placed the 3d corps of reserve 'at the lisposal of the Viceroy. The signal for attack proclamation to be read to the troops; it w a s Heel. of the ved by the soldiers with enthusiasm, and with cries King given, all was put in motion according to this of "Long live the Emperor!" irder. The Emperor having received advice Prince of Eckmuhl having just been wounded, or- " We marched constantly towa r d s the enem y.— The division of the 8d corps advanced in the follow. lered me toga to him, and to take the command of ,ing oilier : the 18th, 25th, apd the 11th, the first in d ebe.first corps of the army in care of that Pripce a column of attacks, having its last regiment in co should be be found unable to continue it. I returned a by divisions, deployed at a di s t a nce from the to Okla his Majesty, that he had answered me that !Ss trocnd was merely a contusion, and that he would division, ready to form a square, and act as a reserve. continue his command. A moment afterwards his -The Bth corps was deployel on two lines. The 10th Majesty told me to go to the front, and see what was division, after repulsing all the tirailleurs and advan ' gassing at the redoubts. I went there at full gallop. ced guards, entered the redoubt on the left of the At my arrival the light troops were entering the se- enemy with the greatest valour. This redoubt was cOnd redoubt, at which they were repulsed. The attacked at the same time by the troops ef the first corps, and in such wise that the 24th of the light in- Russian cuirassiers charged our light infantry, but fantry, and the .57th of the line, entered it together they were received with a brisk fire of musketry from our infantry, and vigorously driven back by the di- pell'mell. Vision Bruyere. " A charge, made by theVirfemburgh regiment " The en.etny,, recovered from his first astonish... men[, retraced his steps to retake this redoubt ; but of Beurman, cn the Russian infantry at the same at that moment the 25th di vision marched to support time, likewise received orders to advance, to pass the the 10th, and the enemy were repulsed. ravine, and to charge the pieces of artillery and the 44 A charge which I caused to be - macle success.' 1 Wintry which were in the village, a position which fully by the 14th brigade of light cavalry, seconded ! was of the greatest importance to the enemy. Gene. the efforts of the infautry. ~.id Latour Maubourg, at the head of the Saxon cui- Si Whilst the 10th 'and 25th divisions were thus risers, fell on them, and was attended with the engaged, the 11th marched on the centre redoubt, greatest success, the Russians, who were marching which they carried. The reiterated efforts of the -to the first redoubt, being entirely sabred. I then enemy, who successively made several charges both,. caused the soldiers to march,. at quick step, to the of cavalry and infantry, proved ineffectual. They second redoubt, which was taken at once. retired in the greatest disorder, and renounced the " The whole first corps of cavalry received orders idea of retaking their positions. te throw themselves behind these same redoubts, and " The Bth corps then gained the heights. I led the 4th corps likewise. them to the right to attack the left wing of the ene , 44 The enemy, in spite of the fire of the artillery my, in concert with the Poles, which was pra.ecuted and the infantry, charged them, sabred a great num- by them tether, and with vigour. As soon as I *s t and maintained himself in the. pesition, During perceived that the redoubt on the right was about to this while General Nansouty, at the head of the front be carried by the troops of the first and 4th corps, I division of cuirassiers, under the orders of General mevectforward'Ou the enemy, always bearing on his Si. Ginanains, charged with vigour allf these who left, tustil the moment when he betook himself to a Wire to the right of the two redoubts, and ivrePt the complete retreat. plain as far as the ravine of the village. At this * 4 I cannot bestow a realer minium. on, the be moment his Majesty sent me the division of General haviour of the troops under my command, and, it is rriant. : Oen. Dufour passed the ravine at the head gratifying to me to refle ct, t he zeal it4th why t hat of tgratith regiment of light infantry, chaced the they are animated will be appreciated by the Empe enemy successfully, and arrived at the principal ror, his Majesty haying been an eye-witnese of it...,- beights which are behind the village. General Fri- The loss of the 3d corps has been about 2500, in ant supported this movement with the rest of his killed and wounded. The field of battle proves the dieisioa disposed in brigade, as a reserve. I then immense logs sustained by the enemy. earned General Caulincourt to pass to the head of- (Signed) 46 Marshal Duke of ELCHINCEN." the second corps of reserve ;--scarcely was he got to twofer tie nerizem. PRINCE PONIATOWSKI TO TilE ma. de Other side of the ravine, when I directed him to charge' on his left, whatever he might find of the JOTS-GENERAL. euesny, and endeavour to carry the great redoubt 44 Field of Battk, Sept. 7, Ten o'clock at night. which, taking us in fl a nk, did us vast harm, if be 64 MONSEIGNEULi--I have the honour to inform, should find a favourable opportunity. This order Your Excellency of the battle of to day.. was executed with equal celerity and courage. 46 At five in the morning the sth corps.put itself • 0 GeetraLCaulincourt, at the bead of the second in motion, by making a circuitof:the wood.. We division of cuirassiers, under the orders of General arrived upon the old road from Smolensk to. Mos' -. Wattier, bore down every thing he found before hi m , cow. We pursued that road, and upon debeuchin g . arid finding himself to have passed the great redoubt from the wood into the plain, we perceived.a strong on the left, he wheeled round on it, and with the sth column of infantry near the village of Passarewo. I cuirassiers took it from the enemy. This brave Ge. caused a battery of six and 12-pounders to be este treat died gloriously in the same redoubt, which was blished on a small eminence to the left of the road, kept,until the arrival of the troops under General which having played for some time upon the co -Girard ;—meanwhile the Russians formed several lump, I ordered my infantry to rapidly advance, masses of infantry, composed of the Russian guards, and carry by main force the village of Passarewo, sod of their reserve, supported .by a numerous ca. and by a second attack the small wood that is in ad valryohe enemy marched to retake the village. vance of the village. ss I h a d caused successively all the artillery of the " The country being extremely uneven, from the [rivalrY; and that of General Fright's division, to be small wood to the top of the eminence, which corn brought forward. About eighty pieces of cannon mands all the plain, and strongly occupied by the were formed in battery to carry in the midst of the enemy, I threw three battalions of tirailleurs into the enemy's masses. I caused them to keep up a rolling small woods, which were filled with a great quanti ty of Russian chasseurs. A brisk fire of musketry ire, which stopped the movements of the Russians. i The Emperor bas been able to convince himself o fmmediately took place, as well as a heavy canno the devastation which the. artillery has caused d u , nade, which lasted till noon. enerrii, when he yesterday went over the field of 44 I ordered the eminence to be carried by assault. battle. ThC . Russian cuirassiers supported the move- The first battalions succeeded in gaining it after spent: 0(4 great efforts, but although supported by other batta times)lo, infantry, and charged at different the French artillery, cavalry, and infantry.— lions, it was impossible for them to maintain them selves against an infinitely superior force. We were They were constantly repulsed with the greatest loss , and the field of battle ea., revered a ith their dead. repulsed from the eminence, but succeeded in main- They suffered an enormous loss of horses in these taming ourselves in the copse, agreeably to the or different charges. ders given us by his Majesty, and I continued to bat -46 The Cazalinur brigade, under the command of ter from my batteries the top of the eminence, upon Qenerils Peultre. and Chaoud, and the 1 1th and 12th which the enemy had twelve pieces of cannon of a bre. sa giorents of Chasseurs, conducted by Gen. Pajol, as hea .: Lc we r r emained ITS this position till two P. M. when well as St. Germain , and Bruyeres division, particu. observing that considerable progress was making larly distinguished themselves. upon the centre, I ordered a fresh attack upon the 44 It was time to silence all the fi re of the enemy's eminence, which was seconded by.the cavalry, who artillery and carry the last position en the field in ' arr ived at the back of the eminence almost at the advance on the left of the 3d corps. I ordered Fri- i same time as the infantry ; and we succeeded in ant's divisiOn to march ;—during this time I pushed ! establishing ourselves upon it. The enemy made forward a vigorodi, charge on all the front. The i some efforts to retake it ; but not only were they re enemy were ewerthrown ; they threw themselves into i pulsed, but I vigorously pursued them with my in the wood; they withdrew their artillery; all the fantry, cavaliy, and horse artillery, more than half plain was cleared ; their last position was carried.— , a leag ue . The cavalry made several charges upon It was then I bad the happiness of meeting his . their infantry, who suffered great loss. We made Majesty. I ism few prisoners, for the cavalry sabred all who fell Mere follow the praisess of the different Officers into their hands, after suffering several discharges.— who distinguished themselves.] The prisoners we have made shall be sent to head (Signed) "J. NAPOLEON• quarters to-morrow morning. In the mean time I a aeraatst, September 9, 1912.' 1 have the honour of sending your Excellency an Offs um. or THE MARSHAL. DUKE OF ILCIIINGEN TO THE cer who has just abandoned the Russian flag, and as a Pole requested to serve his country. He is enabled to give excellent accounts. It appears, ac cording to what he has told me, that the sth core*, had to-day beforeTulakoff's corps d'armee, committal, of Sleogenoff's grenadiers, called the 2d guard, and' Icanowitchen's division, more than twobattalions of grenadiers of the reserve, two regiments of militia, a regiment of Julians, and another of hussars. (He here praises different Officers). I wait t ' or Excel. letters Orders, and have the honour to be,lltc. . From before Borodino, on the road to Mojalak, Sept, P. " My Loan-.-Agreeable to my orders from your Highness, the troops ,of the 3d corps on the sth inst. tOok,position in advance of the Abbey of Kolosky, on the left of the Kologha, and kept it in readiness snpport the first corps, a part of which was going to attack and carry the redoubt near to the village of ‘ 1 0,11 9 . “ On the 6th the id corps and likewise the Bth, • . • .......goi7RCED BY MI MTLITART tottaillittost put the following question t.--t Here follows a ti l t e t 4TED AT Mos Cow, BY mums or Pills teenerir the names, age, profess on, and place of birth, of the ; Me mowsnon AND AIN% TOR Tin TRIAL Or Tll6 26 persons accused. 1--n Are these guilty of settin AUTHORS AND ABETTORS Of TIM CONELAGPATION fire to the houses of Moscow, with the design of burn. OF Burr. 14 and 15, and FALLOWING DAT& ing dawn the city ?" In the Name of the PAIDOBA• And Kbu&, The votes being collected, beginning with t h ose of This day, the 24th of September, the Military the lowest rank ; and the President having g i ven hi s Commission created at Moscow, in conformity to the opinion lase), the Commission declared unanimously that the ten individuals named below we re gu il ty. orders a his Majesty the Emperorind King, com posed of General Count Lauer, Grand Provost of the [Here follows a list of ten, out of those W ore . Army ; General Baron Michel, Commandant of the named, witlrtheir ages, professions, place of birth, First Regiment of Grenadiers of the Guard .; General e tc . as before.] Baron Saunier, Grand Provost of the First Corps On which the Imperial Procureur (Attonni d'Armee ; Colonel Baron Bodelin, Commandaut of pli e d fo r puni s hment. . - i all. the Pusileers Grenadiers of the ' uard ; Adjutant' The votes being again collie tea I>y the ikaid ent . ' Commandant Chevalier Thery, Commandant of the in the form indicated above, the C.onunissioanai ‘ The sixteen faßo v iini, the W itary C ommissintk mously condemned the above teninelividuah %odes& ' the Gendarmerie d'Elite ; General Count Moathiou, Imperial Quarter; the Chef d'Escadron Jeannie, of and ! consideeing . ai oat stigclettlY concricted, condemned* exercisinithe functions of Imperial Procureur ; 14. Weber, Chef d'Escadron, exercising the func to be detained. in . the g risoos of Moscow, t prevent - : Dons of Judge Reporter; all appointed by his Serene . th e m i s chi e f t h ey •mi t 4 0 . tlighness the Prince of Neufchatel, Major-General I [List of sixteen names, with ages, profe ss i o n s , if the Grand Army—assisted by the Sieur Jouve de place of birth, dtc.] Guibert, Subaltern Officer of Gendarmerie, appoint- Ordered, besides the printing, firing up, and din edg Registrar by the Judge Reporter, in order to era- tributin of 100 copies, that the Judge Reporte r i s mine and try the authors and abettors of the confla- enjoined to read' the present judgment to the co n . gration which took place in the different quarters demned, and cause it to be executed in its whole C A , of. the city of Moscow, on the 14th and 15th of tent within 24 hours. this month, and continued during the 16th, 17th, Done, concluded, and judged in public SetsiCei 0 , 4 and 18th. .. • .. the day, month, and year above.ffiertfioned,lnd-n e The commission, convoked by order of the Presi- Members of the Comer/slew have signed wit 0, 6 dent; having met in the Palace Dolgorucky, the Judge Reporter and Registrar the Milottc di s k, session was opened by the reading of the . treat serial (Signed) both of the information and pieces tending td the cri - 1 WEBER ; Genera) Baron Saner= ; Jam ea Qs. mination and acquittal of the accused. ment. newt ; Colonel Baton. Borman • Adjutant Coed 'Thi n reading . finished, the President ordered the I mandant CheratieT'THAßY ; Borman; B ins )4 1 , guard to bring in the accused, to ills number of 26, 1 , • 'GAEL ; Genet-al Grand Provost of slw Army who were accordingly brought in without fetters. LA;r2ft G en e ra l Chief of t h e S ta led t h e bf ro After having stated to them the facts laid to their )or General , ezerrising the functions of Impssist charge t and heard separately the declarations and Me (Attorney), Coteau MONTIIIOII. depositions of the witnesses, after having heard the _ PARIS,NOVEMBER 6. accused taken in the fact of setting fire to different i houses, and examined the means employed by the I Private letters from Spain announce, that gleamy incendiaries, as, matches fusee, phosphoric vessels., of the centre joined to that of the South, formi n g mare than 80,000 men, is in full march upon Madrid, sulphur, and other combustible matter,. found upon the accused, or placed purposely in several habita-.whilst the corps d'annee under Marshal the Doke of : Alhutera, concentrated in the kingdoni dValencia, tions-.-The Commission found, that for the last three mouths the Russian Government, foreseeing no doubt ! acts Eng lish ems . I maeZrasneral Malt'. against the the danger of the contest in which it had engaged, : land. These letters add, that die French army is and the impossibility of preventing the French army full of confidence and ardisur. . from arriving at Moscow, had resolved to employ in In the Twenty-third Bulletin, after the worth, its defence the extraordinary means of conflagration. * We found a Madona enriched with diamonds;* n and pearls, and destruction, reprobated by civilized nations ;. add , with the following , inscription ih that it had accepted for that purpose the proposition.' the Russian language : of a certain Doctor Schmitt, an gnglishman (though I 'Th e F re n ch and citythe Poles having Don eosopent tr . & Russians, of Dantatt taken ! In 17" the calling himself a German) a mechanician and ma- 1 A 1 ...tint .WANOWNA, td 1740, tamed* thls. lausokif theiohilln re chinisr by profession, who being invited into Russia, be enriched wit:upsets and diamonds, In disokialviwfix no contrived in the beginning of last May, and aftet everu."-.(Moaitou.).. several secret conferences with the principal authori- WARSAW, OCTOBER rg. ties, went to reside at the Castle of Vorcminw, Si. We every day see • pan through this place reitn tuate six wersts from the city, on the road to Ku- . forooments proceeding to the army of Prince Schwane. lonza ; that a detachment of 100 infantry and 12 zenberg. Marshal the Duke of C.astigleone's mot dragoons repaired to the cattle, to protect the my- has marched for Willis, where it will not be longiw sterious operations of. Schmitt, and previiiht the curi- , ari iying. ous from gaining access to him, ,I They write from Cracow as follows a—u home d That it is nerally known that he constructed an , the soldiers who were taken prisooms by the Russian• ge aerostatic balloon of a considerable size, pretending ilmee effected their escape and arrived here. . Tie that he meant to enclose in it a destructive mathine,l greater number of these prisoners of war, viz. 544 which lie asserted he could guide at pleasure. i Austrians, Saxon's,. and Poles, killed near Kiev, the That about a fortnight before the entrance of the . Russian soldiers svho escorted them." French army into Moscow, seven large barrels of , BERININI, ON THE ADRIATIC, SIPT.67. gunpowder were sent to Voronzow, with artificers,' We have t his morning receive& accounts that feu who were to work under the directions of Dr. Schmitt. Englishmen had landed on Our coast ;—measures' . That it is proved that this pretended construction . were immediately taken to arrest them, which war of a balloon was merely for an imposition, and that done without resistance. The vessel from whiclishey nothing was done at the Castle of Voronzow, but the had landed was an Italian ship, which had hem preparing of fire-works, and making other incendiary taken by an enemy's 74. A sailor .and cabin-bop machines. ' had been left on board ; the sailor took advantage That it is certain that all the expences incurred in 10z , t he confusion occasioned by a violent tempest, tii making of the balloon and the machines were de frayed by the Russian Government., !land in a place not very dangerous, where he might 'be perceived, and speedily succoured. The feet That Count Rostopchin , th e Military Governor of , En .. , .. .. Syl vesteri , and bia. glisnmen, as wen as the sailor, Moscow, being certain, after the battle of Mojaisk, cabin boy, are carefully guarded, accerdiog to the of the speedy arrival of the French, determined then 'orders of the Commission of Health. The guards to carry into execution the plan of burning that ca- . pital by all the means in his power. costes have on this occasion given proofs of their vitilance and activity. Their efforts, aided by than That he issued a Proclamation to the inhabitants, of re: diametric, also retook f rom the enemy , on , in which was the following :-- 4, Aim y miselves i 4 .1 the 28d of September, . two vessels, havize:, Oa does not signify with what arms, but especially wit', board seven men which they had before pitchforks, which are the best to be employed against , LEEPSIC, OCTOBER .as:. the French; because in weight they resemble trusses By the intelligence we receive . from - Domini. wo of straw. If we cannot conquer them, we will burn them in Moscow, should they have the temerity to imposing. attitude which the Doti* enter it." • find that the i Government has taken, haw hitherto .prentead deli That more certainly to accomplish his purpose, country from all at tack . and-foreign invasi on‘ W. 'Governor Rostopchin, before'his departure, caused to are ignorant, whether, during.the winter, the Das* be opened the gates of the prisons called the Ostrog troops will .keep the positions they now occur d'' and the Yamou, in which malefactors are confined ; The C.orps &Atom return to their different barracks. . . ._,._ that he set at liberty about 800 criminals, and in pay. in Zealand is very numerous, and animated . rr a te s 7 ment for their liberty, required that they should set beat spirit . The troops are fretlnendieserc u m ~ fire to the city 24 hours after the arrival of the distinguished by the precision of theiransele ,. French troops. j VIENNA, OCTOBER ft That several o ffi cers and soldiers of the Russian ' The latest intelligence from Cone army and agents of the police, received orders secretly- the French Ambassador, Count Andseossfientsr t to remain disguised in Moscow, to direct the incen- the higbest consideration with the Porte- * . diaries, and give th e signal of conflagration . That CONS rANrINOrLE, SEPT. SS.' it is notoriously known, that to take away all means 1 An event, which may hare the greatestinffilewl_ of extinguishing the fire, Governor Rostopchin sent • u p ort t h e course o f a ff a i rs i n t h e Ottoman entPire , ,:: away, on the morning of the Ilth of this month, all most exclusively occupies the attention of the 1 0 , ;;; the engines of the 20 quarters of the city, with the.; of this capital. According . to an order given carriages, buckets. and utensils, as also.the bows propriated to them. nis' die utmost secrecy, and coming, as is 'WW I . Pte` axially from the Grand Seignior / widwi ilk qbat ...dna That the inflammable matters of different kinds, tion of the Divan, the Grand . Treel'i 13 and particularly the vessels filled with phosphorus pi dinern. 7 4 . eha, has been &misted and sent to 111. 1 . 11 L wrapped in sulphurated linen, deposited in different . hie property has been confiscated . to the peat err houses, evidently demonstrated that the • confla state. The Porte was only infonnedefthis a- lion was effected according to a premeditated p la n.. ' .. and of the nomination of his succenerrbor,b That the matches and fuzes seized in the hands of oti several, Russian soldiers and other individuals, at the , nAhnificeadtiP asha , in lusiityof ßsehne o u ra d ndv l er. A. moment of their arrest, show beyond a doubt thereat di ate l y a f ter t h e di sm i ss i on o f t he Grand Weir - authors of the conflagration, Ot* whom a„nunaber, as Caimaean of this capital, Schelde Mona PI 51 ; they were taken in the fact, were in the first mo- I was di sgrace d. He was banished the Ifithinsu at _ ie menus of spontaneous indignation, shot by the French ' patroles, or knocked on the head by the inhabitants the island of Stankoe ; he has been allowed tarr sea . themselves. which he hail 6 t"'' 1 his property, which is very considerable, witbtr ~. i ception of the sumptuous furninire ~,h b . The Judge Reporter having been heard in his re- i Palace of the Porte, in which he lired, sad "' i port and conclusions, and the accused in their de• ;must leave for the benefit of his succes se fence, and the latter having declared they had no- l tr wh ° l l Rudschi Suleiman Pacha, and owes his elerntiang" thing more to add, I tirely to the favour and protection oldie new r l . : Ihe President demanded of the Members, if they 1 Vizier. The Grand Seignior, in his resale eta had any observations to make ? and op their answer..l o ss t hi s occas i on , ing , in the negaive,lllid before he proceeded to irate o p igeoce in supplying the capital wide their opinions, ordered the accused to withdraw. accuses the dismissed Ellielosi• Whilst the Grand 'Seignior discards She The Council deliberated with closed doors, in tlui who co.opanted in the pace ofißner i Z i t i a presence of the Illtrial PrOCZUVUT only. - `' mom_ ri____Li. Sian Plenipotentiaries -dad,. itaitive