Star. — London, England, 1812-10-08 00:00:00

r' THE 'EVENING ; STA R. LONDON. e r Should any of our Friends In the country have been dis sprinted in receiving the St Az of yesterday, we earstestly beg t he they will attribute the circumstance to the right cause. Our doors were absolutely so assailed by the Public in their earnest ress to have the Paper, that we were obliged at last to lock them. and found much di f ficult y in sending off the regular supply t o t h e post-O}Ace and News-venders. We hope, bowover,ibat bit wiry kw of our Roden were disappointed. THURSDAY, OCTOBER S. ?ma OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. cbm ssi # f —for opg. 59 —5 per Ct. 88} f—Omn. 41 pr. Bub. Balks. (Sid.) 21. 31.dis.—De. (Sid.) 2s. par--)3411. 73. dis The dispatch from Lord CATHCART, respecting the battle between the Russians and the French was, last y4O, pubFshed in a Gazette extraordinary. The cha racter of Lord CATHCART precludes the possibility of suspicion that any part of his statements rests on vague authority. Prince KovrousoFF claims the victory, and, on the other hand, NAPOLEON in the Pith Bulletin asserts, that the Russians were in full flight. Let it be recollected that the Russian Commander writes under high rlsp . oniibility to his Sovereign; but that BONAPARTE is a c countable to no mortal for what he chooses to publish, and may often find k conveni ent to write tor the meridian of Park. The truth ap pears to he that both sides *antlered most severely, but judging flan the NINETEENTH BULLLETIN OF TIE FRENCH ARMY, . . 'received this morning, we cannot but admit 'Thai the Subsequent advance of the enemy exhibits it least the imposing setnblatice of victory having 'declared in his favour.—We say "the tfarblanee of victory," for it will ie found, from.a careftil perusal of all the accounts teceiired, that the Russian arh4' not only exists, but existi in great forcr, unbrOlceit and undatintea. Be: tore we offer any farther remarks we shall lay the Ftettch Bulletin befOre our Readers. . . PARIS, OCTOBER s. i/INEYEENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. Moscow, SEPT. 16 • of After the battle of lktoskwa, the French army iiiisned the enemy upon Moscow, by the three Alt* Itfejaitk, Svenigorod, and ICalOuga. u The King of Naples was on the 9th at Koubin sive; the Viceroy at Rotten, and Prince Poniatowski at reminskoe. The head-quarters were on the 12th transferred from Mojaisk to Peselina; on the 13th they Were at the castle of Berwska ; on the 14th, at raid-day, we entered Moscow. The enemy had railed din the Sparrow Mountain, two iversts from dle city, some redoubts; whiCh he abandoned. 4 ' The city of Mosscow is as large as Paris ; it is an ettrernely rich city full of Palacei of all the Nobles of the Einpire: The Russian Governor, Rostapchin, ivished to ruin this fine city, when he saw it aban doned by the I ussiad army: He had armed 3000 inalefactors, whom he had taken from the dungeons; he alio summoned together 6000 satellites, arid dis tributed arms among theirs from the arsenal: " aur advanced guard, arrived in the centie orate City, was received by a fire of musketry, which issued front the Kremlin. The King of Naples ordered a battery rf feW pieCei of cannon to be opened, dis riled this rabble, and took possesSion of the ICremlin. We ha;ie foutid in the arsenal 60,000 new muskets, and 123 pieces of cannon, on their carriage's: The alost totttplete anarchy reigned in the city;—some drunken madmen ran through its different quarters, and every *hire set fire to theni. The Governor Rostapthin had caused all the merchants and shop keepers to be carried off, through whose instrumen tality order might have been re-estiablished. More than 400 french and Germans were arrested by his orders; in fine s he had taken the precaution of cat tying of the firemen with the Fire-engines; so that the most complete anarchy has desolated this gteat and fine city, and the flames are devouring it. We have found in it considerable resources of every kind. " The Emperor is lodged in the Kreiniii, which is in the centre 'of the city, like a kind of citadel, surrounded by high Walls. Thirty thousand wounded or sick Russians are in the hospitals, abandoned,l snithout succour, and without nourishment. " The Russians acknowledge that they lost fifty thousand men in the battle of the Moskwa. Prince ; Eragation was mortally wounded. A list has been made of the Russian Generals wounded or killed in! the battle : it amounts to between 45 and 50." That N.teotEoN, with part at least of his army, has entered Moscow, cannot be dcubted. We stated on Saturday that letters from Paris announced this Lt, and that possibly it might be confirmed : we did not, however, believe, that the immediate and necessary resuk of the battle of the 7th, was to place BOVAPARTS in undisturbed posassi( n of the city ; aor are we yet of opinion that he Las seized his post without a far more serious struggle than he has thought fit to avow, or without lehving behind him en enemy from whom he has every thing to dread. To form a full judgment on the whole question, Ire,inuet look to the events which preceded, as well as to those which are said to have followed, the tre nendous shock of the rival armies. From the Rua 14in accouzz of ale is& of Sineleask it anears (that the importance of that affair was greatly exag gerated by the, French. The Russians had no motive for making a longer stand there, which might have exposed BARCLAY DE TOLLY to the haiard of being separated from BAGRATION, and therefore abandoned its ruins to the enemy. BARCLAY an l oux being made War Minister, was succeeded in command by Kummer ; but that circutnstance does not appear to haire made any change in the syStem pursued by the army, which leisurely and ieeuraly retired, with all its baggage, its stores and cannon, and even ae: cumulated fresh supplies both of men and artillery, from Moscow ; the French, with the same caution, advancing along the Dnieper to Dorogobotiz, and thettke.by Viasma and Giatsk to Grndnevo. Thui were the respective parties circumstanced on' the 4th of September, with the occurrences of which day the 18th Bulletin begins. This document, how: ever, totally omits all mention of the reconnoissance' made on the Russian position; and we may safely set down such an omission to a cause appear;ng from Lord e i tiliCAßliS dispatch, namely, that the French were driven.back on that occasion with loss. On the sth the , whole French army came up with in sight of the RU;Siatts, but found it still necessary to pass several litAire is reconnoitring: nor was it till four in the aftelifoOti that a partial attempt was nude on the Russian left: He're each party claims to have obtained the advantage, and taken from the other some prisoners and cannon. The affair, hotvever, *could not have been very decisive ; for both armies appear to have stood at bay the whole of the follow ing day--.not idly, bitt on the one side reconnoitring and endeavouring to choose a plan of attack; on the other, bringing up the reserve, and completing the arrangements for defence. Under such circumstances) it %v . all hardly possible that a battle could be avoided. The French, It is possible, might, by manoeuvring. have turned the Russian position ; but the advanced season prOhi hited delay, and BONAPARTE. had no choice, bet by a bold effort to change his own and the enemyi positions, or to hazard the annihilation of his arink, by the inclemencies of a Russian winter. On the 7th, the battle was fought. The Ftench, under cover of a . thick log, fell in immense masses, on the left of the RUssians ; whilst thirty thousand Cossacks cut their way into the centre of the French army. It is clear, from the long previous reconnoit-1 'ring on the part of the French; thdt the Russian Ge. nerals could not have been groislY deficient in The immoveable firmness and valour of their soldiery is proverbial and in the present instance, it was heightened to an enthusiastic pitch of heroism by the most solemn appeal to their religious feelings, which are of the strongest kind. The General, guided by a thorough knoWledge of the haritats heart, or animated by a devout and patriotic zeal, brought forth a picture of the Virgin Malty, held sacred by the Moscovites, and in front of his army solemnly swore to defend bis country to the lastgrasp. I Opposed to these energetic feelings. the French Commanders had undoubtedly a more profound skill in tactic's, an army more systematically disciplined, and probably a superiority of numbers. Still the ba lance appear 3 to have been lotig held in a most awful suspense ; and probably on neither side was de advantage decisive, when the contest ceased. The French do not assert that their adversaries fled ; and the Russian General certainly dates his evening dish patch from the field of battle. The spot ennobled by this great event, was about nine English miles in ad. ranee, or to the westward of Mojaisk. It was the original intention of Kurusore, if the French had manoeuvred en the roads leading to Moscow, to have marched off arid taken a position on the other Side of Mojaisk, where those roads meet. What were the occurrences of the four days imme diately subsequent to the battle, we have not yet learnt. On the 10th, we find ) the French head-quarters were in Mojaisk ; and it was not till the 12th that they moved forward:. It is presumable that General KU - IVSOFF would recur to his original plan; and it is possible, that a part; if not the whole, of the French army may have got between him, and Mos cow by manoeuvres. The different corps seem to have advanced by different routes; and it is (mer& I vable, that the only General who is mentioned. as ! entering the city is Muaar i the Commander of the cavalry. Eten in the streets there Was, what we should have anticipated, from the very disposition of the people, a sanguinary resistance to the invaders. `This is glossed over as the act of a few madmen, drunkards, malefactors, taken from the dungeons by the Governor for the purpose; as if this was the only I description of persons who cared for their country, Ifor their native city, their homes, and their families ! I From a variety of concurring circumstances, we are led to believe that a very different scene presented itself. The Governor, as we have learnt, had pre-. Iviously assembled the city militia in great numbers, inexperienced probably in military manoeuvres, bat I full of animation and loyalty. It is to be feared that they must have undergone a terrible carnage; bur l certainly not *ithout inflicting some vengeance on their savage persecutors. Of this once beautiful and extensive capital, 26 miles in circumference, and fall of palaces, the 19th Bulletin presents a most frightful picture t—N The most complete anarchy (so they call a loyal resist aacepas desolated it and the llama are devouring is strietnres."—lf this be the case, the triumph tf this heartless monster may yet be short-lived. How are his numerous hosts to be fed and sheltered, and I - preserved front sickness and famine, during the dreary winter, amongst a heap of ruins? Are they, even at this Moment, safe from the attacks of the Russian General? It is true, that we are ignorant in .what direction he has moved; but it is impossible that his formidable army should have been dispersed without a struggle. After the battle of Borodin; he must have had not less than 80,000 men and 400 pieces of cannon by the confession of the French themselves; probably his force was much greater, and we know that it was subsequently augniented by fresh accessions. lit us earnestly hope that he will make good his title t o the hintotirs and rewards which have been showered Upon him, by rescuing what remains of the capital from the grasp of the invader. In tliS piisent imperfect state of Our information (for even the Nineteenth Bulletin presents a very vage and meagre narrative), we are left in a state of painful uncertainty; as to the possible chance of realising this great object of our wishes ; but we are strongly persuaded, that the northern campaign will be found not to have cloied, withoin some desperate exertion on the part of the Russians; subsequent, and perhaps little inferior to the battle of Borodin. The following are some farther extracts from the French papers t " ARMY OP PORTUGAL. 4 , While the Artily of Portugal was collected at Valladolid and its vicinity, in expectation of the re inforcements which have been sent to it from Bayonne, General Clauzel, who has commanded this army since the wound of the Marshal Duke of Ragusa, know ing that the garrison of Astorga was not sufficiently supplied with provisions, determined to send a de t tchment to revictual it. He destined for this pur pose two divisions of infantry, with one division of light cavalry, under the orders of General Foy* who was, besides, directed to attack the insurgent Melly of Gallicia, which, it was supposed, must have assembled near Benevente; but with whatever rapi dity General Foy •marched, iewas impossible fur him to arrive in time at Astorga. " The garrison, having completely exhausted its means of subsistence, had been compelled to surren. ! der, and had come out of the place on the 19th of August General Foy arrived at Astorga on the night of the 20th, without being able to come up with the enemy's rear-guard, except near that place. The insurgents, compelled to fly in haste into Gallicia, marched from ten to twelve leagues a dae. In eva cuating Astorga, they had left our sick and wounded, who were brought back by General Foy. That Ge. neral having learnt, on his return to Benevente, that General Silveira was still in the vicinity of t adore,' marched against him by Tavara and 'Careajales. He saw Lim regaining in all haste the frontiers of Portu gal, but our cavalry could never come up with him. 64 About the same time, General Clauzel learnt that the English General Alison, commanding from 1000 to 1200 hOrie, had maintained his posts in the valley of the Esqueva ; his division, composed of the 11th, 12th, 14th, and 16. h regiments of light dragoons, and of a battery of light artillery, was at Villa Venus and Tudela. On the 19th of August' General Maucune was charged to advance, fot the purpose of reconnoitring on the side of Tudela, in order to compel this cavalry to pass to the other bank of the Douro. Some Lannon and musketry shot were exchanged with the enemy ; the dragoons of the 15th Charged him at the entrance of Tudela, and compelled him ti; repass the river ; General Anson retired upon Aldea Major, and the corps of observa tion of the English army retreated between the 20th and 24th to Olmedo, and then to Arevalo." BERLIN, SEPT. 16. We are assured the Duke of Balluno has joined the grand army. [The M.niterr , of 'the 29th of September, Is almost Ailed with decal's of the operations of the French army in the south of Spain, during the month of May, 1812.3 ANOTHER GOTTENBURGH MAIL Arrived just as this Paper was going to press. It ) brings no news respecting the occupation of Moscow 1 by the enemy, and adds but little to the details before received respecting the battle of the 7th s , 4 GOTTENBURGH, , SEPT. ft. " The Russian Mail due last night not having I arrived, we are without further int e lli gence f rom rthe field of battle, but private letters brought by the last Mail add to the former account that the Russians decoyed the French upon a masked bat tery of three hundred pieces of cannon; and that the flanks of the Russians were protected —one by a lake, the other by a morass. The French lost the whole of their artillery, consisting of 200 pieces—and several General Officers, and many Eagles. Fresh troops were three times led to the charge—but on their being attempted to be led a fourth time, they positively refused to advance over the immense, beeps of dead. 14 They have since °dieted their troops from all quarters to join the Grand Army from Berlin ; they are forwarded in waggons and carts. A part of the garrison of Dantzic bas•adso been marched off. eg The expedition appears quite ready. A diri. Sins was already embarked at Stockholm." f STAROFFTC% TWO O'CLOCItt We stevp the press tO at* that a strong rumour prevail; In the City, that the Nineteenth !reach Bal. Lelia, given in j e. preceding column. it 2 fitlitic ition And, it is even added, that the alai haiheen dis+.; ,tovercd. HALIFAX MAIL. A Mail froth Halifax arrived this nothing with letters and papers to the 12,h ult. CI mgress has beeii hastily convened at Washington, by the PRESIDIUM An article from Boston, dated the 2d ult. contains in account of the action between the Constitution and Guerriere frigates. It does not differ esseutiallt from the account we have already given. The American loss in the action is stmelat seven killed and seven wounded : that of the British fifteen. killed and 64 wounded. • THE ARMY. 1 The folldwing Detachments have received routes ' for Portsmouth, to embark for Lisbon, viz. From Deal lit Battalicin 3d Rezimeat. Canterbury Ist ---. 9th ......-- Malden id auk -.... Ashford 2d --- Slat ..-......... Ir Blatehington Ist ---- SG t h ..........16 li6 r sham ad ams.N.llo 44th .-....... Hatchington 1K - 45th ............ Chelmsford lit --. anth .--....:. Eastbourne Ist -- , -- 4 50:ls .—‘,...... Brabourne Lees Sig .----....- Ditto . 65th .---. Little Hampton s7th .----.. Battle id -- • • Sath ...--. Wipehes:er Std 66th —. , -*b ... Ditto - . 74th • ig , Hythe - • - '7 ist -----. Ditto • . 95th -..-..... Sherneliffe . -93 th The 2d Battalion of the 6th Regiment has bee* directed to furnish 400 men, with two Captains and six Subalterns, to reinforce the Ist Battalion ; aad 'this detachment is under orders for immediate ems bar kation at Jersey, for Cotunna. Major-General WYNYA RD, having performed hit' tour of duty, at Windsor, as Equery to the KING, returned yesterday to Ids department at the lioese- Guards. The Regimental Depot of the 4th (or Queen's Own) Dragoons, is removed from Canterbury to Milton. Reinforcements for the 65th, 80th, and other regi ments, at Madras and Bombay, have been ordered to be in readiness to embark at the eat hest opportunity. Lieutenant-Colonel Comte, of the Guards, is ap pointed one of the Aides-de-camp to the Cora NI Al DER,. ix-Crirsy, in the room of the late Lieutenant-Colonel ARMSTRRNO. NAVAL lA7ELLIGENCE. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Copt, OcT. 2.-.. Arrive d• yesterday, the Claudine extra East Indiaman, a running ship. Captain Wlt.- • LIAMs, with a cargo from Batavia. She sailed from the Cape of Good Hope the 29th of July ; arrived at St. Helena the 13th of August, and sailed thence the 15th. She left there the Dorsetehire, Soiebay Castle, Lord Eldon, and Batavia, homeward bound China fleet, waiting for a convoy. Left at the Cape his Majesty's ship Lion 64 sans, Admiral STOPEORD. GAL/treat frigate, and HARPY sloop of war ; which last arrived from the Isle of France the 27th July.-- Troops at the Cape, 21st Dragoons, Ist battalion 60th, 83d, 93d, and Cape Corps. His Majesty's ship R immure, Lieut. Gaaaw, is appointed to convoy the Claudine to the Downs. Passengers per Claudine—Colonel Gibbs, Captain Venables , and Lieut. Thomas Smith, o f t h e S9d ; C apta i n Bougie, Doetog Burnet, Galatea frigate, &e. PLYMOUTH. OCTOBER S. _ _ _ ----- Came in the PmNutt gun-brig, from the toast of 6pain ; DOTTER ELL sloop of war from a cruize, with a French schooner privateer, of 14 guns, captured 3d inst. off Scilly—the privateer had captured the Bush and Dragon transport. Arrived the TaAzast gun-brig from a cruize ; the PAIRCER from Basque Roads, fvfisLEToz from the Eastward, and the RHI1( from Corunna. Sailed the Sr. ALnAN's for Ports mouth. The VIRAGO guntbrig came from the Souad tosliamoaze.—Wind S. PORTSMOUTH, OCTOBER & Arrived his Majesty's ship Foamier, with the fol lowing Jamaica-men :—The Pearl, Cnostaa ; Lord St. Helens, TODNEY ; Volnica, Kataisnv ; Aid, R. MOYNE ; Kingston, FORRFST ; and the Arcade, Bats. row—tjie above ships are at Spithead. The Reto very, RHODES • Richmond, Hancox ; L o y a l B r i ton, DA VIES ; Gar thland, GOODWIN ; Cambridge, EvAsa, and the Romney, ELLIOTT, parted from the Foartaraa last night, off the Wight, and proceeded far the Downs. The above ships fell in with his Majesty'a ships FORTUNE and Smuts off the Western Isles, An the 19th.9eptember, the latter of which took the ships that were bound up St. George's Chaneel, The Westmoreland, BURKE, and the Swift, BLANDSM, have also arrived. The Lady Forbes, for Leith. parted by permission, on the 29th September, to gcv North about.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Vattor ja from of Cherburgh, and the Sr. ALBANS fee ply. mouth. His Majesty's ship FlutvgNr ta kr 4 4:0411 ,4, fur Cork.—. Wind S. S.W. and blow= a gale. HARWICH. OCT. 7. The convoy for England sa il e d f rom Gottenburgh last Thursday week, an d p nt b ack on Friday. Seven sail of Russian men of war , for Archangel, put into Wingo Sound. The Lark packet has ju st arr i ved, saw the outward-hound convoy for Govanb urg ,0 • the Holman, all well. SUDBURY ELECTTOW.•--TUEAdIy night the Election closed at Sudbury : Sir John Cox Hippidey, Bart. Charles Wyan E zia , . . - 4611 Sit Felit Agar . - A t ts WESTMINSTER ELECTIOIC—This day Sir FRANCLI BURDETT (notwithstanding is deciarntit.n which will be seen in the nest page) was, L' ord Cc. cuahzie, unanimously reelected for Wegunbistir.