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• too well t o believe that they fl ee before VIM ywal accept the c ombat, and y our retreat will be i tc h, They address you as comrades : return , , in a mass; believe not these perfidious word s , ,at you are fighting for peace : No ; you are fight ; for the insatiable ambition of a Sovereign who ,h es not for peace, otherwise he would have had it . g a go, and o =kelt sport of the blood of his taw troopS, R e turn to your own cows - try, or accept ' n th e mean time an asylum in Russia ; you will there in t he words —conscription, levy, ban and arriere -1145— so s h ort , all that military tyranny of which • eve ry moment condemned to feel the yoke." T o are • B urr 07 A FRENCH GRENADIER. 0 s ara n os RUSSIA—Those alone are the slaves itito are ma de to march against their vrill, and made to march b y t he cane. The French soldier, a free tom kno ws no other bond than honour and the law. We love new' been told that yell thought lightly of our ya k e r: that would be too absurd. Amsteten, flollahron, Austerlitz, Pultusk, Eylau, Friedland, are too fresh in your memories. As for us, we see at 0 moment merely what we have always seen. Fly woe us ! You fled from Swisserland,—you fled ks pAusterlitz,—(happy that you were suffered to Isl a your own country,)—you continued to fly af seri day of Friedland,—and you fly still 1 We ex nothing less; and it cannot surprise us now.— g li ag most able manoeuvres, your armies- are sepa - - olitad divided from each other,—your columns sa kr without a pointy—all your entrenched camps m aindoned,—your vast magazines fall into our isbor are destroyed,—the capital of Russian Po le& is our power, and six millions of Lithuanian Maspionfederated with five millions of Poles of the Nil of Warsaw, take up arms to demand their l ights! Already more than six thousand of those . as Poles have deserted your eamp, and come s ous. You foresee our retreat: where have we t et beatefi the retreat before you i You hold the al arrogant language that you held twenty years Ig o, There has been a great chane since in the world. The trial is over. We now know ourselv es. You speak of the insatiable ambition of our So ur*: but which is the more ambitious—the So- Ta eign who, after victory, evacuates immense pro sisoes, through love of peace; or he who, after de-' kat and disgrace, unites almost at the same time,' Finland, Moldavia, and Wallachia, to his States— rites on portions of Eastern Prussia and Gallicia— and feedshis ambition with the plunder of his allies, the Swedes, the Prussians, and' the Austrians ? Where would this man have stopped, if he had been victorious ? You give us your advice to desert ! None but traitors advise treachery. We will not offer you that. advice : we despise desertion. We will call only to the unfortunate Poles—we will tell them that their country is re•established—we will tell them to quit-the ranks of their oppressors, to coma over (and, in fact, they do come, and will more and more every day), and form under the While Eagle of Poland, which led their foiefathes-s up to the walls of Moscow. We will tell them that the i.our of re. attraction has sounded for their country—that the Cliaderation of Poland, under the Grand Mareschal Crartoriski, calls them from the service of ' #fit►--and that honour and religion command &come and take their part in the mighty work thetevival of their country. • You offer us an asylum in Russia. What, would have us to quit our lowly land for your lioni d ?.quit the protecting laws of a civilized for bondage to the.soul and slavery t We are should we become beasts of burden t and what d you give us in return ? Your whole empire in , would not be worth a single province of our's. " You tidk to us of the conscription—of military tyranny ! Theconseription is a law of the land : sixty I'. is of citizens easily supply the recruiting of our We march because it is the command of the In. But you, pitched upon by the masters whose roperty you are, you are here for life, without bowing why one has been chosen rather than another, simply at the good pleasure of your Lords. You ✓e &livered over by them to the recruiting, as they wuld deliver horses or oxen. Military tyranny, do you say ? The tyranny is with you, who are caned, ad who can never rise to rank I—with you, with whom fear, and nor honour, is the nerve of discipline I At all events, the hour is not far off, when we will Eire freedom toyour brethren,—when we will extin pith slavery in the Russian Empire,—and when we all te.establish even you in your rights. Every pea. ant shall then be the subject and citizen of the State, ►be shall be master of his labour and his time,—he slall be no more the property of his Lord, like his hems or oxen. Now, then, and thus, we will solicit YOU to desert; we will tell you, that we are actually liking for your rights and your families, and that l 4 ought to second us against your oppressors. The 4 "7 of man is against his rights, and against his teligion. We end, by thanking you for your corn lamication of your Plan of the Campaign. You re. he to draw us on : you say we are sensible of the lenetosity of telling us so. Continue to inform us of Your intentions by the noble means which you have adopted ; we will not fail, to turn the information to alvantale." THE EVENING WAR. Lotion. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST It Tx* Panes RIGINI ) 14 BIRTII-DAY.—HOlidip hour Second Edition -of yesterday we gave the at% Bulletin of the French army, and this morning %fare received the Ninth. They bring down Ole !Pinions of the camiaign in Russia to the 28th ult. li lt still . they narrate no event which ought to strike krar or alarm into the minds of those who take an %rest in the struggle which Russia is now making, I le the welfare of surrounding nations. The French ,Iltrecrossed the Dwina it is true : they have also cc !Pied the Russian entrenched camps at to anilsurg and kteua, but they have been taught on many occasions i lrliPert the valour and intrepidity pf the troops "Iftli ale opposed to them. The affair. in which I,4mANI was " driven back a league," as the Bul- I% artfully expresses it, we have no doubt was a itbrilliant and glorious victory obtained by the 4w l / 2 tad was, probably, cut of the actioUs, which • Ind Mentioned in the crtspatches of Admiral Main from RJga, On reference to the contents of the Anholt Mail of this morning, Mar readers will find abundant evidence that we ate correct in our view of the subject. BONAPARTI has failed in cutting off the commu nication between Prince BAGRATION and the main Army, a failure which has evidently chagrined him much, and for which some of his Generals will no doubt feel his Vengeance. He has also been obliged to keep a strong force in the rear to watch the move ments of the inhabitants whom he has left behind him. s In the mean time BA G RA TION , w i t h t h e fl ower of the Russian army, seems determined to hover on the flanks of the French army, and without ever coming near enough to hazard an action, he will keep the despot and his slaves in perpetual alarm. We repeat, that in the abandonment by the Rus sians of their positions on the Dwina, we see nothing to alarat us. They have been again at the work of destruction and desolation, and they are retreating through a country studded with mountains and fo. rests, and intersected by broad and deep rivers and lakes, where we trust see shall hear that BONAPARTE and his motley legions have followed them. A win ter campaign in the heart of Russia will be a novelty to the French Generals; and as their Bulletins partly admit that they must now rely on their own resources, we sincerely wish to see the system of retreat conti nued by the Russians, until famine and ague enter the French lines as their auxiliaries. We trust we shall hear of no battle having been risked at Witepsk. We shall now commit these Bulletins to the peru sal of our Readers, without farther comment; but once for all, we must enter a caveat against an im plicit reliance in their statements. Prevarication and falsehood are evident throughout ; and wherever they wish to cover an unsuccessful movement, or to blind the eyes of mankind as to the real situation of the Russian corps, BONAPARTE, or his travelling Journa list, makes no scruple of fabricating names of places which have no existence. camp on the borders of the Dwiaa, near to Our troops have sustained the difficulties of the march with their accustomed hardihood. " All the endeavours of the enemy to tilt off same of the separate corps of the First Army, and to turn our right flank, have been fruitless. At present his chief force is directed against our left wing, in' order to take a station between the First and Second Armies. Prince Bagration h a s r ece i ve d orders to attack these corps of the enemy which are in his front, and the necessary dispositions for this purpose art already made in the First Army. " Since the small actions which took place at the passage of the Dwina, our rear guard has not sus. rained any attack of consequence from tl ---enemy." EXTRACT OF A BULLETIN FROlf THE GRAND ARMY, DATED THE 14111 JULY, 1812: gi General Platoff has totally destroyed three regi ments of Polish tans. Two Colonels and several Officers were made prisoners, and General DuLwau, who commanded these troops, saved himself with great difficulty. "On the 14th of July the Head Quarters were still at Drissa, and it was expected that a great battle would be fought in the course of a few days. The letters from Stockholm by the Anil°lt Mail ihform us that the embargo still continues; and that forty of the largest vessels have already been taken as transports for troops, &c. All vessels laden with corn, bound to any port in the kingdom, have recei ved permission to clear out. - A letter, dated Wingo Sound, July 28, says 4 . The North of Europe wears a most favourable as. pect. The Russians have 400,000 men in arms and 1500 pieces of cannon ; Sweden is preparing to land 40,000 men in Germany, and those will be joined by 20,000 more from Finland. Thus Bonaparte wil l have an army of 60,000 men in his rear ;—and if Russia can protract the war, it is supposed that the population of Germany will rise up against him. The most spirited Addresses have bees circulated, calling on the people of the North to emulate the example of Spain—Mean time the South begins, to stir ;—its Chief from the Tyrol, went to the Emperor. Alexan der, and on finding him determined to oppose France, declared that his countrymen, aided by the Swiss, were ready, en the first favourable event, to rise.— His Rnyal Highness the Crown Prince is greatly liked, and Ale3andor is guided by his advice. Ten thousand men . embark here in a few days for the Ger• man coast, and it seems probable that Sweden will again have the hononr of recovering the sinking Liberties ni Europe. You have a silly report in Eng land, of the Crown Prince being about to divorce the Princess his wife. Nothing is more unfounded and malicious : there is not a happier couple." RUSSIAN BULLETIN OF THE OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH. By an Anholt Mail, which arrived this morning, we have received the Bulletin of the operations of the Russian Army to the 15th ult. It is a plain and modest statement of facts, and has all the manly characteristics of truth to recommend it. The brave PLATow, the Hetman of the Cossacks, whose intre pidity and skill, according to Sir RoaaRTWILION, was never equalled by any Cavalry Officer in the world, has been actively engaged in that kind of warfare which best suits the gallant men whom he commands. —They have already burst forth from their recesses on many occasions and annihilated several regiments of regenerated Poles. Would to Goo that the Im perial Guards of France, and BONAPARTE at their head, would come in their way ! Those who recoi -1 lect the share which the Cossacks had in the dreadful We have to announce the arrival of three ships from the Coast of Spain at Plymouth, and yet they bring us but little intelligence in addition to that which ht by the aun-brio - the affair of Eylau, will unite their prayers to ours on this oceasiun. was brougi buoys:NT gun-brig on subject of Lord Watunorott's glorious victory over _ _ The Russian Bulletin, although it does not enable MARMONT. These ships are the MAGNIFICENT, man us to judge of the nature of the operations subsequent I of war, Captain WILLOUGHBY LAKE; the ROTA fri to the 14th. is additional evidence, if that were gate, Captain SOMERVILLE, and the Lima, Captain wanting, to induce us to regard with caution the BLOT& They left tße Coast of Spain neirly at the statements of the French. same time with the INsoLENT. From the Officers of these vessels we learn that in the glorious affair of Salamanca, the enemy's artillery was carried by some desperate charges of our inimitable cavalry, who had excellent ground for their exertions, and who bore down every thing opposed to them, like an overwhelm ing torrent. Towards the end of the affair the enemy declined the combat in every part cr the line, and sought safety in retreat. The Spanish cavalry under SANCHEZ, came up to the several charges with great gallantry. The MAGNIFICENT, ROTA, and LYRA, left the Coast of Spain on the 4th instant. Their passage, owing to the state of the wind, is considered as having been tedious. The above are all the particulars on this interesting subject which we have been able to collect—indeed we can scarcely expect from the coast of i Spain more than we have already received. It is from Lisbon that we must now anxiously expect the confirmation of the agreeable tidings. From Plymouth we learn, with regret, that so , late as five o'clock on Monday evening, th. wind continued unfavourable to *arrivals from Spain and Portugal, being then E. S. E. The Duke of Kens packet is expected every hour from Lisbon at Fal mouth, and a' shift of wind to the Southward and South-West would bring in several vessels. Before submitting it to our Readers, however, it may be necessary to mention, that the passengers from Gottenburgh repeat the rumours of the French 1 being repulsed in three desperate attacks on the 1 lth, ! 12th, and 13th, with the additional circumstance of ; their having lost 15,000. This is evidently a mag-1 nified version of the affairs alluded to in the French and Russian Bulletins : 66 ST. PETERSBURGH, JULY 14. " Our Newspaper contains the following state ments regarding the operations of the War : 66 Head-quarters at !kasha, 7th July. 46 The army has this day marched into the follow ing places: 66 Count Wittgenstein's corps into Breslaw ; the 2d and 3d corps into Dedin ; the 4th into Naulska ; the sth into Miloscka ; and the 6th into Novagrad. Since the 3d July, the motions of the enemy have been of more consequence, which has given rise to several skirmishes. Major-General Korf, who com mands the rear-guard of the joint' 2d and 3d corps, has repulsed all the attacks made on their road to Disna. By wise precautions he was so fortunate, at this place, to stop the enemy's progress, notwithg . k . standing their superiority in cavalry. The boron artillery, under the command of Major-Generel Count Kutusow, forced him to retire, with loss. 46 The Lieutenant-Colonel in the Wurternburgir service, Prince ofl-lohenloh.-r Kirchberg, and 30 men were made prisoners. The Comtnander-in-Chief praises the conduct of the - Major-Generals Korf and Count Kutusow, as likewise the bravery by which the Body-Cossacks and the Polish Regiment of I Uhlans distinguished themselves. The Lieutenant. General Count Schuwalow has, on account of a heavy illness befallen him, been obliged to lay down the command of his corps, which his Imperial Majesty the Emperor has been pleased.to give to Lieutenant-Ge 'neral Count Asterman Tollstor, who was previously in his Majesty's suite." " Head-quarters at ranetaelty, July 9. id All the corps. belonging to the first army have joined, and A. Weariaot t o march into an entrenched SECOND EDITION. 41•1•11.M•••••Mo A Messenger has arrived from Sweden with the gratifying intelligence, that in the acting fought be tween the French and Russians, on the 15th ultimo, nine French regiments were entirely cut to pieces. —The Russians also took 1000 prisoners. The French had fifty killed in Officers alone. The Peace between the Russians and Turks is said to have been finally ratified and confirme,L NAVAL INTELLIOENCE. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST to. Arrived his Majesty's ship Matostricstxr, 74 ROTA frigate, and LYRA bug of war; from ; tbegt of Spain; the NitaaLY frigate, from the Coast of France, and is ordered to Portsmouth to refit for fo reign service ; the Fay . ..watts:loop of war, with the SURPRIZE, a new-built frigate, fr om, niforJ, to fit out ; his Majesty'S ship guitar, from off the Coast"; and the TEARER gun-brig, from a trim. The STRENUOUS gun-brig has sent in the Zepher French sloop, titich she caper red.—Wiad East. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 11. Arrived his Majesty's ship Mtuzi.roa with a con. voy from Guernsey and Jersey. and is appointed for the same destination instead of the CADMUS, and will sail to night. Sailed his Majesty's ships Poncuma and MUTINE with convoy for North America_; and the SYLVIA for Plymoutb.—Wind S. E. DEAL, AUGUST I I. Sailed the ELGIN cutter with a few ships under eon. voy for Portsmouth. Remain alibis 114jesty's ships as per last.—Wind E. CORK, AUGUST 7. We have seen a Letter from St. John's, New foundland, dated the 2d ult. which announces the arrival of two American prizes at that pprt, one at which is valued at £20,000. THE ARMY. THE following Is a CORRECT STATEMENT of the TROOP and CAVALRY REINFORCEMENTS under Orders for the PENINSULA, viz. 4th Regiment of Foot t4th Regiment of Foot 30th Regiment of Foot 34th Regiment of Foot Stet Regiment of Foot 17th Regiment of Foot 1134 Regiment of Foot • 34 Dragoon Guards • • 60 Rank sad Filo. • - So Ditto - • • 100 Ditto - • 90 Ditto - - 96 Ditto • - 100 Ditto - • 2n Ditto • • 46 Hones. 4th Draioon Guards sth Dragoon Guards lit Dragoons 3d Dragoons 4th Dragoons 9th Light Dragoons .11th light Dragoons lath Light Dragoons 13th Light Dragoons 14. h light Dragoons 16th Light Dragoons 42 Ditto 50 att. 54 Di , to 64 Ditto so Ditto 3$ Ditto 69 Dtutfri„ 94 Ditto 56 Ducal 5* Ditto 66 Ditto a • Last week the 11th Regimpt of Foot march 4 into Dover. The 2d Battalion, 63d Regiment, under the corn.% mad of Major 14: Germ, have arrived at Ports, mouth from Guernsey: they are to march to Chi• chester. A detachment of 100 men of the 77th Regimen?. under Captain PLACE, is ordered to proceed rom Dan bury Barracks, to joist thvßegiment in Portugal. A reinforcement of 200 men for the regiments hi Jamaica, embarked on board ihe Nimrod, on the 4th instant, under the charge of Captain CONOI.LY, of the 18th Foot. A detachment of 190 foreign recruits arrived at Portsmcuth on the 7th instant, for the German Le• giou, under the command of Lieut. POUNTKEY, of the 48th Regiment. Ensign MITCHELL, of the 59th Regiment, embarked with 120 recruits from Tilbury Fort, on the 7tb inst. for the Isle of Wight. The West-Norfolk Militia marched last week from Stockport to Ashton-under-Line, which makes the ninth change of quarters with this Regiinent since the month of March. The 2d battalion of the 89th Foot, under orders for Guernsey, is intended to replace the 97th, which is' to proceed without a moment's delay to Halifax—e fine regimen; upwards of GOO strong. • Exactrrion.—This morning Catherine Foster, bit having taken a 'false oath in administering to a sea. man's will, and J. Woolrmo Mequon, for forgery, were, pursuant to their sentences, executed before the Debtors door at Newgate, in presence of a vast crowd of spectators. These unfortunate perms were brought on the platform at eight o'clock, gen teely dressed in mourning, each attended by clergy. men. Foster came forward first, end had not re. ' mained many seconds before her fellow sufferer ap. i peered and shook hands with her, they were then pre. I pared to meet their awful fate, which they did with j out a struggle; and their bodies, after being sus. pended the usual time, were cut down and delivered over to their friends for interment. I A new comet wasobserved , at Paris on the Ist of 'the present month. It was first perceived from the observatory at Marseilles, tin the SiOth ' eh. The ROBIRT Parts, Esq. M. P. son of Sir Roamer comet appears between the feet of the Griffin and the PZELE, is appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland , in . head of the Lynx : it is not perceptible without do the room of the Right Hon. WILL/AII WELLast.av Pot!, resigned. .. I aid of glasses. . Prince D'Aaastaxao, who was taken prisoner by 1 CORWMARKET, MARK.LANI, AUG. 121 General Hitt, when he surprised the enemy at Ar- ! To-day the Market has few further &Woolf of *thee. aid remaining quantities vim/his trade thus is iitaa ' royo des Molinos on the 28th of October last, and who has been some time on his parole at Bridgnorth, not much of fluctuation. Malt a n White Peas Pea in s ah ati t itt a l a e P r Y nati tt oo dPartr. 11117 ratter 1.. has been removed from ther.ce fur improper conduct. two deacriptions. 7 here is but s sburt xi ; ppl aa 4s 4 O aa ats, &od or tilt , He- passed through Shrewsbury on Saturday, es: of this article again named at a further luavaaca. PgAte s c . - corted by five officers of the Shropshire Local Militia ; al:end". CU( It NT CRIC4I Al UNDIII t he slept at Wilday's Royal Hotel on Saturday night, Whea t , 04 i's. . 4. , Beans 751. Mk and proceeded at six o'clock on Sunday morning to Trine -- ditto, --- 1520 15" 156.. Tick date, t 06.776. Norman-cross. 1 Rye, 110 a. 60,. . Oats, 60, 62..55w a The Lord Lieutenant df Ireland has app - inted 14 11 %., t ri n. , . 606 .,.. 61 . 1. " Pow ditto, 145. Oja i . Potato. ditt ~ Ter. ooa. JOHN SUYTII, Esq. Bariister.at-LaW, to be one of the — whi -- ;;;; ‘ ,,Tb 0 5 e ..07 3 ,..ye a . kap seed 4110: 4:+1!. . . 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