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FRANC', AJMER'S: wu NA . sznzmaEß 1. Every day numerous corps of the army of reserve arrive.' This continual passage gives the town a very animated appearance. On the other hand, the levy of the Lithuanian regiment is pursued with success. The Duke of Rergin, wounded at the affair of Polotsk, has arrived here. The wound which he re ceived in the left arm proceeds well ; it even appears :hat in less than a month be will be able to resume duties. • WARSAW, AUGUST 31. At the taking 9f Smolensko the Polish won,: gave fresh - distinguished proofs of that bravery which cha rActerises them, and hare merited the eulogitims of his Majesty the Kinlibfklaples i who commanded the cavalry in this affair. - • - In 1654 the fortress ofSmolensko was in We power of the Poles, and only taken from them by.treason. Yesterday, a considerable numbet of Russian pri. "loners arrived here. •-A • ate disn id and town of Bobrynsk has just sent in their accession to the general Confederation. FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER le. The first transport of Russian prisoneri arrived here' this morning. • , CONS rANTINpPI,E,AUGUST Is. The first Dragoman titthelotte, Prince Ponyteki Morusi, de f A niea- on . the INS ougust. This etent h a* i6dffesd edam sensation here, because he Was' thought to be devoted to the interests of Russia. His Excellency General Andreossi, Ambassador frornTrance, has arrived here. We are assured that -Ise has already bad a private audience of the Grand • • COPENHAGEN, SEPTEMBER'/. According to the last intelligence from Petersburg, the greatest consternation prevails in that capital.— As a proof of the want of resources and money, an appeal t•as been made to the Nobility and all classes et the inhabitants, to engage them to make patriotic offerings. NUREMBERG, SEPT. S. Private commercial letters from Brody announce, that the Russian troops in Western Wallachia have struck their tents, in consequence of an order on the part of the General in Chief, Tschitschagoff. NAPLES, AUGUST 22. The Legioneers of the Littoral continue to distin guish themselves in rePulsing the enemy. - On the 3d a frigate having appeared in the Gulph of Policastro to procure water and prov.isions, these brave men re pulsed the clew with their accustomed-valour. The frigate, after having uselessly consumed her grape shot, was obliged to live up her project and stand off. The enemy having attempted to, water at ano ther point off the coast, weserut to flight by another detachment of troops of the line. I.E I P ZIC, SEPTEMBER 2. We continue to receive favourable accounts - from our troops—they distinguish thethselves by their bra very and gr od discipline. We are assured that they have again advanced, and that they are preparing to attack the Russians, if they attempt to maintain the positions which they have taken behind the Divin. si MUNICH, SEPT. 9. f 6 The following details with respect to the . toventsl in which the Army of Bavaria was concerned on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and '22d of August, hive been published in our Gazelle : . • a On the 16th of Angust, the 2d and 6th divi sions of the army were Placed beneath the orders of the Marshal Duke of Reggio. The latter, which consisted of the Bavarian troops, commanded by the Colonel. General of Cuirassiers Gouvion St. Cyr, was stationed at Polotsk, upon the right bank of the Puna. The General of cavalry and Count of the LinP4deWrede, Commander of the 2d corps of the tartan army, who had had the French brigade of light cavalry de. Corbineau, consisting of the 7th and 20th Chaiseurs and thC Bth Polish Lancers, previ ously placed at his disposal, was directed to form a el,ain of advanced posts on the roads leading to Na vel and Sebetz. The division Verdier was on the left, In the rear, the first division of the Bavarian Army, commanded by the General of infantry Derop, was pear Polotsk, suiTorted by the division Legrand, the division of Cuira s siers Demoire, and the brigade of light cavalry Casteck. " At noon the advanced guard of a division of the enemy's army, commanded - by the Prince de Witt genstein, att.tekt-t! tl,e advanced posts on the road to N.tvel; but wab quitkly.repulsed by Major-General Count de Beckers ; and when, about five o'clock in the evening, the enemy advanced in greater numbers to attack a part of the chain Of advanced posts occu. t by the division of Verifier, be was, in this case, alco bligett to retire, " 11,e sth and I lth of the line, de Kinkel, and sth battalion of light infantry, de Boller, judi. 4044 Jed by Cblopti Baion d'Habermann, who commaildfd them as a Iltigadier, repulsed every at tack of (It_• enemy with- the utmost bravery. From the. zoirrn:ento of the. enemy, and his reiterated attempts to aov.:pce by the roads of N ave l an d Sebetz,, it was easy to perceive that he 'h a d ser i ous intent ioy,s of attadging, .ininrce the division in front nf . Pe haste. when the enemy begin - thehtilltack with a fire of musketry and artillery. " As the importance of getting possession of Spew' could not escape the .enemy's" General, he directed his chief attackstigainst that place, but was repulsed by General Vincent!, and the troops under his com .mand. At length, being reinforced, he attempte4 to carry the village at the point of the bayonet, and, in spite pf a fire of grape from the batteries which were upon the let of Spass, he succeeded in making the Bavarian troops retire to the church, and to the church and the garden of the castle. The Yd batta lion of the 6th of the line,DukeWilliam, then retired ;partly into the Polot*, partly beyond that river, and `commenced a sharp fire of musketry. At the same time Major-General de Vincent; made an impetuous, !Bally from the garden of the castle, and, charging the I.enemy, drove him from the village with considerable loss. Nevertheless he continued his attacks upon Spass, and the entire of. the line, and advanced on [the road of Sebetz against the French division. • " The enemy attempted a second time to take tpass by assault, but was repulsed. Major-General de Vincenti was wounded on this occasion. Colonel Count Spaner, who was reinforced by two companies of the sth battalion of light infantry, de Battler, then took the command, and repulsed a third attack with much spirit ; but as the troops which 'occupied Spasi 'vine, in the course of a battle of such duration, and supported with- so much glory,, overcome with ta. .tigue, and very much enfeebled by their losses in, 'ldled and wounded in the different attacks, Count rWre . de had them relieved by four other companies of the battalion of Buttler, and by two companies of the eleventh of the line, de Kinkel, and corn, mitted the defence of the village to Colonel Count Buttler. 4 4 The enemy, however, continued his attack upon the whole line with much obstinacy. Colonel de Deroy, who had opposed to him the whole of the, enemy's line from Spass to the point of the wood, and who was appointed to cover the batteries in his rear, performed prodigies of valour with the brave regiment which he commands ; but as his division was exhausted, he was reinforced by a battalion of the sth and 11th of the line, and with these he con , tinned the contest till night. 4 6 Although the batteries of Gothard and Graven renth, which were well served, mowed down with a fire of grape whole columns of Russian troops, they, nevertheless, renewed their attacks incessantly. At length the part of the village nearest the enemy was set on fire at six o'clock in the evening by the gre nades, and they were, in consequence, obliged to de sist from their attacks on that point. 4 4 Marshal the Duke of Reggio having been then wounded, Count Gouvion de St. Cyr, who had himself been previously wounded by the rebound of a ball, took the chief command of the second and sixth corps. " .At nightfall the enemy ceased firing, and occu pied themselves in removing the killed and wounded, the number of whom was very great. • " Prince Wittgenstein fixed his head-quarters at , Przesimience, which is only a quarter of a league I from Spass. " At four o'clock on the morning of the 18th the corps of General Deroy relieved that of General Wrede, which had been much exhausted by the bat tle of the former days. The enemy remained quiet during the morning, but General Count de St. Cyr, satisfied that they would soon renew the attack, re ' solved to anticipate them at four o'clock in the after noon, and made his dispositions accordingly. The enemy had collected their forces during the night of, the 17th, and had increased_ the number of their , guns to 100. gg Between three and four o'clock on the 18th, a battery of 51 Bavarian guns was established on a height near the village of Spass, and the signal for the attack was to be a shot from a twelve-pounder. As soon as this was given the battery commenced a destructive fire of grape, which reached the Castle of Przesimience, where Prince Wittgenstein had his head-quarters. " When the enemy's advanced guard was routed, the Russian Artillery, posted upon the heights of Przesimience, began to play—then the 3d and 7th' Bavarian regiments of infantry of the line, eons: manded by Major-General Count Beckers, rushed upon the enemy with charged bayonets. The ham.' lion la Roche took the village of Hamernia, about a league from Spats, in order to menace the enemy's left wing. The battle became general—General Ragiovich was wounded severely, and Colonel Zol lern succeeded him in the command of his brigade. General Deroy, after he had directed several batta lions to attack the enemy at the point of the bayonet, was wounded in the lower part of the belly by a mus ket ball, and carried off the field. " The fire became every moment more violent, and did much execution on both sdes. CountWrede took the command of all the Bavarian troops—ho sent. the brigade, commanded by General de Siebein, to support the division of General Legrand. General , S:ebein and Colonel de Zollern fought with the greatest bravery. " The 9th Bavarian' infantry regiment of the line attacked the castle of Przesimience, defended by in'. Pantry and artillery, by order of General Count St. Cyr. The enemy was driven from it, and having began to retreat about eight o'clock in the evening, the victory was complete. " We took twenty-one guns, many baggage and ammunition waggons, and 1500 prisoners-4.000 killed and wounded remained upon the field ; but so many wounded and prisoners have been brought in since from the neighbouring forests, that the loss of the enemy may be computed at 17 or 18,000 men. •General Siebein was detached in pursuit, but he was wounded. Colonel Baron de Schoeme succeeded him, and continued the attack with much bravery and presence of mind, and the enemy was driven front a defile, where he seemed inclined to take up a position. " Thus the brave Bavarian warriors have, on the banks of the Duna, erected their banners with lau rels. In the plains of Polotsk they have answered the expectations of the greatest hero of the age. This brave army is the pride of the nation, which might loudly eikess its joy, if that joy were not adulterated' by the gnef necessarily attendant on the loss of so' many brave men who have fallen in their country's Cause. 'The number. of killed in the Bavarian AIM' , on the ltith, 17th, and 18th pf August; amounts to ;4*—that of the wounded to 1136..-Mari the missing .• • .: . • 1 ~ It was in consequence deemed proper to concen trate the 'etond Frtnch division, and • that ofthe Gera of wfantt y within ;tnd around Polotsk on i both skits of the Polota, to take post in the village' of Spass, situate on the right bank of the Pelota, half . a league is. front of the towir.linlvar of which -two Ilridges - had been thrown over the, rivers. . Count ; Wrede was pistcd 4oag.the Polata,' and: occupied Spats with the first battalion of the. 2d regiment of 1 the line ; Hereditary Prince, and the fi rst company i f of musk, tetra pt tie 6th regiment of the line, Duke Ili.ilii.ini ; Major-Cenci:4 de Vincenti was directed to defe..d the village.- . . ' -:-. •-1 At eight' o'ckek the enemy advanct-d in deep i s cc-Limns on the road tit *Navel, againstCountWreders: rWit v. ing, who liolipt4 ' iiitely caused the batteries ) ! Oothatd atli..6lavenreuth . to advance ia AO left of Spas ? , ,en a height!' where they were- ad vatic 4geou si y potted.: 14 .. ! ordered Colonel de vit r o tafc.verthese batteriei irktli O 436 T fith .line; " Wilhasst, and ti. to Prestige the cru uThutiicAtion vii 4%04 $e them gaTe orders to lidajor-GenesalCoutit,thsaavoiters to .. - toter the right wing with his brigacle •Srpsysly had. the troops'ltthi batteries 'comment:est 144 Ingo, can n stand a charge of the bayonet directed b y th of spreading terror, rout, and confusion •in the Freed ranks. No troops ever brought into the field two Colon A el m s to 71.5. Li k e il u le t d .. C th o e lo re ne a l r — e tve t 7 Cener Genem ai l li s. o e Ad by Fra n on an g d th a e three Colonel ' s, two Lieutenant-Colonels, and eleven Majors were wounded. e firm and vigorous arms at m,! n , • " The Russians had a great number of Gener als . . animated with n killed. triottsm and true military glory.—L oo k ' `. at the mot; a uSir. 10.—The Infantry-General Deroy has half starved groupes .of Poles, , e7; rtem b urg h em since died of his wounds." 1 Saxons, Italians, and Swiss opposed to • You, brays The following are the Russian Articles alluded to and gallant Russians —What is it that gives in the Seventeenth Bulletin a to their arms in the day of battle ?—T ent?" error l•—Mili. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. tarp discipline, brandy !—in other Worts plunder, ra. On the 4th (16th) of August, the Emperor Na- pine, and all the bad passions which poleon, at the head of his whole army, 100,000 beastialize mankind. W hat •it degrade and is that animates strong, made his appearance before Smolensko. Heyour b sts on the same occasion '—Pa • • • was received about six wersts frill the city by the . • mown ) , in d epos. corps of Lieutenant General Rawesky. The battle dente, liberty, and the salvation of the world commenced at six o'clock in the mo r ning. and at The Russians have more than once m a d e e , • noon became most bloody. The courage of the Rus7 ments upon the French columns • Pen* with the bayonet.... sians overcame numbers, and the enemy was over- thrown. The - corps of General Doctorow, which in Holland under the Duke of Yoe t ec—i n Italy under had arrived to replace that of Rawesky, attacked Suwannow—latterly at Pultusk, Friedland, and the enemy on the sth (17th) at day-light, and the , Eylau—they have shewn what corporeal strse gt h and .engagement lasted till night.fall.The enemy was re• mental firmness can - do against a dastardly crew of pulsed at every point; and the Russian soldiers, full - hirelings, whose powers are limited to the bate of that courage and intrepidity which animates them , formance Pte. in the defence of their country, fought with despe- of militar d tie • d y u s, an where hernial is racy, invoicing the assistance of the ALMIGHTY, I displayed not in that enthusiastic enstadsanst of ino l . But during this time the city of Smolensko was a. ial and corporeal energies which charai.etrise }hin t l ! prey to the flames, and our troops took a position be- , troops in the day of battle, but in the toollsr tween the Dnieper, the village of Penera, and Do- . dl i Dearry of detached parties and single individuk naghobouj. The capture of Smolensko, which was reduced to , tish A Bn lier with his bayonet is more thus • th e match tr 1 chr- -- - ith the ashes by me enemy, cost them more than 20,000 men. The inhabitants had allleft it previous to the battle. The loss in killed and wounded on our side • amounts to 4000. The brave Generals Skalen and Bulla are' amongst the former. I We have made a great number of prisoners, and whole battalions of the enemy's army were obliged to lay down their arms to escape death. Three re-I giments of cossacks and three of cavalry overthrew sixty squadrons of the enemy's horse, commanded by the King of Naples. *ZEORT OF LIEUTENANT.OKNERAL COUNT WITTGEN. STEIN TO HIS MAJESTY TIM. LI.4I I IROR, DATED " Oswec, July St (August 12), 11112. 66 I have received information from my advanced posts, that the enemy was making every effort from' Polotsk to carry them, and by prisoners and deser ters, that the French Grand Army was constantly re ceiving reinforcements of Bavarian and Wirtemberg, troops. " I received at the same time from the Minister of War intelligence of the junction of the two armies,• together with orders to attack them immediately in flank. f' I accordingly detached four squadrons under the command of Maj. r Bedragni, whom I directed to observe every movement of Macdonald's Army, and give me notice thereof. I advanced against Ou dinot's corps, which I met on the evening of the 29th, four wersts from Rochano..va. •6 Having immediately made the necessary ar rangements, I yesterday vigorously attacked him, with the help of Goo. " We have taken three ()Ricers and 250 soldiers.--., The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded has been considerable. Their cuirrassiers particularly have suffered much, in consequence of thair attempts to take our guns. I caused them to be pursued by the hussars of Grodno, who distinguished themselves on this occasion. - • , g We have lost 400 men in killed and wounded, among whom we have particularly tp lament the death of the gallant Colonel Dennissen, who com mnnded the 25th regiment of chasseurs, and who was killed by a cannon ball. " I mean to pursue the enemy to the Duna." THE EVENING STAR. • LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. Liss MAJISTY'S COIIONATION.—HoIiday it the Public 01Ecett, DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. /or afirenchman wi, , e same weapon, because he has strength far superior in his arm, and becausehe bas that esprit els corp—that invincible spirit peculinta the English character, which no Frenchman, and cei. tainly no Frenchman's slave, ever possessed since dig commencement of the world. If we are to credit Sir ROBERT Witsos's desetip, tion of the Russian soldier, his energies are nearly =Ur to those of Great Britain, and they onlywaot tin direction of able leaders to bring-them into 4cticii,. It is with delight and satisfaction we learn that this experienced and enterprizing General is now with chi Russian army, where his Councils must be highly va,, luable at the present crisis ; the following clemi.offi. cial account of the battles of Valentina and Smo. . lensko, circulated by Government, has been drawn up from the materials furnished by that . 'gallant' Officer. : " Sir ROBERT WlLsow, who was present at the " battles of Smolensko and Valentina, has written to Gi,vernment an account of those two very lariat', tant actions. He states, that on the 17th Bum: " P4RTE attacked Smolensk° with his whole force s a-first on the Eastern, then on the Southern, and it; " the evening on the Western face; but that he was a repulsed in all his attacks, and merely suoceedectia " firing the town. Ott the 18th the lassi .ns took " position on the right of the Nieper, waitiorwit ata " tacks but the French merely sent across into de " suburb, the Span;sh and PortUguese brigade, whiik were driven back just as they had set fire to the " suburb. On the 19th the Russians retired on " Moscow road, when the French attacked their reat: " guard. The attacks on different parts lasted tki " whole day, when the Russians effected die retr4 " of their whole army, without the loss of a gunoar. 44 The loss of the Russians un the 17th, is ►tated lt " 6000 and two Generals, of the French above tsrdvi a thousand; and on the 17th each Anny is supposg al to have /416000 men." In addition to the above we have seen a letter free a General of high character in the Russian service, who fed his division nn the 17th, which states, thal the loss of the French on that day was not less this 20,0(X) men. We believe every word of these state. ments—the Russian Generals have not yet acquired . the art of lying, and the integrity of Sir Roan Wason is beyond all question. How striking it tbi contrast between these unvarnisged accounts and thp French Bulletins! This measure is now so fir finally resolved on, that we have reason to believe this night's post will cnn• vey numerous demi-official communications to various persons hold'ng public offices throughout the coun try, on the subject. Here we find two Russian Generals killed, ilk stead of twenty-9000 Roisians killed and takes prisoners, or wounded, instead of 30,000 ;—and froo 15 to 23,000 French, killed, wounded, or prisonere. instead of about 5000. We are not sorry to find, Cron the Seventeen& Bulletin, that KLTASOF has taken th 3 command of thl Russian army, which be jollied with the gallant TON rant from Turkey on the 28th ult. ' We believe kt 'is senior in rank to BARCLAY DE TOW, but aldose , ' ' this is a circumstance which ought to LW! nowsieft in a warfare with DONAPART4 we had the evert SS auspicious. KUTASOFF is an able and acccmpliati Osmeral, and in the excellence of his dispositions, hi caution, and above all, in that happy presence of mind, which, by a sudden effort and masterly manoeuvre, decides the fate of a general battle, is considered as inferior to no officer of the present day—we theiefi re trust he'will prove a suitable and successful opponent even to Bo NATARTE himself. SIXTEENTH BULLETIN OF THE G/tAND ARMY' Timm*, A tiataT 31. " The head-quarters of the Emrsaiirt were, on the -27th, at Slakovo ; on the 28th, near Slenlovo ;on the 29th, in a Cattle one league in the rear of Viastna; and on the 30th at Viasma; the army m4rchufin • three columns—the left fortned by the Viceroy, pro' ceeding by Kanouchkino, Znamenkoi, terectkotes and Novoe--the centre formed by she King of Na ma s, the corps of the Prince of ECKSAUFD., :he Duk s of ELOSHNOEN and the Guards marching 4.11 the :ma coati, and the left by the Prince PcorfarosaigT marching on the lett bank of the Osna by Whisk Lou. hke, Pokroskoe, and: Slone kino. " On the 27th the enemy wishing to nil on sho . Osma, opposite the village of Kiebke, wok a pOIIUOS We have received the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Bulletins of the French Army in Russia.. The for mer arrived in town after our Paper of yesterday • was put to Press, and we gave it in a Second Edi tion. Both these important documents are now sub joined. They inform us that the Russian army con tinues to retire unbroken—and we have no doubt we may add, undaunted and undismayed, in the face ,of the enemy. No confusion—uo precipitation ap .pear in their movements : they burn the bridges, break up the roads, not a gun, a musket, or a wounded man is left behind them, and as often as their huma nity to their fellow-countrymen will admit of it, they &sty:lr the granaries andxnagazines. This is, indeed, .putting desolation as a barrier betlLen them and ,their fierce pursuers. How long this system of re treat will last we know not ; but if it is conducted -in the same cautious, and we may add successful manner, it must save Russia. We have no Nish to see the whole Russian army hastily wheel round tporl their pursuers because we do not think that the ele ments have as yet entered the field as their au xili The inclemencies of a Russian winier, and the state of desolation and exhaustion of the country, added to the intrepidity and skill of the Leaders of the Russian army 4 dispel our apprehensions for the fate of that vast k:mpire, if the great conflict is deferred until the moment when the whole energies of the Russians are seconded by the interposition of the ,usual phenomena 9f climate, or, the- nature of the ,ground. When that day comes, we trust that their gallant leaders will rely on. the bayonets of their in fantry; and ;be *co of the Cusack as alone capable • i .