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FRENCH PAPERS. TWENTY-FIRST BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. FROM THE higNITLOR OF THE 7TH.) 64 Moscow, September 20. " Three hundred incendiaries have been arrested end shot ; they were provided with fuses, six inches long, which they had between two pieces of wood ; they had also squibs, which they threw upon the roofs of the houses. The wretch, Rostopchin, had these prepared on the pretence that he wished to send a balloon, full of combustible matter, amidst the French Army. }le thus got together the squibs and other materials, necessgry for the execution of his project. _ _ _ 46 The fires. subsided on the 19th and 20th ; three quarters of the city are burned ; among other palaces that beautiful one of Catharine, which had been newly furnishea--not above a quarter o 4 the houses remain. " While Rostopchin was taking away the fire en gines of the city, he left behind him 60,000 muskets, Iso pieces of cannon, more than 600,000 balls and shells, 1,500.000 cartridges, 400,0001b5. of gunpow der, 400,0001h5. of saltpetre and sulphur. It was not till the 19th that the powder, saltpetre, and sul 'Phor were discovered at a fine establishment, half a league from the city—this is a matter of importance; We are now supplied wits ammunition for two cam, paigns. We every day discover cellars full of wine and brandy. " Manufactures were beginning to flourish at Mos cow : t'ley are destroyed. The conflagration of this capital will . throw Russia 100 years, back. Tne weather is becoming rainy ; the greatest part of the ..my is in barracks, ill Moscow." DQCUMENTS SUBJOINED CO THE TWENTY-FIRST 11141LLETIN. Xl°kip W.IbLgTIJI OF 7011 GOARNOR-GENERAL OF thiIt.SCOW•WITUOUT DATE. Our advanced guard is near Giat ; the post oc cupied• by our troops, is very strong, and his High ness the Prince intends giving the enemy battle. Our army is tqual to ilia in ougiber, and will receive, in the course ala few days, a reinforcement of twenty thousand men—our troops are all Russian, all of the same religion, all under one Sovereign, They fight for the Church of Gou, their homes, their wives, their chikken, and the tombs of their fathers. The enemy lights for bread—should be lose a battle, he will be obliged to fiy. Souse ounded soldiers have been brought in: they are lodgid in the Palace Golovni. I have been to see dim, have procured them food, and given nrders with respect to•their accommodation. 44 They have fought for you, you should not aban don them, but assuage their sufferings by Tour visits ;Ind conversation. _ Administer to the support even of the convicts ; • they are our friends, and the faithful subjects of our Sovereign. How is it possible to refuse them assist. once ?" VROCLAM ATM 07 THE GOVERNOR.GE,NERALOy MOSCOW, PUBLISHED THE 11TH SEPTEMBER, oN THE EVENING PREVIOUS 10 THE ARRIVAL OF THE EMPEROR. 66 Brethren--Out' numerous army Will defend their country at the risk of their lives. " Let us prevent cur perfidious enemy entering Moscow ; net to second the efforts of our people with all our power would be a crime. 46 Moscow is our mother—she has supported you ; it is from her that you have derived your wealth. " I call upon you in the name of the Mother of our ~SAVIOUR to defend the temples of the LORD, the City of Moscow, and all Rthsia. 66 Arm yourselves, each min as he can, aS cavalry and infantry; provide yourselves with bread for three days; assemble beneath the banner of the cross, and proceed as quickly as possible to the three moun tains ; I wall be with you, and we will extirpate the wretch. Glory shall be the meed of those who may die in the contest ; their grateful country will pre serve the memory of these who die in the cause; those who are indisposed to do so shall receive retribution on the-day of judgment." PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF MOSCOW, ROSTOFCH IN. a It has been reported here that I have forbidden any one to leave the city. If that were the case, sol diers would be seen stationed at the barriers, and thousands of carriages of all kinds would not have egress on all sides. I am pleased that ladies and merchants' • wives should avoid inconvenience by quitting the city. The less fear the less danger • but 1 blame , very much the husbands , brothers, and fa thers of those women who have accompanied them without any intention of returning. It is acting ill if they think there is danger, and they load them selves wib shame if there be none. " I will answer it upon my life that the enemy will not enter Moscow, and for this reason: in the armies there are 140,000 chosen men, 1800 pieces of cannon, and his Highness Prince Butusow has been chosen by the Emperor to command the whole army. In the rear of the enemy, the corps of General Tor massow and Pchitchagow amount to 85,000 chosen men, infantry and cavalry. 66 General Miloradavitsz has arrived from WA. knot at Mojaidc with 30,000 infantry, 3800 cavalry, and 84. guns. 66 Count Markow will be there ih the course of three days with 24,000 men, who will be followed by 7,000 more. There are at Moscow, Klin, Zavidow , and t'odolsk, 14,000 infantry ; if these troops should be insuffwient to defeat the perfidious enemy, I will My to you, 4 Come, my Muscovite friends, let us too march 1 we will assemble 100,0(X) went we will take the image vi cite VAT Virgin, 04 140 pieces of anon, and we will put an end to the business at once.' 46 The enemy has 150,000 men of his own, and such as he has been able to collect. They are now feeding on horse flesh. This is what I have thought proper to commu nicate to you, in order that some of you may rejoice, and others become tranquil, particularly on ac count of the expected arrival of the Emperor in his faithful capital. 14 Read ! it is easy to comprehend all—but draw no inferences from what 1 have communicated." PRINTED BULLETIN OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF MOSCOW. gg &Yr. 12.—1 shall proceed tomorrow to confer with his Highness Prince Kutusow, in order to adopt, in conjunction with him, such means as will lead to the extermination of your enemies. 41 We will deprive these guests of their lives, and send them to the devil. gg I will return to dinner, and we will commence our operations to grind these perfidious wretches to powder." PARIS, SEPTEMBER 15. SENATUS CONSULTUM OF SEPT. 1, 1812, RELATIVE TO THE RECRUITING OF THE ARMY. 1 Napoleon, by the Grace of Goa and the Constitu tion, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Bcc. The Senate, after having heard the Orators of the Council of State, has decreed, and cloth order as : Extract from the Registen of the Conservative Senate, of Tuesci.l, September 1, ISI2 : 46 The Conservative Senate, assembled to the num ber prescribed by the 90th Article of the Constitu ,tional Act of the 13th of December, 1791; consi dering tld project of the Stratus Consultum, drawn up lin the form prescribed by the 57th Article of the ;Constitutional Act, dated August 4, 1812; after ; having heard upon the motives of the said project, the orators of the Council of State, and the report of the Special Commission named in yesterday's sitting; the adoption having been voted by the number of voices prescribed by the 56th Article of the Consti tutional Act, of August 4, 1802, has decreed : " Art. 1. One hundred and twenty thousand men, r.f the emir scription for IBIS, shall be placed at the disposition of the Mini sters of War, for recruiting the army. " Art. 2. They shall be takes from among the French born between the Ist of January and 31st of December, 1793. " Art. S. Seventeen thousand men taken from the conscrip tion of 1813, among those who shall not be called upon to form a part saf the active army, shall be destined, according to the sth and lith articles of the Senatus ConsOunt of the isth of March, and of the 14th article of the Decree of the 14th of March, to replace the men wanting to complete the cohorts of the first ban of the National Guard ; and placed at the disposal of the Minister of War, who will call upon them should there be occasion. " Art 4. The musterings, and their periods, shall be determin ed by the regulations of the public Administration. " Art. 5. 1 he present Senatus Consultum shall be transmitted 'to his Majesty the Emperor and King. " The President and Secretaries, (Signed) CAMIACIRts, President. LATOUR MAUBOURG, CORM BOISSY IYANGLAII, Secretaries. " Seen and Sealed, " The Chancellor of the Senate, Count LA rcace." We command and order that these presents, sealed with our Se.4l eat State, inserted in ~ .he Bulletins of the laws, be addressed to the Courts, Tribunals, and Administrative Authorities, to be inscribed in the Registers, observed, and caused to be observed ; and the Grand Judge, Minister of Justice, is charged to see them published.—Done the 4th Sept. 1812. (Signed) NAPOLEON. COPENHAGEN, SEPT. to. We hear from Langeland, that on the 4th of this month, one of the enemy's vessels chased a Danish vessel, which was forced to take refuge under the batteries of Fruensraenge. The battery had an en gagement with the enemy's vessel, which lasted 20 minutes. She was obliged to sheer off, after having received much damage. The battery has not suffered, nor have any of our artillery men been wounded. The Danish Journal, entitled Dagen, of the 19th of September, contains the following intelligence from Randers, of the 14th : 44 One of the enemy's brigs, conv , iying 27 mer chant vessels, passed near Skagen on the loth, enter ing the Cattegat. On the 11th a frigate and a brig, convoying 18 vessels, passed in the same direction. On the same day two ships of the line and three brigs were seen near Hielman. On the lith a brig with a convoy of 32 vessels left the Cattegat. On the 13th two ships of the line passed near Ramsoe, making sail for the Great Belt. On the same day a fleet of merchantmen passed near Skagen, entering the Cattegat, and a frigate and a brig coming from the North cast anchor near Hielman." SEPTEMBER 22.—The forces assembled in Zealand have never been so considerable as at presear. They are estimated at more than 40,000 men. Our road in attempting to cross the river Stry on the 9th, with I a detachment near Guidawa, we made a reconnoi lance on our side towards Lutzk, and found that the enemy had burned the bridge and laid that city un der water, being advantageously encamped behind in a pos.tion near Dworetz, but that beside these, there were no no enemy's troops on this side the Stry. General Regnier undertook at the same time a simi ilar reconnoisance near Radomisl, with a Saxon Corps. NOTTINGHAM ELECTION. 'THE ELECTORS in the Interest of RICHARD ARKWRIGHT, Esq. who Is proposed to succeed D. P. COKE, Esq. who redret, are earnestly requested to attend his Committee No. 9, Wookl-street, Cheap►it,e, where Carriage' are ready to convey them to Nettingham. Committee-Room, 3, Wood-street, Clteapside. c 11 4 , , 1 , 6 PARIS, OCTOBER 7. Letters from Valencia, dated the 19th of Septem ber, state that the Marshal Duke of Dalmatia had succeeded in effecting a junction with the army of the Marshal Duke de Albufera. A Decree of his Majesty, dated the 7th of •May last, was published in Paris to-day, relative to the convocation of Electoral Colleges of the Cantons of the department of the Seine. The opening of these Electoral Colleges is fixed for the 16th of the present month, and these proceedings are to terminate un the 30th. LEIPSIC, SEPTEMBER 28. The last intelligence we have received, with re. spect to the Saxon troops commanded by General Regnier, are very satisfactory. Volhynia affords our troops immense resources. The Russians keep them selves cautiously entrenched behind Louck, front whence they dare not stir. Their posts are covered by entrenchments andt marshes, but the bad weather has set in, and it is not likely they can remain during the rains, in a damp and unwholesome situation. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'C LOCK. Reduced 56H-4 per Cent. 72k 73-5 per Ct. SOki Cons. 681 I—for ac. 52}}-omn. 41 pr.—Bonds par 2i. dis. Etch. Bills. (SMd.) ss. Ss. pr.—Do. (Std.) 48. 6s. pre. The Twenty-first French Bulletin has arrived. It teems with new horrors ! The conflagration of Mos- cow must have lasted six days, for on the ROth only, the date of the Bulletin, it is said to have subsided. Three hundred brave men, who faithfully executed the orders of their superiors, have been wantonly shot, and they are designated by the epithet of Incets diaries. The awful calamity which has befallen Moscow, brought on, as it has been, by the fell spirit which directs the crimes of France, will indeed long fill the minds of contemporary and succeeding generations. Well may we say, in pointing to that event— Repertum hcedie facinus, quod nee Poeta fingere, nec His trio sonar; nec Mimus inntari poturrit !" If three-fourths of Moscow have been destroyed, we are at a loss to conceive how the French 'atmy can be quietly reposing in barracks, as the Bulletin would insinuate ; but we regret to find that the Rus sians wete not able to destroy the ammunition col lected at Moscow. Gunpowder sufficient for two campaigns sounds rather alarmingly. The Bulletins or Proclamations of the honest Rus sian, ROSTOPCHIN, appended to the French Bul et 3, will be read with interest by every person of common feeling. If any thing were wanting to prove, as we have frequently observed, that the Russian Nation is now in arms against the invaders, we think that these documents would be sufficient. Though the Gottenburgh Mail of yesterday brought no farther official intelligence from Moscow, various private letters enable us to lay before our Readers a few particulars respecting the occupation of that city by the enemy. On the 7th, the day of the great battle, the Russians were rather inferior in numbers to the enemy. The Russians seem to have suffered a loss of about 40,000—the French probably a little more. The French, or a considerable body of them, drew off to the Southward to Kalouga (leav ing the Russians in possession of the field of battle) and were joined by a reinforcement of 30,000 fresh troops under VICTOR. Defensive operations then be_ came necessary on the part of the Russians, who re = tired to Zwenigovod, in a northerly direction towards Vlodymir, increasing the distance between the two Armies. Meanwhile, BONAPARTE, anxious to sharpen the is filled with gun-boats. appetite of his hungry followers with the plunder of SEPTEMBER 23.—A1l our troops are in motion to- Moscow, pushed his cavalry by a circuitous route to wards the coasts., The head-quarters are to be esta- t ' he veryg ates of the city, which M URAT reac h e d on blidied at Rotschild. The King will command th e army in person. The citizens and students will per. the 14th. Although sca r cely an y reg ul ar f orce re . form - the duty at Copenhagen. General Count Wall- mained to protect the town, the inhabitants them lenburg has been appointed Commandant .of the selves took up arms, and for three days gallantly re- Capital. sisted the invaders. Had the town been guilt, like VIENNA, SEPT. 2s. Buenos Ayres, chiefly of stone, there can be little According to superior orders, there will be a grand doubt that the result would have been, as in that in recruiting on the 28th of this month, which will ter minate on the 6th of October. This recruiting will stance, the expulsion of the assailants: but the wooden serve to complete the ranks of the third battalions, houses, mostly covered with a coating of paint, were SEQUEL OF THE JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE of too inflammable a nature to stand such a contest. AUSTRIAN AUXILIARY CORPS. —The Russian accounts attribute the conflagration According to the latest reports of the Prince of chiefly • to the vindictive spirit of the French on meet- Schwartzenberg, General of Cavalry, commanding the auxiliary Austrian corps, dated headquarters,ing with so unexpect e d a rece p t i on : t h e l atter , as we Golubia, the 15th of this month, this corps con- have seen, charge the Russian Government with a deliberate plan for the de s t ruct i on o f t h e c i ty . tinues to occupy its former positions, such as the y were described in the last page of the journal of the The probability is, that when the cannonade had operations, in order that the troops might take the , set fire to it in different quarters, when most of the necessary repose, to recover from the fatigues which i they had undergone. Since the last reports nothing barricadoes were broken down, a n d t h e b ruta l f ur y has occurred on the whole line of operations, except of the French soldiers was on the point of being gra that the corps of the enemy's, General Ertel, on the tified by success, the inhabitants voluntarily consum -186, drove in, near Major-General Mohr, Jasiolwho da, was near the advan ceachwa L d posts As of mated the work of d es t ruct i on w hi c h h a d b een already . the tnovements of the enemy made General Mohr carried so far, resol v i ng , i n t h e l ast extrem i t y, to apprehensive that his communications with the trin- disappoint the hopes of the insulting conquerors.— cipal corps would be cut off, he therefore determined Amidst such scenes as these,' carried on for three to retire to pan, and tothdrawe right nearer to the main body of th bank of the Yina, behind Slap e - successive days, the ca r n age o n b ot h s id es m us t h ave been tremendous ;and perhaps the numbers who fell, army, near Liubaschew, which completely secured his communications. to gain poesession of the now insulated Kremlin, and _ _ In order to ascertain the iatentious of the enemy of the dreary waste which but lately v - Macaws may have been little inferior to those of many a gb. rious battle. What effects may flow from this event time al one can unfold, but that which was most to b e d readed appears not to have taken place—Yielding Despoil. dency. Letters of the 20th have been received fro m Pctersburgh— that is two days later than Lord CATH. CART'S last dispatch. Tidings of the fall of Mo scow had certainly reached the Government. Thi s was manifest from the gloom and uneasy bustle that p re . vailed at the Imperial Palace; but nothing indicat e d despondency :—on the contrary, fresh exertions were making to recruit the armies, and there are gr ow * to hope that the Russians will soon absutne a th reat ening posture. , On the Bth, General Kuxusow had reteivedseere reinforcements from Moscow; on the 16 t h, 1 4000 men set off from St. Petetsburgh to join him. Th e y went with the utmost alacrity and cheerfulae ss , road of passing under the review of t4eir Emper or , la d receiving the benediction of their Pontiff. Me lt the same period .5000 infantry aed ttooo cavalryp rn , ceeded to Riga, at which port the Russians sees to feel the fullest confidence of success. Buss fles was , carrying on•there as it in a time of .prOfailad pact, The Prussians and Poles, who remained to s a ppat the nominal siege of the place, were coosidered as objects of no sort of terror ; and it was even e,pee, ted, that they would very shortly be obliged so retreat . —Up to the 10th ult. nothing but skirmishes had taken place, and the Governor had a free an d f n . quent communication with Count. Waraerisraw, who, we are sorry to learn, was likely soon to resign his command from ill health, occasioned by hisgrear and extraordinary exertions.—This illustrious Gear• ral still remained at Polotsk—a proof of the sac= and skill with which he has opposed the forces of Ot DINOT and MACDONALD. General TORMAZOFF, who, it was calculated,woda havt nearly 80,000 men when joined by the biole.triaa army, appears to have experienced some disappciat, ment by their non-arrival, owing to the heavy rainsaad consequent floods, which have impeded theitrups ; obstacles, however, which we may fairly conclude are at least equally prejudicial to RacEuta and the Saxons who are opposed to this divisiun of the Res. sian army. The destructive nature of such a war to the forces of France, is well attested by the &saw Columbia of the Ist ult. which by a single dash of the pen puts at the disposal of the destroyer, no less than one hoer cf . and thirty-:even thousand youth: of the age of aiadeoll The thot.ght is awful. For what are the hopes and joy of so many p..rents in one moment blasted? what is the flower of the French population dragged to the frozen regions of the North ?—'That they may enable a demon in human shape, while he is laying a noble city in ashes, and pouring forth blood, lire the great waters, to proclaim himself the benefactor of mankind ! We have received French Papers two days late in date than those which contain the 21st Bulletin; but they bring no intelligence of importance. GOTTENBURGH PAPERS. Just as this Paper was putting to press we receive Gottenburgh Papers to the 7th instant. They con tain letters from St. Petersburgh of the 16th Septem ber, which state, that the last accounts from Prince Kurt:son , are of the date of the 11th, three days prior to the occupation of Moscow by the French. On the lith that General was still occupied in or• ganizing and collecting his troops, after " the bloody victory that he had gained." Such are the words used in the Petersburgh letter. He had been joined by the reinforcements from Moscow, who, it would appear, had been marching direct from Moscow at the very moment that Nano , LEON, by the way of Kalouga, was marching again that city ! The battles of Austerlitz and Eylaw 22e repro* ted as having been child's play compared with tiva t 1 Boradino. Almost every family in St. Peterbo has to lament the death of some relation ; for the re giment of Guards, which usually compose tbe tontryea demanded with loud voice to be brought into the battle, and but few of the Officers esenged or death. Our letter says ;--w Five thousand men woe employed for three whole days in burying the ddb' and carrying off the wounded : both amongst *Pr of the former and latter descriptions, were founder/ third more Frenchmen than Russians. Prince B* ration, since his arrival at Moscow, has been mdtr the necessity of undergoing a most painful 0 9e 1°1 which was performed by the Emperor's Budi S IP geon. It is not expected that• he will be ags 00 take the command again in less than two moods! " OOTTENBUROH, OCTOBER 1 . w We have received accoups front Tarinn"r elr. tiers of the French having entered Moscow, trithea another battle having taken place." The new Parliament will meet for the Attach e 1 bnisiness on the 24th of next mouth ; it will, thaw" for three or four weeks, and ad ' till Februal . ' Such is the present intention of Ministers. This day the letters and pack* of Melebels se both Houses of Paxikuneot, began teP.. 1 , 01.4 , usual, being 40 days before the slay radiapeat is summoned to ass,