Star. — London, England, 1812-11-02 00:00:00

_ • • 'AA*. • tie% and iseeitptnied thew to the prison with shouts' of the troops commanded by that General was AA a thousand times repeated of 44 Lon; Hy i gssEpijairr .." 4 ,eiento disperse the assemblingst a part of Longes" OCTOBER 26:—The individuals attes t ed on the cavalry alone was prprised at Placentia, where it 23d,'and those suspected of 'being their accomplices,' lost half its men and horses. have to.d.ty been transferred to' the Abbaye. A mi- On the 3dinstant. three battalions marched upon litary commission has been appointed to decide upon Drina to surprise one of our posts. General Rouget their fate. '':‘ It has met to.day, and heard the c4arses marched thither and met the enemy, who did not and interrogator*, read. make a long resistance. They had in this action, PAIO,„tS OCTOBER 20. more than 200 men killed, and a still greater num.' • MINISTRY OF NY4k.—ARMY OF THA Noir be r wounded. immediately after the route of this OF SPAtN. ..• - . band, a great numher of inhabitants returned to their Since the events of Salamanca, there have passed house;. in Biscay, and in the rear of the Army. of the North, In all these different pursuits, our troops had more different military action, the Principal details of fatigues to suffer in.overtaktng the enemy than fight which we are going to give. tag them. General Rouget has not ceased praising h lligenci the - - and resolution of the ' it of Marche. . the 14t17 of October the fort continued to vigorously defend itself. The French army at this epoch having received' the reinforcements it expected, was preparing to re. ! flume the offensive, and relieve the fort of Burgos ; but previous to the arrival of these reinforcements, it did not cease to an.ua c tbe enemy, and cause them daily losses, more or Tess considerable. On the 29th of Septeinber General Clausel had pushed forward several reconnoissances the results of which merit being known. One of these reconnassances was di rected by General' Fcy, who, at the head of the first division, marched upon Poza, where he found and destroyed a Spanish battalion. The 6th light infan try, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Frossard, surprised - that battalion at break of day in the Did die of the town : all who attempted to resist were killed ; the remainder, in number 200, were made prisoners. General Maucune, who Was with the advanced guard of the army at Briviesca, marched with light cavalry upon Monasterio ; at Padrona he rnek several squadron; of English lightlorse : he briskly, charged and drove them to Monasterio. The Chief of Squadron Hulman, of the Ist hussar regiment, distinguished himself in this affair. Two other reconnoissances were directed upon Es carrai and. Villafranca, by the 3d division and divi sion of dragoons ; but the Spanish troops who occu pied these points did not wait our troops, but retired on their approach. On the 2d of October there was an engagement between 2000 Spaniards, of the advancetuard of the English army, and General Gautier's brigade, in the neighbourhood of Pedronos, the details of which are given in the Moeiteur of the 9th. At that epoch the Marquis of Wellington had his head-quarters atVilla •__ ten millions. COMPNBURCII MAIL. • ....OTTENBURGH, OCTOBER 20. Between three and four hundred sail of the hook_ ward-bound convoy passed yesterday .without ping ; 16 other vessels belonging to the same coon / are wrecked in the Belt, together with his Kije st r i euri .t g i g caltilet ; it is believed there are no lige * riot;—the crew of the Centinel are arrived ill t h e Roads on board the Sheldrake. • RUSSIAN BULLETINS. Five one Si. PETERSBURCH GAZETTE en Oct t We have berewith to lay before our reade rs a tru e cop? of a leuer front the bailiff of a villag e . and of an estate, to his Lord, dat e d e - Courage - ---- regiment.— . ~ SPAIN (Oda), from Ate Government of Smol ens k o; ARMY OF PORTUGAL AND 'THE NORTH OF SPA IN . 46 I have to inform you, that Smolen s k ° , bysch, Wasma, and Gchatsk, are takenbrr e " Since the late military events which took place in Abe North of Spain between the Army of Portugal, , French, •There is Ito longer any post going b ete. B . and the English army, no action of importance has occurred. _ 'the inroad of the' French the other estates lying round us are totally ruined; the Fredch catty off a A The French army, after a mare , *h skilfully combi- i tlke baked bread, and likewise as mach flour and oats ned, which deceived all the . ekerny's calculations, I as they cap find among the peasantry i they likewi e take away all the cattle, horses, cows and sheep that acid in which a single Waggon was pot lost l has been brought back in the greatestordet to Valladolid, and they can find, without leaving the least behind them, from thence under the walls of Burgos. General and drive then; to their own army. In six neigh. Clausel; who provisiOnally commandedthe army du- bouring villages all • the peasants and th e stevn ts a s ring this march, knew how to provide for every want, collect and preserve all the resources of the . The " ea have left their hoUses, and fled to distant est:te st i. they have suffe . red • exceedingly from the *Ftens enemy, and dispute the ground foot by foot with the li. e h have totally burnt several villa, aa a enemy, and so impose upon Own as to remain mas .ter of his movements. • • ..- bayonetted the peasants, and plundered all " Lord Wellington fora moment appeared to aban- th a i e . . ' corn, cattle, and other property. • I alone hav e nem don all idea of offeqsive operations before the army left the estate, or gone elsewhere, nor discha r g e d my of the peasants ; but, on the contrary, I have amts. of Portugal, but he soon renewed his efforts upon the bled them, and armed them all with pikes, and i side of Burgos. On the 7th of Se rem t* ERglilil aFm7 . Enna- A su-h mariner kept the. French off from us. I "At the distance of four wersis from us, the F ee 4 eel upon that place ; tile Atpay of Portuga l took a ~__, ye broke down a church ; but I, with my peasa leaving position behind the town, the fort supp lied rcpt 15 of the French down on the spot ! They have with every thing requisite for its defence with a ad!. also Solent garrison, commanded by General•Dtibreton. : pulled down a church in another village; butt prevailed on the boors of some other estates to it On the 19th the enemy began their operations by me, and we gave them battle. We , cut down an on the attack of Mount St. Michael, a position defended her of the French on the spot, and made a pan of by a commencement of fortifications, or rather by ern whom we sentnto the town. prisoners, i • some works not finished. Though i weak detach- ; tb" meta only wits I have almost every day with my own pito&s left in it, the enemy etperienced a ' vigorous resistance, and only rendered themselves try, and those of the other estates, skirmishes with tbe masters men in killed and wounded. of it after long efforts, and a loss of more : French, who make attacks on the villages neva than . , us, it; small parties of thirty, twenty, fifteen, oder' 400 ourselves The enemy afterwards made dispositions for at- !men, and against whom we arm oursel ind patrole by day, . anda now I on re know h ride about a ow Much farther: ge.481 n will tacking the fort of Burgos itself. During three help us. no lV ger weeks they have given several assaults, which have been constantly repulsed. At the attack on the 23d night we keep guard. of September, it appears that they did net lose less 46 There are none of our inhabitants (i..e.) err. than from 2000 to 2500; in that which took place chants, and all other classes in the town of Gthitsk, on the 11th of October, the 42d Highland regiment , , there being none but the enemies in that place. iii church of Casan, dedicated to the Mother of was very roughly handled, and lost many men. On . . and tie eon, French harses are put ; some houses ate b_sunt down." both this letter, and others which have appeared in the Northern Post, giving confirmed intelligence of the barborous proceedings of the 'French, clearly prove that the villages in which these inhurnan ene mies meet with no resistance, and from which tllp boors have fled without fighting, have all been ?ion t dered and burnt down, and that the young peasants have been shoved in among the French soldiery whereas, in those where the French meet with oppo; sitien, and where the boors, armed m their manner with axes, scythes, hay-forks, and pikes, engage and attack . them, the French are conquered and beaten in every engagement by our brave peasants, who fight in defence of their religion and native cou • • OkFICIAL ACCOUNTS FRAM THE ARMY. I Lieutenant-General Count Wittgenstein .reports to his Imperial Majesty, from the camp in the vicinity of Sxkolischi,' under date of the ISth (23th) of Sep tember, as follows : The troops of the corps under my command we incessantly harassing the enemy. I detach cavalry upo'if expeditions to divers places, and even into his rear, .all which have turned out well; bid above all others, the last expedition which I sent out to clear the circles of Gorodezk and Polozk from the ders, has succeeded in an eminent manner, and been of the greatest use and consequence to us, in deitror ing the magazines and provisioni which the ene m had established. This was under the command of cu the ssack Colonel Rodionow, and consisted oftwit hundred Cossacks of his own regiment, and a deta4e rnent of. the Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery Nepeizyn, of three squadrons of Dragoons from the regiments: of Jamhurg, Rip, and Ingermanland. " After fulfilling the same, Colonerßodionowstateo tenant-Colonel N joined him with _ . Toro; those of Castanos were at Quintanilla. • 7 ' that Lieutt lepeizyn The army of Portugal, reinforced and perfectly ' his detachment at Belschwostow on the 7th (19th) re-established, only waits to march forward on the • instant, after having cleared the road from Newel; first intelligence of the diversions which the armies and that they had both resolved to act against the of the Centre and South, joined, under the direction enemy in the villages of K os an Shelzy, wino, and of his Catholic Majesty, may effect. Disunion begins at all other places wherever the enemy had collected (20;h) dittoi to creep in among some of the Chiefs of the Spanish any stores of provisions. On the Sth army. Porlier has abandoned Mendizabel. All do they passed . tbrough Shelzy , with intent to cut off all not approve the operations of the English army ; the parties and patroles from the road which has *a 1 inhabitants of Castile see with pain the throwing lately made' there. " On the road near to Shelzy they fell its with ai upon Rodrigo and Portugal of many objects taken at Madrid, and the carrying away of grain from all enemy's party of eighty men of the horse yarn the provinces, to be sent towards Portugal ; a mea-i the 28d and 24th regiments,, who were pill sure ,which announces that the English themselves! do not reckon upon making a long stay in Spain. The English pay for nothing in that country Swim, to receive the pro Visions collected there hy , the Commissary at War. Thitintall party was, by : the ft command of Colonel Radioactiv, instantly attacked 1 by Qat cossacks, who cut down above 40 men, ma give notes or receipts for whatever is furnished them. ' took 21 men, with Liens . Meuvieul, who fought des' who mode greatly displeases the country people ' who expected better from those who call themselves Peri:tar" the Lientenatit being made prisoner by the their liberators. valiant and fearless Esiaul Popow, in sight of the, HAMBURGH, OCTOBER 19. whole detachment. . " Colonel Rodionow hereupon immediately sent a We have just received fresh details respecting the large foraging party to Swino, to take the enemyaad catastrophe suffered by the English near the Island the provisions at that place, which was likes*" : of Rugen. punctually performed by the Solnik Studenikin istri. On the 11th , at night, a convoy of 22 sail were on his arrival there took t h ree C o mmissaries•acW .. at, perceived at the point of Wittau, close to land ;* and some privates, Sind found about 2000 tneatalrel". among which were observed a frigate and a brig car- of flour, which he (not•having any waggons Co 1 rying lights. We had aheady put every thing in a • WI" it away) totally spread about, and threw into'llo state of defence, when the firing of cannon, as a sag- water so that not the least part of it was left for do• ft. , , nal of distress, made us understand the greatness of enemy. In expectation of this, Colonel Rodiowt4A, the danger this•convoy ran, being entirely on shore. had remained at Shelzy, froth whence be aoirelle . , On day appearing, the frigate and five transports had midnight, departed for • Kosjany, as he knew tbitii., - , succeeded an getting afloat • the brig and eight mer- there was a considerable number of light.cavalrkwt:‘.. chant vessels were on fire —the enemy kindling the that place. The difficulties of the road were vol. flames. The eight other ships, too near land, w ere great, occasioned by its crossing streamlets, / normal - protected by the artillery from the c oast f ro m s h ar i ng and woods, in many parts of which the road was c at the same fate. We' are occupied in landing their up ; but all these difficulties could not detainq h f cargoes, and do not despair of also savin g th e hulls. Russian warriors. Near the village of Gorowaln4 These prizes were laden with Russian products.— . a fire of musketry, from as The prisoners estimate the enemy ' s loss at more than the *V ie ' '.-- . • • •• • ,vkVlCut of ' arabtiibi s*llie - , received with enemi's detachment of 300,1Ai . e . a, ill . - RENI I . i• Fk NCH 1 1 ,4PZICT. • • ,• " PARTS * OCTOBER ST. ..TWENTY-THIRD BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " The advance - d.guard, commanded by thp•King of Names, k upon the Naia, '2O leagues from Mos cow. The enemy's army is upon the Kalouga•—. Some skirrn;shes have taken place for the last three days.. The King c f NAPLES has bodifft die ldvan tage, and always driven the enemy from theit 'posi tions. 'The Coisacs hover upon our flanks. A pa trole of 150 dragoons of the guard, commanded by Major MARTHon, • has fallen into an ifmbUscaile of; the Cossacks, b etween the road of Moscow and Ka- Letters from Moscow the Vrench army, under the King of NAples, has en tered ISalouga, a town situated upon the Oka, thirty lee leagues from Moscow, and which contains a po pulation of 13,000 souls. The remains of the Rus iian army falls back before the Fiench troops. Ocr. 25.—The day before yei•terday (Oct. 23), • half-past seven in the morning, the three Es-Gene ials, Mallet, Lahourie, and Guidal, attempted acts Of vbilencr against the Authorities, especially charged with Maintaining the public order of this capital.— Three quarters of 'an hour after this attempit t th es e . machnetilvire-ayrested, and placed out a a . state to, do injury.—twoliotirt afterwards, all their istcom.. ` , lice' and adinteßts, viz.' about I.s.offiCers and sub , officers Stich they had .seduced or deceived, were Ittider the power of the Police. Thr sinister reports mr ead by these brigands at first caused smwe• alarm ; buOnformation from authority was sufficient to dis iipe'cefthem. Paris has since remained so traaquil, that public funds havenot experienced the, slightest ‘lterauc • The e • illation of these guilty men has occupied the and part of the night. It results from the syident the witnesses that the conspiracy, it that name ca. .. given to such an affair, was only contained io the cads of Mallet and his , two confi-• deatial principles. Np information has been coffee= ted which can render a single citizen of Paris, or the Departmetts, suspected of being accomplices, or' ')aving the slightest understanding with the There was published in the evening, in all the quar ters of the city, a communication of the Minister of Police.. The reading was every where received with Iries Lenz live the Emperor." 'Yesterday the three Ex.Penerals and the individu als whom they had seduced into if4ir culpable enter prise, were conducted on loot to the liotel of the Nli ulster of General Police of Abbaye, in the middle of ' -..blerOw of Bens d'armes dtelite. Every libels , double . - , 41 fgl their passagV *r9ple cxplested, their . • Prock - Dttmoul.er, to — diipenetilis junction ; V Tt'Z ' • • 4i 4, „.... . louga. The dragcons sabred SIX) of them, and II Upon the first intell _.:e of the retreat of the opened themselves a passage, but they left 20 men Army of Portugal and Of the dispositions Made by the enemy to 'fellow it in its movements, General upon the field of ',battle, who were takep prisoners; amongst them is the Major, dangerously wounded. i Count Ca ffarelli, coMmanding the Army of the North ? The advanced-guard of the Vice -Roy is a a The Duke of. EI:CIIINGEN is at Bogt Troiterth orodock , .. th ought if h is-du ty to immediatel y call to him, and concentrate the troops under his orders, in order to . colours , be ready to advance, if circumstandes should require upon the road to Dmifrow. The colours taken by it. Orders were consequently dispached . to all the the Russians from the Turks in different wars, and Generals commanding upon different points of Bis, several curious things found in the Kremlin, beim c been sent off for Paris. We found a MadOna, en- cay ; and General Rouget, commandant at Bilboa, particularly received orders, on the 7th of August, niched with diamonds ; it has also been sent to Paris. to evacuate that place, and immediately proceed to Te add here a statistical acc ount of Moscow, whic.li was found among the papers of the police, 0 si Vittoria. This order was instantly executed, nil at It appears that RORTOPCHIN has -- • . miffssite d . A r ,.! the hospital was evacuated ; when the Generabit. Oronovo he set fire to his castle, and left the follow- . aid' of the Army of the North, better informed 4 writing attached toes posts . (the situation of the Army of Portugal, - and of • the • ” I have for eight years embellished this country- . resources it still preserved, wished to preserve Bilboa, and countermanded his first order; but the abandon. house, and I have lived happy in it in the bosom of . merit of thit , town was Already consummated; the family. The inhabitants of this estate, to the movement of the retreat, of the garrison had corn. number of 1720, (ink it at your approach * ; and T menced, and General Roper, embracing a middle I _ fire to my house that it may not be polluted by course, halted at Purangp; with the approbation of your presence. Frenchmeri,.l have abandoned to yon with the,furnitureonwth half , Gloyral Caffarelli, nod with orders, that as Bilboa my two Moscow houses, woe evacuated, to prevent at least the enemy from million of rublesy ; here yen will only find ashes t.' ! establishing themselves in it. (Signed) 41 Count TWO* RAVIVPCILIN. ' I In effect, imme.liately after the departure of the "The Palace of Kurakiu is one of thine which has garrison, all the bands which infested the province been saved from the fire : General Count•NansoUty is marched upon Bilboa. General Rouget, on being lodged in it. 'We succeeded with great difficulty in 4 : in f orme d of their arrival, and conformably to his withdrawing from the hospitals and houses on fi reord ers, pushed forward a reconnoissance upon the part of the Russian 14. There remain about 4000 : 1 where the insurgents, in number 5000 men, 4 theie wretched men. The number of those•who 'p 9 la ce to the bands of Marquesito, Mugartigni,, pafished in the fire is extremely great. -Welrave had ' Pi nto , with Renovales s at their head, were al for the last eight days a warmer sun than is expe- lan rea dy assembled : but at the sight of the French, and iienced at Paris at this season. We do not perceive ; notw ithstanding their superiority of number, the in tbat we are in ;he North. The Duke of Reggio, wh,o s isurgents, in disorder, and with precipitation, eva i y s .at Wilna, has entirely recovered. The en emy's coated the town, and took a positioil on the neigh- General in Chief, Bagration, •ii dead of the wounds ' h ouring heights. General Rouget entered the place which he received in the battle of Moskwa. T he. u. il with three companies. The Alcade and Municipality .lussian army disavows the fire of Moscow; the 4boa, who did not expect his arrival, presented thorn of this attempt are held in detestation among !'of Gilboa, with all the appearances of sincere joy. Russians ;.they consider kastopschin as a sqrt_ofi . The reception of the inhabitants was in unison with • _ . the _._ . 'Agorae ; he bas been able to console himself in the . that of th'ellagistrates. Nevertheless the insurgents, society'of Op English Commissary, ;Wilson. The , posted upon the surrounding heights, astonished, and Staff Major will cause the details of the battles of : quickly emboldened by the weakness of the French Smolensk° and Maskyra to be printed, and point out column, hazarded an engagement, and attacked tbOse who 4 ircinguisho themselves. Wi.kave just upon several points. In all these attacks, which armed the Kretnlia with 30 pieces of cannon, and : were renewed the following day, they were briskly constructed ravelins at all the entrances of it. It repulsed : their 'loss was at least 300 men ; ours, forms a fortress, and bake-houses and magazines are 7 killed, and 14 wounded. General Rouget, on this established in it." I occasion, particularly praises the courage and good t 'Mei bare returned. •- ' , . :.. ; -t In truth he set Bre himself to We . esiletrY hirnie; bot fll4 Gendarmerie. example has bet few imitators. All the helms in ihe neigbbour- In the mean while the insurgents' forces were aug. Loud of Moscow are vatoeched.—(Meeisfer, Oct.te.) ' mented by new reinforcements ; the English were in MINISTZI: OP GENERAL POLICE. the roads with four frigates and a brig, and had just .5 ' PAWS. 1:5 CTO DX A liglo r -Three Ea4enerilsailaii disembarked 600 men. General Rouget had taken let, Labottile, and 9 nick!, kaite.de* l o. Anne Na- too few men with him to keep the place; he return- . tional 'Guards, and directed them against th e_,Ce-: ed to Durango. ' - 5- ' 7 ' rend Member of Police, the Prefect, and the'com- J All the Chiefs of Bands, and the Commandant of' inandont of La Place de Paris. They committed the English squadron, joined at Bilboa, and quickly' iiolence; against them. They falsely spread the re- theit forces being assembled, they formed the project port of the Emperor's death. Three Ex-Generals o f attacking Rouget even at Durango. General have been arrested ; they have been convicted of im7 Rouget immediately resolved to anticipate this move-, posture; justice is going to be executed upon them . 1 ment ; and on the 21st, reinforced by some troops,' 44 The most absolute tranquillity reigns at Paris. I advanced in order to surprise the enemy, the whole, was troubled in three 'hotels where the brigand's i of whose forces were collected at Zornozo, where :ein. The present decree shall be published, affixed, they occupied a formidable position. The 40th re ftc. &c. (Signed) 64 The Duke of Rovicio t • gtment was charged to turn that position; but the The Minister of Coen' Pau.; knerny, timely informed, struck their camp during tare Might, and took the same direction as the French Ovrotizit 24.--We have. received private letters having om Moscow, of the 7th. The soldiers continue io failed, Ger.eral Rouget determined upon re begins to be felt is not rigorous. The inhabitants 1 ermy, whose march and intention were thus discover employ themselves in the construction of their bar - ed. After a very. brisk engagement, the operation racks, which will soon be finished. The cold which! tiring to his positions, and retired by Arabezua.— ay, that, in ordinary years, the Moskwa is not i The enemy wished to interrupt the movement of the frozen till the middle of November. — Journal de Pa FrFnch troops ; but vigorously repulsed, and dis th, Oct. 24. . ‘ heartened by their losses, they ceased fro% inter, of the Bth, innounce, that I rupting its execution!, iptis The — General commanding the Army of the North, informed of this succession of events, resolved on marching himself upon the place with a strong co lumn, and supporting the operationrof General Roll get. This movement, and that of General Soulier, who arrived by Orosco; caused the precipitate eva-' cnation of Bilboa, and the diipersion of the enemy's] troops. General Soulier's column met Longa's band) near Miravales, and completely routed it. On the 81st of August General Caffarelli set out from Bilboa with the intention of pursuing the ene my, and securing the communications with Santona. General Rouget remained at Bilboa with some troops, and had soon to furnish detachments which weaken ed his resources, In ibis situation, informed that the] bands had again formed, he came to the determina tion of evacuating the place. and resuming his first position, at Durango. He was soon told that the bands were spread over the maritime communes, and prevented the entry of the contributions. Infor med that Artala, with a battalion, occupied Guer.; nica, he set nut on the ISth of September, in the hope of surprising him ; he in effect found the insur-' gents in Guernica, but their flight was more prompt than the march of our troops, and they hastily esca- Fped Imm the place and dispersed in the mountains. Two days after, they appeared before Guernica with reinforcements, and made offensive demonstrations. Several detachments, sent to reconnoitre at different points, attacked them so briskly that they stood in no position, and after having killed or wounded a good number of their men, General Rouget lost all hope of overtaking and bringing them to action ; in consecuence of which be immediately marched back his c,:fumns for Durango, which he entered on the* 16th ultimo. • L .:, In this interval a new jtanction of the bands was formed, and threatened • Guetaria. On the 2lst of September General Rouget 'receivetl brdtri rd emceed to Bergara, under the commando( General the approach The ti p oi the sere bre rich, We was Vor uig bou !nY nun get 1 ' • you flm • II tit is : 1 . • ith Ru thci the Ma soc Stt Srr the 31111 coT for ear fia boo tie net ins vie oi 11 a' Po It we fro ern rac 112) fro uki the ter iul ia at of ' TI do pli bu iiF alt th ;11 Elr f° de tei Zia T. te: cr al Pt I aIM bait ' *a I • w C 0 II 1 f I 1