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• .• • • ••• .• * . . . . • tio ! t ithe th e of this expedition, the Colonel had the s i r plar good fortune to rescue Major. General Baron wi n iv i gerode ,anfi his Aide-de-,camp, Captain Na. rishkin, between Vilna and Minsk ; they were pro. ce eding towards the tronter under an escort of Rens d'armes, and had been marched from Verrea, where t hey were presented LO Bonaparte with the French ro ds under the charge of Junot, .1 ~, II Colonel Chernichef also took three Couriers-- 061 c oming from, and the other two going, to, Paris. From these sources of intelligence, it svas ascertained t h at Bonaparte was at Smolensko on the 13th ;mu; J . Admiral Tchichakoff intended, according to his m ac, to arrive at Minsk on the 17th inst. , . Colonel Chernichef arrived at the Palace yester• i d y, accompanied by the prisoners he has released, a nd bringing with him the intercepted dispatches.... ! 'nose from Paris contain nothing but military plans and maps. a The expedition of Colone Chernichef was a con_ tinted and extraordinary exertion, he having marched even hundred wersts in five days, and swam across wend rivers. " It is stated; but no official Report has been re that General Sachen has been left with a de ach/neat° observe Prince Schwartzenberg, and that c„, 1 4 Lute' bas advanced to and occupied Mohie have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) • • * " enemy on their march to Krasnoi, killed five hun dred, and took Jour hundred on the 12th instant., The next day he took some prisoners, some of which were officers. , .;. " NOVEMBER. 14.—Admiral Tchichakoff reports oft the 1 Ith instant, having left in the principality of Warsaw a corps under the command of General Sachen. He marched with the remainder. to Preyant intending to pursue his.march through Slonim and tleswich, to Minsk, where he proposed to arrive aboaj the 17th,or 19th November ; that he had sent orders to Major r General Leiders and Lieutenant- General ,Eartio co; march upon the same point., The former frog Vol3tynia by Pinsk, the latter from kozern by Lutsi, and that he would not fail to de-1 tach parties of light troops on the side of Vilna to keep ois the communication with detachments on that flank, Intelligence having been received from some French artillery prisoners, of the places where the enemy had concealed cannon and arms near Boldin r sky monastery, twenty-seven •cannon, five or six then', sand stand of aims, five hundred sabres, and teen thousand shells have bee dug out. The head quarters of the army were this day at the village of Uroff. . . . . NOVILMBER 15.—Major Oeneild s Platoff seporio of the 11th inst. that Beaubarnois's. corps baying turned from Dnekotchin* rood Inwards Smolensko, he continues to surround it and cot off all provisions and forage. ; lc " Adjutant General Count brjeroff reports, undet date of the 24th of November, that he attacked the village of Krasnoi. The gagers; disregarding the fire of grape, attacked the enemy's columns with their bayonets, and after a combat, in which our artillery and cavalry were also engaged, took possession of the town ; but observing strong columns of the enemy moving from Smolensko upon Krasnoi, they fell back three wersts'; to the farm of Kulkoff. In this.affiir one Colonel and two hundred and fifty rank and file were taken. 66 CA TIFItART." " Jamich, November 15, 1812. uy r Lonn- 7 I am very happy to inform your hip, that Victor has failed in fulfilling the or. .rrs, : he. received from, Bonaparte, to drive Count Ifittgeristvio ,beh'ind the,..Puna.- He attacked yes. wig mamas, Count Wittgenstein ordered the ad. vaneccl. guard to Mitre to the position. This was ed in $-Fnasterly manner : they retired in echi -00, ender a very heavy Ore, as, if it .was in a fled *4. a the po,siti9a, gie French Were ~feeeived by a t4-directed fire from the attillery s „bi l which they have - lost a great number in killed and wounded ...I,seppose between 2.and 3900'.. The Aria* only ' o2iedOont seven in the evening.. The:Pengit had estropi demonstrations on both wings, a but tire fent!r was chiefly engaged:: This 9tornipg they began their retreat towards Senno.. The troops who are iniumuit have, as yet made about 600 prisoners. It is re4y ,a pleasure to see these. troops- fight. , The new-raised Militia vie With the oldest regi. One battalion of this militia being with the guard, on receivinotdersto fall back first Emperor had not sent advance and beat Ole la to do.. „ igned)., . passim' o." oirratron, ortligareas,,Co7s of 1 tins,A4lWilialial Prieto 4 1 f 14 4 0 . 41 0Ns .General •Millarattovltat , 14yinced guard under, village . of Alerecoly ; „Lieutenant -General detachment; sent by hiM the enemy, ani drove it "rt Cosaiteks pursued it on lieasi-cio4ters or arm y tot;cott „ . teuteniii . t . -GeneratClount Ctr \.^giroslderabie fintiging antsurtiliery depot were ierti ,thero, killed tip- Indeed, made one thou -104 took one thousand :arriegei, mostly loaded " MY Loan—ln addition to my dispatch of the 23d instant, I have now the happiness to inclose a translation of repoi ts which have been received from Field-Marshal Prince Kutusoff, of the 10th and 20th instant, containing the details of the total defeat of the divisions of the French army under the com mands of Marshals Davoust atti Ney'. Near two hundred cannon, and twenty thousand prisoners; have been taken in these affairs. Bonaparte is stated to have been with Marshal Davoust's corps; in the night from the 16th to the 17th, and to have left the field of battle at full speed. Every measure of precaution that could be thought of at this distance, has been provided for by' the Emperor, to prevent the escape of the enemy ; and it appears that every exertion has been made by the several .commanders of corps near Stnolensko.— Bonaparte has probably sent forward his favourite guards, the Polish divisions, and part of the Italian; but if Admiral Tchichagoff has arrived at his ground it does not appear that this corps would escape to the frontier. Mllliradovitch adviited Narehokin, of the htis. :hed by Adjutant- Geaeral detachment of tht enemy with some chasseurt and tasted four hours, when village of Michatloff, them. Colonel Prince Radbolk, and Carpo, made apwards of .1 reports on the 12th teneral Neoff had made 150 (osdini reports,' that Colonel detachment of 700 men un . part, and making priso. men, 18 officers, and one reports on the 9th of No pursued Beauharnois's corps, • the river Bone, near the without regarding the he attacked the enemy: numbgrs of killed and -three pieces of cannon, prisoners. He further reports Beauharnois's corps on , -nine guns were taken, formerly reported. General the remains of the same " The display of force before General Count Witt genstein's post, after the attack, was probably with intention to favour the movement of the corps which have marched upon Minsk. •4 It is not improbable that part of Victor's corps may have taken the same direction. ." General Wittgenstein is reinforced by the ca valry formerly under General Winzingerode, for the present commanded by Major-Gen. Kutusoff, who has made a most rapid march to BabinOwiich, where he arrived time enough on the 18th to receive four hundred prisoners from one of the French divisions. He has also taken two Generals and One Colonel. 44 The French, with their usual savage and sacri legious ferocity, wantonly blew up the venerable ca thedral of Smolensko before they left that place. - - - 41 Te Deum has bees sung this day in the great cathedral, in presence of their Imperial Majesties and the whole Court : the Baron de Mareschal" of Marshal Davoust, and such of the eagles and• colours. taken in the last affair as are already arrived 'here, were previously brought o the eathedarl, In which Adjut , nt•General Orloff Denim' , attacked the • ..14 , •••••• , ....••••-, -.-.•-• - ~.' . • .7c 1..:a •.. s - " it• ql if;!': .1 * li►r the other nunte,Onrs trophies of war are 2.170ady de posited, I have the,bononrto be, Sic.. . . • (Signed) " CATHCART." . . i. The Commander.in-Chief, General FielcbMarshal Ptince Kutusoff, from his head-quirt:rs at the vil4 lage of Dubrovo, submits to his Imperial Majesty the two following reports : . • ' • FIRST REPORT, HATED THE 18TH NtWEMEER. - "Skfter the battle; near Viasma, of the 2/41k tober, my army nude every effort to turn, if not 41 the enemy's corps, at least its advanced, guard, on the road from Telna to Krasnoi,; in which if com- ! pletely stuceeidefeoniihr .17th and 18th November.. i " The idfli ;i . ;.,vertiber the army. made a move-`; 'tient by advancing five wersts, as far as the town of i Krasnoi. The advanced guard' fell in with the enemy, who were completely defeated by Lieute- 1 nant-General Onverow. On this occasion we be came masters of one standard, some cannon; and made a great number of prisoners, one of whom was a General." " General Millarodovitch, commanding the ad ' yawed guard, with the 2d light corps of infantry, end the 2d of cavalry, perceiving the corps com- Imanded by Marshal Davoust advance ne a r Kr asno i, iletaChed thither Lieutenant-General Prince Galatzin, The.enemy, ; soaceiving himself turned on all sides, began to defend himself. Our artillery made a ter rible earnage,in the enemy's ranks. Napoleon him. I self was an eje-witness of the battle, and not wait. ! ing for the issti e,. he fled with his whole suite to the i village of Liadani, and abandoned the corps of Do . oust. . : , 1 . 4 f The, banle i lasted the whole day ; the enemy were completely defeated and dispersed in the neigh ' bowing wood, -for a distance of five wersts along the banks' of thi . Dnieper--thus the corps of General I Davoust has been idniplcltely destroyed. The loss in killed and wounded is immense.., We have made prisoners two Generals, .43 officers of different ranks, i 9170 prisoners, 70 cannon, three standards, and taken 44 Lieutenant General Count Ostermann Tolstoy I the baton of Marshal Davoust. ~ . --,. ,-• . • reports, that being with his division of infantry on the 64 On the 17th November, being infoimed that the i 4th in the village of Kovisoff, and learning that the . corps of Marshal Ney, forming the rear-guard of the, enemy was within half a werst of that place, he de-' enemy, was moving on the waif leading to Krasnoi tached a squadron of the KAmopolsky regiment, I I made the following dispositions: which killed a part and took ten prisoners. SECOND REPORT. • " GepErai Millar 4lovitch reports, on the 12th, that 44 In order to obtain a certain victory over Mar. being _i• ... .• . she- Ney, and to cut off entirely his communication # vie vupge o f tniteneirn, he sent a patrole with the rest of the army, I reinforced General Mil- upon, the rtnd ,from Smolensk° to Krasnoi, to recon noitre the etrmj,,,Which returned, having made 17 laradovitsch with the Bth corps, giving him orders prisoners„, The ; same 4 iy, Count-Osterman Tolstoy to prevent the Marshal's advance, and to take a post sent the Pskofki regiment of dragoons to examine don near the villages Syroherenic and Tcherniska.-1 the state of the villages occupied by the enemy.— ; Major-General Lourkouski perceived, about three in . A ._ .. lillails i n i.,t, perceivingthree squadrons of cavalry, .the afternoon, the enemy advancing. The thickness hundred and =ck took five officers and tw' of the fog prevented him from ascertaining his num_ I lied; and- ninety men. . , bets, who kept marching forwards till they were close "The enemy remained also this day in the valor i to our batteries. of ilsoff. 1 « The enemy attempting in vain to pierce through 4 Adjutant-Geti eral count Orloff tienilrotE also ' our lines, received, at the distance of 250 paces, a sent in two Generals of the division of General Al. gederaf, discharge of musketry and of 40 pieces of mires, and a Brigadies.Genetal Burt, with an ac- cannon : the effect of this fire upon the enemy was count of his having taken twenty pieces of canon:it, ; extreinsly fatal. Finding he had no hope of escaping, pear the town of Krasnoi." he at length sew a Bag of truce to General Millara . A St.Petersburgbi November 2s, 1912. dovitch. At midnight the whole corps d'armee of the enemy, amounting to 12,000 men were obliged to lay down their arms. All their artillery, in num ber tit pieces of cannon, all the baggage and mai_ taiy chest were the fruits of our victory. , e In the number of prisoners are above one hun-1 dred officers of different ranks. Marshal Ney was wounded, but saved himself by flight, and was pur sued by the Cossacks beyond the Dnieper. The loss of the enemy is enormous : according to the report of the prisoners,fonr Generals of division were wounded. We bare not lost above five hundred men in killed and wounded. a The army is at present at Krasnoff, and the ad. vanced guard at Dowbrowna, from whence we shall follow the movements of the enemy. " General Platow informs the by a private letter annexed, that the enemy left behind him, seventeen wersts film Smolensico, a great quantity of artillery, amounting to 112 pieces." LK1712 O 1 GrinutAL COUNT PLATOFF TO THE GENIRAL FIELD MARSHALL, DATED Nov. 17. 48 After the signature of my report to your High- ness, Captain Parkin arrived with the rations, and states that, at The distance of seventeen wersts from Smolensk°, in the great road, he had counted one hundred and twelve cannon, besides a great number of tumbrils and carriages. I am not able to send your Highness a report in form, not having received it from the Governor of Smolensk°. I join the una nimous voice of the troops in pronouncing, Hourra ! your molt Serene Highness 1 Yesterday, soon al*: er one o'clock, the QUEEN, and Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY, arrived at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor. Several of the Royal Dukes, and a number of the female Nobility, paid their respects to them, and in the evening they dined with the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton House. ROBERT Gounow, Esq. Governor of Berbice, is •about to proceed to his Government, in the Seahorse frigate, commanded by his gallant namesake, Capt. GORDON. Fifty Licences for imports, and $2 for exports, signed by BONAPARTE, have been received at Paris. The importations allowed consist chiefly cf colonial produce anti bides. t • , 1 1/ . - S.- . . SECOND EDITION. _-~3.-t..5,.« STAR-OFFICE, TWO mazer: , t . ..; In consequence of the antlered glorious Funds,hAve hail a rise of It per cent, °moil been, done at 10:pei cent. premium, by whit of. iC150,000 hive been decided at Lloyd'• 'house. • .• .; KTARAFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK. Private letters from Paris, dated on the : suntrhave been. Fec4ived in Town. They state. General VALENCE,One of BO NAPARTieb Staff; denly arrived in. Faris, from the Army in the The utmost possible secrecy was Preserve subject of bis mission, but it was loudly that BONArAltrit was dead. For the accuracy intelligence we can ple,te oarseltier. _ A Decree • was.expected to be instantly issl ng out 300,000 additional troops from her dependencies. While we are writing this article, the Tower guns are tiring in homier of the gler , umph obtained by the Russians over the Fre, NAVAL /INTELLIGENCE •• • • FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 13. . Arrived the (Economy, Sutton, from Southamp.. ton, and a gun brig, name unknown. Nothi to-clay. The Seahorse frigate made a 1 morning for the West India fleet to unmoor, I sequence of his Majesty's ship Itamilies 'nil expected. They will, no doubt, 4,111 in the I"Wind E. N. E. and fresh breezes. • . PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 24. Came in his Matsty's ship Diumemark • Downs. Sailed, the Sybille frigate for. Cori the Fylla sloop of war for Guernsey.—Wini DEAL, DECEMBER IS. • Sailed his Majesty's ships frnpregnabli mom to Portsmouth, to refit ; the former miral Young's flag, xvilich she shifted last the Warrior. The Pomona brig detained Mary privateer, lost Ai anchor and cable ing.—Wind N. E. and blows a gale. " DOVER, Dac. 15.—The vessel mentioned letter of yesterday as having arrived off here. Ostend, came into the harbour last night. seen the Captain, and, from what he says, vinced that the inhabitants on the opposit kept in a state of ignorance of what is no , forward, and they do not like to talk of • which is not published in their Papers. now a great many conscripts at OstenV, the army, and quartered on the inhabitant is uncommonly dull along the whole French —lt really appear*, from the reserve of the Captains who • arrive from France, that bound, before they sail, not to give information they come to this country, or that the poor ' are themselves afraid, if. they know any tell it." OORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER I S. Arrived his Majesty's ships Impregnable and Eg• mont from the Dawns ; Spitfire and Cordelia, tiom-s cruizc.—Wind N. E. CORK, DECEMBER 7. Yesterday morning his Majesty's ship Stork, Cap. tain CouLsos, sailed in quest of a privateer said to be off the coast. The Virago gun brig, Lieut. Pitt. MAN, convoy for the Downs, is still detained by con. trary winds. The Admiral's flag-ship (TEEN?) yes. terday hoisted signals for all Masters of vessels in. tending to take convoy to the West Indies, to repair cnt board for instructions. The Dauntless sloop of war, Captain Barber, arrived this morning from a cruize, and imuzedialely hoisted convoy signal for the West Indies. During the whole of the night and. this morning, it has blown a violent gale from the S. E. This miming also arrived the Protector gun-brig, Lieutenant Mitchenor, with the Nimrod transport, last from Waterford. She continues on this station. : . . An additional small detachment of Artillery-dry. vers is ordered to embark inimedia.ely atPortsmouth •.• ~ for Lisbon. If we are inferior to the French in any species of force, it is this, and the Engineers. On Monday the Marquis of "WINCHUTER and Earl CHOLHONDELLY had audiences of the PRINCE RE GENT after the Levee.. • Tie Bishop of Chester, the Recorder of London, Mr. R. THORNTON, Mr. BobvEttlE,. and a number of others, came to Carlton House after the Levee was over on Monday. • This morning the Admiralty. Sessions commenced at Justice Hall, Old Bailey, before Lord ELlA:six). ROUGH, Sir Vim. SCOTT, Baron THOMPSON, and Jils- • rice LE BLANC, .with the trial of the Marquis rf SLIGO, for having in the month of May, 1810, en ticed seven seamen from his M tjesty's service, whilst he lay off the island of Malta. • The trial is not e=. peered to finish before a late holm. The Court was very crowded, the Duke of CLARENCE and many people of rank being present. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, DECMBERdir The trade in general to-day is i.• arty the , same as Mon ,we • n have no farther an male, ersept a f w oats, and one or two Sof folk vess..ll with Barley and b aus: all these articles fully lbws sain our last prices, and most things that are 11 granary ate asked higher prices for, tiki cuuntry zuriguisos beltg ROW'MAtir stcpped w'th the frost. etkit. t . F S FUCKS THI t DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL Redut- d 60{ 54 801 -64 per Cetin 764 —Cons. for se. el lit , • inn. B.l9—Bonus es. difir-Ls Ann,. 1517-16 t .s Asa. Bills (Si.) is Is. pe.—Do. 28. Si. pr. 3 J ••• r . _ • -drane s ed guard, on receiving ,o • used to do so, saying, the E m there to retire, but to, a my, which they were I have, &c. (Sign , •` • ,et the lomat of the Operation . • v • • 1 , • •-• ihAm C y under the usna4of et frieeihe'fidi to iheitStft utsssl a. it• on le 1 Ph Nuembet..6 • ; s, tke.'9o mennand eras so,be ste .the • ekit 'rat at that Yakoff. . leff *retsoni; thei den's_ the 19th; Snit' a I:004 of t!).i ?Joie Parsuf the Don 4 thisolensko road: _Tire hew! . this day at • the village of , • • Novesseeit IV.—Lieuterse Dinizoi lesining that jof the 'enem" Ciii4i7 • d in-the till0s0004:4 edi . of orie thousand dielus • , d three hondr .. ejprisonai s 's • Sind tour •hincged tar ...stores. " Teo corps of General Mi the village of Ivergkoff. " The army halted.. "NOVEMBER 18. —Ca Ptain of the guaids, detached ".tlt Otleroff, attacked a .de Io' the vill s ige of Ilmorai, w 1 • . cavalry ; the combat la • enemy • retreated to the bete he pursued and took tht " Detachments under Colon sent by Major-General CI 0 prisoners. "General Millaradovitsch mber, that Major.Generl ers at Charvanaoff. "Major -General Volosdini Ttigaoobski defeated a detac Major Aberjeu, killing a p the remainder, 370 me -if Su rgeon. Itajor.General Platoff re - be; that having pursue Wife tip with it at the .te called Yansdoff, and ' 'ges of his position, Is , thin occasion, besides n "" .• he took thirty-th . ' two hundred prisoners. daring the pursuit of l 811 1 of' November, sixty-: ' not sixty-two, as forme. Mr is now pursuing the . • razer... s news, the minuses has which bets rd's Cpffee- YCLOCK. se 12th in. y state, that ff,Lad sud- the North. ved on the r whispered rraci , of thi: • issued, call-. France and e Park and tlefous ?reach. Southaven). •thing sailed - 1 signal this sor, in con- eing the morning • . .k from the . Cort i and . Vind•E. We and Eit. had Ad- t evening to Lined by the le this morn. ioned in my here, ItNam ht.—l have rs, am con- site side are now going f any thing There are nts. 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