Star. — London, England, 1812-12-19 00:00:00

t it )0 ; 6Pht ley it, r ' re, he :es tertain for the distresses of their own countrymen...—. __The sum appeared in reality but a contribution to carr y en the war, and however analyzed, was but a pixy and contemptible subsidy. Lord CA STL E RE A G H contended,that the Com mittee had, in the vote of the Supply practical grounds founded on the late grant to the people of Portugal, on which they could act with no less benevolence than jus um He begged leave to disclaim expressly, the name g i v en by the Right. Honourable Gentleman to the grant, when he called it a subsidy. gr. WILBERFORCE felt great pleasure In o i s ing his vote in favour of the grant. For his own part, he could not conceive why nations should not b e generous as well as individuals. Sir F. BURDETT thought it was necessary to to be just before we %vete generous ; and that we s hould look to the distresses of our own people before mo ney w. 45 voted away to relieve those of other na tido, He would have no objection to promote, to she tttinost of his ability, any private subscription ; but he could not agree to add to the burthens of the p eople, who were already contending with privations en d distresses of their own, which it was almost impossible to bear. He thought it hard that the p e ople of this country should be Called upon to s upport French emigrants, American emigrants, those of Switzerland and Germany, and in short, almost all coUtttries, with a degree of considerable liberality; an d yet, when the distresses of our own starving manufacturers, and other descriptions of the lower orders of the people, was mentioned 'in that House, and relief prayed in their behalf, the uniform answer had been, that in times of difficulty and distress like the present, ciconemy mast be attended to, and it would be impossible for the House to grant relief to any such extent as could possibly be of effect and avail, Under these circumstances he felt it his duty to negative the present motion. ' Lord COCHRANE said, that as the sum re quired was only equal to ten days expence of the war in the Peninsula, and as the exertion of the Rus sians were, in his opinion, likely to accelerate the ter mination of that war, he felt it his duty to vote for the motion.—The motion was then carried without a division.—Adjourned. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. . . ZIA Akiii Pt AP jar**, like many other letters to the Editor, Do, in a great measure, been anticipated by the debates ill parliament. One point is, however, worthy of notice. He *commends that every french prisoner, from the Drummer to the Generals should be compelled to ass ist in re-edifying Idoicow. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19. PRICE Or s POCKS THIS PAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: tinblead 60i 61-4 per Cent. 77$—Cons. kr se. 62j 011.10 f—bonds Is. Bs. dis.—Lg. lAns.lsi 11-16th. zcb. Bills (30.) la. 2sipr.—(3o.) U. ss.—Lot. Tick. RE?. 91. The details received by the Russian Ambassador Ott St. Petersburgh, by the last Gottenbur!h Mail, being more recent in date than Lord CATHCARVS dispatches, have supplied us with KuTusopes ac count of the battles of the 16th and 18th ult. The description given by the 'venerable warrior of the de feat of the French, Is of course more ample than Lord CATHCART'S, and it is still more important in another point of view. We are now able to ascertain with precision, froth the Russian details, the proba: bilides of the escape of Bow ApAarn, and we must say s that if the precantions taken by the Russian Generals for his interception are not defeated by one of those miraculous events, which has distinguished his career, there cannot be a doubt that, dead or alive, he is now depri4ed of the power of doing all farther mischief. Let Os enquire for a moment into the chances in I his favour, and by repressing our joyful sensations at thr ptospeet of his extinction, we shall endeavour to remove even the suspicion that our wishes are " the I ?vents of our thoughts" on the occasion. lie fled from the field of battle at Krasnoi on the 17th November—on the 87th, ten days afterwards,he leached Staroy Borissow, a town precisely 90 miles from Krasnoi. We are now fully disposed so believe . the indttments on this head in the Paris Papers, with-1 holding, at the same time, all credence whatever in the report that his :srmy continued its movements in good order. Thus he had been able to go over nine miles a el..y oaly, accompanied by his escort, for army it cannot now be called. These who reflect! upon the nature of the climate of Ruisia in Novem ber, and the consequent state of the roads, will readily believe that such a body of men as he must have with him even for his personal safety, could not move touch faster even if their flight was not impeded by the dreadful weakness from cold, fatigue, and hun ger, which they and their horses must suffer, and the consequent delays which the service of foraging, at such a season and in su6b a dreary country, requires. The next station he would reach would be Antetrbl, a distance of about 40 miles from Borissow ; and this would require at least five days more—from Antepol to Minsk, the distance is about 40 miles also. At Minsk, therefore, he could not arrive sooner than the 6th or 7th December. To Wilna, where only be could be personally safe, the distance is 80 mles far ther. A minute inspection of the best Maps of Rus -621 and a comparative perusal of the last dispatches , will shew that there was a combination of moral and physical impossibilities against his pursuing any othe t route—and the admirable and prompt dispositions made by the Russian Generals amply Lear us out in our conclusion. At Minsk, however, he must have found an im mense well-appointed Russian army ready to receive bun, for MICHAGOFF was to take up his ground there on the 19► h November, and WiTTOENSTSINISI • army, if the nature of the service required that it lost some colours and cannon, and many prisoners, me, announces that the enemy has left near Smolensk, should not actually join at Minsk, was at least in among whom was a General. 112 pieces of cannon, in an extent of 17 versts. fu s CIXIMMIiCatiOG with that of TIISICIIAGOFF. aOn the 17th, the army went to meet the enemy- 66 The ntruberof ptisaneri is far more considera. So much for the regular troops which were to in. The sth, 6th, and Bth corps of the a r my, the di v i s i on bl e t h an I h ave stated it i n my two Reports. " tereept the last feeble rem a i ns o f the i nva di ng army .' of cuirassiers, eight regiments of Cossacks, the Nigin I When the Emporor Alexander received the above Then we have, according to KITTUsOFF'S dispatches, Dragoons, the Marrepol Hussars, and the 19th of Reports, he gave to the illustrious Kutusoff the ap ' several Pulcs of Cossacks, some regiments of regular chasseurs, were ordered, notwithstandieg the numer- propriate title of Prince of Smolensko, and made him cavalry, with Count ORLOFF DENIEOFF, and the im- ous defiles and the greatest difficulties, to turn the a Knight of the Order of St. George of the first class mortal PLATOFF at their head, in full pursuit of the enemy, by marchingtowards the village of Dobrovo' —an honour seldom conferred, and only upon Field flying enemy in every direction by which he can pos. which is on the high road leading to Orcko. The j Marshals who have defeated Field Marshals. Ad sibly escape. Do the Cossacks travel at the rate of vanguard of General Miloradovitch, composed of the miral Tschitschagoff's father was the last Officer who ten miles a day ? No ! In this and former cam- 2d and 7th corps of Infantry, and of a corps of ca. ; .deceived this honour. paigns they have frequently galloped over thirty valry, had taken a covered position near the village miles between sun-set and sun-rise :itis in short, tha of Merlino, with a view of awaiting the arrival of The measure. recommended by the CHANCtELLOR glory and excellence of their system, to come in upon Davoust's corps at Krasnoi, while Prince Galitzin of the EXCHEQUER for the relief of the suffering Rus. their enemies " before they have mounted their was advancing towards the same pl ace , w i t h t h e sians, is perfectly in unison with the general feelings horses !" third corps and two divisions of euirassiers. The of the country. It is singular that we should have But let us not be to sanguine in our expectations. enemy was astonished to see our troops advance from received letters from various quarters recommending BONAPARTE may have escaped to Wilna, but he could all directions ; he made, indeed, some dispositions the very measure, and written before the motion not have arrived sooner than the 12th of December. for an engagement, but the well-directed fire of our made in Parliament was known in the country. One Upon his arrival there, he would instantly dispatch 'artillery, and the impetuosity of whole columns rush. of these letters we wouldhave laid before our Readers, a Bulletin to Paris, or set off himself I the latter ing upon him with levelled bayonets, overthrew and had nJt the arguments and reasoning been, in a great supposition is most probable ; but at Paris, neither put him to flight. Napoleon himself was an eye- measure, anticipated by the Members who have he nor his Courier could arrive ina shorter - space than Iwitness of this decisive com b at : b ut see i ng t h e b a d s p o k en on t h e mot i on. But though t h e w h o l e l etter a fortnight. It will be Christmas, the re f ore , or t h e , situation of affairs, he rode off at full speed to Liadi, is no longer necessary, we cannot refrain from stating commencement of the year, before we shall be con. abandoning the corps of Marshal Davoust to the one prominent feature ; for it consists of something vinced of his persqnal safety, even if the Russian Bul- mercy of the conqueror. more than "Beare warmed, and le ye clothed." The feting continue to be silent on the subject. l 66 The remainder of this corps, which was almost writer (the Rev. EDWARD WARD, of Iver Parsonages It would be unfair to cunceal from the Public our totally destroyed, endeavoured to save itself by flight, Uxbridge) offers five guineas as his mite towards apprehensions on the subject of his escape; but we and ran, with the greatest disorder, into a forest on procuring wine and oil to pour into the wounds or repeat, that it will be secured ander most miraculous , the banks of the Dnieper, ilnagining that it would be our friends who have fallen among thieves, and been , circumstances. His whole dependance, and the whole safe there I but our light troops pursued it everywhere, stripped, wounded, and left half dead.—Let us hope of our fears, are founded upon what may have been ; and destroyed it entirely. Two Generals, 58 Offs- that some of the Gentlemen of Lloyd's Coffee-honse, effected by Vieron. This General must have previ- cers, 9,170 prisoners, 70 pieces of cannon, three pair who have never been backward in the cause of suf- ously defeated WITTGENSTEIN, prevented his junction tot colours, and the baton of Marshal Davoust, are firing humanity, will immediately appoint a Com with TSCHTTSCHAGOFF, and pre-occupied Mina:. If j the trophies of this memorable day. mittee to tuperintend and give efficacy to the general Vrevort was able to keep this place until the ar- 16 From some papers that were intercepted on the wish of the community. rival of BONAPARTE and the corps he has with-him, sth Nov. (17) I learnt the dispositions which had then, and then only, could they have made good their been made for the enemy's retreat. I found by these retreat to Wilna; but it must have been after some papers, that the corps of Marshal Ney, composing most sanguinary conflicts, and VICTOR'S corps must the enemy's rear, was to leave Smolensko and march have shared the glorious fate which has befallen those in the direction of Krasnoi. I formed my plan ac of his brother Marshals et the Empire I cording to this information." Private Letters from persons of great respectabi- REPORT OF THE eare NOVEMBER. lity in Russia, describe the retreat of the French as " Fully resolved to cut off the retreat of Marshal disastrous beyond all example. In every direction Ney's corps,. and wishing to ensure it, I reinforced where the Russians followed them, the roads were General Milarodovitch, and ordered hint to occupy covered with the dying and the dead—of the latter, the villages of Chirokorenie and Tchernisk, and to iu many instances, legs and arms were found halt I await there the arrival of Marshal Ney. roasted, and partly eaten by the French, who, in a ss At three o'clock in the afternon the Cossacks state of starvation, and without the means of grati- discovered the enemy. In the beginning, a thick fog lying the calls of nature, were thus reduced to the allowed us not to distinguish the number of French dire necessity of feeding on one another. It has been columns, which advanced upon our batteries with a ascertained that the French, had they had to contend firm resolution of dislodging us. with Britons, would, to a man, have laid downatheir aAt the distance of 250 paces, they were received arms long ago—but such was their dread of the Cos- with grape shot from forty pieces of cannon. The sacks, that they preferred misery and death ia every moment was terrible and decisive. But far from other shape, rather' than to' into their hands.— beins . disarayed at the sight of inevitable destruction, It is better for the general interests Of Europe, that the _ ore enraged, and with the w e . things are as they are. Had the French found them- most fury rushed upon our batteries, which, coot's. selves in circumstances which would have given tieing to be well served, carried death and destruct- ' them the election of captivity or retreat, they could lion into the enemy's ranks, and rendered all his never have formed any ccrrect ideas of the danger of attempts fruitless. invading Russia, or of the miseries of a rfortharn 66 General Paskowrtch, seeing - other columns of winter. Let those who have escaped without toes or ; the enemy arrive to succour the first, threw himself fingers—should any yet escape, exhibit in their own I upon them with his brigade, and being reinforced persons the military rewards that may be obtain. d by two other regiments, charged them sword in hand by their countrymen in any new enterprize that may %bah so much impetuosity, that he destroyed what. be undertaken by their mad master against a nation " ever he ma. that never gave him any just provocation for war. " The field of battle acts covered with dead bodies, In the above letters it is stated, that soon after the , The enemy abandoning standards and cannon, fled Russian General Baron WINZINGERODE, mid his Aid I into the adjoining forests. The number of prisoners de-Camp Captain NAMEHEIN, were taken prisoners is very considerable. between Wilna and Minsk, they were marched to 6' At five o'clock e. at. other French columns ad- Verrea, where the Baron was presented to BONA` vanced towards us, with a full determination to con- PARTE. " Who are you?" said the Tyrant. "lam ! quer or die. A battery of 24 guns, advantageously Baron WINXINOICRODE, a General in the Russian see- I placed, arrested their first ardour. At the very mo vice," was the reply. " No, you are a Cossack," i ment when our cavalry had turned and attacked them said BONAPARTE, 66 and shall be shot in 24 hours." in the rear, the enemy came to a resolution of send- Ever since I was taken prisoner," said the ing a flag of truce to General Miloradovitch to beg brave WINZENGERODE, " I calculated upon my death ' for quarter. by a French bullet ; and to me it is a matter of in. aAt midnight, the enemy, to the number of 12000 difference whether that event takes place now or of Men, laid down their arms; all their artillery; con terwards."—Here the interview ended, with BONA• isisting of 27 pieces of cannon, their baggage, and ?antes reiterated declaration to carry his threat into !their military chest, fell into the hands of the con. execution--a resolution from which he was only dial queror. Upwards of 100 Officers were made priso verted by the representation of his principal Officers, i !nets. Marshal Ney received a wound, and saved that the death of WINZENGERODE , would be avenged himself by flight to the other side of the Dnieper.— on their brethren in captivity an hundred fold. ._-I The Cossacks are in pursuit of him. The prisoners that the fr Generals who commanded Accounts are said to have been received from the northern coast of Spain, stating, that the Whole French army in that country had bten ordered to march for France. The circumstance is not imprci; bable, although we have our doubts as to the au• thonty upon which the report is founded. NAVAL INTELLIGiNCE. LOSS OF HIS MAtESTY'S CUTTER ALBAN AND ALL HER CREW, EXCEPT ONE MAN. Albrough, December 11. I hire to communicate the melancholy lose of his Majesty's cutter ALBAN, commanded by Lieute- nant KEY : she was driYen from the Holland station by the present very beaby gale, and forced on shore here this morning, and is a complete wreck. I am extremely sorry to say, that out of a cre*, consisting of 56 men, three women, and two'children, only one wcman, servant to Mrs. KZ; and a young man, a seaman, of -the name Of James Newton, are saveds The Surgeon, Mr. JAPALS THOMPSON, came on short kith some life in him, but he died immediately afters wards." VALMOUTH, bECEMBER le. kotbing arrived or sailed to-day. The Vend schooner, HOPKINS, from Lisbon for Londbn, parted from one anchor this morning, brought up with a second, and rode out the gale until assistance was given her from the shore, when she hove up and tau farther into the harboui.—Wind E. and fresh gales. PORTSMOUTH,'DECEMBER Sailed his Majesty's shits Rift Noe and PA wifl:oft with the convoy for Spain and Portugal. The CouN. Tess of Eton cutter, with her conyoy tor the Downsg remain at Spithead.—Wind E. DEAL, DECEMBER It Nothing arrived j a sailed to day.—Wind HARW H, DECEMBER it No arrivals from the Baltic. Arrived the MNlabar from Sheerness, with the lost of her rudder, two anchors, and one cable, *ith other damage. YARMOUTH, DECEMBER it. It has blown a gale for several days, but we dd not hear of any damage having been done on the coast. The Itussian fleet, lately arrived, is now safely moored in the river Methiay. The sloop William, of and for Kinsale, from Ca. diz, was captured, Mat: 49. 54. by le Brestois pri. vateer, of 14 guns, from Brest, which, after plunder ing, gave her up, and she arrived at Kinsale on the Sif inst. The privateer had captured, on the 27th ult. about ten miles north of Kinsale, the Virgo, from Cork for Lisbon, and scuttled het. A brig priva teer joined the Erestois on the SOth tilt. which had that morning captured the Speculation, from Cork to Lisbon, and sent her for St. Maloes. A vessel has arrived from Halifax with the intellit gence, that the number of voters for the Presidency of the American ltepublic is known, and that it is ascertained a majority of one only appears in favour of .Mr. Mumma, in the competition with Mr. CLINTONt This one vote is itself of doubtful validity / because ;* originates in one of the Members of the Elective Body for the state of Massachusetts, and it is a matter not yet settled, whether this Province has, or has not, improper excess of one vote; according to the Code of the Constitution. . ••••.wim.•• PRINCE KUTUSOFFS REPORT. I say . tour were From the Village of Dotroro, November 10. , killed. The field of battle is covered with dead bo " After the defeat of the enemy near Viasma, the dies. Orn loss in the van, tinder General Milorado. army advanced in the direction of Krasnoi, by the vitsch, amounts only to 500 men killed and wounded. shortest road, in order to cut off the retreat, if not of “The enemy, after blowing up some fortifications, the whole French army, at least of the rear. This evacuated Smolensko on the 17th and 18th. General was successfully carried into execution on the 17th Platoff, leaving only a regiment of Chasseurs and and 18th of November. The van, commanded by Ge- 100 Cossacks, set off himself at the head of 15 pales neral Miloradovitch, had continued its march by Do- 1 from the Don, with artillery; and of one regiment of rogobouzg, as far as the ferry of Solovievo, but Chasseurs, to the right bank of the Dnieper; in order within a short distance of that place it took the di- to pursue the enemy by the way of Katane, towards rection of Liotovo, in order to form a junction with Dubrowno. the grand army. Napoleon, not having exPected 6 6 General Platoff, in carrying on his operations this movement, could not ward off the blow. upon the right Bank of the Dnieper, is in communi• 66 General Platoff having been reinforced by two cation with General Kutusoffi the Aid-de•Camp I regiments of chasseurs, continued his march upon the and if the enemy should attempt to march upon roads of Smolensk and Domhovo, and greatly facili- Senno, the junction of these two Generals would be. tated the combined movements of the vanguard of come very fatal to him. Miloradovitch, who, on the 17th, obtained advarftages le Our Grand Army is at Stasttoi, and our van, over the French guards. that tetired from Keritno which is at Dubrowno, will regulate its march by the towards Krasnoe. On that day the vanguard en. movements of the enemy's army, and will endeavour countered the enemy again, who Was routed by Ge. not to lose sight of it. neral Ouvaroff's cavalry. In this Asir the enemy a General Plata, in a private letter addressed to BONAPARTR AGAIN IiaLLED ie rumoured that accounts from the opposite coast mention the arr:*4l of two Officers at Paris, from the army, who related a n account of BONAPARTE'S having been shot by Bean:nee but thee Gentlemen were immedia:ely arrested by the Police, and imprisoned as dissemina. ton of false and malicious rumours. This circuit,. stance, if true, proves little mote than the jealous activity of the Polite. The Officers alluded to aft not represented as having arrived at the metropolis with any official dispatches, but merely on their owd, private business; and they may have pi c k e d up this, I and a tbousaad s imilar reports, ea the road.