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- 1(2 1 1 NNW - • • Wurtemberg, who states, that, after a campaign of. few days, all the central provinces have been d e . dared in a state of war. In the present - state of affairs, had the Russiai Army imagined they had any chance of victory, the defence of - Wilna was worth a battle; and in every country, especially in that where we are at present, the preservation of a triple line of magazines would hate induced a General to run the risk. Manoeuvres 'alone have put into the power of the French Army a considerable part of the Polish provinces, the capital. and three lines of magazines. Those at Wilna were set on fire with such precipitation, that many articles were saved from the conflagration. =PORT OF THE INTENDANT OEKERAL LAW, TO THE 1111N1ST11.11 OF WAR, AT WILNA. se I have the honour of receiving this instant your , Excellency's letter, under the No. 279, dated the 12th (24th) of this month, in which your Excellency communicates to me the will of his Imperial Majesty, for the speedy establishment of magazines at Vitcpsk, Ostrow, Welski, Louki, and Pskoff. I have already - dispatched to Vitcpsk the Courier Stophanoff, who carried me the order. I am about to take all the necessary measures, in order to its complete execu tion, and I shall have the honour of giving yotran account of the steps I shaill take to accomplish the otders of his Majesty, relating to the establishment of, these magazines. {Signed) " The Intendant General LABU." " No. 727.—Drissa, 14th, (26th) June. 1 A.m." lIREPORT OF TILE MILITARY GOVERNOR OF WIIITE RUSSIA • TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR, AT IFILNA. " I have the honour of receiving to=day the Ukase of your Imperial Majesty, dated the 12th (24th) of this month, by which you are pleased tb declare in a state of war the Governments of White Russia, of Vitcpsk, and of Moliiloff. lam occupied in taking the proper steps to put this order in execution. " The Governor of White Russia, (Signed) . " Duke ALEXANDER of WURTEMBERG." " No. 2197.—Vitcpsk, 15th, (27th) June, 1812." FIFTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. WILNA, JULY 6, 1812. 44 The Russian Army was posted and organized in the following manner at the commencement of • hostilities : u The first corps, commanded by the Prince Witt senstein, consisting of the sth and 14th divisions • of infantry, and one division of cavalry, amotinting,in the whole, to 18,000 men, including artillery and• sappers, had been a considerable time at Chawl'. It bad since occupied Rossiena, and was, on the 24zh • of June, at Reydanoui. 46 The second corps, commanded by General Bag gawont, consisting of the 4th and 17th divisions of infantry, and one division of cavalry, constituting the same force, occupied Kowno. •i The third corps, commanded by General Sell°. tinnaloff, composed of the Ist division cf grenadiers, of one divi4ion of infantry, and a division of cavalry, amounting to 24,000 men, occupied Nov.Trocki. 44 The 4th corps, commanded by General Tutsch koffecomposed of the 11th and 23J divisions of in-, one dw isi of savally iri the. ivhnleti A 5.000 me - n - , was "4'rocki to Lida. . " The Imperial Guards wore at Wi lna. 44 The 6tb corps, commanded by General Docto..! row, consisting of two divisions of infantry, and one . ' of cavalry, amounting to 18,000 men, had formed a part of the army of Prince Bagration. In the mid dle of June, this corps arrived at Lida from Volhinia,, in order to reinforce the first army. It lay at the' end of June between Lida and Grodno. " - The sth corps, composed of the second division of grenadiers, of the 12th, 18th, and 26th divisions of infantry, and two divisions of cavalry, was on the sOth at Wolkowisk. Prince Bagration cornmanded' this corps, which might probably amount to 40,000 men. . " Lastly, the 9th and 15ill divisions of infantry,: and a division of cavalry, commanded by General Markow, was at the extremity of Volhinia. L 0 The passage rf the Vilia, which took place cn , - the 25th June, and the movement of the Duke of Reggio upon Janow, and towards Chatoui, obliged the corps of Wittgenstein to proceed towards Wil koroir and on its left ; and the corps of Baggaworit' to make for Dunabourg by Mouchnicki and Ged.' roitse. These two corps were thus cut oft tiom Wilna. 4.‘ The third and fourth corps, and Russian Impe rial Guards, retired from Wilna upon Nemcntschin, Swentsianoui, and Vidzoni. The King of Naples pressed them vigorously along both backs of the Vilia. The tenth regiment of Polish hussars„ which were at the head of the column of the division of count Sebastiani, came up near Lebowo, with a re , giment of Cossacks of the party which covered the rear-guard, and chirged at full gallop, killed nine, and made about a dozen prisoners. The Polish troops, which up to this moment have engaged isia clairge, have „hewn rare resolution. They are ani-' mated by enthusiasm and fire. . le On the 3d of July the King of Naples Marti* upon Swentziani, and there overtook Baron Tally's rear-guard. He gave orders to General Monti:iron to charge, but the Russians did not wait the attack, - 11nd retired with such precipitation, that a squdron pf Hulans, which were returning from a reconoisance on the side of Mihailetli, fell in with our posts. It vas charged by the 12th Chasseurs, and the whole either taken or slain. Sixty men were taken with their horses. The Poles, who are amongst these pri soners, have applied to serve, and hav e - b een taken, full mounted, in the Polish troops. " Ot the 44h 4 at day-break„ the King of Naples • entered Swentziani, the Marshal Puke of Elchingen entered Maliatmd, and Marshal Duke 0, Reggio Avanta. OA the 19th of June, Marshal, the Duke of Ta re -Mum arrived at Rossiena he proceeded heyond .that to Ponevieji, Chew% and Tesch„ a The immense magazines which the Russians had in Samogitia have been horned by, thetnielves, which has occasioned an enormous loss, Nit only to their 1 ttnances, but still more to thesubsistence of thepeopli t a. The corps of poctorow, bowevet 4 viz. the. lith .eorps, vim still on the 2 7th of June without an y vr t I„.oers, and had made no Movement. On the 213th kti, • !tumbled aid put itself in motion,. in order .to psoo 1,44 to g10P10461 bT =arching 04 4$ rank, 9a the' ' c z''~~ • . 90th Its advaiteed guard entered Soleinicki• It wig charged by the light cavalry of General Baron Burde. Sault had driven out of the village. Doctorow, per ceiving that be was anticipated, turned to the right, 'and made for Ochmiana. General Baron P. rived at that place with his light cavalry at the mo ment when Doctorow's vanguard entered it. Gene. ral Pajol charged. The enemy was sabred and.over thrown in the town ; he lost 60 men killed and 18 prisoners. General Pajol had five ;nen killed, and some wounded. This charge was made by the 9th Regiment of Polish lancers. . 1- General Doctorow, seeing his route intercepted, those ivereignty.- fell back upon Olchanoni. Marshal the Prince of On all sides was eagerly courted the honour of sitting Eckmuhl, with a division ofinfantry, the Cuirassiers on its throne ; if at any time dissensions broke forth of the division of Count de Valence, and the second in its bosom, those storms obscured only its own ho regiment of light cavalry of the guard, moved upon rizon, and sever carried their ravages to a distance. Ochmiana, in order to support General Pajol. 6. Gentlemen—This country was Poland—you " The corps of Doctorow, thus cut off and driven were this people—and what now are they become ? towards the South, continued to prosecute the move- .. In vain your eyes look for them in those regions, ment en the right by forced marches, with the sacri- the union of which formerly constituted their glory lice of its baggage. Upon Smoroghoni, Danowchoff, Alas ! those whom we now see, only too much recall .and Rolxiiiilnclo ' whence be made for the Dwina.--. I to our minds those who might have been here, and This movement had been foreseen. General Nits, I the blessing, though small, we are now permitted to souty, with a division of cuirassiers, the division of enjoy, only too much reminds us of that which we light cavalry of Count Bruyere, and Count Moraand'at have lost. division or infantry advanced to Mikailitchki, with a 4 , But how has this dismemberment of our country •view to cut off his corps. He arrived on the 3d at i been effected ? How has th i s great family, which • Swin, at the time when it passed that place , and push- j even amid its intestine divisions did not separate, ed it briskly. He took a large number of waggons, ' which remained united amid ages of dissention, how and obliged the enemy to abandon some hundreds of , has this powerful family been so dismembered ? baggagecarts. j What have been its crimes, and who have been its Theuncertainty, the anxiety, the marches, and judges ? By what right has it been attacked, in vaded, counter-marches which these troops had endured, the and effaced from the list of states and nat-ms ; fatigues which they had undergone, must have made: Whence have proceeded its oppressors and its fetters ? them suffer severely. I The indignant universe might answer you for us.— . " Torrents of rain fell during 36 hours, without ins ; Every state, every nation, might say to you, that it ' termission. The weather has suddenly changed from I has seen its own tomb opened beside that of Poland. extreme heat to a very severe cold. Several thousands , In' the audacious profanation of those laws on which of horses have perished by the effects of this sudden '. all communities equally rely, in the insulting con. transition. Convoys of artillery have been stopped tempt that has been shewn of those laws, in order to by the mud. I destroy us, the world has imagined that it has been 44 This terrible storm which has fatigued both delivered up to the empire alone of conveniency, and men and beasts, has unavoidably retarded our march; . that soon it should have no other master. Europe, and the corps of Doctorow, which successively fell in terrified and menace), might point out above all to your just resentment this empire, which, in crushing with the columns of General Borde, Soult, of Gene ral Pajol, and General Nansouty, has narrowly escap- you;was preparing to bear it down by a new weight. ed destruction. I We do not doubt, Gentlemen, that it is Russia that " Prince Bagration, with the sth corps stationed is the author of all our misfortunes. Not contented more in the rear, marches towards the Dwina. He with the enjoyment of a great portion of the globe, sit out on the 30th of June from Wolkowitsk to the world itself would scarcely satiate her ambition. Minsk. I During an age past she has advanced with gigantic . The King of Westphalia entered Grocrno the . steps upon nations that were even ignorant of her same day. The division Dombrowski passed it first. name. %Vitt. Peter the First the veil arose, behind The Hetman Platow was still at Grodno with his which was formed an immense Empire, where every C' ,sacks. When charged by the light cavalry of thing tempted the inhabitants to renew upon Europe Prince Poniatowski the Cossacks were dispersed in the inroads which their fathers had made. This new 'every dir e ction. Twenty were killed and sixty made appearance ought to have filled Europe with alarm, prisoners. At Grodno :ere found materials for and made her socin a prudent foresight the means s baking 100,000 rationsiof brt.ad and some crnains cf o f rep e llin g this n e\v danger. She ought to have shut . the :rag azires. i her gatz's against the ambitious Prince, who came to 44 It bad been foreseen, that Migration would have be instructed in all the secrets of her arts, in order to fallen back upon the Dwitet, by drawing as near aslarm against her the hands of his ferocious and servile -possible to Dunabourg ; and the General of division,isubjects, and though the battle of Pultowa seemed Count Grouchy, :tad been sent to Bogdanow. He only to decide between Ovules and Sweden, Europe was on the 3d at Trabrui. Marshal the Prince of was conquered almost at the same moment as Sue .Zehmuhl. reinforced by two divil.ions, was on the 4th ken. . Poland ezperirn:ed immediately the effects of •at Wiehnevr. If the Prince r o ai a tow s ki had vigor- this increase of the Russian power. Placed in its versed the rear guard of the corps of Bae,ra•l immediate vic'n'ty, she received its first as welt as App, that corps would have been endangered. last attempts. Who can enumerate these attempts, "All the enemies corps are in a state of the greatest ever since Russia, in 1717, tried her influence, by 'uncertainty. ' The Herman Platow was still ignorant licencing the Polish army ? Since that period, what 'cis the 30th of June, that Wilna had been two days moment has there been exempt from her influence, in the possession of the French. He took the direc-! or her outrages? tion towards that city, as far as Lida, at which place ' 44 At first she prescribed an alternative to that free he changed his route, and moved towards the South.' election which had always decided the throne of our 44 The sun during the whole of the 4th re-estab- country. By this she assails -those rights of which fished the roads. Every thing is now organising at the nation had always shgwn itself most jealous. Wiina. The suburbshavesuffered by the v a st crowds I Very soon our finest provinces became the rewards of people that rushed into them during the continuance ;of the favourites of her Sovereigns I our children, of the tempest. There was a Russian apparatus there dragged by force into the ranks other armies, were for baking 60,000 rations. Another is established for ; compelled to purchase with their blood what the an equal number of rations. Magazines are forming. Russians alone ought to have fought far. If our The head of the convoys arrives at Kowno by the fields are covered. with harvests, it is to find her Niemen. Twenty thousand quintals of flour, and a soldiers. Every new war shews the Russian standards million rations of biscuit, have just arrived here fron traversing oland, and. her colours flying on all Dantzic." siJas. It is by continually treading the Pol is h so il, , . that the Russian power approaches gradually the RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM body of Europe which she aspires to govern. OP POLAND. • ~" if by assuming other forms this crafty power WARSAW, JULY 1. united itself to Poland, it was to impose upon her, Our country begins at last to emerge from its % as in 1761, that fatal guaranty which attached the 'ruins. Poland is re-established. A General Diet integrity of our frontiers to the perpetuity of anarchy, has been assembled a: Warsaw, and in the Sitting of., for the purpose of making this anarchy the means of the 23d of June, a Conimittee made the following ' accomplishing her ambitious designs ; the world Report : .1 knows what they have been s i nce th i s f ata l per i o d. " Gentlemen—lf there ever existed among men ;It is since this period that, piece by piece, Poland has an important commission, or if ever there was an ' been seen entirely to disappear, without crime a s honourable task assigned them, it is, without doubt, w i t h out revenge . I t i s since this period that the -that which we have received from you. If ever Poles have indignantly heard the insulting language Work presented to the mind and to the heal t all thati of the Russians and of the Sivers, whom they have is calculated' to rouse the one or inflame the other, - 1! 'seen holding, with daring hand, th e re i ns o f t h e i r own is certainly that to which you" have directed our atet Government. It is since that period that the Russian tention. soldier has a hundred times bathed hi s h an d s i n t h e •.. Placed by a concourse of prodigies, it the close ! , blood of his fellow citizens, pavi ng t h e wa y f or t h at of the drama, in which our country perished, betweengailay (for ever execrable must it be recollected) on the yet recent cradle of one part of that same country* : w hi c h, i n t h e m id st o f t h e ye ll s o f a f eroc i ous coo' - and the tomb still open of the other the picture! - quefor, Warsaw heard the cries of the people bf which we have to present to you, the accents in whichti-sPrague, which was totally. destroyed by fire and we should address you, to be faithful, ought to par.; sword. Poles ! for it is time to make this name re ' ticipate in the awful mixture of life and death. They ' sound in your ears, which is your's, and which you ought, at the same time, to convey hope and conso- ought never to have lost ; these are the odious means lation to the hearts of the victims, and terror to those by which Russia has been enabled to appropriate to Of their oppressort. But that is not enough, it is fit .Ir.rself your finest provinces —these are the rights, the .that there should boplaced in your hand the thread only rights she exercises over you. Force has en. which is to conduct you towards the issue of the la- chained you, and force may also break the fetters byrinth of misfortune, into which you have been made which it alone has forged. They will be broken ! to wander, during half a century. Your footsteps How can you doubt it, when you contemplate what must be firmly placed in the new path, which circum- ; is passing around you ? Inquire if an y t h ing w hi c h stances lay open before you. I ha; been your ruin still exists. In thi s vast revo l u - Such is 'the extent of the relations, under which tion which involves the world, why would you re your Committee have viewed the labour yOu. have cognize the ancient dangers of your country? committed to its Charge. The Committee has felt, I •I. Instead of the jealousy of powers which kept that they had to appear before Europe, as well as ' alive in Europe an anarchy s imil ar to that "which before you ; before ages to come, as well as before gnawed 'your own bosom one spirit only seems to the present generation ; before nations, as well a s be. animate t h e whole. You; plains are rjovered with fore Sovereign; ; they have said to themsel ves , above (standards, asto n i s h e d at t h e i r new fraternity. in.all, that they spoke before the greatest of Sovereigns, • stead . of neighbours avaricio us of your spoils, ante:, and before their ear n . great nation. They have felt [ accomp li ces i n your dest ruction, all have mited their all the Sanctity' idiom . cause , the Magnitude of its re- • arms with yours. I nstea d o f those p hantoms suits, any more teateissed than terrified by those, armies which the bole of your ancient ter r it or y w i t h werful motives; they amine s to lay at the feet of this 'difficulty furnished , numerous legions issuing, as if late, a work, of which theyrish to Make an offer- estehantissees, from formed in • the eel of thh • • the . country, in the persona of th ose, in whom iwir sod , me* witb il th s o rng r p. i n f i rem o° l v y ic 4 toriesi thi 'laced its confidence and its hope; •' • • ' n long time th!re had existed in the centre After the awl of she' greatest captains, and, -- • _ - P Breatfit 9 11 1r . plies, thrvAte*' -` ' • • • ;.-I,sx •.. ti i . or ZurofE, a celebrated nation s mistress of an Men- your spoilers with thei r swor d s , f orged of ftL 1 sive - and fruitful country, rendered illustrious by the duced in the sa me country as themselves, Nig: twofold glory of war and of the arts, protecting for with the desi re of hearing the bur of ages, with indefatigable arm, the barriers of Europe strike ! veop oil against the barbarians who surrounded its confines : " Instead of those small succour: w hi c h 1p and by a character.as honourable as singular, having l e n t t o your necessities , it is tbe t ,b„i e of never made its valour subservient to employ, against wh i c h is now in motion, and whi c h a d s the existence of its neighbours, those attempts which step s fri ghtful to your enemies. France was dl i° force has too often coloured under the pretext of jus. the ally, the friend of Poland. Poland, i s i tt 'l Om A numerous population prospered in its soil. always returned to France love f or i on. :I Nature liberally rewarded their labours, its kings • various fortunes sbe has been always se en to tun ! had often received a place in history liy the side of wards France, whether to glee bier ass:Au who have done -cost honour to So demand it from her, The fi rst - co or . --, ...wawa .ICI, - - , use that Poland k of her right of choosing her oen Kings, we: es t to the throne a Prince of French blood. Is ea France that Cassimir went to ask consolatho k ill hardships he had experienced on the throne or $ land. It was in a part of France that Stadi a went to realize the benevolent designs b e comet plated for Poland. 44 It is with nations as with individual shies of interest strengthen between 14; 11 71Z soluble bonds of union, 44 All these are found to subsist betwee n and Poland, but what formerly was only held 47 6 1 small number of men whorls tie minutest en st ;Z: the interests of States cann o t 1 - :cape. i s 'el political axiom of Poland. Poland is .. France, as France is to Pol Ind. Wat°la l t k h d " is necessary tn all Europe. Europe has to rees s a ns five and twenty years of great a git itica s , 'a ir ere tel will remsin incomplete, the price ale blas ts and her blood will not be secure so Icegs s ie tat h at of the North shall be able to pour upon bathe. hordes, respecting the nature of whet* we sates longer shut our eyes. • They are no longer danci ng' whom necessity drove from their savage abodes, a u impelled forward in all the routes wlseh tou'ello s i ' them tq countries that promised enjoymenunot obi found in their own severe climates. I SI Among such men, a blind instiact Whisk of those arts which polish or defend ode meaty But here the arts which civi:ize mankiad an h a l associated even with that barbarism. The Its* has sought instruction from the Europeans. lien s . learnt from them every thing that could semi. * - tack or defence, that could enable him to in i ane w destroy. The Russian has in seme respects/mho himself the equal of the European, in order thak ! might become his master. In that country sops; tious and docile slaves place all their faeuhreswie : the controul of a Government familiarized :Zia kinds of atrocities. At its voice their indiatigok ! arms have, during a century, laboured to sap de dykes which confine this torrent, always dinned% overwhelm them. How ate% have not the Rain already overstepped these bounds, impelkd ads hp their own interest, or by the imprudent suannesel Pri-ces, to whom the Bear concealed chains vain their perfidious succour ? In the (vane of fifty yew • Russia has twenty times inundated the 2•40 of Es. rope with her arms. The empire of Cb • has been. thrown back upon her crtscant, s r 'yes. ; 46 Frederic himself could not protect his aped against her. In these latter times Italy has mini them with honour in her smiling plains, it.sokian it vain, a new Marius to rise to her aid. Who edi have believed it ? The cries of bar-berm Se*, 1 ' have been heard in the tomb of the Mantua* feta-, (Virgil). In their headstrong boldness ruler; those slaves, cut down by the Gallic sword, Wein. tilized the free country of the Swiss. 'l' he meals hero was requisite at Austeriitz to arrest their ow At a period still more recent, the same arc m* cessary to drive them back to their forests Ness rents examples have made Europe sensible die I danger, and of the *tnedy which is required. Pm ! dangers and these remedies have not escaped de* servation of a Prince. who, in his calmastice, en braces the [entre with the came facility as Mere ~ sent, and who, having founded a vast Enipire,ciesi fail to impart to it all the solidity necessary het structure reared by such a succession of toils. 1 66 He is aware that a perpetual and impersonal' bulwark is indispensable against the inroads of ills' ranee and barbarism. He is aware, that the maim which separates civilized from barbarous assolss must be fortified with brass and with steel. He n aware, that the nation, forming as it were thews. guard of Europe, must be possessed of power sal cient to insure her repose. If at other periods eV thing seemed to combine for our destruction, at ese• sent they all unite for our restoration. Poland*. will exist—What do I say ? she exists already. Or re! ther, she has never ceased to exist. How coda& perfidy, the plots, the violence under which she hit sunk, injure her rights ? Yes, we are Poland; wake so by the tide which we derive from nature, hen civil society, from our ancestors; those sacred tics which the universe recognizes, and the nudist* which arc mankind at large. Not only sur we A who already enjoy the regeneration of our onellfe but likewise all those who inhabit those vast lid , ' tories, that still wait for the era of their delivwwwl , " 44 Those boundaries traced by the hand d sis' "knee, those barriers reared by suspicion, the v ls e rt With which she has blocked up every a ,P ' those gloomy forebodinc en which are th e 101 11 1 0 n° on usurpation, have not able to alter a nod, origin, nor to break those ties of consangswaY — wil a establish love and mutual confidence among usual of brothers. Yes, notwithstanding so long a gr arb * the inhabitants of Lithuania, of. Wbita Lars the Ukraine, of Podolia, and of Wolhynia. l 4 olll brothers. Like us they are Poles; and have them°, tight with us, as such, to appear. Our countrytr th tender parent, still throws open her arms to all, tons; and every member has a right to mai! .1201. himself to that family, from which be was t 14 • vi olence. - . " Poles ! for by what other name can I new - , dress you ? I will no lenger avert those whims feelings which are bursting from your hearts, ; :them be proclaimed aloud.; let your lips with that energy which springs frons.enstsfa r. =l . ? ssed ; and let the existence of the Kingdegn ..., nd se solemnly proclaimed within gin .. -., _, I , 4cchoed over all Panda and as here, .. , • . I selbe sentiments ofemotioc. end the siehe ahrK . . kastt us wh cr t ;u a l s t se the sarsami btameT ti t 'I But to give to those emotions our . ' ikree, to be more assured of the result, _ _ _1 1 004 11 4., • b ancest°ll9 7th t e ar io d l i f t4of kucte th :ls eie love for their ' enemy I "ng cleft ; i of these taw whch too freiumq - ....] • . ~s~z_~