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I ,'RUSSIAN BULLETIN. feleilMalL REPORT PROM LIEUT.4IINERAL FIRM, To 1 SU IMPERIAL MAJESTY, DATED THE •••••• SEPTEMBER, 'PROM THE TOWN OF MO6VR Towards the end of August, rreceived infor !nation from an partsof General Dimbrowski having emarched out . of Mohileviewith hit chip's, and had col- Ucted an the detachmeats left behind ; that he was, besides, levying recruits, and was endeavouring, by • all means, to jomGenerais Morlachowski and Dzjwa itowski, each of whom commands E s division, and fur thermore, that General Dimbrowski was forming *pots at Glusk, Witscha, and Gerbalschewa, with ele intent. after having collected provisions together, And joined the others, to blockade the fort of Bobruisk and theveby cut off the communication between Bo • laisk and Mosyr. On this intelligence I put myself motion, with-the corps' under my command, to Seitroy the enemy's magazines, and to beat him. I accordingly left the needful number of troops at osyr, for its defence, till my return, and on the 30th August (12th September) put inyself in march, on e road to Glusk, and oo my road fill in with many loads of provisions and forage, as well as Cat** which Were going to the enemy, " After having given commturde tO the drivers to drive all this back 'again, and return the 'corn and Battle to the villages from whence they had been taken, I, on the 7th of September, at four p. in. reached a village where I found my van-guard', consisting of the regiment of Don Cossacks of Grekow, and of two squadrons of the Hussar Regiment of Sumyseb, a company of the 41sr regiment of Yagers of the Smo lensk Regiment of Infantry, and two pieces of light artillery. Near this plate, the enemy only perceiving . Our cavalry coming out of the wood, furiously °barged it, but Colonel Grekow, with his regiment, end the squadrons of Sumysk Hussars, immediately overthrew them, and drove them back to Glusk. Even the enemy's infantry, 1000 strong, which were encamped before" Glusk, back into the village, for which reason I ordered my infantry to operate and drive the enemy out of this place, in which he sought tp establish himself. The valiant Major Gentsky, of the Smolensk Regiment of Infantry, instantly ar rived there with his detachment, and sent off a com pany of Yagers of the 41st, and some volunteer sharp shooters, belonging to the battalion under his com mand, and placed himself, with one battalion and two pieces of artillery, in front of the place. 44 When the enemy's infantry perceived ours, they divided themselves into two parts. The one half re tnained in the empty houses, from whence they were, however, driven, notwithstanding the obstinate de fence they made, and their advantageous position, in the course of an hour ; the other half at the same time retreated across the river, and in their' retreat destroyed the bridge, on the other side of which he, bowever, halted, and brought up two pieces of can non to defend it and the remainder of their flying troops. Major Geutowt took post in Glusk, and acted so effectually with his corps, that he, with the assistance of the HUM'S of the Sumysch Regiment, send tho. Don Cossacks of Colonel Grekow, which they. gave on the other side, he threw the enemy into disorder, who, after two hours engagement, fled, and left us masters of the field of battle, and a maga zine of provisions which they had collected, of which , the necessary quantity, was used for the support of the troops, and the remainder returned to its former owners. Their hospital, with 150 men, also fell into our hands. We took thtee Officers prisoners, among whom is the late Commander at Glusk. On our side we had only one superior officer, and 23 men of lesser rank killed. Having gained the victory over the enemy at this point, I took my way to Wiltscha apd Gorbatscheivitsche, to prevent his joining the corps of General Matachouske, and to allow the others time to recover themselves. Agreeably to this, on the same evening, having repaired the bridge, my van-guard crossed over to the other side, and on the 54 (15th) September, at day - break; I,began to par e the flying enemy with the corps under my com mand. - On this road I likewise found a number of waggons, laden with provisions and forage, all which returned to the places from whence they came. 46 At Six wersts from Gebatichewitsche, my van. guard, which was two wersts before me, was, in a very narrow defile, teceived by a considerable num ber of the enemy with a battery of two pieces of can non ; on theit flank were posted sharpshooters. Find ing myself at this distance from my van-guard, I surmised that the enemy, seeing only this detach mnent, would endeavour to cut it off. Theenemy pushed hard on our van-guard, which I directed to fall back in good order, and with avow pace to join the corps ; afterward: my van guard, being composed of two yager battalions of the 6th and 41st regiments and of the Don Cossack regiment, I commanded them to disperse themselves in the woods on the flank. I myself marehed.forWard, placing the brave Smo lensk battalion in front of the column, caused the other hattalioneen join it close, and commanded them not to stay behind the Smolensk battalion, and that the columns should follow close on each other. The rest Of the artillery I placed in the centre of the in. lama, and the cavalry on the side or the roads on hich the infantry, on account of the narrowness of the defile, could only march in half platoons, and the cavalry two abreast. " After having ordered my troops in this manner, I marched forward„ and drove the enemy out of his first fortified position. Although I had to passthrough narrow defiles, and was surrounded by the enemy, yet neither the danger, nor the heat of the enemy's fire, which was kept up on us on all sides, could de.. taio your Imperial Majesty's troops. The Smolensk battalion, under its gallant commander, distinguished itself in a most striking manner—thrice it drove the enemy out ef the very strongest position, and it was merely the darkness of the night, and our not being perfectly acquainted with the roads and situation, which saved the enemy from total destruction. The. battle commenced at five o'clock, and ended at'l I o'clrck at night. After the quick retreat made by the enemy from all the places possessed by him, I remained on the field of battle till nine in the morning. This corps of the enemy consisted of 6000 men, real Trench troops, commanded by General Dzenanowski, and under hire the Grand Major Guirsan, Adjutant to Marshal Junot, was nest in command. 44 After defeating the enemy, and restoring the communication with Mosyr, • I returned there again iga geLallewins day, and on the 10th (22d) of Septan. ,~' 'Ws, striveneie. /n dial last battles ire Isatre. taltin of Colo* Rie&gee, of the Goal* Regiment u , five superior officers, and men .of lower rank, and Hussars.. they have left above 1000 men dead on the field of " Lieutenant-General Cazanove, en:lnton as he battle. The loss on our side is trifling compared perceived that his troopf were dose befor Polotsk, with that of the enemy, it consists of one officer and seventy-six men killed, and three officers and a hurt- threw himself also upon the enemy, and was the first dred and one rank and file wounded. l iwho marched with them into the town. In this man [The remainder of-'this dispatch consists of affairs ster, at three in the morning of the 6th, the place was of posts, in all of which the Russians , who entered ; carr i ed. Pinsk, appear to have had the advantage. 3 s t l i 6 The loss of the enemy most be extraordinarily !great, for all the places of action are covered with dead bodies ; and, according to the report of the :inhabitants, he was employed the whole of the pre `ceding day in carrying wounded men to the other side. Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr is himself wounded , in the leg. 1 "We have taken prisoners forty-five Staff and su , perior Officers, and two thousand rank and file, among the former there are two Colonels. We have also taken one piece of cannon, and a considerable quantity of provisions in the magazine, which the enemy had not time to destroy. , " The enemy's loss would have been much greater if the Lieutenant-General, Count Stringell, had been able to follow him to Polotzk, but to his great mot_ tification he was stopped by the intervention of sups /., t zior force ,five verstes from the town. I • " Our loss is not inconsiderable. Of the Generals, are wounded, Major-General Balk, in the head ; Prince Libirgkoi and Harman, who have slight contusions. Colonel Rote, of the 26th Gagers, se vetely wounded in the leg ; and the Gentleman of ' the Bed-chamber; Mordvino, a Commander in the first Petersburgh Militia, has lost his leg by a can. lon shot. 66 I can say nothing further of your Imperial Ma jesty's troops, than that they have fought with the greatest possible valour ; that :the first Petersburgh Militia, upon its arrival in my camp, was distributed in the different regiments, and to the delight of every body these warriors lave fought with such good will and courage, that they could not be exceeded by their comrades, the old soldiers, and they have dis tinguished themselves, in a particular manner, in co. lumns, with the bayonet, under the direction of their brave leader, Senator Bibikoff. 66 We have few killed, . but many wounded, and the more from its having been almost impossible to keep the men back in eolurtin, from their eager.: ness to throw themselves into the enemy's batteries and lines. 11 There is also a report of the 21st October, by Lieutenant-General Count Stringell, detailing the . r particulars of his engagement with the corps of Mac donald on the left bank of the Dwina, having fallen in with the enemy, on the seventh, near the river l Utchatch. He drove them, in concert with Count Wittgenstein, within four verstes of Polotsk, at the same time that Count Wittgenstein stormed that place. The extrc me darkness of the night prevented further proceedings :—and without counting killed and a runded, Gen. Stringell made one Colonel, one Staff Officer, 37 other Officers, mud 500 Non-com missioned Officers and privates, prisoners. The Lieutenant-General speaks in the highest terms of commendation of the assistance he derived from the able exertions of Major. General Phox." ' LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDIN4tRY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11. FOREIGN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 11. A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has been this day received from his Excellency Ge neral Viscount CATHCART. his Majesty's Atisbassa dor Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at tie Court of St. Petersburgh, addressed to Loid : VASCOUIit CASTLEREAGH, one of his Majesty's principal Secret taries of State. 44 Sr. PITZIIIIIIOI4IIII, Ocit 27, 1812. "My Loan-4 have the pleasure to acquaint your Lordship that the guns are nowifiring, and Te Dame is to be sung tomorrow in the Cathedral, for a mod brilliant affair on the 18th, between the advanced guards of the French and Russian armies near M cow, in which the former, under Murat, were feated with great loss ; and for the deliverance of Moscow by General Wiuzingerode, on the 22d Of October. 4g The bulletin is not yet published, but I have the honour to enclose a copy of the note I have this morning received, by the Emperor's command. 44 I have also enclosed a translation of the official account of the defeat of Marshal St. Cyr, by Count Wittgenstein, and of the storming of Polotzk on the 20th October, as also that of the repulse of Mar shal Macdonald's corps by General Stringell. , g Lieutenant - General Count Wittgenstein has been promoted to the rank of General of Cavalry, and Ts Darns for his victory was sung yesterday. 46 It appears that Prince Schwartzenberg has re tired to the westward, leaving some corps which have been cut off ; that the Province of Volhynia is entirely cleared of the enemy ; and that Admiral Tchichigoff may probably have reached Minsk about or soon after the 21st October. (Sigtied) 66 CATSCART," TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST ENCLOSURE. " St. Petersburgb, Oct. 27, 11112. " On the 18th October, Marshal Kutusoff having learnt that the corps of Victor had quitted Smolensk to reinforce the Grand Army, resolved to attack the advanced-guard, under the orders of Murat, being 4.5,000 strong, in face of our troop*, in order to de r feat the same before the junction of Victc,r, and before Napoleon could support him with the main body of his army. The attack completely succeeded : thirty eight pieces of cannon fell into our hands, as well as a standard of honour belonging to the first regiment of cuirassiers. We have made 1,500 prisoners, amongst whom. is a 'General. Two thousand men were left on the field of battle. Our loss is incon siderable. ‘, On the 22d, the corps of General Winzingerode entered Moscow, and- obliged the garrison, which the enemy had left , in it, to evacuate that capital in such haste, that the French hospitals remained in our power." LONDON. SECOND ENCLOSURE. ' EX TRACT FRONT THE REPORT OF GENERAL COUNT WITT• GERSTEIN TO MS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, DATED PO• LOTZK, THE 20th OCTOBER, 1812 : " After a hard engagement for two days with the enemy, thanks to the ALMIGHTY, Marshal Couvion St. Cyr is on the other side of the Dwina, and I am in Polotzk, with the corps entrusted to my command. " On the 6th instant I directed Lieutenant-General Prince Jaschevil to attack with his detachment the Notices of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, cannot be received unless they come post paid—nor then without a tespectable reference in Town to verify the signature. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 0 PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT QNE O'CLOCK. Reduced 580-4 per Cent. 74ii-5 per Ct. 91 it • Cons. Ssii—for ac. 59H—Omn. Sfi pr—Bonds par Is. ins. Bank Long Annuities 15 1.16 th Each. Bills. (Std.) ss. ss. (*l.) 4s. 6& pre. • enemy, on the side of the village Guravischne, whilst - In our impression of yesterday, we laid before the Lieut.-General Count Stringell continued his march Public such short and succinct accounts of the t ru ly this way, on the left bank of the Dwins. glorious intelligence from the North, as had. tran spired up to the latest hour of our publication. We 66 The enemy's advanced guard received me at the village Guravischne, from whence it was driven into have now the proud satisfaction to present our exult the lines. The engagement was most bloody, it ing Readers with the Gazette accounts of the almost began at six In the morning and lasted till night.— totaldestruction of the French army in Russia. • I kept my ground, and compelled the enemy tore- Amid the glow of enthusiasm with which we pits treat within his entrenchments, whence he kept up a ceed to execute our editorial labours of today, there very heavy cannonade in all directions. is a difficulty in repressing our feelings (not peculiar 66 The following morning, the 7th, I did not un- to ourselves we trust), so as to look calmly at the in dertake any thing, because I waked for the attack of telligence we have to communicate, to present a dig. Lieutenant-General Count Stringell on the other side passionate view of the *short and triumphant career of the Dwina, which took place accordingly. He of the Russian armies. .drove the enemy from the village Bolonia, and put- The last. five Bulletins of the French army had sued him towards Polotzk. I received this intelti- prepared us for some awful and sudden reverse in gence a little before dark, and, in order to profit of their fortunes—the fine weather—the abundance' of the situation in which the enemy found himself, I at-, provisions, of furs and pellisses, which the French , tacked on the evening of the 7th, at five o'clock, and pretended to have found at Moscow, were like these drove him out of his strong entrenchments, to which disguises under which an unfortunate wretch seek: to success Lieutenant-General Count Stringell's move- conceal the agony of his mind from his passi ng meat greatly contributed. friends, by slight observations on the state of the 66 The enemy then threw himself into the town, weather, or the town-talk of the day. 'lt was when which is surrounded by a double palisade, where be ,he found the Russians determined to blow the ashes maintained himself nearly the whole night, keeping ; of Moscow into an universal flame of desolatiot—. np a constant fire of musketry on all sides from be- • when he found no repose—no resting place —no win hind the palisades, as well as out of the houses. ter quarters for the bewildered savages who come eel gave orders for my ordnance to fire upon them posed his sanguinary retinue, that their Leader re with round and grape, and at last directed my ad. solved upon cuttinghis way back to the Duna. On the vanced guard to storm the ,place in two divisions ; 18th of October, therefore, he sent forward his ad, the first under the command of Major-Generals Plas. vanced-guari ttnder that experienced-and hardened me and Diebitch s and•the other under the command villain, Piliatab and of course is alOg favousim an- THE EVENING STAR. ' II P Beret Vern, was it the sane Isom anted la move northward from Smolensk with his reserve, mid thus by rendering the French army too formidabl e their retreat, to deter KUTUSOI7 from opp os i ng i t .—• ,The vigilance—the intrepidity—the military gal of this distinguished hero, defeated the whole of this well digested scheme. Without a moment's bentationibe dated forward with his invincible army apenMuasm's advaaced.guard, and completely routed it, with i i . mense loss.-Two thousand dead bodies of the Freed, marauders were scattered over the geld of battle, an d 1500 were made prisoners. Ktrrusorr's details of this brilliant affair w ai doubt dated on the field of battle, and we can n a therefore as yet tell what became of the routed h e w ; columns ; but we must presume that he 'm u ting in his duty. The probability is that it uur would hurry forward towards Smolensk, a n d t h e KUTUSOFP would next day have the- immortal ha. nour of dealing vengeance upon the mahti n d 7 the French army * commanded by the teem* i s person. For the details of these events we look with an anxiety unmixed with fear. The Russians hav e every advantage litri their side r they are at home, in midst of their resources; their army is not now ro w posed of mere soldiers, /out of men and of citizen s , armed to protect and defend their dearestprivileges., and to Obese the foulest and most atrocious of all massacres. The wretched miscreants on theotherhand, to whom they are opposed, are now destitute of every thing which oan enable them to stand up agains t an armed man—without food, without clothing, with nie tents or baggage, without cannon or ammunition ; for of all these have they been deprived—with the err raged Rwssiaus pressing upon their rear; the Cossacks hovering in angry clouds upon their flanks, and the snow descending upon their war-warn carcases. How can a -remnant even be saved, without the interval. tion of one of those stupendous contingencies which frequently base all human calculation ? The importance of Kurusose's movements is heightened, when we tars our attention to the Della, where the brave Wirrosuirrent has at length reaped the reward of many a hard fought battle. Almost at the moment when Kirruserr was in the field with MURAT, WITTOZNSTIO'N was driving General St. Cu out of Polotsk — an achievement which he effected concert with the Russian General Sratrinau, who had previously in his turn defeated Marshal - MAO. DONALD on she south side of the Duna. From General Wuroes:rapes dispatches we s lect, with delight. the following passage: the men whom he thus describes are,. indeed, invincible—the bayonet for ever I—w The first Petersburgh Mini, upon Its arrival in my camp, was distributed in the different regiments, and to the delight of every body these warriors have fought with such good will and courage, that they could not be exceeded by the comrades, the, OW soldiers, and they hare digit. gushed themselves, in a particular meatier, in coe lumds, with the bayonet, under the direction ef their brave . leaeler, Senator Bisteoer. We have few killed, but many wounded, and the more from its having been almost . impossible to keep the men back in ce• lumn, from their eagerness to throw themseleminef the enemy's batteries and lines." Amid our joy for tjae successes of Ktrrusore tmg WiTostesrme, we had almost forgotten to notice the re-occupation of Moscow by the Russians use* .WITIENSIEROWL Although this event took place without any resistance being made by the Trench rear guard, which KoTtreorr's victory, no doehr• compelled to decamp with unusual precipitation... , We fear we shall have to deplore the less of the bt* and meritorious officer who entered it at the head the Russian army of the North. Private Letters state, that Count WRIZINCIDOM4 in• a reconnoissance, which he made too adventamee ly, had fallen as a prisoner into the bauda df dM French. The dastardly Austrian army which was Asia in Volhynie, has been driven out of that ProrinclN the armies of TORMASOU and Plecneoorr; which se now at Minsk. and thus another of the rotten rol" removed, upon which the future destiny of Boa& ?aim rested. • It hes; indeed, been said, that dissection te'tb i cause inkwhich they.are embarked his Moored ia the Austrian Army, and that the Archduke Caaill had positively refused to take a command ;lathers sent war. We care not *whether these repoetsste tie or false ; the issue of the Contest, now that the ism .of patriotism is spreading in Russia„ will net deeded upon such auxiliaries—the Germans, the roP, sians, and all the reneged° Princes of the Coll* ration ; have been too long accustomed to in. Europe with their hired bravoes, at the beck lot tyrant who could purchase them like catssie o market. The Emperor Ammons may 1010 106 with abhorrence-- ......- tails ausitas et'defessodbas Wet • There is a report in the City, that a gels a Vs ' moment took place on the 23d ulnas' betoteilL lik . French and Russians, which terminated in the defeat of thiformer, with immense slaughter. a battle might take place about the taw headtk.. tioned is apparent, from the accounts a . the public , but we ought to state, that we bet: been abler to aseataiu the agthstritY 00 did' "r",` PM visitOrdi