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-• . ---..-..... r. 1., .... . • . FRENCH PAPERS. tIGHTH BULLETIN of the GRAND ARMY. GLOUBOILOE, JULY IL a The corps of Prince Bagration is composed of tot' r divisions of infantry, from 22 to 24,000 then strong, of Platow's Cossacks,' forming 6000 horse, and from 4to 5000 cavalry. Two divisions of his corps (the Rk and 15th) wished to rejoin him by !Pinsk ; they wire intercepted, and obliged to return Iby Wolhynia. " On the 14th General Latour Maubourg, who follows the rear-guard of Bagration, was at Roma- I doff. On the 16th Prince Poritawowski had his head quarters there. 44 In the affair of the 10t h, which took place at itomanoff, the General Rozniecki, commanding the light cavalry of the four cavalry corps, has cost 600 then killed, wounded, and made prisoners. We have no superior officer to regret. General Rozniecki states, that the bodkin( Count Pablen, General of Division, and the Russian Colonels Adrenow and jesowayski have been recognized an the field of brittle. The Prince .At Schwartzenberg had his head quarters on the 13that Prawns. • Onthellih and i4Ol he occupied the important positicietif Cinsk, with a detachment which took some men isnd consi &rabic magazines. Twelve Austrian Huisars char ged forty.sis Cossacks, pursued them daring several league 4 as took six of them. The Priice of Schwart . 11 .!, On the Anti dip Geotal Cotud Nasissett ;4909ke Polotsk. " On the 20th, the King or Naples passed the Dwina, and covered the right bank of the river with his cavalry. g,enberginarches Qll to MIMIC. ••• General Regnier returned on the 19th to Slo slim, to guarantee the Duchy of Warsaw from an in uriion; and to chserve the two divisions of the army which had.re-entered Wolhynia. 44 On the 12th..Generil Baron Pajel, who was at Tghoumen, sent Captain Vandois with 50 cavalry t o thaloui. This detachment took a park of .200 Carriages, belonging - to Bagiation's corps, and made prisoners az officeri, 200 cannoniers, 300 men at iaehed to .the traft‘ . o46oo fine artillery bones. 46 Captain Vaudois, finding himself 15 leagues dis tant lionahe army, did not think it practicable to carry off this.convar, and burnt it. He bat brought with him .the horses 'and the prisoners. • " Onihe 14ih the 'Prince of Ecknuilh was at Ig lu:rumen, General Pajol was at Jachitsie, having posts on Swisloch. itagration leaving this, renounced the .'idea of marching to Bodrunsk, and proceeded fifteen; leagues lower down on the side of !dozier. 44 On the 17th the Pante of Ecknioth waist Go.j lognino. • • 44 On the 15th General Grouchy was-it ikitisces.r A party, which he sent on Star-Lepel, took cinsidet+ able magazines and two companies of miners, Of efght,l Officers and 200 men. •1 " On the 18th this General was at Kokanow. . 64 On the same day, at two in the morning, bene sal Baron Colbert entered Orcha, where he took pos.; session- of immense magazines of flour, oats, and. clothing. He afterwards passed the Boristhenes t ind proceeded in pursuit of a convoy of artillery. " Smolensk is in alarm. Every thing is removing. to Moscow. An Officer, sent by the Emperor to. cause the evacuation of the magazines of Orcha, was quite astonished to find the place in the possession of 'the French. This Officer was taken with his dis 44 All the preparations the enemy had made to de fend the passage of the Dwina have been useless.— The magazines he has been forming, at a greet ex pense, for these three years past, have been entirely destroyed. The same has happened to his works, which, according to the reports of the people of the country, have cost the Russians in one year not less than 6000 men. One can hardly guess on what ground they flattered themselves that they would be attacked in the encampments they bad intrenched. ' " General donut Grouchy has reconnoitred Babi novitch and Sienno. On all sides we are marching upon the Onla. This river is joined by a canal to the.Beresina, which runs into the Borystheies. Thus we are masters of the communication from the Baltic to the Black Sea. 44 In his movements the enemy has been obliged to destroy his baggage, and to throw his artillery and arms into the rivets. • All the Poles of his army avail themselves of his precipitate retreat to desert and wait in the woods till the afrival of the French. “ The number of the Poles who have deserted the Russian army may be calculated to amount at least to 20,000 men. 44 Marshal Duke of Belluno, with the 9th corps, is advancing upon the Vistula. do Marshal Duke of Castiglione has set out for Ber lin to take the command of the 11th corps. 4g The country between the Oula and the Dwina is very beautiful, and in the highest state of cultivation. We often meet with beautiful country seats and ex tensive convents. In the town of Gloubokoe alone, there are two convents, which may contain each 1200 sick." NINTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY. " BECHENKOVISKI, JULY 21. . 41 The Emperor, taking the road of Ouchatsch, es tablished, on the 2 4 3 d, his head-quartors at Kamen. The Viceroy occupied on the 22d, with his advanced I guard, the bridge. of Botscheisko. A recomisainance of 200 horse, detached on Bechenkoviski, fell in with two squadrons of Russian hussars and two of Cossacks, charged them, and took or killed a dozen men, of whom one was an officer. Le Chef d'Es cadron Lorenzi praises the conduct of Captains Rossi and Ferreri. " On the 23d, at 6 o'clock in the morning, the Viceroy arrived at Bechenkoviski. At 10 be passed Ithe river, and threw a bridge over the Dwina. The !enemy were inclined to dispute the passage ; but his , artillery was dismounted. Colonel Lacroix, Aida.; de-camp of the Viceroy, had his thigh broken by ball. 64 The'Emperor .arrived at Bechenkoviski on thel iQth, at two O'clock in the afternoon. The division I ofeavatry of General Count Bruyeres, and the divi. `ion of General Count St. Germain, were sent on the roate;:of.Witepsk. They reposed when they had per- 1 ',Yoritieid halflll'4i literth. thitbe • soth the Prince of Eckmuhl advanced upon. Mohilow. the garrison, which consisted of 2000 men, had the temerity to wish to defend it; but they were sabred by the light. cavalry. On the 21st, MOD Ctailatks assailed the advanced pelts of the Prince of Eckmuhl ; they were the advanced. guard . 'Of Prince Bagration, arrived from Bobrunsk. A battalion of the 85th siziestetrthis &ad of light 'ca 'valry, and drove it back to a consisferable distance. lagration appears . to have • availed himself. of the little activity with•which he was pursued, to advance upOn Bobrunsk; and thence he returned against Mohilow. I Pl}tee ' • 44. WhnitlignitiOti was briskly 'pursued in his re. "tretit,•• aid anticipated in his pro;ects, separated and Xi• iinnval 'lron the main army, that army, com ' - *landed by the Emperor Alexander, retreated on the - t pwina. Qn the 14th, General Sebastiani, following 1 the rear guard, cut down SOO Cossacks, and arrived • at. Dronia. . ' "On the 15th, 1110 . • Duke of Reggio advanced upon Dunaberg, Inirnt the fine barracks which the _enemy . had roast:Acted there, took a plan of the -works, burnt some magazines, and took 150 priso :vers. After this diversion On the right, he marched -ea Dronia. .... • . 44 gn.tbe 15th the enemy, who was concentrated , in bisanitinched camp of Drissa, to the number of lennrtilll to 120,000 men, being infornifd that our a GRODisiO, JULY 5. . -Ili hi "liiirftl - ry did not keep a strict watch, 4mi over " The Grand French army is composed of ten ' . .. t i..bridge, sent across 6,000 infantry, * .ipi 6;000 , corps : The tUth forms its left wing, commanded . sniaishry, 'attacked General Sebastiani, uneririZtedly, ..., (hove hini back one league, and caused him a loss of '` , loolllled, wounded, and prisoners, among ,whom • S , by Marshal Macdonald. The Prussian corps, tinder 'the orders of General Graven , constitutes a part of it. The centre of.the army. is composed of the lit . Corp.,' Marshal. 'Dwitiast's r the 2d, Marshal Oudi- : . ...ego si espial* nod : a 'llub.Lieutenant of the 1 lth , tiot's ; the 3d , Marshal Ney's ; the 4th and 6th, the ttlesseurs. The General of Brigade Saint Den i er, who Prince - Viceroy'C.of Italy g the sth, 7th, and 'Bth, the King of Westphalia's, form the right wing of .the /was mortally wounded, remained in the power of the • army. Me 9th, Marshal Victor's, is placed between snarly. the Elbe and the Oder. The King of Naples com . " On the 16th, the Marshal Duke of Treviso) with 1 , mands . - 11 ... the eavalTbe Wertemburghers are • It part of the foot guards and the horse guards, and ' commanded-by'the' Hereditary Prince ; the Sakons, . the light Bavarian cavalry, arrived at Gloubokoe.— ' by General Funk; the Bavarians, by General Wrede. • The Vice Roy arrived at Dockeehistie on the 17th. . . " CRACOW; ItitY S. "On the 18th the Emperor removed his bead. "An army of roseeeret.Bo,ooo men, has already .• quarters to Glonbokoe. . assembled in the militias of Lemberg, under Prince 4. 011 the 20th the Marshals Dukes of Istria and Hohenzolle rn. 'PßlSONEßS of WAR. ' Treviso were at•Onehatch, the Viceroy at Kamen, - PARIS, AUGUST & -and the King of Naples at Disna. "We are not ignorant that England wishes to es tablish a diffe•rence between British subjects detainedi " On the 18th the Russian army evacuated their . us consequence of our reprisals, and the military men' Intrenched camp of Dresea, defended by twelve pal. whom the fate' of war has thrown into the enemy's ' li4adoed redoubts, united by a covered way, and ex- hands; we most therefore, freely discuss this cues ' tending 8000 wises on the river. These works cost iion. The Engtsh government seizes, in the midst • * yaw of labour. •We have levelled &11s. - ' of peace, a marchapt's vessel,—confiseates the pro cantaiii-iir . party placed under th e . guarantee of public tight,— • " .17351 immense magazines they iff" l takes g. . out any distiaction, the crew and pawn : eltber laulpt or thrown into the water. , „..... -1 mg Upon this intelligence, at - which' . *On the 19th, tba *wont Alviiihrionitok 1114 Mr Franie re with justice indignant, - its . _ lirdelgek. , . Est, foil of sengheats of national fionnura We occupy Mohilow, Orcha, Disna, and Po. lotsk. We are marching on Witepsk, where, it ap pears, the Russian army is concentrated. "Herewith is a plan of the entrenched camp, -and . olthe lines which the enemy had constructed bettor FThissa. It is a walk WhiCh must have cost much time." esir o the wrest of the English, who at that thaw so. • in the empire. Inasmuch as the provocation is odious, the reprisal is just and moderate. No per. son can deny this truth. a The time is passed ih which Princes, who piqued themselves upon a false generosity, who mistook. 'their weakness or their indifference for equitf and moderation, allowed Friglami to do any thing, with, out daring to attack her. with ber own weapons. If - France had irritated this conduct, its Government would have been deficient in one of its first duties-- that of defending and protecting subjects attacked in their persons, property, and liberty; In not stoppiog the' English, it would have emboldened their Govern ment by a dangerous impunity. It would have de prived itself voluntarily of the means of exchange, and consequently abandoned Frenchmen, surpassed byEnglish perfidy, to the despair of a detention which would have had no other term than that of the war between the two nations. Now, if England will not allow that her children withheld in France, in conse quence of a just retaliation, are legitimate prisoners, what will she call those whom she has taken from us by surprise and violence in full peace I Let her give up the ships, the crews, all the French whom The has unworthily arrested in violating the faith of treaties, and then it will be just to open the gates to the Eng lish who are is our hands, by the reaction even of her perfidy. " Let us observe, in passinp'thai besides the pri soners who are in this situation, many others taken in arms have also broken their parole ; but let us for a moment forget the attempt which has excited general indignation,—let us even suppose the deten tion of the English to be illegal, and see if Lord CIS. tlereagh has a right to complain of the evasion of the French. des is which the English Generals reduced be. diers, who were not their prisoners. 44 we will stew our readers all the :aeries ' our unfortunate countrymen in their frightful prin k' Water was even refused them, and m any died -1-1 hunger and thirst, within sight of an English s ql ; dron provided with every thug, and which e el , — =waded the port. The enemy cam e t o. a . - to send a great part of our prisoners to the Islands, escorted by the English ships of the Bombay and Nord. and Ambuscade frigate. Spaniards were not then to blame for the bad ment ; the English Captains were still more l e , barous l if that W2S pusgble. • Always at the bee of the hold. without suffering a single hatch is open, the prisoners wanted every thing which to lhave softened their fate. An Americas C ' Ili Corsamanskr of the ship Sally, alone sheered haw( full of humanity, and worthy of thatgenercau ink which now, with such is noble audacity, enad ot Government always ready to proudly boast of 14. :vilization, whilst it imitates the bad faith of Wan k nations. Let us add, to terminate this distrsai, picture, that after having maiairknd the Frenthi der pretence of an exchange, for which an frigate brought a count's . ..order. they landed Ir e the almost desert island of Cabrira. " Such is the treatment to which Engleado, jects, or allows to experience, those whom sue au& ders as her prisoners. Lord Castlereagh * 4 4 dared to raise your voice, restore to France the RA men from Bolen, punish the atrocious ages*, have for ever dishonoured the English use ste l a, 'Palma, Cabrera, and who have established ' our brave soldiers the reputation of cannibals." " You, perhaps, will answer, thdt these meats are exceptions ' • that you have no knowledge of then. You knew the French were nut your prisoners, of you detained them in violation of a capitulation i s which you were not a contracting party. You t am that the French were protected in Andalusia bp brave and generous -man ; and it was at the mama when you had a man in that country devoted to Ifs, that the massacres commer.ced. Your agents are charged with them, or rather you gave direction to heap up the French, over whom you had no right,ii prisons, where they have sufferzd all kinds of tomes, You have had them transported to deserts, instesiti restoring them to their country. " The blood of those who have perished, the a of gritf and despair which each of them raised a. wards HeaeiX, will fall upon the executors of yea cruel measures. " What can be the cause of such barbarity? 4th all the nations of the Continent, Tartars, Reim, Swedes, Ansti ;tins, English, Spaniards, all will so swe: you, that they have been Mated by us with* most attentive humanity. Not telt have theists* all obtained as ist.soce, administered with a Mk liberality, but they have even enjoyed their lihmj. Have they a trade, a taknt—they *smut it it peace ; and thus by a leg:tinsate gain, lake as happiness Q . t their existence. We admit than its our manufactories; they follow, without °binomial, husbandry : received into the house of the comp man, they form part. 9f his family, so much so,* when the asunicipal °facet comes verify tbsirp serce, lie cantnt often distinguish the susegetith the Frenchmtn. How many, gained by the voila of our manners, have married in France, and alpt it for their country ? And you, ti iends of humanity, you AU* 'Frenchmen in floating prisons. Are you aiming, unarmed men should conquer the three kiegiMd A Government so wisely prudent—a Gom el. which will itself make bead against Eurnpe, .4 not restrain an handful of men ? To defend must it also dishonour itself by refinements all' barity ? For if you have not the safety of die IMP as a pretext; what name do you expect will WOO to your conduct towards our prisoners ? Whati you say if the French Government should Rupp sals ? If 3ou have prison•ships has she not WIMP' casenvates, at Bitch and Luxembourg 1 Mira* obliged, in order to bring you back to hunisith !I shut up far from day, and from contact with delit• ing, the prisoners who are in its hands 1 That ill nevertheless, to what you expose yourselves; *EP experience o f several ages has taught you that F I cannot violate certain principles. Your u.. I countrymen have in its national character a too Itain guarantee, and it is that which emboldens ri Fear, nevertheless, to weary the patience and gS. tosity of a great people—fear to make it rests* you for a moment. ' of O w n ar th ,..t e he su l bj e e m c r L i of de th p e z brea migir ch t of of parole 3dle iobystat. ~ the following article : " Lord Castlereagh has dared to assereia merit, that he knew but of a single English who violated his parole of honour. We have . us an authenticated statement of names to, this assertion. From this it appears, that oin renewal of hostilities to the Ist of Auguste. l ,o 9 t . English, of all ranks, have escaped from the France where they resided, In disregard albeit roles of honour ;of whom 430 have been • and 4.07 escaped. The number of Sub.Offserse liters,an l d v s s ai lla lors ve , who have h r a ef ve a n eo bsc , on an ddedwhom ioos isoll_l t —.Among she English of different ranks who ' broken their paroles, and have not been retell,,, observe one Member of Parliament, Thews Nom 4 formir Ambassador from England fo r J. Craufurd; a great number of Land awai t cers, Lieutenants of Ships, Captains o f the :. Marbles, and of merchant vessels. We Ina , among others, the names which follow: • Rebus tiotitb, Ussuresant-Cesoost;. F.. Mama. Layst Maripass CeetstoPherroranli I • l7l " bff ' non. P. Lartiisaosite, C. lialked, Awl T.Ocaolso,Gebil aiiiistall, Cotato i iSe v ebAut &IP R- $ 443.311, /* J. Hearts W ,. . P= T l.llawortige Y ip . Mom, W. • T. Silk R. • smith, T. Ronk J. Berm e N. Atessm..tbs Cransfad,Ookool; J.—Mot/Om. A.Aasoloyo toontoOoloonin e ha. ilta kg. ,o; VILLIIA, lULY 10. . air 1111441431 PItOCI4IIATIOS. POUND AT TIM r. . Nan Oil . THIN 1114211.4 4 THU 17Tit ow ULT. Imo 4, Foos= SOLDIVLS•- , —Tat are famed t° It. Sew wary yon ape sold-shoal: it is lisomaggia llill 4611 do nth do insticiethze valour: net . they appreciate sty you see this on .0 1 beetle. Reba. that one instnYs. if. - another; ..d sent less iisa.4loll Ili i • "Lord Yarmouth, and his worthy imitators, ob tained their liberty under the guarantee of their pa role. In violating that guarantee, they have offended 'the delicate sentiment of honour. Lord Yarmouth was the first tb set an example, so much the more fatal as its author is of the most elevated rank. 44 The unfortunate Frenchmen arrested in con tempt of the right of nations, despoiled of every thing t, in London, would have been very excusable in flying from misforturie and vexations, but they rather chose to suffer than debase themselves ; and an English Lord, enjoying among us all the conveniencies of life, violates his word with impunity ? He drags, by the authority which his name gives to his fauh, a crowd of his countrymen into the same indignity ; and is the Government who has tolerated—even en couraged—this subversion of all principles, to dare complain of us ? 6. Lord Castlereagh contrasts the officers of the old regime with those of the new, and euhz;zes the former at the expense of the latter. Without doubt he does not comprehend, is this hypocritical interest, the French whom his Government sent to perish on Quiberon rock—and all those renowned scamen of hich its fearful jealousy caused the loss to the last in:. n. But without detaining ourselves any longer with af flicting recriminations, we are content to take up the gauntlet which the Noble Lord has thrown d0wn....,, In every time Frenchmen have held honour dearer; than life. The incontestible facts we have adduced,' prove that we have not degenerated, and that our officers were for a considerable time provoked by example, before they followed it. " But here is the difference between the past and the present. It was a moment of giddiness in which Anglo-mania had invaded all France. At that epoch our military men would, as at present, have shed their blood for their country and their Prince ; but led away by a dangerous enthusiasm, kept carefully up by men who knew how to profit by it, they had not at heart that love fur the country, that legitimate pride, that just hatred for our enemies, which now form the character of the nation—:hen scarcely any pefson ; neither the Monarch, the Court. nor the peo ple—had any idea of the force of France, nor fore saw the grandeur of her destinies. • " Now, Frenchmen are thoroughly worthy of that name—they are proud of it—and we no longer find among us giddy young men to praise, in frivolous societies, the tactics, courage, and success of our esensies. " In the same discussion, the same Minister, for getting all the reproaches merited by his countrymen, upon the subject even of his complaints, dated to threaten the French prisoners with a more severe con dition. What are the fresh barbarities which the Noble Lord promises us ? 44 According to an authentic convention, signed at Baylen, it was decreed, that 12,000 French should evacuate Spain, preserving their arms on condition 'of not serving till exchanged. Scarcely had they ar rived at Cadiz when it was notified to them, in the name of England, that the capitulation would not be carried into execution, and that they were priso ners of war. 44 Not a soldier—Uot'an English General, had apf peared upon the field of battle.. We had not treated with them. Under no 'pretest whatever could the English Government interfere to prevent the execu. tion of a cvitulation signed between the two bellige. rent partie " After such a violation of laws observed.in war by civilized nations, all the 'French bad a right to lescape from the handstf their enemies, as they have done, after a detention of mere than a year. Gene. rats Excehnans - and -Lagrange were demanded by the . English Consul, and sent prisoners to London—but 12,000 men could not have this happiness ; and be. sides, the cruelty of the English agents bad provided every thing to enchain their victims. 44 A Captain-General, of a severe and juit charac ter, obliged all Andalusia to obey his orders, .and respect the prisoners. The English, whom he would' not receive at Cadiz, had him changed ; a Minister, worthy of them, and at their direction, succeeded the Captain-Genera. From that time the .lives of the i prisoners were incessantly exposed—scenes of horror passed in all their catamounts ; but the French tansy having quickly resumedibeeffensive,freerseized upon the Junta and Engliih •Agent, and they threw 40 prisoners into floating prisons—an invention worth,' the humanity of our ebrllikt. At this epoch,. Lkw tertant-Celonel Varier, ofibenseriais of she lesperiel Guard, and other allegro of.the marines in escap ing from the prison-ONp the Fortune , lauded in Africa. We recollect with what Abe eeesny fired upon these. unhappy higiriveer only used a sacred and of .1141111111 gibed ► ib, =n i t - Awls be ma *8 sweat. !id - id kilt Ars lINIIIMiII 1 706 /111 •••—• a s: