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RUSSIAN BULLETIN. (OVAL ACCOUNTS FROM 1 HE ARMY. ADJUTANT-GENARAL DAMN WINZINGERODI, ,ED psog THE VILL4GE TSCHASCHNUOWN oproliza 8, (20.) After my Report of October Sth (17th) move ' the advanced posts of the enemy on the and St. Feftrsburgh roads, which indica. lention to retreat, were observed by my ad. posts stationed cm those roads, and the par. ich have continually observed the detach . the enemy, have today informed me that left the St. Petersbnrgh and Dmitrow roads, retired to Moecpw. :•• : _ consequence of this, I ordered the detach- Major. General Ilowaiskii to go to Moscow, information of the enemy, and advanced with the remainder of the regiments of the invent entrusted to my command to the village aschnikowo, party of the detachment of Major-General iaiskii (12), sent to discover the enemy, finding person at the Twer barrier, entered the town, and neat prisoners. but meeting with the infantry, lliged to retire out of the town, and 1500 of , y's cavalry. front fonr different regiments, It after them. The detachment of Major , Ilowaiskit (12) arriving at the same nine the town, attacked them. vas myself an eye-witness to this engagement ay, and cannot sufficiently praise the ability -eery of Major-General Ilowai.kii (12), and regiments - entrusted to his command ; for, not saodilig the superior free of the enemy, he con ')is regiment so ably, that taking the enemy flank, he threw them into the greatest confu utc to flight, and pursued them quite to killing 50 men, among whom were some and m..king 52 prisoners. The enemy, who had into the town, halted at the barriers, ‘mv infantry came to his aid, and retreated le pi oection of some cam n-shot fired from n-iris sit, in ulech he had placed a garrison. the Yaroslaw road, the Senior of the troops 0, who came to me during the action, infer , that he with the regiment under his come. and a detachment posted on the Maditnir advanced quite to Moscow, and that his parties manner entered the city, and made many pri. ; but as I have no circumstantial accounts, I state the precise number. 'o.day, early in the morning, prisoners were in to me on all sides, and according to my mg from the sth (17th) to this day, 578 were ,to Twer. Ti'e toss on our part from the day am'un:s to 12 Cossacke killed, twctofficers ..ded, in tie last action, and in the several en t, ementc, 33 privates. advanced,guards on the St.Petersburgh roads 'resent within two wersts of the city of Moskwa, ficewise on the other roads under my care, uhich a chain is formed. In consequence reports having rekehed me of the enemy's corps a. left the town al Swenigorod, and the cloister , ;icintty, wrote to t'oe Con.mander of the ikreuenk . cie achment, Major Figlew, to take pos. of it. 1 have s:nt strong parties out to clear atad,.and I intend giving directions to all the de nts in the vicinity of this road, to approach to h regard to Moskwa, I am inclined to be.. ether that the enemy has drawn against our irmy 0n the Kaluga road, or intends to re. Smolensk° ; but the statements of the rill not admit of my forming any certain judg- It is known tome, that a strong garrison has fined behind in Moskwa, and that the rest ofl troops marched out of Moskwa yesterday. The enemy sends the sick and wounded off on road to'Moshaisk. The Kremi, the Ostrog, and - other places, are fortified by them, and have garrisons. ter my return hither, I received a Report Atntenant-Colonel Tschernosubow, who is toned with the regiment under his command, on Moshaisk road, between the towns of Gsbatsk asma, in which he informs of his having taken ier, with paper; of very great consequence, 'hich I shall have the happiness of laying be. , our Imperial Majesty, together with the report tenant-Colonel Tbaernosubow." twat tattett-MARSHAL PRINCE KUTUSOFF, CON. NO THE CONTINUATION OF THE JOURNAL OF eIIINATIONS OF THE WAR, FUOM THE IST I H) TO THE 31) (15TH) OF OCTOBER. • the Ist of October the army continued. The Governor of Nishegorod informs ,m!, tliat the 'ng regiments which have arrived, namely, the ,egiment of Uraltan Cossacks, and the 3d and ',egiments of Baschkirs, have marched out of Jaen to join the corps of Lieutenant• General Wittgenstein, according to orders preTiously Ped to that effect. General Miloradowitsch reports, that the ene. idvanced posts remain still in the same place, :at the Cossacks, who harass them in the night, obliged them to strengthen their chain. ,ajar-General Doreehow states, by way of iletion of his last Report of the 2d (14th) of •.r, that at Wereia, not 352 men, but 3'77 pri ! and 15 officers ` were made prisoners, and sent iuga, and that the Colonel who 1141 constructed ttrencliments at Wereia, two officers of engi znd men, were found killed. The baked the meal for which had been taken from the surrounding villages, WAS distributed among the and the meal among the peasants and inha- The pallisades and entrenchments were de . by the 1000 men, ct llected by the pi lest of .athedral church of Jihn Skobejew. The soldiers • good booty in money. he advanced-guard made 41 prisoners. On the 2d (14119 the army remained in the position it had hitherto occupied. ijor-Genetal Prince Urussow reports, that he rived in Tula with . five regiments, and halted tu:tlier orders. Colonel P. hue Kudaschew sent off parties from S. rpuchow - road to the Kaluga road, one of was ordered to pr&ceed to 1 schirikowo, and aliiasiiiiga-Pochra. The .latter party, leacini4that the emit'' , was endeavouring .td- the on the left side towards Woronow, ned ts'aik. The Chorenshii Bassow met with a part of the enemy's 'baggage behind Tsehiri'bow°, nits44llll with 50 Cossacks, made 20 men prisoners, qot . tip calasties and three ether carriages. d' A party which bad been sent off to Podolsk. discovered that the enemy's infantry., there with two pieces of artillery. 6 ` Colonel Prince 'Kudaschew ' who was in cotn- I nunieation with , Colonel Jefremow, learned from I him that the enemy was in considerable strength in the villages of Jame and Nitonowe,'en which he proceeded tn. Lopmene. 44 In the second report, received me day, the is Colonel Prince Kudaschew states, that a party sent out by hint met with a party of the enemy's cuiras siers foraging in the village of Wassiljewskoje: They !immediately attacked them, and drove them to the village oT Petrowskaja, where they made a chew of defending themselves, but the Essael Anafin fell upon them, took 27 cuirassiers pri-,oners, killed 10, and the rest saved themselves by flight. • " On the ,43 (15th) Admiral Tithltsbagow states, that our troops freed the government of Volhynia from the enemy, who continually retired, and were pursued. , On the road were every where found broken waggons, casks stove in and fallen, all which shewed the precipitation with which the enemy retreated. In the course of this retreat we made prisoners, five officers, and 333 under officers and privates. 66 General Torniassow reports, that the enemy had retreated to Brest-Litowsk with the greatest precipi tancy. His rear-guard' was come up with by our light cavalry. On this occasion the enemy lost in killed about two thousand, and in prisoners about five hundred men. " The corps of the Prince of Schwartzenberg was so pressed to its retreat, that he had not time to form a junction with the detachments of General Siegenthal and Mohr, but are now cut off by our advanced guards, and not suffered to join the main body. The Captain of the Guards Seflawin, reports that he, wi:h his detachment, at the distance of four wersts from the village of Bogorodskoje, fell in with the cavalry and infantry of the enemy, of whom he took 15 prisoners, and killed a number on the spot. He himself is gone to Oshegowo. 66 Besides these prisoners, which have to-day been sent to head-quarters, the advanced guard has alto sent to-day 37 privates, and one officer, and Colonel Prince Kudaschew 26 men." K A. '-. IREPORT FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME, OF THE 6Th (18TH) OCTOBER, FROM THE VILLAGE OF CHOU.. aa Having arrived with the reiment under my command, near to the village of l'eplucha, on the great Moscow road, where a French post is establish. ed, I was so fortunate as to take an enemy's posi tion, who had left this viilage previous to my arrival. All the papers found on him, 1 herewith transmit to your Excellency, as well as an Officer of the French troops, who was taken on the great road. I then proceeded on the same road, direct on Zarewa Saim ischtscha, and on my march took one officer and 38 privates prisoners, whom I sent to the Commissary at Sytsehewki, in order to be forwarded to Twer. I could not get to the foresaid Zarewa Saimischtscha, by reason of my falling in with a numerous body of infantry, who were accompanying the baggage wag gons, a part of whom I beat off, and turned back again. This night I shall pass at the village of Cholm, 15 worsts from the great high road. 01 this I have to inform your Excellency, as likewise, that I, the Marshal of the Nobility of the town of Syts chewki, M. Nachimow, and the Land Commissary Boguslawxlcji, at that place, have rendered me every assistance in this undertaking." JOURNAL. OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE WAR S FROM TIE 22D SEPT. (OCT. 4) TILL THE IST OCT. (13TH). 4L-TRANSSIITTED TO HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY EY FIELD MARSHALL PRINCE ECTDSOII. eg On the 22d September (4th Oct.) the Colonel Prince Wadbolskji reports, that, the detached parties which he had sent out have cut to pieces upwards of 100 French marauders. The thief detachment of the said Colonel is in the church village of Obuchowo, on the Wereja road. ee On the 24th September (6th Oct.) the head quarters of the Field-Marshal were removed from the church village of Tamteno into that of Lew cliewka, iu the rear of the camp on the Kalouga road. eg The Colonel Prince Wadbolskji is stationed in the church village of Nikoiskoji, not far from the town of Wereja, from whence he sends out parties to reconnoitre the enemy, who have takes a Captain of Artillery, with the papers which he had abont him, and have also cut to pieces 12 of the enemy's ma-, rauders in the village of Gorky. Lieutenant-Colonel Dawydow, of the Achtyska Regiment of Hussars, who commanded a particular detachment, put himself in march from Jucknow to wards Wasma ; and on the 16th (28th) September, when in the view of that town, he fell upon a French detachment, which covered a convoy of artillery ammunition, and totally defeated it, cutting down about 250 men on the spot, took two Officers and 146 privates prisoners, and captured twenty waggons laden with forage 4nd prow:loos, and ten waggons with ammunition. ge Major Tumero4osoho was .detached by him with a separate partyi `cut down about 100 men, took 110 ,prisoners, and a convoy of artillery am munition. te Lieutenant-Colonel Dawydow, who continued his operations, again appeared, on the 19th Septem ber (October lstj on the great road between Sem luaja and Wasma, towards the church village of Jnrenewo, attacked two battalions of the 2d Polish regiment, and a Westphalian battalion, took a Cap tain and 142 . privates prisoners, and burnt 100 men, who had thrown themselves into the village and re fused to surrender. At the same time a large number of powder chests were blown up, 72 pair of oxen for drating the artillery taken, and some mills destroy ed,in which the enemy were grinding corn. ee Captain Figner i of the Artillery Staff, with the detachment ender his command, has destroyed all the provisions and forage of the enemy in the vicinity of Moskwa, cot corn about 400 men on the spot, and were in thecliurch villages between the roads of Tula and Swenegorod; On the road of Moshaisk, they blew up a park of artillery, rendered six pieces of battering artillery totally useless, and sunk them in the morass, and ble' tip eighteen chests of pow der belonging to the artillery ; —he at the same one made prisoners, ale Colonel, sern Officers, and 58 ....- cut down no inconsiderable number on niant voluvropin, pt the Vie-guards, with' cossacks, on the Barotrski read,. tor/44 penetrated Olt the village of .Ashejew, _ did not fall ia with die \ enettly any where ; he, lowever, cut down 15 men of the anemy'slotairrs? owstti,'l A re itkiiibitants, in the circle . thcmselves, and that, on ante of iheitiemy, the neighb ouring villages at the appointed places. " The said Lieutenant has, among others, noticed about one thousand armed peasants, foot and horse, in the village of 'lCamenskoje who, on the 49d of September (October 5), had driven away the enemy's foragers, of whom they killeck.one officer and az privates. - • 41 The 25th September (Oct. 7 ) , Colonel Prince Wadbolskji states, that he reached the Wereja road on the 22d September (Oct. 4), and had stationed himself between the villages of Litwinown and No-, wirskoje, from whence the parties detached by him have at sundry times cut down abont 200 men, among which was one officer. 14 September 26 (Oct. 8), Prince Wadbolskji re ports, under the 25th instant (Oct. 7), that he intends crossing over into the village of Suckowo, aistuttfil between Wereja and Moshaisk, and that his -parties have cut down about one hundred men, and made 16 prisoners. • 4 , The fortified camp on the right bank of the Nara, I near the village of Tarutino, which is at present oci cupied by the army, admits the detaching of con siderable parties from it, who are not only directed to make the cutting off the enemy's marauders end feragers their object, but must likewise be of sufficient strength to cause the enemy serious damage, which will be so much the more sensibly felt, as they are suffering from the want of forage and protrisions. For this purpose three numerous parties have been de tached to-day. 4, On the 28th September (October 10), Colonel Prince Kudasc hew reports, that having received in formation of the enemy being in Nikolskoje 2500 strong, he unexpectedly attacked tLeni with 300 Cos sack s. The attack was impetuous, and the defeat of the enemy complete ; for, notwithstanding his great superiority in numbers, he was put to flight. in this skirmish General Bouvier was either killed, or at least severely wounded ; his horse was taken by the Cossacks. " At some distance from the field of battle, ;hel enemy again collected his scattered forces and again { awaited his attack, which was made with the same' impetuosity and success as the first. " Prince Kudaschew, who bestows doe praise on Lieutenant-Colonel Charetonow, the Essaul, Pante 'blew, Soltu-k Platow, and Chonenshje Bassow, eon. cludes with stating, that the enemy, after having left 100 men killed and 200 prisoners on the field of battle, had retired on the Kalouga road, but that Prince Kudaschew himself had taken his route on the Scrpuchow road for further operations. Geneval Miloradowitsch has sent in four e fficers and 346 Men. who were made prisoners by the vanguard under,bil, , command, en the 27th and 211th September (9th and 10th October.) " On the 11th October, the army remained in its position, without making any movement. The ar tillery, Captain Fig tier, is at present between the ene- ' my's grand at my and their van-guard. In the c9urse of two days he has sent in. four officers and about 1200 privates prisoners. r• " Sept. 30 (Oct. 12), a separate party, which was detached by the Colonel Prince Kudaschew, undsr the command of Captain Koshuchow, Adjutant to the General Field•Marshaf Prince Colenischtschew Kutusoff, which joined the detachment before sent. I out, crossed the river Motscha, and pursued the enemy into Tschegadajewa, from whence the enemy's infantry kept up a heavy lire of musketry. The enemy after this moved out of the village and formed in square, when the Den Cossaklts divided, and threw/ themselves on them with impetuosity, forced them selves into the square, cut down 40 men on the spot, and made 60 prisoners, among whom is Captain Foubier, who was wounded in the arm. " All the parties detached on the enemy's line of communication form an indivisable connection. The successlul attacks on the enemy, and the number of prisoners which they have made at a time when they were far less in number than they are at present, is se -1 curity for the certain event, which they have now be fore them. Twenty-four additional regiments of Don Cossacks have lately joined the army, and such a , considerable augmentation to the irregular troops,, give certain means of causing the greatest injury.to the enemy."—[Sioleltlernent to the Peter.thrgh GastUe,l 15th (27th) Octokr.] ~ The Field-Marshal has likewise- transmitted the, -information issued by him to the Army, to the following effect 3 • " Head-quarters, ht the Chur e lli Village of Letaachevika, Sorb Sept. -th Oct.) " The army has remained for more t an a week , near to the Church Village of Tarutino, on the right bank of the Nara, and by being in perfecr quiet de rives from thence fresh strength. The regiments are made complete by troops arriving from different go. vemments, and which ere formed by the General of , Infantry, Prince Lobanow Rostowskji. The recruits, who are burning with ardour, to engage the enemy, are exercised in the camp. Our cavalry horses hav ing plenty of forage and good water to drink, have recovered in a remarkable manner. The supply of provisions 4 so well regulated that the army does not suffer the least want, and the great roads leading to the army are covered with transports, which come from all the most fruitful governments in the vicinity of which the army is stationed. Officers and soldiers who have recovered their healib are daily joining it. The sick, and those wounded in the field of honour, being in the middle of Russia among their relations and fellow-citizens, receive every support and atten tion which can only be expected fran mothers and wives, from brothers and children. The force of the enemy, thrown into disorder, does not permit him to. make any attempts against us. By the distance from his borders, he it deprived of all sources of assistance ; his supply with provisions becomes more difficult from hour to hour, and the • . unanimously relate that bors4lesh is used ese faint in their army, notwithstanding that they have still more flesh thin bread; but the 'horses of the *unties artillery, and those of their tev4ry eager m oot . The greater art , , a nr--7- "T' °Me latter have been destroyed to the several ea. dagemen‘s, especiaHy in that so glorious to the Ru a . - Fan arms on the 26th August (7th September), we rest df the cavalry regiments s u ff er t h e greats* ant of forage; the enemy's army being sarrou n d e i , by our parties, which cut off every communicatihe with them. " The enemy k so hemmed in with regard to the, procuring of forage, that he cannot send his forage r , qnt unless they are protected by stron g convoys,lig —who are, nevertheless, overpowered by bur parties,. Strong detachments from our army are on the loads of Moshaisk, St. Petersburgh, Koluni na , an d Ser. Llauchow, and seldom a day passes in which 3(x) ran I and upwardl are not brought in prisoners. E ve; the peasantry of the villages situated near the theatre of war, cause exceeding great damage to the enemy. 4 , The Russians, who have in all ages distinguish e d ' themselves above all other nations, by their love and attachment to the throne of their Monarchs, now fik ok wise emulate each other with indescribable energy i q the destruceion of the enemy, who has violated the repose of their native country. The peasants, fir e d ' with the love of their birth-places, form armaniente among themselves. It occurs that several neigh. bouring villages keep guards on high places, and chutch steeplei, from whence they beat N o ring the alarm on sight of the enemy. - • ,av On this signal the peasants assemble, fall ,its } desperation on the enemy, and !rill not quit the field of battle till they have obtained a complet e v i ctory. They cut down the enemy in great numbers, mid those which they take pt sooners they send to t h e at , my. Daily they come to head-quarters and entreat earnestly for fire-arms and cartridges for their de. fence against the enemy. The request of these wor t thy peasants, these tree sons of their country, art .atisfied according to possibility, and they art sap. plied with muskets, pistols, and.powder. In seve ra l villages they join themselves by oath for their mu. tual defence, and that in such a manner that a sense punishment is affixed iu every case wtpreiu any ce should behave like a coward, or wherein be team another in danger. The power of cop, yeho protects the just and punishes the guilty, has now directed its vengeance against our enemies. We have this moment received the intelligence of the Spaniards and English having defeated the French, and taken possession of Madrid, and thus will our enemies every where meet with di, feat ; and they have come to the extreme parts of Europe, at a time when they, having penetrated through the borders of Russia, will probably find their graves in the bosoms of our native country." THE EVENING STAR LONDON. - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20. mleilmorpm Our columns of to-dap ere filled with the official reports of the Russian Generals, which were brought by the cottenburgh Mail of yesterday. We are pot furnished, it is true, with an account of any Opel. dons subsequent to those communicated b,y dr fop "mer Mail, but the more minutely the occurrence ant detailed, she more must every honest heart dwell open them with inward satisfaction. KUTUSOFF, the inrin. cible Commander of the Russian armies, h4s nosv the proud triumph of witnessing the fulfilment of those predictions, which he modestly gave out after the occupation of Moscow by the enemy. He has deemed the pledges which he gave to tb,e vmtld that occasion, and has had the immortal harestiri ferred upon him by the events of the times, of :a dating the most successful, if not the greatest m 4 tary leader of the age, to a situation out of Ai* the chances of his erutication are indeed very feu, ' The Russian Bulletins confirm a circumstance which we had long since anticipated. BoNafaiddi does not venture to pass through Kaluga and Tula, for these places are strongly defended, and be is iq no condition to risque another general engagerpent. —His retreat ,to Poland will, therefore, be attnegin ed by successive detours to the eastward—b too much of a coward, and is too well acqualla with the mettle of his troops to hasard any attics is which their numbers are not at least double. TEC excellent condition of the Russian cavalry will foible them, however, to annoy their enemies most uniactof fully in their retreat, even if they elude the less npi4 movements of the main body under Kurolotr. The brave KUTUGOIf% Proclamation to hisiddioS will be read with great delight—if there mill o doubt in the most sceptical kava,st with respect to the I disposition of the Russian nation, this domes* must remove 4. We have heqrd much of I st" the sluggish and inactive condition of the Rosoiaa peasantry--they are described to us br Mar s travellers as being bought and sold **the I ° 4 as being bound in allegiance to their leavist !l e g by the ties of patriotism or reciprocal *meows but by the lash of the whip, or the MOO blows of the knout-.-these poor men have bales to fight for however, and in the present sistf ous contest they have conducted themselves bi t Heroes—let us hear no more, therefore, of the Ars and degraded condition of the Russian people. A hundred such man armed a /a-Roar/akin, are a thousand desperadoes of other nations With Fiench Emperor at their head. The circumstances attending the capture of the brave Count WINZINGERODI4 afford another Ma O. of the cowardly spirit, by which the French Reis* in Moscow were actuated. Wtasasionoos ands 014cer of cavalry, in their eagerness to save the irk they effusion of blood, or rather`from humanity towards the miscreants who remained io the Kremlin, gallopped forward with white lath' iterchiffs in . their hands to beseech them to awe firing, as resistance was vain. They were.okosfriP • 1111.1ime OPFIC IRMYORT of DATED g o After punts of I)mitrow ted an inte • ?anted p,o, ties which intents of I Ire has lel' And retire " Ip CA went of DA to obtain i myself wi detachmei of Tschas, " A IN Inowaiskii no person wade son were oblii the enema were sent E3eneral before tilt " wa of cavalr' and hravi . the tegin w:tikst ant ducted hi on the fig 'ion, put the city, officers, a bad rush where s finder thi the town On P yned rte, 'nand, a road, adi In like rr loners ; cannot si To. brought ieckonin sent same de: Woundet gaigemer " M y are at tin and like between of repo baying L in its vi Voikres session o the road, tachmen it. 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