The National Register. — London, England, 1812-12-06 00:00:00

TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. 7e, (.; Ita.. - e been unmanned, and carried up to the inner harbour, tho :men and marines having been hurried off to Nland. RI;VEATED .")EFEATS AND INCREASING DISTRESSES OF THE FT \( !T. The'ninct rapturous exultation wits created last Friday thuonvhout the inch opolis, by a report, that Capt u of the r0y.,1 ravv, had luotleq dispatche; from Lord CA III ( RT, an aCCANIt of the defeat of the French coc.manded b. BFON AP ART c in person, in a general battle, milt the loss of 40,000 men, and SO pieces of c;mnon. This statement, theuglt not correct to its full extent, has, how evv, wove(' true to a great degree, as the Bull; tie issued by ti.e ,Ndatitaltv, and given in another part of our columns, mil: most sa:isfactorily demonstrate. It consists of the trails- Ltion of two Russian Bulletins, dated !•:t. Petersburgi', Nov, and 1 tth, and cif an extract of a letter from Count Pos EN, dated Stockholm, Nov. 19. The two former mention the defeat of ST. CYR, at Poletsl, with the loss of 6,000-prison ers, nine pieces of cannon, the whole Bavarian baggage, and nicety powder waggons: the repulse of BCONAPARTE at l‘laloyaroskavitz, where he boasted in his 27th Bulletin he bad gained a victory, but which the Russian account states • Um to have abandoned with sixteen pieces of cannon, after taking and losing it eight times, upon which he loft his army to proceed hastily to Smolensko: the capture of two colours twetty-four guns, by Pt. ATOW, near Kolotsk : the defeat of VICEROY of ITALY, NET, and DAVOCST, in an action fought on the 3d ult. tica• Viasma, where the French 2sth Bulletin conter.ds the Russians were beaten with the loss of rpat.y prioners, and six pieces of artillery and, lastly, the ef Admiral TSCiiITCHAKOF Slonim, where he I. tack a Polish (.eneral, and three regiments of uhllns, prison ers, and that of Colonel TCHLRNIKOFF .towards Warsaw. WIT TGENSTE'N is also stated to have entered Witespsk. Countßostrt's letter seems to have embodied rumours,rather than to convey offieial intelligence. His report of the defeat of ST. Cva and VICTOR probably alludes to the battle of the igth and 20th of October, and the safe ari'ival.of BUONA- P A RTE at Smolen-ko on the gth of November, officially an nounced in the 28th Bulletin, dated from that town, Novem ber I.lth, throws some discredit on the account of his having been personally met on two different roads, and turned hack to the main army, first • by General , OraTrt's detachment, nd anerwards by a divi,ic:n of WITTGENSTEIN'S army ; but we think it highly probable, that his not having advanced beyond . Smoleasko, is to be attributed to a very rational al,prel)ension of falling in with either WITTGENSTEIN, TO R.M ASOW, or TciIITCHAGOW, ureil the rest of his army had come up. As he is closely pursued by KuTusorF with superior numbers, there is no doubt but he will endeavour to anticipate his arrival, and to cut his way through the forces which are said to intercept his way to \Vilna, so that. we may silo tly expect to hear that another desperate battle has been The admirers of BCON AP A wrc arc at lat obliged to pause in that strain of paneeyrie in wllinit they delight to indulge, and'.heir id'l is himself eornpOled to lower the tone of his gasc , nade a little, white the poor wretches who follow him arc fait taking up their winter quarters beneath the soil th , ..irf.otsteps iruve polluted. Cot off by the severity of the eii.ate, or by the veng4ul s‘vords of , he Rus , iar.s, they WI in thou and, around Wm, and, the t% rant hemmed in by hos • tile armies, will think himself fortunate if he can kad hack, .disgraced, hdi the to; ces he forme , ly dragged with to fulfil the det;nics of IZI- - sia." The " beautiful weather . : is now gone; aed, thu,igh it teems from the 2tll Bulletin that it lasted e!iht - days froin the date of the 27th, by which DEC . 6, time' they were to have gained their new position, Th e nctich have not been quitc ta - empt from the eyi!s they Ex . i.ected to escape. The wither, we arc t(11, set in on tip. (31); and, it is admitted, that the griind army has lust maw: men by cold aml fatigue. It is now found, that bi%onacking" (sleeping in the opep air under the frcci' sky of Russia) is injurious to Frehch soldiers, and all th s . " furs" and " brandy" found at Moscow, cannot secure tlain from the inclemencv of the season. The enemy stile pre:eml they arc successful, when( ver they encounter the flussias; bit if this Mere to be credited, it would only make the latter more to be drc4dcd and admired, for how terrible that foe, which after so Many Leverses dare still advance to battle, suferior to disaster and undaunted by defeat. THE DI•PAT(IIES RECEIX I:1) FIIO3I LORI) WELT,INGION, The dispatches received this week from Lord ‘‘'LLt.is:.- TON, and dated Piticgua, Nov. 7th, informs us of the etv.r• mous accumulation of strength with which SouLT awl So l .. II A:11 prcs,ed Upon his Lordship, to endeavour to.briug him to a general acti9n before he had re-entered Portug_d, awl if possible to cut off his retreat. In this the enemy has hum coo:pletely disappointed. The foresight and skill of oor Commander anticipated and defeated all his plans, and with an incon•iderable loss of i,OOO men in killed, %%ntac t ], and prisoners has his Lordship retreated upwards of Dv, miles before double numbers and reznmed his position on the Agucda, titc strength of which is sneh that the enemy, de spairing of success in an attack, is s yid to have taken up winter quarters at a short distance from the Portuguese Ircu. tiers, in which his example has been followed by cur The French in their eagci ness to bring ail their force agaitit us thought it expedient to evacuate Madrid, which has ktu taken possession of by the MEDICO, a guerilla leader. The conduct of the enemy in thus (witting the capital corn be rates, what indeed a perusal of the speech of Lord CAST LE REA9II will abundantly prove, and that which we have often asserted in opposition to our contempora:ies, that Madri:i. a military imition, was not of importance. his speech, of which we have given a correct epitome, will L i e found to contain a short but lute' csting history of the wh , c eamraign. The American brig Exrress, Captain MortAN, is arrived from New York ; sailed Nov. 6, bound to Bourdeanx; captut el on the Soar ult. by the Rover gun-brig. Accoa,es arc gated to have been received at • New "Yolk, th..t te Frolic bloop of war was capturtd by the Amer ican fri ;ate Hornet, after a most desperate action, in which Ireth ‘vtre , distnasted, and complete wrecks, and were soon after farcn in with by his M.Jjesty's ship Poictiers, and were both elar. The President's message was exvected at New York the tk: the Express sailed. It was generally believed that an oidur for a general embargo would be one of the first acts of Cor• gress, o n a cc o unt of the itnineiLe exportation of grain and Hour from the United States, The British ft igate Jtvvi, with dispwches from Sir .1 B. \V Allnk:N, which bad hccn at New York about 14 dav , , left it with an answer to to dispatches about two darts before the departure of the ;kw. . vessel : nothing was known of the natu re of the dci dis patches, or the reply given. The Swiftsure packet was Ns:ill ing for dispatches, and shortly expected to sail for Yesterday afternoon, in conA.luence of two (kink:own driving down the Strand in a post-chaise and four, alt idca prevailed that they were Russian MesA'ogers. We can assure our readers, homever, that they were private gentlemen, :11 that there had been no arrival at airy of the Governtneut °likes at a late hour last night. liens iii F i Po Welt Ilerc t' )e s 11 ler fo: 'his di pla!e e: ra do Doss a On ' Itir: fir! idle re tered for Ihe m IPCI)CI OLD! iiw.f,i londe of 01 IsiJe o IiCCMS 'canna Gil' ' 5,1 fre !for as perfol they what 11117 coatis than NISC lillA hope, think ;;try Lieu( and,. Cher SCOI.I laps crilt brio rcxt ti the cal Mr, Tina 11,u( ET • , t -.ti t Vle