The National Register. — London, England, 1813-02-28 00:00:00

FEII. 28 I learn with satisfaction, though not °M .:laity, that a very consi derable corps is entrusted to Baron Wiutaingerode, and tbat he has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. General. The Emperor moved in the night of the 7th January from Wilna, to join the division which comprehends the guards, and the head quarters of the whole army were at Mereez on the 10th of January : it was thought they would continue there for a day or two. The Austrians - under Prince Schwartzenberg had retired from Bielistock, and were near Warsaw; bus not in force to render it pro bable that they would contend with the superiority that might be op posed to them. Zambrow is said to he fortifiul and garrisoned ; but I do not con_ ceive than any disposable force upon the Vistula cau be adequate to the defence of the tetes-du-pont and fortresses on that river, espe cially were active operations can take place upon both banks. The Emperor remained sixteen or seventeen days at Wilna, where his Imperial Majesty issued many regulations and decrees, for the re storation of order in various provinces which have suffered, and for prevention of disease from the infection of prisoners, and from the nuin ber of dead bodies and quantity of carrion still above ground. In the neighbourhood of Wilna sixteen thousand corpses are piled up in heaps, for the purpose of being consumed by fire, when sufficient wood can be procured, ; but numbers still remain uncollected in the roads and villages; and the mortality in the hospitals at Wilna continued to be very great. The Emperor himself repeatedly visited all the hospitals. Te Deum was sung in the Cathedral, in presence of the Court, on New Year's Day (0. S.). in thanksgiving for the expulsion of the Trench from the Russian territory, on which occasion the proclama tion, of which the inclosed is a translation, was read ; to which 1 have also added, the general order given out to the army at Wilna the ed of January, by Prince Kutusoff Smolensko. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) CATHC•RT. P. S. I add the statement, found at Wilna, of two regiments of the French guard, by which the condition of the others may be in ferred. C.' _ _ Two Proclamations issued by the Emperor Alexander set forth the losses and disgrace of the enemy in very forcible terms, and invite the people of Russia to return thanks to God. In the second, his Ma jesty states it to be his intention to build a church at St. Petersburgh, as a mark of gratitude to Divine Providence, to be called by the name of the Lamour Jesus Christ. The documents alluded to in the,pestscript of Lord Cathcart's letter, relative to the state of two French regiments, represent the 4th - regiment of Voltigeurs, on the 16th of December, 1812, to have bad present under arms at the departure from Smolensko-32 officers, and 427 privates; loss since the departure from Smolensko—killed, wounded, dead of cold and misery, or left behind-6 officers, and 398 privates; remained under arms—lo officers, and 29 privates.—The 6th regiment of Tiralleurs, on the 31st of December, 1812, had present tender arms at the departure from Smolensko-31 officers, and 300 privates ; loss since the departure from Smolensko—wounded, dead of cold and misery, left behind, &c.-17 officers, and 290 privates; remained under arms-14 officers, and 10 privates. MY Loan St. Petersburgh, Jan. 29. 1813. I have the honour to enclose a journal of the movements made by the several corps of his Imperial Majesty's army, from the 4th of Ja nuary to the 26th of January. Your Lordship will observe that, by the rapid advance of the corps, on the right, the enemy has been diiven beyond the Vistula. The Russian troops being in possession of Elbing, Matienberg, Marienwer der. aud Neuenberg. The corps from Fining and Marienberg, being drawn from the No gat, attempted to wake a stand at the tete-da-pont at Derschag, but were soon compelled to abandon it, and retired, part upon Demme aud the remainder tipOn Stargardt, still pursued by the Russians. It appears that the troops stationed in Dantzic, advanced to the Pre get, to favour Marshal Macdonald's retreat, and that they made no re sistance at Elbing . having aband o n e d th e i r ar till e ry bef o rctheir arrival at that pla ce. The attack upon Marienwerder seems to have been nearly a surprise ; and Beanharnois is said narrowly to have escaped being made prisoner, There is no report of the surrender of Meta. O a the 13til January, the Emperor crossed the Niemen near Moretz, amid the acclamations of his brave troops, and has continued to march with a division of his arniy, in a western direction, through Berjuiki, Krasuople, and•Subalki to Lague, wlience the last dispatches are dads& THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 541 Generals Nlilldradovitelt and.Dol'iterotr, with the troops which crossed the frontier at Cfrodno, move in n line parallel to that of the Emperor, on his left. and General Sackett's column is still farther to the left. There are also intermediate corps to keep. up the comtnunication be tween each of these colomm. The Austrians remAned upon tho Duff, pr-bably with a view to create a diversion in favour of the army retiring upon Danizie, as 141 es their own line of retreat may remain open. Graudentz has a Prussian earrison. The Russians have titulb:lnly been received by the inhabitants of the Prussian dominions as friends and deliverers, of - which there is ample testimony in all private letters front the army, as well us in public reports. The retreat of the Trench through Prussia, has, like that from Mos cow, been marked by the abandonment of magazines, tumbrils, and other stores. Berthier, Victor, Macdonald, Darn, and Beauharnois, are named among the Generals who are gone to Duntzic. The precise force in that place does not appear to be clearly ascertained ; but, cannot easily be estimated at more than half the nurnber of au adequate garrison. The intercepted courier from Bonaparte to Berthier, is said todhave carried orders to complete the provisions of Dantzic for a long siege. The service upon the Vistula appears to have been very ably per formed, and I have enclosed a copy of the thanks that have been gi ven to General Count Platotf, and the officers and troops under his command, in general orders. The intense cold has continued, and the marches. of all the columns have been lung and severe. I have, &c. (Signed) CATILC A RT. [Another Journal of Military operations from the 4th to the 29(11 of January is here subjoined, which only add the fact, that Beanliaruois and Victor, narrowly escaped being taken by the Cossacks at Mariea werder, to the news furnished by the Gottetiburgh Mail.] FRENCH PAPERS. We have received BUON AP AUTE'S speech to the Senate, and a copy of the new Concordat. Both will be found amongst our foreign intelligence. The expose has not yet made its appearance ; probably because the law for raising 350,000 conscripts is now carrying into execution,and it would be dangerous to damp their ardoiir by the exposition of a series of unparalleled disasters. NAPOLEON'S speech is only re markable for the absence of information respecting the in tentions of his allies, and the assertion that he will drive back the Russians into their horrid climes ; without mention ing the means which he will create, for he must create them, since they were destroyed in the last campaign, to effect that purpose. He is almost as bitter against us, as against the premature severity of winter, to. which he attri butes all the g reat losses which he acknowledges he has ex perienced, an d for which he offers no other consolation to the French people, than that his " Dynasty reigns and wilt reign in Spain," arid that as long as the naval war shalt last, they must be ready to bear every kind of sacrifice. In his disinterestedness he wishes for peace, because " it is neces sary to the world," though by no means wanted by him, in the present prosperous state of his affairs. From the next para graph, however, in which he states that " he has made known all the sacrifices be was disposed to make" to obtain peace, it might be suspected that he has carried his generous love fur mankind so far, as to condescend to sue for peace, did not the praise he next bestows on the United States for their hostility against us, and the hint he gives that he wa!:ts great supplies to meet the great expenses required by ci f . cumstances, fully vindicate his unabated partiality for war. The new Concordat displays the moral degridation of the POPE. BUONA P A RTE had hitherto only robbed him of his domains, be has now triumphed over his principles, lie has purchased, with a promise of protecting the Roman Catholic religion, the sanction of the fellen Pontiff to the abolition of his temporal kingdom, and, in return, he engages to create•Bishopricks in Holland, and allows him, with a rev , sloe of two millions of frant.:s, :he right of nominating to K F: t,. s.