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

I FEB'M from his corps who having advanced on Brest Litovsky, occupied th town on the 13th (25th), and there made upwards.of too prisoners. his patroles extended as tar as Biala, Janow and Drogilehene. Major- Ge:lend Bonlatch', who was marching by the way of Preugane ChircheN to Kaminitz Letoesk, hale on his way, picked up shout .ice prisoners. He wishes his patroles as for as Bri'ansk and Bielsk.. The Aide-de-Camp General Wassiltschikoff reports under date of the 18111 (30111), that the corps under his ordeis entered Tikotchine on the pre cediog day. The Inhabitaats and he clergy, bringing bread and salt, came to meet the Russian troops-with the most lively transports of jog.• The woman left the twines with their children in the tenderest emo tions; the cries of intrt a ! a thousand dotes repeated, and the name of h: q Imperial Nlajesty-, which reverberated from all sides, anneunced the Joy with which every cinemas animated.' General Wassiltschik off is meal,seltile in pursuit of the enemy on the road to Warsaw. Dile. '2l (Jan. 3.) —On the 17th (29th), General Count Platoff de tached the regiment of dragoonsUf Negitte to go fo Bialvstock by the way of Grodies. under the order% of the :hide-de-Catop General Baron de Kerff. General Ddctorff, iitho liken ise takes the rout to Bialystock with the body of troops under his orders, arrived tea the. 19th (31st) at . Wolkawilsk. Di O. 'et. (Jan. V.)—Licutensnt-General Paulucci reports, under date of the 18th (30th), that after the occupation of 'Mitten. he di rected Lieeternott-Colonel Kounte!ki, of ths. regiment of Polish Uldans, to pursue the enemy who were dispersed in the woods, and that this Officer in matching . by Granzhoff, Gegary, Alartynischki and Okutiana, had taken two officers and $3O soldiers prisoners. On the 9th (21st) ditto, the Marquis put himself in march with his column from Mitten to Trouenberg, where his van guard, under the orders. uf Lieutenant- Culo . tte! Sntiden, of the artillery, came up with the enemy on the 111 h. (23d) and defeated him, taking 60 prisoners, and melting himself master of several carriages, taken under requisition some waggons laden with biscuits, flour, and oats ; and took itbuut 40 h=orses. On the Itth, (24th) he• arrived at Sertinden, where the enemy abandoned con siderable magazines. On the 13th (15t1t) he wes at Upper Barthau, from whence he caused his van-guard to advance ; which hating an the 14th (v6th) come up with the enemy, between Rutzaw and Po langen, near Butlerschaff, beat them, and took two officers and eighty soldiers. Oil the 14th (e6th) the column proceeded as far ae PuHa gen, where it was rejoined by Lieutenant Colonel Kounitski. On the I.sdi (17t1i) it arrived hefo e Memel. The garrison, after some re sistunce, surrendered prisoners of war, to the number of two staff offi cers, twenty subalterns, and upwards oh 700 soldiers., It was thus that our troops entered llietnel on the 15th (27th) ; we there found 2.0 0 sick, an d ahont 100 of our prisoners. We seized on three armed sloops of the. French fltnills, in the harbour; we likewise took six sloops be loneing to the Prussian flotilla, with 30 gulls ; 3 l vessels belongine to different nations, and a consider:llle qu amity of colonial produce, imported by the French. In the town we found five pieces of cannon, 90u fusils, 19 carbines, 19 pair of pistols, 900 c.earidge boxes, 26,000 cartridges, 60 s.bres, and t 9 hitssa• saddles, teree field batteries, with eve Oificers, 84 Soldiers, 16 surgeon', I chariot, 05 horses, and 4 iron boilers. The ruagazinea contain latge quantities of all kinds of corn and of brandy. " The Head-qnarters of his Imperial NI ajesty and the 74..irshal con tinued to be fur some time ti.st at \Vilna. Thus there no longer re mains an enemy in the whole extera of the frontiers of Russia, and all the former Polish provi , :ces, at this present time under subjection to the Rteoiati sceptre, are evacuated by the foreign troop'. " Tee anointed f the Lord has, wit fired doubt, said by inspiration— ' I n ill not lay down my arms until I have driven from the Russian soil the enemy who lies dared to transgress its prophecy is whined The only traces of the enemy which are yet perceptible, are his hones spread over the fields from Moscow to the frontiers of the Empire !" The Commander in chief of the Armies, Marshal Prince Kuttisoff of Smolensko, has reported as follows to his Imperial Majesty, from his head quarters, Orany, 28th Dec. (9th Jan ) " Konizsberg, the ancient caoital of Prussia, is subjeCt to your Imperial Majesty. This vast city was captured on the '2sth Decem ber (Jan. 6), by Count Wittgenstein's advanced guard, under ate orders of Major-General Sehepiliff. Marshal Macdonald occupied the town with a corps d'armee, composed of old French guar d s , and some troops who had escape d the general destruction of the enemy's grand army. " The wreck of his particular corps, constituting part of this total, was reduced to 2,500 men, after the Prussians separated front them ; there remained to him' in all about 7000 men. At the approach of the advanced guard, which briskly I , foC'teti'4, the enemy, without hal ti:sg, passed by Konigsberg , and abancioncl it to Major-General Schepile , who entered it without meeting any resistance. This astonishing facility in giving up the possession of this city is a conseauence of the Victories with which the arms of your imperial Majesty have been' THE NATIONAL REGISTER._ 531 crowned during the last two months. Mackin aid's corps is pursued by Wittgenstein'; and Tschitschaotc 's army by cliagmal , The Commander in Chief cf the Armies, Field - Mcr,hal General . Prince K tit usoti of Smolensko, has transmitted to your Imperial Ma jesty.the tollowing report fro:n head-quarurs, at the village of Mc retsch, ja'ated . 29th Dec. (loth jan.):— " I have the happiness of most submissively informing your Im perial Majesty, that previonly to our taking possession of the city of Konigsberg, the van guard of General Count Wittgenstein, under the cotnynand of Major-General Scbcpiliti, whilst continuing to int. sue the enemy from Tilsit, came ui. with him on the 23d instant (Itit Jan.) near Labraw. " The enemy had here taken a very advantageous vesition, and the :•ngagement, in which he lost three cannon and about 300 mea of lower rank, continued li:Of a day After that the enemy was com pletely beaten. He commenced his retreat to Knitigsbetg. Major. General Sehepilitf seized on this opportunitt . , drove the enemy six German miles before him, and forced himself on their shoulders into Konigsberg, which was taken possession of by our trones a t two o',lock after mitl•lpht on the 25th of Dec. (Jan. 6) ; 1300 men were made prisoners in the city itself. " The enemy rAreated with uch haste, that he threw 90 pieces -f cannon with cartridge boxes into the river, and left behind him 8000 men, who were wearied out, and who were made prise ers by our troops. Very considerable quantities of provision and forage have fallen into our hands at Konigsberg. The guns which w.-re thrown into the water are of the same number ot' those which were in Cour land, and are now drawn out again by the inhabitants. " This success, although of so mucli consequence, has nevertheless not detained Major. General Sche;.iliff in the further pursuit of the enemy. General Count Wittgenstein attributes it tathe wise measure* of General Schcpiliff, his dispatch, and determined bravery." REPOKT FROM FIELD-MARSHALL PRINCE KUTUSOFF OF SMOLINSEO, TO HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, DATLD HEAD QUART/11S, LTCH, JAN. 6 (18). " Admiral TsChist.hagoffrepnrts to me, that on the 2d (14th) Jan. the enemy was driven behind the river Nogat, and that Eibine, lvl riente•frg, and Marienwerder, were taken by your llnperial Majesty's troops. " Count Prato& still pursues theenemv cn the road from Marienberg towards Dantzic. In the mean time Lieut.-General S.:henna has -tressed the Nogat, near Sommerau, sell molests the enemy on that side. The enemy left behind hiri seven pieces of ordnance, in the road from Truentz to Damerau. As soon as I sh*'l obtain a more • particuthr account of this, 1 shall have the honour to report it to your Imperial Majesty." REPORT FROM TilE SAME TO THE SAME, JAN. 7 (19). e i I have the honour to report most humbly that alter the taking of Elbing on the 31st Dec. (Jan. 1.2), the enemy was driven from Marienberg. Near Dershau its attempted to keil possession of a tete du punt, but Lein g also defeated there, lie commencyd his retreat to two columns, in the direction of Dantzic and Stutgard. Count Flatoff continues to pursue him conjointly with the corps of Lieut.-General Schepila. Near blarienherg we took upwards of 300 pris ; hers ard in Dershau above 9.00, together with a ..snsiderable 'limber of muskets. " The enemy left in the hospitals of Marie: burg 40 Oflieers and 726 rank and file. The first day of this year .!(.). S.) was crowned w;tti !noble success. The Adjeroit-General ot your !imperial Majesty, Cliermiskis, arrived on the 30th Dec. (Jan. 11) tri tee neighbourkocat of Marienwerder ;. the following day he attacked the enemy at day break, and drove him from his position with so mach success, that he took one General and scone Oflicers, and upwords f 400 rank and file, and also 15 pieces of ordnance that were on the tete (I,i p ou t. " The enemy was obliged to leave in NI rienwerder coesidcrable ma gazines and hospitals. After this sncticet:s, h tAe djutant-G of theneiae enem l Cher nisheff crossed the Vistula, and continued pursuit y towards Neunberg where the latter hat 4 a most advantageow; position ; he, therefore, sent out a Corps of Cossacks, in order to get int.) his rear, and to occupy the roads from N .utiburg to Bronh rg, and Tuchel, and by this i n.orement be forced the enemy to retreat. " Thus your Imperial Majesty's gloriotts•tro,:ps eetered un the Ist (1310 Tan. Marienberg, the firLt town on ,the lett bank of the Vis 'Tula." The Commander i n ,Chief of the Armies, Fick!. Marshal General Prince.K Musa', of Smolensk°, has en the Wilt January of this year, transmitted to his Imperial Majesty the tollowing Report, from his head-quarters at the village of Merestesck : " In all accounts received from ;he army, statements have been given of the extraordinary yeeat losses sustaioed by the Frenco arely within the borders of Russia in the c. urse of the pre,ent c.eiteaien. kati , may S uc h pub at times appear to he exr,ggerated, or ioser through p a rtiality ; but in conti: illation of them, the origotal report on the condition of even the Frei;ch region:los of the. Guar It h en lately fallen into the hands ct the General of cavaliv, Ceont Witt ~s laid genstein, since the expulsion of the French over our bottle's, w hich it cl before yew Imperial Nl a j est y , from earls; ;eon 0.4 the confession from the enemy himself, shov.'s his own ruie ,tilt